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10375
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The National Municipal League and Look Magazine have designated Winston-Salem an All-America City. This is the third North Carolina municipality to receive the award. Asheville won in 1951, and Laurinburg won in 1956. Most cities win the award largely on the basis of one project, but Winston-Salem won for its work on eight projects.
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10376
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In 1771, Johann Matthew Miksch opened a tobacco shop in the Moravian village of Salem along with a log-cabin tobacco manufactory. Both buildings have now been restored and authentically furnished as part of the Old Salem Restoration project. To date, eight village buildings have been restored to their original appearance.
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10377
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The article contains information on the Hanes Hosiery Mills Company, its $27 million expansion program at Winston-Salem, and its rise to become the world's largest producers of women's hosiery.
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10378
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The article presents information on Henredon Furniture Industries, located in Morganton. The company is one of the state's newer furniture makers, and it has attained a national reputation. Work on the site began in 1945, with a plant completion in 1946, and first furniture pieces shipped in 1947.
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10384
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Chemstrand Research Center, Inc. is the first occupant of the Research Triangle Park and is primarily engaged in polymer research. Dr. D. W. Chaney is the executive director of the center.
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10385
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The Masland Duraleather Company, founded in Philadelphia in 1914 by Walter E. Masland, manufactured pyroxylin coated fabric. Today the company is recognized as the leader in the field. The company's newest plant, which will open in Mocksville, will be the largest and most modern vinyl fabric plant in the South.
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10386
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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (PPG) opened its latest fiber glass plant at Shelby in 1959. The PPG Carolina plant is the world's largest producer of fiber glass yarn employing the direct melt system exclusively. The plant is designed for twenty-four melting furnaces.
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10387
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Drexel Furniture is a homegrown North Carolina Company. Founded by Sam Huffman at Drexel in November 1903, the company began with one plant and fifty employees. Today, the company has eight plants and 2,600 employees making quality living room, dining room, and bedroom furniture.
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10388
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Stewart provides an update of progress in the Research Triangle Park during the past year. Laboratories have been constructed; Chemstrand was the first company to move in; roads have been built; and utilities have been installed. Stewart includes information on future occupants of the park.
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10405
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Acme-McCrary Hosiery Mills began operations fifty years ago in Asheboro. Today, the company is one of the nation's leading hosiery manufacturers with a workforce of 1,800 and a payroll of $5 million annually.
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10406
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Inglis Fletcher is one of North Carolina's best-known novelists. Her ten historical novels deal with the Albemarle region during Colonial times. On April 14, 1961, Inglis Fletcher Day was celebrated in Edenton.
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10407
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H. Cloyd Philpott, who died recently, took considerable interest in local and state politics. He served as mayor of Lexington, was a four-term member of the General Assembly from Davidson County, and most recently in the executive branch as lieutenant governor.
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10408
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The Connecticut-based Ingraham Company has been making clocks and watches for 130 years. The company opened a plant in Toronto, Canada in 1941, a second in Elizabethtown, Kentucky in 1954, and in 1959, a third in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Products made at this facility include pocket watches, electric alarm clocks, and interval timers.
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10409
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Union Carbide Corporation, maker of Everyready batteries, opened a plant in Charlotte twenty years ago. Plants at Asheboro and Greenville would soon follow. The state's three battery-making plants employ around 1,200 with an annual payroll of $5 million.
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10415
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Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., with general offices located in Spray in Rockingham County, is a major producer of quality textiles. The company operates nine mills, with five in the area of Spray, and employs over 6,000 workers. The company's two nationally known brands are Fieldcrest and Karastan. Fieldcrest is the only company in the nation with a complete line of domestic products for bed and bath, including blankets, sheets, bedspreads, towels, and bath rugs.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 19 Issue 6, Nov 1961,
p96-97, 163-164, il, por
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