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Robert O. Forrest

Robert O. Forrest was for many years chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party and a former member and chairman of the county board of commissioners, and with his brothers he ran Eno Chevrolet and Forrest Brothers Grocery in Hillsboro for 32 years. He died at his Hillsboro home in October 1958, aged 54.

Source: DigitalNC: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 30, 1958, p. 1 (R. O. Forrest, County Political Leader, Dies)

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  1. Orange Democrats nominate Carl Durham, J. Ed Laws and Ben F. Wilson for county commissioners In a primary fought between two informal slates, Ben F. Wilson (2,213), Carl T. Durham (2,201) and J. Ed Laws (2,071) won the three Democratic nominations for the Orange County board, defeating incumbent Dr. S. A. Nathan (1,492), Robert O. Forrest (1,360), T. J. Wilkerson (1,040) and James H. Whitted (186). People: Carl T. Durham, S. A. Nathan, Ben F. Wilson, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 10, 1938, p. 1
  2. Pastor S. F. Nicks leads a $12,000 addition of rooms to the Hillsborough Methodist Church Soon after returning to Hillsborough in 1940, Nicks proposed adding rooms to the church. Robert Forrest and A. A. Lloyd raised the money with a match of one dollar from the Duke Endowment for every three raised, and much of the work was volunteer labor, Nicks included. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 103
  3. Hillsboro merchants pledge to hold prices after federal price control lapses With the OPA's price controls ended by the President's veto, the Hillsboro Merchants Association resolved not to raise prices unless their own costs rose, and Chapel Hill and Carrboro merchants made a like pledge through their association. People: E. Carrington Smith, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 4, 1946, p. 1
  4. Hillsboro's Jubilee Day draws one of the largest crowds in the town's history An estimated 2,500 to 3,000 people crowded Hillsboro for Jubilee Day, the close of the Merchants Association's month-long July sales promotion, when prizes were drawn from ticket stubs in front of the courthouse and a band of local musicians played. The paper called it the second largest crowd ever in the town. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 8, 1946, p. 1
  5. Hillsboro merchants are asked to raise $1,000 toward buying the Nash-Kollock building At the Hillsboro Merchants Association meeting, President R. O. Forrest read a letter from Jessie G. Parker proposing a $3,000 purchase of the Nash-Kollock property, a third each from Hillsboro, Chapel Hill and the county, and the association named a committee to meet with the State Society for the Preservation of Antiquities. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 8, 1946, p. 1
  6. The state elections board certifies James Webb as senator after a ballot omission protest Republican Charles H. Page of Burlington, who carried Alamance County by seven votes, had asked that James Webb's election to the 16th district Senate seat be voided because Page's name was left off Orange County ballots. When no one appeared to press the protest, the State Board of Elections certified Webb, its chairman calling the omission regrettable but saying the board could not fix the blame. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 28, 1946, p. 1
  7. An advisory rent control board for the Chapel Hill area is sworn in Rent Control Director Forrest Pollard swore in the Advisory Rent Control Board for the Chapel Hill Defense Area, chaired by H. R. Totten, at its first meeting in the rent control office in the Henninger Building. Under the Housing and Rent Act of 1947 the board could recommend ending controls, judge rent levels and hear hardship cases. People: Henry Roland Totten, Walter Spearman, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 28, 1947, p. 1
  8. R. O. Forrest becomes chairman of the Orange County Democratic executive committee The Orange County Democratic convention, held in the Hillsboro courthouse on May 15, 1948, and among the party's best attended in years, named R. O. Forrest, chairman of the county board of elections, as county party chairman, with county attorney J. Dumont Eskridge as secretary and Mrs. Charles Stanford as vice chairman. Carl T. Durham and A. H. (Sandy) Graham spoke. People: Carl T. Durham, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 20, 1948, p. 1
  9. Elections chairman R. O. Forrest tells the commissioners Orange needs a new voter registration Robert O. Forrest, chairman of the county board of elections, asked the county commissioners for more money so the Democratic primary books could be recopied. The county had not registered its voters since 1934, he said, and voters stood in line while registrars searched unalphabetized books; either the books must be recopied or a new registration held within two years.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 10, 1948, p. 1 (Possibility Of New Vote Registration In County Revealed)
