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WEATHER t Variable cloudiness and warm today and Wednesday with a chance of showers Wed nesday. Low today, 65; high, upper 80??V ' - ?? Tel. Gy 6-3283 The Fraitein Times Published Every Tuesday "day S Thursday ^ " All Of Franklin County Your Award Winning County Newspaper Ten Cents Louisburg, N. C., Tuesday, August 8, 1967 (Six Pages T oday) READ WHY WE FIGHT IN VIETNAM. PAGE 4 TODAY 98th Year-Number 49 Clearing Started Wreckage of four businesses destroyed by fire on Sunday, November 20, last year, is being removed from South Main Street by the Wade Moore Construction Co. Allen Oil Co. has reportedly purchased the property and will construct a bulk plant on the site. The clearing of the site began here Monday. From Farm Agent's Office Suggestions Mode For Marketing Loose Leaf The shortage and high cost of labor continue to put the squeeze on flue-cured tobacco farmers to look for more labor-saving production and marketing practices. One marketing practice that has received overwhelming endorsement from farmers Is the marketing of flue-cured tobacco in loose leaf form. Farmers are expected to take advantage of the first 95 hours of sale time on each Commissioners Meet Electrical Inspection Program Still Dead The Board of County Commissioners, with Com missioners Brooks W. Young and Richard Cash absent, re fused to reinstate the contro versial electrical Inspection program In their regular mon thly meeting held here Monday. Young and Cash opposed the (elimination of the program last month. Henry Prlvette of Youngs vllle appeared before the Board seeking to have the pro gram reinstated and applying tor the position of Inspector. The Commissioners, accord ing to reports, said they would wait and see how their decision worked out before giving !the matter any further consider ation. The program was killed fol lowing the Inability of several county citizens to get an In spector when they needed cur rent turned on. Little River Ice Co. was low bidder on fuel oil for the county and was awarded the county contract for the year. The firm's bid was No. 1 oil, .1750 and No. 2 oil, .1289. Chalfman E. M. Sykes was authorized to sign all papers pertaining to the Mental Health Program In the county and Loulsburg College was ex empted from paying a $72.59 tax levy against the McFar land property purchased In 1966 by the College. It was disclosed that the county Is to receive $1540 from the N. C. Department of Public Welfare. The Com missioners acted to use $396 of the amount as a pay In crease for Mrs. Jane York, Director and $288 for Mrs. Mary Holton, an employee of the local Welfare Department. The remainder of the money is t o be used for administra tion of the Welfare Depart ment. In a separate action, the Register of Deeds office was given $300 for extra help. This amount had been remov ed from the Deeds office bud get earlier. Carl Pernell, Loulsburg fireman appeared before the Board In connection with the county's fire prevention pro grams. Pernell displayed se veral fire extlnqulshers for sale. No action was taken. Sales Continue To Climb In Franklin Latest figures released by the North Carolina Mer chants Association show that retail sales in Franklin County are continuing to climb. Figures for the month of May, latest month available, show a gain of $242,601 over the same month last year. Retail sales for May of this year are reported at $2,563,567. The same period in 1966 show a total of $2,320,966. May sales are also more than sales in the month of April this year. April figures listed were $297,137 less than those for May. April sales tAtaled $2,266,4.40. ' Th. P?tnil?r monthly publication of the Association, explains that May figures were reported in June, broken down by cities and counties and were ready around July 15 for reporting in August issue. Total sales for the state were reported at $772,926, 199, on increase over the $731 ,985,6?63 reported for last May and the $751,473,018 reported for April of this year. More money was spent for food in the state than any other category listed, and May showed a sizable in crease over April and May of last year. As expected, Charlotte led all cities in retail sales with $90,365,846. market this year to sell un tied tobacco, points out S. N. Hawks, Extension tobacco specialist at North Carolina State University. The grower who devotes a little more time to preparing his crop will be the one who receives the top dollar. Hawks reminds farmers that company officials have re quested that loose leaf tobacco be laid straight with all butts placed In the same