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J. A. VINSON COAL CO.
Superior Coal - Superior Service S. Center St.
Phone 149
SALES LOANS RENTALS CRAWFORD-NORWOOD COMPANY
Established 1892
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HILL'S GOLDSBORO (WAYNE COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY
Vol .. 1950-51 XVIII
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephone Directory; also a
BUYERS' GUIDE
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1950-51 edition of the Goldsboro City Directory.
Confidence in the growth of Goldsboro's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Goldsboro to the world.
The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estima- tion of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the ap- proval of every user, and that the Goldsboro Directory will fulfill its mis- sion as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.
Five Major Departments (Each department beginning with Page 1)
The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-
I. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the first major department, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Goldsboro, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.
II. THE BUYERS' GUIDE, the second major department, printed on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Goldsboro. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a progressive com- munity like Goldsboro, the necessity of having this kind of information im- mediately available, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evi- denced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
III. THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is the third major de- partment, printed on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous interests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part inthe daily activities of the commercial and professional world. More buy- ers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
IV. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, is the fourth major department. In this section the numbered streets are arranged in numerical order, followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of business having telephones.
V. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, is the fifth major department.
Municipal Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manufacturing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily a- vailable forfree public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable ad- vertisements of Goldsboro.
The Goldsboro Directory Library
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION, THE YELLOW PAGES
Almand's Drug Store. . Left side lines and
Andrews Melvin B. . Right side lines and 59
Anthony Wayne Service Center. Left side lines and
8
Bagley Wholesale. .Right side lines and
19
Bain Edgar H .
.
Left bottom lines and.
60
Bank of Wayne The
Back cover, 16 and
17
Barnes-Harrell- Rawlings Co.
Bottom stencil, left side lines and 21
Battery & Electric Service . Beamon's Lectro-Lab. Left bottom lines and 8 78 Right side lines and Bell-Askins Plumbing & Heating Co. Left bottom lines and 77 76 44
Berney's Loan Co.
Blackwood Associate Store.
Right center lines and
Blue Ribbon Beer.
. Right side lines and 19
Borden Brick & Tile Co . Left top lines and 22 73 Bowden J Jack 18
Branch Banking .& Trust Co.
Front cover, left top lines and
Britt Oil Co.
Broom Motor Co. .Left top lines and
Brown Drug Co. Right top lines and
Bryan Oil Co. Left top lines and
Bryan Tractor & Equipment Co. . Left top lines and
Builders Supplies Co. Right side lines and
Caison J A Roofing & Sheet Metal Works. . . Left side lines and Carolina Aero Service Inc.
Carolina Power & Light Co.
Carraway Albert .
Central Service Motor Co Inc Left side lines and 4
Clarkton Mattress Co. Right center lines and 93
Cobb Motor Co. Back cover, left side lines and 5 Community Motors Corp. Left side lines and 15 Cozart Packing Co. Inc. Left bottom lines and 71 Crawford John R Inc. Front cover, left top lines and 61 Crawford-Norwood Co. Inc. Front cover, left top lines and 81 50 85
Creech's Inc. . Right top lines and
Crumpler Secretarial School Left center lines and
Cutler Bros Hardware Co. . Left side lines and Denning Insurance Agency Right bottom lines and 57 61 87 Dewey Bros Inc. Front cover, left bottom lines and Dickerson Rome L. Right bottom lines and 25 45
Dillon- Bell Implement Co.
Dixie Insurance & Realty Co. Inc. Left top lines and Dortch Electric. .
62 42
Dumas-Giddens Oil Co. Inc. Right bottom lines and 74 67
Eastern Carolina Precision Works .Right side lines and Edgerton J M & Son Inc. .Top stencil and 6
Edwards Erastus E. .
70
Efird's Department Store. Right top lines and 38
Electric Sales & Service Corp. .Jeft top lines and 43
Elmore's Radio Service. Left bottom lines and 79 47
Flowers By Thompson .
Futrelle Taxi . . Front cover and 88
Garris Dry Cleaners & Hatters Right side lines and 40
Giddens Jewelry Store . Front cover and 66
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Right side lines and .47 9 40 74 9 24 84 Right top lines and 15 C 89
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Goldsboro Building & Loan Association .
