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W. E. Thompson

William E. Thompson was cashier of the Bank of Carrboro, the Bank of Chapel Hill's Carrboro branch, from 1923, and in August 1936 the directors chose him unanimously to succeed Milton E. Hogan as cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill.

Source: DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1936, p. 1

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The 1933 bank holiday in Orange County1933 · 3 events · The March 1933 bank holiday left University students unable to get cash, and the University and Chapel Hill merchants made allowances. The Bank of Chapel Hill closed on March 6 and 7 under the national and state orders, and President Graham postponed the University's recess because students could not get cash to travel home and back. Students were allowed to register without paying fees at once, and merchants kept accepting checks and giving credit. The bank reopened for limited business on March 8, and when full banking resumed on March 15 deposits far exceeded withdrawals. In April, with the Carrboro mills idle, the bank closed its Bank of Carrboro branch and moved the accounts to the parent bank.

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  1. W. E. Thompson becomes cashier of the Bank of Carrboro By May 1923 W. E. Thompson was cashier of the Bank of Carrboro, the Carrboro branch of the Bank of Chapel Hill, with M. C. S. Noble as president. He held the post until the branch closed in April 1933. People: M. C. S. NobleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 17, 1923, p. 4
  2. Chapel Hill Legion post forms a boys' baseball team with Carrboro and Hillsboro players Meeting at Tommie's Tavern on the Durham road, the Chapel Hill post of the American Legion heard that its boys' team for the Legion's state baseball contest had drawn candidates from Carrboro and Hillsboro, and voted money for equipment. The post, now 129 strong, elected Paul Robertson commander and Dr. R. B. Hayes of Hillsboro first vice-commander and set its next meeting for Hillsboro. People: Paul H. Robertson, W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 27, 1930, p. 4
  3. Chapel Hill and Carrboro men reorganize Boy Scout work under a district committee Thirty-six men of the two towns, working with the Cherokee Council executive, set up a Chapel Hill district committee with Joseph Hyde Pratt as chairman, W. E. Thompson vice-chairman and Marvin Utley treasurer, and planned new equipment, meeting places and huts for the Chapel Hill and Carrboro troops. The Carrboro troop's scoutmaster was a University freshman, Winfred B. Stevenson. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 26, 1932, p. 6
  4. Chapel Hill Democrats organize a Roosevelt-Garner Club Citizens meeting at the school building on the evening of Friday, October 7, organized the Chapel Hill Roosevelt-Garner Club, with R. A. Eubanks as president and W. E. Thompson as vice-president, and called on all Democrats to join and roll up the party's majority in the precinct on November 8. People: Robert A. Eubanks, W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 14, 1932, p. 1
  5. 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. People: W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 21, 1933, p. 3
  6. Orange County Young Democrats tell their delegates to oppose a party stand for repeal Meeting at the court house in Hillsborough, the Orange County Club of Young Democrats elected W. E. Thompson, Collier Cobb Jr. and Gilbert W. Ray delegates to the state convention at Wrightsville Beach and instructed them to vote against any resolution pledging the Young Democratic Clubs to the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, leaving members free to vote as they chose in the November referendum. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Gilbert W. Ray, W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 7, 1933, p. 4
  7. W. E. Thompson is elected commander of the Chapel Hill American Legion post Soon after moving back to Chapel Hill from Greensboro, W. E. Thompson was elected commander of the Chapel Hill post of the American Legion, with H. O. Bivins and S. W. Hughes of Hillsboro as vice-commanders and G. M. Kirkland as adjutant. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 26, 1935, p. 1
  8. The Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club elects Dr. J. P. Jones president and W. O. Sparrow vice-president The Kiwanis Club of Chapel Hill elected Dr. J. P. Jones president and W. O. Sparrow vice-president, with Harvey Bennett, W. M. Pugh, W. E. Thompson, C. W. Shields and E. J. Woodhouse as directors. People: Harvey Bennett, W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1935, p. 1
  9. W. E. Thompson succeeds Milton Hogan as cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill The directors unanimously chose William E. Thompson to succeed Milton E. Hogan as cashier. He had been with the bank for thirteen and a half years, including some ten years as cashier of the Bank of Carrboro, a branch of the Bank of Chapel Hill, from 1923. People: W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1936, p. 1
