Chronology

Chase's annual report tallies a decade of growth at the university

More than $5 million in state money had built nine dormitories, five classroom buildings and laboratories. State operating funds had risen from $215,000 to $880,000; faculty above instructor from 66 to 158; the Graduate School from 40 to 205 students; and the library from 88,316 to 193,867 volumes. Enrollment had reached 2,825 and the press had issued fifty titles.

Chi Psi announces a Norman-style house for West Cameron Avenue

Chi Psi announced plans for a $50,000 Norman-style stone house by the university architects Atwood and Nash on the old McCauley place on Cameron Avenue. The design broke with the campus's Colonial theme: steep slate roof, casement windows with stone trim, an arched entrance and a stone terrace. The old McCauley house, the chapter's home, burned on Christmas night 1929, and in November 1930 the chapter was still without a new house.

People: William Chambers Coker · Arthur Cleveland Nash · Thomas C. Atwood

A workmen's compensation law that Frank Graham and Harry Wolf helped write passes

Sixteen earlier bills had failed, but with Governor O. Max Gardner's backing the 1929 General Assembly passed a no-fault workmen's compensation act. Frank Graham lobbied for it, and he and economics professor Harry Wolf helped draft it; the governor's support kept textile interests from objecting to Graham's role.

People: O. Max Gardner

Cornelia Spencer Love designs and builds her own house in Laurel Hill

Cornelia Spencer Love, granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, planned her own one-story frame house in Laurel Hill; the architect Arthur Nash contributed the flared roof ends and a little porch.

People: Arthur Cleveland Nash

Drama professor Preston Farrar builds a house with an outdoor stage on Laurel Hill Road

UNC drama professor Preston Farrar built a two-story stucco house in the manner of an English cottage. It had indoor and outdoor stages for rehearsals and small productions, including a stone terrace used as a theatre, and a specimen garden.

Eben and Ruby Merritt open a gas station on the Pittsboro Road

Eben and Ruby Merritt began running an Esso gas station on the Pittsboro Road south of Chapel Hill in 1929 and kept it for nearly fifty years. It is the business that became Merritt's Store and Grill.

Subject: Merritt's Store and Grill

Elizabeth Janet Gray marries Morgan Vining of the University Extension division

Gray married Morgan Fisher Vining, associate director of the University's Extension division, in Chapel Hill. The couple moved to New York in 1932, and he was killed in an automobile accident in 1933.

Eno Cotton Mill installs new machinery and switches to combed yarn

New machinery went in at the Eno mill in 1929, and combed yarn replaced coarse carded yarn. Broadcloth shirting and corduroy became its main products.

Subject: Eno Mill

Gaines AME Chapel builds its church at Efland

The Black congregation of Gaines AME Chapel at Efland builds its church in 1929. It was covered in brick veneer in 1964.

George Livas and James Gust go into partnership at the Carolina Confectionary

George Livas formed a partnership with James Gust in 1929 and began operating the Carolina Confectionary as a restaurant as well; it became the Carolina Coffee Shop.

Herbert Ledbetter and Clarence Pickard open Ledbetter-Pickard Stationery

Ledbetter, a former clerk at Alfred Williams's stationery, and Clarence "Doc" Pickard, whose grocery had failed, opened the store in part of Foister's photo shop. It did well enough to move to a larger space in 1932.

Kappa Alpha begins a new house on Cameron Avenue

Kappa Alpha, whose old hall stood on Fraternity Row, started a pink granite Colonial house on Cameron Avenue designed by Kenneth Ellington. With Kappa Sigma next door it flanked the Zeta Psi house to form a court.

Mack and Julie Rigsbee build a white-quartz country house east of Hillsborough

Around 1929 the Rigsbees built a rambling story-and-a-half house faced with white quartz on two wooded acres east of Hillsborough, with a quartz wall, garage, pump house and swimming pool to match. Local stories say the couple sold whiskey and hid it in the roof.

Subject: Rigsbee’s Rock House

Mary Bayley Pratt, namesake of Chapel Hill's public library, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Mary Bayley Pratt (1874-1929), for whom the Chapel Hill public library of the time was named, was buried in the family plot she shares with Joseph Hyde Pratt.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Odum's institute wins a $240,000 Rockefeller grant

The Institute for Research in Social Science secured $240,000 from a Rockefeller foundation for studies of social and child welfare, crime and justice, taxation, industry and cooperatives.

Robert Oscar Cate builds a bungalow and dairy barn on his farm near Chapel Hill

In 1929 Robert Oscar Cate finished a large gambrel-roofed dairy barn and milk sheds on his farm near Chapel Hill and built a story-and-a-half bungalow on the rise above them. It is a clear case of a farm turning to dairying in the 1920s.

Shepperd Strudwick resigns as president of Bellevue, and L. E. Beard takes over

After twenty-five years as president, Shepperd Strudwick stepped down in 1929, the year its stock value fell from $500,000 to $419,600. L. E. Beard succeeded him and his partner Norfleet Webb as president and treasurer.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

Sophia MacNider, who kept a boarding house and preparatory school on Franklin Street, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Sophia MacNider (1846-1929), who ran a boarding house and a preparatory school in her Franklin Street home, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

The Beta Theta Pi fraternity house is completed on South Columbia Street

The Beta Theta Pi house at 114 South Columbia Street, apart from the fraternity courts, is a brick house laid in Flemish bond with a slate roof and dormers, a Doric portico across the front and wings on each side, set back on a wide lawn.

Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

The Chapel Hill recorder's court is established

The new court heard all misdemeanors from Chapel Hill Township every Tuesday, with a judge elected by town voters and a clerk and prosecutor named by the aldermen.

The Efland Home's farm cuts its yearly cost per girl

The home's 1928-1929 report showed the girls working ten acres, 24 fruit trees and a small stock of mule, cows, hogs and chickens, which helped bring the cost per resident down from about $598 in 1928 to $182.50 in 1929. That year fifteen girls were paroled and eleven placed in working homes; assistant matron Margaret Cromwell taught classes and Mebane physician Thomas David Tyson came when needed.

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

The Gothic cottage serving as the Chi Psi house burns

Dr. Jones's board-and-batten cottage at 321 West Cameron Avenue burned in 1929, a year after it became the Chi Psi fraternity house. The fraternity's Tudor Revival house now stands on the site.

The University Press publishes Harriet L. Herring's study of mill villages

Herring, a research associate of the Institute for Research in Social Science, had visited 322 of the state's roughly 500 mills after the manufacturers refused formal cooperation. It was the first systematic look at mill communities. Chase mailed copies to leading textile men, including Charles A. Cannon, as a model of social research.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

The university names Bingham Hall for Robert Bingham

In 1929 the university named Bingham Hall on its Chapel Hill campus for Robert Bingham, class of 1857, an alumnus who often spoke at campus events and helped reopen the university in 1875.

