L. E. Beard

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1. 1929 Shepperd Strudwick resigns as president of Bellevue, and L. E. Beard takes over After twenty-five years as president, Shepperd Strudwick stepped down in 1929, the year its stock value fell from $500,000 to $419,600. L. E. Beard succeeded him and his partner Norfleet Webb as president and treasurer. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 19
2. July 1944 L. E. Beard becomes chairman of the Hillsboro price panel of the county ration board The price panel of the Orange County war price and rationing board at Hillsboro was enlarged to nine members, and L. E. Beard succeeded Paul Collins as its chairman when Collins stepped down because of eye trouble. People: James WebbSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): price panel expanded, July 27, 1944, p. 1
3. 1945 Hesslein and Company buys the Belle-Vue mill, ending local ownership Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company had been run from Hillsborough since 1904, lately under L. E. Beard. In 1945 Hesslein and Company bought it and spent over half a million dollars on new machinery and on baths for the mill village houses. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 275
4. June 12, 1948 Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company gives service pins to 220 workers On June 12, 1948, the Belle-Vue mill presented service pins to 220 employees, with 3,443 years of service among them, at a ceremony and dinner at Hillsboro High School. Board chairman John K. Whitaker of Hesslein and Company said the owners had spent close to half a million dollars on the mill since buying it in 1945 and had raised output nearly 70 percent without longer hours. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 17, 1948, p. 1
5. April 12, 1953 The Hillsboro Presbyterian Church calls C. H. Reckard as its pastor The congregation voted unanimously to call the Rev. C. H. "Jack" Reckard of Huntsville, Tennessee, a 1951 graduate of Louisville Seminary, to the pulpit left empty when I. E. Birdseye went to Greensboro. Reckard accepted, arrived with his family on May 14 and was to be installed by Orange Presbytery on June 14. People: L. E. Beard, Irving E. BirdseyeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 23, 1953, p. 1
6. March 1, 1954 A Hillsboro delegation asks the county boards for $65,000 in bonds to start Cameron Park School L. E. Beard, Sidney Green, Mrs. Beth Roberts and Principal G. A. Brown went before the county Board of Education and then the county commissioners to press for $65,000 in bonds so work could begin on the Cameron Park School, citing an urgent need for more classrooms in Hillsboro. People: Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): Cameron Park School delegation, March 4, 1954, p. 1
7. August 22, 1955 Eno and Bellevue mills raise wages five cents an hour The Eno plant of Cone Mills and the Bellevue Manufacturing Company put a five-cent hourly raise into effect for all production workers, following a wave of raises across the Southern textile industry. Cone said the raise brought its average straight-time pay to $1.33 an hour. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 25, 1955, p. 1
8. October 1957 (transfer November 1, 1957) Hesslein and Company, owner of Hillsboro's Belle Vue mill, is acquired by the William L. Barrell Company The New York gray-goods selling agency Hesslein and Company, which had owned the Belle Vue Manufacturing Company of Hillsboro since 1945, was acquired by the William L. Barrell Company of New York, with ownership passing November 1. Belle Vue president L. E. Beard would not say how the change might affect the mill, which employed about 300 people, but expected it to bring wider selling coverage. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 24, 1957, p. 1
9. by March 1958 The William L. Barrell Company of New York owns the Belle Vue mill in Hillsboro Belle Vue Manufacturing Company, the West Hillsboro mill, was by now wholly owned by the William L. Barrell Company of New York, which had bought it a few months earlier. At the commissioners' March 17 tax equalization hearing the firm's vice president asked for a review of the county's valuation of the mill machinery, about $700,000, which he said was out of line with what Barrell had paid. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 20, 1958, p. 1
10. May 20, 1958 Hillsboro's school committee endorses making Orange Speedway the high school's athletic field The Hillsboro district school committee unanimously approved using the Orange Speedway grounds as Hillsboro High School's stadium and urged a 20-year lease, after Bill France offered on April 27 to lease the plant to the schools for $100 a year and pay $250 for each of his four race Sundays. The high school's own field had been cut up by its new gymnasium, and the lease itself needed the county Board of Education. People: Enoch Staley, L. E. Beard, Bonner D. SawyerThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 22, 1958, p. 1
11. March 24, 1959 Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company files articles of dissolution The Hillsboro company that had run the Belle Vue cotton mill filed articles of dissolution with the North Carolina Secretary of State and began liquidating, according to a notice signed by its president, L. E. Beard. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 16, 1959, p. 7
12. April 4, 1959 Wellman Operating Corporation takes over operation of the Belle Vue mill A New York firm, the Wellman Operating Corporation, took over running the Belle Vue textile plant, with another New York company as sole selling agent. The William L. Barrell Company, a mill machinery firm that had bought the plant from Hesslein about two years before, kept ownership and leased out the operations; L. E. Beard stayed on as manager and the mill kept its name. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 16, 1959, p. 1