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HICKORY WELL DRILLING CO., INC.
1716-1718 11TH AVE-
Hickory Ice & Coal Co. COAL
10TH AVE. COR. 8TH ST. PHONE 261
FIELD INSURANCE AGENCY
INCORPORATED
All Forms of Mutual Insurance
118 HARRIS ARCADE PHONES 806-1525
Perry Armature Co. ELECTRIC MOTOR REBUILDERS
HAASTA, GENERATORS, TRANSFORMERS MIPMELD AND REBUILT
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
1609 10th Ave. Phone 851
Better Homes Furnishing Co.
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Complete Home Furnishers
1012 13TH ST.
PHONE 749
SHUFORD FUNERAL HOME 1430 11TH AVE.
AMBULANCE SERVICE PHONE 38
Hickory-Newion Hwy, No. 10
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PHONE 758-T
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Manufacturers of
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2160 Tenth Avenue & 21st Street HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA
Hickory Tire & Battery Co.
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MILLER'S HICKORY, N. C.
CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. XI 1947-1948
VOL. XI
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, Buyers' Guide, Numerical Telephone Directory;
And A Complete
Classified Business Directory
SOUTHERN DIRECTORY CO.
ASHEVILLE, N. C. : : PUBLISHERS (See General Index, page 6)
Issued Biennially
PRICE .
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HICKORY MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION, LOCAL AGENTS
HICKORY, N. C.
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Copyright, August, 1947, by Chas. W. Miller
NOTE :- This publication has been carefully revised (a new canvass hav- ing been made by competent parties), but it is distinctly understood that no responsibility is assumed for any errors or omissions that may have occurred in such revision. -- PUBLISHERS.
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INDEX
GENERAL INDEX
Page 101
Abbreviations
Advertisers' Index
8
Alphabetical List of Names 1 1
101
Associations and Clubs
392
Buyers' Guide
17
City Government
217
Classified Business Directory
391
County Government (Catawba)
148
Miscellaneous Directory
15
North Carolina State Government
15
Numerical Telephone Directory
81
Preface
7
Street Directory
423
Title Page
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United States Government
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POPULATION OF THE STATES OF THE UNITED STATES
1. New York
13,479,142 26. South Carolina
1,899,804
2. Pennsylvania
9,900,180
27.
Florida
1,897,414
3. Illinois 7,897,241 [28.
Maryland
1,821,244
4. Ohio 6,907,612 129.
Kansas 1,801,028
5. California
6,907,387
30.
Washington 1,736,191
6. Texas
6,414,824
31.
Connecticut 1,709,242
7. Michigan
5,256,106
32.
Nebraska
1,315,834
8. Massachusetts 4,316,721
33.
Colorado 1,123,296
9. New Jersey
4,160,165
34.
Oregon
1,089,684
10. Missouri
3,784,664
35.
Maine
847,226
11. North Carolina
3,571,623
36. Rhode Island
713,346
12. Indiana
3,427,796
37. South Dakota
642,961
13. Wisconsin
3,137,587
38. North Dakota
641,935
14. Georgia
3,123,723
39.
Montana
559,456
15. Tennessee
2,915,841
140. Utah
550,310
16. Kentucky
2,845,627
41. New Mexico
531,818
17. Alabama
2,832,961
42. Idaho
524,873
18. Minnesota 2,792,300
43. Arizona
499,261
19. Virginia 2,677,773
44. New Hampshire
491,524
20. Iowa
2,538,268
45. Vermont
359,231
21. Louisiana
2,363,880
46. Delaware
266,505
22. Oklahoma
2,336,434
47. Wyoming
250,742
23. Mississippi
2,183,796
48. Nevada
110,247
24. Arkansas 1,949,387
District of Columbia
663,091
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PREFACE
HICKORY, N. C.
