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5','.~1 ~ PAGE ~~ Chairman Bennett called the meeting to order and then requested L. M. Cheshire, County Attorney, to proceed with the second reading of the Ordinance entitled "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE EXPOSURE TO VIEW THE HUMAN BODY." Chairman Sennett requested that if any person perseat wished to speak in favor of the proposed Ordinance that the floor was now oven for their remarks. The following persona spoke in favor of the .adoption of said Ordinance: F, S. Frederiok, Reverend Roy Hoover, Paetar of the West Hill Baptist Church, Reverend W. I. Conway, Pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle on the Orange Orove Road, Reverend Dan King, Pastor of the Mara Hill Baptist Church, Reverend Q. E. Simmons, Pastor of the Hillsborough First Baptist Church, Everett H, Kennedy, repreaentiag the Christian Buainesamen~s Club and Dalton Loftin. Chairman Bennett requested that if any Berson present wished to speak in opposition of the proposed Ordinance that the floor was now open for their remarks. Chairman Hennett recognized James Johnson, III, Attorney at Lau, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mr. Johnson sited that the U, S, Supreme Court in Stanley vs. Joyce had ruled that this tyve of Ordinance violated the first and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution. That the North Carolina Legislature is currently aonaidering an obscenity ordinance that iP adopted would make the Orange Couaty Ordinance unneoessary and that there were North Carolina statutes that would close any place oP business if it became a public nusiance. The County Attorney questioned Mr. Johnson relative to the Stanley vs. Joyce ruling. It was stated that this case was principally concerned with the distribution of obsaena photographs. No other persons came forth to speak against the proposed Ordinance. No action was taken on the matter. Chairman Bennett recognized Quention Patterson, Soil Conservation Agent. Discussion ensued relative to the publishing of a recreation broohure and the Board decided to take the matter under adviaemant. There being no further business to come before the Board the meeting was adjourned. Harvey D. Bennett, Chairman S. M. Gattis, Acting Clerk MINUTES OF THE ORA+~E COUNTX BOARp OF COMMISSIONERS May 2la., 1971 The Orange County Bosrd of Commisafonera met in adjourned aesaioa as the Board of Equalization and Review on Monday, May 2l~., 1971, in the Commissioners Room at the Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina at 8:00 o~clock P.M. Members Present: Chairman Harvey D. Bennett and Commissioners William C Ray, Henry S. Walker, Ira A. Ward sad Norman Walker. Members Absent: None The oath of office as members of the Board of Equalization and Revfew was administered and the meeting was then called to order. Chairman Bennett recognized J. Randolph Seger, owner oP Town House Apartments. Mr. Seger Piled a written report. He stated that he had recently ~- purchased the Town House Apartments at a coat of $1,0!}5,000.00 and that the tax appraisal wee currently $1,13L4i690.00 and that he felt that the tax aapraisal should be $680,000.00. The Board advised Mr. Seger that they would inveatl.gate the matter.