Chronology

The Navy Pre-Flight School's armory is completed near the campus tennis courts

A semi-prefabricated armory and rifle range designed by Archie Royal Davis for the Pre-Flight School was finished near the tennis courts, a short walk from Navy Hall. It was a separate building from the NROTC Armory.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

UNC's General Faculty names John M. Booker to chair a committee on University government

The General Faculty authorized a committee, chaired by English professor John M. Booker, to study faculty government and write a uniform set of principles for the powers and duties of the University's divisions. Reporting in sections over eight years, its work became the 1950 Faculty Legislation on University Government.

A regimental review in Kenan Stadium honors Commander Kessing as he leaves for the Pacific

With Admiral Halsey asking for him in the southwest Pacific, Commander O. O. Kessing was ordered to sea duty, and the Pre-Flight School held a regimental review in his honor in Kenan Stadium. Lieutenant Commander John P. Graff succeeded him in command.

People: R. B. House

Subject: Kenan Stadium · Navy Pre-Flight School

Kenneth Tanner lends West House to the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps

Tanner gave the student officer-training corps the use of West House as its headquarters for the rest of the war. The corps then had 125 students in eight companies under Lt. Col. W. A. Raborg.

Fire destroys Orange Grove School

Fire destroyed Orange Grove School in December 1942. On December 6, 1943 the county board sought a $16,000 insurance settlement, and at the Orange Grove committee's request classes went on in the old Orange Grove building rather than moving to Hillsboro.

A Freewill Baptist church meets in a former store on South Nash Street

A small frame building at 219 South Nash Street, shown as a store on the 1911 and 1924 Sanborn maps and later a hot dog stand and a house, appears as the Freewill Baptist Church on the 1943 map. It keeps a small square steeple in its front gable.

Black shank disease first strikes tobacco in Orange County

A new tobacco disease, black shank, appeared first in 1943 and spread quickly through the tobacco belt. The book ranks it with wilt for damage and notes a partly resistant seed.

Daphne Athas graduates from UNC

Athas graduated from the university in 1943 after studying writing with Betty Smith and Phillips Russell.

People: Betty Smith · Phillips Russell

Dr. H. W. Moore restores the Hasell-Nash House with architect Archie Royal Davis

Dr. H. W. Moore restored the Federal-style Hasell-Nash House on West Queen Street with the help of architect Archie Royal Davis, who extended the rear of the two side wings around 1943.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Hasell-Nash House

Elizabeth Janet Gray wins the Newbery Medal

Gray received the 1943 John Newbery Medal for Adam of the Road, a story of 13th-century England, a decade after she left Chapel Hill. She was then living in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

Engineer Thomas C. Atwood dies, ending the firm of Atwood and Weeks

Atwood's death in 1943 closed the partnership that had carried out much of the university's building since the 1920s.

People: Thomas C. Atwood

Fairview is platted as a neighborhood for Black families north of US 70

The first of Hillsborough's mid-century African American subdivisions was laid out in 1943 along roads that were already there, with twenty-five-foot lots meant to be bought in combination. Local builder James J. Freeland, who owned land in Fairview, built many of its houses.

People: James J. Freeland

Guion Griffis Johnson lectures in the Navy V-12 program at the University

Johnson taught as a lecturer in the Naval V-12 program at the University of North Carolina in 1943–1944.

Kessing Pool opens behind Woollen Gymnasium for Pre-Flight swimming training

An outdoor pool behind Woollen Gymnasium opened in 1943 for the Navy Pre-Flight School's aquatic training and was named for Oliver Owen Kessing, the school's first commanding officer. Thousands of servicemen trained in it, among them Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush.

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School · Woollen Gymnasium

Pre-meteorology and aviation training units arrive at UNC

In the first half of 1943 the university took in pre-meteorology and aviation training units, adding to the Navy programs already on campus.

Rachel Crook opens a fish and produce market on West Franklin Street

Crook made an old service station, lately a chicken house, into a fish and produce market.

Robert Rhinehart buys the Hill Bakery from Mrs. William Neal

Rhinehart bought the bakery that William Brumfield Neal's widow had run since his death in 1935.

St. Mary's School closes as its pupils are merged into the Hillsborough schools

Consolidation with the Hillsborough schools closed St. Mary's School in 1943.

Subject: St. Mary's School

The 1844 Orange County Courthouse is rehabilitated

The county rehabilitated its courthouse of about 1844 in 1943 and later added an annex, but the building stayed too small, and a new courthouse was finished just south of it in 1954.

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

The Black women's clubs pay off the last of the Efland Home's debt

Four years after the home closed, the North Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs cleared its remaining debt on the Efland reformatory in 1943, the year the legislature voted $25,000 for a state-run training school for Black girls.

Subject: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home)

The Farmers Mutual Exchange builds a slaughterhouse on Occoneechee Farm

In summer 1943 the Exchange put up an abattoir next to the Hillsborough livestock market on Occoneechee Farm. Farmers could bring cattle and hogs for slaughter at cost and collect the meat the next day.

Subject: Occoneechee Farm · Farmers Mutual Exchange

The General Assembly passes a resolution commending the Institute of Government

Peyton Abbott, a Winston-Salem lawyer who moved into the Institute building on December 1, 1942, led its coverage of the 1943 session, winning a seat at the press table and a copy of every bill. Before adjourning, the legislature passed a joint resolution praising the Institute's service to it.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

The Hillsborough High School for Negroes takes the name Central High School

Under principal A. L. Stanback, the school for Black students in Hillsborough changed its name to Central High School in 1943.

People: A. L. Stanback

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

The McLartys sell the Berry Brick House to Mr. and Mrs. F. Ross Porter

In 1943 F. S. McLarty and his wife, who had bought the Berry Brick House in 1936 and added dormers, sold it to Mr. and Mrs. F. Ross Porter.

Subject: Berry Brick House

William Meade Prince becomes head of the university's art department

William Meade Prince took charge of the University of North Carolina's art department during World War II, while also making posters and drawings for wartime causes.

The Naval ROTC moves into its new armory on South Columbia Street

The NROTC took over its new armory in January 1943, with classrooms in use by January 7 and a drill hall whose mezzanine served as a ship's bridge for drills. It is the first NROTC unit's building in North Carolina and has housed ROTC training ever since.

The NROTC holds its annual dance to open the new armory

The Naval ROTC dedicated its armory with its annual Navy dance on the drill deck, with the Navy B-1 Band, the Black enlisted musicians stationed with the Pre-Flight School, named as the band. The drill deck stayed a favorite dance floor through the war.

