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CENTRAL CAROLINA GAS CO.
QUALITY CONTROLLED (Smithfield) Tel. WEbster 4-2533
141 Market St.
BANK
FIRST -CITIZENS AND TRUST COMPANY
Commercial Savings and Trust 241 Market St. (Smithfield) Dial WEbster 4-3181 INSTALLMENT LOAN DEPARTMENT 614 Market St. (Smithfield) Dial WEbster 4-3112
FIRST CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY
"Complete Banking Service Since 1898" MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
PIPPIN MOTORS, Inc.
Sales and Service
Cadillac
RAMBLER OLDSMOBILE
120 N. 8th St. SMITHFIELD
Tel. WEbster 4-2184
Roy Strickland
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Rough and Dressed Lumber WHOLESALE AND RETAIL U. S. Hwy. 70 W. (Raleigh Rd.) Smithfield Dial WEbster 4-3247
CREECH DRUG CO. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS 126 N. Raiford St. (SELMA) Dial Woodlawn 5-2316
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IDEAL FOR INDUSTRY-
Progressive town government providing up-to-date water, electric and other public services. Served by A.C.L. mainline railroad. Near Raleigh-Durham Airport. Intersection of major highway arteries. (U. S. 301, U. S. 70 and Interstate '95). Served by leading truck lines. Productive labor supply vouched for by industries already established. Friendly atmosphere for industry and its executive personnel.
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Excellent schools and churches. Fine civic clubs, excellent libraries and other cultural advantages. Beautiful lake, good fishing, country club and golf course. Community recreation park. Friendly residential neighborhoods. Modern 125-bed hospital. AND THESE ADDED ADVANTAGES: Smithfield is close to major centers of government, business, culture and recreation. Near nationally prominent colleges and universities, near state capital. six hours by highway from Washington, D. C .. 500 miles from New York, two hours from ocean resorts, five hours from famous Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina mountains.
IDEAL FOR RETAIL BUSINESS- Smithfield is in exact center of county which produces crops and livestock valued annually in excess of $40 MILLION. A rich rural market.
Make SMITHFIELD Your HOME FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE WRITE Smithfield Chamber of Commerce C. HAROLD CREECH, Mgr. OR TOWN OF SMITHFIELD BEN BAKER, Mayor
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HILL'S SMITHFIELD AND SELMA (JOHNSTON COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY 1961
Including Pine Acres, Sandy Run Section, Sunrise Acres and West Smithfield Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate Citizens, Including Rural Route Residents, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephone Directory, and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also the
YELLOW PAGES With a Special ADVERTISING SECTION and a Complete CLASSIFIED LIST
FOR CONTENTS SEE INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
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The publishers earnestly request the bringing to their attention of any inaccuracy so that it may be corrected in the next edition of the directory.
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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 1961 edition of the Smithfield and Selma City Directo- ry, which also includes Pine Acres, Sandy Run Section, Sun- rise Acres, West Smithfield and the Rural Route Residents.
Confidence in the growth of Smithfield and Selma's indus- try, population and wealth, and in the advancement of their civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Smithfield and Selma to the world.
The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by render- ing the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organiza- tion, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and residents, the publish- ers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the ap- proval of every user, and that the Smithfield and Selma Di- rectory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic informa- tion pertaining to the communities.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the following order: -
I. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major de- partment of the Directory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the business and professional con- cerns of Smithfield and Selma, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of the communities. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and busi- ness cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their products or services than is possible in the catalog itself. The Yellow Pages represent reference ad- vertising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In pro- gressive communities like Smithfield and Selma, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always im- mediately available is obvious. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller, and plays an impor- tant role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and professional world.
II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the second major department, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupa- tion and address of each adult resident of Smithfield, Selma, Pine Acres, Sandy Run Section, Sunrise Acres and West Smithfield, and the name, official personnel, nature and ad- dress of each firm and corporation in the communities.
