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The FranfcMn Times Publithed Every Tuesday A Thursday Serving All Of Franklin County 97th Year? Number 02 Louisburg, N. C.. Thursday. September 22. 1966 (Ten Pages Today) (Tan Cents) In Fnnklinton School Case Fountain Asks - Howe Resignation North Carolina'! Second District Congressman L. H. Fountain today suggested that Education Commissioner Harold Howe resign. In an Interview with Jack WlUlams of Station WTVD, Fountain stated that "Com missioner Howe Is not fol lowing either the spirit or the letter of the law In connec tion with school desegrega tion." He accused Howe and his staff of bureaucrats of being prosecutor. Judge and Jury In cases affecting local school boards throughout North Carolina and particu larly referred to Frankllnton, N. C, Fountain stated that Insofar as he had been able to as certain, the Frankllnton Board had met with the Court order ed "Freedom of Choice" re quirement but, apparently, Is Supports Road Efforts The Lou Is burg Woman's Club Is the latest or ganization to offer Its support to The Franklin Times road efforts. The woman's club expressed praise for the ef forts and offered Its endorse ment In a letter received today. The letter, written by Mrs. Nell Rose Gupton, Corres ponding Secretary of the or ganization says, "Being a civic organization and having members from all over the county, we know the conditions of the roads and think an effort for better roads is really needed. " This latest endorsement of efforts by the newspaper to gain some Improvements to Franklin County highways, brings to nine the number of organizations publicly an nouncing their support of Times Editor Clint Fuller and the newspaper's efforts. Others offering support In clude, The Frankllnton Town ship Chamber of Commerce, Frankllnton Lions Club, Bunn Lions Club, Loulsburg Junior Chamber of Commerce, Franklin County Industrial Development Commission, Loulsburg' Lions Club, Louls burg Rotary Club, and the Franklin County Democratic ? Women. still being denied Junds for some additional facilities, teachers and a school lunch program. Fountain continued by say ing, "The 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawed compulsory racial segregation Inspired by state action. It did not out law 'de facto* segregation re sulting from reasons other than state compulsion such as geographic factors or the vo luntary preference of Indivi duals." In fact, Fountain said: " 'Freedom of Choloe' plan has been upheld on many occasions by courts other than thq on* which dealt with the Frankllnton situation. For example, In the Bradley v. School Board of the City of Richmond In IMS, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, whose decisions are binding on North Carolina, held that 'the 14th Amendment pro hibition Is not against segre gation as such. The pres cription Is against discrimi nation.' " In the Bradley case, accord ing to Fountain, the Circuit Court also said: "There is See FOUNTAIN Page 4 Fair To Open Oct. 3 The Franklin County Fair cpens on Monday, October 3, for a six day run, to begin Its 53rd consecutive year of operation. Last-minute preparations are underway, getting things In order (or the annual show. The agricultural exhibits In this year's Franklin County Fair, It Is hoped, will be the best In the Fair's history, with a complete display of farm and home exhibits, ac cording to the announcement. A special matinee Is planned for Wednesday and Saturday of fair week, which are de signated as school days, with all children being admitted free on these days. Tickets are to be distributed through the schools. The- midway will feature Barstow Amusements with rides, shows and entertain ment for the whole family. As a special feature again this year will be a colorful display of fireworks nightly at 10p.m. College Gets *240, 000 Kenan Foundation Grant Luulsburg College received the largest grant tn Its ISO year history here Wednesday when It was announced that the Sarah Graham Kenan Founds Hon of Durham would give to the College $240,000 over the next four-year period. Frank H. Kenan, President of the Foundation, made the presentation of the check for $90,000 for this year at a' special meeting of the College Board of Trustees. Dr. Cecil W . Robblns accepted the grant In behalf of the College. The grant will be used, said Dr. Robblns, "to supplement faculty salaries, to Improve library resources, to provide additional scholarships and to assist the College In securing a new Infirmary." David Daniel, Director of College Relations, later ex plained that the grant Is ex pected to double the 