Hill's Durham (Durham County, N.C.) City Directory [1945-46], Part 1

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Publication date: 1946
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GENERAL INDEX


Page


Abbreviations .24 and


25


Alphabetical List of Names.


25


Apartment Buildings


538


Associations and Clubs-Commercial. 538


Banks and Trust Companies


541


Buildings-Office and Public


543


Bus and Coach Lines-Motor


544


Buyers' Guide


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Cemeteries


544


Churches


545


City Government


132


Classified Business Directory


537


Clergymen


546


Clubs


548


Convents


550


County Officers


133


Courts


134


Federal Officers


410


Fire Department


133


Golf Clubs and Courses


556


Halls


558


Homes and Asylums.


558


Hospitals and Dispensaries


558


Hotels


559


Justices of the Peace


562


Labor Organizations


562


Libraries


564


Newspapers


566


Parks and Playgrounds


568


Police Department


133


Post Office


410


Railroads


570


Schools-Public


573


Schools, Colleges and Academies


573


Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal


574


Societies-Miscellaneous


575


Societies -- Patriotic


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State Officers


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Street and Avenue Guide .


follows Classified


United States Government


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION


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Aldridge Motors Inc. 6


Ellis Stone & Co 35


Alexander Motor Co .. left side lines and 4 Ester's R A .. . 59 Fayetteville Used Cars & Parts Co. 12


Fidelity Bank


.front cover, left top lines and 15


.left top lines and 42


Gantt Oil Co. right top lines and 7 Gate City Life Insurance Co. 54 Glenn Coal Co. left side lines and 27 Globe Jewelry Co Inc. 56 Goldman Music & Instrument Supply Co right side lines and 62


Gore S F.


. left side lines and 63


Granite Service Station. left side lines and 7


Gulf Oil Corporation right side lines and 8 Hall-Wynne & Co Inc ...


.... front cover, right bottom lines and 41


Harvey's Cafeteria. . right side lines and 72 Hays R S & Co Inc .. 55 Herring Finance Co .. right top lines and 59 Hibberd-Florist 39 Holloway & Proctor Inc .. 71


Home Insurance Agency Inc. .front cover, A and 49 Home Savings Bank ...... front cover and 16 Home Security Life Insurance Co.


.. ribbon book mark, right side lines and 50 Horton Realty Co Inc ... left bottom lines and 71 Hospital Care Association Inc ... left bottom lines and Z Hotel Malbourne ... .left bottom lines and 47


Hotel Washington Duke. 46 Howerton-Bryan Co Inc. 40 Hudson Funeral Home. 40 Hull Claude Florist ..


.left and right side lines and 39 Huntley-Stockton-Hill Co. 43 Ingram & Suggs .... right side lines and 68 Johnson-Forrester Cleaners & Launderers ... right top and left bottom lines and 58 Johnson Motor Co Inc ..


left side lines and 8


Johnson O A.


left top lines and 72


Johnson Service Station.


.left side lines and 8


Jones H F Millwork Co


back cover and 61


.. back cover, left side lines and 19 Durham Dairy Products Inc backbone and 32 Jones Service Station. 8 Jones & Frasier Co left bottom lines and 56 Kane George W. Durham Drug Co ...... left top lines and 37 Durham Electric Construction Co Inc ... .right top lines and 38 Durham Furniture Co Inc. . front cover, right bottom lines and 29 Kelly Clyde Funeral Home .. Street Divider 4 Kenan Oil Co Inc. 9 Kennedy's Auto Service. 0 .right side lines and Durham Hotel. 46 Durham Ice Cream Co Inc. left side lines and 6


.right side lines and 48 Durham Industrial Bank .right bottom lines and 18 Durham Laundry Co 57 Durham Lumber Co right bottom lines and 60


Durham Music Co 62 Durham Office Supply Co


.right top corner cards and 63 Durham Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. .left and right top lines and 21 Durham Realty & Insurance Co. .front cover, right bottom lines and 70 Durham Transfer & Storage Inc ... ... right side lines and 62. Efird's Department Store. 35


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Allan's Credit Jewelers Inc .. 56 Allen Insurance Agency left top lines and 52 Allen T E & Sons ...... left side lines and 48 Animal Hospital and Kennels ... 4 Fidelity Insurance Agency ... B & J Tire Co ...... right side lines and 5 .. right side lines and 52 First Federal Savings & Loan Association .left bottom lines and 24 C First Securities Corp 55 Five Points Furniture Co.


