Business North Carolina articles from September 2002

Business North Carolina archives from September 2002

Reading, writing, ruing. (Up Front).(reminiscence of writer Tim McLaurin)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... On the first night of the class he taught at N.C. State, novelist Tim McLaurin showed up looking like a man who was still fighting cancer, not someone who'd beaten it five years before. His hair was wispy and thin, his eyes underscored by black...

Letters.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Heal gender bias I am a regular reader of your magazine and was stunned that your listing of North Carolina's best physicians (cover, July) did not list any pediatricians or obstetrician-gynecologists. To ignore these specialties while...

Trend.(North Carolina economic statistics)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Trend Latest Previous Previous month month year EMPLOYMENT (1) Total employed (000s) 3,716.3 3,734.3 3,771.0...

Tech, talent and tolerance nourish the growth of cities. (Economic Outlook).(interview with Richard Florida)(Brief Article)(Interview)
September 1, 2002... In his new book, The Rise of the Creative Class: How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, Richard Florida concludes that cities with lots of creative people -- scientists, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, computer...

Holdings keep grips on bankling company. (Money Matters).(First Citizens BancShares Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... On paper, Raleigh-based First Citizens BancShares Inc. (Nasdaq: FCNCA) is a publicly held company. But the bank holding company has long been the preserve of a very private family -- the Holdings of Raleigh and Smithfield. R.P. Holding...

Tar heel stock watch.(North Carolina companies' stock price movements)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Illustration)
September 1, 2002... TAR HEEL STOCK WATCH Expensive stocks Highest price-earnings ratios among North Carolina stocks P/E 6/28/02 52-week Company ratio * price range CT...

Equipment maker slips on its fire-escape ladder. (Tar Heel Tattler).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Executives at Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc. in Mebane have been called deceitful and incompetent. But give them this: They know a good portable fire-escape ladder when they see one. For years, Kidde sold a ladder made of chain that...

Fat farms' rift leaves relationship gutted. (Tar Heel Tattler).(Duke University Medical Center cutsed ties with Rice Diet Program)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Considering that dieters pay thousands of dollars in fees at Durham's fat farms, it's a wonder that this battle of the bulge didn't break out sooner. In July, Duke University Medical Center severed ties with the famous Rice Diet Program. For...

Sounds fishy. (Tattle Tales).(Duke Energy to help cover cost off seeding Lake James with hydrilla-eating carp)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Duke Energy and the state will split the $80,000 cost of stocking Lake James with 20,000 cart. The plant-eating fish are supposed to gobble up hydrilla, an aquatic weed. Duke and state officials promise the carp won't overrun the Burke County...

Wishful thinking. (Tattle Tales).(Wachovia officials say their job cuts will help downtown Winston-Salem)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Wachovia is vacating 640,000 square feet of office space and cutting 1,300 jobs in Winston-Salem, but bank executives are pitching the moves as a plus for downtown. They say they will free up high-quality office space for others.

Aluminum foiled. (Tattle Tales).(Alcoa says High Rock Lake has turned into mud flat because of drought, not an overuse of water)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... It's drought, not Alcoa's overuse of water to maintain production, that's turning High Rock Lake into a mud flat, the company is telling complainers. But even Alcoa doesn't dispute that the situation is dire. The High Rock Triathlon this year...

Feeling the heat. (Tattle Tales).(Frisby Technologies lays off workers)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... In July, Winston-Salem-based Frisby Technologies, a maker of clothing insulation, made Deloitte & Touche's North Carolina Technology Fast 50 for the third straight year. The day after the ranking, which was based on five-year revenue growth,...

High as a kite. (Tattle Tales).
September 1, 2002... The New Bern Historical Society has paid $6,000 to restore a painting that hung in the town's former train station. The painting's panoramic view looks west over the state toward the mountains, as if the viewer were soaring over the Atlantic....

Dam pests. (Tattle Tales).(beaver control efforts ineffective)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The state spent $1 million last year to destroy nearly 2,000 beaver dams but made barely a dent in North Carolina's beaver population, estimated at 500,000. Trappers used to keep the big rodents in check but now say they can no longer make...

Installment plan. (Tattle Tales).(con man must repay damages over 3,200 years)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A federal judge in Greensboro has ordered James Anthony Savage to pay more than $7.7 million in restitution to 11 people he defrauded in an investment scam. At the $200 a month rate set by the judge, it will take him more than 3,200 years, and...

