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CITY DIRECTORY 1959
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephone Direc- tory and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also the
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PUBLISHERS NOTE
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of South- eastern Directories, (publishers of the Wilson City Di- rectory since 1908) present to subscribers and the gen- eral public, this, the 1959 edition of the Wilson City Di- rectory.
Confidence in the growth of Wilson's industry, pop- ulation 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 mir- row truly reflecting Wilson to the World.
The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Direc- tories in the estimation of the public, has been estab- lished 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 approval of every user, and that the Wilson Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the following order :---
I. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major department of the Directory. This embraces a complete list of names and addresses of the business and pro- fessional concerns of the city, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings a catalog of all the activities of the city. Preceding this catalog, like- wise grouped under appropriate headings, are the ad- vertisements and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their prod- ucts or services than is possible in the catalog itself. The Yellow Pages represent reference advertising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a progressive community like Wilson, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always immediately available, is obvious. The Directory is the common in- termediary between buyer and seller, and plays an im- portant role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and professional world.
II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of res- idents and business and professional concerns is the sec- ond 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 re- sident of Wilson, and the name, official personnel, na- ture and address of each firm and corporation in the city.
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III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, IN- CLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE is the third major department, printed on green paper. In this sec- tion the numbered streets are arranged in numerical order followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business con- cerns 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 tennant-owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers.
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, is the fourth major department.
Municipal Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and am- bitions of the community, 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 Di- rectory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reli- able advertisements of Wilson and vicinity.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
Aliord's E V Esso Servicenter right bottom lines and 8
Anderson, Deans & Woodard Inc front cover, left top lines and
54
Annex Grill
78
Astaire Fred Dance Studios ...... left side lines and
35
Atlantic Building & Loan Association front cover, right side lines and
19
Baker Henry Heating Co
Baltzegar James W right bottom lines and
36
Barnes J Alton
left side lines and
31
Barnes Truck Line Inc left bottom lines and
86
Beland R F Plumbing & Heating Contractor back cover, right top lines and
73 3
Bissette's Drug Stores. right bottom lines and
38 87
Boykin's Upholstering Service
Branch Banking & Trust Co
front cover, left
top lines, 16 and 17
Braswell Rug Service
left top lines and
79
Bridgers Bros .left side lines and 75
Bridgers Paint & Wallpaper Co
right side lines and 72 32
Brown McCraven
Brown Oil Co Inc
front cover, left bottom lines and 69
Bruce's Tot Dog Stand
Butler Raymond G
Carolina Laundry & Cleaners Inc
left top lines and
Central Shell Service
left bottom lines and
Chappell's Letter Service
Cherry Hotel
left side lines and 64 B 61
Churchwell's Inc
left top
lines and
Corbett Motor left top
lines and 9
Corner Seafood & Produce Market
left side lines and
Darden Memorial Funeral Home
Deans Sand Co
Dick's Electrical Co
right top lines
Dixie Letter Service
Dixie Supply Co
right side lines and
Easley Drug Store
right side lines and
Eastern Auto Supply Co
Eastern Motor Sales Inc
Edwards Funeral Home
Electric Motor Service
right botom lines and
Etheridge Plumbing Co
left side lines and
Evans Roland left side lines and
Five Points Nursery & Floral Co
Gay Roofing Co
Gem Rock Wool Insulating Co Inc
.left side lines, 29 and 53
28 68 79
Golden Weed Restaurant
78
Berger-Jones Inc
right top lines and
33
28
Baker's Department Store
80 57
63 8
81 44 80 64 20 38 9 4 48 39 72
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Goodyear Service Store right side lines and 84 Gray Concrete Pipe Co Inc back cover, left top lines and 27
Hackney John N Agency
Hackney Seat Cover Center left side lines and 57
left side lines and 10 48
Hayes Robert A. left top lines and Herring L J Implement Co 58 2 Herring's Drug Store 38 13
High B J Insulation Co
left top lines and
High's Inc. right top lines and
14
Hill Directory Co Inc
37
Home Builders Supply Co
back cover, right side lines, 21 and 66
Hospital Saving Association of N C ...... back cover and Hotel Cherry
55
Howard Johnson's Restaurant.