Person and Caswell sign a tri-county library contract with Orange

On March 29, 1943 the Person and Caswell library boards signed a contract forming a tri-county library arrangement with Orange, already in effect, which used state aid to serve all three counties by bookmobile, with its Orange office in the Confederate Memorial Library. Chatham dropped out of the earlier arrangement, which from 1941 had joined Person, Orange and Chatham.

Subject: Orange County Public Library

Navy Hall opens as the Pre-Flight School's visitors' entrance and cadet lounge

Designed by Archie Royal Davis and first drawn as a temporary office and hostess building, Navy Hall opened in March 1943 with offices for the Pre-Flight School and recreation rooms for cadets; the public was invited in on March 21.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

Governor Broughton speaks at a Pre-Flight School graduation in Kenan Stadium

Broughton and UNC president Frank Porter Graham both spoke at Navy Pre-Flight School graduation exercises in Kenan Stadium on June 2, 1943.

Part of The Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, 1942–1945 · 10 events

People: Frank Porter Graham

Subject: Kenan Stadium · Navy Pre-Flight School

The Navy V-12 program opens at UNC with about 1,300 men

The Navy's V-12 college program, which paid for future officers to finish degrees, began at UNC with an entering class of about 1,300, straining dormitory and dining space already taken up by the Pre-Flight School. It absorbed the Naval ROTC until 1945.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, written in Chapel Hill, is published

Smith wrote the novel in a one-room house on North Street in Chapel Hill, rising about half past five and working against the chimney wall to keep warm. Harper published it on 17 August 1943 and it sold more than 150,000 copies within two weeks.

The Burke grave plot is given to the State of North Carolina

The university chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution gave the state the small plot holding Governor Thomas Burke's grave. The chapter had cared for the site since students found it in 1923 and was raising money for a monument.

Subject: Thomas Burke’s grave (Tyaquin)

Chapel Hill High School moves into the old Hume house on West Franklin Street

After fourteen months of classes in the Baptist church following the 1942 fire, the high school moved into the former Hume house, once the Hogan house and the Zeta Beta Tau house, owned by Caesar Cone. It held the principal's office, the library and four classrooms, with larger classes in the elementary school basement.

Subject: Chapel Hill High School

Reader's Digest profiles Albert Coates and the Institute of Government

Roving editor J. P. McEvoy visited Chapel Hill that summer, and his article, titled 'Don't Shoot Your Sheriff: Teach Him,' ran in the October issue. It brought Coates speaking invitations from several states and an offer from founder DeWitt Wallace to pay him to tour the country, which Coates declined.

Subject: Institute of Government

A one-story brick store is built at 109 East King Street

A three-bay brick commercial building with a central entrance between large multi-light display windows was put up at 109 East King Street around 1944.

Charles S. Mangum Jr. sells the old Mangum house on East Rosemary Street to Betty Smith

Charles S. Mangum Jr. inherited the old Mangum house at East Rosemary and Hillsborough streets from his aunt, Mary Elizabeth Mangum Wilson, who died in 1944, and sold it that year to the novelist Betty Smith.

People: Betty Smith

Coates publishes his first history of the Institute of Government, paid for by DeWitt Wallace

In place of a speaking tour, Coates wrote a 76-page account of how the Institute grew out of his law classroom, issued under the Popular Government name in the National University Extension Association's studies series. Wallace paid for 30,000 copies for national distribution, and on the advice of Louis R. Wilson and W. T. Couch, Coates took out the profanity before it went to press.

People: William T. Couch · Louis Round Wilson

Subject: Institute of Government

Governor Broughton asks the Institute of Government to help towns plan for after the war

As Allied armies advanced across Europe, Broughton called on the short-staffed Institute to help plan for life in North Carolina's towns and cities once the war ended. State payments for this work and for civil defense training steadied the Institute's budget.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

John N. Couch chairs the university botany department

John N. Couch succeeded his teacher William C. Coker as chairman of the botany department in 1944 and led it until 1960. He was given a Kenan professorship in 1945.

People: William Chambers Coker

Len Hearn buys the East Main Street building his family grocery rents

After John Hearn died his son Len ran the store as L. D. Hearn, bought the building in 1944 and extended the back three times. It became L. D. Hearn & Son in the 1950s and, under grandson James, Hearn's Grocery.

Pritchard's drugstore on East Franklin Street closes after its owner dies

James Manning Pritchard died and his drugstore shut. Rachel Crook sold pecans in the empty store for a short while before the North Carolina Cafeteria, formerly on Fraternity Row, bought the building and moved in.

The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation buys a lot on Cameron Avenue

The North Carolina B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation bought a lot on Cameron Avenue in Chapel Hill and later built a house there where a rabbi held services for students and townspeople.

W. B. Thompson sells the Chapel Hill News, which becomes the News of Orange County

W. B. Thompson, who had published the Chapel Hill News since its start, sold it in 1944 to J. Roy Parker. The paper was renamed the News of Orange County.

Subject: The News of Orange County

The Scuttlebutt, a Navy canteen, opens on the UNC campus

The Scuttlebutt, a canteen built as an extension of the Book Exchange for the Navy and Marine trainees on campus, opened on the morning of January 11, 1944, after months of delay over a sugar contract. Pete Pulley managed it, and at first only trainees with Swain Hall meal tickets could buy there.

Subject: The Scuttlebutt

Orange County FSA honors 15 Black farm ownership borrowers

The county Farm Security Administration office awarded certificates of merit to 15 Black farm ownership borrowers, former tenants it had helped to buy farms. By March 1944 the county had 22 approved tenant-purchase loans.

People: Robert Hughes

The Navy B-1 Band leaves Chapel Hill for service in Hawaii

The B-1 Band, the first Black Navy unit whose members held a rating above messman, cook or steward, was sent from Chapel Hill to Hawaii after nearly two years of playing across the campus and town.

Vic and Rebecca Huggins run Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street

The Hugginses bought the University Hardware Company and opened Huggins Hardware on March 22, 1944, adding kitchenware and general merchandise to the keys, paint and tools. They sold the store in 1968.

Rev. Joe Brooks is a Ridge Road leader in the Black farm families' wartime food drive

Black neighborhood, 4-H and home demonstration club leaders across Orange County pooled efforts to produce and conserve more food for their families and the war effort in 1944. Rev. Joe Brooks was one of the leaders named for the Ridge Road neighborhood.

Subject: Home demonstration clubs

Hillsborough well-baby clinics are held separately for Black and white babies

The Junior Service League and the district health department held two well-baby clinics each month in Hillsborough, one for Black babies and one for white babies, focused on preventive care.

