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  1. Orange County turns out in record numbers for the 1950 Democratic primary About 7,000 of the county's 8,964 registered voters went to the polls, the heaviest vote on record in Orange, and gave Senator Frank P. Graham about 75 percent of their votes for the U.S. Senate. Sheriff S. T. Latta and Register of Deeds J. Ed Laws were renominated, Sim Efland unseated commissioner Ben F. Wilson, and Harry P. Breeze edged school board member Zeb C. Burton. People: Frank Porter Graham, Sim Efland, Collier Cobb Jr., Ben F. Wilson, Samuel T. Latta Jr. Place: Orange County's 16 precincts · Also named: S. T. Latta, J. Ed Laws, Harry P. Breeze, Zeb C. BurtonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 1, 1950, p. 1
  2. Ben F. Wilson attends his last meeting after 12 years as a county commissioner Ben F. Wilson of Efland ended twelve years on the Orange County Board of Commissioners, which he had joined in 1938, at its November meeting, where chairman Collier Cobb Jr. said the county had never had a better commissioner. In a statement Wilson said he had tried to serve all citizens alike and had worked for both bond issues; Sim Efland, who beat him in the spring primary, took the seat in December. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Sim Efland, Ben F. Wilson Place: Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 9, 1950, p. 1
  3. Chapel Hill voters write in Frank Graham for the Senate in the general election In a light general election swept by the Democrats, voters in Chapel Hill's two precincts wrote in 354 votes for their townsman Frank P. Graham, who had lost the spring Senate primary to Willis Smith, and the official canvass counted 389 Graham write-ins in the county. Smith carried Orange 1,959 to 934 for Republican E. L. Gavin, Sim Efland won a seat on the county commission, and the five state constitutional amendments carried by about three to one. People: Frank Porter Graham, Sim Efland Place: Chapel Hill North and South precincts; Orange County · Also named: Willis Smith, E. L. GavinSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 9, 1950, p. 1
  4. Orange Fire Protective Association elects T. C. Ellis its first president At its first general meeting, in the Hillsboro courthouse on February 26, the association formed to buy a fire truck for the country around Hillsboro elected Cedar Grove accountant T. C. Ellis president and voted to go ahead with the equipment after hearing that about 250 members had given $4,145. A southern Orange group led by S. H. Basnight asked that it be called No. 1 so a Chapel Hill-area company could be No. 2. People: Don S. Matheson, Sim Efland Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: T. C. Ellis, S. H. BasnightSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 1, 1951, p. 1
  5. County commissioners adopt a $524,164 budget and hold the $1 tax rate The commissioners gave final approval to a 1951-52 county budget of $524,164, about 21 percent above the year before, while keeping the tax rate at $1 per $100. Higher property values paid for raises for county workers, $147,000 for school buildings, microfilm equipment for the register of deeds and a larger grant to the Hyconeechee regional library. People: Sim Efland, G. Paul Carr Place: Courthouse, HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 9, 1951, p. 1
  6. Governor Kerr Scott promises $75,000 for Old Highway 10 and urges a western Orange delegation to vote for Hubert Olive Some 60 or 70 people from along Old No. 10 between West Hillsboro and Cheeks Crossing called on the Governor at his farm, where he said he would grade and gravel the road west from the Hillsboro water plant with state surplus funds and asked them to support his candidate, Olive. Signed statements from those present differed: one said Scott tied the road to their votes 'at least 12 or 15 times', while another said there was 'no trade'. People: W. Kerr Scott, Sim Efland Place: Old N.C. 10 west of Hillsborough (meeting at the Governor's farm, Hawfields) · Also named: Hubert Olive · Also mentions: Hillsboro water plantSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 22, 1952, p. 1
  7. Orange County Democrats renominate Forrest and Efland, add R. J. M. Hobbs and choose Clarence D. Jones for the school board In the primary Orange gave William B. Umstead 3,314 votes to Hubert Olive's 1,594 for governor and Congressman Carl T. Durham 3,028 to Tom Sawyer's 1,228. For three commissioner seats R. O. Forrest, Sim L. Efland and UNC professor R. J. M. Hobbs beat R. E. Murray and Roland McClamroch, keeping the board's balance between Chapel Hill and the rest of the county, and Jones of Hillsboro won the school board nomination with 2,006 votes over four Chapel Hill candidates. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, William B. Umstead, Carl T. Durham, Roland P. McClamroch, Robert O. Forrest Place: Orange County · Also named: Clarence D. Jones, Roland McClamroch, Hubert OliveSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 5, 1952, p. 1
  8. County commissioners approve, on a condition, a state road through Governor Kerr Scott's Orange County farm After a long wrangle on July 7, 1952, the commissioners approved a petition to add to the state system a 2.5-mile road off the Efland-Cedar Grove road that ran through a farm Governor W. Kerr Scott had lately bought and served four homes, provided the highway commission gave Orange 2.5 extra miles for it. Commissioner Sim Efland pressed for the road, while Chairman Collier Cobb Jr. and R. O. Forrest held that approving it outright would break the board's rule of backing the roads that served the most people. People: W. Kerr Scott, Sim Efland, Collier Cobb Jr., Robert O. Forrest Place: Off the Efland-Cedar Grove road, northern Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1952, p. 1
