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John M. Foushee

John M. Foushee was Chapel Hill's town manager from 1928 to 1932, after E. M. Knox, and the town's mayor from 1933 to 1942, after Zeb P. Council.

Source: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 365

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Chapel Hill’s first town manager and its improvements, 1922–19311922–1931 · 16 events · Chapel Hill hired E. M. Knox as its first town manager in 1922, and the Weekly later credited him with paved streets, sewer extensions, a disposal plant, a health department and better fire protection, all without a higher tax rate. In June 1928 the aldermen adopted the town's first zoning ordinance, and Knox resigned to become city manager of High Point; his engineering assistant, John Foushee, succeeded him. In 1931 the aldermen sought a charter amendment letting them choose the mayor as town manager, amid talk of saving the manager's salary, but said they had no plan to drop the manager system. Chapel Hill and its dogs, 1923–19481923–1948 · For a quarter century Chapel Hill and Orange County contended with stray dogs and repeated outbreaks of rabies, answering each with muzzles, leashes, quarantines and the shooting of dogs at large. In 1926 an outbreak put fifteen people under the Pasteur treatment, a course of rabies vaccine injections, and the aldermen ordered loose dogs muzzled and leashed or shot. Police shot loose dogs in 1929, and from 1932 a town pound killed unclaimed dogs. The county began vaccinating dogs in 1936, and outbreaks brought quarantines in 1937, 1940 and 1941. In 1948, with about 8,000 dogs thought unvaccinated, the commissioners ordered vaccination checks in every community. Chapel Hill town elections, 1933–19491933–1949 · On May 2, 1933 former town manager John Foushee was elected mayor of Chapel Hill over Mayor Zeb P. Council and B. J. Howard, and he was returned in 1935, 1937, 1939 and 1941, twice without opposition. In May 1942 he said he would resign because he was moving to his farm outside the town limits, and on July 8 the aldermen unanimously elected R. W. Madry, director of the University news bureau, as mayor. The Weekly believed no one in the University's service had headed the town government before. No one filed against Madry in 1943. On May 3, 1949 Edwin S. Lanier defeated him 811 to 589, ending his seven years as mayor. Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen award, 1935–19421935–1942 · From 1935 the Carolina Theatre gave an annual trophy to Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen, chosen by a committee. The first winner, Mrs. R. B. Lawson, was cited for years of aid to the poor through the King's Daughters and volunteer relief work. Automobile dealer Bruce Strowd won in 1937 for his work for the town's schoolchildren, and on unemployment and the county welfare board. Harry F. Comer of the University YMCA won for 1938, and R. M. Grumman of the University extension division and Mrs. Grumman, until recently a librarian and teacher at the Carrboro school, in 1939. In January 1942 the trophy, then given by the Carolina and Pick theatres, went to Mrs. Robert H. Wettach. Chapel Hill builds a new town hall, 1938–19391938–1939 · 12 events · Chapel Hill built a new town hall in 1938 and 1939 with Public Works Administration money and town bonds, gaining a jail, fire and police quarters, offices and a courtroom under one roof. In June 1938 the PWA allotted $17,550, 45 per cent of the estimated cost, and the aldermen called a vote on up to $24,000 in bonds, which passed 211 to 27 in July. In August the general contract was let, and a few strokes of a pick met the PWA's starting deadline. The recorder's court first sat there in March 1939, Mayor John M. Foushee accepted the building at its April dedication, and the old firehouse and jail were torn down by July. Chapel Hill before Pearl Harbor, 1940–19411940–1941 · Chapel Hill and the University were preparing for war and sending aid to Europe well before Pearl Harbor. In February 1940 twenty University students began flight training, and in May President Frank Graham offered the University's faculty and laboratories to the government. In June a Chapel Hill branch of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies was organized, the American Legion post asked Congress for conscription, and citizens signed an appeal urging the United States into the war beside Britain. Relief committees sewed, shipped clothing and raised money for a mobile tea kitchen for England. Within days of Pearl Harbor, armed sentries guarded the airport, the University Lake dam and the power plant.

