High Point Vision for Growth Across 1950s
A city with 80 000 residents envisions a booming mid century future driven by home furnishings and textile industries. The article urges a bold expansion of the Chamber of Commerce budget, adding two assistants including an industrial commissioner and an agriculture commissioner to sustain industrial growth and population gains.
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Chamber of Commerce
Frem
Tles
Colfax
Guilford
Carthage
Moore
Mt. Gilead
Montgomery County
Uwharrie
Yadkin
Trinity
Thomasville
Wallbure
Union Cross
Kernersville
Col
High Point
High Point Chamber of Commerce
Bureau
High Point's Balance of Industry and Agriculture Proposed
The article argues for a new Industrial Commissioner and Agricultural Commissioner to study High Point’s manufacturing and farming sectors. It cites the need to know what to sell, whom to sell to, and how to sell, promising greater regional wealth by linking farming, dairying, and fruit growth to local industry expansion.
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Hich Point
John C. Keukema
High Point
Randolph
Davidson
Moore
Montgomery
J. H. Milita
W. H. Ragan
M. J. Wrenn
T. F. Wrenn
J. A. Lindsay
L. J. Ingram
Frank Dutton
J. W. Harties
Thames
Iitem
North
Carolina
New Deal
Giina
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Hiv Point
Chamber
Davidson County
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David Con
Avendolph
U. S. Department of Com
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High Pg Point Nc
Industrial City Bureau OF
I,roomainee
W. H. Snow
J. Elwood Cox
D. Cox
J. Cox
J. Elwood Cox, II
High Point, N. C
Hie Point
High Point Enterprise
Hedgecock Roofing Co
Ward Street
Premier Silk Mills
Earl N. Phillips
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