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Louisburg, N C , Tuesday, October 10/ 1967
(Ficht Pages Today)
98th Year-Number 67
Water Supply
Critical At
Franklinton
Frankllnton Is faced today with a
water supply shortage every bit as
critical as any In its history. Charlie
Hlght, Chairman of the Water Com
mittee ' of the Frankllnton Town
Bqpurd said this morning that unless
water usage Is curtailed, "we will
be forced to go to an allotment
baals." He also said, "This we
do not want to do."
"The water level is as low as It
was last year," he stated. "We
still have restrictions, but It seems
more water Is being used than ever
before." He called on all citizens
to curtail their use of water Im
mediately. He reported, "We have
about eleven Inches more to go be
fore we will be forced to use Irri
gation pipe and follow the water
on out of the lake."
"If the people would go out and
take a look," Hlght said, "it would
| shake them In their boots."
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Sportswear
Union Vote
Thursday
Employees of Sportswear, Inc. here
will vote Thursday morning on whether
to allow the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Union of America to act as
their bargaining agent. The pending
election has caused concern among
local businessmen and others who op
pose the union.
Official organizers for ACWUA have
been In the area for several weeks,
contacting workers and holding meet
ings. Thus far there have been no
clearly defined Issues other than re
ferences by union supporters to "better
working conditions". The Union, It
self, claims not to be promising any
pay Increases or other benefits other
than adequate negotiations.
Non-union forces have made a two
page appeal in today's Franklin Times
for workers at Sportswear to vote
"No Union." Union forces, for the
most part, are keeping their strategy
to themselves and handbills have been
the prime method of getting their
message across.
Voting will take place between the
hours of 10 A.M. and 11:45 A.M.
Thursday morning at the plant here.
Union and management representatives
will observe the election along with a
representative of the National Labor
Relations Board.
MEMBERS OF THE LOUIS
BURG RESCUE SERVICE WORK
FRANTICALLY TO SAVE 19
YEAR-OLD LOUISBURG COL
LEGE COED JO ANN W0L0ZIN,
FOLLOWING A SINGLE CAR AC
CIDENT ON N C. 561 EAST OF
LOUISBURG SUNDAY AFTER
NOON. MISS W0L0ZIN, EDITOR
OF THE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER
AND A COMPANION, TOMMY
O'NEAL OF SANFORD WERE TA
KEN TO DUKE HOSPITAL
WHERE HER CONDITION WAS
DESCRIBED MONDAY AS FAIR.
BOTH SHE AND O'NEAL SUF
FERED SEVERE HEAD IN
JURIES. A BLOWN TIRE WAS
BELIEVED TO HAVE CAUSED
THE MISHAP.
Nine- Year Old Is Seventh Road Fatality
Justice Plant Operator Gets Invention Patented
J. W. Morris of Nashville, who op
erated garment manufacturing plants at
Stanhope and In the Franklin County
community of Justice, has been grant
ed a patent on an Invent lonl that could
have a wide practical application in
the sewing industry.
Morris' invention is a simple device
which causes a sewing machine to skip
stitches while the machine continues
to operate.
The attachment consists of a small
nozzle near the needle of the machine
through which compressed air Is re
leased by the machine operator when
she wishes to skip stitches. The com
pressed air simply blows aside the loop
of thread carried by the needle so that
it does not connect with the shuttle
Officers Get
Three Stills
Franklin County Sheriff William T.
Dement said Thursday his department
assisted by ATTD agents had, destroy
ed three whisky stills located In Frank
lin Township.
All stills were of the submarine
type, and none was In operation at
the time.
The first two, of 800-gallon capacity
each, were located between Loulsburg
and Franklinton In the Mltchlners'
Crossroads section. They contained
spent mash and had not been In op
eration for some time.
The third still, of the 500-gallon
capacity, was located about two miles
north of Franklinton and also con
tained spent mash.
All three were destroyed Tby dyna
mite. No arrests were made.
From The Nas
thread to torm a stitch.
When the air is released, the loop
of thread drops back Into place and
stitching is resumed.
The attachment 1s simple to operate,
Is inexpensive to produce and can be
easily Installed on any type of swing
machine, Morris said.
Its value to the sewing industry Is
In saving production time and thereby
reducing production expense.
