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Minutes of the Board of Commissioners 1'( 1
<br />March 7, 1960
<br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, March 7, 1960,
<br />at ten o'clock a.m. in the Commissioners' room at the courthouse in Hillsboro, N. C.
<br />Members present: Chairman R, J. U. Hobbs, Co,missioners Clarence Jones, Donald McDade,
<br />Donald Stanford and Henry Walker.
<br />Members absent.: None
<br />The minutes of the February 1st meeting were read by the Clerk and approved by the Board
<br />after a few corrections were made.
<br />The followin, road petitions were presented and the Clerk was requested to forward sage to
<br />the State Highway Commission.
<br />Curtis Road and 250 feet of the Clayton Road located in Coker Hills in Chapel Hill Township.
<br />Road located in Hillsboro Township, Fairview section, runs from Highway n70 entrance at G E G
<br />Grocery around in a loop back to Highway 670 this section of the loop is known as Terrell Road.
<br />Road located in Chanel Hill . Township runs from present Windsor Circle and is an extension
<br />of said Windsor Circle.
<br />The following Department Officials presented reports for the month of February, 1960:
<br />Frank Frederick, Delinquent Tax Collector
<br />E. M. Lynch, Clerk of Court
<br />Jane Parker, Supt. of Welfare
<br />Evelyn Raper, Asst Home Demonstration Agent
<br />C. D. Knight, Sherriff.
<br />Joe Augustine representative of the Chapel Rill Civil Air Patrol Unit, requested that a confiscate
<br />truck be assigned to the C.A.P. to be used in connection with a Rescue Squad which is now being
<br />formed by the C.A.P. in the Chapel Hill area. This matter visa taken under advisement as the
<br />Board needed a ruling as to whether they could assim a truck taken by the law enforcement agency
<br />ever to any organization.
<br />Walter Wrenn, Director of the Orange County Civil Defense, presented Cliff Blalock, State
<br />Communications Officer for Civil Defense, from Raleigh, N. C., and A. V. ;gasket, Orange County's
<br />Radio Officer for Civil Defense, to the Board. These rpresentatives requested that the Board match
<br />funds with those avai.laule from the federal government, in order, that the Orange County Civil
<br />Defense Unit may purchase equipment for the use of the "ham radio operatorsm which is known as
<br />RACES (Radio Ammuteur Civil Emergency Service). This equipment would be used in times of disaster
<br />whether from the natural elements or outside forces. They stressed the need for money to impliment
<br />a Radio Civil Defense Plan which would consist of mobile radio units to be place at the disposal of
<br />the volunteer rain operators in the County. The Board ouggested to these representatives that an
<br />itemized statement of equipment needed and the cost involved for the purchase of said equipment
<br />be presented to them, in order, that samey may be considered in the 1960-61 budget.
<br />Alton Riley, representative for the Yhite Cross School Heger Committee, requested that the
<br />Board call a special election in the White Cross School District. The following resolutions were
<br />presented from the Chapel Hill City Administrative Unit and the Orange County Board of Education
<br />Hillsboro, N. C.
<br />February 22, 1960
<br />RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF COAMISSIONERS OF ORANGE COUNTY TO CALL AN ELECTION IN THE SMITE
<br />CROSS DISTRICT TO DETE.R!.'INE 1'WTHE.R OR NOT THIS DISTRICT SHALL BECOME A PART OF THE CHAPEL HILL
<br />CITY ADMINISTRATTIE UNIT
<br />BE IT RESOLVED:
<br />Section I, That the Board of Commissioners of Orange County be requested to call an election in the
<br />White Cross District to determine the will of the people on the issue of whether or not this
<br />district shall become a part of the Chapel Hill City Administrative Unit.
<br />Section II, That the district in which the election shall be held shall be comaosed of the
<br />following area:
<br />Beginiin;, at a concrete monument on the Orange and Alamance County line which point is established by
<br />a line running due west 212 feet from the intersection of the center line of the Mebane Oaks Highway
<br />and the County road that leads to Oak Grove Baptist Church, running thence south 35* 35, east 6,184
<br />feet crossing aforesaid Mebane Oaks Highway to the intersection of the center line of the county
<br />road that leads westwardly from Teen to said N,ebane Oaks Highway and the county road that leads to
<br />the Orange Grove Highway; thence south 83* 50w east 15,470 feet to the intersection of the center
<br />line of the Orange Grove Highway and the county road that leads eastwardly from Tear to said
<br />Orange Drove Highway; thence north 74a 101 east 8,870 feet to the intersection of the center line of
<br />the road at Dodson's Crossroads; thence north 69* 15' east 8,915 feet to a point in the center of
<br />the west side of the loop road, said point being 1,584 feet north of the first intersection going
<br />east from Dodson's Crossroads; thence along the center of said road in a southwesterly direction
<br />1,584 feet to the intersection of said road (N. C. secondary road #'512) with the paved road that
<br />leads from Dodson's Crossroads southeastwardly to Calvander (N. C. secondary #511); thence due south
<br />along the Bingham and Chapgel Hill Township line crossing N. C. secondary road N56 at Bethel Church,
<br />crossing H. C. higinay v54 just at of rates Store, crossing Antioch Road at its intersection with
<br />N. C. secondary road ,-5163, and corssing Jones Ferry Road 1.25 miles northeasterly from its inter-
<br />section with the Orange and Chatham County line, a total distance of 39,177 feet to a point on said
<br />Orange and Chatham County line; thence in a westerly direction Slam, the Chatham County line to the
<br />Alamance County line; thence in a northerly direction along the Alamuance County line to the point
<br />or place of beginning.
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