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Charles S. Hubbard

Charles S. Hubbard was pastor of the Hillsborough Methodist Church for six years, and in 1953, after two years at Trinity Methodist Church in Raleigh, the Methodist conference sent him to University Methodist Church in Chapel Hill.

Source: The News of Orange County: Methodist conference assigns new pastors (November 5, 1953, p. 1)

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Recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1955–19641955–1964 · 20 events · Chapel Hill voters turned down a recreation tax in 1957 and approved one in 1963, and in between private backers and gifts of land supplied a recreation center and a pool. A 1955 act created a Chapel Hill-Carrboro recreation district, but Carrboro asked to be left out. At the 1957 hearings Carrboro residents feared for their school tax and Black PTA leader Lattice Vickers asked what Black residents would get; the commissioners dropped Carrboro and the rural areas, and voters turned down the tax 1,176 to 514. Private backers formed Chapel Hill Recreation Center, Inc. on Bolin Creek land offered by John W. Umstead and his family, and in 1962 Exchange Pools, Inc. opened a pool beside the center.

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  1. Rev. S. F. Nicks retires from the Hillsborough Methodist charge after 42 years in the ministry The Methodist Conference at Goldsboro retired Rev. S. F. Nicks and sent Rev. C. S. Hubbard from Roseboro to the Hillsborough charge. It also moved new pastors to Efland, Carrboro and Cedar Grove; Nicks stayed on in Hillsborough. People: Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 15, 1945, p. 1
  2. County commissioners order an end to Sunday beer sales in Orange County At the request of the Rev. S. W. DuBose and the Rev. Charles S. Hubbard, the county commissioners ordered all licensed beer retailers in the county to stop selling beer on Sundays, effective October 1. The ministers said Sunday sales drew people from neighboring dry counties to Orange beer halls. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Charles S. Hubbard, Samuel T. Latta Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 5, 1946, p. 1
  3. PTA spokesmen lay Orange County's school needs before the fact-finding committee At public hearings in Hillsboro, PTA groups from nearly every county school reported their needs to the education subcommittee of the county fact-finding committee, the Black schools on January 12 and the white schools on January 13. Chapel Hill asked for two elementary schools and a full high school to replace the one burned in 1942, Hillsboro for a new senior high school, and Black spokesmen for consolidating eight northern schools into one at Cedar Grove. People: Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 20, 1949, p. 1
  4. New Sharon Methodist Church dedicates its new Gothic church About 800 people came to New Sharon's homecoming and the dedication of the church its members had built and paid for in a year, five miles east of Hillsboro. Dr. J. M. Ormond, a former pastor, preached, and memorials and a new organ were dedicated in the afternoon; the 1908 church that stood in front of the new one had been torn down that spring. People: Reid Roberts, Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1949, p. 1
  5. Hillsboro Garden Club asks the commissioners to keep the old courthouse for an historic shrine Just before the bond vote was called, a Hillsboro Garden Club delegation led by the Rev. Charles S. Hubbard asked the commissioners to do nothing to the old courthouse that would harm its later restoration, and offered to keep the courtroom as a museum at no cost to the county. The club said it had sought federal and state interest; the commissioners promised careful consideration and said no bond money would go to the old building. People: Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1949, p. 1
  6. Governor Kerr Scott tours northeastern Orange to see rural progress Governor W. Kerr Scott spent about three and a half hours in Orange County, speaking to some 200 people at the newly finished New Sharon Methodist Church, inspecting the nearly complete Schley Grange hall and farm conservation work, and ending at barbecue suppers at Pleasant Green and St. Mary's. He denied charges that he was setting country against town and said he wanted rural living to equal town living. People: Carl T. Durham, John W. Umstead Jr., Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 22, 1949, p. 1
  7. Orange County churches launch the CROP drive to send corn overseas A countywide meeting launched the Christian Rural Overseas Program in Orange County, naming the Revs. W. H. Rittenhouse Sr., I. E. Birdseye and C. S. Hubbard co-chairmen, Samuel Hughes treasurer and R. H. Mohler shipping clerk. Rural church canvassers began calling on farmers for corn to be gathered in December and shipped through church relief agencies to Europe and Asia. People: Irving E. Birdseye, Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 24, 1949, p. 1
  8. A packed hearing airs the fight over the Hillsboro and Aycock high school districts The county Board of Education heard both sides of its plan to move the Caldwell and Efland areas from the Hillsboro High School district to Aycock High at Cedar Grove. Opponents presented petitions with 2,032 signatures and another signed by the whole Hillsboro student body, Aycock's backers argued the rural school needed the territory to survive, and chairman Kemp Cate closed the meeting without a decision. People: Bonner D. Sawyer, Kemp S. Cate, Charles S. HubbardThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 9, 1950, p. 1
  9. 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)
