Hill's Durham (Durham County, N.C.) City Directory [1947], Part 1

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Publication date: 1947
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GENERAL INDEX


Page


Abbreviations


24 and 25


Alphabetical List of Names


25


Apartment Buildings 594


Associations and Clubs-Commercial


594


Banks and Trust Companies


596


Buildings-Office and Public 599


Bus and Coach Lines-Motor


599


Buyers' Guide opp


480


Cemeteries


599


Churches


600


City Government


141


Classified Business Directory


593


Clergymen


601


Clubs


603


Convents


605


County Officers


141


Courts


142


Federal Officers


436


Fire Department


141


Golf Clubs and Courses


611


Halls


613


Homes and Asylums


614


Hospitals and Dispensaries


614


Hotels


614


Justices of the Peace


617


Labor Organizations 617


Libraries 619


Newspapers 621


Parks and Playgrounds


623


Police Department 141


436


Railroads


625


Schools-Public 628


Schools, Colleges and Academies 628


Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal 629


629


Societies-Patriotic


630


State Officers


323


Street and Avenue Guide


follows Classified


United States Government


436


Post Office


Societies-Miscellaneous


401703


INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


Page Numbers Below Refer to the Buyers' Guide Section


Page


Page


Airheart Milton & Co .. right top cards and 67


Alexander Motor Co Inc left side lines and 7


Allan's Credit Jewelers Inc 77


Allen Insurance Agency


. left top lines and 73


Allen T E & Sons ...


. left side lines and


73


Allenton Co Inc left side lines and 98


Amey's Funeral Home 55


Animal Hospital & Kennels 4


Arrow Plumbing & Heating Co 94


Artistic Shoe Shop 106


Associated Cabs 109


B & H Tire Co


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Bagwell J R Co ...


.. . left side lines and


Baldwin R L Co Inc 45


Belk-Leggett Department Store. 45


Biltmore Club Bottling Co


.right side lines and 28


Biltmore Hotel.


. . .


.right side lines and


64


Gantt Oil Co ..


right top lines and


9


74


Garrison Insurance Service.


Boone Drug Co.


.right side and left top lines and


47


Gladstein's ...


. left bottom lines and


31


Borden Brick & Tile Co ..


left top lines and


29


Braswell Coal Co.


32


Broadway Taxi Inc .... left top cards and 108


Brock Motor Co ..


7


Brown D W Dry Cleaners.


right top lines and


49


Brown's Auto Supply Co 8


Budd-Piper Roofing Co


left side lines and 108


C & F Dry Cleaners. 49 Carolina Cinder Block Co.


.left side lines and 29


Carolina Glass Co ... .right side lines and 59 Carolina Venetian Blind Co Inc .. .right bottom lines and 111


Carpenter's Inc. right side lines and Horton Realty Co Inc. 8 Cheek Dry Cleaners. 50 Cherry Bookkeeping & Tax Service left bottom lines and Hospital Care Association Inc The


.left side lines and 2 Z Christian-Harward Furniture Co Inc ... front cover, left bottom lines and Hotel Malbourne ... left bottom lines and 63


Citizens Coal & Coke Co. .right top lines and 56


Cole & Crumpacker


right side lines and


32


Coman Lumber Co ..


Commercial Credit Corp Crain & Denbo Inc.


...... right top cards, Street Insert and Depositors National Bank of Durham The. right bottom lines and Dillon Supply Co


24


85


Dr Pepper Bottling Co of Durham Inc .. .right bottom lines and Duke Power Co Z


Duke University B Durham Bank & Trust Co. . bottom stencil, left bottom lines and Durham Bond & Mortgage Co .. .left top lines and 98 Durham Builders Supply Co .. right side lines and 30


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Durham Coca-Cola Bottling Co ... . back cover. left side lines and 25 Durham Dairy Products Inc. . Durham Drug Co .. . . left top lines and 48 backbone and 41 Durham Electric Construction Co Inc ... .right top lines and 51


Durham Hudson Corp. 9 Durham Ice Cream Co Inc .right side lines and 66 Durham Industrial Bank. .right bottom lines and 24 Durham Lumber Co Inc. left top lines and 83


Durham Oil Burner & Stoker Service .. ..


.left top cards and


95


Durham Realty & Insurance Co ..