Hunt Funeral Home
Hussey Fuels Inc back cover, right top lines, C and 45
Ideal Plumbing Co
Independent Ice & Fuel Co right side lines and
Jefferson Appliance Co left side lines and
Jewel Box Inc The
Jordan Construction Co
left bottom lines and 29
Joyner's Funeral Home back cover, left top lines and
46
Lamm Cecil B & Co
right side lines and 58
Lee Motor Co Inc
Linstone Inc ..... left bottom lines and 10 right bottom lines and 22 Little Flower Shop left bottom lines and 43 Lou-Ann Florist 41
Malpass Troy S & Son right side lines and
left bottom lines and
Maude's Flower Shop
left side lines and
30 43 34
Mello Ice Cream Co.
Mooring & Rogers Esso Servicenter
right side lines and 11 39
Morrison's Drug Store
National Bank of Wilson
front cover, right top lines and
Newton Mutual Insurance Agency left bottom lines and
Oettinger's The Dependable Store
Perry R A Inc.
left top lines and
Provo J E Co left bottom lines and
59 3
Quinn R E & Co
Red Bird Cab Inc right side lines and
83
Sandifer-Batts Pontiac Co front lip margin and 5
Sealtest Southern Dairies Division
right top lines and 34
Shackelford Paving Co
32
Sherrod Building Contractor
.right bottom lines and 30
Skinner Sign Service ..
83
Smith R L Paint Shop
11
Southern Testing & Research Laboratories. 25
Standard Finance Co ..
65
Starlite Cleaners
left side lines and 25
18
60 36
Purity Bakery. right top lines and 15 A
43 75 53 50 62
right bottom lines and
B 78
Hamilton Funeral Home.
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Starr The Florist bottom stencil and 42
Stephenson Millwork Co left bottom lines and 23
Strickland J W Tin Shop
top stencil, right bottom lines and 82
Strickland James W. right side lines and 31 Suburban Rulane Gas Service of N C Inc back cover, right top lines and 51 Super Duper Market No 1 52 Swift & Co 67 Taylor Oldsmobile Co left side lines and 6 76
Taylor's Radio & TV Service
Thomas-Yelverton Co
front cover, right side lines and 49 47 7
Thomas-Yelverton Funeral Home
Tire Service Inc front cover and
Tobacco City Motors Inc right top lines and
Tommy's Gulf Service
Townsend R E & Co back lip margin and
Tyson C J "Pete"
Vally & Ellis left bottom lines and
Vann's Electrical Appliances
WGTM Radio Station right side lines and
Wayne Dairy Inc left side lines and
Welfare R C & Son
right side lines and
White's Tire Service front cover and 85
Whitehead Insurance Agency Inc
left top lines and 60
Whitley's Electric Service
right side lines and 40
Wiggins W M & Co Inc
right side lines and 74
Williams Lumber Co
backbone, right side lines and 24
Williford Bros Inc
12
Wilson Chamber of Commerce The
Wilson Concrete Co
top stencil, right side lines and 26
Wilson Daily Times The left side lines and 68
Wilson Electric Co Inc right side lines and 41
Wilson Feed Mill Inc
41
Wilson Home & Loan Assn The
left side lines and 20
Wilson Insurance & Realty Co Inc
right side lines, 59 and 77
Wilson Oil Corp right bottom lines and 71
Wilson Petroleum Co back cover and 70
Wilson Travel Agency right side lines and 86
Winstead Henry Plumbing Co ..... left side lines and 33
Woodall L C right bottom lines and 50
12 13 56 60 52 40 76 35 71
Wilson Board of Realtors
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WILSON
"AMERICA'S LARGEST BRIGHT-LEAF TOBACCO MARKET; THE CITY OF BEAUTIFUL TREES" (Courtesy Wilson Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government-City manager-aldermanic.
Population-Estimated 30,000. American-born 99%. Predominating nationalities of foreign-born resi- dents; Greek, Syrian and Albanian.
Area-6.7 square miles.
Altitude-145 feet above sea level.
Climate-Average annual temperature, 60.8 de- grees F .; average rainfall, 48.1 inches.
Parks-7 public.
Assessed Valuation-$37,343,900 (1957).
Bonded Debt-$2,733,003 (1958).
Financial Data-2 banks with total deposits of $116,256,298.00.
Postal Receipts-$236,831.88 (1957).
Churches-19 representing 12 denominations.
