Duke Gives
Hospital
$1553.00
Charlotte ? Appropriations totaling
$2 067 166 are being distributed to
hospitals and child care institutions in
the Carolinas this week by The Duke
Endowment.
This includes $1,123,149 to assist
hospitals in operating expenses,
$316,027 to reimburse them for the
cost of participation in two national
Information services, and $627,990 to
help In the care of orphaned and
half-orphaned children. In North Caro
lina 129 hospitals are receiving
$942 328 and 26 child care institu
tions, $417,434. Fifty-nine hospitals
In South Carolina are being given
$496,838 and 17 child care institu
tions, $210,556.
Franklin Memorial Hospital will re
ceive $1,563.00 from the fund thl*
year
Announcement of the appropria
tions was made Monday by James R.
Felts, Jr., executive director of the
Hospital and ChUd Care sections of
The Endowment. Mr. Felts explained
that funds provided to assist the hos
pitals In operating expenses amount to
$1 a day for each day of charity care
reported in the fiscal year which ended
September 30, 1968.
Beginning with 1966, The Endow
ment has reimbursed assisted hospitals
for the cost of participation in Hos
pital Administrative Services of Chica
go 111 (HAS), and Professional Activi
ty Study (PAS) of the Commission on ?
Professional and Hospital Activities of
Ann Arbor, Michigan, which compile
and distribute financial and statistical
Information on a current monthly
basis, giving hospitals data useful in
their search for ways to improve pa
tient care. Hospitals will be reimbursed
for the entire cost until September 30,
1970, after- which The Endowment
will withdraw at the rate of 10 per
cent a year until It shares the expense
equally with the hospitals.
For operating expen^ North Car
olina hospitals are recev ng $735,727,
South Carolina hospitals, $387,422.
Funds for HAS and PAS costs are
$206,611 in North Carolina and
$109,416 in South Carolina.
Hospitals assisted had 26,181 beds
in use, an increase of 146 overl%7,
and 8,136,711 days of care, 326,318
more than in the previous year. There
were 4.496 more free days than In
1967 but the percentage of days of
care devoted to charity, 13.8, was
slightly lower than the 1967 percent
age of 14.3.
Appropriations to child care in?UtV?
tions amount to approximately $1.01
a day for each day of orphan and
half-orphan care. Capacity of those
assisted is 4,879 and average number
of children served each day In the year
was 4 526, which compares with 4,559
In 1967. In all the institutions^ pro
vided 1,656,287 days of care, 7,701
fewer than in the preceding year. Days
of care of orphans and half-orphans
decreased from 659,336 in 1967 to
620,051 In 1968 while the percentage
of care devoted to these children was
37 4 in comparison with 39.6 in 1967.
Major beneficiaries of The Duke
Endowment In addition to hospitals
and chUd care institutions are four
educational Institutions - Duke, David
ion, Furman, a,nd Johnson C. Smith,
retired ministers of the United Metho
dist Church In North Carolina, and
dependent families of ministers who
died while serving one of the North
Carolina Conferences of the Church.
The Endowment was established by
In Like A Lion
Area Gets Seven Inch Snow
The weatherman need make no apology for having
predicted a snow which we did not get today. He did his
thing last Saturday.
Louisburg weatherman G. 0. Kennedy reports a measure
ment of five inches of snow at 5 P.M. Saturday afternoon
and estimates that the fluffy white stuff that fell until
around 10 P.M. Saturday night brought the total measurable
snow to seven inches. It melted fast, as Kennedy pointed out
and therefore it did not appear quite as large a winter storm
as it actually was.
The seven-inch snowfall matched other seven-inchers on
February 9, 1967 and on March 5-6, 1959. The heaviest
snows in recent years fell on January 26, 26, 27, 1966 when
the area had an eight-inch downpour and on January 16, 17,
1965 when 7V4 inches fell.
The heaviest recorded snows in this area occured on
March 3, 1927 when IS to 18 inches was reported and on
February 1, 1948 when 13 inches blanketed the area. In the
four-year period 1961-1964, an inch and a half was the
largest snowfall recorded.
