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11125
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Dupre, North Carolina State Maintenance Engineer, discusses littering on state roadways. Since 1969, highway upkeep costs have increased $500,000 to $2.5 million. The state's 73,000-mile highway system requires about 150 crews for upkeep with a cost per crew of $16,338.
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11126
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The 1971 North Carolina General Assembly created the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Highway Safety as part of the State Government Reorganization Act. Former legislator Fred M. Mills, Jr. was selected the Department's first secretary. We the People of North Carolina magazine discusses the new department with Secretary Mills.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 30 Issue 7, July 1972,
p50-51, 102-103, il, por
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11130
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Nello Teer Company of Durham is building the 20-mile, $38 million project to extend Interstate 40 from Interstate 85 at Durham to Raleigh through the Research Triangle Park. Completion of the project will ease congestion on traffic-heavy U.S. 70 between the two cities.
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11131
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Atlantic Aero, Inc., located at the Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem Regional Airport, will complete its $500,000 construction program and be in full operation at the airport in the fall of 1972. The company will offer customers enclosed, heated aircraft storage, plane port storage for approximately forty-five aircraft, and tie-down facilities for about sixty more aircraft. Parking will be available for approximately one hundred cars.
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11132
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Shell Oil Company has over 1,400 service stations in North Carolina. This article contains information on other activities the company is involved in around the state.
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11133
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Railroading began in North Carolina in 1833 when fifteen miles of track were laid from the Virginia border to the town of Weldon. Other construction would soon follow. Today, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, which came into being on July 1, 1967, has one-sixth of its total mileage, or 1,600 miles, in the state. Seaboard employs over 4,000 people with an annual payroll of $44 million.
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11134
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Moss Trucking Company, headquartered in Charlotte, and its affiliate, McLeod Trucking and Rigging Company, has a reputation for being one of the nation's biggest and best specialized movers. The company moves everything from locomotives to the White House Christmas tree.
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11135
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Richard B. Johnson is president of American Drew, Inc., located in North Wilkesboro. Originally a casket company, Johnson's father Andrew and three partners decided to go into the furniture business and founded the American Furniture Company in 1972. Today American Drew employs around nine hundred and had nationwide sales of over $19 million in 1971.
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9.A Four-Footed Forest Lawn by Berg, Dixie We the People of North Carolina Vol. 30 Issue 8, Aug 1972
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11136
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Pet Rest Cemetery, located northwest of Raleigh, is a burial ground tailored for pets. The facilities are equal to human cemeteries from the well-manicured lawn to the headstones. The cemetery serves as a resting place for animals ranging from the size of parakeets to Great Danes.
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11137
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A. H. Galloway, chairman and CEO of the newly created RJ Reynolds Industries, Inc., is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11138
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W. Herbert Weatherspoon was president of the North Carolina Citizens Association from 1961-1962. From 1953 to 1968 he served without break as the treasurer of the Association, making him the only dual officeholder in the history of the organization.
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11139
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Leo J. Heer has been managing director of the Southern Furniture Exhibition Building in High Point for nineteen years, starting in 1953. Prior to this he had worked for the National Retail Furniture Association since 1938 as editor of the National Furniture Review and as director of the merchandising division. Heer will retire from his present position on November 1, 1972.
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11140
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Angyal recounts a backpacking trip he and his wife Jennifer took through the Great Smoky Mountains.
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11141
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L. R. Bowers, president and CEO of Waccamaw Bank since 1966 and president of United Carolina Bancshares Corporation since 1970, is featured in this month's We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11142
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Henry E. Richter of IBM is featured in this month's We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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