John Lindsay Morehead

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1. September 9, 1925 Chapel Hill aldermen set a $1.35 tax rate and pass $80,000 in street improvement bonds With the town's assessed valuation up $253,555 to $2,955,555, the aldermen fixed the 1925 tax rate at $1.35, two and a half cents above the year before, and passed ordinances for $80,000 of street improvement bonds, $27,500 of sewer bonds and smaller issues for street equipment and old debts. The bonds were sold November 2 at 5 1/4 percent, below the 6 percent the town had been paying. People: John Lindsay Morehead, Edward M. Knox Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1925, p. 1
2. March 22, 1940 Louis Graves's Weekly takes up J. L. Morehead's call to give Franklin Street a Williamsburg look Durham attorney J. L. Morehead, for years the attorney and financial adviser of the town government, urged the mayor, the aldermen and other citizens to make the Franklin Street business block as handsome as the campus and residential streets, pointing to the business street of Colonial Williamsburg as proof it could be done, and Louis Graves's Chapel Hill Weekly reported his plan favorably on March 22, 1940. Later accounts credit Graves's paper with the campaign. Joseph Hyde Pratt, John M. Booker, W. D. Carmichael Jr., Collier Cobb Jr. and George Watts Hill backed the plan, and architect Archie Davis gave the planning commission watercolors showing owners how to remodel. People: Louis Graves, Joseph Hyde Pratt, William D. Carmichael Jr., George Watts Hill, Archie Royal Davis, John M. Booker, Collier Cobb Jr., John Lindsay Morehead Place: Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Archie Davis, W. D. Carmichael Jr. · Also mentions: Franklin Street business blockSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 68 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 22, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 22, 1940, p. 2
3. by January 24, 1941 Chapel Hill aldermen seek authority to issue bonds to refund over-assessed West Franklin Street owners At the aldermen's request, Representative John W. Umstead Jr. introduced a bill letting Chapel Hill issue $8,500 in bonds to refund owners along West Franklin Street who had been over-assessed for the paving of the 1920s. The Weekly said many of the owners were Black families threatened with losing their homes, and that the 1939 law permitting refunds from spare funds had produced nothing. The General Assembly ratified the act on February 4, 1941. People: John Lindsay Morehead, John W. Umstead Jr. Place: West Franklin Street, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, January 24, 1941, p. 1
4. 1960 UNC gives John Lindsay Morehead an honorary doctor of laws The university honored Morehead, principal officer of the Morehead Foundation, as the architect of the Morehead scholarship plan. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Morehead FoundationSearch the index · NCpedia: Morehead, John Lindsay