  10. The county elections board finds 176 valid Orange County signers on the Progressive Party petition By July 22, 1948, Mrs. Iris Cates, working for the Orange County Board of Elections, had checked 288 names on the Progressive Party petition to put Henry A. Wallace on the November ballot and found 176 good. Chairman R. O. Forrest said those 176 were now registered Progressives and could not vote in Democratic or Republican primaries, which many signers had not known. People: Henry A. (Henry Agard) Wallace, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 22, 1948, p. 1
  11. Remus Smith becomes chairman of the county board of elections Remus J. Smith, a Hillsboro furniture dealer, was elected chairman of the Orange County board of elections, succeeding R. O. Forrest, who resigned because he was serving as a justice of the peace. The board also moved the Caldwell and Tolar's polling places for the November election. People: Remus J. Smith Sr., Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 30, 1948, p. 8
  12. County commissioners call a November 22 vote on $1.25 million in school and courthouse bonds After sounding out opinion at seven community meetings, the Orange County commissioners called a special election for November 22 on $1,000,000 in school building bonds and $250,000 for a new courthouse and county office building. They named county Democratic chairman Robert O. Forrest to head a countywide steering committee for the campaign. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1949, p. 1
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  1. Governor Scott calls Orange County's schools for Black children deplorable Speaking to state officials in Raleigh about regional education, Governor W. Kerr Scott singled out Orange County, home of the University, as a place where schools for Black children were in deplorable condition and said parents could sue school officials. Bond campaign chairman Robert O. Forrest answered that the county meant to fix the problem through the November bond vote, while other residents recalled that the governor's forces had opposed a state-built practice high school at Chapel Hill. People: W. Kerr Scott, Robert O. ForrestThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 13, 1949, p. 1
  2. R. O. Forrest is appointed to the county board after H. G. Laws becomes town policeman Hubert G. Laws, in his fifth term as a county commissioner, resigned after the Hillsboro town board named him town policeman on April 3, since the constitution barred holding both offices. Clerk of Superior Court Edwin M. Lynch appointed Robert O. Forrest, the county Democratic chairman, to fill out the term; Laws sat for the last time on April 9. People: Edwin M. Lynch, Hubert G. Laws, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 12, 1951, p. 1
  3. William B. Umstead opens his Orange County campaign for governor at a rally at Occoneechee Speedway The rally and barbecue was the first organizational meeting of the Orange County Umstead-for-Governor Club, which said more than 1,500 county residents had signed petitions for him; the News later reported that upwards of 1,600 people attended. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 1, 1952, p. 1
  4. Mrs. C. W. Stanford becomes chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party At the county convention in Hillsboro, R. O. Forrest resigned the party chairmanship because he was running for county commissioner, and the new executive committee elected Mrs. Stanford of White Cross, who had been vice chairman, with J. Dumont Eskridge as vice chairman and S. M. Gattis III as secretary. People: Robert O. Forrest, Sam M. Gattis IIISearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 22, 1952, p. 1
  5. 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. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 5, 1952, p. 1
  6. 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: Sim Efland, Collier Cobb Jr., Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1952, p. 1
  7. 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. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 6, 1952, p. 1
  8. 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. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 13, 1952, p. 1
  9. 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. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 4, 1952, p. 1
  10. 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. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 22, 1953, p. 1
  11. 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. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 5, 1953, p. 1
  12. Hillsborough citizens form a committee to keep the Forrest Clinic open About 20 citizens meeting at the Presbyterian church named a Citizens Committee on the Clinic, chaired by R. O. Forrest, to find a way to run Dr. D. Efland Forrest's clinic, opened three and a half years before, as a community institution. The clinic building had been sold at a foreclosure auction on February 4, and one plan offered was a local corporation that would buy it and lease it to young doctors. People: Brodie S. Carr, Bonner D. Sawyer, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 19, 1953, p. 1
  13. County commissioners adopt a record $782,068 budget and keep the $1 tax rate The Board of County Commissioners formally adopted a 1953-54 budget of $782,068.30, the largest in the county's history, after tentatively approving it on July 6, and held the tax rate at $1. To avoid a tax increase they cut the schools' capital outlay requests from $180,000 to about $92,000, dividing it between the county and Chapel Hill units by pupils for the first time, over sharp protests from school board members. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 30, 1953, p. 1
