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Riggon Cited By Quill & Scroll Society Twenty-five Louisburg High School students, fifteen seniors and ten juniors, were initiated into Quill and Scroll Society in a formal ceremony in the school auditorium at two o'clock Friday afternoon, May 9. At the con clusion of the annual installation ser vice, LHS Principal, Mr. Thomas A. Riggan, was cited as "an educator who has proven his journalistic abilities." To be eligible for QuOl and Scroll membership a student must be of junior or senior classification and academically In the upper percentile of his class. He must have done distinc tive work in some phase of high school journalism. He must be approved by the school administrator, as well as by the international executive committee. When all preliminary requirements are met, the initiate receives a gold pin and a membership card, and his name is placed on the International member ship roster. Seniors Installed as Quill and Scroll members were: Larry Nathan Cle monts, Troy Van Clifton, Cynthia Kay Harper, Carol Elizabeth Johnson, Mary Anna Lohmueller, Mildred Elizabeth May, Donna Jeanell Park, Marquerite Raikes Patterson, Michael Waddell Per ry, Richard Graham Person, Deborah Ann Roberson, Cynthia Suzanne Schu bart, Betty Jo Tippett, Deborah Elaine Wrenn and Judy Carol Wrenn. Juniors included: Debra Elna Bur nette, Carolyn Jane Chadwick, Robert Francis Fuller, Jean Lanier Hasty, Charles Hamilton Hobgood, Breattie Corbett King, Myrtle Sharon Moore, Linda Fay Patterson, Laurence Michael Romero, and Cassandra Lee Versteeg. In addition to recognizing worthy students, the International Honorary Society of High School Journalists seeks to honor professional journalists, educators, and others who have ren dered outstanding service. Mr. Riggan was presented a testimonial scroll cit ing him as an "educator and benefac tor" who has made significant contri butions in behalf of high school jour nalism. Faculty advisor Mrs. Rena C. Bland conducted the ceremony of installa tion and citation. Assisting with the program were chapter president, Phyllis Kerley, and other 1968 Inl-* tiates: Georgia Griffin, Marilyn Stew art, Matt Person, Phillip Robertson, and Bill Taylor. High School students and faculty, parents of initiates, and other invited guests witnessed the event. Franklinton Lions Tag Johnson Ronald M. Johnson was elected President of the Franklinton Uons Club in a meeting held last week at the Franklinton Community House. Named to serve with Johnson for the coming year were: John H. House, 1st Vice President, Herbert A. Smith, 2nd Vice President, James Payne, 3rd Vice President, Lyndai Cartledge, Tail Twister and Wil liam F. Sigmon, lion Tamer. Elected to the Board of Directors were: E. L. Moore and R. B. Gordon, two-year terms and C. Ray Pruette and Lamar Greene, JOHNSON one-year terms, jonn r. uonem was named Secretary-Treasurer. Professor Wade C. Goldston of Louisburg addressed the meeting showing slides and describing his re cent vilit to the Holy Land. Mr. Goldston was introduced by C. Ray Pruette. Guests attending the meeting were: Rev. Horace Jackson, pastor of the Franklinton Baptist Church, and Arthur Hall, a member of the Youngs ville Lions Club. Six Canes All Conference The Cavalier-Tar Heel Conference baseball champions, Louisburg Col lege, were honored when the con ference coaches voted six of the Hurri cane athletes to the All-Conference team. The sophomore players named to the mythical team: Connie Mack Ward, the left fielder who led the league in batting with a .398 average; John Lewis, a pitcher from Ports mouth, Va., who has a 4-1 record; Phil Gray, the second baseman who batted .316 and led the Hurricanes defen sively; and Danny West, the right-field er who hit .353 and drove in 22 runs. Freshmen who nude the team were short stop, Junior Moritoya, a .337 hitter from Norfolk, Va., and Buster Sanderford, the team's catcher, from Zebulon, N. C. All four sophomore have received athletic scholarships for next year. Connie Ward and Danny West will play baseball at Wilmington College, John Lewis will pitch for N. C. State Univer sity, and Phil Gray, although still undecided, has had grant-in-aid offers from Furman and East Carolina Uni versities. Women (Continued from Page 1) Known lu Duuon-noie a voter or iwo as they passed her yard, however. Mrs. Wilder came to Louisburg when she was 19 years old. This was in 1889. Later she married Mr. Wilder, who was a native of Louisburg. Her son-in-law, Jonah ' C. Taylor, is cur rently serving as a member of the Louisburg