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Louisbufg, N. C? Tuesday, March 11, 1969
Ten Cents
100th Year-Number 7
ANNE STRICKLAND and BEBE KING
Louisburg Girls
Chosen For Girls' State
Breattie Corbett (Bebe) King and
Margaret Anne (Anne) Strickland of
Louisburg High School were selected
Friday evening to be Girls' State Rep
resentatives for the American Legion
Auxiliary, Jambes Post 105, Louis
burg, announces Mrs, Vernon Stone.
Girls' State Chairman.
The annual Girls' State session
will be held at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro' June 22-28.
This session will be attended by
around 300 rising seniors selected
from high schools of North Carolina.
They are chosen because of their
scholastic achievement, their leader
ship qualities, and their ability to get
along with people.
Bebe is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John W. King of North Main
Street. Louisburg. She says her real
interest at present is Journalism, and
this is shown in her feature-writing for
School Daze and her work in the
library in her spare time. Bebe has
participated on the basketball team,
and has been secretary to the Future
Business Leaders of America club and
a member of the French c'ub. She
attends St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Anne is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Crowell P. Strickland of Route 3,
Louisburg. She is a member of the
Beta Club serving as secretary for the
1968-69 school year, a member of the
French Club and of the Future Home
makers of America. Anne likes read
ing, sewing, bowling and playing the
guitar. At present she leans toward
interior decoration as a choice of a
career.
College Gets Help In Will
Wilson ? W. R. Rodgers. Stantons
burg, who died recently, left an estate
valued at $1,326,852.70. according to
his will filed for probate in Wilson
County Superior Court.
The estate included $45,000-cash in
savings and loan association; cash in
banks. $131,854.70; $1,007,847,
stocks and cash; insurance. $11,000
and $86,580. notes and farm equip
ment.
GLENN EVANS
Youngsville
Student
Is Page
Appointed by Representative June*
Speed, Glenn Evana of Youngsville will
serve as a House of Representatives
Pa?e next week March seventeenth
through twenty first.
The fifteen year old son of Mr. snd
Mrs. W. R. Evan*, Glenn la a tenth
(rede student at Youngsville High
School where he Is claas president,
member of Beta Club, basketball and
baseball team manager, and he Is one
of the Franklin County nominees for
the Governor's School.
A member of Boy Scout Troop
588, Glenn has the Eagle Scout Award
with two Plana and The God and
Country Award. He Is an active mem
ber of the local Baptist Church.
The will left $3,000 to each of 22
nieces and nephews. To his widow
Mrs. Sarah C. Rodgers. he left one half
of his gross estate and his personal
effects.
The remainder of the estate was left
in a trust fund and for 20 years
Jhetrustee is to pay the net income of
the trust for scolarship funds to the
following institutions:
One-fifth interest to Atlantic Chris
tian College; one-fifth interest to the
Methodist Home, Raleigh; one-fifth to
the Oxford Masonic Orphanage, Ox
ford; one-fifth to the Middlesex Free
Will Baptist Orphanage. Middlesex;
and a one-fifth to Louisburg College,
Louisburg.
At the end of the 20-year period,
the assets of the trust will be reduced
to cash and divided equally among the
five institutions.
Native Gets
Vietnam
Medal
E-5 Osborne D. Sweet, U. S. Army
hat been awarded the Army's Com
mendation Medal for action! in Viet
nam, according to an announcement
made here Monday. Sweet, ion of Mrs.
Mattie Sweet. Rt. 1. Louisburg. is now
living in Pepperell, Mass. He attended
Bunn High School.
The commendation cites Sweet
"for distinguishing himself by excep
tionally meritorious achievement in
ground operations in the Republic of
Vietnam during the period 1 Decem
ber 1967 1 6 10 September 1968". It
states, "His performance during this
period waa a significant contribution
In support of the United States coun
terinaurgency effort in the Republic of
Vietnam".
"His Initiative, sound judgement,
loyalty and will to succeed has been In
the beat tradition of the military , ser
vice and reflect great credit upon
himeelf, his unit and the United States
Army", the document continues.
