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Ten Cents
Louisburg, N. C? Tuesday. January 28. 1969
(Eight Pages Today)
99th Year-Number 99
"Considerable Time To Swine Enterprise"
Bill Wood, Route 1, Castalia farmer, center, was named Franklin's Outstanding Young Farmer last night by the Louisburg
Jaycees. He is pictured above being congratulated by Parke Brown, left, assistant county farm agent while Charlie Moore, Jaycee
President, looks on. . , Photo by Clint Fuller.
Wood Named Outstanding Young farmer
Billy Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bryant Wood of Route 1 . Castalia. has
been selected as the 1968 Outstanding
Young Farmer by the Louisburg Jay
cees. i
Engaged in farming with his father,
Billy has devoted* considerable time
and effort to the farm's swine enter
prise. Therefore, much of the credit
for the considerable success of that
operation must be attributed to the
hard work and management know-how
of this young man.
J. R. Shillinglaw. Agricultural Ex
tension Agent, who has.worked closely
with the Wood family had this conr
ment "Billy Wood is an outstanding
swine producer and farmer. He is
certainly a worthy recipient of this
award."
The swine enterprise is now the
major part of the farm program. Start- .- -
ing with 50 sows on the Swift Sow
Leasing Program in 1966, they have
expanded to 125 and plan to go to
200 in the future.
The sows are a Hampshire-York
shire cross and are mated with a Duroc
boar. The pigs are then topped out in
dirt lots and marketed on a graded
basis.
Following Extension recommenda
tions for their feeding program, the
Woods mix the ration on the farm.
Much of that feed is purchased else
where though some is raised.
In 1966 the Woods built a 24 stall
farrowing house in which they farrow
sows twice a year. To ease the stress of
taking pigs directly from the farrowing
house to dirt lots, a 12 stall nursery
unit was completed last fall.
The 1968 cropping program con
sisted of 25 acres of corn, 20 acres of
milo. 20 acres of barley and nine acres
of tobacco.
In order to better analyze their
farm program the Woods have gone on
the Computer-Processed Farm Busi
ness Records Program set up by the
Agricultural Extension Service.
Billy Wood is a member of the Red
Bud Baptist Church, the Farm Bureau
and'N. C. Pork Producers Association.
He and his wife, the former Sandra
Blanton of Rocky Mount, have two
small children, Tracy and Billy, Jr.
FCBA Holds
Annual Meet
The Franklin County Business As
sociation -held their annual dinner
meeting January 22, 1969 at the Mur
phy House.
Mrs. Juanita Pleasants. Executive
Secretary, gave a brief report on the
progress the Association had made
during 1968. The sales promotions
held by the Association were given
special mention, as the "Sidewalk
Sale" held in August was the first one
of this kind to be held in Louisburg.
This sale was mentioned as being a
"tremendous success."
It was also noted that the associa
tion had expanded into a conntywide
organization. This was a step forward
in being a credit bureau on a national
basis.
Mr. Jack Co as. who was guest
speaker, spoke on "Community Co
operation For Progress." Mr. Wallace
Tippett. Vice President of the Associa
tion. welcomed Mr. and Mrs. Cujs to-'^s
Louisburg and praised him for fctPffig*
v.ne of ttie organizers of th^. Associa
tion when he served as Town Manager
of Louisburg. *
Historical Society
To Meet
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The Franklin County Historical
Society will present a program am
Confederate Art. Muiic and Flags, at
their monthly meeting, set for Thurs
day night. Jan. 30.
.All interested persons are cordially
Invited to attend the program which
will be held In the Community Room
of the First Citizens Bank fiuilding on
BIcketfBlvd. starting at 8 P.M.
Bobby Garrett
Is House Page
Bobby Gar
rett, left, 14-year
-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. John
Garrett of Louis
burg. is serving
this week as a
page in the North
Carolina House of
Representatives.
The high school
freshman was ap
pointed by House
Speaker Earl
Vaughn upon the
recommendation
of Franklin Re
presentative
James D. Speed.
County Has First Highway Fatality
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A 26-yeatryld'Koute t-jf"t?nklirit6ri '
.man w*t. ariovf tilf nln# pirsons killed
on North Carolina highways this past
weekend and became Franklin Coun
ty's first highway fatality of the new
year.
Douglas Mac-Arthur Privette was
killed Friday night around 9:30 p.m.
on NC-96 about four miles west of
Youngsville in a heavy fog. According
to reports. Privette's pickup truck ran
off the road and struck a tree, shearing
the cab.
Nine persons were killed last year in
the county, the first fatality came on
February 3. Privette i?lthe first to die
on the county roadCsince November
1.1968 ' ^
Not As Bad As 19TB-T9 ~
51 Funeral services were conducted
Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Sandling
Funtral Chapel by the Re*< v N..
Daughtry. Burial was in the Pope
Christian Church cemetery.
He was employed by a Durham
firm. . ?
