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JULIAN M, MCKEITHAN - ROBERT L. COWAN, JR. (SEE PAGE 4 BUYERS' GUIDE)
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Selected Investments
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(NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY 1963
Including Audubon, Devon Park, Edgewood, Foxtown, Garden City, Hanover Heights, High- wood Park, Idlewild, Long Leaf Hills, Oak Court, Ook Crest, Piney Woods and Winter Park.
CONTAINS:
. Buyers' Guide and a complete classified business directory
. Alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens
. Complete street and avenue guide, including householders, and occupants of office buildings and other business places
. Numerical telephone directory
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PUBLISHERS NOTE
The information in this Directory is gathered by an actual canvass and is compiled in a way to insure maximum accuracy.
The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the correctness of all information furnished them nor the complete absence of errors or omissions, hence no responsibility for same can be or is assumed.
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 COMPANY, publishers of Southeastern Directories (pub- lishers of the Wilmington City Directory since 1897), present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1963 edition of the Wilmington City Directory, which also includes Audubon, Devon Park, Edgewood, Foxtown, Garden City, Hanover Heights, Highwood Park, Idlewild, Long Leaf Hills, Oak Court, Oak Crest, Piney Woods and Winter Park.
Confidence in the growth of Wilmington'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 Wilmington to the world.
The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty co- operation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Wilmington Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of au- thentic information pertaining to the community.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the following order :--
I. THE BUYERS' GUIDE constitutes the first major department of the Di- rectory, printed on yellow paper. In the first section of this department, grouped under appropriate headings, are included the advertisements and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to make a complete presentation of their prod- ucts or services. Following this is the Classified Business section, which em- braces a list of the names and addresses of all business and professional con- cerns of the community, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings -- a catalog of all the activities of the community. The Buyers' Guide represents reference advertising at its best, and merits the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a busy and diversified community like Wilmington, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always immediately available, is obvious. The Di- rectory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and pro- fessional 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, occupation and address of each adult resident of Wilmington, and the name, of - ficial personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the com- munity.
III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major department, printed on green paper. 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 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 listing of telephone numbers.
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY is the fourth major de- partment, printed on blue paper.
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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 port, 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 available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Wilmington and vicinity.
The Wilmington Out-of-Town City Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Wilmington City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 1,000 Directory Libraries installed in cities and towns throughout the U. S., Canada and Puerto Rico by members of the Association of North American Di- rectory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Poge numbers below refer to the Buyers' Guide Section
Page
Acme Electric Co
right side lines and
53
Acousticon Hearing Aid Co
66
Americana Motel The
left side lines and 69
Armstrong L R & Son
right side lines and
94
Atlas Iron & Steel Co
141
B & H Crown Service
128
Baldwin-Des Champs Agency Inc right side lines and
76
Ball Chain Saw Sales
26
Ballard Machine & Fabricating Co Inc
right side lines and
85
Bame Hotel
. right side lines and
Banister Andrew Water Service
. left side lines and
Barnes Motor Co .
right side lines and
Becker Builders Supply Co The
23
Beltone-Bowden Co .
67
Blake A B Electrical Contractors Inc
left side lines and 52
Boiling Spring Lakes, Division of Reeves Broadcasting & Development
Corp . .
left side lines and
106
Boone Construction Co
right side lines and
32 95
Bridgers Trading Co
Bryant Real Estate .
113 16 131
Canady's Sport Center
right bottom lines and
Cape Fear Blue Printers
left side lines and
19
Cape Fear Monument Co
Cape Fear Motor Sales Inc
Carolina Business Services
right top lines and 27
Carolina Cut Stone Co The
right side lines and 87
Carolina Power & Light Co
. front cover and
103
Carolina Printing & Stamp Co
right bottom lines and
100 121
Carolina Savings & Loan Association
. front cover, 21 and
Cement Products Co Inc .
right side lines and 128 78 122
City Optical Co
left side lines and 92
City Upholstering Co
right side lines and
139
Coastal Motors Inc
right side lines and 14 left side lines and 131 64 9
Cole's Super Shell Service
left side lines and
Communication Specialists Co
left side lines and
29 123
Cooperative Savings & Loan Association
left top lines and
44
. Cross Seed Co Inc
right side lines and
126 16
Dillard Paper Co of Wilmington Inc
Dixie Concrete Products Inc
left bottom lines and
Donnelly John N .
left side lines and
Downing Auto Body Works
Efird's Department Store
Electric Maintenance Co
right bottom lines and Fergus' Ark Restaurant
88 116 125
Fergus R C & Sons
First Citizens Bank & Trust Co right top lines and 17
First National Bank . right bottom lines and
18
Fleishman Ed & Bros Inc right side lines and
27
Fountain Bros Inc right top lines and
58
Fountain Tire Service
left side lines and
10
Fowler Bobby Lee Building Contractor
left side lines and
34
Corbett J N .
left side lines and
Cruse's Billups Service
left side lines and
Dill's Furniture & Novelty Co
right side lines and 136 94 31 32
Electric Repair & Service Co Inc
left side lines and 14 50 54 87 64
Essotane Retail Store
right side lines and
Farrar Transfer & Storage Warehouse
. right top lines and 61
Cape Fear Hotel .