"North Carolina's Best Balanced and Fastest Growing City"
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS HICKORY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
John G. H. Geitner-President
E. Ford Roberts-Vice-President
C. L. Herman-Treasurer
Max R. Steelman-Executive Secretary
Miss Lola Lee Campbell
Miss Jean Leonard-Secretary
DIRECTORS
L. C. Gifford
B. B. Blackwelder Karl W. Broome C. Vernon Cline, Jr. D. S. Menzies
John W. Aiken Harley F. Shuford Donald Hutton
John Clark Alex George
Preface
Hickory was first chartered as a town in 1870. This charter was amended in 1879, and March, 1913, the citizens by a large majority adopted what is known as the City Manager form of government, being the first city in North Carolina and one of the first in the United States to adopt this plan.
LOCATION
Hickory is situated in the central section of North Carolina on the Asheville Division of the Southern Railway, 80 miles east of Asheville and 54 miles northwest of Charlotte. It is in the heart of what is termed the Piedmont Section of the State, situated at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The city is protected from extreme temperature in Winter and Summer by these peaks that rise thousands of feet in height. To the north, west and south extend the Blue Ridge range. Hickory enjoys a year-round climate that is unexcelled anywhere, free from the rigors of northern winters and the extreme heat of the summers farther south. It is also protected from the storms of the middle western plains. This section offers to those seeking a change of location an ideal, evenly balanced winter and summer climate. The average, annual temperature for the past ten years has been 60.2 degrees, with a record of more than 300 days of sunshine each year. The summer nights are cooled by the mountain breezes, the temperature frequently ranging 20 degrees lower than that of mid-day.
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INDEX
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Abee & Tashiro .p 20
Abernethy Transfer & Storage Co.
.top
lines
Anderson Piano Co
p 68
Annas C C Co.
p 28
Annas Machine Shop
p 63
Atomic Paint Co.
p 68
Arrow Trade Mark Co
p 76
Auto Parts & Electric Co
p 21
B & M Motor Co
.p 25
79
Banks Pontiac Co
top lines
Barringer Bros & Gaither Inc.
p 26
Beck's Watch Repair Shop .p 79
Belk-Broome Co.
p 40
Bell Cab Service
-p 74
Bennett's Funeral Home p 49
Better Homes Furnishings Co.
front cover
.p 47
Bill & Holley
-p 56
Bill's Ninth Ave Service Station. .p 22
Biltmore Dairy Farms.
top lines
Bisanar Co The
bottom lines
Blackwelder Oil Co
.p 55
Blue Ridge Products Co.
insert
Bohan Engineering & Electric Co p 42
Boyd D M & Co
.p 58
Brewer Manufacturing Co
.p 77
Brown Bros Hosiery Mills
p 59
Brown Manufacturing Co. p 59
Brown Operating Co -p 59
Budy Body Works
bottom lines
Buff Shoe Shop
.p 72
Burgess Arthur H
bottom lines
Burwell's Repair Shop
p 79
Cannon Aviation Co
bottom lines
Carolina Asphalt Roofing Co
p 72
Carolina Cab Co .p 75
Carolina Cleaners
.p 34
Carolina Housing & Mortgage Corp
bottom lines
Carolina Insurance & Realty Co
.p 61
Carolina Land-Auction Co. p 20
Carolina Theatre p 77
Carroll Credit Clothing Co .p 37
Catawba Cold Storage Inc.
p 48
Catawba Co-Operative Dairy -p 40
Catawba Dunbrik Co. p 32
Catawba Marble & Granite Works
front cover and top lines
Catawba Pump Co
p 69
Catawba Valley Ice Cream Co .p 60
Cater's Radio Service -p 70
Cilley Foundry & Machine Co
_p 64
Cities Service Station.
p 34
City Bus Lines Inc. .p 34
City Coal Co .p 38
City Electric Co p 43
City Motor Co. p 26
Clay Printing Co
top lines
Cline Lumber Co
-p 33
Cole's Jewelry Store Inc.
top lines
Community Store
-p 56
Crouch M G Lumber Co fly 2
Crouch Terry Furniture Shops Inc. -p 52
Davidson Machine Co
-p 76
Deitz & Taylor
.p 63
Dennis Esso Station -p 22
Dixie Novelty Co
-p 66
Downey-Fails Supply Co
-p 19
Duke Power Co ___ back cover and top lines Electrical Service Co_ _ bottom lines and p 43 Elliott Building Co. -p 39
Esprit D'Amour Beauty Shoppe -p 31
Eugene Beauty Shoppe
-p 31
Evans College of Commerce .. -bottom lines Faw R E & Sons Inc bottom lines Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Assn __
_top lines
Field Insurance Agency
front cover
Firestone Stores.