  10. Chapel Hill raises $1,690 for the Ohio and Mississippi flood sufferers Asked by Red Cross headquarters for $120, then $240 and then $600, the Chapel Hill chapter had collected $1,690 for flood sufferers in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys by February 4, 1937, and shipped 19 boxes of clothing. Five Junior Red Cross units gave more than $100, among them the Orange County Training School for Black pupils as well as the white schools of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and White Cross, and the Black janitors on the campus took up their own collection. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 5, 1937, p. 1
  11. The Bank of Chapel Hill begins making personal loans at 6 per cent The Bank of Chapel Hill announced that it would make personal loans for up to a year at 6 per cent interest, repayable monthly, with no commissions or fees and the same security as its regular loans. The Weekly noted that commercial banks had shunned such loans, leaving borrowers to lenders charging 10 to 14 per cent or to loan sharks charging up to 40 or 50 per cent. People: M. C. S. Noble, W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 9, 1937, p. 1
  12. 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
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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Chapel Hill's Defense Savings Bond sales pass $175,000 W. E. Thompson, cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill and head of the local bond committee, told the Kiwanis Club that Chapel Hill had bought $175,000 in Defense Savings Bonds since the campaign began May 1, which put the town at or near the top of North Carolina communities per person. That fall Thompson also had the town's merchants selling Defense Savings Stamps. People: W. E. ThompsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 31, 1941, p. 1
  4. Chapel Hill's air raid wardens organize in sixteen districts Meeting at the Town Hall on January 14 under chief warden R. H. Wettach, with Bruce Strowd and W. E. Thompson as deputies, the air raid wardens began organizing the town in sixteen districts, each with a leader, and arranged the Red Cross first aid course for wardens, firemen, police and barbers. They also took up how far the town police and firemen could serve outside the town limits. People: Bruce Strowd, W. E. Thompson, Robert H. WettachThe Chapel Hill Weekly, January 16, 1942, p. 1
  5. Orange County's neighborhood leaders meet at the Hillsborough courthouse to launch the wartime test The county-wide training meeting on the afternoon of April 28, 1942, drew 265 people, among them 149 of the 195 white and 66 of the 77 Black neighborhood leaders. A. H. Graham, general chairman of Orange County defense, spoke after a chorus from the Black high school sang; other speakers took up war bonds, the Farmers Exchange's "Buy a Bond Pig" offer, salvage, gardens and edible soybeans, which the crowd tasted afterward. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Don S. Matheson, W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service, Orange and Lee Counties, North Carolina, Demonstrate How Neighborhood Leaders Can Help in Securing Participation of Rural Families in Agriculture's Wartime Programs, Extension Service Circular 387 (1942), scan p. 10 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 1, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1942, p. 1
  6. Chapel Hill canvassers seek war bond pledges house to house More than a hundred volunteer canvassers under general chairman Hugh T. Lefler and five zone chairmen called at homes across Chapel Hill to ask for signed pledges to buy war bonds or stamps regularly, in the nationwide pledge week. The Weekly reported a good response by midweek, while neighborhood leaders took pledges from farm families. People: Luther James Phipps, Roland P. McClamroch, W. E. Thompson, Hugh Talmage LeflerThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1942, p. 1
  7. Orange County buys $130,400 in E and G war bonds in July W. E. Thompson, cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, reported $75,000 in E bond sales in the county in July and $55,400 in G bonds, $130,400 in all, not counting bonds bought directly from the Treasury or G bonds sold by other agencies. The Treasury set Orange County's quota for August at $116,500. People: W. E. ThompsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 7, 1942, p. 1
  8. Orange County exceeds its October war bond quota by 54 percent W. E. Thompson, county chairman of the War Bond campaign, reported that Orange County's October sales came to $176,000 in cash, with a maturity value of $234,600, against a Treasury quota of $114,800. People: W. E. ThompsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1942, p. 2
  9. National Munitions plant in Carrboro reaches full payroll-deduction bond buying State payroll-savings chairman Charles H. Robertson was notified on Thanksgiving Day that every employee of the National Munitions Corporation plant in Carrboro had signed up for bond deductions, with ten percent of total wages going into War Bonds, and the Treasury sent the plant its Certificate of Award. People: Charles H. Robertson, Carl T. Durham, W. E. ThompsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1942, p. 1
  10. Orange County goes over its Second War Loan quota on the opening day By 1:30 p.m. on the opening day of the Second War Loan, the Chapel Hill and Hillsboro banks had sold $6,000 more than Orange County's $281,000 quota, and the Weekly reported that the state campaign manager told the local chairmen no other county had yet reached its quota. April sales in the county came to $468,000. People: J. Maryon (Joseph Maryon) Saunders, W. E. ThompsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1943, p. 1
