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THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
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Nelsons' Salisbury NORTH CAROLINA
City Directory
MASTER EDITION
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VOLUME 36
1958
NELSONS' No. 1310 1
Directory
4 Nelsons' City LARN Distinctive
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CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY OF ALL RESIDENTS 16 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER, WITH DETAILED INFORMATION CONCERNING EACH; A NUMERICAL HOUSEHOLDERS' DIRECTORY AND STREET GUIDE; A CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY WITH SPECIAL LISTINGS FOR NATIONALLY ADVERTISED BRANDS, AND A COMPLETE BUYERS' GUIDE, CIVIC SECTION, A NUMERICAL TELE- PHONE DIRECTORY AND A RURAL ROUTE DIRECTORY
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The LARN type of city directory was originated by Nelsons' Direc- tory Company, Inc. While many publishers have been content to rest on their laurels, issuing the same type of directory used 30 years ago, the Nelsons' organization has led the way to the produc- tion of a modern city directory to meet modern selling and credit conditions.
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POPULATION SALISBURY, N. C. 39,048
This population secured by an actual count of persons residing in territory covered by a House-to-House Canvass under Nelsons' Modern LARN plan.
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EXPLANATION
All people sixteen years or over are listed.
Wives are listed with husbands, the wife being shown in parenthesis as follows: Smith Robt R (Mary L).
The number of children under sixteen years is shown after the wife's name as follows: Smith Robt R (Mary L) 3.
The @ both in the resident directory and the householders' directory desig- nates ownership of the home.
In case of a natural widow this fact is shown with the name of the deceased husband in parenthesis, whenever possible, as follows: Smith Mary L (wid Robt R).
The occupation and place of employment are shown as follows: Smith Ro- bert R (Mary L) clk Hub Clothing Co.
The residence of each person is shown "h" denoting a householder or head of the family, "r" denoting people in the home.
Married women, engaged in some other occupation than housekeeping, are listed individually in addition to their regular listing with their husbands, as follows: Smith Mary (Mrs Robt R) bkpr Henry Jones & Co r 210 Main.
Names in heavy type denote patrons of the directory and are usually the leading firms in each line of business.
Colored is shown by a @. The publishers are very careful in using this, but do not assume any responsibility in case of error.
This directory contains all the regular departments of the modern city directory and many features used by no other publisher in the United States.
A numerical telephone directory will be found in the back of the directory listing each telephone according to number.
The classified business directory lists each firm according to line of business.
The numerical street directory lists each street alphabetically and each house according to number, with the street intersections as they appear. After each householder's name will be found his telephone number. In case he has no tele- phone the nearest telephone may be found. The @ denotes householders who own the house in which they live. By using the street guide as a mailing list, a thorough coverage of the city will be obtained without any duplication of names.
The buyers' guide carries the printed messages of the city's leading business and professional firms arranged alphabetically according to classifications.
This directory shows the approximate population and environs at the present time.
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INTRODUCTION
Nelsons' Directory Company, Inc., publishers of your city directory, takes Pleasure in presenting the 1958 edition to the general public. A large force of trained enumerotors and solicitors worked diligently in the preparation of this volume and we are confident that the result is an authentic and useful city directory.
We have faith in the continued growth of your city and we believe that our directory will take its place as one of the vital instruments for the advance- ment of your community. Subsequent editions will be issued promptly and regularly.
This volume is an example of the LARN type of city directory as originated and developed by the Nelsons' Directory Company, Inc. In the modern busi- ness world with its greatly changed sales ond credit systems, the old type of directory has become completely obsolete. In odopting the directory to modern conditions the Nelson organization is the pioneer. The excellent city directory which your city now has is the result of the progressive spirit of this company and its accurate interpretation of modern business requirements.
SIX DIVISIONS OF THE BOOK
The principal parts of the Nelsons' Directory are as follows:
1. The Buyers' Guide and Civic Section is made up of the advertisements of the leading business firms of the city, announcements of churches, clubs, lodges, associations and schools, and professional cards of public-spirited lawyers, physicians and dentists. The display spaces have been carefully grouped and indexed under headings which are descriptive of the business engaged in by each firm. The Buyer's Guide, when properly arranged and distributed, is of tremendous value in the building of business in the community.
