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The
Published Every Tuesday & Thursday
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Serving All Of Franklin County
Comment
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service to others, not upon
favors received.
T?l. 0Y 6-3283
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Louisburg, N C . Tuesday December 21 1965
(Eight Pages Today)
96th Year ? Number 87
"You Can't See Me"
'I'll try this one"
"Hi, Ma. I didn't see you coming".
'But, It's my birthday'
Finding It Hard To Wait
LITTLE MBS ALLISCN MARTIN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmy Martin of Loulsburg, Is shown above, busy as any
youngster ^ right now with the waiting for Santa Claus.
Allisonrtrfras more reason to bfe Impatient. She celebrates
her first birthday on Christmas Day.
-Times Staff Photos..
Count* School Funds Threatened
A hearing officer from the
Office of Education, Washing
ton, Is expected to arrive In
Loulsburg today to confer with
the attorney for the Franklin
County Board of Education on
discontinuance of federal funds
for the school system.
Continued federal aid to the
county Is doubtful, In light of
? letter received from Francis
Keppel, Commissioner of Edu
cation, this week, one Board
member said. Keppel has
threatened to take away the
money because of complaints
by several local Negroes that
the Board did not grant lateral
transfers of their children to
previously all-white schools.
Times Editor Clint Fuller,
vice chairman of the Board of
Education, said, "This Negro
group has Jeopardized over
$600,000 In federal funds, all
of which were slated by Wash
ington to go to Negro schools
except some N.D.E.A. funds,
cafeteria aid and vocational
ag assistance. The Negro
schools will lose these funds
also."
Fuller added, "Superintendent
Warren Smith has said that un
der the present ratio for under
privileged children, as set by
Washington, every penny of the
money from the Secondary Edu
cation Act will go to Negro
schools In Franklin County."
Mr. Smith and the entire Board
recognizes the need for these
funds, and It seems a shame
that they may be lost to the
Negro children because some
parents could not watt until the
Freedom of Choice plan was
extended to all grades next
year."
Board Attorney E. F. Yar
borough, Smith and Fuller made
two trips to Washington earlier
this year In attempts to solve
the dispute. Jones Winston of
Youngsvtlle, a Board member,
accompanied the group on one
of the trips.
The Office of Education ap
proved the locil plan last Aug
ust. The plan called for de
segregation of grades 1, 2, 9,
and 12 for this school year.
The other eight grades were
slated to be desegregated next
tall, under a requirement by
the Education officials.
The point of contention by lo
cal Negro parents Is the lateral
transfer provision of the plan.
They have entered suit In Fed
eral Eastern District Court
seeking an Injunction against
the Board of Education continu
ing to deny the transfer of twenty
Negro students to the grades of
their choice. "The lateral
transfer provision," Fuller
said, "was not meant to be a
means of desegregating every
grade In the schools. It was
No Times
Next Tuesday
The Franklin Times will sus
pend publication of Its Tues
day Issue next week, In order
to give Times' personnel a well
deserved Christmas Holiday.
All correspondents are re
quested to have their material
for Thursday's Issue In the
office Tuesday . Ads tor the
Thursday Issue must be In by
Tuesday noon. The business
office will be closed from Fri
day, December 24, until Tues
day, December 28.
placed In the plan because
Washington required It. They
set the criteria. The only
reason to grant a lateral, ac
cording to Washington guide-1
V
lines, was to allow a student to
gain a subject In another jchool
not bejng taught In the school
See SCHOOL ftge 8 __
deHart In Who s Who
Allen deHart
? -*?*
Allen de Hart of Loulsburg
College has been Included In
the 1865-66 edition of WHO'S
WHO IN THE SOUTH AND
SOUTHWEST.
The biographical dictionary
sketches the lives and careers
of meritorious Individuals who
may be of lntra-$ectlonal or
of national reference Import
ance. Selection, made by the
editors, Is based on occupa
tional stature or achievement
In one or more fields affecting
the development of the United
Mates.
DeHart, a native of Patrick
County, Virginia, has been a
resident of Loulsburg tor the
past eight years. He Is Di
rector of Testing and Guidance,
Director of Cultural Activities,
and professor of Psychology at
Loulsburg College. Previously
he served as an^bfflcer In the
United Sta,tes Army. In 1957
he authored the Colonial His
tory of Prince George County,
Virginia for the Hopewell His
torically Society, and was guest
columnist for the Danville Com
mercial Appeal.
