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R. H. Claytor

Robert Hume Claytor (1884–1949), a New Hope native and 1911 UNC graduate, served thirty years as superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1917. He began merging the small rural schools into larger ones, organized the county's school bus service and secured federal money for home economics and vocational agriculture classes.

Source: DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), pp. 124-126

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StorylineOrange County's welfare superintendents, 1919–19611919–1961 · 7 events · Orange County's welfare department began under the school superintendent and worked for years with little staff. After a 1919 law required every county to have a welfare board, the commissioners and school board made school superintendent R. H. Claytor the first welfare superintendent. George H. Lawrence became the first full-time superintendent in 1928 and for years worked with only a part-time clerk. In 1954 Annie Strowd resigned weeks after the commissioners refused her department's requests for pay raises and a casework supervisor. Her successor, Jane Parker, left in 1956 for a Durham agency and returned in 1957 after the commissioners raised the salary. She retired in 1961, and Mrs. Creighton Bunn was superintendent by March. StorylineConsolidating the rural schools and hauling the children, 1919–19261919–1926 · 32 events · Between 1919 and 1926 Orange County closed many of its small country schools and began carrying the children by truck and bus to larger ones. The Chapel Hill Graded School had a Ford truck for country children by 1919, and in 1923 superintendent Claytor began folding the county's one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones. The county board set an order for new buildings at Efland, White Cross, the Orange County Training School, Orange Grove and Caldwell, ordered its first school buses in 1924 and sold the emptied schoolhouses. By April 1926 the county had put up seven brick consolidated schools since 1922, including the Orange County Training School for Black pupils, and ran 24 buses. StorylineCounty school finance and the special tax districts, 1923–19241923–1924 · 5 events · In 1923 Orange County began its first round of school consolidation and, for the first time by Lefler and Wager's account, funded its school deficits with bonds. Robert Hume Claytor folded one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones and sought local tax elections. In August the commissioners voted six percent bonds to pay debts the Board of Education had run up to keep a six-month term, and called school tax elections in the Carrboro district and part of Cedar Grove Township. In April 1924 the county board moved building money to Efland, which had a local tax, an eight-month term and a paved road for school trucks, and put it first in the building order. StorylineThe county superintendency passes from Claytor to Proffit, 1946–19471946–1949 · 6 events · In August 1946 Glenn T. Proffit became assistant to R. H. Claytor, Orange County's school superintendent since 1917. On May 5, 1947 the Board of Education elected Proffit superintendent and kept Claytor as his assistant; after teachers petitioned for Claytor's reinstatement, the board met until midnight on May 12 and stood by its choice. Proffit took over that July and served until 1951, and Claytor, superintendent emeritus, died in February 1949.

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  1. Samuel Paul Lockhart becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools Lockhart, a Bingham and UNC student from the New Hope area, took over the county schools in August 1911 and set to work with the board on new schoolhouses. He served until his cousin R. H. Claytor defeated him in 1917. People: R. H. Claytor, Samuel Paul Lockhart Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 99
  2. Claytor's first report counts 42 one-teacher schools in Orange County Claytor's 1917 report to the state listed 42 one-teacher schools, 19 white and 23 Black, with 2,569 white and 1,259 Black pupils. Nineteen Black schools had only benches and no desks. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 124
  3. The county board of education elects R. H. Claytor superintendent of the Orange County schools Meeting in called session at Hillsborough on Monday, September 10, 1917, the county Board of Education elected R. H. Claytor county school superintendent; Mr. Foust, chosen earlier to succeed Mr. Lockhart, had not accepted. Claytor, an Orange County man and a graduate of the university, had been principal of the high school at Stem in Granville County for two years. He served until July 1947, and merging the small rural schools was one of his first goals. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange CountyLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 141-142 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), September 13, 1917, p. 5
  4. Ida Lloyd becomes the first clerk in the county superintendent's office Ida Lloyd was hired as office assistant to the county superintendent in 1918, the first to hold the post, and worked under R. H. Claytor, Glenn Proffit and G. P. Carr for about forty-two years. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Ida LloydSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), pp. 80, 84
  5. Orange County organizes for the United War Work drive A court house meeting on September 19, 1918, elected N. W. Brown county chairman for the United War Work drive. The county raised $7,485; Carrboro gave $1,240 on a $500 quota, and Hillsborough Township, under Elizabeth Cornelius, gave $2,300. People: R. H. Claytor, N. W. Brown, H. Winder Webb, H. S. Bradshaw Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Elizabeth CorneliusSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 72
