High Point Top Ten Stories Of 1966
The Enterprise staff lists ten major events from 1966 in High Point, noting no single dominant story. The year featured shifts in racial integration, a surprising city growth development, and moral reckonings, with the top three highlighted and a capsule of the ten items.
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High Point
Ten Enterprise
U.S. Bureau of Census
High Point 1966 Furniture Makers See Growth and Change
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association pushed data driven export efforts and new divisions in 1966 while larger firms expanded. Production and sales rose about 11 and 10 percent respectively with demand in early 1966 and a late rise in bamboo style and English influences.
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Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
Cologne
Germany
SFMA
National Association of Manufacturers
National Retail Furniture Assn
Traffic and
Hosiery Moves In Big Strides
The 1966 hosiery year brought record gains in production sales and earnings with expansion and equipment updates. Men s over the calf and panty hose led gains as fashion trends pushed higher priced hose and broader color varieties. Cantrece fiber from Du Pont emerged as a major development and more yarn variety and new machinery are planned for 1967.
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Ray Hubbard
Woen
du Pont
Orion
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Continental Furniture Co
Robert Spelman
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N. Main Street
Greensboro
George Wallace
Laurie Pritchett
Albany, Ga
J. Roy Teague
William Penn High School
Washington Drive
N. Main
Photo Art Richardson
Southern Furniture Exposition
Jerry Parrish