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*, The E. S. C Quarterly VOLUME 16, NO. 3-4 SUMMER-FALL, 1958 Chambers of Commerce Use Pictures Like These To Draw Industry. (See Inside Cover.) PUBLISHED BY Employment Security Commission of North Carolina RALEIGH, N. C. PAGE 42 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1956 The E. S. C. Quarterly (Formerly The U.C.C. Quarterly) Vol. 16, No. 3-4 Summer-Fall, 1958 Issued at Raleigh, N. C. by the EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION OF NORTH CAROLINA Commissioner's: Mrs. Quentin Gregory, Halifax; Dr. Maurice Van Hecke, Chapel Hill; R. Dave Hall, Belmont; W. Benton Pipkin, Reidsville; Bruce E. Davis, Charlotte; Crayon C. Efird, Albemarle. State Advisory Council: Public representatives: James A. Brid-ger, Bladenboro, Chairman; Sherwood Roberson, Roberson-ville; W. B. Horton, Yanceyville; Mrs. R. C. Lewellyn, Dob-son, and Dr. J. W. Seabrook, Payetteville; Employer repre-sentative: A. L. Tait, Lincolnton; Employee representatives: Melvin Ward, Spencer, AFL, and H. D. Lisk, Charlotte, CIO. HENRY E. KENDALL Chairman R. FULLER MARTIN Director Unemployment Insurance Division JOSEPH W. BEACH Director North Carolina State Employment Service Division TED DAVIS . Editor Public Information Officer Sent free upon request to responsible individuals, agencies, organizations and libraries. Address: E. S. C. Informational Service, P. 0. Box 589, Raleigh, N. C. INDEX APPEARS ON PAGE 135 ABOUT THE COVER PICTURES TOP LEFT: Indian Craftsmen at the Cherokee Indian Fair in the Great Smoky Mountains demonstrate their skills. The 1958 fair is being held October 7-11 and visitors may watch the craftsmen at Oconaluftee Village, recreated community of 200 years ago. It is located at Cherokee on the 50,000-acre Qualla Boundary—State of N. C. Photo. TOP RIGHT: The "take it easy on the Coast" form of relaxation is made inviting with this heated, lighted, fresh water pool of the Morehead Biltmore Hotel at Morehead City. The convention hotel recently renovated by the Taylor brothers overlooks Bogue Sound and is four minutes from the ocean at Atlantic Beach.—State of N. C. Photo. CENTER LEFT: Biltmore House and gardens at Asheville, is the most fabulous private residence in America. It was built by the late George Vanderbilt, who settled in western N. C. after traveling the world over and, according to his own words, "Searching for the most beautiful spot in the world." The gardens cover 12,000 landscaped acres, and the house is filled with tapestries and antiquities. It was built in 1891 and has 365 rooms. — Lou Harshaw Photo. CENTER RIGHT: When Skyland Textiles began its expansion at its Mor-ganton plant, the site and plans were examined by W. R. Loftis, president of Skyland Textile Co.; Governor of North Carolina Luther H. Hodges; Wil-liam P. Saunders, Director of the Department of Conservation and Develop-ment; and D. Holman Sigmon of the Morganton Industrial Development Or-ganization. BOTTOM LEFT: "Miss Blue Marlin" (Barbara Jessup of Fremont) is pictured in front of one day's catch of two charter sports fishing boats in Morehead City. Although one or two marlin in a picture is not too unusual, the sight of five of the huge bill fish racked in one place is enough to make any big game fisherman pack his heavy tackle and head for the coast. Lucky 7 Photo by Reginald Lewis. BOTTOM RIGHT: William T. Davies and Captain Louis Guthrie inspect a shrimp trawl just completed in the networks owned by Davies. After much research up and down the eastern seaboard, he decided on Morehead City for his business known as Morehead Shipping Company. The firm offers services as Ship Agents, Freight Forwarders, Custom House Brokers, and Stevedores. Photo Jerry Schumacher. KENDALL CHAIRMAN'S COMMENTS Henry E. Kendall, Chairman Employment Security Commission Chambers of commerce in America date back tc 1768, but the modern chamber with its professional technical approach to business, community and la bor problems, is largely a development of the las' 50 years. Whether large or small, any chamber likes to thinl of itself as a community-wide or ganization, serving the entire community—not one segment o: it, either geographically, ecoj nomically, politically, or socially! To effectively serve the entir<| community, the chamber musj have the backing of the entir< community. Just as it does no promote any one member agains his competitor, neither does i promote one group against an other. While it is supports principally by employers, it i not set up to represent employ ers as against labor, but to work for those thing! that will benefit the entire business, including em ployer and labor, owner and manager, and buyej and seller. The typical North Carolina chamber is not polil ical and it is not concerned with who holds any offic( but only in the policies and programs of those office* They do not avoid controversy—much of what the do is in controversial fields—but in a controversy i which the members or other elements of the con munity are divided, they do not act without givin interested and affected groups an opportunity to b heard ; and before taking sides in a controversy th chamber must be satisfied that the best interest i the entire community will be served by its taking stand. Chamber secretary, manager, executive vice-pres dent, whatever the title bestowed upon the execil tive head of the chamber, it is inadequate to descritj the job. The day of the fly-by-night press-agent oj portunist has passed. He has been replaced by a individual of good habits, interested in upgradin his profession. He continually strives to learn moi » about improving the economic, social and industri; it health of the whole community. Indicative of this the fact that while chamber managers used to chanj * jobs every couple of years, the average today hv risen to six years before a change. In North Carj » lina this year, only one chamber has changed ma: agers, acording to records of the N. C. Associatk of Chamber of Commerce Executives. mk .UMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 43 Chambers Spend Fulltime Building the Right Climate By Ted Davis. PIO, ESC The job of a chamber of commerce, on ehalf of its members and its community, 5 a task of public relations. Every under-iking of every chamber involves crystal-zing the support r winning the un-erstanding of ome segment of tie public, some-where, for some lea, project, is-ue or set of facts. Building a di-late that is con-ucive to selling lie community to new industry, or lie industry to tie community. It my be a continu-lg process of ed-ucating the tour-ig public as to lie advantages of acationing in the chamber's area, or con- 'incing the home-town citizens that they lould support a bond issue for city im-provement, or should defeat a damaging Irdinance. Sometimes it is necessary to interpret lisunderstood facts about the commun-y to a nearby, or distant community, iconcile differences between conflicting ements within the community, or per-lading a State or Federal Commission lat it should make desired changes in ighway, railroad, air line or other routes, ites and rules—or it may be any of a lousand things that will benefit the com- DAVIS '•fisfiing-fruisef SSfifflF pictures such as this of Dennis Davis holding -pound Amberjack, Chambers of Commerce to draw people, industries and more money into economy of its community.—Schumacher Photo. mity, and that one public must ask other public to do. It is strange that chambers must con-ice people that if they want their com-mity to stay in the lead in the com-tition for trade and industry; if they nt the community kept attractnve, althy, orderly, its traffic free-flowing, its ing and working zones kept in sound ation; if they want business to have an opportunity to prosper and provide jobs, the people themselves must insist on a strong chamber of commerce to work for these things. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as that. Must Be Sold Daily The place of the chamber in modern community life has to be told and inter-preted and explained and sold, day after day, to each new crop of citizens. The well-being of each one depends on having the other one on the roster. Dollars and manpower of one member will more than double if matched by those of an addi-tional member. Each chamber has all the public rela-tions problems of a private business, in addition to a few more of its own. It must have the support and cooperation of other organized groups as well as indi-viduals. It must have the cooperation of the press, radio and television media for public expression. Above all, it must have the understanding and support of the general public in its community. This is a big order for big chambers. This is a fantastic order for small ones. Yet, here in North Carolina where there are more than 125 chambers of commerce, 90% of them are composed of a staff of one person, or a manager and an office secretary. For years "secretary" has been a mis-nomer applied as title of the chief execu- WSSSSBBBBBNKKh.-- Washington-built "Sea Hawk" is a 70-foot staysail schooner shown on the Pamlico River. Pictures such as this often draw sportsmen into area. Oc-casionally he will own an interest in an industry and move into the territory with his family, and sometimes a plant. tive of a chamber. "Manager" seems to be preferred today while some dress it up a bit more with "general manager", "exec-utive manager", or in some instances in the larger chambers, "executive vice-presi-dent". The average chamber manager has not one or two bosses, but as many bosses as there are members of his chamber. He is directly accountable to the Board of Di-rectors of his chamber, but his members elect the Board and the board selects the Manager . . . every year in most cases. In many chambers, this is routine, because a good manager may usually stay until he resigns to go to a larger chamber. However, in others, this spectre of unem-ployment is very real and particularly so when a few major industries pay the cost of the chamber's operation. Common to all chambers is the need for basic research and information. The necessity for assembling facts and figures in a central place so that anyone any- Pictures such as this of jets passing vhe Wright Memorial at Kitty Hawk are sent out by Chambers of Commerce to attract attention to the state and section.—State of N. C. Photo. where may have access to evidence of the communities progressiveness. But if he is to succeed the chamber manager must go far beyond that. Most managers today realize that a pic-ture postcard of the city hall, or General Southerngent posthumously riding his horse toward the north will no longer induce tourists or industry to set foot or foundation in their communities. He knows that the quarterly bank statement mailed an industry seeking a location is useless because the industry sometimes knows far more about the financial possi-bilities in the area than does the chamber or the bank. It isn't unusual for a chamber in a tour-ist area to service 100 thousand inquiries a year. General inquiries may be answer-ed with a brochure or booklet while spe-cific questions get a personal reply. Must- Be Speaker In addition to these duties, a manager must make hundreds of speeches and greetings each year, and answer ques-tions by the thousand. One North Caro-lina chamber won first place in the nation with its brochure. When asked how he went about winning the honor, the man-ager replied, "I didn't go about winning the honor, that was accidental. We wrote down every question asked us over a two-year period and put the answer in the booklet so that it could be found easily". "Did that answer all the questions, then?" He grinned and replied, "Nope. The day the booklet was published a woman walk-ed in and asked where the nearest zoo was located that had giraffes. The answer was Washington, D. C, but we don't in-tend to put that answer in the book. We spend too much money getting tourists in here, without sending them away. If enough people want to see a giraffe, we'll rent or buy one!" Proof of the last statement is found in the handling of a request from an Ohio visitor to a beach resort. She sought out the chamber manager during his dinner and told him that she had brought her children to the beach for their vacation. The kids had wanted to go west where they could see Indians. "In desperation I showed them folders of North Carolina with Indians running all about the hills and the Lost Colony. The only trouble is, I didn't realize how long your State stretches to the west. Now, we leave by plane tomorrow for home and the kids PAGE 44 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 still haven't seen a single Indian. Can you do anything to help me?" The manager asked if one Indian would turn the trick and assured that it would be better than ncne; secured the lady's beach cottage address and told her to keep the kids awake and facing the beach. About ten o'clock the kids saw two shadowy figures stop on the sand in front of their cottage. After a few moments a camp fire had been started and the large figure began beating a torn torn. As the rhymth started an Indian hoop dancer began to dance in the light of the fire. In full chief's regalia the dancer put on a magnificent exhibition. The dance finish-ed, the two put out the fire and disappear-ed into the night. Sure to attract tourists who have cameras, this shot of Greenfield Park in Wilmington with azaleas blooming in the foreground has been seen in many national publications. Most Chambers with suoh scenic snots take full advantage of the publicity afforded by numerous pictures of the area. Next morning the Ohio visitor called from the airport. "I couldn't leave with-out telling you how wonderful the Indians were last night. The children swear we'll be back next year. The dancer looked like a professional." The manager thanked her and wished her godspeed. Of course the dancer look-ed like a professional, she was. The man-ager had remembered that the champion Indian dancer of the United States was a 14-year old girl whose father was station-ed at a nearby military reservation. He also remembered that she was performing at a club celebration that was holding forth at the beach. Rushing over to the club he explained the situation to the girl's father and the girl and they agreed to do a free "command performance" for the Buckeye visitors. Nature, Too, Competes Nature's exhibitions of might are some-times the bane of chamber managers. The same manager was confronted with five hurricanes in a period of 18 months. To say that these affected the resort tourist business, is a masterpiece of understate-ment. Reams of information on the damage, and where possible, lack of damage were released via all media. The fact that no lives were lost was played up to show that use of common sense could prevent fatalities during the storms. But occa-sionally problems came up for which there were no apparent answers. Such a problem was presented when people refused to leave the beach which is on an island and return to the pro-tection of the mainland. Danger was intensified when it was learned that the hurricane's eye was scheduled to come over the area. Fearing a panic if they were told that the eye would hit the beach, officers knocked at each door and asked the people to leave the beach. All refused because they had sat out a hur-ricane only two weeks before which pass-ed to the north of the section, and had suffered no ill effects. Officials then as diplomatically as possible informed the visitors that the eye was supposed to center on the beach. Even that failed to perturb them. As the hurricane drew nearer, county, state and city officials held a hurried conference as to what should be done. The group came up with a simple, effective answer. The police began knocking on doors, this time they waved off the objections of the occupants. "We are not asking you to leave this time. Glad for you to stay. The only thing we want is the name of your near-est living relative and his telephone num-ber." The tourists beat the officers off the beach. Must Be Opportunist, Too While his plan of work is developed and sold to his members, it usually consists, of necessity, of long range projects requir-ing two or three years. There is, there-fore, particularly in a resort area, a neces-sity to show his members results that attract attention, and put more money in the till. Although opportunists who rush in use up the chamber's funds, and go on tc greener fields, are unwanted, the managei must keep his eyes open for opportunities that materialize quickly. One manager wanted water skiing in hi 3 area. There was no money for a full scale water show, in fact there was noth-ing in the budget for even one ski. H( hied himself off to a friend who staged water shows and offered him a week al the resort in return for a little water ski ing where people could see it. The agree ment was made and the professional noi only came himself, but arranged for twc girls to be present over the weekend. Al day Saturday and Sunday the three watei skied. This in itself was good,, for i These shrimp boats out of Southport bring the im pact of the sea home to tourists. When publishe out of state, they keep Southport's name before th readers.—State of N, C. Photo. showed an interest. However, when th girls changed into different colored dii ferent bathing suits before each sessioi on the skis, visitors got the idea that th place was loaded with girl water sprite! Chances of Maximum Temperatures during any three day period— Morehead City- Beaufort, N.C. For the three day period Aug 4, 5, & 6, the chances are 80 in 100 (8 in 10) that the Maximum Temperatures will be less fhat Chances in 100 for rain on ony given date— Morehead City- Beaufort, N. C On July 15, the chances tar ram of any amount are 56 in 100, or about 6 /» The Morehead City and Carteret County Chamber of Commerce had this chart prepared to help conventii committees plan their seashore meetings. The top chart shows chances of maximum temperatures Ju> through September while the lower shows the chances in 100 of rain for any given date. While chano of rain on July 15 are 56 in 100, weather records show that it has rained every July 15 except five sin- 1922. This chart is similar to long range forecasts which some industries are finding useful todav. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 45 and the following weekend there wasn't room for all the skiers who showed up. (The number has remained constant and while they don't buy their skis there, they do spend a tidy sum each summer for board and room. Skin Divers, Too Another enterprising manager ascer-tained that there were plenty of fish for jspearfishermen, but no one to spearfish. placing small stories with the press and (radio and television stations, he stated that two girl spearfishers were trying their luck at his town. The girls showed up, so did many pho-tographers, and two from TV stations. The girls, with the simplest of gear, dived and came up every time with two or :hree fish on their spears. They fished ill day and never failed to bring up peared fish. Quite a bit of publicity •esulted and spearfishing took an upswing immediately. Although some of the newsmen suspect-d that the manager had placed a trap lull of fish on the bottom where the girls • . -. , ^""O^l 1 This picture shows Bill and Margaret Davies with >ome of the nets manufactured by their company in Vlorehead City. This picture, with an article about :he couple's "ship's agent", "ship's chandling com-iany", "importing company", "boat ramp facili-ies", and "net works" was sent to many publica-ions throughout the States.—Schumacher Photo. night open the door and spear as many ish as they liked, nothing was mentioned ibout it. Tough, But They Love It The average chamber manager in the Jnited States earns less than $6,000 a rear. Public relations men working for :ompanies with a budget far smaller than hat of the average small town, make two aid three times the salaries of small cham-ber managers. Naturally one wonders vhy they stay with the chambers instead if searching out a private concern with vhich to work. There is no exact answer, at least not •ne worked out scientifically. The only eason on which any degree of agreement an be reached is that he loves his work. The necessity of dealing day in and day iut with people, of helping them solve heir community-wide problems, and the iride of seeing a new industry bring more obs and dollars to his community seems ;reater than the remuneration. Loses Sight of Self Often the manager is so busy telling the outside world about the accomplishments of the community, that he fails to keep his members aware of his operation. This invariably shows up in the membership collections. Chambers never have enough money. Professional fund raising organizations make millions with drives and reorganiza-tions. Reputable firms often raise the bud-get of the chamber to four and five times its previous anticipation. The cost is spread over a three-year period, although the organization gets its entire fee the first year. By the end of the third year, the chamber is suffering again, and another drive is staged. These campaigns are successful for the same reason professional moneyraising groups employed by YMCA's and churches are successful. The local minister or the chamber manager has to live with his people. He cannot command the commit-tees and workers to go out and "assess" according to worth the members. The professional fund-raisers can and do. Frugal business men ( who are the cham-ber of commerce) feel they can't afford not to work in view of the big fee being paid. So they give their time and the time of their employees, something many of them will not do freely when the Cham-ber manager heads the drive, and he of course cannot force them. In defense of many chambers, the busi-ness men take a look at the professional plan and then formulate and put into ac-tion one of their own and most of the time, the money which would have been paid to outside interests, is included in the budget for local projects. These of course are the more aggressive chambers. Must Tell Members Bearing out the fact that chamber man-agers must keep their members informed of the chamber's accomplishments is this story- One manager was faced by his treasurer with the fact that the treasury had not a penny therein. An emergency meeting of the board of directors showed that even they were not aware of the success of the chamber. The manager knew that emergency meetings of the chamber were never well-attended, so he sent letters to each group of business men to the effect that a meeting of special interest to that particular group was scheduled. Thinking that only a small group of their competitors would be pres-ent, attendance was amazing. The president thanked them for coming and then read a list of more than 100 major accomplishments of the chamber that year. Just as the members had reached the peak of pride in accomplish-ment, he hit them with, "Gentlemen, this This old church has been camera-flogged hundreds of thousands of times by native and visit ; ng pho-tographers. It is St. Thomas Church in Bath, and has had its part in bringing people to North Carolina.—State of N. C. Photo. is a wonderful record and if we want it to continue the rest of the year, we must raise $2,000 tonight. $2,500 was raised in thirty minutes, not in pledges, but in cash. After that, a coffee hour was held each week in which members were invited to attend and give criticism and suggestions. A chamber bulletin supplemented the cof-fee breaks. Pictures important The value of pictures has never been disputed and most chamber managers either take their own, or have an arrange-ment with a photographer member. Scenic beauty is good, but most chamber men find that pictures of girls, children and animals seem to be published more often than others. A picture of Betty Jo Ring (a girl) astride a six-weeks-old (baby) bull (animal), was published in over 200 U. S. publications and graced the covers of four. Miss Ring was Miss North Carolina at the time. A picture (Continued on page 49) President of the N. C. Chamber Executives Asso-ciation Dick Degenhart, Mgr. at Asheville, chats with (L. to R.) Immediate Past President Bob Moore, Mgr. Leaksville-Spray-Draper Area; we failed to get this one's name; Bob Sanford, Ba-hama; and Vestal Taylor, Albemarle. The picture was snapped at Chapel Hill during the annual Chamber of Commerce Executive Southeastern In-stitute at which the managers try to upgrade their profession each year. Hundreds of Chamber man-agers have graduated from this class-room approach to community problems. PAGE 46 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 Friendly Rutherfordton is "Protected But Accessible" By Luke J. Caebonetti, Secy-Mgr. In a 20x24-foot office of the City Hall, the Rutherfordton Chamber of Commerce organized in 1955 holds forth. The Cham-ber has no income other than from its 125 members who have paid a fee of $25 to join. There is only one paid employee and he is Luke J. Car-bonetti, the Secre-tary- Manager. President of the organization is Bob Edwards, while the vice-president is Gar-land Cline, and the treasurer is Morris Go forth. The manager has been with the Chamber for four years and has five carbonett years of experience in chamber work. He has had fifteen years experience in Public Relations and served as a Mill Superin-tendent part of that time. The Chamber has been instrumental in town beautification and highway signs "big enough to read" easily without in-terrupting the view of the scenery. Uni-form store fronts to prevent a hodge-podge appearance of the city's business section has been sponsored as well as the planting of Japanese cherry trees. The Chamber's highway safety program is one of the most outstanding in the State. The traditional "illustrated brochure" goes a bit further than the average, ac-complishing its purpose with as few adjectives and high flown phrases as pos-sible. The budget of the Chamber is about $4,000 a year. There are three main divisions under the chamber management: Rutherfordton High Schoo Norris Public Library Industrial chairmaned by Dr. Beatt; Bass; Agricultural with co-chairmen Ger aid Cline and Reginald Toomey. There is a Merchant's Bureau in th< town but no separate Industrial Develop ment group. A monthly bulletin is pub lished for members and interested peopl and a county-wide industrial commissioi is in process of being formed utilizing th services of the ESC office to greater ad vantage. Says the conservative folder: "No are; of the United States is more advantage ously located for 'accessible' isolatio than Rutherfordton, N. C. Mountai: ranges on three sides provide protectio from severe weather and from potentis enemy air attack. It is far enough fror strategic military targets to be safe. Ye SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 47 it is within easy driving distance of three metropolitan areas—Spartanburg, S. C, Charlotte and Asheville, N. C. Convenient airline connections are available at Spar-tanburg (35 miles) and Asheville-Hender-sonville Airport (40 miles). North Carolina's superb highway sys-tem leads north, south, east and west from Rutherfordton. The drive to the "moun-tain playground" or to the three metro-politan areas is pleasant and easy. Train and bus connections can be readily made to any part of the country. And neighbor, it wouldn't be fair to let you go without reminding you that NEED A BUILDING? Rutherfordton has a group of public spirited citizens who will finance the construction of a building for new industry. They will put up to half-a-million dollars in this structure for the right firm. Write or telephone the Man-ager, Luke Carbonetti, P. 0. Box 447, Ruther-fordton, or phone ATwater 7-3090. friendly Rutherfordton is one of North Carolina's oldest communities. It is lo-cated on the slopes of the Blue Ridge . . . where the mountains meet the rolling Piedmont. It is a town of progressive, friendly people ... in the growing South-east . . . offers a well-rounded community life, ideal climate the year around . . . the center of a highly productive diversi-fied agricultural area, balanced with thriv-ing, healthy industries and unequaled recreation. New W.ng of Rutherford County Hospital. Fire house and trucks. Rutherfordton swimming pool. Rutherford County Home. PAGE 48 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL 1958 Rocky Mount Has Always Encouraged Agricultural Commercial, By Graham Dozier Executive Vice President The Rocky Mount Chamber of Com-merce was organized in 1904. The address is 157 Northeast Main Street. Our offices are located in the old City building which is still owned by DOZIER the City and made available to the Chamber of Com-merce rent free. We have five of-fices, lobby, and restrooms totaling about 1400 square feet. We have a very active mem-bership of approx-imately 475 mem-bers and our min-imum dues rate is $25.00 per year. We do not have multiple member-ships but through a Finance Com-mittee, try to establish an equitable rate for each member based on several factors. Since Rocky Mount owns its own utilities, they give the Chamber funds from this source to advertise and promote Rocky Mount as utility companies would do. Our staff consists of three: an Assist-ant Manager, Mr. Edward M. Stanfield, Office Secretary, Mrs. Betsy Winstead, and myself. The names of our officers are on the stationery. To make a more active Chamber operation, our officers and Board members are those usually who have previously served as Committee members, Committee Chairmen, Directors, then officers. In using this progressive method, our officers are usually well ac-quainted with the Chamber operation. It has been somewhat customary that the Second Vice President move up the ladder to First Vice President then President, again for a more effective administration. Our by-laws, however, do not make this mandatory nor that the President would necessarily have to come from the Board of Directors. However, the President can not succeed himself. I have been in my same capacity with the Chamber since September, 1950 which is the total of my Chamber experience. Prior to coming with the Chamber, I was public relations officer with one of the banks (Peoples Bank and Trust Com-pany) with whom I worked for ten years (1933-41 and 1948-50). In addition, I was Assistant Manager of the Pepsi-Cola Bot-tling Company in Birmingham, Alabama for several years during the "40s" with two years out for military service. From 1930-33, I worked in the offices of the Western Electric Company in New York City. Our Chamber budget runs around $30,- 000. We have about ten committees (List attached). Most of these committees carry on a very active program of work which means that our staff of three peo-ple are kept quite busy. Our basic econ-omy is Agriculture and Livestock. How-ever, we have a good diversity of rela-tively small industries and we also enjoy a nice tourist business with people travel-ing back and forth to Florida and other areas. Since 1951, we have had the Rocky Construction began this year on the North Carolina Wesleyan College as the cornerstone of the firsti building was set. The architects' drawing above, shows how the college will appear when completed I First buildings will be open to receive students in I960. This aerial view of Rooky Mount's "downtown" area was made by Killbrew's Studios. The railroad tracl| which splits the town into two counties (Nash, left and Edgecombe, right) may be seen diagonally across) the picture top-left to bottom, right. Mount Industrial Development Corpora-tion which was instigated by the Chamber but is a separate corporation set up espe-cially to handle cases where an industrial prospect wants someone to erect a build-ing and lease to them or to handle any other similar matters for which the Cham-ber was not in the position to take care of. This has been an active corporation, has handled two cases and instrumental in others. There are about 100 stockhold-ers in the corporation which has only a nominal amount of capital from common stock sold and their basic plan usually calls for erecting buildings at the going commercial rate with the plan that leases or agreements made by this Corporation can be sold to private capital so the Cor-poration's money will then be available for another venture. We have not made any "no interest" propositions or used any "gimmys" in seeking industrial prospects. The industries here take an active in-terest in our community and in most every case, have continued to expanc which has accounted for our large indus try growth. In fact, we encourage anc work to help develop our local industries and get any industries started using basic commodity manufactured by exist ing industries. We have an industria district partially in the city and part out side, through which the main line of tht Atlantic Coast Line Railroad runs anc to which water and sewer are availabh as well as good highways and adjacent t< our airport. Our Chamber publishes a rather com plete industrial brochure and severa other pieces of literature for general dis tribution. A newsletter is published pe riodically. The Chamber was very active in tin campaign for a new college for Rock; Mount, the construction of which is no^ under way. This will be the North Care SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 49 Industrial and Civic Growth Sinct Una Wesleyan College located on U. S. 301 about 2V2 miles north of Rocky Mount. Utilities are being carried to the college and it is expected that Rocky Mount will very rapidly go out to the college site. The people of Rocky Mount primarily with the assistance of the people in Nash and Edgecombe counties pledged approxi-mately $2,000,000 over a five year period (10 years in a few cases) toward the con-struction of the school. The balance of the money will be put up by the North Carolina Methodist Conference. This is only one of the items in our future plan-ning. We think our industrial district is long range planning. The city about two years ago, passed a $3,600,000 bond issue to expand its utilities which is long range planning. Most of this utility expansion has been completed. Rocky Mount's Fat Stock Show is famous through-out the country and shown here is the Grand Champ Steer of 1958.