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10939
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The Mount Hope Finishing Company of Butner does not make any product; instead, it finishes the fabrics for those who do. The firm finishes and dyes fabrics used in the manufacture of draperies, shirts, blouse, lingerie, underwear, pocketing and related items. The company started in Butner in 1951.
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10941
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The Superior Stone Company automated its Arrowwood Quarry, which is located between Charlotte and Pineville. The quarry is now the most modern high capacity crushed stone plant in the country. Automation allows the company to mine, process, and load 8,000 tons of crushed stone a day. The article includes a description of the process and some of the benefits and advantages of automation.
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10942
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The Morris Fur Company of Burlington imports and processes opossum fur from New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia, not for the clothing industry but for the textile industry. The springiness and retention of shape that this particular fur possesses makes it invaluable for use on shuttles used in weaving mills. Morris Fur is one of three companies in the country that supplies the heavy demand of the textile industry for shuttle fur.
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10943
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In 1931, S.B. Tanner opened the Doncaster Collar and Shirt Company in Rutherfordton. In 1933, Mrs. Tanner persuaded her husband to make a shirtwaist dress for her from the shirting material. The dress grew in popularity, and the company faced a problem with selling and distribution. The article describes how this problem was solved. In 1955, the company changed its name to Tanner of North Carolina and entered the retail market.
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10944
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Addis Cates is the founder of Addis Cates Company, the largest independent supplier of green and brined cucumbers to the pickle industry. The home office is in Faison and the operation centers are in Robeson County at St. Pauls and Parkton. The company ships to thirteen states and Canada.
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10945
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Hamilton L. Bruce founded the Hammery Manufacturing Company, a maker of home furnishings, in Lenoir in 1943. In 1968, the company was acquired by U.S. Industries, Inc.
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10946
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Kathleen Barnes is the only woman president of a dairy in the country. Her husband founded Maola Milk in 1935 in New Bern, and she was elected company president following his death in 1961. The company started with one building, two trucks, and seven employees. Today the company employs over 400 with an annual payroll of $2 million.
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10947
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Hampton Shirt Company manufactures and sells men's and boys' shirts and men's pajamas throughout the country. The company operations in 1925, and In 1968, it sold over eleven million shirts. Hampton is involved in the entire process from receipt of fabric to finished product. Its four manufacturing facilities and distribution center, located in Kinston, Greenville, Wilson, and Washington, employ more than 2,500, with main headquarters in Kinston.
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10948
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Two Raleigh housewives, Ruth Combs and Daisy Sample, went into business together in the late 1940s. Combs had a talent for fashioning original children's dresses and Sample was an astute business woman. Today their company, Ruth Originals Corporation, makes and sells over half a million children's dresses each year and employs over 300. The company is headquartered at Hendersonville, where the manufacturing plant is located.
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10962
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Thomas L. Storrs, president of North Carolina National Bank and of NCNB Corporation, is featured in this month's We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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10963
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We the People of North Carolina editor Bill Armstrong interviews the state's three freshmen Congressmen and records their impressions after a year in office. They are Wilmer D. Mizell (5th District), L. Richardson Preyer (6th District), and Earl B. Ruth (8th District).
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10964
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E. N. Richards is president of E. N. Richards and Associates, a business name under which dozens of corporations have constructed thousands of homes, apartments, shopping centers and other structures all over North Carolina and in parts of Virginia. Raleigh's North Hills Shopping Center was one of his projects.
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10965
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The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, makers of Schlitz beer, has opened a plant on Highway 52 about five miles south of Winston-Salem. This is the first brewery to open in the state since the Atlantic Brewery in Charlotte went out of business two decades ago.
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10966
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John Alexander McMahon, president of North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Inc., is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News. The association is the 14th largest Blue Cross (hospital insurance) and 12th largest Blue Shield (physicians' fee insurance) service in the nation.
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10967
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The Regional Education Laboratory for the Carolinas and Virginia (RELCV) is a nonprofit organization, one of fifteen educational laboratories across the country receiving federal funds to close the gap between the findings of educational research and the development of useful products to bring about change in schools. The authors discuss how the program is working in the Durham schools.
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