Slip-sliding away. (Tattle Tales).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Global TransPark industrial complex might be spinning its wheels, but Kinston has another project that officials say will boost the local economy. A $300,000 federal grant will fund Eastern North Carolina's only all-terrain-vehicle park,...

E-Tax efficiency. (Data Bits).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... E-TAX EFFICIENCY An advocacy group gives the N.C. Revenue Department a perfect score, thanks to its Web site. Rank State Score 1 North Carolina 100.0 1 Indiana 100.0 3 Illinois 98.8 ...

Job recruiters asked to explain their own. (Tar Heel Tattler).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Two influential state lawmakers want the state's seven regional partnerships to prove that they're doing more than just enriching their presidents. Sen. Howard Lee, a Chapel Hill Democrat, and Sen. Fountain Odom, a Charlotte Democrat, are...

Study: nose-diving airports need bailout. (Tar Heel Tattler).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Should North Carolina let its small airports fail? Or should it prop them up by, in essence, paying airlines to serve them, as a state-funded, $250,000 study suggests? The study, by SH&E, a Massachusetts-based aviation consulting firm, shows...

Correction.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2002... Kenly-based KS Bancorp was incorrectly listed in July's Tar Heel Stock Watch. The bank's price-earnings ratio was 13.3.

Corning. (Regional Report: Eastern).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... WILMINGTON -- New York-based Corning has cut 400 more workers at its optical-fiber plant here, citing a continuing decline in demand. The cuts announced in June bring total layoffs to nearly 1,000. About 700 remain employed at the plant.

Environmental Network International. (Regional Report: Eastern).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... EDENTON -- Massachusetts-based Environmental Network International has opened a regional office. Tully Ryan, founder and vice president, said ENI, which makes software for construction-material purchases, will also move its headquarters to...

WCC Group. (Regional Report: Eastern).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... TARBORO -- Greenville-based WCC Group has moved manufacturing of its World Class Catamarans here, shifting 46 jobs from Pitt to Edgecombe County. WCC, acquired earlier this year by Chicago-based Hornet Capital, makes twin-engine boats that sell...

Tietex International. (Regional Report: Eastern).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ROCKY MOUNT -- Spartanburg, S.C.-based Tietex International has bought the Burlington-Sheffield upholstery plant from Greensboro-based Burlington Industries. Tietex plans to keep most of the plant's 175 employees.

Mt. Olive Pickle. (Regional Report: Eastern).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... MOUNT OLIVE -- Mt. Olive Pickle has purchased a former Burlington Industries plant here for storage. The 138,000-square-foot plant closed in June 2001. Mt. Olive paid $900,000 and will spend $250,000 on renovations, which should be completed by...

Archer-Daniels-Midland. (Regional Report: Eastern).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... SOUTHPORT -- Illinois-based Archer-Daniels-Midland has filed suit in federal court in Wilmington seeking to roll back a Brunswick County water-rate increase for a citric-acid plant here. ADM claims the county violated a 1986 rate agreement with...

Global TransPark. (Regional Report).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Global TransPark has yet another boss. Charles Edwards took over the troubled Kinston freight airport and industrial park in from Lonnie Blizzard. Blizzard had been filling in for Paul Busick, who became chief of civil aviation security...

Scynexis. (Regional Report: Triangle).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Scynexis has raised $29 million in venture capital. Among the drug company's investors were Alta Partners and Burrill & Co., both in San Francisco. Scynexis also announced that it will collaborate with New Jersey-based...

N.C. Biotechnology Center. (Regional Report: Triangle).(Leslie M. Alexandre appointment)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- The N.C. Biotechnology Center has a new boss. Leslie M. Alexandre takes over this month as president and CEO of the state-sponsored non-profit, replacing Charles Hamner, who has retired. Alexandre, 44, comes from the...

Level 8 Systems. (Regional Report: Triangle).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CARY -- As part of a restructuring, Paul Rampel resigned as president of Level 8 Systems, though he is still on the board. John Broderick, the e-business software maker's chief financial officer, also became chief operating officer. The...

Highwoods Properties. (Regional Report: Triangle).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... RALEIGH -- Highwoods Properties has signed a 10-year lease with Ingersoll-Rand, a Bermuda-based conglomerate, for Highwoods' 346,500-square-foot Twin Lakes Distribution Center in Charlotte. The lease will begin Oct. 1.

Quintiles Transnational. (Regional Report: Triangle).(to collaborate with Hawaii Pacific Health on drug trials program)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... DURHAM -- Quintiles Transnational, a contract-research company, and Hawaii Pacific Health, a managed-care company, will collaborate on drug trials involving Hawaii's ethnic Japanese. The trials will expedite introduction of new drugs to Japan....

