Weather Sunny and mild today. Low, 43; high, 70. Friday, generally fair and warm. > The Franklin Times Published Every Tuesday & Thursday Comment A man who does not think for hlmsell does not think at all. Oscar Wilde Serving All Of Franklin County Tal. 0Y 6-3283 Five Cents Louisburg. N. C-. Thursday April 16 1964 (Eight Pages Today) 96th Year ? Number 16 Democratic Precinct Meets Announced Meetings will be held in each voting precinct in Franklin County on Saturday, April 25, at 11 a.m., according to James D. Speed, Chairman of the Franklin County Democratic Party. The purpose of the meetings will be to elect precinct offi cers of the Democratic Party for a two-year term and to e lect delegates to the county wide Democratic Convention, which will be held in the Frank lin County Courthouse on Sa turday, May 9, at 10 a.m. All registered Democratic /oters are eligible to take part in these meetings and are urged to attend. Each voting precinct shall be entitled to cast, in the County Convention, one vote for ev ery fifty Democratic votes or major fraction thereof cast by the precinct for the Democra tic gubernatorial candidate at the last preceding gubernatorial election. Similar meetings will be held throughout all of North Carolina on these same dates. League Of Women Voters To Meet Here The April unit meetings of the Loiiisburg League of Women Voters have been cancelled In order to give the local re search committee adequate time to outline the group's new study item - the Louisburg school system. Members will be notified by the unit leaders atyrnt the May meetings. ? Beauty Contestant Sandra Wright Goswick, 17-year-old Franklinton High senior is the first an nounced contestant for the fourth annual Miss Louisburg Pageant sponsored by the LOuisburg Jaycees. Sandra is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs; J. W. Goswick of Route 1, Louisburg. Sandra was the winner of the "Miss Fran coa" title earlier this year. At Franklinton High Sandra is a bus driv er, glee club member, and F. H. A. mem ber. She was homecoming attendant and was in the senior play. Sandra lists cooking and horseback rid ing as her hobbies, howling as her favorite sport, folk and rock n' roll as her favorite music, and shrimp as her favorite food. Sandra is a Baptist. For her talent presentation in the pageant which will take place in the College Audi torium on May 15, Sandra will do a dance routine. Yarborough Rites Held Here Funeral services for William Henry Yarborough, Jr., former Louisburu resident and Raleigh attorney, were held Wednesday at St. Timothy's Church In Ral eigh. Burial followed in Louis burg's Oakwood Cemetery. Yarborough died Tuesday morning in the Lawyer's Build ing in Raleigh of a heart attack while talking on the phone. He was taken to Rex Hospital. by ambulance, but was dead on arrival. Mr. Yarborough, 55, had prac ticed law in Raleigh since 1932, first as an associate of the late Gov. J. Melville Broughton and later with William T. Joyner. He entered the Army in 1944 and returned to Raleigh in 1946 to open his private law firm. He graduated lrt 1931 from the University of North Caro lina, where he was editor of The Daily Tar Heel, and from the Wake Forest Law School the following year. Mr. Yarborough was a past commander of the Raleigh Post No. 1 of the American Legion and a former chef de gare of the Raleigh unit of the 40 & 8. He was a vestryman in St. Timothy's Episcopal Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jeanie Boat wright Yarborough; two daughters, Miss Mary Wi att Yarborough of the home and Mrs. James W. Armfield*of Jamestown; three brothers, Hill and Edward, both of Louisburg, and Kemp P. of St. Mary's City, Md., three sisters, Mrs. Richard Chance of San Diego, Calif. Mrs. Elenor Krawinkel of Bergneustadt, West Ger many, and Mrs. Joseph L.Carl 1 W. H. Yarborough, Jr. ton of Winston-Salem; and three grandchildren. Schools TV Oo Sunday Mrs. Evelyn J. Williamson, president of the Franklin Coun ty Unit of the NCE A today called attention to a television pro gram "Our Schools Have Kept Us Free", which will be pre miered over State television stations on Sunday, April 19, and again on April 25. The film, which should be of interest to all persons interest ed in our schools, may be seen on April 19 over WTVD, Chan nel 11, at 1 p.m. and over WNCT, Channel 9, at 1:30 p.m. WRAL, Channel 5, will carry the film on April 25, at 2:30 p.m. Rescue Show Success The Louisburg Rescue Ser vice's "Guess the Price Show" was a whopping success Wed nesday as they played to over 750 people packed into the Louisburg Armory. In what was described by Chief V. A. Peoples as the largest crowd, ever, hundreds of dollars in prizes were drawn for or bid on. Mrs. Barbara Alston won the big prize, a real live pony. It was not learned how Mrs. Al ston got the pony off the stage and home. Donald Davis of Louisburg won the reclin er chair, which was the other door prize. Clyde Gupton won the used automobile _??