68 86 8
left bottom lines and
Chadwick George Insurance
Citizens Savings & Loan Assn
left top lines and
Coastal Yellow Cabs
Coble Funeral Service Inc
68 96 7
Cake Box The .
Cannon Oil Co .
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Fowler R C .
left and right side lines, 35 and 65
Freeman Shoe Co
Furr James E
G A C Finance Corp
Godwin Oil Co Inc
Godwin's E W Sons
Goodyear Plumbing & Gas Co
Goodyear Service Stores
Gore J T .
Graves Electric Co
left bottom lines and
Grissom C C & Sons Inc
left side lines and
Groves F W Trucking Co
left side lines, 2 and
Hanover Iron Works
back cover and
Henry Ornamental Iron Works
left side lines and .
Herring H G Plumbing Co
right side lines and
Hill Directory Company
right side lines and
Hines Construction Co Inc
left bottom lines, C and
Hobbs J H Construction Co
left side lines and
Hodges Electric
Hodgin & Co
left bottom lines and
Hotel Bame
right side lines and
Hotel Cape Fear
Hotel Wilmington
Howes Davis H .
left side lines and
Hughes Bros Inc
right top lines and
Hyman Supply Co
front cover, left bottom lines and
Ideal Plumbing Co Inc
front stencil and
Ingram Bros Inc
left top lines and
Jackson & Bell Printing Co
left top lines and
Jacobi David Supply Co Inc .
right side lines and
Jewell-Strickland Auto Parts Co
left top lines and
Johnson Hooper Real Estate
left side lines and
Jordan-Blanton - Myers Co
right bottom lines and
Livingston F E & Co
left top lines and
Long Clayton L General Contractor left side lines, A and
Long Leaf Homes Inc
right side lines and
Losak-Underwood & Associates
left side lines and
Ludlum H B & Sons . right side lines and
Ludwig R W Electric Co right bottom lines and
Mack's Cafe
right top lines, 78 and
Mathews Harry Realty
Mayflower Cafe
McGrath & Co .
left top lines and
McIntire Motor Service
right side lines and
Medical-Dental Credit Bureau
. right top lines and
Merritt-Holland Gas Co .
right bottom lines and
Merritt-Holland Welding Supplies Inc
Miller Building Corp
top stencil, left bottom lines and
Miller-Motte Business College
Modern Homes Construction Co left side lines and
Moore-Fonvielle Realty Co right side lines and
Moore Lucy B Florist
front cover and
Moore's Well-Pump & Equipment Co left top lines and
Murray Transfer & Storage Co Inc .
Newber's Refrigeration Inc right top lines and
North-Smith Inc
right bottom lines and
Oleander Co The
left side lines and
111
Orrell Realty Co
135
Overnite Transportation Co
77
Palmer Insurance Agency Inc
. left top lines and
124
Peoples Savings & Loan Association
left top lines and 130
Pickard's Sporting Goods
119 36 Z 97 110 51 139 37 38 55 48 39 68 68 69 76 80 12 70 98 93 46 101 115
Harrell A H .
Higgins Elmer Realtor
Hill Upholstery Co .
left side lines and
Home Service Co
Huggins Jewelers
Irving Emmett
15 112 3 112 40 6
Mathews E L Insurance & Real Estate
19 49 55 118 112 110 118 90 15 27 65
141
41 24 45 107 56 71 142 89 114 62 108
Moore's Insurance Agency Inc
right side lines and 129 left side lines and 61 82 left top lines and back cover, 22 and 59 84 99 133 44 54 11 66
right side lines and
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Pipe Line Welders Inc
right side lines and
140
Piver E S & Son Inc . .
right side lines and 120
Pridgen Upholstery Shop
left top lines and 137
Ranch House Restaurant
left side lines and
118
Raney Chevrolet Co Inc
right top lines and
13 57
Rehder Will Florist .
right side lines and
Rental Tool Company
left side lines and
134
tabbed Insert at Center of Book and
117
Rogers Luther T Inc
Rollins Barbecue .
