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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1955
Page
5
E C Cridlebaugh this week acquired all outstanding stock of Atlantic Insurance and Realty Co High Point oldest real estate firm New officers Cridlebaugh president treasurer Frances W Cridlebaugh vice president Ruth S Bennett secretary The firm organized in 1922 by Charles L Amos and R B Terry.
Cater M. Simpson president and M. F. Crooks vice president of Floral Garden Park Cemetery leave today for Chicago to attend the annual meeting of the Nationalera Association. Simpson will chair the association's Tuesday breakfast session and heads the maintenance school committee which runs a cemetery maintenance training course at N. C. State College.
Burdett Green of the Fine Hardwoods Association outlines a plain language guide to the FTC radio and television and wood labeling rules. The Chicago group offers copies to manufacturers and retailers to simplify describing furniture, cabinets, and hi fi products, while noting some points require legal clarification.
Multiple transfers recorded across High Point and Jamestown townships show exchanges of numerous lots. Irma F. McAdden, Eula Elliott Moore Cobb, Blairwood, Oakwood Forest, and Proctor Street figures recur among buyers and sellers.
Carroll E. Swinney of Richmond was named one of 12 directors of the National Wholesale Distributing Yard Association at the National Hardwood Association convention in Chicago. He is vice president and general manager of McEwen Lumber, a 56 year old firm with offices in Richmond, Greenville, Tampa, and Washington, D.C. Completes Lincoln and Mercury Dealership Management Conference in Detroit. C A Peacock, Temple Motor Co. general manager, earned a certificate of achievement after a two week program in Detroit Michigan.
The longest barrier reef in the world is the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, running along the continent's eastern shore for more than 1200 miles.
Bascom E. Jarrell of 914 Council Street retires after 43 years with Adams-Millis. He will receive an immediate $1,000 retirement fund payment with a $3,000 balance to be paid later. Jarrell, 60, has served as boiler tender and maintenance worker at English Street plants, beginning with Randleman Manufacturing at age 12.
Staunton Virginia Oct 22 Basic-Witz Furniture Industries Inc expects 1955 output to exceed 1954 by at least 6 million dollars as a 60 000 square foot plant addition opens. President E M Bonfoey cites a nine month 53 3 percent rise and a backlog triple the year ago with a two and a half year expansion including retooling of Staunton and Waynesboro plants.
A London diamond expert recounts language mixups in New York as he jokes about asking for directions to the underground and being told to drop dead. The ad then promotes loose diamonds, trade-ins, and terms, and notes a Deer Hunt headed by C J Hiatt with local prize winners listed.
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