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Published Every Tuesday & Thursday The Franklin Times Serving All Of Franklin County 95th Year? Number 57 Louisburg. N C Tuesday September 8 1964 (Eight Pages Today) Five Cent ?BIB Jtftttz* 'couui swum Pay in (i Fees Fun's Over First Bus Unloads Eager Students Welcome Sign Pretty New Coeds Pictures above depict the opening of schools here today and the beginning of an other year at Loulsburg College. Left to right, (1) Mrs. Wilbur Jolly writes check for fees to Miss Martha Yarborough, second grade teacher at Loulsburg, while little Randy Parsons looks on. MrS. Jolly's daughter, Jane, enters the second grade | this year. Randy is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Bar bee Parsons of Ingle side, who were waiting their turn. (2) Two fifth grade cronies, Woody Warren, son of Mr. and, Mrs. Woodrow Warren, and Larry Fuller, son of Times Editor and Mrs. Clint Fuller, j are busy (?) putting away fishing poles And fpotlialls to, make room for their books; (3) first bus of year unloads under watchful eye of Loulsburg Principal Howard Stal llngs and (4) two unidentified pretty young misses eagerly head toward classrooms, while some mothers accompany their off springs in background. (5) Welcome sign is out for new college Students, and (6) a' couple of pretty new coeds arrive with wag on load of things to brighten their year at Louisburg College. Coeds are: left, Phyl lis Barrell and Nancy liayne, both of Vir ginia Beach, Va., who arrived here Sunday. College Expects 660 Students; County Schools Open Today With Attendance Off Loulsburg College begins Its 177 th year this week as new students arrived on campus ov er the weekend and returning students are expected tomor row. Four hundred freshmen are on campus to start classes tomorrow morning and 260 sophomores will attend their first classes Thursday morn ing. As In the pest, students come from all parts of the country and far away places. Probably the furthest away student this year Is an unidentified young coed from Anchorage, Alaska. Numbered among the students Is one set of twins. New faculty and staff for the 1964-1965 academic year at Loulsburg College are an nounced by President Cecil W. Robblns. Rev. Wade Goldston, director of Town and Country Work and professor of religion from 1954-1962, has returned to the campus as chaplain and direc tor of religious life. Earl Martin, Loulsburg, will teach 'part-time in the Math Department. He holds the A. B. from Wake Forest and the M. A. from UNC Chapel HU1. James P. Henson, Forest City, who taught part-time last year, will teach full time In the Busi ness Department. W. R. Rose, Henderson, an alumnus, will teach biology. He holds the B, S. from Wake Forest and the M. S. from UNC? Chapel Hill. For the past two years he has been employed by the Florida State Board of Health. John Wilbur Smith of Prince ton will direct the program of recreation and teach In the Physical Education* Depart ment. He holds the B. S. de gree In recreation and physical education from N. C. State. Miss Gertrud Wenzel of Dur ham will teach French and Ger man. A native of Ludwlgshafen, Germany, she holds the B. A. degree from Elon College and the M. A. from Duke Universi ty. In addition, she has had additional study at Heidelberg and Munich. For the past two years she has been teaching at Elon College. Umphrey Lee has returned after a leave of absence for work on the Ph. D. de gree and Is head of the English Department. Staff changes and additions in clude David E. Daniel, who be gan his \rork on June 1 as Director of College Relations, and his secretary, Mrs. Frank McFarland, Loulsburg. Thom as A. Patterson has been named Dean of Students with Mrs. Gladys Bailey of Loulsburg ap pointed as advisor to girls and houte counselor and Mrs. Ag nes Rose of Henderson, house counselor In Wright Dorm. Mrs. Alma Ellis of Henderson will serve as house counselor for Main and Davis Dorms. Mrs. Sally Versteeg, Louls burg, has been appointed assist ant to the Director of Dra matics. Producers Urged To Vote ? Eligible producers In Franklin County who have not Toted in the annual A SC Committee Elec tions should do so by returning their ballots to the Franklin County ASCS Office In Louls burg, not later than September 11, 1064. Each producer who casts a vote In the election should keep In mlrid the Importance of elect ing a committee from his com munity who will best represent the farmer during the coming J*r. Sworn In Superior Court Clerk Ralph Knott Is shown above, left, swearing in Leelan Woodllef of Youngsville as member of Coun ty Board of Education Monday as Mrs. T. H. Dickens, Board Chairman, and Schools Supt., Warren Smith, look on. Wood llef replaces County Commis sioner nominee Richard H. Cash as representative from the Youngsvllle District. -Times Staff Photo Woodlief Sworn: DePorter Named Leelan Woodllef, Youngsviile businessman, was sworn In as a member of the Franklin County Board of Education, by Clerk of Superior Court Ralph Knott, Monday morning as the Board met In its regular monthly ses sion. Woodllef, who replaces County Commissioner nominee Rich ard H. Cash, placed the name of A1 