The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-01-11

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process cotton yarns, doing fine
combed spinning. Their product is
sold largely to hosiery and under
| wear manufacturers.
i It is apparent in Cedar Falls
as it is in Raleigh-that Henry
Jordan is the kind of man people
instinctitely trust and turn to when
they need help. His kindly de-
meanor, coupled with distinctive
sense of humor, make him beloved,
| as his father was, by people from
many walks of life. This gentle
ness of manner is blended with a
keen business sense and an Unborn
strength of character. These quail
| tiles make him a natural leader of
men.
| Successfully established in the
textile business as World War II
ended, Henry Jordan accepted an
appointment offered him by Gov.
r. Gregg Cherry as Sixth Division
highway commissioner. He came
to the Highway Commission with
no previous experience in road
building and like several other Tar
Heel businessmen before him
learned to love the job. Although
he manifested a genuine interest
in civic affairs early in life-he is
a past president of the Belmont
Rotary Club and has been chair
man of the Methodist Board of
Stewards for 10 years-Dr. Jordan
discovered that as highway COM
missioner he found an opportunity
to enlarge that sphere of his ac-
tivities. The Highway Commission
appealed to him because he in
stinctively likes to deal with peo-
pie, and highway commissioners
find that their biggest job.
When Governor Scott looked
around for Highway Chairman
in 1949, he found Henry Jordan,
experienced and able, waiting to
take the job. AS Highway Chair
man, DR.. Jordan has cultivated his
natural knack as a public speaker
and has exhibited his ability to at
tract capable, trustworthy men as
his lieutenants.
AS he grows older and deals
with more people, the Highway
Chairman learns that soundness of
character means more than any
other quality in men. It is his con-
tention that our government will
never be better than the character
of the men who run it. His fore
most consideration, in carrying out
the highway program, is to attract
to it men of substance and integ-
rity. Loyalty, too, ranks high as a
qualification of good character, and
the Chairman himself has demon
starated that quality well in his
own life.
In his spare time DR.. Jordan
likes to collect silver. At his COM
Portable old home at Cedar Falls
he has candlesticks, silver serv-
ices, trays and dishes he has COL
lected from many parts of the
United States and Mexico. He also
has a 400-acre farm at Cedar
Falls, complete with pigs, corn
and wheat which, he sometimes
maintains with sly wink, quail
fies him for spot, like all other
statesmen, in the political hierar-
chy of North Carolina.
Last fall he sent his two older
children off to school. Henry Har-
rison, II, IL, went to Woodberry
Forest in Virginia, and Anne RAN
kin, Is, to Salem Academy in
Winston-Salem. That left only
wife Mary Ruth and youngest son,
Tommy, at home.
In addition to the many other
things he has been identified with
in his So years of life, the High
way Chairman has been a county
commander of the American Lee
gion, president of the CASTOR Coun-
ty Dental Society, a member of
the County Board of Education
for half dozen years in CASTOR
County and also in Randolph, on
the Boy Scout Executive Board in
Randolph County and a Shriner.
During World War I he served for
six or seven months in the Stu
dentS' ArnnU Troininor Noroe