Hill's Greensboro (Guilford County, N.C.) City Directory [1959], Part 2

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1959
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1444

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In its early years, Greensboro became the home of several colleges and is now one of the educa- tional centers of the nation. This, of course, has contributed much to the cultural growth so that the city is a well-rounded, progressive community.

Greensboro, known as "The Insurance Center of the South," is the home of the world's leading textile manufacturers, is a leader in education, and is a location of one of the world's largest cigarette manufacturers, P. Lorillard Co.

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Statistical Review

FORM OF GOVERNMENT-Council, City Manager.

POPULATION-City, 120,000; Greensboro-High Point metropolitan district, 250,000. 99.9 per cent American-born.

AREA-50 square miles.

ALTITUDE-839 feet above sea level.

CLIMATE-Mean annual temperature, 69.2 degrees; average annual rainfall, 42.5 inches; days of clear sunshine annually, 136; humidity, 42.4 per cent.

PARKS-67 with 437 acres.

ASSESSED VALUATION-$384,416,179 with $1.15 per $100 tax rate. BONDED DEBT-$24,962,000.

COMMERCE-Latest business census shows 1,071 retail establishments and 330 wholesale firms. One -sixth of the State's population lives in Greensboro's 12-county trading area, one-fifth of the retail sales are made there, and one-fourth of the State's manufactured goods produced there.

FINANCIAL DATA-4 banks with total deposits of $752,465,046 (Dec. 31, 1958) and total resources of $837,683,405; two savings and loan associations with total assets of $68,693,433.

POSTAL RECEIPTS-$3,394,067 for 1958 calendar year.

TELEPHONES IN SERVICE-58,154.

CHURCHES-194, representing all denominations.

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION-Value of building permits for 1958, $26, 358, 244.

REAL ESTATE-33,210 homes with 45 per cent owned by occupants.

TRADE AREA-Retail and wholesale area has radius of 50 miles with a population of about 1,400, -

000. NEWSPAPERS-2 dailies and 3 weeklies.

RADIO STATIONS-WBIG, WGBG, WCOG, WPET, and WMDE-FM.

TELEVISION STATIONS-WFMY-TV (100,000 watts), and WUNC-TV (100,000 watts).

RAILROADS-Southern Railway operates 18 passenger and 14 freight trains daily.

HIGHWAYS-U. S. 29, 70 (main east-west), 220 (main north-south), and 421.

AIRPORT-Greensboro-High Point Airport is 6 miles from the city on U. S. 421. Served by East- ern, Capital and Piedmont Airlines with 35 flights daily.

AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATIONS-48,527.

AMUSEMENTS-Largest auditorium in city seats 2,700; 6 motion picture theatres with seating capacity of 6,500; 5 drive-in movies; 1 legitimate theatre with capacity of 1,600; 5 golf courses. HOSPITALS-4, with total of 570 beds.

EDUCATION-Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro College, Guilford College, Greensboro Division of Guilford College, Bennett College, Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, and Immanuel Lutheran College.

33 public schools, including 4 senior high and 8 junior high; 4 parochial schools, including 1 high school. Number of pupils in public schools, 19, 785; parochial, 848. Number of teachers in public schools, 738, parochial, 37. Value of public school property, $16,636,000; parochial, $1,900,000.

9 institutions of higher education in the county with about 8,400 students; 33 urban public schools. PUBLIC LIBRARIES-2 in Greensboro with 151,281 volumes. Including college libraries, books total 527,045.

CITY STATISTICS-Total street mileage, 517 with 385 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 175, sewers, 332. Number of water meters, 28,950, electric meters, 78,148, gas meters, 8,525. Pumping capacity of municipal waterworks, 60 million gallons daily; daily average pumpage, 10 million gallons; 331 miles of mains.

Fire Department has 149 men with 9 stations and 17 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 184 men and 56 women with 1 station and 55 pieces of motor equipment.

General Review

GUILFORD COUNTY-Settled chiefly between 1750 and 1770 by Ulster Scots Presbyterians, Eng- lish Quakers and German Lutherans and Calvinists (German Reformed), the county was established in 1771 from parts of Orange and Rowan counties. It was named after the Earl of Guilford. Containing some 624 square miles, Guilford County in 1950 had a population of 191,057.

GREENSBORO-The county seat was chartered in 1808 and named after Gen. Nathanael Greene, American leader in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. U. S. Census figures show steady growth: 1890- 3,317; 1900-10,035; 1910-15,895; 1920-19,861; 1930-53,569; 1940-59,319; 1950-74,389; 1958-120,000. The population is 99,9 per cent American born with Negroes making up twenty-five per cent of the total.