21
First National Bank of Catawba County
-p 29
Five Point Service Station
-p 23
Flowers Co The_
front cover
Ford Hosiery Mills p 60
Fresh Air Market
top lines
Fry Furniture Exchange
p 50
Frye John E.
-p 38
G I Cabs
.p 75
Garth's.
.p 72
Geitner Feed & Seed Co
p 46
Good Niter Sleepwear
-p 53
Goodrich B F Stores
bottom lines
Green Sign Co
p 73
Gulf Oil Corp
-p 55
H & B Blind Co
_p 78
Harper Motor Co
top lines
Harrington Insurance Agency
-p 63 and p 70
Herman Furniture Store
-p 50
Herman Quince E.
p 20
Herman-Sipe & Co Inc. back cover
Hickman Hardware Co
Hickory Bench Co
-p 51
Hickory Bonded Warehouse -p 79
Hickory Construction Co .p 38
Hickory Drug Co
p 41
Hickory Dry Cleaners.
-p 35
Hickory Electric Supply Co p 44
Hickory Flour Mills
bottom lines
Hickory-Fry Furniture Co.
-p 50
Hickory Funeral Home The -bottom lines Hickory Good Housekeeping Shop. -p 58 Hickory Ice & Coal Co.
front cover and p 38
Hickory Implement Co
p 46
Hickory Machine Shop
-p 64
Hickory Motor Co. -p 28
Hickory Motor Sales Inc
top lines
Hickory Overall Co
-p 66
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p 58
Goodman J L & Son
p 31
Bigsby's Flower Shoppe.
Baker-Wright Co
p
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PREFACE
(Continued from Page Seven)
POPULATION
United States Census, 1940, gave Hickory a population of 13,487. The 1947 population of Greater Hickory is 22,080.
ASSESSED VALUATION
$20,212,473.00. TAX RATE City rate-$1.25 per $100.00. County rate-$.75 per $100.00.
AREA
4.80 square miles.
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS
$1,500,000.00.
BANKS
One National and two State banks with total resources of $22,914,- 979.54. Two Building and Loan Associations with total assets of $2,- 508,465.00.
RADIO STATION
Radio Station WHKY is locally owned and operating on 5000 watts day and 1000 watts night. This station is affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company and Keystone Broadcasting Company. The station has received a frequency modulation license for a greatly ex- tended territory.
NEWSPAPERS
Hickory Daily Record, with circulation of 12,000.
HOTELS
Hotel Hickory, 100 rooms. Three small hotels.
TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH
Telephone service by Hickory Telephone Company. Telegraph service by Western Union.
CHURCHES (Greater Hickory)
38 (white), 10 (colored).
SCHOOLS
Hickory has nine months school term and twelve grades with seven elementary schools for the white children and one for colored. The city also provides one junior high school and one senior school for white children and one high school for colored.
COLLEGES
Lenoir Rhyne College is owned and operated by the United Evan- gelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina. It provides educational ad- vantages of college grade in the following fields: General Liberal Arts, Fine Arts, (Music) teacher training in the primary, grammar and high school field and pre-professional courses. Lenoir Rhyne College is a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and is registered by (Continued on Page Eleven)
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
(Continued from Page Eight)
Hickory Packing Co p 65
Hickory Piano Rebuilders top lines
Hickory Printing Co p 69
Hickory Pump Co. p 69
Hickory Securities Corp.
p 74
Hickory Sporting Goods Co.
p 73
Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co. p 74
Hickory Steam Laundry Co top lines
Hickory Telephone Co. .p 2
Hickory Tire & Battery Co. .p 4
Hickory Venetian Co p 78
Hickory Well Drilling Co front cover
Highland Drug Store
.p 41
Howard-Hickory Co.