Part of Public health in rural Orange County · 26 events

Quakers organize the Chapel Hill Monthly Meeting of Friends

The Chapel Hill Monthly Meeting was organized, the first Friends meeting in Orange County since the old Eno Meeting was laid down about a century earlier. It had no building and had bought a lot on Highway 54.

People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll

District health officer reports the season's typhoid cases

Dr. William P. Richardson, district health officer, reported two confirmed cases of typhoid fever in the district in the past two months, one in Chatham County and one in Person County, with a suspected case in Person County and indirect reports of two cases in Orange County that health officials had not been able to confirm.

Mrs. E. G. Danziger buys Henrietta Smedes's house on Hillsborough Street

The Danzigers, Austrian refugees whose candy and pastry shop was on Franklin Street, bought the 1919 house at 211 Hillsborough Street from Henrietta Smedes, who had retired from the university staff. That September they advertised their Forest Hills house for sale.

Wartime day nursery opens for the children of Black working mothers in Chapel Hill and Carrboro

A federally funded day nursery for Black children opened at the Orange County Training School, caring for thirty children aged two to six from 7:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. while their mothers worked. Parents paid for food, and by October 1944 two nursery schools were running, one in the Masonic building on the edge of Carrboro and one on Brooks Street.

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

Frederick Koch dies and is buried in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Koch, who taught dramatic literature and playwriting at UNC for twenty-six years and organized the Carolina Playmakers, died on August 16, 1944 and was buried in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery. Samuel Selden succeeded him as chair of the Department of Dramatic Art and director of the Playmakers.

People: Samuel Selden

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery · Carolina Playmakers

Orange County schools stay closed until after September 18 during the polio epidemic

On the recommendation of the State Health Officer and Governor Broughton, the State Board of Education kept all North Carolina public schools closed until after September 18 because of the infantile paralysis epidemic. Orange County schools, which Superintendent R. H. Claytor had planned to open September 14, were held back with the rest, though teachers still reported on September 14.

People: R. H. Claytor

Orange County's Black home demonstration clubs hold their first dress contest in Hillsboro

Women from every Black home demonstration club in the county modeled thirty-six dresses, suits and accessories they had made at the Hillsboro high school auditorium. By 1946 the clubs met monthly in rural communities including White Oak Grove, Jordan Grove, Cool Springs, Cedar Grove, Harmony, Ridge Road, St. Mary's, Sartin and Carr.

Subject: Home demonstration clubs

O. David Garvin becomes health officer of the district covering Orange County

Garvin came to the district in 1944 on assignment from the North Carolina State Board of Health and the Public Health Service during the war emergency, after a year and a half in Scotland and Richmond counties. A later account of his resignation gave his starting date as September 4, 1944.

Jeter and Ethel Neville buy a corner lot at Cobb and Broad streets in Carrboro

On September 13, 1944, Jeter and Ethel Neville bought a small lot at the northwest corner of Cobb and Broad streets, in the Lloyd-Broad section of the Black Northside neighborhood, from Guilford Realty and Insurance Company. Jeter Neville was a janitor at Northside Elementary School.

Subject: Jeter and Ethel Neville House

Smith Furniture Company opens on West King Street in Hillsborough

Smith Furniture Company opened in the building formerly occupied by the Scott store, selling furniture, stoves and rugs. R. J. Smith ran it as proprietor, and it was still selling G-E appliances and heaters on West King Street in the 1960s.

A granite monument is dedicated at Governor Thomas Burke's grave

The Sons of the American Revolution and the Lloyd Memorial Association dedicated a memorial monolith at Burke's grave on the Latta plantation northeast of Hillsborough and presented it to the state. Governor J. Melville Broughton and Archibald Henderson were among the speakers.

People: J. Melville Broughton · Archibald Henderson

Subject: Thomas Burke’s grave (Tyaquin)

James Freeland opens the Fairview Bowling Alley in Hillsborough

James Freeland opened the Fairview Bowling Alley in a building he put up himself, casting the cinder blocks and laying the concrete floor. It opened with three duckpin alleys and room for a tenpin lane.

People: James J. Freeland

Subject: Fairview Bowling Alley

Home demonstration clubs report the year's work at Achievement Day in Hillsboro

At the county home demonstration clubs' Achievement Day at the courthouse, the home agent reported that women had canned an average of 350 quarts and that 94 percent made their own clothes, and that the women's curb market in Chapel Hill had taken in $30,280.68 over the past year. Clubs from Caldwell, Carr, Cedar Grove, Efland, New Hope, Orange Grove, St. Mary's, Schley and Murphy had made 699 garments and 744 other articles for the Red Cross.

Subject: Home demonstration clubs · Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

The county school board sells the closed Harvey's Chapel schoolhouse

The Orange County Board of Education approved the sale of the Harvey's Chapel schoolhouse, a school for Black children about three miles from Hillsboro. It had closed several years before, its pupils sent to the Hillsboro school, and Mary E. Breeze bought the building.

Commissioners' chairman Collier Cobb Jr. lays a county revaluation plan before the Chapel Hill aldermen

Collier Cobb Jr., chairman of the Orange County commissioners, told the Chapel Hill aldermen the county would raise the tax valuation of plainly under-valued property for 1945, naming Franklin Street business property, suburban lots selling far above farm-land values and some northern tobacco land.

Nelson Callahan and Morris Timmons open the Village Printshop next to the Porthole

The Village Printshop opened at 7 Fraternity Row, next door to the Porthole, run by Nelson Callahan, who had worked at the Orange Printshop since 1928, and Morris Timmons, operator of the Porthole. It did job printing by letterpress and offset.

A Negro library committee was already running library service for Black readers in Orange County

The committee met in September 1945 under chairman Mrs. M. D. McPherson, reported over a hundred new books received and 800 books circulated during the summer, and was assembling book kits for rural areas. Miss Annie Cameron was named as one of the people who started the library for Black residents of the county.

People: Marinda D. McPherson

Subject: Orange County Public Library

A brick Colonial Revival office building is built at 115 East King Street

A one-story Flemish-bond brick office building with a slate roof and a large central display window was built at 115 East King Street around 1945.

A row of Colonial-style stores fills the 300 and 400 blocks of West Franklin Street

As downtown pushed west after the war, an unbroken row of Williamsburg-inspired shops went up along West Franklin Street, many designed by Archie Davis.

People: Archie Royal Davis

A. H. Poe buys Ben Strowd's Pure Oil station on West Franklin Street for his DeSoto dealership

Poe bought the Pure Oil service station from Ben Strowd and moved his DeSoto car agency into it.

Andy Griffith plays his first role, in The Gondoliers at Memorial Hall

Andy Griffith, who had arrived at Carolina in July 1944, auditioned on a whim and made his stage debut in a Carolina Playmakers production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers at Memorial Hall.