Industry-Principal manufactured products: Tex- tiles, garments, bus and truck bodies, agricultural im- plements, wagons, fertilizer, vegetable oils, concrete pipe and blocks and food products. 65 manufacturing plants in the city provide year around work for 2,000 employees and seasonal employment, principally in to- bacco redrying plants, for 2,300 additional workers.
Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 20 miles and population of 114,000; wholesale area, radius of 100 miles, and population of 1,650,000.
Newspapers-1 daily (Wilson Daily Times).
Radio Stations-WGTM (5,000 watts) ; WVOT (1,- 000 watts).
Hotels and Motels-1 hotel with 158 rooms; 11 mo- tels with total of 282 rooms.
Railroads-2: Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk Southern.
Highways-U. S. 117, 264, 301; State 42 and 58.
Amusements-Largest auditorium in city (junior high school) seats 1,400 persons. 5 motion picture thea- tres, with total seating capacity of 3,175 persons, 2 drive-in theatres; 1 18-hole golf course; 3 swimming pools.
Hospitals-3, with total of 186 beds.
Education-Atlantic Christian College fully accred- ited. 10 public schools, including 2 senior high schools, 1 junior high school, 3 parochial schools. Number of pupils in public schools 7,186; teachers, 241.
City Statistics-Total street mileage, 96 with 65.5 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 25; sewers, 76.2. Num- ber of water meters, 7,578; light meters, 9,135, gas me-
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ters, 1,544. Capacity of water works (municipal), 6,- 000,000 gallons; daily average pumpage, 3,000,000 gal- lons; miles of mains, 47; value of electric, gas and water property, $7,669,639. Fire department has 37 men, with 3 stations and 7 pieces of motor equipment. Police de- partment has 36 men with 1 station and 8 pieces of mo- tor equipment.
General Summary
Wilson was incorporated January 29, 1849 and is known as "America's Largest Bright-Leaf Tobacco Mar- ket," and "The City of Beautiful Trees."
The first tobacco warehouse was constructed in Wilson in 1890. It proved very successful as a conven- ience to the farmers, as well as a profitable business enterprise for the owners. From the beginning, Wilson proved popular as a tobacco market, and that this pop- ularity has increased is evidenced by Wilson's pehnom- enal growth in this respect, the city having gained dis- tinction of being America's largest bright leaf market. Although a tobacco center, Wilson has other industries that contribute materially to its payroll and welfare.
Aerial View of Business Area of Wilson
Wilson is the county seat of Wilson County and is the largest township in the county, which has a total of ten townships. Wilson County was named for the Hon. Louis D. Wilson, long a member of the Senate from Edgecombe County and a volunteer in the Mexican War. By the U. S. Census of 1950, the county population was 54,506.
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Industries
To trace the background of Wilson's industrial pro- gram, special reference should be made to its first in- dustry, established in 1854 under the name of Hackney Bros., engaged in the manufacture of buggies. Later there came a rapid change in vehicles, with automobiles replacing buggies, and in keeping with this develop- ment, Hackney Bros. discontinued the manufacture of buggies in 1919, reorganizing under the name of Hack- ney Bros. Body Co. Since that time this company has engaged in manufacturing the latest types of commer- cial bus bodies. Wilson's second oldest industry, the Hackney Wagon Co., was organized in 1903. This con- cern manufactures the most modern type of horse- drawn wagons and other articles. Industrial growth over the years has contributed greatly to the economy of the area. There are now 89 manufacturing plants in Wilson and Wilson County employing some 3,500 per- sons.
Wilson, America's Largest Tobacco Market
Tobacco more than anything else has given Wilson an international reputation for it is "America's Largest Bright-Leaf Tobacco Market."
Scene in a Tobacco Warehouse, In America's Largest Bright Leaf Tobacco Market
The Wilson tobacco market has 19 auction ware- houses, with a combined floor space of 1,799,135 square feet. These huge one-story buildings are lighted with numerous skylights, for quality of tobacco is judged by
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color as well as by texture and aroma. When the farm- er brings his tobacco to the warehouse of his choice, it is placed on shallow baskets with a maximum of 300 pounds to the basket. These baskets are then placed in long rows on the warehouse floor. The auctioneer and the buyers then walk along the rows and each basket is sold individually at the rate of 400 baskets per hour, or a sale every nine seconds. During the season, which runs from mid-August until about Thanksgiving, sales are conducted simultaneously at five warehouses, with at least nine buyers taking part in each of the sales. During the 1957 season, the Wilson market sold 72,- 673,116 pounds for $41,276,034.07, an average price of $56.80 per hundred pounds.