. Front cover, left top lines and 26
Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce & Merchants Assn Inc . x
Goldsboro FCX Service. Right side lines and 46 Goldsboro Fuel Co. Right side lines and
Goldsboro Gas Co.
Goldsboro Ice Delivery Co.
Goldsboro Iron & Metal Co. Right side lines and 65 77
Goldsboro Litho-Print Co.
Goldsboro Music Co. . Right side lines and
Goldsboro Nursery Right center lines and
Goldsboro Record.
Goldsboro Tin Shop. Left bottom lines and
Goldsboro Welding Shop . Right side lines and
Goldwayne Laundry & Dry Cleaners . Left side lines and
Goodyear Service Stores
Grant Electric Co . Left side lines and
Grant's Esso Service Right side lines and
Grice's Service Station
Griffin A T Manufacturing Co. Backbone, left top lines and
Griffin W H & Son . Left bottom lines and 30 91 Hamilton's Funeral Home Right bottom lines and Harris Auto Body Service Right bottom lines and 11 62
Hart Kirby T. Left side lines and
Helms J Luther Left bottom lines and 35 36 Hood Bros Dairy Left side lines and 12
Hood Motor Co. .
Left top lines, 11 and
Hughes Radio Labs
Left bottom lines and 79 15
Isaacs. Left bottom lines and 50
Isaacs Sol-George Casteen Co. Inc. . . Left top lines and 51
Jeffreys & Sons Warehouse . Right bottom lines and 19
Johnson Cotton Co. of Goldsboro Inc.
Right bottom lines, 51 and 56
Johnson-Sherman Co.
Left bottom lines and
45 84
Kadis Inc.
Joseph's Neil Shop Left side lines and 27
Langston Tire Co. . Right bottom lines and 12
Leder Bros Inc. Left bottom lines and 38
Lentz C R Wholesale Co.
32
Lightner Lawrence T. . . Right top lines and 92 48
Little River Oil Co. Inc. .Right side lines and
Live Wire Electric Co. . Right top lines and Loving T A & Co.
44 Z
Lynch's Motorcycle Shop. Right bottom lines and 71
Malpass Refrigeration Sales & Service . Right side lines and 83
May's Radiator Service Right bottom lines and 78
McLamb & Lamb Woodworks . Right top lines and
27 37
Montague Bros Inc.
Left top lines and 69 31
Moye Henry L.
North Carolina Consolidated Hide Co Inc.
Right side lines and 58
O'Berry and Lewis Inc. . Right top lines and Odom Motor Co.
63
Pate-Dawson Motor Co. Inc. Left side lines and
13 7
Petroleum Distributors Inc. Right bottom lines and Price D H Jeweler
75 94 13
Prince Tire Co.
Quality Cleaners. Right bottom lines and 41
Quality Fuel Co. Inc. . Right side lines and Radio Station WGBR
31
80
28 55 30
72 72 78 3
20 68 10 43 10 B 23
Ingram Motor Co.
Johnson's Saw & Lawnmower Service
. Left top lines and 67
Merchants Delivery Service Right bottom lines and
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Robbins Radio & Television .
Right center lines and 80
39
Rogers Jewelers Inc. . Left side lines and 65
Rose Furniture Co. .
. Right side lines and
Rose W P Supply Co.
.Left side lines and
Rouse R N & Co. Inc. . Left center lines and
Sears Roebuck and Co.
Right side lines and
Service Garage . Left center lines and
Shaver Battery & Parts Co. Inc.
Shaver Maynard A.
Smith Hardware Co.
Smith & Pelt .
.Left bottom lines and
Southerland Furniture Co. Right top lines and
Spence Studios of Art
Spence-Williams Florist .
Right center lines and
Stanleys Funeral Home.
Front stencil, left top lines and
49 70
Superweld of Goldsboro Right bottom lines and
Sutton-Lewis Furniture Co. Right bottom lines and
53
Sutton's Gas & Appliance Co.
Left center lines and
Taff-Cooke Inc. .
Tatum H W Realty Co .Right top lines and
Taylor E F Co. Left side lines and 34
Thompson-Wooten Oil Co. Left side lines, 48 and
75
Town & Country Gas Co. Inc. Back cover and 55 Troutman Elwyn N. 35 93
Venetian Blind Shop. Right top lines and
Vinson J A Coal Co.
Front cover and 29 47
Wayco Corp.
