Labor upturn and business notes in High Point area
Bi monthly Employment Security Commission report shows 445 more jobs in 60 days with expected further drop of 400 jobless by mid November. Manufacturing added 355, nonmanufacturing 100, total unemployment down 510 to 3,250. Wages average 63.02 weekly. 38.9 hour week. Chamber elects seven new board members. Currie resigns to join WVOT Raleigh network. Colonial Stores reports nine month earnings rise. American Bakeries appoints B W Chilton in High Point plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Employee Security Commission
The
Chamber of Commerce
Fred Alexander
High Point Savings & Trust
Clarence Allred
North Carolina National Bank
Robert A. Culler
National Upholstery
Ralph Greeson
Coca - Cola Bottling Co
James A. Marley
Smithdeal Inc
D. A. Rawley
High Point Enterprise
Brooks Reitzel
Beeson Hardware
Amos Kearns
Harriss Covington
Collier Ellis
Scottish Bank System
State Banking Commission
Sales Training Courses Highlight Industry Programs
Frank L. Caldwell of Peerless Inc. attended a five day sales training course in Lancaster sponsored by Armstrong Cork Co. Thirty wholesalers learned manufacturing, selling, installation, advertising and merchandising.James Curry and Vicki H. Rickard earned Data Systems Center certificates after seven weeks training in IBM theory and punch card counting. A. B. Henley attended The National Paper Trade Assn. Inc. convention in Chicago with focus on office procedures automated equipment and a $10,000 prize imagineering contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Stores, Inc
Carl J. Reith
Reith
Colonial
Edgar Snider
Electronic Ac
Colon Currie
North State Telephone Co
Chicago
Ill
Currie
United States
The
Automatic Electric Co
Worl
Northlake
Edgewood Ave
North State
Edna M. Crisp
Washington, N. C
Joseph
Teresa Ann
Frank L. Caldwell
Peerless Inc
Lancaster
Armstrong Cork Co
Armstrong
Jimmy Curry
J. C. Curry
Old Winston Road
Vicki H. Rickard
Route 4
Thomasville
Data Systems Center
Greensboro
Robert Nielsen
IBM
A. B. Henley
Henley Paper Co
National Paper Trade Assn. Inc
Interstate Life & Accid
National Association of Inv. Div
Securities Dealers, Inc
Inv
Jefferson Ltd
Life
Kaiser Steel
Kavanaugh-Smith
Kentucky Central
Ketchum & Company
Liberty Loan
Aonal Life & Casualty Ins
Adams Engineering
Iness Aerotron Am Wa Life Companies
Allvac Metals Ln Lilly & Company
Eli
American & Efird Mills
Lone Star Steel American
Lucky Stores
American Discount
Maxson, W. L. Corp
American Fidelity Life
Nationwide
Bowater Paper
Nationwide Homes
Brush
North American Life
C.M.C. Finance Am
N.C. National Bank
CFM Corporation
N.C. Natural Gas
Carolina Casualt
N.C. Telephone
Ss Carolina Natural Gas Va
Occidental Life Via
Ohio State Life
Carolina Power & Light
Oceanite Transp
Carolina Steel Peninsular
Carolina Tel, & Tel
Textile Corp
Central Telephone
Piedmont Aviation
Central Vermont
Piedmont Natural Gas
Colonial Stores
Piedmont & North
Rwy
Pyramid Life
Cone Mills
Td Vera Rose
Consolidated Credit Ma
Rowe Furniture
Shield Bantam
Anv Craig System
Scott Foresman
Crown Alum
Ind
Security Life Trust
Crumpton Builders
Sonoco Products
Culligan, Inc
Franklin Lite
Textiles, Inc
Vvals Futterman Corp. Sie Thermo Plastics
Garfinckel J. Com
Time, Inc
General Shale
Towmotor Corp
Georgia International
Travelers Insurance
A. P. Green
Securities Dealers of the Carolinas Meet in Asheville
J Sturgis May attended the 16th annual Securities Dealers of the Carolinas convention at Grove Park Inn Asheville with his wife. May leads J Sturgis May & Co. Richard Owens of the same firm plans a three day Mutual Fund Conference in New York City with his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Sturgis May
Securities Dealers of the
Carolinas
Grove Park Inn
Asheville
Association of the Carolinas Securities Dealers
May
Richard Owens
J. Sturgis
New York City
Congresswoman Walks Out On Harry Golden
Congresswoman Iris F. Blitch of Georgia walked out during Harry Golden's remarks on segregation at a Georgia Library Association event in Jekyll Island. Blitch said Golden offended her with his comments on the song America the Beautiful and left saying she could not stay as a congresswoman who loves the song.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jekyll Island
Harry Golden
Iris F. Blitch
D-Ga
Charlotte
N.C
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Georgia Library Association
Blitch
Associates
Soviet milk and meat output lags U.S. despite drive
A U.S. study group touring Soviet farms found the slogan Beat America in milk and meat production used to spur livestock farming, but Soviet per capita milk and meat output in 1957 remained well below U.S. levels. The report questions the official milk figures, suggesting real 1957 production around 100 billion pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S
America
Ralph E. Hodgson
Wesley Keller
Clair E. Terrill
Agriculture Department
Research Service
Lester E. Hanson
University of Minnesota
Edwin E. Heizer
University of Wisconsin
Andrew V. Nalbandov
University of Illinois
A. D. Tillman
Oklahoma State University
United States
Economy Shifts Between Optimism and Uncertainty
AP reports a mixed outlook in early fall business circles as economists note cautious consumer spending and stock market hesitancy. Hodges predicts a steeper Q4 GNP rise, while auto makers show uneven results amid labor disputes and steel output hints suggest possible gains later in 1962.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Lane
AP Business News
NEW York (Ap
Chicago
Washington
Luther H. Hodges
Hodges
Also Mentioned on This Page
William H
Bill) Currie
Enterprise
Raleigh
WVOT
Wilson
Carolina Radio Network
American Bakeries Co
B. W. Chilton
High Point
Chilton
Danville
Atlanta, Ga
Rocky Mount
Emma Jean Blackwell
Adams St
Cort Cosmetics Inc
By Joe Brown
New York
Rosaine's
Reinhard & Company Inc
Park Ave. S
Southern Rep
Otis L. Holland
E. O. Lane
Saeco
UMS Micurancs Company
Greenboro, MC
Wright Homes
Fed. Shell Warrents
Bevis Shell Homes
Allvac Metals
Pearce Vible
Citizens & Southern Capital
McLean Ind
J. Sturgis May & CO
High Point, N. C
Chrysler Corp
General Motors
Pontiac
Buick
Oldsmobile
American Motors Corp
AMC Ramblers
Studebaker- Packard
Chrysler
Zine
Northwestern Mills
Professional Life Insurance Service
George P. Clark, C.L.A
NEW England Life
Mutual Life Insurance
N. Main St
Robert A. McCuiston
Edgar T. Docbrow
Ralston F. Welch
At & Health First Mortgage
Schoo
T Savings and Trust
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
N. Main
S. Main
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