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11782
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This article contains information on the history of two of Winston-Salem's newspapers - THE SENTINEL, the afternoon paper, and THE JOURNAL, the morning one.
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11783
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The Carolina Motor Club, headquartered in Charlotte, organized in 1922 under the direction of Coleman W. Roberts. It completed its first year of business with 1.900 members. Today, it serves a membership of 500,000.
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11784
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Carolina First National Bank, located in Lincolnton, is celebrating its seventy-fifth year of service with a new main office building.
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11785
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Richard K. Helmold founded Helmold Ford in Apex on November 26, 1956. The business began with sixteen employees, an initial investment of $40,000, and a goal to sell ten cars a month. Soon sales had increased to around $400,000 per year. Today sales exceed $18 million per year.
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11786
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When Leon Levine founded his first Family Dollar Store in Charlotte in 1959, he thought one day he would have a chain of fifty to one hundred stores. Today there are over three hundred stores in seven Southeastern states. It is one of the fastest-growing retail variety chains in the nation with sales for the year ending in August 1978 exceeding $117 million.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 36 Issue 11, Nov 1978,
p113, 194-195, il, por
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11787
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Clyde R. Hoey, former North Carolina Governor and U.S. Senator, started The Shelby Daily Star in 1894, when he purchased the floundering Shelby Review. Today the paper is the most modern, computerized paper in the state -Âfor its size (17,000 circulation).
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11788
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E. J. Cox moved to Clarkton, a small town in Southeastern North Carolina, in 1902 and opened a farm supply company which has served the agricultural needs of the area for seventy-six years. Cox is also the sole buyer for Planters Peanut Company in Southeastern North Carolina and South Carolina.
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11789
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Drexel Heritage Furnishings, Inc., is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary in 1978. Founded in Drexel in Burke County, the company employs about five thousand people in twenty locations around the state. Drexel is one of the largest furniture companies in the industry.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 36 Issue 11, Nov 1978,
p140, 208-209, il, por
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9.Windwood, Inc. by Norris, Jeannie Faris We the People of North Carolina Vol. 36 Issue 11, Nov 1978
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11790
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Windwood, Inc., located in High Point, is a unique business that concentrates exclusively on rattan and wicker furniture. The company was founded in 1971 by Mose Samet. It is the only business of this type that manufactures from the pole to the finished product in North Carolina.
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11791
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In 1979, Drillers Service, Inc., founded in Hickory, will observe its twenty-five year of operations in the ground water developing industry.
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