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12941
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Central Transport, Inc., founded by Archie Honbarrier, began as a one-man operation in High Point in 1951. The company has grown from a small petroleum carrier into the ninth largest carrier of bulk commodities in the country.
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12957
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John O. McNairy is president and CEO of Kinston-based Harvey Enterprises and Affiliates. The company has grown from a fledgling insurance agency in 1871 into a diversified group of companies dealing in farm supply and equipment.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 47 Issue 2, Feb 1989,
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12958
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Skyline Telephone Membership Corporation is North Carolina's largest telephone cooperative and serves five counties in the peaks and valleys of the state's mountain regions.
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12959
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James F. Goodmon is president and chief executive officer of Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc., which was founded by his maternal grandfather A. J. Fletcher. The company has grown to include television (WRAL-TV), FM radio, a newspaper, and several radio networks.
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12961
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We the People of North Carolina magazine features J. Richard Futrell, Jr. in its Businessman In the News section. Futrell is president of The Planters Corporation, based in Rocky Mount, and its single subsidiary, The Planters National Bank and Trust Company.
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12962
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Dail Holderness, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company, died in Tarboro on March 17 at the age of seventy-nine. He served as chairman of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry in 1972-1973.
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12963
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Famous Raleigh restaurateur Thad Eure Jr., who died in 1988 at the age of 56, was honored by his industry at the 42nd annual meeting of the North Carolina Restaurant Association through the posthumous presentation of the 1989 A. G. \"Griff\" Glover Distinguished Service Award. Eure was one of the individuals who founded the nationally known Angus Barn in 1960. In all he had a hand in starting around fifty restaurants in the Southeast.
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12964
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We the People of North Carolina magazine features Charles G. Buie, Jr. in its Businessman In the News section. He is president and CEO of Charles Craft, Inc., a textile company he founded in Laurinburg in 1967 with two employees (himself and one other.) The company had sales of $250,000 the first year. Today, the company employs about 900, has sales of $65 million, and remains privately owned.
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12965
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Keever profiles Wilkes County, one of North Carolina's smallest, populated with almost 63,000 individuals, yet at the same time able to grow and develop blue chip companies like Holly Farms, Lowe's and others.
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12971
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Wilkes County is the Mirror Capital of the World. Ed F. Garner founded Carolina Mirror there in 1936, later founding Gardner Mirror with his son-in-law in 1961. The company currently has about 14 percent of the market.
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12976
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Cold New England weather brought renowned sculptor Wayne Trapp to Vilas, a small hamlet located near Boone. His abstract sculptures are sold all over the world from Europe to the Caribbean and the United States.
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12977
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Hugh E. Carr is president and chief executive officer of Sanford-based Trion, Inc. The company designs, manufactures, and distributes a variety of electronic air cleaners. We the People of North Carolina magazine features Carr in its Businessman in the News section.
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12978
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Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company, a family-owned business located in Stanley, began operations in 1921. The company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of textile wet processing equipment which is marketed in more than eighty countries. The company recently celebrated the stamping of its 20,000 coded pressure vessel.
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12979
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Robert B. Albert worked twenty-five years with J.C. Penney, then decided he wanted to be his own boss. Precision Tune, founded in 1975, seemed the right fit for him. He opened his first center in Raleigh in 1979 and is the sub-franchisor for all of North Carolina east of Asheville. He and his son-in-law currently own sixteen centers with combined sales of over $11 million.
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12980
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Bob Page is president of Greensboro-based Replacements, Ltd., the world's largest supplier of discontinued china and crystal. Since 1981, Replacements has grown from an attic operation with one part-time employee to eighty-five employees and sales of over $9 million.
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