—Killebrew photo. I Rocky Mount's development has been radual and continuous and has not de-fended on military or any large industry lettling in our midst. Our basic growth ras been from within though in the past 'ew years, we have had several new in-lustries of moderate size to come into our :ommunity. In many respects, our growth las been very impressive particularly res-dential development and our city limits lave been extended in several areas to nclude these new developments. Accord-ng to statistics, Rocky Mount is the fast-est growing city in North Carolina during he past 50 years, and continues to be the tub of this section of northeastern North Carolina. The combination of agriculture, ivestock (by now a $11,000,000 industry), aanufacturing, transportation, distribu- Bili Murray and Kay Kyser were two of the prom-inent personages at the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meet-ing of the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce. More than 200 people from all parts of the country came for the "Home-coming".—Barringer Photo. tion, financial, medical and professional center give Rocky Mount a healthy eco-nomic status. Concerning the use of E. S. C. Services, we work very closely with the local offices located in Rocky Mount and they have rendered us valuable information on many occasions as well as the State of-fices in preparing special labor surveys. In spite of the fact that a County line splits Rocky Mount which causes many complications, we feel that Rocky Mount will continue to retain its position and its current population of approximately 34,000 people and will continue to grow. We are also convinced that eastern North Carolina will expand more rapidly than any other section of the State in the next 25 years, because of our natural assets and, more recently, a general inclination on the part of our citizens for a better economic future. CHAMBERS SPEND FULL TIME BUILDING RIGHT CLIMATE • (Continued from page 45) of two tuba players cooling their bare feet in the surf as they practiced with four majorettes in the background drew a 100 publications. All of this is a part of the work of the chamber of commerce manager. Pictures call attention of the public to the town from which they come. Sometimes they help hold a chamber together. Occasionally, if the chamber doesn't have a strong industrial committee, an pening ceremonies, U. S. 301 By-Pass around Rocky Mount. In the background are City, County and ighway officials, while in the foreground (L. to R.) are Nash County Board of Commissioners Chairman . L. Alford, Jr., Ginger Roney and Governor Luther H. Hodges.—Killebrew Photo. unsatisfied segment will split off and form a special industry-hunting unit. It may call itself the "Industrial Corporation", or "Industrial Committee", or any number of names. Instances of success are num-erous, but sometimes these groups are upshots of a spurt of enthusiasm caused by a rival town getting an industry. The committee employs someone from "out of town" to head the group, paying him often more than the chamber manager is receiving, and after a couple of years pass and nothing in the way of industry comes in, the group fizzles. The same amount of money judiciously used by a committee within the chamber could in most instances have accomplish-ed far more. Many chamber managers have found the services of the Employment Security Commission invaluable. Much of the in-formation sought by location-hunting in-dustries is kept by the ESC as routine in-formation. Labor pools of qualified workers may be discovered quickly. These workers are classified as to experience and if neces-sary, aptitude test batteries may be used to ascertain whether certain skills are prevalent among them. Local managers in the 55 local and 11 divisional offices of the ESC stand ready to render service day and night if neces-sary. Special assignments of interview-ers to assist employers in peculiar cir-cumstances are made, such as at Cherry Point on a housing project and the Navy base at Harvey Point. Most managers should check with the ESC first off for information regarding pools of employees. This information may be maintained current by a call to the local office once it is obtained. And of course, it precludes having to pay some professional group for ferreting out the same information. Peddlers of Progress Humorists look on the chamber man-ager as a comic figure, he may in some instances be, but more often he is the man responsible for your town's better street lights, honest traffic enforcement, larger pay rolls, and . even the local col-lege. Today he is a voracious reader studying ways and means to better his community. He is constantly striving to upgrade his profession by attending institutes and meetings and seminars. He is gradually gaining his goal. Prom a few years ago when managers changed jobs every year or two at most, today's average chamber manager stays six years in a town. Some have remained to retire. The profession-al organizations of chamber executives both state and national number hundreds on their rosters. Information and know-how are exchanged on everything from letter writing to pig chains, and from drinking fountains to public speaking. The chamber manager's merchandise isn't stacked on shelves, packed in a sam-ple case, or made in a factory. It's all around him every day he lives. His line is progress. His non-profit organization, supported principally by employers does not represent employers against labor, owners against managers, or buyer against seller. It represents the entire community and the manager has his mas-ter salesman's job cut out for him. Truly, he must be a peddler of progress. Regard-less of the weather, he has to continue to build the right climate. PAGE 50 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 NEW INDUSTRY OFFERS PUBLIC By David Witherspoon, WRAL-TV Director Promotion and Public Relations An exciting new industry for Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina began opera-tion on December 15, 1956. WRAL-Tele-vision made a modest start from tempo-rary studios at the transmitter location near Auburn, about 12 miles southeast of Raleigh. From a tower 1170 feet high it serves a radius of almost 100 miles on Channel Five. Letters are received from regular viewers farther away than 100 miles—from Laurinburg, Whiteville and other points. Several letters have been received from the Panhandle in Texas, from Oklahoma, Iowa, upstate New York and Nova Scotia, but unfortunately the station cannot claim the people in these areas in its regular viewing audience. NOTE Among new industries opening up in North Carolina recently is that of Television Stat;on WRAL-TV in Raleigh. The station, once it got started, grew so fast that even the owners were amazed. This is the story of one station which could be duplicated by other TV stations in this State and is contributing to the growth of the North Carolina economy daily. In the enormous "Golden Circle" of Channel Five's radius live nearly two million people with a buying power in excess of two billion dollars, a populous area of huge industrial plants, thriving businesses, rich farm lands and numerous educational institutions. With the geo-graphical advantage of being located in the Capital City, the station's viewers get the news as it happens, as the majority of the state news items "break" in Ral-eigh. New Equipment "The finest equipment available—that's what you'll have!" So promised the Com-pany President, Mr. A. J. Fletcher. The promise was not an empty one, nor was it wishful thinking. A stroll through the production building discloses the facts. All equipment, completely new, more than meets the basic requirements for telecast-ing. With such equipment as the video tape recorder, the mobile unit and the Houston Fearless motion picture film processor, WRAL-Television can match the physical production of any station in the country. There are seven cameras which may be used in either studio or in the mobile unit. Each of these cameras cost from $20,000—to $23,000. By use of lantern slides, projected through a translucent screen, a scene can be set (with amazing reality) at a pic-turesque sidewalk cafe in Paris or the colorful midway of a carnival. With drawings and paintings, Channel Five's art department is busy turning out a number of these scenes, as is the Pho-tography Department by the use of photo-graphs. Inside the two mammoth studios, one of the most spectacular sights is the equipment for lighting, which is a highly important phase of television. If inade-quate, a scene looks flat, lacks dimension. The ceilings of the two studios are bank-ed with lights of every variety; baby spots, floods, scoops, each of which per-forms a special function. The ceiling With A. E. Rackley, contractor, (left), President A. J. Fletcher inspects the construction of the electric ] full-color fountain which was completed the day before the "Open House". lights are all hung from metal stretchers which enable the lights to be focused on many levels. The lights are controlled by two Kleigl lighting panels which carry a total of 140 circuits in Studio A and one 70-circuit board in Studio B. These boards will handle enough current to lightU eight average homes. One of the items of equipment causing! excitement around WRAL—Television! since its arrival is the new $100,000 re-fl mote mobile unit. The unit was designed! WRAL Television photographer Owen Ballance hits jackpot in news shot as he gets ESC Chairman Henn E. Kendall, Solicitor Robert D. Rouse of Farmville, Betty Lane Evans, Miss North Carolina, and with hi: back to the camera. Wake County Solicitor Lester Chalmers. All were at the Morehead Biltmore Hote for meetings. IUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 51 MEW LOOK IN TELEVISION STATIONS y Virgil Duncan, Chief Engineer, and ras custom constructed by General Elec- •ic. It may be used in bringing sporting vents, store openings, fair festivities, pa-ides and other distant events to the ome viewers. The unit is ready to move t a moment's notice to the site of some ewsworthy happenings. With outlets for rar television cameras, it is capable of ansmitting a signal to the WRAL-TV reduction building from a distance of 5 miles. A revolutionary new facility was added > the station's equipment with the pur-iase of the Ampex Video Tape Recorder, le first in operation in North Carolina, his amazing machine not only records jund, but picture as well . . . and with loss of quality such as you experience i film. The tape recorder permits immediate iayback of any spot announcement or fogram without any form of processing, ou merely have to re-wind the tape, he machine is put to excellent use every ly in WRAL-Television's program plans, is ideal for recording interviews, etc., the convenience of the talent, for later ayback when the talent's presence might )t be available. During a recent polit-al campaign, one candidate tape record- 1 a rally at a time convenient for the owd. The playback was scheduled at time to reach the greatest potential idience while the candidate was making ilitical hay in another area. P. C. He on the election. Advertisers too are iding that tape recorded spots eliminate e danger of announcer's "fluffs" while the same time retaining a "live" qual-y in the announcement. Facilities When completed, the physical plant of RAL-Television will rank with the fin-t in the country. The production plant s been in operation since March, 1958. mstfuction is progressing on the admin-tration building which should be occu-ed in December. Next on the building ogram is a studio-auditorium which will at about 250, for live shows, beauty geants and other productions. The last iase of the building program will be e construction of an amphitheater "rich will seat around 1000 persons. The two main buildings will have a tal of 35,000 square feet. The two large idios, already mentioned, are 60 x 60 and 60 x 40 ft. both with 20-foot ceil- ;s. One of the most spectacular sights is i electric fountain, located in front of 3 administration building and facing i highway. The spraying jets of water ange formation every few seconds. At ?ht, color lights playing on the spray "nish an unforgettable effect. Programming The primary aim of the station is to 've the interest of the public. In order better effect this purpose, the manage-nt has gathered men and women who i prominent in the fields of education, riculture, religion, fine arts and discus-n into program councils to examine the •gram plans and policies. \t called meetings these councils sug-it ways and means of improving and Architect's sketch of the completed building plans of WRAL-Television. Production building on right and fountain have been completed and are in use. implementing the station's service to those interested in these particular fields. A meeting of the Agriculture Council resulted in the determination to carry TODAY ON THE FARM, a week-day half hour program that originates at the Uni-versity of North Carolina State College studios of WUNC-TV. The Religious Council initiated the CHURCH OF OUR FATHERS program. The Fine Arts Council made suggestions that will result in a program of music appreciation. Following are the names of the mem- Vice President and Gen. Mgr. Fred Fletcher inter-views Andy Griffith, native North Carolinian and star of radio, screen, TV, Broadway and famous for his "What It Was Was Football" and "No Time for Sergeants." bers of the various councils: Agricultural Council—D. W. Colvard, Dean State Col-lege School of Agriculture; E. Y. Floyd, Director Plant Food Institute of N. C.; L. Y. Ballentine, State Commissioner of Agriculture; David Weaver, N. C. Exten-sion Service; Horace Godfrey, U. S. De-partment of Agriculture. Fine Arts Coun-cil —Mrs. Nancy Stamey, Director, Ral-eigh Children's Theater; Mrs. Bernadette Hoyle, journalist-photographer; Henry L. Kamphoefner, Dean, N. C. State Col-lege School of Design; Mrs. Joye E. Jor-don, State Hall of History; Arnold E. Hoffman, State Board of Education; James B. Byrnes, Associate Director, N. C. Museum of Art; J. H. Brendle, Jr., Recreational Director, State Hospital; Foster Fitz-Simmons, UNC Department of Dramatic Art; Roy L. Gussow, N. C. State College School of Design. Educational Council—E. W. Ruggles, Director, Exten-sion Division, N. C. State College; Miss Cora Bomar, State Board of Education; Dr. Christopher Crittenden, Director, State Department of Archives & History; J. Warren Smith, State Board of Educa-tion; Dr. Allen Hurlburt, Department of Education, Duke University; Kenneth Mc- Intyre, UNC Audio Visual Aids Depart-ment. Religious Council—Rabbi Harry Caplan, Temple Beth-Or; Father Richard Allen, Sacred Heart Cathedral; Morton R. Kurtz, N. C. Council of Churches; Dr. Bernard H. Boyd, UNC Department of Religion. Public Service In addition to the many scheduled pro-grams and announcements on the part of humane agencies, Channel Five is alert to any worthy request for time by educa-tion groups. On one occasion the station interrupted its evening schedule for sev-eral hours to carry a telethon in an effort to raise money to send the high school band to Florida for an appearance. The station staff worked for hours as production crew, talent, telephone opera-tors, etc. to achieve the goal of $5,000. The amount needed was pledged and the grateful students signed a thank you let-ter, over 100 feet long, addressed to the manager. Another off-the-air public service was the sponsorship, in 1958, of six youth baseball teams in five cities in the cover-age area. WRAL-Television furnished uniforms, balls, bats, etc. for over 100 youngsters who might not, otherwise, have had an opportunity to play with an organized team, The station carried its PAGE 52 THE E. S„ C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL 1958 remote unit to most of these cities and televised a closed-circuit report of the game, with monitors set up for the spec-tators to view. Opera in English On The Air is another public service planned by the station. With the talent and facilities of the na-tional touring Grass Roots Opera at its disposal, WRAL-Television could well be-come the opera station of the nation. Several programs of opera excerpts have already been presented, and have met with widespread approval. Personnel Regardless of the fine facilities and equipment, no station is better than the personnel that heads it. WRAL-Televi-sion is guided by people with extensive broadcasting background. The President, A. J. Fletcher, founded WRAL-Radio in 1939, later pioneered in the development of FM radio. A leading attorney in Ral-eigh, Mr. Fletcher is interested in several successful business enterprises. In 1948 he founded the National Grass Roots Opera Movement in America with the mission of giving experience to young singers and of giving the public an op-portunity to hear opera performed in English. This has grown into a nation-wide activity and Mr. Fletcher was presented a citation by the President of the Na-tional Federation of Music Clubs for his efforts in the progress of good muic. Fred Fletcher, Vice President and Gen-eral Manager was active in radio as an-nouncer, talent, program director and station manager. Long interested in youth welfare, he is a member of the North Carolina Recreation Advisory Com-mittee. His civic activities include an award by the Jaycees in 1943 as the "Man Of The Year", service in Raleigh Mer-chants Bureau. Sales Executives Club, Chamber of Commerce, Raleigh City Coun-cil, Civitan Club and Chairman of Raleigh Park and Recreation Commission. He is a member of the board of deacons of Ridge Road Baptist Church. Program Director George Hall had much radio experience in Virginia and North Carolina before joining WRAL-Radio as Program Director in 1950. He is active in Little Theater productions and has had several original plays per-formed in North Carolina and Virginia. Sports Director Ray Reeve needs no in-troduction to followers of sports in the Southeast. For years his play-by-plays of football and basketball games have been must listening on radio networks of as many as 60 stations. Reeve's long experi-ence gives a stamp of authority to his pungent commentary on sports happen-ings. Bill Armstrong, News Director, has the ability to digest news stories into a lis-tenable few words. A graduate in jour-nalism, he brought newspaper and radio news background to Channel Five. Virgil Duncan, Chief Engineer, had the responsibility for planning and installing the equipment to put the station on the air. So thorough is his knowledge that he can quote the function of about any tube you can name. Duncan, while in charge of radar installations in the Pacific during World War II, received a citation for his modifications in electronic equip-ment. A former instructor at Georgia Tech, he joined the Capital Broadcasting Company in 1946. Raleigh native Fletcher Turner spent General Manager Fred Fletcher checks the air conditioning on remote unit as Cameramen James Barbot and William Gregory prepare for an evening closed circuit telecast of a baseball game in Fayetteville. (top L. to R. midget leagu In spite of the "Danger, Stay Off" sign, Fred Fletcher and David Witherspoon climb the TV tower to sprelj out the lengthy letter of thanks signed by students of Needham Broughton High School. The letter W in appreciation for the successful Band Telethon run by the station to raise money to send the Schi|| Band to Miami. iUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 53 Engineer Durwood Neuse readies the video tape recorder for program taping. 5 years in sales with agencies and net-works in New York before returning to is home town as Sales Manager for VRAL-Radio in 1953. He is now putting-is experience to good use as National ales Manager for WRAL-Television. Local Sales Manager Bernie Whitaker 3 a graduate of the University of North arolina. He has had varied retail sell-ag experience and came to WRAL-Tele-ision from the sales department of ySJS-TV. Louise Stephenson, Office Manager, Dined WRAL-Radio in 1944 as reception-ist and moved through almost every phase of radio operation to assistant to the gen-eral manager. Mrs. Stephenson is Secre-tary of Capital Broadcasting Company. David Witherspoon, Director of Promotion and Public Relations gained promotion experience in National Grass Roots Opera and WRAL-Radio, which he joined in 1947. Other radio experience includes purchasing, accounting and as a singer on his own regional network program. Other posts in the Art, Film, Produc-tion and Engineering departments are filled by young men and women with ex- »«utiAjfe[a !»^Q^ tensive television experience. By operating at full power on Channel Five, with full program service from NBC-TV, color and black and white, with superior local programming backed by competent personnel and new equipment, WRAL-Television promises to continue to be an industry of service for its viewers throughout central and eastern North Carolina. BRYSON CITY'S MANAGER RECEIVES PAY TEN WEEKS EACH YEAR For five years Robert W. Gammon has been Manager of the Bryson City Cham-ber of Commerce. With fifteen unpaid Di-rectors, Gammon who has served as a department store clerk, a U. S. Marine, librarian, hotel desk clerk, teacher and in winter months (currently is a school principal, helps to bring tourists and in-dustry to the town. "The budget varies," says Manager Gammon, "according to the amount of dues we can collect each year. Dues vary from $5 to $100 according to the amount of business each member does. Sometimes its as small as $2,000 and has reached $5,000. Our section is primarily farm and tourist-type territory." Committee chairmen of the mountain chamber are: James Myers, Tourist; Le-roy Sossaman, Industrial; R. L. Lyday, Agricultural; William Bumbarner, Mer-chants; and T. L. Woodard Recreational. "We have used the ESC services several times in labor surveys and find them use-ful. If anyone will help us locate some in-dustry, we'll tend to getting it to move here," says Mr. Gammon. ere are a few of the 6,000 visitors and part of the cars that brought them to the WRAL-TV "Open House" |j|y 13, 1958. They were shown the production building and were ail "televised" and watched themselves l monitors set up about the building. WAKE FOREST HAS PROBLEMS AND IS GOING ABOUT SOLVING THEM For four years J. A. Hartsfield has been the Executive Secretary of the Wake For-est Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber's budget is $1,000 a year, and a membership drive is now underway to improve the financial picture of the organization. Wake Forest is faced with problems that confront few towns its size. It has a Baptist Seminary located there and is hard-put to find employment for Students and their wives (many of the minister-ial students are married ) . This is one of the main problems that the ESC is help-ing solve. During the past year the Chamber has been directly instrumental in securing new industry in the form of a Purina Feed Mill and a poultry business. The Chamber is being saluted in the local newspaper "The Wake Weekly" with an entire edition. Employment problems also confront the chamber in the case of its negro popula-tion. Since many available positions in the town require more training than ordi-narily might be the case in a community of like population, many of the older Negroes are automatically eliminated from the applicants because of education. Many know only farm work or are un-skilled in any craft. The Chamber is work-ing on this particular problem in an at-tempt to bring in industry to utilize these willing workers. PAGE 54 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 195 EDEMTOX CHAMBER'S REORGANIZATION THIS YEAF By Martha Jackson Secretary, PIO, E.8.C. The Edenton, N. C. Chamber of Com-merce was organized in 1918 under the name of the Chowan County Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association. For many years the organization rendered valuable service to its mem-bers and the com-munity, but many businessmen thought the cham-ber would be more dynamic if a full-time manager could be employed to supervise its activities. In October 1957 a group of leading citizens finally realized that the Chamber should be reorganized JACKSON and refinanced and undertook a successful membership campaign. The budget was now sufficient to engage a full-time, expe-rienced chamber of commerce executive and in January 1958. Herry H. Smith, Jr. of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, was elected executive vice president. An at-tractive office with new equipment and furniture was opened in the Hotel Joseph Hewes with a full-time office secretary, Miss Anne Haiiess. The membership total at January 1 was 156 companies and individuals. Seven were added since, making 163. Member-ships are based on $25 units with many large companies and some individuals purchasing several units. Both the Town of Edenton and Chowan County are mem-bers. However, the Chamber receives no other income from government or from other sources. Board Formulates Program The general pro-gram of the Cham-ber and its poli-cies are formulat-ed by the board of directors and carried out under the supervision of the executive vice president, Mr. Smith. He has been associated with chambers of commerce and trade associations for over twenty years in New York, Connecticut and Florida. He had left Chamber work to go into the printing business but has now returned to the organization field. The Edenton Chamber of Commerce operates through standing committees set up to cover major recurring activities, and special committees appointed to han-dle projects of a non-recurring nature. (Chairmen of standing committees are given on page 55.) Since the economy of the area is based on agriculture, industry and tourism, the SMITH Chamber's major projects are devoted to these categories. Of course, the mer-chants committee is concerned with the improvement and promotion of retail trade and works closely with other cham-ber committees in carrying out these ob jectives. Edenton has a lot to offer tourists. First, its historic public buildings and private homes are nationally known for their charm and fine state of preservation. Secondly, Albemarle Sound, Edenton Bay and their tributaries are the largest coast-al body of fresh water in the world, offer-ing excellent fishing, boating and hunt-ing. The Chamber is devoting much of its efforts to bring these wonderful assets to the attention of more people. While the area's agriculture is healthy and contributes in large measure to the economic wellbeing of the community, many leaders realize that there should be greater industrial activity to balance the economy. In 1954 the Edenton Devej opment Corporation was incorporated t promote, assist and develop a greater vo ume of industry in the area. This orgaij izations work closely with the Chamber Industrial Committee in seeking new ii dustry and assisting local industry. Ovc 150 local businessmen and women a> stockholders in the development corpor, tion. ESC Closely Associated In connection with industrial activit; the Chamber works closely with Miltoj Bass, manager of your Edenton office, il obtain employment information and otlu services. In passing, we would like 1 point out that Mr. Bass has been extreml ly helpful and cooperative in supplyic statistics and obtaining specific inform tion for our use. The Chamber has been extremely actn|| during the past six months in all of il The Cupola House of Edenton was described by Thomas Waterman as "the outstanding house of t| region." The actual date of its construction, based on its peculiar architectural features, would appro; imate 1772.—N. C. Photo. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 55 PROMISES HEIGHT FUTURE FOR COMMUNITY " ; Edenton's Teapot marking the spot where the resi-dence of Mrs. Elizabeth King stood. In October of 1774 the ladies of Edenton met here for a most unusual tea party. Picture above this depicts the scene as printed in London soon after.