Cloudy and colder today. Chance of rain today and Wednesday and continued cool. Low today, 38; high, 50. The Franklin Times ... - . ... . Published Every Tuesday & Thursday Serving All Of Franklin County It's about time to try to re member those resolutions you made January 11, 1965; If you recall any of them, make them again for 1966. ' -r Tel. 0Y 6-3283 (Ten Cents) Louisburg. N. C.. Tuesday, January 4 1966 (Eight Pages Today) 96th Year ? Number 90 CHIEF W J. SHEARIN . retires CHIEF R. G. PERSON takes over Fire Department Has 44 Calls In 1965 The Louisburg Fire Depart ment had a relatively good year, with no major fires reported. In all they answered 31 calls in town and 13 out-of-town con tract calls during 1965. This fell short of the 41 in-town calls in 1964 and two more than the 11 out-of-town calls in 1964. The Department voted a new chief into office during the lat ter part of the year when As sistant Chief R. G. Person was named to succeed veteran Chief W. J. (Pete) Shearln, who re tired. Person took over Monday night. Probably the most destructive fire of the year came in late December when the Blount Funeral Home building on South MainStreet was destroyed just before Christmas. The calls were not reported in categories, but maity were made to extinguish brush fires, automobile fires and minor stove flareups. Out-of-town residents desir ing. fire protection must exe cute a fire contract with the Town of Loulsburg each year. Contracts expire on Decem ber 31, and reminders have gone out to all contract holders to renew at once. Town ordinances prohibit the department answering an out of-town call unless the proper ty owner has a contract. The department has had one call thus far this year. This came Saturday when they were called to put out a grass fire near the office of Dr. John Lloyd on Jolly Street. Board Of Education OKs $459,845.00 Project For Negro Schools In County The Franklin County Board of Education approved a program calling for an expenditure of over $450,000 in federal funds In local schools In Its regular meeting held here Monday. The program, which must meet state and federal approv al, is part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed by the Congress last year. Under the provisions of the act, all the funds will be spent In Negro schools In the county system The funds are not broken down according to Individual schools, but Reading Improvements Projects lead the list with a proposed expenditure of $232,325.00, followed by Re lated Services such as lunch rooms, at an expected cost of $183,520.00. Other proposed expenditures contained in the plan, as devised by Schools Superintendent War ren W. Smith and Director of Instruction Mrs. Margaret W. Holmes, call for $40,950.00 to be spent In Health Related Water Becoming Scarce More and more concern Is being expressed In the area over the lack of rainfall In the past three months. Many com munities report a number of wells going dry. Loulsburg weatherman G. O. Kennedy reports a total of 3.42 Inches of rainfall Is all the area has had since last September. October brought 1.94 Inches, November 1.12 Inches and De cember had only .36 Inches. The light rainfall In the area Monday was not enough to re gister at the weather station, said Kennedy. In the Bunn area, Neal Brant Center vine Area To Get Telephone Exchange CentervUle ? H. T. Pitts, Carolina Telephone manager, has announced that a new tele phone exchange Is being con structed at CentervUle. It will become the company's 114th exchange. r Subscribers living in the Alert, CentervUle, Gupton, Stalllngs Crossroads, andWood communities, as wejl as part of the Justice Community, will be served from this new office. At present, subscribers In these Eight Auto Inspection Stations OK'd The new 1966 black on orange North Carolina automobile li censes are on sale locally at Western Auto Stort on East Nash Street, and eight local garages have been approved as Inspection Station* for the N. C. Inspection Law, which goes into effect on February 1$. While others are expected to be approved and added to the list of Inspection Stations be fore February lS7the following have already been approved: D. & J. Pont lac Olds, South Main St.; Loulsburg Motors, Bckett Blvd.; Rowe Chevrolet - Bulck, West Nash Street; Red Dlckerson's Garage, East Nash Street; Lester's Blvd. Service Center, Blckett Blvd.; Pete Smith's Garage, Rt. 3, Louls