Morris said an inexpensive stitch
Police Get
Tear Gas
Loulsburg Police Chief Earl Thar
rington disclosed Monday that the local
department has added tear gas bombs
to its regular gear as a means of self
defense for officers and to prevent
undue use of force In making arrests.
The ftewly added weapon - choroace
tophenone - sets in a black leather
holster, measuring seven Inches long
by 1 1/4 Inches in diameter.
Tear gas, as it Is more commonly
called, was purchased by Chief Thar
rington "as a means of eliminating
unnecessary rough stuff."
The chief said, "We ordered the
tear gas to use rather than using the
night stick. It will make arrest easier
and wlJJ be used in making arrests
and as a measure of self-defense for
our seven police officers."
The seven man force was recently
armed with the Del-Defend, self
defense aerosol which shoots a one
second spray from 10-15 feet. The
push-top tear gas is highly Irritating
to the eyes and nose, and costs the
department Just over $7 per unit.
Student Editor, Companion Injured
Jo Ann Wolozln IB, Rt. 2 Louisburg,
editor of the Louisburg College stud
ent newspaper, Columns, Is in critical
condition In Duke Hospital, following
a single car accident on N.C. 501
Sunday afternoon shortly after 1 P.M.
Her conpanlon, Tommy O'Neal 19, of
Sanford, also a student at the College
is hospitalized with a skull fracture
suffered when the foreign make car
overturned.
A blown tire Is believed to have been
the cause of the accident, which took
place about two miles east of Loulsburg.
The Loulsburg Rescue Service admin
istered first aid to the critically In
jured girl at the scene and transported
both her and the boy to Franklin
Memorial Hospital for further treat
ment. O'Neal was taken by Rescue am
bulance to Duke and Miss Wolozln was
transported by private ambulance.
\hville ( ,V C ) Graphic
skipping device has long been needed
in the sewing Industry, and many would
be Inventors have worked on the pro
ject.
None have been successful, however,
until Morris came along with his prac
tical attachment which operates on the
simple principle that a gust of air
will blow aside a looped thread.
Why does a sewing machine operator
nenJ to skip stitches?
An example of the practical appli
cation of sklp-stltchlng is In the manu
facture of belts for women's and child
ren's dresses. The belt is sewn Up
wrong side out, but an opening must
be left at some point so that the belt
can be turned right side out by pull
ing the inside through the opening.
The conventional way of leaving the
opening is for the operator to stop
the machine, lift the device that holds
the material down, and move the cloth
two or three Inches,- or whatever dis
tance Is needed to leave the required
opening.
Then the operator resumes sewing.
The stopping and starting of the mach
ine takes only a few seconds, but the
i average operator can make from 2,000
to 3,000 belts a (iay and this total,
multiplied by even a few seconds, adds
up to a substantial amount of time.
With Morris' invention, the stopping
and starting are eliminated.
The operator merely depresses a
switch on the floor with her foot,
without stopping the machine, and the
stltch-sklpplng begins. When the op
erator lifts her foot, stitching is re
sumed. The machine maintains the
same rate of speed whether stitching
or skipping stitches.
"Even in a small plant, the attach
ment will save a substantial amount
of time and money," Morris says.
"I believe it will have application In
garment manufacturing plants through
out the; country."
Morris has not yet decided whether
he will sell his invention outright or
get a firm to market it on a royalty
basis. If somebody comes along with
an offer that he considers attractive
enough, "1 would consider an outright
sale," the inventor said.
Newcomer To Field "~
Morris Is a relative newcomer to the
garment manufacturing field. He es
tablished his first plant In an old fair
grounds building in Spring Hope in 1963,
starting operation with only five em
ployees. He recently purchased the old
Stanhope School building at Stanhope and
has moved the Spring Hope operation
there. He has 30 employees at Stanhope
See JUSTICE Page 2
Board Again Hits Program
The Board of County Commissioners,
meeting In special session here Sat
urday, heard a report for the Ambulance
Committee and local ambulance service
operators.
A.F. Johnson, Jr. and Dr. JohnVassey
reported for the Committee and W.G.
Lancaster was spokesman for the op
erators. Johnson told the Board that he
believed the Rescue Service In Louls
burg or other such units In the county
would be Interested In operating the
service. He estimated the annual cost to''
the county would be around $13,000.