direction. It should be marketed In the proper keeping form, free of sand, thread another foreign matter, and properly sorted. A basket cannot weigh more than 200 pounds. The specialist makes sev eral suggestions for preparing and marketing loose leaf to bacco. Work and maintain united tobacco In a drier condition than tied tobacco. As one example, the moisture of lugs should be at the stage Just before shattering would nor mally occur. *. Sort the tobacco Into several See TOBACCO Page 6 ? ^ _____ White Level Negro Is Fourth Water Vietim Franklin County recorded the fourth water connected fatality of the year Monday afternoon when a 19-year-old White Level Negro lost his life when he entered a farm pond and drowned. Joe Andrew Blackwell was reportedly at tempting to straighten a water drain pipe a few feet from the bank of a pond on the Curtis Crowder farm 13 miles east of Loutsburg when he dlsap-, peared from the sight of a 16-year-old companion. Jimmy Evans, his com panion, reported that Black well ran and Jumped Into the water during a lunch break from work at a tobacco barn Epsom Lions Name Club Committees Committee appointments for the 1967-68 year highlighted the business session at the regular meeting of the Epsom Lions Club Thursday evening in the fellowship hall of Lib erty Vance United Church of Christ. Osman Garrard presided over the meeting ? and announced new committees as follows: Attendance-Norwood Wynne, B. M. Newman, Fred Peoples; boys and girls? Russell Eaves, Bobby Moss, Rogers Edwards, Steve Lamm; con vention-J. K. Weldon, Irvln Inscoe, Sam Beasley; educa tion ? Otis Bolter, E. C. Ed wards, Dean Coffey. Finance-Tollle Smith, John ny Bowen, Sam Southerland, John Foster; health and wel fare?John Grlssom, Johnny Bowen, Alton Foster; Infor mation and public relations Sonny Gatano, Kenneth Fuller, J. C. Allen; program? Nelson Falkner, R. a. Bartholomew, Jr., Bobby Foster; White Cane? Nelson Falkner, Fred die McGhee, Osman Garrard, Eugene Perklnson; bread' sale? Fred Kesler, Fred Mc Ghee, William Matthews. Ir vln Collins. Also of Interest to members was an announcement by Bob by Moss concerning a pancake supper which the club will sponsor in the near future. about a mile from the scene.j As Blackwell showed he was in trouble, Evans ran to the opposite side of the pond to ^obtain a shirt to throw to Blackwell. When he returned he saw the youth go down and not reappear. He notified the Crowders and the youth's fa ther, Champ Blackwell, who were working nearby. The exact time of the accl Search For Body Rescuers are shown above Monday afternoon searching for the body of a 19-year-old White Level Negro who drowned In a farm pond on the Curtis Crowder farm about 13 miles east of Loulsburg. Pictured are, left to right, L. S. Ward, Centerville Rescue member; W. C. Hunt, N. C. Forest Service (in boat), and David Minnich, Chief of the Loulsburg Rescue Service, and Asher Johnson, Jr. one of the founders of the Loulsburg unit. The body of Joe Andrew Blackwell was recovered, after a search for over two hours, about 4:30 p.m. dent was not determined. Loulsburg Rescue Service was called at 1:40 p.m. and drag ging operations lasted for 2 and a half hours. The body was recovered around 4:30 p.m. Rescuers were ham pered in their recovery at tempts by heavy moss on the floor of the pond. Before the Rescuers ar rived, Danny Murphy, a white youth of the White Level com munity, made lengthy attempts to find the body by diving in the area where Blackwell repor tedly went down. . This is the fourth water fa tality of the year In the county. There were no drownings in Franklin In 1066 and only one In 1965, on December 20 when a Charlotte man lost his life west of Frankllnton. He was Everette Mullls, 59. Two fa talities occurred in one acci dent on the C. T. Dean, Sr. farm in Cedar Rock on Au gust 2, 1964 for the last multl drownlng. James Hicks, 45, and Percy Spivey, 54, both Negroes, drowned when their boat overturned. Two small boys were saved by the Louls burg Rescue Service and C. T. Dean, Jr. Other fatalities thus far this year are George Lee Clements, c/m/22, lnWeldons pond north of Loulsburg on June 25; Franklin Madison Ayscue, w/m/70, at Epsom on June 28; and Jasper Meeane Raper of Newport News, w/m/ 52, at Harris farm pond off NC 56 west of Loulsburg on July 15. Raper was believed to have had a heart attack before falling from his boat and drowning. Drownings have almost reached the highway fatality total for the year. Franklin thus far had recorded only five highway deaths this year. Minor Accidents, Bam Fires Reported Weekend activities for law