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The Ffajiljin Times Pwfcli?h?4 !*?'? Tw?*4av * ThwrUay -? W#?-| AU O* * rankles CtwMy LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT Road Committee A recent meeting of the Franklin County Better Roads Committee has brought forth an agreement among the members of a list recommended by the State Highway officials, of priority pri mary road projects. The list makes a lot of sense. Number one on the list of most needed road improvement is N. C. 39 from the bypass ill Louisburg to the Vance County line. Vance, its been reported, is as sured of improvement from Henderson to the Franklin County line. The need to improve the entire stretch from Henderson tj) Louisburg has existed for many years. The Committee has done well to make this the number one priority project. All the other projects listed are need ed. The State Highway officials have done a good job of recognizing these needs and the Committee has acted wise ly in approving the list. The question now, of course, is where do we go from here? >* 1 The State recognizes these needs. The county retognizes these needs. Seems that all that is left is to get on with the job of. making these improve ments. Money will probably be the big problem, but it is hoped that Franklin County, through the work of the Roads Committee and others, can convince the State officials in Raleigh that it is time to spend some of it here One thing is certain. Franklin County is trying, let's hope it will continue to do so. , ' And They Keep Coming . ? Several years ago we said surely this must be all. We've said the same thing many times since. But, alas, there seems no end to the things Washington can con tinue to come up with. There has been much in" the papers lately about the Resident's new Civil Right's Bill, particularly the housing requirements contained therein. Senator Sam Ervin, Jr. of North Carolina and Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois have both said this is unconstitutional, as if that mattered to the powers that be. But, even though this one has not settled in anybody's craw as yet, still another pops up. The thing is endless. A bill now in Congress (Senate 2974, introduced by Senators Clark of tenn sylvania and Bobby Kennedy (naturally) of New York), would authorize "The Secretary (of Labor) to stimulate occupa tional readjustment and geographical mobility of the affected workers." Don't let the fancy language fool you. What it jays, more simply put, is that the Secre tary would have the power to take over State unemployment operations, nove workers from one section of the country to another and to replace privately owned employment services. Think of the added power this will give the bureaucrats. And think, too of the number of added bureaucrats tiis will add to the growing list already being ac cumulated by the Administration. We've just about come to the place where nothing else will suprise us Ve take back what we said. This is not all. There is bound to be more. Itay Heaven help us. Gypsies Laugh At Red Tape From National Geographic ? * * ? 1 9 Washington ? When Gypsies make their violins cry these days, some authorities, sob-r with frustration. Gypsies behind the Iron Cur tain have made a Joke of re peated efforts to settle them down. They cross forbidden borders with an ease that would impress even a master spy. passports, 'identification pap pers, and steady Jobs mean nothing to the footloose, fancy free Romanies. The five or s'lx million Gyp sies who wander across other parts of Europe, the Ameri cas, Asia, and Australia also resist settlement. Since leav ing their original homeland in India before the Christian era, Gypsies have preferred to roam, the National Geographic Society says. Swap Identity Cards Hungarian authorities have tried to persuade Gypsies to form woodworking and copper smithing cooperatives, settle on collective farms, or take regular factory Jobs. Most of the wanderers greet these In vitations with a resounding lack of enthusiasm. Police gave Gypsies ldertlty cards and forbade theiu to move. The system failed when the Gypsies made