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The F rankMn Times
Published Every Tuesday & Thursday aii r\i Cr,nLi;n rA.mtu
Comment
A home town booater la a man
that helps make his home town
better as well as bigger.
Serving All Of Franklin County
Tel. GY 6-3283
Five Cents
Louisburg. N C , Tuesday. March 24. 1964
(Eight Pages Today)
96th Year? Number 9
Industrial Meeting
Industrial Director W. J. Ben-\^The group met to discuss the
ton is shown as he addressed a urea's industry picture and ex
capacity crowd at last THurs- cfriwige ideas on future plans,
day's Industrial Meeting here. \ -Titneis Staff Thoto.
Industry Meet
Is Successful x
A group of over fifty business
and civic leaders met last
Thursday night to discuss the
industrial picture in Franklin
County. The meeting, held- In
a Louisburg restaurant, was at
tended for the most' part, by
Louisburg citizens. W. J. Ben
ton, Industrial Director of the
County, pleased with success of
the meeting and the cooperative
attitude shown, indicated that
similar meetings might be
called in other county areas in
the future.
The group heard Benton ex
plain some of the things that had
Preyer Names Mitchell
To Be County Manager
Roger B. Mitchell
Tobacco Assoc.
To Meet
Ronald E. Radford, County
Director, announced today that
the Flue Cured Tobacco Grow
ers Assn. will hold Its annual
meeting In the Highway Building
Auditorium In Raleigh on April
4th, at 9:00 a.m. All officers
and directors are urged to at
tend.
At 2:00 p.m. there will be a
meeting discussing the present
tobacco situation. The honor
able Harold D. Cooley, chalr
,man of the U. S. House Com
mittee of Agriculture In Wash
ington will deliver our principal
address. He also plans to bring
other congressmen from out
side North Carolina. The new
State House will be open to the
public on this day.
All tobac.o farmers, (mem
bers or not) warehousemen,
leaf dealers, or anyone dealing
In tobacco will be most wel
come.
The lesson to remember about
the next war Is that there will
be no pushbutton victory.
There are too many human
beings under the impression
that they have to live somebody
else's life for them.
Roger Mitchell, farmer anc
businessman of Louisburg, will
head Richardson Preyer's cam
paign for Governor in Frank
lin County.
The appointment of Mitchell
and a 10- man committee to work
with him in the campaign was
announced today through Prey
er's state campaign headquar
ters here.
We're very pleased that these
fine people are working with
us in the campaign/* Preyer
commented.
Mitchell, a Wake Forest Col
lege graduate, Is a past presi
dent of the Louisburg Lions
Club and is active in the Frank
lin County Farm Bureau. He
is a member of the Methodist
Church.
Members of the 10-man com
mittee are:
K. G. Weldon, Route 1, Hen
derson, a farmer and past
president of the Franklin Farm
Bureau; E. W. Stallings of Route
3, Louisburg, a farmer and
businessman; Kirby Parrish of
Route 2, Louisburg, a farmer
businessman, former school
teacher and Soil Conservation
Service worker; L. L. Sturdy
vant of Route 1, Castalla, a to
bacco warehouseman, farmer
and merchant; F. W. Pinnell,
also of Route 1, Castalla, a
farmer and Farm Bureau lead
er;
Also, Eugene Underbill of
Route 1, Louisburg, a farmer;
Horace Baker of Route 1,
Youngsvllle, a farmer and
member of the Franklin County
Board of Education; Carl Harris
of Route 1, Louisburg, a mer
chant-farmer and member of
the Franklin Memorial Hos
pital's Board of Trustees;
George Barnes of Youngsville,
a tobacconist < and fertilizer
dealer; and W. Harold Alfordof
Route '2, Zebulon, a farmer.