2. The Resident Directory contoins most of the data concerning the indiv- idual. The wife's name is given in parenthesis, and the number of dependents under 16 is shown as well as the ownership of homes. This is followed by posi- tion, place of employment and home address.
3. The Householders' Directory contoins a complete directory of streets and avenues, properly located, gives the names of all householders arranged as they come upon the streets and avenues, indicates ownership of property.
4. The Business Directory and List of Nationally Advertised Brands contains the names of all business firms, professionol people and non-profit organizations, properly classified. In this division are also listed the names of nationally ad- vertised brands of merchandise, with the name of the local ogents or distributors.
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5. The Numerical Telephone Directory contoins telephone numbers ar- ronged in numericol sequence.
6. Rural Route Directory contains names of all rurol residents.
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SPECIAL LARN FEATURES
The following voluoble informotion which oppears in the LARN type of directory is not to be found in the old-style city directory:
Number of dependents under sixteen;
Designation of home ownership;
Nationally Advertised Brands;
Numerical Telephone Directory;
Telephone Numbers on Street Guide.
Rural Route Directory
In oddition to these voluoble features, the LARN type of directory is more conservotively styled, printed on better paper ond more beautifully bound, or- ronged for more convenient use and contoins o much more complete civic section.
THE HOUSEHOLDERS' SUPPLEMENT
After including every conceivable feoture which would tend to make the directory os useful ond attroctive os possible, the originators of the LARN type of directory mode one more bold stroke-they estoblished o guaranteed HOME circulation for odvertising motter by issuing the Householders' Supplement and delivering it to the homes of the community. Every odvertisement which appears in Nelsons' Directory olso oppeors in the Householder's Supplement, moking the Nelsons' Directory "America's greatest dollor-for-dollor odvertising medium" todoy.
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Population Summary
1,198
4,029
3,191
1,207
1,043
1,249
1,774
3,405
210
1,058
1,548
2,028
852
2,569
540
420
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2,128
1,989
3,720
1,358
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2,980
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Salisbury North Carolina
"Salisbury Is The Place . . . Where Location Pays An Extra Dividend."
Salisbury, in Rowan County, North Carolina, is one of the South's oldest cities, freshened with new spirit, services and facilities.
In the period since 1950 twenty-five new industrial plants have begun operation in the city and county. These diversified payrolls include asphal- tic products, air conditioning, fine furniture, light weight building ag- gregates, metal awnings, children's garments, luggage, upholstered furni- ture, Hi-Fi cabinets, equipment for the ceramics industry, boxes, swimwear, blouses, clay products, bottlers appliances, custom hydraulics, textile ma- chinery and others.
The large VA Hospital activated in 1955 will soon be operating at capacity, and its $2.9 million annual payroll has helped stabilize the com- munity economy.
Important national highway developments through Rowan County add value to the Salisbury area for manufacturing and distribution loca- tion. A modern paved airport with runway extending nearly one mile is being completed during the summer of 1958. Feeder airline service is being solicited. A $10,000.00 industrial development survey was performed for Salisbury and Rowan County by prominent New York-Chicago engineers who specialize in plant location, and the report delivered to the community in July of 1958. The city and county are cooperating in connection with a Planning Board to assist in logical expansion of population, housing and industry in and around Salisbury.
Salisbury has recently won trophies and cash awards for outstanding progress in civic improvements and social advancement programs. New developments in the shopping area include new department stores, large parking lots, new shopping center, and modernizations among several re- tail firms and services.
With all the natural advantages of Piedmont location, access to utilities, non-defense working population, plus great improvement on every front, Salisbury and Rowan County, offers one of the best com- munities in the nation for growth opportunities.
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HISTORY
Salisbury and Rowan County share in the earliest history of this pro- gressive state and it is a history that the descendants of the earliest settlers and the people of today may well be proud to tell the world. The County was first settled in 1720 by Protestants from Moravia and a few years later, Scotch and Irish migrated here from their mother coun- try. These were later followed in 1745 by a steady flow of Germans.