Subject: Memorial Hall · Carolina Playmakers

Black mason John Wesley Campbell and his sons build the stone Neville House in Carrboro

John Wesley Campbell and his sons, with Jeter Neville and mason Earnest Farrar, built the Nevilles' one-and-a-half-story bungalow of granite fieldstone trimmed in red brick, with an arcaded porch and a star and crescent moon set in stone beside the front windows. Campbell's son Handy said the stones came by army truck from Chatham County; the house is the least altered of Campbell's five 1940s stone buildings in Northside.

People: John Wesley Campbell

Subject: Jeter and Ethel Neville House

Carl Snavely returns to coach UNC football

Snavely came back to Chapel Hill in 1945 after being assured that his program would have the full support of the administration. His 1946 to 1949 teams, built around Charlie Justice and returning servicemen, won two Southern Conference championships and played in three bowl games.

People: Charlie Justice

Classics professor J. P. Harland builds the first postwar house in Laurel Hill

His shingled Colonial Revival cottage on Laurel Hill Road has an attached garage wing turned to face the street. Earlier Laurel Hill houses kept their garages at the far end of the driveway, so the nomination reads the wing as a sign of the car's new place in the suburb.

Fitch Lumber moves its Mebane business to Carrboro after the Mebane branch burns

A. B. Fitch and all of the firm's Mebane operations came to Carrboro, and the Lloyd Street plant was enlarged around the same time.

Four Orange County farmers run hybrid corn demonstrations

Four farmers ran corn demonstrations in 1945 on Experiment Station lines, using hybrid seed, shallow cultivation, close spacing and heavy nitrogen. The results showed yields could be more than doubled.

George Livas becomes sole owner of the Carolina Coffee Shop

George Livas's partnership with James Gust ended and Livas became sole owner of the Carolina Coffee Shop, which he ran until his death in 1956.

Hesslein and Company buys the Belle-Vue mill, ending local ownership

Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company had been run from Hillsborough since 1904, lately under L. E. Beard. In 1945 Hesslein and Company bought it and spent over half a million dollars on new machinery and on baths for the mill village houses.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

Homemont is platted as a Black neighborhood north of Hillsborough

Laid out in 1945 with gently curving streets and evenly spaced lots on Torain and Lawndale streets, Homemont filled mostly in the 1950s and 1960s with small Minimal Traditional houses, several of exposed concrete block, built by more than one builder for sale or rent. Next to a trash dump, it had no paved streets until the 1970s.

John Scott Trotter sells the Hill House on West Franklin Street to the Baptist church

Trotter sold the Hill House, next to the Baptist church, to the congregation, which went on renting out its apartments. In 1958 the town's first public library opened in one of its rooms.

John Wesley Campbell builds a fieldstone house for a pastor on North Graham Street

John Wesley Campbell designed and built a large fieldstone house at 214 North Graham Street in Northside for a local pastor, finished in 1945 and one of the first houses on the street. It is the largest of his four stone houses in the neighborhood, with a broad arched corner porch and a stone end chimney.

Part of Historic Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro · 55 events

People: John Wesley Campbell

Laurel Hill Road is extended south beyond the 1927 plat

On the 1927 plat the road stopped at the south edge of 603 Laurel Hill Road. The extension carried it south toward the line later taken by the 15-501 Bypass and opened lots for postwar houses.

Mason Alfred Barbee builds his own house on Jones Ferry Road

After working at the Carrboro munitions plant during the war, the African American mason Alfred Barbee spent three years building his own house on Jones Ferry Road near the Strayhorn family homes, using his carpentry as well as his masonry skills.

Morehead creates the foundation behind his Chapel Hill gifts

In 1945 Morehead created the Morehead Foundation to pay for the Morehead Building on the campus at Chapel Hill and to establish the scholarship that carries his name.

Subject: Morehead Planetarium

Only 950 Orange County farmers have electricity

A dozen years after the county's pioneering rural power line, only 950 Orange County farmers had electric service in 1945.

R. B. House becomes the first chancellor at Chapel Hill

North Carolina created chancellorships for its three campuses in 1945, and President Frank Porter Graham turned to House, who had been executive secretary from 1926 and dean of administration from 1934. House held the post until 1957, the longest chancellorship at Chapel Hill.

People: Frank Porter Graham

The former Alberta mill reopens as Carrboro Woolen Mills

After fifteen idle years the modernized Mill No. 4 building reopened as Carrboro Woolen Mills, which ran until the early 1960s.

Subject: Carr Mill

The old campus infirmary is renamed Abernethy Hall

The university renamed its 1907 infirmary building Abernethy Hall in honor of Dr. Eric A. Abernethy, the university physician from 1919 to 1933. The infirmary itself moved to a new building in 1946.

Subject: University infirmary (Abernethy Hall)

Town electricity and water are extended to West Hillsborough

Before the town took over in the late 1940s, the mills supplied power and water to their workers, cutting electricity to the houses during the day so the machinery could run, which left families without refrigeration.

UNC begins marking Hinton James Day each February 12

The university started Hinton James Day in 1945, during the sesquicentennial of its first student's arrival. It falls on February 12 and now also honors other Carolina firsts, including Sallie Walker Stockard and Henry Owl.

UNC establishes its Communication Center

The university set up a Communication Center at Chapel Hill in 1945. Departments of radio and religion followed in 1947.

Newspaper describes the work of Orange County's public health nurses

A News of Orange County piece described the county public health nurses' duties: school inspections, immunization against diphtheria and smallpox, well-baby clinics twice a month, a monthly maternity clinic, tuberculosis and venereal disease clinics, orthopedic referrals, and the wartime maternity and infant care program for servicemen's wives.

The Saturday Evening Post profiles Coates as 'The Ugly Duckling at Chapel Hill'

Warner Olivier's article cast Coates as the law school's misfit who had overcome objections to build an Institute admired around the country. It opened with a photograph of Albert and Gladys Coates in front of the Institute building.

People: Gladys Hall Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

The Farmers Exchange opens its Carrboro branch

The cooperative's Carrboro unit opened in March 1945, joining its Hillsborough branch. In the year to June 1952 the two branches bought $303,096 in produce and sold $1,149,392 in supplies.

Subject: Farmers Mutual Exchange

Bowling alley owner James Freeland knocks out a Black man who asked to bowl

Lorenzo Thompson, a Black man, came into the Fairview Bowling Alley late at night, said he had bowled up north and would not leave when told he could not bowl. Owner James Freeland knocked him unconscious and dragged him outside, and Thompson needed stitches.