_abonus when he bid nearest the retail price of an assortment of automobile ac cessories. Mrs. Allen Thar rington won an expensive living room suite and Phylis Jeffreys won a radio and a bonus of a ladies pipe. The vacations to Carolina Beach were won by Thurston Allen, including free bus tickets there and back and Walton Hayes, who won a dozen sport shirts as his bonus. Mrs. C.J. Pruitt *won a modern dinette suite and Mrs. Robert Goswick won a diamond ring. On the lighter side, Mrs. Paul Stewart won a coop of bantam roosters and Daly Phillips won a real live pig. Harvey Stroth er, whose hair is thinning won an assortment of hair ollsollo in Franklin County i will be taken this Sunday. Type ! Ill Sabin oral polio vaccine will ; be distributed at the eleven | Stop Polio Clinics throughout! 1 Franklin County between the | hours of 12:00 noon and 5:00 p.m. Campaign officials stated this week that sufficient vaccinf has been ordered to vaccinate 21,000 people and in case of a shortage a helicopter will be standing by in Raleigh to fly in supplementary vaccine. They also pointed out that steps will he taken to elimi nate th& few flaws that were present in the first Stop Po lio Sunday a month ago. Dr Doyle Medders, Chair man of the campaign, empha sized the importance of all re ceiving the vaccine, "To real ly do the job of elimination polio," he stressed, 44 we must reach at least three fourths of the population of Franklin Coun ty which would take 21,000 lm minizations." A contribution of 25? per dose will be requested of those who can afford it to help meet the expenses o\ the drive. But no one i will be denied the vac cine. The sole purpose of the drive is to eliminate polio. The eleven Stop Polio Clinics will be located at the following school gymnasiums: (1) Louis burg, (2) Riverside, (3) Frank linton, (4) B. F. Person, (5) Bunn, (6) Gethsemane, (7) Edward Best, (8) Perrys, (9) Gold Sand, (10) Youngsville High School and Elementary. Beasley Files For Register Of Deeds Ralph Beasley, 35 year old Sheriffs Deputy, has filed for the office of Register of Deeds In the May 30th Democratic Primary, ^easley will oppose veteran Alex Wood, who filed earlier. Beasley Is a former Justice of the Peace In Louisburg, having held that position for six years. He also formerly operated a business on Mar ket Street here. For the past year he has been a member of the Franklin County Sheriffs Department. Beasley is a graduate of Mills High School and Is married to the former Nancy Holden, daughter of Mrs. Otis Holden and the late Mr. Holden of Youngsvllle. Both are Bap tists and life long residents of Franklin County. He^ Is the son of Mrs. Gladys Beas ley and the late Mr. Elias Beasley. Beasley resigned his posi tion with the Sheriffs Depart ment effective the last of April In order to seek a public office. He had been the subject of much speculation, s?nce his resigna tion announcement did not dis close which office he would seek. He paid his filing fee of $55.53 Wednesday. OES To Meet Wm. B. Barrow Chapter No. 39, OES, will hold a regular meeting on Tuesday, April 21, at 8 p.m. All members are urged to at I :M> l il<- Fop May Primary I Thirty candidates have filed for office ini the May 30th Democratic Primary as the' Headline for filing nears. Filing deadline j is twelve noon . Friday, April 17'. t The largest number to file in any race have filed for the seat now held by Norris Collins on the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, for District 2, Franklin Horace W. Baker Mrs. T. H. Weldon Lloyd A. West Incumbents, One Newcomer File For Education Seats Two Incumbents and one chal lenger filed this week for seats on the County Board of Educa tion in the May 30th Democratic Primary. Mrs. T. H.Weldonof| Hayesviile-Sandy Creek Dis tricts and Horace W. Baker. District 1, Harris-Bunn, both New Blood Bank Shown above, A. G. Mashburn, Chief Technician of Franklin Memorial Hospital sh'owing the new Blood Bank recently in stalled. j -Times Staff Photo. Hospital Gets New Blood Bank Franklin Memorial Hospital has recently instSrited the latest in a new Blood Bank unit. "We are fortupate to have this modern equipment in our .hos pital/' said A. G. Mashburn, Chief Technician. The