Hosiery Industry Shows Modest Turnaround Amid Mills Decline
Hosiery yarn deliveries run above normal signaling improving demand as mills reduce schedules and rates. Seamless nylon men’s hose gain favor with several plants shipping under new Seal of Approval while overall output remains below last year due to mill closures. Jamestown Furniture Market plans public show Sept 29-Oct 3 to aid Red Cross Disaster Fund with a $1 entry. High Point attends Electronics Safari at Cohu Electronics in San Calif previewing military and industrial tech. Two large real estate transfers in High Point include 305 S Hamilton St warehouse to J W Coltrane for about 75000 and a Great Southern terminal on N Main St sold to M L Sechrest for ~30000.
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Jamestown Furniture Market
Jamestown
N. Y
Merchandise Mart
Chicago
National Red Cross Disaster Fund
Jamestown Market
S. Hamilton St
Alwin Realty Co
Anvil Brand Inc
J. W. Coltrane
Great Southern Trucking Co
Highway 68
N. Main St
Sheroff Coal and Oil Co
M. L. Sechrest
Press of
High Point Face Veneer Co
Sechrest
Great Southern
Mendenhall - Moore Realtors
Bakery Sales Lead for Ward Baking Co Half-Year
Ward Baking Co. parent Tip Top Bakery reports record half-year sales ending July 7 with $52.86 million in revenue, up 7.35 percent from 1956, and net earnings of $706,443. Second quarter earnings reached $617,880 while costs rose to $804,000.
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Jackson
Security Quotations From Various Firms
Readable fragments show quotations from security firms and financial services. Listed are banks insurers and companies such as Union National Bank United Life Ins Co Wachovia Bank and Watson Transport with small percentage figures. The text appears to be a catalog or ledger of quotes rather than a narrative story.
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Union Nat] Bank
United Ins Co of Amerises
U.S. Life Ins Co
Ah Wachovia Bank & Trust
Weeee Watson Transp
Estern Oersee
Weet Mig Co Cevesies
Zonolite Company
Borden Company Nears Century Mark with Expansion Plan
The Borden Company marks its second century while expanding a $300,000 milk plant in Fayetteville and diversifying across North Carolina. It recently acquired Clover Brand for $300,000, operates eight milk and ice cream plants, and projects $180 million in five years for development.
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Borden Company
Borden
Carolinas
Dairy Products
Walter Comfort
Fayetteville
Clover Brand Milk Company
N. Main
Caolina
Gail Borden
Coleman Named SRFA Director
Coleman is named director of SRFA and has spent 37 years in the teledheid field as a shipping clerk clerk salesman decorator and buyer. He spent 34 years with Willis Furniture Co in Norfolk and has been a consultant in interior decoration for the Ross Crane School of Decoration in Chicago.
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Slo
Willis Furniture Co
Norfolk
Coleman
Ross-Crane School of Decoration
Chicago
Lengthy Eclipse Past and Present Theoretical Time
The sun could be obscured for up to seven minutes forty seconds in a total eclipse. This occurs when the sun is at its maximum Earth distance and the moon at its closest approach.
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Earth
Hosiery Decline Slows as June Jobless Claims Rise
The Employment Security Commission reports June weekly unemployment claims averaged 42 124, down from May 45 700 but up 12 percent from June 1956. Textiles bucked the trend with higher unemployment, while hosiery layoffs down as manufacturers see improvement. Non farm placements total 12 316, nearly flat from May and 20 percent below June last year. Farm placements rose to 91 545. Jobseekers per opening stood at 22 at month end, versus 17 a year ago.
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NAFM
Employment Security Commission
ESC
Henry A. Kendall
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High Point
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John H. Bivins
United States
Canada
By Joe Brown
Piedmont Airlines
Greensboro - High Point
W. G. McGee
Piedmont
McGee
Spivey
Hardware Mutual Graunance
P. O
Aerotran Sneseeeeee
Allentown
Portland
Cemen Amer & Efira
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Amer Trust Company
Atlanta
Arnold Stone Company
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Bank of America
Eseevee
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Bausch & Lambeeteeee Beneficial
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Blue Ridge Ins Co
Cannon Mills
Carolina Casualty
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Ooene Colonia Btores
Colonial
Colonial Stores
Pia E*beee Collyer Seevheeen
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Commonwealth Life of Kye
Cone Milla
Piasenee Veneer
Copeland
Domestic Finance Group
Donnelley RR
Bons
Drexel
Erwin Mills
Parrineton Mis Co
Pranklin Lite Insurance Co
Prigikar Corpeens
Garfinecke
Pia Griggs
Guardian Consumer Fin
Guardian
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Gulf Cities Gas
Gulf Life Insurance
Hanes, P.M. Knite
Par Home Finance
Sweeee Home Insurance Company
Houston
Mycon Mig Co
Inter Mountain Tel
Eter
Cenads
Irving Trust Company
Iver
Defferson Gid Life Vows
Kateer Steel
Kellogg Company
We Keystone Portland Cement
Lau Blower
Kingsport Press
Lenoir Finance
Liberty Life Insurance
Life & Casualty Insurance
Life Ins CO
Virginia
Lincoln Natl Lite
Ee Lithium Co
Lone Star
MacMillan
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Sceen
Mississippi
Nationa
Life
North Amer
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Ohio
Penn Controls
Penn Pruit Co Pia
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Eane
Tiemeate ‘ Amer
Rawleigh
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River Brand
Milan
Bantam
Reena
Paul Owen
C.S.A
Special Agent
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Mutual Life Insurance Company
Home Office
Newark
Jefferson Standard Life Inc
North Carolina Telephone Co
Wadesboro
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Jefferson Standard Life Ins
J. Sturgis May & CO
Stocks & Bonds Security Bank
America
All New
English Motor CO
Life Insurance
Dad
Massachusetts
G. Eddie Ridge District
W. Roland Albertson
Alvin T. Haley
C.L.A. General Agent
SRFA
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State Farm Mutual Insurance CO
W. Main
Thomasville, N. C
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Blackwell Insurance Agency, Inc
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