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AUTO PARTS Telephone 2367
THE FLOWERS COMPANY
AV EQUIPMENT SUPPLIES
COMPLETE AUTOMOTIVE MACHINE SHOP SERVICE
Dial 2384 WATER SYSTEMS PUMPS
WELL DRILLING TOOLS and REPAIRS
HICKORY WELL SUPPLY CO., INC. Highway 70 at 29th St.
Hickory Ice & Coal Co. COAL
10TH AVE. COR. 8TH ST. PHONE 5416
FIELD INSURANCE AGENCY
All Forms of Mutual Insurance INSURANCE AUDIT SERVICE
112 HARRIS ARCADE PHONE 2387
Perry Armature Co. ELECTRIC MOTOR REBUILDERS MOTORS, GENERATORS, TRANSFORMERS REPAIRED AND REBUILT
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES 1609 10th Ave. Phone 29196
BETTER HOMES FURNISHING CO. COMPLETE HOME FURNISHINGS
1012 13th St. Dial 8116
310 Highland Ave., E. Dial 6402
SHUFORD FUNERAL HOME 1430 11TH AVE. AMBULANCE SERVICE PHONE 4141
Hickory-Newton Hwy. No. 10
PHONE 8687
WORKS
MEMORIALS
Buy Here and Save Agents' Commissions
CATAWBA MARBLE & GRANITE HIGH GRADE MONUMENTS AND
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ADVERTISERS' SPECIAL DIRECTORY
HICKORY TELEPHONE COMPANY
A LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED COMPANY PROVIDING TELEPHONE SERVICE TO THE CITIZENS OF HICKORY, CATAWBA COUNTY, VALDESE, BURKE COUNTY, GRANITE FALLS, CALDWELL COUNTY, AND NEARBY COMMUNITIES
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ADVERTISERS' SPECIAL DIRECTORY
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78TH ANNIVERSARY « « THREE GENERATIONS OF SERVICE » » 1950
Smith-Courtney Co.
Telephone 2201
JOBBERS AND DISTRIBUTERS OF HIGH GRADE
MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES FOR WOODWORKING PLANTS KNITTING MILLS AND COTTON MILLS
MACHINE TOOLS
ENGINES
BOILERS
ROAD BUILDING MACHINERY
TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT
SAW GOODS
ABRASIVES
MECHANICAL RUBBER GOODS
9TH AVE. at 14TH ST.
239-241 S. Davie St. GREENSBORO, N. C. TEL. 2-4558
HICKORY, N. C.
7th and Bainbridge Sts. RICHMOND, VA. TEL. 3-9141
ADVERTISERS' SPECIAL DIRECTORY
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company
W. D. MERRITT, Dist. Mgr.
Life Insurance and Estate Planning
CONSOLIDATED TRUST BUILDING
13281/2 Union Square Phone 26161
Hickory Tire & Battery Co.
SEIBERLING TIRES - WILLARD BATTERIES RECAPPING AND VULCANIZING ARVIN HEATERS - AUTO ACCESSORIES CHAMPION OUTBOARD MOTORS GULF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
ROAD SERVICE ANYWHERE
911-913-915 12th St. Phone 6266
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TITLE PAGE
MILLER'S HICKORY, N. C.
CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. XII 1949-1950
VOL. XII
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
Member Association of North American Directory Publishers (See General Index, Page 6)
Issued Biennially
PRICE - $22.50
HICKORY MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION, LOCAL AGENTS
HICKORY, N. C.
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Copyright, July, 1949, 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
101
Associations and Clubs
446
Buyers' Guide
17
City Government 238
Classified Business Directory
445
County Government (Catawba)
156
Index to Advertisers
8
Miscellaneous Directory
15
North Carolina State Government
15
Numerical Telephone Directory
73
Preface
7
Street Directory
481
Title Page
5
United States Government
15
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 29. 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
Nebraska
1,315,834
8. Massachusetts
4,316,72]
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
40.
