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Garland O. Reitzel

Garland O. Reitzel of Hillsborough chaired Orange County's Selective Service board at the end of the Second World War. In January 1946 Governor R. Gregg Cherry presented him and fellow members A. C. Pickard and S. W. Hughes with Congressional Certificates of Merit and Selective Service Medals at the Wake County courthouse.

Source: DigitalNC: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 24, 1946, p. 1

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Orange County’s home front in the Second World War1940–1946 · 151 events · From 1940 to 1945 Orange County was drawn into the Second World War. Red Cross women sewed garments for Britain and later made surgical dressings, a record 2,507 of them in Hillsborough on D-Day. The draft board sent men into the Army from 1940, and by late October 1945 it counted 3,110 drafted. Farm families, schools and civic clubs pledged or sold war bonds and gathered scrap, and the county more than doubled its quota in the Seventh War Loan. Carrboro's munitions plant loaded shells for the Navy, and German prisoners of war worked Orange farms in 1945. The county marked V-E Day quietly, while Chapel Hill celebrated the end of the war with Japan on Franklin Street. Selective service in Orange County, 1940–19461940–1946 · 17 events · Orange County's draft board, named by Governor Clyde Hoey in October 1940, had drafted 3,110 men by the fall of 1945. On October 16, 1940 more than 3,800 men registered across the county, 368 of them at Chapel Hill's Black Elks Lodge. Nine volunteers more than filled the county's 1940 call, and in December three of them went to Fort Bragg, the men the Weekly called the county's first soldiers in the new draft. In April 1944, after new rules ended many farm deferments, the board sent 302 men for preinduction examinations, its largest group yet. In January 1946 Governor R. Gregg Cherry honored Garland O. Reitzel, A. C. Pickard and S. W. Hughes for their service.