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  1. Chapel Hill hires its first town manager, E. M. Knox Chapel Hill appoints E. M. Knox as its first town manager. He served until 1928, when J. M. Foushee took the post. People: John M. Foushee, Edward M. KnoxSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 365
  2. Aldermen choose John Foushee to succeed E. M. Knox as town manager After E. M. Knox, Chapel Hill's town manager since 1922, resigned to become city manager of High Point, the aldermen on June 21, 1928, approved their committee's choice of John Foushee, his engineering assistant for two years and a University engineering graduate. The Weekly credited Knox with paved streets, sewer extensions, a disposal plant, a health department and better fire protection, all without a higher tax rate. People: Brodie Thompson, Gustave M. Braune, Zeb P. Council, John M. Foushee, Edward M. KnoxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 22, 1928, p. 1
  3. Chapel Hill moves its town offices to Columbia Street and Rosemary Lane The town government moved its offices into the building at the northwest corner of Columbia Street and Rosemary Lane, near fire headquarters, that had housed McGalliard's store. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 21, 1928, p. 1
  4. Chapel Hill divides the village into four fire-alarm zones signaled by the siren In December 1928 Chapel Hill was divided into four fire-alarm zones, quartered by Franklin and Columbia streets, with numbered stations, so that the blasts of the siren at fire headquarters told where a fire was: three blasts and then one for the Old East, four and then one for the Carolina Inn. Town Manager Foushee had a map of the zones drawn. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 21, 1928, p. 1
  5. Chapel Hill renumbers its homes and businesses for mail delivery Because missing and duplicate house numbers were troubling the post office, the aldermen had Town Manager John Foushee map every block into numbered units, with Franklin and Columbia streets as the axes, and the town bought metal numbers. In late January 1929 town workmen began tacking them on homes and businesses. The Weekly said houses had first been numbered three or four years earlier, when the post office began carrier delivery. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 231 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 21, 1928, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 25, 1929, p. 1
  6. Chapel Hill aldermen resolve that abutting owners must pay the whole cost of street improvements By July 1929 the Chapel Hill aldermen had resolved that the entire cost of future street improvements would be assessed on abutting property, with nothing from the general tax levy. With the town bonded nearly to its legal limit, the state highway engineer John D. Waldrop advised the town on cheaper tar-and-stone surfacing for its gravel streets on July 12. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 12, 1929, p. 1
  7. Chapel Hill's assessment puts Black residents' property at $230,000 Town Manager John Foushee reported to the aldermen on September 9 that property in Chapel Hill was assessed at $3,614,000, up $44,000 from 1928 despite a fall in personal property values. The Weekly's breakdown put the real and personal property of Black residents at $230,000, of Greek-letter fraternities at $308,000, and of business concerns at $214,000. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1929, p. 1
  8. Chapel Hill aldermen fold thirteen bond ordinances into six The board passed six ordinances authorizing $13,500 in sewer bonds, $15,000 for sidewalks, curbs and gutters, $9,500 for a town hall, $3,000 for cemetery land, $3,250 for a fire and police alarm system, and $10,750 for fire and street equipment, replacing thirteen earlier ordinances. The bonds refunded notes already issued, and the town advertised the $55,000 issue for sealed bids due December 19. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1929, p. 3
  9. The Junior Order council at Chapel Hill grows to 109 members and sets up a jobs committee Davie Council No. 52 of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics grew from 20 to 109 members in three months and appointed a vocation committee to find work for members out of jobs, while another committee collected clothing for the poor of Chapel Hill and the country around it. People: Luther James Phipps, S. A. Nathan, John M. Foushee, Clarence P. Hinshaw, B. J. HowardThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 28, 1930, p. 6
  10. Chapel Hill aldermen ask the legislature to let them name the mayor town manager The board of aldermen voted to ask the legislature for a charter amendment allowing it to choose the mayor as town manager, after a report on economies by Alderman P. L. Burch and town attorney Bonner Sawyer. The Weekly reported talk that the aim was to save on the $2,700 manager's salary; at the next meeting, on February 11, about a dozen citizens questioned the change and the aldermen said they had no plan to drop the manager system. People: R. D. W. Connor, Bonner D. Sawyer, Peter L. Burch, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, January 30, 1931, p. 1
  11. Chapel Hill aldermen authorize bonds to pave Cameron Avenue The board of aldermen passed an ordinance for up to $5,000 in street improvement bonds, not put to the voters, to lay an 18-foot concrete strip down the middle of Cameron Avenue from the campus gate west to Mallett Street. The work answered a petition from the owners along the street, and the whole cost was to be assessed against their property. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 15, 1931, p. 5