  6. Edgar Wallace Knight becomes assistant superintendent of Orange County schools In April 1919, the year he joined the UNC faculty, Knight was hired as assistant to county superintendent R. H. Claytor; the board agreed to pay him $40 a month, though later biographies describe the post as unpaid. He was still styled assistant superintendent of schools in 1923. People: Edgar Wallace Knight, R. H. Claytor Place: Orange CountySearch the index · UNC Libraries: Edgar Wallace Knight Papers, 1915-1953 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), October 13, 1921, p. 1
  7. Orange County raises $800 for the Salvation Army In a Salvation Army campaign May 16-26, 1919, South Orange under W. S. Roberson raised $300 and North Orange under R. H. Claytor raised $500.01 on a $500 quota. People: W. S. Roberson, R. H. Claytor Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 74
  8. School superintendent R. H. Claytor becomes the county's first welfare superintendent After the 1919 law required every county to have a welfare board, the commissioners and school board jointly elected Claytor to the added post at $600 a year, half from county and half from school funds. Wiley B. Sanders took the job part time on July 5, 1920, for six months. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange County · Also named: Wiley B. SandersSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 210
  9. Ida Lloyd's pay as the superintendent's office assistant rises to $40 a month Miss Ida Lloyd, Superintendent Claytor's office assistant since 1918, received her first raise in 1920, which brought her salary to $40 a month. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange County · Also named: Ida LloydSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 80
  10. R. H. Claytor serves as an elder of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church The school superintendent R. H. Claytor was an elder of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church for twenty-nine years until his death in February 1949. The session's memorial resolution, read to the congregation on March 6, 1949, praised his respect for others "without concern for color, class, or creed." Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsboro Presbyterian ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 17, 1949, p. 2 ("Various Groups Pass Tributes To R. H. Claytor")
  11. Orange County's rural teachers and school committeemen hold a conference at Hillsborough Nearly all of Orange County's rural white teachers and many school committeemen attended a two-day conference at Hillsborough under County Superintendent R. H. Claytor and the University's School of Education and Extension Division. The county Board of Education's steps toward supervising the rural schools the next week were credited largely to it. People: R. H. Claytor Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), October 13, 1921, p. 1
  12. The county board agrees to build a new school at Cedar Grove On August 11, 1922, under superintendent Claytor, the county board agreed to build a modern school at Cedar Grove once state building-fund money came. The building was accepted in January 1924 and named Aycock School. Carrboro's new school, planned under the same program, was already going up in 1921. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Aycock SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 125
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  1. Orange County begins merging its one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones Claytor started the county's first round of consolidation in 1923, folding small schools into larger ones and seeking local tax elections, with a budget request of $92,100. Efland, Aycock and Hillsborough were to carry grades one through eleven and the rest grades one through seven. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 125
  2. Chapel Hill opens its Near East Relief drive Chapel Hill's 1923 Near East Relief campaign began on Monday, February 19, with an address in Gerrard Hall by Dr. Yonan of Richmond, an Assyrian who had headed the Presbyterian mission college at Tabriz, Persia, and Armenian songs by Dr. Emurian of Norfolk. County chairman R. H. Claytor was raising Orange County's quota of $1,020 to support 17 orphans in the North Carolina orphanages at Trebizond, and J. S. Holmes led the work in Chapel Hill. People: R. H. Claytor, John Simcox Holmes Place: Gerrard Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), February 22, 1923, p. 5
  3. The Orange County schools hold their county commencement at Hillsboro More than 3,000 children, teachers and parents from seven townships came to Hillsboro, many in borrowed cars and straw-lined trucks. The schoolchildren paraded with banners from the new high school to the courthouse, sang under Daniel L. Sheldon, heard Judge W. M. Bond, and held literary and athletic contests in the school, the courthouse and churches. People: Samuel Mallett Gattis, R. H. Claytor Place: Courthouse lawn and school, Hillsboro · Also named: W. M. Bond, Daniel L. SheldonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 24, 1923, p. 1
  4. Cedar Grove opens the consolidated Aycock School Cedar Grove opened its new brick consolidated school, named for Charles B. Aycock, before a crowd from all over the county; 150 children were already enrolled, with more expected as smaller schools were closed. The $30,000 building had central heat and shower baths; County Superintendent R. H. Claytor presided and E. W. Knight of the University gave the address. People: R. H. Claytor, Edgar Wallace Knight, Mack P. Efland Place: Aycock School, Cedar GroveThe Chapel Hill Weekly, February 7, 1924, p. 1
