James S. Compton

Life and Orange County connections

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1. April 1940 James S. Compton is nominated without opposition for the county board of education With three places to fill on the Orange County board of education and only three Democratic candidates, M. W. Durham, James Compton and C. W. Stanford, there was no contest and their names stayed off the primary ballot. Compton went on to serve ten years on the board. People: Moody W. Durham, Charles W. StanfordSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 19, 1940, p. 1
2. by April 24, 1942 Orange County's officers face no opposition in the Democratic primary C. A. Bivins, chairman of the county board of elections, announced that every county officer would run again without a primary opponent, so the clerk of court, sheriff, register of deeds, coroner, board of education and county commissioners would stay in office. John W. Umstead, Jr., was also unopposed for the county's seat in the state house. People: Houston J. Walker, Collier Cobb Jr., Samuel Weldon Andrews, Ben F. Wilson, Kemp S. Cate, James S. Compton, Alonzo W. Kenion, Samuel T. Latta Jr., Charles W. StanfordSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1942, p. 1
3. by May 8, 1942 The Orange County Farmers' War Planning Board directs the county's farm war programs The Weekly reported that a Farmers' War Planning Board, chaired by James S. Compton with farm agent Don S. Matheson as secretary, was directing the farm programs brought by the war and advising the neighborhood committees and the farm agencies. Its members included both men and women farm leaders. People: Don S. Matheson, James S. ComptonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1942, p. 7
4. June 26, 1945 Orange County's wartime farm transportation committee holds its last meeting After three years of weekly Tuesday night meetings in Hillsboro, the Orange County farm transportation committee met for the last time on June 26. Its seven unpaid members, chaired by James S. Compton, had parceled out tractors, trucks, tires, farm gasoline, lumber certificates, milkers, copper wire and other scarce supplies to the county's farmers so that wartime food production would not be held up. People: A. K. McAdams, James S. ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 28, 1945, p. 4
5. by March 28, 1946 Orange County organizes to save food for famine relief abroad J. S. Compton, chairman of the county AAA committee, was named Orange County manager of President Truman's emergency famine relief program and asked residents, bakers, restaurants and civic groups to save bread, fats and oils for shipment abroad. In May the county's Black home demonstration clubs pledged a can of food for each family member, and other clubs sewed clothes and quilts for European children. People: James S. ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 28, 1946, p. 1
6. July 12, 1946 Orange County tobacco growers vote for three more years of marketing quotas In the flue-cured tobacco referendum about half of the county's eligible growers voted, 1,304 for quotas for 1947 through 1949, 13 for one year and 20 against. The county's 934 tobacco farms were growing 6,336.3 allotted acres in 1946. People: A. K. McAdams, James S. ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 18, 1946, p. 1
7. May 12, 1947 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: R. H. Claytor, Grady A. Brown, James S. ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 15, 1947, p. 1
8. October 4, 1948 County commissioners and school board name a citizens' committee to study capital needs Meeting jointly in the courthouse, the county commissioners and the board of education named a committee of fifteen citizens, Black and white, men and women, from all parts of the county to study county needs calling for capital outlay, as a first step toward a bond election the next year. State Senator James Webb of Hillsboro was asked to chair it and report by the December meeting. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Hubert Robinson, James S. ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 7, 1948, p. 1
9. March 18, 1949 Zeb Burton of Cedar Grove is chosen for the county Board of Education The Orange County Democratic Executive Committee picked Zeb Burton of Cedar Grove to succeed board chairman James S. Compton, who withdrew for poor health after ten years, a choice the paper called tantamount to election by the legislature. Compton's letter of resignation urged completing the Chapel Hill high school, a consolidated school for Black children in the northern county, and a larger Aycock district. People: James S. ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 24, 1949, p. 1
10. July 23, 1949 Orange tobacco growers vote almost unanimously for quotas and Tobacco Associates Of 1,323 Orange County flue-cured growers who voted, only 15 cast a vote against either three more years of marketing quotas or the ten-cents-an-acre assessment for Tobacco Associates, the export promotion group. Cedar Grove polled the most growers, 448, and Caldwell cast 11 of the 15 votes against. People: James S. ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 28, 1949, p. 1
11. March 21, 1951 Orange sets up a County Agricultural Mobilization Committee Under a national Agriculture Department mobilization order to coordinate its agencies at the county level, Orange's committee held its first meeting on March 21 with PMA chairman J. S. Compton as chairman and A. K. McAdams as secretary. Members came from the PMA, soil conservation, extension, the Farmers Home Administration and vocational agriculture. People: Don S. Matheson, A. K. McAdams, Robert L. Mohler, James S. Compton, Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 29, 1951, p. 1
12. July 19, 1952 Orange County tobacco growers vote almost unanimously for three more years of marketing quotas In the flue-cured tobacco referendum of July 19, 1952, which the county PMA secretary called the largest vote ever cast in Orange on the question, 1,821 Orange County growers voted for marketing quotas for 1953 through 1955, 14 for one year only and 14 against, which the paper called a record 99.2 percent for quotas. They also kept the 10-cents-an-acre assessment for Tobacco Associates' export work, 1,610 to 22. People: A. K. McAdams, James S. ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 24, 1952, p. 1