. front cover, right bottom lines and 97 Durham Sporting Goods Co. . 107 Durham Transfer & Storage Inc. .right side lines and 88


Durham Typewriter Co.


right bottom cards and 109


Efird's Department Store. 46 Ellis, Stone & Co. 46


Ester's R A.


81


Fayetteville Used Cars & Parts Co 17 Fidelity Bank The


.front cover, left top lines and 21 Fidelity Insurance Agency of Durham Inc .. . right side lines and 74 First Federal Savings & Loan Assn. . left bottom lines and 30


Glenn Coal Co ..


. left side lines and


33


Goldman Music & Instrument Supply Co


Gore S F


. left side lines and


89 91


Granite Service Station Gulf Oil Corp. right side lines and left side lines and 10 10 54 39 76


Hall-Wynne & Co Inc.


front cover, right bottom lines and


Harris I G .


left top cards and


Hays R S & Co Inc ..


Herring Finance Co. . right top lines and 82 99


Holloway & Proctor Inc.


Home Insurance Agency Inc.


front cover. A and 68 22


Home Savings Bank. .front cover and Home Security Life Insurance Co .. . .. ribbon book mark, left side lines and 69 78 99


Hopper's Inc Jewelers


Howerton-Bryan Co Inc. .right top cards and 102


Hudson Funeral Home.


.left and right side lines and 52 57


Ingold Tire Co .. .right side lines and 5


Ingram & Suggs .... right side lines and 94 Jefferson Cafeteria .. . right side lines and 103 Johnson-Forrester Cleaners & Launder-


ers .. right top and left bottom lines and 80 Johnson Motor Co Inc .. . left side lines and 11 Johnson O A Realtor. . left top lines and 100 Johnson Service Station. Jones H F Mjllwork Co. . back cover and .left side lines and 11 86 Jones & Frasier Co.left bottom lines and Kane George W .. 78


... front cover, right bottom lines and Kelly Clyde Funeral Home Street Divider 37 Kenan Oil Co Inc ..... left side lines and 12 Kennedy's Auto Service left side lines and 12


Kimbrell's Inc


Y Knott-Porterfield Hardware Co.


right side lines and 60


Long Meadow Dairies.


back cover, left and right side lines and 42 Lyon W C Co Inc .... right top lines and Lyon & Sons Inc ... 62 61 58


Mack's Furniture Co Inc.


left bottom lines and 39 84 18 Hull Claude Florist. .left side lines and 55


36


Huntley-Stockton-Hill Co .. .right top cards and


53


Howell's Refrigeration Sales Co ..


Bell V E & Sons . back cover and 105 Five Points Furniture Co. . left top lines and 57


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


Page


Maddox-Stafford Stone Works.


May Claude M. . left side lines and 87


front stencil, left bottom lines, 91 and 111 May D C Co. ... back cover, right side lines and 90 Miller-Brunson .... right top lines, 13 and 64 Miller-Hurst Inc. . right side lines, 13 and 65 Model Laundry Co & Dry Cleaners. . . right top cards and Modern Electric Co Inc. 81 52


Montgomery & Aldridge.


right top and left bottom lines, 14 and Montgomery's Florist Inc. ... 53


65


Morgan Motors Inc .... left side lines and 6


Morris Plan Industrial Bank. . left top lines and 23 Muirhead Win Construction Co Inc. . top stencil and 38 Murdock Ice & Coal Co Inc .. 14 left side lines and Myers-Glenn Inc. 33


Nicholson Inc


. back cover, left bottom lines and 3


North Carolina College for Negroes. 35


North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co right side lines and 70 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co .right top lines and 75


Norwood George D 100 15 92 Y


Nu-Tread Tire Co .... right top lines and Olive W H Co. right side lines and Palms Restaurant The .. .


82 Parker Letter Service. . left top lines and Paschall Bros .. . .left side lines and 95


Peabody Drug Co Inc The. . . left side lines and 48


Peeler J Lee & Co Inc. 77


Pet Dairy Products Co.


right side lines and 43 Phillips Mutual Insurance Agency .right top lines and 71


Polk's Bankers' Encyclopedia. 112 Pritchard-Bright & Co Inc.


right side lines and 31


Proctor W T . left top cards and 40 Public Hardware Co. . right side lines and 61


Public Service Co of North Carolina Inc .left bottom lines and 59 Rancer Sid Junk & Coal Co.


