With the announcement that Junius K. Powell would assume active management of the Bank of Columbus May 15th, a new period in the history of this well known Whiteville institution was forecasted yesterday.
Bringing to the local bank a broad knowledge of banking acquired in many years’ experience with prominent bankers and a comprehensive idea of the particular requirement of the people of Columbus count in the way of cooperation in baking matters, Mr. Powell is fitted for the position which he has accepted.
Mr. Powell, while the possessor of wide experience in banking, is still a young man. He was born in Whiteville, then, is a return to scenes with which he is familiar, and to friends for former years.
For the past five years Mr. Powell has been the active head of the Bank of Warsaw, occupying the position of Vice President of that institution He also has been President of the Bank of Kenansville since June, 1922, these positions he still retains and will not dispose of his interest there. Under his management both of these institutions have shown rapid, substantial growth, proof of the peculiar genius possessed by the new Vice President of the Bank of Columbus for giving the people the kind of banking service they want, and being ready to cooperate with them whenever the bank be of help.
Loyalty to family traditions, friends of Mr. Powell said yesterday, was partly responsible for this acceptance of the post in the Whiteville Bank. The desire to advance the prestige of the Bank of Columbus beyond any place it ever has reached, and to make it a real community asset, are inspiring motives in the make-up of the Vice President.
From the front page of the Whiteville News-Reporter, May 8, 1924
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