  12. Chapel Hill sends door-to-door beggars to the Town Hall for King's Daughters screening Town manager John Foushee asked householders to send beggars to the Town Hall, where the town had arranged for the King's Daughters to look into each case so that relief went to genuine distress, since strangers begging from door to door were often found to be giving false stories. Later in April the Community Club's health department collected cast-off clothing for the King's Daughters and county welfare officer George Lawrence to give to the poor. People: George H. Lawrence, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 3, 1931, p. 1
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  1. Auditor L. B. Rogerson reports Chapel Hill's spending under budget as the fiscal year changes At a special meeting the aldermen heard auditor L. B. Rogerson report that the town's operating expenses for the year ending May 31 had run about $3,000 under the budget and its debt service about $1,900 under. The saving let the town carry June into the old year when the new local government finance law moved the end of the fiscal year to June 30, without raising the tax levy. People: John M. Foushee, Milton E. HoganSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 29, 1931, p. 1 (Town's Expenses Below Budget in Year Now Ending)
  2. Chapel Hill calls for bids to rebuild its Bolin Creek sewage plant The town of Chapel Hill advertised for bids, to be opened June 25, to improve and reconstruct its sewage treatment plant on Bolin Creek east of the town limits. The specifications by H. G. Baity, consulting sanitary engineer, called for a sludge collector and pump, a gas holder, a chlorinator, sludge heating and a fence around the works. People: Herman G. Baity, Zeb P. Council, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 5, 1931, p. 5
  3. Chapel Hill collects $24,356 in taxes in October, double the year before The town took in $24,356 in taxes in October, more than twice the October collections of 1930 ($11,839) and 1929 ($11,287). Town manager John Foushee guessed that people with savings found the 1 per cent discount for October payment worth more than bank interest. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 6, 1931, p. 1
  4. Chapel Hill aldermen order levies on unpaid 1931 personal property taxes The aldermen told the town manager to warn everyone who had not paid 1931 personal property taxes by April 11 that their wages would be garnisheed or their goods seized and sold, a step aimed at people with no real estate, such as departing students. In May they also ordered the delinquents' real estate advertised for a tax sale on June 13, which the Weekly said they did reluctantly because the attorney general held it mandatory. People: Bonner D. Sawyer, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 18, 1932, p. 1
  5. Chapel Hill and the University utility agree to lay a six-inch water main under Pittsboro Street After the fire of February 23 that destroyed the former Umstead home on Vance Street showed the southwest section's 4-inch main could not give the firemen enough pressure, the University Consolidated Service Plants told the aldermen they would lay about 1,300 feet of 6-inch main from Cameron Avenue to Vance Street. The town agreed to haul and place the pipe, resurface the street and supply the labor of people working out recorder's court fines. People: John S. Bennett, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 11, 1932, p. 1
  6. Bandits who robbed a Chapel Hill lunch stand shoot a student during a police chase Four men assaulted the owner of a hot-dog stand and fled; policeman U. M. Rackley chased them in a student's car and, about five miles out on the Graham highway, the student was shot through the lung. Sheriff W. T. Sloan trailed two of the men across three counties, two were arrested in Charlotte and Greenville, S.C., a third later in New York, and the officer's conduct was argued over in the town. People: William T. Sloan, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 8, 1932, p. 1
  7. 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
  8. President Graham refuses to license a commercial poolroom in Chapel Hill Under a 1931 law that lifted Chapel Hill's century-old ban on pool, billiards and bowling but made any license subject to the University president's approval, Frank P. Graham said he would approve a non-profit recreation center run on a club plan like the Graham Memorial's, but not a commercial establishment. Rival petitions had circulated, and a joint University-town committee had recommended a single closely supervised center, with John Foushee the leading applicant. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 4, 1932, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill elects John Foushee mayor Former town manager John Foushee won the mayoralty with 186 votes to 134 for Mayor Zeb P. Council and 108 for B. J. Howard. Aldermen Clyde Eubanks, M. E. Hogan and J. T. Dobbins were re-elected over a late bid by Joseph Hyde Pratt, and L. J. Phipps beat Odell Sapp 361 to 123 for judge of the recorder's court. People: Clyde Eubanks, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Luther James Phipps, Zeb P. Council, John M. Foushee, Milton E. Hogan, B. J. HowardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 5, 1933, p. 1
  10. Chapel Hill orders loose dogs killed after a rabid dog roams Carrboro A rabid dog ran loose in Carrboro, and possibly in Chapel Hill, from August 17 to 19, 1934, until a resident shot it, and the state laboratory confirmed rabies the next day. Mayor John M. Foushee, after conferring with health officer S. A. Nathan and alderman Clyde Eubanks, ordered the police to kill every dog at large without a muzzle or leash under the town ordinance, and the Carrboro police killed several dogs. People: S. A. Nathan, Clyde Eubanks, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 24, 1934, p. 1
  11. Chapel Hill's President's Birthday party raises more than $100 for infantile paralysis work About 300 people came to the President's Birthday party at the Carolina Inn for bridge at thirty tables, square dancing called by Lee Morrow to Cates's Carrboro string band and ballroom dancing, netting more than $100 for infantile paralysis work, 70 per cent of it for local use. Mayor John M. Foushee headed the committee, and the Inn's employees served without pay. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 1, 1935, p. 5
