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WEATHER Variable cloudiness with lit tle change In temperature to day and Wednesday. Low today, 68; high, 76. The FfatiMh Times . - Published Every Tuesday & Thursday my Your Award Winning County Newspaper Serving All Of Franklin County READ "WHY WE FIGHT IN VIETNAM" PART VI PAGE 4 TODAY - Tel. Gy 6-3283 Ten Cents Louisburg, N. C., Tuesdoy, September 5, 1967 (Six Pages Today) 98th Year-Number 57 Judge Denies Stay, Extends Plan Deadline Pruitt Town Accident Accidents Result In Injuries, But No Holiday Fatalities / North Carolina marked 25 highway fatalities during the Labor Day week end, but Franklin County escaped the fatality list. Four persons were In jured In separate accidents, one county youth was Injured In a Henderson mishap and death hit near the county line as the holiday weekend came to a <dose. Ten- year-old George Lee Anderson of - 112 Halifax road, Loulsburg received Injuries of the face, hand and hip when struck when he, reportedly, dart ed In front of a 1961 model auto driven by Cornelius Gill, 50, of Rt. 4, Hen ? derson. The accident occurred on Williams Street in Henderson last Fri day afternoon around 4:30 p.m. The youth was taken to Maria Parham Hos pital, treated and released. A. two-car accident on US-401 about half mile south of Loulsburg Saturday afternoon sent two persons to the hospital. The accident, reportedly took place when two cars attempted to pass a third at the same time a round 4 p.m. Carl Davis, n/m/34, Rt. 3, Box 350, Loulsburg was trans ported to the hospital by the Louis burg Rescue Service suffering from what appeared to be lacerations and a broken leg. The 1955 Dodge he was driving was described as a total loss. A 1961 Valiant, driven by Portia Davis Barnes, an employee of the Warren ton school system, received slight damage and the 34-year-old Negro Resigns As Board Clerk Alex T. Wood, veteran Register of Deeds, today announced his resignation as Clerk to the Board of County Com missioners. Wood gave Increased responsibilities In his Deeds office as his reason and asked to be relieved of his duties as secretary to the Board on January 1, 1968. Wood stated In his letter of resignation that he had "willingly served" for many years, sixteen and one-half of which, he "willingly served without any com pensation". In recent years the sec retary received 910 per meeting. Wood cited "twenty-four laws Intro duced effecting the Register of Deeds office" by the recent General Assem bly. In stating his reason for reslgnlw, he said, "This duty Is now consuming a considerable amount of time which I did not object to until the present, since now it is interfering with my elected responsibility as Register at Deeds". He said he had served "to the fullest extent of my capabilities" and thanked the Board for "the many courtesies shown me while serving as Clerk....". He expressed his appreciation to the Commissioners for appropriating the funds for the rental of a Zerox copying machine for his office stating, "I am proud of the machine and I think It is one step forward for Franklla County". In closing, Wood added, "In my opinion Franklin County Is at the crossroads and with your shoulders to the wheel along with other good cltiaens we shall go forward". woman was taken to the hospital lor observation. Sunday morning around 1 a.m. Louls burg police were called to the Mineral Springs section where a Negro man Identified as Harvey Lee Davis, 30, had been struck by a hit and run driver. He was taken to the hospital by the Louls burg Rescue Service and late reports say the man Is suffering from -a broken back. The driver of the car has not been apprehended. Loulsburg Police officers Earl Smith and Larry Gilliam heard a horn blow ing around 3 a.m. Sunday and upon investigation found an overturned ve hicle at the Intersection of NC-56 and the Hickory Rock Road Just inside the town limits In Prultt Town. Robert L. Eaton, n/m/33 of 39 First Street, Hackensack, N. J. was pinned ln&lde the vehicle and the Rescue Ser vice was called. Suffering from severe head and face Injuries, Eaton was taken to the local hospital. Two Frankllnton people were Injured In a wreck at the Intersection of NC 98 and NC-96 Sunday morning, which claimed the life of a Raleigh woman. Robert Harold Person, 40, of Frank llnton was reportedly driver of the car in which Novle Sue Conyers, 49, Rt. 1, Raleigh was killed. The Person car collided with a car reportedly dri ven by James Arthur Lynch, 24, of Winston-Salem. Lynch was lodged In a Wake County Jail under >1,000 bond for falling to stop for a stop sign and manslaughter. Robert Broadle of Frankllnton and Sophie Jeffreys of Wake Forest, passengers In the Person car were also injured. 