Lloyd M. Senter

Life and Orange County connections

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1. January 27, 1948 P. L. and Lloyd M. Senter open their new drugstore building next to Lloyd-Ray Hardware Father and son pharmacists P. L. Senter and Lloyd M. Senter held a formal opening for their new Carrboro drugstore building, with a new soda fountain, on the evening of January 27, 1948. They treated it as the store's fifteenth anniversary. People: Lloyd M. SenterSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 23, 1948, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 30, 1948, p. 1
2. June 10, 1948 The Carrboro Lions Club elects Lloyd Senter president Meeting in the Methodist church hut, the Carrboro Lions Club elected Lloyd Senter president in place of K. B. Cole, with Dr. George L. Crane, Raymond L. Andrews and O. M. Powers as vice presidents and Roy Rigsbee re-elected secretary-treasurer. Senter was re-elected the next year, while the club was building its ball park.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 17, 1948, p. 3 (Lloyd Senter New President Carrboro Civic Organization)
3. by May 1950 The Carrboro Lions Club finishes its $30,000 ball park The 45-member Carrboro Lions Club built a lighted ball park with a covered 740-seat grandstand on US 54 outside the town limits, doing much of the work themselves and paying for it with fence advertising, a loan and small bonds sold to members. League play began there the first week of May, and on June 21 about 1,500 people came through the rain to a civic barbecue held to help pay off the debt. People: Lloyd M. SenterSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 29, 1950, p. 6
4. spring 1954 Carrboro's zoning commission, headed by Lloyd Senter, recommends the town's first zoning districts A six-member zoning commission headed by Lloyd Senter held a public hearing and recommended land-use restrictions dividing Carrboro into residential, business and industrial districts, drawing almost no opposition. The town commissioners then set a public hearing on the proposed ordinance for June 7, 1954.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 20, 1954, p. 1 (Zoning Hearing Set June 7 At Carrboro)
5. December 9, 1954 The Carrboro Lions Club pays off the debt on its ball park At its ladies' night banquet at Camp New Hope the club announced it had paid off the $12,500 debt on the Carrboro Lions Park, valued at about $35,000 and seating about 1,500, the community's only stadium outside the University and its only place for night games. The club bought the first land near the Carrboro school in 1947, graded it with a bank loan, and formally opened the lighted park in the summer of 1950. People: Lloyd M. SenterSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 16, 1954, p. 8
6. August 1955 The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown Answering a letter from the Governor's Advisory Commission on Education, chaired by Thomas Pearsall, the Orange County board appointed a local committee to study the problems the Supreme Court's segregation ruling raised for its schools. Ira Ward and Delmar Brown soon replaced two of the first members, Bonner D. Sawyer and W. T. (Buck) Murray. People: Ira Ward, Roosevelt Warner, Carter White, Bonner D. Sawyer, Lloyd M. SenterNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
7. December 9, 1955 The county school board names Lloyd Senter and Mrs. Jesse West to the Carrboro school committee At a special meeting the Orange County Board of Education filled the two Carrboro District School Committee seats left by the resignations of Walter Clark Jr. and Mayor R. B. Todd. Mrs. West, a PTA leader, had been put forward by a Carrboro citizens' committee that wanted a woman on the board, and pharmacist Lloyd Senter by a petition of several hundred citizens. People: Lloyd M. SenterSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 15, 1955, p. 1
8. February 6, 1956 Carrboro school committee asks the county board for a modern new school Carrboro school committeemen asked the Orange County Board of Education to commit to a modern building like a new school in Asheboro, saying it would win Carrboro votes for the coming bond issue. The board would not pledge a design but said Carrboro could expect about $311,000 from the bonds plus $65,000 in state money. People: G. Paul Carr, Lloyd M. SenterThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 9, 1956, p. 6
9. April 1958 Opponents of the school merger form the Carrboro School Development Council Present and former Carrboro school committee members opposed to joining the Chapel Hill district formed the Carrboro School Development Council to campaign against the merger, retained a Raleigh public relations firm, and elected Shelton Sparrow chairman. Its leaders said they wanted a Carrboro-only school tax instead and called the merger a first step toward Chapel Hill's annexation of Carrboro; the merger's backers campaigned as the Carrboro Citizens Committee for Better Schools under Odell Barham. People: Lloyd M. SenterThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 17, 1958, p. 1
10. by June 26, 1958 Mayor Todd names a committee to find a new industry for the Carrboro mill buildings After Pacific Mills announced on June 17 that Carrboro Mills, the town's only industry with about 380 workers, would close within two or three months, Mayor R. B. Todd named a Chapel Hill and Carrboro committee to work with the state Department of Conservation and Development in finding a new industry for the plants. Collier Cobb Jr. was chairman, and the Carrboro board endorsed the plan. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Lloyd M. SenterSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 26, 1958, p. 1