  5. The county board orders its first school buses The board ordered ten trucks, six GMC, two Reo and two Chevrolet, with bus bodies from the Carolina Body Company of Greensboro, to carry children to the new consolidated schools. At an August hearing in the courthouse some residents urged the commissioners not to sign the notes for the buses, but no action was taken against them. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 71
  6. Auditors report irregular and partly illegal bookkeeping by the county board of education A. Lee Rawlings and Company, hired by the county commissioners, reported that the Orange County board of education had spent about $527,000 in two years without systematic records, kept its minutes on loose sheets, owed about $362,000, and handled some money in ways the auditors called illegal, among them an unrecorded bank account and tuition checks cashed at Durham motor dealers. County superintendent R. H. Claytor answered in the Weekly that much of the debt was district bonds the voters had approved and that he had accounted for every cent. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange County board of education, HillsboroughThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1924, p. 1
  7. The county lets the contract for the new Caldwell school in Little River Township The contract for a new school at Caldwell in Little River Township, with eight classrooms and a 300-seat auditorium at a cost of about $20,000, went to B. C. Blanchard of Burlington. County superintendent R. H. Claytor said it was the sixth and last school under the building plan begun with state loans in 1922, after Murphey, White Cross, Orange Grove, Efland and Aycock, and that the county's 16 buses carried children among its roughly 6,000 pupils. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Caldwell, Little River Township · Also named: B. C. BlanchardThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 23, 1925, p. 1
  8. The Orange County Civic Association looks into the cost of school buses Meeting at the Hillsboro court house, the civic association heard that hauling children to consolidated schools cost $2.40 a month a pupil in 1926-27 and that the county had paid $37,828 for buses since 1922. Members split between cutting bus service and improving roads that wrecked the buses. People: R. H. Claytor, Eugene Cunningham Branson, Grady A. Brown Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 16, 1928, p. 1
  9. County board of health names Dr. S. A. Nathan quarantine officer Meeting in Hillsborough in the first week of January 1929, the Orange County board of health appointed Dr. S. A. Nathan, the county coroner and Chapel Hill health officer, as county quarantine officer. It planned to choose a county health officer and discuss a county hospital to replace the county home. People: S. A. Nathan, R. H. Claytor, John Hodge Hanner Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 18, 1929, p. 1
  10. Orange County consolidates most of its small white schools After a county survey by the Board of Education and Superintendent Claytor, most small white schools were merged by 1930, with buses provided. As late as 1925 the county still had 21 one-teacher white schools and several one-teacher Black schools. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange CountyLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 142
  11. Orange County teachers meet in Hillsboro as the county opens the year with 15 schools At the annual conference of Orange County teachers in Hillsboro, Superintendent R. H. Claytor reported that consolidation had brought the county down to 15 schools, only four of them one-teacher schools, and that the teaching force was twelve smaller. Supervisor Mary Hyman said the schools had risen in four years from 15 months below the national standard to 2 months below. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Mary HymanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1931, p. 3
  12. The Orange County Board of Health asks that public gatherings stop during the infantile paralysis epidemic Meeting in Hillsboro, the county board of health resolved that picnics, homecomings, camp meetings and other gatherings drawing people from outside a community be discontinued while the epidemic lasted, and had the resolution posted at post offices. It left closing churches and theatres to each community and announced a county campaign against typhoid. People: R. H. Claytor Place: HillsboroThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 5, 1935, p. 3
  13. County school board calls for bids on a two-room addition to the Hillsboro Black school The Orange County Board of Education, M. W. Durham chairman, advertised for sealed bids, to be opened July 27, for a general and a heating contract on a two-room addition to the northeast wing of the Hillsboro school for Black pupils. The award was to depend on funds being made available and on the commissioners' approval. People: R. H. Claytor, Moody W. Durham Place: Hillsboro school for Black pupils, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsboro schoolThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 12, 1940, p. 5
  14. Orange County schools plan short wartime days as they move to a nine-month term Superintendent R. H. Claytor announced that most county schools, opening September 1, would run from 8:15 to 1:15 for the first and probably the last six weeks so children could help on farms, and that holidays would be cut as the county changed from an eight-month to a nine-month year. Carrboro and White Cross, feeder schools for Chapel Hill, would open September 16 on Chapel Hill's schedule. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange County schoolsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1943, p. 1
