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Mr. Bern Stafford takes a hand at the shovel during the ground break- The Kernersville Lumber Company was organized in 1943 with W. A.
ing ceremony for the Masonic Temple. He gave the land for the Temple. Copeland as its first manager. In 1948 John W. Lain and J. S. Hedgecock
took over operations. In 1956 Mr. Lain became sole manager and later
purchased all company stock. The busines~ has grown from a one truck
delivery operation to eight and from three employees to twenty.

September 30, 1931, a meeting was held for the
purpose of instituting a local lodge of the Ancient Free
and Accepted -~,1 asons in Kernersville. The officers were
appointed by the Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M. of
North Carolina, and Kernersville Lodge No. 669 was
chartered January 22, 1932 with approximately 70 char-
ter members. Brother James J. Griffith was Master.
For 25 years the meetings were held on the second
floor of the building which formerly housed Snow Bro-
thers Mercantile business and which presently adjoins Masonic Lodge members about 1950 taken in old Junior Order Hall.
Names listed on page 96
Charlie Snow's restaurant.
In September of 1957, the cornerstone was laid for
the Masonic Temple on South Main Street. Brother
Bern C. Stafford, a charter member of the local lodge,
gave the land for the Temple.
The Kernersville Lodge now has approximately one Kernersville's first photo pro-
cessing plant started operating
hundred and forty members. The present Master is in 1961, located on Pineview
Drive, and moved to our down-
Brother Fred L. Elliott. The Order of the Eastern Star, town location in October, 1969.
Colorcraft of the Piedmont, Inc.
along with the Order of the Rainbow for Girls also hold services approximately a sixty
mile radius of its home base,
their meetings at the Temple. delivering quality photofinishing
and photographic merchandise.

Varco-Pruden, Inc. (Dean Grant, General Manager) came about as the
result of a merger between Varco-Carolina plant 1967, (town office opened
Dillon and Hastings Real Estate, Inc. was incorporated in 1951 by in April, 1966) and Pruden Products (1968). It is now a wholly owned
D. E. Dillon, the late John Hastings and Gilmer Dillon. Roger Hastings subsidiary of Dominion Bridge Ltd. of Lachine, Montreal, Canada. Home
joined the firm in 1956. The company also provides services in construc- office in Pine Bluff, Arkansas with other plants in Evansville, Wisc. and
tion, insulation, insurance and other subsidiaries. Coy Matthews heads con- Turlock, Calif. Company manufactures custom designed metal buildings
struction; Larry Barrow, insulation; and Johnnie Duggins, Office Manager. serving entire East coast.

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