Safeway Finance Corporation of Wilmington
right side lines and
Selected Investments front cover, right side lines and
79 129 93
Sherwin-Williams Co The
left side lines and
111
Shoemaker's Office Supply Co
right side lines and
91
Sloan J H Insurance Agency
left side lines and
77
Smith Builders Supply Inc
right top lines and
Smith R S & Son Floor Sanding Co
back cover and
Spirittine Chemical Co Inc The
left side lines, 95 and
Spring Service Co . left side lines and
Springer Coal & Oil Co
right side lines and
Stevens I J & Sons
left side lines and
72
Taylor Walker Insurance
bottom stencil and
73 4
Temperature Control Co front cover and
Tidewater Natural Gas Co back lip margin and 104
left side lines and 56
Typewriter Inspection Co
back cover and 25
United Upholstery Co
right bottom lines and
138 132
W E C T-T V Broadcasting Station
. right side lines and
W G N I Radio Station . .
105 112 47
Wayne Dairy Inc right top lines and
Weeks J M Office Outfitters left bottom lines and 91
74
White's Place .
left bottom lines and
19
Williams L E Transfer
89 46
Williamson H P
Wilmington Board of Realtors Inc
109
Wilmington Coca - Cola Bottling Works Inc
left side lines and
20
Wilmington College . . . front cover, left top and bottom lines, B and
28
Wilmington Hospital Supply Co left top lines and
67 69 86
Wilmington Iron Works Inc left side lines and
Wilmington Printing Co . left top lines and
102
Winter Park Shell Service left side lines and
9
Wood T W & Sons . right top lines and
127
Woodbury Insurance Agency backbone, right top lines and 75
Yopp Funeral Home Inc .
. right side lines and 63
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Stevens Cycle Co
right side lines and 135
Symmes John C Insurance
83
Shaver Esso Servicenter
Shew Richard A Realty Co
23 43 133
16 60 87
Triangle Construction Co
Watters-Snipes Realty Co Inc
Wells Harold W & Son . . left bottom lines and
Wilmington Hotel .
Rex Restaurant . Riverside Apartments left and right side lines and 5 42 52
FAIR PRACTICE CODE for ADVERTISING and SELLING recommended by the ASSOCIATION OF BETTER BUSINESS BUREAUS, INC.
I. Serve the public with honest values.
11. Tell the truth about what is offered.
III. Tell the truth in a forthright manner so its significance may be understood by the trusting as well as the analytical.
IV. Tell customers what they want to know - what they have a right to know and ought to know about what is offered so that they may buy wisely and obtain the maximum satisfaction from their purchases.
V. £ Be prepared and willing to make good as pro- mised and without quibble on any guarantee offered.
VI. Be sure that the normal use of merchandise or services offered will not be hazardous to public health or life.
VII. Reveal material facts, the deceptive conceal- ment of which might cause consumers to be misled.
VIII. Advertise and sell merchandise or service on its merit and refrain from attacking your competitors or reflecting unfairly upon their products, services, or methods of doing business.
IX. If testimoniols are used, use only those of com- petent witnesses who are sincere and honest in what they say about what you sell.
x. Avoid all tricky devices ond schemes such as deceitful trade-in allowances, fictitious list prices, false and exaggerated comparative prices, bait adver- tising, misleading free offers, fake sales and similar practices which prey upon human ignorance and gullibility.
WILMINGTON
THE LEADING PORT CITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
(Courtesy Wilmington Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government -- Council-manager.
Population -- 1960 U. S. Census, 45,043. Metropolitan Area (estimated), 55,000 (1961).
Area -- 10.4 square miles.
Altitude -- 30 feet above sea level.
Climate -- Mean annual temperature, 63.1 degrees F .; average annual rain- fall, 53 inches. Nearness of Gulf Stream affords mild Southern climate, with 61 % sunshine during winter months of December, January and February. Parks -- 15, with total of 285 acres.
Assessed Valuation -- $74,483,699, with $2.15 per $100 tax rate, at 50 % valuation.
Bonded Debt -- $5,193,000 (1961-62).
Financial Data -- 5 banks, with 5 branches, cleared locally $685,615,724 in debits 1961. 4 building, loan and savings institutions, with assets of over $72,- 000,000 serve the community life of the immediate area.
Postal Receipts -- $653,733 (1961).
Telephones in Service -- 27,684 (1961).
Churches- 109, representing all leading denominations (Catholic, Protes - tant and Jewish).
Building Construction -- 971 permits, with total value of $2,455,358 issued in Calendar year of 1961.