  15. The county school board lets Orange Grove pupils stay in their old school building On Monday, May 1, 1944, the Orange County Board of Education granted the request of Orange Grove school patrons, who had met on April 28, that their children keep attending school in the old Orange Grove building, built in 1900, rather than be sent to schools elsewhere in the county. The board also told Superintendent R. H. Claytor to prepare the next year's school budget. People: R. H. Claytor, John W. Umstead Jr. Place: Orange Grove School, Orange GroveSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 11, 1944, p. 1
  16. Orange County schools stay closed until after September 18 during the polio epidemic On the recommendation of the State Health Officer and Governor Broughton, the State Board of Education kept all North Carolina public schools closed until after September 18 because of the infantile paralysis epidemic. Orange County schools, which Superintendent R. H. Claytor had planned to open September 14, were held back with the rest, though teachers still reported on September 14. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange CountyThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 24, 1944, p. 1 ("Schools to Remain Closed Until After September 18 Due to Polio")
  17. The Orange County Council of Churches hires a Bible teacher for four county schools With superintendent R. H. Claytor's approval, the Orange County Council of Churches engaged Florence E. Root, a former missionary to Korea, to teach elective Bible courses at the Hillsboro, Aycock, Efland and Caldwell schools, and asked every church to give 40 cents a member to pay for them. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Hillsboro, Aycock, Efland and Caldwell schools · Also named: Florence E. RootSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 23, 1944, p. 1
  18. County boards back a first wing for a new Chapel Hill High School Meeting with the board of education and Dr. R. E. Coker of the Chapel Hill school board, the county commissioners favored starting a high school building in Chapel Hill to replace the one lost to fire, beginning with a single wing of about twelve classrooms. The same day the commissioners reappointed G. W. Ray county accountant and the board of education kept R. H. Claytor as superintendent for two more years. People: R. E. Coker, R. H. Claytor, Gilbert W. Ray Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Chapel Hill school boardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 5, 1945, p. 1
  19. Efland High's senior class gives the school a plaque for former students who died in the war At Efland High School's class day exercises on May 31, the senior class presented the school a plaque bearing the names of boys who had attended Efland school and died in the service of their country; principal Winona Williams accepted it. Commencement closed the next night with an address by Dr. A. M. Proctor of Duke University and diplomas for twelve seniors. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Efland High School, Efland · Also named: Winona Williams, A. M. ProctorSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1945, p. 8
  20. County boards authorize contracts for a new Chapel Hill High School building Meeting in Hillsborough, the County Board of Education and the county commissioners accepted the low bids and let the Chapel Hill school board sign contracts for a new high school building. It was planned as a two-story classroom wing with a basement. People: R. H. Claytor, R. E. Coker Place: Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Chapel Hill school boardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 6, 1945, p. 1
  21. Orange County's white high schools hold no graduation as the twelfth grade begins Because the state was adding a twelfth grade, none of Orange County's white high schools had a graduating class in 1946; Superintendent R. H. Claytor said no formal exercises would be held, and Aycock held only eighth-grade exercises and an eleventh-grade play. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange County schoolsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 23, 1946, p. 1
  22. Caldwell loses its high school when the state allots it no teachers After the State Board of Education left the three-teacher high schools at Caldwell and Efland out of its teacher allotment, the county board of education took no action to keep them, and their high school pupils were to be bused to other schools while the elementary grades stayed. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Caldwell School, CaldwellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 6, 1946, p. 1
  23. G. T. Proffit becomes assistant superintendent of the Orange County schools Glenn T. Proffit, a UNC graduate who had spent twelve years in the Harnett County schools as district principal and acting superintendent, took up the new post of assistant to Orange County school superintendent R. H. Claytor. People: Glenn T. Proffit, R. H. Claytor Place: Orange County schools office, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 15, 1946, p. 1
  24. Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Fryer give a Baldwin organ to the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church During Irving Birdseye's pastorate the Fryers gave a new Baldwin organ in memory of R. H. Claytor Sr., and also carpeted the sanctuary's pulpit and aisles. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church, Hillsborough · Also named: W. V. Fryer, R. H. Claytor Sr.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 136
  25. Orange County's March of Dimes raises nearly $5,000, well past its goal The county's 1947 polio fund drive, led by E. Carrington Smith of Chapel Hill and Bonner D. Sawyer of Hillsboro with the help of the schools, collected $4,991.81 against a goal of $3,500. The county polio chapter reported that in the past year it had spent $500 on direct aid and promised hospitals it would guarantee costs so polio patients could be admitted without delay. People: R. H. Claytor, Bonner D. Sawyer, E. Carrington Smith Place: Orange CountyThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1947, p. 1