.p 65
Huggins Everett Amoco Service -p 23
Hutchison Paul D
_p 18
Hutton & Bourbonnais Co.
back cover
Hyder-Bailey Woodworking Co .p 34
Ice Delivery Co.
back cover
Jones & Jones Furniture Co .p 50
Kees Turner H.
p 70
Kennedy Electric Co. p 43
Kerr Sand Co.
top lines
Knit Sox Hosiery Mills .p 59
L & S Grocery. p 57
Lang Chevrolet Co
p 27
Lenoir-Rhyne College
fly X and Y
Ligon Electric Supply Co p 45
Lipe Motor Lines.
p 77
Longview Cleaners
-p 35
Longview Electric Co p 44
Longview Flour & Feed Mills Inc. _p 45
Lutz Drug Store. initial letter lines
McAfee Stanley K Jr
stencils
M & J Finance Corp fly Z and p 47
Ma Dan Studio.
p 67
Main Drug Co
bottom lines
Manning's Funeral Home p 49
Maple Springs Laundry bottom lines
Martin's Mill Work .p 65
Men's Shop The -p 37
Merchants Produce & Grocery Co p 57
Midtown Parking.
-p 21
Miller-Brooks Roofing Co. p 72
Modern Appliance Co.
_p
42
Modern Dry Cleaners p 35
Montgomery Service Station p 23
Montgomery Ward & Co
p 40
Moss-Marlow Building Co
p 33
National Trading Co __ backbone and insert
No 1 Tire & Battery Co
.p 75
Northwestern Bank The. -p 30
Paper Service Co
p 66
Paragon Manufacturing Co
p 78
Paramount Motor Sales Inc. p 27
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co of Hickory p 31
Perry Armature Co.
_front cover and p 42
Piedmont Dry Cleaners
back cover
Piedmont Motors
top lines
Piedmont Wagon & Mfg Co. -p 4
Precision Industries Inc. p 64
Pure Oil Co The -p 56
Quality Cleaners
p 35
Rainbow Dry Cleaners -p 36
Ray's Radiator Shop p 22
Richards Motor Co insert
Richie's Shoe Co.
p 73
Ridge Street Grocery p 57
Risch Philip A p 18
Ritch's Esso Service p 24
Rivoli Theatre
p 77
Robertson Chemical Corp p 46
Royal Crown Bottling Co top lines
Ruby Hosiery Mills
p 59
Sarah's Flowers.
.p 47
Service Dry Cleaners back cover
Setzer Construction Co -p 39
Sherrill Ice & Fuel Co back cover
Sherrill Upholstering Co .p 53
Shook Drug Co
.p 41
Shuford Funeral Home
front cover
Shuford Hardware Co
p 58
Shuford Hosiery Mills .p 60
Shuford Realty & Insurance Co. .p 61
Sinclair Refining Co.
p 54
Smith R B & Co
.p 71
Smith-Courtney Co ..
p 3 and bottom lines
Southern Pig Bar-B-Q
p 71
Spainhour Co The
bottom lines
Spur Bottling Co.
p 32
State Farm Insurance Cos
p 62
Steele's Rulane Service
p 54
Sterling Furniture Co.
p 52
Superior Petroleum & Fuel Co -p 55
Tallant Transfer Co ..
top lines
Taylor Feed & Supply Co -p 45
Todd Floral Co.
p 48
Troutman M C. p 62
Tru-Rich Bottling Co. p 32
Truck & Auto Service Inc -p 24
Truesdale Dress Shop p 80
Truesdale Men's Shop
p 37
Trutred Tire Co The.
p
25
WHKY Radio Station.
top lines
Waggoner Sales Co
p 51
Wagner Furniture Co
p 51
Warren's Studio.
_p 68
Weaver Insurance Agency.
_bottom lines
Weaver's Bar-B-Q
p 71
West Hickory Garage. p 24
West-Deal Co.
p 37
Western Gas Co.
53
.p
White Cross Laundry
p 63
Wilfong Motor Co. p 28
Windy City Dry Cleaners. p 36
Wood Robt W
p 19
Young's Garage
p 24
Yount Furniture Co
p 51
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PREFACE
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the United States Government for the reception of foreign students. Lenoir Rhyne College is officially registered as a standard college by the Department of Public Instruction of the states of North Carolina, New York and Pennsylvania and other states to which application for such registration has been made. The present enrollment of Lenoir Rhyne College is 773. In the near future Lenoir Rhyne will go forward with a building program already blue printed calling for an expenditure of approximately $600,000.00.
