Edmundson Leads Sears High Point Store Opening
R J Edmundson, longtime Sears executive, serves as manager for Sears new High Point NC store and attached auto service facility. The one block complex on S Wrenn Street opens Wednesday with about 250 staff under his supervision. He rose through Sears from Goldsboro in 1955 to oversee merchandising and personnel roles before moving to High Point. Edmundson engages with local groups and plans Rotary membership while balancing family life at Corvair Street.
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Robert Marks
R. J. Edmundson
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Sears, Roebuck and Co
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High Point
Sears
North Carolina
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Direcon
Fremont
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Goldsboro
Johnson City
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Decatur
Sorial Personnel Department
Atlanta
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High Point Rotary Club
First Methodist Church
Point
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The Editor's Notebook on Ed Howe and Kansas Towns
The piece reflects on Ed Howe's Story of a Corn Town and Kansas life from 85 years ago. It contrasts pioneer myths with prairie realism and traces a personal memory of 47 years in Kansas, noting road paving, schools, libraries, and booster culture that reshaped towns and daily life.
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Kansas
Ed Howe
Atchison (Kan
Globe
Potato Hill
Ned Buntline
New York
Mark ‘Twain
William Dean Howells
Sinclair Lewis
Gopher Prairie
Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg
Ohio
America
Caney
Independence
Cherryvale
Congress in disarray over subcommittee chaos
Washington reports show House and Senate clashing over reorganizing subcommittees. Critics say misaligned panels control vast funding and stall major bills, with seniority and power struggles hindering reform.
Davidson date line The View Is County Wide
Lexington pursues county wide hospital studies after Lexington Chamber of Commerce halts county plan. Thomasville plans a $3 million hospital, while a central county hospital remains a faint hope. Dillard's Airport expands to serve the area, leased five years at $10 yearly, run by Joe Dillard with community support backing future growth.
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Lexington Chamber of Commerce
Davidson County Medical Society
Thomasville
Lexington Hospital
Lexington
Piedmont City
Greensboro
Smith Reynolds
Winston-Salem
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Dillard’s
Joe Dillard
Davidson
Roaming the Piedmont mixed season colors on Main Street
The piece observes spring fashions in downtown shops and a navy and white trend amid unseasonable snow talk. It recalls old streetcars and trolley nostalgia, mentions workers guiding students through a facility, and notes locals collecting salvaged metal from track work.
Furniture market shifts reshape Southern showrooms pattern
The piece analyzes how the Southern furniture market centered in High Point evolved from centralized showrooms to dispersed ones across North Carolina and beyond. It notes West coast and Midwest showroom openings may alter January and July markets, prompting more travel for buyers and potential reversion to smaller regional centers.
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High Point
Thomasville
Lexington
Hickory
Lenoir
Drexel
North Carolina
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