Rescue Call
The Louirtburg Rescue Service
was called this moaning to the
home of Mr^ B. T. Dorsey In
White Level. Mr. Dorsey was
lead when Rescuers arrived,
fie had been ill for several
irears.
been done in the
past two months, the
things the area has to
offer at this time and gen
erally the procedure for mak
ing proper contacts. W. L.
Lumpkin, local attorney, spoke
to the group pointing out the
many assets Franklin County
has and called on the grbup to
promote a cooperative spirit
among the community toward
the and, that new industry could
be obtained.
J. Harold Talton, local bank
ing official and newly appointed
member of the Industrial Board,
related his experiences In other
areas in the field of industrial
Development. He, too, empha
sized the Importance of com
plete cooperation and stated, in
regards' to successes experi
enced elsewhere, the san>e
could be done here. Talton was
appointed by the group as Chair
man of a C lean-Up, Paint-Up,
Fix-Up Campaign that was ap
proved at tfie meeting.
Dr. Cecil W. Robbins told the
group of the recent progress at
Louisburg College and urged
that they give positive thinking
to the community.
The group approved an idea
for a get acquainted party to
be held on May 8th at Green
Hill Country Club. The idea
of the party is to invite mem
bers and their wives of the
Commerce and Industriai De
(See INDUSTRY Page $)
Patrol Issues
Easter Holiday
Warning
Kaleigh? Holiday traffic mis
haps over Easter last year
killed 12 persons and injured
488 others, according to a sum
mary prepared by the Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles.
The compilation of highway
tragedies began at 6 p.m. on
Good Friday and ran through
midnight Monday, the agency
said. A Similar schedule will
be followed In tallying Easter
traffic accidents this year.
Over the holiday period in
1963 the vehicles agency list
ed a total of 771 wrecks, most
of which were caused by falling
to give the right of way.
Other driver violations which
led to death were speeding, fol
lowing too closely and driving
on the wrong side of the, road.
$165,800 Road
Allotment Set
Recorders
Court Docket
George Montague, Jr., c/m/
29, violation of G. S. 14-18.
Nol pros.
Toyoki Koga, w/m/51, speed
ing. Pleads guilty under waiver
statute. $15.00 fine and costs.
Clarence Kirven Mills, w/m/
22, speeding. Pleads guilty
under waiver statute, $10.00
fine and costs.
Harold Linwood Stallings, c/
m/22, operating auto intoxicat
ed. 4 months in jail, suspended
on payment of $100.00 fine and
costs. To comply by June 2.
Barney William English, w/
m/45, speeding. Pleads guilty
under waiver statute. $10.00
fine and costs.
William Linwood Hobbs, Jr,
w/m/32, speeding; motor ve
hicle violation. Pleads guilty
to speeding; Verdict: not guil
ty of proper turn signal. $10.00
fine and costs.
Willard Fulford, w/m, worth
4ess check. Dismissed, nol
ph^.
J a riVes Fort Short, w/m/44,
speeding^ $10.00 fine and costs.
Charles jtaseph Fleming, Jr.,
w/m/47, motbr vehicle viola
tion. Pleads guiltyi to speeding,
not guilty to followin^<oo close
ly. Verdict not gMlty of
following too closely. $YGL00
fine and costs. x.
J. n. Perdue, Jr.
County Youth
Receives Intern
Appointment
Jasper B. Perdue, Jr., of
Louisburg Is one of 44 senior
students at the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine who have
received internship appoint
ments for 1964-65. "
Perdue, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jasper B. Perdue, Sr., Route 2,
Louisburg, will remain in Win
ston-Salem where he will serve
his internship at North Carolina
Baptist Hospital. The appoint
ment will become effective
July 1.
Appointments were made
through the National Intern
Matching Program, which op
erates under the auspices of the
Association of American Medi
cal Colleges. The matching
system utilizes preference
lists, submitted by the students
and the hospitals. Seventy
three per cent of the class
received first-chfcice appoint
ments.
Perdue attended LouisWurp
Junior College and was graduat
ed from the University of North
Carolina. He is attending medi
cal school on a Z. Smith Rey
nolds Foundation Scholarship.
