January
THE MOUNTAIN TRJ^JL
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(Hits that fit, Con’t)
Jack to Opal
\^lynn to Johnny
Peggy to Bobby
^’’cannie to Ti^eegie-
v/ognne to Toinmy
Marion to Harley—
Klmbo to Roy
-Young Love
■-Forever Yours
-My True Love
-Indian Love Call
—Treat Me Nice
—Until You’re Mine
-r-V'Jhy Don*t You Write Me
aeorgetta to Joe
.l-.'orth Carolina (con’t)
Ecusta Paper Corp. near Brevard is
the largest cigarette-paper manufactoring
plant. North Carolina produces half of
all the tobacco products in the United
States and leads in the manufactoring of
cigaretts, producing %%
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company at Win
ton-Salem operates the worldfe largest
cigarette factory.
North Carolina holds first place in
the Southeast in the value of its indus
trial and agricultural production. This
...roduction is highly diversified, id-th
furniture, chemicals, and paper constit
utes enormous industries, the largest
furniture factories in the South are at
Highpoint, Tnomasville, Statesville, arid
‘i''&xioir.
The Eth^T’l-Dow Chemical Plant at Wilm-
ifigton, where bromide is extracted from
vsea water, is one of the few plants of
uhis kind in the world*
Our state is the leading producer of
mica and feldspar, and has the only tin
mine in the United States.
North Carolina is also the source of
of all crude drugs produced in the
Tir.ited States.
At Canton is one of the worldb lar-
cs'O paper and pulp mills.
The annual value of textile product-
in North Carolina is 7lUj388»00
of tcb'"cco,S3'32,li39,765o005 of furniture
$>^^313'; 93U»00 and of manufactored goods
8l«.ii23,.638,BB3.00o (I9h^ estimate)
-Promise Me Love
The state leads the South in populat- .
ion and in social and economic reforms*.
Its educational pay is the same for whites
nnd negroSo
There are 19 state and national parks
and forest in North Carolina, including
•the . Great SmokejT" Mountain National Park,
the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the new Cape
Hatteras National Seashore. State parks
cover35j768 acres. Mount Mitchell on the
Parkway near Asheville, is the highest
mountain in the Eastern United ^ates*
It is 6,681j. feet above sea level*
The largest military reservation in
the United States is Fort Bragg, and the
largest Marine Amphibious training base
is Gajrip Le Jeune*
•^his is just an outline of some of
-the interesting facts about North Carolina*
Information was obtained from ‘’Facts •^o
Know About North Carolina*’ by J.M. Mullen
and from ” Information Please Almamac, 1958”
Jessie Lynne Harbison'