Some Enjoyed The Fourth --
Karen Jsley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Isley of Louisburg, is shown above on the way to the diving championship of
the under 13-year-old division at Green Hill Country Club. Karen participated in the club's Fourth of July contests. More
pictures and winners on Page 6 today. staff phot0 by Clint Fuller.
Holiday Quiet, Weather Hot
The long Fourth of July holiday
passed quietly in this area with the
weather - making the greatest impres
sion on those staying home and visi
tors in the area. Louisburg weather
man G. 0. Kennedy reports that tem
peratures ranged from 93 degrees on
Friday to 101 degrees on Sunday,
which was the hottest day of the year.
Saturday, the thermometer reached
100 degrees but by Monday it was
back down to 93. Kennedy said he had
not checked tt(e reading for today but
cloudy skies were holding back the sun
at mid-morning bringing some wel
come relief from a long hot spell.
Kennedy reported that July 1,
1968 was the hottest day since he
began record keeping in 1960. The
temperature reached 103 degrees. The
last 101 reading recorded here was on
June 21, 1964.
Other than the weather things were
relatively quiet, peaceful and dull dur
ing the holiday. One single-car acci
dent on NC-39 three miles east of
Louisburg was reported. Harvey Lee
Driver, w/m/40 of the New Hope
Community, suffered severe facial
Over 70 Get Hike >
New Budget Discloses Across-The-Board Salary Increases
The new county budget is easily the
largest in history. The total county
budget requirement is $2,259,574.24
and the county's share via "tax levy to
balance" is $901,590.57. Funds from
other sources, including state and fed
eral aid is $1,357,983.67.
The new budget is a matter of
i>ublic record and during this period is
open for inspection in the County
Accountant's office. Rare indeed,
however, is the taxpayer who drops by
to take a peek at his budget.
Most are satisfied that the rate is
only $1.85 instead of reaching a level
in excess of $2.00 as was feared
earlier. And the Board of County
Commissioners did an excellent job of
trimming in lowering the rate to the
tentative figure. Apparently the low
rate-even though 14 cents above that
of last year-is satisfactory to all.
Few bother to question where their
money is going. This is, in a way, a
credit to their confidence in their
Commissioners and department heads.
Or it could be that few concern
themselves with where the money goes
and are content to know only how
much it costs them individually.
By Clint Fuller
Times Managing Editor
The new budget at very first glance
reveals an across-the-board salary In
crease for all county employees and all
persons who are paid in part by
county funds. Salaries take up over 35
percent of the total county-piut of the
budget. And salary increases represent
a tax increase of $29,723.96 over last
year or slightly over six of the four
teen cent increase.
Few taxpayers argue the need for
upgrading most of the county emplo
yee salaries. For the most part, the
Increases reflect the ten percent ratio
Resignations .
Two members of the staff of the
Farm Agent's office have tendered
their resignations, according to re
ports. Mrs. Polly O'Neal, assistant
Home Demonstration agent, is resign
ing to take a teaching position in the
Franklin Academy private school. As
sistant County Agent Parke Brown Is
resigning to accept a similar position In
Indianna, according to the report.
set by the General Assembly for state
employees. However, this Is not always
the case, and, naturally, results in the
highest paid getting the largest raise.
This year's budget discloses the
absence of the Clerk of Court's office,
which heretofore has been supported
by the county. Last year, based on k
five-month life before the state took
over in December, the Clerk's office
was budgeted at $14,821. This amount
Is, of course, Included In this year's
budget and Is being distributed else
where. With this taken into considera
tion, the budget is actually larger than
it appears on the surface.
Some employees in the Health and
Social Services departments are ap
parently being jumped to a new salary
grade as Increases for some exceed the
ten percent. For example some Health
department employees, paid $5,494
last year are raised to $6,120 or $77
more than a ten percent increase
would raproaent.