their Identi fications common property, swapped them with each other, and even used them as playing cards. The Hungarian regime then provided Gypsies with building material for houses. The Ro manies sold the lumber and de camped. Free books kindled no burning desire for education. The Gypsies made cigarette papers from textbook leaves. In Poland, where police are quick to stop motorists, even at country crossroads, they Just wave on the wanderers' horse-drawn wagons. ? Reform Efforts Fail ? jj Ever since the Russian Revo lution, the Communists have been trying to make Gypsies take up "socially useful labor." -Pertodlcally, the Sovtet Union reports that Gypsies are aban doning their Itinerant life to work in factories and on farms. Those who know Gypsies sm'lle at these pronouncements and recall an early effort to settle Russian Romanies. The Soviet Government Installed a group In a large house in Mos cow, where they spent the win ter. When spring arrived, of ficials came to suggest a little trip to a nice collective farm. They found only the outer walls and parts of the floor rfemain lng. Everything movable or combustible was missing. -So were the Gypsle^. Some Gypsies manage to stay , in one place, though transition to a fixed abode often is diffi cult. An American Gypsy who bought a house In New Jersey ran a large pole from floor to celling In the center of the liv ing room. He wanted to give the room the look of a tent. Gypsies have made other changes In their traditional way qf life'. Many former horse traders now deal In used cars. -usee we oo A6Aui...'TH\KtV u.*.SPtoALK*ci* MEN ARRIVED IN TWAIUWD LAST WEEK-/ w Recorder's Court The following cases were dis posed of duclng a session of Recorder's Court on Tuesday, May 3rd: C. M. Hamlet, Jr., w/m, abandonment and non support. Defendant to pay $50.00 today and balance of $200.00 within 80 days and to make regular payments. George Collier, w/m, aband onment and non support. Court orders action dismissed. Robert Lee Wiggins, c/m/33, non support. Court finds de fendant failed to comply and orders committment to Issue tor violation of probation. Will lard CSborne Abbltt,w/m, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $15.00 fine and costs. Early Ambres Allen, w/m, spaedlng. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. Irving Emanuel Alexander, w/ m, speeding. Pleads guilty Teachers (Continued from page 1) (ram will go Into effect for 1966-67 school year. As recommended by Princi pal D. Whitman Sheartn the fol lowing High School faculty and staff were elected by the board to positions for the 1966-67 school year: Mrs. Thelma ft" Green, Mrs. Edna McLemore, Mrs. Edna 0. Pearce, Mrs. Dorothy C. Shearon, Miss Nelle B. Joyner, Mrs. Llna J. Mc Ghee, Mrs. Nancy K. Wilson, Mrs. Helen S. Benton, Mrs. Lucy L. Cannady, Mrs. Wlllo dean Poole, Mrs. Chrlstan S. Corbln, Mrs. Julia F. Carr, Mr. Wesley F. Jackson, Mr. Hiram J. Guedalla, Miss Edith Jackson, Mrs. Mary N. Wester, Mr. Becton W. Corbln, Mrs. Betty E. Tlmberlake, Mrs. Isa bel B. Stephens, Mrs. Margaret A, Pruette, Mr. Roland Owens, Mrs. UleenS. Mode, Mrs. Eli zabeth Blount, Mrs. Miriam G. Honeycutt, Mrs. Betty D. Har ris, Mrs. Mattle M.Barnhlll, Mrs. Charlotte H. Pearce, Mrs. Josephine H. Laughter, Mrs. Pearl R. Ball, Mrs. LIUle M. Preddy, Mrs. Ruby K. Joyner, E. C. (Jack) Kearney and Mrs. Mabel P. Wilder. As recommended by Principal OllleW. Burrell these teachers were elected to teach In the B. F. Person-Albion High School for the 1966-67 school year: Mrs. Eleanor Greene, Mrs. Elsie Harris, Mrs. Mamie Jones, Miss Carolyn Sanders, Miss Nellie Cheatham, Mrs. Addle King, Mrs. Ora P. Alston, Miss Dora Hill, Mrs. Cora Brodle, Mr. Garrlet Jones, Mrs. Llllte Clemons, Mrs. Hu dle S. Boone, Mr. Joseph Dem psey, Mr. James Harris, Mrs. Lucy Bussey, Mr. Robert John son, Mr. James Foster, Mr. Eugene Logan, Mrs. Mary Tlioiflpson, Mrs. Mary Yar borough, Mr. Yarbrough, Miss Prlscllla Brodle, Mrs. Dorothy Jones, Mrs. Rolltne Collins, Mr. William Curry and Miss Evelyn Randolph. Resignations were accepted from the following teachers at B. F. Person-Albion High I School: Mrs. Almetta Revis, Mrs. Susie Alston and Mrs. Ada Alston. under waiver statute. $15.00 fine and costs. Dan Gray Arnold, w/m/25, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. 