  26. County school lunches rise from 15 cents to 20 or 25 cents as federal aid runs short Superintendent R. H. Claytor raised lunch prices in the county schools from 15 cents to 20 or 25 cents, because federal school lunch money, which had paid 9 cents a meal and about $2,000 a month in the county, would not last past March 1 as more schools across the state joined the program. Chapel Hill high school said its 20-cent lunch would go to 30 cents. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange County school lunchrooms · Also mentions: Chapel Hill high schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 20, 1947, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1947, p. 2
  27. State inspectors condemn the old part of the Caldwell School building State building inspectors condemned the 1924 section of the Caldwell School, six rooms and an auditorium once used for the high school, and ordered it torn down, Superintendent R. H. Claytor announced. A four-room addition of about six years earlier stayed in use for the elementary grades, and part of the proposed $810,000 school bond was meant to replace the old wing with an auditorium. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Caldwell School, CaldwellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 1, 1947, p. 1
  28. The county board elects Glenn T. Proffit superintendent and keeps R. H. Claytor as his assistant Meeting on May 5, 1947, the Board of Education elected G. T. Proffit superintendent and R. H. Claytor his assistant, offering $2,400 a year part time or $3,000 full time; Claytor chose full time. The board passed a resolution of appreciation for his thirty years with the county schools. People: Glenn T. Proffit Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  29. The county school board stands by Glenn T. Proffit after a petition for R. H. Claytor Meeting until midnight at Proffit's request, the Orange County board of education reaffirmed its May 5 choice of Glenn T. Proffit as superintendent, with R. H. Claytor kept as adviser, after a teachers' petition to reinstate Claytor had circulated and 'Down with Proffit' posters had gone up on Hillsboro streets. Claytor asked the teachers not to present the petition, and the board published its own account disputing his statement about his 1946 resignation. People: Glenn T. Proffit, R. H. Claytor, Grady A. Brown, James S. Compton Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 15, 1947, p. 1
  30. The county school board sells the closed Orange Grove and Flat Rock school properties The Orange County board of education approved the sale of the Orange Grove school site to the trustees of Cane Creek Baptist Church and of the Flat Rock school building and grounds to a private buyer, and rejected the bid on the former Wardsville school for Black children. The board also adopted a resolution honoring R. H. Claytor's thirty years as superintendent. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange Grove school site, Bingham Township; Flat Rock school site, Eno Township · Also mentions: Cane Creek Baptist ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1947, p. 1
  31. Glenn T. Proffit succeeds R. H. Claytor as Orange County school superintendent Glenn Theodor Proffit, a Wilkes County native who had led high schools in Clinton, Harnett County and Dunn, took over the county schools in July 1947 and served until 1951. People: R. H. Claytor, Glenn T. Proffit Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 99
  32. Orange County loads its boxcar of farm goods for the CROP Friendship Train Orange County finished loading its car of grain and farm products for overseas relief, more than 11,000 pounds gathered from the county's farms by church and school groups, along with $270 given through the churches. R. H. Claytor headed the county drive for the Christian Rural Overseas Program. People: R. H. Claytor, Robert L. Mohler, Irving E. Birdseye Place: HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 23, 1948, p. 1
  33. R. H. Claytor, county school superintendent for 30 years, dies Robert Hume Claytor, 64, superintendent of the Orange County schools from September 1917 to July 1947 and superintendent emeritus afterward, died suddenly of a heart attack at his Hillsboro home. He was buried in the New Hope church cemetery, and the county Board of Education adopted a resolution in his honor on March 7. Place: HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 24, 1949, p. 1

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  1. County commissioners name R. Hume Claytor to the county's new post of dog warden Under a new local dog-control act, the county commissioners offered R. Hume Claytor the new post of dog warden at $3,000 a year with a county truck, and he accepted the following week. The act made the warden the county's rabies control officer, put a county dog pound under his care and ended the county's payment of claims for stock killed by stray dogs. Place: Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 12, 1953, p. 1
  2. Cashe Boggs becomes Orange County dog warden The county commissioners named Cashe Boggs of Hillsboro dog warden, succeeding R. Hume Claytor, who had set up the county's dog control program three years before and moved on to sanitary inspection with the district health department. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Courthouse, Hillsboro · Also named: Cashe BoggsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 22, 1956, p. 1

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