POINTS OF HISTORIC INTEREST-Guilford Courthouse National Military Park is located on the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Here Gen. Greene fought one of the final and significant battles of the Revolution in North Carolina and the losses Cornwallis suffered contributed in large part to his surrender at Yorktown several months later. Maintained as a national park, the site has a historical museum and many monuments, including Gen. Greene, Winston, Caldwell, and the famous "giant" Peter Francisco.

O. Henry, one of the most famous writers of this country, was born in Greensboro. A bronze tab- let on the Masonic Temple identifies his birthplace. O. Henry exhibits are to be found in the Greensboro Historical Museum, at the Greensboro Public Library and the O. Henry Hotel.

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Dolley Madison's Well-This site, identified by a marker near Guilford College, marks the birth- place of the wife of the fourth U. S. president.

The home and famous classical school of Dr. David Caldwell, first pastor of Buffalo and Alamance Presbyterian Churches, Guilford County's first first-citizen, minister, educator, physician and states- man, are marked by plaques on Friendly Road near their sites.

The Greensboro Historical Museum, containing many well-preserved relics from the city's past, is located in the Municipal Center on Church Street.

Guilford Court House

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COMMERCE AND TRADE

Greensboro is easily accessible to a 50-mile trade area with a population of about 1,400,000. Re- tail sales for the area in 1958 totaled $1,434,143,000.

Greensboro is the principal market of the northern Piedmont section of the State. There are some 1,500 retail, service and professional outlets and nearly 2,000 salesmen and agents who distribute a wide variety of merchandise of a much larger territory,

The home offices of several large insurance companies, plus territorial and general agencies of many national firms, have given the city its title of the "Insurance Center of the South."

Although not the largest tobacco market in the Old Belt, Greensboro's market is growing the most rapidly of any in the section. Reactivated in 1949 after twenty-five years of inactivity, the market has increased its sales faster than any other in the Old Belt. This growth is due mainly to the excellent management and Greensboro's location in the center of one of the nation's finest tobacco-growing areas.

Annual sales since 1949 have been: 1949-1,935,084 pounds; 1950-3,102,664 pounds; 1951-5,894,950 pounds; 1952-8,681,812 pounds; 1953-5,577,000; 1954-9,060,534; 1955-10,119,850 pounds; 1956-10,336, - 750 pounds; 1957-6,491,506; 1958-5,945, 310.

United States Post Office, Greensboro, N. C.

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Greensboro Municipal Building

GOVERNMENT

Greensboro is administered by a non-partisan council of seven members elected at large who employ a full-time city manager, an office now held by Gen. James R. Townsend.

Good management of the city is reflected in nationally-recognized superiority in public health ad- ministration, reduction of fire losses and low insurance rates, salability of municipal bonds, efficient police protection, well-paved streets, and modern sewage and sanitation facilities. These and other evi- dences of good government have given Greensboro an atmosphere of enterprise and well-being.

Administering the affairs of Guilford County is a commission of five members elected at large. With its county manager, it is generally regarded as one of the best managed counties in the State, and is frequently pointed out as a model by the N. C. Institute of Government.

EDUCATION

Guilford County has nine institutions of higher education with about 8,400 students; 33 modern consolidated rural public schools, and thirty-three urban public schools with an enrollment of 19,785.

Woman's College of the University of North Carolina-This is the largest residence woman's col- lege, (2,444 students) in the U. S. with advanced schools of music, art, dramatics, home economics, physical education, and secretarial science. Ranking high among the liberal arts colleges in America, Woman's College grants bachelor of arts and science degrees and offers graduate work. It was founded in 1891.

Greensboro College (Methodist-co-ed) -For a century this college, now co-educational, has been regarded highly as a liberal arts school. Courses are offered leading to bachelor degrees in music, dramatics, and cultural subjects. The president is Dr. Harold H. Hutson. Number students enrolled -- 488. Value of college property-$2,728,151.00. Number of volumes in college library-35,000.

Guilford College (Quaker co-ed) -This accredited liberal arts college was chartered in 1834. Dr. Clyde A. Milner is president. There are 664 students.

Greensboro Division of Guilford College-Organized in 1948 primarily to offer night classes to adults, the unit has now grown to more than 800 students. Classes are now offered (1) college graduates (2) college students (3) adults who did not attend college. A new $500,000 building is being dedicated in 1959. Dr. Grady Love is the director.