  9. Orange County casts a record vote and carries the Democratic ticket About 9,000 voters went to the polls in the county's 16 precincts on November 4, 1952, the biggest vote on record, after the heaviest registration ever. Adlai Stevenson carried the county over Dwight Eisenhower, who got 3,813 votes, and the Democrats won every county office; Carrboro, St. Mary's, Caldwell and Rock Springs went for Eisenhower, but only Rock Springs also favored Republicans down the ticket. People: Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson, Sim Efland, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, John W. Umstead Jr., Robert O. Forrest Place: Orange County precincts · Also named: Dwight D. EisenhowerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 6, 1952, p. 1
  10. Commissioners hire the J. M. Cleminshaw Company to revalue all county property On November 10, 1952, the county commissioners voted unanimously to have all property in Orange County revalued in 1953 by the J. M. Cleminshaw Company of Greensboro, for $44,000 to $47,900, the first full revaluation since a local board did one in 1947. Sim Efland argued the fee was too high but seconded R. O. Forrest's motion, and the board decided against a tax map. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Sim Efland, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Robert O. Forrest Place: Courthouse, HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 13, 1952, p. 1
  11. R. O. Forrest becomes chairman of the county commissioners When the new Board of County Commissioners took office on December 1, 1952, with R. J. M. Hobbs joining R. O. Forrest and Sim L. Efland, the members chose Forrest of Hillsboro as chairman in place of Collier Cobb Jr., chairman since 1942. The board reappointed Recorder's Court Judge L. J. Phipps, Solicitor John Q. LeGrand, accountant Ira L. Ward and the township tax listers. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sim Efland, Collier Cobb Jr., Luther James Phipps, Ira Ward, Robert O. Forrest Place: Courthouse, Hillsboro · Also named: John Q. LeGrandSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 4, 1952, p. 1
  12. Collier Cobb Jr. leaves the Orange County Board of Commissioners after fourteen years Elected in 1938 and chairman since December 1942, Cobb left the county board after seven terms, having missed only three meetings. The new board passed a resolution thanking him, and he pointed to the school improvement program and the start of the new courthouse. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sim Efland Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 4, 1952, p. 1
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  1. Rural citizens petition for five-member county boards At a special meeting of the county commissioners on January 21, 1953, a delegation of rural residents brought petitions with about 940 names asking that the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education each be enlarged from three to five members, no two from one township, with staggered four-year terms and a limit on consecutive terms. Commissioner Sim Efland backed the plan; Robert O. Forrest and R. J. M. Hobbs had reservations. People: Sim Efland, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Reid Roberts, Robert O. Forrest Place: Courthouse, HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 22, 1953, p. 1
  2. Commissioners ask the legislature for a five-member board elected at large After a heated public hearing on February 2, 1953, the county commissioners voted 2 to 1 to ask the General Assembly to enlarge the board from three to five members elected at large for staggered four-year terms, without the one-per-township rule and term limit rural petitioners wanted. A Chapel Hill group brought a 330-name petition against those limits, backed by the League of Women Voters. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sim Efland, Paul W. Wager, Luther James Phipps, Reid Roberts, Robert O. Forrest Place: Courthouse, HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 5, 1953, p. 1
  3. County commissioners vote 2 to 1 to issue $80,000 in bonds to finish the new courthouse Chairman R. O. Forrest and R. J. M. Hobbs voted to issue the bonds without a popular vote, as debt retired the year before allowed, while Sim Efland held out for paying as the county went; ceilings, plastering, lighting, heating and plumbing had been cut from the original contracts to keep them within the $250,000 voted in 1949. The board refused the school board's request for $65,000 to finish the Hillsboro elementary school, and when no one objected at the October 5 hearing it passed the bond order. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sim Efland, Robert O. Forrest Place: Courthouse, HillsboroughThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 27, 1953, p. 1
  4. County commissioners order $65,000 in bonds to build the Cameron Park School in Hillsboro With no one appearing to protest at a public hearing, the commissioners unanimously passed an order for $65,000 in school building bonds, issued without a vote of the people, for the Cameron Park Elementary School on St. Mary's Road. Hillsboro's crowded school was teaching classes in its auditorium, gym, halls and condemned basement rooms. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sim Efland, Robert O. Forrest Place: Courthouse, Hillsboro · Also mentions: St. Mary's RoadThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 6, 1954, p. 1