  14. 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. ForrestThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 27, 1953, p. 1
  15. County of the Year prizes are presented to Orange farm leaders at the courthouse At an evening meeting in the courthouse the $1,000 and $500 checks for Orange County's two Rural Progress titles were handed to the leaders of the white and Black programs. The leaders gave $500 to the county for a plaque and the improvement of the courthouse grounds, and County Agent Don S. Matheson opened the 1954 program. People: Don S. Matheson, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 4, 1954, p. 1
  16. Angry taxpayers confront the commissioners at the first Board of Equalization session on the revaluation Some 40 citizens protested, many of them bitterly, as the county commissioners opened their sessions as a Board of Equalization and Review on the property values set by the J. M. Cleminshaw Company of Cincinnati. A petition from more than a hundred Chapel Hill Township residents asked for a hearing; the board then began weekly interviews to adjust individual values. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 18, 1954, p. 1
  17. 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. ForrestThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 6, 1954, p. 1
  18. A plaque honoring the county's 1953 Rural Progress award arrives for the old courthouse The plaque the county commissioners bought to honor Orange's farm people and agricultural workers for winning the 1953 state 'County of the Year in Rural Progress' award, and for giving the prize money toward beautifying the old courthouse grounds, arrived to be hung in the courthouse corridor. People: Don S. Matheson, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 24, 1954, p. 1
  19. County commissioners cut the Chapel Hill school supplement from 20 to 12 cents Setting a tentative 62-cent county rate after the revaluation, the commissioners refused Chapel Hill school officials' plea to keep the 20-cent district supplement on the doubled valuations and cut it to 12 cents, which would bring $34,600 instead of about $57,800. Chairman R. O. Forrest said the board opposed raising teachers' supplementary pay and suggested Chapel Hill hold a vote on the tax; Commissioner R. J. M. Hobbs said he favored at least 15 cents. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 8, 1954, p. 1
  20. County commissioners adopt an $806,095 budget and a 62-cent tax rate The commissioners formally adopted the largest budget in the county's history and set the county-wide rate at 62 cents on the revalued property, down from $1.00, with the Chapel Hill school district supplement at 12 cents; the schools' share rose to about 62 percent. The session was heated: a clerk in the register of deeds office protested that her workload had grown without a raise while others got increases, and two raises were held up. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 29, 1954, p. 1
  21. 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. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 16, 1954, p. 1
  22. County officials move from the old courthouse into the new one County officials began moving from the old Orange County courthouse to the new building on Margaret Lane, the clerk of court and register of deeds first, and finished on Tuesday, September 28. The new building gave the home demonstration clubs a kitchen and homemaking laboratory and the county's microfilming machine an office of its own. People: Edwin M. Lynch, Robert O. ForrestThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 30, 1954, p. 1
  23. The county commissioners create an Orange County Agricultural and Industrial Development Commission On a resolution by Commissioner Edwin S. Lanier, the county board created the Orange County Agricultural and Industrial Development Commission to encourage new farm and industrial enterprises, help those already in the county expand, and build understanding of the need for growth, since the tax base was rising more slowly than the demand for public services. It was to have four representatives from each township, named for two-year terms, and no power to commit the county. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Don S. Matheson, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 5, 1955, p. 1
  24. Orange County's new Agricultural and Industrial Development Commission organizes with Don Matheson as chairman Twenty-five of the 28 members named to the county's new Agricultural and Industrial Development Commission, four from each township, met in Hillsboro and elected County Farm Agent Don S. Matheson their first chairman, with Bernice Ward of Chapel Hill as vice-chairman and Robert O. Forrest of Hillsboro as secretary. Commissioner Edwin S. Lanier, who had proposed the body that summer, told them to expect results only over the long pull. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Robert O. Forrest, Don S. MathesonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 13, 1955, p. 1