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
L. C. Gifford-President
J. E. Spainhour-Vice-President
C. L. Herman-Treasurer
Max R. Steelman-Executive Secretary
Mrs. Lola C. Huggins-Secretary
Mrs. Jean L. Huffman-Secretary
DIRECTORS
B. B. Blackwelder
Karl W. Broome
C. Vernon Cline, Jr.
James E. Gaither
G. Shuford Abernethy
Carroll C. Bost
Henry Guigou
Archie Shuford
F. Gwyn Harper, Jr.
B. K. Lineberger
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 degress, 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 TO ADVERTISERS
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Abee & Tashiro p 19
Abernethy Transfer & Storage Co.
top lines
Aetna Loan & Finance Co
.p 47
Annas C C Co.
top lines
Arrow Trade Mark Co
p 69
Atlantic Company
insert
Atlantic Insulation Co
top lines
Atlas Insurance Agency
p 54
Atomic Paint Co
p 60
B & M Motor Co.
botom lines and p 26
Baker-Wright Co
.p 70
Banks Pontiac Co
top lines
Barringer Bros & Gaither Inc
p 26
Bass-Smith Funeral Home ..
_bottom
lines
Belk Oil Co
-p 50
Belk-Broome Co
.p 41
Bell Cab Service
insert
Bennett's Funeral Home
p 48
Better Homes Furnishings Co ___ front cover Big Dollar Food Market The_ _ bottom lines
Biltmore Dairy Farms
.top lines
Bisanar Co The
bottom lines
Black's Drug Store
bottom lines
Blackwelder Oil Co
p 50
First Security Co
top lines
Bohan Engineering & Electric Co
-p 43
Bost's Esso Service
.p 21
Bowman's Ninth Ave Service Station
bottom lines
Brown Bros Hosiery Mills
insert
Brown Manufacturing Co insert
Brown Operating Co
insert
Budy Body Works
bottom lines
Burwell's Repair Shop
p 70
Cannon Aviation Co
p 19
Carolina Asphalt Roofing Co
.p 65
Carolina Cab Co
-p 67
Carolina Fine Fabrics Inc
p 45
Carolina Housing & Mortgage Corp
bottom lines
Carolina Insurance & Realty Co.
_p 54
Carolina Land-Auction Co
p 20
Carolina Typewriter Co bottom lines
Carroll Credit Clothing Co
p 36
Catawba Co-Operative Dairy.
top lines
Catawba Marble & Granite Works.
front cover and top lines
Catawba Poultry & Processing Plant __ p 62
Catawba Pump Co p 61
Cilley Foundry & Machine Co .p 57
Circle Drive
p 64
City Coal Co p
36
City Motor Co
_p
27
Clay Printing Co
top lines
Clemmer Robert L
p 20
Clevenger College of Business
Admin-
istration
bottom lines
Cline Lumber Co
-p 32
Cline Piano Co
.p 61
Cole's Inc
top lines
Concrete Machinery Co
p 37
Crouch M G Lumber Co fly Z
Crouch Terry Furniture Shops Inc. -p 49
Davis George L
p 28
Deal's Furniture Store
bottom lines
Deal Motor Co
p 28
De Hart Motor Lines
bottom lines
Dennis Esso Service
p 21
Duke Power Co __ back cover and top lines
Electric Wiring Co.
-bottom lines
Electrical Service Co
bottom lines
Elevator Repair Service
p 45
Elliott Building Co
.p 38
Emory & Laird Inc
-p 33
Ennis Jewelers
p 56
Faw R E & Sons Inc
bottom lines
Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Assn __
top lines
Field Insurance Agency
front cover
Firestone Stores
p 20
First National Bank -p 29
Flowers Auto Repair Shop
p 21
Flowers Co The
front cover
Fox C G Lumber Co
.p 57
Fox L L Lumber Co p 57
Fresh Air Market
top lines
Friday J Lee
.p 63
Frye Guy & Son
p 38
Frye John E
p 38
Garth's
-p 65
Geitner Feed & Seed Co
-p 46
Georges' Esso Service
p 22
Goodman J L & Son
bottom lines
Gulf Oil Corp
p 51
Harper Motor Co
top lines
Harrington Insurance Agency_ _ p 56 & p 63 Hart Construction Co 39
Heavner's Florist
-p 47
Herman Erection Co
bottom lines
Herman Quince E
.p 20
Herman-Sipe & Co Inc
back cover
Hickman Hardware Co
top lines
Hickory Bonded Warehouse
p 69
Hickory Chair Co
-p 49
Hickory Construction Co
p 39
Catawba Sales Agency
p 54
Hickory Drug Co
p 42
Catawba Transit Co
p
33
Hickory Electric Co
bottom lines
Cater's Radio Service
_p
62
Hickory Engraving Co
p 45
Hickory Esso Service Station.