J. B. , as he is known , to his
many friends here, is a graduate
of Edward Best High School.
His home is in the Hickory
Rock community, and he has
:wo brothers, Jimmy, a stu
ient at East Carolina, Wayne,
i student at Edward Best and
i sister, Judy, ^Iso attending
Edward Best. J. B. received
much of his training and in
terest in medicine from local
toftors and working in Frank
lin Memorial Hospital while
attending college.
Lye Water
Blinds Husband
A 35-year-old Dunn negro man
Is suffering the possible loss of
both eyes in Duke Hospital As a
result of an argument between
he and his wife Saturday night.
Cromie Tabron of near Bunn,
received the. Injuries around
8:30 Saturday night at his home
as his wife reportedly threw a
pan of boiling lye water In his
fare.
Mary Alice Tabron 29, is
being charged with assault un
der Penal code 14-30.1 pertain
ing to adds assaults, according
to Deputy Sheriff Dave Datton.
Bat ton stated that the couple
had had previous troubles and
that an argument started at
their home Saturday night. The
wife is reported to have pushed
Tabron down between a chair
and couch. She then poured a
can of lye into a pan of boil
ing water sitting on a nearby
stove and dashed the solution
in her husband's flee.
Tabron was brought to Fran
lln Memorial Hospital by pri
vate car and was later trans
ferred to Duke by a local am
bulance. Doctors expressed
the belief that he would not be
able to see again. He has
been unable to talk due to a
badly swollen throat since the
mishap, but this is expected
Vciear up, according to re
port*.
No reason for the argument
was giv^by authorities, who
are continuity their investlt'
gation.
Crippled
Children Drive
Underway
Mrs. Donald Griffin, county
chairman for the fund drive
for the Society of Crip
pled Children and Adults, this
week stated that the campaign
is still underway, but urged all
who have not answered their
letters and made their donations
to do so at once, as the cam
paign closes on March 31st.
Calls are being answered each
week to help the crippled chil
dren and adults of our county,
Mrs. Griffin stated, and urged
the citizens of Franklin Coun
ty to help the Society to an
swer these calls by giving gen
erously at this time.
Those who worked, with Mrs.
Griffin in the campaign this
year were Miss Adelaide John
son and the FBLA Club of
Louisburg College, Louisburg
Business District; Mrs. Wil
lard Timberlake, Youngsville;
Mrs. Hazel Kearney, Franklin
ton; and Mesdames Lloyd Gup
ton, Cooper Leonard, Stuart
Gupton, L. S. Ward, John Pleas
ants, Robert Hicks, Mrs. Fran
McGhee, Frankllnton and James
O'Neal and his typing class at
Gold Sand School.
Meeting
There will be a meeting of
hose Interested In Industrial
Development Thursday Night
it 7:30 In The Murphy House,
rhe meeting Is being called
o hear Mr. ..Carroll Singleton
if Singleton & Associates dis
miss a shell building program
or Franklin County. Industrial
Mrector, w. J. Benton, said
iveryone Interested Is Invited
o attend.
If the public speaking couW
solve the problems of humanity
hey ought to be solved.
It takes a political expert to
;now when the right to petl
ion degenerates Into lobbying.
. A net total of $165,900.00 has
beenal'oted Franklin County for
the 1964-65 year for grading,
draining, paving and stabilizing
some of its secondary roads.
The County Commissioners ap
proved the recommendation of
the State Highway Department
in their meeting last Thursday.
A total allotment of $193,000
was made with 10'Jf
allowed for road ad
dition; to this was
added a balance of
$33,359.00 less the Pergerson
Road addition and $10,000 set
aside for surveys and right-of
ways.