People: James J. Freeland

Subject: Fairview Bowling Alley

James Freeland opens a barbecue pit behind his Fairview Bowling Alley

James Freeland opened a barbecue pit behind the Fairview Bowling Alley and began serving barbecue every day. As with the alley, he built most of it himself.

People: James J. Freeland

Subject: Fairview Bowling Alley

The Terrace View supper club opens on the Greensboro road west of Chapel Hill

The Terrace View, a dining and dancing club about five miles out the Greensboro road, was "christened" on Saturday, May 26, 1945 with a private ATO fraternity party held partly on its roof garden. By December it was open to the public every night, for couples only.

Subject: Terrace View supper club

Coates deeds the Institute of Government building to the university

After the legislature appropriated $44,000 to pay off the rest of the mortgage, Coates transferred title to the Institute property to the University of North Carolina. This completed the 1941 merger plan, under which the university would take the building once it was clear of debt.

Subject: Institute of Government

The Latta Cooperative Dairy opens its milk plant in Hillsborough

Organized in 1944, the Latta Cooperative Dairy built a small 500-gallon plant in Hillsborough that began work in June 1945. It bought milk from about thirty nearby farmers and ran routes in Hillsborough, Mebane and Durham.

Chapel Hill celebrates the end of the war with Japan on Franklin Street

As the news spread that evening, townspeople, students and Pre-Flight School cadets filled Franklin Street while the campus bells rang and the fire siren sounded. Revelers draped the trees with toilet paper and lit a bonfire in the central block, and a policeman who tried to put it out was pushed aside.

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

The National Munitions plant in Mill No. 7 closes

The shell-loading plant that National Munitions Corporation had run in Mill No. 7 since 1942 closed in August 1945. At its peak it employed 1,600 people, many of them former mill hands assembling anti-aircraft rounds, and it won the Army-Navy E award for production three times.

William T. Couch leaves the University of North Carolina Press

Couch resigned in August 1945, after thirteen years as director, to lead the University of Chicago Press.

UNC holds a farewell assembly for the Navy Pre-Flight School

As the war ended the university held a formal assembly to say goodbye to the Pre-Flight School; Chancellor R. B. House had told the Navy that any peacetime Navy program should fold into the NROTC and the regular degree.

People: R. B. House

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

Navy officers move into the NROTC Armory as the V-12 program ends

With the Pre-Flight and V-12 programs closed and remaining V-12 men absorbed into an enlarged NROTC, the Navy officers who had worked in Navy Hall moved their offices to the NROTC Armory.

An old house said to contain part of the Nunn Tavern is moved across Kenan Street for the bus station

To clear the lot for the new bus station, a large two-story house was hauled across Kenan Street to 405 West Franklin, where W. W. McCauley later lived. Bryant traces the house to a section of the Nunn Tavern of about 1776, which had already been moved to this lot in 1923 when the Baptist church was built at Franklin and Columbia.

Carolina Coach Company builds a Williamsburg-style bus station on West Franklin Street

The bus station at 311 West Franklin Street had a pedimented portico, a cupola with a weathervane and other Colonial details.

Central High School adds a twelfth grade

Central High School, the county's high school for Black students in Hillsborough, added a twelfth grade for the 1946-47 school year. By 1949-50 it served 443 elementary and 206 high school students.

People: A. L. Stanback

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Charles Crisp Oliver builds an auto and tractor repair shop at the Cedar Grove crossroads

Oliver put up a one-story concrete block garage with a stepped parapet on the lot where his father, T. L. Oliver, had kept a blacksmith shop early in the century.

Charlie Justice chooses Carolina and begins four seasons at Chapel Hill

Justice was one of the most sought after players in the country after playing for the Bainbridge Navy team, and he chose Chapel Hill over South Carolina and Duke. He played tailback for Carl Snavely from 1946 to 1949, gaining 170 yards on 17 carries against Virginia in his freshman season.

People: Carl Snavely

Commerce dean Dudley D. Carroll builds a small brick house on Laurel Hill Road for an in-law

The one-story side-gabled house has a traditional form with a large transom and sidelights at the door. English professor Blyden Jackson later owned it.

People: Blyden Jackson

Henry W. Lewis joins the Institute of Government faculty

After his discharge from the Army, Lewis joined the small faculty of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, where he worked mainly on election law and the property tax.

People: Henry Wilkins Lewis

Subject: Institute of Government

Johnson-Strowd-Ward opens a furniture store on West Franklin Street

The furniture firm began in one of A. H. Poe's car showrooms and in 1947 moved further west on West Franklin into a building put up for it.

Katherine Kennedy Carmichael succeeds Inez Koonce Stacy as dean of women

Carmichael, who held a Vanderbilt doctorate in British literature, became dean of women at Chapel Hill in 1946, succeeding Inez Koonce Stacy, adviser to women from 1919 and dean of women from 1942. She also taught an introductory literature course for the English department.

Kenneth M. Brinkhous chairs the UNC Department of Pathology

Brinkhous succeeded James B. Bullitt as chair of pathology at the UNC School of Medicine in 1946 and held the post until 1973, building a research program in thrombosis and hemostasis. His department invented the partial thromboplastin time (PTT) test used in clinical laboratories.

People: James Bell Bullitt

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Lee County joins the health district serving Orange

The district health department, begun with Person County in 1935 and joined by Chatham in 1937, added Lee County in 1946.

Medical dean Isaac Hall Manning is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Isaac Hall Manning (1866-1946), the physician and medical school administrator who started Hospital Savings of North Carolina, the state's first medical insurance plan, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Morehead gives the university a million dollars for a planetarium

In 1946 Morehead presented the university with one million dollars to build a planetarium and put the proposal to the Board of Trustees. The building opened in 1949.

Subject: Morehead Planetarium

Orange County farmers seed the first ladino clover plots

There was no ladino clover in the county in 1945. Half a dozen farmers planted trial plots in 1946, and the next year about 200 farmers sowed more than 1,000 acres.

Principal J. M. Harris refits the Murphey School lunchroom

Mrs. J. M. Harris, principal and teacher of the fifth and sixth grades, reported new chairs, tables, curtains and cooking equipment for the lunchroom in 1946. Her teachers were Myrtle Walker, Erna Link, Mrs. Chas F. Hudson and Florence Roat, and the school had a 4-H club, a chorus and a parent-teacher association.

Subject: Murphey School

Terry Sanford revives Boys State, with William Friday among its counselors

After finishing his law courses, Sanford organized the first postwar Boys State session, staffed mostly by law students as counselors. Among them were William Friday, later president of the Consolidated University, whose first university paycheck came from the job, and William Aycock, a future chancellor.

