John L. Caldwell

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1. June 8, 1932 Chapel Hill aldermen accept Foushee's resignation and name John L. Caldwell town manager At their meeting on June 8, 1932, the aldermen accepted the resignation of town manager John M. Foushee, who had held the post since 1928, and named John L. Caldwell, office manager for the contractors T. C. Thompson & Bros., to succeed him on July 1. Foushee was kept on for about two months to show his successor the work. People: John L. Caldwell, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 10, 1932, p. 1
2. July 25, 1932 Chapel Hill aldermen adopt a reduced town budget for 1932-33 At a call meeting on July 25, 1932 the aldermen approved a town budget of $29,285 in operating requirements, $3,107 or 9.6 percent less than the year before, with $32,001 to be raised from property taxes. New town manager J. L. Caldwell's estimate had cut the manager's own salary by a quarter, from $2,400 to $1,800. People: John Caldwell, John L. CaldwellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 29, 1932, p. 1
3. January 25, 1934 Civil Works crews begin improving Chapel Hill's streets and sidewalks A force of 26 Civil Works men under Charles Martindale began grading, draining and resurfacing Chapel Hill's sidewalks on January 25, starting with a new walk on Graham Avenue, while W. C. Coker directed the pruning of street trees. The tar-and-crushed-stone surfacing of 76,500 square yards of streets waited on stone from crushers being set up on University land and at Carrboro. People: William Chambers Coker, John L. CaldwellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 26, 1934, p. 1
4. January to February 1934 Civil Works crews straighten Bolin's Creek below the town's sewage plant One of the first Civil Works projects approved in the county straightened the channel of Bolin's Creek, shored up its banks and cut away growth for some four miles below the town's sewage disposal plant to give the plant a better outlet. Town Manager J. L. Caldwell told the aldermen that landowner D. St. Pierre DuBose had refused to let the crews be trucked over his road, and the work was nearly finished when the February cuts came. People: John L. CaldwellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 2, 1934, p. 1
5. by April 20, 1934 Relief labor restores Chapel Hill's full street-surfacing program After the end of the Civil Works program had cut it to 30,000 square yards, state and county relief officials approved hard-surfacing the original 76,500 square yards of Chapel Hill streets with 84 relief workers in two shifts. North Columbia Street to the town line was to be surfaced first, then South Boundary Street and Park Place. People: George H. Lawrence, John L. CaldwellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 20, 1934, p. 1
6. by July 1934 Federal relief labor hard-surfaces most of Chapel Hill's streets Begun as a Civil Works project in the winter and carried on with Emergency Relief labor, the tar-and-crushed-stone program added about three and a quarter miles of paved streets, bringing the town's total to seven and a half, and covered 68,796 square yards. The work would have cost $41,277 by contract; the government paid about three fourths and the town about $10,000. People: John L. CaldwellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 20, 1934, p. 1
7. August 1, 1934 Chapel Hill aldermen adopt a budget raising the town tax rate 28 cents to $1.32 Because the Local Government Commission would not let the town borrow for its share of the street surfacing, the aldermen put about $9,000 for it into a single year's budget. The tentative budget set the general fund rate at 84 cents and the debt service rate at 48 cents, a total of $1.32 against $1.04 the year before. People: L. B. Rogerson, John L. Caldwell, Milton E. HoganSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 3, 1934, p. 1
8. October 10, 1934 Chapel Hill aldermen order the police to crack down on speeding After many complaints of cars racing along the main street at 50 miles an hour or more, the Chapel Hill aldermen on October 10, 1934, told Town Manager J. L. Caldwell to assign a motorcycle officer to enforce the traffic laws and ordered all the police to arrest violators. The limits were 20 miles an hour in the business district and 30 elsewhere; within three weeks 25 or 30 students had been fined in recorder's court. People: John L. CaldwellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 12, 1934, p. 1
9. by January 11, 1935 Chapel Hill widens and gravels Church Street in its Black neighborhood The town government began improving Church Street, the main street of Chapel Hill's Black section, widening it several feet, laying a gravel surface and providing drainage after the Consolidated Service Plants moved electric poles and hydrants six to eight feet east. The week before, the Weekly had written that Black residents had not been fairly treated in the care of streets in the northwest part of town. People: Louis Graves, John L. CaldwellThe Chapel Hill Weekly, January 11, 1935, p. 1
10. July 10, 1935 A Black delegation asks the Chapel Hill aldermen to curb lawlessness in their neighborhood Representatives of a Black organization for social and moral improvement asked the aldermen for more police protection on West Franklin and West Rosemary streets, where they said bootleg liquor, rowdiness and profanity made the streets unsafe at times and drew children into bad places. The aldermen and the town manager promised to cooperate and asked for specific complaints, which would be kept confidential. People: Clyde Eubanks, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, John L. CaldwellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 12, 1935, p. 1
11. June 22, 1937 Chapel Hill's new PWA-aided incinerator goes into operation The town's new garbage and trash incinerator, built beside the sewage disposal plant in Strowd's Lowgrounds east of the village by the Nye Odorless Incinerator Company for $17,700, passed its final inspection by PWA engineers and town officials and began burning the daily truckloads. The federal government paid nearly half the cost, the University supplied much of the refuse, and the town stopped using its old dump off the Hillsboro road. People: John Caldwell, John L. Caldwell, Arthur R. HollettSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 25, 1937, p. 1
12. August 11, 1937 Aldermen name a committee to review the West Franklin Street paving assessments Lawyer John Manning, speaking for owners on West Franklin Street, asked the aldermen to cancel the 1927 assessments of $7.70 a front foot for curb, gutter and paving and to reassess the owners at much lower rates, saying many of them, most of them Black, had been misled about the cost and faced foreclosure. The board named aldermen F. O. Bowman and R. J. M. Hobbs to study the case with Town Manager John L. Caldwell. People: John Manning, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, John Caldwell, Frederick O. Bowman, John L. Caldwell, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1937, p. 1