.left side lines and 80


Ray's Inc 79


Reade Insurance Agency


Page 75 76


Reliance Life Insurance Co of Pittsburgh


Riley Paint Co .. . left top lines and 92


Robbins Inc. .right top cards and 47 Rolling Pin Bake Shop The. . .right bottom lines and 19


Rollins-Bloodworth Co .. right top cards and 102 Rose Agency Inc The. right bottom lines and 89 Rowe C P. 110


Rose Fabric Center 106 Rowe-Petty Typewriter Co.


.left top cards and 110 Royal Icc Cream Co. 67 Royal Sandwich Co. right bottom lines and 19


Scott Coal Co Inc. 34


Scott & Roberts Sanitary Dry Cleaning Co. . left side lines and 50 Sears, Roebuck and Co. .left bottom lines and 44 Seven-Up Bottling Co. . left side lines and 26 Shaw Paint & Wall Paper Co Inc ... .right side lines and 93 Southern Dry Cleaners. .


left bottom lines and 51 Southgate J & Son Inc. . . back cover and Spur Bottling Co. . . .. 72 .left side lines and 27 Sullivan's Veterinary Hospital 4 40


Teer Nello L Co ..


Terry Hardy G. ... right bottom lines and 101 Thomas & Howard Co Inc. .. 60 15


Tucker Motor Co Inc .. left top lines and Tucker's Electrical Sales & Service. 66


Union Insurance & Realty Co .. 101 University Motors Inc. . left top lines and 16


Uzzle Motor Co Inc. 16 W DNC Radio Broadcasting Station.


Washington Duke Hotel. WDUK right top cards and 96 96 62 Watts Street Service Station 17 West Durham Lumber Co.


. . right top and right bottom lines and Wilkins Jewelry Co .. 79


84 Yellow Cab Co Inc .... left top cards and 108 Woodall B C Co. . right bottom lines and 107 Young Roofing Co Inc The .. .back cover, right bottom lines and 104 Zuckerman S & Son. 58


INTRODUCTION


HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to sub- sciibers and the general public, this, the 1947 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 480, 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 112, on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Durham and vicinity. The advertisements are indexed under headings 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 évidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.


THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 593 to 633, 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 Classifieu and is separately paged from 1 to 93. 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 po u's on each street. Special 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.


HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc. Publishers.


DURHAM


FRIENDLY CITY OF INDUSTRY, EDUCATION AND MEDICINE (Courtesy Durham Chamber of Commerce)


STATISTICAL REVIEW


Form of Government-Council-manager.


Population-1940 U. S. Census, 60,195; local estimate at present, 70,000. Total males, 27,905; females, 32,290; white, 36,848; colored, 23,347 (1940 U. S. Census). 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-$103,378,002 with $1.55 per $100 tax rate.


Bonded Debt-$5.951,000.


Financial Data-6 banks, with total deposits of $79.418,202.91 (Dec. 31, 1945). 4 building and loan associations, with total assets of $8,638,783.29 (Dec. 31, 1945)


Postal receipts-$612,869.19 (calendar year 1945).


Telephones in Service-13,400.


Churches-97, representing 12 denominations.


Building and Construction-264 permits, with total value of $1,990,478, issued :n 1945.


Industry-Chief industry is manufacturing. 98 manufacturing establishements, with principal products as follows: Cigarettes, smoking tobacco, sheets and pillow cases, hos- iery, flour, corrugated fibreboard containers, proprietary medicines, furniture, brick, mat- tresses, and foundry and machine-shop products. Durham manufactures 24% of the nation's cigarettes (44 brands), including the famous Chesterfields and Lucky Strikes, Also the famous Duke's Mixture and Bull Durham smoking tobaccos,


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,


Radio Stations-4: WDNC, WTIK, WDUK and WHHT.


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-2 (1 municipal and 1 commercial). City served by Eastern, Pennsylvania- Central and Southeast air lines.


Auto Registrations-10,300 (Sept 30, 1946).


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 3 Junior high. 1 parochial school and 1 private school. Number of pupils in public schools, 10,177; in parochial, 125. Number of teachers in public schools, 367; in parochial, 5. Value of public school property, $3,889,499; 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, 13,571; light meters, 20,551; gas meters, 3,780. 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 74 men and 6 women, with 1 station and 22 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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INTRODUCTION


Marking the place of surrender, just four miles from Durham, there has been crected, 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 cach year by thousands of people.


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Graduate Dormitory Tower, Duke University


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.




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