Standard Commercial. (Regional Report: Triangle).(reduces wool operations, plans to restate 2001 financial results)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... WILSON -- Standard Commercial, a tobacco and wool processor and trader, is shrinking its wool operations in a response to what its CEO calls "one of the worst years ever in the wool industry." It is selling four units and focusing operations on...

Martin Marietta Materials. (Regional Report: Triangle).(buys, sells quarries)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... RALEIGH -- Martin Marietta Materials, which mines and sells construction materials, has bought four limestone quarries in Alabama from Washington, D.C.-based Oldcastle Materials. It also sold six quarries in Ohio to an Oldcastle affiliate....

EMJ Internet. (Regional Report: Triangle).(merges with Blast)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... PITTSBORO -- EMJ Internet, a Web-design and -hosting company based here, has merged with Blast, a maker of data-transfer software also based here, to form Blast Internet Services. The new company employs 22 and expects $5 million in sales this...

Progress Energy. (Regional Report: Triangle).(completes construction of new power plant)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... RALEIGH -- Progress Energy has completed construction of a new gas-fired power plant near Arcadia, Fla. The plant, which cost $135 million, began generating power for Florida Power & Light, on June 1 under a three-year contract.

Winston Hotels. (Regional Report: Triangle).(enters Concord Hospitality Enterprises joint venture agreement)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... RALEIGH -- Winston Hotels, a real-estate investment trust, has entered a joint venture with Cleveland-based Concord Hospitality Enterprises to convert a vacant Cleveland building into a Courtyard by Marriott hotel.

Warren and Franklin counties have the Triangle region's highest percentage of mobile homes. (Regional Report: Triangle).(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Warren and Franklin counties have the Triangle region's highest percentage of mobile homes. Mobile Dwellings homes (000s) (000s) Warren 10.5 3.6...

Konover Property Trust. (Regional Report: Triangle).(being acquired)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Konover Property Trust, a real-estate investment trust based in Cary, has agreed to be acquired by New York-based Kimco Realty and Prometheus Southeast Retail Trust for $67 million -- $2.10 per common share and $2.21 per preferred share....

CRC Insurance Services. (Regional Report: Triad).(acquires American Marketing Center)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... WINSTON-SALEM -- BB&T's wholesale insurance subsidiary, CRC Insurance Services, has bought New York-based American Marketing Center. Terms weren't revealed. American Marketing had 105 emmployees and sells insurance to the wholesale real-estate...

Bank of North Carolina. (Regional Report: Triad).(acquires Independence Bank)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... THOMASVILLE -- Bank of North Carolina has completed its $7 million purchase of Independence Bank, which operates in Kernersville and Oak Ridge. The buyout gives Bank of North Carolina $272 million in assets.

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers. (Regional Report: Triad).(expects profits with sale of Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World sporting-goods store)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... GREENSBORO -- Tanger Factory Outlet Centers expects to make $450,000 on the sale of a Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World sporting-goods store in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tanger, a real-estate investment trust, bought the store in 1999 and sold it for...

Laboratory Corporation of America. (Regional Report: Triad).(to purchase Exact Sciences license)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... BURLINGTON -- Laboratory Corporation of America will pay as much as $75 million, plus royalties, for a five-year license to market a test for colorectal cancer developed by Massachusetts-based Exact Sciences. Labcorp will start selling the test...

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. (Regional Report: Triad).(plans to appeal court ruling)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... WINSTON-SALEM -- A federal judge has ordered R.J. Reynolds Tobacco to pay $15 million to a Kansas man who blamed his 43-year habit of smoking Camel cigarettes for the vascular disease that led to amputation of his legs. The company will appeal....

Steven D. Bell & Co. (Regional Report: Triad).(invests in apartment complexes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... GREENSBORO -- Steven D. Bell & Co., a real-estate brokerage and management company, led an investor group that bought five apartment complexes in Atlanta and Nashville, Tenn., for about $75 million. The five have 1,102 units.

Rowan Bancorp. (Regional Report: Triad).(merger into FNB)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ASHEBORO -- Shareholders of China Grove-based Rowan Bancorp have approved the bank's $21.8 million merger into FNB, the holding company for First National Bank and Trust. The deal was expected to close in August, resulting in a company with...