People: William B. Aycock · William C. Friday

Terry Sanford serves as assistant director of UNC's Institute of Government

After the Second World War Sanford returned to Chapel Hill, completed a law degree in 1946 and served two years as assistant director of the Institute of Government before opening a law practice in Fayetteville.

Subject: Institute of Government

The Campbells build a stone bungalow for carpenter Vance Thompson on Broad Street

Next door to the Neville House, John Wesley Campbell and his sons designed and built a fieldstone Craftsman bungalow at 201 Broad Street for carpenter Vance Thompson and his family just after World War II. Land records show it finished by 1947; a Thompson son recalls moving in in 1946, and the family kept it until 2013.

People: John Wesley Campbell

The Farmers Cooperative Dairy opens its plant in Chapel Hill

A larger cooperative of Orange, Chatham and Durham dairymen let the contract in June 1945 for a modern plant at West Franklin and Roberson streets; it was nearly finished in February 1946 and held a public open house at the end of May 1946. It handled fluid milk and made butter, ice cream and condensed milk.

The Gospel Baptist Tabernacle is organized

Willie Thompson, S. E. Elmore and W. J. Johnson organized the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle and built a 250-seat church the same year, with Elmore as first pastor.

The Institute builds a Highway Patrol training camp on Raleigh Road

Coates won approval to put a training camp on the eastern edge of the campus, on the south side of Raleigh Road at Country Club Road. State Highway Department crews brought seven wooden barracks built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from Camp Mackall near Fort Bragg and set them in a U around a drill yard, with water and sewer lines run from the university gym.

People: Albert Coates · Terry Sanford

The Pick Theatre on East Franklin Street closes

The Pick Theatre shut its doors in 1946. Its building was later remodeled for J. B. Robbins's House of Fashion, a clothing store that ran until 1969.

The county buys land from Mary Vincent for a Cedar Grove school for Black children

In May 1945 board members Charlie Stanford and James Compton were asked to find a site near Vincent's Store crossroads for a Cedar Grove school for Black children. The board bought the land from Mary Vincent for $1,000 in 1946.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Union Grove Methodist Church builds a stone Gothic Revival church

Union Grove Methodist, organized a century earlier, builds a stone church in the Gothic Revival style around 1946.

Subject: Union Grove Methodist Church

Victory Village is built to house married veterans at UNC

As returning veterans pushed enrollment to about 6,800, the federal government put up the prefabricated metal houses of Victory Village on 65 acres of UNC's south campus in 1946. About 350 student families lived there, and the last units were torn down in the early 1970s for the expansion of UNC Hospitals.

Part of UNC expansion and neighborhood change · 25 events

People: Terry Sanford · William C. Friday

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital) · Victory Village and Odum Village

Popular Government resumes regular publication under William Cochrane

After a three-year gap and a single issue in 1945, the Institute's magazine came out nine times a year from January 1946, edited by Cochrane. He also managed the Institute's daily business until he left in 1955 for Senator Kerr Scott's staff.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

The Health Club of Hillsboro, led by Roosevelt Warner, turns the old Community Hall into a community center

The News of Orange County reported that the old Community Hall in Hillsboro was being made into a community center under the sponsorship of the Health Club of Hillsboro, whose president was Roosevelt Warner. The Youth Club held a Valentine dance in the hall on February 14.

District health department X-ray unit offers free chest X-rays in Chapel Hill

The Orange-Chatham-Person Health Department's X-ray unit operated at the Chapel Hill health department from March 13 to 20, 1946, offering free chest X-rays for tuberculosis to any Orange County resident. Health officer Dr. O. David Garvin urged residents to use it.

People: O. David Garvin

Marinda McPherson sings a joint recital at the Orange County school auditorium

Mrs. M. D. McPherson and Galvin Lampley gave a joint recital in the Orange County school auditorium in Hillsboro. She sang The Star by James H. Rogers and Because by Guy d'Hardelot, and Lampley played De Falla and Chopin.

Swalin's newly professional North Carolina Symphony plays Memorial Hall

Benjamin Swalin brought the North Carolina Symphony to Memorial Hall after an expansion campaign that let him hire a professional orchestra for the first time. The Daily Tar Heel's critic, a longtime skeptic, wrote that it had become the most capable musical organization then playing in the state.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Mrs. Collier Cobb sells the Cobb Terrace bungalows to private owners

Collier Cobb had kept the Aladdin kit bungalows at the north end of Henderson Street as rentals for young faculty. After his death in 1934 his widow kept them until April 1946, when she offered them for sale, first to the tenants and then to other faculty; by late June nine of the eleven had been sold.

C. S. Cates opens a new movie theater in the old Hollywood Theatre building in West Hillsborough

Cates, a World War II veteran, remodeled the building the Hollywood Theatre had used, with new sound and projection equipment and seats, and advertised the opening for Wednesday, May 1, with a contest to name the house.

County commissioners refuse to relicense beer sales at the Log Cabin filling station

The Orange County commissioners voted unanimously to keep refusing J. A. Thompson a license to sell beer at his filling station, the Log Cabin, on the Mebane road. Thompson and his wife called it a "Dirty Deal" and their lawyer pleaded for another chance without success.

The county board approves twelve classrooms and a gymnasium for Central School

The board approved a building program of twelve classrooms and a gymnasium at Central, the county's school for Black students in Hillsborough.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

The county board closes Orange Grove School and sends its pupils to Hillsboro

The board discontinued Orange Grove School and first planned to split its children between Hillsboro and White Cross. Parents objected strongly to White Cross, so the board voted to send them all to Hillsboro; the school site went to Cane Creek Baptist Church for $50 in 1947.

The county board ends high school classes at Efland

The board voted to discontinue Efland High School and send its students to Aycock and Hillsboro, leaving Efland an elementary school.

Subject: Aycock School · Efland schools

The old Pre-Flight Armory reopens as a Scuttlebutt snack bar and bookstore

Instead of razing it for a dormitory, the university turned the Pre-Flight School's armory into a second Scuttlebutt, a soda fountain, bookstore and student hangout in the lower quadrangle.

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

Lutherans organize Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill

Holy Trinity, the first Lutheran congregation in Orange County, was organized with 34 charter members and D. P. Rudisill as pastor. Its building was consecrated on January 6, 1952.

Subject: Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Fire destroys the barbecue pit at Dud's Tavern near Hillsborough

A Monday afternoon fire destroyed the barbecue pit building and its contents at Dud's Tavern, with damage put at $1,800. The fire had gained too much headway by the time the Hillsborough fire department reached it.

Subject: Dud’s Tavern

Poe-Mangum Auto Service finishes a showroom and parts wing at its West Franklin Street station

Bill Poe and Marvin Mangum added a DeSoto-Plymouth showroom and a parts department to their Pure Oil service station, stretching the building to a 140-foot front. The Weekly called it one of the biggest building projects in town since the war.