Town Council and was re elected in this week's elections. Mrs. Wilder, who died in 1940, would have been 99 years old last January. She didn't do badly jn her race. She didn't win and therein might lie the reason no other woman tried it for 28 years. She finished eleventh in a field with 12 men. She received 113 votes. The late Arthur W. Person, led the ticket with 460 that year. On April 24, 1965, promising to "make better government for our town", Mrs. Marguerite Spencer, a beauty salon operator, threw her "hair pin" in the ring. Most of the men around thought it was a joke. It might have been a laughing matter to some, but not to Mrs. Spencer. In the ven acular of today's youth, she shook 'em up. She fell 26 votes short of winning the sixth, but there were to be more developments. On June 11, Sam Mattox. sixth place finisher, resigned as his work was to take him to Virginia. On June 24, Mrs. Spencer was elected to take his place. Apparently she made "a better government for our town" because the people elected her to her own term in Rescuers Help Wreck Victim Louisburg Reacurers David Minnich, left, and Asher Johnson are shown above aiding 6?-y?ar-old Bolden Blanton of New York last Friday afternoon after Blanton was injured when hit car skidded off US 401 seven miles north of Louisburg. The car, reportedly, driven by the man's niece, Eleanor Shanock, c/f/32, struck a tree and Blanton was thrown out. After treatment at Franklin Memorial Hospital, he was transferred to Wake Memorial suffering from a broken neck. The woman, apparently, was not hurt. Staff photo by Clint Fuller. PLEASE NOTE CITY BARBER SHOP Wilt Be Closed All Day Every Wednesday Beginning MAY 14, 1969 City Barber Shop iat>b and tney did it again in 1957. In 1959, for reasons of her own, Mrs. Spencer did not seek reelection. There followed the lean years. Nothing but men occupied the seats of the royal court. But their days were numbered. In April of 1965, Mrs. Breattie C. O'Neal, operator of a local drug store, said there were "problems" and de cided to see what she could do about them. With Mrs. Wilder's "somebody ought to do somebody" attitude she declared, there are "problems, spe cifically utility assessments, which must be given full and complete study to be certain that the town's policy in such matters give the fairest treatment to each individual." Mrs. O'Neal finished second that year by five vote*. In 1967, she led the ticket collecting 423 votes and led the second place man by seventy votes. She did It again this week. Polling 600 votes, she led the ticket and was again elected Mayor Pro tem. She beat the second place finisher by 53 votes. More than likely the reason the gap was not as wide as in 1967 is that this year, the second place finisher was also a woman. Mrs. Lois Wheless ran under her husband's name since her name is similar to her brother-in-law's, former Mayor Louis Wheless and his son, Louis, Jr., a former Council member. "A rose by any other name...." as the saying goes. She would have been elected regardless ol how her name appeared on the ballot. Women on the Louisburg Town Council seems to tum the voter on. And, one must add, past experieftces indicate It also greatly helps the com munity. In one hundred ninety JC Baseball Tourney Starts Here Thursday If team batting averages hold true, pitchers will live a rough life for the three days of the Eastern District Junior College double-elimination baseball tournament that be gins Thursday. May 15, at 1:00 p.m. on the Louisburg College baseball Held. The host team is batting .301, but the three invaders boast higher averages. Gard ner-Webb, from the Western Carolina Conference, owns a team mark of .336. Columbia State, from Columbia, Ten nessee, strokes the horsehide at a .325 clip; and Perkinston College, from down in Miss issippi, has compiled a team mark of,. 328. Records of the participat ing are equally impressive, with Louisburg's record of 18-7 the poorest record in the field. Gardner-Webb is 21-2, Columbia State 18-3, and Per Irine^nn 1 7.9 Gardner-Webb boasts the player with the higher batting average in 6'0" Roger Mc Swain, an outfielder with a .439 average and 22 RBI's. McSwain bats left-handed as Joe Brown, a 6'1" infielder with a .390 average, including 6 home runs and 34 RBI's. Four right-hand swingers for the Bulldogs are Joe Stepp, .369; Mike McDaniel, .342; Gary Wiley, .355; and John Hanirick, .356. The 6'2" McDaniel has 8 home runs and 34 RBI's. Columbia State has Jim Bryant at .415 and John Kyle at .410. Bryant, a utility man, has 8 home runs and 21 RBI's, and