  5. Orange Democrats nominate four men for the newly enlarged five-member Board of Commissioners In the Democratic primary, the first election for a five-member county board, Edwin S. Lanier, Henry S. Walker, R. J. M. Hobbs and Sim L. Efland won majorities among twelve candidates, with Dwight M. Ray narrowly ahead of H. Broadwell for the fifth place. In the sheriff's race to succeed the retiring Sam T. Latta Jr., Odell H. Clayton led with 2,434 votes but fell short of a majority, and Frank C. Maddry, voting from a hospital bed, called a runoff. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sim Efland, Dwight Ray, Odell H. Clayton Place: Orange County · Also named: Henry S. Walker, Frank C. Maddry, Sam T. Latta Jr., H. BroadwellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 3, 1954, p. 1
  6. County commissioners again refuse more money for the welfare deficit Meeting with county welfare officials and R. Eugene Brown of the State Department of Public Welfare, the commissioners again refused to appropriate more for the three main public assistance programs, which faced a deficit of about $4,000 by the end of the fiscal year. Brown agreed to seek more state money for administration so county funds could be moved to assistance, and Chairman R. O. Forrest said there was no place to get the money. People: Sim Efland, Robert O. Forrest Place: Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: R. Eugene BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 16, 1954, p. 1
  7. Orange County voters elect an enlarged five-member board of commissioners Under a local act of the last General Assembly enlarging the board from three members to five with staggered terms, voters gave four-year terms to the top three, Dwight M. Ray (3,100 votes), Edwin S. Lanier (3,098) and Henry S. Walker (3,090), and two-year terms to incumbents R. J. M. Hobbs and Sim L. Efland. Democrats won every county race in a light vote, Odell H. Clayton for sheriff and Betty June Hayes for register of deeds among them, and the county voted against the amendment limiting each county to one state senator. People: Dwight Ray, Edwin Sidney Lanier, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sim Efland, Odell H. Clayton Place: Polling places countywide; canvass at the courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Henry S. Walker, Betty June HayesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 11, 1954, p. 1
  8. The county's new five-member board of commissioners takes office and elects R. J. M. Hobbs chairman The first five-member board took office, elected R. J. M. Hobbs chairman by secret ballot, reappointed the county's appointive officers, hired Chapel Hill attorney Emory B. Denny Jr. to collect taxes more than five years overdue, and told court officials that the $7,000 to $8,000 owed to the county court in unpaid fines and costs was very disturbing. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Edwin Sidney Lanier, Dwight Ray, Sim Efland Place: Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Emory B. Denny Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 9, 1954, p. 1
  9. The county commissioners name Walter Wren civil defense director The Board of County Commissioners appointed Walter G. Wren civil defense director for Orange County, a post left empty for months after K. L. Mohler left. Commissioners Edwin S. Lanier and Sim Efland said the job should cover all emergencies, not only enemy attack. In early February Wren set up an administrative board of division directors that held its first meeting on February 3. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Sim Efland Place: Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Walter G. WrenSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 6, 1955, p. 1
  10. County commissioners vote more money for Aid to Dependent Children after weeks of dispute Meeting in Chapel Hill, the county commissioners amended the 1954-55 budget to add $2,106.10 to the welfare department's Aid to Dependent Children program, which drew $14,291.90 more in state and federal money for the rest of the fiscal year. The vote was 3 to 1, with Sim Efland holding to the original budget. Earlier in April the board had clashed with acting welfare superintendent Jane Parker over Venetian blinds and secrecy, and had been told the April checks used up the ADC fund. People: Sim Efland, Edwin Sidney Lanier, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Jane ParkerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 28, 1955, p. 1
  11. County commissioners inspect the Chapel Hill schools, including the site for a Lincoln High addition The county commissioners toured the schools of the Chapel Hill district to see their condition before acting on the Chapel Hill school board's budget requests. At Lincoln High School they looked over the site of a proposed addition with principal C. A. McDougle. The board had made a similar tour of the county schools some weeks earlier. People: Charles A. McDougle, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Edwin Sidney Lanier, Sim Efland, Dwight Ray Place: Lincoln High School and other Chapel Hill schools, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill school, Lincoln High SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 19, 1955, p. 3
