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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1962
Page
9
Fair Lanes Inc reports first quarter 1962 earnings of 18,974,652 or 37 cents a share, up from 16,541,010 or 32 cents. The Baltimore firm announces a 12 1/2 cent per share dividend payable June 15 to June 1 record holders, its 11th consecutive payout since 1959.
A group of Piedmont transportation executives met at Friendship Airport Restaurant to discuss forming a new NDTA chapter. Gen Thomas Fuller retired assistant to the president of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad announced Greensboro High Point Winston Salem as the site citing regional transport hub status. Jerry E. Lewis of Duke Power received an electrical operating engineer certificate from International Correspondence Schools and is a U S Army veteran and Five & Ten Toastmaster member.
Coffee most likely originated in Ethiopia. First coffee plants in southern Brazil were grown in 1774.
Coventry officials released a tourist leaflet claiming Lady Godiva wore clothes during her famous ride prompting debate among locals who cherish the naked legend. Historian Abe Jephcott dismissed the claim while planners prep a pageant with a flesh toned costume for a cathedral consecration event.
Two students in Bermuda shorts in 90-degree heat were sent home by Niagara Falls Collegiate Institute principal Verner F Fullerton. He said boys must be appropriately dressed regardless of temperature.
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