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ruby
Long Privettp ; two sons. Ellis Mac
? Arthur and Kenneth Wayne Privette;
two daughters. Miss Elizabeth Anne
and Miss Vernita Faye Privette. both
of the home; his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Raney Privette of Rt. 2, Wake Forest;
his paternal grandmother. Mrs. Charlie
Privette of Rt. 3, Wake Forest; si*
brothers. Jasper and Mitchell of Rt. 1,
Franklinton; Charles Earp. Howard
Thomas. Curtis Lee. and Raymond
Donald Privette, all of Wake Forest,
four sisters. Mrs. Madeline Sells and
Mrs. Elma McLamb, both of Raleigh;
Mrs. Frances Grissom of Wake Forest
and Mrs. Rachel Davis of Youngsvllle.
Flu Bug Apparently Packing His Bag To Leave
The bug ii leaving. That's the latest
word. Whether he is going back to<tbe
Orient from whence, they say, he
came, Is unknown.
For all his misery, the flu bug thus
far In this county has not accounted
for a single death. He has complicated
some illnesses and In perhaps, one case
he might have contributed the fatal
blow.
The 'Asian flu will nevertheless take
it's place on the list of'tfte Spanish flu
as being of epidemic proportions ift
this ar?*. It is a credit to health
officials, doctors, nurses and other
personnel that the Asian has not been
a devastating as the Spanish was in the
winter of 1918-19.
On October 4, 1918, the State
Department of Health issued a list of
suggestions to the public on how to
avoid what was termed the Spanish
By Clint Fuller
Timps Managing Editor
Influenza. On October 11. 1918, the
Franklin County Healtlf Department
banned all public gatherings and or
dered the doling of schools "to pre
vent as far as possible the spread of
Spanish Influenza''. , - *" 1
One report sald th#t the bug did not
originate in Spain, jftdp it suspected
that it came from mVQoent. Perhaps
the Asian is a distant cousin:
By October 25, things had grown
worse here and the Board of Health
ordered all stores to close at 4 P.M. on
weekdays and at 2 P.M. on Saturdays
and called the move, "a measure for
the control of Spanish Influenza". .
Information on the total Impact of
the 1918-19 flu epidemic here is
sketchy. One report on November 1*
said there were three hundred cases in
Franklinton. There was no report on
the rest of the county. Stores were by
that time, running large ads listing the
steps to take at home to combat the
flu. A call went out by E. H. Malone.
head of the local Red Cross, for
volunteer nurse* Two deaths were
reported in Franklinton and two were
reported in Louisburg as a result of
pneutponia following the flu. It was
said that the flu bug weakened the
patient causing pneumonia. At that
u time there was no cure for pneumonia,
. sulphur drugs had not been discovered.
On Jtnuary 10, 1919,\??pronitpent
Louisburg businessman and a small
child died of the flu. On January 16,
three more deaths were listed with
influenza given as the cauae of death.
On January 31, there was one death
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Commissioners Meet Witt Highway
Officials, Seek Aid For NC-39
The Board of County Commis
sioners met here last Thursday after
noon . with Fifth Highway Division
Commissioner J B. Brame of Durham
and other highway officials in efforts
to gain more milage in the N. C. -39
project north of Louisbu'rg.
Attending the session with Brame
were Division Engineer Merle Adkins,
District Engineer F. W. Adkins and
County Engineer James Alford.
Brame explained that the rising cost
of construction and the shortage of
County Man
Sentenced
In Wake
h'rum The Hali'i/ih Times
A Louisburg man was convicted in
District Court Wednesday on charges
of disorderly conduct and assault on
an officer. Judge Pretlow Winborne"
ordered 30 days in jail on each count,
suspended on payment of a. $50 fine
and probation for Early Perry CoNlfis,'
of Rt. 2, Louisburg.
Collins appealed the case to Wake
Superior Court and was released on
$100 bond.
Perry, who uid he was a construc
tion superintendent for -Davidson and
Jones Construction Co., was charged
with assaulting city detective E. C.
Winston by throwing a cup of beer in
his face at the Beach Club at 1118 S.
Saunders St.
Winston said he and Det. Ralph
Johnson were on routine patrol at the
Beach Club when .they walked In and
Collins tossed the beer in his face
without provocation.
Winston said four or five other men
then grabbed him before Johnson
could pull one away.
Winston ;said he then went outside
the club and identifled himself as a
policeman, then arrested Collins for
disorderly conduct.
Winston said Collins cursed the
officers and used profanity all the way
to the station.
Collins testined that he must have
stumbled or fallen and that he "didn't
protest one bit in the world," when
told he was under arrest.
Collins told Winborne that the beer
"splashed accidentally" on Winston.
Det. Johnson told the court that he
was a short distance behind Winston,
and due to the loudness of the music
was unaware of what was happening
until he saw several men surrounding
Winston.
funds were the reasons for the curtail
ment of the N. C. 39 mileage both in
Franklin and Vance Counties. He
briefly reviewed the actions of the
Highway Commission in allocating cer
tain funds in each county of the
Division for what he termed "some ,
substantial project,',' He said that
$750,000 had been allotcd for the
project in Franklin County.