Lancaster said he believed the cost
would be nearer $35,000 for adequate
ambulance service for the entire
county. Dr. Vassey told the Board that
he felt that the Rescue units should
be contacted as well as the Town of
Loulsburg Board to determine their
thinking on the matter.
Following a lengthy discussion, John
son was named to contact the other
agencies, as suggested.
?-> Lancaster Informed the Board that
ambulance operators In the county
would discontinue service around Jan
uary 1. Increased wage requirements
and newly passed state regulations on
ambulance operations were given as the
reason. Other counties are also faced
with this problem.
A letter from the County Firemen's
Association was read, in which the or
ganization asked the Board to rein
state an adequate electrical inspection
program. On motion by Commissioner
Brooks Young, seconded by Commis
sioner Richard Cash, the Board voted
THIS IS THE SCENE OF THE
SATURDAY AFTERNOON ACCI
DENT AT -INFAMOUS INTER
SECTION" U'S 401-N C 39,
WHERE NINE-YEAR-OLD BILLY
CHILCOAT WAS KILLED THE
YOUNGSTER THUS BECAME THE
SEVENTH HIGHWAY FATALITY
OF THE YEAR IN FRANKLIN
COUNTY HE WAS A PASSENG
ER IN THE OVERTURNED
TRUCK, BACKGROUND AND
DIED A SHORT TIME LATER IN
THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT
REX HOSPITAL IN RALEIGH
A nine-year Roanoke Rapids youth
became Franklin County's seventh
highway fatality of the year, Saturday
afternoon. Billy Allen Chllcoat, Injured
at "Infamous Intersection," U.S. 401
N.C. 98 12 miles south of Loulsburg,
(Med in the emergency room at Rex
Hospital, Raleigh shortly after 2 P.M.
Young Chllcoat was riding In a rental
truck, loaded with Ills family furniture
and driven by his aunt's son-in-law,
Cecil Thomas Ausley, when a cay re
portedly driven by Carroll Edward
Ball 19'' of Elizabeth City, ran the
stop sign and plowed Into the side of
the van. The truck overturned several
times, strewing household furnishing*
for several hundred yards along the
busy stretch of highway.
Charlene Wlnslow, 18, of Elizabeth
City, a passenger in the Ball car, la
still in critical condition at Rex, suf
fering head and other Injuries. Ball,
a patient there, Is believed not as
seriously Injured. Ausley and his four
year of son, Cecil, Jr. were treated
and released following the accident.
State Trooper D.C. Day said Sunday
that he had charged Ball with (ailing
to stop and with manslaughter. The
Ford convertible In which Ball was
riding was demolished and the truck
was heavily damaged.
The dead youth and his mother were
In the process of moving from Roanoke
Rapids to Raleigh. Mrs. Ausley and
her mother were following the truck,
but did not witness the accident, ac
cording to reports.
Miss Wlnslow's father said Sunday
that he had particularly warned the
young Elizabeth City couple of this
intersection, reminding them that
others from his home town had been
injure .1 in an accident there. Ball is
reported to have told Trooper Day
that he did not see a stop sign.
Young Chllcoat is the seventh fatality
of the year in the county, not in
cluding the death of a 5-year-old boy
at Franklinton which was not consider
ed- a highway death. He is the first
to die at Infamous Intersection since
December of 1963 when an elderly
man was struck and killed while walk
ing along the road, although there
have been a number of multiple-In
Jury accidents to take place there.
He is survived by his parents Mr.
and Mrs. Ronald Chllcoat and an 18
year old sister. Funeral services were
not announced here.
3 to 2 against reinstatement of tte
program. Commissioners Norwood
Faulkner, and George Harris voted
"No" with Chairman E.M. Sykes break
ing the tie by voting against the motion.
The same division existed when the
Board killed the program a few weeks
ago.
Other matters were discussed briefly,
but no actions were taken and tte
meeting adjourned shortly before 4
P.M.
"Ponderosa" Burns
m
Pictured above is the ruins of the "Ponderosa", a Negro
nightspot west of Frankllnton on N. C. 56. The cigarette
machine was broken Into last Thursday night, according to
Franklin Sheriff William T. Dement, and the place sat afire.
Dement lays arson la definitely suspected ana ma aeparv
ment, assisted by A, E. Pearce, Chief Inrestlcator for the
N. C. Dept. of Insurance, la oowtlmrtf their tnwtHHII