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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1956
Page
5
United States life insurance totals reach $373 billion with the average family holding $6,800 in coverage, slightly above the national $6,733. Local data show 82.9 million in coverage, 90 percent of urban men and 70 percent of urban women insured, with 55 percent ordinary life and group plans as the next major segment.
First half 1956 furniture shipments rose 17 percent from a year earlier with every month higher than 1955. NABM now forecast 8 to 10 percent annual gain, aided by the end of the steel strike. Six month data show orders up 6 percent, payrolls up 13 percent, cancellations up 43 percent, and unfilled orders down 3 percent while employment rose 6 percent. Local notes report rising circulation and bank debit activity in High Point and North Carolina, with July 1956 debits up 6 percent from July 1955 and seven months 1956 up 11 percent, the strongest in the state except Winston-Salem at 13 percent.
The Florida Furniture Mart begins Wednesday in Miami with buyers from the southeastern United States Puerto Rico Cuba and South America expected to attend. C H Fisher president of the Miami Market notes space limits raise exhibitor count to 165 and about 375 booths a 40 percent rise from last year. He predicts Miami will surpass Chicago and New York shows as many national firms who could not secure space at larger markets attend.
Clarence Keever, longtime Postal Service official with 13 years in exams and investigations, becomes vice president in charge of sales at Carson's Inc. He will move from Lenoir to High Point and join the firm August 1, reporting to president Carson Stout.
Don Head of Emerywood Court Apartments in High Point joins W E Hege Jr of Mt Airy and Lawrence Beck of Denton as new owners of Biltwell Chair & Manufacturing Company of Denton. They purchased the plant and equipment, plan to revive operations, with Headen as president of Hanes Chair & Furniture and Hege of Standard Manufacturing. Beck was previously production manager. The firm will continue making household and institutional chairs.
Mrs. Emily DeLong reported six pigeons stolen from a coop atop her home. Police found the birds and returned seven pigeons, telling detectives to count it as interest for your poser anguish.
Detroit reports the auto industry faces its toughest inventory problem with new car stocks cut from about 904000 units on March 1 to an estimated 640000 today. Without a sales reversal many makes may sell out before 1957 models arrive. Chrysler and Ford face 40 percent lower August output than July.
Sponsors of the Atlanta Merchandise Mart unveiled tentative dates for a winter furniture showing in Atlanta set for January 28 to February 1. E R Macon, sponsor, said plans place Atlanta during the second week of the High Point market to avoid conflicts.
A nostalgic look at the shift from straight razors to electric shavers after World War I, highlighting brands like Sunbeam and Remington Rand. Lester's shop promotes 1957 models, free home trial shavers, and trading in old units for new, promising easy, comfortable shaving at low cost.
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