People: Robert Worth Bingham

The county board funds a two-room Morris Grove School, with Black families paying part

The school board approved a gable-roofed, two-room frame school at Morris Grove in Chapel Hill Township. Black residents gave $250 toward it and supplied the lumber, and Louis Webb and Labon Hogan built it; the building survives, long vacant.

The university sets aside land on the Pittsboro highway for fraternity houses

The university set aside a strip on the west side of the Pittsboro highway for a new fraternity colony, taking fraternity lots on old Fraternity Row in exchange. Phi Delta Theta and Pi Kappa Phi began building there first and moved into their brick houses that fall.

Trustees approve a library school paid for by a $100,000 Carnegie grant

At commencement Chase won the trustees' permission to set up a school to train librarians in the new library, with its first five years funded by a $100,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Subject: UNC Libraries

Coates holds a Law School Association conference on criminal justice

About thirty lawyers, judges and state officials, including Attorney General D. G. Brummitt and Justices George W. Connor and Willis J. Brogden, met at the law school and split up sections of the American Law Institute model code to begin a new state code of criminal procedure.

People: George Whitfield Connor

Subject: UNC School of Law

County welfare superintendent notes Orange has no health officer or public health nurse

In a letter to the Chapel Hill Weekly, county welfare superintendent George H. Lawrence wrote that Orange County had no county health officer, no county health department and no public health nurse, and that little preventive health work was being done. He contrasted Orange with Vance County, which had a health officer, a hospital and a tuberculosis sanatorium.

People: George H. Lawrence

The Daily Tar Heel counts 31 fraternities with over 900 members and $500,000 in property

By the end of the 1920s about a quarter of UNC students belonged to one of thirty-one national fraternities, whose houses and land were valued at around half a million dollars.

Chase asks alumni to build a private endowment for the university

With state money in doubt, Chase broke with the unwritten rule that state schools left private gifts to the church colleges and asked alumni to build an endowment alongside tax support. The Durham Herald endorsed the appeal, but four weeks later the stock market crashed and little came of it.

Chase refuses a mill official's demand that Frank Graham be fired

After the Southern Textile Bulletin wrongly placed Graham at a Communist Labor Day rally, an official of the company that owned Gastonia's Loray Mill asked Governor Gardner to have him dismissed. In the reply Gardner passed along, Chase said Graham had been in New York and that faculty had the same right as other citizens to form and voice opinions, and he would resist any censorship of those seeking change by lawful means.

People: Frank Porter Graham · O. Max Gardner

Chase seeks money for a school of public affairs to train state and local officials

Chase asked Governor Gardner to help find about $30,000 a year in private money for a school to train city and county officials, public health and public safety officers and others, saying none existed in the South. Albert Coates's Institute of Government soon took up the same mission.

People: O. Max Gardner

Thomas C. Atwood reports that Memorial Hall could collapse

After President Chase closed Memorial Hall over a bulge in its slate roof, university architect Thomas C. Atwood found the bases of the wooden roof arches rotted to powder. In a late November report to the building committee he warned that the building could fall at any minute and endanger passersby.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Subject: Memorial Hall

Will W. Alexander delivers the Weil Lectures at the University

Will W. Alexander, then with the Commission on Cooperation between the Races, gave the three Weil Lectures at the University. His announced topics were "Truth and Fiction about the Old South," "The New Rulers" and "The Older Values and the New Life."

Marie Clay Clinton of Charlotte becomes interim superintendent of the Efland Home

Marie Clay Clinton, a Charlotte widow active in the federation's work but not a trained teacher or social worker, was named interim superintendent in December 1929. Her assistant Bertha Vincent, a Scotia Seminary graduate, taught the classes, and both women served as house mothers.

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

A Phillips grandchild sets a headstone for Dilsey Craig

A small granite headstone was placed over the grave of Dilsey Craig, who died in 1894 after sixty years enslaved, mostly in the household of Professor James Phillips. Its inscription says a Phillips grandchild erected it, and its style suggests the 1930s.

People: James Phillips

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

A brick building that housed the post office goes up at 118 South Churton Street

A one-story beige brick commercial building is put up about 1930 at 118 South Churton Street and is labeled post office on the 1943 Sanborn map. The post office moved to a new building farther down South Churton Street in 1958.

A new Memorial Hall with a Doric portico replaces the Victorian auditorium

In January 1930 the university decided to raze Old Memorial Hall and build a larger auditorium to plans by Atwood and Nash. The new Colonial Revival hall, with three entrances under a monumental Doric portico facing Cameron Avenue, stood by early 1931, one of three buildings the university completed in the early Depression under Frank Porter Graham.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Alexander H. Graham chairs the committee that chooses Frank Porter Graham as UNC president

Alexander H. Graham chaired the committee that hired Frank Porter Graham as president of the University of North Carolina in 1930. His papers hold the committee correspondence from February to May 1930.

People: Frank Porter Graham

Alpha Tau Omega builds a Tudor Gothic house on East Franklin Street

Architect Courtland Curtis designed Alpha Tau Omega's house on East Franklin Street in Tudor Gothic, one of the few big fraternity houses of the era not in the Colonial Revival mode.

An owner of Durham's Erwin Cotton Mill builds a log retreat above New Hope Creek

In the 1930s a log house was built on a steep ridge over New Hope Creek, reportedly as a getaway for Mr. Erwin of the Erwin Cotton Mill in Durham. Older log outbuildings, among them a tobacco barn, mark an earlier house site.

Carrboro builds a small brick town hall and fire station at Lloyd and Cobb streets

Around 1930 a small one-story brick building went up at the corner of Lloyd and Cobb streets, east of the railroad, to house Carrboro's town hall and fire department.

Clay Hogan builds a large dairy complex off Homestead Road

In the 1930s a notable group of frame dairy buildings went up for Clay Hogan on what is now Lake Hogan Farm Road. By 1992 the farmhouse had apparently been lost.

Durham Hosiery closes Mill No. 4, the former Alberta mill

Durham Hosiery Mills stopped operations at Mill No. 4 in 1930 as the Depression cut into the hosiery business.

Subject: Carr Mill

Frank Graham circulates his Industrial Bill of Rights

Answering the 1929 Gastonia strike deaths, Graham gathered more than four hundred signers across the state, among them Odum, Branson, Poteat and Walter Murphy, though not Chase. He made it the theme of his mid-April 1930 address as president of the North Carolina Conference for Social Service, ignoring advice to soften it while the trustees searched for a president.

Herman G. Baity serves as dean of UNC's School of Engineering

Baity, head of sanitary engineering since 1928, was dean of the School of Engineering from 1930 until 1936, when the sanitary engineering department moved to the School of Public Health. He chaired it there until 1955.

