Reid Roberts

Life and Orange County connections

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1. June 5, 1949 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
2. January 1950 Reid Roberts is elected president of the Orange County Board of Agriculture At its first meeting of 1950 the county Board of Agriculture, made up of leading farmers, elected Reid Roberts, a Hillsboro poultry farmer, president and Henry S. Hogan vice-president, and recommended a six-point farm program stressing pasture, livestock, rural telephones and forestry. People: Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 12, 1950, p. 1
3. October 20, 1952 St. Mary's Grange is named one of ten state winners for community service At the North Carolina State Grange meeting in Raleigh on October 20, 1952, St. Mary's Grange received a savings bond as one of the ten winners of the state Grange's community service contest. At the same time the Grange was pressing to get a proposed telephone line for its community finished. People: Reid RobertsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 23, 1952, p. 1
4. January 21, 1953 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
5. February 2, 1953 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
6. 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
7. by December 15, 1955 Reid Roberts is elected a soil conservation district supervisor Reid Roberts, a poultryman and livestock farmer on Route 1, Hillsboro, was elected to the three-man Orange County board of supervisors of the Neuse River Soil Conservation District for a three-year term, succeeding James S. Compton. People: James S. Compton, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 15, 1955, p. 1
8. by January 12, 1956 Reid Roberts is named State Grange deputy for Orange and Durham counties State Grange master Harry Caldwell appointed Reid Roberts, a poultry farmer on Route 1, Hillsboro, Grange deputy for Durham and Orange counties. Roberts was then master of the Orange County Pomona Grange, a past master of St. Mary's Grange, and chairman of the State Grange's poultry committee.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 12, 1956, p. 1
9. February 18, 1957 Orange poultrymen form a county unit of the Central Carolina Poultry Association About 50 Orange County poultrymen formed a county poultry association affiliated with the Central Carolina Poultry Association, electing Reid Roberts president, Jack Kirk vice president, Frank Spencer secretary and Larry Coleman treasurer. David Baird, the county's director on the regional board, reported that a delegate would go to a national meeting in Texas to study a plan for controlling broiler production. People: Reid RobertsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 21, 1957, p. 4
10. May 20, 1957 The state board of farm organizations and agencies tours Orange County farms The State Board of Farm Organizations and Agricultural Agencies made Orange its first county visit, touring the Reid Roberts, Latta-Gardner, Milton Latta and Larry Coleman farms in the St. Mary's and Schley communities and hearing a panel on the county's farm programs over supper at Schley Grange Hall. Progressive Farmer editor William Poe called the county's work 'tremendously inspiring.' People: Reid Roberts, Don S. MathesonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 23, 1957, p. 1
11. by August 22, 1957 Orange County soil conservation supervisors win the Finer Farms contest The Orange County supervisors of the Neuse River Soil Conservation District won first place in the Carolina Power and Light Company's Finer Farms contest, judged on conservation work in 61 counties of the two Carolinas, and chairman Henry S. Hogan won a supervisor's award. The St. Mary's, Jordan Grove and Buckhorn communities won Superior Results awards with cash prizes. People: Reid Roberts, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 22, 1957, p. 1
12. October 16, 1958 Schley receives third prize in a two-state soil conservation contest Carolina Power and Light presented its 1957-58 Finer Farms prizes at the Orange County courthouse: $150 to the Schley community for third place in the two-state contest, first place among county boards to Orange's soil conservation supervisors, and $50 Superior Results awards to Jordan Grove, Buckhorn, Orange Grove and Midway-New Hope. People: Reid Roberts, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 23, 1958, p. 1