401 Crash Scene . Twenty-four teachers were assigned across racial lines and 282 Negro children were transferred to pre dominantly white schools last Thursday night by the Franklin County Board of Education. The action followed the denial of a petition to have the August 18 federal court order stayed by U. S. Eastern District Chief Judge Algernon L. Butler. Board attorneys E. F. Yarborough and Charles Davis appeared earlier Thurs day afternoon before Judge Butler at a hearing In which the request was denied. Judge Butler did, however, extend the time limit on a court ordered plan (or further desegregation and certain re ports. The original order directed the Board to present a "plan tor the assign ment, at the earliest practicable date, of all students upon the basis of a uni tary system of non-racial geographic attendance zones, or a plan tor the consolidation of grades, or schools, or both" by October 15, 1967. The extension granted by the cojrt amends this section of the order and the Board of Education must now pre sent such a plan "thirty days after March 1, 1968 or 30 days after the filing of the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit In this cause, whichever Is earlier, Instead of on October 15, 1667." Time was also extended similarly for reports on pupil-teacher ratios, pupil classroom ratios, and per pupil ex penditures both as to operating and capital Improvement costs. This re Board Denies Teacher Appeals Ordered To Report For Work Today The Franklin County Board of Edu cation, meeting In special session here Monday night, denied the appeals of several teachers that they not be assigned across racial lines. The Board announced Its decision short ly after midnight, after hearing pro tests of the teachers against their assignments made last week In com pliance with a federal court order. Teachers were told that the order required at least two white teachers be assigned to Negro schools and two Negro teachers be assigned to each of the predominantly white schools. The Board labored In a lengthy session last Monday, after Interviewing every teacher In the system on the subject of volunteering to cross racial lines, and made the assignments. Monday night's meeting saw a parade of professional people come before the Board appealing their assignment and requesting to be returned to schools where they taught last year. The Board's provision of allowing teachers to teach In the schools of their choice was knocked down, along with freedom of choice for pupils, by the federal ruling of August 18 this year. It was explained Monday night that each teacher was assigned because of his or her outstanding qualification and because the Board deemed it "in the best Interest of the school system". "This Is no punitive action", Board attorney E. F. Yarborough explained, "Each was chosen because the Board knew of their qualifications and felt that they were the best suited for the particular position". Some of the teachers indicated they might resign. Letters from parents requesting that their children be moved back to the schools attended last year and chosen under freedom of choice this year, were read to the Board. No action was taken on these requests as the court required at least ten percent of Negro pupils in the system be transferred to predom inantly white schools. All teachers were scheduled to report to their respective schools this morning at 8 A.M. This Included those whose appeals were turned down last night. No reports have been made on how many actually reported for work today. Students report for registration Wed nesday from 1:30 to 3:30 P.M. and begin the first of the 180-day schedule on Thursday, reporting at 8 A. M. and operating on a short Schedule, with schools closing at 1 P.M. Buses will m * t run Wednesday and lunches will be served beginning Thursday. The next scheduled me- ting of the Board of Education is set tor Monday, September 11. Familiar Scene Opens The composite picture above shows Loulsburg warehouses and a tobacco auction scene which depicts the pending opening of the local markets here Thursday. Tobacco was being accepted today and a shortage of floor space has been predicted for Thursday and Friday sales. Markets, other than the Middle Belt, are observing holiday this week In order to relieve congestion at redrylng plants. ASCS Voting Is Slated During the period from September 8 through September IS, Franklin County farmers will be voting on ASC Com munity Committeemen to represent tbem next year. The election will be held by mall with (he ballots being mailed to farmers by September 8. They must be returned or postmarked no later than September IB. Qualified voters In the election are all farmers who are eligible to take part in one or more of the farm pro grams which the comnlttees adminis ter. Lists of eligible voters In each community are available 'for public Inspection In the ASCS county office. The community committee the farm ers elect from among their own num ber consists of a chairman, a vice chairman, and a third regular member, as well as two alternates. The re gular m?mbor? at the committee also serve as delegates - and the altar nates as alternate delegate! - to a county convention, where farmers will be elected to fill vacancies on the ASC county committee. Programs administered by the com mitteemen Include the Agricultural Conservation Program, the Cropland Adjustment Program, acreage allot ments, marketing quotas, commodity loans, the feed grain program, the voluntary wheat program, the upland coUon diversion program, the