  12. Chapel Hill delegation asks the highway commission to keep U.S. 15 through the town Mayor John M. Foushee led a delegation to the state highway commission in Raleigh to protest a federal map change that sent U.S. 15 from Durham through Raleigh and Fayetteville, cutting off Chapel Hill, Pittsboro, Sanford and Rockingham. Chairman Capus Waynick said the state could only recommend but favored the old route; the federal government was to rule on such protests in June. People: John S. Bennett, Roland P. McClamroch, Peter L. Burch, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 8, 1935, p. 1
  13. Chapel Hill aldermen open the town's trash collection to homes outside the limits To stop the dumping of trash in the woods around the village, the aldermen directed the town manager to extend the municipal garbage and trash service, at 75 cents a month, to families beyond the corporate limits wherever enough subscribers made it pay. The town's own collections went to a fenced, locked dump north of the village, where the trash was burned. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 15, 1935, p. 1
  14. Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Foushee and elects R. H. Wettach alderman In the town election Mayor John M. Foushee was returned without opposition, P. L. Burch (268 votes) and R. J. M. Hobbs (207) were re-elected aldermen, and law professor R. H. Wettach (236) won the third seat from Brodie S. Thompson (174). L. J. Phipps kept the recorder's court judgeship with 201 votes to 169 for C. P. Hinshaw and 102 for Roy W. McGinnis. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Brodie Thompson, Luther James Phipps, Robert H. Wettach, Peter L. Burch, Clarence P. Hinshaw, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1935, p. 1
  15. Chapel Hill sets a two-hour parking limit on the business block After weeks of complaints that merchants and clerks stored their cars all day on the Franklin Street business block, the aldermen passed an ordinance limiting parking there to two hours between 8 A.M. and 7 P.M., Sundays excepted. People: Clyde Eubanks, Peter L. Burch, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1935, p. 6
  16. Chapel Hill committee declines a state historical marker opposite the campus A committee of Mayor John M. Foushee, Aldermen Clyde Eubanks and R. J. M. Hobbs, and planning commission members Carl Durham and Louis Graves voted unanimously to decline the State Historical Commission's offer of an aluminum highway marker on Franklin Street naming the University as the first state university to open its doors. After marking out the sign's size, three and a half by three feet, on the bank's directors' table, they judged it too large for the front of the campus. People: Clyde Eubanks, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Louis Graves, John M. Foushee, Carl T. DurhamSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 22, 1935, p. 1
  17. Chapel Hill holds a President's Birthday Ball for infantile paralysis relief Chapel Hill joined about 6,000 communities in marking President Roosevelt's birthday with a benefit: a vaudeville show and square dancing in the University gymnasium, then bridge and dancing at the Carolina Inn, under Mayor John M. Foushee's committee. Seventy per cent of the net, $78.73, stayed in Chapel Hill; part of the previous year's local share had paid for treating three Black children stricken in the infantile paralysis epidemic of summer 1935. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 31, 1936, p. 3
  18. A gale, heavy rain and snow strike Chapel Hill On Tuesday, March 17, 1936 a gale blew all day with 1.3 inches of rain, sending water over the whole length of the University Lake dam, burying the footbridge below it and flooding cellars across the village. Snow fell briefly the next morning, and the wind smashed the plate-glass window of Mayor John Foushee's office in the Johnson-Prevost building. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 20, 1936, p. 1
  19. Chapel Hill aldermen accept a PWA grant for sewers, an incinerator and street paving A week after Senator Bailey and Representative Umstead wired that Washington had approved a $21,000 Public Works Administration grant, 45 per cent of a $47,000 project, the aldermen accepted it and agreed to raise the town's $26,000 share by bonds. The project called for sewer lines and a pumping station serving 21 homes in the southwest of the village, a 30-ton incinerator near the sewage plant east of town, and hard surfacing of most remaining dirt streets. People: John M. Foushee, Arthur R. HollettSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1936, p. 1
  20. Chapel Hill business women organize a Business Women's Circle Led by Mrs. M. S. Breckenridge and Mrs. Thomas D. Rose, a group of women working for the University and the village met at the Presbyterian church, heard Mrs. B. H. Bunch tell of a like group in Raleigh, and organized a Business Women's Circle with Miss Jean McLean as chairman, Miss Louise Mae Wilder as secretary and Mrs. J. M. Foushee as treasurer. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1936, p. 1
  21. NYA-paid law students begin compiling Chapel Hill's ordinances for a new code Two second-year law students, paid with National Youth Administration funds and directed by Alderman R. H. Wettach, read the aldermen's minutes back to 1869 and copied out every ordinance enacted since. The board meant to discard repealed ones, study and consolidate the rest, repeal all the old ordinances and enact, and probably publish, an entirely new code. People: Robert H. Wettach, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 2, 1937, p. 1