The County of Rowan was established at the session of the general assembly of the province of North Carolina on March 27, 1753. Thirty counties in Western North Carolina were later formed from Rowan County. The first Court-the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions-met in Rowan in 1753, the same year of the organization of the county. The first court house was erected in 1756 and old records dating back as far as 1750 are still in file in the office of the register of deeds. The deed for Salisbury Township was granted February 11, 1755, and it is a point of interest to note that as early as 1757 Salisbury boasted of traffic laws.
Salisbury and Rowan County were especially active during the Revo- lutionary War and in 1781 Lord Cornwallis made temporary headquarters here. General Nathaniel Greene occupied Salisbury immediately before the arrival of Cornwallis' army. In the spring of 1791 George Washington visited Salisbury.
Near Salisbury today stands the remains of one of the South's most outstanding relics-"The Old Stone House"-a large building constructed of native granite, built somewhat in the style of a fort, and occupied by Michael Braun, the forerunner of many of the Browns in the city today.
A national cemetery is located in Salisbury in which Federal soldiers held prisoners by the Confederacy here, Spanish American War veterans and World War veterans are buried.
"Boone's Cave," where the pioneer Daniel Boone sought refuge from the Indians, is located north of the city near the Yadkin River and "Old Trading Ford" on the Yadkin River, established before the Declaration of Independence, is also north of the city.
West of Salisbury, in the graveyard of the Old Third Creek Presby- terian Church, is the modest grave of Peter Stuart Ney, well-known school teacher who came to this country from France and is believed by many to be Marshal Ney, Napoleon's "right hand" man. He was supposed to have been executed for treason to Louis XVII of France, but many believe he escaped through connivance with the firing squad and then came to this country, taking up residence in North Carolina.
Andrew Jackson, at one time President of the United States, studied law in this city.
The mother of James K. Polk, eleventh President of the United States, was born and reared in Rowan County.
Mrs. Frances Christian Tiernan-Christian Reid, a writer of National reputation-was a native of Salisbury. She was author of the volume "The Land of the Sky," from which Western North Carolina derives the name "Land of the Sky."
GOVERNMENT
Since 1927 the city has operated under a City Council-Manager form of government. The Council is composed of five members elected at large. The Council elected a mayor from its own membership and appoints the City Manager, who is the administrative head of the city.
Salisbury has a municipal water system ample to supply pure water to care for the city's needs; a modern sewer system and disposal plant; efficient police department with every modern facility for the detection and prevention of crime.
The fire department has long been a source of pride to the city and through its efficiency has compiled throughout the past number of years an enviable record.
Salisbury and Rowan County has a well-organized health department, ranking among the best in the South, and now centered on W. Innes Street in a modern $285,000 building.
INDUSTRIAL
The fact that Salisbury Rowan is a manufacturing community of importance is evidenced by the presence of more than 111 diversified in- dustries located here, manufacturing a very wide variety of products and giving employment to approximately 17,500 employees with a total annual payroll of approximately $70,000,000.
Salisbury businesses have a highly diversified industrial structure. Soaps, combed yarns, cotton battings, shirting, furniture, wash cloths, rubber rolls, hosiery, rubber hose, rubber printing plates, lumber and mill- work, florists' supplies, packing plant products, flour and feeds, paving blocks, building ceramics, refrigeration equipment, beverage syrups, pro- prietary medicines, bakery products, castings and machine durable goods, printing and publishing, building and monumental granites, cotton and rayon finishing, and many other products and types of business help to make a rich industrial and commercial community.
Balfour Pink Granite, recognized as the hardest granite obtainable, is said to be quarried exclusively near Salisbury and has been used in the construction of monuments and buildings throughout the world.
Salisbury is located at the center of the immense system of the Duke Power Company (including power dams and steam plants), which pro- vides practically an unlimited source of power at exceptionally low rates. Anticipating demands for increased power in this area, the capacity of
the Buck Steam plant has just been increased to 460,000 KW, largest in the system today.