  10. Charles S. Hubbard leaves the Hillsborough Methodist charge for Trinity Methodist Church in Raleigh The annual Methodist conference at Wilmington moved Charles S. Hubbard from the Hillsborough Methodist Church to Trinity Methodist Church in Raleigh and assigned the Rev. W. L. Maness to Hillsborough in his place.Search the index · The News of Orange County: Maness New Pastor (November 8, 1951, p. 1)
  11. The Methodist conference sends new pastors to four Orange County charges At the annual North Carolina Methodist Conference in Durham, the Rev. Charles S. Hubbard, a former Hillsboro pastor, was sent to University Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, the Rev. G. W. Crutchfield to Carrboro in place of the late M. E. Tyson, the Rev. R. Z. Newton to the Cedar Grove-Walnut Grove charge and the Rev. C. F. Grill to the Eno and Palmer's Grove churches. People: Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 5, 1953, p. 1
  12. Chapel Hill's Citizens' Committee for Better Schools asks for a 20-cent school supplement tax Carrying a petition with more than 1,100 legible names, against 1,588 registered voters in the district, the Chapel Hill Citizens' Committee for Better Schools asked the county commissioners to levy a school supplement tax of 20 cents per $100 in the Chapel Hill school district so its schools could run above the state standard. No one spoke against it, and chairman R. J. M. Hobbs said the board would take it under consideration; in July the board set the supplement at 15 cents. People: Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Collier Cobb Jr., Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1955, p. 1
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  1. Chapel Hill freeholders petition for a recreation district vote Attorney William S. Stewart, for the Chapel Hill Jaycees recreation committee, handed the county commissioners petitions signed by about 1,150 freeholders asking for a referendum on a tax-supported recreation district in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro area under the 1955 enabling act. A majority vote would let the county levy up to 10 cents per $100 for a public recreation program run by an appointed commission and issue bonds for facilities. People: Dwight Ray, Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 6, 1956, p. 1
  2. The Exchange Club enters Grady A. Brown in its Book of Golden Deeds At its annual ladies' night Christmas party at the Schley Grange Hall, the Hillsboro Exchange Club gave its Book of Golden Deeds award, its highest honor, to Grady A. Brown, longtime principal of Hillsboro High School, with the Rev. Charles Hubbard making the presentation. The club also named charter member J. L. 'Luke' Brown Jr. its Man of the Year. People: Charles S. Hubbard, Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 20, 1956, p. 1
  3. Chapel Hill Recreation Center, Inc. forms to plan a teenage recreation center Chapel Hill Recreation Center, Inc., newly formed with the Rev. Charles Hubbard at its head, began planning a teenage recreation center in the 1957-58 school year, the school paper recalled in 1963. People: Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, January 30, 1963, p. 2
  4. A hearing on the Chapel Hill recreation district turns to Carrboro's school tax and integration About 60 people attended the county commissioners' hearing in the Chapel Hill Town Hall on the proposed recreation district, where the Rev. Charles Hubbard led the supporters and Carrboro residents asked to be left out lest the recreation tax defeat their planned school tax. Grady Pritchard opposed the plan, citing the school integration trouble at Clinton, Tennessee, while Black PTA leader Lattice Vickers said integration should weigh heavily and asked what Black residents would get; backers proposed improving the Negro Community Center and building a new white recreation center. People: Dwight Ray, Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 10, 1957, p. 6
  5. Carrboro and rural neighbors petition to be left out of the recreation district At a second, heated hearing before the county commissioners in Hillsborough, opponents presented petitions asking to be left out of the proposed Chapel Hill-Carrboro recreation district: 872 signatures from Carrboro, 121 from the Hollow Rock section and 105 from Mount Carmel. Carrboro Mayor R. B. Todd said the town must put its school tax first, while the Rev. Charles Hubbard and Gran Childress charged that the plan had been misrepresented in Carrboro. People: Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 31, 1957, p. 1
  6. Jim Tatum is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery after a service led by Charles S. Hubbard More than 300 people attended the burial of football coach Jim Tatum in the old cemetery across from Woollen Gym. The Rev. Charles Hubbard of University Methodist Church conducted the service, and eighteen of Tatum's players were pallbearers. People: Jim TatumSearch the index · The News of Orange County: Rest For Sunny Jim (July 30, 1959, p. 1)
  7. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Recreation Center Corporation votes to start building its $90,000 center Directors authorized the building committee to call for bids on the center on the seven-acre Bolin Creek site off Airport Road, on a guaranteed-maximum contract kept within the roughly $33,000 in cash and pledges on hand, with a $20,000 drive set for winter. The Rev. Charles Hubbard was re-elected president; plans called for meeting rooms, a snack bar, a multipurpose room and later a pool. People: Luther James Phipps, Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 22, 1959, p. 3

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