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3,34 <br />Minutes of the Board of Commissioners <br />Monday, February 6, 1950 <br />The Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange met in regular session <br />on February 6, 1950, at 10 o'clock A. M., at the Courthouse in Hillsboro, the <br />usual place of meeting. Present: Collier Cobb, Jr., Chairman, Ben F. Wilson <br />and H. G. Laws, Commissioners. <br />The minutes of the January meeting were read and approved. ^I <br />Mr. Elijah Ward presented a petition asking that a new road be built from -"-" <br />Cheeks Crossing Road to High Rock Road, a distance of two miles. <br />Mr. R. C. Minnis, Jr., presented a road petition asking that the State HSg'. <br />& Public Works Commission take over and maintain a road running East from <br />Boundary Street in the Town of Hillsboro to Ruffin Street and known as <br />n Street Extension; also a street running South from Orange Street to Queen <br />at Extension and known as Mitchell Street. <br />A road petition was presented asking for a road in Bingham Township, run - <br />from Antioch Church Road to Jones Ferry Road, a distance of 2.15 miles. <br />Mr. S. C. Hughes presented a petition for a road running from Widow Brown' <br />go, on Cedar Grave - Eland Road to Babe Torian's Homeplace, on Cedar Grove - <br />ony Road, a distance of three miles. <br />No action was taken on any of the above requests. <br />Mrs. Jean M. Hear, Superintendent of Public Welfare appeared and requested <br />following changes in Aid to Blind Grants: <br />Annie Vincent of West Hillsboro ,$$15.00 per month. <br />Fredward and Edward Woods increased from $12.00 to $15.00 per month. <br />Bart Alexander Wilson decreased from $27.00 to $25.00 per month. - <br />Now therefore, upon motion of Commissioner Laws, duly seconded by Commis. - <br />er Wilson, the foregoing Aid to Blind Grants were approved as requested. <br />A delegation from Cedar Grove Township, with Mr. L. J. Phipps as spokesman, <br />appeared in connection with the proposed hardsurfacing of a road leading from <br />the Person County line near Laws' Store to Highway No. 86, near G. M. Long's <br />Store. JI <br />It was made to appear to the Board that the crossing at the intersection �. <br />of Highways U. S. 70 and State 86 ,just North from the Town of Hillsboro was <br />very dangerous due to the heavy traffic and the location of the crossing and <br />that the present warning signs of the said crossing were not sufficient. After <br />full discussion, upon motion duly made and seconded, the following resolution <br />was unanimously adopted: <br />RESOLVED, That the Board of Commissioners of Orange County <br />do hereby respectfully request and petition the North Carolina <br />State Highway & Public Works Commission to erect and maintain <br />adequate safety markers at and near the intersection of Highways <br />U. 9. 70 and State 86. <br />It visa then brought to the attention of the Board that a school building <br />for colored children would be constructed in the near future near the Merritt <br />Mill Road Southwest from the Town of Chanel Hill and that the said Merritt Mill <br />Road in its present condition would not be adequate. After discussion, upon <br />motion duly made and seconded, the following resolution was adopted: <br />RESOLVED, that the Board of Commissioners of Orange County <br />does hereby respectfully request and petition the North Carolina <br />State Highway & Public Works Commission to widen, straighten and <br />stabalize the Merritt Mill Road from Franklin Street in the Town <br />of Chapel Hill to the hard- surfaced road now under construction <br />leading from the Town of Carrboro to Highway No. 15 and 501. <br />The following names were drawn to <br />serve <br />as Jurors at the March Term of <br />Superior <br />Court: <br />1. <br />Mrs. Alice McKnight (CH) <br />19. <br />C. Ed Wilson (LR) <br />- <br />2. <br />Kenneth M. Brinkhouse (CH) <br />20. <br />Alfred G. Moore (Cks) <br />33 <br />Jesse Howard (B) <br />21. <br />Joseph A. Farrington (CH) <br />4. <br />James A. Martin (B) <br />22. <br />H. Broadwell (H) <br />5. <br />Coy P. Rice (Cks) <br />2 }. <br />Samuel C. Paulsen (CH) <br />f <br />6. <br />James Lewis Bradsher (CG) <br />2 . <br />F. S. Cates (H) <br />Loy Tilley MR) <br />J <br />7. <br />L. S. Wainwright (CH) <br />25. <br />G. <br />8. <br />Henry Kirkland (CH) <br />26. <br />L. G. Tilley, Jr. (LR) <br />9. <br />Charlie Ragan (CH) <br />27. <br />V7. F. Walker (Cks) <br />10. <br />Jack Lloyd (CH) <br />28. <br />J. L. Brooks (CG) <br />11. <br />W. A. Crabtree (Eno) <br />29. <br />J. T. Mann (CH) <br />12. <br />Mrs. Hope S. Chamberlain (CH) <br />30. <br />Paul Minor (CH) <br />13. <br />R. F. Payne (Cks) <br />31. <br />0. M. Powers, Jr. (CH) <br />14. <br />Vernon S. Sparrow (CH) <br />32. <br />C. C. Culbreth (H) <br />15. <br />H. C. Haithcock (Eno) <br />3 • <br />William Wells (CH) <br />16. <br />William Adams (CH) <br />34. <br />H. W. Dark (CH) <br />17. <br />Mrs. Emma Davis Shepard (CH) <br />35. <br />W. P. Andrews (Eno) <br />18. <br />John Wallace Bacon (Eno) <br />36. <br />Mary Clark Markham (CH) <br />-J <br />