Bagwell J R Co. .left side lines and Associated Cabs. 76


Atkins J L Jr Co Inc. 54


Baldwin R L Co Inc. 35


Belk-Leggett Department Store 35


Bell V E & Sons. .back cover and 75 Bennett Oscar & Son. 67 Biltmore Club Bottling Co.


.right top corner cards and 20


Biltmore Hotel. .. right side lines and 48 Boone Drug Co. .. left top, right side lines and 36 Borden Brick & Tile Co .left top lines and 23 Braswell Coal Co. 26 Brock Motor Co. 6 Brown D W Dry Cleaners.


right top lines and 24


Brown's Auto Supply Co. 7 Browning & Farrell Furniture Co Inc. 42


Budd-Piper Roofing Co left side lines and 74 Carolina Glass Co .... right side lines and 44 Carpenter's Inc .... . right side lines and 5 Cherry Bookkeeping & Tax Service .. . left side lines and 2 Christian-Harward Furniture Co Inc ... .right top lines and 42 Citizens Coal & Coke Co ... .right side lines and 26 Clements & Edwards 69 Cole & Crumpacker. . left bottom lines and 31 Depositors National Bank The. right bottom lines and 18


Dillon Supply Co


46 Dixie Cab Co left side lines and 76 Dr Pepper Bottling Co of Durham Inc. .right bottom lines and 20 Dr Wells Bottling Co left side lines and 21 Duke Power Co. Z Duke University B Durham Bank & Trust Co


.. bottom stencil, left bottom lines and 14 Durham Bond & Mortgage Co. .. left top lines and 69 Durham Builders Supply Co. .right side lines and 23 Durham Coal Co ...... right bottom lines Durham Coca-Cola Bottling Co


Kimbrell's Inc. Y Kornegay Motors Inc 9 Long Meadow Dairies. back cover, left and right side lines and 33 Lyon W C Co Inc .. right top lines and 45 Maddox-Stafford Stone Works .. left side lines and 62 May Claude M. .. front stencil, left bottom lines, 65 and 77 May D C back cover, right side lines and 64 McDade Gulf Service Co ... 9 McGuire J P Construction Co ..


.right side lines and 31


Miller-Hurst Inc .... right side lines and 9


Model Laundry & Dry Cleaners ...


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Modern Electric Co Inc.


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


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Montgomery & Aldridge.


Reade Insurance Agency. 55


.right top lines and 10 Montgomery's Florist .. 39 Rhodes-Collins Furniture Co. 43 Riley Paint Co ... .left top lines and 67 Morgan Motors Inc .... left side lines and 10 Morris Plan Industrial Bank .. .front cover, left top lines and 17 Muirhead Wm Construction Co Inc .. .top stencil and 30 Murdock Ice & Coal Co Inc ... .left side lines and 26 Rochelle Sidney E. .left side lines and 18 Roll's Florist. 40 Rolling Pin Bake Shop. . left and right bottom lines and 13 Rose Agency Inc .. right bottom lines and 63 Royal Sandwich Co right bottom lines and 13 Scott Coal Co .. Myers-Glenn Inc. 10 New Method Laundry Co Inc. 58 Nicholson Inc. .back cover, left bottom lines and 3 27 Scott & Roberts Sanitary Dry Cleaning Co left side lines and 24 Sears, Roebuck and Co. .. left bottom lines and 36 North Carolina College for Negroes. . 28 North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co .right side lines and 51 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. right top lines and 53 Seven-Up Bottling Co left side lines and 22 Shaw Paint & Wallpaper Co Inc .... .. right side lines and 66 Southern Dry Cleaners. .left bottom lines and 25 Southgate J & Son Inc .. back cover and 54 Nu-Tread Tire Co. StateSide Motors 12 Stephenson-Wilson Inc ..


Norwood George D 72 Oakley's Esso Station. 11


Palms Restaurant. Y Parker Letter Service left top lines and 59 Paschall Bros ... .left side lines and 68 Peabody Drug Co Inc left side lines and 38 Pet Dairy Products Co. . .left side lines and 34 Phillips Preson P Mutual Ins Agency. .. .right top lines and 53 Polk's Bankers Encyclopedia 78 Pritchard-Bright & Co Inc.


.right side lines and 25 Public Hardware Co right side lines and 45 Public Service Co of North Carolina Inc .. .. left bottom lines and 44 Rancer Sid Junk & Coal Co. .left side lines and 57 23 Ray Lumber Co.


left top lines and 11 Uzzle Motor Co. 12 W D N C Radio Broadcasting Station 69


Walton Roofing & Heating Co. .left bottom lines and 74 Watts Street Service Station 12 West Durham Lumber Co ..


