Glimpses of Greensboro [November 1956]

              Glimpses of
Greensboro
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Volume 4
November,  1954
Number 8
Gate City Makes Ready For Holiday Jubilee
Lorillard Plant
Dedicated In
Ceremonies Here
Dedication ceremonies for the
P. Lorillard plant, with top
state, city, and company officials,
were held in the city on Oct. 17
in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce.
Lorillard President Lewis
Gruber headed his company's officers at the evening banquet
which was also attended by Gov.
Luther H. Hodges, Rep. Carl T.
Durham, and Mayor J. Archie
Cannon.
Gov. Hodges, as principal
speaker, asked tobacco manufacturers to cooperate closely with
growers in more efficient and
profitable planning of their
crops.
Formal activities of the day
started at a luncheon at the
Greensboro Country Club that
was sponsored by the Chamber
of Commerce. Here company officials, including those from the
local plant, met Greensboro businessmen. Pres. Orton A. Boren
presided.
This was followed by the dedication at the 13-acre plant on E.
Market Street. Mayor Cannon
welcomed the company to
Greensboro. In his reply, Pres.
Gruber said the Greensboro
plant is "our No. 1 factory" and
"the products of this plant will
always be an outstanding credit
to Greensboro and North Carolina."
HOPALONG CASSIDY will again
highlight the Holiday Jubilee Parade
here on Friday, Nov. 23. He appeared in Greensboro for the first
time at last year's parade when he
helped draw a crowd extimated at
175,000 people.
The 160 invited guests were
then divided into groups and
taken on tours of the factory.
Lorillard
Day" was a formal banquet at
the King Cotton Hotel in the
evening.
In his welcome to the company, Gov. Hodges told the
guests that the marriage of the
famous tobacco company and
North Carolina should be a
happy and prosperous one.
Other speakers at the dinner
included Mr. Gruber, Congressman Durham, Mayor Cannon,
Pres. Boren, and Joseph Kolodny
of New York, managing director of the National Assn. of Tobacco Distributors. Sen. Kerr
Scott, who was to have been
present, was represented by a
Burlington attorney, James F.
Latham.
Plans for the 1956 Holiday
Jubilee are being completed as
committee members in charge of
the various parts of the program
finish their assignments.
Highlight of the activities will
be the parade on Nov. 23 which
will again feature the popular
cowboy star, Hopalong Cassidy,
according to O. L. Fryman, general chairman of the Jubilee.
The event is sponsored by the
Merchants Association, Chamber of Commerce, and Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
An even larger number of
beauty queens is expected this
year than were present for the
1955 parade. Invitations have
been sent to 54 Piedmont communities to send their local
queens and for the mayors and
their wives to be guests of the
Jubilee. A large number of
floats is also expected as well
as bands, walking units, and
many other entries, including a
number from last year.
The Jubilee schedule will follow that of the 1955 season. A
ball on Thanksgiving night at
the Shrine Club will start the
festivities to be followed by the
parade Friday morning and a
luncheon for the queens and
other guests at the Greensboro
Country Club. The queens will
be honored after the parade at
a get-together at Stewart Motor
Co. Invitations will be issued
for this affair.
The nativity scene will again
be on display on the courthouse
lawn as part of the observance.
Chairman Fryman said he believes the estimated crowd of
175,000 people who viewed the
parade last year will be even
larger this time.