> 22
Hickory Flour Mills
bottom lines
Hickory Flower Shop
top lines
Hickory Funeral Home __ top & bottom lines
Hickory Good Housekeeping Shop.
bottom lines
Hickory Ice & Coal Co_ _ front cover & p 37
Hickory Ice Cream Co.
bottom lines
Hickory Implement Co
p 46
(Continued on Page Ten)
Central Electric Supply Co .p 44
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PREFACE
PREFACE
(Continued from Page Seven)
POPULATION
United States Census, 1940, gave Hickory a population of 13,487. The 1949 population of Greater Hickory is 24,600.
ASSESSED VALUATION
City, $27,231,138.00. County, $72,531,310.00.
TAX RATE
City rate-$1.45 per $100.00. County rate $.92 per $100.00.
AREA
4.80 square miles.
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS
$1,500,000.00.
BANKS
One National and two State banks and two Building and Loan Asso- ciations.
RADIO STATIONS
Radio Station WHKY is locally owned and operating on 5,000 watts day and 1,000 watts night. This station is affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company.
Radio Station WHKY FM operating upon 180,000 watts day and night. This also is locally owned and affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company.
Radio Station WIRC is locally owned and operating on 1,000 watts low frequency during daylight hours. This station is programmed in- dependently.
NEWSPAPERS
Hickory Daily Record, with circulation of 14,500.
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)
40 (white), 11 (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
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
(Continued from Page Eight)
Hickory Motor Sales Inc top lines
Hickory Overall Co .p 59
Hickory Packing Co -p 58
Quality Cleaners -p 34
Hickory Printing Co -p 62
Radio Center Inc p 63
Rainbow Cleaners p
35
Ramsour J Mid p 60
Hickory Sporting Goods Co
p 66
Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co __ p 66
Hickory Steam Laundry Co. top lines
Richards Motor Co
insert
Hickory Taxi Co
p 68
Richie's Shoe Co
p 66
Hickory Telephone Co p 2
Risch Philip A
p 18
Ritch's Esso Service
.p 23
Robertson Chemical Corp
p 46
Royal Crown Bottling Co top lines
Ruby Hosiery Mills insert
Rudisill & Huggins Jewelers .p 56
Sarah's Flowers
top lines
Service Dry Cleaners
back cover
Setzer Construction Co
p 40
Seven-Up Bottling Co p 31
Shell R J & Son
.p 51
Sherrill Ice & Fuel Co back cover
Sherrill Upholstering Co -p 50
Shook Drug Co 42
Shuford Funeral Home
front cover
Shuford Hardware Co
p 53
Shuford Hosiery Mills p 53
Sills Coal & Wood
.p 37
Sinclair Refining Co
_p 51
Smith-Courtney Co
p 3 and bottom lines
Smith R B & Co
Lp 64
Southern Cushion Co
_p 67
Southern Pig Bar-B-Q
-p 64
Southern Vocational Institute
top lines
Spainhour Co The
bottom lines
Spring Street Furniture Mart p 48 State Farm Insurance Cos -p 55
Statesville Brick Co
.p 31
Steele Rulane Service
bottom lines
Stewart's Woodworking Shop
.p 33
Sudderth's Tire & Battery Service .p 24
Sullivan George Service Station .p 24
Tallant Transfer Co
top lines
Tate's Shell Service _p 24
Todd Floral Co
top lines
Thomason G A & Son top lines
Midtown Service Station
p 23
Troutman M C
p 55
Miller-Brooks Roofing Co .p 65
Miller & Smyre
.bottom lines
Modern Dry Cleaners -p 34
Montgomery Ward & Co _p 41
Moser & Shook Lumber Co top lines
Moss-Marlow Building Co 32
National Superior Meats
bottom lines
National Trading Co
backbone
Ninth Ave Hardware & Supply Co. .p 52
Northwestern Bank The
.p 30
Paper Service Co
_p 60
Penegar O G Co
bottom lines
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
_p 31
Perry Armature Appliance Co. . bottom lines
Perry Armature Co ___ front cover and p 42
Piedmont Cleaners & Dyers_ back cover Piedmont Motor Co top lines
WHKY Radio Station
_top lines
WIRC Radio Station
top lines
Wagner Furniture Co
Walter Motors Inc
.p 48
Weaver Insurance Agency.