AGRICULTURAL
Rowan County has 272,591 acres of land in farms, (1949). The State estimates that there are 16,872 people living on Rowan land tracts of three or more acres. Farming is highly mechanized, and crop diversification shows a modern conception of best methods. Dairying is a principal ac- tivity, supported by small grains and cover crops. Growing season range is favorable, soil structure and moisture shows desirable characteristics, and weather extremes are rarely prolonged. Rowan leads the South in the growing of Lespedeza and leads the South in the production of wheat crop, including acreage and yield. Rural highways are rapidly being sur- faced, homes in the county are modern, and equipped with lights and telephone.
DISTRIBUTION
Probably no city in the South has better distribution facilities than Salisbury. The Spencer Transfer, the largest freight transfer terminal south of Philadelphia, is located at the Southern Railway's plant, where merchandise is assembled from all over Peidmont North Carolina, un- loaded and reloaded into through-package cars and trains going to the principal commercial centers of the United States.
Exceptional facilities are offered by motor express service. Modern well-paved highways radiating in all directions give additional weight to Salisbury's claim as a distributing center and afford speedy motor express service to all points.
EDUCATIONAL
Salisbury's educational facilities are of the best and most modern, having five white public schools, including a high school, and three Negro schools, including a high school. Other educational institutions include: Catawba College, fully credited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, offering a full four-year course in Liberal Arts. The Salisbury Business College, which provides excellent commercial and secretarial training, also the Salisbury Commercial College. Livingstone College (Southern Association Class A) offers Negro citizens a four-year curriculum. $4,000,000 is being spent to modernize the local school system.
The Rowan County Public Library, located in Salisbury, has ex- perienced a steady growth in recent years and under the guiding hand of a capable librarian this institution is rendering a great service to Salisbury and Rowan County. The library facilities are widely used.
A brand new community library, located at the corner of Church and Fisher Streets, provides a new home for the center's excellent library serv-
ice, and the new facility includes meeting room space for civic and arts groups. A new $100,000 library has been built for our Negro citizens, also.
CIVIC AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS
Many of the leading fraternal organizations are represented by strong local chapters.
Civic organizations include: Rotary, Kiwanis, Civitan, Lions, and Altrusa Clubs. American Legion and Auxiliary, Woman's Club, Junior Woman's Club, Merchants Association and Chambers of Commerce.
RADIO-NEWSPAPER-TELEVISION
WSTP am/fm (MBS) and WSAT (ABC) are the community's aggressive commercial radio services. THE SALISBURY EVENING POST, published as an evening daily, and THE SALISBURY SUNDAY POST is one of the most modern newspapers in the country. Area television stations are re- ceived in the community. Radio communication systems are effectively used by city, county and state law enforcement officers in the local area.
CHURCHES
A list of principal denominations is available at the Chamber of Com- merce office, N. Main Street.
HOSPITALS
The new VA Hospital has been activated. Designed as a neuro- psychiatric facility, the 1,128-bed hospital is located on a more than 450- acre site now incorporated into the Salisbury city limits, near the States- ville entrance to the city. Comprising nineteen buildings, the vast hospital plan is one of the most modern in the United States, and will serve North Carolina's 4,000,000 population-qualified veterans of this population. The facility is expected to serve the medical growth of Salisbury. The Rowan Memorial Hospital has undergone an expansion. The medical staff offers excellent qualification, and several specialized medical services are avail- able. The Hospital participates in the Duke Endowment and offers many advantages not available elsewhere.
RECREATION
A planned recreation program in the Salisbury community is under professional direction of a paid staff, and some $35,000 to $40,000 is ex- pended annually for these activities. An outstanding golf course is located at the Salisbury Country Club (membership basis). The city has five theatres, active college and school sports, swimming, fishing and boating at large High Rock Lake in the county; City Park and Mirror Lake for picnicing and varied games. Salisbury is near the Blue Ridge Mountains,
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and about two hundred miles from the Atlantic Coast. These resort areas are frequently utilized by Salisbury residents.
A $533,000 modern "Y" center with outstanding health club and rec- reation facilities was opened recently at 220 N. Fulton. Visitors welcome.
HOTELS AND MOTELS
The Yadkin Hotel, 160 rooms, The Empire Hotel, 70 rooms, Ramblers Rest Motel, 22 units, Midway Court, 21 units are recommended for lodging. The city has modern restaurants and cafes. A $490,000 72-unit Holiday Inn with swimming pool got under construction in May of 1958.