  12. County commissioners hold the 62-cent tax rate and find money for the Lincoln gymtorium The commissioners tentatively approved a 1955-56 budget of $869,720.50 at an unchanged 62-cent rate, denied all salary raises until a job classification system was adopted, set the Chapel Hill district supplement at 15 cents, and voted $34,000 in bonds, issued without a public vote and split evenly between the county and Chapel Hill school units. The Chapel Hill share brought the long-delayed gymtorium addition at Lincoln within reach of a call for bids, with commissioner Edwin S. Lanier, who days earlier had fought it, leading the fight for Chapel Hill's request. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Dwight Ray, Sim Efland, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner) Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Chapel Hill schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 7, 1955, p. 1
  13. The county has the Institute of Government classify its jobs and holds raises until it is done At a joint session the commissioners refused the welfare board's plea for $1,083.60 in raises and car allowances, even after two caseworkers and a secretary resigned for better-paid Durham County jobs, because they had frozen salaries until a job survey was done. Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs said the Institute of Government would start classifying every county job the next day and finish by September 1, and the board later agreed to make any changes retroactive to August 1. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Alexander Heard, Edwin Sidney Lanier, Sim Efland Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 28, 1955, p. 1
  14. Orange County Democrats renominate R. J. M. Hobbs and Carl Durham and leave two races for a runoff Commission chairman R. J. M. Hobbs led the commissioners' race with 2,821 votes, John Hawkins of Cedar Grove beat Vernon Truesdale for the school board seat, and Congressman Carl Durham carried the county 4,150 to 1,107 over Ralph Scott. Donald Stanford (2,199) led Sim Efland (1,879) for the second commission seat and John T. Manning (2,025) led Edwin S. Lanier (1,773) and Edwin J. Hamlin (1,362) for the State Senate, but neither leader had a majority. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Carl T. Durham, Sim Efland, Edwin Sidney Lanier Place: Orange County polling places · Also named: John Hawkins, Vernon Truesdale, Ralph H. Scott, Donald M. Stanford, John T. Manning, Edwin J. Hamlin, Ralph Scott, Donald StanfordSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 31, 1956, p. 1
  15. County commissioners ask the legislature to allow no more than two commissioners from one township On Commissioner Sim Efland's motion the board voted 4 to 0, with Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs abstaining after failing to get a public hearing first, to back a bill limiting the five-member board to two members from any township; banker W. E. Thompson, Representative John W. Umstead and others had urged it that day. After protests from Roland McClamroch Sr. and the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters, which called the change 'tantamount to disenfranchisement' of part of the county, the board set a public hearing for September 10 and later moved it to October 8. People: Sim Efland, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Roland P. McClamroch, W. E. Thompson, John W. Umstead Jr. Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Roland McClamroch Sr., John W. UmsteadThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1956, p. 1
  16. Edwin S. Lanier and Donald Stanford win the Democratic runoffs In the second primary County Commissioner Edwin S. Lanier beat John T. Manning for the State Senate nomination, 2,211 to 1,835, carrying 14 of the 19 precincts, and Donald Stanford unseated Commissioner Sim Efland, 2,072 to 1,864. More than 4,000 voters turned out; Stanford carried nine precincts, none north of Chapel Hill and Bingham townships. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Sim Efland Place: Orange County polling places · Also named: John T. Manning, Donald M. Stanford, Donald Stanford · Also mentions: Chapel Hill and Bingham townshipsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 28, 1956, p. 1
  17. Conservative Democrats organize the Orange Committee According to member Sim Efland, a former county commissioner, the Orange Committee was organized in late 1975 by conservative Democrats to keep long-time residents' say in county government against what they saw as outsiders, students above all. Led by Hillsborough attorney Lucius Cheshire, it claimed about 200 members across the county and raised almost $4,800 in 1976 for two commission candidates who lost the Democratic primary. People: Sim Efland Place: Orange County (the group was based in Hillsborough) · Also named: Lucius CheshireSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 14, 1978, p. 1

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Efland Family History

Richardson, Linda Efland · 2001 · L.E. Richardson

Linda Efland Richardson's history of the Efland family, whose name the Orange County community of Efland carries. The lineage runs from Bernhard Iffelandt through the emigrant Johan Davitt Ifflandt and Peter Iffland, who took the Efland spelling, down to the twentieth century and Sim Efland (1913-2000). Published by the author in Kernersville in 2001, 84 pages with illustrations, portraits and facsimiles.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Efland, Sim, 1913-2000.

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