tervllle, and Perry's Esso, North Main St. The schedule for Inspection of each private automobile Is based on the last digit In the 1966 license plate number, ac cording to reports. The posted Inspection Station Signs list the following: Cars with the final number 3 must be Inspected by March 31; ?, bT April 30; B, by May 31; 6, by June 30; 7, by July 31; 8, by August 31; ?, by September 30; 0, by Oc tober 31; 1, by November 30, and 2, by December 31. Inspections cannot begin un til February 18, according to reports, and must be performed during the period designated by the final number on the license for that particular car. A small Inspection chkrge Is made by the Inspecting stations. areas receive telephone service through facilities connected to the Loulsburg exchange. Franklinton Man Gets Promotion TOMMIE N 'STEPHENS Tommle N. Stephens of Frank Union has been named State supervisor of Diversified and Comprehensive Vocational Education In the Department of Public Instruction. His appointment to the post was announced by A. G. Bul la rd, director of the Division of Vocational Education. Stephens Joined the Depart ment's staff last Feb. 1 as as sistant State Supervisor of Di versified and Comprehensive Vocational Education. In his new poet, he succeeds Charles L Jones, who resigned to be come an assistant professor of education at North Carolina State University, lh charge of supervising student teachers In Agricultural Education. Jones has headed the Diversi fied and Comprehensive Voca tional Education program' since last spring. A native of Wake County, Stephens Is a 1942 graduate of Cary High School. He holds the B. S. and M. Ed. degrees In Agricultural Education from N. C, State University ajid has done additional graduate work In school administration at the University of North Carolina and Duke University. He was a vocational agriculture teacher at Frankllnton High "School for IB years. When the new exchange Is placed In operation, existing subscribers, as well as the new customers In the area, will be able to receive higher grades of Service. Pitts pointed out that tele phone numbers will be changed for those customers who will be connected to the new office. The new numbers will be pre fixed with 853-XXXX. Calls to Loulsburg will con tinue to be made on a local call basis. "The decision to establish the new local dial office was made because of the recent growth In these communities and a large number of appli cations for telephone service," Pitts said. It will be housed in a 25x34 foot masonry and concrete building at the Intersection of county roads 1456 and 1457. This exchange will require an Investment of about $232 ,000 by Carolina Telephone, Includ ing the cost of land, equipment and outside plant rearrange ments. These new facilities will serve more than 500 subscribers, and It Is expected to be placed In service In the summer of 1966. "The construction program here Is In keeping with Caro lina Telephone's continuing program to fulfill the telephone needs of the communities It serves," Pitts pointed out. He said, '"Hie CentervUle exchange was engineered to al low for telephone growth In the ley, locaj service station operator, has announced that he has plenty of water on his property and has Invited the public to make use of it. He stated In a tdiepfione conver sation to The Times that many wells had gone dry In the Bunn area and he would "be glad for the people to get water at his place." He explained that the well that is to eventually supply the proposed water sys tem^fdjythe Town of Bunn is located at his station and it has amply supply for the entire population. Kennedy stated that this Is the driest spell In quite a few years. He recalled a similar spell In 1925, but declined to say that this was the worst since then. He said the river was holding up well, standing this morning at 2.35ulsburg Rescue Serv ice made 177 calls In 1965, fourteen less than In 1964 and 37 more than were made In 1963. There were 191 calls In 1964 and 140 In 1963. Chief V. A. Peoples reports that wrecks led the number of calls for help with 44, followed closely with 33 heart attack victims aided. Surprisingly, there were only two false alarms, far less than In previous years There were 13 calls to aid victim* of shoot ings and cuttings, and 13 minor accident call* were made. The service went to three drownlnf scenes during the year and stood by