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Weather Fair to partly cloudy today and Wednesday. Cool today and a llttld warmer Wednesday. Low today, 32; high, 52. The F raliklin Times Published Every Tuesday & Thursday Serving All 0* Franklin County Comment The reason truth make* such slow progress Is that It 1* In competition with pretense'. T?l 0Y 6-3283 (Ten Cents) LouiSburg, N. C-. Tuesday. December 29 1964 J (Eight Pages Today) 9feth Year? Number 89 Shelton Resigns Recorder's Judge Post Due To Health W. F. Shelton, Recorder's Court Judge since 1956, Is step ping down from the post, as soon as a replacement can be named, due to 111 health. Shel ton, who also operates an ac counting office and manages the Loulsburg Theater, an nounced his resignation last week In a letter to George Harris, Chairman of the County Commissioners. The Judge said, MJ am sorry to leave the post of Recorder's Court Judge, but based on a recent conference with my doc tor, I felt it advisable to step down. Had I known I would find it necessary to do this, I would not have qualified for the po sition in December, or, for that matter, sought another term in the recent elections." Shelton suffered a severe heart attack while holding court on October 10, 1963. For several weeks his condition was listed as "serious" and he was not allowed visitors. He reported that his health at pres JUDGE W F SHELTON Seven Hospitalized Following Festive Christmas Day Dinner Christinas Day dinner turned Into a calamity and near catas trophe for the family of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Floyd of the New Hope Community After eating the meal, seven persons were hospitalized with food poison ing, while several others escap ed the illness. Mrs. Cecil Joyner was still In Franklin Memorial Hospital Monday and Glenn Perry was hospitalized in Rex while Mrs. Lx>ls Tant was retained in Wake Memorial. The others were treated and released earlier. All were children and grand children of Mrs. Vivian Perry Floyd by a previous marriage. Others suffering from food poisoning and receiving treat ment wer*: Mrs. Allwln Mul len, her daughter Vickie; Stan Joyner, sqnUftfc Mrs. Joyner; and Don Perrjf^idr. Floyd was treated at the office of a Pilot physician and released. All are from New Hope and Bunn , communities. Doctors at Rex Hospital In . Raleigh were trying to deter- , mine what caused the poisoning, , from food taken there for ex- j amlnatlon. One report said that j all present ate much of the j same things, with some becom- , lng 111 and others apparently unaffected. Mrs Joyner, whose condition was most serious of the victims, was treated by a Youngsville physcian accord ing to reports, and was later taken by ambulance to the Franklin Memorial Hospital. Mrs Tant was also seriously ill -and was given oxygen at Wake 1 Memorial. Mrs. Floyd apparently did not ' suffer from the milady and several of her grandchildren were not taken ill. ent, he feels, is good, but he Indicated that the strain of sit ting on the Judge's bench was detrimental to his heart con dition. The Juror, who Is 48 years old, served as Vice Recorder under the late James Malone, taking over Malone's court when the latter suffered a stroke at his home On November 8, 1957. Shelton was sworn in to fill the unexpired term to which Malone had recently been elect ed, In December, 1957 when It was determined that Malone would be unable to continue at the post. During Shelton's Illness last year, local attorneys were tem porarily appointed and served on a rotation basis until the Judge recovered sufficiently to resume his position. The Recorder Judge position pays $3,718.00 annually and the Board of County Commission ers Is expected to name a suc cessor to the post In Its regu lar meeting on January 4. Several local names have been mentioned, none of which have as yet Indicated their desire for the Job. One Commission er said he had heard the names of -E. C. Bulluck, local attorn ey; Wilbur Jolly, former State Senator and Town of Loulsburg attorney; and W H. "Jack" Taylor, County Solicitor, men tioned in connection with the appointment. He added that no "real push" had yet been exerted In behalf of anyone for the post. Other names linked with the appointment are County At torney Charles Davis and Charles Yarborough, both young Loulsburg natives, and Tom East, veteran Franklinton and Loulsburg attorney, who sought the office In opposition to Shel ton In 1960. One of the Commissioner* queried said that he had not been Informed of the resig nation and had heard It first on Sunday night. He said he had not given It much thought and that no names had been mentioned to him for a re placement. Shelton will continue as thea ter manager and to operate his accounting business here, he said, but he is forced to take i rest period in the middle 3f the day. Shelton, a layman In the field of law, has been lighly praised for his services oy several local law enforce ment officers. ALA To Meet The Louisburg^jjrUt of the American Leglotrj^iixilUry will meet on Fridays ritgtit, January 1st, at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Robert Smlthwlck on Church Street. AIL members arc urged to be present. A friend Is not always the man who tells you how wise and good you are. Overturned pictured aoove is car wnicn overturned on Wilson's hill on the Henderson Road around midnight Christmas Eve. Loulsburg Rescue Service members reported they found only one occupant at the scene. He was apparently the driver, Paul Ingram, negro, home ad dress unknown, who was hos pitalized In an unconscious