DePorter, popular Wake Forest College alumni and seed and gin operator In Youngsviile, as replacement for Woodllef on the Youngsviile District School Committee. DePorter, a native of Patter so^, N. J., received unanimous approval of The board for the position. DePorter, a former basketball star and coach at Wake Forest College taught school at Youngsville and coached basketball there for two years. He is married to the former Lucy Virginia Mitchell of Youngsville and they have two daughters, Mary Lou 4, and Nancy age 2. The board approved school holidays for the year as re commended by the school prin cipals. There are: Teachers meeting (NCEA)Oct. 13;(NCTA) Oct. 14; Thanksgiving, Nov. 26 27; Christmas, Dec. 23-Jan. 3 (8 days) and Easter, April 16-19. Moore Here Thursday Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Moore will visit Dan Moors the Loulsburf tobacco market Thursday morning, according to an announcement made this week by Wallace Tlppett,! Moore's local manager. The candidate will appear at! Ford's Warehouse Thursday at 8:30 a.m. for a short speech! before opening sales begin on] the Middle Belt market. This is the first visit here by Judge Moore since winning the Demo cratic primary In June. j The nominee, In effect will be opening his campaign against Republican opponent Robert Ga *ln, with the early morning ap pearance here.;. Following his speech at the local warehouse, Moore will visit Henderson, Oxford, and Durham. Sales on the local market are expected to get underway around 9 a.m. with the Ford Ware house having first sale. Moore's camplang headquart ers In Raleigh have mapped an Itinerary for the candidate that will have him appear In Dur ham after luncb on Thursday. The following teachers were approved, having been added to the list previously receiving approval: Gethsemane, Rubye F. Deas; Youngsvllle High School, Caroline C. Lee; Epsom, Louise AW. Shlnn; Gold Sand, Ann Woodall and Joan Cohen; Loulsburg, Elizabeth Crawford; Bunn, Mrs. Robert Burton, Stanley Ford; Sybil Jolly, Betty Griffin; Perry's, Lula H. Llles; Edward Best High School, Margaret Hobgood. The board approved a plan presented by the Loulsburg school whereby local funds would pay the salary of Mary Lee Rose, a second grade teacher, hired Douglas Denton as a full time maintenance employee and agreed to pur chase a stoker for Gold Sand school at a cost of $889.00.| Death Claims Former Resident Raleigh attorney and Louis- j burg native, Thomas W. Ruffin died at Rex Hospital lastSatur day following a period of de clining health. Ruffin was 69 j years old. He and another Loulsburg native, Judge Wll 11am T. Blckett began practis ing law In 1925 In Raleigh, both on the same day and in ad Joining offices. Prior to opening an office In Raleigh. Ruffin practised law with his father, William H. Ruf fin In Loulsburg between 1917 and 1925. Funeral services were conducted Monday after noon at 3:30 p.m. from St. Michaels Episcopal Church In Raleigh by the Rev. James Beckwlth. Burial followed In Montlawn Cemetery there. Labor Day Weekend Quiet Here .While 18 North Carolinians were killed on the state's high ways and over five hundred lost their lives dver the nation. Franklin County was enjoying one of the quietest Labor Day weekends In Its history. The 18 fatalities brought the state total to date to 1053 kill ed on the highways, a record number. Locally, there were ft - fire calls and two Rescue calls. Saturday night around 11:20 p.m. the Louisburg Fire Department was called to a car fire near Allen's gin and Monday afternoon around 3:45 p.m. the department answered a call to the farm of Miss Jessie Taylor Harris where a barn fire had been extlnqulshed before firemen arrived. The Justice department was called at 11:20 a.m. Sunday to a barn fire and the Binn depart ment received a call around 4:55 p.m. Sunday afternoon to a barn fire. Bunn fireman Joe Adams broke his leg as he attempted to Jump on the back of the moving truck on the way to a fire Saturday morning and Is In Franklin Memorial Post Office To Get Remodeling Project A remodeling of the Louls burg Post Office, announced today, Is expected to cost be tween $40,000 and $65,000, ac cording to the release from General .Services Administra tion in Atlanta, Ga. Bids will be opened October . 13, 1964, In Atlanta at 2:30 p.m. for the work, . which Is to Include, complete air con ditioning of the local office. Other' Improvements Include, closing the sky lights, new aluminum windows, heating sys tem repairs and alterations, lighting Improvements and structural repairs. General Services Admini stration Is soliciting bids for the Louisburg project along with a project for the Charlotte Post Office expected to cost a max!