Textile payroll reaches one billion dollars in 1965
North Carolina’s textile industry posted a $1,032,344,510 payroll in 1965, up over 114 million from 1964, with 247,183 workers making up 41.6 percent of the state’s industrial employment. Mecklenburg led counties with 114,246 workers and $600,220,477 wages.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Employment Security Commission
ESC
Image Textile
Mecklenburg
Guilford
Forsyth
Gaston
Wake
Catawba
Durham
Cabarrus
Alan
Khama Receives OBE and Knight Hood in Botswana
Prime Minister Seretse Khama was conferred the insignia of knight commander of the Order of the British Empire and a knighthood in Bechuanaland. The ceremony was performed by the queen's commissioner Sir Hugh Norman Walker and witnessed by Khama's wife Ruth and their four children.
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Gaberones
Bechuanaland
Seretse Khama
Hugh Norman Walker
Khama
Ruth
Gospel Sings and Revival Near You Tonight
Gospel sing at Oak Grove Church on Furlough Street at 2 30 p m church service at Mars Holiness Church 7 30 p m featuring Jackson Singers Danville Va Eveready Gospel Singers High Point Barnes Singers Thomasville at Mars Hill Church 8 o'clock revival led by Rev J S Hargrave starts tonight 7 30 p m at St Anthony's temple Fairview Road Industrial Social and Savings Club meets Tuesday 7 p m at 725 Cliffside Dr hosted by Mrs Mamie Gilmore
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Oak Grove
Mars Holiness
Jackson Singers
Danville
Eveready Gospel Singers
High Point
Barnes Singers
Thomasville
Mars Hill
J. S. Hargrave
St. Anthony’s Temple
Fairview
Industrial Social and Savings Club
Mamie Gilmore
Cliffside Dr
Randolph GOP Women Meet at High Point Home
Archdale Randolph County Republican Women's Club meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m at Mrs John Skeen's Rt 5 High Point home. Several state and county candidates plan to attend.
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Archdale
Randolph County
Republican Women’s Club
John Skeen
Rt. 5
High Point
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Thunderbird
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Lester’s Jewelers
Medicare
Church St
College Village Shopping Center
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Jessime
Gary Hemric
Davidson
Evelyn Wood
Jergens
Despenser
Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics
Woodbury
Metomucil
High Point Public Library
S. Main St
H.P. Library
Dandruff
Reading Dynamics
Washington
Colgate Tooth Paste
Utah
Time Magazine
Teddy Roosevelt
Fom
Dynamics
P. O
Greensboro
N. C
Westover Terrace
Gillette
Sys
Cepacol
Heritage House
Eckerd’s
GOP Women State Meeting
High Point Enterprise
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