Bayard Wootten shows her Mobile photographs at Person Hall

Bayard Wootten gave a talk, A Photographer Discusses Mobile in the Spring, in the small gallery at Person Hall, where a collection of the pictures she had made in Mobile that spring was on exhibit.

Subject: Person Hall

John A. Parker arrives and UNC's planning program begins classes

John A. Parker, hired in 1945 to found a Department of City and Regional Planning, arrived in Chapel Hill in September 1946, and classes began that fall with four students. The department's first office was in the Alumni Building, shared with the Institute for Research in Social Science.

Subject: Alumni Building

The Institute of Government's first State Highway Patrol school opens in Chapel Hill

With money from the legislature to bring the Patrol back to its prewar strength, Governor Gregg Cherry's administration turned to the Institute, which offered an eight-week course for about a hundred recruits chosen from 1,300 applicants. Classes began on October 13, with instructors from the FBI, the State Bureau of Investigation, Northwestern University and New York University.

People: Albert Coates · Terry Sanford

Subject: Institute of Government

Forty-four graduates of the Institute's Patrol school are sworn in as state troopers

Fifty-three men finished the first eight-week course, and 44 took the oath as State Highway Patrol officers on December 7; the other nine were hired as places opened within the year. After the 1947 legislature voted to double the Patrol, Sanford and Pace ran two more sessions.

People: Terry Sanford

A community cannery is set up at Aycock School

G. A. Munn and E. F. Cude told the board in July 1947 that the cannery at Aycock School had used $3,500 and needed $1,500 more to finish.

Subject: Aycock School

A wartime Army garage from Camp Butner is moved to North Churton Street

A one-story garage of concrete block and weatherboard, built at Camp Butner in 1942, was moved to 132 North Churton Street in Hillsborough in 1947. It still has five of its original wooden overhead doors.

An Order of the Eastern Star chapter is established in Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill gained a chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, twenty-two years after Hillsborough's.

Architect James Webb moves to Chapel Hill to help start UNC's planning program

James Webb, an architect and planner trained at Berkeley and MIT who had worked for William Wurster, came to Chapel Hill in 1947 to help John Parker set up the university's program in city and regional planning. He taught there until 1975 and kept a private practice that brought San Francisco Bay area modernism to the town.

People: James M. Webb · John A. Parker

Bethsada Baptist Church builds a 500-seat church

Bethsada Baptist Church, a Black congregation led by Jesse Morrow and Rudy Whitmore, built a church seating 500 in 1947.

Brinkhous begins research on dogs that carry hemophilia

Brinkhous began studying canine carriers of hemophilia in 1947. The work led to the laboratory now called the Francis Owen Blood Research Laboratory and to UNC's hemophilia research and treatment center.

Clyde Roberts wins the Bank of Chapel Hill corn growing contest

The Bank of Chapel Hill sponsored a yearly corn contest with at least 50 entrants. In 1947 Clyde Roberts won with 93.3 bushels of N. C. Hybrid 26 on one acre, against a contest average of 61.9.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

Dickerson Chapel's old courthouse frame is encased in brick

In 1947 the frame building that began as the third Orange County courthouse was covered in brick, giving Dickerson Chapel A.M.E. Church its present look with pointed-arch stained-glass windows and an entrance tower and steeple.

Subject: Dickerson Chapel AME Church

General Assembly funds the Good Health Plan's four-year medical school and teaching hospital

The General Assembly appropriated money in 1947 to expand the UNC medical school at Chapel Hill to four years, enlarge the medical sciences building, and build a 400-bed hospital, a School of Nursing and staff residence halls. The plan grew out of a study commission Governor J. Melville Broughton created in 1944.

People: J. Melville Broughton

Subject: UNC School of Medicine · UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

J. Spencer Love serves as a university trustee

The founder of Burlington Mills sat on the University of North Carolina's board of trustees from 1947 until his death in 1962.

Local 403 petitions for student support in a campaign over university wages

After the legislature approved a 20 percent raise for state employees and the university dropped a wartime bonus, Local 403 workers circulated petitions and flyers asking students for support. Under shop steward Rebecca Clark laundry workers won wage increases, safer workspaces and better schedules.

People: Rebecca Clark

Milton Julian opens the Clothing Cupboard on West Franklin Street

Milton's Clothing Cupboard was among the businesses started on West Franklin in 1947 and 1948. It later moved to East Franklin, where it stayed until the mid-1990s.

Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Fryer give a Baldwin organ to the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church

During Irving Birdseye's pastorate the Fryers gave a new Baldwin organ in memory of R. H. Claytor Sr., and also carpeted the sanctuary's pulpit and aisles.

People: R. H. Claytor

Subject: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church

Orange County breeders organize the Spotted Poland China Breeders Association

Hog breeders formed a county Spotted Poland China association in 1947, building on 4-H pig chains started by the Chapel Hill Rotary Club and the Sears-Roebuck Foundation. It had 65 members four years later.

Orville Campbell starts the Colonial Press in Carrboro

Established in 1947, the Colonial Press did commercial printing for the university and state agencies and had 20 workers by 1953. Its owner also wrote the football song All the Way Choo-Choo.

The Farmers Mutual Exchange opens a pulpwood yard in Carrboro

In 1947 the Exchange began buying pulpwood at its Carrboro warehouse, paying cash for any amount from a wagonload up. The book calls this new market the main advance in county farm forestry.

Subject: Farmers Mutual Exchange

The New Hope community helps build Camp New Hope for Orange Presbytery

Beginning in 1947 the New Hope Grange community contributed a good deal toward building Camp New Hope, which belonged to Orange Presbytery. The camp was also open to other youth groups, among them 4-H clubs and Boy Scouts.

The Orange Hosiery Mill starts at Efland

Opened in 1947, the Orange Hosiery Mill was the only one of Efland's four family hosiery plants under corporate ownership. Together the four employed about 100.

The William Edward McPherson House is built on Nash Street in West Hillsborough

The 2017 Hillsborough architectural survey records the William Edward McPherson House at 303 Nash Street and dates it to 1947. The McPherson family, whose Edward (Pete) McPherson managed Hillsboro's Black All-Stars baseball team in these years, owned several lots along the west side of Nash Street.

Cates's Esso station in Hillsborough is named the cleanest Esso station in North Carolina

A statewide survey by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey picked C. H. Cates's Esso station in Hillsborough as the cleanest Esso station in North Carolina, ahead of stations in Elizabeth City and Durham. The company arranged to name him on its Esso Reporter broadcast over WPTF.