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III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUD- ING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major de- partment, printed on green paper. In this section the num- bered 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 opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respec- tive crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the list- ing of telephone numbers.
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY is the fourth major department, printed on blue paper, covering Smithfield followed by a similar section for Selma.
Community Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the community, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a man- ufacturing 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 available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Smithfield and Selma and vi- cinity.
The Out-of-Town City Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Smithfield and Selma City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Smithfield and Selma Chamber of Com- merce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 700 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of th U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
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Appliance Repair Co right side lines and 2
B & H Printers right side lines and 48
Bell's Opticians left top lines and 47
Bingham & Parrish Insurance Agency Inc
front stencil and 38
Boyette Electric Co left top lines and 28
Branch Banking & Trust Co
front cover, right top and side lines, 10 and 11
Buie Motors Inc left top lines
Busy Bee Oil Co back cover, left top lines and 30
Capital Coca-Cola Bottling Co The
right side lines and 14
Central Carolina Gas Co
front cover, left top lines, 13 and 37
Coble Dairy Products Inc. right side lines and 18
Creech Drug Co. front cover, right top lines and 24 Creech's Pharmacy left top lines and 25 Denning-Westbrook Oil Company Inc
right side lines and 33
Dunn Furniture Co of Selma
back cover, right side lines and 34
Efird's Department Store right side lines and 20
F & P Auto Parts Co. right top lines and 3
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company
front cover, right top lines and 12
Fleming Pharmacy right side lines and 27 B Godwin Building Supply Co Inc ... left top lines and Hall L H Metal Works
back cover, left side lines and 50
Heavner-Wallace Implement Co ... right top lines and 29 Hill Directory Co Inc 23
Hooks & Layne Oil Co
bottom stencil, right side lines, 31 and 46
Hooks & Layne Tire Co .top stencil and 4
Hudson-Belk Co right side lines and 21
Ideal Oil Co Inc
front cover and 32 K & L Steel Supply right side lines and 51 Langley's Jewelers
left side lines and 40 Leder Bros Department Store
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Lee Guy C Manufacturing Co
back cover, right side lines, 15 and 42
Little's Pontiac Co Inc.
7 Machine & Welding Co
backbone, right top lines and 53 Medical-Dental Credit Bureau ...... left top lines and 17 Medlin Printing Co right side lines and 49
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Pine State Creamery left top lines and 19
Pippin Motors Inc ...... front cover, right top lines and 5
Ready Mixed Concrete Co left top lines and B
Rice's Photo Shop right side lines and 48
Seat Cover Center right side lines and 9
Sel-Field Tire & Recapping Service Inc
right side lines and 7
Selma Drug Co left side lines and 26
Selma Furniture Co Inc left side lines and 35
Selma Radio & Music Co. right side lines and 29 Smithfield Chamber of Commerce
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Smithfield Herald Publishing Co
left top lines and 45 Smithfield Typewriter Sales and Service 17 Smithfield Wholesale Builders Supply Inc
left top lines and 16
Stallings Insurance & Realty
back cover, left top lines and 39
Stancil Oil & Tire Co right side lines and 33
Strickland Roy Lumber Co
front cover, right top lines and 43
Swim Queen Pools Inc
52
Thompson Furniture Co Inc. right side lines and 35 6
Thompson Airport Salvage Co Inc
Thompson Garage right side lines and 6 Town & Country Gas Co Inc ...... right top lines and
36 Wallace Welding and Machine Shop Inc
back cover, left side lines, 44 and 54
Wiggs Laundry & Cleaners. back cover and 41
Williams Motor Co Inc.
8
Wilson Chevrolet Co Inc left top lines and 8
Woodard's 'Men's Wear left top lines and 17
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SMITHFIELD
"THE FRIENDLY TOWN"
Statistical Review
FORM OF GOVERNMENT-Mayor-Commissioner. Incorpo- rated as a town in 1777.