unit is a controlled tem perature refrigerator type, insulated structure. It has an automatic recording de vice which records the tem perature on a paper jjisc for 24 hours, seven days' on ia single disc. These discs can be stored for a permanent record. A two light alarm system is also included, which will sound an alarm at anyr time the tem perature is affected or the cur rent goes off. The sunlt is one recommended by the Medi cal Care Commission and is the latest on the market. It will keep blood stored for 21 days, the maximum allowed by State health authorities. presently serving on the Board, filed as did newcomer Lloyd A. West, seeking the post held by Mrs Weldon. Mrs. Weldon has served on the Board for .the past eleven years and has been a member of Governor Sanford's Commit tee of 100 for Better Education. She is the mother of six and has been active in her church, New Bethel Baptist. She has been an officer in the State Grand Chap ter of Eastern Star and has teen active in this work for the |>ast 40 years. Baker has teen a member of the Board for the past six years. He is 38 years old, married to the former Rebecca Mangum of Wake Forest. They have two children, Vicky 15, and Donald, 11, both students at Bunn School. Baker is a past deacon and Sunday School teach er at Harris Chapel Church, a Mason and a member of the Bunn Boosters Club. West, a newcomer to politics, is a member of the Franklin County Industrial Development Commission. He is 40 years old, married to the iormer Daphine Cash of Sandy Creek. They have two boys, Donnie 17 and Kenneth 12, both stu dents at Gold SandSchool. West is a member of the Citizens Committee for the Study of Consolidation in Franklin County, Chairman of the Board of Deacons of Sandy Creek Church, a past Sunday School Superintendent and the Mu sic Director of the Tar River Association. Mrs. Weldon is a past Sun day School teacher and lead er in the Women's Missionary Society. She has also been ac-4 tive for a number of years in Home Demonstration work in the county. Her interest, she (See EDUCATION Page 8) and Youngsvilie. six have filed for this of fice and in the order of filing are as follows: John W. House, John P. Mangrum, Charles' H. Pergerson, Carl M. Bell, Richard H. Cash and W infield Garrett. In the race for the House of Representatives, the name of Incumbent James D. Speed is missing, but two have filed. Norris W. Collins, present County Commissioner ana James T. Moss, YoungsviUe farm leader have filed. W. F. Shelton Is the only can ddate for the post of Judge of Recorder's Court thus far. Oply other major candidate unop posed is Horace W. Baker for the County Board of Education. Hubert H. Senter filed to op pose W. H. Taylor, present Soilcltor of Recorder's Court. Taylor filed last week. Alex T. Wood, present Register of Deeds, has opposlton as Ralph Beasley filed Wednesday for, that office. Wood had filed earlier. Mrs. T. *H. Weldon of Epsom is being opposed by Lloyd A. West for the seat on the County Board of Education for the Hayesvllle-Sandy Creek Town ships. In the only other Com missioner race, Chairman. W. P. Chllders, Incumbent, has opposition from E. M. Sykes, who ran unsuccessfully last time. Twelve have filed for the vari ous Constable Jobs, with three at Harris leading the list. Harry Martin, Dennis Eakes and Warnton Pearce are seeking the Job there. Grey Moon, Louis burg; Johnny Horton, Dunn; Lloyd Gupton, Gold Mine; Van (See PRIMARY Page 8) Elections Board Rules On Race The Franklin County Board of Elections met Wednesday af ternoon to act on the scramble in the Sandy Creek Constable race. The Board ruled that' Harold House lives In Sandy Creek Township and is eligible to run for Constable in that district. The Board is composed of Taylor Boone, Chairman and Harry Rogers, both Democrats. The Republican member of the Board was not present. The member appointed, reportedly declined to serve and a new member is to be selected at the Republican Convention set for April 25. , The misunderstanding on House's eligibility had come about when it was reported that he lived in Lou isburg Township. He is registered in Cedar Rock Township, but his registration will be changed since his resi dence has changed. House re ported that he purchased his property from Fred C. Hlght and presented a statement from Hight that it was part of a tract known as the R. R. Radford place. The Tax Department In formed the Board that this land was recorded as being in Sandy Creek Township. Everybody Hod A Good Time Winning Dogs Ladies Pipe Boats Sporty Rescuer . . . Pony Tired M. C. . . . .