.right top lines and 60


Wilkins Jewelry Co. 57 Woodall B C Co right bottom lines and 76 Young Roofing Co Inc. . back cover, right bottom lines and 73


Ray's Inc 57 Zuckerman Sol. 43


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right side lines and 10 O'Brient's Music Store. 63 Stewart's left side lines and 11 25 Terry Hardy G .. right bottom lines and 71 Thomas & Howard Co Inc. 44 Tucker Motor Co Inc. 11 Union Insurance & Realty Co. 72 University Motors Inc.


INTRODUCTION


HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to sub- scribers and the general public, this, the 1945-46 edition of the Durham City Directory, which also includes Bragtown, Hope Valley, Rockwood, Tuscaloosa Forest and Sherron Acres.


Confidence in the continued growth of Durham's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Durham to the world.


The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organi- zation, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and profes- sional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Durham Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the community.


Four Major Departments


The four major departments are arranged in the following order :-


THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 25 to 451, on white paper. This is the only record in ex-, istence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Durham and vicinity, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation.


THE BUYERS' GUIDE, preceding the Classified and separately paged from 1 to 80, on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and pro- fessional interests of Durham and vicinity. The advertisements are indexed under head- ings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a large commercial and industrial center like Durham, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.


THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 537 to 579, on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alpha- betical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous interests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.


THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE on pink paper, follows the Classified and is separately paged from 1 to 87. In this section the named streets are arranged in alphabetical order, followed by the numbered streets in numerical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numercial order under the name of each street, and the names of the house- holders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of business having telephones.


Community Publicity


The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the community, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manufacturing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Durham and vicinity.


The Durham Directory Library


Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Durham City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Durham Chamber of Commerce, for free refer- ence by the general public. This is one of more than 500 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North Ameri- can Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.


The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.


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STATISTICAL REVIEW


Form of Government-Council-manager.


Population-1940 U. S. Census, 60,195; local estimate in 1945, 70,000. American-born, 99.3%.


Area-12.8 square miles.


Altitude-406 feet above sea level.


Climate-Mean annual temperature, 59.6 degrees F .; average annual rainfall, 47.19 inches.


Parks-9, with total of 146 acres, valued at $346,000. Also 12 City playgrounds.


Assessed Valuation-$96,987,325, with $1.55 per $100 tax rate.


Bonded Debt-$6,068,000.


Financial Data-6 banks, with total deposits of $65,937,059 (Dec. 31, 1944), and total resources of $70,450,558.39 (Dec. 31, 1944). Debits for 1944, $911,214,000. 4 building and loan associations, with total assets of $7,121,590.23 (Dec. 31, 1944).


Postal Receipts-$671,732.49 (calendar year 1944).


Telephones in Service-12,700.


Churches-87, representing 12 denominations.


Building and Construction-163 permits, with total value of $481,597, issued in 1944. Real Estate-16,732 dwelling units, with 40% owned by occupants.


Industry-Chief industry is manufacturing. 96 manufacturing establishments, employ- ing 16,200 workers, paying wages of $22,058,419 annually, and having products valued at $160,336,002 annually (U. S. Census of Manufactures). Principal manufactured products: Cigarettes, smoking tobacco, sheets and pillow cases, hosiery, flour, corrugated fibreboard containers, wooden boxes, proprietary medicines, furniture, roofing, brick, fertilizer, mat- tresses, lumber products, meat-packing products, foundry and machine-shop products, live stock feed, harness, saddles and machinery.


Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 25 to 40 miles, and population of 230,000; whole- sale area, radius of 50 miles, and population of 675,000 (based on 1940 U. S. Census).


Newspapers-2 dailies, 1 Sunday and 4 weeklies.


Hotels-8, with total of 800 rooms.


Railroads-5: Southern, Seaboard Air Line, Norfolk & Western, Durham & Southern and Norfolk Southern, operating 7 lines.


Highways-U. S. 15, 70, 264 and 501; State 55.


Airports-Durham-Raleigh Airport.


Amusements-Largest auditorium in city (Armory) seats 2,500 persons. 7 moving- picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 5,490 persons. 2 golf courses.


Hospitals-4, with total of 944 beds.