—N. C. Photos. HISTORIC i IWagESSiVE WELCOiE/ amm etmmm divisions. We are endeavoring to build an organization worthy of the members' support and one which will be a credit to the community. While many of the organization's projects and services bring immediate benefits to members, much of the chamber's work is on long-term proj-ects. This includes industrial develop-ment, highway improvement, development of the waterfront, developing tourist and recreational trade, and the like. Monthly Bulletin The Advertising and Promotion Com-mittee is planning to inaugurate a month-ly news bulletin for members in October at the start of the new fiscal year. The Recreation and Tourist Committee pub-lishes a semi-monthly Fishing News Bul-letin which contains fishing information, winners in the Chamber's weekly fishing contest and other news of interest to sportsmen. This has attracted wide at-tention and now goes to over 300 news-papers, sportsmen, sports dealers and others in the state. The officers and board of directors face the future confident that the Chamber is contributing to, and will promote, the steady growth of Edenton and Chowan County. There is a great deal to offer in this area to anyone who would like to do business, to work and live in a delightful community. Standing Committees 1958 Advertising and Promotion, Jim Earn-hardt, Chairman; Agriculture, Lloyd E. Bunch, Chairman; Education, Rev. George Holmes, Chairman; Health and Safety, Dr. R. N. Hardin, Chairman; Highways, W. W. Byrum, Chairman; Industrial De-velopment, Spec Jones, Chairman; Mer-chants, Ralph Parrish, Chairman; Park-ing and Traffic, J. R. Dulaney, Chairman; State and -National Affairs, J. Clarence Leary, Sr., Chairman; and Tourist and Recreation, Scott Harrell, Chairman. Some Chambers of Commerce erect elaborate signs, other more conservative signs with less type mat-ter such as the one above welcoming visitors to Edenton. CHAPEL HILl-CARRBORO CHAMBER HOUSES THREE ORGANIZATIONS Organized in 193.1, the Chapel Hill-Carr-boro Chamber of Commerce also includes the Merchants Association and the Credit Bureau. With "sliding-scale" dues from $25 to $100, the organizations boast 150 current members. The income of the Chamber is augmented with monies re-ceived for collections of the Credit Bu-reau and promotions of the Merchants As-sociation. TIME magazine recently ran Chapel Hill as one of the 24 nicest places to live. In addition to the University of North Carolina, the famed "Research Triangle" and Research Park is just a short drive from the city limits. Anne Graham (L), and Rosemary Holmes of Eden-ton look over the tobacco crop and decide that the outlook for local farmers is good this year. The ESC provides a recruiting service for farm workers to harvest the farm crops of the area. Edenton's bay and picturesque creeks offer excel-lent fishing, boating, picture-taking, paintjng, and recreation. Local marinas provide all supplies and boat rentals. Chowan County's famous Court House, widely known for its fine Georgian design, has been in constant use since its construction in 1767. Out-standing feature of the structure is the beautiful panelled assembly room on the second floor. PAGE 56 THEE. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 STATESVILLE, NEW CENTER OF SMALL INDUSTRY :M ¥ The Statesville Chamber of Commerce was organized and chartered in 1927. It operated several years on a full-time basis. From about 1934 until 1947, it m.—^Bmm operated on a part-time basis with the Secretary of I the Merchants As-sociitt inn (levol ing § ' time to Chamber of CnimiirriT ac-tivities. In 1947 the Chamber of (' o in m e r co was completely reor-uanized and R. I). "Shank" Warwick I was brought in as manager of the new setup. He has about 15 years % of Chamber expe-rience. WARWICK Shank had been Assistant Manager of the Winston-Salem Chamber and performed the reorganiza-tion of the Statesville operation. Since that time a 1,500 square foot building has been built to house the offices and it is owned outright by the Chamber. It is located at 223 South Center Street, but the mailing address is Post Office Box 1064, Statesville. Without counting the property on which the Chamber building rests, the organization has an investment in its building and furnishings of about $25,000. The land which is occupied by the build-ing was furnished by the City of States-ville and because of its location on main street, has quadrupled in value since the chamber was organized. $25 Membership The unit membership of the organiza-tion is about 350 and the base cost per membership is $25. Many employers carry multiple memberships. There are two paid, full-time employees. Names of the officers this year are: Russell Hanson, President; Nathan Mc- Elwee, 1st Vice President; Joe Sherrill, 2nd Vice President; W. W. Barnes, Treas-urer; and General Manager R. D. "Shank" Warwick. The Chamber can proudly claim the credit for being instrumental in bringing over 20 industries to Statesville. None of the industries were brought in by "but-ton- holing" or "horse-collaring" members of the Chamber for funds to buy land or to build building's. Not one of the major industries in Statesville leases or other-wise rents the plant in which it operates. This is a record of which Statesville may be justly proud. Many communities of necessity, have had to resort to build-ing plants, or buying land, or subsidizing taxes, but not Statesville. Every indus-try that has gone to the city has financed its own way in buying land and building buildings. Because of the Chamber's fine work in that respect it has received state-wide and national recognition. Many Accomplishments And look at some of the other note-worthy accomplishments. It has built its own air-conditioned office building; estab- Technical Furniture, top, is one of the new industries brought to Statesville by the Chamber of Com-merce; next is the home of Empire Manufacturing Company; then the new J. C. Penney Company Ware-house, beneath that is the new Southern Screw Company Plant. These are four of the twenty new in-dustries recently brought to Iredell County. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 57 ibove is the modern air-conditioned Chamber of Commerce building of Statesville. the main-street property and the Chamber built the building. The city furnished ished a city-management form of govern-ient; established the Iredell-Statesville Inited Fund; Iredell Community Founda-ion; instrumental in securing good high-rays for the community including the rossing of two big interstate highways ear the city limits; Civic Club Council; lus a number of other small but impor-int activities, such as the Personnel Club, ublishing a number of folders and bro-liures on Statesville, attracting conven-iens, and others too numerous to men-ion. The Chamber is a separate organization nd is not affiliated with the Merchant's ssociation. The budget of the Chamber $20,000 a year. There are several eom-littees with chairmen such as: Execu-ve, Russell Hanson; Industrial Develop-lent, Paul Meech; Agricultural, Turner age and W. W. Barnes (co-chairmen). Statesville and Iredell County are well-alanced between industry and farming. owever, you could say Statesville and "edell are primarily industrial due to le recent addition of the 20 industries. ews media refer to the area as a "Small, iversified industrial community." There re no large plants, all are small and iried. The Chamber believes this to be te secret of a sound economy. Varied Money Crops The County itself is far from a one-oney- crop county. While it is the larg-it milk producing county in the south-ist, poultry is close behind dairying. )rn, cotton and tobacco are about dollar- (uals in farmer income. B Nearby Mooresville with a Chamber anaged by W. J. Haselden works in close operation with Statesville in develop-ent of that section of Iredell County. Said Shank Warwick when asked if the 3C contributes to the expansion of the unty's industries: "Hardly a week goes that the local ESC office, under the magership of Mr. Wade Wilson, is not lied upon for some type of service, ithout this excellent service and sup-rt from Mr. Wilson's office, I feel sure we could not have landed many of the industries we have. Recently the local ESC office conducted a city and area-wide labor survey which played a great part in landing the C. Howard Hunt Pen Com-pany for Statesville, Iredell County and the State. "The C. Howard Hunt Pen Company is a very fine firm which is today giving em-ployment to approximately 275 people and is manufacturing metal products such as the Boston Pencil Sharpener, Speedball pens, and other major items. "Yes, we are most grateful for the sup-port from our local and State ESC offices. We have no suggestions at present as to how the service might be improved. We have yet to ask a question, or make a request that hasn't been answered or filled." Whence Came Its Name? STATESVILLE—One of the oldest cities in North Carolina, Statesville can point to an im-pressive and lusty past—-but no one can say how it got its name. The town was built in 1789 just outside the stockade, Fort Dobbs, which at that time was the most active outpost in this section against the Cherokee Indians. (Daniel Boone helped defend the fort twice). Settled by Scotch-Irish and Germans from Maryland and Pennsylvania, the community was incorporated into a town in 1847 under the name, Statesville. The reason for selecting this name is not recorded, but there are a couple of conjectures. The first is that the early pioneers wanted to honor the 13 states which only nine years earlier had won their independence. The second is that the community had be-come a stop-over for travelers on the then famous States Road. In this area are at least two other historical facts of special note: Here Kit Carson, the famous Indian fighter and pioneer was born; and here Marshal Ney, the hunted and matchless lieutenant of Napoleon Bonaparte, died. TEN REASONS WHY INDUSTRY PICKS A CITY One of the most successful areas in se-curing industry without subsidizing it is the Statesville, Iredell County area. The town has lost some big ones like General Electric to Hickory, and then turned around and brought in three small ones which would add more payroll to the community. Statesville's more than 60 industries are engaged in furniture, wood-working, textile, metal and food manufacturing. Its manufactured products include furni-ture, of all types, metal products such as farm and brick machinery, table slides, screws, soft and synthetic materials not only manufactured but made into various types of apparel; toys, paper products, paint, flour and feeds and milk products. W. D. "Shank" Warwick, general man-ager of the Statesville Chamber of Com-merce said the ten most important fac-tors considered by new industries in their decisions to move to Statesville were: 1. A cooperative Chamber of Commerce which works tirelessly to the advantage of all concerned. 2. Attractiveness of the city. 3. Spirit of cooperation and civic pride. 4. Good government as evidenced by municipal foresight in extending city utilities. 5. Ratio of bonded indebtedness to taxes and progress in schools, recreational and social facilities. 6. Highway development and location of industrial property to transportation facilities. 7. Proximity to scheduled air service. 8. Overall distribution of the commun-ity's wealth. 9. A mayor-city manager type govern-ment which officials here believe is the most efficient, most progressive of munici-pal governments. 10. Industrial planning with an eye to attractive, protected industrial property. ROSMAN'S 65 MEMBERS ARE WIDE AWAKE GROUP Without a paid secretary, the 65-member Rosman Chamber of Commerce is as active as any in the State. Individual dues are $2.50 per person and business mem-berships are $5 each. Mrs. J. E. Osborne is the Secretary of the Chamber and its President is W. S. Sagar, Vice President is A. E. Hogsed, and the Treasurer is B. E. Keisler. Mrs. Osborne has been in Chamber work one year. The only Committee of the Chamber is the Industrial Committee headed by the President and it spends full time seeking industry. When asked what the ESC could do to help the city of Rosman, the Secretary replied, "Help us find some industry and get a city water and sewage plant!" PAGE 58 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 195? GREENSBORO'S CHAMBER ACTIVE SINCE 1876 The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce was organized in 1876 and has taken the leadership in Greensboro's growth since that date. The offices are now located at 225 North Greene Street and are leased from a local real estate firm. The Cham-ber occupies some 5,000 sq. ft. of space. Memberships now total approximately 1,500, the highest in the Chamber's his-tory. The minimum subscription is $50.00 and increases on a graduating scale ac-cording to the size of the company. Mem-bership subscriptions account for the en-tire income of the organization and the budget for the current calendar year is $91,000. The staff of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce is made up of nine employees, including the executive vice-president, William B. Little, three department heads, a receptionist, two secretaries, and an office manager. Officers in addition to Mr. Little are Orton A. Boren, President; Huger King, Vice-President; and L. I. Swindell, Treasurer. Mr. Little has been in Chamber of Commerce work for seven years. Three years of that time have been with the Greensboro Chamber and he has been the executive vice-president for the past year and a half. His pre-vious Chamber of Commerce experience included advertising and industrial work. The program of work at Greensboro Chamber of Commerce is carried out through its seven divisions: Industrial, Governmental, Civic Affairs, Agriculture, Promotion, Trade Development, and Mem-bership. These divisions are headed by the chairmen who also serve as members of the Board of Directors. They are J. A. Doggett, Industrial; "William M. York, Governmental; Carson Bain, Civic Affairs; Greensboro bankers leave for industrial prospect trip to Cleveland, Ohio. I. to r. : W. V. Learning, Guiljl ford National Bank; Herbert G. Bailey, Jr., Bank of Greensboro; M. L. Cuningham, Wachovia Bank an I Trust Company; Paul L. Doster, Security National Bank; John B. Parramore, Jr., Manager, Industrie I Department, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Yancey C. Hines, Agriculture; John B. Hatfield, Membership; Miles H. Wolff, Pro-motion; and Herbert G. Bailey, Trade Development. Working with these dl vision chairmen are the Department Mail agers John B. Parramore, Industrial! George E. Fisher, Trade Development! and William S. Leinbach, Civic Affairs. I GREENSBORO PAYROLL CALENDAR JUNE, 1958 Day of Daily Week Month Payroll Mon 2 $ 516,334 Tue 3 208,767 Wed 4 185,521 Thu 5 761,158 Fri 6 3,109,073 Sat 7 44.762 T $4,825,615 Perce; of Wei 10 i 15 64 Too Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 9. 10 II. 12 13. 14. 60,364 187,134 275,820 490,1 12 3,082,790 139,378 $4,235,598 I 4 6, II 72 3 100 Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat 16 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 178,935 144,040 255,804 659,511 3,277,392 44,762 14 71 $4,560,444 I0G Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 23 24. 25. 26 27. 28. 60,364 96,563 794,470 503,932 3,157,363 43,426 2 1/ 10 6/ $4,656,118 Mon 30 4,260,158 Tue July 1 476,426 Wed 2 190,355 Thu 3 3,746,246 Fri 4 88,567 Sat 5 119,749 Making plans for the Three-City Symphony Committee are these representatives from left: Herbert Hazel-man, Chairman, Performing Arts Committee, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce; Frits Vandersteur, repre-senting High Point; Mrs. J. C. Cowan, Jr., also representing the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce; and John lule, Conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra. Plans for the organization of the Three-. City Symphonic group should be well along in the near future. $8,881,501 J0C 48 5 'i 42 I I IOC Trade Development Department Greensboro Chamber of Commerce Represents payrolls within the city limits only. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 59 The Chamber's year-round program is carried out through these divisions and ;he various committees that are neces-sary to do the work. There are, for exam-lie, five major committees in the Civic Affairs Division, all of which require a lumber of sub-committees. Active pro-grams are carried out on both short range, )ut primarily, long range programming. Ml of these groups have projects under vay that make the Chamber of Commerce he most active and progressive in its ntire history. By way of example, the Agriculture Division, which is now con-lucting some of the finest 4-H and FFA ictivities in the State and works closely vith the many State Farm Organizations hat have headquarters in Greensboro, has )lans underway that will make Greens-joro an even more active agricultural •enter with the establishment of grange itorage facilities, a large wholesale pro-luce market, and other operations. The Chamber's Industrial Manager devotes ull time to the acquisition of new indus- |ry for the area and to working with xisting industrial firms. The Greensboro area is primarily in-lustrial, manufacturing, and agricultural. Some of the world's leading industrial 'irms have their headquarters in Greens-oro, and the city has recently become a igarette manufacturing community with he recent opening of the P. Lorillard 'lant. The city itself now has 50 sq. liles and has a population of 120,000 fithin its city limits. There is a separate industrial organ-nation that works with the industries a both Greensboro and High Point. This Piedmont Associated Industries which ras organized some eight or ten years go. Greensboro also has a Merchants association. The Chamber has a number of publica-ons: A monthly bulletin, consisting of "om four to eight pages and entitled limpses of Greensboro, is prepared lonthly for the Chamber's membership. olders and brochures are available for mrists, and the departments also have leir own printed material, prepared from me to time to fill existing and long-range eeds. The Chamber does much of its wn printing work and has excellent ffice equipment and well-trained opera- >rs. The organization, as an aid in its ublic relations, has complete photog- Awards to the supreme champion entry in the Aberdeen-Angus Futurity Show and Sale in March were made by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce and Bank of Greensboro. W. A. Short (left) manager of the bank's Farm Department, presented F. B. Davis of Yemassee, S. C. (center), owner of the winning animal, with a silver cup, and Yancey C. Hines, Chairman of the Chamber's Agriculture Division, awarded Mr. Davis a silver tray and banner. raphy equipment and a dark room to be possibly the only large Chamber in North Carolina to be so equipped. ESC services are being used by the Greensboro Chamber and will continue to be of benefit. The Trade Development Department, for example, has prepared a Payroll Calendar made possible by in-formation from ESC. The ESC office sup-plies local information on the local em-ployment situation and the Industrial De-partment also makes wide use of ESC information. The Chamber frequently serves as a clearing house for out-of-state firms looking for manufacturing repre-sentatives, and ESC offers important aid in this particular field. The ESC office, H\$ part of the Greensboro Chamber's City Beautiful Program, Greensboro Rotary Club undertakes beauti-ition of 0. Henry Boulevard. I. to r. : Paul Harrill. Miles H. Wolff, Greensboro Rotary Club; Mrs, Emily :eyer, Chairman, City Beautiful Committee, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. therefore, has a necessary part in the pro-gram of the Greensboro Chamber of Com-merce. The Agricultural Division, in coopera-tion with the North Carolina Angus Asso-ciation and the Bank of Greensboro con-ducted the first Mid-Atlantic Futurity Show and Sale in Greensboro this year. This is the only event of its kind in the southeastern part of the United States and attracts pure bred breeders from five states. Civic Affairs plays an important part in the Chamber's year-around program. Among the Division's activities are civic improvements. Shown here are Chamber and Rotary Club representatives who have combined efforts in the landscaping of a four mile stretch of super highway by-pass. This is only one of the many activ-ities undertaken by the Chamber. Among the many projects of the Pro-motion Division this year is the organiza-tion of a Three-City Symphony Orchestra involving Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem. Representatives from the three cities meet in the Chamber office to discuss plans. From this has come the organization of Greensboro's first Fine Arts Council, Inc. Visits to cities throughout the United States are an important part of the In-dustrial Division's program. This pho-tograph shows members of the Chamber's "Industrial Team" which recently return-ed from a week long stay in Cleveland. From such trips come industrial pros-pects for Greensboro, and in the fall the Industrial Team will visit Detroit. The Team is composed of members of the Chamber of Commerce who work with the organization's Industrial Department Manager, PAGE 60 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 New Bern's Air Conditioned Office Is Envy of Other Chambers ;;;?; ;:;::::::; THOMPSON By Bleeka C. Thompson, Director Public Relations, New Bern C. of G. "On May 17, 1899, the business men of New Bern met this day for organization at the City Hall which the authorities had kindly tendered for the purpose. By the time the meeting was called to or-der by the chair-man, every seat was occupied and by an entirely dif-ferent class of cit-izens from that which might be supposed would gather to perfect an organization of a Chamber of Commerce. They were your busi-ness men whose future is being them ; those whose capital is largely energy, business capacity and push". The above is from the minutes of the first meeting of the New Bern Chamber of Commerce. Many changes have taken place in the past fifty-nine years with the Chamber having the usual ups and downs. In the late twenties Mrs. Thomas Eaton, then Helen Hawk, became the first official wo-man secretary of a North Carolina Cham-ber of Commerce and served in that ca-pacity for fifteen years. She was followed by Charles McCullers (now Manager of Kinston Chamber ) , George Arrington, de-ceased, and O. A. Wright, present man-ager. Mr. Wright, a former business owner, served on the Board of Directors and as chairman of numerous committees prior to becoming manager in 1955. In September 1957, the Chamber moved into a new air-conditioned building at 608 Broad Street. It is of colonial design, brick veneered, has spacious lounge and conference rooms, private offices, work and rest rooms. The building has been adequately furnished, decorated and land-scaped through a special gift fund set up by interested members. There are three full time employees: O. A. Wright, Man-ager; Mrs. Bleeka C. Thompson, Director of Public Relations; Mrs. Ann B. Johnson, Secretary. The following are elected officials: H. P. Edwards, President; Willis Marshall, 1st Vice President; Cliff McCotter, 2nd Vice President; Rembert Rivenbark, 3rd Vice President; W. D. Ferebee, Treasurer. Directors serving three years are Wil-lis Marshall, H. P. Edwards, C. G. King, Dan Roberts, Charles McEnally and Cliff McCotter. Directors serving two years are W. D. Ferebee, Raymond Pollock, Dr. Dale Millns, W. E. Swain, Joe Johnson, and A. D. Ward. Directors serving one year are John Whitty, R. L. Pugh, Donald Paul, Ernest Smith, J. C. Ridoutt and R. R. Rivenbark. By virtue of their various offices these men also serve on the Board: W. J. Edwards, past President of the Chamber; Herbert Dowless, President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce; R. L. Stallings, Jr., Mayor; Craig Barnhardt, City Manager; George Ipock, Chairman Craven County Board of Commissioners; T. A. Montgomery, President of the New ^«:?ts:»:: :V:::: :PS:S»iV^ Above appears a recent photo of the air-conditioned Chamber of Commerce Building of New Bern. —Wray Photo. Bern Merchants Association. A budget for $18,000 has been approved by a membership of 360. A campaign for new members is now in progress. In a predominantly agricultural area, New Bern, settled in 1710, has much to atttract tourists and industry. Tryon's Palace, home of a Royal Governor and first Capitol of North Carolina, has been restored to its original glory through the generosity of Mrs. Maude Latham, former New Bernian and will be opened to the public early in 1959. Lovely old homes, gardens, Fireman's Museum and other historical points of interest add to the attraction of tourists. Located at the con-fluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers on U. S. Highways 17 and 70, New Bern is served by three railroads, an intercoastal waterway channel, two airlines and twelv truck lines. Boat building, fertilizer mar ufacturing, lumber and related products chemicals, marl mining and needlewor' trades are the principal industries. Nei Bern Properties and New Bern Industrie,1 independent industrial corporations, arj equipped to assist in the placement of ne1 industry. The Chamber office handles tbj paper work and the Manager serves a| secretary to the Merchants Association. | There are fifteen active committees i the organization: Highway & Transport; tion, Clarence Gault, Chairman; Indu: trial, George Scott, Chairman; Tourisj and Convention, Raymond Pollock, Chaij man; Housing, Paul Crayton, Chairmani (Continued on page 61) r With millions of gallons of fresh water all about, New Bern presents a formidable answer to water-hungry industries. SUMMER-FALL 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 61 Charlotte Chamber Slogan Says 'Create in '58' CRAWFORD Early records show that the first Char-lotte Chamber of Commerce was conceiv-d in 1879. It continued operation until some time in the 1890's when, for reasons mknown, it was liisbanded. Then m October 20, L905 a small group >f civic - minded nen gathered in i downtown office Wilding and or-anized the Great-er Charlotte Club, booster organ-ization and parent )f the present I'harlotte Cham-ber of Commerce hat was organiz- 3d in 1915. Today, the Char-otte Chamber of ommerce is a dy-lamic force in the continued growth and levelopment of Charlotte. More than 3,000 msiness and professional men and wo-nen make up its membership. Some 31 itanding committees and innumerable pecial committees and subcommittees ire carrying out, this year, one of the nost comprehensive programs in the his-ory of the Chamber. Thomas L. Robinson, owner and pub-isher of the Charlotte Neivs is president if the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, first vice president is Buell Duncan, pres-dent of Piedmont Natural Gas Company. ). J. Miller, executive vice president of Duke Power Company, is the Chamber's econd vice president. Treasurer is Joe I. Robinson, senior vice president of Vaehovia Bank and Trust Company. The modern offices of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce occupy approxi-aately 2,120 square feet of floor space in he Addison Building, 222 South Church Street, just two blocks from Inciepend-nce Square. A professional staff of ten aid employes performs administrative uties for the organization. Charles Crawford, executive vice president, is in harge of the administrative staff. W. M. "icklen is manager of the Industrial De-partment; Frank Mueller is manager of he Civic Affairs Department; and Sher-wood Canada is public relations director, bookkeeper and five stenographers ound out the staff. The Chamber's income comes from lembership dues. Annual dues for a ingle membership are $50. The current udget is approximately $130,000. The Chamber issues the news bulletin, Charlotte," monthly. It carries no ad-ertising. Its main circulation is the lembership. The Chamber, from time 3 time, publishes various folders, bro-hures and related materials. Charlotte is a center of commerce and adustry. While the textile industry has een the backbone of the area's economy, iversification has been the keynote for ndustrial development in recent years. Numerous manufacturers of food prod-cts, electronics, furniture, paper prod-cts and hard goods have established lants, warehouses and offices in Char- Dtte. Also, Charlotte today is a shopping cen-sr, medical center, wholesale center, en- "NO-BUDGET" CHAMBER ONE OF MOST ACTIVE IN STATE By George E. Moray, Exec. Secy. Organized and incorporated in 1923, the Black Mountain Chamber of Commerce has no budget on which to operate. The address of the one-room office is "City Hall" and there are three paid em-ployees in the or-ganization. President is Wil-liam H. McMur-ray, Jr.; 1st Vice President is Steve C. Uzzell ; 2nd Vice President is Harry B. Hydner; and Treasurer is William A. Hick-ey. George E. Mo-ray, who retired as a Lansing, Michigan postman after 37 years of service has been moray manager since April of 1957. Committees and chairmen are: Mem-bership, William S. Holcombe; Publicity, Gordon H. Greenwood; Civic Improve-ment, R. Worth Cook; Industrial Develop-ment, Finley E. Stepp; Roads, Dr. F. H. Richardson; Western Union, Frank H. Cordtmeyer; Christmas Decorations, A. M. McCoy; and Finance and Budget, Steve C. Uzzell. Minimum memberships are $15 and minimum $50 and we have 90 members. Tourists and Industry are our main in-terests, but there are many retired people now living in the area. There is an In-dustrial Committee which is quite active as a part of the Jaycee organization. We publish no bulletin and the town has no Merchants Association, this phase of com-munity life being handled by the Cham-ber. We are presently aiming toward more industry. We have never used the ESC services and are interested in learning more about how we can make use of those available. Readers may wonder about our "West-ern Union" committee, the Black Moun-tain Chamber of Commerce operates Western Union for the town. tertainment center, transportation center —and financial center. At present, it has the only Federal Reserve Bank (Fifth District) in the Carolinas, is the home of six banks, and has more member firms of the New York Stock Exchange than any other city in the Southeast except Miami Beach. The Greater Charlotte area is a part of one of the important "Interurbian" areas foreseen by 1975 in the study, "In-terurbia, the Changing Face of America," by the J. Walter Thompson Co. Inclusion of the area in this concept of "super-cities" suggests it as one of the paceset-ters in potential growth . . . and focuses attention on Charlotte and the Piedmont NEW BERN'S AIR CONDITIONED OFFICE ENVY OF OTHER CHAMBERS (Continued from page 60) Ports, R. R. Rivenbark, Chairman; Avia-tion, Charles Hall, Chairman; Agricul-ture, Lester Bray, Chairman; Member-ship, Willis Marshall, Chairman; Con-gressional Action, Glenn Mabe, Chairman; Civic, Earl Finch, Chairman; Publicity, Charles