His M.A. degree Is from the
University of Virginia, with ad
ditional graduate study at Duke
and Florida State. He is mar
ried to Flora Ballowe of Farm
vllle, Virginia, who is a faculty
member of the Loulsburg Col
lege English Department.
De Hart was the founder of the
German-American Xrts Union
In 1952, an organization dedi
cated to the cultural exchange
of young artists. He Is a mem
ber of the North Carolina Psy
chological Association and the
Amerloap Personnel and Guid
ance Association. He was elect
ed Chairman of the Franldln
County Industrial Development
Commission In 1984; he Is One
of the two southerners elected
this year to tlje national non
profit College Concert Foun
dation. \
The de Harts live on the Ra
leigh Road.
Hoard iimis Dog
Warden I'ro^riim
The Franklin Cqunty Com
missioners voted the. Dbg
Warden Program out of exis
tence In a special, meeting last
Friday afternoon. The action
becomes effective J>lajrch 1,
1066.
Chairman Claude Arnold,
stepping down temporarily to
make the motion to abolish
the program, gained a second
from Commissioner* It? M.
Sykes and a unamimous vote
of approval from the Board.
Alex Wood, clerk to the Board,
was instructed to notify County
Dog Warden Tyree Lancaster
of the action.
Arnold said, this morning,
that the county would go back
to the old plan. He explained
the ol<1? plan as the appointment
of someone In each township
to administer the rabies pro
gram each year. He said there
was "nothing behind" the move,
that after much discussion "we
decided it was the best thing
\o do."
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The Board heard a "discussion
of the recently adopted Food
Stamp Program by a Mr. Ktrbyr
director of the program for
the State Board . of Welfare.
He informed the Board that
approval was almost certain,
but that nothing could be done
until Washington gave its OK.
He Indicated that he would make
the start of the program as soon
as possible, even mentioning
the latter part of January or the
first of February as the kick
off dates. It had been believed
earlier that it would require
more time to get the program
underway.
? The special meeting, held In
ihe courthouse at 2 p.m. Fri
day, also heard a discussion
by Richard *E. Timberlake,
Technical Assistant to the
State Planning Task Force, on
the various federal sponsored
aid programs., Timberlake told
the Board of the formation of
Community Action Groups to
head up these programs and
recommended that Franklin
County Join 'with Vance and
Granville in the formation of
such a group. He said the three*
coufity system would get more
funds than a single county plan.
The Board heaH a report from
Sheriff Joseph W. Champion on
recommendations made by Les
lie p. Smith of the State Cor
rectional Institution Division
that no women be lodged in the
local Jail. The Board authorized
the Sheriff to place two women
prisoners In Vance County Jail.
The Commissioners adopted
a new regulation governing the
sale of beer. The regulation
says that no beer may be sold
in the county between th\s hours
of 11:45 p.m. Saturday and 7:30
a.m. Mondays.
Body Of Missing Charlotte Man
Found In County Farm Pond
The Loulsburg Rescue Ser
vice recovered the body of a
Charlotte man, missing since
last Wednesday, last night
around 8:45 p.m. from a farm
pond, five miles northwest of
Franklinton.
The body of Kverette Mullis,
59, Mecklenburg County well
dr 111 lug operator, was found in
a farm pond just off State Rural
road 1203 In Franklin County,
about one mile from Mt. Olivet
Church where his 1965 automo
bile was found Sunday.
Mullls' clothing, including his
shoes, billfold and rings were
fouq^- -along the bank of the
small pond Monday afternoon.
The Rescue Service began
searching for the missing man
around 3:30 p.m. Unsuccessful,!
the Service returned to Louis- 1
? mm V ?
burg but resumed the search,
after draining off. some of the
water later Monday night.
Mull Is reportedly left his
home In Charlotte last Wednes
day. The last time he was heard
from was Wednesday night when
he called home from Wrights
vllle Beach saying he was going
to Florida. His relatives, who
were summoned after his car
was Identified as that found in
the church yard, could give no
reason for the man having been
in Franklin County.
Leonard Scott, Ht. 2, Frank
linton Negro reported tha( a
man answering to Mullis' des
cription came to his home late
Wednesday night aud told Scott
that the Lord had sent him to
take Scott's family to church.
