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Minutes of the Orange County
<br />Board of Commissioners
<br />November 5, 1962
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<br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Monday,
<br />November 5, 1962, at ten o'clock a.m. in the Commissioners' room at the courthouse
<br />11in Hillsboro, N. C.
<br />Members present: Chairman Donald Stanford, Commissioners Harvey Bennett,
<br />Clarence Jones,, aid Henry Walker. -?
<br />Members absent: None
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<br />IThe minutes of the last meeting were read by the Acting Clerk and approved
<br />by the Board.
<br />The following Department officials presented reports for the month of October,
<br />1962: Cashe Boggs, Dog Warden
<br />Miss Trowbridge, Home Demonstration Agent
<br />Walter Wrenn, Veterans Service Officer
<br />E. M. Lynch, Clerk of Court and
<br />C. D. Knight, Sheriff.
<br />The Clerk of Superior Court requested that he be allotted funds with which to
<br />employ extra help in his office due to the increased activity of the Recorders Court.
<br />He cited the following statistics: Cases docketed October 1961, 170, July 1962, 134;
<br />lAuguat 1962, 166; September 1962, 153; October 1962, 388.
<br />Upon motion of Commissioner Bennett, seconded by Commissioner Jones, and
<br />animously adopted, the Clerk of Superior Court was authorized to employ temporary
<br />rt time help on an hourly basis.
<br />Chairman Stanford read a letter from Judge L. J. Phipps. Judge Phipps stated,
<br />"1 have checked with the Recorder's Court officials, the Clerk's office, the
<br />Sheriff's department, the highway patrolmen, and the attorneys both in and out of
<br />the county who regularly practice in the Orange County Recorder's Court, and I have
<br />come to the conclusion that the Recorder's Court can operate more efficiently and
<br />with leas conflict with courts in the adjoining counties if the'commissioners will
<br />change the regular time for the holding of this court from 10:00 on Monday to 10:00
<br />on Wednesday of each week."
<br />'Upon motion of Commissioner Jones, seconded by Commissioner Bennett, and unanimous
<br />ly adopted, the regular time for holding of Recorder's Court was changed from 10:00
<br />on Monday to 10:00 on Wednesday of each week, this change to become effective January
<br />11969.
<br />The subject of zoning was brought to the floor by Chairman Stanford. Letters
<br />endorsing zoning from the following citizens and'organizations were presented: Dr.
<br />& Mrs. Newton Fischer, Mrs. Marion B. Roberts, Fred T. Claytor, May'U the Town of
<br />Hillsboro and the Hillsboro Garden Club. A resolution in opposition to county wide
<br />zoning from the Orange County Y.D.C. was presented. Chairman Stanford also presented
<br />another letter from Fred T. Claytor, Mayor of the Town of Hillsboro, which stated,
<br />"at a special meeting of.the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Hillsboro held at
<br />the City Hall October 22, 1962, it was resolved by unanimous vote that.the Board of
<br />County Commissioners pass an ordinance at the earliest possible time to zone the Town
<br />of Hillsboro to the city limits in each direction".
<br />A petition signed by citizens of the Town of Hillsboro which read as follows was
<br />presented: "we, the undersigned, being legal residents, citizens and taxpayers of
<br />the Town of Hillsboro, do respectfully request the Orange County Board of Commissioners
<br />to reject and refuse to enact into law the proposed zoning ordinance for the Town
<br />of Hillsboro".
<br />Upon motion of Commissioner Walker, seconded by Commissioner Bennett, it was
<br />. that county wide zoning be rejected.
<br />Chairman Stanford offered this motion for discussion to those in attendance.
<br />C. R. Laws presented petitions requesting that county wide zoning be rejected. Mr.
<br />Laws retained the petitions he had shown.
<br />Chairman Stanford called for a vote on Commissioner Walker's motion and same was
<br />mously passed.
<br />Upon motion of Commissioner Jones, seconded by Commissioner Bennett, the following
<br />otion was presented: I move that the zoning ordinance to be put into effect immedi-
<br />tely in the Hillsboro Township, including the Town of Hillsboro except in the area
<br />f Hillsboro Township that lies west of a line running from Chapel Bill Township to
<br />eder Grove Township and paralleling and coinciding with the western boundary of the
<br />own of Hillsboro.
<br />After a discussion of this motion Commissioner Jones requested that Commissioner
<br />ennett withdraw his second so that the motion could be withdrawn: Commissioner
<br />ennett agreed to withdraw his second of said motion and Commissioner Jones took his
<br />otion from the floor.
<br />The zoning discussion was discontinued to allow the members of the A.B.C. Board
<br />present a copy of their quarterly audit.
<br />A discussion concerning price, policies and taxing policies of the State
<br />.B.C. Board ensued. Chairman Stanford suggested he be allowed to take up this
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