Welfare department salaries last
year from county funds amounted to
$90,928.00. This year's budget shows
"Largest Still In Years" Captured Monday
Franklin Sheriff William T. Dement
reports the capture of what ATU
officer Mike Zetts described as "the
largest distillery seized in Franklin
County in several yean" late Monday
afternoon near Bunn. Dement 't de
partment and ATI) officers raided the
operation around 4:30 P.M. The
548-gallon daily output booze business
was destroyed by the officers.
Two arrests were made u officers
outdistanced the operators in a
100-yard dash. Jimmy Ray Jeffreys,
29. and Donald Eugene Jeffreys, 28,
both of Route 4, Louisburg were
captured at the site and charged with
operating a distillery and possession of
materials for the manufacture of whis
key.
Zetts reported that the two men are
brothers and that they were caught in
a heavily wooded area about 100 -yards
from the atill after a foot race.
Dement said the raid netted 276
gallons of nontax paid liquor, 2250
gallon! of math, 195 55-pUon barrels,
one 600-gallon tank still, one 1550-fal
lon submarine type stBI, four 600-gal
lon sub type stills and one 7 ft.
low-pressure boiler.
Ilie raid occurred just off State
rural road 1608 near Hall's Crossroads
on NC-39. The distillery was described
by officers as having a 13,450-gallon
capacity.
salaries for Social Services to be
$98,946.00. The total welfare budget
jumps from $247,485.23 In 1968-69
to $303,462.20 for this fiscal year.
Last year there were six employees
under $4,000 salary; this year there
are three. Last year, there were eleven
under $6,000; this yew there are six.
The Register of Deeds received an
Increase from $6,200 to $7,130 by act
of the legislature, but still falls below
the salary paid the County Account
ant, Tax Collector and Sanitation Offi
cer. His first assistant, also raised, Is
stlll*9rawlng less than the courthouse
custodian.
The Sheriffs department also recei
ves pay hikes in the new budget. This,
too, was due to an act of the legisla
ture. The Sheriff gets an increase of
$960 annually; the chief deputy pins
$720 and other deputies get $660
which Includes bringing the fourth
position in line with the others. Last
year this newly added post paid only
$4,000. Travel was also jumped from
$135 per month to, $160 for the
Sheriff's department.
A rundown of other departments
show the following: County Account
ant from $11,631.70 to $14,385.57;
Veteran Service office from $4,965 to
$6,206.93; Industrial Development
from $20,985.60 to $22,547.00;
Health jumps from $57,547.72 to
$67,264.32 and Farm and Home
Agents department moves from last
year's $33,499.00 from county funds
to $38,795.86.
The Hospital is one of the few-lf
not the only-department taking a cut.
Last year the local Inatitutlon received
$41,352 from county funds. This year
it will get $36,087. The Hospital car
ries Its own budget and salaries are not
listed In the county budget.
And if it costs more to operate all
other departments in the county, It
must follow that it is going to take
lacerations when his car overturned
around 6 P.M. Friday afternoon.
A man, identified as "Tin" Cle
monts. was picked up Friday around
7:45 P.M. by Louisburg Police Chief
Earl Tharrington and charged with
shooting his wife. Annie Clemonts. in
the stomache with a shortgun at their
home near Gay Products plant on
NC-56 west of Louisburg around 6:30
P.M. The woman was taken to Frank
lin Memorial Hospital by the Louis
burg Rescue Service and later transfer
red to Wake Memorial where she is
reportedly recovering. The couple's
son. Thaddieus Earl Clemonts. 20, wai
killed in a single car accident near Pilot
on June 14.
Louisburg Police Officer Ned Lloyd
solved a hit and run mystery Saturday
morning when he spotted a damaged
car in the Mineral Springs section.
Benny Perry, c/m/43, was arrested by
Lloyd and charged with damaging
three new automobiles on the D & J
Pcintiac-Olds lot on South Main Street.
Damage to the vehicles was estimated
at between $1200 and $1400*
Franklin Food Stamp Use Drops
The distribution of food stamps in
the county took a drop in May.
according to the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. The Department reports
that participation in the food stamp
program In Franklin County amounted
to 2.942 during the month of April '
this year. The latest report covering
the month of May reveals that only
2,805 families participated.