Scott lives a short distance
from the scene of the drowlng.
Frankllnton Police Chief Leo
Edwards and Franklin County
Sheriff's deputies Dave Batten
and Tom Powell are investi
gating the death. Footprints
at the scene led from the pile
of clothing Into the icy water
and It is believed that Mullls
committed suicide by drowning.
Edwards and T. H. Pearce,
free lance news man % spotted the
clothing while conducting a
search of the area from the air
Monday afternoon. A son and
brother-in-law of the victim
were in Frankllnton assisting
In the search Monday.
Mullls was the father of six
children according to reports,
the oldest of which is seven
teen and he Is survived by his
widow.
I II
Yarborough Named Man ur me Year
* ? . ? i
Loulsburg Attorney Edward
F. Yarborough has been named
"Man Of The Year" by the
Loulsburg* Rotary Club. The
selection was announced at the
club's annual Christmas meet
ing held last Thursday night
at the Loulsburg College Cafe
teria.
Yarborough was ' ltrd for his
work as attorney to the County
Board of Education In the past
several months and his aid In
the location of Industry here.
The presentation, made By Se
lection Committee Chairman
James A. "Weathers, noted Yar
borough's "Guidance of the
members of tlie Franklin County
Board of Education In the draft
ing and submission of a plan
for compliance under the re
quirements of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964."
The presentation noted the
numerous trips tlken by Yar
borough In the Job as attorney
to the Board and In referring
to the Plan of Compliance ef
forts said, "Realizing the Im
plications of Franklin County's
failure to comply and with a
full awareness of the Impact
of such a plan, (he) went about
the task of completing It and
labored untiringly In seeking
federal approval, which came
on August 31, 1965." *
The attorney Is the eighth
man to be so honored sine*
the practice of naming an out
standing man was begun by the
local club In 1958.
Yarborough has served as
President of the Loulsburg
Lions Club; he Is a Mason, a
past President of the Franklin
County Shrine Club, member of
the Chef De Gare of the 40 & 8,
past President of Green Hill
Country Club, past President
of the Seventh Judicial District,
Chairman of the Morehead
Scholarship Committee for th?
county, a member of St. Paul's1
Episcopal Church, and a lay
leader.
He represented Franklin
County In the N. C. Legislature
from 1951 to 1959 and served
on the Pearsall 'Commlttee. He
is at present a Trustee of
Loulsburg College, and he has
been honored as the "Tar Heel
of the Week" by the News and
Observer.
He Is a native of Loulsburg,
having been educated here In
Public schools ?nd atWood
berry Forest, Va. Later lie
attended the University of North
Carolina and Wake Forest Col
iege Law School. He se'rved
in the Pacific in World War II,
retiring with the rank of Cap
tain. He retired a few years
ago from the N. C. National
Guard as a Lt. Colonel.
He has practiced law here
since 1940 with time out for
military service. He is pres
ently associated with W. M.
Jolly in a law partnership.
Yarbofough fs married to the
rormer Nancy Hayes, daughter
of the late Mr. Hugh Hayes
and Mrs. Hayes. Thejr have
one son, Will Henry, age 10,
a student in the "fifth grade at
Loulsburg.
Others receiving the "Man of
the Year" awards in the past
are: 1958, H. C. Tayjor, Jr.,
for his work in the Loulsburg
School; 1959, A. Ft Johnson,
Jr., for his work In forming |
the Louffcbtorg Rescue Service;
1960, W. \ Benton, for his work
In Industrial development; 1961,
V,
Dr. Cecil W. Robblns, for his
leadership at Loulsburg Col
lege; 1962, Bland B. Prultt, for
his leadership in locating a sew
ing plant here; 1963, Willis
W. Nash, for his work In
schools, recreation and church,
and 1964, J. Harold Talton, for
his direction in locating the Gay
Products -plant here.
iC. Ray Pruette, Loulsburg
College faculty member, was
the featured speaker at the
ladles, night Christmas party.
Man Of The Year
EDWARD F. YARBORCUGH, local attorney, Is pictured above, right, holding tlx "Man
of the Year" award plaque, which was given him by James A Weather*, left, In the mm*
of the Loulsburg Rotary Club, lait Thursday night. Weathers, a past president of the club,
was Selection Committee Chairman, Yarborough was cited for his work with the County
Board of Education. -Times Staff Photo.