The Evans College of Commerce now gives day and night courses to an average of 130 students.
WORTH ELLIOTT CARNEGIE LIBRARY
Founded in 1932, the Worth Elliott Carnegie Library has grown from the small beginning of 1,820 volumes to one of the best libraries in the State of North Carolina.
It now has a book collection of 23,652 volumes, a circulation of 111,920. The Library consists of the Main Library and the Twelfth Street Branch for colored citizens.
The growth of the library has been so striking that the present plant has become inadequate and plans have been completed to erect modern libraries for both white and colored citizens.
CEMETERIES
Municipally owned and maintained cemeteries are Oakwood, Houck's Chapel, Highland and Ridgewood (colored) cemeteries. The Highland cemetery, consisting of 30 acres, was recently designed and developed. Each of the above named cemeteries were carefully plan- ned, beautifully designed and offer adequate burial grounds.
AIRPORT
In 1938 construction was begun on the present Hickory Municipal Airport. This airport is recognized today as one of the leading airports of North Carolina. It provides landing facilities for the largest aircraft. It is a regular stop on the Knoxville to Norfolk route of the Pennsylvania Central Airlines and the Charlotte to Chicago route of the Twentieth Century Airlines. Every effort is being made to secure stops by North- eastern Airlines.
The field was used extensively as an air training center by the Navy until July, 1944, thereby making a valued contribution to the war effort.
The airport is conveniently located, being 2.5 miles northwest of the center of Hickory. The following represents an outlined description of the airport and its major characteristics:
Investment-$1,000,000.00.
Area-147.7 acres.
Hanger-100 by 125 feet.
Administration building-one.
Repair shop-40 by 60 feet.
Type of field-Sod.
Paved runways-one NE-SW 4400 feet long by 150 feet wide, NW-SE 2900 feet long by 100 feet wide, N-S 4400 feet long by 150 feet wide.
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The airport has adequate lighting facilities. The CAA, for the guid- ance of aircraft, has installed a Radio Range Station in Hickory.
POWER
The Hickory area is in the center of the great hydroelectric develop- ment of the Duke Power Company whose chain of power sites along the Catawba River-which forms the northern and eastern boundaries of Catawba County-has made this stream the Niagara of the South.
Hickory is also the headquarters of the Piedmont Gas Company, serving this area.
TRANSPORTATION
Hickory is located on the Asheville division of the Southern Railway and is headquarters of the Carolina & Northwestern Railway. Operated jointly, these two lines provide fast, economical east-west, north-south freight and passenger connections and Pullman service to such points as New York and Chicago. On a 24-hour average Hickory is served by one freight or passenger train for every 36 minutes.
Twelve motor express companies provide quick, dependable through freight and pick-up service. The Queen City Coach Company operates scores of busses daily. Local transportation is provided by the City Bus Lines, which serves the city and suburban areas with scheduled service, and 85 taxicabs.
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RAW MATERIALS AND WATER SUPPLY
Over 18 million acres of forest lands, a $45,000,000 horticultural crop annually, great plant cellulose resources and 30 minerals with commer- cial possibilities are found in North Carolina.
Hickory draws its water supply from the 22-mile-long Lake Hickory on Catawba River and thus has access to an unlimited source of high grade water.
Water purification facilities in Hickory now have a capacity of 4,000,000 gallons per day.
LABOR SUPPLY
Adaptability of the native-born intelligent population here has been conclusively demonstrated by the remarkable industrial development in the past two decades. Years of manufacturing in the Hickory area has resulted in an accumulation of skilled workers, particularly in hosiery, cotton-textiles and wood-working industries.
MARKETS
Located in a low-living-cost, low-production-cost region, within strik- ing distance of the main harbors of the Atlantic and Gulf, Hickory is within 500 miles of 55 per cent of the total population of the United States. Proximity to the nation's largest consuming markets has been a vital factor in the industrial growth of the Piedmont.