Midyette, Chairman; Military Af-fairs, H. P. Edwards, Chairman; Classi-fication, Clark Fitzgerald, Chairman; Sports Fishing and Boating, Bryan Duffy, Chairman; Education, Livingston Stal-lings, Chairman. A recently completed industrial bro-chure of New Bern and Craven County has brought considerable praise and sat-isfaction from the Conservation and De-velopment Department. This was accom-plished with the cooperation of many agencies, including the local office of the Employment Security Commission, which gave generously of their time and infor-mation. We call on them frequently for information and always received prompt and courteous service. Future plans of the Chamber include the celebration of the opening of Tryon's Palace in 1959; the 250th anniversary of the founding of New Bern in 1960; the promotion of increased tourist trade; dual highways into and through the city; additional recreational facilities; promo-tion of agricultural and seafood packaged industries; increased dairy production and a broiler industry; further develop-ment of industrial areas and deeper water channels from the inland waterway; spon-soring an area wide ground water survey, control of stream pollution, hurricane safety and rehabilitation; and the organ-ization of an Economic Study Group and a second Small Business Institute in co-operation with the Distributive Education Department of the North Carolina Depart-ment of Education. Carolinas as one of the areas of high sales concentration. Charlotte is fast becoming a convention center, too. In 1957, Charlotte played host to 138 conventions. (Only groups of 50 or more people were counted.) The 47,215 people attending these conventions spent an estimated $5 million while in Charlotte. This is equivalent to the an-nual payroll of an industry employing 1,500 people! Charlotte and the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce are indebted to the Employ-ment Security Commission of North Caro-lina and especially to the local ESC office. Many of the folders and brochures pre-pared by the Chamber include labor and employment data. Some contain quite de-tailed accounts on the labor situation in the Charlotte area. These data have been compiled, in large part, by the ESC office here. The Chamber also receives regular reports on the many aspects of labor and employment in Charlotte. The Chamber publishes employment figures, furnished by the ESC, in its monthly publication "Charlotte." The interest and prompt-ness with which the ESC handles the Chamber's requests are to be commended. In furnishing such labor and employment information, the ESC is fulfilling a vital need. * |H PAGE 62 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 Thomasville Slogan Designed to Improve Thinking and Action WARNER By Tom Shaw "The Thomasville Chamber of Commerce desires to develop dynamic programs of work to build an even better community." The words are those of Jeff E. Warner, energetic young Manager of the i Chamber here, who has had that position since Oc-tober 1, 1957. The challenge of what the Chamber here can do is passed right on down the line to the 350 members of the organization. The division of labor begins with Pres-ident Robert C. Huss and it is shared by Vice President Thomas H. Burwell and Vice President James W. Johnson, no less by Treasurer Raymond V. Yokely and the office secretary, Mrs. Enid Clodfelter. Also confronted with the task of "build-ing an even better community of 16,000 people are the committee chairmen. They are Charles F. Lambeth, Jr., Program of Work; J. C. Jerman, Membership; Hardy Henry, Education; R. P. VanLandingham, Governmental Affairs; Percy Craven, Clean-Up and Beautiflcation; Harold Har-rison, Nominations; Geo. L. Hundley, New Industries; Mr. Burwell, Existing Industries; and Mr. Yokely, Budget and Finance, with a current budget of $12,- 500.00 drawn from annual memberships at $35.00 each. In August of this year the Brochure Committee of the Chamber produced an 18 page booklet with 37 pictures. Chair-man Homer W. Beck does not need to explain the title: "Picture Your Future in Thomasville, North Carolina". There are ten thousand copies of that booklet. With it the Chamber is stepping up its search for new industry, and with it the Cham-ber is ready to tell the story of Thomas-ville to all seekers for information. Thomasville's central location in the Tar Heel Piedmont appeals to industrialists who wish to settle in a small city with an industrial background. But those who desire information include travelers and home-seekers from other states; and not least school children who write from afar wanting to know what the City with the "Big Chair" is like. The present "Big Chair" was a chamber project, completed in 1950, during the managership of Ken-neth J. Hoyle. Thomasville's Chamber of Commerce was organized in January 1949, with Mr. Hoyle as its first manager. He came here in April of that year from Newton and served until December 1956, when he resigned because of ill health. The idea of erecting a new "Big Chair" of Duncan Phyfe design to replace an earlier wooden structure, was mentioned in 1948 by the Junior Chamber of Com-merce, prime moved in the organization of Thomasville's Chamber of Commerce. The new concrete chair on the Commons at the Square was and is a symbol of the city's chief industry, but it was also the first major completed project of the new senior Chamber. The next major task of that organiza-tion was also of a historical nature. In 1952 the Chamber and its members had major roles in the celebration of the City of Thomasville centennial. Included was a "Centurama" pageant with a cast of hundreds, very largely recruited through the aid of the Chamber. Another develop-ment during the earlier years of the Chamber life was the completion of the Thomasville by-pass. Visiting notables included the then Gov. W. Kerr Scott, who climbed atop of the "Big Chair" during a part of the festivities. The Chamber also during those years had a part in the revival of a community festival known as "Everybody's Day". The revival,, how-ever, only lasted four or five years and reached a climax with the centennial celebration. During the managership of Mr. Hoyle the Chamber began a "new industry" promotion which combined also a due at-tention to or for the welfare of existing industries. That program was stepped up by Mr. Hoyle's successor, Macon P. Mil-ler, Jr. Mr. Miller became manager on January 1, 1956 and resigned to enter private business here on June 30, 1957. The managership was vacant until Octo-ber of that year, when Mr. Warner was named as manager. He is a native of this city, a graduate of East Carolina Col-J lege, Greenville, and was formerly a| teacher in the public schools in Wilming-i ton and this city. Briefly before he ac-j cepted the position as Chamber Manager, he was associated with a clothing firm I here. The "new industry" emphasis given to the Chamber program by Mr. Miller isfl being continued by Mr. Warner. Good; use has already been made of the brochure!! picture book in that connection. But the Chamber is also concerned with telling|| the people of the community what their community has to offer them. An exam-ple was a "Business-Education Day" pro-jl gram held here last Spring. Industrial- 1 ists joined with educators in a programs] of mutual exchange and understanding,)! climaxed with a banquet at night. The I program was so successful that it is to bell repeated annually. The Chamber last year aided in the establishment of an important country- Thomasville's Largest Duncan Phyfe Chair in the World. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 63 vide committee on public school educa-ion and it also contributed information vhich led to the holding of a successful innexation vote which nearly doubled the and area of the city and has increased he population from 11,000 to 16,000. during all of its history the Chamber has ooperated with the Thomasville Mer-hant's Association and with various civic .roups. The present Chamber of Commerce has Lad the longest continuous history of any uch organization with that name in this ity, but it was not the first. Briefly, here was a Chamber of Commerce here in 911, but it did not long endure. This ne has, and chiefly because of careful preliminary organization extending over period of a year. Credit for the success-ul establishment of today's Chamber be-angs to many people who have worked o make it work. To name them would be ike calling the roll of civic leadership in his community, and some from the out-ide, including the late Frank Sizemore, lanager of the High Point Chamber, a peaker at the organizational meeting. But the most typical booster at the or-anizational level was the then Mayor r. C. English, who contributed $200. of is salary as mayor. Those were the earlier days of 1949. 'homasville's Chamber now has two full-ime, paid staff members, the Manager nd his secretary. It has an office space dth three rooms at 10 Salem Street. It as an alert rotating Board of Directors nd cooperative officers. It can and does apply many types of service, some seem lgly not connected with Chamber work. i many respects the Chamber is a clear-g house of information for facts drawn om local and state sources, including le Employment Security Commission. It as learned to use these agencies to its wn advantage and to theirs. Fuquay-Varina Chamber Has $8,000 Budget MOREHEAD CITY CHAMBER HEADED BY BUD DIXON The Morehead City Chamber of Com-lerce was officially organized in 1946 ith Louis Gore and George Wallace, long with many other leading citizens, )earheading the drive for the Chamber, or a good while it was housed in the SO building which later became the •creation building. When the present Manager, Joe DuBois, me back to Morehead after helping the lylor Brothers out with their Sea Level •oject some twenty miles east of More-iad City, he prevailed upon the Board Directors to move the office to a more ntrally located point in the Fort Macon otel. Prior to this move the Chamber as hard for people not familiar with e town to find. Manager DuBois has been in Chamber ork for eight years, and seven of it has >en as manager of the Morehead City lamber. He was a sales executive before >ing with the Chamber. There are 175 lid up members of the organization and les run $25 with multiple memberships lowable. President of the Chamber is Bud Dixon, eminent Eastern N. C. Motel owner, By Grace Senter, Exec. Secy. The Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Com-merce was organized in 1947. It is known as the Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Com-merce, Fuquay Springs, N. C. It owns its own building. We moved into it two years ago this month. It consists of two offices, a conference room, two rest rooms, and a small room used to keep office sup-plies in and the mimeograph machine, etc. It is centrally heated and air-conditioned throughout. (I am enclosing you a pic-ture of the building and one of the con-ference room and the directors and myself that was made shortly after we moved in the building in 1956.) We have 155 Legislative & Congressional, Woodrow Johnson. Our area is primarily agricultural. However, we have two large industries in our town. Cornell-Dubiler employs around 500 women. Wake Manufacturing Co. employs around 100 women. We think in terms of our tobacco market as our largest industry, however. There is not a separate industrial group in our area. Our town does not have a separate merchant's bureau. The only publications put out by the Chamber are regular mimeographed bul-letins that I get out to the members. We used ESC service about eight years ago to help take a labor survey for Cor- Top photo is the Fuquay-Varina Chamber building while the bottom shows the present Board of Directors who are identified in the main body of the article. Exec. Secy. Grace Senter is the lone woman in the group. members and the minimum dues is $25.00. We have no income other than that from dues. I am the only paid employee and there are no unpaid employees. Executive Secy., Mrs. Grace Senter; Pres., Leo Matthews; First Vice Pres., James Adams; Second Vice Pres., W. D. Ashworth. I have been employed here two years. Before working here, I was a supervisor at the Cornell-Dubiler Elec-tric Corporation in Fuquay Springs, and after that I worked for Carolina Power & Light Co., in Raleigh. Our budget is $8,000. The Chairmen of our Committees are as follows: Agriculture, M. A. Stevens; Building & Maintenance, A. Y. Hairr; Budget and Finance, Leo Matthews; An-nual Banquet, W. P. Wrenn; Education, Robert Cotten; Industrial, S. T. Proctor; nell-Dubiler, and we certainly hope they can help us with a similar survey in the future. We are busy working on our annual Farmer's Day at the present time. This will be September 18. After that we will have our annual banquet in October. At Christmas time this office helps to co-ordinate helping all the needy families. We have Santa Claus to be in the stores and on the streets for about two weeks. We also have a small Christmas parade. In January we will have a big membership meeting at which we will be hosts to our members at a dinner. At this time we will present prizes to the winners of the Farm Income contest that we are spon-soring this year. In April we have our annual Fat Calf Show & Sale, and of course we are at all times trying to get new industry for our town! Walter Morris is Vice President and there are two paid employees in the organiza-tion, the Manager and his office secretary. There are eight major divisions of the Chamber, principal of which are the In-dustrial Development Committee headed by W. B. Chalk, and the Tourist and Convention Committee headed by J. M. Davis. The Chamber publishes a monthly bul-letin which keeps the members informed and has worked closely with the Employ-ment Security Office headed by Mrs. Julia Tenney. "The ESC is one of our most re-liable sources for dependable statistics," said Mr. DuBois. PAGE 64 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL 1958 SPRUCE PINE CHAMBER LOOK-ING FOR "MORE INDUSTRIES" The Spruce Pine Chamber of Commerce, which was organized in 1940, has an office on Locust Avenue, next door to the Caro-lina Theatre. The only income || of the Spruce Pine Chamber of Com- I merce is from the« ; fees of the mem-bership, at present I 58. The fees range I from $10 to $25. Mrs. Sudie H. English, manager, • is the only paid employee. Other I officers are Har-old Van Day, Pres-ident; Dale Ban-ner, Vice Presi- Greater Jacksonville Chamber Dues Based on "Fair Share" Plan! ENGLISH dent; Sudie H. English, Secretary-Treas-urer. The present manager, employed May 11, 1958, has no previous expe-rience in Chamber of Commerce work. Mrs. Sudie H. English has had wide business experience. She is now lo-cal agent for the Nationwide Insurance Company and is in the real estate busi-ness. Prior to her present business con-nections she was branch manager for a large heavy equipment and machinery company. In civic affairs Mrs. English has been very active, usually, as finance chairman or head of fund raising for community projects. The Spruce Pine Chamber of Commerce has three divisions: merchants, indus-trial and tourist. Dale Banner is chair-man of the merchants division, and C. M. Watson, chairman of the industrial di-vision. Peter Lowe and Ray Deal, chair-men of the tourist division. The Spruce Pine area is primarily en-gaged in the mineral industries including mining and processing, textile industry and tourist. The Chamber of Commerce does not have a separate industrial group, but has an Industrial Development Committee, C. M. Watson, chairman. No publications are put out by this Chamber of Commerce at present. Immediate plans include tourist and travel service, with a long range plan of industrial development. The Junior Chamber of Commerce at present uses the E.S.C. services in mak-ing labor survey of this area, which is now in progress. The E.S.C. can help the Spruce Pine Chamber of Commerce by furnishing accu-rate tabulation of employment conditions, number of people employed in local in-dustries such as mining, textile, farming, etc., showing average income therefrom. By Roy A. Stevens, Mgr. The Greater Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce was originated February 14, 1944, and our present office is located at 823 Court Street, Jacksonville. We have 960 square feet of floor space divid-ed into three of-fices. At the present time we have 205 members with minimum dues be-ing $40 per year. Our dues are on a "fair-share" basis with each member paying what he feels is his share of our budget. Our member dues covers the major-ity of our income expense with cer-t a i n collections STEVENS made for special functions during the year. At the present time this Chamber has two paid employees, which are myself as Manager and Mrs. Carolyn Millice as Secretary. W. E. Thompson, Manager of the Sears, Roebuck Company, is our Pres-ident during the year 1958, with W. R. Page, Jr., as Vice-President and Lester D. Lane as Treasurer. In addition to these officers, we have Directors on our Board. I have been with the Jacksonville Cham-ber of Commerce since February 15, 1957. Prior to joining the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, I was Assistant Manager of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce from February 21, 1955, to February 15, 1956. Prior to entering Chamber of Com-merce work, I was Office Manager for a retail hardware and mining corporation. At the present time the budget of this Chamber is $12,500.00. During the year 1958 we are operating eleven committees which we are listing below along with the chairman of each. None of these are paid employees: Agriculture, Jack Pelletier; Better Bus-iness, Dan Clark; Budget & Finance, Les-ter Lane; Civic Affairs, Julian Bender; Highways & Roads, H. E. Phillips; In-dustrial, Stanley Wainwright; Member-ship, Al Travis and Joe Bynum; Military Affairs, T. W. Simmons; National Affairs, Fred Harmon, Jr.; Retail, Pete McMillan; Transportation, H. M. Eastwood. Our primary industry in Jacksonville is Camp Lejeune, the largest amphibious training base in the world. At the pres-ent time there are approximately 35,000 Marines stationed at this Base. On June 6th of this year, the Industrial Committee of the Chamber, formed the Jacksonville Development Corporation to assist in securing some type of industry for this community. We have three Merchants Associations operating in the Jacksonville area which cooperate with the Chamber and the President of each of these Associations along with certain other individuals make up the Retail Committee of the Chamber We have a monthly bulletin which wej call the Greater Jacksonville Chamber oil Commerce Progress Report which is mailj ed out the last day of each month. Ir this publication we hit the highlights oil each program along with giving pay-days scheduled for the Marine Corps Base anc a schedule of all of our committee meet ings during the coming month. If space will provide, we would like to furnish yoi with the project of each of our commit tees. The local Employment Security Office assisted us recently in securing applica tions for an industry that we were work ing with. They have also furnished us with secretarial help since I have been the secretary of this Chamber. We have a verj close relationship with the local office which is located just two doors from oui office and they are most anxious to assisl us in any way possible . FRANKLIN "3RV MEAN RUBIES] RECREATION, AND REST The Franklin Chamber of Commerce owns its 50x50-foot building and has 20( current members who have paid the $1(| membership fee. Organized in 1940, the! Chamber has shown much imagination ii producing folders, leaflets, and informa tional pieces about the area. Other thail dues, the Chamber also receives a comj mission on tickets it sells for the famou: outdoor production "Unto These Hills". Mrs. Lasca Horsley, Executive Secre tary is the only paid employee of the or ganization whose budget is $5,500 for th year. She has been manager for eighjl years and prior to that had experience a purchasing agent for the Nantahal; Power and Light Company. Officers of the organization are: Di G. R. McSween, president; Ermin PattorJI vice president; and Victor Perry, treasurl er. Directors are: Tom Angel, Jr., Stev I Bundy, Bob Sloan, and J. P. Brady. Comjl mittee chairmen are: Verlon Swaffordl Industrial; Sam Gibson, Merchants; Sii}| Carter, County Clean-Up; E. J. Whitmireil Highway; J. P. Brady, Publicity and Ac I vertising; and Roy Cunningham, MemJ bership. i Says the neat folder on Franklin I "Franklin, N. C, a bustling mountain rej sort which wears a necklace of Nantahal.l Forest, promises even the most discriml nating visitor an unforgetable vacatioij of rubies, rest and recreation. Rubiesjl Franklin is a scant six miles from th|| famed Cowee Ruby Mines, where anyon I with a penchant for digging can comj up with a ruby, maybe just a chip, or on II worth several thousand dollars. Rest! Tranquility is Franklin's middle nam I and no place, but no place, can give morll carefree peace of mind than Franklirl And talk about restful nights! . . . Frantl lin is air conditioned by Mother Natur I herself . . . Recreation: What kind do yo'l want? Well, it's right here in Franklirl whatever it is ... . "Franklin, N. C.—a ruby on the fingeJ of the Smokies, invites you to stop, frienc I and sit a spell." SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 65 The Employment Security Commission — Its Role in Civil Defense By Edwakd Hyatt, Occupational Analyst Industrial Services Section, ESC Whether or not the United States ever will be subjected to an attack with nu-clear weapons is not known. There are some people who consider such an attack as a distinct pos-sibility. Others consider it unlike-ly and some, with tongue in cheek, give it little thought one way or the other. Because there is additional possi-bility of such an attack, our Fede-ral and State Gov-ernments have 'proceeded to draw ! up "Survival : Plans" for use in the event of ene- |my attack or nat-ural disaster. North Carolina's survival plans recently have been completed and released for public use. Making up the overall State plan are the individual plans of such groups or agencies as public health, food supply, communications, transportation, and others, including Manpower Services, which will be the name of the E. S. C. should an enemy attack take place. Considerable time, money, and effort have gone into making up the Survival Plans for our agency. In the Statewide plan, the emergency services of the Em-ployment Security Commission are found n Annex E—Manpower Services. Operat-ing within the established framework ind utilizing all local office personnel ind a large number of central office per-onnel, our agency probably is as well prepared to face an emergency situation is any agency in the State. HYATT Each local office has its own individual survival plan based on a prototype plan prepared by central office personnel. For emergency operations, the State is divid-ed into six Civil Defense Areas. Each local office within each area is designated as a "Control Center" with first and sec-ond alternate relocation points. Organ-ization of personnel and assignments of duties have been made for the agency as a whole, within each Civil Defense Area, and in each local office. Emergency operations are to be per-formed through the facilities of three operational branches. One of these branches, the Requirement Branch, will be responsible for receiving orders for workers and for liaison with Civil De-fense Officials to determine referral prior-ities. The Requirement Branch will as-semble and record information about such factors as job locations, worker trans-portation, workers needed, duration of work, and related information. Another branch, the Procurement Branch, will receive orders for workers from the Requirement Branch and will be responsible for recruiting workers. The functions of this branch, in many ways, resemble the placement functions of nor-mal operations. A third unit, the Skills Analysis Branch, will make surveys of manpower supply, compiling information pertaining to the location of workers and cataloging the data according to worker skills by area. These surveys will be made on a continu-ing basis according to the movements of workers with accumulated data being submitted to the Procurement Branch as often as necessary for the maintenance of current information. These three opera-tional branches have been established in each local office, in each of the six Civil Defense Areas, and at the State level, providing a workable emergency organ-ization of Employment Security Person-nel. During any emergency period, the maintenance of personal income becomes strategically important in the prevention of economic collapse. Consequently, the Unemployment Insurance Division has established and will maintain procedures for the continuance of Unemployment In-surance payments and of any other State or Federal emergency income mainte-nance or death benefits. Emergency Or-ganization of the Unemployment Insur-ance Division has been established at the State, Area, and local levels with appro-priate personnel assigned to the various functions involved in the Unemployment Insurance program. Each local manager and his staff has responded well to the installation of the "Local Office Civil Defense Plan." The need for a Survival Plan has been recog-nized and the cooperation of all Employ-ment Security Commission personnel can be counted on when and if our nation is attacked by an enemy employing either nuclear or conventional weapons. WINTER-SPRING EDITION Articles are being prepared by hun-dreds of Textile Firms throughout the State for publication in the Winter-Spring Edition fo the "E. S. C. Quarterly". For some time the Textile edition of 1952 has needed bringing up-to-date since the pic-ture has changed considerably. One of the most interesting articles is one by Director of Research and Statistics Hugh Raper, showing what has happened personnel-wise in the North Carolina Tex-tiles picture. He shows that while the number of plants has been changed by modern automation and chemical process-es as well as other improvements, North Carolina still has approximately the same number of people employed in the textile industry. Read it and other valuable articles in the Winter-Spring, 1959 "E. S. C. Quar-terly". MAP OF CIVIL DEFENSE AREAS SHOWING DEFENSE CONTROL CENTERS AND MANPOWER LOCATIONS ~^^C LV,i —^. J7~l LCtEID O .... H. 5 y-',/*- PAGE 66 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 "Local Lever Determines Community Industrialization LUCAS By Wade Lucas, Information Officer Dept. of Conservation and Development Governor Luther H. Hodges has repeat-edly said that at least 90 percent of the efforts made successfully to obtain a new industry must be made at the local level. The Governor has been consist-ently supported in this considered statement by Di-rector "William P. Saunders of the Department of Conservation and Development, Walter W. Harp-er, Industrial De-velopment Admin-istrator for the C&D Department, and the staff of the department's Division of Com-merce and Indus-try. The Department of Conservation and Development is, after all, only a service agency whose duties are prescribed by law and whose efforts are to promote in-dustrial development of North Carolina and the conservation, development and wiser use of its natural resources. Staff members of the Division of Com-merce and Industry do not take visiting industrialists to any particular commun-ity and suggest they locate a plant there unless the industrialists indicate they would like to visit such places. Neither does Governor Hodges nor Di-rector Saunders make personal recom-mendations to visiting industrialists to locate plants in any particular commun-ity or communities. State employees all, they supply all possible information about the State or any of its communities upon request. Governor Hodges has said on numer-ous occasions that new industries are NOT stored in warehouses in Raleigh or anywhere else in the State and can be had for the asking. It's not that simple, nor is it that easy. With some 7,000 development agencies scattered throughout the nation and all engaged in efforts to land industries for their respective communities, the compe-tition for new industry is extremely keen. Some offer what are known as "give-aways" in their efforts to persuade in-dustrialists to locate new plants in their respective areas. North Carolina has never resorted to such practices and Gov-ernor Hodges has repeatedly asserted that it never will. Here in North Carolina there are more than 100 privately operated development organizations. The Department of Con-servation and Development and its Divi-sion of Commerce and Industry work closely and harmoniously with them in promoting industrial development. The C&D group knows no boundaries insofar as this State is concerned and it plays no favorites in aiding visiting industrialists to find what they want in North Carolina regardless of where a suitable site may be located. These industrial development organiza-tions have in the main proven their worth to the communities and the areas they represent and serve. They have been of immeasurable worth in numerous cases in helping to "sell" N. C. and the many advantages it has to offer industry. Chambers of Commerce throughout the State have also proven their worth to the communities they serve in helping to keep North Carolina's industrial development ever to the fore as a needed and necessary part of the over-all program designed to provide better tomorrows for the more than four and one-half millions of people who live in the State. Before he became the State's chief exec-utive in late 1954, Governor Hodges, then Lieutenant-Governor and a man only re-cently retired from the world of business, repeatedly told industrial development groups at meetings throughout North Carolina that industries could not be ob-tained by "the mere waving of a wand." By that statement the Governor sought to make it clear that industries could not be had by wishful thinking or the waving of a wand, but that it took hard work and plenty of it, especially at the local level. Judged by the increasing number of in-dustrial plants being located in North Carolina in recent years, the words of Governor Hodges apparently took root in the minds of many North Carolinians ready, anxious and willing to do every-thing within their power to boost the economy of their respective areas and that of the State as well. For Governor Hodges and the late Gov-ernor William B. Umstead before him re-peatedly asserted that "what helps one section of North Carolina helps all North Carolina." It is on this basis that the Governor's program to bring more industries into North Carolina and thus help raise the per capita income of its people is being waged so successfully and so vigorously. Railroads, motor truck operators, elec-tric power companies, bankers, mer-chants, and others have joined in the endeavor to help promote the further