Sweet entered service in September,
1964 and arrived In Vietnam In De
cember, 1967. He was discharged In
September, 1968 and lives with his
wife, the former Theima Melendy, and
a son In his wife's hometown of
Pepper*). Mass Sweet has one brother,
Horace R. Sweet of Louisburg
Board
Studies
Charges
The Franklin County Board of Edu- _
cation met in special session with its
attorneys and the Superintendent and
Associate Superintendent of Schools
Monday night in light of the filing last
week of 25 more pages of documents
by the United States Justice Depart
ment.
The Board discussed at length the
latest in the continuing mass of
charges lodged against it by the federal
government and the NAACP. Actually,
last week's actions by the government
disclosed little new charges and were
similar to those already filed by the
Justice Department and the NAACP.
Most of the papers were in answer
to Motions filed earlier by Board
attorneys with 9ome additional infor
mation being disclosed.
In the only action taken by the
Board, a bid of $3500 by Charles
Davis for the Cedar Street School
property was rejected as being too
low. Board attorney E. F. Yar bo rough
informed the Board that once the bid
was rejected, the Board could enter
into private negotiations to sell the
property within the next 12 months.
Davis made an offer of $4250 for the
property and it was accepted.
Hearing On School
Case Motions Set
Federal Judge Algernon L\ Butler
has set Wednesday, March 19, as the
date for hearings on Motions filed in
the four-year-old Franklin County
school case. Attorneys for the defen
dant School Board have been advised
that the hearings will take place at
2:30 P.M. in Judge Butler's chambers
in Clinton, N. C.
Hearings will be held on the Board's
objections to the Justice Department's
Interrogatory N<? 7, which asked for
certain information on tuition stu
dents; the School Board's request for
FBI reports in the caae and the Board's
request for "more definite statements"
in charges brought by the NAACP and
the U. S. Justice Department.
Both plaintiffs' groups have asked
the Court to find the Board members
and the Superintendent in civil con
tempt and that all be imprisoned until
they are in compliance with the
August 5, 1968 order of the Court.
The Board contends it is in compliance
and termed the charges by the
NAACP, representing eleven Franklin
Chief Judge \lgcrnon 1.. liutler
has granted a request by \ortli
-('arolina I Homey General Robert
Morgan thai the State he alhuced to
enter the hranklin ('ounty school
suit. The order reads: It is. .. or
deled and adjudged that the 1 ttor
nex General of \<trtli Carolina he
and is hereby allowed by the Court
to file brief amicus curiae upon
points or questions set forth in the
I petition . "
Judge Hutler states that on the
matter of a request that the I ttor
nev General be allowed to argue the
case orally before the Court, " the
said request is held in reserve by the
Court at this time and will be
decided according to he judgement
and discretion of the Court at an
appropriate time and place. " v
Yep, It Snowed Here
Large flakes of snow fell here Sunday afternoon as March continues its thing.
Franklin Dream Of Highway
Project May Be Halted
Fifth Division Highway Commis
sioner J. B. Brsme could not be
reached by telephone at his 'Durham
office Monday for confirmation, but
Indications are that the long-awaited
improvements to a portion of NC-39.
US-401 have been halted by the High
way Commission.
The project was advertised for bids
last December but the low bid exceed
ed alloted funds. It was again adver
Used in January when on January 7,
. the Commission called for bids for the
January 28 letting.
On January 30, the Comml>k>n
released information which showed
the Franklin project well within the
fundi on the aecond bid and the
project was listed among "new con
tracts let" by the Commiaaion in its
February 7 meeting.
Last week, however, the Commis
sion issued the following release:
The red light was flashed and halted
all new construction In the State High
way Commisalon bond-financed high
Dement On Planning Board
The Board of County Commission
era. meeting for the second time in
three days, paaaed ? resolution making
Franklin County a participant in the
planning of the Omnibus Crime Con
trol and Safe Street Act here last
Thursday.
Franklin Sheriff William T. Dement
was named to represent his depart
ment and the Board in the planning.
Robert Lee Bumette, Rt. 3, lum
berman, was sworn in as a member of
the Board to fill the unexpired term of
the late George H. Harris. Burnettr
Issued a statement Monday in which
he thanktd Clerk of Court Ralph S.
Knott for "confidence shown in me"
In making the appointment. He also
said he wished to thank the many
friends who have called and tompli
i >?
mented him on hit appointment.
