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Board Approves County Insurance Program The Board of County Commission ers, meeting in special session here Friday, discussed and later approved the county insurance program (or a total of $787,403.00. Several other matters of routine business were taken care of in the meeting, including awarding of beer and wine licenses, resolving a check mailing procedure with the Welfare Department and viewing a new court house plaque recently-installed. County insurance Dusiness was dis tributed among several agencies doing business here. The breakdowns follow: Ford Insurance Agency, $105,020.00; Farm Bureaif Insurance, $31,389.00; Matthew Insurance Agency, $28,329.00; Harvey's Insurance Agency, $112,941.00; Cooper In surance Agency, $134,170.00; Hodges Insurance Agency, $300,554.00 and Roberts Insurance Agency, Sledge's Insurance Agency and Pleasants' In surance Agency, each received $25,000.00 in qounty businesss. Hunting In Franklin Five men waded hip-deep into a dense thicket of dried briars. Vinyl-faced hunting pants turned most of the thorns, but they held guns high to avoid scratched hands. "Get 'em up! Get 'em up!" One of them shouted en couragement to eight beagles nosing through brambles close by. Kicking brush and walking through tangled honeysuckle vines, the hunt ers soon began to pant from the effort. "Tally! Tally! Tally! Tally!" Lane Holt slapped his pants and shouted the signal that he had lumped a rabbit. The dogs made a frantic dash to his feet and practically rooted in the partially frozen ground trying to pick up the "line." ' Polly found it first and heralded her discovery with a high-pitched squeal. The others joined in chorus and followed her in a pell mell sprint after the cottontail and soon were out of sight. The hunters came leisurely out of the thicket to a narrow rutted road. From here they followed the "race" by listen ing to the beagle pack's ex cited quails. From the briar and vine thicket, the rabbit set a course down-hill along a power line right-of-way, turn ed into some pine woods, fled up a ridge and then along it for perhaps a quarter-mile, then skirted a weed field not far from where the hunters stood. They kicked' the ground, chewed straws and listened to the chase. The cottontail was inscribing an erratic circle back to the spot where it was rudely routed from its bed. The hunters knew from experience that it probably would take such a path, and they knew that to return to its bower it would have to cross the road. On one side, however, short pines grew up to the edge; on the other, knee-high weeds offered refuge. The rabbit would have to be shot as it crossed the road, a distance of about eight feet. It would be dif ficult if the cottontail were running. The men spread out along the road. "These cottontails really test a dog." Lane Holt said. He had told me the same thing about marsh rabbits sev eral weeks ago when we were hunting, practically in his father's back yard, at Caro lina Beach. "Marsh rabbits change di rection more often than cot tontails," he said, "but cot tontails get way out in front of the dogs, sometimes a half -mile, and cover a lot of country." . "I've had them run clear out of hearing," said Holt, "but they always circle back." ' 'Road champions," he added, shaking his head. This was our second hunt ing day. The previous one had been disappointing for Holt because the pack, which had performed almost faultlessly all see&>n, lost more than half the rabbi ts*we jumped. "I don't understand it," Holt had said back at the cabin, "dogs just don't fall apart like that." We speculated that It may have been poor scenting con ditions, or the ride' from Car olina Beach to Loulsburg. In any regard, Holt had been concerned about the second day's hunt, worried about another poor showing, but hopeful that the dogs would perform up to their capa bility. As we stood there on the road, waiting for the rabbit to cross, his apprenhenston was dispelled. It had been a good day. The score: five rabbits jumped, four killed. The fifth was approaching the hunter*. They all stood quietly, knowing that the slightest movement or noise would dl vert the cottontail. 1 stood at the end of the line, on the right flank. A long moment passed as the dogs came closer. Then from the other end I heard a shot. Number five. ' '.Good thing he stopped before crossing the road," said Dan Holt, Lane's father.. "Never would have hit Him on the run." "Don't pick him uj>," Lane said. "Let the dogs work out the line." The pack squalled and squealed its way to the car cass. Dan picked it up just as the dogs arrived, held it high, the dogs went silent, and two of them jumped for a nip at the rabbit. We had two more races before dark, and added one more cottontail to the bag. The other eluded the dogs, exhausted after two days of running. The beagles fell asleep seconds after climbing into their pen in the back of the station wagon. Lane Holt slept better that night, too. Certified Hunter Safety Instructor Mr. Burley A. CUrk, Wild life Protector, RFD 2, Box 267, Franklinton, N. C. 27525 has been certified an official Hunter Safety In structor becoming an essen tial part of a nation-wide pro gram of firearm safety educa tion and of the Hunter Safety Program of the North Caro lina Wildlife Resources Com mission. He is available to give information, assistance, or guidance to others of the community interested in this program. Educational , Reform They're still chuckling in one Westchester junior high school over the day the prin cipal heard an uproar in one room and, charging in, found a fellow shouting at the top of his lungs and dancing down (he aisle. He marched the offender off to his office and ordered him to stand in the corner until excused. The principal then return ed to the classroom delivered an inspiring lecture on discip line, and concluded by asking if there were any questions. "Yes," volunteered one stu dent. "When are you going to let our teacher come back in the room?" Historical Society To Hold Meet The Franklin County Historical Society will hold its monthly meeting Thursday night, February 27, at 8 p.m. The program will consist of a dis play of various items of Historical interest to Franklin Countians with the owners giving a brief description. A similar program last year created much interest. Many of the items displayed at that time will be ex hibited as well as others, not pre viously displayed.' Anyone interested in County His tory is urged to attend the meeting which will be held in the Community Room of the First Citizens Bank Building in Louisburg. 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