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? . >*?"? ? \?* " T?l? - jv^ ,^>1* i (o?stm? >. ?-W I The Franklin Times^u ^ tii -*? ? ? ?? ??* ' of IVG7 1 IVM^ot^EImTC !-AUl.iilllkn t> .? mm* n. m.H *5^? *" ^ . NfwC6.:f JmUk, | [TV TUCIOAV AMP TMUMOAV >& ~u? From schoois aoS? % ?f? % p W. "Doc" "*P. /M ? 'tw &5J5 *a^ ?>** Suffii r %? to To *WE Times Starts 98th Year Today The Franklin Times begins its 98th year today. It began in 1870 when Andrew^M. Hal I and James Adolphus (Dolly) Thomas bought The Franklin Courier from George S. Baker. A few years later, Mr. Thomas purchased Hall's interest and under his management and editorship, the name was changed to The Franklin Times. Mr. Thomas, who gained statewide popularity, continued the operation of the newspaper until his death in 1909. Prior to Mr. Thomas' death, Asher Frank Johnson, a natives of Pitt County, had moved to Louisburg and gone to work for The Times. Mr. Johnson married Miss Sadie Thomas, daugh ter of the Times editor, and he and his wife assumed the operation of the newspaper in 1909. Mr. Johnson continued as editor for the next 40 years. In 1952, four of his children bought interest in the newspaper and formed The Franklin Times Corporation. The children were Dr. Sadie C. Johnson of Henderson, Miss Adelaide John son, Miss Elizabeth Johnson and James Johnson of Louis burg. The Corporation operates the newspaper today. The Times has had four locations since 1890. The first was in the Perry Neal building which now houses a barber shop and a dress shop on main street. Next, The Times was located in what is now the local theater building. Sometimes prior to 1909, The Times moved into the building on Court Street where it remained until June 1, 1956 when it was moved to its present location on Bickett Blvd. On August 31, 1956 The Times became a semi-weekly newspaper and September 18, 1962 the first issue using the modern offset method of printing was published. The first press used by The Times is stiff in the posses sion of the present owners. It was a George Washington hand fed press made in England and originally purchased in 1845 to print The Louisburg Eagle, a newspaper which was dis continued during the Civil War. Sometime before 1909 a Cottrell flatbed press was pur chased, this too, was hand fed. In 1956 a new automatic Goss printing press was purchased and in 1962 the present Fairchild Color King offset two-unit press was acquired. In 1912 The Times purchased a model K linotype machine. The son of J. A. (Dolly) Thomas, Ernest F., operated the machine in 1912 and operates it today. The same machine and the same operator prepared the subscribers name attached to today's issue. With the advent of offset printing and the early change over to this new process by The Times, local readers have been able to enjoy clearer pictures, cleaner pages and more interesting arrangements of material. Color has also begun to take a major port in today's newspapers and The Times will be making more and more use of this in the months ahead. Marking its 98th year, The Times looks forward with great anticipation to its coming 100th anniversary. Tobacco Growers To Meet Franklin County tobacco growers and other Interested persons are Invited to attend a tobacco meeting In Raleigh, at the Memorial auditorium, Thursday morning, February 23, 1967, beginning at 9:00 a. m. The purpose of the meeting will be to give In terested persons an opportun ity to express vle-ws and rec ommendations as to offering of price support on untied to bacco during the 1967 market ing season. All Interested persons are strongly urged to attend this meeting. , High scnooi Tourney Bunn's Darrell Hagwood (with the ball) seems to be saying "You cant have It" In the Bunn Cdward Best boys game Saturday night. Left to right In the action, David Batten (B-33); Bruce Pearce (KB-15); Stephen Medlln (EB-2B); John May (EB-14). Bulldog* won, 51-41 and will meet the winner of the Lou Is burg- Epsom game Friday night. Area Is Struck By Annual Malady - Basketball Fever The symptoms! Nervousness. Far-away-looks. Easy to excite. Hard to get to work. Loose tongues. Loud chatter. Some low mumbles (these were losers). The cure: Saturday night (or high school patients; tonight for College patients. Outlook: Some chance of mild reoccurances when the di sease spreads to district