Education-Duke University, Croft Secretarial School, Kennedy's Commercial School, and North Carolina College for Negroes. 21 public schools, including 2 senior high and 2 junior high. 1 parochial school and 1 private school. Number of pupils in public schools, 10,040; in parochial, 150. Number of teachers in public schools, 371; in parochial, 5. Value of public school property, $3,442,000; parochial, $30,000; college, $20,670,000.


Public Libraries-5, including branches, with total of 458,692 volumes. Duke Univer- sity libraries have 500,000 volumes.


City Statistics-Total street mileage, 205, with 83 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 92.14; sewers, 321. Number of water meters, 13,415; light meters, 19,800; gas meters, 3,400. Capacity of water works (municipal), 9,000,000 gallons; daily average pumpage, 5,000,000 gallons; miles of mains, 196.5; value of plant, $4,800,000. Fire department has 65 men, with 4 stations and 11 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department property, $325,300. Police department has 66 men and 4 women, with 1 station and 18 pieces of motor equipment, all cars being equipped with radio facilities.


HISTORY


In April, 1865, at a log cabin known as the Bennett Place, near Durham Station, there occurred one of the most historic events in the history of the nation. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox, and the future looked dark indeed for the Southern states. Jefferson Davis and his cabinet had escaped to Greensboro, North Carolina, and there had held fiery debate as to the advisability of continuing the Civil War. Some members of the cabinet favored continuing hostilities at any cost, even though it meant carrying on a guerrilla warfare, while others took the position that the cause of the Confederacy was forever lost and that no good could be accomplished by further bloodshed. Finally it was decided to instruct General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Confederate Armies of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, to negotiate terms of peace with General Wm. Te- cumseh Sherman, commander of the Federal Army that had broken the backbone of the Confederacy by reason of its famous march to the sea. These two generals met at the Bennett Place and signed a tentative peace agreement. This agreement was so favorable to the South that General Grant refused to approve it, but after several days' conference. it was amended to meet General Grant's demands and was signed and approved by the governments of the North and South, and the War between the States came to a close.


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Marking the place of surrender, just four miles from Durham, there has been erected, through the generosity . of Mrs. S. T. Morgan, a beautiful monument consisting of two columns, one representing the North and the other the South, joined together by a cross- piece on which is the word "Unity." This historic spot, the birthplace of a reunited na- tion, is visited each year by thousands of people.


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The death of the Confederacy gave birth to the city of Durham, and out of the ashes of the hopes of the Southern people has been built a great and beautiful city. In 1865 Durham Station was a small and insignificant point on the North Carolina Railroad, inhabited by less than 100 persons. There was one lone business enterprise here, a crude and unimportant tobacco factory with total assets of less than $2,000, including not only products on hand, but representing also the entire investment and replacement. History and tradition unite in saying that this factory was broken into by Sherman's soldiers and a large part of the stock carried away. Tradition further says that the product carried away was so well made and of such quality that when the soldiers returned to the pursuit of civil life, letters came back to Durham to ascertain if there was more of the product upon the market. To supply this demand a broken business was rebuilt.


In 1865 Washington Duke, a Confederate soldier, walked from New Bern to his home in Durham, and with the same stout heart that had carried him through the vicissitudes of a lost cause, turned his attention to the battle for bread, which was doubtless as cruel and bitter as the war from which he had returned. He built the second factory in Dur- ham, composed of a log cabin 20 x 30 feet, and with his own hands manufactured a product out of a small supply of tobacco that the Federal soldiers had not found. This he called Pro Bono Publico. The annual output of this factory was originally four or five hundred pounds, and in 1872 had grown to 125,000 pounds.


In the meantime, W. T. Blackwell had moved to Durham to engage in the tobacco business. He was to the early development of the tobacco industry in Durham what Napoleon was to France, or Caesar to Rome. The Durham Bull got upon the map and in a few brief years his sonorous voice, like the shot at Lexington, was heard around the world. In 1872 the two small tobacco factories had grown into twelve.


James Buchanan Duke, becoming convinced that it was neither practicable nor prof- itable to compete with Bull Durham smoking tobacco, turned the vision of his great genius into the cigarette field, and from that day to the present hour the increasing volume of the tobacco industry has become the common property of mankind.


On April 10, 1869, almost exactly four years after Johnston surrendered to Sherman, Durham was born. There were only 258 inhabitants in the village, and the total muni- cipal revenue was $357.44. The largest taxpayer paid $40.62 in taxes. In 1870 there were probably less than 100 wage-earners in industrial pursuits in the town.


The tobacco industry grew at a very rapid rate, using large quantities of bright-leaf tobacco. While much of this type of tobacco was grown around Durham, it was sold at




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