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WEATHER Variable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers to day and Friday. Turning cool er by Friday. Low today, 72; high, upper 80's. The FraiiMh Times Published Every Tuesday & Thursday Serving All Of Franklin County Your Award Winning County Newspaper READ PART II WHY WE FIGHT IN VIETNAM. PAGE 4 TODAY Tel. Gy 6-3283 Ten Cents Louisburg, N. C., Thursday, August 10, 1967 (Ten Pages Today) 98th Year-Number 50 Local Scouts Arrived In Canada Wednesday The twelve local Boy Scouts, making the Occoneechee Council Canadian Goodwill Tour this week, arrived In Canada Wednesday. They toured Niagara Falls and spent last night at Camp Rangar, Camp of the Crooked Creek, Toronto, Canada. Today, the group will tour a RCAF base, visit Ft. Henry and spend the night at Lake Ontario Park at Kingston. The group arrived In Wash lngton Sunday in time to visit the Lincoln and Jefferson Me morials. They witnessed the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers at Arlington National Cem etery and took a bus tour of From a Report by Bennett Steelman, Troop 555 BSA the city. Sunday night they visited the Smithsonian In stltute and the Hall of History. After spending the night at Ft. Belvlor and enjoying a Photos by Larry Romero, Troop 555 BSA , "gooff- Army breakfast", the boys visited the FBI building Monday. They ate lunch with the Navy, after touring the Washington Naval Station. Monday afternoon the twelve, accompanied by Scoutmaster H. H. Steelman, visited Con gressman L. H. Fountain and presented the Congressman with a chaise lounge and mat ching chair manufactured here In Loulsburg by Gay Products Co. Before traveling to Ft. De trick at Frederick, Md. to spend the night, the boys toured the Capitol building. Tuesday the group visited the Gettysburg Battlefield and Corning Glass Works and tra veled 200 miles by bus to Camp Gordon, Dundee, N. Y. The group Is expected to return to Raleigh next Wednesday. Hey Kids Only 21 Days To Go Before School Opens Although It might be cruel to compare so-many-days before school opening with so-many-dayg-before Christ mas, the time Is nevertheless being counted ott by thousands of students and their teachers. Twenty-one more days remain a i summer vacations for both. Franklin County and Frank linton City Schools will follow the same schedule this year. All schools will begin the first of the 180-day session on August 31. Teachers will re port on Monday, August 28, and August 29 is teacher parent orientation day, set aside for meetings between teachers and parents. On Wednesday, August 30, registration Is scheduled and students are to report between the hours of 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. In the Franklin County system. S Jackson Is Franklinton Principal (Frk. a w.) Wesley F. Jackson has been officially elected Principal of Frank linton High School. A native of Durham, Jackson is a grad uate of East Carolina Univer sity. He has been a member of the Franklinton High School Faculty for the past six years. No times were announced for Frankllnton City Schools. School gets underway offi cially on Thursday, August 31. Monday, September 4, Labor Day, will be a holiday In all schools In both systems. Lunches will be served In cafeterias on Thursday, Au gust 31. "It's highly Important that the students come on August 30, so that they may get place ments and assignments," stated Superintendent R. B. Gordon of Frankllnton. No mention of postponement at school opening In either unit has been made, although In past years progress of the local tobacco harvest has caused some delay. The Franklin County system Is also awaiting a decision In Its federal court case which could bring on a delay, although none Is expected at this time. So while counting the days until school opens, youngsters might be Interested to learn that schools will close next May 30, however many days from now that might be. Power Interruption Set For Sunday A. M. Major rebuilding of Carolina Power & Light Company's transmission line to this area will require a two-hour In terruption of electric service on Sunday morning, August 13. L. A. Pearce, Henderson district manager for CP&L, said the Interruption will be from 5:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. These hours were chosen, be said, to minimise Inconven ience to the company's cust omers. Affected by the in terruption will be Loulsburg, Frankllnton, Stalllngs Cross roads and surrounding areas. Purpose of the Interruption will b? to rearrange facil ities so that new conductors on the line may be energised at a later date, Pearce said. The capacity of the trans mission line Is being enlarged to meet the growing electrical needs of the area, Pearce said. This improvements facilities Is part of CP&L's $80 million construction program for 1967. The U. S. S. North Carolina, now a permanent state me morial at Wilmington, was the first American battleship to fire Into Japanese territory during World War IL Local Guardsmen Fire Rockets Shown abcnra u tha XM-S1 Rockat flrad by unita of tha Fifth Rockat Battalion mate up of Ouardaman from Loulaburg, YouncsvUla and Zabulon at Ft. Bran In 1994. Tha Fifth waa achadulad to flra two XM-SO Booast John Rockata paatarday it Ft. .^111, Oklahoma and aootlxr this morning. Ttw hro-WMk training MMlon at th* (lant ArtUlary and IIImIU Baa* will ?nd thla WMk with local Ouanlamm returning horn* Sunday. Moss Named To State Banking Commission Governor Dan K. Moor* today announced the appoint ment of James T. (Joe) Mosa, 40-year old Youngsvllle far mer and community leader to the State Banking Commis sion. Moss succeeds Paul H. Thompson of Fayettevllle. His term will expire April 1, 1971. At the same time the Gov ernor announced the appoint ment of N. K. Dlckerson, 60 of Monroe and the reappoint ment of Lewis R. Holding 38-year old Smltlifleld bank executive and Edward T. Ship ley of Winston-Salem. Moss, who Is vacationing In Canada this week, could not be reached for comment. Moss received the B. S. degree In agronomy from North Carolina State Univer sity. He is a member of the Youngsvllle Baptist Church, where he has been a Sunday School teacher, assistant su perintendent and a deacon. He Is married to the former Margaret Bunn of Zebulon and they have three sons. In . 