Kennedy says the temperatures have been about normal.
For the past several days, he reports the highs around 49-50
and the lows around 28-30 degrees.
The Raleigh-Durham weatherman had predicted heavy
snows for this area Monday night and early this morning.
However -and thankfully-the signals were crossed and the
sun shines brightly over Franklin County today. March has
come in like the lion it is and the area eagerly awaits its going
out like a lamb. To coin a phrase, when March comes, can
Spring be far behind?
Knott Expected To Name Harris
Successor This Week
Clerk of Superior Court Ralph S.
Knott, whoae constitutional duty it is
to name a successor to the late George
H. Harris on the Board of County
Commissioners, says he hopes to have
an announcement later this week.
Mr. Harris, veteran member of the
Board, died last Wednesday night. He
was serving as Chairman of the Board.
It has been learned that a number
of names have been suggested to Knott
by private citizens in and outside the
District served by Mr. Harris. It is
known that Knott prefers to name a
man residing In the Sandy Creek
Township. District 3 is composed of
Hayesville Township and Sandy Creek.
Mr. Harris was a resident of Sandy
Creek.
Among those names being mention
ed in connection with the appoint
ment are Pete Smith, a garage opera
tor, Owen Tharrington, a member of
the Gold Sand School Committee,
Robert Lee Burnette. a business part
ner of Mr. Harris, Willie Robertson, a
Louisburg realtor who lives in Sandy
Creek. J. C. Tharrington and Henry
Edwards, an Alert storekeeper. All are
residents of Sandy Creek Township.
At least one name has figured
prominently in speculation over the J
appointment from Hayesville Town
ship. John Allison Rogers, successful
farm operator, has been suggested and
some mention has been made of form
er Commissioner Ira Weldon who held
the seat before being defeated by Mr.
Harris in the 1958 elections.
It waa also learned that Knott has
been traveling In the District and
talking with people about the appoint
ment. Several of those being mention
ed in connection with the post have
made it known that they could not
accept the appointment were it offer
ed them.
A reliable source disclosed that the
front runners were Pete Smith and
Owen Tharrlngton but that neither
would accept the position.
Knott said Monday that he wanted
to appoint a man acceptable to all
areas of the county and particularly to
his own District. He said he had hoped
to name the new Commissioner in
time for Monday's regular monthly
meeting of the Board. However, this
proved impossible and now Knott says
he hopes to make the appointment
later this week.
This is the second such appoint
ment Knott has been called on to
"make. He named Mrs. Jeanette Arnold
to fill the unexpired term of her
. husband, Claude A. Arnold who died
while serving as Chairman of the Board
in December. 1965. Mrs. Arnold did
not seek election the following year
and Brooks W. Young, named Chair
man here Monday, was elected to the
post.
Board To Buy Land At Bunn, Study Louisburg Building
*
The Board of Education, meeting In
a four-hour seaalon here Monday nlfht,
voted to puichaae 20 additional acres
of land at Bunn High School and
authorized Supt. Warren Smith to pass
on a sketch of a new Louisburg High
School Vocational budding to Board
architect Ralph Reeves.
The additional acres at Bunn ia
expected to coat $20,000 and wfll be
used for playground space at the over
crowded facility. It ia alao expected to
be used for future buildings at Bunn.
The Trade and Industries building
for Loulaburg has already been ap
proved by the Board and by the State
Board of Education. A coat estimate Is
being sought by the Board before final
plan* are made on this project.
In other action*, the Board set
Wednesday, April 2, a* the make-up
day for a riay lost to Icy roe da last
week. Originally Easter Holidays were
set for Wednesday, April 2 through
Monday, April T. It waa also decided
that should another day be mlaaed,
Thursday, April S, would be used as
make-up.
Beginner's Day wis tentatively set
for (ometlme in April with a definite
date not named and the Board was
informed that the deed for ten acres of
land purchased at Edward Beat had
been recorded.