Wet 'N Wild Emerald Pointe. (Regional Report: Triad).(Palace Entertainment acquires water park from Alfa SmartParks)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... GREENSBORO -- Alfa SmartParks has sold Wet 'N Wild Emerald Pointe, a water park, to Irvine, Calif.-based Palace Entertainment for an undisclosed sum. Palace officials say the park will continue to operate, although it attracted fewer than half...

EsselPropack America. (Regional Report: Triad).(plant to be located in Virginia)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... GREENSBORO -- Despite heavy recruiting by Forward Greensboro Economic Development Partnership, EsselPropack America has decided to locate a $21 million toothpaste-tube plant in Virginia, which gave $2 million in incentives.

Oakwood Homes. (Regional Report: Triad).(plant shutdown)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... GREENSBORO -- Struggling mobile-home maker Oakwood Homes has closed its plant in Navasota, Texas, idling 173 workers. Oakwood's bottom line has improved since it lost $176 million in the fiscal year that ended in September 2001, but this year's...

U.S. Conference of Mayors. (Regional Report).(Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point metro area economic output increases)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Despite last year's recession, economic output in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point metro area increased $1.5 billion, says a study of grass local product by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Its $49.9 billion surpassed Raleigh-Durham-Chapel...

Thomas Built Buses. (Regional Report).(school bus factory to be built in High Point)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... After flirting with Gaffney, S.C., Thomas Built Buses has decided to build a $39.7 million school-bus factory in its hometown of High Point. The plant is expected to create 178 jobs in 2004. Thomas Built, founded in 1916, has 1,460 employees in...

Morningstar. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(self-storage chain sells stake to Shurgard Storage Centers)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... MATTHEWS -- Morningstar, the Matthews-based self-storage chain, has sold a 74% stake to Shurgard Storage Centers, Seattle-based owner of 526 centers nationwide, for $62 million. Included in the deal are 40 of 49 Morningstar storage centers in...

Johnson & Wales University. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(downtown campus to be built)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CHARLOTTE -- Johnson & Wales University, a Rhode Island-based cooking school, has announced plans to build an $82 million downtown campus here that will have 2,800 students and 250 employees by 2007. The school will offer bachelor's degrees in...

Reames Road Investors. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(plans shopping mall)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CHARLOTTE -- Reames Road Investors will build NorthLake Mall, a $40 million shopping center in northern Mecklenburgaa County near Lake Norman. It will include a discount retailer as an anchor. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2004.

Roush Racing. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(headquarters being built)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CONCORD -- Roush Racing is building a $5 million headquarters near Concord Regional Airport in a complex where it already occupies two office buildings. About 60 employees will work in the new building, which will include a museum of vintage...

US Airways. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(Caribbean flights hub)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CHARLOTTE -- Despite its financial woes, US Airways is forging ahead with its plan to make Charlotte a hub for Caribbean flights. The company announced recently it would add four weekly flights each to Belize and the Turks and Caicos, starting...

Pillowtex. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(David Perdue named chairman, chief executive)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... KANNAPOLIS -- Pillowtex, which recently emerged from bankruptcy reorganization, has named a former Reebok executive vice president, David Perdue, 53, its new chairman and chief executive.

Nucor. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(acquiring Birmingham Steel's assets)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CHARLOTTE -- Steelmaker Nucor will acquire Birmingham Steel's assets for $615 million. The Alabama company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The deal should close in November and give Nucor four additional mills.

Gaston Memorial Hospital. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(repays federal government $295,000)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... GASTONIA -- Gaston Memorial Hospital has repaid the federal government $295,000 for over-billing Medicare and Medicaid for laboratory tests. Five others -- Angel Community Hospital in Franklin, Cleveland Regional in Shelby, Margaret Pardee...

EnPro Industries. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(establishes headquarters in Charlotte)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CHARLOTTE -- EnPro Industries, recently spun off from Goodrich, has established headquarters here. En-Pro employs 4,500 worldwide and makes industrial sealants, bearings and engines. It had sales of $696 million in 2001. Separately, Goodrich...

Charlotte Regional Partnership. (Regional Report: Charlotte).(reduces film office staff)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CHARLOTTE -- The Charlotte Regional Partnership, an economic development group, has let go its movie recruiter and will reduce its film-office staff to one. The office was credited with bringing in $500 million in film business but was closed...

Immigration varies widely in the region. (Regional Report).(North Carolina)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Immigration varies widely in the region. The percentage of families that don't speak English at home: Mecklenburg 13.1% Catawba 9.5 Union 8.3 Cabarrus 7.2 Lincoln 6.8 Rowan ...