Industry and Processing Companies of Immediate Trade Area -- 148, employ - ing about 8,680 workers, with an aggregate annual payroll of $36,000,000 in 1961. Principal products manufactured in the Wilmington area are: Fertilizer, petro- leum products, lumber and finished wood products, cement products, neckties, foundry products, steel tanks and boilers, men's shirts, ladies' underwear, ladies' hosiery, paper, paper boxes, asphalt products, chemicals, ice cream and milk products, electric power and gas, cement, cotton clothand other textile products from the loom, sulphuric acid, alum, and other miscellaneous products. Heating and air conditioning components, textile bags and spiral tubing.
Tourist Trade -- Aggregate spending of $19,000,000 because of famous flower gardens, annual Azalea Festival in March, 5 ocean beaches, annual Fishing Rodeo (Dec. 1 thru Nov. 30) and World's Largest Living Christmas Tree, through December, decorated with 5,000 multi-colored lights and several tons of Spanish moss (free to public).
Trade Area -- Wilmington Metropolitan Area, 1961 retail sales, $93,000,000. Newspapers -- 2 dailies, 1 Sunday and 1 weekly.
Hotels -- 2, with total of 350 rooms, within city. Also several modern tourist courts and tourist homes with total of about 550 rooms. Scores of other year - around hotels and cottages at nearby ocean beaches.
Railroads -- Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line.
Highways -- U. S. 17, 74, 76, 117 and 421.
Airport -- Bluethenthal Field, serving Wilmington and New Hanover County, two 7,000-foot runways, one 8,000-foot runway and the very latest VORTAC equipment, is one of the most modern on the East Coast.
Air Lines -- Piedmont Air Lines: passengers and freight on regular daily scheduled flights to and from all parts of the U. S., with overseas connections.
Amusements -- 7 moving-picture theatres, including 3 drive-in theatres, with total seating and automobile capacity of 10,000 patrons, 3 golf courses (18 holes each). 5 ocean beaches and nearby lakes, with excellent fishing, swimming, boating, etc.
Hospitals -- 4, with total of 500 beds.
Physicians and Surgeons -- 68; dentists, 27; chiropractors, 4; chiropodists, 3; osteopaths, 2.
Education -- 21 public schools, including 2 senior high, 5 junior high, 1 voca- tional school and Wilmington College. Number of pupils in public schools of New Hanover County, 17,200,000. Also, 2 parochial schools.
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Battleship U. S. S. North Carolina Aerial view of downtown Wilmington with U. S. S. North Carolina in fore - ground, which is permanently berthed as a World War Memorial and educational exhibit.
Radio Stations -- 3. WMFD (ABC Network) operates on 1,000 watts AM and transmits on 630 kc., serving radius of about 75 miles. WGNI (Mutual Net- work) operates on 1,000 watts AM and transmits on 1,340 kc. over radius of 50 miles. WKLM (Ind.) operates daytime on 5,000 watts and transmits on 980 kc. over radius of 75 miles.
Television Station -- 1, WECT, Channel 6 (ABC, NBC and CBS Networks) operates on 100,000 watts video e.r.p., over radius of 100 miles.
City Statistics -- Total street mileage, 119; with 100 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 131; sewer mileage, 90. Number of electric meters, 27,695 (1958). Capacity of municipal water works, 12,000,000 gallons; miles of mains, 113; number of meters, 15,854; value of plant and distribution system, 5,067,500. Fire department has 85 men with 5 stations and 16 pieces of motor equipment, and 1 fire boat. Value of fire department buildings and equipment, $550,000. Police department has 84 officers, with 1 station and 18 pieces of motor equip- ment. Police cars are equipped with latest FM radio, having car-to-car and car-to-station facilities.
Location
Wilmington, county seat of New Hanover County, is situated in the south- eastern part of North Carolina, on the east bank of the Cape Fear River, about thirty miles from the Atlantic Ocean. This distance from the ocean is due to the fact that the Cape Fear River flows from Wilmington in a southeasterly direc- tion. The distance from Wilmington to the ocean, via highway, is only twelve miles. Wilmington is approximately 200 miles from Charlotte, 123 miles from Raleigh, 170 miles from Charleston, S. C., and 255 miles from Norfolk. It is the principal deep-water port in North Carolina, with a 34-foot channel from ocean bar to Wilmington, distance of 30 miles.
Swimming and Beaches
Excellent swimming facilities are available at ten popular ocean beach resorts in the immediate vicinity of Wilmington and at nearby sounds. Beach resorts include Carolina, Wrightsville, Fort Fisher, Kure's, Wilmington, Long, Caswell and Holden's beaches.
Fishing
Fishing is enhanced by the activities of the New Hanover Fishing Club, largest organization of its kind in America. The annual Fishing Rodeo, Dec. 1 through Nov. 30, sponsored by the Southeastern North Carolina Beach Associa- tion, offers cash and equipment prizes. The proximity of the Gulf Stream and
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