25,000 volumns now contained In the Commissioners Vote To Sell Home Site To Prospect The Board of County Com missioners, meeting with local Industrial development leaders In a special session her* last night, voted to make official an earlier action mak ing the Ben Franklin Board ing Home property available Still Raided Federal ATT officers and Wake County ABC officers captured a 180-gallon drum liquor still In ttra county this week and arrested Lacy Louis Inscoe of Route 1, Castalla. The raid and arrest took place Monday morning around 8:18 a.m. In the Cedar Rock Town ship. Inscoe was reportedly arrested at the site. Captured in the raid was 790 gallons of mash and five gal lons of llfegal whiskey. Inscoe was cited to appear for pre liminary hearing on Friday In flajelgh before U. S. Coi^mls slunKp Reva Rothrock. to a prospective Industry. The Board had unofficially agreed to make the property available lr. a special meeting here Monday night. The fact that a major man ufacturing concern Is eyeing the local area with the possi bility of locating a plant here was disclosed when a labor availability survey was ordered two weeks ago. Since that time, site selection has -become somewhat of a pro blem, with the report that several iltes have failed to meet company requirements. Local officials hurriedly moved to find a suitable lo cation and the Boarding Home site entered the picture. The discussions Wednesday night concerned the removal of certain buildings Including the superintendent's home from the premises In the event the site Is chosen. The Board expressed a desire to salvage as much as possible of the buildings and contents should the land be sold. The motion, made by Com missioner Richard Cash an See HOME Page 4 new $385,000 library. Daniel said It will afford fifty more ?400 scholarships over the four-year period. The share to be allocated to the Infir mary, according to Daniel, will constitute about one-third the cost of the facility, which Is to be built In the "imme diate future." I A special press conference ' was called around 1 p.m. Wed nesday following an 11 :30 a.m. meeting of the Board of Trus tees with Foundation officials. Kenan was Introduced to the Trusteei by Dr. Herbert J. Herring, a trustee of Louls burg College and former Vice President of EHike University. Judge Hamilton H. Hobgood of Loulsburg and E. Hoover Taft, Jr. of Greenville ex pressed appreciation of the gift In behalf -of the Board. Dr. John W. Scott of Chapel Hill, Secretary of the Kenan Foundation, stated that the Foundation desired to present this first gift to a Junior college to an Institution "of unquestioned merit and Inte grity" and said this was the reason for choosing Louls burg. Dr. Robblns stated, "All of us are overwhelmed with this kind generosity. We accept the challenge that has been put before us. We will continue to j build on the solid foundation of the past." Mr. Kenan said he was See COLLEGE Page 4 Franklinton Group Starts Defense Fund A group of Frankllnton citi zens met In the Town Hall Tuesday night and named a three-member trustee com mittee (or a Frankllnton de fense fund to be used, accord ing to the announcement, In the event the school district needs to defend Itself against the federal government. The group, numbering nearly two hundred persons, had been instrumental In the recent re versal by the School Board of an earlier decision to move two seventh grades from the B. F. Person-Albion School to the Frankllnton High School. Named trustees of the de fense fund were James S. Joyner, Mrs. Wallace PruUt and Rev. Tommy Clarke. Funds are to be deposited In the Frankllnton branch of Flrit Citizens Bank and a spokesman for the group said anyone wishing to make a donation could do 10 either at the bank or through one of the trustees. The group also voted to pre sent a selection of four names See FRANKLINTON Page 4 Lou Is burg College President Dr. Cecil W. Robblns Is shown above right, accepting a check for $60,000 from Frank 1L Kenan, President of the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation of Durham, here Wednesday .1 The Foundation made a grant of $240,000 to the College over a four-year period. ? ?Photo by Jeff Bartholomew. Man Dies Following Wreck Near Pilot A Purple Heart veteran of Vietnam died In 'a Raleigh hospital Tuesday from In juries received In a tractor car accident near Pilot last Sunday afternoon. Charles Danny Smith, 23, of Route 1, Selma, received fatal Injuries when the convertible in which he was riding struck a tractor-trailer truck and overturned near Pilot late Sunday afternoon. State Trooper Dwlght Hlnton who