The uplift [serial] . 1915. Skeptics gavethe paper six months to live but TheHickory Daily Record was a successfrom the beginning. L. C. Gifford,who had previously been Northwest-ern editor of the Western NewspaperUnion and co-publisher of the Dis-patch in Kokomo, Indiana, purchasedthe paper in 1929. In 1936 the paper moved into a newhome that is considered one of themost modern and attractive in theSoutheast. Now equipped with As-sociated Press teletype facilities anda 24-page press capable of turning out24,000 complete papers an hour, thepaper has a circulation in excess of12,000 and has rou
The uplift [serial] . 1915. Skeptics gavethe paper six months to live but TheHickory Daily Record was a successfrom the beginning. L. C. Gifford,who had previously been Northwest-ern editor of the Western NewspaperUnion and co-publisher of the Dis-patch in Kokomo, Indiana, purchasedthe paper in 1929. In 1936 the paper moved into a newhome that is considered one of themost modern and attractive in theSoutheast. Now equipped with As-sociated Press teletype facilities anda 24-page press capable of turning out24,000 complete papers an hour, thepaper has a circulation in excess of12,000 and has routes in more than ascore of surrounding towns and com-munities. The paper has done muchto awaken local civic loyalty and hasalso helped materially in building upa feeling of cooperation among com-munities of the area. Excellent Educational Facilities Good public schools, a Grade Acollege and a business college provideHickory with unusualjy well-roundededucational advantages. With an average enrollment of THE UPLIFT 17. Home of The Hickory Daily Record. 4,000 students, Hickory public schoolsrank among the leading systems in astate that holds fourth place national-ly in teacher training requirements. The system now includes sevenelementary schools, one junior andone senior high school for white stu-dents, an elementary school and a highschool for colored students, and em-ploys 132 teachers. The grounds ofall schools have been landscaped and aschool nursery containing severalthousand plants, provides the schoolswith a wide variety of flowers andshrubs. Twelve grades and a ninemonths school year are provided. From the time of its founding in1891 Lenoir Rhyne College, a co-edu-cational institution, has exierfted astrong influence in keeping culturaladvancement apace with industrialand commercial expansion in the area. Although operated by the LutheranSynod of North Carolina, its doors areopen to young men and women of alldenominations and attracts many stu-dents from other states. Le
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