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  1. Orange County gives Roosevelt and the Democratic county ticket large majorities In the November 8 election Orange County voted 2,845 for Roosevelt, 1,092 for Hoover and 160 for Norman Thomas, reversing its 1928 vote for Hoover, and elected Democrats R. A. Eubanks, W. P. Berry and J. H. Hanner county commissioners over Republicans Lueco Lloyd, W. T. Roberts and G. O. Reitzel. A. H. Graham of Hillsboro, running for lieutenant governor, drew more votes in the county than any other candidate, and in the Chapel Hill precinct Roosevelt led Hoover 737 to 221, with 116 for Thomas. People: Robert A. Eubanks, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Samuel Weldon Andrews, Lueco Lloyd, Garland O. Reitzel, William T. Sloan, W. P. Berry, John Hodge HannerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 11, 1932, p. 1
  2. Governor Hoey appoints Orange County's draft board Under the new selective service law Governor Clyde Hoey named Clarence Pickard of Chapel Hill and Owen Robertson and Garland O. Reitzel of Hillsborough to Orange County's draft board, with Dr. Bryan N. Roberts as its physician and C. P. Hinshaw as appeal agent. Robertson became chairman; the members served without pay, worked from Hillsborough, and were to classify the county's registrants from their questionnaires. People: Clarence Pickard, Garland O. Reitzel, Owen S. Robertson, Clarence P. HinshawThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 11, 1940, p. 1
  3. The Orange County draft board names an advisory board to help registrants with questionnaires With the order list from Washington in hand, the county draft board named an advisory board, chaired by A. H. Graham of Hillsboro, with members in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsboro, to help registrants fill out the eight-page classification questionnaires. The board began mailing the questionnaires from its Hillsboro office in batches of fifty, with volunteers helping its clerk. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Clarence Pickard, Garland O. Reitzel, Owen S. Robertson, Paul H. RobertsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1940, p. 1
  4. Orange County draft board reports 62 men sent into the Army since October The county draft board, Owen S. Robertson, Clarence Pickard, and G. O. Reitzel, reported that 62 Orange County men had entered the Army through selective service and 15 more had been rejected after reaching camp; of the 77, 61 were white and 16 Black, and 32 were volunteers, 14 of them Black. A contingent of 14, four of them from Chapel Hill, left Hillsboro that day for Fort Bragg, and the board had mailed about 900 questionnaires. People: Mildred Johnson, Clarence Pickard, Garland O. Reitzel, Owen S. RobertsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 11, 1941, p. 1
  5. The Orange Cooperative Milk Producers Marketing Association dissolves All the members of the Hillsboro-based Orange Cooperative Milk Producers Marketing Association, with G. O. Reitzel as its agent, signed a consent to dissolve it, filed with the Secretary of State on December 15, two weeks after the Latta Co-operative Dairy began buying milk. People: Garland O. ReitzelSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 21, 1944, p. 4
  6. Governor Cherry honors three Orange draft board members Governor R. Gregg Cherry presented Congressional Certificates of Merit and Selective Service Medals to Orange board chairman G. O. Reitzel and members A. C. Pickard and S. W. Hughes. The awards marked their wartime service on the county's draft board. People: Samuel Wellwood Hughes, Clarence Pickard, Garland O. ReitzelSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 24, 1946, p. 1
  7. The Bank of Chapel Hill launches a county corn-growing contest To lift Orange County corn yields, then about 20 bushels an acre, the Bank of Chapel Hill offered a $100 war bond and other prizes to the farmer, white or Black, who grew the most corn on one acre. Twenty-four farmers had entered by early May, with entries closing June 1. People: Garland O. Reitzel, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 7, 1946, p. 1
  8. Farmers organize a Grange at New Hope At an open meeting in the New Hope hut addressed by state Grange master Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell, those present decided to organize a Grange at New Hope and elected J. R. Pulley master. People: Garland O. ReitzelSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 15, 1946, p. 1
  9. G. O. Reitzel is elected master of the Orange County Pomona Grange At a countywide meeting the Orange County Pomona Grange elected G. O. Reitzel master for the coming year, with Harry Woods as overseer, and called for better secondary roads.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 24, 1946, p. 1
  10. Orange County's World War II draft board is named again for the peacetime draft By August 5, 1948, the board that ran Orange County's World War II draft, Samuel W. Hughes, Garland O. Reitzel and A. Clarence Pickard, had been recommended to Governor Cherry to run the first peacetime draft, with C. P. Hinshaw as appeal agent and Dr. D. Efland Forrest as medical adviser. Registration of men 18 through 25 was set to begin August 30. People: Samuel Wellwood Hughes, Clarence Pickard, Garland O. Reitzel, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 5, 1948, p. 1
  11. Orange County's artificial breeding association works with two technicians Orange County dairy farmers had formed a local artificial breeding association open to any owner of dairy cattle and employed two technicians, C. A. Gentry based in Chapel Hill and G. O. Reitzel based in Hillsboro. The Southeastern Artificial Breeding Association and the extension dairy specialist held three county meetings on it that March.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 3, 1949, p. 1
  12. Citizens set up township committees to choose Orange County roads for paving At a mass meeting called by the Orange County Pomona Grange, so crowded it moved from the courthouse to the high school auditorium, citizens set up a 54-member countywide steering committee and five-man township committees to pick roads for paving under the state's $200 million rural roads bonds. Highway commissioner James A. Barnwell said Orange would get $2,126,527 for about 75 miles of paving and stabilizing of its other 425 miles of unpaved roads, and John W. Umstead Jr. was elected to head the steering group. People: Garland O. Reitzel, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 29, 1949, p. 1
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  1. Farm families around Calvander and Orange Church organize the Calvander Grange Farm families of the Orange Church and Calvander area, who had asked state Grange leaders to help them start a Grange, organized the Calvander Grange in the spring of 1950. By mid-May it had held its second meeting, in the Orange Church hut, with Everett Cheek as Grange lecturer. People: Garland O. ReitzelSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 18, 1950, p. 1
  2. Orange County's draft board reopens its office for the Korean War The Orange County draft board, whose office had closed in 1949 along with those of 66 other counties, reopened in the Minnis Building in Hillsboro on August 1 and at once listed nine men as delinquent for failing to keep their addresses current. People: Garland O. ReitzelSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 3, 1950, p. 1
  3. Buckhorn farmers organize a Grange with 42 charter members Following a community meeting on August 7 addressed by State Grange Master Harry B. Caldwell, farm families of the Buckhorn section organized the Buckhorn Grange and closed its charter with 42 members. H. M. Carter was elected master, and the Grange set its meetings for the second and fourth Friday nights. People: Garland O. ReitzelSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 27, 1953, p. 1
  4. Clarence Pickard resigns from the Orange County draft board A. Clarence Pickard of Chapel Hill, a member of the county's Selective Service board since it was organized before the Second World War, sent his resignation to the state director. The News called it the first change in the board's membership since 1940; G. O. Reitzel and S. W. Hughes stayed on. People: Garland O. Reitzel, Samuel Wellwood HughesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 10, 1953, p. 1

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