Kyle, a first base man, has 5 home runs and 18 RBI's. Outfielder Ken Smith is hitting .328; and catcher David Lindsey .323, the same as outfielder Ronnie Saund ers. Lindsey has 5 home runs and 21 RBI's. Bryant plays third base, the outfield, and has a pitching record of 1-0. The Tennessee star is 5 "9" tall and weighs 190 pounds. Perkinston has a .423 hit ter in catcher Butch Raley with a .423 average. Center fielder Mike Stanley, batting at .397, has stroked 7 home runs and has driven in 23 runs. Tommy Thompson is hitting .358; Jim Vierling, years, there have been only four. The first lost, three others won. Two have proven their ability to serve well and the fourth promises more of the same. We like the trend and with tongue stuck gently In cheek, predict that it'll never again be 190 years - nor - 28 - nor six. Like the man says, wo men-bless 'em- -are here to stay. .333; and Doug Hasten, .324. Raley has 17 RBI's and Thompson has 16. The host Hurricanes have the Cavalier-Tarheel Con ference's leading hitter in left fielder Connie Mack Ward with a 398average. First baseman Danny West is hit ting .353 with 22 RBI't. Catcher Buster Sanderford and short stop Chico Mon toya are hitting .339 and .337, respectively.' Center fielder Tommy Cox has an average of .316 and a con ference leading total of 6 home runs while second base ball Phil Gray has compiled a .316 batting average. Pitching in the tournament will be tested by the sluggers. However, each team has two or three hurlers who could very well hold their own. Gardner-Webb has right handers Ron Lacy (5-0) and i?i ni_ :m / a r\\ ? i ? _ uuiuiny rnuups F'u? 11 6'5" left hander Bob Laii, who is 7-0. Phillips owns & 1.40 ERA while Uil and Lacy are 3.10and 3.60, re spectively. Columbia State sports three pitchers with sparkling win-loss records and earned run averages. Heading the list U right-hander Sam Noff slpger with a 5-0 record and 0.30 ERA. He has given up one run (earned) in 33 inn ings pitched. Lefty Larry Pat ton is 6-1 with a 0.41 ERA, and Jim Rash, a right-hander, to 3- with an ERA of 1.10. Perklnston has two pitchers who have been cred ited with 14 of their 17 vic tories. Buddy Scarborough (8-0) has a 1.23 ERA and Scott Rushing (6-0) has a 2.93 ERA. Both are right handers. Loutoburg has four right handers on whom Coach Russ Frazier can call. Sophomore John Lewis heads the list with a 4-1 won-lost record and a 1.65 ERA. Freshman Dave Flowers to 6-1 with a 3.77 ERA, and E. V. Spell is 6-4 with a 3.91 ERA. Fresh man Jimmy Rivers is 2-1 and has a 4.11 ERA. Loutoburg and Columbia State square off in the open ing game of the tournament at 1:00 p.m. Thursday with a Gardner Webb-Perkinston battle to follow at 3:30. Stewart Wins Hobby Race Neal Stewart, driving a Lo tus powered with a Mura motor, passed the checkered flag first in the initial Form ula 1 race of the Seasonal Racing Program at Model Car Hobby Center here. Stewart turned 22.16 laps during the time trials, qualify ing first, in addition to win ning the 102 lap main event and 50% of the purse. Neal, prior to today, was the youngest "Pro" In the racing program, however. Will Yar borough and Randy Fuller, in their initial "Pro" nee, be came "Pros" by ranking 2nd and third, respectively, and taking 30 and 20% of the purse. Will stripped a gear and qualified last during the Time Trials, however, he retaliated and took 2nd place with 95.17 laps driving his Ferraii during the main event. Randy driving an Eagle, powered by a Phase III stock motor, qualified 3rd and went on to finish 3rd with 81-12 laps. Bob Watson, driving a Matia, qualified 2nd with 21.2 laps, but finished 4th due to a crash over the rail and into LHS Get Forfeit Game Loulsburg claimed a for feit victory over Edward Best after the latter team walked off the fMd In the third Inning of a game played Fri day. After an Edward Beat player was thrown out of the game for disputing a call by the umpire In the third Inn ing, the home team left the field because of having only eight players left. the walk, in airborne tire, an 2 numerous other mishaps. Kevin Lewis, Louisburg "College Pro", driving a Cooper, blew his motor dur ing the 1st heat and was out of the race. Mr. Bob' Watson, race master and "Pro", com mented this was the most exciting race of the season, because it was anyone's until the last heat. Heywood Morris, left and Bill Garrett show their catch from Kerr Lake last week. The haul included 11 bass and weighed 24 pounds. T. H. Pearce Photo. IGA EARLY IN THE WEEK SPECIALS MILK " 49C . 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