The Department of Agriculture
food programs aided 217.964 needy
persona in North Carolina during May,
4,265 persons less than the number
that received food assistance in April
but 61,168 persons more than the
number that took part in the programs
a year ago.
USDA's Consumer and Marketing
Service said that 74,918 persons in 38
counties took part In its food stamp
program and received $511,503 in
bonus counons.
C&MS' family food distribution
program aided 143,046 persons in 59
counties. The foods distributed had an
Six Local
Bills Passed
In Legislature
Six strictly local bills were intro
duced and passed by the recent Gen
eral Assembly which concluded its
longest session last week. Five of the
six were introduced in the State
Senate and one was introduced in the
House.
House Bill 0702 the Kranklinton
School Fund Transfer bill was ratified
on May 14. Senate Bill 0013 Elec
tioneering Within 500 Yards was rati
fied on June 25.
Other bills, according to the weekly
Institute of Government report, in
clude Senate Bill 0449 Register of
Deeds Salary, ratified on May 14 and
Senate Bill 0471 Sheriff's Salary and
Senate Bill 0501 County Highway
Hunting, both also ratified on May 14.
The final measure to pass the legis
lature was Senate Bill 795\A' House
amendment to this Annexation bill
was ratified on June 30, just prior to
adjournment.
more to collect the tax. The Tax
Collector's department also gats an
increase from $31,837 last y?*r to
$33,612 which reflects pay increases
for employees of this department.
estimated retail value of almost $1.6
million and included dairy products,
canned and dried fruits and vegetable*,
canned meat or poultry, grain and
cereal products, as well as other items
such as peanut 'butter and scrambled
egg mix.
In North Carolina, the food distri
bution program is administered by the
North Carolina Department of Agricul
ture. and the food stamp program is
administered by the North Carolina
Board of Public Welfare, both in co
operation with the Consumer and Mar
keting Service.
C&MS officials generally attributed
the decreased participation during May
to increased seasonal employment op
portunities.
Board Fills
Teacher
Vacancies
The Board of Education approved
17 teachers in its regular monthly
meeting here Monday night and ac
cepted two resignations. Superinten
dent Warren Smith reported that there
now exists "about a dozen" vacancies
in the county system.
In the unusually routine session,
the Board encouraged principals to
attend a Summer Regional Principal's
Conference sponsored by the State
Department of Public Instruction and
discussed the possibility of additional
purchases of land at present school
sites.
The Board was Informed of an
extension of time in the construction
contracts for the Bunn Elementary
Cafeteria and the Methods and Ma
terial Center buildings. Such an ex
tension had been requested when it
became apparent that neither of the
two buildings could be completed be
fore the end of the 1968-69 fiscal year
as previously required by the federal
financing agency.
Construction contracts for the Ed
ward Best High School cafeteria were
signed and the Board discussed the
pending court case with attorney E. F.
Yarborough. The four-year-old case is
scheduled to return to federl court
later this month as Board members
and the Superintendent face charges of
contempt of court following last fall's
total desegregation of the county
jchools. _
Still Raided, Wrecked
Federal and Sheriff's office? we shown above destroying ? huge Illegal whiskey distillery Monday afternoon near Bunn. Man
at far left Is unidentified. Others left to right an: Don Deraney and Mike Zetts, special agent* of the Alcohol and Firearms
Division of the U. S. Treasury Department, Deputy John Deal and Sheriff William T. Dement. The 13, 460 -gallon capacity
operation was deecribed aa the largest captured In the county in several years. Staff photo by Aator Bowden
? Some Didn't
Harvey Lee Driver, w/m/40 of the New Hope community, received severe facial laceration* when hla car, shown above, ran
off NC-39, three mile* east of Loulabtirg Friday shortly after 6 P.M. The 1968 Chevrolet was badly damaged. Driver was taken to
the local hospital by the Loulsbufg Reecue Service and later transferred to Wake Memorial In Raleigh.
? Staff photo by Clint Fuller.
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