at It football and basketball games. Other calls listed Included: t shock cases, two fire calls and 56 miscellaneous calls. The service of 11 men contributed a total of 73S manhours In offering assistance to emer gency victims during the year. The service, started In 1948 as a part of the Lou Is burg Fir* Department and later becoming CHIEF V. A. PEOPLES few mr colli ? ? a separate unit, spent a number of hours In arrangements for their annual fund raising show, "Guess The Price." The ever popular production, this year, tell short of last year but accounted for about $700 In Top News Headlines Of 1965 JANUARY 4-Gaither Beam Named Re corder Judge 7 - Gold Sand Opens Cafeteria 12 -Tar River Butn Associa tion Formed 10 - Frankllnton Housewife First Road Fatality It -Seven-Inch Snow Hits Area 22-C0mml?sl0net's, Ed Board Discuss School Needs FEBRUARY 1 - General Assembly C^wns (-Ed Board Delays Signing Integration Pledge IS - Mayor L. A. Wheless Suf fers Heart Attack 15 -C o m m 1 s s 1 one r s, Ed Rnrd Hold Second Meet 23 - The 100 Organization Formed to Aid College 27 - Bunn Girls, Youngsvllle Boys Win Tourney MARCH \ s. 1 -Com miss loners Pall to Act on Ed Board Request 8 - Thieves Take $2,000 In Machines at Epsom School 11 -Council Calls May Elec tions 1!- Commissioners Reject Ed Board Funds Request 16 - Ed Board Committee Named to Draft Plan of Compli ance 20 -Thieves Hit Gold Sand School 27 -Thieves Hit Gethsemane School 30 - Ed Board Abolishes All School Districts APRIL 1 - Deputy Tax Collector Named t-Wlnaton Replaces Wood Uet on Ed Board ( - Frankllnton Announces School Plan 15 - New Plywood Induatry Lo cate* Hare Ed Board Officials Confer In Washington tl - Ed Board Considers Com pliance Plan Draft \ ?' ' I ? 30 -Pat Taylor Chosen Miss Lou Is burg MAY 3 - Ed Board Announces Plan of Compliance to Civil Rights Act 4 -Peoples, Pearce, Roberts Elected Mayors See HEADLINES Page 8 Notice The Franklin County, Fire man's Association will hold Its monthly meeting Wednesday, January t, 19#? at 7i00 p.m. at the Centerrtlle Fir* Depart ment. i conferred with Yarborough, Smith and Board Vice Chair man Clint Fuller shortly before Christmas on the squabble in volving a group of local Negro parents who contend the Board should have the federal funds cut off because of denial of certain lateral transfer re quests by Negro students. The Board discussed the im pending suit at length and again reviewed its original Han of Compliance and several amend ments. The Board also briefly discussed possible consoli dation moves In the near future, dependent upon State Bond funds. The Board approved a request from the Gethsemane P.T.A. and the school advisory council and made official the naming of the gymtorlum at Gethsemane in honor of the present princi pal, Reuben M. Darden. Louisburg Police Make Fewer Arrests As Crime Decreases According to a year-end re port by Chief William Dement of the Loulsburg Police De partment, crime In Loulsburg Is down from a year ago. The local police made 366 arrests In 1964. This number fell to 318 this past year. Public drunkeness led the ar r^>ts-at an even 100, with dis orderly conduct coming In second with 23 arrests. Other arrests Included aggravated as sault, 19; simple assault, 13; and drunken driving, 11. There were 117 arrests made for minor traffic violations, Dement reported. As the year ends, only two cases, probably tied together,4 remain unsolved. These are breaklns into two private homes in town on a Sunday afternoon several months ago. There were no store breaklns report ed in 1965, said Dement. These had been among some unsolved cases in past years. There were no capital offens es in town in 1965. Dement reports there were no murders and no rapes during the year. Commissioners Endorse Committee Redisricting Proposal For County The Franklin County Board of Commissioners endorsed the House Redisricting Com mittee's plan to place Franklin In a House district with Vance and Warren Counties, In their regular meeting here Monday. On motion by Commissioner E. M. Sykes and seconded by Commissioner George Harris, the Board adopted a resolution approving the House Commit money to operate the service. Donations from private citizens and organisations have been made to the service from as lar away as St. Louis, Mo., this year These donations Included several from neigh boring counties. The Service has made two calls thus far In 