The projects approved and
money alloted are as follows:
3.0 miles, Velma Perry Road
from SH 1618 to SR 1624, $53,
000; 2.6 miles, Joe Denton Road,
from N. C. 98 to SR 1708 and
from SR 1709 to SR 1706,
$25,500; 1.8 miles Douglas Wil
liams Road, from SR 1458 to -
SR 1451, $25,200; 3.6 miles
Beasley Road, from SR 1235
toU. S. 401, '$37, 800; 1.2 miles
J. B. Leonard Road, from
SR 1449 to SR 1 lr., . $16,600
These total $158,000 for paving
12.2 miles.
A sum of $7,80o was alloted
for approximately 0.5 mile of
a section of Montgomery Road
for grading, draining and sta
bilizing, making the total to tie
spent, $165,900.
In other action taken by the .
Commissioners, J. Harold Tal
ton was appointed to fill the
unexpired tejm of W. J. Ben
ton on the Industrial Develop
ment Board. Benton resigned
recently, to accept the position
?>f Industrial Director. Macon
Morris was appointed to serve
on the Development Board for
3 years. Talton's term ex
pires March 1965. Morris will
serve until March 1967.
The Board granted a two weeks
extension to the construction
firm of Weeks and Theys in
their contract on the County
Welfare Building.
On School Prayers
Washington, D. C.--On June
25, 1962, the Supreme Court
banned recitation of an official
prayer in the public schools of
New York.
At leas* 44 resolutions to
amend the Constitution so as
to nullify the Supreme Court's
decisions have been introduced .
In the House. A survey has
been made of the .whole ques
tion and It is now in the hands
of Judiciary Committee mem
bers.
War On Poverty
Wa^ington, D. <5. ? In his war
on pOveHv, President Johnson
plans a co*t>s to train youths
for jobs in an^ffort to create
jobs in depressed ^reas.
-Photo by Dick Burnette.
A Doll Gets Polio Sugar
57 % Of County
Get Polio Vaccine
The First of three big steps
wipe out polio in Franklin
.Coibdi! was undertaken last Sun
day Tn ,a mass immunization
program at eleven Stop Polio
Clinics. Nearly 16,000 resi
dents received the sugar cube
containing the TyjifeJ polio vac
cine. It had been nyued that
at least 21,000 residJH^s of
the county would take the
cine and the county medical*
society is undertaking mea
sures to seek out means of
reaching those who did not take
the vaccine Sunday.
Dr. Doyle Medders, President
of the Franklin County medical
society and the Chairman of the
Stop Polio Campaign stated, "I
am impressed with the results
that we haVe had in this first
campaign, but feel that to real
ly do the job of eliminating polio
we must reach more people in
the county. As a step in this
direction the Type I vaccirfe
will be administered all this
week at the Franklin County
Health Center in Louisburg."
Honrs will be 2 to 4 p.m. Mon
day through Friday. Dr. James
B. Wheless, Health Director of
Franklin County, also ex
pressed his disappointment in
the turnout stating, ''If we are
to eliminate polio from our
county we are going to have to
immunize at least three-fourths
t>f the population, Or 21 ,000 peo
DrNvWheless also announced
that, theNaccine will be distri
buted thisNweek to i>oarding
homes in the fHMinty and to the
prisoners in theN^unn Prison
3 am p. Dr. MeddenKhad only
praise for the campaigiKwork
ers, "Without the marveh*iis
organization of this campaigrh
by the Junior Women's Club
under the direction of Mrs. Jean
Hight, assisted so ably by Mrs.
Joyce Holton and Mrs. Betty
Bullard, we could not have car -
(See POLIO Page 8)
Car Lands In Field - Driver In Hospital
Shown above is the late model
Ford driven by George Robert
Hayes, 25, Rt. 1, Creedmoor
man, who lost control on rural
highway 1003 near Mitchiners
Crossroads Sunday around 7
p.m. The car went off the road
and traveled 96 feet into a
freshly plowed field. Hayes
suffered a fractured pelvis and
was charged with exceeding the
safe speed limit. -Times Photo.