Retail Trade Sees Buoyant Midyear Lift In High Point
Retailers report midyear strength across soft goods, appliances and big-ticket items as vacation spending and dividends boost consumer cash. Savings institutions paid 72127.37 in midyear dividends. Dayton Rubber adds reinforced rubber webbing line for furniture. Joe D Wood named VP of Southern Buying Syndicate, linking 75 stores in Southeast.
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High Point
Joe D. Wood
Beeen
Southern Buying Syndicate
John H. Tobin
Wood
Roy Arnold Carpet Co
Decatur
James Lees & Sons Co
Security Quotations Guide for Security Dealers
This unspecific clipping notes bid and asked ranges from the National Association of Security Dealers and others as unofficial guidance. It mentions that some horses race with lightweight aluminum shoes and suggests origin details upon request.
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Tha Tional Association of Security Dealers, Inc
Car Financing Feeds Rising Auto Purchases in 1950s Detroit
AP reports Universal C I T Credit Corp president Alan G. Rude says 65 percent of new car buyers use installment plans with an average 89 dollar monthly payment and 29 to 30 month terms. Used car financing runs about 75 percent. Total consumer car debt nears 16 billion dollars, about 235 dollars per licensed vehicle.
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Alan G. Rude
Universal C.I.T. Credit Corp
Rude
Survey Research Center
University of Michigan
American Collectors Assn
Association
Transatlantic Airlines
United States
New York
Europe
Detroit
Clover
Economy's Boom Stamps Experts Outlook Rosy
New York AP reports a strong first half 1959 with broad gains across construction, retail, travel, autos, and power usage. Despite pockets of unemployment and mounting prices, optimism continues as steel wage talks and inflation loom, and a new GI mortgage rate cap awaits.
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New York
Berlin
Eisenhower
U.S
Folk Art Lecture At College On Appalachian Toys
Richard Chase, a national folklorist from Beech Creek North Carolina, visits Woman's College Greensboro Tuesday to lecture on Folklore of the Appalachians. His display features Gee-Haw Whimmydiddle and Flipperdinger toys crafted by three Beech Creek teens.
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Greensboro
Beech Creek
Earnings Rise for M and J Finance Co
Shelby, N C AP earnings report shows M and J Finance Co just ended fiscal year with earnings per share of 4.40 and total net income of 223,016 dollars. Board meetings authorized sale of 2 million dollars of 13 year debentures to three Midwestern offices. Company headquarters stay in Shelby with offices in 19 Carolina and two South Carolina cities.
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Shelby, N.C
Western Life Insurance Companies
M.&j. Finance Co
M.&j
Ing Capital
Automobile Finance Firm
Carolina
Accused Killer Sent To Mental Hospital
Thurman Andrew Ricks, 34, accused of killing a deputy sheriff who was part of a posse, was moved from Central Prison Raleigh to the state Mental Hospital for Negroes in Goldsboro for at least 30 days of observation. Superior Court Judge Clawson L. Williams signed the order. trial set for the August term in Lee County Superior Court.
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Rawleigh
Mendenhall‘Moore
J. N. Rawleigh Co
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Piedmont
Lyles
Chevrolet
Credit Plan
New Line
Dayton Rubber Co
By Joe Brown
Main Street
Occidental Sal
Gate State
Senate
Penn Fruit Co
Piedmont Aviation Plaudler-Permutit
Piedmont — Gob
P.&n
Postal
Ceberteneaen
Provident L &A
Eeneenee Public Sv
Pyramid Life Ins
Rewleigh
Ener
Reeves
Daas Republic
Nat'l Life
Marietta
Aeseverwee Werner
Marietta Wevenees
Standard Fruit
Iden Farms
Ernold Stone Co
Aeeneee
Tlanta Gas Light
Wtler's Inc. Com
Annon Mills
Sant Te Coneee
Arolina Ome
Arolina Teeres
Arolina Wholesale Entral Elec, & Gas
Eeeene Life Ins
Entra
Zonolite Co
Eee
Uneae
Oliver Wircommonwealth Life A
One Mills
PFD Seneee xi Opeland
Relia Cence
Onnelly, R.R. & Sons TM Rackett
P. Finance
Union Nat'l
Seow
Ranklin Life
Rigutkar Corp
Larfinekel J. Com
Teeeene Iendels
Portland Cement
Sores Ee
Jullford Nat’ Bank
Lg Life Insurance
Nes, P.M. Knite
Some Finance Group
Louston
Anne Eee
Nter Mtn
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Evingstone Shipbidg
Ife & Casual
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The
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Ucky Stores
Faryland Casualty
Seee
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Fiami
GBM
Sneer
Haw
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Lationwide Corp
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Sterling
TEL
MAC Panel CO
High Point, N. C
J. Sturgis May & CO
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Security Bank Bldg
Khrushchev
Coliseum
du Pont Co
Lee
Rogers Insurance Agency
N. Main St
Buil
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Meinhard & Company, Inc
Fourth Ave
Percy Payne
Sunset
N. C
Omfs Diversified Services, Inc
M. I
Shelby
Gastonia
Charlotte
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Lee County Superior Court
High Point Savings and Trust
High Point, North Carolina
U. S. Government Securities
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