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11845
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In 1920, Julius Ward Harriss and his son-in-law W. Conner Covington founded Harriss & Covington Hosiery Mills in High Point. Their first product was ladies' mercerized cotton stockings, but they later switched to men's hosiery. Today, Harriss & Covington employs over 230 people, with weekly production approximately 20,000 dozen pair.
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11846
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Bobby Murray founded Bobby Murray Chevrolet, Inc., in Raleigh in 1965. This article traces the growth of the company from that point.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 37 Issue 11, Nov 1979,
p154-155, 231, il, por
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11850
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Hadley-Peoples became Siler City's first industry in August 1895. The company is a supplier of custom-made yarns. Very little of the company's product ends up in wearing apparel. Their principal market is in the manufacture of industrial goods. Hadley-Peoples yarns are used in hydraulic hoses, hoses on gasoline pumps, conveyor belts for coal mining and many others.
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11851
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Cross Sales and Engineering Company of Greensboro is an industrial distributor that is marking its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1979. Industrial distributors provide a link between worldwide manufacturers and North Carolina's industry which needs their products. The company is a distributor of hydraulic, pneumatic, and electro-mechanical power transmission products.
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11852
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Edwards & Broughton Company has been a leader in Eastern North Carolina printing markets and a force in regional printing markets for one hundred and eight years. Cornelius Bryant Edwards and Needham Bryant Broughton founded the company in 1871.
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11853
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James E. Heins is president of Heins Telephone Company. It is a small, family-owned firm which serves about 16,000 customers with 30,000 telephones in Lee and Harnett counties and in small areas of Chatham and Moore counties. Heins 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. 37 Issue 12, Dec 1979,
p13-15, 46-47, il, por
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11854
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St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, founded in Durham about 1960, has a small but affluent congregation. When a newer sanctuary was constructed in 1977, the building contained stained glass windows with stunning visual impact. Twenty-three feet high, they extend around three sides of the church for a total length of seventy-three feet. Four smaller windows are at the rear of the church. Leandro Velasco designed all.
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11855
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In 1978, North Carolina was the eighth-largest producer of apples, shipping 295 million pounds, or about 7 million bushels. This article provides information on the state's apple industry, where they are grown, and the major varieties shipped from the state.
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11859
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Governor Bob Scott left office in 1973. In this We the People of North Carolina interview, he reflects on his years in office.
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11860
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Jim Holshouser was the first Republican governor elected in North Carolina in the 20th-century. In this We the People of North Carolina interview, he reflects on his years in office.
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11861
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James Hunt, the incumbent governor, offers his observations about the decade of the 70s.
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11862
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Fie Top Mountain in Maggie Valley became the state's first ski slope in 1961. Today North Carolina has ten ski areas which are expected to draw half a million people during the 1979-1980 season.
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11863
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Kay Lambeth, who heads Erwin-Lambeth Furniture, is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businesswoman in the News. Erwin-Lambeth has served leading retailers, discriminating decorators, and style-conscious homemakers for thirty-four years.
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11864
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Thomas Bowman Brewer is the sixth Chancellor of East Carolina University. He followed Leo Jenkins who led the University for eighteen years. Brewer earned his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania and was a Dean at Texas Christian University prior to coming to ECU.
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11865
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In this We the People of North Carolina interview, East Carolina University Chancellor Thomas B. Brewer, who assumed the post in 1978, discusses the University, its role and its future.
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