High Point College (M. P.)- This institution was founded in 1924 at High Point to offer liberal arts courses leading to bachelor degrees. Dr. Dennis Cooke, president. About 1,200 students are enrolled.

Oak Ridge Military Institute (R. O. T. C.)-Founded at Oak Ridge in 1851, this boys' preparatory school holds a long record for highest rating by the War Department. Col. T. O. Wright is the comman- dant.

Agricultural and Technical College (N.)-Founded by the State of North Carolina in 1891, A & T is among the largest Negro colleges (2,883 students) in the U. S. Bachelor degrees are offered. Dr. War- moth T. Gibbs is president.

Bennett College (N.)-Liberal arts courses and bachelor and master degrees. This is the oldest (founded in 1873) of the four Negro colleges in Greensboro. Dr. Willa B. Player is president.

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Immanuel Lutheran College (N.) -Senior high school departments, junior college, and a theologi- cal seminary make up its curriculum. Founded in 1903, the college is now headed by the Rev. William H. Kampschmidt.

Palmer Memorial Institute (N.) -This non-denominational Christian cultural school was founded in 1902. Dr. Wilhelmina M. Crosson is president.

INDUSTRY

Of 62,000 persons employed in Greensboro, approximately 23,000 are in manufacturing industries. The annual payroll of manufacturing industries in Greensboro exceeds $76 million.

Greensboro's industrial structure is a broad one. The city has cotton, and synthetic textile mills; women's hosiery and men's hose mills; woodworking, laundry, sawmill, farm tool, machine tool, and sheet metal industries; general foundry and stove works; ornamental iron and steel fabricators; over- alls, work pants, and sleeping garment plants; cigarettes; electronics equipment; fertilizer plants; belt- ing and textile specialties factories; lumber and mill work plants; chemicals and pharmaceutical manu- facturers; coffee roasting, flour and food products plants; auto body builders; ice cream and dairy prod- ucts plants; printers and bookbinders; and a variety of specialty manufacturers.

Cones Mills Corporation Greensboro Plants

Cone Mills is the largest producer of cotton denim in the world. The largest textile manufacturers in the world, Burlington Industries, Inc. (formerly Burlington Mills) maintains its headquarters and has several plants in the city. The Blue Bell Overall Co. is the largest in America, and the Mock-Judson- Voehringer (Mojud) Hosiery Mill and Pomona Terra Cotta Co, are the largest in the South. The Vick Chemical Co. and its many products are known around the world. P. Lorillard Company, one of the world's largest manufacturers of cigarettes, is located here.

Also located in Greensboro are the purchasing offices of J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., and executive offices of Carter Fabrics; a Multi-million-dollar Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail order plant; a folding carton plant of the Container Corp. of America; and an electronics plant of Western Electric Co.

The principal industrial advantages are climate, good living and working conditions, availability of intelligent native labor, efficient public utilities, adequate power, competitive transportation facilities, accessibility to raw materials and markets, low taxes and insurance, and good government.

TRANSPORTATION

Regular daily schedules include: 18 passenger trains, 165 busses, 35 airline flights, 14 freight trains, and 14 package cars.

Greensboro is the center of rail, highway, and air transportation of the northern Piedmont. It is served by the main line of Southern Railway (double track) that runs north and south, Here also is the east-west line of the N. C. Railroad (southern operated), and the Southern Railway Lines: Greensboro to Winston-Salem and Mt. Airy to Sanford and points beyond.

Modern union passenger, mail, and express terminals are maintained with free pick-up and store delivery on LCL shipments. The Railway Express Agency has express service on practically all pas- senger trains. This makes available passenger train express service at railroad freight rates to all points in the State and to a large portion of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and part of West Virginia.

More than 2,500 miles of hardsurfaced highways within a radius of fifty miles provide a means of easy access to Greensboro for the 175,000 automobile owners in the area.

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Standard bus lines travel in eight directions to connect all principal cities. Atlantic Greyhound, Carolina Coach, and others operate under State regulations and clear through a union terminal.

The Greensboro-High Point Airport, a pioneer in the Southeast, serves the two Guilford County cities. The airport is on Eastern Airlines' main line and is also served by Capital Airlines and Pied- mont Airlines. In addition to paved runways, the airport also has a weather bureau, hangars, restaurant, and complete radio equipment.

Greensboro also has a large number of trucking companies with excellent warehouse facilities. The companies operate large fleets in all directions which adds further to the city's transportation facilities. This, and the density of population, make Greensboro more easily accessible to more people than any other city in the South Atlantic States.