915.00 fine and coats. Kermlt Del mar Akers, w/m/ 30, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. Norwood Lae Faulcon, c/m/ 40, speeding. Pleads guilty under wavier statute. $15.00 flneaad costs. ? Robert Lea Harris, c/m, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $15.00 fine and costs. Van Robblns, Jr., c/m/28, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. Herschel Ervln Avery, w/m/ 22, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. Michael Lamotte Holt, w/m/ 22, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $15.00 fine and costs. George Collier, w/m/, non support. 6 months In Jail, suspended on payment of $50.00 per month beginning June 1, 1966. Robert Eugene Huskey, w/m / ? 32, no operator's license. $10.00 flne and costs. Harvey Avon Richardson, c/ m/18, speeding. $5.00 fine and ' costs. uame Lee reading, w/m/ *1, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. Baxter Benjamin Mann, c/m/ 53, motor vehicle violation. $10.00 fine and costs. WUlard Eugene Ayscue, w/m/ 37, motor vehicle violation. $10.00 fine and costs. ? Robert Edward Williams, c/ m/21, motor vehicle violation. (20.00 fine and costs. Johnnie Benjamin Mann, c/m/ 30, no operator's 'license. $10.00 fine and costs. Llndberg Mitchell, w/m/ 34, speeding. 6 months In Jail, suspended on payment of $10,00 fine and costs. Robert Graham Freddy, w/m/ 28, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. Jay Wilder Taylor, w/m/17, careless and reckless driving. Judgment suspended on pay ment of cost*. John Wesley Long, c/m/26, assault with deadly weapon. State takes a- Nol Pros with leave. Terrence Nlchol Evans, w/m/ 20, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. Robert Plnkney Cook, Jr., w/ m/41, speeding. Pleads;,gullty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. James Edward Mills, w/m/ 26, motor vehicle violation. 6 months In Jail, suspended on $15.00 fine and cost. Alpbonzo Terrell, c/m, as sault with deadly weapon. Pe tition having been filed with Clerk of U. S. Court for the Eastern District of N. C., for removal of this action to u. S. District Court, It Is found that this Court has no Jurisdiction or authority herein pending fur ther action by the said District Court. Kobert David Sloan, c/ra/27, speeding. Pleads guilty under valvar statute. $15.00 tine and costs. Lula Mitchell, c/f/17, Viola tion of OB 18-90.1. $10.00 fine and costs. Harry EMdle Harrison, w/m/ >9, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. K C. Prlvette, w/m/52, vio lation of OS 18-90. l.Statetakes Nol Pros. Claude Stephen Perry, w/m, operating auto Intoxicated; un lawful possession of whiskey. $100.00 fine and costs. Ladd M. Hamrlck, Jr. , speed ing. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $10.00 fine and costs. James Ray Robertson, w/m/ 34, speeding. Pleads guilty under waiver statute. $15.00 fine and costs. L. Gene Wilson, Raymond R. Ovens, Robert E. Steele, Jo seph T. Yopp and John B. Vester each charged with es cape from prison. To be held for Franklin County Grand Jury and to post $500.00 appearance bond. J. B. Tharrlngton, w/m, as sault with deadly weapon. State takes Nol Pros with leave. Ronald Steven Rich, w/m/20, motor vehicle violation. To pay costs. Curtis Harold Creech, w/m/ 39, no operator's license. $10. 00 fine and costs. Willie Andrew Thomas, c/m/ 28, assault with deadly wea pon. 8' months in Jail; sus pended on payment of $15.00 fine and costs. Phillip Max L. Perry, ic/m/ 23, speeding. 8 months In Jail, suspended on $15.00 fine and costs. Robert Henry Neal, c/m/21, speeding. $25.00 fine and costs. Everette Gay Hicks, w/m/22, motor vehicle violation. $200. 