Wilson has eight tobacco redrying plants and three plants that pack and ship the green tobacco. These re- drying plants are capable of processing 2,500,000 pounds daily and handle tobacco from markets throughout the bright leaf belt which extends from Florida to Virginia. In these plants, the tobacco passes through redrying machines that remove all of the moisture and then through a steam bath that raises the moisture content to approximately 11%. It is then packed in large hogs- heads that hold approximately 950 pounds each. After this processing, tobacco will keep indefinitely. Normally it remains in storage for at least two years before being used in cigarettes.
MEN/C BALA BUILDING
Wilson's Municipal Building
Agriculture Wilson County is primarily an agricultural county,
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with about 80% of its income derived directly or indi- rectly from agriculture. The principal crops are tobac- co, cotton, and corn. Livestock production is rapidly in- creasing in importance. In 1959, Swift & Company opens a major meat packing plant, and will process 175,000 hogs, 35,000 cattle and 35,000 calves per year.
In 1950, Cargill, Inc., world's largest grain mer- chants, established an elevator in Wilson. It now has a storage capacity of 600,000 bushels. In November, 1954, Ralston Purina Co. established a modern mill that is capable of producing 100,000 tons of livestock feeds.
Location
Wilson is located on the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Norfolk Southern Railroad. It is served by U. S. Highway 301, the principal tourist route between eastern states and Florida. Other high- ways serving Wilson include U. S. 264, a major east- west route, and U. S. 117, between Wilson and Wilming- ton. A network of paved highways connects Wilson with all sections of the country. Due to its geographic location and its accessibility Wilson is steadily increas- ing in importance as a distribution center.
Power, Lights, Gas and Water
The electric, gas and water plants and distribution systems in Wilson are municipally owned. The City of Wilson owns approximately 400 miles of electric dis- tribution lines outside the corporate limits. The city electric department serves more than 5,000 rural cus-
Davis Avenue School
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tomers and furnishes electricity wholesale to six other communities. The city utilities, including land, build- ings and distribution systems, are valued at $7,669,639. The electric plant has the latest equipment, with a gene- rator capacity of 27,500 k.w. In addition, the city has a 14,000 k.w. inter-connection with Carolina Power and Light Company insuring an uninterrupted supply of po- wer. Wilson's water supply is taken from a reservoir supplied by Contentnea Creek. The 236 square mile wa- tershed has proved adequate to meet the city's needs even in times of severe drought. A new reservoir is now under construction to conserve additional water for new and expanding industries. The filtering plant has a ca- pacity of 6,000,000 gallons a day, to meet peresent re- quirements of 3,000,000 gallons a day.
Educational Facilities
Wilson and Wilson County have a fine school sys- tem, with attractive buildings and an excellent staff. The city system consists of two high schools, one junior
Howard Chapel, Atlantic Christian College Center of Advanced Learning
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high school, and seven elementary schools. Since 1949, over $2,500,000 has been spent on the construction of new schools in the city system.
Atlantic Christian College, fully accredited, located in Wilson, offers four-year college courses to Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. It also offers a one-year secretarial course and night school classes in a variety of subjects.
An industrial trade school has been established by the city and county to develop vocations and further the training of craftsmen employed in local industries.
Wilson's Modern Recreation Center
The City of Beautiful Trees
Wilson is known as "The City of Beautiful Trees," and though there are many residence streets in the city with a variety of lovely trees, Nash Street is considered the most beautiful, with Park Avenue deserving spe- cial recognition. Over a period of years several geogra- phic and pictorial magazines have written special arti- cles and given particular reference to Nash Street and have designated it as one of the seven most beautiful residential streets in the world. To the students of na- ture and especially to those who admire beautiful trees, Nash Street is a real attraction. It offers an assortment of trees as follows: pecan, birch, magnolia, walnut, um- brella, liveoak, cypress, hickory, pine, dogwood and wil- low oak. On spacious lawns in front of beautiful homes, these trees are found growing amid numerous kinds of shrubbery and many colored flowers.
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