POPULATION-Last U. S. Census, 5,613; local estimate at present, 6,100. White population of age: Males, 1,681; fe- males, 1,881. Total colored population, 2,009. Total num- ber of males in city, 2,599; females, 3,014. American-born population is 99% of the whole.
AREA-2 square miles.
ALTITUDE-146 feet above sea level.
CLIMATE-Mean annual temperature 60.8 degrees F .; average annual rainfall 48.19 inches.
PARKS-1, with total acreage of 14, valued at $25,000.
ASSESSED VALUATION-$8,600,000.00, with $1.00 per $100.00 tax rate.
BONDED DEBT-$450,000.
POSTAL RECEIPTS-$65,824.54 for year ended 1955.
CHURCHES-15, representing 14 Protestant and 1 Catholic Church.
REAL ESTATE-Number of transfers 50, valued at $500,000 in 1956. Number of homes and apartments 1700.
INDUSTRY-Chief industries of the city and surrounding ter- ritory are agriculture, tobacco, cotton, livestock, lumber, cotton yarn, spinning and cotton ginning, tobacco pro- cessing and redrying and meat packing. Number of manu- facturing establishments 15, employing 900 men and 200 women. Principal manufactured products: cotton yarn, cotton and rayon jackets, ladies' and children's jackets, processed tobacco, meat products, lumber products, feed, guano, brick, tile and tin products.
TRADE AREA-Retail area has radius of 20 miles, and popu- lation of 60,000. Wholesale area has radius of 50 miles.
NEWSPAPERS-1 (semi-weekly).
RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS-WMPM and WCKB. HOTELS-1, with total of 35 rooms.
RAILROADS-City served by 2 railroads: Atlantic Coast Rail- road, inter-connected with Southern Railway Co.
BUS LINES-City served by 3 bus lines, as follows: Atlantic Greyhound, Carolina Coach Co. and Seashore Transporta- tion.
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HIGHWAYS-The following highways run through, or to, the city: U. S. 301, 70, 210 and 96.
AIR LINES- City served by 4 air lines as follows: Eastern, Capitol, Piedmont and Private Airport at Selma.
AIRPORTS-1, Selma Airport, 4 miles away (private).
AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATION-1,500.
AMUSEMENTS-Largest auditorium in city seats 900 persons. 1 moving picture theatre, with total seating capacity of 600 persons. 1 legitimate theatre with total seating capac- ity of 600 persons. 1 golf course, also Holt Lake with cabins, boats, swimming, fishing, dancing and skiing.
HOSPITALS-1, with total of 100 beds.
EDUCATION-Number of public schools 4; with 2 senior high schools. Number of pupils in public schools 2,976. Num- ber of teachers in public schools 103.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES-3, with total of 30,636 volumes.
CITY STATISTICS-Capacity of water works (municipal) 1,000,000,000 gallons, with daily average pumpage of 500,- 000 gallons. Fire department has 18 paid men, with 1 station and 4 pieces of motor equipment. Police depart- ment has 11 men, with 1 station and 2 pieces of motor equipment.
General Review
Oldest, largest and busiest of Johnston's ten towns, Smith- field is a county seat of 5,613 population. In 1890 it was only 545. Once it was a river town, and the Neuse still flows slowly along the west edge of its business section, but its commercial importance now is the potential it has as a source of indus- trial water. Smithfield's water facilities are adequate for an anticipated growth of 20 years.
Downtown Smithfield spreads east of the courthouse lawn, and is a mixture of retail stores, farm equipment places and tobacco warehouses. Often in early summer it is a tranquil place, but beginning in August it is a beehive. Tobacco is still the biggest thing in the life of the average Smithfield citizen. When the nine auction warehouses sell some 30,000,000 pounds, they turn loose $12 to $15 million, and a good part of it goes to Smithfield-either directly into the pockets of absentee farmers living in town, or indirectly via farm trade.