INFORMATION
For lists of manufacturers, information about retail shops and serv- ices, and general economic and historic data about the Salisbury com- munity, visit or write the Chamber of Commerce, Community Building, North Main Street, Salisbury, North Carolina. (Telephone ME 3-4221.)
CIVIC CLUBS-ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
SALISBURY, N. C. Rotary Club John Erwin Ramsay, Pres. Architect, Tele. ME 3-3084 1:00 Tues .- King's Dau Hut
Lions Club Cress E. Goodnight, Pres. Goodnight's, Tele. ME 3-3546 1:00 Wed .- Yadkin Hotel
Civitan Club E. Marius Goodnight, Pres. Goodnight's, Tele. ME 6-3674 1:00 Thurs .- Yadkin Hotel
Kiwanis Club T. J. Mathews, Pres. Stanback Co. Tele. ME 6-2053 1:00 Fri .- Yadkin Hotel
Junior Chamber of Commerce Wm. E. Younts, Pres. Rowan Dairy, Tele. ME 6-1611 7:00 Alt. Tues .- Yadkin Hotel
Optimist Club J. P. Helms, Pres. Salisbury Post, Tele. ME 6-4278 7:00 Thurs .- Yadkin Hotel
Milford Hills Lions Club Bulan A. Fisher, Pres. Mid-State Oil, Tele. ME 3-2976 7:00 2nd & 4th Thurs .- Yadkin Hotel
Rowan Civitan Club of Salisbury John E. Smith, Jr., Pres. Southern Bell, Tele. ME 6-5893 6:30 2nd & 4th Fri .- Yadkin Hotel
Sales Executive Club Miles Smith, Jr., Pres. Carolina Rubber Hose, Tele. ME 6-3924 6:30 Last Fri .- Yadkin Hotel
Toastmasters Club M. C. Hannah, Pres. N. C. Finishing, Tele. ME 3-2127 6:30 Mon .- Yadkin Hotel
Altrusa Club Catherine Berry, Pres. VA Hospital, Tele. ME 6-4856 6:10 1st & 3rd Thurs .- Yadkin Hotel
Junior Woman's Club Mrs. Clyde Young, Jr., Pres. 1101 Roundknob, Tele. ME 3-0551 7:00 2nd Fri .- DiMizio's (Sept. thru May)
Woman's Club Mrs. S. E. Berkshire, Pres. Duke Circle, Tele. ME 3-0448 3:00 2nd Wed .- Recreation Center
Business & Professional Women's Club
Mrs. Louise Upchurch, Pres. N. C. Finishing, Tele. ME 6-1125 6:30 4th Tues .- Yadkin Hotel
Credit Women's Breakfast Club Mrs. Ruby Young, Pres. Merchants Assn., Tele. ME 3-2265 7:45 2nd & 4th Thurs .- Yadkin Hotel.
EAST SPENCER, N. C.
Civitan Club F. R. Sifford, Pres. 805 Long St., Tele. ME 3-0442
Woman's Civic Club
Mrs. J. A. Gheen, Pres.
1202 Long St., Tele. ME 3-1418
FURNISHED BY SALISBURY-ROWAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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SPENCER, N. C.
Junior Chamber of Commerce Max Whitley, Pres. 312 N. Rowan Ave. Tele. ME 3-0547
Lions Club W. P. Dorsett, Pres. 1400 S. Salisbury Ave. Tele. ME 6-5306
Women's Club Miss Elizabeth Eller, Pres. 1402 S. Salisbury Ave. Tele. ME 6-3216
Junior Woman's Club Mrs. Reid Goodson, Pres. 500 Carolina Ave. Tele. ME 6-2048
Jaycettes Mrs. Clyde Miller, Pres. Route 4, Box 540 Tele. ME 3-3986
CLEVELAND, N. C. Lions Club V. H. Wuamett, Pres.
CHINA GROVE, N. C.
Civitan Club Flake Sechler, Pres.
Rotary Club
John Allison, Pres.
Lions Club
James Baker, Pres.
Woman's Club Mrs. Judd Parrish, Pres.
FAITH, N. C. Civitan Club Floyd Williams, Pres.
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