  25. Hillsboro businessmen move to build a new plant for Reverie Lingerie A group of Hillsboro business and professional men took the first steps toward a local development corporation to build a 26,000 square foot plant, about $150,000, for Reverie Lingerie, then running a pilot operation north of town. The firm had dropped plans to move to Durham and hoped to grow to 250 workers. People: Robert O. Forrest, Don S. MathesonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 19, 1956, p. 1
  26. County Democrats name John Hawkins to the school board seat left by Harry Breeze The Orange County Democratic Executive Committee named John E. Hawkins of Cedar Grove to finish Harry P. Breeze's term on the three-member Board of Education, and named former sheriff S. T. Latta to the Board of Elections in place of E. J. Hamlin. The committee also endorsed enlarging the school board to five members. People: Robert O. Forrest, Samuel T. Latta Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 26, 1956, p. 1
  27. County commissioners put the deputy sheriffs in uniform At the urging of R. O. Forrest and Sheriff Odell H. Clayton, who said people resisting arrest had claimed not to know plainclothes deputies were officers, the board unanimously voted $900 for jackets, trousers, hats and overcoats in the brown uniform the state sheriffs' convention had recommended. The same meeting created a full-time post of delinquent tax collector and gave it to former deputy Frank C. Maddry. People: Odell H. Clayton, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 9, 1956, p. 1
  28. County commissioners stand by their request to limit the board to two members from any township After an October 8 public hearing at which Chapel Hill speakers, among them Paul Wager, Roland McClamroch and members of the League of Women Voters, urged reconsideration, the commissioners voted unanimously, with Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs abstaining, to reaffirm their June request that the legislature limit the board to two members from any one township. Supporters such as R. O. Forrest argued that Chapel Hill's heavy vote could otherwise fill every seat. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Roland P. McClamroch, Robert O. Forrest, Paul W. WagerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 8, 1956, p. 1
  29. The county development commission names a Chapel Hill-Carrboro industrial committee At its first meeting of the year, the Orange County Agricultural and Industrial Commission reelected its officers under chairman Don Matheson and named Chapel Hill-area members to form a Chapel Hill-Carrboro industrial development committee to court industry for that end of the county. The step followed a suggestion for a Research Triangle development committee in the Chapel Hill area. People: Robert O. Forrest, Don S. MathesonThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 7, 1957, p. 1
  30. Hearing on the interstate route south of Hillsboro draws protests At a Highway Commission hearing in the courthouse on the planned interstate highway south of Hillsboro, landowners on the new route and businesses on old Highway 70 protested a road that would bypass Efland, Hillsboro and University Station. About 50 people came; Dr. J. B. Rhyne said citizens were only being allowed to let off steam and attorney R. Percy Reade said the road would stifle Hillsboro's business, while commissioners' chairman R. J. M. Hobbs welcomed it for safety. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 25, 1957, p. 1
  31. Hillsborough citizens launch a $25,000 loan drive to rebuild Reverie Lingerie About 50 citizens met at the courthouse to hear a plan for a $75,000, 15,000-square-foot building for the burned-out Reverie Lingerie plant, to be paid for by the company ($15,000), the North Carolina Business Development Corporation ($35,000) and $25,000 in five percent loans from local people. Volunteers had pledged about $16,000 within a week, and backers said by December 4 that the goal was in sight. People: Don S. Matheson, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 28, 1957, p. 1
  32. Orange Democrats host the Sixth District rally at Schley Grange Orange County Democrats and Congressman Carl T. Durham hosted the Sixth Congressional District rally of the state party's campaign caravan at Schley Grange Hall, with Senator B. Everett Jordan as principal speaker and Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. and state party chairman Woodrow W. Jones among the leaders taking part. The barbecue fed 450 plates. People: Carl T. Durham, Robert O. ForrestThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 23, 1958, p. 1
  33. R. O. Forrest, Orange County's Democratic chairman, dies Robert Oswin Forrest Sr., 54, longtime chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party and a former chairman of the county commissioners, died in his sleep at his Hillsboro home. With his brothers he had run Eno Chevrolet and Forrest Brothers Grocery for 32 years. People: Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 30, 1958, p. 1
  34. Judge L. J. Phipps becomes chairman of the Orange County Democrats The Orange County Democratic executive committee paid tribute to its late chairman R. O. Forrest and unanimously elected Recorder's Court Judge L. J. Phipps to succeed him. Mrs. R. O. Forrest was elected vice chairman in place of Harriet Herring, who asked to step aside. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 30, 1958, p. 1

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