1962, Moss was chosen as one of the four outstanding young farmers In the nation. He has been a member of the Franklin County Young Democratic Club for 14 years and served as president for two years. He also has served as Lions Club president, Zone chairman, Deputy District . 1 Governor, District Governor, chairman of the International Convention Committee at Nice, France, Is a member of the North Carolina Agricul ture Foundation and a Mason. Dlckerson Is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, where attended high school. He later attended the University Of Louisville and the Univer sity of South Carolina. He Is married to the former Sara McCarten Craig of Mon roe and they have one son and one daughter. He la a member of the Episcopal church and Is an immediate past Senior Warden. He is chairman of the board of Dlckerson, Incorporated, general contractor, is a Mason, a member-at-large of the National Board of Boy Scouts of America, an honorary life director at Na tional Associated General Contractors, Is a director of the University of North Car olina at Charlotte Foundation, Is on the Engineering Found ation, North Carolina State University, on the* AdvIs8ry Board of Wlngate College and la a trustee of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. Holding, who has been pre "Good Folks Here" Youth Will Go To Camp Shortly after The Franklin Times bit the streets Tues day, carrying an article on the need of 927 fo| a county youth at Carwell Training School to attend a summer camp, the funds were made available. Mrs. Jane York, Director of Welfare, who originally re ported the situation to The Times, said Wednesday morn ing that a man, who asked his name not be mentioned, call ed her at home and volunteer ed to pay the expenses. This was early Tuesday night. When Mrs. York arrived at her office, Wednesday morn ing, first a man and later a woman arrived, both ottering to pay the $27. Another man called at the office to make the same offer. Told that ar rangements had already been made be left 92 spending money for the 14-year-old boy. Later In the day, Mrs. York reoetved a telephone call from Randolph County, where the article had been read, In quiring If frcheck would arrive here on time If mailed there today. Mrs. York expressed her appreciation to all those of ferlng help sod added, "These are good people." sldent of Flrst-Cltlzens Bank and Trust Company since 1957, was appointed to the Banking Commission in July, 1963, (or a four-year term. He Is a native of Smlthfleld, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and of the Harvard Grad uate School of Business Ad JAMES T. (JOE) MOSS Sept. 7 Market Opening Date A meeting is expected to be held within the next few day* to set the opening date for the Middle Belt Tobacco Market, according to reports, and It la expected that September 7, as recommended by the market ing committee of the Middle Belt Warehouse Association, will be approved. If approved, the Loulsburg market along with the other nine markets In the Belt will be opening one day earlier than last year. Sales of untied tobacco with government support will be conducted during the first ten days, and the market will begin with a five-hour sales day and operate five days a week. This year's crop has been rated as excellent and officials are hopeful of having a very good year. Openly day av erages on the flue-cured Georgia and Florida market* averaged $M.l> in July and prices are expected to remain up through the local opening. North Carolina tobacco gro wers, generally, like to aell their tobacco early In the marketing season, and an In creasing number of them seem to prefer to sell loose rather than tied leaf. These preferences, coupled with an expanded loose leaf selling period this year, are expected to result In heavy early sales on the 1M7 mar ket. A larger portion of the crop will probably be sold in untied form. Whether this will mark the beginning of a possible faaing out process for tied tobacco will depend In large measure on price differentials. Far mers hare Jumped at the op* portunity to sell untied to bacco in reoent years. A frequently beard contention has been that price dlffkren See MARKET Pag* 6 ministration. He Is married to the former Carolyn Ann Short of Char lotte, and they have one daugh ter. Shipley, a 1931 graduate at John Hopkins University, Is a native of Philadelphia, Penrn^, sylvanla. He was appointed to the Commission on July 12, 1965, to fill an unexpired term. He has been a comptroller with Wachovia Bank and Trust Company since 1940, Is married to the former Jos ephine Moretz of Hickory and they have two sons and one daughter. Unable To Make Okla. Trip Two Loulsburg newsmen, scheduled to fly to Ft. Sill, Oklahoma Wednesday to cover the firing of the Army's XM-50 Honest John Rocket by area National Guardsmen, were forced to cancel their plans late Tuesday afternoon. Times Editor Clint Fuller, a member of the County Board of Education, canceled his plans for the trip, awaiting a ruling by the U. S. East ern District Court In the Franklin County school suit. Board members have been on a stand-by for the past several days In anticipation of an Imminent ruling by Judge Algernon Butler of Clinton. Asher Johnson, WYRN Radio News Director, plagued with an ear Infection contacted when he entered m farm pond Monday afternoon with the Loulsburg Rescue Servioe in search for the body o< a drown ing victim, was forced to withgo the trip late Tuesday. Loulsburg Mayor V. A. Peoples, whose trip ni ques tionable for a time Tuesday, Anally managed to main the flight. Col. Collin MeKlnne of Loulsburg. waa also re ported aboard the C-1M Troop Transport whan it left Raleigh-Durham early Wed nesday morning. Private Donnle West.trfRt. t Loulsburg, home on emergen cy leave due to the death erf Ma grandmother, returned to Ft. 8111 aboard the plane carrying area newsman and State Quart officials. Loulsburg, Youngsville and bars of tteFttteitoehat Bat talion, will raters from tea two-weak encamjpmeat Sunday afternoon. Arrival time for the C-1M Troop Traa^orts bringing the OuardaMajuaw i
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