Tobacco is, however, an old story to Smithfield. In 1770 the legislature established a public "Inspection of Tobacco" in Johnston at the ferry on the lands of John Smith. Here tobacco was inspected, and put in stamped hogsheads. It was floated down to New Bern in flatboats. Consequently Smithfield is the oldest tobacco market in North Carolina, still in business, allowing, of course, for interims of inactivity.
The modern auction market opened in 1898 via a ware- house operated by Skinner and Barham.
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The redrying houses, also operating seasonally, provide the largest single source of employment in the county, aside from agricultural pursuits.
The cotton market, though overshadowed, is one of the largest in the state, with three gins and facilities for storing 18,000 bales. There is a large livestock market.
But recent industrial additions, such as Burlington Mills, the now-expanding Jerold Company (sportswear for women and children), and Carolina Packers are broadening the base of the town's economy.
Conscious effort by the citizens to accomplish just such a broadening has recently been stepped up by a rejuvenated Chamber of Commerce and formation of the Smithfield In- dustries, Inc., to provide quarters (if needed) for interested industries. It was instrumental in locating the garment fac- tory.
The town was fortunate to have one distinction. In all of its long career, and through every turn in business, it never suffered a bank failure. It is one of the financial centers of North Carolina, through the presence of main offices of the First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company.
The town was founded on land which John Smith, the first settler, donated. He had moved in from Virginia and obtained a license to operate a tavern at the site in 1765. Later he moved to Tennessee, where he died.
Smithfield was incorporated in 1775, and must have had some facilities and prestige during the Revolution. The Gen- eral Assembly was to have convened in New Bern in April, 1779, but a smallpox epidemic forced them to meet elsewhere, and they chose Smithfield.
It was at this session that the representatives made the first attempt to halt the nomadic wandering which had the assembly meeting first in one place and then another. A reso- lution was introduced naming a commission to "view and fix upon some place in each of the counties of Johnston, Wake and Chatham for holding the General Assembly."
Nothing came of this, and the resolution may not even have passed, for the Senate Journal of that session is lost.
However, when a capital site finally was picked, Smith- field was in the running. We frequently hear the town lost by only one vote, but the statement is always prefixed by the warning that it is only a "tradition."
Also according to tradition, a Smithfield man cast the de- ciding vote against location of the Southern Railway, fearing that the smoke and noise would be injurious to the quiet of the village. It later obtained the Atlantic Coastline. It is sit- uated on U. S. Highways 70 and 301, with three bus lines and four truck lines.
Beyond the commercial center lie the residential sections, mostly composed of comfortable but moderate homes.
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They are built along old tree-lined streets, and even though close to town have an air of leisure and well-being. Smithfield, for all its concern over the replacement of farm labor and the need for new enterprises, is a town of quiet poise. And it has, over its 200 years, gradually equipped it- self adequately.
It has a small but good and well-used library; a hand- some, relatively new hospital; a county-wide country club nearby; a community center; a volunteer fire department; and a school system so thorough it is said to send 80 per cent of its graduates to college.
The civic life is well balanced by organizations-civic, fraternal, cultural, literary, dramatic, professional. It has a city library and also is headquarters for a nine-branch county library system with bookmobile. A Historical Society is busy compiling a county history. There are 15 churches and an 8-acre recreation center, operated by a summer-time city rec- reation department.
Smithfield's growth in size and responsibility has not robbed it of a social life which is as friendly and neighborly as that of the smallest rural community in the county.
Smithfield has a tax rate of $1; $8,500,000 valuation and $450,000 debt.
SELMA
(Courtesy of Selma Chamber of Commerce)
LOCATION-Selma is located in the great Coastal Plains of North Carolina. It lies in the center of one of the richest Agriculatural sections of America, 30 miles East of Ra- leigh, 115 miles West of the Atlantic Ocean, 75 miles South of the Virginia line, and 115 miles North of the most South- ern part of North Carolina.
AREA OF TOWN-1 1-8 Sq. Miles.
ALTITUDE-(Above sea level) 150 ft.
POPULATION-1960 Census (Selma) 3,102; 1950 Census (Sel- ma) 2,639.
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