bottom lines
Weaver's Bar-B-
.p 65
West Hickory Garage -p 25
West-Deal Co
-p 36
White Cross Laundry -p 57
Windy City Dry Cleaners -p 35
Winkler's Garage
p 25
Wood Robt W
-p 19
Young Frederick L Inc
-p 68
Young's Garage
_p 25
p 21
Red Bird Cab Co -p 68
Hickory Tire & Battery Co .p 4
Hickory Well Supply Co
front cover
Highland Ave Dry Cleaners
p 33
Highland Drug Store
p 41
Highland Motor Co
_p 28
Holbrook Refrigeration
bottom lines
Hotel Service Station
p 22
Howard-Hickory Co
p 59
Hudson-Starr Sales Co
.p 27
Huggins Everett Amoco Service p 22
Hutchison Paul D .p 18
Hutton & Bourbonnais Co.
back cover
Icard & Johnson Texaco Service p 23
Ice Delivery Co back cover
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. p 4
Jones Radio & Appliance Co p 63
Kennedy Electric Co -p 43
Kerr Sand Co top lines
Kiziah June H
_p 39
Knit Sox Knitting Mills p 53
L & S Super Market -p 52
Lang Chevrolet Co
top lines
Lavitt Louis Co
p 53
Lenoir-Rhyne College
fly X and Y
Ligon Electric Supply Co stencils
Lipe Motor Lines .p 69
Longview Electric Co -p 44
Longview Flour & Feed Mills 46
Lutz Drug Co.
initial letter lines
M & J Finance Corp ____ top lines and p 47
Maple Springs Laundry & Dry Cleaners
p 34 and p 56
Martin's Mill Work p
59
Men's Shop The p 36
Merchants Produce & Grocery Co .p 52
Truck & Auto Service Inc. .p 25
Tunstall R A Insurance Agency
bottom lines
top lines
Hickory Securities Corp
.p 67
Hickory Sheet Metal Co
top lines
Precision Industries Inc -p 58
Propst Manufacturing Co p 40
Ray's Radiator Shop
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PREFACE
(Continued from Page Nine)
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 800. 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.
Clevenger College of Business Administration and Southern Voca- tional Institute give day and night courses in Business and Vocational subjects.
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 24,000 volumes, a circulation of 114,000. 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, and Ridgewood (colored) cemeteries. Each of the above named cemeteries were carefully planned, beautifully designed and offer adequate burial grounds.
AIRPORTS
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.
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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Airport is equipped with CAA Communication and Weather Obser- vation Station.
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 Catawba Transit Co., which serves the city and suburban areas with scheduled service, and 85 taxicabs.
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PREFACE
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.
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 200 indus- trial plants, widely diversified as to products. Ninety per cent of the capital invested in these plants is furnished by Hickory investors.
Products of Hickory plants include: confectionery, dairy products, flour and feed, beverages; household, church and theatre furniture; seamless and full-fashioned hosiery; shoe laces, yarns, cordage and twines; products of meat packing and processing plants; lumber and building materials; wooden and paper boxes; pottery, farm wagons, apparel, chemicals, products of dyeing and finishing plants; metal
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springs, venetian blinds, tools, machine and railway shops.
Three outstanding industries in the city are due special mention: hosiery, cotton textiles, and furniture manufacturing.
Hickory is the largest cordage manufacturing center in the world.
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Game Room and Snack Bar of New Community Center
COMMUNITY CENTER
Hickory is now in the process of building a great, million dollar, center of Community life, which when completed will be its crowning civic achievement. Situated upon 22 acres of land near the center of the city, it will provide for civic and recreational needs of the community.
The building will provide for civic club activity, for pleasant dining, for all types of arts and crafts, gymnasium and swimming activities, the outdoor area will be for games, sports, and picnicing.
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.
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 1949-1950
Containing Valuable Information Concerning United States and State Government.
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