Winston-Salem Has Another Big Year
Winston-Salem, North Carolina's
leading industrial city, again re
ported a good year for 1950. Each
major industry showed increases
in payroll and employees during
the year.
Evidence of this increased bus
iness is shown by comparative sta
tistics. In 1949, Winston-Salem’s
bank deposits totaled $281,517,000:
in 1950, $314,289,141. In 1949,
building permits totaled $7,804,742;
in 1950. permits totaled $13,796,528.
Winston-Salem’s industries fall
into four major classes—tobacco
products, textiles, furniture, and
electronics. Besides these four main
groups, there are numerous other
industries manufacturing a wide
variety of products. Winston-Sa
lem and Forsyth County have ap
proximately three hundred manu
facturing industries; of these,
thirty-six have more than one
hundred employees, and 264 have
less than one hundred employees.
The value af Winston-Salem's
manufactured products was esti
mated to be over one billion dollars
in 1949. Winston-Salem is called
“North Carolina's largest tax-pay
ing unit" and is estimated to pro
duce one-fourth of all the goods
manufactured in North Carolina.
Retail trade also expanded great
ly in 1950. During the past five
years, every major store in the
city has remodeled and expanded.
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Among the larger expansions are
the Soanik-Thalnimer store, one of
the loveliest stores in the South;
the block-long Sears & Roebuck
store; and major remodeling and
expansions in Montaldo’s, Anchor
Company, The Ideal, Arcade. Davis,
Inc., and many others.
Construction
Construction for .both'business
and industry has kept pace with
the growth of the city. A five-story
office building is being constructed
in the downtown section by the
Security Life and Trust Company
at a cost of $750,000; the Hotel
Robert E. Lee has underway a
$ 1 i 5,000 remodeling program.
Southern Dairies, Inc., has a
$500,000 plant underway with new
equipment to cost $750,000. Caro
lina Linen Service has under con
struction a $250,000 plant.
A number of new school build
ings have been constructed or are
being built throughout the city and
county as both units completely
remodel and expand their physical
plants.
One of the most important devel
opments in Winston-Salem’s his
tory will grow from the paper and
planning stage toward reality when
construction begins on the Wake
Forest campus on the Reynolds
estate this fall. Plans are to move
the co-educational Baptist institu
tion, located now near Raleigh, to
a new campus built to house 2,000
students on the Reynolds site. The
campus, when completed, will be
one of the most outstanding in the
country.
Preliminary work has also start
ed on a million-doilar Memorial
iColiseum which, together with a
new fairgrounds, will provide
parking space for large meetings,
basketball games, agricultural dis
plays and Fairgrounds for fairs,
and numerous other events.
Outlook for 1951
The business outlook for 1961
is very good. All of the city’s
major industries are either directly
or indirectly engaged in defense
work or in supplying materials to
our armed forces. One large com
pany in particular, is expanding
its personnel by at least fifteen
hundred people to meet defense
needs. Peak employment is ex
pected throughout the year.
Winston-Salem is enjoying a
steadily increasing flow of ex
panded business in the retail trade
field. The city’s shopping center
is becoming known throughout the
area.
Historical Background
Winston-Salem has a rich his
torical background, and its roots
run deep into the early days of
North Carolina. In 1762-63, a small
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band of Moravians came down from
Pennsylvania to select a site fur a
new Moravian colony. After care
fully studying as much of the Ca
rolina land as they could cover,
the little band of men selected a
tract of nearly one hundred thou
sand acres in Piedmont North Car
olina at the three forks of a
tributary of the Yadkin River.
Two earlier settlements were made,
and in 1766 a site for a new town,
to be called Salem, was carefully
selected and laid out. The town
prospered and grew under the care
ful guidance of the church fathers.
Among early events of importance
was a visit from George Washing
ton in 1791.
In 1849 Forsyth County was
created out of a division of stokes
and the new county seat, named
Winston, was located just one mile
north of Salem on land bought
from the Salem fathers. Winston
immediately developed as a trading
and industrial center. Jn the 1870’s
three events took place which start
ed the youhg town on the tobacco
manufacturing and tobacco selling
road, for which it was to become
famous; these events were the
opening of the first tobacco mar
ket in 1872; the establishment of
the first tobacco factory, also in
1872, and the founding of the R. J.
Revnolds Tobacco Company in
1875.
Tobacco became the backbone of
the town’s industry, but two other
major industrial developments were
started at the turn of the century—
the Hanes Hosiery Mills Company,
founded in 1900, and now a world
leader in the manufacture of
circular-knit hosiery for women;
and the P. H. Hanes Knitting
Company, founded in 1901, and to
day the world’s largest manufac
turer of men and boys' knit under
wear.