  22. Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Foushee and chooses three new aldermen In a town election that drew only 551 voters of perhaps 1,200 to 1,500 qualified, John M. Foushee was re-elected mayor without opposition and L. J. Phipps kept the recorder's court judgeship over Roy McGinnis, 368 to 183. Paul Robertson (284 votes), George Hellen (281) and F. O. Bowman (264) won the three aldermen's seats over Clarence Pickard, J. T. Dobbins, Matt Thompson and Raymond Adams. People: Luther James Phipps, Clarence Pickard, Paul H. Robertson, Frederick O. Bowman, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 7, 1937, p. 1
  23. Chapel Hill aldermen elect C. P. Hinshaw town attorney and Roy McGinnis prosecutor The aldermen nominated C. P. Hinshaw and H. A. Whitfield for town attorney and Roy McGinnis and John Manning for prosecuting attorney in the recorder's court. Both ballots split three to three, and Mayor John M. Foushee broke the ties for Hinshaw and McGinnis. People: Henry A. Whitfield, John M. Foushee, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 28, 1937, p. 2
  24. 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
  25. Chapel Hill aldermen pass a $16,000 street bond ordinance and call an election The aldermen adopted an ordinance for up to $16,000 in bonds for street surfacing, curb, gutter and sidewalk work and set an election for November 16, after the State Local Government Commission, citing the attorney general's reading of the 1936 debt-limitation amendment, said a vote was required. The Weekly explained that about $13,000 would be repaid by owners who had petitioned for curb and gutter, leaving about $3,000 for intersections on the town. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 22, 1937, p. 5
  26. Chapel Hill fetes Estelle Lawson Page, the new women's national golf champion About 200 people gave a dinner at the Carolina Inn for Page, who had won the women's national championship at Memphis on October 9 by beating Patty Berg 7 and 6, six years after she took up golf on the Chapel Hill Country Club course with her father, Dr. R. B. Lawson. Governor Clyde R. Hoey presented a trophy cup from the people of Chapel Hill; the Weekly called her title the greatest athletic honor that had ever come to the village. People: Clyde Roark Hoey, R. B. House, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1937, p. 1
  27. Chapel Hill voters approve $16,000 in street improvement bonds At a special election in the school athletic building, voters approved the bonds 273 to 5, with 800 registered. The money paid for curb-and-gutter already laid on several streets and was to be repaid by assessments on the owners; the vote was required by the state's new debt-limitation amendment. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 19, 1937, p. 1
  28. Chapel Hill rededicates its Daniel Boone Trail marker opposite the post office At a town ceremony Ella Boone Dixon, a Boone descendant, placed a flag over the Boone Trail plaque and J. Hampton Rich explained its legend. Mayor John M. Foushee led the program. People: R. E. Coker, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 5, 1938, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 4, 1938, p. 1; Commemorative Landscapes
  29. Chapel Hill aldermen order a vote on $24,000 in municipal building bonds On the night of June 29 the aldermen passed an ordinance for up to $24,000 in bonds to match the PWA grant for a municipal building and called a special election for July 23 at the elementary school. Anyone already registered could vote, and a majority of those voting would decide. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 1, 1938, p. 1
  30. Chapel Hill lets the contract for its town hall At a special meeting the aldermen let the general contract for the new town hall to H. F. Mitchell Jr. of Burlington for $31,960, with plumbing ($1,767) and heating ($2,270) to a Durham firm. A few strokes of a pick that day met the PWA's deadline for starting, and the building, designed by Atwood and Weeks to hold a courtroom, fire department, jail and offices, was to be finished in six months. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 19, 1938, p. 1
  31. A Chapel Hill delegation asks the State Highway Commission for a new broad road to Durham by way of Duke Mayor Foushee for the town and D. D. Carroll for the University led a delegation to the State Highway Commission in Raleigh to ask for a new broad road from Chapel Hill to Durham by way of Duke University, on a route north of the existing road, perhaps near Mt. Moriah church and the old Patterson Mill site, entering town through the Bolin Creek valley and North Columbia Street by the new town hall. State Senator John W. Umstead Jr. of Chapel Hill had long pressed for it. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, John W. Umstead Jr., John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 30, 1938, p. 1
  32. Chapel Hill and Durham men form a committee to push a four-lane highway between the towns After the State Highway Commission authorized a survey, asked for by commissioner S. M. Bason, of a divided four-lane highway between Chapel Hill and Durham, citizens of the two towns met at the Carolina Inn and named Judge R. H. Sykes of Durham to head a committee to take the proposal to the legislature and build public support. The committee included R. L. Flowers, R. M. Gantt and M. B. Fowler of Durham and John M. Foushee and D. D. Carroll of Chapel Hill; the cost was put at about three-quarters of a million dollars, and many expected the road to enter Chapel Hill by North Columbia Street once the fire engine house there came down. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 22, 1938, p. 1
  33. Chapel Hill dedicates its new Town Hall Townspeople toured the new Town Hall at an open house and gathered in its courtroom for the dedication. L. T. Hansen presented the building on behalf of the PWA, which the Weekly said had paid 46 per cent of the cost, and Mayor John M. Foushee accepted it; Mayor William F. Carr of Durham, Robert B. House and Archibald Henderson spoke, and Alderman R. W. Madry presided. People: Robert W. Madry, R. B. House, Archibald Henderson, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 14, 1939, p. 1