-/ mum of $49,000. The Loulsburg Rescue Ser vice received two calls, one Saturday noon to the home of Curtis G. Saunders on Justice St. and Monday to aid an un identified Negro man on Main Street Chief William Dement said there had been no arrests during the holiday. There have been no reports of accidents In the area. Bar Seeks Courthouse Plan At Board Meet The Franklin County Bar As sociation asked the County Commissioners to employ some qualified person to give pro fessional advice on the overall planning of the courthouse, In the Commissioner meeting Here last Friday. The request brought on specu lation that a move might be They Were, Too, Twisters Several people reported having seen tornadoes In the Seven Path area a couple of Sundays ago and have since re ported that they have received a certain amount of kidding about seeing things. Actually, upon Investigation In the area shortly after receiving the reports, no signs were found of any kind of storm. However, these people did see the twist ers. They did exist. They struck, doing some small dam age to tKe Goodip^p Bass farm on Rt. 1, Spring Hope that Sun day afternoon. The winds twisted off a pine tree at ground level and carried "it across the highway. Another tree was partially uprooted by the tornado which Jumped from the Bass farm to N. C. Highway 64 In front of the Julian Warren farm, interrupting traffic, es pecially a Volkswagon from Ohio which was lifted from one side of the road and placed down on the other. No one was hurt and damage was limited to the several trees. Those reporting having seen these storms that have not al ready done so, need not get their eyes examined now. made by the Association and others for the long awaited re novation of the courthouse. Rumors have been prevallant the past several months that something Is to be done to the1 facilities here. Some observers have said that the only means of financing the renovation would be through a county wide bond Issue. No of ficial statement has been re leased as to what, If anything, Is planned at this time In the foay of remodeling the court house. Loulsburg attorneys W. H. TaylOr and W. M. Jolly repre sented the Bar Association at the meeting. Chairman W. P. Chllders called the special meeting to discuss financing the water tank and foundation tliat is now under construction on the Gay Products plant site. TV Debate Killed Washington, D. C. ? Senate Democrats have relieved President Johnson of the bur den of deciding whether to de bate Senator Goldwater in a radio- television campaign con frontation. By a 44-41 vote, the Senate has killed legisla tion to suspend equal time ?provisions of the Communi cations Act. Riots And Raids Washington, D. C!--In a re cent speech, addressing mem bers of the Citizens Commit tee for Community Relations that will help Implement the new Civil ' Rights Act, Presi dent Johnson declared the na tion's fate will not be decided "by street rioters and night raiders." He said that the na tion has chosen to meet the problem "by the answer of law ?? Franklin County schools opened today with 4990 students of an expected enrollment of 6,220. The largest absentees were among the Negro schools, with Riverside leading. The Loulsburg Negro school has in attendance today 989 of an ex pected enrollment of 1492 students In elementary* and high school. Loulsburg High School has an enrollment today of 466 In the W. R. Mills Elementary school and 199 In high school for a total of 665 of the expected total of 666 students for a near 100% attendance to lead the county In this department. Epsom, who Is struggling to gain a teacher In elementally school, and needs to average 134 In daily attendance for these first two weeks, expected and enrollment of 150, received 141 last Friday and had 134 in at tendance today In the elemen tary school. Seventy five of the 85 enrolled are In atten dance in the Epsom HlghSchool. Gold Sand has 301 of an ex pected total of 344 answering the bell this morning and Ed ward Best Elementary has 214 of an expected 230. Edward Best High School has 131 of the 142 students expected. Bunn, the largest white school in the system expected 479 in elementary and 250 In high school and received today 446 elementary children and 235 upper grade students. Youngs ville received 307 of its antlcl* pated enrollment of 343 this morning. At Cedar Street and Maple vllle schools, both elementary, In the Louisburg District, half the expected enrollees were absent. Cedar Street expected 116 and Maplevllle listed 105 enrollments. In attendance to day are 68 at Cedar Street and 41 at Maplevllle. * Perry's, the^ second largest Negro school In the county had 665 of the anticipated enroll ment of 896 present this morn ing. Gethsemane had 603 of the 609 students expected. Youngsville Elementary counted 1Q9 of their 22$ for over 50% absent this first day. Superintendent Warren Smith said, most of those absent were working in tobacco and he ex pected the attendance to Im prove greatly within the next few days. On Price Control Washington, D. C.? Senator Goldwater, in his campaigning, has expressed to the farmer that he believes price support programs should be voluntary. He stated that the goal of the Republican party is "a free and prosperous American agricul ture with a minimum of Fed eral controls and Interfer ence." Everybody Drove A Car Some of the many automobiles parked at Loulsbujrg School last Friday afternoon, as registration took place for another school year. As one observer noted, "Seems everyone droves a .car." Parking at the school, like parking elsewhere, poses a problem. ST lines Staff Photo.
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