Winston and Salem grew together
in boundaries and interests and by
vote of both municipalities, were
united in 1913 as “Winston-Salem,”
the “Twin City.”
Bright Leaf Market
Although primarily an industrial
center, Winston-Salem is surround
ed by a rich agricultural region.
Tobacco is the main money crop,
with truck farming and small
grains also important. Winston
Salem’s tobacco market is one of
the largest bright leaf markets in
the world.
The community feeling and com
munity progressiveness found in
Winston-Salem are unequaled. Its
people put their time, money, and
energy back into the community
with enthusiasm and unselfishness.
Winston-Salem is truly becoming
one of the South’s great cities.
NORTH CAROLINA
Needs 2,000 Nurses
CHAPEL HILL—(Special)—Al
most 2,000 more nurses are need
ed in North Carolina to meet pres
ent medical and health needs.
That is the information gi\en
by the North Carolina Committee
to Study Nursing and Nursing
Education following a two-year
study. James H. Clark, Elizabeth
town, chairman of the North Car
olina Medical Care Commission,
which requested the study, served
as head of the committee, and Dr:
William P. Richardson, professor
of field training in the School of
Public Health in the University
of North Carolina, was executive
secretary.
The report says a minimum of
1,942 more nurses are needed now
and that 13,270 will be needed by
I960, including 5,824 available
now.
Chesterite Honored
CHESTER, S. C.—(Special)—
Julian S. Hollis, World War II
veteran, prominent Chester mer
chant and civic and patriotic lead
er, was chosen the outstanding
young man of the year in Chester
during 1950 and was honored as
such at the Cheater Junior Cham
ber of Commerce’s annual distin
guished service award banquet
which was held at the Hotel Ches
ter, with the president, W. D.
Hopper, presiding.
The distinguished service awerd
key was presented to Mr. Hollis
by the immediate past president
of the Chester Jayeees, John H.
Boney, in behalf of the organisa
tion.
The laziest mortals are usually
the smartest, says one psycholo
gist
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Dairymen Oppose
Federal Deficts
A resolution against deficit
spending by the Federal govern
ment was adopted unanimously by
the Dairymen’s League Coopera
tive Association. Inc., which oper
ates in the six-state New York
milkahed, at its recent annual mem
bership meeting.
The meeting was attended by
about 2,000 members of the coop
erative which represents ubout
26,000 farmers.
Small Snowplow
Handlas Drifts
A Nebraska manufacturer has
begun producing a miniature snow
plow which clears a 16-inch path
with power from u l-i 2 horse
power gasoline engine.
The apparatus, called a “snow
remover,” can be set to throw snow
up to 25 feet. It is recommended
for handling snow up to 12 inches
deep, but sponsors say that with
practice, any operator can move
deeper drifts.
Our beat defense against our
enemies is a sound American dol
lar. The stability of the dollar is
the measure of our security.
TOBIN APPOINTS SHKKIO VN
TRUCKING HEAD UNDER
PEACE PACT
Secretary of Labor Maurice J.
Tobin has announced his appoint
ment of Hugh E. Sheridan, trans
portation industry arbitrator for
more than a decade as impartial
chairman of the New York City
trucking authority empowered to
enforce the 5-year labor-manage
ment peace agreement signed in
Washington April 2.
Under the designation, Sheri
dan has the right to make final
and binding decisions in all dis
putes except wages and welfare
issues.
The impartial chairman, named
by Tobin under power granted
him in the industry collective
agreement, is president of Sheri
dan and Duncan, a trucking firm
in New York. Since 1940, how
ever, he has officially acted as
arbitrator in a number of major
trucking disputes.
The 82nd Congress, like the
81st, has nine women members—
one in the Senate and eight in
the House. That’s one less than
the record 10 who served in the
second sessions of the 79th Con
gress.
U.I.S. Theme Girl
A -/etching invitation to the
Union Industries Show' at Chi
cago U extended by Sally O'Neil,
one erf the girls who make up the
huge exposition’s "Theme Team "
Sally and her team-mates will be
on hand at gigantic Soldier Field.
May IS through 34. to greet ex
hibitors and spectators at the
1951 demonstration of labor
management, the greatest display
of union-made goods in history.
Gum Habit Sticks!
Manufacturers who made chew
ing gum for the G.I’s not only
helped win World War 11 by sooth
ing the masticators’ nerves and
enabling them to make friends
veloped a lasting market for their
abroad, but a bo seem to have de
wares.
During 1948, the Commerce De
partment says, Filipinos champed
their teeth on 3 million pounds of
American gum, Cubans on 1,700,
000 pounds, and South Africans on
'51,000 pounds.
The wise consumer buys TJn
ion Label merchandise.
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