Subject: UNC School of Public Health

James M. Pritchard and Thomas P. Lloyd buy the bankrupt Patterson Brothers drugstore

The Patterson Brothers drugstore failed in 1930, and Pritchard and Lloyd bought it from Wallace Durham Patterson. The maps then list it as the Pritchard and Lloyd Rexall store.

Johnson-Moore Hardware goes bankrupt and Orange Hardware takes its place

The hardware store that had succeeded Chapel Hill Hardware failed in 1930, one of several Franklin Street businesses lost in the Depression, and Orange Hardware took it over.

Kappa Sigma builds a $35,000 house on the Cameron Avenue fraternity court

Kappa Sigma's new house, designed by Kenneth Ellington to match its neighbors on the Cameron Avenue court, cost about $35,000.

Miss Ruffin's will leaves Sans Souci to Samuel T. Latta

Under the will of Miss Ruffin, proved on March 16 of a year in the 1930s, Sans Souci and her other property went to Samuel T. Latta, who was living there in 1971.

Subject: Sans Souci

Nash retires and leaves Chapel Hill, staying on as consulting architect

Nash retired in 1930 and moved to Washington, D.C., but continued as the university's consulting architect until 1953, advising on later campus work.

Numa Taylor builds a stuccoed block house on a lot he won in a raffle

Taylor built the one-story, hip-roofed house at 700 North Greensboro Street of cement block covered with stucco, with unusually tall windows. Martin and Myrtle Luther bought it about 1960.

Orange County consolidates most of its small white schools

After a county survey by the Board of Education and Superintendent Claytor, most small white schools were merged by 1930, with buses provided. As late as 1925 the county still had 21 one-teacher white schools and several one-teacher Black schools.

People: R. H. Claytor

Postmaster, mayor and state senator William Pritchard is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

William Pritchard (1850-1930), Chapel Hill postmaster and mayor and a state senator, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Russell Gruman builds a Dutch Colonial house on Laurel Hill Circle

A gambrel-roofed Dutch Colonial Revival house of rough brick and shingle, with a matching garage, went up for Russell Gruman at the close of the district's first building period.

Students boycott the Carolina Theatre over ticket prices

University students stayed away from the Carolina Theatre on Franklin Street to push the price of admission down from forty cents to thirty.

Subject: Varsity Theatre (the first Carolina Theatre)

Texaco builds a service station at Franklin and Columbia after the town lets nine elms come down

To put a station on the southeast corner, Texaco needed nine old elms cut. The town agreed, with reluctance, once the company promised a tasteful yellow building with roses in the planting.

The Black neighborhood on the Chapel Hill line spreads west into Partridge Field

In the late 1930s the African American neighborhood straddling the Chapel Hill and Carrboro line grew west into Partridge Field. Only then, the book says, was it readily counted as part of either town; segregation and the community's own sense of itself had kept it apart, with its churches and schools facing Chapel Hill.

The Dubose estate builds Colonial Revival tenant houses near the Durham County line

In the 1930s the Dubose estate put up several Colonial Revival tenant houses along NC 54 Business just inside Orange County, joining older tenant dwellings from about 1910 and the late 1800s.

The Efland Home's eighteen girls come from ten counties across the state

In 1930 the home held eighteen girls, all committed by juvenile courts, from Buncombe, Carteret, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Pasquotank, Robeson, Vance and Wake counties; Durham sent the most, five. It was then one of ten such institutions for Black girls in the United States.

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

The Hillsborough Manufacturing Company builds a warehouse and woodworking shop on North Churton Street

Around 1930 the Hillsborough Manufacturing Company puts up a building supply warehouse at 503-505 North Churton Street and a woodworking shop next door at 507-513, both on the 1943 Sanborn map. The warehouse was made into two apartments in the 1950s and the shop into five apartments by the 1960s.

The Martin School is consolidated into Pleasant Grove Union School

The Martin School, attended almost entirely by Indian children, was merged in 1930 with several other small schools to form Pleasant Grove Union School. The change was unpopular in the community because the school would no longer be exclusively Indian, though it brought better facilities and was in time accepted.

The McClenan family builds a big gambrel-roofed dairy barn on Old Greensboro Road

In 1930 a very large gambrel-roofed barn was added to the McClenan farm, where an older log house lies inside a two-story frame farmhouse. The report rates the barn among the best of its type and uses the farm as its example of a dairy barn.

The Mercantile Center building on North Churton Street is remodeled in the Spanish Mission style as a dime store

The two-story brick building at 121 North Churton Street, put up soon after 1911, is remodeled in the 1930s with a tiled pent roof on large brackets, apparently when it became the dime store. Its storefront dates from 1988.

The University gives up its Service Plants appliance business to two employees

The UNC Service Plants, which supplied water, power and laundry, had begun selling electrical goods. After the state barred the University from competing with private business, Harvey D. Bennett and Frank C. Blocksidge took over the shop in the same place.

The county board approves H. F. Pickett as principal of Murphey School

The Orange County board approved H. F. Pickett as principal of Murphey School, which taught grades one through seven with three or four teachers, one of them doubling as principal. He is the first principal the record names.

Subject: Murphey School

The university's Black janitors back John J. Parker's Supreme Court nomination

The Negro Janitors Association of the University of North Carolina, forty-six members, supported President Hoover's nomination of Parker, a UNC alumnus and federal appeals judge, which the Senate rejected amid opposition over his segregationist statements as a 1920 candidate for governor.

Thomas Atwood's new firm, Atwood and Weeks, moves from Chapel Hill to Durham

With campus building stopped by the 1929 crash and Nash retiring, Atwood took H. Raymond Weeks as his partner and moved the practice to Durham. Weeks succeeded Nash as university architect, with Nash advising him until 1953.

People: Thomas C. Atwood

University students plant donated fruit trees and grapevines at the Efland Home

In the spring of 1930 Lindley Nurseries gave the Efland Home 75 fruit trees and 25 grapevines, and University of North Carolina students set them out on the farm.

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

Chase resigns to become president of the University of Illinois

The evening before, a full-dress reception at the Carolina Inn marked ten years since Chase's inauguration, with Governor Gardner already holding his resignation. When the Illinois trustees elected Chase the next day, Gardner announced it from Raleigh. The Illinois post reportedly paid $20,000, twice his salary.

People: R. B. House · O. Max Gardner

The Daily Tar Heel raises a relief fund for Orange County's poor

As hard times reached the county, the student paper asked students and townspeople for gifts. From January 31 through May 12, 1930, it collected $202.73, enough to give food to more than forty families.