Corning Cable Systems. (Regional Report).(laying off 600 )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Corning Cable Systems, based in Hickory, is laying off 600 and will convert its optical-cable assembly plant to a design center for products made in low-wage Mexico. The cuts will take place through early 2003. They come atop the 2,705 jabs...

Kunkle Valve. (Regional Report: Western).(plans to increase valve production)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... BLACK MOUNTAIN -- Kunkle Valve, a subsidiary of Bermuda-based Tyco International Ltd., planned to increase production of pressure-relief valves at its plant here by late July. Employment was expected to increase 40% to 140.

Parkdale America. (Regional Report: Western).(opens North Carolina yarn plant)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... RUTHERFORDTON -- Gastonia-based Parkdale America spent $2.8 million to open a yarn plant here in a vacant textile building, creating about 100 jobs. The company received $250,000 in incentives from the governor's One North Carolina Fund.

BASF. (Regional Report: Western).(sells plant to McKinnon-Land-Moran LLC)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ENKA -- Germany-based BASF is selling its heat- and flame-resistant-fiber business, including a plant here, to Charlotte-based McKinnon-Land-Moran LLC. Terms were not revealed. None of the plant's 16 workers will lose jobs, and BASF will...

Quality Textile. (Regional Report: Western).(to double employment)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... SUNNY VIEW -- Quality Textile will nearly double employment here after it moves jobs from similar companies it purchased this year in Florida and Ohio. The company has 34 employees and makes lint-free mops and cloths for industries such as...

U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor. (Regional Report: Western).(NC Property Tax Commission ruling)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... SYLVA -- The state Property Tax Commission has ruled against U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor in a dispute involving property taxes on six parcels of Jackson County land. The commission said the county acted properly in 1999 when it removed Taylor's...

Nine western counties added private businesses at a rate faster than the state's in the '90s. (Regional Report).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Nine western counties added private businesses at a rate faster than the state's in the '90s. 1990 1999 Change Clay 137 201 46.7% Jackson 650 890 36.9 Macon 779 1,026...

The swat team: Charlotte business leaders were confident they could deliver a downtown arena. What the Hornets got was a ticket to ride. (Feature).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Raw prime beef glistens behind glass in the wood-paneled foyer of McIntosh's, a steakhouse in a gentrifying section of old mills and warehouses almost in the shadow of downtown's office towers. Back in a private dining room, two bankers, a...

Worth their pay? Most stocks stumbled last year, staggering investors. But options let some CEOs keep kicking up their heels.(Cover Story)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... John Blystone, chairman, president and CEO of Charlotte-based SPX Corp., learned his lessons well at General Electric. Blystone spent 14 years, in two stints, at the Connecticut-based conglomerate before becoming boss of SPX in 1995. GE,...

Naked ambition: Scott Coffman always wanted to find a fortune. He believes XXX marks the spot, where silicone peaks meet Silicon Valley. (Feature).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... It looked like a surefire formula for a financially successful Web site. "Sports and sex -- you'd think you couldn't really lose," Scott Coffman says. His allnudesports.com featured daily 15-minute sportscasts anchored by naked women, with a...

City's reputation gets a makeover. (Special Advertising Section: Regional Focus).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Fayettenam. There it is -- the nickname the city of Fayetteville has had to live down since the 1960s and 1970s. Just as bad was the reputation for boozing, brawling and bars -- especially the topless kind. But residents say they're tired...

Lifestyles for the Best Years: A Guide to Retirement Living. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... North Carolina is known for natural beauty that stretches from the Blue Ridge Mountains through the green rolling hills of the Piedmont to the sandy beaches of its coast. Combine that beauty with a mild climate and friendly people, and you have...

Smooth talker just listens to the voice inside his head. (People).(East Carolina University professor Joe Kalinowski's SpeechEasy device)
September 1, 2002... Flash back 22 years: Joe Kalinowski walks up to a woman in a bar in Boston. "W-w-w-w-would y-y-you l-l-l-like to d-d-d-d-dance?" She zaps him in the face with pepper spray. "It was one of my most humiliating experiences. It hurt right to the...

Working-class hero. (Out Back).(Chuck Hayes of Guilford Mills)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 1, 2002... That Chuck Hayes has passed away at 68 should come as no surprise to those of you who read the cover story in our June issue. No matter what ailment took him, I suspect he died of a broken heart. As Contributing Editor Irwin Speizer's piece...