Friday, February 17, 2023

Walter Budd of Durham Elected President of Sheet Metal Organization, Feb. 17, 1923

Durham Man Was Elected. . . W.P. Budd Will Head Sheet Metal Organization

By the Associated Press

Charlotte, N.C., Feb. 16—The North Carolina Sheet Metal Contractors association has been expanded into an organization with membership in Virginia and the Carolinas, and hereafter will be known as the Carolina-Virginia Sheet Metal and War Air Heating Contractors Association as a result of action taken at the concluding session of the convention here Thursday night.

Walter Budd of Durham, N.C., was elected president of the new organization with H.K. Kluger of Emporia, Va., and J.P. Piper of Greenville, S.C., as vice-presidents. Other officers chosen are Secretary George Ray, treasurer C.f. Shuman, both of Charlotte; and directors Horace King of Wilmington, J.W. Arthur of Asheville, S.P. Waller of Kinston, J.E. Stevick of Raleigh, D.M. Parker of New B ern, Charles P. Tanner of Henderson, N.C., H.G. Martin of Columbia., S.C., and G.A. Spann of Norfolk, Va.

Wilmington, Raleigh, Greensboro, Columbia and Greenville have asked for the next convention and selection was left to the directors. A salesmen’s auxiliary with about 25 members also was formed, during the convention here, which was presided over by J.L. Cartland, Greensboro, the retiring president.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Feb. 17, 1923

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