Board attorney E. F. Yarborough
informed the Board that there had
been no actions in the federal school
suit since Its last meeting. The Bunn
Community Club donated a lot owned
by it, to Um Board for use at the Bunn
School. The Board voted to accept
with appreciation the offer and in
structed Yarborough to proceed with
the acceptance.
Board members Horace Baker,
Jo nee Winston and William T. Boone
and Supt. Smith will attend the State
School Boarda District meeting today
and tonight at Sanderson High School
In Raleigh u delegates from Franklin
County.
The sale of the Cedar Street School
property waa discussed and a bid of
{(3,500 by Louisburg attorney Charles
Davi* will hold unless it is upped by
Thursday of this week. If no higher
bid is offered, the Board will accept or
reject the bid at its next meeting.
James Grady, Waccamaw Bank and
Trust Co. manager here, was named to
the Louisburg School Advisory Coun
cil replacing Willis W. Nash, who re
signed several months ago. Grady was
nominated by Clint Fuller of the
Louisburg district and approved unan
imously by the entire Board.
To Start Operations
The new Durham Hosiery plant on
US-1 it Franklinton It expected to
?Urt operation* in the next few day*.
The firm moved ita operations from
Durham, where it had been for *eventy
year*
George A. Cralle, President taid
some time ago that all company opera
tion* would be moved to Franklinton
by February 15. The Durham plant
ha* already ceaaed ita operation*.
Cralle alio taid it would take about
thirty day* for the Franklinton plant'
to reach Ita full operating capacity.
The Durham plant, which em
ployed around 300 people, was estab
lished in 1898 by the late Julian S.
Carr and at one time wai said to be the
largest hosiery mill in the world.
It maintained It* principal opera
tiont in a five-story building on South
Corcoran Street since 1920.,
Cralle said last July that the move
to Franklinton was necessary because
the downtown plant was Insufficient
and inefficient for uae as a hosiery
mill. He uid the areas was congested
and there waa inadequate parking facil
ities.
According to raporta, camparathrely
few of the Durham employees have
See HOSIERY Pa?? 4
Young Named Chairman
Of The Board, Faulkner
Elected Vice Chairman
Brooks W. Young was elected
Chairman of the Board of County.
Commissioners here Monday as the
Board met in regular monthly' session.
Young succeeds the late George "H.
Harris as chairman. Norwood E. Faulk
ner was named Vice Chairman suc
ceeding Young.
Since no replacement has been
named for the post held by Mr. Harris,
who died last week, the Board met as a
four-member body and heard a num
ber of routine reports from county
department heads.
A contract for shrubbery around
the courthouse *u awarded W. V.
Avent, local nurseryman and the
Louisburg Garden Club at a cost of
$375.00. The Board also agreed to pay
$200 in rent and $400 as its February
?March share of expenses to Franklin,
Vance, Warren Opportunity, Inc., the
local anti-poverty agency.
A report by the Youngiville Fire
Department on its inspection of the
Youngsville High School was presented
and C. T. Dean, Jr. County Extension
Chairman and Raymond E. Burnette,
local building contractor appeared be
fore the Board to explain certain
planned renovations to the county
agricultural offices on E. Nash Street.
A letter from Times Editor Clint
Fuller requesting the Board to appoint
a committee of business and civic
leaders to study the county's salary
structure was read but no action was
taken on the request.
It was announced that the Commis
?jtoners would sit as a Board of
Equalization and Review in the county
tax office from April 14 through April
18. 1969. -
BROOKS W. YOUNG
Fountain ExplainsTobacco Action
Washington, D. C. . . . This week',
I'd like to bring you up to date on a
subject of more than passing interest
to ui in the Second District and.
indeed, in North Carolina.
The entire North Carolina delega
tion in the House - all eleven of us -
joined together the other day in spon
soring a bill to block action threatened
against the tobacco industry by the
Federal Communications Commission.
The legislation we introduced
ironically puts us from the nation's
leading tobacco state on record as
favoring a warning label on cigarette
packages.