enforcement and Rescue per sonnel began last Friday morning around 10:30 a.m. when federal ATU and Frank lin Sheriffs officers raided an 800-gallon submarine whiskey still between Frank Unton and Youngsvllle. " Two white men were ar rested at the site and charged with illegal manufacture of whiskey. They were Identified as George Robert Hayes, 28, and Thomas Winston Dicker son, 25. Frankllnton Rescuers an swered their 49th call since establishment of the service last May 10 Saturday night around 9:30 p.m. The unit transported Gus Stroud, 36 Comstruct Home Goes Up Pictured above Is the first Comstruct house to be erected. Materials for the bouse vere manufactured here by Composite Structures Corporation and the structure was erected last week In Augusta, Ga., home of the firm's sales manager. J. Burdette W ilk 1ns, President of the firm, Is shown, Inset, discussing the erection with workers. The home, erected along a business section by-pass In the Georgia city, features a new "sand" color. W 11 kins reports It took two days to erect the house, but the firm i? aiming for a five-hour erection time as work pro gresses. The reinforced plastic panels and other parts of the house were manufactured In the plant here, located just off Main Street at the Intersection of Kenmore Ave. The plant Is not yet In full production. Aluminum doors and windows are now being Installed in the panels and full production Is expected to get underway shortly, according to Wllklns. year-old Frankllnton Fabrics employee, to Franklin Me morial Hospital after he was Injured by boiling water. De tails of. the accident were not made available. T. O. Nelms, Cedar Rock farmer, lost a tobacco barn Sunday around 12:30 p.m. The Justice fire department an swered the call and reported the barn completely destroyed upon their arrival. Shortly after midnight Sat urday night, two Frankllnton men were injured when their car overturned 2 miles west of Frankllnton on the Poco moke Road. Sammy Lee Wat son, w/m/18, was transported to Duke Hospital with severe chest injuries following treat ment at Franklin Memorial here. His brother, John Wat son, w/m/24, was treated here for lesser injuries. Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Jean Handy, 28-year-old expectant kjnother from Ashevllle, re-/ celved back Injuries when the car, driven by her husband, was hit and run off NC 56 west of Loulsburg. Witnesses described the hit and run car as a blue 1957 Chevrolet and listed the license number as FC 911. At last report, no arrest had been made. A minor accident Involving a motorcycle and an automo bile did little damage and resulted In no Injuries late Sunday afternoon on NC 561 at Oswego Intersection. Those Involved were not Immediately identified. A 19 -year -old Negro drowned in the Curtis Crowder farm pond In White Level shortly after noon Monday. Joe Andrew Blackwell, reportedly entered the pond to straighten a drain pipe and slipped Into water over his head. Louls burg Rescue Service members recovered the body around 4:C0 p.m. An automobile fire near the W. H. Horton residence on John St. here did minor dam age to engine wiring around 5 p.m. Monday. Fire destroyed a tobacco barn on the H. H. and N. M. Perry farm on NC 561 Mon day night around 9 p.m. Cen tervllle firemen contained .the blaze and prevented nearby barns from igniting. A heavy rainstorm was In progress during the time the blaze was reported and firemen fought the flames. The barn was gutted and the tobacco, be longing to A. H. Spencer of Rt. 3, Loulsburg was totally destroyed. Two submarine-type whis key stills were raided Monday by Halifax officers and ATU agents near the Franklin County line. Sheriff J. R. Daniel of Halifax reported the arrest of Jesse Coley at near Essex at the time of the raid. Would You Like To Help? There Is a 14-year old white boy at Caswell Trainli* School. He lias been there since I960. His bom* was originally in Peanklln County. Due to unexplained cir cumstances this retarded youngster cannot Tlslt Ms hotne. Right now, he Is eligible to attend Camp Doo-Lee down on the coast. He can leave Caswell on August IS and re turn on August 19. This will perhaps be the Myntgtu of this youngster's life. He Is expected to remain at Cas well for another seven to eight years. The hitch Is finances. For this Franklin County boy to be Included among those going to camp, be lis ails ft7. Local civic clubs or an Individual who might be titirast ed in helping In this matter an urged to contact lira. Jane York, Director of Welfare tor Franklin County Immed iately.
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