  34. A portrait of former mayor William S. Roberson is unveiled in the new Town Hall courtroom The family of William S. Roberson, mayor of Chapel Hill for a quarter of a century, gave the town a portrait of him, which the aldermen hung over the judge's seat in the new courtroom. Foy Roberson Jr. presented it, a great-nephew unveiled it, Mayor Foushee accepted it, and Henry A. Whitfield presided over tributes from members of the bar and townspeople. People: Henry A. Whitfield, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 14, 1939, p. 1
  35. Chapel Hill re-elects John M. Foushee mayor over Clarence Pickard In the town election John M. Foushee won another term as mayor, beating A. Clarence Pickard 411 to 369, and aldermen R. W. Madry, R. J. M. Hobbs and P. L. Burch were returned. The Weekly said Madry's 657 votes were more than any candidate had ever received in a Chapel Hill town election; Andrew McIntosh, unopposed, polled 663 for judge of the recorder's court. People: Robert W. Madry, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Clarence Pickard, Peter L. Burch, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 5, 1939, p. 1
  36. Black Masons of North Carolina hold their Grand Lodge convention in Chapel Hill The state convention of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free, Ancient and Accepted Masons of North Carolina, the Black Masonic body, met in Chapel Hill's A.M. Methodist church in December 1939 with about 300 delegates, Mount Olive Lodge No. 36 as host. Mayor John Foushee, President Frank Graham and W. E. Caldwell of the University Lodge brought greetings, and the Orange County Training School chorus sang. People: Frank Porter Graham, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 21, 1939, p. 5
  37. Chapel Hill aldermen vote to take title to the Negro Community Center land and sponsor the project The board voted to accept title to the five-acre tract on the old Craig place at the west end of Rosemary Lane, bought with $1,500 given by citizens, and to sponsor an application to the WPA for building aid. Under a state act Mayor John M. Foushee was to name a five-member recreational commission, with staggered terms, to run the center. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Charles C. Craig, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1940, p. 1
  38. Chapel Hill groups form a joint committee to find homes for British refugee children Representatives of the University's refugee committee, the Committee for the Defense of America, the A.A.U.W., the Women's International League, the war relief committee, the Red Cross and the welfare board formed an executive committee under M. A. Hill Jr. to list homes for children sent out of Britain. Many residents had offered to take children or pay toward their keep, but ships to bring them over were lacking. People: James Bell Bullitt, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 19, 1940, p. 1
  39. The Chapel Hill aldermen create a town recreation commission On July 31, 1940, the Chapel Hill board of aldermen unanimously passed an ordinance creating a five-member recreation commission appointed by the mayor, and Mayor J. M. Foushee named R. J. M. Hobbs, Mrs. R. H. Wettach, Harold D. Meyer, A. W. Honeycutt and Joseph Hyde Pratt. A 1948 account says Hobbs was named chairman; the Chapel Hill Weekly reported that when the commission organized on September 17 it elected Pratt chairman and Honeycutt secretary. On May 8 the aldermen had agreed to sponsor a community center for Black residents to be run by such a commission, and the board had first appointed a town recreation committee on September 13, 1939. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Harold D. Meyer, John M. Foushee, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 10, 1948, p. 6 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1940, p. 5
  40. Chapel Hill's new Recreation Commission organizes and names a town superintendent of recreation Mayor John Foushee named Joseph Hyde Pratt, A. W. Honeycutt, Harold D. Meyer, R. J. M. Hobbs and Mrs. R. H. Wettach to the town Recreation Commission by August 30. Meeting at the Town Hall on September 17, the commission chose Pratt chairman and Honeycutt secretary and appointed Jack MacPhee, the WPA recreation director, town superintendent of recreation; its plans took in the Negro Community Center, a proposed white community center, school playgrounds and recreation in Carrboro. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Harold D. Meyer, John M. Foushee, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1940, p. 5
  41. Chapel Hill raises money for Greek war relief, led by its Greek-born residents Nineteen Greek-born residents of Chapel Hill met and gave more than $350 to start a fund for widows, orphans and bombed-out families in Greece, and a citizens' committee followed with a "take a Greek to dinner" collection in restaurants and dormitories. By December 20 the committee had cabled $550 to the Greek Red Cross in Athens. People: W. E. Thompson, Harry F. Comer, John M. Foushee, E. Carrington SmithSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 13, 1940, p. 1
  42. The General Assembly meets in Chapel Hill to honor the University's South American visitors The legislature came from Raleigh and met on the campus, the Senate in Gerrard Hall and the House in Memorial Hall, then held a joint session in Memorial Hall where Mayor John M. Foushee, Governor J. Melville Broughton and Victor Andres Belaunde of Peru spoke to honor the South Americans at the University's midwinter school. The town gave the legislators a barbecue in the University dining hall. People: J. Melville Broughton, Collier Cobb Jr., John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 31, 1941, p. 1