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Full Text | *, The E. S. C Quarterly VOLUME 16, NO. 3-4 SUMMER-FALL, 1958 Chambers of Commerce Use Pictures Like These To Draw Industry. (See Inside Cover.) PUBLISHED BY Employment Security Commission of North Carolina RALEIGH, N. C. PAGE 42 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1956 The E. S. C. Quarterly (Formerly The U.C.C. Quarterly) Vol. 16, No. 3-4 Summer-Fall, 1958 Issued at Raleigh, N. C. by the EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION OF NORTH CAROLINA Commissioner's: Mrs. Quentin Gregory, Halifax; Dr. Maurice Van Hecke, Chapel Hill; R. Dave Hall, Belmont; W. Benton Pipkin, Reidsville; Bruce E. Davis, Charlotte; Crayon C. Efird, Albemarle. State Advisory Council: Public representatives: James A. Brid-ger, Bladenboro, Chairman; Sherwood Roberson, Roberson-ville; W. B. Horton, Yanceyville; Mrs. R. C. Lewellyn, Dob-son, and Dr. J. W. Seabrook, Payetteville; Employer repre-sentative: A. L. Tait, Lincolnton; Employee representatives: Melvin Ward, Spencer, AFL, and H. D. Lisk, Charlotte, CIO. HENRY E. KENDALL Chairman R. FULLER MARTIN Director Unemployment Insurance Division JOSEPH W. BEACH Director North Carolina State Employment Service Division TED DAVIS . Editor Public Information Officer Sent free upon request to responsible individuals, agencies, organizations and libraries. Address: E. S. C. Informational Service, P. 0. Box 589, Raleigh, N. C. INDEX APPEARS ON PAGE 135 ABOUT THE COVER PICTURES TOP LEFT: Indian Craftsmen at the Cherokee Indian Fair in the Great Smoky Mountains demonstrate their skills. The 1958 fair is being held October 7-11 and visitors may watch the craftsmen at Oconaluftee Village, recreated community of 200 years ago. It is located at Cherokee on the 50,000-acre Qualla Boundary—State of N. C. Photo. TOP RIGHT: The "take it easy on the Coast" form of relaxation is made inviting with this heated, lighted, fresh water pool of the Morehead Biltmore Hotel at Morehead City. The convention hotel recently renovated by the Taylor brothers overlooks Bogue Sound and is four minutes from the ocean at Atlantic Beach.—State of N. C. Photo. CENTER LEFT: Biltmore House and gardens at Asheville, is the most fabulous private residence in America. It was built by the late George Vanderbilt, who settled in western N. C. after traveling the world over and, according to his own words, "Searching for the most beautiful spot in the world." The gardens cover 12,000 landscaped acres, and the house is filled with tapestries and antiquities. It was built in 1891 and has 365 rooms. — Lou Harshaw Photo. CENTER RIGHT: When Skyland Textiles began its expansion at its Mor-ganton plant, the site and plans were examined by W. R. Loftis, president of Skyland Textile Co.; Governor of North Carolina Luther H. Hodges; Wil-liam P. Saunders, Director of the Department of Conservation and Develop-ment; and D. Holman Sigmon of the Morganton Industrial Development Or-ganization. BOTTOM LEFT: "Miss Blue Marlin" (Barbara Jessup of Fremont) is pictured in front of one day's catch of two charter sports fishing boats in Morehead City. Although one or two marlin in a picture is not too unusual, the sight of five of the huge bill fish racked in one place is enough to make any big game fisherman pack his heavy tackle and head for the coast. Lucky 7 Photo by Reginald Lewis. BOTTOM RIGHT: William T. Davies and Captain Louis Guthrie inspect a shrimp trawl just completed in the networks owned by Davies. After much research up and down the eastern seaboard, he decided on Morehead City for his business known as Morehead Shipping Company. The firm offers services as Ship Agents, Freight Forwarders, Custom House Brokers, and Stevedores. Photo Jerry Schumacher. KENDALL CHAIRMAN'S COMMENTS Henry E. Kendall, Chairman Employment Security Commission Chambers of commerce in America date back tc 1768, but the modern chamber with its professional technical approach to business, community and la bor problems, is largely a development of the las' 50 years. Whether large or small, any chamber likes to thinl of itself as a community-wide or ganization, serving the entire community—not one segment o: it, either geographically, ecoj nomically, politically, or socially! To effectively serve the entir<| community, the chamber musj have the backing of the entir< community. Just as it does no promote any one member agains his competitor, neither does i promote one group against an other. While it is supports principally by employers, it i not set up to represent employ ers as against labor, but to work for those thing! that will benefit the entire business, including em ployer and labor, owner and manager, and buyej and seller. The typical North Carolina chamber is not polil ical and it is not concerned with who holds any offic( but only in the policies and programs of those office* They do not avoid controversy—much of what the do is in controversial fields—but in a controversy i which the members or other elements of the con munity are divided, they do not act without givin interested and affected groups an opportunity to b heard ; and before taking sides in a controversy th chamber must be satisfied that the best interest i the entire community will be served by its taking stand. Chamber secretary, manager, executive vice-pres dent, whatever the title bestowed upon the execil tive head of the chamber, it is inadequate to descritj the job. The day of the fly-by-night press-agent oj portunist has passed. He has been replaced by a individual of good habits, interested in upgradin his profession. He continually strives to learn moi » about improving the economic, social and industri; it health of the whole community. Indicative of this the fact that while chamber managers used to chanj * jobs every couple of years, the average today hv risen to six years before a change. In North Carj » lina this year, only one chamber has changed ma: agers, acording to records of the N. C. Associatk of Chamber of Commerce Executives. mk .UMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 43 Chambers Spend Fulltime Building the Right Climate By Ted Davis. PIO, ESC The job of a chamber of commerce, on ehalf of its members and its community, 5 a task of public relations. Every under-iking of every chamber involves crystal-zing the support r winning the un-erstanding of ome segment of tie public, some-where, for some lea, project, is-ue or set of facts. Building a di-late that is con-ucive to selling lie community to new industry, or lie industry to tie community. It my be a continu-lg process of ed-ucating the tour-ig public as to lie advantages of acationing in the chamber's area, or con- 'incing the home-town citizens that they lould support a bond issue for city im-provement, or should defeat a damaging Irdinance. Sometimes it is necessary to interpret lisunderstood facts about the commun-y to a nearby, or distant community, iconcile differences between conflicting ements within the community, or per-lading a State or Federal Commission lat it should make desired changes in ighway, railroad, air line or other routes, ites and rules—or it may be any of a lousand things that will benefit the com- DAVIS '•fisfiing-fruisef SSfifflF pictures such as this of Dennis Davis holding -pound Amberjack, Chambers of Commerce to draw people, industries and more money into economy of its community.—Schumacher Photo. mity, and that one public must ask other public to do. It is strange that chambers must con-ice people that if they want their com-mity to stay in the lead in the com-tition for trade and industry; if they nt the community kept attractnve, althy, orderly, its traffic free-flowing, its ing and working zones kept in sound ation; if they want business to have an opportunity to prosper and provide jobs, the people themselves must insist on a strong chamber of commerce to work for these things. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as that. Must Be Sold Daily The place of the chamber in modern community life has to be told and inter-preted and explained and sold, day after day, to each new crop of citizens. The well-being of each one depends on having the other one on the roster. Dollars and manpower of one member will more than double if matched by those of an addi-tional member. Each chamber has all the public rela-tions problems of a private business, in addition to a few more of its own. It must have the support and cooperation of other organized groups as well as indi-viduals. It must have the cooperation of the press, radio and television media for public expression. Above all, it must have the understanding and support of the general public in its community. This is a big order for big chambers. This is a fantastic order for small ones. Yet, here in North Carolina where there are more than 125 chambers of commerce, 90% of them are composed of a staff of one person, or a manager and an office secretary. For years "secretary" has been a mis-nomer applied as title of the chief execu- WSSSSBBBBBNKKh.-- Washington-built "Sea Hawk" is a 70-foot staysail schooner shown on the Pamlico River. Pictures such as this often draw sportsmen into area. Oc-casionally he will own an interest in an industry and move into the territory with his family, and sometimes a plant. tive of a chamber. "Manager" seems to be preferred today while some dress it up a bit more with "general manager", "exec-utive manager", or in some instances in the larger chambers, "executive vice-presi-dent". The average chamber manager has not one or two bosses, but as many bosses as there are members of his chamber. He is directly accountable to the Board of Di-rectors of his chamber, but his members elect the Board and the board selects the Manager . . . every year in most cases. In many chambers, this is routine, because a good manager may usually stay until he resigns to go to a larger chamber. However, in others, this spectre of unem-ployment is very real and particularly so when a few major industries pay the cost of the chamber's operation. Common to all chambers is the need for basic research and information. The necessity for assembling facts and figures in a central place so that anyone any- Pictures such as this of jets passing vhe Wright Memorial at Kitty Hawk are sent out by Chambers of Commerce to attract attention to the state and section.—State of N. C. Photo. where may have access to evidence of the communities progressiveness. But if he is to succeed the chamber manager must go far beyond that. Most managers today realize that a pic-ture postcard of the city hall, or General Southerngent posthumously riding his horse toward the north will no longer induce tourists or industry to set foot or foundation in their communities. He knows that the quarterly bank statement mailed an industry seeking a location is useless because the industry sometimes knows far more about the financial possi-bilities in the area than does the chamber or the bank. It isn't unusual for a chamber in a tour-ist area to service 100 thousand inquiries a year. General inquiries may be answer-ed with a brochure or booklet while spe-cific questions get a personal reply. Must- Be Speaker In addition to these duties, a manager must make hundreds of speeches and greetings each year, and answer ques-tions by the thousand. One North Caro-lina chamber won first place in the nation with its brochure. When asked how he went about winning the honor, the man-ager replied, "I didn't go about winning the honor, that was accidental. We wrote down every question asked us over a two-year period and put the answer in the booklet so that it could be found easily". "Did that answer all the questions, then?" He grinned and replied, "Nope. The day the booklet was published a woman walk-ed in and asked where the nearest zoo was located that had giraffes. The answer was Washington, D. C, but we don't in-tend to put that answer in the book. We spend too much money getting tourists in here, without sending them away. If enough people want to see a giraffe, we'll rent or buy one!" Proof of the last statement is found in the handling of a request from an Ohio visitor to a beach resort. She sought out the chamber manager during his dinner and told him that she had brought her children to the beach for their vacation. The kids had wanted to go west where they could see Indians. "In desperation I showed them folders of North Carolina with Indians running all about the hills and the Lost Colony. The only trouble is, I didn't realize how long your State stretches to the west. Now, we leave by plane tomorrow for home and the kids PAGE 44 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 still haven't seen a single Indian. Can you do anything to help me?" The manager asked if one Indian would turn the trick and assured that it would be better than ncne; secured the lady's beach cottage address and told her to keep the kids awake and facing the beach. About ten o'clock the kids saw two shadowy figures stop on the sand in front of their cottage. After a few moments a camp fire had been started and the large figure began beating a torn torn. As the rhymth started an Indian hoop dancer began to dance in the light of the fire. In full chief's regalia the dancer put on a magnificent exhibition. The dance finish-ed, the two put out the fire and disappear-ed into the night. Sure to attract tourists who have cameras, this shot of Greenfield Park in Wilmington with azaleas blooming in the foreground has been seen in many national publications. Most Chambers with suoh scenic snots take full advantage of the publicity afforded by numerous pictures of the area. Next morning the Ohio visitor called from the airport. "I couldn't leave with-out telling you how wonderful the Indians were last night. The children swear we'll be back next year. The dancer looked like a professional." The manager thanked her and wished her godspeed. Of course the dancer look-ed like a professional, she was. The man-ager had remembered that the champion Indian dancer of the United States was a 14-year old girl whose father was station-ed at a nearby military reservation. He also remembered that she was performing at a club celebration that was holding forth at the beach. Rushing over to the club he explained the situation to the girl's father and the girl and they agreed to do a free "command performance" for the Buckeye visitors. Nature, Too, Competes Nature's exhibitions of might are some-times the bane of chamber managers. The same manager was confronted with five hurricanes in a period of 18 months. To say that these affected the resort tourist business, is a masterpiece of understate-ment. Reams of information on the damage, and where possible, lack of damage were released via all media. The fact that no lives were lost was played up to show that use of common sense could prevent fatalities during the storms. But occa-sionally problems came up for which there were no apparent answers. Such a problem was presented when people refused to leave the beach which is on an island and return to the pro-tection of the mainland. Danger was intensified when it was learned that the hurricane's eye was scheduled to come over the area. Fearing a panic if they were told that the eye would hit the beach, officers knocked at each door and asked the people to leave the beach. All refused because they had sat out a hur-ricane only two weeks before which pass-ed to the north of the section, and had suffered no ill effects. Officials then as diplomatically as possible informed the visitors that the eye was supposed to center on the beach. Even that failed to perturb them. As the hurricane drew nearer, county, state and city officials held a hurried conference as to what should be done. The group came up with a simple, effective answer. The police began knocking on doors, this time they waved off the objections of the occupants. "We are not asking you to leave this time. Glad for you to stay. The only thing we want is the name of your near-est living relative and his telephone num-ber." The tourists beat the officers off the beach. Must Be Opportunist, Too While his plan of work is developed and sold to his members, it usually consists, of necessity, of long range projects requir-ing two or three years. There is, there-fore, particularly in a resort area, a neces-sity to show his members results that attract attention, and put more money in the till. Although opportunists who rush in use up the chamber's funds, and go on tc greener fields, are unwanted, the managei must keep his eyes open for opportunities that materialize quickly. One manager wanted water skiing in hi 3 area. There was no money for a full scale water show, in fact there was noth-ing in the budget for even one ski. H( hied himself off to a friend who staged water shows and offered him a week al the resort in return for a little water ski ing where people could see it. The agree ment was made and the professional noi only came himself, but arranged for twc girls to be present over the weekend. Al day Saturday and Sunday the three watei skied. This in itself was good,, for i These shrimp boats out of Southport bring the im pact of the sea home to tourists. When publishe out of state, they keep Southport's name before th readers.—State of N, C. Photo. showed an interest. However, when th girls changed into different colored dii ferent bathing suits before each sessioi on the skis, visitors got the idea that th place was loaded with girl water sprite! Chances of Maximum Temperatures during any three day period— Morehead City- Beaufort, N.C. For the three day period Aug 4, 5, & 6, the chances are 80 in 100 (8 in 10) that the Maximum Temperatures will be less fhat Chances in 100 for rain on ony given date— Morehead City- Beaufort, N. C On July 15, the chances tar ram of any amount are 56 in 100, or about 6 /» The Morehead City and Carteret County Chamber of Commerce had this chart prepared to help conventii committees plan their seashore meetings. The top chart shows chances of maximum temperatures Ju> through September while the lower shows the chances in 100 of rain for any given date. While chano of rain on July 15 are 56 in 100, weather records show that it has rained every July 15 except five sin- 1922. This chart is similar to long range forecasts which some industries are finding useful todav. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 45 and the following weekend there wasn't room for all the skiers who showed up. (The number has remained constant and while they don't buy their skis there, they do spend a tidy sum each summer for board and room. Skin Divers, Too Another enterprising manager ascer-tained that there were plenty of fish for jspearfishermen, but no one to spearfish. placing small stories with the press and (radio and television stations, he stated that two girl spearfishers were trying their luck at his town. The girls showed up, so did many pho-tographers, and two from TV stations. The girls, with the simplest of gear, dived and came up every time with two or :hree fish on their spears. They fished ill day and never failed to bring up peared fish. Quite a bit of publicity •esulted and spearfishing took an upswing immediately. Although some of the newsmen suspect-d that the manager had placed a trap lull of fish on the bottom where the girls • . -. , ^""O^l 1 This picture shows Bill and Margaret Davies with >ome of the nets manufactured by their company in Vlorehead City. This picture, with an article about :he couple's "ship's agent", "ship's chandling com-iany", "importing company", "boat ramp facili-ies", and "net works" was sent to many publica-ions throughout the States.—Schumacher Photo. night open the door and spear as many ish as they liked, nothing was mentioned ibout it. Tough, But They Love It The average chamber manager in the Jnited States earns less than $6,000 a rear. Public relations men working for :ompanies with a budget far smaller than hat of the average small town, make two aid three times the salaries of small cham-ber managers. Naturally one wonders vhy they stay with the chambers instead if searching out a private concern with vhich to work. There is no exact answer, at least not •ne worked out scientifically. The only eason on which any degree of agreement an be reached is that he loves his work. The necessity of dealing day in and day iut with people, of helping them solve heir community-wide problems, and the iride of seeing a new industry bring more obs and dollars to his community seems ;reater than the remuneration. Loses Sight of Self Often the manager is so busy telling the outside world about the accomplishments of the community, that he fails to keep his members aware of his operation. This invariably shows up in the membership collections. Chambers never have enough money. Professional fund raising organizations make millions with drives and reorganiza-tions. Reputable firms often raise the bud-get of the chamber to four and five times its previous anticipation. The cost is spread over a three-year period, although the organization gets its entire fee the first year. By the end of the third year, the chamber is suffering again, and another drive is staged. These campaigns are successful for the same reason professional moneyraising groups employed by YMCA's and churches are successful. The local minister or the chamber manager has to live with his people. He cannot command the commit-tees and workers to go out and "assess" according to worth the members. The professional fund-raisers can and do. Frugal business men ( who are the cham-ber of commerce) feel they can't afford not to work in view of the big fee being paid. So they give their time and the time of their employees, something many of them will not do freely when the Cham-ber manager heads the drive, and he of course cannot force them. In defense of many chambers, the busi-ness men take a look at the professional plan and then formulate and put into ac-tion one of their own and most of the time, the money which would have been paid to outside interests, is included in the budget for local projects. These of course are the more aggressive chambers. Must Tell Members Bearing out the fact that chamber man-agers must keep their members informed of the chamber's accomplishments is this story- One manager was faced by his treasurer with the fact that the treasury had not a penny therein. An emergency meeting of the board of directors showed that even they were not aware of the success of the chamber. The manager knew that emergency meetings of the chamber were never well-attended, so he sent letters to each group of business men to the effect that a meeting of special interest to that particular group was scheduled. Thinking that only a small group of their competitors would be pres-ent, attendance was amazing. The president thanked them for coming and then read a list of more than 100 major accomplishments of the chamber that year. Just as the members had reached the peak of pride in accomplish-ment, he hit them with, "Gentlemen, this This old church has been camera-flogged hundreds of thousands of times by native and visit ; ng pho-tographers. It is St. Thomas Church in Bath, and has had its part in bringing people to North Carolina.—State of N. C. Photo. is a wonderful record and if we want it to continue the rest of the year, we must raise $2,000 tonight. $2,500 was raised in thirty minutes, not in pledges, but in cash. After that, a coffee hour was held each week in which members were invited to attend and give criticism and suggestions. A chamber bulletin supplemented the cof-fee breaks. Pictures important The value of pictures has never been disputed and most chamber managers either take their own, or have an arrange-ment with a photographer member. Scenic beauty is good, but most chamber men find that pictures of girls, children and animals seem to be published more often than others. A picture of Betty Jo Ring (a girl) astride a six-weeks-old (baby) bull (animal), was published in over 200 U. S. publications and graced the covers of four. Miss Ring was Miss North Carolina at the time. A picture (Continued on page 49) President of the N. C. Chamber Executives Asso-ciation Dick Degenhart, Mgr. at Asheville, chats with (L. to R.) Immediate Past President Bob Moore, Mgr. Leaksville-Spray-Draper Area; we failed to get this one's name; Bob Sanford, Ba-hama; and Vestal Taylor, Albemarle. The picture was snapped at Chapel Hill during the annual Chamber of Commerce Executive Southeastern In-stitute at which the managers try to upgrade their profession each year. Hundreds of Chamber man-agers have graduated from this class-room approach to community problems. PAGE 46 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 Friendly Rutherfordton is "Protected But Accessible" By Luke J. Caebonetti, Secy-Mgr. In a 20x24-foot office of the City Hall, the Rutherfordton Chamber of Commerce organized in 1955 holds forth. The Cham-ber has no income other than from its 125 members who have paid a fee of $25 to join. There is only one paid employee and he is Luke J. Car-bonetti, the Secre-tary- Manager. President of the organization is Bob Edwards, while the vice-president is Gar-land Cline, and the treasurer is Morris Go forth. The manager has been with the Chamber for four years and has five carbonett years of experience in chamber work. He has had fifteen years experience in Public Relations and served as a Mill Superin-tendent part of that time. The Chamber has been instrumental in town beautification and highway signs "big enough to read" easily without in-terrupting the view of the scenery. Uni-form store fronts to prevent a hodge-podge appearance of the city's business section has been sponsored as well as the planting of Japanese cherry trees. The Chamber's highway safety program is one of the most outstanding in the State. The traditional "illustrated brochure" goes a bit further than the average, ac-complishing its purpose with as few adjectives and high flown phrases as pos-sible. The budget of the Chamber is about $4,000 a year. There are three main divisions under the chamber management: Rutherfordton High Schoo Norris Public Library Industrial chairmaned by Dr. Beatt; Bass; Agricultural with co-chairmen Ger aid Cline and Reginald Toomey. There is a Merchant's Bureau in th< town but no separate Industrial Develop ment group. A monthly bulletin is pub lished for members and interested peopl and a county-wide industrial commissioi is in process of being formed utilizing th services of the ESC office to greater ad vantage. Says the conservative folder: "No are; of the United States is more advantage ously located for 'accessible' isolatio than Rutherfordton, N. C. Mountai: ranges on three sides provide protectio from severe weather and from potentis enemy air attack. It is far enough fror strategic military targets to be safe. Ye SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 47 it is within easy driving distance of three metropolitan areas—Spartanburg, S. C, Charlotte and Asheville, N. C. Convenient airline connections are available at Spar-tanburg (35 miles) and Asheville-Hender-sonville Airport (40 miles). North Carolina's superb highway sys-tem leads north, south, east and west from Rutherfordton. The drive to the "moun-tain playground" or to the three metro-politan areas is pleasant and easy. Train and bus connections can be readily made to any part of the country. And neighbor, it wouldn't be fair to let you go without reminding you that NEED A BUILDING? Rutherfordton has a group of public spirited citizens who will finance the construction of a building for new industry. They will put up to half-a-million dollars in this structure for the right firm. Write or telephone the Man-ager, Luke Carbonetti, P. 0. Box 447, Ruther-fordton, or phone ATwater 7-3090. friendly Rutherfordton is one of North Carolina's oldest communities. It is lo-cated on the slopes of the Blue Ridge . . . where the mountains meet the rolling Piedmont. It is a town of progressive, friendly people ... in the growing South-east . . . offers a well-rounded community life, ideal climate the year around . . . the center of a highly productive diversi-fied agricultural area, balanced with thriv-ing, healthy industries and unequaled recreation. New W.ng of Rutherford County Hospital. Fire house and trucks. Rutherfordton swimming pool. Rutherford County Home. PAGE 48 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL 1958 Rocky Mount Has Always Encouraged Agricultural Commercial, By Graham Dozier Executive Vice President The Rocky Mount Chamber of Com-merce was organized in 1904. The address is 157 Northeast Main Street. Our offices are located in the old City building which is still owned by DOZIER the City and made available to the Chamber of Com-merce rent free. We have five of-fices, lobby, and restrooms totaling about 1400 square feet. We have a very active mem-bership of approx-imately 475 mem-bers and our min-imum dues rate is $25.00 per year. We do not have multiple member-ships but through a Finance Com-mittee, try to establish an equitable rate for each member based on several factors. Since Rocky Mount owns its own utilities, they give the Chamber funds from this source to advertise and promote Rocky Mount as utility companies would do. Our staff consists of three: an Assist-ant Manager, Mr. Edward M. Stanfield, Office Secretary, Mrs. Betsy Winstead, and myself. The names of our officers are on the stationery. To make a more active Chamber operation, our officers and Board members are those usually who have previously served as Committee members, Committee Chairmen, Directors, then officers. In using this progressive method, our officers are usually well ac-quainted with the Chamber operation. It has been somewhat customary that the Second Vice President move up the ladder to First Vice President then President, again for a more effective administration. Our by-laws, however, do not make this mandatory nor that the President would necessarily have to come from the Board of Directors. However, the President can not succeed himself. I have been in my same capacity with the Chamber since September, 1950 which is the total of my Chamber experience. Prior to coming with the Chamber, I was public relations officer with one of the banks (Peoples Bank and Trust Com-pany) with whom I worked for ten years (1933-41 and 1948-50). In addition, I was Assistant Manager of the Pepsi-Cola Bot-tling Company in Birmingham, Alabama for several years during the "40s" with two years out for military service. From 1930-33, I worked in the offices of the Western Electric Company in New York City. Our Chamber budget runs around $30,- 000. We have about ten committees (List attached). Most of these committees carry on a very active program of work which means that our staff of three peo-ple are kept quite busy. Our basic econ-omy is Agriculture and Livestock. How-ever, we have a good diversity of rela-tively small industries and we also enjoy a nice tourist business with people travel-ing back and forth to Florida and other areas. Since 1951, we have had the Rocky Construction began this year on the North Carolina Wesleyan College as the cornerstone of the firsti building was set. The architects' drawing above, shows how the college will appear when completed I First buildings will be open to receive students in I960. This aerial view of Rooky Mount's "downtown" area was made by Killbrew's Studios. The railroad tracl| which splits the town into two counties (Nash, left and Edgecombe, right) may be seen diagonally across) the picture top-left to bottom, right. Mount Industrial Development Corpora-tion which was instigated by the Chamber but is a separate corporation set up espe-cially to handle cases where an industrial prospect wants someone to erect a build-ing and lease to them or to handle any other similar matters for which the Cham-ber was not in the position to take care of. This has been an active corporation, has handled two cases and instrumental in others. There are about 100 stockhold-ers in the corporation which has only a nominal amount of capital from common stock sold and their basic plan usually calls for erecting buildings at the going commercial rate with the plan that leases or agreements made by this Corporation can be sold to private capital so the Cor-poration's money will then be available for another venture. We have not made any "no interest" propositions or used any "gimmys" in seeking industrial prospects. The industries here take an active in-terest in our community and in most every case, have continued to expanc which has accounted for our large indus try growth. In fact, we encourage anc work to help develop our local industries and get any industries started using basic commodity manufactured by exist ing industries. We have an industria district partially in the city and part out side, through which the main line of tht Atlantic Coast Line Railroad runs anc to which water and sewer are availabh as well as good highways and adjacent t< our airport. Our Chamber publishes a rather com plete industrial brochure and severa other pieces of literature for general dis tribution. A newsletter is published pe riodically. The Chamber was very active in tin campaign for a new college for Rock; Mount, the construction of which is no^ under way. This will be the North Care SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 49 Industrial and Civic Growth Sinct Una Wesleyan College located on U. S. 301 about 2V2 miles north of Rocky Mount. Utilities are being carried to the college and it is expected that Rocky Mount will very rapidly go out to the college site. The people of Rocky Mount primarily with the assistance of the people in Nash and Edgecombe counties pledged approxi-mately $2,000,000 over a five year period (10 years in a few cases) toward the con-struction of the school. The balance of the money will be put up by the North Carolina Methodist Conference. This is only one of the items in our future plan-ning. We think our industrial district is long range planning. The city about two years ago, passed a $3,600,000 bond issue to expand its utilities which is long range planning. Most of this utility expansion has been completed. Rocky Mount's Fat Stock Show is famous through-out the country and shown here is the Grand Champ Steer of 1958.