Market Outlook Cautious For High Point Furniture Week
Open Monday market outlook is cautious with about 2000 buyers from 250 to 300 miles traveling to High Point for a four day winter furniture market. Buyers will look and make selective purchases with immediate delivery favored. Long term price outlook remains unclear due to wage changes and market volatility.
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High Point
Atlanta
Robert Deale
Southern Retail Furniture Assn
Deale
Leo Heer
Southern Furniture
Heer
Max Meeks
High Point National Furniture Mart
Davis Named Top of the Mart Manager for 1960
Thomas F. Davis will assume management of the Top of the Mart at High Point on February 9. A Coral University graduate with extensive hotel and club management experience, Davis has been assistant manager at Quail Hollow Country Club and held leadership roles at the Cloister Hotel Sea Island and Lexington Country Club. He also served with the Rockefeller Foundation and the Navy during the Korean conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F. Davis
Davis
Cornell University
University of California At
Los Angeles
University of South Carolina
Quail Hollow
Charlotte
South
Leo J. Heer
Exposition
High Point
Southern Furniture Exposition
Mart
Piedmont
Zone Appeal On Agenda For Board
Guilford County Board of Commissioners will hear zoning appeals Monday including a request by Jerry W. Amos for rezoning Matthews Road land near Route 421 from planned industrial to heavy industrial. The Colfax Land Corp. parcel lies near Friendship Airport in a rapidly developing area.
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Greensboro
Friendship Airport
Guilford County Board of Commissioners
Jerry W. Amos
Matthews Road
Highway 421
Guilford County Administration
Colfax Land Corp
Guilford County Planning Board
Bishop Road
Pinecroft Road
Onsteden
Randolph County to Preserve Skeen's Mill Covered Bridge
Governor approves a $35000 State Highway Surplus Fund allocation to relocate and preserve the Skeen's Mill covered bridge near Hoover Hill Road in Randolph County. The bridge 100 feet long 22 feet above Uwharrie branch faces past vandal threats and is tied to local history and the nickname Kissi ng Bridge.
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Randolph
Asheboro
Robert Scott
Randolph County
Skeen's Mill
Hoover Hill Road
State Highway Commission
T. Lynwood Smith
High Point
Uwharrie
Southeastern Covered Bridge Society
Skeen’s Mill Bridge
Pisgah
Skeen Mill
Hazekiah L. Andrews
Paper Drive Slated Today by High Point Jaycees
High Point Jaycees hold a scrap paper drive this afternoon from noon to 5 30 p m canvassing the city. Residents should place bundled scrap paper beside the curb, tied for easy handling and pickup.
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High Point Jaycees
High Point
Reception Today Honors Local Artist Ralph Calhoun
Greensboro contemporary artist Ralph Calhoun of High Point will be honored at a 3 p m reception in the Guilford College Union Lounge. His one man show runs through Jan 25 in the Union integrating his career from High Point design work to his current illustrator role at Western Electric in Burlington.
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Greensboro
Ralph Calhoun
High Point
Guilford College Union
Union
Western Electric Co
Burlington
Calhoun
Guilford Technical Institute
Canadian Opera Company to present Barber of Seville in High Point
The Canadian Opera Company will perform Rossini’s The Barber of Seville in English at High Point College Memorial Auditorium at 8 30 p m Tuesday. The production is funded by federal and provincial grants and features a mix of Canadian and international singers.
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High Point
Canada
Canadian Opera Company
Community Concert Assn
United States
Canada Council
John Fenwick
Herman Geiger-Torel
Rossini
Figaro
Barber
Rosina
Almaviva
Dr. Bartolo
Don Basilio
High Point College Memorial Auditorium
A and T Group to Perform in Tell Pharoah Drama
A&T State University students from Greensboro will stage a Reader's Theater at the High Point Arts Council Building tonight at 8. The production Tell Pharoah by Loften Mitchell features Anne Mitchell Franklin Turner Helen Tomlinson and Hollis Pippins with Dr John Marshall Stevenston directing the program includes spirituals.
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A&t State University
Greensboro
High Point Arts Council
Arts Council
N. Main St
Anne Mitchell
Franklin Turner
Norfolk, Va
Helen Tomlinson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Hollis Pippins
Jackson, Miss
Also Mentioned on This Page
Southern Buying Syndicate
Virginia-Carolinas Home Furnishings Representatives Assn
Southern Retail Furniture Association
Thomas Davis
Census Bureau
Congress
The
Advertising Council
International Newspaper
Skeen’s Covered Bridge
Barber of Seville
Canadian Opera Group
Dmark Originals
A&t
John Marshall Stevenston
Department of Speech Communication and Theater
Young's
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