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Echols Oil Company began in 1955 as Raymond Echols Fuel Oil
Service. The company grew with the town and was incorporated in 1967
as Echols Oil Co., Inc. The company now operates two delivery trucks and
employs Raymond Echols, Paul Echols and Tice Shields to help fill the
community's need for heating oil. 46th Birthday anniversary of Exchange Club. Second from left, Joe
L. Phillips, local president. Extreme right: Joe G. Smith, local treasurer.
Cake was baked by Mrs. Joe G. Smith. Picture 1957.

The Exchange Club, one of the oldest national
service clubs in the United States, officially acquired its
name in 1911. The club was formed by Charles A. Berk-
ley and twelve of his friends and business associates who
had been meeting informally for lunch since 1897 to
exchange ideas.
The local club was sponsored by the Exchange Club
of Greensboro. The organizational meeting was held on
Sept. 5, 1944 at Main Street Methodist Church. Mr.
Conrad W. Morris, well known contractor and citizen
of Kernersville, was elected President for an initial pe-
riod of six months. Other officers were James T. Justice,
Fred P. Carter, and the Reverend Clyde W. Glosson.
Mr. E. E. Grubbs, Sr. was awarded Kernersville's Ford Dealership in On Tuesday evening, Sept. 19, 1944, the charter
1954 and established Grubbs Ford, Inc. It was incorporated with Ephraim
and Edna Grubbs as officers and with nine employees. In 1966 the meeting was held in the local high school cafeteria.
dealership moved from Mountain Street to new facilities on Interstate 40
at Highway 66. Grubbs Ford now has thirty employees including the Grubbs' About one hundred people attended the dinner as local
sons, "Butch" and George Grubbs.
friends and members of Exchange Clubs of Greensboro,
Elkin, Winston-Salem, High Point, Reidsville, and Burl-
ington joined the charter members for the presentation
of their Charter and installation of officers.
As the club began its twenty-sixth year in Kerners-
ville, three charter members were still active in its af-
fairs: Messrs. L. B. Ballard, Joe L. Phillips, and Grady
P. Swisher. Two of the present members of the club,
Odell Crews American. is located Messrs. George W. Berry and Joe L. Phillips, have served
at 137 West Mountain Street. Odell
has been associated with the service the North Carolina District Exchange Club as Directors.
station business since 1940. He pur-
chased the present business in 1965. The local club has been active in their programs
of Traffic Safety, Crime Prevention, and Americanism.
Projects sponsored by the club include a little league
baseball team, Sunshine Specials for underprivileged
children and senior citizens, participation in the annual
4th of July Celebration and furnishing crutches and
wheel chairs to afflicted persons.

Hugh Z. I ngram, Inc., furniture store (formerly Parrish & Ingram)
was organized by Hugh Z. Ingram, Noble L. Parrish and Stella D. Ingram
in April 1946 and located on Oak Ridge Road. They opened a branch
store on Main Street in 1951. In 1957 the business was bought by Hugh
Z. Ingram and Nancy I. Idol and was moved to its present location on the
Greensboro Road.

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