playoffs, but not quite so wide spread. If all this sounds serious. . It Is. But thus far few per sons have had any real pain and very seldom Is one lost. It's called basketball fever and It hits this area every year near the end of February, although some cases are reported as early as November. Certain shots have known to be good for It and a therapy, called "hitting the basket" has been known to be of help. In some cases, however, only the shock treatment succeeds. This comes freely when one's favorite team Is suddenly walloped. The treatment Is often worse than the disease In these cases. Some will say there Is some benefits from the malady and perhaps there are. There Is seldom any Immunity to It, un less It comes as one's child finishes school and drops off the ' team. This Is usually called a short-term attack and general-" ly reoccurs once every year for four years between the months of November and March. It generally subsides at the end of the fourth year. There are allied effects to the disease. Coach and official baiting Is perhaps the most serious, followed by a game called second-guessing. The more severe cases can be spotted when accompanied by loud voices denouncing everything In sight. It Is best to stay away from these. They are most contagious. The disease will be at Its most critical stages tonight and the remainder of the week. Weak souls can prevent the in fection by staying away from the Loulsburg College and the Loulsburg High School gyms. But, oh what fun the hearty ones, will be having. Basketball fever. It Isn't hard to catch and It feels so good when you scratch It. Hearing Date Set In Franklinton Case , Mr. Phillip J. La Macchla has been named Hearing Ex aminer for school cases ln? volvlng the Frankllnton City School Board before the U. S. Commissioner of Education, according to an announcement last week. The Commissioner, Harold Howe, n has named Macchla College And High School Tournament Stories and Pictures On Page 8 to "preside over all proceed ings and directed to make Initial decisions". The Initial hearing for Frankllnton was set In a No tice of Hearing paper served last week, for 9:30 a. m. Thursday, February 23 In the Hearing Room 4310, Health, Education and Welfare South Building In Washington. How ever, later correspondence from Mr. J. D. Williams of the Washington law firm of Sutherland, Asblll and Bren nan, Informs the Frankllnton Board that the hearing Thurs day will be resessed until Monday, April 3. The hearing Involve several North Carolina school units and will deal with the degree of desegregation by the units. See FRA.NKLINTON Page 6 de Hart To Head Drive Allan deHart, Director of Cultural Activities at Lou la ta i-g College, has been ap pointed by Chancellor John T. Caldwell, of North Carolina State University, and Travis Tomllnson, campaign chair man for the Friends of the College Concert Series, to head the 1967-68 season drive in the Louis burg area. Named to assist deHart are Mrs. Richard Whitfield of Frank llnton, and Mrs. James Clay ton of Louis bu if. Concert Patrons Interested In Obtain ing memberships should con tact these representatives be fore March 20. The ninth season of the world's largest concert ser ies brings seven programs to the Colls eu pi: The Vienna Philharmonic, September 28, 29; Les Grands Ballets CSpa dlens, November 1, 2, S; The Regimental Band of the Welsh Guards and the Pipes, Drums, and Dancers of the Scoys Guards, November 16, 16, 17; Claudlo Amu, December 8,9; The French National Dance Company, January 29, 30; Blr glt Nllsson/Sandor Konya, March 1, 2; and The Stock holm Philharmonic, March 21, 22. As You Like A Letter To The Editor June 18, 1920 Deer editur: I am aendin you SI. SO for the good old franklin times a nuther year. Your paper ia all good but the rock apring items air the best of it all. if paper goea up so aa you can't aend the hole paper be sure to send rock spring item*, i never no whar i haf ben or what i.haf dun till i sees your paper my boys are always gone and won't tell me whar, thank heaven I got em skint soon aa i aeea de timea. a few yeara ago me and two of my old chuma went off arter some tater planting and while we were gone i had a stroke of mental pralyaia and did not no in 3 daya what i'd ben ao when i gita rite i upa goea to my older chum and axed him all about it if i had look ed