- ActtnHy, our bitt would extend on
a permanent basis the present labeling
act which is scheduled to expire on
June 30.
The FCC has announced that unless
Congress extends this act, the FCC
intends to ban all cigarette advertising
from radio and television.
The arguments are numerous and
strong against the FCC in this instance.
But if I have learned one thing since
coming to Washington, it is that gov
ernment agencies will try to grab
power and if they aren't stopped, they
will grab again and aga'n until they get
It.
The FCC's threat is a prime ex
ample of this. In effect, the FCC,
which was created by Congress, is
saying that unless you specifically act
to stop me then I will do thus and to.
It is a errible thing to have to respond
to such threats but the greater public
good is more important than whether
or not Congress should or should not
move in a particular line of action.
The FCC is not the only threat to
tobacco In Washington these days,
although it is by no means a new
danger. ?
More than 40 members of Congress
have sponsored a bill which would
require an almost poison-like label on
cigarette packs. It also would give the
government the authority to say how?
long a cigarette should be.
I know this all sounds pretty fool
ish to many Of us. But the important -
and serious - part is that more than 40
members of Congress do not think It is
funny.
Still other mertiben, in both the
House and Senate, are planning to do
everything they can to block action on
extending the labeling act.
They have pledged to stop it if they
can. If they can do so the FCC
presumably would be free to put Into
effect its ban on cigarette advertising.
This shows clearly and unmistakably
the danger that tobacco faces this
year.
We have fewer members from farm
ing areas in Cdngress these days and
those from urban areas seem to be less
Weather
Mostly cloudy and cold today with
chance of snow In (nornlng. Psrtly
cloudy and continued cold tonight and
Wednesday. Lows, 32; high, 40.
and less concerned or interested in our
problems.
This is another mark against tobac
co, in addition to the anti-smoking
campaigns now being carried on by the
Federal government and assorted pri
vate organizations.
I mention all of this because, re
gardless of your attitude 6n smoking,
all of us from the Second District of
North Carolina have a stake in the
growing and handling of tobacco.
Tobacco is in trouble this year,
more trouble than it has been in
during past years. And short ,of con
clusive. scientific proof, of specific
dangers' associated with its use, it will t
take the combined efforts of all of us
to see that our tobacco farmers are not
destroyed.
Seven Faced
Scholarship
Interview
Chapel Hill - Seven candidates for
the University of North Carolina's
distinguished Alston-Pleasants Scholar
ship were interviewed in Louisburg
Saturday. March 1, by a special sub
committee of the Faculty Committee
on Scholarship Awards and Financial
Aid.
Interviewers include Dr. James R.
Caldwell, chairman of the Faculty
Committee on Scholarship Awards and
Financial Aid; William M. Geer, 'Stu
dent Aid director. Walter Rabb, UNC
?baseball coach; Lewis Patrick Warren
tjf-iuimgn. siua?ru member ?
Faculty Committee on Scholarship
Awards and Financial Aid; and Hill
Yarborough, Louisburg attorney and
UNC Board of Trustees member.
Although there is only one winner,
all of the finalists will be offered a
scholarship at the University.
The four-year scholarship is valued
at $5,500 ($1,100 per year). It is
awarded annually to an outstanding ,
Franklin. Halifax, or Warren County ?
high school senior, eligible by UNC
standards for admission here, \ward
criteria are academic achievement and
leadership.
Nominees include Martha Ann But
ler. Weldon; Karen Ellen Dunn,
Youngsvllle; Craig Randall Harris,
Scotland Neck; William Lawrence
Johnson. Franklinton; Woodrow Wil
son Shearln. Jr., Noritna; William
Harold Taylor, Jr., Louisburg; and
James Walker Williams, Roanoke
Rapids.
Established in 1958 as a $100,000
trust fund to the University memorial
izing Willis (Congress) Alston by his
granddaughter. Mrs. Misaouri Alston
Pleasants of Louisburg, the scholarship
directs that the annual earned income
from the trust fund be used by the
University to provide Alston-Pleasants
aw ai4a., , s u a