John P. Ballard

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1. November 1943 Black 4-H club members show their own beef heifers at the Hillsborough calf show Five Black 4-H club members in Orange County who owned grade Hereford heifers entered them in the calf show at Hillsborough in November 1943, and their heifers took second prize. M. C. Burt, county agent for Black farm families, wrote that this put them among the first Black 4-H members in North Carolina to own grade beef heifers and made them the first to show beef heifers at a county show; he credited the county agent's office, the Farmers Mutual Exchange and the Farm Security Administration with placing the animals. People: Don S. Matheson, John P. Ballard, Moses Cimuel BurtSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 8, 1944, p. 7
2. February 24, 1944 Orange County FSA honors 15 Black farm ownership borrowers The county Farm Security Administration office awarded certificates of merit to 15 Black farm ownership borrowers, former tenants it had helped to buy farms. By March 1944 the county had 22 approved tenant-purchase loans. People: Robert Hughes, John P. BallardThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 24, 1944, p. 1
3. October 7, 1944 Fifteen Black farm ownership borrowers meet at the FSA office in Hillsboro Fifteen Black farm ownership borrowers of the Farm Security Administration met in the agency's Hillsboro office, where county supervisor John P. Ballard gave them advice on their farm needs and invited them to speak.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): "15 Negroes Meet at FSA Office,", October 12, 1944, p. 1
4. January 20, 1945 John Arch Parker becomes the first Orange farmer to pay off a tenant-purchase farm FSA committee chairman Robert E. Hughes handed John Arch Parker, a Black farmer of Hillsboro Route 2, the deed of trust to his 145-acre farm marked paid in full, six years after his 1938 loan of $3,915 under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, which had been set to run forty years. Parker, on relief about 1934, paid it off largely from crop income and a $1,500 timber sale. People: John P. BallardThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 25, 1945, p. 1
5. July 1945 FSA supervisor John P. Ballard transfers to the Neuse River Soil Conservation District office in Hillsboro John P. Ballard, the Farm Security Administration's supervisor in Orange County, announced his transfer to soil conservation work with the Hillsboro office of the Neuse River Soil Conservation District, working with H. E. Singletary. No successor at the FSA had yet been named.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): "John P. Ballard,", July 26, 1945, p. 1
6. January 1946 John P. Ballard buys the late J. L. Lockhart's insurance agency in Hillsboro John P. Ballard, then working part time at the Soil Conservation office, bought the insurance agency of the late J. L. Lockhart from his estate and planned to sell all lines of insurance from an office in Hillsboro.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): John P. Ballard buys Lockhart insurance agency, January 24, 1946, p. 1
7. August 30, 1953 Hillsboro parents organize a Parent Traffic Safety Club after teenage traffic deaths About 100 people became charter members at a mass meeting in the Hillsboro school auditorium, called after a series of fatal accidents involving teenagers in the area, and elected G. Paul Carr president. The club adopted a card system for reporting dangerous driving and parent-child safety pledges, and endorsed Principal G. A. Brown's request that parents forbid students to drive to school. People: G. Paul Carr, John P. Ballard, Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 3, 1953, p. 1
8. February 4, 1957 Thirteen men organize the Hillsboro Investment Club Thirteen Hillsborough men met in the board room of the old courthouse and organized the Hillsboro Investment Club, an affiliate of the National Association of Investment Clubs, to study investing and invest surplus funds together, electing Ira Ward president, G. P. Carr vice president, John P. Ballard secretary and Ted Smith treasurer. People: Ira Ward, G. Paul Carr, John P. BallardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 7, 1957, p. 1
9. May 7, 1957 Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston and seats John P. Ballard on the town board In a town election with 195 voters, insurance man John P. Ballard won a seat on the Board of Commissioners in place of F. E. Joyner, while Mayor Ben G. Johnston, unopposed, and commissioners John W. Dickson, V. M. Forrest, Arthur W. Crabtree and R. J. Smith Sr. were returned. People: Remus J. Smith Sr., John P. BallardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 9, 1957, p. 1
10. August 5, 1958 Hillsboro's town board adopts leave and personnel rules for town employees The Hillsboro Board of Commissioners set up personnel records and rules giving salaried employees two weeks of annual leave and five days of sick leave a year, naming the town's holidays and ending overtime pay for salaried staff, after its finance committee reported abuses in the past. People: John P. Ballard, Remus J. Smith Sr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 7, 1958, p. 1