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RECREATION

Few sections offer greater opportunity for year-round living out-doors or more varied recrea- tional advantages. The extent to which people in all walks of life participate in outdoor activities has a distinct influence on community health and well-being. Greensboro has won repeatedly national recog- nition in municipal health contests.

The World War Memorial and Senior High School stadia provide settings for football games, day and night baseball, inter-state track meets, tennis tournaments, and others.

A city-county park provides three lakes for fishing and boating. A new swimming pool that can accommodate 800 was opened in 1955 in Lindley Park. A recreation center near Jamestown affords a modern swimming pool. Boating and fishing are available at Lake Brandt. Windsor Community Center, a recreational spot for Negroes, is one of the finest in North Carolina.

At Sedgefield, sportsmen ride to the hounds. The countryside abounds in quail and other game and several game preserves are maintained. There are numerous private clubs and camps nearby with hun- dreds of acres of land and water area,

Championship eighteen-hole golf courses, municipal and public golf courses, private tennis courts, and swimming pools are offered by country clubs at High Point, Starmount, Sedgefield, and Greens- boro. A total of 437 acres is reservedfor parks and playgrounds by Greensboro, and a full-time recrea - tional director is employed to promote activity throughout the year.

Pinehurstand Roaring Gap resorts are within two hours' drive, and the city lies between the moun- tain and seashore resorts.

RELIGIOUS FEATURES

The church has always been a powerful and constructive force in the life of every Guilford County neighborhood. The Quaker Meeting House at New Garden (now Guilford College) was established in 1752

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and Old Buffalo Presbyterian Church organized in 1756.

Today all leading denominations are represented-Protestant, Catholic, Jewish-and maintain handsome places of worship. There is a broad religious tolerance activated by progressive ministerial associations and the Council of Protestants, Catholics and Jews.

The social life of many rural communities centers around neighborhood churches, and urban churches also have highly developed social programs.

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SOCIAL and CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Modern country clubs at High Point, Sedgefield, Starmount, and Greensboro have handsome club- houses where many social gatherings are held: riding, fox hunting, musical programs, dancing, bridge, tennis, skeet, swimming and others. Each year the Greater Greensboro Open Golf Tournament is held at one of the country clubs with the event scheduled for Sedgefield this spring. This tournament attracts the top golfers in the U. S. and draws galleries of many thousands.

Regular music and lecture courses bring outstanding attractions to the city: concert artists, symphony orchestras, plays, authors, and lecturers. Three auditoria seat 2,700, 1,585 and 1,100 re- spectively.

The famous "Playliker" organization of Woman's College and the dramatic units at Greensboro and Guilford colleges offer an outlet for amateur theatricals.

The Greensboro Arts Council, Inc. was organized in 1958 to plan and carry out a city-wide cultural program in both the performing and graphic arts.

For additional information contact the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce Greensboro, N. C.

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U. S. POSTAL INFORMATION

POSTAGE RATES AND CLASSIFICATION

For information regarding classifica- tion, postage rates, and mailability of domestic mail of all classes, entry and mailing of publications as second-class matter, metered and permit mail, bulk rate mailings of third-class matter, Business Reply Cards and Envelopes, apply at your local post office.

DOMESTIC POSTAL RATES

First-Class

LETTERS: 4 cents for each ounee or fraction of an ounce. (Local dellvery same rate. )

POST CARDS or POSTAL CARDS: 3 cents each within prescribed sizes. BUSINESS REPLY CAROS : 5 cents. MAIL ENCLOSEO IN BUSINESS REPLY ENVELOPES: 4 cents per ounce, plus 2 cents per piece, cui- Jected when delivered.

Second-Class

NEWSPAPERS ANO PERIODICALS

(Transient rate) : 2 cents for the first 2 ounces, and 1 cent for each addi- tional ounce or fourth class rate, whichever is lower.

Third-Class

(Up to, but not including 16 ounces) On circulars and other miscellaneous printed matter, books, catalogues, and merchandise, 3c for the first 2 ounces or fraction, plus 11%+ for each ad- ditional ounce or fraction.

Other books and catalogues-con- sult your local postmaster.

Bulk Rate For Details Consult Your Local Postmaster

Fourth-Class-(Parcel Post )

(16 ounces or over)

The present size and weight limits for fourth elass (parcel post) will con- tinue to apply in all eases except for parcels mailed at a first class offiee for delivery to another first elass offiee in which case the size is limited to 72 inches length and girth, 40 pounds In weight to the local first and second zones, and 20 pounds in weight in the third to the eighthi zones. Exceptions to the new size and weight restrie- tions are :

(1) Baby fowl, live plants, trees, shrubs, or agricultural commodities (not including manufactured products thereof ).

