Cloudy and colder today.
Chance of rain today and
Wednesday and continued cool.
Low today, 38; high, 50.
The Franklin Times
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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. '
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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 2.35<ft., which
is about normal tor a dry spell.
He also added that the river
would probably not go down
any further.
The weather forcast ffcr the
area is chance of rain today
and Wednesday, with cloudy and
cooler weather. '
Services and $18,050.00 for
personnel to operate the pro
grams. The total amount re
quested Is $459^845.00.
The Board was presented a
long list of Interrogatories re
quested by attorneys for the
local Negro parents groupwhich
filed suit In Federal Court
charging the board's Plan of
Compliance to the 1964 Civil
Rights Act as discriminatory
last month.
Board Attorney E. F. Yar
borough presented the Doard
with a progress report on the
suit. He has been directed
to file an answer to the charg
es and to defend the suit. It
was also disclosed that Raleigh
Attorney Irvln B. Tucker, Jr.,
a former Assistant Federal
District Attorney, lias been em
ployed to asslst-ln the defense.
Yarborough did not disclose his
plans on whether to seek relief
from the Federal Judge on some
points requested in the Inter
rogatories request.
Supt. Smith inforjned the
Board that he has complied with
the Board's direction to file a
request for a Neighborhood
Youth Corps program for local
schools. The request for funds
was filed with the federal gov
ernment. The Neighborhood
Youth Corps, it was explained,
is not a part of the Office of
Education's programs and Is
not connected with the current
problems existing between the
Board of Education and the
Washington agency.
Yarborough reported receiv
ing a telephone call from Mr.
John Hodgdon, a representative
of th* HEW (Health-Education
Welfare) Department, in which
the official said to "keep the
current dispute on ice" until
his superiors could make a
decision in the matter. "Hodg
don had visited Louisburg and
Rescue Service Makes 177
Calls, Wrecks Lead List
The lx>ulsburg 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.