—Killebrew photo. I Rocky Mount's development has been radual and continuous and has not de-fended on military or any large industry lettling in our midst. Our basic growth ras been from within though in the past 'ew years, we have had several new in-lustries of moderate size to come into our :ommunity. In many respects, our growth las been very impressive particularly res-dential development and our city limits lave been extended in several areas to nclude these new developments. Accord-ng to statistics, Rocky Mount is the fast-est growing city in North Carolina during he past 50 years, and continues to be the tub of this section of northeastern North Carolina. The combination of agriculture, ivestock (by now a $11,000,000 industry), aanufacturing, transportation, distribu- Bili Murray and Kay Kyser were two of the prom-inent personages at the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meet-ing of the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce. More than 200 people from all parts of the country came for the "Home-coming".—Barringer Photo. tion, financial, medical and professional center give Rocky Mount a healthy eco-nomic status. Concerning the use of E. S. C. Services, we work very closely with the local offices located in Rocky Mount and they have rendered us valuable information on many occasions as well as the State of-fices in preparing special labor surveys. In spite of the fact that a County line splits Rocky Mount which causes many complications, we feel that Rocky Mount will continue to retain its position and its current population of approximately 34,000 people and will continue to grow. We are also convinced that eastern North Carolina will expand more rapidly than any other section of the State in the next 25 years, because of our natural assets and, more recently, a general inclination on the part of our citizens for a better economic future. CHAMBERS SPEND FULL TIME BUILDING RIGHT CLIMATE • (Continued from page 45) of two tuba players cooling their bare feet in the surf as they practiced with four majorettes in the background drew a 100 publications. All of this is a part of the work of the chamber of commerce manager. Pictures call attention of the public to the town from which they come. Sometimes they help hold a chamber together. Occasionally, if the chamber doesn't have a strong industrial committee, an pening ceremonies, U. S. 301 By-Pass around Rocky Mount. In the background are City, County and ighway officials, while in the foreground (L. to R.) are Nash County Board of Commissioners Chairman . L. Alford, Jr., Ginger Roney and Governor Luther H. Hodges.—Killebrew Photo. unsatisfied segment will split off and form a special industry-hunting unit. It may call itself the "Industrial Corporation", or "Industrial Committee", or any number of names. Instances of success are num-erous, but sometimes these groups are upshots of a spurt of enthusiasm caused by a rival town getting an industry. The committee employs someone from "out of town" to head the group, paying him often more than the chamber manager is receiving, and after a couple of years pass and nothing in the way of industry comes in, the group fizzles. The same amount of money judiciously used by a committee within the chamber could in most instances have accomplish-ed far more. Many chamber managers have found the services of the Employment Security Commission invaluable. Much of the in-formation sought by location-hunting in-dustries is kept by the ESC as routine in-formation. Labor pools of qualified workers may be discovered quickly. These workers are classified as to experience and if neces-sary, aptitude test batteries may be used to ascertain whether certain skills are prevalent among them. Local managers in the 55 local and 11 divisional offices of the ESC stand ready to render service day and night if neces-sary. Special assignments of interview-ers to assist employers in peculiar cir-cumstances are made, such as at Cherry Point on a housing project and the Navy base at Harvey Point. Most managers should check with the ESC first off for information regarding pools of employees. This information may be maintained current by a call to the local office once it is obtained. And of course, it precludes having to pay some professional group for ferreting out the same information. Peddlers of Progress Humorists look on the chamber man-ager as a comic figure, he may in some instances be, but more often he is the man responsible for your town's better street lights, honest traffic enforcement, larger pay rolls, and . even the local col-lege. Today he is a voracious reader studying ways and means to better his community. He is constantly striving to upgrade his profession by attending institutes and meetings and seminars. He is gradually gaining his goal. Prom a few years ago when managers changed jobs every year or two at most, today's average chamber manager stays six years in a town. Some have remained to retire. The profession-al organizations of chamber executives both state and national number hundreds on their rosters. Information and know-how are exchanged on everything from letter writing to pig chains, and from drinking fountains to public speaking. The chamber manager's merchandise isn't stacked on shelves, packed in a sam-ple case, or made in a factory. It's all around him every day he lives. His line is progress. His non-profit organization, supported principally by employers does not represent employers against labor, owners against managers, or buyer against seller. It represents the entire community and the manager has his mas-ter salesman's job cut out for him. Truly, he must be a peddler of progress. Regard-less of the weather, he has to continue to build the right climate. PAGE 50 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 NEW INDUSTRY OFFERS PUBLIC By David Witherspoon, WRAL-TV Director Promotion and Public Relations An exciting new industry for Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina began opera-tion on December 15, 1956. WRAL-Tele-vision made a modest start from tempo-rary studios at the transmitter location near Auburn, about 12 miles southeast of Raleigh. From a tower 1170 feet high it serves a radius of almost 100 miles on Channel Five. Letters are received from regular viewers farther away than 100 miles—from Laurinburg, Whiteville and other points. Several letters have been received from the Panhandle in Texas, from Oklahoma, Iowa, upstate New York and Nova Scotia, but unfortunately the station cannot claim the people in these areas in its regular viewing audience. NOTE Among new industries opening up in North Carolina recently is that of Television Stat;on WRAL-TV in Raleigh. The station, once it got started, grew so fast that even the owners were amazed. This is the story of one station which could be duplicated by other TV stations in this State and is contributing to the growth of the North Carolina economy daily. In the enormous "Golden Circle" of Channel Five's radius live nearly two million people with a buying power in excess of two billion dollars, a populous area of huge industrial plants, thriving businesses, rich farm lands and numerous educational institutions. With the geo-graphical advantage of being located in the Capital City, the station's viewers get the news as it happens, as the majority of the state news items "break" in Ral-eigh. New Equipment "The finest equipment available—that's what you'll have!" So promised the Com-pany President, Mr. A. J. Fletcher. The promise was not an empty one, nor was it wishful thinking. A stroll through the production building discloses the facts. All equipment, completely new, more than meets the basic requirements for telecast-ing. With such equipment as the video tape recorder, the mobile unit and the Houston Fearless motion picture film processor, WRAL-Television can match the physical production of any station in the country. There are seven cameras which may be used in either studio or in the mobile unit. Each of these cameras cost from $20,000—to $23,000. By use of lantern slides, projected through a translucent screen, a scene can be set (with amazing reality) at a pic-turesque sidewalk cafe in Paris or the colorful midway of a carnival. With drawings and paintings, Channel Five's art department is busy turning out a number of these scenes, as is the Pho-tography Department by the use of photo-graphs. Inside the two mammoth studios, one of the most spectacular sights is the equipment for lighting, which is a highly important phase of television. If inade-quate, a scene looks flat, lacks dimension. The ceilings of the two studios are bank-ed with lights of every variety; baby spots, floods, scoops, each of which per-forms a special function. The ceiling With A. E. Rackley, contractor, (left), President A. J. Fletcher inspects the construction of the electric ] full-color fountain which was completed the day before the "Open House". lights are all hung from metal stretchers which enable the lights to be focused on many levels. The lights are controlled by two Kleigl lighting panels which carry a total of 140 circuits in Studio A and one 70-circuit board in Studio B. These boards will handle enough current to lightU eight average homes. One of the items of equipment causing! excitement around WRAL—Television! since its arrival is the new $100,000 re-fl mote mobile unit. The unit was designed! WRAL Television photographer Owen Ballance hits jackpot in news shot as he gets ESC Chairman Henn E. Kendall, Solicitor Robert D. Rouse of Farmville, Betty Lane Evans, Miss North Carolina, and with hi: back to the camera. Wake County Solicitor Lester Chalmers. All were at the Morehead Biltmore Hote for meetings. IUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 51 MEW LOOK IN TELEVISION STATIONS y Virgil Duncan, Chief Engineer, and ras custom constructed by General Elec- •ic. It may be used in bringing sporting vents, store openings, fair festivities, pa-ides and other distant events to the ome viewers. The unit is ready to move t a moment's notice to the site of some ewsworthy happenings. With outlets for rar television cameras, it is capable of ansmitting a signal to the WRAL-TV reduction building from a distance of 5 miles. A revolutionary new facility was added > the station's equipment with the pur-iase of the Ampex Video Tape Recorder, le first in operation in North Carolina, his amazing machine not only records jund, but picture as well . . . and with loss of quality such as you experience i film. The tape recorder permits immediate iayback of any spot announcement or fogram without any form of processing, ou merely have to re-wind the tape, he machine is put to excellent use every ly in WRAL-Television's program plans, is ideal for recording interviews, etc., the convenience of the talent, for later ayback when the talent's presence might )t be available. During a recent polit-al campaign, one candidate tape record- 1 a rally at a time convenient for the owd. The playback was scheduled at time to reach the greatest potential idience while the candidate was making ilitical hay in another area. P. C. He on the election. Advertisers too are iding that tape recorded spots eliminate e danger of announcer's "fluffs" while the same time retaining a "live" qual-y in the announcement. Facilities When completed, the physical plant of RAL-Television will rank with the fin-t in the country. The production plant s been in operation since March, 1958. mstfuction is progressing on the admin-tration building which should be occu-ed in December. Next on the building ogram is a studio-auditorium which will at about 250, for live shows, beauty geants and other productions. The last iase of the building program will be e construction of an amphitheater "rich will seat around 1000 persons. The two main buildings will have a tal of 35,000 square feet. The two large idios, already mentioned, are 60 x 60 and 60 x 40 ft. both with 20-foot ceil- ;s. One of the most spectacular sights is i electric fountain, located in front of 3 administration building and facing i highway. The spraying jets of water ange formation every few seconds. At ?ht, color lights playing on the spray "nish an unforgettable effect. Programming The primary aim of the station is to 've the interest of the public. In order better effect this purpose, the manage-nt has gathered men and women who i prominent in the fields of education, riculture, religion, fine arts and discus-n into program councils to examine the •gram plans and policies. \t called meetings these councils sug-it ways and means of improving and Architect's sketch of the completed building plans of WRAL-Television. Production building on right and fountain have been completed and are in use. implementing the station's service to those interested in these particular fields. A meeting of the Agriculture Council resulted in the determination to carry TODAY ON THE FARM, a week-day half hour program that originates at the Uni-versity of North Carolina State College studios of WUNC-TV. The Religious Council initiated the CHURCH OF OUR FATHERS program. The Fine Arts Council made suggestions that will result in a program of music appreciation. Following are the names of the mem- Vice President and Gen. Mgr. Fred Fletcher inter-views Andy Griffith, native North Carolinian and star of radio, screen, TV, Broadway and famous for his "What It Was Was Football" and "No Time for Sergeants." bers of the various councils: Agricultural Council—D. W. Colvard, Dean State Col-lege School of Agriculture; E. Y. Floyd, Director Plant Food Institute of N. C.; L. Y. Ballentine, State Commissioner of Agriculture; David Weaver, N. C. Exten-sion Service; Horace Godfrey, U. S. De-partment of Agriculture. Fine Arts Coun-cil —Mrs. Nancy Stamey, Director, Ral-eigh Children's Theater; Mrs. Bernadette Hoyle, journalist-photographer; Henry L. Kamphoefner, Dean, N. C. State Col-lege School of Design; Mrs. Joye E. Jor-don, State Hall of History; Arnold E. Hoffman, State Board of Education; James B. Byrnes, Associate Director, N. C. Museum of Art; J. H. Brendle, Jr., Recreational Director, State Hospital; Foster Fitz-Simmons, UNC Department of Dramatic Art; Roy L. Gussow, N. C. State College School of Design. Educational Council—E. W. Ruggles, Director, Exten-sion Division, N. C. State College; Miss Cora Bomar, State Board of Education; Dr. Christopher Crittenden, Director, State Department of Archives & History; J. Warren Smith, State Board of Educa-tion; Dr. Allen Hurlburt, Department of Education, Duke University; Kenneth Mc- Intyre, UNC Audio Visual Aids Depart-ment. Religious Council—Rabbi Harry Caplan, Temple Beth-Or; Father Richard Allen, Sacred Heart Cathedral; Morton R. Kurtz, N. C. Council of Churches; Dr. Bernard H. Boyd, UNC Department of Religion. Public Service In addition to the many scheduled pro-grams and announcements on the part of humane agencies, Channel Five is alert to any worthy request for time by educa-tion groups. On one occasion the station interrupted its evening schedule for sev-eral hours to carry a telethon in an effort to raise money to send the high school band to Florida for an appearance. The station staff worked for hours as production crew, talent, telephone opera-tors, etc. to achieve the goal of $5,000. The amount needed was pledged and the grateful students signed a thank you let-ter, over 100 feet long, addressed to the manager. Another off-the-air public service was the sponsorship, in 1958, of six youth baseball teams in five cities in the cover-age area. WRAL-Television furnished uniforms, balls, bats, etc. for over 100 youngsters who might not, otherwise, have had an opportunity to play with an organized team, The station carried its PAGE 52 THE E. S„ C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL 1958 remote unit to most of these cities and televised a closed-circuit report of the game, with monitors set up for the spec-tators to view. Opera in English On The Air is another public service planned by the station. With the talent and facilities of the na-tional touring Grass Roots Opera at its disposal, WRAL-Television could well be-come the opera station of the nation. Several programs of opera excerpts have already been presented, and have met with widespread approval. Personnel Regardless of the fine facilities and equipment, no station is better than the personnel that heads it. WRAL-Televi-sion is guided by people with extensive broadcasting background. The President, A. J. Fletcher, founded WRAL-Radio in 1939, later pioneered in the development of FM radio. A leading attorney in Ral-eigh, Mr. Fletcher is interested in several successful business enterprises. In 1948 he founded the National Grass Roots Opera Movement in America with the mission of giving experience to young singers and of giving the public an op-portunity to hear opera performed in English. This has grown into a nation-wide activity and Mr. Fletcher was presented a citation by the President of the Na-tional Federation of Music Clubs for his efforts in the progress of good muic. Fred Fletcher, Vice President and Gen-eral Manager was active in radio as an-nouncer, talent, program director and station manager. Long interested in youth welfare, he is a member of the North Carolina Recreation Advisory Com-mittee. His civic activities include an award by the Jaycees in 1943 as the "Man Of The Year", service in Raleigh Mer-chants Bureau. Sales Executives Club, Chamber of Commerce, Raleigh City Coun-cil, Civitan Club and Chairman of Raleigh Park and Recreation Commission. He is a member of the board of deacons of Ridge Road Baptist Church. Program Director George Hall had much radio experience in Virginia and North Carolina before joining WRAL-Radio as Program Director in 1950. He is active in Little Theater productions and has had several original plays per-formed in North Carolina and Virginia. Sports Director Ray Reeve needs no in-troduction to followers of sports in the Southeast. For years his play-by-plays of football and basketball games have been must listening on radio networks of as many as 60 stations. Reeve's long experi-ence gives a stamp of authority to his pungent commentary on sports happen-ings. Bill Armstrong, News Director, has the ability to digest news stories into a lis-tenable few words. A graduate in jour-nalism, he brought newspaper and radio news background to Channel Five. Virgil Duncan, Chief Engineer, had the responsibility for planning and installing the equipment to put the station on the air. So thorough is his knowledge that he can quote the function of about any tube you can name. Duncan, while in charge of radar installations in the Pacific during World War II, received a citation for his modifications in electronic equip-ment. A former instructor at Georgia Tech, he joined the Capital Broadcasting Company in 1946. Raleigh native Fletcher Turner spent General Manager Fred Fletcher checks the air conditioning on remote unit as Cameramen James Barbot and William Gregory prepare for an evening closed circuit telecast of a baseball game in Fayetteville. (top L. to R. midget leagu In spite of the "Danger, Stay Off" sign, Fred Fletcher and David Witherspoon climb the TV tower to sprelj out the lengthy letter of thanks signed by students of Needham Broughton High School. The letter W in appreciation for the successful Band Telethon run by the station to raise money to send the Schi|| Band to Miami. iUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 53 Engineer Durwood Neuse readies the video tape recorder for program taping. 5 years in sales with agencies and net-works in New York before returning to is home town as Sales Manager for VRAL-Radio in 1953. He is now putting-is experience to good use as National ales Manager for WRAL-Television. Local Sales Manager Bernie Whitaker 3 a graduate of the University of North arolina. He has had varied retail sell-ag experience and came to WRAL-Tele-ision from the sales department of ySJS-TV. Louise Stephenson, Office Manager, Dined WRAL-Radio in 1944 as reception-ist and moved through almost every phase of radio operation to assistant to the gen-eral manager. Mrs. Stephenson is Secre-tary of Capital Broadcasting Company. David Witherspoon, Director of Promotion and Public Relations gained promotion experience in National Grass Roots Opera and WRAL-Radio, which he joined in 1947. Other radio experience includes purchasing, accounting and as a singer on his own regional network program. Other posts in the Art, Film, Produc-tion and Engineering departments are filled by young men and women with ex- »«utiAjfe[a !»^Q^ tensive television experience. By operating at full power on Channel Five, with full program service from NBC-TV, color and black and white, with superior local programming backed by competent personnel and new equipment, WRAL-Television promises to continue to be an industry of service for its viewers throughout central and eastern North Carolina. BRYSON CITY'S MANAGER RECEIVES PAY TEN WEEKS EACH YEAR For five years Robert W. Gammon has been Manager of the Bryson City Cham-ber of Commerce. With fifteen unpaid Di-rectors, Gammon who has served as a department store clerk, a U. S. Marine, librarian, hotel desk clerk, teacher and in winter months (currently is a school principal, helps to bring tourists and in-dustry to the town. "The budget varies," says Manager Gammon, "according to the amount of dues we can collect each year. Dues vary from $5 to $100 according to the amount of business each member does. Sometimes its as small as $2,000 and has reached $5,000. Our section is primarily farm and tourist-type territory." Committee chairmen of the mountain chamber are: James Myers, Tourist; Le-roy Sossaman, Industrial; R. L. Lyday, Agricultural; William Bumbarner, Mer-chants; and T. L. Woodard Recreational. "We have used the ESC services several times in labor surveys and find them use-ful. If anyone will help us locate some in-dustry, we'll tend to getting it to move here," says Mr. Gammon. ere are a few of the 6,000 visitors and part of the cars that brought them to the WRAL-TV "Open House" |j|y 13, 1958. They were shown the production building and were ail "televised" and watched themselves l monitors set up about the building. WAKE FOREST HAS PROBLEMS AND IS GOING ABOUT SOLVING THEM For four years J. A. Hartsfield has been the Executive Secretary of the Wake For-est Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber's budget is $1,000 a year, and a membership drive is now underway to improve the financial picture of the organization. Wake Forest is faced with problems that confront few towns its size. It has a Baptist Seminary located there and is hard-put to find employment for Students and their wives (many of the minister-ial students are married ) . This is one of the main problems that the ESC is help-ing solve. During the past year the Chamber has been directly instrumental in securing new industry in the form of a Purina Feed Mill and a poultry business. The Chamber is being saluted in the local newspaper "The Wake Weekly" with an entire edition. Employment problems also confront the chamber in the case of its negro popula-tion. Since many available positions in the town require more training than ordi-narily might be the case in a community of like population, many of the older Negroes are automatically eliminated from the applicants because of education. Many know only farm work or are un-skilled in any craft. The Chamber is work-ing on this particular problem in an at-tempt to bring in industry to utilize these willing workers. PAGE 54 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 195 EDEMTOX CHAMBER'S REORGANIZATION THIS YEAF By Martha Jackson Secretary, PIO, E.8.C. The Edenton, N. C. Chamber of Com-merce was organized in 1918 under the name of the Chowan County Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association. For many years the organization rendered valuable service to its mem-bers and the com-munity, but many businessmen thought the cham-ber would be more dynamic if a full-time manager could be employed to supervise its activities. In October 1957 a group of leading citizens finally realized that the Chamber should be reorganized JACKSON and refinanced and undertook a successful membership campaign. The budget was now sufficient to engage a full-time, expe-rienced chamber of commerce executive and in January 1958. Herry H. Smith, Jr. of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, was elected executive vice president. An at-tractive office with new equipment and furniture was opened in the Hotel Joseph Hewes with a full-time office secretary, Miss Anne Haiiess. The membership total at January 1 was 156 companies and individuals. Seven were added since, making 163. Member-ships are based on $25 units with many large companies and some individuals purchasing several units. Both the Town of Edenton and Chowan County are mem-bers. However, the Chamber receives no other income from government or from other sources. Board Formulates Program The general pro-gram of the Cham-ber and its poli-cies are formulat-ed by the board of directors and carried out under the supervision of the executive vice president, Mr. Smith. He has been associated with chambers of commerce and trade associations for over twenty years in New York, Connecticut and Florida. He had left Chamber work to go into the printing business but has now returned to the organization field. The Edenton Chamber of Commerce operates through standing committees set up to cover major recurring activities, and special committees appointed to han-dle projects of a non-recurring nature. (Chairmen of standing committees are given on page 55.) Since the economy of the area is based on agriculture, industry and tourism, the SMITH Chamber's major projects are devoted to these categories. Of course, the mer-chants committee is concerned with the improvement and promotion of retail trade and works closely with other cham-ber committees in carrying out these ob jectives. Edenton has a lot to offer tourists. First, its historic public buildings and private homes are nationally known for their charm and fine state of preservation. Secondly, Albemarle Sound, Edenton Bay and their tributaries are the largest coast-al body of fresh water in the world, offer-ing excellent fishing, boating and hunt-ing. The Chamber is devoting much of its efforts to bring these wonderful assets to the attention of more people. While the area's agriculture is healthy and contributes in large measure to the economic wellbeing of the community, many leaders realize that there should be greater industrial activity to balance the economy. In 1954 the Edenton Devej opment Corporation was incorporated t promote, assist and develop a greater vo ume of industry in the area. This orgaij izations work closely with the Chamber Industrial Committee in seeking new ii dustry and assisting local industry. Ovc 150 local businessmen and women a> stockholders in the development corpor, tion. ESC Closely Associated In connection with industrial activit; the Chamber works closely with Miltoj Bass, manager of your Edenton office, il obtain employment information and otlu services. In passing, we would like 1 point out that Mr. Bass has been extreml ly helpful and cooperative in supplyic statistics and obtaining specific inform tion for our use. The Chamber has been extremely actn|| during the past six months in all of il The Cupola House of Edenton was described by Thomas Waterman as "the outstanding house of t| region." The actual date of its construction, based on its peculiar architectural features, would appro; imate 1772.—N. C. Photo. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 55 PROMISES HEIGHT FUTURE FOR COMMUNITY " ; Edenton's Teapot marking the spot where the resi-dence of Mrs. Elizabeth King stood. In October of 1774 the ladies of Edenton met here for a most unusual tea party. Picture above this depicts the scene as printed in London soon after.