National Wool program, and farm storage fa cility loans. Other duties are assign ed to the committees by the Secretary of Agriculture as the need arises. All farmers are urged to vote in these very important elections. Commissioners Expected To Call For Courthouse Bond Vote Th? Board of County Commissioners, meeting her# today In a mm Ion delayed by the Labor Day holiday, la expected to call for a $200,000 bond rote to ralM fundi for courthouse Improvements. The Board has been studying the project for several months and while no public announcements hare been made, It Is understood that the decision to renovate the present structure in preference to building a new one, was made some time ago. Additional apace will be needed when the new court reform* come Into effect ] In Franklin County. Many office* are already overcrowded and with the eat- 1 pectatlon that the Frankllnton and 1 Loulsburg Mayor's Courts plus the new i District Court will be moved Into the ( courthouse alone with other rAoords, 1 more space 1 s a necessity. ( No details were announced prior to ? 1 today's meetlnf and little la known of I the plans for the renovations. 1 port ?u also required to "outline the steps taken and the time within which they shall accomplish the equal ization of such schools." This portion referred to equalizing predominantly white and Negro schools as to facilities, etc. It was also disclosed at tbe meeting that all positions were filled as far as the court order requirea, with two Negro teachers assigned to each pre dominantly white school and two white teachers had been assigned' to each of the county's Negro schools. Five posi tions were still vacant In some areas as Thursday's meeting ended. Schools are slated to open as sche duled this week, with teachers re porting today, pupils tomorrow for a short session and the first full day slated for Thursday. Attorneys Yar bo rough and Davis said Thursday night that It Is expected the appeal by the Board of the court on)er will Joe heard In December bytbe Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals In Richmond. A decision by the Appeals Court could probably be made by the first of tbe year. The Board served notice of appeal Immediately following the is suance of Judge Butler's order on Saturday August 19. The order knock ed down the system's (reedsmo! choice plan. Work on the plan ordered by the court Is expected to begin when the Board meets again on September 11. It was explained that a plan will be drawn, only after careful study, in case the Appeals Court does not overrule the plan requirement of Judge Butler. The entire text of Judge Bitler's petition denial order, issued last Thurs day follows: HAROLD DOUGLAS COPPEDGE, ET AL., Plaintiff, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by RAMSEY CLARK, Attorney General, Plalntlff-Intervenor vs THE FRANKLIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION , A PUBLIC BODY COR PORATE, ET AL., Defendants. ORDER The defendants having applied to this Court for an Order staying the exe cution, pending final disposition of their appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, of the first two paragraphs of Part I and of the first paragraph of Part II of this Court's Order entered herein on August 17, 1967, and said application having come on for a hearing on Au gust 31, 1987, and the Court having considered the arguments of counsel tor the respective parties, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that de fendants' application for a stay of the enforcement of the aforesaid provisions of said order be and It is hereby denied, and IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the plan to be filed by the defendants pursuant to the first sentence of Part I of said Order, and the report to be filed by the defendants pursuant to the fourth sentence of Part IV of said Order, shall each be filed thirty days after March I, IMS or 30 days after the filing of the decision of the United States Court of Appeals tor the Fourth Circuit in this cause, whichever la earlier, instead of on October 18, 1967. ORDERED this 31st day of August, tr Algernon L. Butler CHIEF JUDGE United States District Court Franklinton Schools Open (Frk.B.W.) Supt. R. B. Gordon reports that Um schools In Franklinton had a rSty good beginning . Thar* was a complete faculty at both schools on opening day. Enrollment at FrankMoton High Is M7 and at a F. Person- Attton 831. Because o t the farm situation, **>? enrollment la low. No abort schsduls U being obwmd In ths Frinkltnton Schools. Nrw tsacbars at Franklinton High are Mrs. Batty* Beemen (first end*), Mrs. Mary Long Qtm (first grata), Mrs. Sarah a Daniel (first grade), Mrs. Electa H. Hardy (fifth grade), Mrs. Jacqueline Sbaltoo (fifth grade), Mrs. Marlon 0?Qolno (eighth grade), Mr. James K. Parka, Jr. (eighth grade), llrs. Jane Wilder (alath gi ' Hudlea A English), Mr. introduction to Vocatlowi * led Education). Mrs. Mk V mm IMMI w * Commercial Mr. < Sackwelder (Social Studies * Physical 5d.), Mr. Lather Harrison (Sctonen. >hyslcs and Chemistry). 1 1 ? i % * lihli I !?' i 1 1
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