Glimpses of Greensboro [May 1960]

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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF GREENSBORO. N. C, CHAMBER Of COMMERCA?
MAY,  1960 *bk.
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Eight O'clock Club
Tops Goal In Drive;
94 Members Added
The Eight O'Clock Club, the
Chamber's membership building
organization, ended a highly
successful spring program on
May 13. With a goal of $4,000,
the thirty-three members of the
club, headed by Chairman James
W. Poole, turned in a total of
$5,970 in new support for the
Chamber, reporting 94 new
member firms.
Top honors went to Charles
L. Weill, Jr., President of Robins
and Weill and a Chamber Director, who reported a total of
$910. High producers on the
three teams which make up the
club were Clyde C. Harmon,
Sears, Roebuck and Company;
William V. Learning, Security
National Bank, and M. L. Cun-
ingham, Wachovia Bank and
Trust Company.
Since its beginning in the fall
of 1956, the Eight O'Clock Club
has been responsible for increasing the Chamber's budget by
$52,180.
Complete   List  of   94   New   Members
Follows:
Airport Electric Company
911 Fairground Avenue
Vernon B. Thomas
Allied Metal Products, Inc.
312 Dixie Building
Paul Thurmond
Allied Securities Corporation
210 Commerce Place
Archie B. Joyner
(Cont., Page 6, Col. 1)
Worley Heads Dairy
Princess Contest
For County, May 31
Bland W. Worley, Chairman
and Mrs. John W. Harden Co-
chairman of the Guilford County
Dairy Princess Contest announced last week that candidates from throughout Guilford
County will compete for the
Guilford County Dairy Princess
title in a contest at a luncheon
at the Starmount Country Club,
Tuesday, May 31, at 12:30 p.m.
Civic clubs, schools and agricultural organizations have been invited to sponsor a candidate for
the event.
The new County Dairy Princess will be honored at a breakfast at 8 :30 a.m. on Wednesday,
June 1, at the Sedgefield Inn.
Miss Beth Tartan, Woman's
Editor of the Winston-Salem
Journal, will be guest speaker.
The Princess will receive a
$50.00 cash award and will compete in the seven county area
contest to be held in High Point,
June 10. The two runners-up
will receive $25.00 and $15.00
cash, respectively.
Area winners will be chosen to
compete in the Annual North
Carolina Dairy Princess Contest
to be held in Durham, June 29
and 30.
On
with the GreensrjrJto) Chamber of
Commerce Downto^ Improve- >.
ment Program, a group of 21;
business men boarded a plane,
chartered by the Chamber, and
flew to Knoxville, Tennessee, to
observe that city's Downtown
Improvement Program.
Heading the Greensboro delegation was Bland W. Worley,
Chamber president, Mayor
George H. Roach and City Manager Gen. J. R. Townsend and
others interested in the future of
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Greensboro's downtown area, including County Commissioner
Sidney B. Allen and County
Manager J. Harry Weatherly.
Mayor John Duncan, Harry
Brooks, President of Knoxville's
Chamber of Commerce, W. Russell Briscoe, President of Downtown Knoxville Association and
a number of Knoxville leaders
were on hand to meet the
Greensboro visitors at the Knoxville Municipal airport. The red
carpet, literally, was rolled out
to the steps of the plane and as
the local contingent stepped onto
the carpet they were also greeted
by Miss Tennessee of 1960,
Mickey Wayland.
Boarding a special sight-seeing bus equipped with a public
address system, the entire group
(Cont., Page 2, Col. 1)