Left center lines and
Wayne Dairy. Right bottom lines and 37 Y
Wayne Memorial Park Corp.
Wayne Realty & Insurance Co. Inc. Front cover, 64 and 82
Wayne Roofing & Sheet Metal Co. Right side lines, 85 and
88
Wayne Wholesale Grocery Co. Inc. Left bottom lines and 58 A
Weil's Inc. Right top lines and
White's Laundry & Cleaners Inc. Right top lines, 41 and 68
Williams Paul Studio Left side lines and 76
Williams Sheet Metal Works Right top lines and 86
Worley Typewriter Exchange. .. Back cover, left top lines and
90
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STATISTICAL REVIEW
Form of Government-City manager-aldermanic.
Population-1950 U. S. Census preliminary report for city, 21,399; Goldsboro Township, 25, 812. Sales Management estimate in 1950, 27,400. Area-5 square miles.
Altitude-102 feet above sea level.
Climate-Mean annual temperature, 62.2 degrees F .; average annual rainfall, 53.93 inches.
Parks-3 public, valued at $ 500,000; zoo at Herman Park.
Assessed Valuation-$24,545,000, with City tax rate of $1.30. Wayne County assessed valuation, $ 52,524,158.
Financial Data-3 banks, with total deposits of approximately $ 100, 000,000. 2 building and loan associations.
Postal Receipts-$ 205,524.73 (fiscal year ended June 30, 1950).
Telephones in Service-6,800 (Aug. 15, 1950).
Churches-50, representing 19 denominations.
Real Estate-7,200 homes and apartments in Greater Goldsboro.
Industry-Chief industries of city and surrounding territory: Agri- culture, manufacturing and lumbering. Principal manufactured products: Lumber and lumber products, brick, agricultural implements, cotton yarn, veneer, furniture, tobacco redrying, corn meal, grits, stock feed, flour, fertilizer, cottonseed-oil products, steel fabrications, electric wires, foundry equipment, steel storage tanks, soybean products, peanut meal, brassware, meat products, bakery products, ice cream, carbon- ated beverages, insecticides, fungicides, liquefied petroleum products.
Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 40 to 50 miles, and population of approximately 250,000. This area is within 15 minutes' to one hour and 15 minutes' driving time by automobile over a network of modern paved highways. Goldsboro is a distributing center for several wholesale establishments in farm machinery, electrical appliances, furniture, gro- ceries, fruits and feedstuffs. Branch and district offices of several in- surance firms are maintained here.
Newspapers-1 daily, The Goldsboro News-Argus, and 1 weekly, The Goldsboro Weekly Record. The Goldsboro News-Argus was founded April 7, 1885.
Radio Stations-WGBR, 1400 k.c., 250 watts. Affiliated with American Broadcasting Co. WEGR (FM), 93.3 m.c., 40,000 radiated watts, also ABC.
Hotels-3, with total of 275 rooms.
Railroads-3: Atlantic Coast Line, Atlantic & East Carolina, and Southern.
Bus Lines-3: Atlantic Greyhound Lines, Queen City Coach Co., and Seashore Transportation Co.
Highways-U. S. 70, U. S. 117, N. C. 102, N. C. 111, and N. C. 581.
Airports-1, owned by the City of Goldsboro and served by Piedmont Airlines. This Class 4 modern airport accommodates transport and com- mercial planes, and provides facilities for private flying. Scheduled air line service to all parts of the nation.
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Amusements-Largest auditorium in city seats 1,300 persons. 4 moving-picture theatres. Stadium used for baseball games; high school stadium used for football games. 18-hole golf course; indoor swimming pool at Wayne Memorial Community Building; country club ready for oc- cupancy.
Hospitals-3: Wayne Memorial Hospital, maintained by the County of Wayne and the City of Goldsboro, 150 beds; Eastern Branch of the State Orthopedic Hospital of Gastonia, with monthly clinic; North Carolina Hospital for Negro Insane, 1 mile west of the city. The North Carolina General Assembly has authorized the construction, near Goldsboro, of the North Carolina School for Negro Feeble-Minded Children.
Education-12 public school buildings, including the Goldsboro High School (white) and the Dillard High School (Negro); 6 white elementary schools and 4 Negro elementary schools. 1 parochial school, 1 Protestant kindergarten, 1 secretarial school (privately operated, accredited rating), and 1 school of practical nursing. More than 125 teachers in public school system; enrollment, more than 5,000 pupils. Nine-months' school term. Public Libraries-1; the library serves Wayne County citizens with bookmobile on regular schedule.