Subject: The Daily Tar Heel

UNC tears down the old Memorial Hall

The first Memorial Hall, closed in the fall of 1929 and declared unsafe in December 1929, was torn down in February 1930 after the trustees voted on January 28, 1930 to replace it with a new auditorium on the same site.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Farmers of Durham and nearby counties organize the Farmers Exchange cooperative

About 400 farmers and farm leaders formed the Farmers Exchange in March 1930 to market farm products and buy supplies at cost. John Sprunt Hill of Durham backed it, and by 1952 it served about 4,100 members in five counties including Orange.

People: John Sprunt Hill

Subject: Farmers Mutual Exchange

Black janitors organize the UNC Janitors' Association

Facing a threatened 10 percent pay cut, janitors Kennon Cheek, Frank Hairston, Elliot Washington and Melvin Rich organized the Janitors' Association, with Cheek as its first president. Its early gains included a week's paid vacation and showers in the janitors' bathrooms.

People: Kennon Cheek

Howard Mumford Jones leaves Chapel Hill for the University of Michigan

Howard Mumford Jones, a member of the university's English faculty since coming from the University of Texas in 1925, left for the University of Michigan in 1930 and handed his syndicated book-review column, The Literary Lantern, to Paul Green and his wife.

People: Paul Green

The Friendly Cafeteria opens on East Franklin Street in the old University Cafeteria space

The Webber brothers of High Point, who ran Friendly Cafeterias in several North Carolina cities, bought the fixtures of the failed University Cafeteria at auction and reopened the space as a Friendly Cafeteria able to serve about 200 people.

The university loses 20 percent of its next year's state budget

A month after Chase warned Governor Gardner that the university was at a crisis, $175,000 was cut from its budget for the coming year, a 20 percent reduction deeper than any Chase had seen as president.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase · O. Max Gardner

Commencement is held outdoors at the Davie Poplar, and Chase receives an honorary degree

With Memorial Hall torn down, the 339 graduates received diplomas at a stage by the Davie Poplar, seated on the old hall's benches as loudspeakers in the trees carried John H. Finley's address. Honorary degrees went to Ellen Glasgow, Martha Berry, Francis P. Venable and Governor Gardner, and Gardner conferred one on Chase that the trustees had voted without consulting the faculty.

People: Ellen Glasgow · Francis Preston Venable · O. Max Gardner

Subject: McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar)

The county board merges Chestnut Ridge, Jordan's Grove, Smith Level and Grover into larger schools

Over objections from families who wanted to keep neighborhood schools, the board sent the pupils of Chestnut Ridge to Gravelly Hill, those of Grover and Jordan's Grove to Aycock, and those of Smith Level to Carrboro. It then adopted a school budget of $180,849.25 for 1930-31.

Subject: Jordan’s Grove School · Aycock School

Alexander H. Graham builds a stone law office on Churton Street

Graham, a former speaker of the state House, tore down the small frame building that held his law office and began a one-story building of local stone with a columned front for himself and his new partner Bonner Sawyer. Its cornerstone reads "Graham Building 1930."

Chapel Hill charity circle reports taking a patient to Lincoln Hospital in Durham

The Burden Bearers' Circle of the King's Daughters and Sons of Chapel Hill reported that it had taken a man to Lincoln Hospital in Durham for an operation and driven him back weekly for two months of treatment. The circle also made gowns for the hospital.

An Efland merchant kills a robber outside the Bank of Efland

A holdup at the Bank of Efland failed when Mrs. George Shambley warned merchant Carl Forrest, a bank officer, who shot robber Bruce Carpenter of Durham as he came out. His partner escaped by car, and a coroner's jury found Forrest acted in self-defense.

Subject: Bank of Efland

St. Mary's School burns and the county builds a new one

Fire destroyed St. Mary's School on November 3, 1930. With $2,500 from the county commissioners on top of $1,800 already set aside, the board let J. H. Liner of Cedar Grove build a new school for 84 children for $4,638.30 and received it on January 5, 1931.

Subject: St. Mary's School

The old Carnegie Library is dedicated as the music building

After the library moved to its new building, the Carnegie Library was remodeled for the music department with an auditorium and a Reuter organ, most of the cost given by the Hill family. It was dedicated on November 14, 1930, and named Hill Music Hall by trustee resolution in the summer of 1931.

Subject: UNC Libraries · Hill Hall

The Bank of Efland fails and goes into receivership

Efland had its own bank for about ten years, with John L. Efland as president. In November 1930, days after a robbery in which a merchant shot the robber dead, the cashier, Roberts Riley, handed the state bank examiner the keys; the bank was found $15,000 to $40,000 short and put in receivers' hands, and Riley was jailed at Hillsboro.

Subject: Bank of Efland

Albert and Gladys Coates mail the first issue of Popular Government

The seventy-page first issue, built on Coates's paper The Convict's Question, called for a scientific overhaul of the state's criminal justice system. The Coateses paid about $1,500 to print it and addressed some two thousand copies by hand at the Chapel Hill post office before year's end.

People: Gladys Hall Coates

A bungalow goes up on the old Bivins Basket Factory lot on South Occoneechee Street

By 1931 the Bivins Basket Factory, shown at South Occoneechee Street and West Margaret Lane on the 1924 Sanborn map, had left the site, and a bungalow was built there. The factory's small office may have been moved next door when the house went up.

A second storefront is built beside the old general store at 115 West King Street

A new brick store went up on the west side of an 1880s general store building, the two were joined inside, and the older store got a new front. The pair later housed the Dual Supply hardware store.

Addie Williams Totten organizes the Chapel Hill Garden Club

Addie Williams Totten, who had lived in Chapel Hill since her 1923 marriage to botanist H. R. Totten, organized the Chapel Hill Garden Club in 1931. It joined the state federation in 1932, and she was again its president in 1958.

C. B. and Myrtle Ray Stanley's house is built on Allen Ruffin Avenue in West Hillsborough

The house at 406 Allen Ruffin Avenue was built for Charles B. and Myrtle Ray Stanley in the Eno mill neighborhood of West Hillsborough. Charles Stanley died at home there in 1958, and his funeral was held at the nearby Eno Methodist Church.

Graham Memorial is completed as the university's student union

The building named for Edward Kidder Graham was completed in 1931 and served as the student union, holding the Horace Williams Library, a barber shop, a bowling alley, a game room and offices for student publications.

Subject: Graham Memorial

John Henry Blue and his wife take charge of the Efland Home

John Henry Blue and his wife ran the Efland Home in 1931-1932 with a second matron. The farm then had forty acres in cultivation and supplied beef, pork, chicken, eggs, milk, butter, fruit and vegetables.

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

Mack and Julie Rigsbee lose their Rock House after defaulting on the mortgage

About two years after moving into their white flint house, the Rigsbees defaulted on the mortgage in 1931, and the place passed through a series of owners. Court records later tie Mack Rigsbee to whiskey convictions in Durham and Granville counties.