LEGISLATION
North Carolina has long been aware of the economic importance of amicable relations between government and business, and between capital and labor. Its tax trend is downward because the state has passed the peak of expenditures for its services and facilities. There is no state tax on real property.
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TRADE AND COMMERCE
The 1940 census shows a population of 138,454 within a twenty mile radius of the business district of Hickory. Approximately 85% of this population is native white, thus offering an unusually attractive oppor- tunity for the retail and wholesale merchants. This population also offers an attractive labor market for industry.
INDUSTRIES
Hickory is the hub of an important industrial area in the Western Piedmont section of North Carolina. Located in Hickory are 190 indus- trial plants, widely diversified as to products. Ninety percent of the capital invested in these plants is furnished by Hickory investors. Among the products manufactured are dining room, bedroom and parlor furni- ture and various occasional pieces, church and theater furniture, juvenile and kindergarten furniture, wooden boxes, brass, bronze and iron cast- ings, building materials, creamery products, cotton mill supplies, farm wagons, harness and leather goods, interior mill work, overalls and work shirts, paper boxes and cartons, pumps, sash cord, shoe strings, pottery, tapestries, flour and feed, blinds, chemicals, mattresses, textile product, etc.
Besides these many diversified products, there are 40 hosiery and knitting mills, furnishing employment to several thousand employees.
Hickory is the largest cordage manufacturing center in the world.
CONCLUSION
Hickory became known as "North Carolina's Best Balanced and Fastest Growing City" following a survey of the Atlantic Coast states made a short while ago by the largest eastern transportation company when the head of that company declared Hickory to be the Best Bal- anced City in America. Whether or not Hickory is the Best Balanced City in America, everyone familiar with its diversified, industrial and agricultural development, its geographic location, its climate, and the outstanding and unselfish community spirit of its people, is agreed that it is an ideal place in which to live.
Hickory is a city of home owners, 75% of the inhabitants owning their own property.
The citizens are church-going people and almost every denomination in the South is represented here.
The most recent example of the spirit of her people has been pub- licized throughout the nation-that of converting a small summertime health camp designed for a few underprivileged boys and girls of the county, into an emergency hospital to care for the victims of infantile paralysis. Although only six victims of polio came from within the corporate limits of Hickory, these people, through their initiative and resourcefulness, built and to a large extent, managed a hospital caring for more than 450 polio victims coming from every section of the state of North Carolina.
Hickory has a very active retail Merchants Association, Community Chest and Chamber of Commerce.
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MISCELLANEOUS DIRECTORY
MILLER'S Hickory, North Carolina
Miscellaneous Directory 1947-1948
Containing Valuable Information Concerning United States and State Government.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Harry S. Truman-President
The Cabinet
George C Marshall, Secretary of State
John W Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury Tom C Clark, Attorney General
James V Forrestal, Secretary of Defense J A Krug, Secretary of the Interior
Clinton P Anderson, Secretary of Agri- culture
W Averell Harriman, Secretary of Com- merce
Lewis B Schwellenbach, Secretary of Labor
Robt E Hannegan, Postmaster General
Government Officials
Treasurer of the United States-William Alexander Julian
Comptroller of Currency-Preston Delano
Director of the Mint-Nellie Taylor Ross
Register of the Treasury-Edward G Dolan
Director of the Bureau of Printing and En- graving-Alvin W Hall
Ist Assistant Postmaster General-Jesse M Donaldson
Assistant Secretary of Labor-Edw C Moran Jr
Chief of Staff United States Army-Gen Dwight Eisenhower
Navy Chief-Admiral Chester Nimitz
Air Chief-Gen Carl Spaatz
Chief of the Weather Bureau-Francis W Richelderfer
Director of War Mobilization-Jno W Snyder
Representative World Security League -- Warren R Austin
NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNMENT
R Gregg Cherry-Governor
L Y Ballentine-Lieut-Governor Thad Eure Secretary of State Henry L Bridges-Auditor C M Johnson-Treasurer
Supreme Court
W P Stacy-Chief Justice
Associate Justices-Michael Schenck, W A Devin, J W Winborne, M V Barnhill, A A F Seawell, E B Denny, A J Newton, Clerk
North Carolina Senators-Wm B Umstead and Clyde R Hoey
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