Investigated the accident could not be reached Wednes day or today to confirm the '?x.i' i location of the acc'dant. If. It .occurred Ir.slde the Franklin County line, Smith's death would be the seventh highway fatality In the county this year and would surpass the six killed on county high ways for all of 1965. Smith, of the U. S. Army, had been recovering at Wal ter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, from wounds re ceived In action In Vietnam, and had taken leave to visit his parents. ( Smith was one of two men riding in a convertible at high speed which hit a tractor on U. S. 64 east of Zebulon. Of ficers said the car had* been traveling at 90 to 100 mph when It went out of control on a curve and collided with the tractor. Masonic Notice Loulsburg Lodge 413 AF A AM ?ll) hold a stated com munication on Tuesday even ing, September 27, at 7530 In the Masonic Temple on Jolly Street. Avery Interesting pro gram is planned. All Master Masons are cordially Invited. jkj . . A" Editorial National Highway Week, Lets Celebrate Governor Dan K Moore has declared this week Na tional Highway Week in North Carolina. Let's have a party. To celebrate the event, the Highway Commission met Tuesday and opened bids on 26 new projects. in 22 counties totaling {2.7 million dollars Franklin County was not among them. Not so surprising, however, is the fact that J19.110 was granted to screen junk-yards and the first phase of work on the controversal Durham Expressway. It is interesting to note that this relatively small amount of money going to Durham county is over twice as much as Franklin County has received for primary roads in the last eight years. f And still the silence continues. It seems reasonable to us that after fifteen weeks of these articles, each of which has been sent to the Governor, State Highway Commission Chairman Joe Hunt and Fifth Division Commissioner J. B. Brame, that someone in the state capital could find some explanation for our situation and would give the people of Franklin County and the Fifth Division some answers. We realize that several things have appeared here to which there might not be an answer. Certainly some have been referred to which the present administration could not be expected to explain. However there are two very simple questions which could and should be answered. First, someone knows why the acquisition of rights of-way was stopped on the N. C. 56 project after the improvements had been placed in the highway hopper. Someone had ? order it stopped. It did not stop by itself. That someone should be required to explain why. Secondly, there seems to be no reason why someone in authority can not tell Franklin County it is to get its share of the Road Bond money. Unless, of course, it is planned for this $2,640,5$) to be used in Wake^nd Dur ham couhties. We cannot remember any instance during the last thirty years when the t<rxf3ying, voting public could not get an answer from its elected and appointed public officials on matters pertaining, to the people's business. If the State of North Caronn'a is conducting all its business in a manner such as that being exercised by the State Highway Commission in this matter, the Old North State is in a sad condition. Letters have been sent to the Governor, the Chair man and the Commissioner by a United States Congress man, Administration supporters here in the county, and a number of private citizens. Dozens of editorials and articles, including television coverage, have been issued in; support of the facts presented in this series of front page editorials. Still there are no answers. .What does it take to get a five-cent letter from Ra leigh? What does it take to get our public officials to make a statement on how they are conducting our busi ness? More importantly, how does one go about letting them know they are not conducting it in a manner satis factory to us? , f If they don't answer letters, give attention to a host of news media, or show any concern that an entire county considers this a most grave situation, how does one ap proach them? Franklin County is not the only community disturbed about the hi^iway situation. Is the Highway Commission going to ignore Franklin until it is joined, as surely it will be, by a number of other counties? Are we in Franklin going to have presort to other means to get our answers? Our money. ^ It might bd wise for the Commission to pondter this question and find an answer for themselves. Even though they still decline to answer our other questions, perhaps they'd better answer this one.
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