  43. Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor John M. Foushee and elects Fitch, Bowman, and Davis aldermen In the town election John M. Foushee was re-elected mayor over J. T. Dobbins, 558 to 357, and Andrew McIntosh kept the recorder's court judgeship over L. J. Phipps, 464 to 447. Bernice Fitch led the aldermanic field with 733 votes, F. O. Bowman (497) was re-elected, and G. Obie Davis (496) took the third seat, 43 votes ahead of Alderman George Hellen; the new board was sworn in on May 14. People: Luther James Phipps, Frederick O. Bowman, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1941, p. 1
  44. Orange County's defense savings bond committee is appointed The state defense savings administrator named W. E. Thompson of the Bank of Chapel Hill chairman and Mayor John M. Foushee honorary chairman of an Orange County committee to push the sale of defense bonds, with members from Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Efland and Cedar Grove. Since the bonds went on sale that spring the Bank of Chapel Hill had sold $40,000 worth, the Chapel Hill post office $7,000 and the bank in Hillsboro $35,000. People: W. E. Thompson, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1941, p. 5
  45. Chapel Hill forms a United Service Organizations committee with Mayor Foushee as chairman At a meeting in the Town Hall Chapel Hill organized a branch of the United Service Organizations, which provided recreation for soldiers and sailors off duty, with Mayor John M. Foushee as chairman and W. E. Thompson of the Bank of Chapel Hill as treasurer. Its canvass, led by Henry A. Whitfield in town and Henry Brandis on the campus, had raised $516 by late July. People: W. E. Thompson, Henry A. Whitfield, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 4, 1941, p. 1
  46. Chapel Hill piles up a truckload of aluminum for national defense At an aluminum-for-defense matinee arranged by the Carolina Theatre, the Weekly and the American Legion, townspeople and children heaped old pots, pans and percolators on the sidewalk in front of the theatre in a mound as tall as a man, which filled the truck that hauled it away. Givers got free tickets, and Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt's 40-pound aluminum bar won the prize for the largest gift. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, E. Carrington Smith, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 18, 1941, p. 4
  47. Chapel Hill voters approve street bonds and bonds for new fire apparatus In a special election Chapel Hill voters approved $17,000 in street bonds, 102 to 78, and $9,000 in bonds for fire apparatus, 104 to 76, with 1,158 voters registered. The town sold the $26,000 issue that fall to the First Security Company of Durham at 2 and 1.75 per cent, which the Weekly called the lowest rate on record for a Chapel Hill issue. People: John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 29, 1941, p. 3
  48. Chapel Hill opens a Soldiers' Center in the Graham Memorial for troops on the Carolina maneuvers A University and village committee headed by Harry F. Comer set up a Soldiers' Center in the Graham Memorial, with its own telephone, to match visiting soldiers with families offering meals, drives and beds. On the first weekend, October 11 and 12, four to five thousand soldiers came for the Fordham game and more than 600 stayed the night, 300 of them in the Tin Can and others in Graham dormitory, the Institute of Government building, fraternity houses and village homes. People: Harry F. Comer, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 10, 1941, p. 1
  49. Chapel Hill organizes civilian defense after Pearl Harbor Within days of Pearl Harbor, Mayor John Foushee called for hundreds of civilian-defense volunteers, and armed sentries guarded the airport, the University Lake dam and the power plant. A control center opened at the Carolina Inn, with a branch volunteer office for Black residents at Perry's barber shop, and UNC students formed a volunteer training corps. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 12, 1941, p. 1 (Committee Headed by Mayor Lays Plans for Community Aid in Defense)
  50. Mrs. Robert H. Wettach receives the theatres' trophy as Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen The trophy given each year by the management of the Carolina and Pick theatres to the town's most valuable citizen was presented to Mrs. Robert H. Wettach on January 8 at the Carolina theatre. She was chosen by a committee of Mrs. I. H. Manning, Mayor John Foushee, J. S. Bennett and Dr. S. A. Nathan. People: John S. Bennett, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 9, 1942, p. 2
  51. Chapel Hill aldermen move to hold down rents before the Navy cadets come At their March 11 meeting the Chapel Hill aldermen went on record for any measure needed to keep rents from rising with the coming of 1,875 Navy cadets and their staff, and Mayor John Foushee named Obie Davis and R. W. Madry to work with the University on rents and on finding rooms for displaced students and the Navy staff. The board also backed stricter enforcement of the speed laws and talked of adding police, after the chief reported fourteen speeding arrests in February. People: Robert W. Madry, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 13, 1942, p. 1
  52. Mayor John M. Foushee resigns as he moves out of Chapel Hill John M. Foushee told the aldermen he would resign as mayor, effective July 1, because he was moving to his farm off the Raleigh road outside the town limits. The board was to choose his successor to serve until the May 1943 election. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 29, 1942, p. 1
  53. Chapel Hill aldermen elect Robert W. Madry mayor The board of aldermen unanimously elected Robert W. Madry, director of the University news bureau and an alderman, as mayor to succeed John M. Foushee, who had moved out of town after ten years as mayor. The Weekly believed no one in the University's service had headed the town government before. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · Chapel Hill Weekly: "Madry Is Mayor; A New Alderman Is to Be Chosen" (July 10, 1942), p. 1