Explaining that at the beginning of
the dual Vance-Franklin project he
had hoped the money would stretch
far enough to have the road meet at
the county lines. Urame said that the
bid for the Franklin project was "a
quarter of a million dollars high." '
This, he added, was for the project
after being cut to run from Louisburg
to Fuller's Store north of Ingleside.
The project presently is planned to
extend from Louisburg to Ingleside or
just beyond to the Rocky Ford road.
Mr. Merle Adkins disclosed that the
November balance for the Franklin
project stood at $595,380.48. He pro
duced a list of expenditures thus far
on the project which included: photo
gi -ammetry . $7,077.12; $15,890.76.
location; $120,610.42. rights-of-way;
$1 1007.40. roadway design and other
e\ pendittires relative to the planning
of the project.
Commissioner Norwood Faulkner
asl ted if highway personnel could ac
coi 'iiplish the project at a savings and
th* -reby extend the overall mileage.
Th' e Division Engineer explained some
of the things involved and said. "It's
pos sible but not feasible." Later Mr.
Bra me agreed, but qualified his state
met it by saying that if an adverse bid is
'rece ived at the letting today in Ral
eigh . "I'll open a new book on the
proji H-t and take another look."
F aulkner expressed the county's
appri .'ciation for the work done on r
secoi tdary roads during Brame's tenure
on t he Commission and Brame ex
press >d his pleasure al the visit to the
count y.
At the end. things were as they '
were at the start of the session. The
Frank lin project remains as set and the
outloc 'k for an additionat HJghVay
funds i tiusl await another day.
What's It?
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County Man Has Role In Inauguration
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By Lib Cheatham. Times Correspondent
Amid the flourishes and fanfare of
the presidential inauguration last week
was a forjner Franklin County resi
dent. Mr. William Stajey Cheatham,
who was occupied with administering
duties In cooperation wtth the Joint
Congressional Inaugural Committee.
He was s*n on TV as he seated
Presidentelect Richard Nixon and
other distinguished persons on the
Presidents Platform at the Capitol for
the oath-taking ceremonies.
Proceeding official inaugural cer
emonies. Mr. Cheatham was recogniz
ed on TV by n?ws commentator
Nancy Dlckerson, who extended credit
to him and other committee members
conducting ' awesome, responsibilities.
"Miss Dlckerson noted that Mr. Cheat
ham's interest in Senatorial affairs first
began at the age of twelve when he _
became' a Senate page and continued
increasingly as in later years he became
Administrative Assistant to the Ser
geant at Arms of the Senate. With
years of put experience in inaugural
affairs. Mr. Cheatham is well qualified
for .the months of complex planning
and work which go into preparations
for this eventful day which rolls *
around every four year*.
A small portion of the detailed
planning done by the arrangements
committee wis manifested in the in
augural invitations. Envelopes con
tained not only handsome invitations,
but separate photographs of Richard
Nixon and Spiro Agnew, ceremonial
programs, and admisaion cards. The
program booklet included directions as
to places of assembly for guests, the
order of processionals, explanation of
tickets, regulations^ for the Capitol
Building, and parking regulations. In
vitation materials were Identical ex
cept for the admission cards which
were in varying degrees of elegance,
according to the guests. For the more
distinguished guests, these Were gold
bordered cards with gold seals. Press
cards were blue with plain black print.
-r Various other printed material
which showed careful planning were
programs with instructions for partici
pants in ceremonies, outlining instruc
tions a? to the automobile proces
sionals and all platform proceedings: as
well as for the presidential luncheon
held in the Senate immediately follow
ing the swearing in ceremonies.
For anyone interested in minor
details like eating, the luncheon menu
included California Fresh Fruit Su
preme. Celery and Olives, New York
Roast Tenderloin of Reef and Bercy
Sauce. Bake Tomato, Parisian Pota
toes, Avocado on Romaine, Roll 's and
Butter, Pastry Gems. Mints and Cof
fee
Many Franklin County citizens re
member Mr. Cheatham's mother, N Ira.
Bessie Staley Cheatham, whose fam Hy
was prominent in the fields of rvligk >n
and education. After the death of h? *r
husband. Mis Bessie and her. thei i
young son, moved to Washington
where she became interested in govern
ment affairs and continued on to
become a well known figure on Crtpi
tol Hill. She came tp Be unofficially
recognized as the lOlit. Senator foe
cause of her faithful Interest in the
Senate where, it was said that she
attended sessions as often as any of
the Senators. Her un official aeat wps
in the gallery by the clock. Upon her
death in 1967 at the age of 86, tribute
was paid to her on the Senate floor by
Sen. Margaret ' Chase Smith. Sen.
Everette Jordon, and Sen. Sam Ervln.
'Copies of the extensive eulogies were
entered into the Congressional Record;
the four columns of which covered
more than a page of the Record. At
Miss Bessie's funeral, eight Senate
doorkeepers served as honorary pall
bearers..