Robert L. Mohler

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1. 1939 Soil Conservation Service work begins in Orange County Federal soil conservationists started farm planning in the county in 1939, with R. L. Mohler as work unit conservationist. By June 1953 plans covered 1,265 farms and about 142,000 acres. People: Robert L. MohlerSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 253-254
2. by February 23, 1940 Orange County's social agencies organize a council in Hillsboro Meeting in the Agricultural Building in Hillsboro, the county's social agencies, among them the extension service, soil conservation, Farm Security, the health and welfare departments, Social Security and the employment service, formed the Orange County Council of Social Agencies to study one another's programs and coordinate their work. R. L. Mohler of the soil conservation service was elected president and county agent Don S. Matheson vice-president. People: Don S. Matheson, Robert L. MohlerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 23, 1940, p. 6
3. December 1945 R. L. Mohler returns from the Army to the county soil conservation office R. L. Mohler, who had started the soil conservation office at Hillsboro and run it until he was inducted about three and a half years before, came back to his old job after 32 months overseas as a captain in the Army engineers, serving in Africa, Italy, France and Germany.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 20, 1945, p. 1 (Soil Conservationist Returns To County)
4. March 30, 1948 Thousands watch a one-day conservation makeover of the Milton Latta farm near Schley Schley Grange No. 710 staged what was billed as North Carolina's first soil conservation field day on Milton Latta's 195-acre farm northeast of Hillsboro, where about 250 volunteers with 25 to 30 tractors, bulldozers and earth movers built terraces, a fish pond, pastures, strip crops and wildlife borders that would take an ordinary farmer three to five years. Estimates of the crowd ran from three thousand to ten thousand. People: Don S. Matheson, Robert L. Mohler, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 1, 1948, p. 1
5. November 6, 1948 National judges tour the Schley community's Grange projects Judges of the National Grange community service contest flew to the Durham-Raleigh airport and toured the Schley community, North Carolina's winning Grange, seeing its new cooperative telephone line, the landscaped Mars Hill Baptist churchyard and the Milton Latta farm of the spring soil conservation field day before a barbecue at the Grange hall. People: Don S. Matheson, Robert L. MohlerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 11, 1948, p. 1
6. December 22, 1948 Orange County loads its boxcar of farm goods for the CROP Friendship Train Orange County finished loading its car of grain and farm products for overseas relief, more than 11,000 pounds gathered from the county's farms by church and school groups, along with $270 given through the churches. R. H. Claytor headed the county drive for the Christian Rural Overseas Program. People: R. H. Claytor, Robert L. Mohler, Irving E. BirdseyeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 23, 1948, p. 1
7. January 30, 1950 Jordan Grove farm families organize a neighborhood farm and home improvement program Thirty-five people met in the Jordan Grove neighborhood to organize a farm and home improvement program for their neighborhood. County farm officials, vocational agriculture teacher J. M. Murfree and home economics teacher B. A. Pretty of Central High, and the home demonstration agent explained the parts they and the neighborhood's women would play. People: A. K. McAdams, Robert L. MohlerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 23, 1950, p. 4
8. 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)
9. 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
10. November 5, 1951 Commissioners name a civil defense director for Orange County At the request of the State Office of Civil Defense, the county commissioners appointed Robert L. Mohler, local head of the Soil Conservation Service office and a World War II officer, as Director of Civilian Defense for Orange County. People: Robert L. MohlerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 8, 1951, p. 1
11. May 8, 1952 County civil defense chairman R. L. Mohler names his deputy directors At a Home Demonstration Council program on women's part in civil defense in Gerrard Hall, Mohler announced welfare superintendent Annie Strowd as deputy for emergency relief and welfare, school superintendent G. Paul Carr for air raid services, home agent Kathryn Hamrick for public information and tax supervisor Ira Ward for personnel and records. People: Annie Strowd, G. Paul Carr, Ira Ward, Robert L. MohlerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 15, 1952, p. 1