—N. C. Photos. HISTORIC i IWagESSiVE WELCOiE/ amm etmmm divisions. We are endeavoring to build an organization worthy of the members' support and one which will be a credit to the community. While many of the organization's projects and services bring immediate benefits to members, much of the chamber's work is on long-term proj-ects. This includes industrial develop-ment, highway improvement, development of the waterfront, developing tourist and recreational trade, and the like. Monthly Bulletin The Advertising and Promotion Com-mittee is planning to inaugurate a month-ly news bulletin for members in October at the start of the new fiscal year. The Recreation and Tourist Committee pub-lishes a semi-monthly Fishing News Bul-letin which contains fishing information, winners in the Chamber's weekly fishing contest and other news of interest to sportsmen. This has attracted wide at-tention and now goes to over 300 news-papers, sportsmen, sports dealers and others in the state. The officers and board of directors face the future confident that the Chamber is contributing to, and will promote, the steady growth of Edenton and Chowan County. There is a great deal to offer in this area to anyone who would like to do business, to work and live in a delightful community. Standing Committees 1958 Advertising and Promotion, Jim Earn-hardt, Chairman; Agriculture, Lloyd E. Bunch, Chairman; Education, Rev. George Holmes, Chairman; Health and Safety, Dr. R. N. Hardin, Chairman; Highways, W. W. Byrum, Chairman; Industrial De-velopment, Spec Jones, Chairman; Mer-chants, Ralph Parrish, Chairman; Park-ing and Traffic, J. R. Dulaney, Chairman; State and -National Affairs, J. Clarence Leary, Sr., Chairman; and Tourist and Recreation, Scott Harrell, Chairman. Some Chambers of Commerce erect elaborate signs, other more conservative signs with less type mat-ter such as the one above welcoming visitors to Edenton. CHAPEL HILl-CARRBORO CHAMBER HOUSES THREE ORGANIZATIONS Organized in 193.1, the Chapel Hill-Carr-boro Chamber of Commerce also includes the Merchants Association and the Credit Bureau. With "sliding-scale" dues from $25 to $100, the organizations boast 150 current members. The income of the Chamber is augmented with monies re-ceived for collections of the Credit Bu-reau and promotions of the Merchants As-sociation. TIME magazine recently ran Chapel Hill as one of the 24 nicest places to live. In addition to the University of North Carolina, the famed "Research Triangle" and Research Park is just a short drive from the city limits. Anne Graham (L), and Rosemary Holmes of Eden-ton look over the tobacco crop and decide that the outlook for local farmers is good this year. The ESC provides a recruiting service for farm workers to harvest the farm crops of the area. Edenton's bay and picturesque creeks offer excel-lent fishing, boating, picture-taking, paintjng, and recreation. Local marinas provide all supplies and boat rentals. Chowan County's famous Court House, widely known for its fine Georgian design, has been in constant use since its construction in 1767. Out-standing feature of the structure is the beautiful panelled assembly room on the second floor. PAGE 56 THEE. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 STATESVILLE, NEW CENTER OF SMALL INDUSTRY :M ¥ The Statesville Chamber of Commerce was organized and chartered in 1927. It operated several years on a full-time basis. From about 1934 until 1947, it m.—^Bmm operated on a part-time basis with the Secretary of I the Merchants As-sociitt inn (levol ing § ' time to Chamber of CnimiirriT ac-tivities. In 1947 the Chamber of (' o in m e r co was completely reor-uanized and R. I). "Shank" Warwick I was brought in as manager of the new setup. He has about 15 years % of Chamber expe-rience. WARWICK Shank had been Assistant Manager of the Winston-Salem Chamber and performed the reorganiza-tion of the Statesville operation. Since that time a 1,500 square foot building has been built to house the offices and it is owned outright by the Chamber. It is located at 223 South Center Street, but the mailing address is Post Office Box 1064, Statesville. Without counting the property on which the Chamber building rests, the organization has an investment in its building and furnishings of about $25,000. The land which is occupied by the build-ing was furnished by the City of States-ville and because of its location on main street, has quadrupled in value since the chamber was organized. $25 Membership The unit membership of the organiza-tion is about 350 and the base cost per membership is $25. Many employers carry multiple memberships. There are two paid, full-time employees. Names of the officers this year are: Russell Hanson, President; Nathan Mc- Elwee, 1st Vice President; Joe Sherrill, 2nd Vice President; W. W. Barnes, Treas-urer; and General Manager R. D. "Shank" Warwick. The Chamber can proudly claim the credit for being instrumental in bringing over 20 industries to Statesville. None of the industries were brought in by "but-ton- holing" or "horse-collaring" members of the Chamber for funds to buy land or to build building's. Not one of the major industries in Statesville leases or other-wise rents the plant in which it operates. This is a record of which Statesville may be justly proud. Many communities of necessity, have had to resort to build-ing plants, or buying land, or subsidizing taxes, but not Statesville. Every indus-try that has gone to the city has financed its own way in buying land and building buildings. Because of the Chamber's fine work in that respect it has received state-wide and national recognition. Many Accomplishments And look at some of the other note-worthy accomplishments. It has built its own air-conditioned office building; estab- Technical Furniture, top, is one of the new industries brought to Statesville by the Chamber of Com-merce; next is the home of Empire Manufacturing Company; then the new J. C. Penney Company Ware-house, beneath that is the new Southern Screw Company Plant. These are four of the twenty new in-dustries recently brought to Iredell County. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 57 ibove is the modern air-conditioned Chamber of Commerce building of Statesville. the main-street property and the Chamber built the building. The city furnished ished a city-management form of govern-ient; established the Iredell-Statesville Inited Fund; Iredell Community Founda-ion; instrumental in securing good high-rays for the community including the rossing of two big interstate highways ear the city limits; Civic Club Council; lus a number of other small but impor-int activities, such as the Personnel Club, ublishing a number of folders and bro-liures on Statesville, attracting conven-iens, and others too numerous to men-ion. The Chamber is a separate organization nd is not affiliated with the Merchant's ssociation. The budget of the Chamber $20,000 a year. There are several eom-littees with chairmen such as: Execu-ve, Russell Hanson; Industrial Develop-lent, Paul Meech; Agricultural, Turner age and W. W. Barnes (co-chairmen). Statesville and Iredell County are well-alanced between industry and farming. owever, you could say Statesville and "edell are primarily industrial due to le recent addition of the 20 industries. ews media refer to the area as a "Small, iversified industrial community." There re no large plants, all are small and iried. The Chamber believes this to be te secret of a sound economy. Varied Money Crops The County itself is far from a one-oney- crop county. While it is the larg-it milk producing county in the south-ist, poultry is close behind dairying. )rn, cotton and tobacco are about dollar- (uals in farmer income. B Nearby Mooresville with a Chamber anaged by W. J. Haselden works in close operation with Statesville in develop-ent of that section of Iredell County. Said Shank Warwick when asked if the 3C contributes to the expansion of the unty's industries: "Hardly a week goes that the local ESC office, under the magership of Mr. Wade Wilson, is not lied upon for some type of service, ithout this excellent service and sup-rt from Mr. Wilson's office, I feel sure we could not have landed many of the industries we have. Recently the local ESC office conducted a city and area-wide labor survey which played a great part in landing the C. Howard Hunt Pen Com-pany for Statesville, Iredell County and the State. "The C. Howard Hunt Pen Company is a very fine firm which is today giving em-ployment to approximately 275 people and is manufacturing metal products such as the Boston Pencil Sharpener, Speedball pens, and other major items. "Yes, we are most grateful for the sup-port from our local and State ESC offices. We have no suggestions at present as to how the service might be improved. We have yet to ask a question, or make a request that hasn't been answered or filled." Whence Came Its Name? STATESVILLE—One of the oldest cities in North Carolina, Statesville can point to an im-pressive and lusty past—-but no one can say how it got its name. The town was built in 1789 just outside the stockade, Fort Dobbs, which at that time was the most active outpost in this section against the Cherokee Indians. (Daniel Boone helped defend the fort twice). Settled by Scotch-Irish and Germans from Maryland and Pennsylvania, the community was incorporated into a town in 1847 under the name, Statesville. The reason for selecting this name is not recorded, but there are a couple of conjectures. The first is that the early pioneers wanted to honor the 13 states which only nine years earlier had won their independence. The second is that the community had be-come a stop-over for travelers on the then famous States Road. In this area are at least two other historical facts of special note: Here Kit Carson, the famous Indian fighter and pioneer was born; and here Marshal Ney, the hunted and matchless lieutenant of Napoleon Bonaparte, died. TEN REASONS WHY INDUSTRY PICKS A CITY One of the most successful areas in se-curing industry without subsidizing it is the Statesville, Iredell County area. The town has lost some big ones like General Electric to Hickory, and then turned around and brought in three small ones which would add more payroll to the community. Statesville's more than 60 industries are engaged in furniture, wood-working, textile, metal and food manufacturing. Its manufactured products include furni-ture, of all types, metal products such as farm and brick machinery, table slides, screws, soft and synthetic materials not only manufactured but made into various types of apparel; toys, paper products, paint, flour and feeds and milk products. W. D. "Shank" Warwick, general man-ager of the Statesville Chamber of Com-merce said the ten most important fac-tors considered by new industries in their decisions to move to Statesville were: 1. A cooperative Chamber of Commerce which works tirelessly to the advantage of all concerned. 2. Attractiveness of the city. 3. Spirit of cooperation and civic pride. 4. Good government as evidenced by municipal foresight in extending city utilities. 5. Ratio of bonded indebtedness to taxes and progress in schools, recreational and social facilities. 6. Highway development and location of industrial property to transportation facilities. 7. Proximity to scheduled air service. 8. Overall distribution of the commun-ity's wealth. 9. A mayor-city manager type govern-ment which officials here believe is the most efficient, most progressive of munici-pal governments. 10. Industrial planning with an eye to attractive, protected industrial property. ROSMAN'S 65 MEMBERS ARE WIDE AWAKE GROUP Without a paid secretary, the 65-member Rosman Chamber of Commerce is as active as any in the State. Individual dues are $2.50 per person and business mem-berships are $5 each. Mrs. J. E. Osborne is the Secretary of the Chamber and its President is W. S. Sagar, Vice President is A. E. Hogsed, and the Treasurer is B. E. Keisler. Mrs. Osborne has been in Chamber work one year. The only Committee of the Chamber is the Industrial Committee headed by the President and it spends full time seeking industry. When asked what the ESC could do to help the city of Rosman, the Secretary replied, "Help us find some industry and get a city water and sewage plant!" PAGE 58 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 195? GREENSBORO'S CHAMBER ACTIVE SINCE 1876 The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce was organized in 1876 and has taken the leadership in Greensboro's growth since that date. The offices are now located at 225 North Greene Street and are leased from a local real estate firm. The Cham-ber occupies some 5,000 sq. ft. of space. Memberships now total approximately 1,500, the highest in the Chamber's his-tory. The minimum subscription is $50.00 and increases on a graduating scale ac-cording to the size of the company. Mem-bership subscriptions account for the en-tire income of the organization and the budget for the current calendar year is $91,000. The staff of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce is made up of nine employees, including the executive vice-president, William B. Little, three department heads, a receptionist, two secretaries, and an office manager. Officers in addition to Mr. Little are Orton A. Boren, President; Huger King, Vice-President; and L. I. Swindell, Treasurer. Mr. Little has been in Chamber of Commerce work for seven years. Three years of that time have been with the Greensboro Chamber and he has been the executive vice-president for the past year and a half. His pre-vious Chamber of Commerce experience included advertising and industrial work. The program of work at Greensboro Chamber of Commerce is carried out through its seven divisions: Industrial, Governmental, Civic Affairs, Agriculture, Promotion, Trade Development, and Mem-bership. These divisions are headed by the chairmen who also serve as members of the Board of Directors. They are J. A. Doggett, Industrial; "William M. York, Governmental; Carson Bain, Civic Affairs; Greensboro bankers leave for industrial prospect trip to Cleveland, Ohio. I. to r. : W. V. Learning, Guiljl ford National Bank; Herbert G. Bailey, Jr., Bank of Greensboro; M. L. Cuningham, Wachovia Bank an I Trust Company; Paul L. Doster, Security National Bank; John B. Parramore, Jr., Manager, Industrie I Department, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Yancey C. Hines, Agriculture; John B. Hatfield, Membership; Miles H. Wolff, Pro-motion; and Herbert G. Bailey, Trade Development. Working with these dl vision chairmen are the Department Mail agers John B. Parramore, Industrial! George E. Fisher, Trade Development! and William S. Leinbach, Civic Affairs. I GREENSBORO PAYROLL CALENDAR JUNE, 1958 Day of Daily Week Month Payroll Mon 2 $ 516,334 Tue 3 208,767 Wed 4 185,521 Thu 5 761,158 Fri 6 3,109,073 Sat 7 44.762 T $4,825,615 Perce; of Wei 10 i 15 64 Too Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 9. 10 II. 12 13. 14. 60,364 187,134 275,820 490,1 12 3,082,790 139,378 $4,235,598 I 4 6, II 72 3 100 Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat 16 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 178,935 144,040 255,804 659,511 3,277,392 44,762 14 71 $4,560,444 I0G Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 23 24. 25. 26 27. 28. 60,364 96,563 794,470 503,932 3,157,363 43,426 2 1/ 10 6/ $4,656,118 Mon 30 4,260,158 Tue July 1 476,426 Wed 2 190,355 Thu 3 3,746,246 Fri 4 88,567 Sat 5 119,749 Making plans for the Three-City Symphony Committee are these representatives from left: Herbert Hazel-man, Chairman, Performing Arts Committee, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce; Frits Vandersteur, repre-senting High Point; Mrs. J. C. Cowan, Jr., also representing the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce; and John lule, Conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra. Plans for the organization of the Three-. City Symphonic group should be well along in the near future. $8,881,501 J0C 48 5 'i 42 I I IOC Trade Development Department Greensboro Chamber of Commerce Represents payrolls within the city limits only. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 59 The Chamber's year-round program is carried out through these divisions and ;he various committees that are neces-sary to do the work. There are, for exam-lie, five major committees in the Civic Affairs Division, all of which require a lumber of sub-committees. Active pro-grams are carried out on both short range, )ut primarily, long range programming. Ml of these groups have projects under vay that make the Chamber of Commerce he most active and progressive in its ntire history. By way of example, the Agriculture Division, which is now con-lucting some of the finest 4-H and FFA ictivities in the State and works closely vith the many State Farm Organizations hat have headquarters in Greensboro, has )lans underway that will make Greens-joro an even more active agricultural •enter with the establishment of grange itorage facilities, a large wholesale pro-luce market, and other operations. The Chamber's Industrial Manager devotes ull time to the acquisition of new indus- |ry for the area and to working with xisting industrial firms. The Greensboro area is primarily in-lustrial, manufacturing, and agricultural. Some of the world's leading industrial 'irms have their headquarters in Greens-oro, and the city has recently become a igarette manufacturing community with he recent opening of the P. Lorillard 'lant. The city itself now has 50 sq. liles and has a population of 120,000 fithin its city limits. There is a separate industrial organ-nation that works with the industries a both Greensboro and High Point. This Piedmont Associated Industries which ras organized some eight or ten years go. Greensboro also has a Merchants association. The Chamber has a number of publica-ons: A monthly bulletin, consisting of "om four to eight pages and entitled limpses of Greensboro, is prepared lonthly for the Chamber's membership. olders and brochures are available for mrists, and the departments also have leir own printed material, prepared from me to time to fill existing and long-range eeds. The Chamber does much of its wn printing work and has excellent ffice equipment and well-trained opera- >rs. The organization, as an aid in its ublic relations, has complete photog- Awards to the supreme champion entry in the Aberdeen-Angus Futurity Show and Sale in March were made by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce and Bank of Greensboro. W. A. Short (left) manager of the bank's Farm Department, presented F. B. Davis of Yemassee, S. C. (center), owner of the winning animal, with a silver cup, and Yancey C. Hines, Chairman of the Chamber's Agriculture Division, awarded Mr. Davis a silver tray and banner. raphy equipment and a dark room to be possibly the only large Chamber in North Carolina to be so equipped. ESC services are being used by the Greensboro Chamber and will continue to be of benefit. The Trade Development Department, for example, has prepared a Payroll Calendar made possible by in-formation from ESC. The ESC office sup-plies local information on the local em-ployment situation and the Industrial De-partment also makes wide use of ESC information. The Chamber frequently serves as a clearing house for out-of-state firms looking for manufacturing repre-sentatives, and ESC offers important aid in this particular field. The ESC office, H\$ part of the Greensboro Chamber's City Beautiful Program, Greensboro Rotary Club undertakes beauti-ition of 0. Henry Boulevard. I. to r. : Paul Harrill. Miles H. Wolff, Greensboro Rotary Club; Mrs, Emily :eyer, Chairman, City Beautiful Committee, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. therefore, has a necessary part in the pro-gram of the Greensboro Chamber of Com-merce. The Agricultural Division, in coopera-tion with the North Carolina Angus Asso-ciation and the Bank of Greensboro con-ducted the first Mid-Atlantic Futurity Show and Sale in Greensboro this year. This is the only event of its kind in the southeastern part of the United States and attracts pure bred breeders from five states. Civic Affairs plays an important part in the Chamber's year-around program. Among the Division's activities are civic improvements. Shown here are Chamber and Rotary Club representatives who have combined efforts in the landscaping of a four mile stretch of super highway by-pass. This is only one of the many activ-ities undertaken by the Chamber. Among the many projects of the Pro-motion Division this year is the organiza-tion of a Three-City Symphony Orchestra involving Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem. Representatives from the three cities meet in the Chamber office to discuss plans. From this has come the organization of Greensboro's first Fine Arts Council, Inc. Visits to cities throughout the United States are an important part of the In-dustrial Division's program. This pho-tograph shows members of the Chamber's "Industrial Team" which recently return-ed from a week long stay in Cleveland. From such trips come industrial pros-pects for Greensboro, and in the fall the Industrial Team will visit Detroit. The Team is composed of members of the Chamber of Commerce who work with the organization's Industrial Department Manager, PAGE 60 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 New Bern's Air Conditioned Office Is Envy of Other Chambers ;;;?; ;:;::::::; THOMPSON By Bleeka C. Thompson, Director Public Relations, New Bern C. of G. "On May 17, 1899, the business men of New Bern met this day for organization at the City Hall which the authorities had kindly tendered for the purpose. By the time the meeting was called to or-der by the chair-man, every seat was occupied and by an entirely dif-ferent class of cit-izens from that which might be supposed would gather to perfect an organization of a Chamber of Commerce. They were your busi-ness men whose future is being them ; those whose capital is largely energy, business capacity and push". The above is from the minutes of the first meeting of the New Bern Chamber of Commerce. Many changes have taken place in the past fifty-nine years with the Chamber having the usual ups and downs. In the late twenties Mrs. Thomas Eaton, then Helen Hawk, became the first official wo-man secretary of a North Carolina Cham-ber of Commerce and served in that ca-pacity for fifteen years. She was followed by Charles McCullers (now Manager of Kinston Chamber ) , George Arrington, de-ceased, and O. A. Wright, present man-ager. Mr. Wright, a former business owner, served on the Board of Directors and as chairman of numerous committees prior to becoming manager in 1955. In September 1957, the Chamber moved into a new air-conditioned building at 608 Broad Street. It is of colonial design, brick veneered, has spacious lounge and conference rooms, private offices, work and rest rooms. The building has been adequately furnished, decorated and land-scaped through a special gift fund set up by interested members. There are three full time employees: O. A. Wright, Man-ager; Mrs. Bleeka C. Thompson, Director of Public Relations; Mrs. Ann B. Johnson, Secretary. The following are elected officials: H. P. Edwards, President; Willis Marshall, 1st Vice President; Cliff McCotter, 2nd Vice President; Rembert Rivenbark, 3rd Vice President; W. D. Ferebee, Treasurer. Directors serving three years are Wil-lis Marshall, H. P. Edwards, C. G. King, Dan Roberts, Charles McEnally and Cliff McCotter. Directors serving two years are W. D. Ferebee, Raymond Pollock, Dr. Dale Millns, W. E. Swain, Joe Johnson, and A. D. Ward. Directors serving one year are John Whitty, R. L. Pugh, Donald Paul, Ernest Smith, J. C. Ridoutt and R. R. Rivenbark. By virtue of their various offices these men also serve on the Board: W. J. Edwards, past President of the Chamber; Herbert Dowless, President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce; R. L. Stallings, Jr., Mayor; Craig Barnhardt, City Manager; George Ipock, Chairman Craven County Board of Commissioners; T. A. Montgomery, President of the New ^«:?ts:»:: :V:::: :PS:S»iV^ Above appears a recent photo of the air-conditioned Chamber of Commerce Building of New Bern. —Wray Photo. Bern Merchants Association. A budget for $18,000 has been approved by a membership of 360. A campaign for new members is now in progress. In a predominantly agricultural area, New Bern, settled in 1710, has much to atttract tourists and industry. Tryon's Palace, home of a Royal Governor and first Capitol of North Carolina, has been restored to its original glory through the generosity of Mrs. Maude Latham, former New Bernian and will be opened to the public early in 1959. Lovely old homes, gardens, Fireman's Museum and other historical points of interest add to the attraction of tourists. Located at the con-fluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers on U. S. Highways 17 and 70, New Bern is served by three railroads, an intercoastal waterway channel, two airlines and twelv truck lines. Boat building, fertilizer mar ufacturing, lumber and related products chemicals, marl mining and needlewor' trades are the principal industries. Nei Bern Properties and New Bern Industrie,1 independent industrial corporations, arj equipped to assist in the placement of ne1 industry. The Chamber office handles tbj paper work and the Manager serves a| secretary to the Merchants Association. | There are fifteen active committees i the organization: Highway & Transport; tion, Clarence Gault, Chairman; Indu: trial, George Scott, Chairman; Tourisj and Convention, Raymond Pollock, Chaij man; Housing, Paul Crayton, Chairmani (Continued on page 61) r With millions of gallons of fresh water all about, New Bern presents a formidable answer to water-hungry industries. SUMMER-FALL 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 61 Charlotte Chamber Slogan Says 'Create in '58' CRAWFORD Early records show that the first Char-lotte Chamber of Commerce was conceiv-d in 1879. It continued operation until some time in the 1890's when, for reasons mknown, it was liisbanded. Then m October 20, L905 a small group >f civic - minded nen gathered in i downtown office Wilding and or-anized the Great-er Charlotte Club, booster organ-ization and parent )f the present I'harlotte Cham-ber of Commerce hat was organiz- 3d in 1915. Today, the Char-otte Chamber of ommerce is a dy-lamic force in the continued growth and levelopment of Charlotte. More than 3,000 msiness and professional men and wo-nen make up its membership. Some 31 itanding committees and innumerable pecial committees and subcommittees ire carrying out, this year, one of the nost comprehensive programs in the his-ory of the Chamber. Thomas L. Robinson, owner and pub-isher of the Charlotte Neivs is president if the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, first vice president is Buell Duncan, pres-dent of Piedmont Natural Gas Company. ). J. Miller, executive vice president of Duke Power Company, is the Chamber's econd vice president. Treasurer is Joe I. Robinson, senior vice president of Vaehovia Bank and Trust Company. The modern offices of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce occupy approxi-aately 2,120 square feet of floor space in he Addison Building, 222 South Church Street, just two blocks from Inciepend-nce Square. A professional staff of ten aid employes performs administrative uties for the organization. Charles Crawford, executive vice president, is in harge of the administrative staff. W. M. "icklen is manager of the Industrial De-partment; Frank Mueller is manager of he Civic Affairs Department; and Sher-wood Canada is public relations director, bookkeeper and five stenographers ound out the staff. The Chamber's income comes from lembership dues. Annual dues for a ingle membership are $50. The current udget is approximately $130,000. The Chamber issues the news bulletin, Charlotte," monthly. It carries no ad-ertising. Its main circulation is the lembership. The Chamber, from time 3 time, publishes various folders, bro-hures and related materials. Charlotte is a center of commerce and adustry. While the textile industry has een the backbone of the area's economy, iversification has been the keynote for ndustrial development in recent years. Numerous manufacturers of food prod-cts, electronics, furniture, paper prod-cts and hard goods have established lants, warehouses and offices in Char- Dtte. Also, Charlotte today is a shopping cen-sr, medical center, wholesale center, en- "NO-BUDGET" CHAMBER ONE OF MOST ACTIVE IN STATE By George E. Moray, Exec. Secy. Organized and incorporated in 1923, the Black Mountain Chamber of Commerce has no budget on which to operate. The address of the one-room office is "City Hall" and there are three paid em-ployees in the or-ganization. President is Wil-liam H. McMur-ray, Jr.; 1st Vice President is Steve C. Uzzell ; 2nd Vice President is Harry B. Hydner; and Treasurer is William A. Hick-ey. George E. Mo-ray, who retired as a Lansing, Michigan postman after 37 years of service has been moray manager since April of 1957. Committees and chairmen are: Mem-bership, William S. Holcombe; Publicity, Gordon H. Greenwood; Civic Improve-ment, R. Worth Cook; Industrial Develop-ment, Finley E. Stepp; Roads, Dr. F. H. Richardson; Western Union, Frank H. Cordtmeyer; Christmas Decorations, A. M. McCoy; and Finance and Budget, Steve C. Uzzell. Minimum memberships are $15 and minimum $50 and we have 90 members. Tourists and Industry are our main in-terests, but there are many retired people now living in the area. There is an In-dustrial Committee which is quite active as a part of the Jaycee organization. We publish no bulletin and the town has no Merchants Association, this phase of com-munity life being handled by the Cham-ber. We are presently aiming toward more industry. We have never used the ESC services and are interested in learning more about how we can make use of those available. Readers may wonder about our "West-ern Union" committee, the Black Moun-tain Chamber of Commerce operates Western Union for the town. tertainment center, transportation center —and financial center. At present, it has the only Federal Reserve Bank (Fifth District) in the Carolinas, is the home of six banks, and has more member firms of the New York Stock Exchange than any other city in the Southeast except Miami Beach. The Greater Charlotte area is a part of one of the important "Interurbian" areas foreseen by 1975 in the study, "In-terurbia, the Changing Face of America," by the J. Walter Thompson Co. Inclusion of the area in this concept of "super-cities" suggests it as one of the paceset-ters in potential growth . . . and focuses attention on Charlotte and the Piedmont NEW BERN'S AIR CONDITIONED OFFICE ENVY OF OTHER CHAMBERS (Continued from page 60) Ports, R. R. Rivenbark, Chairman; Avia-tion, Charles Hall, Chairman; Agricul-ture, Lester Bray, Chairman; Member-ship, Willis Marshall, Chairman; Con-gressional Action, Glenn Mabe, Chairman; Civic, Earl Finch, Chairman; Publicity, Charles Midyette, Chairman; Military