Clyde Roberts

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1941 Clyde Roberts becomes treasurer of the Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation Roberts, a farmer on Route 1, Hillsboro, who had sat on the rural electric cooperative's board of directors since 1938, became its treasurer in 1941, a post he still held in 1949.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 30, 1947, p. 9
2. by April 10, 1942 Orange County farm neighborhoods collect 357,000 pounds of scrap iron County farm agent Don Matheson reported that farmers in the county's 40 neighborhood groups had gathered 357,000 pounds of scrap iron since December 1, with a scrap yard named in each neighborhood, and that several neighborhoods were giving their salvage money to the Red Cross. Farmers were also selling about 1,000 more gallons of milk a day for manufacture, gathered by seven trucks. People: Clyde Roberts, Don S. MathesonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 10, 1942, p. 1
3. February 27, 1946 Farmers organize the Orange County Farm Bureau at Aycock School After R. Flake Shaw of the North Carolina Farm Bureau spoke at Aycock School, 38 farmers joined and elected E. P. Barnes temporary chairman and Clyde Roberts secretary-treasurer. Membership reached about 100 by March 8 and 203 after former governor J. Melville Broughton spoke at the Hillsboro courthouse on March 29. People: J. Melville Broughton, Clyde RobertsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 7, 1946, p. 8
4. 1947 Clyde Roberts wins the Bank of Chapel Hill corn growing contest The Bank of Chapel Hill sponsored a yearly corn contest with at least 50 entrants. In 1947 Clyde Roberts won with 93.3 bushels of N. C. Hybrid 26 on one acre, against a contest average of 61.9. People: Clyde RobertsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 237
5. December 1 to 6, 1947 Orange farmers elect the county's first soil conservation committee In the first election held under the 1947 amendment to the state soil conservation districts law, voters chose H. S. Hogan, Clyde Roberts and J. L. Scotton for three-, two- and one-year terms on the Orange County committee of the Neuse River Soil Conservation District. The committee was to set county goals, and its chairman was to sit on the district's board of supervisors. People: Clyde Roberts, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 11, 1947, p. 1
6. February 7, 1948 Piedmont Electric members thank retiring president H. G. Laws and W. F. Shaw takes his place About 600 members at the Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation's ninth annual meeting in the Hillsboro High School auditorium adopted a resolution of thanks to H. G. Laws, an incorporator and president since the cooperative began, who had moved off its lines into Hillsboro, and vice president W. F. Shaw of Reidsville became president. The cooperative then served about 1,800 members over 500 miles of line in six counties. People: Clyde Roberts, Hubert G. LawsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 12, 1948, p. 1
7. by April 2, 1953 St. Mary's Grange finishes a rural telephone line serving 35 families St. Mary's Grange completed the community telephone project it had begun in 1950, bringing service to the 35 families who signed up in its survey. Grange men cleared more than six miles of right of way in a one-day work party in the summer of 1952 and dug the pole holes themselves. People: Clyde Roberts, Reid RobertsThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 2, 1953, p. 1
8. September 17, 1955 Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation honors three long-serving directors At the cooperative's annual barbecue, County Agent Don Matheson gave gold watches to W. F. Shaw, J. G. Jobe and Clyde Roberts, each an unpaid director for 15 years or more. He said rural lines in Orange County had grown from 28 miles in 1932 and 140 in 1937 to about 600. People: Don S. Matheson, Clyde RobertsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 22, 1955, p. 1
9. June 16, 1956 Piedmont Electric members hold their 17th annual meeting at Hillsboro More than 400 members heard Congressman Carl Durham trace rural electrification to 1933, when, he said, Orange County's commissioners started the program and the county 'can claim that it was first,' and heard state REA chairman Gwyn B. Price forecast farm power use tripling in 20 years. Members re-elected nine directors, including S. C. Wilson, Clyde Roberts and N. B. Berry; the co-op served 5,200 members over 1,340 miles of line in six counties. People: Carl T. Durham, Clyde Roberts, John W. Umstead Jr.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 21, 1956, p. 1
10. July 31, 1956 Some 1,100 young farm cooperative delegates tour Orange County Delegates to the American Institute of Cooperation meeting at State College rode 26 chartered buses through the St. Mary's, Schley and New Hope communities, Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, stopping at the Clyde Roberts farm, Schley Grange Hall and the new New Hope Presbyterian Church, while about 400 visited Piedmont Electric in Hillsboro. The News said it was believed to be the largest farm tour ever held in North Carolina. People: Clyde RobertsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 2, 1956, p. 1