In the reorganization of the Board,
Chairmen Brooks W. Young becomes a
member of the Board of Health; John
W. Houae was placed on the Welfare
Board and Burnette was named in
charge of the jail and tire commission
" I
The Board pasaed,p resolution hon
oring Mr. Harris, the, full text of which
Is published today on the tfmes legal
page. The resolution referred to the
late Commissioner as a "devoted
public aervant, loyal friend, champion
of the down-trodden and defender of
the oppressed". He had served on the
Board since 1954 except for the four
years 1958-1962. At the time of his
death, he was Chairman of the Board.
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way program.
On February 7, the Commission
received word from the State Treasur
er's office that current bond market
conditions would not permit the sale
of the last $60-mililon installment of
the $300-milllon road bond issue of
1965. Those conditions precluded the
sale of the remaining highway bonds
by North Carolina at the legal four per
cent interest rate, and those conditions
still persist.
After receiving word at its February
7 meeting here that the Bond program
?oust be shut down at $240-million,
the Highway Commission directed the
Division Engineers and the Project
Control Department to make a com
plete study of the overall highway
program with particular attention to
be given to the bond-financed phases.
That Study is now complete and based
on the report, the Commission has
arrived at the following conclusions:
1. No new bond-financed projects
can be put under construction.
2. Those bond projects Included in
the January letting cannot be awarded
for contract.
3. Those bond projects now in the
design stage cannot be advanced to the
right-of-way acquisition stage.
4. Right-of-way acquisition on
bond-financed projects will be curbed.
All Flderal aid funds and State
funds available from sources other
than the bond issue for the remainder
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Negro parents and the Justice Depart
ment as a form of harrassment. These
charges will not be settled at Wednes
day's hearings, say Board attorneys,
but will come at some later date.
The Justice Department filed 25
additional pages of documents against
the Board last week in the latest
cievelopment in the continuing case.
Among the documents filed are a
Motion asking that the Board be re
quired to make available for federal
inspection "all writings, documents,
papers, memoranda, correspondence,
minutes, class lists and notes
.... which constitute or contain in
formation" with respect to 12 items
listed in the motion. There is also an
affidavit by Justice Department attor
ney Frank E. Schwelb relating to
certain allegations and a Department
Memorandum, containing comments
on the Justice Department's Motion
seeking Board records, the Board's
request for FBI reports, the request
for payment of costs and attorney fees
to the plaintiff attorneys by the Board
and the Board's request for more
definite statements on the charges.
The Justice Department is asking
for information similar to that re
quested by the N AAt.'P attorneys in
their Interrogatories filed a few weeks
ago. Among the information sought is
the basis upon which pupils and
teachers are assigned to classrooms,
any tests given and the results of such
tests, seating on buses and all discipli
nary matters relating thereto and the
residence of every student in the dis
trict and the residence of every parent.
Several other items of information are
also requested in the Motion.
The Schwelb affidavit discloses that
"Subsequent to the opening of schools
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Franklinton
Girl Gets
i
Scholarship
(Frk. B.W.) On Friday. Mr. Wesley
Jackson. principal of Franklinton High
School, was advised that Annette Ball
had been chosen as a recipient of a
Katharine Smith Reynolds Scholarship
to the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. \
Annette, who is a Senior at Frank
linton High School, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jerri H. Ball of 401
Mitchell Street.
Annette has received an honor cer
tificate every year she has been in
school. In addition to this, she has
ranked first in her class since grade
seven and has scored higher than any
other student on ail her tests. She has
twice received certificates of excel
lence for her placement on the Na
tional Educational Development Tests
and was Chief Marshal at commence
ment exercises last year.
In addition to being an excellent
student scholastically, Annette is a
leader in students' activities. She has
been a cheerleader and has played
basketball for 3 years. She belongs to
the F.H.A., the F.T.A., the Monogram
Club, Cite Club and BeU Club. "She
has held offices in most of these
organizations and at present she is vice
president of the Senior class and
Editor of the annual.
Last summer Annette attended
Governor's School at Winston Salem.
This is the first student at Franklin
ton High School to ever receive this
scholarship.
ANNETTE BALL