Af-fairs, H. P. Edwards, Chairman; Classi-fication, Clark Fitzgerald, Chairman; Sports Fishing and Boating, Bryan Duffy, Chairman; Education, Livingston Stal-lings, Chairman. A recently completed industrial bro-chure of New Bern and Craven County has brought considerable praise and sat-isfaction from the Conservation and De-velopment Department. This was accom-plished with the cooperation of many agencies, including the local office of the Employment Security Commission, which gave generously of their time and infor-mation. We call on them frequently for information and always received prompt and courteous service. Future plans of the Chamber include the celebration of the opening of Tryon's Palace in 1959; the 250th anniversary of the founding of New Bern in 1960; the promotion of increased tourist trade; dual highways into and through the city; additional recreational facilities; promo-tion of agricultural and seafood packaged industries; increased dairy production and a broiler industry; further develop-ment of industrial areas and deeper water channels from the inland waterway; spon-soring an area wide ground water survey, control of stream pollution, hurricane safety and rehabilitation; and the organ-ization of an Economic Study Group and a second Small Business Institute in co-operation with the Distributive Education Department of the North Carolina Depart-ment of Education. Carolinas as one of the areas of high sales concentration. Charlotte is fast becoming a convention center, too. In 1957, Charlotte played host to 138 conventions. (Only groups of 50 or more people were counted.) The 47,215 people attending these conventions spent an estimated $5 million while in Charlotte. This is equivalent to the an-nual payroll of an industry employing 1,500 people! Charlotte and the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce are indebted to the Employ-ment Security Commission of North Caro-lina and especially to the local ESC office. Many of the folders and brochures pre-pared by the Chamber include labor and employment data. Some contain quite de-tailed accounts on the labor situation in the Charlotte area. These data have been compiled, in large part, by the ESC office here. The Chamber also receives regular reports on the many aspects of labor and employment in Charlotte. The Chamber publishes employment figures, furnished by the ESC, in its monthly publication "Charlotte." The interest and prompt-ness with which the ESC handles the Chamber's requests are to be commended. In furnishing such labor and employment information, the ESC is fulfilling a vital need. * |H PAGE 62 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 Thomasville Slogan Designed to Improve Thinking and Action WARNER By Tom Shaw "The Thomasville Chamber of Commerce desires to develop dynamic programs of work to build an even better community." The words are those of Jeff E. Warner, energetic young Manager of the i Chamber here, who has had that position since Oc-tober 1, 1957. The challenge of what the Chamber here can do is passed right on down the line to the 350 members of the organization. The division of labor begins with Pres-ident Robert C. Huss and it is shared by Vice President Thomas H. Burwell and Vice President James W. Johnson, no less by Treasurer Raymond V. Yokely and the office secretary, Mrs. Enid Clodfelter. Also confronted with the task of "build-ing an even better community of 16,000 people are the committee chairmen. They are Charles F. Lambeth, Jr., Program of Work; J. C. Jerman, Membership; Hardy Henry, Education; R. P. VanLandingham, Governmental Affairs; Percy Craven, Clean-Up and Beautiflcation; Harold Har-rison, Nominations; Geo. L. Hundley, New Industries; Mr. Burwell, Existing Industries; and Mr. Yokely, Budget and Finance, with a current budget of $12,- 500.00 drawn from annual memberships at $35.00 each. In August of this year the Brochure Committee of the Chamber produced an 18 page booklet with 37 pictures. Chair-man Homer W. Beck does not need to explain the title: "Picture Your Future in Thomasville, North Carolina". There are ten thousand copies of that booklet. With it the Chamber is stepping up its search for new industry, and with it the Cham-ber is ready to tell the story of Thomas-ville to all seekers for information. Thomasville's central location in the Tar Heel Piedmont appeals to industrialists who wish to settle in a small city with an industrial background. But those who desire information include travelers and home-seekers from other states; and not least school children who write from afar wanting to know what the City with the "Big Chair" is like. The present "Big Chair" was a chamber project, completed in 1950, during the managership of Ken-neth J. Hoyle. Thomasville's Chamber of Commerce was organized in January 1949, with Mr. Hoyle as its first manager. He came here in April of that year from Newton and served until December 1956, when he resigned because of ill health. The idea of erecting a new "Big Chair" of Duncan Phyfe design to replace an earlier wooden structure, was mentioned in 1948 by the Junior Chamber of Com-merce, prime moved in the organization of Thomasville's Chamber of Commerce. The new concrete chair on the Commons at the Square was and is a symbol of the city's chief industry, but it was also the first major completed project of the new senior Chamber. The next major task of that organiza-tion was also of a historical nature. In 1952 the Chamber and its members had major roles in the celebration of the City of Thomasville centennial. Included was a "Centurama" pageant with a cast of hundreds, very largely recruited through the aid of the Chamber. Another develop-ment during the earlier years of the Chamber life was the completion of the Thomasville by-pass. Visiting notables included the then Gov. W. Kerr Scott, who climbed atop of the "Big Chair" during a part of the festivities. The Chamber also during those years had a part in the revival of a community festival known as "Everybody's Day". The revival,, how-ever, only lasted four or five years and reached a climax with the centennial celebration. During the managership of Mr. Hoyle the Chamber began a "new industry" promotion which combined also a due at-tention to or for the welfare of existing industries. That program was stepped up by Mr. Hoyle's successor, Macon P. Mil-ler, Jr. Mr. Miller became manager on January 1, 1956 and resigned to enter private business here on June 30, 1957. The managership was vacant until Octo-ber of that year, when Mr. Warner was named as manager. He is a native of this city, a graduate of East Carolina Col-J lege, Greenville, and was formerly a| teacher in the public schools in Wilming-i ton and this city. Briefly before he ac-j cepted the position as Chamber Manager, he was associated with a clothing firm I here. The "new industry" emphasis given to the Chamber program by Mr. Miller isfl being continued by Mr. Warner. Good; use has already been made of the brochure!! picture book in that connection. But the Chamber is also concerned with telling|| the people of the community what their community has to offer them. An exam-ple was a "Business-Education Day" pro-jl gram held here last Spring. Industrial- 1 ists joined with educators in a programs] of mutual exchange and understanding,)! climaxed with a banquet at night. The I program was so successful that it is to bell repeated annually. The Chamber last year aided in the establishment of an important country- Thomasville's Largest Duncan Phyfe Chair in the World. SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 63 vide committee on public school educa-ion and it also contributed information vhich led to the holding of a successful innexation vote which nearly doubled the and area of the city and has increased he population from 11,000 to 16,000. during all of its history the Chamber has ooperated with the Thomasville Mer-hant's Association and with various civic .roups. The present Chamber of Commerce has Lad the longest continuous history of any uch organization with that name in this ity, but it was not the first. Briefly, here was a Chamber of Commerce here in 911, but it did not long endure. This ne has, and chiefly because of careful preliminary organization extending over period of a year. Credit for the success-ul establishment of today's Chamber be-angs to many people who have worked o make it work. To name them would be ike calling the roll of civic leadership in his community, and some from the out-ide, including the late Frank Sizemore, lanager of the High Point Chamber, a peaker at the organizational meeting. But the most typical booster at the or-anizational level was the then Mayor r. C. English, who contributed $200. of is salary as mayor. Those were the earlier days of 1949. 'homasville's Chamber now has two full-ime, paid staff members, the Manager nd his secretary. It has an office space dth three rooms at 10 Salem Street. It as an alert rotating Board of Directors nd cooperative officers. It can and does apply many types of service, some seem lgly not connected with Chamber work. i many respects the Chamber is a clear-g house of information for facts drawn om local and state sources, including le Employment Security Commission. It as learned to use these agencies to its wn advantage and to theirs. Fuquay-Varina Chamber Has $8,000 Budget MOREHEAD CITY CHAMBER HEADED BY BUD DIXON The Morehead City Chamber of Com-lerce was officially organized in 1946 ith Louis Gore and George Wallace, long with many other leading citizens, )earheading the drive for the Chamber, or a good while it was housed in the SO building which later became the •creation building. When the present Manager, Joe DuBois, me back to Morehead after helping the lylor Brothers out with their Sea Level •oject some twenty miles east of More-iad City, he prevailed upon the Board Directors to move the office to a more ntrally located point in the Fort Macon otel. Prior to this move the Chamber as hard for people not familiar with e town to find. Manager DuBois has been in Chamber ork for eight years, and seven of it has >en as manager of the Morehead City lamber. He was a sales executive before >ing with the Chamber. There are 175 lid up members of the organization and les run $25 with multiple memberships lowable. President of the Chamber is Bud Dixon, eminent Eastern N. C. Motel owner, By Grace Senter, Exec. Secy. The Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Com-merce was organized in 1947. It is known as the Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Com-merce, Fuquay Springs, N. C. It owns its own building. We moved into it two years ago this month. It consists of two offices, a conference room, two rest rooms, and a small room used to keep office sup-plies in and the mimeograph machine, etc. It is centrally heated and air-conditioned throughout. (I am enclosing you a pic-ture of the building and one of the con-ference room and the directors and myself that was made shortly after we moved in the building in 1956.) We have 155 Legislative & Congressional, Woodrow Johnson. Our area is primarily agricultural. However, we have two large industries in our town. Cornell-Dubiler employs around 500 women. Wake Manufacturing Co. employs around 100 women. We think in terms of our tobacco market as our largest industry, however. There is not a separate industrial group in our area. Our town does not have a separate merchant's bureau. The only publications put out by the Chamber are regular mimeographed bul-letins that I get out to the members. We used ESC service about eight years ago to help take a labor survey for Cor- Top photo is the Fuquay-Varina Chamber building while the bottom shows the present Board of Directors who are identified in the main body of the article. Exec. Secy. Grace Senter is the lone woman in the group. members and the minimum dues is $25.00. We have no income other than that from dues. I am the only paid employee and there are no unpaid employees. Executive Secy., Mrs. Grace Senter; Pres., Leo Matthews; First Vice Pres., James Adams; Second Vice Pres., W. D. Ashworth. I have been employed here two years. Before working here, I was a supervisor at the Cornell-Dubiler Elec-tric Corporation in Fuquay Springs, and after that I worked for Carolina Power & Light Co., in Raleigh. Our budget is $8,000. The Chairmen of our Committees are as follows: Agriculture, M. A. Stevens; Building & Maintenance, A. Y. Hairr; Budget and Finance, Leo Matthews; An-nual Banquet, W. P. Wrenn; Education, Robert Cotten; Industrial, S. T. Proctor; nell-Dubiler, and we certainly hope they can help us with a similar survey in the future. We are busy working on our annual Farmer's Day at the present time. This will be September 18. After that we will have our annual banquet in October. At Christmas time this office helps to co-ordinate helping all the needy families. We have Santa Claus to be in the stores and on the streets for about two weeks. We also have a small Christmas parade. In January we will have a big membership meeting at which we will be hosts to our members at a dinner. At this time we will present prizes to the winners of the Farm Income contest that we are spon-soring this year. In April we have our annual Fat Calf Show & Sale, and of course we are at all times trying to get new industry for our town! Walter Morris is Vice President and there are two paid employees in the organiza-tion, the Manager and his office secretary. There are eight major divisions of the Chamber, principal of which are the In-dustrial Development Committee headed by W. B. Chalk, and the Tourist and Convention Committee headed by J. M. Davis. The Chamber publishes a monthly bul-letin which keeps the members informed and has worked closely with the Employ-ment Security Office headed by Mrs. Julia Tenney. "The ESC is one of our most re-liable sources for dependable statistics," said Mr. DuBois. PAGE 64 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL 1958 SPRUCE PINE CHAMBER LOOK-ING FOR "MORE INDUSTRIES" The Spruce Pine Chamber of Commerce, which was organized in 1940, has an office on Locust Avenue, next door to the Caro-lina Theatre. The only income || of the Spruce Pine Chamber of Com- I merce is from the« ; fees of the mem-bership, at present I 58. The fees range I from $10 to $25. Mrs. Sudie H. English, manager, • is the only paid employee. Other I officers are Har-old Van Day, Pres-ident; Dale Ban-ner, Vice Presi- Greater Jacksonville Chamber Dues Based on "Fair Share" Plan! ENGLISH dent; Sudie H. English, Secretary-Treas-urer. The present manager, employed May 11, 1958, has no previous expe-rience in Chamber of Commerce work. Mrs. Sudie H. English has had wide business experience. She is now lo-cal agent for the Nationwide Insurance Company and is in the real estate busi-ness. Prior to her present business con-nections she was branch manager for a large heavy equipment and machinery company. In civic affairs Mrs. English has been very active, usually, as finance chairman or head of fund raising for community projects. The Spruce Pine Chamber of Commerce has three divisions: merchants, indus-trial and tourist. Dale Banner is chair-man of the merchants division, and C. M. Watson, chairman of the industrial di-vision. Peter Lowe and Ray Deal, chair-men of the tourist division. The Spruce Pine area is primarily en-gaged in the mineral industries including mining and processing, textile industry and tourist. The Chamber of Commerce does not have a separate industrial group, but has an Industrial Development Committee, C. M. Watson, chairman. No publications are put out by this Chamber of Commerce at present. Immediate plans include tourist and travel service, with a long range plan of industrial development. The Junior Chamber of Commerce at present uses the E.S.C. services in mak-ing labor survey of this area, which is now in progress. The E.S.C. can help the Spruce Pine Chamber of Commerce by furnishing accu-rate tabulation of employment conditions, number of people employed in local in-dustries such as mining, textile, farming, etc., showing average income therefrom. By Roy A. Stevens, Mgr. The Greater Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce was originated February 14, 1944, and our present office is located at 823 Court Street, Jacksonville. We have 960 square feet of floor space divid-ed into three of-fices. At the present time we have 205 members with minimum dues be-ing $40 per year. Our dues are on a "fair-share" basis with each member paying what he feels is his share of our budget. Our member dues covers the major-ity of our income expense with cer-t a i n collections STEVENS made for special functions during the year. At the present time this Chamber has two paid employees, which are myself as Manager and Mrs. Carolyn Millice as Secretary. W. E. Thompson, Manager of the Sears, Roebuck Company, is our Pres-ident during the year 1958, with W. R. Page, Jr., as Vice-President and Lester D. Lane as Treasurer. In addition to these officers, we have Directors on our Board. I have been with the Jacksonville Cham-ber of Commerce since February 15, 1957. Prior to joining the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, I was Assistant Manager of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce from February 21, 1955, to February 15, 1956. Prior to entering Chamber of Com-merce work, I was Office Manager for a retail hardware and mining corporation. At the present time the budget of this Chamber is $12,500.00. During the year 1958 we are operating eleven committees which we are listing below along with the chairman of each. None of these are paid employees: Agriculture, Jack Pelletier; Better Bus-iness, Dan Clark; Budget & Finance, Les-ter Lane; Civic Affairs, Julian Bender; Highways & Roads, H. E. Phillips; In-dustrial, Stanley Wainwright; Member-ship, Al Travis and Joe Bynum; Military Affairs, T. W. Simmons; National Affairs, Fred Harmon, Jr.; Retail, Pete McMillan; Transportation, H. M. Eastwood. Our primary industry in Jacksonville is Camp Lejeune, the largest amphibious training base in the world. At the pres-ent time there are approximately 35,000 Marines stationed at this Base. On June 6th of this year, the Industrial Committee of the Chamber, formed the Jacksonville Development Corporation to assist in securing some type of industry for this community. We have three Merchants Associations operating in the Jacksonville area which cooperate with the Chamber and the President of each of these Associations along with certain other individuals make up the Retail Committee of the Chamber We have a monthly bulletin which wej call the Greater Jacksonville Chamber oil Commerce Progress Report which is mailj ed out the last day of each month. Ir this publication we hit the highlights oil each program along with giving pay-days scheduled for the Marine Corps Base anc a schedule of all of our committee meet ings during the coming month. If space will provide, we would like to furnish yoi with the project of each of our commit tees. The local Employment Security Office assisted us recently in securing applica tions for an industry that we were work ing with. They have also furnished us with secretarial help since I have been the secretary of this Chamber. We have a verj close relationship with the local office which is located just two doors from oui office and they are most anxious to assisl us in any way possible . FRANKLIN "3RV MEAN RUBIES] RECREATION, AND REST The Franklin Chamber of Commerce owns its 50x50-foot building and has 20( current members who have paid the $1(| membership fee. Organized in 1940, the! Chamber has shown much imagination ii producing folders, leaflets, and informa tional pieces about the area. Other thail dues, the Chamber also receives a comj mission on tickets it sells for the famou: outdoor production "Unto These Hills". Mrs. Lasca Horsley, Executive Secre tary is the only paid employee of the or ganization whose budget is $5,500 for th year. She has been manager for eighjl years and prior to that had experience a purchasing agent for the Nantahal; Power and Light Company. Officers of the organization are: Di G. R. McSween, president; Ermin PattorJI vice president; and Victor Perry, treasurl er. Directors are: Tom Angel, Jr., Stev I Bundy, Bob Sloan, and J. P. Brady. Comjl mittee chairmen are: Verlon Swaffordl Industrial; Sam Gibson, Merchants; Sii}| Carter, County Clean-Up; E. J. Whitmireil Highway; J. P. Brady, Publicity and Ac I vertising; and Roy Cunningham, MemJ bership. i Says the neat folder on Franklin I "Franklin, N. C, a bustling mountain rej sort which wears a necklace of Nantahal.l Forest, promises even the most discriml nating visitor an unforgetable vacatioij of rubies, rest and recreation. Rubiesjl Franklin is a scant six miles from th|| famed Cowee Ruby Mines, where anyon I with a penchant for digging can comj up with a ruby, maybe just a chip, or on II worth several thousand dollars. Rest! Tranquility is Franklin's middle nam I and no place, but no place, can give morll carefree peace of mind than Franklirl And talk about restful nights! . . . Frantl lin is air conditioned by Mother Natur I herself . . . Recreation: What kind do yo'l want? Well, it's right here in Franklirl whatever it is ... . "Franklin, N. C.—a ruby on the fingeJ of the Smokies, invites you to stop, frienc I and sit a spell." SUMMER-FALL, 1958 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY PAGE 65 The Employment Security Commission — Its Role in Civil Defense By Edwakd Hyatt, Occupational Analyst Industrial Services Section, ESC Whether or not the United States ever will be subjected to an attack with nu-clear weapons is not known. There are some people who consider such an attack as a distinct pos-sibility. Others consider it unlike-ly and some, with tongue in cheek, give it little thought one way or the other. Because there is additional possi-bility of such an attack, our Fede-ral and State Gov-ernments have 'proceeded to draw ! up "Survival : Plans" for use in the event of ene- |my attack or nat-ural disaster. North Carolina's survival plans recently have been completed and released for public use. Making up the overall State plan are the individual plans of such groups or agencies as public health, food supply, communications, transportation, and others, including Manpower Services, which will be the name of the E. S. C. should an enemy attack take place. Considerable time, money, and effort have gone into making up the Survival Plans for our agency. In the Statewide plan, the emergency services of the Em-ployment Security Commission are found n Annex E—Manpower Services. Operat-ing within the established framework ind utilizing all local office personnel ind a large number of central office per-onnel, our agency probably is as well prepared to face an emergency situation is any agency in the State. HYATT Each local office has its own individual survival plan based on a prototype plan prepared by central office personnel. For emergency operations, the State is divid-ed into six Civil Defense Areas. Each local office within each area is designated as a "Control Center" with first and sec-ond alternate relocation points. Organ-ization of personnel and assignments of duties have been made for the agency as a whole, within each Civil Defense Area, and in each local office. Emergency operations are to be per-formed through the facilities of three operational branches. One of these branches, the Requirement Branch, will be responsible for receiving orders for workers and for liaison with Civil De-fense Officials to determine referral prior-ities. The Requirement Branch will as-semble and record information about such factors as job locations, worker trans-portation, workers needed, duration of work, and related information. Another branch, the Procurement Branch, will receive orders for workers from the Requirement Branch and will be responsible for recruiting workers. The functions of this branch, in many ways, resemble the placement functions of nor-mal operations. A third unit, the Skills Analysis Branch, will make surveys of manpower supply, compiling information pertaining to the location of workers and cataloging the data according to worker skills by area. These surveys will be made on a continu-ing basis according to the movements of workers with accumulated data being submitted to the Procurement Branch as often as necessary for the maintenance of current information. These three opera-tional branches have been established in each local office, in each of the six Civil Defense Areas, and at the State level, providing a workable emergency organ-ization of Employment Security Person-nel. During any emergency period, the maintenance of personal income becomes strategically important in the prevention of economic collapse. Consequently, the Unemployment Insurance Division has established and will maintain procedures for the continuance of Unemployment In-surance payments and of any other State or Federal emergency income mainte-nance or death benefits. Emergency Or-ganization of the Unemployment Insur-ance Division has been established at the State, Area, and local levels with appro-priate personnel assigned to the various functions involved in the Unemployment Insurance program. Each local manager and his staff has responded well to the installation of the "Local Office Civil Defense Plan." The need for a Survival Plan has been recog-nized and the cooperation of all Employ-ment Security Commission personnel can be counted on when and if our nation is attacked by an enemy employing either nuclear or conventional weapons. WINTER-SPRING EDITION Articles are being prepared by hun-dreds of Textile Firms throughout the State for publication in the Winter-Spring Edition fo the "E. S. C. Quarterly". For some time the Textile edition of 1952 has needed bringing up-to-date since the pic-ture has changed considerably. One of the most interesting articles is one by Director of Research and Statistics Hugh Raper, showing what has happened personnel-wise in the North Carolina Tex-tiles picture. He shows that while the number of plants has been changed by modern automation and chemical process-es as well as other improvements, North Carolina still has approximately the same number of people employed in the textile industry. Read it and other valuable articles in the Winter-Spring, 1959 "E. S. C. Quar-terly". MAP OF CIVIL DEFENSE AREAS SHOWING DEFENSE CONTROL CENTERS AND MANPOWER LOCATIONS ~^^C LV,i —^. J7~l LCtEID O .... H. 5 y-',/*- PAGE 66 THE E. S. C. QUARTERLY SUMMER-FALL, 1958 "Local Lever Determines Community Industrialization LUCAS By Wade Lucas, Information Officer Dept. of Conservation and Development Governor Luther H. Hodges has repeat-edly said that at least 90 percent of the efforts made successfully to obtain a new industry must be made at the local level. The Governor has been consist-ently supported in this considered statement by Di-rector "William P. Saunders of the Department of Conservation and Development, Walter W. Harp-er, Industrial De-velopment Admin-istrator for the C&D Department, and the staff of the department's Division of Com-merce and Indus-try. The Department of Conservation and Development is, after all, only a service agency whose duties are prescribed by law and whose efforts are to promote in-dustrial development of North Carolina and the conservation, development and wiser use of its natural resources. Staff members of the Division of Com-merce and Industry do not take visiting industrialists to any particular commun-ity and suggest they locate a plant there unless the industrialists indicate they would like to visit such places. Neither does Governor Hodges nor Di-rector Saunders make personal recom-mendations to visiting industrialists to locate plants in any particular commun-ity or communities. State employees all, they supply all possible information about the State or any of its communities upon request. Governor Hodges has said on numer-ous occasions that new industries are NOT stored in warehouses in Raleigh or anywhere else in the State and can be had for the asking. It's not that simple, nor is it that easy. With some 7,000 development agencies scattered throughout the nation and all engaged in efforts to land industries for their respective communities, the compe-tition for new industry is extremely keen. Some offer what are known as "give-aways" in their efforts to persuade in-dustrialists to locate new plants in their respective areas. North Carolina has never resorted to such practices and Gov-ernor Hodges has repeatedly asserted that it never will. Here in North Carolina there are more than 100 privately operated development organizations. The Department of Con-servation and Development and its Divi-sion of Commerce and Industry work closely and harmoniously with them in promoting industrial development. The C&D group knows no boundaries insofar as this State is concerned and it plays no favorites in aiding visiting industrialists to find what they want in North Carolina regardless of where a suitable site may be located. These industrial development organiza-tions have in the main proven their worth to the communities and the areas they represent and serve. They have been of immeasurable worth in numerous cases in helping to "sell" N. C. and the many advantages it has to offer industry. Chambers of Commerce throughout the State have also proven their worth to the communities they serve in helping to keep North Carolina's industrial development ever to the fore as a needed and necessary part of the over-all program designed to provide better tomorrows for the more than four and one-half millions of people who live in the State. Before he became the State's chief exec-utive in late 1954, Governor Hodges, then Lieutenant-Governor and a man only re-cently retired from the world of business, repeatedly told industrial development groups at meetings throughout North Carolina that industries could not be ob-tained by "the mere waving of a wand." By that statement the Governor sought to make it clear that industries could not be had by wishful thinking or the waving of a wand, but that it took hard work and plenty of it, especially at the local level. Judged by the increasing number of in-dustrial plants being located in North Carolina in recent years, the words of Governor Hodges apparently took root in the minds of many North Carolinians ready, anxious and willing to do every-thing within their power to boost the economy of their respective areas and that of the State as well. For Governor Hodges and the late Gov-ernor William B. Umstead before him re-peatedly asserted that "what helps one section of North Carolina helps all North Carolina." It is on this basis that the Governor's program to bring more industries into North Carolina and thus help raise the per capita income of its people is being waged so successfully and so vigorously. Railroads, motor truck operators, elec-tric power companies, bankers, mer-chants, and others have joined in the endeavor to help promote the further |
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