Furniture makers bullish on midyear outlook
Outlook from the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn and Southern Retail Furniture Assn notes first half 1966 ahead of 1965. Manufacturers report good business and expect it to continue, with July Market registrations at a record high and a panel of 20 to advise retailers at Top of the Mart exposition building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
Robert Deale
Southern Retail Furniture Assn
Deale
High Point Boy Survives Drowning at Ritter's Lake
Eddie Hall nine years old nearly drowned at Ritter's Lake near Greensboro after falling from a raft. A passer-by Ronnie Angle of Greensboro used mouth to mouth resuscitation learned from a Red Cross course to revive him.
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High Point
Ritter’s Lake
Greensboro
Eddie Hall
Weavil Street
Ronnie Angle
Eddie
Curtis
Tony
Archie Wheeler
Angle
Market to Welcome Rank and File Dealers Amid Airline Strike
The current nationwide airline strike is not expected to cut attendance at the five day market in High Point. Most buyers live within easy driving distance and will access newer merchandise from April. Retailers from small and medium stores plan six to nine month lead times, while large units book longer ahead. The market, larger this year, will host the rank and file dealers who supply about sixty percent of furniture sales. Upbeat outlook cites space expansion and mixed results for manufacturers catering to smaller southeastern communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heer
Drug Firms Relocate Two High Point Businesses
The Advance Store moves from North Main Street to 142 South Main Street in a larger space and opens at 9 a.m. Monday. Leonard's Drug Company shifts from 1401 North Main Street to 117 West Lexington Ave with a larger parking area and a moved prescription department already open.
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Advance
North Main Street
South Main St
Leonard’s Drug Store
Piedmont Airlines FLies 27 Percent More Passengers
Piedmont Airlines reports 750,755 passengers carried in the first six months of 1966, a 27.11 percent increase over the same period in 1965. The figure was released by Piedmont officials in Winston-Salem.
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Winston-Salem
Piedmont Airlines
Firecracker blamed for Roachdale Lions Club blaze
A fire at a Roachdale Indiana Lions Club fish fry destroyed three tents and caused about 3500 dollars in damage. Firemen used lemonade buckets to extinguish the flames as the blast was traced to a nearby firecracker.
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Roachdale
Ind
Lions Club
Outer Banks sightseeing tale of heat and humor
A humorous tour diary of the Outer Banks describing Ocracoke Hatteras and Wright Memorial. The writer jokes about lighthouse climbs ferry rides and Elizabethan Gardens while noting historic sites and playful exaggerations about Lost Colony and Queen Elizabeth.
Miss High Point Heads to Miss North Carolina Pageant
Pam Culler of High Point leaves Monday for Guilford College to compete in the Miss North Carolina Pageant. She begins orientation, rehearsals, and talent on Tuesday, with events through Friday and finals televised Saturday night. Special guests include Miss America 1966 Debbie Bryant.
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Miss High Point
Guilford College
Pam Culler
Arnold Culler
Pam
N. A
Miss High Nt
Exous
North Carolina
Debbie Bryant
Penny Clark
Jeanne Swanner
Guilford College Jaycees
Mars Hill College
Central High School
Beauty contenders register for Miss North Carolina Pageant
Glenda Lee Cannon of Crestview Drive Thomasville and Vicki Lynn Lomax of 850 Dixon Ave Asheboro will join Miss High Point Monday in preparing for the Miss North Carolina Pageant. Cannon will sing a medley and compete in evening gown talent and swimsuit rounds. Lomax will perform Ebb Tide as her talent act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicki Lynn Lomax
Randolph
W. E. Lomax
Dixon Ave
Asheboro
Randoloph Jaycees Seek Missing Beauty Contestant
Asheboro Jaycees search for a missing entrant in the Queen of Randolph Pageant. The first-year contestant’s letter of entry was lost and organizers extend the entry deadline to July 21. The pageant runs August 12-13.
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Jaycees’ Queen of
Randolph
Asheboro
Wreck Victim in Critical Condition After Smyrna Crash
SMYRNA Del A P reports Mrs Sophonie Veter 49 of Jacksonville NC remained in critical condition with multiple injuries after an auto crash on U S 13 south of Smyrna. Her daughter in law Mrs Leontine Veters and granddaughter Linda Veters were killed in the wreck early Thursday.
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Smyrna, del
Sophonie Veter
Jacksonville
N.C
U.S. 13
Smyrna
Maynard to speak at SRFA summer market breakfast
Maynard will attend the High Point summer market this week. The SRFA sets its annual breakfast for 7 30 a m Tuesday with a panel of 20 teenagers who will discuss ideas on furniture and retailing.
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Maynard
SRFA
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G. D. Bostian
I. T. Mann
American Legion
Wesley
Gaynor
Leroy Lakey
Art Richardson
Outlook
Boy
Ride Piedmont Line
The
Outer Banks
Ocracoke
Coney Island
Ocracok
Senos
Sommes
Hatteras
Wright Memorial
Fort Raleigh
Queen Elizabeth
Lost Colony
Sir Walter Raleigh
Ashebor Jaycees
Jaycees
Paducah
Ish Davis
Alfred Swinford
Davis
Cadillac
Cadillac Motor Car Division
Highland Motors, Inc
High Point, N. C
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