Subject: Rigsbee’s Rock House

Phillips Russell returns to Chapel Hill to teach creative writing

After years as a newspaperman in New York and London, Russell came back in 1931 and taught writing at the university for twenty-five years, first in the English department and then in the School of Journalism. The Atlantic Monthly called his class, often held outdoors under the trees, one of the four best in the country.

The Christian church congregation near Mebane builds a brick church

The congregation now known as Mebane United Church of Christ builds a cross-gable brick church near Mebane in 1931.

The Weldon Riley House is built on Eno Street

The one-and-a-half-story bungalow at 811 Eno Street, with a gabled dormer, knee brackets and a wide engaged porch, is judged the best Craftsman house in West Hillsborough.

The last known burials are made at Margaret Lane Cemetery

Margaret Lane Cemetery, begun as a burial ground for enslaved people before 1852, was used until 1931, according to the plaques placed in 1987. The oldest legible stone is for George W. Hill (1844-1900).

Subject: Margaret Lane Cemetery

The legislature creates a commission on improving the state's laws, with Coates as secretary

The 1931 General Assembly set up a commission of justices, judges, lawyers and law school representatives to recommend changes to the laws, with Albert Coates as executive secretary and a report due in 1933.

People: O. Max Gardner

The state takes over Orange County's roads and most of its prisoners

The 1931 act moved every public road outside town streets to state upkeep and made the state responsible for longer-term prisoners, ending one of the county's oldest duties. The Gardner survey had found Orange spent $48,076 on its 412 miles of roads in 1929.

People: O. Max Gardner

UNC establishes its School of Library Science

A School of Library Science was added at Chapel Hill in 1931, early in Frank Porter Graham's presidency.

People: Frank Porter Graham

University Lodge buys Chapel Hill's old Baptist church for its hall

University Lodge No. 408 bought the old Baptist church building on Franklin Street and made it into its lodge hall.

Subject: University Lodge

Townspeople and faculty form the Battle Park Association at Joseph Hyde Pratt's home

A meeting at Colonel Pratt's home launched a volunteer group to restore Kemp Battle's paths and bridges in Battle Park. By the end of 1931 it had cleared old walks, opened about three miles of trail and rebuilt the bridges.

Subject: Battle Park

Breeze School is merged into Aycock and later becomes a tobacco pack house

On June 15, 1931 the county Board of Education merged Harmony and Breeze schools near Caldwell into Aycock School. By 1938 the Breeze building was being used to store tobacco.

Subject: Aycock School · Breeze School

The county board merges nine more rural schools into larger ones

At a special meeting on reorganizing the schools, the board sent Merritts to Chapel Hill, Damascus to Carrboro, Tom's Creek and Rock Hill to Orange Grove, Union and Rehobeth to Efland, and Harmony with others to Aycock, leaving few one-teacher schools for white children.

Subject: Aycock School

The county board sets bus driver pay and a one-mile limit on walks to the bus

The board paid student drivers $10 a month and adult drivers $20, and told the superintendent to lay out truck routes so that no child walked more than a mile to a bus. A few weeks later the state told the superintendent that $15 a month was the most a driver could be paid.

The Commerce Department puts Martindale's Chapel Hill airport on its air maps

C. L. Martindale, owner and manager, reported that the Department of Commerce had placed the independently owned Chapel Hill airport, two miles north of town, on its official air maps. The field measured 2,200 by 2,500 feet, and its hangar held three small planes.

Subject: Horace Williams Airport

Coates opens his first statewide school for law officers in Manning Hall

About fifty police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, clerks and judges, growing to seventy-five or more, met for three days under the police chiefs' association, the first meeting of city, county, state and federal officers under one roof. Governor Gardner called it the most promising movement the university had begun.

People: Henry Horace Williams · O. Max Gardner

Schley Grange No. 710 is chartered

Thirty residents of the Schley farming community north of Hillsborough chartered Schley Grange No. 710, one of five Orange County Granges formed in the state Grange revival of 1929 to 1931. The county board had merged Schley School into the Hillsboro school that June, and on November 2 it sold the Schley School building for $122 to Charles Wilson, who bought it for the Grange.

Subject: Schley Grange Hall

Coates and his law students open local police schools around the state

Less than a month after the Chapel Hill meeting, the first local police school opened in a Raleigh courtroom with Coates's students in tow, followed by schools in High Point, Greensboro, Wilmington, Asheville and Winston-Salem.

The new Memorial Hall is dedicated

Chase had found the money for the replacement auditorium within university accounts, helped by $5,000 from John Sprunt Hill, but none was left to furnish it. Guests at the dedication sat on the scarred heart-pine benches saved from the old hall, along with its marble tablets to the Civil War dead.

People: John Sprunt Hill

Subject: Memorial Hall

Frank Porter Graham is inaugurated as president in Kenan Stadium

On Armistice Day, delegates from campuses across the country attended a full-dress ceremony in the stadium. In an address of more than an hour and a quarter, Graham restated the university's freedom to teach and to report findings whatever powerful lobbies thought, and praised Chase. It was the last such inauguration for the Chapel Hill campus alone.

Subject: Kenan Stadium

Langston Hughes reads in Gerrard Hall after Contempo prints "Christ in Alabama"

Milton Abernethy of Contempo invited Langston Hughes to Chapel Hill and printed his Scottsboro poem "Christ in Alabama" in the issue dated December 1, timed to appear days before the visit. Hughes spoke and read to students and townspeople in Gerrard Hall on the night of November 19, 1931.

People: Guy Benton Johnson · Langston Hughes

Subject: Gerrard Hall

The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower is dedicated at UNC

The bell tower given by John Motley Morehead III and Rufus Lenoir Patterson II was dedicated to the university on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1931, with Governor O. Max Gardner giving the dedication address. Morehead had proposed a tower to President Harry Woodburn Chase in the 1920s and been turned down on three sites.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase · O. Max Gardner

Adeline McCall plays piano in a Folk Music Institute laboratory concert

The university's Institute of Folk Music held its second laboratory concert at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9, 1931, in Hill Music Hall, with Lamar Stringfield on flute, Adeline McCall on piano and Thor Johnson on viola. The program included a composition by Herbert Hazelman, an Asheville freshman.

Subject: Hill Hall

Officials at the Carolina Inn back Coates's plan for schools of public officers

Forty-five judges, lawyers and lawmen invited by Judge W. A. Devin heard Coates propose an association of government officers served by a staff that would write guidebooks and train officials. They told him to go ahead, and Coates later called this the first meeting of the Institute of Government.

Subject: The Carolina Inn · Institute of Government

Carl Durham serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners

Durham served eight years on the Orange County Board of Commissioners, beginning with the board elected in 1932. In 1935 he proposed and secured $22,000 in federal aid for a rural electrification line in the Calvander-Orange Grove area, and in 1937 he was elected a UNC trustee.