City Statistics-More than 40 miles of paved streets, highways and sidewalks. Gas mains, 20 miles; sewers, 40 miles; water meters, 4,800; electric light meters, 6,600; gas meters, 1,200. Capacity of municipal water plant, 2,500,000 gallons; daily average pumpage, 1,000,000 gal- lons; miles of mains, 40; value of plant, $1,500,000. Fire department has full-time paid crew of 26 men, with modern station and 5 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has trained personnel, 25 men and 1 woman, with 1 station and 7 pieces of motor equipment, all police cars being equipped with two-way radio facilities.
The electric and gas companies are private utilities, also the tele- phone company. The City of Goldsboro owns its water plant. The water shed and storage space are ample to meet every requirement. Under a rural electrification project, thousands of citizens of the Goldsboro area are being served from Goldsboro.
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Goldsboro is a city of modern business and residential buildings. This aerial photograph is provided through the courtesy of the Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association and was made by Homer Ball of Ball Studio.
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GENERAL REVIEW
Goldsboro is a community of progress which has been kept alive since its charter as a municipality was issued 103 years ago, in 1847.
Goldsboro has long been known for its culture, barbecue cooking, community spirit, citizens of liberal thought and social conscience, and progressive industry. The early community was settled as a village of 100 persons when Waynesborough, a settlement in a nook of the Neuse, was relocated to be on the railroad when the Wilmington & Weldon Rail- road traversed the present site of Greater Goldsboro. It was the cross- roads of rail transportation in eastern North Carolina when the railroad from the blue Atlantic to the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Carolina was constructed across the W. & W. Railroad, now the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
In municipal government, Goldsboro was one of the first communities in the Southeast to adopt the city manager plan. It continues the city man- ager-aldermanic form of government.
From Goldsboro went Charles B. Aycock in 1900 to assume the leader- ship of North Carolina as its Governor and launch the Old North State on a parade of progress in government, education and industry which has continued for half a century.
Goldsboro has been interested inits position in matters of education, and that fact is attested by the contribution made in behalf of the public schools in the 1880's and continuing to this day. There are 14 school buildings in the city, and two private educational institutions. Goldsboro High School, for instance, is one of three high schools in the U. S. with a completely-furnished radio broadcasting station. Its dramatics depart- ment has been titled "The Youth Theatre of the South."
In the heart of "Tobaccoland," Goldsboro both markets and processes millions of pounds of golden-leaf, flue-cured tobacco annually, and har- vests and sells several thousand bales of cotton, a cash crop for which the South has been famous for two centuries. But there is new emphasis upon year-around farming- diversified agriculture-which makes Golds- boro the center of live stock production in beef, pork and dairying, and the countryside now has a cover crop of green pasture lands on acres taken from the cash-crop farming. This farming appeals to Goldsboro citizens as becoming this area with long and favorable growing seasons.
Goldsboro industrial plants are making the name of this city known throughout America. The building of the new steam electric plant of the Carolina Power & Light Co. on the Neuse River near Goldsboro will pro- vide more impetus to Goldsboro's dominant position as eastern North Carolina's industrial and agricultural center. Goldsboro produces electric wires for electric bulbs and radio tubes, agricultural implements, brass- ware, brick, cotton yarn, lumber, plywood veneers, tobacco for cigarettes, live stock feeds, grits, corn meal, flour, fertilizers, insecticides, cotton- seed products, soybean products, peanut meal and oil, foundry equipment, steel storage tanks, dairy products, meat products, carbonated beverages, millwork, furniture, custom-built cabinets, venetian blinds, truck bodies, concrete products, including tile and brick; and liquefied petroleum prod- ucts.
In the retail field, Goldsboro is the shopping center for a wide ter- ritory with a population of 250,000. Locally-owned and nationally-known firms feature brand merchandise and quality goods sold in modern and newly-designed stores. Goldsboro's business district is free from park- ing meters, a delight to shoppers. The volume of retail sales continues to stand in the top ranks of cities with a high retail sales record in the Southeast. Several of the larger nationally-known firms maintain dis- trict headquarters in Goldsboro for convenience in serving their custom- ers through wholesale outlets.
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