con dition. -Times Staff Photo. Crash Kills One, Seven Hurt \ ' One man' was killed and seven other people were Injured In a head-on collision on High way 39, 1 1/2 miles south of Pilot Sunday afternoon around 4 p.m Both cars were totally demolished. The Injured lh-? eluded an 8- weeks-old ha by I tirl All those involved were , Negroes Killed Instantly Nathan- j iel Bar bee Mills, 20, of Rt. 1 ' Zebulon In a 1965 Plymouth and injured in the same car : Percy Brown, Jr., 22, of I, Box 86, Zebulon The belonged to Charles Brown, rot her of the Injured num. Whether Mills or Brown was driving at the time of the acci dent had not been determined Monday afternoon Brown suf fered a broken Jaw and was unab|e*cto be interrogated by State Highway officers. Patrolnun James Byrd of Loulsburg Is conducting the investigation The 1962 Pon Death Car & Speedometer pictured aoove, top, is iy65. Plymouth In| which Nathaniel Barbee M.ills, 20-year-old Zebulon, Rt. 1, Negro, was killed Sunday near Pilot. Seven other persons were in jured, orte seriously.' Bottom photo shows! Youngsville Shotgun Death Ruled Suicide Sheriff Joseph W. Champion reported this morning that his Investigation Into the shotgun death of -a Youngsvllle man on Christmas Eve had turned up nothing to indicate foul play. "As -far as we are concerned, It was suicide," the Sheriff said. The Sheriff's department re ported that Stanley W. Jones, 43, of Rt. 1, youngsvllle shot himself In the chest with a .16 gauge shotgun at his home un Christmas Eve. Funeral services were held for Jones last Saturday at the Willis Funeral Chapel In Wake Forest. Burial followed In the family cemetery near Stoney Hill Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Magdalene P. Jones; two sons, Stanley W. and Cecil A. Jones, both of the home; two daugh ters, Miss Mary Alice Jones of the home, and Mrs. Robert Barrow of Rt. 4, Zebulor; his mother, Mrs. Lisa Jones of Rolesvllle; a brother, Vanner Jones of Rt. 2, Frsnkllnton; ?four listers, Mrs. Nor$ El lis, Mrs. Dorothy Cade and Mrs. Nolle Averette, all of Rolesvllle, and Mrs. Lisa Mitchell of Raleigh. Moon Quits Town Job Gray Moon, veteran town em ployee. reslgnWhls post effec tive last Saturday, according to Town Administrator E.S. Ford. Moon had given a two-weeks notice of his Intentions to ter minate his Services. Moon, unavailable for com ment, Is reportedly planning to Join the state highway mainten ance department. He Is the second experienced town em ployee to resign In recent months. S. C. "Buster" Foster, Street Superintendent, resigned several months ago. At the time, Foster gave his reason as going Into private business. speedometer, stuck at 85 miles per nour. State Trooper James Byrd says racing was involved in the accident. The Plymouth struck a 1962 Pontiac which burned. ? -Times Staff Photos. tlac, driven by Moses David, 26, of the U. S. Air Force, stationed In Newburgh, N. Y., and a. native of Cheraw, S. C., caught fire and burned follow ing the crash. David suffered head and arm lacerations and his wife, Lou rune, 19, suffered body lace rations Their 8-weeks-old daughter, Carlo,- suffered se vere head injuries and her con dition when .brought to Franklin Mem )rial Hospital Sunday was termed critical. She was later transferred to Memorial Hos pital where her condition Mon day was defined as "fair." Also suffering Injuries in the David car were: Guthrie Short; 25, a broken leg; Willie David, 22, and Thelma Jones,. 32, both sustained body lacerations. All were headed from Newburgh, ; N. Y.f from Che raw when the accident occurred. Trooper Byrd said it was be-* lieved that the accident was caused by racing, Involving the 1965 Plymouth in which Mills was killed and an unidentified third car described only as a "a blue car." Byrd said that David reported that he met the two cars, with the red Plym outh traveling at a high rate of speed on the wrong side of the road. The Plymouth -cut out to the left shoulder striking the David car with the right side of the Plymouth. The speedometer on the Plymouth was stuck at 85 miles per hour. Byrd was continuing his in vestigation Monday trying to determine the driver of the death car and the operator of the third car. The Plymouth I was equipped with bucket seats and a four-ln-the-floor shift. Mills was the fourteenth fa tality of the year In Franklin County and the second In De cem^r and the fifth in the past 47 days. Officials To Meet County commissioners, ac countants, attorneys and other county officials from 12 North Carolina counties are scheduled to attend a district meeting of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners In Roxboro on Thursday, January 7. The meeting Is to begin at 10:00 a.m. and will continue until mid-afternoon. All local arrangements are being carried out by the county commission ers of Person County. In addi tion to the host county, other counties scheduled to attend Include Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford, Orange, Rockingham, Vance, Wake, and Warren. As a part of the Association of County Commissioners' an nual series of county conferenc es, this meeting will deal with a number of topics of Interest to county officials. T Intersection Mishap Scene above shows smash-up at Intersection of the River Road and South Main Street on Christmas Eve around 8:30 p.m. Car on right was driven by Wil liam Faulkner, 63, of Bunn who sufferedfaclal lacerations. Car qn left was driven by James Dunston, negro, who$e home address was not given. He was uninjured. -Tiroes Staff Photo.
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