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Local Editorial Comment Farming Is A Gamble Franklin County farmers know well how to sympathize with the peach growers who have suf fered great losses due to the re centcold weather, tocal farm ers have experienced bad crops and bad weather in the past. The weather is always an un known factor in farming. Every farmer, regardless of his crop, takes a chance on the weather each season. Last year, in our area.itwas too dry. This year, it could be too wet, or as in the case of the pe^ch growers, it could be too cold. Hail and wind always play havoc when they team together, usually on a summer day, late in the crop year, when the fields are full. Franklin County had this plague last year, j But, farmers go optimistically on their way, preparing for an other year. Plant beds have been sowed and fields are be^ng made ready. The weather, not withstanding, Franklin County farmers are a hearty lot and will soon be battling the ele ments, the allotment and the health scare, to raise another crop. Sympathy is extended to the peach growers, but little satis faction is derived here, that no damage has been done to the plants, because Franklin Coun ty's farmers still have their crop year in front of them, and with it, the weather. The Passing Scene Everybody threatening to run against an an nounced candidate, but nobody coming forth. The "Let George do it" boys having a field day, however, putting the scare^into many. The sight of a former county courthouse poli tician in town added fuel to the flame. It won't be long until the April 15th filing dead line. Then we'll all know. National Editorial Comment On Local Government lliis century's technological ad vances in communications and trans portation arc a tribute to man's ingenuity. hut a sad fact ol his human frailty is the corresponding lack of progress in his basic- polit ical machinery. In discussing progress iit politics, much has been said about growing federal power rutting in on the rights of stales to handle their own affairs. While the point is well taken, stales righters and other antagonists of federal authority would do well to make a re-appraisal of their own functions. It's certain central i /.ation in Washington is an issue but it's Death On Mountains Heath came, in a flurry of bad weather air accidents recently, to hundreds ol people. One was trying to land at an air port in \u stria?Inn struck? where then* were no automatic navigational aids. It is hard to comprehend the considerations which had this air craft attempting a landing at Inns bruek in such weather. In another similar accident, whic h t cl aimed 85 lives (the \ustrian I ragcd\ claimed 8-1) a four-engine plane crashed into the mountains near Lake Tahoe. ( alifomia I he plane disappeared in a blinding snowstorm which grounded rescue planes and halted all rescue opera tions. \ll of which proves once again that the elements of nature are loo devastating when on ihe loose, for even the strongest and best planes and pilots. It shows quite clearly, again, (hat Hying in bad weather is far more dangerous than flying in good weather. Ilic safe rule, for all, is to in quire about the weather? if neces sarv irom official weather stations? and cancel a flight, if not satisfied. IJiere will be those who laugh at equally (rue (hat many one-time state functions have been abdicat ed for lack of know-4iow and effi ciency on the local level. In that connection, our system of political subdivisions should be reevaluated with an eye toward merging certain functions now separated by county and city gov ernment and even slate and county authority. Doing away with multiple, dupli cating functions would result in monetary savings to hard-pressed small unit governments and at the same time would release more funds to help finance projects now threat ened by a take-over . from Washing ton. such caution. They will not have the last laugh. The Frapfelin Times ? Established 1870 ? Published Tuesdays & Thursdays by THE FRANKLIN TIMES. INC. Bickett Blvd. Louisburg. N. C. Dial GY 6-3283 Clint Fuller, Managing Editor Elizabeth Johnson, Business Manager NATIONAL EDITORIAL | A sTo cfo T fo N \ ^ U / Advertising Rates Upon Request ? SUBSCRIPTION ? Rates $3.50 per year; $6.00 for 2 yr?. Sales Tax .11 .18 Total $3.61 $6.18 $4.50 per year Outside State Single Copy 5c Entered at tbe Postoffice at Louiaburt, N. C. as second class mall matter. MR. FARMER - ORDER YOUR FARM GASOLINE ? * . . . t NOW, AND BE READY FOR YOUR SPRING FARMING JOBS. - FAST, METERED DELIVERY - 1ITTIE RIVER ICE & FUEL COMPANY S. MAIN STREET L0UIS8UR6, H. C. PHONE 6Y 6-341 Oj Am* x SAV / SA/A/E/ - \ fj, Looking Back With The Times 1 Year Ago Warren Smith gets county schools job. Dill would permit ADC vote at Bunn. 5 Years Ago General Griffin to command 30th Division. Bunn Jrs. to present play. 10 Years Ago Hall reappointed to Welfare Board. County Commissioner school held here. 25 Years Ago Representative A. F. Johnson, Sr. and Senator W. L. Lumpkin returned to Raleigh in elections. B. N. Williamson made County Accountant, as W. N. Fuller ret Ires. When you lend money, Without security, count il as gone for good and you will sometimes be surprised when you get it back. Income & Tax Cut The new tax law shifts some of the income tax burden onto persons with high incomes but leaves tfie bulk of the load on the middle- Income group. Persons with income of over $50,000 will pay 9.5 per cent compared with 8.8 per cent, those with incomes of over $20,000 will pay 24.4 per cent compared with the present 32.1 while those in the $10,000 to $20,000 class will pay 27.6 per cent, compared with the present 26.8. Those in the $5,000 will pay 38 per cent, compared with the present 38.6. about you atul your neighbors . . . Franklinton \y/ Mr and Mrs. Richard Hen derson and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Henderson spent the week end at Nags Head. Mrs. Charlotte Pearce visit ed Mr. and Mrs. WallaceGreen In Raleigh during the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wilson and daughter Barbara and Molle Burgen of Arlington, Virginia, spent the faster holidays with Mrs. H. F. Fuller. Mrs. Kenneth P?te and Kevin of Washington, D. C. ; Mr. John Hicks and son of Hyattsvllle, Maryland; Mrs. Richard Hicks and son of Baltimore visited Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Has klns and Mr. D. C. Hicks dur ing the week end. Mrs. Clyde T. Wright and Jill of Shelby visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mclntyre during the week end.* Mrs. Fleming Fuller of Kln ston and "Tex" Fuller of The Citadel were Tuesday guests of Mrs. H. F. Fuller. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burle son of Winston-Salem and Mrs. D. C. Hicks, Sr., of Wake For est visited the Woodrow Has kins and Mr. D. C. Hicks on Sunday. Miss Nancy Best has returned to MethodistCollegeinFayette ville after spending the holi days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Best. , Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hicks and sons of Chapel Hill visit ed relatives In Franklinton on Saturday. Miss Betsy Blount has re turned to Woman's College In Greensboro after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blount. Ben Williamson, Bill Parham and Michael Strother have re turned to the University of North Carolina after spending the holidays with their parent a> Visiting over the week end from Raleigh were Misses Dale and Gale Hall, Mr. Lemeul Murphy and Mr. Judson Lan caster. Mr. and Mrs. Crelghton Gup ton from Raleigh were supper guests of the Lee Gupton*sSun day. Mr. Jim Pearce and son from Buffalo, N. Y., visited the Fer nle Tharrlngton'sand the James Tharrtngton's Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Col lins and family visited Mrs. Beatrice Marshall at Park View Hospital Sunday. Miss Sandra Marshall visit ed her mother at Park View Hospital Friday and Saturday. She Is Improving nicely and expects to return to her sis ter's at Nashville Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Guptonand Amanda from Raleigh visited the Jim Gupton's over the week end. Mrs. Kelly Murray and Doug from Raleigh and Miss Diane Murray from Boone were dinner guests Saturday of the W. B. Leonard's. Visiting the Arrlngton's here Sunday from Raleigh were Mr. and Mrs. Horace Evans and Linda, Mr. and Mrs. George Ladd, Barbara and Baby, Mr. and Mrs. Truston Cogglns and children from Nashville. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Smith and family from Nashville visited the L. K. Smith's Sun day. 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