00 fine and costs. ? Catherine Griffin Strickland, w/t/55, speeding. Discharged on payment of costs. Bobby Ray Bailey, w/m/29, escape from prison. To be held for Franklin County Grand Jury under $500.00 appearance bond. James Nixon, w/m/22, escape from prison. To be held for Franklin County Grand Jury under $500.00 appearance bond. A Close Shive San Antonio, Tex. ~ Arthur Gene McDowell told police two men entered hli (as station and one of them sprayed shav ing cream from a pressure can Into his eyes. When he was able to see afaln, he dis covered $>70 mission from the cash drawer. A Zillion Dollars Fremont, Mich. ? According to Qm Hager, 7, and Gordon Vredevelt, 6, they found a "ill Uon dollars" while exploring a city dump. Police kept the actual amount secret for a year until the rightful owners wery found. The owners, two sis ters, said half the $3,000 to $4,000 would go to the boys as a reward. The Supreme Court Strikes Again WE THE PEOPLE THE NORTH CAROLINA CITIZENS ASSOCIATION March 1966 A few days ago the Federal Supreme Court de creed (fiat it is unconstitutional for a State to require its citizens to pay a poll tax in order to have the right to go to the polls and vote. ? Only i three or four States still had such a re quirement and even in those it usually applied exclusively to males between the ages of twenty-one and some age cutoff point such as fifty or sixty years old. The Federal Constitution was recently amended to prohibit it as a requirement for voting in Federal elections. The effect of this decision on tax. revenues in the few States which had the requirement still applying to voting in State and local elections will not be - noticed. The poll tax will be collected as usual, just as it is in North Carolina which abolished the poll tax requirement for voting many years ago while some Northern States continued. t,o use it. The effect of the decision on the number of peo ple voting will not be noticeable either. The amount of the poll tax has always been small. Unlike many forms of taxes, the poll tax never had a built-in mechanism for causing it to increase in amount from year to year. The same one or two dollars a year is being levied today as it was a hundred and fifty years ago. As the value of the dollar has eroded with inflation, the poll tax has become less and less of a financial burden. Still, the Court's opinion declared that it is a financial burden, a statement which affords some evidence of the Court's disregard for the truth. The most important aspect of the decision, how ever, would seem to be the Court's disregard for the Constitution itself. The only thing in the Con stitution about a poll tax is the recent amendment forbidding the use of such a tax as a voting re quirement in Federal elections, The matter of also forbidding it as a requirement for voting in State and local elections was fully considered when the amendment was prepared and was deliberately left out. - Obviously the Supreme Court .regards itself as being more competent at writing Constitutional Amendments than Congress and the legislatures of the three-fourths of tlie States which adopted the recent amendment. There are, of course, those who ?think that this particular high-handedness on' the part of the Court is just fine because it served what they regard as a good end. But this it not the last group of men who will sit on that Court. The doc trine is becoming more firmly established that where the Court feels the end sought is good the Constitu tion will be re-made to obtain the end. This is a doctrine which will sooner or later bring screams from those who now cheer. The trouble with having a government of men rather than of laws is that one cannot always choose his despots and can never be sure that he can trust those he does choose. Tension Relief Birmingham, Ala. ? House wives have found a way to re- I lleve tensions. Almost dally 1 six ladles are ' Veen running 1 around their neighborhood. ' Mrs. Marlon Phil Hps, one of 1 the promoters, said It was an i excellent waj? to battle the pressures of house work as well 1 as the waistline. Souvenirs For 2066 Savannah, Ga. -- Mrs. Mar garet Sadler's sixth grade pu pils hope to show the children of 2066 what youngsters of 1966 were like by burying comic books, a portable TV, and a skate board In a vault. The site, at White Bluff Elemen tary School, Is marked with a slab of marble. FRANKLINTON SPEEDWAY, INC. 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