Elmer R. Dowdy

Life and Orange County connections

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1. August 11, 1944 Hillsborough's community cannery opens at the school for Black and white canners After a four-day trial run, the community cannery at the Hillsborough school opened officially on Friday, August 11, 1944, with E. P. Barnes as supervisor in place of agriculture teacher E. R. Dowdy, who had joined the Navy. The federal government supplied the equipment and the county the building, and the cannery was open to Black and white canners on Wednesdays and Fridays during the vegetable season, with meat canning by appointment in the fall. People: Grady A. Brown, Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 17, 1944, p. 1
2. July 17, 1946 The White Cross community cannery reopens The White Cross cannery, built in 1942 and shut a couple of years later for want of staff and a working boiler, reopened after farmers at a July 5 Grange rally asked for it and the county school board advanced money for a boiler. Run by Coleman A. Gentry under agriculture teacher Elmer R. Dowdy, it put up 700 to 800 cans a day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. People: Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 1, 1946, p. 1
3. Late February and early March 1947 Elmer R. Dowdy holds forestry thinning demonstrations for Schley farmers Elmer R. Dowdy, agriculture teacher at the Hillsboro school and director of its veterans' farm training program, held forestry thinning demonstrations on the Ed Wilson and H. Parker farms in the Schley neighborhood, with the district forester and the Soil Conservation Service marking the trees. About fifty farmers attended.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1947, p. 6 (Soil Conservation News)
4. March 23, 1947 Frank P. Graham tells a Hillsboro audience the atomic age needs a spiritual revolution University president Frank P. Graham spoke to nearly 500 people in the Hillsboro high school auditorium on why the atomic revolution called for a spiritual one, opening a monthly series of talks by the newly reorganized Laymen's League of the town's Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches. People: Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 27, 1947, p. 1
5. July 1949 Hillsboro High is again chosen to help train State College agriculture seniors Hillsboro High School was again selected as one of 14 schools in North Carolina for training seniors in agriculture at North Carolina State College. Its vocational agriculture teacher, Elmer R. Dowdy, went to a conference at State College to plan their course of study.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 14, 1949, p. 1 (Selected Again)
6. June 8, 1950 The Hillsboro Lions Club elects the Rev. Charles S. Hubbard president The Hillsboro Lions Club elected its Methodist pastor, Charles S. Hubbard, president for the coming year in succession to Elmer R. Dowdy, with F. E. Joyner, R. L. Mohler and Tom Bivins as vice presidents. People: Elmer R. Dowdy, Robert L. MohlerSearch the index · The News of Orange County: Hubbard To Head Hillsboro Lions (June 15, 1950, p. 1)
7. December 1950 The Junior Service League's Empty Stocking Fund brings Christmas aid to 777 people across the county The Junior Service League of Chapel Hill organized an Empty Stocking Fund to bring Christmas help to needy families throughout Orange County, with no personal solicitation and the county welfare department screening and distributing the gifts. Close to $1,000 in cash and about as much again in food baskets, clothing and toys reached 777 people, 573 of them in the northern end of the county; the News called it the county's first annual drive. People: Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 11, 1951, p. 8
8. 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
9. by January 29, 1953 Hillsboro and Lincoln high schools are named farm training centers for Korean War veterans By late January 1953 the State Board of Education had named the agriculture department of Hillsboro High School the training center for white Korean War veterans studying farming under the new G.I. bill, Public Law 550, and Lincoln High School's agriculture department the center for Black veterans, the only two approved in the county. Veterans had to enroll by March 1 or wait until October. People: Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 29, 1953, p. 1
10. April 1954 Planting begins on the old courthouse grounds with the county's Rural Progress prize money White and Black vocational agriculture students from Hillsboro and Central high schools dug the beds as shrub planting began on the old Orange County Courthouse lawn, paid for with $500 that farm leaders set aside from the County of the Year prizes. The plan was drawn by F. J. LeClair, the university's landscape architect. People: Francis Joseph LeClair, Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 15, 1954, p. 1
11. June 1955 Elmer R. Dowdy leaves Hillsboro High's agriculture department after 18 years Elmer R. Dowdy, vocational agriculture teacher at the Hillsboro school for 18 years and director of its veterans' agricultural training, resigned to become Southeastern regional manager for a California food supplement company, saying Hillsboro would become its distribution point for the region. In July the county named Clyde A. Erwin Jr., son of the late state superintendent and once Dowdy's practice teacher, to succeed him. People: Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 16, 1955, p. 1