1966. Ironi cally, the first was made to assist one of their own mem bers, Dean Holton, who was Injured when his motor bike struck a dog on Jolly Street Saturday, January 1, around 2 p.m. The second was made Sunday night to aid an uniden tified woman and her father In the White Level Community. The woman suffered a fainting spell, and the fnan complained of chest pains. He was trans ported to the local hospital. Members of the Rescue Serv ice are: Chief Peoples, Kyle Prince, W. D. Morton, Gerald Eury, Bryant Best, David Mln nlch, Charles Lambert, Ned Lloyd, Wyatt Freeman, Joe Shearln and Dean Holton. CHIEF WILLIAM DEMENT few?r crimes The seven- man force, led by Chief Dement, has been praised by local citizens for Its work during the past year. Members of the force are: Kyle Prince, Gerald Eury, Earl Tharrlngton, Ned Lloyd, Hubert Shear In, and Thurston Bottoms. tee's action*. The endorsement came following a discussion of possible alignments by Repre sentative James D. Speed. The General Assembly, meet ing In special session starting January 10, will pass on the proposed alignment of House districts as well as Senate re apportionment and Congress ional redisricting. Franklin remains In the Senatorial Dis trict with Vance and Granville under the proposed redisrict ing of the Senate and In the Second Congressional District of Rep. L. H. Fountain In the realignment of Congressional districts proposal. Board Attorney Charles Davis revealed abetter from John T. Morrlsey, St., General Counsel for the N. C. Association of County Com in lss loners, \n which the leg^l advisor dis closed a movement to Introduce legislation allowing local county commissioners to realign their own counties. The letter stated that the bill will "allow" but not " require*' that this *e done and all counties must agree on one single bill. In other actions, the Board heard an appeal for recon sideration of the plans to abol ish the dog warden program by Tyree Lancaster, presently employed as county warden. The Board took no action. The audits of the Franklin Memorial Hospital and the Clerk of Court's office were presented and approved. Lou Is burg C.P.A. Lonnle R. Shuplng was awarded a contract to continue as auditor for both these de partments In 1966. The Hospital audit showed a profit of $53,030.67 for the 'year ending September 30, 1965 and an Increase in total assets from $869,263.92 In 1964 to $916,879.09 for an Increase of $47,615.17 for^he year. The Board also approved plans of the County Board of Educa tion to purchase two lots of land adjoining the Riverside School property. County Highway Death Toll Light District Accident Statistics For December Vance Granville Franklin Warren Acc. 22 36 24 18 100 Kid. 0 1 0 1 z P. Damage t 8,160.00 $28,775.00 $11,095.00 $ 7,940.00 $55,075.00 Franklin County set an envi able record In reducing highway (ktalltles during the year lust passed. The reduction from 14 to alx represents a 57% decrease In highway deaths for the year over 1964. While North Carolina and the nation were setting a new alaughter record, locally, the six fatalities were the smallest since 1961 when six died on the county highway! . The low est number In recent years was recorded In 19B9 when only five were killed on the highways. In 19(4, 14 persons met death on Franklin Cotpity highways. This was one short of the record set In 14S8 when IS died. There has been no fetallty in Franklin County since Octo ber IS, when a Negro pedestrian was struck and killed on State Rural 1601 near the Leonard "Farms a few miles east of Lou Is burg. Other fatalities occurred on January lu wnen a so-year-oia Frankllnton woman died In a head-on collision near Frank llnton; May 7, an 18-year-old Negro youth from Klttrell died lti an early morning wreck near Sims Bridge, on May 20, a passenger In the same car died of Injuries received In the ac cident; July 28, a 13-year-old Frankllnton youth was killed when struck by a car near the hoarding home while riding his bike; and on August X, a 38 year-old Negro woman met death In a head-on collision on Highway M, two miles east of . Lou Is burg. In 1984 there were tlx deaths recorded during the period Oc tober 16 to December II. Thus fer this year, there have been none. Since 1SW the death rate has fluctuated in Franklin Coun ty. In IIH there were 10 killed; 1987, Uj 1901, 18; 1089, 5; 1980, It; 1981, 8; 1981, 10; 1983, 10, and 1984, 14.