Winston-Salem News: Marlboro Tops Winston Sales Slump
Winston-Salem reports Winston cigarettes slip for second year in a row as Business Week data show 3 percent drop in 1977, a $45 million revenue loss. Reynolds plans to react while Marlboro by Philip Morris leads the market. Winston previously rebounded after declines with Winston Light.
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Business Week
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Reynolds
Philip Morris
Richmond
Winston
Edwin Duncan Jr Honored by Sparta After Court Convictions
About 150 Duncan supporters crowded a Sunday gathering in Sparta to praise Edwin Duncan Jr despite his misapplication of bank funds and eavesdropping convictions. Attendees cited his and his father’s role in expanding Northwestern Bank and bringing industry to Alleghany County as sentencing for his third trial looms in Winston-Salem.
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Sparta
Northwestern Bank Board
Edwin Duncan Jr
Duncan
Alleghany County
Northwestern Bank
Duncans
Dan Murray
P.C. Collins
D-Alleghany
Winston-Salem
Dunncan
Bus Union Calls For Strike Vote At Greyhound
A union representing about 15 000 Greyhound drivers and mechanics urged a strike vote after national talks collapsed. Contracts for 13 000 employees nationwide expired at midnight Monday, with scattered walkouts and pickets reported in Cleveland and other cities. Owen Jones called the wage offer an insult and said negotiators refused to bargain after a Friday session.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Greyhound Bus Company
Amalgamated Transit Union
Afl-Cig
Cleveland
Charleston
W.va
Greyhound
Pittsburgh
Virginia
North Carolina
Owen Jones
Greyhound Council
Two Wolfe Letters Found at Asheville Estate
Two more Thomas Wolfe letters surfaced with the old bill of sale for the “Old Kentucky Home” boarding house run by Wolfe’s mother. Found among George W. McCoy’s papers, the former Asheville Citizen editor, the letters date to 1922 and 1929 as Wolfe was drafting Look Homeward Angel and Of Time and the River. Wolfe’s notes reveal hopes of an UNC campus article and a planned North Carolina visit.
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Asheville
Thomas Wolfe
Old
Kentucky
Wolfe
George W. McCoy
McCoy
University of North Carolina
Wolfe Gid
Harvard University
Brooklyn
N.Y
North Carolina
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High Point
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N.C
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American ‘Institute OF Certified Public Accountants
National Association OF Accountants
Roy B. Culler
Samuel E. Burford
Jack C. Dillard Engineer
Paul Fine
J. Archie Myatt
Scott Parker Banker
Joe B. Patterson
Becky Smothers
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Ighard Payne
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