  11. Orange County beats its July war bond quota Against a July quota of $82,891 the county sold $94,350 in Series E bonds plus $3,811 in F and $14,200 in G bonds. County war finance chairman W. E. Thompson said Orange had beaten its quota every month but October 1942 and June 1943; in April it had sold more than half a million dollars against a Second War Loan quota of $281,600. People: W. E. ThompsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1943, p. 1
  12. Orange County passes its Third War Loan quota Orange County bought $700,000 in War Bonds in the Third War Loan campaign through September 30, against a quota of $655,000, more than twice its April quota of $281,000. The total included $54,000 allotted to the county from the state's own bond purchase. People: J. Maryon (Joseph Maryon) Saunders, W. E. ThompsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 8, 1943, p. 1
  13. Orange County goes over its overall Sixth War Loan quota By December 20 the county had passed its overall Sixth War Loan quota, though it was still short of its E bond goal; county agent Don S. Matheson wrote farmers that Orange had never failed a war drive and that its tobacco crop had brought almost $2,000,000. The National Munitions plant's workers alone bought $57,206.25 in bonds. People: Don S. Matheson, W. E. Thompson, S. A. JohnsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 21, 1944, p. 1
  14. Orange County closes the Seventh War Loan at $1,308,000, more than twice its quota When the Seventh War Loan closed on July 7, county chairman J. Maryon Saunders reported Orange County bond sales of $1,308,000 against a quota of $574,000, with E bond sales of $469,321 topping their goal after last-week canvasses in Hillsboro and by civic clubs in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Employees of the National Munitions Corporation at Carrboro bought $93,887.90 in E bonds on a quota of $29,475. People: J. Maryon (Joseph Maryon) Saunders, Gilbert W. Ray, W. E. Thompson, S. A. JohnsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 12, 1945, p. 1
  15. Orange County nearly doubles its Victory Loan quota in the last war bond drive Orange bought $788,000 in bonds against a $419,000 quota in the Victory Loan, the last of the nationwide drives, and also passed its E bond quota. County chairman J. Maryon Saunders counted $6,120,000 in bonds bought in the seven drives he led. People: J. Maryon (Joseph Maryon) Saunders, W. E. Thompson, S. A. JohnsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 17, 1946, p. 1
  16. Will Ed Thompson's will leaves most of his estate to the Efland Presbyterian Church The will of Will Ed Thompson, a wealthy property owner known across Orange and Alamance counties as an eccentric, was filed for probate five days after his death and put most of his estate, first estimated at about $500,000, in a trust for the Efland Presbyterian Church and its cemetery, beginning with a mausoleum for himself. Six nieces and nephews were left $5,000 each, three of them shared his 502-acre farm in Cheeks Township, and executor Clarence Ross of Graham received $10,000. People: W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 19, 1953, p. 1
  17. Will Ed Thompson's estate inventory comes to $174,185, far below the first estimate Executor Clarence Ross filed the formal inventory of Will Ed Thompson's estate, listing about $84,000 in personal property, mostly cash and bonds, and houses, lots and farm land in Orange, Durham, Guilford and Alamance counties, for a total of $174,185.09 against the $500,000 first estimated. The News also reported talk that some heirs would contest the will and that an earlier will naming Durham attorney Victor Bryant a major beneficiary had come to light. People: W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 18, 1953, p. 1
  18. Bank of Chapel Hill reports its assets passed $10 million The Bank of Chapel Hill told its stockholders that its assets had passed $10,000,000 during 1955, reaching $10,015,753 at year's end against $9,481,262 a year earlier. People: W. E. ThompsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 19, 1956, p. 1
  19. County commissioners ask the legislature to allow no more than two commissioners from one township On Commissioner Sim Efland's motion the board voted 4 to 0, with Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs abstaining after failing to get a public hearing first, to back a bill limiting the five-member board to two members from any township; banker W. E. Thompson, Representative John W. Umstead and others had urged it that day. After protests from Roland McClamroch Sr. and the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters, which called the change 'tantamount to disenfranchisement' of part of the county, the board set a public hearing for September 10 and later moved it to October 8. People: Sim Efland, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Roland P. McClamroch, W. E. Thompson, John W. Umstead Jr.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1956, p. 1
  20. Orange County passes its 1958 savings bond quota by September Through September, Orange County residents had bought $398,815 in U.S. Savings Bonds, 105.7 percent of the county's 1958 quota. County chairman W. E. Thompson reported that Orange was one of only eight North Carolina counties to pass their quota in the first nine months.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 23, 1958, p. 1

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