The Hickory House restaurant opens in downtown Hillsborough

E. W. Godfrey's Hickory House opened to the public at noon on a Saturday after an informal inspection the night before, and became a regular meeting place for town merchants and clubs. In May 1948 it installed air conditioning, which the paper called a first for a Hillsboro business.

Orange County polio chapter reports buying an infant-size iron lung

In its annual report, the Orange County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said it had spent $500 in direct aid to polio patients and bought a $550 infant-size iron lung, kept for the time being at Watts Hospital.

Hillsboro's Black baseball team opens its season at McPherson's Baseball Park before a record crowd

The News of Orange County's column for the Black community reported that the baseball season opened at McPherson's Baseball Park on Sunday, April 6, before a record crowd; the home team lost to the Roxboro Stars and on Easter Monday to the Graham Stars.

Edward G. McGavran becomes dean of the School of Public Health

McGavran was appointed dean of the UNC School of Public Health in April 1947 and led it until July 1, 1963, when he returned to full-time teaching. Full-time faculty grew from fourteen in 1948 to sixty-four by 1964.

Subject: UNC School of Public Health

The county board elects Glenn T. Proffit superintendent and keeps R. H. Claytor as his assistant

Meeting on May 5, 1947, the Board of Education elected G. T. Proffit superintendent and R. H. Claytor his assistant, offering $2,400 a year part time or $3,000 full time; Claytor chose full time. The board passed a resolution of appreciation for his thirty years with the county schools.

Paul Henderson reopens the restored Colonial Inn in Hillsborough

Col. Paul Henderson bought the run-down inn on West King Street in 1946 and restored it as a hotel and dining room, managed by Martin Henderson. About 100 people came to the formal opening of the dining hall, a Hillsboro Merchants Association dinner addressed by R. B. House.

Subject: Colonial Inn

A dinner at the Carolina Inn marks Fetzer's twenty-five years as director of athletics

Robert A. Fetzer's twenty-five years as the University's director of athletics were marked with a dinner at the Carolina Inn on June 7, 1947. The program printed for the occasion survives in the University's collections.

Subject: The Carolina Inn

Joseph Felmet is tried in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court on the bus seating charge and sentenced to the roads

Felmet's trial, put off in May while Bayard Rustin and Igal Roodenko were tried, was held in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court on June 24, 1947. He was sentenced to the county roads, appealed to Superior Court and posted a $50 bond.

People: Bayard Rustin · Andrew Johnson (Journey of Reconciliation) · Igal Roodenko

A bronze plaque honoring Lt. George Howard Jr. is placed at the Naval Armory

A plaque to naval officer Lt. George Howard Jr. was put up under the armory's portico, where it still hangs.

Mrs. Walter D. Toy sells her West Franklin Street home for business use

Mrs. Walter D. Toy sold the house she and her late husband had owned since the late 1890s to Margaret Davis Haywood of Durham, and the lot was to be used for business. The Weekly tied the sale to the business district's spread west along Franklin Street and noted talk of an A&P store on the site.

The Navine boarding kennels open at the Nathan Veterinary Hospital

Drs. S. A. Nathan and L. L. Vine opened 36 heated cinder-block kennels, each with its own indoor and outdoor run, at their animal hospital on the Durham road. The name joined their two surnames.

People: S. A. Nathan

Dr. S. A. Nathan opens the Curve Inn, a curb-service stand on Strowd Hill

Dr. S. A. Nathan opened the Curve Inn, a curb-service place on the Durham road halfway down Strowd Hill, with his son Marx as co-manager. It sold beer, sandwiches and fried chicken and was known for the pronto pup, a batter-dipped hot dog.

People: S. A. Nathan

Glenn T. Proffit succeeds R. H. Claytor as Orange County school superintendent

Glenn Theodor Proffit, a Wilkes County native who had led high schools in Clinton, Harnett County and Dunn, took over the county schools in July 1947 and served until 1951.

People: R. H. Claytor

Cora Bomar joins the Chapel Hill elementary school faculty

When the Chapel Hill schools opened in September 1947, Miss Cora Bomar was listed among the teachers of the elementary school under principal Mildred Mooneyhan. She had come to North Carolina that year.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Morris Telephone Company switches Hillsborough to dial telephones in a new exchange building

The Morris Telephone Company of Roxboro replaced Hillsborough's hand-crank telephones with a dial system housed in a new brick exchange on East King Street, begun in March 1947 at an estimated cost of $40,000 with equipment. The cutover was set for 4 p.m. on Monday, September 1.

The Terrace View supper club opens a new building beside its first one

George J. Captain, who ran the Terrace View, held the official opening of a new building with a main floor and a mezzanine, added to the old one, which was kept for private parties. Ads that fall invited students to dine and dance in its "NEW home".

Subject: Terrace View supper club

The League of Women Voters of Chapel Hill applies for recognition

Thirty-three women applied for provisional status as the League of Women Voters of Chapel Hill, raising the required finance money that fall. The league later became the League of Women Voters of the Chapel Hill Area in 1997 and of Orange, Durham and Chatham Counties in 2001.

Fire destroys the Farmers Exchange livestock market near Hillsborough

A fire of unknown origin leveled the Farmers Exchange livestock pens and office on the old Durham road near Hillsborough. The loss was put at $15,000; the workers escaped, but 13 to 20 cattle and 18 hogs died.

Subject: Farmers Mutual Exchange

A bus route begins running through West Hillsborough

Until 1948, when a bus line started running through its streets, mill families without cars had no easy way to reach downtown Hillsborough, nearly a mile away, or the rest of the county.

Archie Royal Davis becomes architect for the Orange County schools

In 1948 the Durham architect Archie Royal Davis became architect for the Orange County school system. His work for the county included Cedar Grove and Efland-Cheeks schools for Black children, the first Cameron Park School building, Central High's 1959-60 main building and Central Elementary.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Architect James Webb designs a modernist house on Round Hill Road for Norman Eliason

One of Webb's first Chapel Hill commissions was a modest low-gabled house for English professor Norman Eliason and his wife, with a broad carport at the front and a covered walk leading to the door.

People: James M. Webb

Carl Boettcher carves the Circus Parade for the Circus Room

University woodcarver Carl Boettcher carved the Circus Parade, a redwood frieze nearly 25 feet long based on William Meade Prince's drawings, for the Circus Room snack bar in the Monogram Club building (now Jackson Hall).

People: William Meade Prince

Charlie McAdams and George Crawford Amick open the A & M Grill in Mebane

Charlie McAdams Sr., who had sold barbecue from a service station kitchen since 1947, opened the A & M Grill with building owner George Crawford Amick. The name joined their two initials.