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11486
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Edwin H. Brown, Richard P. Bruce, and F. B. Lineweaver founded Knit-Away, Inc. in 1970 with the idea \"of supplying innovative merchandising and the newest and best knit fabrics to the volume areas of the fashion industry where good styling at reasonable prices was almost non-existent.\" Today the company employs over 1,200 people at the main plant in Raeford.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 33 Issue 11, Nov 1975,
p102-103, 195, il, por
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11487
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Paul N. Howard, Jr. founded the Paul N. Howard Company in Greensboro in 1950. The company is recognized as one of the country's major contractors and has recently expanded into the international market with multi-million dollar projects in Haiti and the Middle East. Contract awards for the first six months of 1975 were $40 million.
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11488
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The Hurley family has operated the SALISBURY POST for three generations dating back to 1920. The newspaper gets high marks for the excellence of its product and printing among the state's daily papers. Since 1960, POST reporters have won over seventy-five awards for excellence. The papers circulation is larger than the city it serves.
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11489
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Piedmont Savings & Loan, founded in 1912, is High Point's second-oldest savings and loan association. Current assets total over $38 million.
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11494
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Commercial Printing Company, Inc., located in Raleigh, prints everything from business cards to books. The company was founded in 1894, and incorporated in 1907, making it one of North Carolina's earliest corporations. G. Akers Moore, Sr. purchased the company in 1922, and it is now in the third-generation of ownership.
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11495
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Established in 1931 in Hickory, Central Telephone Company is the state's third-largest telephone company. The company provides service for forty-two Piedmont communities and employs over 1,100 with an annual payroll of $11.5 million.
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11496
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Henry E. Miller, Sr. started Miller Building Corporation in Wilmington in 1949. Now twenty-six years old, it is recognized as one of the leading construction companies in North and South Carolina. Most of the company's projects are between $50,000 and $2 million.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 33 Issue 11, Nov 1975,
p145-147, 195, il, por
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11497
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On October 24, 1924, Home Building and Loan Association began operation in Kinston with $3,000 in capital and one employee, W. A. Moore, who founded the company. The company marked its fiftieth anniversary in 1974, and the following year changed its name to East Federal Savings & Loan.
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11549
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Albert G. Myers, Jr. is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Textiles-Incorporated of Gastonia. His father helped found the company during the Great Depression. It is a large producer of sewing threads, yarns, and knit fabrics and employs a workforce of over 5,000. Myers is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businessman in the News.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 34 Issue 1, Jan 1976,
p11-12, 34-35, 42-44, il, por
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11550
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David L. Jones, Secretary of the Department of Corrections, discusses problems facing the state's prison system and what might be done to correct them. New facilities are needed. The state has seventy-seven prison units, but 60 percent were built in the 1930s. Central Prison in Raleigh is the state's only maximum security institution. Many units are overcrowded, creating problems with and among inmates.
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11552
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Louie E. Woodbury, Jr., who heads the Wilmington insurance firm of Woodbury & Company, is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businessman in the News.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Feb 1976,
p10-12, 14, 46, il, por
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11553
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After serving North Carolina for nearly fifty years and choosing not to seek reelection, Edwin Gill will retire as State Treasurer at the beginning of 1977. He has been associated with the state's fiscal policies and operations since 1942. Prior to being treasurer, Gill served in the General Assembly and as Commissioner of Paroles.
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11570
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North Carolinians elected Jesse Helms to the United States Senate in 1972. In this We the People of North Carolina interview, Helms discusses his work in the Senate and his philosophy of government.
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11571
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North Carolinians elected Robert Morgan of Harnett County to the United States Senate in 1974. In this We the People of North Carolina interview, Morgan discusses his first year in the Senate.
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11572
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Hector MacLean is chairman and president of Southern National Bank of North Carolina in Lumberton. Starting in 1953 with assets of $10 million, Southern National has grown into a banking system in eighteen counties with almost sixty branches. MacLean is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businessman in the News.
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