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>•~: ttinutea of the Board of Commissioners ttonday, November 4, 1946 Tha Board met at the usual hour in the Commissioners Room at the Court- house: Present, Colllar Cobb, Jr., Chairman, Hen P. t9ilson and Hubert G. Lawsr Commissioners. The minutes of the October meeting ware read and aporo¢e d. Lir, Don S. tiathesan, Orange County Farm Agent and tAr. Ed Barnes,Ass is tent Agent appo aced before the 3oard and gave some Antares ting information on the farming sl tuation in the county. Lsr. Matheson stated that tobacco nr roes were on the downward trend but was still holding its own bs tter ther. other farm commodities, He also stated that lime and far ti 112er PJa3 on the herd to get list but he thought Orange County farmers would be able to get a very good quasi ty o1' both. tfr. Barnes talked on the corn contest held in the county this year end stated that .this 'doxftaet showed that much higher yields could be acccmplis had by the use of hybred seed corn and bettor far tilizatlon. He also stated that the Or anga County 4H members won several flrst and second prizes at the North Carolina State Fair. tAr. P. H. Johns, ;Orange County Fire Narden, appeared and talked relative to the purchase of a si to for t:±e ersctlon of a tower. He stated that the best site Sor the ins tnllation of this tower was on the mountain near Hi llsbor~ t1r s, Xathryn H. Hamrick, Orange County .'some Agent, apse nred and rapor tad on the work done through her office for the month of October. Appll ca tion of tAarvin H. 14orr ow to retail beer in Orange County, was,upon motion, soprove d. IIpon motion of Commissioner 1711son, duly seconded by Commissioner Laws, the following resolution was unanimously ndopte d: RESOLVED that an annropr latl on of SEVENTY EIG?iT ASR) 77/100 DOLLARS be granted the Chapel Eill Special Charter District, which is sx nn addition to the FOiSZi TEEN THO*JSAND T470 HDNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS heretofore appropriated in this fiscal year for the addition of two class rooms at the Orange County T4•a fining School. The following ro¢d petition was upon motion, approved anc ordered sent to the lror th Carolina State Highway end Public Norks Commission. Beginning at a point on the ldeb one-Smith Mattress Company Road about one mile South of the Torm of Liebane and running in e Southe ae ter ly direction by the Terms of B. F. 'tlils on, F.. A. Ftils an, Sr., 1'f. A. Jobe, i'f. D. Scuires, J. [R. Thompson and J. S. Nelson for s die tepee of about two miles to F.ebron Church- Cheeks Cross Road. The following names were drawn to serve as ,jurors at the December term of Superior Court: 1. t7. E. Blackwood C. H. 21. tV. G. Cole 0. G. 2. Chas. E. Derry C. G. 22. J. Wade Harris L. R. 3. R. 5. Boggs C. H. 23. S. Idalone Hall Cks. 4. Charlie Clayton L. R. 24. 0. E. Bing 0. H. 5. VJ. ft. Chambers L. R. 26. J. D. Hogan 0. H. 6. J. D. tiincay L. R. 26: John L. Efland, Jr. Cks. 7. R. tA. Anderson 0. G. 27: David ti. Cates H. 8. J. I. Mann C. °. 28: Franklin C. Erleks on C. H. 9. Robert Iii lean 0. G. 29. Don R. Beal B. 10. Weldon Sykes H. 30. John Taylor Bivins Hb. 11, James N. 9eyles C. H. 31. Idnrion Chambers L. R. 1.2. W. F. Prouty C. Ft. 32. John Pege ~thi tted Eno 13. Robert Hr ea ze L. R. 33. l'f. B. Richmond Cks. 14. Brodis Crab Crea C. G. 34: Leonard Sca er ce Hb. 15. J. id. Booker C. H. 35. E. G. Lloyd C.H. 16. J. I. Dlekay C. G. 36. J. L. Tilley L.R. 17. William L. Lloyd 0. H. 37. Percy H. Vickers C. H. 18. Yf. Nt. Boger C. H. 38: G. R. Hornay C. H. 19. 4V. Carson Ryan C. °_. 39: Harold D. bteyer C. A. 20. George Bivins Hb . 40. Aubrey D. Graham Cks. There being no fur thar business, anon motion, adjourned to meet ttonday November 18, 19a6. Collier Cobb Jr. J. E. Laws Chairman C erT k-"