at rock springs items in the old and liable franklin timea I cud have aaved myself dat Humiliation . well i will close by looking for de paper and Reapectfully, B. P. STRICKLAND. P. S.? gus atrickland says dat my testify cation bout de timea gwine to run to $5.00 a year. Fountain Says: Integration Quotas Are Not Legal No authority Is given In the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (or the U. S. Offlde of Education to establish quotas for Integra* tlon of schools and the American people have every right to resent some of the Group Gets Medicare Data Approximately fifty adults attended a meeting on medi care benefits at the agricul ture building InLoulsburg Thursday night, February 16, according to Mrs. "Be mice Harris, Asst. Home Econo mics Agent. Clay Stone of the Raleigh Social Security Office led the discussion on medicare and the requirements of the Indi vidual to obtain these bene fits. Mrs. Harris said much Interest was shown In the meeting as evidenced by the questions asked during the discussion period. Mrs. Harris stated that the meeting was sponsored by the Franklin County Community Development group and that other meetings would be plan ned by the group during, the year. things being done under that law, Rep. L. H. Fountain told the Rollins Junior High Pa rent-Teacher Association In an address Thursday night in Henderson. He gave It as his opinion that Federal school authori ties are placing more empha sis upon integration than on education, and declared that the freedom of choice for children attending public schools has been upheld by the courts. He added that new guidelines for the coming school year are substantially the same as last year. The congressman, a Pres byterian elder in his home town of Tarboro and a Sunday school teacher, said "things are happening In our land" that need to be corrected, and that vastly more people are needed who are Interested in the fundamentals on which this nation was founded. Materia listic values are being sub stituted for spiritual values to the detriment of the people. Fountain said the need for quality education was never greater than today. The Fed eral government, he stated, is spending twenty times as much on education as it did See FOUNTAIN Page 6 College Tourney j Wayne McLemore (L-50), Loulsburg freshman, attempts to block shot by Mt. Olive's Jim Lee (45) as Wayne Patrick (28) gets Into the act in last night's opening round of the Cavalier Tarheel Junior College Tournament played here. The Hurri canes walloped Mt. Olive, 108-91, to move Into tonight's championship game against mighty Ferrum who downed Chowan, 43-30. Franklinton Gets Rescue Service (FRK. B. W.) A group of Franklinton men met In the Town Hall on Friday even ing to organize a local Res cue Squad. David Mlnnlch , Chief of Lou Is burg Rescue Squad, and Asher Johnson were present to assist with the organizational meeting. " The following officers were elected: A. J. Perklnson (act ing chief), James Payne (as slstant chief), Wilson Gupton (secretary-treasurer), Leon ard Steed (captain), John Deal (lieutenant). ' Plans were made to meet again on Friday, February 24. A quota of 15 members has been set. Any Franklin ton resident, who Is Interested In Joining, Is requested to con tact Chief Parkinson. The squad has tan members. They are the five elected offi cers, Kenneth Peterson, Har ry Eubanks, Melvln Lyles, a S. Trogdon and Douglas Boyle. Hepatitis Threat Subsides There have been no new cases of Infectious hepatitis reported In the county this week and officials report the epidemic scare of last week Is "on the decline". At the peak last Saturday, thirty ca ses had been reported as com pared with seven for the entire year of 1964. Several persons were hos pitalized with the disease and most have returned home. One 10-year-old contracted the aliment and one 44- year - old, but most of those stricken were In the teens or early twenties, according to Health n. Department officials. Or. J. a Wheless, County Health Director, said this morning the cases are "Vary definitely on the decline", a' large number of persons have taken shots for protection a galnst the disease In the past few days through out the area. Gradual clearing and oooi today. CoMer tonight. Wad. nesday ratter cold, um to day, SB; high, 4L
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