Dr. Edwin Caldwell is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Dr. Edwin Caldwell, a Black physician and son of Wilson Caldwell, died in 1932 and was buried in the Black section of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, near his father. He had taken his medical degree at Shaw University and practiced for many years in Chapel Hill.

People: Wilson Swain Caldwell

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Eagle Lodge gets back its original number, 19

In 1932 the Hillsborough Masonic lodge, chartered as No. 19 in 1791 and revived in 1819 as No. 71, had its original number 19 reinstated. The lodge still owns and meets in its 1823 hall.

Subject: Eagle Lodge

Kennon Cheek moves that the Janitors' Association give to the student loan fund

Frank Porter Graham came to an association meeting to tell the janitors that the Depression would cut their wages but that everyone would come through together. Cheek then moved that the Janitors' Association give five dollars to the fund set up to keep students in school, the first campus organization to contribute to it.

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People: Frank Porter Graham

R. A. Eubanks serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners

Lefler and Wager's list of Orange County commissioners gives R. A. Eubanks a term from 1932 to 1934, alongside Carl T. Durham and W. P. Berry.

Rebecca Clark moves to Chapel Hill and goes to work in a faculty home

Clark, born around 1915 in Chatham County, moved to Chapel Hill in 1932 to live with a relative on Church Street. She went to work in the home of professor Vernon Howell while enrolled at the Orange County Training School.

Richmond Motor Company opens as Hillsboro's Ford dealer

Richmond Motor Company began selling Ford cars in Hillsboro in 1932. It marked its 15th anniversary in July 1947 with a three-day open house, having sold 1,848 new and used cars.

Ridge Road School is built for Black children north of Hillsborough

In 1932 the county board had a two-room frame school for Black children built on Walter and Maggie Torian's land off Ridge Road (now Coleman Loop Road), just west of NC 86 north of Hillsborough. R. J. Forrest built it with lumber from the community. It replaced an earlier Ridge Road school and was not a Rosenwald school, though the 1993 survey had taken it for one.

Subject: Ridge Road School

Robert L. Fowler moves the Model Market across Franklin Street into a new building

Fowler carried his stock to a new building on the south side over one weekend and opened there the next Monday.

St. Joseph CME built its first church on West Rosemary Street

Henry Baldwin, Margaret Burnette and Kennon Cheek mortgaged their homes for the down payment on the Rosemary Street lot, which Black leaders had judged too small for a new high school. A frame church went up under Rev. Joseph S. Miller and was dedicated as St. Joseph Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.

People: Kennon Cheek

Strum's Gas Station, a Spanish Mission-style filling station, is built on South Churton Street

The stuccoed Spanish Mission-style gas station at 200 South Churton Street, with a green tile pent roof, is built in 1932 and appears as a filling station on the 1943 Sanborn map.

Susan Grey Akers becomes UNC's first woman full professor

When Louis Round Wilson left the new School of Library Science, Akers was made its acting director and promoted to full professor, the first woman at UNC-Chapel Hill to hold that rank.

The state builds a prison camp for road crews near Hillsborough

The state prison camp near Hillsborough, whose inmates worked on road crews, was built in 1932. By 1960 it held about ninety felons and kept a vegetable farm behind its fence.

The university is consolidated with the Greensboro and Raleigh colleges

In 1932 the university at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina College for Women at Greensboro and State College at Raleigh were joined administratively into one University of North Carolina.

People: Frank Porter Graham

Graham Memorial is dedicated as the student union

After more than a decade of unmet alumni pledges, L. Ames Brown guaranteed the money to finish and furnish the building, which opened in the fall of 1931. At the January dedication Charles Tillett Jr. quoted a reader's entry in Nell Battle Lewis's News and Observer contest that counted Ed Graham's living spirit among the state's most beautiful things.

Subject: Graham Memorial

Hattie V. Brown buys the Nash law office

Hattie V. Brown bought the half of lot 10 that held the old Nash law office. The property then changed hands several times before the Hillsborough Historical Society bought it in 1970.

Subject: Nash Law Office

The county board bars hiring teachers related to a school's committeemen

The board ruled that every elementary teacher must hold at least a Primary C or Grammar Grade C certificate when elected, and that no one could teach in the county if a wife, child, brother or sister sat on the school committee.

About two hundred officials organize and name the Institute of Government

Mayors, legislators, judges and county commissioners met at the new Graham Memorial, endorsed Coates's plan for an association of government officials and formally adopted the name Institute of Government. Junius G. Adams chaired, with Coates as secretary, and a larger meeting was set for September.

People: Albert Coates · Gladys Hall Coates

Subject: Institute of Government · Graham Memorial

The Rockefeller Foundation grants Odum's Institute for Research in Social Science $30,000 a year

The foundation announced a yearly grant of $30,000 to support the work of the university's Institute for Research in Social Science under Howard Odum. Covington says the announcement came the same day Coates held his first conference of public officials.

The county board agrees to pay for five new or enlarged schools for Black children

Despite the Depression, the Orange County board agreed to fund buildings or additions at Merritts, Ridge Road, Sunnyside, White Oak Grove and Sartin, schools of one to three rooms for Black children. Each community had to supply its own lumber; Ridge Road was first allotted $500.

Subject: Ridge Road School · White Oak Grove School

A five-week county campaign gives children free diphtheria and typhoid shots

Beginning June 8, 1932, a five-week campaign to protect children against diphtheria and typhoid was held at school buildings across Orange County, with the county's physicians giving the inoculations without charge. Chapel Hill health officer S. A. Nathan directed it.

Hundreds take typhoid vaccine at Chapel Hill clinic after new cases

After several new typhoid cases were reported in late June 1932, about 600 people received typhoid vaccine at the Chapel Hill public clinic in a single day, and the Infirmary gave the treatment on any day. Town health authorities said the water supply was not the source.

People: Eric A. Abernethy · S. A. Nathan

UNC names W. C. Jackson dean of a new School of Public Administration

Graham and Odum announced Jackson, history chair at the Woman's College in Greensboro, as dean of the school Odum had planned for three years with a small state allocation. Graham urged Coates to fold the Institute into it and made him one of its trustees, but Coates kept apart; short of state money, the school was dissolved after Jackson returned to Greensboro as chancellor.

People: Howard W. Odum · Frank Porter Graham · Albert Coates

S. A. Nathan opens a veterinary hospital on the Durham road

On going to part time as Chapel Hill's municipal health officer on July 1, 1932, Nathan opened a veterinary hospital and boarding kennels on the Durham road between Chapel Hill and the one-mile bridge. He ran it until he sold it to his associate L. L. Vine in 1952.

Albert Coates convenes the Institute of Government's first statewide school for public officials

About six hundred officials and citizens from nearly every county came to Chapel Hill for a two-day meeting Coates had promoted all summer. Frank Graham opened the Friday evening session in Gerrard Hall and Harvard law dean Roscoe Pound gave the closing address on Saturday, when the organizing committee approved hiring Coates as director with a staff.