(2) Books, permanently bound for preservation, consisting wholly of read- ing matter or reading matter with inci- dental blank spaees for students' nota- tions and containing no advertising matter other than incidental announce- ments of books.

(3) Parcels malled In the United States, Including the Distrlet of Colum- bla, for delivery by any Army or Fleet post office or in any Territory or pos- session of the United States, Ineluding the Canal Zone and Trust Territory of the Paeifle Islands, or malled at any Army or Fleet post office or In any Territory or possession of the United States, Including the Canal Zone and Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, for delivery in the United States, In- cluding the District of Columbia, or any Army or Fleet post offlee or any Territory or possession thereof, In- cluding the Canal Zone and Trust Ter- ritory of the Pacific Islands.

It Is not contemplated that the pro- visions of this law shall be evaded or circumvented by diverting parcels ex- ceeding the preserlbed limits of size and welght from first elass offices and mailing the pareels at offices of the second, third or fourth class or on rural or star routes.

Zone

1st 1b. Additional lbs. (cents)

Local

1.45

From $0.01 to $5

$0.15

From $5.01 to $10 .20

From $10.01 to $100. .30

Registry

Domestic mail matter prepaid at the first-class rate of postage, may be reg- istered against loss, rifling or damage upon payment of the following fees :

REGISTERED MAIL

Indemnity limit

Registra- tlon fee

$ 0.00 to $10.00 $0.50

10.00 to $100

100.01 to $200

1.00

200.01 to $400

1.25

400.01 to $600. 1.50

600.01 to $800 1.75

800.01 to $1,000.

2.00

For values over $1,000 consult your local Postmaster.

CERTIFIEO MAIL

The fee for certified mail is 20 cents plus postage.

COLLECT-ON-DELIVERY (Third and Fourth Class Mail) C. O. O. FEES (Unregistered)

For collections and in-

Fee Cents

demnity not to exceed

5.00

$0.30

10.00

25.00

.60

50.00

100.00

150.00

200.00

1.00

DOMESTIC INSUREO MAIL

Fee

Amount of Insurance Cents

$ 10.00

$0.10

1. 2 and 3

60e

48c

65c

50e

70e

56e

478

75e

72c

80c

SPECIAL SERVICE FEES IN ADDITION TO REGULAR POSTAGE

SPECIAL DELIVERY FEES on first class and Air Mail (including Air Parcel Post) .

First Class Other

Welght and

Air Mail Classes

Not over 2 lbs. .30 .45

Over 2, not over 10 lbs. .45 .55

Over 10 lbs. .60 .70

SPECIAL HANOLING

Weight Fee

2 lbs. and under $0.25

Over 2 lbs. and not over 10 lbs. .35

Over 10 lbs. .50

DOMESTIC ORDINARY MAIL SENDERS' RECEIPTS FOR

CERTIFICATES OF MAILING-FEES

a. Individual pieces. Original certif- icates of mailing for individually listed pieces of all classes of ordinary mall : 5 cents for each plece of'mail described. Each additional copy of original certificate of mailing or orig- inal mailing receipt for registered. certified, insured, and COD mail: 2 cents for each piece of mail described.

b. Identical pieces

of first-and

third-class mail.

Up to 1,000 pieces (1 cer-

tiflcate for total number) . . $0.25 For each additional 1,000 pleces, or fraction .05

Duplicate copy .05

| Money Order Fees

(includes COD M.O. fees)

1 and 2

3.95

5.15

6.9

9.25

11.95

15.2

18.05

AIR MAIL SERVICE United States Air Mail Service

Seven cents for each ounce or frac- tion thereof ; limit of weight 8 ounces to any part of the United States. May be registered, insured, sent C. O. D. or Special Delivery.

Post Cards 5 cents each.

Air mail stamps and distinctively- stamped envelopes are issued for pre- payment of postage on air mail. Ord- inary stamps may also be used.

Air mail should be plainly marked "VIA AIR MAIL" in the space imme- diately below the stamps and above the address.

United States Air Mail Service to Canada. Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies and other Foreign Countries.

For information regarding this ser- vice telephone your local post office.

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Hill's Greensboro (Guilford County, N.C.) City Directory [1959], Part 2

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1959 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 1444

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1959
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1444