  54. Chapel Hill and Carrboro raise $1,083 for the USO The USO drive run by the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, with J. Maryon Saunders and John Foushee as co-chairmen, raised $1,083 against a $1,000 quota for the two towns. The $1,000 went to the county chairman, A. G. Graham, and by prior agreement the excess went to the local Service Center for men in the armed forces. People: J. Maryon (Joseph Maryon) Saunders, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 24, 1942, p. 1
  55. Bus companies settle their dispute, promising Chapel Hill-Hillsboro service The State Utilities Commission approved an agreement between the Carolina Coach Company and Virginia Stage Lines ending their fight over a franchise through Chapel Hill and Hillsboro. Virginia Stage Lines would run through buses from Chapel Hill by Durham and Roxboro to Virginia and from Durham to Hillsboro and Yanceyville, and Carolina Coach would start Chapel Hill-Hillsboro service, about three round trips a day. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 23, 1943, p. 1
  56. Mayor Madry names John M. Foushee coordinator of civilian defense Mayor R. W. Madry appointed former mayor John M. Foushee coordinator of local civilian defense in Chapel Hill, succeeding Guy B. Phillips, who resigned under new University duties. His staff included Mrs. R. H. Wettach of the Citizens Service Corps, R. J. M. Hobbs of the Defense Corps and Mrs. W. R. Berryhill of the Volunteer Office. People: Robert W. Madry, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 14, 1943, p. 5
  57. Chapel Hill aldermen honor former mayor John M. Foushee with a gavel from Old East The mayor and board of aldermen, with the town manager, went out to John M. Foushee's farm five miles from the village and gave him a gavel carved from a discarded stair railing of Old East in thanks for his ten years as mayor. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 25, 1943, p. 1
  58. The Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter passes its war fund goal The Chapel Hill chapter, serving Chapel Hill and Bingham townships, reported $15,413.59, more than $2,100 over its $13,300 goal, before University students had reported. The Navy Pre-Flight School gave $1,808.60, half again its 1944 gift from a smaller station, and the Carrboro drive raised $1,696.62, mostly from the munitions plant and its workers. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 29, 1945, p. 6
  59. Chapel Hill appoints a Veterans Housing Commission to bring in surplus houses for student veterans Mayor R. W. Madry and the aldermen appointed a nonprofit Veterans Housing Commission, with John M. Foushee as president, to buy surplus demountable houses from the Federal Public Housing Authority under the Lanham Act and sell them on easy terms to married veterans at the university. People: Robert W. Madry, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 22, 1946, p. 1
  60. Chapel Hill's new Veterans Housing Commission offers 24 surplus houses to veterans The Chapel Hill Veterans Housing Commission, a non-profit body recently appointed by the aldermen, began taking applications from World War II veterans for 24 two- and three-bedroom demountable houses allocated by the federal government, expected to cost $3,000 to $4,000 each. Buyers had to supply their own land and financing. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 5, 1946, p. 1
  61. The new Chapel Hill Real Estate Board joins the state association of realtors The newly organized Chapel Hill Real Estate Board was inducted as the 33rd member of the North Carolina Association of Real Estate Boards at a luncheon of the state Realtors Institute at the Carolina Inn. Sponsored by the Durham board, it had Clyde Hornaday as president and John Foushee as vice president. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 24, 1954, p. 8
  62. Chapel Hill aldermen send a $2.5 million shopping center rezoning to the planning board The aldermen referred to the Planning Board a request from Security Homes Company of Raleigh to rezone 40 acres of the Conner Ridge property, on the east side of town near the Durham bypass, for a shopping center that would grow to as many as 40 stores with parking for 1,290 cars, designed by Cameron Village architect Leif Valand. Agent John Foushee said the owners would later ask to be taken into the town limits. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 17, 1958, p. 8
  63. Chapel Hill annexes the Ridgefield Extension subdivision The aldermen unanimously annexed the 50-acre, 100-lot Ridgefield Extension subdivision east of the US 15-501 bypass, whose developer, Security Homes, was installing water and sewer lines, paving and curbing at its own cost. It was the latest of about a dozen annexations since 1950, which had roughly tripled the town to about 2,500 acres. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 13, 1960, p. 3
  64. John Foushee is elected president of the Chapel Hill Parking Association At its annual meeting the Chapel Hill Parking Association heard a report on Durham's downtown parking lots, financed by revenue bonds, discussed working with the town toward municipal off-street lots, and elected John Foushee president, succeeding Y. Z. Cannon.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 9, 1961, p. 3
  65. Chapel Hill arranges $80,000 in parking revenue bonds for a downtown lot The aldermen approved financing for a large municipal parking lot behind the main business block on East Rosemary Street after the Chapel Hill Parking Association and other merchants agreed to buy $80,000 of 3 percent revenue bonds. The town planned to buy the Creech-Coenen property next to land it bought the year before and pay the rest of the estimated $135,000 cost from parking meter reserves. People: John M. FousheeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 2, 1963, p. 16

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