People: Frank Porter Graham · O. Max Gardner

Subject: Institute of Government · Gerrard Hall

The Institute of Government stages a statewide radio swearing-in of new county officers

Working with Raleigh station WPTF, Coates had a five-station network carry the oath-taking of incoming sheriffs, commissioners and other county officers, with speeches by governor-elect J. C. B. Ehringhaus and his Republican opponent Clifford Frazier. People gathered in courthouses across the state to watch and listen, and Coates billed the night as the Institute's formal launch.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

A three-mile rural power line from Chapel Hill to Calvander is built with federal money

Built in 1933 as a Civil Works Administration project, the line ran three miles from Chapel Hill to Calvander, and the Hogan brothers supplied cedar poles when funds ran short. The book says it was the first rural electric line in the United States built with federal funds.

People: George H. Lawrence

Ben Cone pledges $5,000 a year for three years to the Institute of Government

After a $1,500 gift at the end of 1932, the Greensboro textile executive pledged $5,000 a year for three years and his brother Ceasar Cone II promised $5,000 more. The Cone money paid for the first staff, and by late 1933 it was more than three-quarters of all the Institute had deposited at the Bank of Chapel Hill.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Beppie Branson moves The Little Shop to 142 East Franklin Street as sole owner

Elizabeth Lanier Branson and Mary Henderson had started a women's specialty shop near Henderson Street in the early 1930s. Branson took it across the street and ran it alone, and the old shop went on as Henderson's millinery.

Black children attend 27 schools while white children are gathered into 12

By 1933 consolidation had brought Orange County's white children into twelve schools, while Black children still attended twenty-seven, most of them one- and two-room buildings.

Charles S. Mangum serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine

Charles Staples Mangum led the university's medical school as dean from 1933 to 1937, following Isaac Hall Manning, who resigned in 1933. William de Berniere MacNider succeeded him in 1937.

People: Isaac Hall Manning · William de Berniere MacNider

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Dean Isaac Hall Manning resigns after President Graham overrules his Jewish quota

Manning limited the admission of Jewish medical students. When Morris Krasny, a rejected Jewish applicant, appealed, President Frank Porter Graham ordered him admitted, and Manning resigned rather than change his decision.

People: Frank Porter Graham

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Farmers pay to carry the rural power line on to Orange Grove

Soon after the federally funded line from Chapel Hill to Calvander was built in 1933, a second line paid for by local farmers' donations carried power on from Calvander to Orange Grove.

Milton Abernethy moves the Intimate Bookshop across Henderson Street

Abernethy, who began selling books from his dormitory and had moved over the Carolina Cafeteria in 1931, took the shop into the west end of Hoot Patterson's old store.

Subject: The Intimate Bookshop

Robert A. Eubanks closes his general store when he becomes postmaster

Eubanks shut his long-running general store on the south side of East Franklin when he took over the Chapel Hill post office. The building was razed in 1934.

People: Robert A. Eubanks

S. H. Hobbs Jr. heads UNC's Department of Rural Social Economics

Hobbs, who had taught in the department since 1916, headed it from 1933 until it merged with the Department of Sociology in 1939.

State senator John Umstead buys the Royster house on East Franklin Street

In 1933 state senator John Umstead bought the house at 619 East Franklin Street, and it has carried his name since.

People: James Finch Royster

The Carolina Playmakers stage a Shaw-Henderson Festival

The Carolina Playmakers held a Shaw-Henderson Festival in Chapel Hill honoring Archibald Henderson, George Bernard Shaw's authorized biographer. It featured Shaw's You Never Can Tell, the play whose 1903 amateur performance had first drawn Henderson to Shaw.

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Subject: Carolina Playmakers

The Pickwick Theatre closes in the Depression

Hard times forced the Pickwick to shut. For some years the building served as a town courtroom before it reopened as the Pick in 1938.

Subject: Pickwick Theatre

University physician Eric Abernethy is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Eric Abernethy (1876-1933), the university physician for whom Abernethy Hall is named, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

White Cross School is built as a consolidated brick school

White Cross School, built in 1933, is a brick school with four large classrooms split by an auditorium in the middle. The form names it one of the county's two best examples of the larger central schools that replaced one- and two-room schools during consolidation.

Subject: White Cross School

Dr. Eric A. Abernethy resigns as university physician

Abernethy, appointed university physician in charge of the infirmary after he came home wounded from the First World War, resigned because of poor health and went into private practice in Chapel Hill with his son. Dr. Foy Roberson of Durham took temporary charge of the infirmary.

People: Eric A. Abernethy

Subject: University infirmary (Abernethy Hall)

White Cross School burns and the board orders a new building

The board learned in April 1933 that the White Cross school building had been destroyed by fire and authorized a new one for $10,859. At the same meeting it set aside $3,325 for two new rooms at Efland.

Subject: White Cross School

Henry P. Brandis Jr. becomes the Institute of Government's first associate director

Paid from the Cone pledges at $50 a week, Brandis, a Salisbury native with a Columbia law degree, left a New York firm and went straight to Raleigh to follow the General Assembly and digest its new laws. He was later dean of the UNC law school.

People: Albert Coates · Henry P. Brandis Jr.

Subject: Institute of Government

Kay Kyser's band closes the May Frolics dances in the Tin Can

Kay Kyser and his orchestra, made up of former UNC students, played the formal dance that closed the fourth annual May Frolics in the Tin Can. The band also gave a benefit concert in Memorial Hall the next afternoon.

Subject: Memorial Hall

The Bank of Chapel Hill closes its Bank of Carrboro branch

With the Carrboro mills idle and other business falling off, the Bank of Chapel Hill closed its Carrboro branch and moved its accounts to the parent bank. The branch cashier, W. E. Thompson, went with them.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

Free health examination clinic for children entering school in Chapel Hill

The Parent Teachers' Association arranged a free clinic at the school building to examine all children due to enter school that fall, with physicians from Duke Hospital and Chapel Hill dentists, and urged vaccination against smallpox, diphtheria and typhoid.

Coates and law dean Van Hecke withdraw their resignations after meeting with President Graham

That spring law dean Maurice T. Van Hecke had recommended that Coates stop teaching and work only for the Institute, and first Coates and then Van Hecke offered to resign. At a June 6 meeting in Graham's South Building office both stayed on: Coates got a fall leave and a second chance in the law school, and he agreed to stop presenting the law school or the university as the Institute's sponsor.

