Clarence Pickard

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1. May 1917 Hoot Patterson closes out his Franklin Street store and sells his groceries to Frank Pickard Patterson had groomed his son Fred to take over the business, and after Fred died in 1914 he lost interest. He kept the store going through 1915, and in early May 1917 he closed out his dry goods and shoes and put his hardware on sale. The News of May 10, 1917 reported that he had sold his groceries to J. Frank Pickard, who would occupy the Patterson store house. Bryant's history puts the store's rental to Frank Pickard and his son Clarence in 1915, the year Patterson's store account books end. People: Clarence PickardSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 207 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), May 3, 1917, p. 5; The News (Chapel Hill), May 10, 1917, p. 5
2. 1925 Cameron MacRae builds the MacRae building at Franklin and Henderson streets Cameron F. MacRae, son of Robert Strange MacRae, put up the MacRae building on the northeast corner. By 1928 it held Clarence Pickard's grocery, the Jefferson-Standard insurance office and a basement barbershop. People: Clarence PickardSearch 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, July 3, 1925, p. 1
3. June 27, 1927 Chapel Hill aldermen begin work toward a zoning ordinance When Clarence Pickard asked for a permit to build a filling station next to the Presbyterian church, across from the Graham Memorial, the board put off a decision and had a committee, with Town Manager E. M. Knox, study an ordinance to keep businesses out of residential neighborhoods. Pickard withdrew his application in July. People: Clarence Pickard, Edward M. KnoxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 1, 1927, p. 1
4. June 9, 1928 Clarence Pickard opens a Home Pride cash-and-carry grocery On June 9, 1928, Clarence Pickard reopened his grocery in the MacRae building on the post-office corner as a cash-and-carry store in the new Home Pride chain, a North Carolina company that bought wholesale for independent owners so they could sell at chain-store prices. He kept telephone orders and delivery for an extra ten cents. People: Clarence PickardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 1, 1928, p. 1
5. between 1929 and 1933 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. People: Clarence PickardSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 245
6. August 27, 1929 Chapel Hill's board of adjustment bars banners across Franklin Street On August 27, 1929, Chapel Hill's zoning board of adjustment refused permission for a banner across Franklin Street advertising a merchants' trade week and resolved unanimously against any banners across the street in future, for shows, reunions or any other occasion, as marring the look of the town. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Louis Graves, Clarence Pickard, Carl T. DurhamSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1929, p. 1
7. August 8, 1934 Chapel Hill aldermen refuse to rezone for a filling station beside the Presbyterian church Clarence Pickard and Lucius E. Stacy had asked the town to move the block east of the Presbyterian church, facing the campus, into a business zone for an oil-company filling station. After a hearing at which the University, the church's officers and W. C. Coker opposed it, the aldermen unanimously upheld the planning board and denied the application. People: R. B. House, William Chambers Coker, Clarence PickardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 17, 1934, p. 1
8. May 4, 1937 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
9. May 2, 1939 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
10. by October 11, 1940 Governor Hoey appoints Orange County's draft board Under the new selective service law Governor Clyde Hoey named Clarence Pickard of Chapel Hill and Owen Robertson and Garland O. Reitzel of Hillsborough to Orange County's draft board, with Dr. Bryan N. Roberts as its physician and C. P. Hinshaw as appeal agent. Robertson became chairman; the members served without pay, worked from Hillsborough, and were to classify the county's registrants from their questionnaires. People: Clarence Pickard, Garland O. Reitzel, Owen S. Robertson, Clarence P. HinshawThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 11, 1940, p. 1
11. by November 1, 1940 The draft lottery puts a Carrboro man first on Orange County's order list After the national drawing in Washington, the Orange County board's order list of 3,067 registrants began with serial number 158, Ezekiel Otway (Bill) Hardee of Carrboro; number 3 was Garfield Watson, a Black man of Efland, and the first Chapel Hill man, at number 4, was Eaton Thomas Vickers of the A. & P. meat counter. The board began mailing questionnaires in batches of 50 and called for volunteer typists. People: Clarence PickardThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 1, 1940, p. 1
12. by November 8, 1940 The Orange County draft board names an advisory board to help registrants with questionnaires With the order list from Washington in hand, the county draft board named an advisory board, chaired by A. H. Graham of Hillsboro, with members in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsboro, to help registrants fill out the eight-page classification questionnaires. The board began mailing the questionnaires from its Hillsboro office in batches of fifty, with volunteers helping its clerk. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Clarence Pickard, Garland O. Reitzel, Owen S. Robertson, Paul H. RobertsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1940, p. 1