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2870
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Through sixty years and three generations, the J. H. Heafner Company in Lincolnton has grown to be one of the largest wholesale tire distributors in the country, with thirty-one distribution centers in eleven states.
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4369
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In the past decade the Hispanic population increased 128 percent and the Asian 83 percent in Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba Counties. Hispanic and Asians are drawn by a large demand for manufacturing, service, and construction jobs. Employers help these workers adjust to new surroundings by hiring bilingual individuals to work with them, providing work-site classes in the English language, and having company supervisors learn the foreign language of the workers.
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4439
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Few cities, usually the larger ones, make public art a budget priority. Hickory, perhaps the smallest city to do so, allocated $35,000 for the public art program's initial year. The city council has an ordinance under consideration to allocate one percent of capital improvement funds to pay for the program.
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4642
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In a move to reduce its air pollution, Hickory is building a state-of-the-art natural gas refueling station. A number of city vehicles will convert to natural gas. When the station is completed in the year 2000, it will have the capacity to refuel over 100 vehicles a day and will be the state's largest natural gas refueling station. The station will be available to the public as well as other governmental agencies.
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6709
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John Forlines, CEO of Bank of Granite Corp., is retiring after fifty years on the job. Forlines, 86, took the bank from one office in the foothills of Western North Carolina with five employees and $1 million in assets to one with nineteen offices with over 250 employees and $1 billion in assets.
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