People: Frank Porter Graham

Subject: South Building · UNC School of Law

More than a thousand people attend the Institute of Government's second statewide conference

Officials and citizens met in Chapel Hill to hear the state's congressional delegation, led by Senator Josiah Bailey, explain the first New Deal recovery laws, and President Roosevelt sent a letter urging other states to copy the Institute. The organizing committee then gave Coates new work, among it a report on proposed constitutional amendments and a guidebook for election officials.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

A Hillsborough jury acquits the driver who killed William Strayhorn and his daughter of manslaughter

On August 6, 1933, Ernest Glaston of Saxapahaw, driving on the wrong side of the road, struck the car bringing the Strayhorn family home to Carrboro from church in Burlington; Algia McCoy died at once and her father William Strayhorn died later in a Durham hospital. At the superior court in Hillsborough a jury acquitted Glaston of manslaughter but convicted him of hit-and-run, and Judge Devin suspended a six-month road sentence on payment of $350 to the families.

Elizabeth Janet Gray publishes Jane Hope, a novel set in Chapel Hill

Viking Press issued Jane Hope, a novel for young readers set in Chapel Hill, whose heroine comes from Philadelphia to live with her grandparents. The Chapel Hill Weekly noted that the author had absorbed the village's history, with a chapter on the Buchanan commencement.

George H. Lawrence becomes Orange County's Civil Works administrator

Already county welfare officer and relief director, Lawrence was put in charge of the new Civil Works Administration in Orange, with a quota of 453 jobs and a payroll he guessed at about $7,000 a week. He hired builder J. A. Page to run the construction work.

Civil Works crews tear down the old stone jail on Hillsborough's courthouse square

As part of a Civil Works Administration project around the courthouse, relief workers demolished the old jail, and flagstones from its walls were used for sidewalks around the square. The work was nearly done in late December and complete by late January.

People: George H. Lawrence

Subject: Orange County jail, Hillsborough

Albert Ray Newsome heads the UNC history department

When R. D. W. Connor left to become the first Archivist of the United States, Newsome returned to Chapel Hill to head the history department and teach American history. He ran the department until poor health made him give up administrative duties in 1950.

People: R. D. W. Connor

Carl Snavely becomes head football coach at UNC

Snavely came to Chapel Hill from Bucknell University in 1934. His first UNC team won seven games, lost one and tied one, and included George Barclay, the university's first football All-American.

Curry Roberts builds a brick house for the Cates family on West Union Street

A two-story brick Colonial Revival house was built for the Cates family at 112 West Union Street, set far back on a lot running the depth of the block. Curry Roberts built it and the Black brickmason Roosevelt Warner laid the brick; it replaced an earlier house on the lot.

People: Roosevelt Warner

Edgar Wallace Knight is named a Kenan professor

The university recognized Knight's teaching and scholarship with a Kenan professorship in 1934.

Former university president Francis Preston Venable is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Francis Preston Venable (1856-1934), the chemist and university president under whom UNC gained national standing, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Geologist Collier Cobb is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Collier Cobb Sr. (1862-1934), professor of geology at the university for forty-two years, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

George and Mabel Bason open Whitehall in the old MacRae house

Leaving the Widow Puckett house after George Bason resigned from the University, the couple bought the MacRae house across from the Episcopal church, which had been a fraternity house. They named it Whitehall and took boarders, sold crafts and later antiques.

Girls from the Efland Home receive free care at Durham's Lincoln Hospital

In 1934 the Efland Home's residents were treated without charge at Lincoln Hospital, the Black hospital in Durham, where Dr. Stanford Lee Warren, husband of home trustee Julia Warren, had been a founding trustee.

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

James J. Freeland moves to Hillsborough

Born in Durham in 1918, Freeland came to Hillsborough in 1934. In his early years there he operated the Sunny Side Inn, a barbecue restaurant, worked part time at a sawmill and helped run a dry cleaning plant in West Hillsborough.

People: James J. Freeland

Janitors' Association president Elliot Washington asks for help joining a union

In 1934 Dean Robert House wrote to President Frank Porter Graham about a request from association president Elliot Washington for help with union membership, since the janitors could not afford local union dues.

People: Frank Porter Graham · R. B. House

Jim Tatum is named an All-Southern tackle at UNC

Tatum enrolled at UNC with the persuasion and financial aid of his uncle William Donald Carmichael Jr. He played tackle under Chuck Collins and Carl Snavely, was named All-Southern in 1934, also caught for the baseball team, and graduated in 1935.

People: Carl Snavely · William D. Carmichael Jr.

Mary Strayhorn Berry's recollections of antebellum Hillsborough are typed

A typed transcription of Mary Elizabeth Strayhorn Berry's "Reminiscences of the Old South" records the names, family ties and skills of many people enslaved by the Strayhorn, Nichols and other Hillsborough families, and her father's store and cobbler shop.

Murphey School enrolls 182 pupils

In the 1934-35 school year Murphey School had 182 pupils. It was one of nine county schools, with Hillsboro, Orange Grove, St. Mary's, Caldwell, Efland, Aycock, Carrboro and White Cross, apart from the Chapel Hill city schools.

Subject: Murphey School

Ridge Road School counts 80 pupils enrolled and 51 attending

In the 1934-35 term Ridge Road School, a two-room school for Black children north of Hillsboro, had 80 pupils on its roll, 51 of whom attended regularly.

Subject: Ridge Road School

Robert A. Eubanks's old general store is torn down

The store on the south side of East Franklin was razed. The new Carolina Theatre went up on the site in 1942.

People: Robert A. Eubanks

Subject: Carolina Theatre (1942)

Robert B. House becomes Dean of Administration at Chapel Hill

As part of consolidation, President Frank Graham chose Robert Burton House, confirmed by the trustees in 1934, as Dean of Administration for the Chapel Hill campus. His title became chancellor in 1945.

People: Frank Porter Graham · R. B. House

The Institute of Government publishes its digest of the 1933 laws and its first guidebook, for clerks of court

Henry Brandis's summary of the laws passed by the 1933 General Assembly came out as an issue of Popular Government, followed by a guidebook written for clerks of court. Covington treats them as the Institute's first substantial publications that local officials could use in their daily work.

People: Henry P. Brandis Jr.

Subject: Institute of Government

Coates moderates a debate on proposed constitutional amendments and keeps the Institute neutral

Pressed by the amendments' sponsors and by Attorney General Dennis Brummitt, Coates held that the Institute would never lobby for or against any measure. In mid-April he moderated a debate in the state House chamber before about 125 officials, with Chief Justice Walter Stacy and revenue commissioner Allen J. Maxwell for the amendments and Brummitt against.

Certified teacher J. A. Lassiter becomes matron of the Efland Home

J. A. Lassiter, a certified teacher, replaced Sadie F. Powell as matron in May 1934, and her husband took over the farm. That year the girls canned, sewed clothes and bedding, and made cornhusk mattresses, baskets and rag rugs, and the cottage's porch was painted and its floors oiled.

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