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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1958
Page
33
E M Hunt of Denton launches a bulk feed depot to supply about 300000 broilers 1500 hogs 60000 turkeys 20000 breeder hens and 20000 pullets. Four steel bins store 120 tons fed from railroad cars with a worm bucket system and a truck delivery option.
A North Carolina Baptist contingent of 1200 to 1400 is expected to attend the Southern Baptist Convention in Houston, with total attendance possibly reaching 15000 to 20000. Flights depart Charlotte and Raleigh Durham for the event, and participants will also join Monday and Tuesday meetings including Missionary Union, Pastors, Church Music, and Religious Education conferences.
A furniture trade newspaper highlights Thomasville Chair Co as having up to date machinery across its 10 plants. Doak Finch cites rapid postwar modernization, with replacements heavy and plants expanded. he notes industry challenges from four yearly pattern releases and frequent changeovers.
The father and son firm Cook Upholstery Co marks six months at its Albertson Road headquarters after relocating from 1001 Prospect St. The 15,000 square foot facility houses operations on the first floor and storage on the second. Roy Cook owns the business with sons Alfred as sales manager and Roy Jr as production manager. 40 people are ordinarily employed.
Isaac Singer set up his sewing machine business with a capital of 40 dollars in Boston, establishing the early foundation of what would become a notable manufacturing enterprise.
Thomasville couple run Charity and Children the Baptist orphanage weekly with Marie Grant as editor and Thomas Grant as editor. They travel to Houston for the Southern Baptist Convention to cover events for the Mills Home publication and plan two chartered planes for participants. The paper funds and prints onsite with a profit and plans reports from Rio de Janeiro in 1960 for the Baptist World Alliance.
Thomasville report details a mass chest X ray program in Davidson County uncovering three advanced TB cases among 21 561 films. The Davidson County Tuberculosis and Health Assn met in Lexington to elect officers led by Mrs. Carl Brinkley and report seal sale results of 10 180 letters mailed for 8 206 23 dollars.
High Point Township filings show J. H. Comer and others transferring to G. F. Carter and wife a lot on East Green Street. Kavanagh-Smith & Co. sells to Robert Donald Watson a lot in Eastview Subdivision. Terry L. Byerly and wife transfer a lot to Harold Hedgecock and wife. Atlantic Insurance & Realty Co. transfers to James R. Deaton and wife a Brentwood lot, who then transfer to J. Robert Connor and wife a Brentwood lot.
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