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• • MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING • • :of • BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' • August 3,• 1959 The Board of Commissioners of Lee County met in regular monthly session in the Commissioners Room at the Courthouse on Monday, August 3, 1959, at 10:00 o'clock A. M. with the following members of the Board present for dispatch of business: • Commissioners Sion H. Kelly, Percy Measamer, Ralph Groce, Clyde J. Atkins and Evander Winstead. • The minutes of the regular meeting of July 6, 1959 and the minutes of the special meeting of July 15, 1959 and July 27, 1959 were. read and approved. W. D. Gregson, Veterans Service Officer, presented monthly report of the activities of his office for the month of July. D. F. Holder, Sheriff of Lee County, presented monthly report of the activities of his office for the m onth of July. • Mrs. Nette B. Keith, Register of Deeds, presented her report on the collection of fees by the Register of- Deeds office for the month of July. • Norman Brickhouse, Assistant Farm Agent, presented monthly report of the County Farm Agent and monthly report of County Home Demonstration Agent in the absence of K. S. Harmon, County Agent, and Miss Monica Brown, Home Demonstration Agent.. On motion of Commissioner Winstead, which motion was seconded by Commissioner Measamer, a road petition submitted by Lloyd Lyons and • Roger Lyons was unanimously approved. This petition requested that a road running from the Tramway-Jonesboro Highway through Westwood Village be "added to the State Highway System and the unpaved. portion thereof be paved and maintained. f On motion of Commissioner Measamer, which motion was seconded by Commissioner Atkins, it was unanimously approved that Lee County run a one- half page ad in the annual farm edition of the Sanford Herald. Dr. E. R. Shanahan, County Health Officer, appeared before the Board and gave report of the Health Department for the month of July, 1959. , W. H. Campbell, Lee County Tak Collector, appeared before the Board and gave monthly report of the T'ax\Collectors office. • Upon motion of Commissioner Winstead, 'which Motion_ was.seconded by Commissioner Measamer, it was unanim'ouely agreed that the County would pay all the back Social Security payments for the Secretary in the County Farm Agent's office prior to January ,1',. 1959 and half for the tear 1959:' • z' Mrs. Laura Rosser, Supt. of Public•Welfare for the County of Lee appeared before the Board and gave monthly report of the activities of the Welfare Department. • L. L. Beckham, Director of Civil Defense, appeared before the Board and gave monthly report of the Civil Defense program. •