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The FrafMih Times fw) T mW*! ? TK?r?4*y W??m? AM 01 FrwAli* (i?>> Your Award Winning County Newspaper Tuesday, August 19, 1969 ? ' LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT No Real Joy Civil rights advocates are up in arms today. President Nixon has named a southern judge to the Su preme Court. The nomination by the President Monday of Fourth Circuit Court Chief Judge Clement F. Hayns worth, Jr> brought cries of protest almost before the Greenville, S. C. jurist was informed of the appoint ment himself. Be' this as it may. It was expected. But there is no real joy emirtating from the boundaries of Franklin County. Southern Congressmen, In cluding those from North Carolina are praising the appointment. It is a great day for the South, they are saying. But, Southern Congressmen have been overjoyed of late at any crumb thrown their way. Anything less than Jacob Javits and Howard Fuller is considered by most leaders as a con servative triump. Granted the appointment could hwe been of the Javits cloth and that Judge Haynsworth is well qualified for the position, it still leaves Franklin citizens cold. Five times last year, the Judge concurred or wrote Fourth Circuit opinions against Franklin schools. Three weeks before last year's opening an appeal to Judge Haynsworth at his Greenville home for a delay in execu tion of a District Court ruling to totally integrate the schools fell on deft ears. Last December he ruled the appeal by the Board of Education "had little or no merit at the outset and became substantially moot when the Board, failing to obtain a stay, achieved complete compliance with it." By any measure, Franklin's plight last fall -unlike any other community at the time-merited a careful look by the higher court. It didn't get it and a period of great strain and confusion followed. Franklin citizens may view Judge Haynsworth's appointment as some thing better than might have been expected. Surely it is a sizable im provement over Abe Fortas, but no flags will fly; no bands wMI play. There is no real joy here over the appointment. If Judge Haynsworth is a southern conservative, we're in worse shape than we thought WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Enough People Could Governor Maddox of Georgia Ex presses high hopes for the conference he has called in Atlanta for August 16 to combat methods of Federal deseg regation in the public schools. He has invited governors, congressmen, sen ators and school people to attend the mass meeting projected. It will be interesting to observe the number who respond. Certainly the ends sought could be achieved if there were enough people banded together to make their voice heard. It is questionable, however, whether a group composed only of southerners can turn the trick. There are enough laws on the Henderson Daily Dispatch books if Congress as the final authori ty would muster enough stamina to make bureaucratic agencies in Wash ington knuckle under to what the lawmakers have approved. Trouble is that heads of agencies and commis sions assume the role of policy making which belongs to Congress alone, and Congress as a whole sits supinely by and refuses to act as its own preroga tives are being eroded. They appear to be content in their $42,500 salaries to let events take their course. Last fall. President Nixon, when a candidate, said he favored freedom of choice as policy in school desegrega tion. We believe the Negro people are Centerville (Continued from Pige 1) Assault with a deadly weapon brought by Cloice Burnet te, Jr., 18, who claims he was assaulted with a pistol, Assault with a deadly weapon by Rufas Jones, 16, who claim he was assaulted with a shotgun and a warrant was issued against Lancaster for interfering with an officer. Six warrants were isued against James Lancaster aa follows: Assault with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill by Rodney West, 16, who claims he was shot at, but not hit, by % shotgun; Assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill resulting in damage to personal property brought by Bobby Debnam; Assault with a deadly weapon by Cloice Burnet te, Jr. who dalni Lancaster shot at him with a shotgun, Assault .with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious against Tyree Lancaster aa follows: Assault with a deadly weapon by Bobby Debnam, who claims he was struck by Lancaster with his fist; and permanent Injury, not resulting in death brought by Elmer C. Griffin, Jr.; Aaault with a deadly weapon brought by Rufas Jones; and Assault with a deadly weapon with intent to UH resulting In permanent injury not re sulting in death brought by Junes S. Finch, Jr. Jerry Lancaster Is charged In a single warrant with rimple assault in charges brought by Bobby Deb nam, who claims Lancaster struck him with his Oat. All three man are free on bond. Trooper Todd said Monday be will charge Deb nam and Finch with care less and mUass driving. He says be has no evidence at this time to back up charges against others or to support the drag racing reports. During the melee. Dement reports that a telephone booth was damaged by gunshot. One youth wu inside the both and another wu standing beside it when H was blaated with shotgun pellets, according to reports. Neither youth was injured. A third youth reported he was shot at as he ran away from the scene and still another, re portedly a passenger in one of the cars said he was nicked on the arm by a pellet. None of theee fled charges, however. The Frajij^in Times EataNMied 1870 - Published Tuadayi L Thundayt by The Franklin Times. Inc. ' Bkkrtt Bird. Dial OY6-3283 Louirituif. N. C. CUNT FULLER, Managing Editor ELIZABETH JOHNSON. Buiinra Manager AdvertUinf Rata Upon Request SUBSCRIPTION RATES NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 19M in North Carolina Oh Y?r.|4 M; Six Month*. $2.83 ThfM Month., $2.06 Out of State: On# Y?r, $6.60; Six Month*. (4.00 Thrac Months. ?3.60 Emend at wcond dw mail matter and pottage paM at the Pott Oflk* at LouMwif. N. C. 17549. TW WL1WMI KNIUl AN >.(M. hill M. I ? ? '/ thought vaudeville was dead on their planet.' WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Pension For Chair Warmers The News Reporter, Whiteville, N. C. During the first months of 1970 the electorate of this state will prol> ably hear a tune from candidates for state senator or representative some thing like this: "Now, boys, give old Tom a break. You know I am not a wealthy man as harassed and discontented about highhanded dictates of the Depart ment of Health, Education and Wel fare as are the white people. There is no longer the opposition to the program that there once was, so long as parents were allowed to choose the schools their children will attend. But the crowd at HEW is adamant and determined to impose its own ideas, when actually many of those in so-called authority there don't know as much about local school conditions and problems as local school boards have forgotten. Nor, as we understand it, do they actually have the power under the Civil Rights Act to go as far as they are going in imposing their theories upon an unwilling people. When congressmen, as Mr. Foun tain has done, remind the HEW people of what the law is, it appears to go in one ear and out the other. Bureaucra tic defiance has carried to the point where it apparently is illegal. But nothing is done about it in Congress or elsewhere. Mr. Fountain is as an xious as anv one that reason .and justice prevail. But as one man he is powerless. Most of the others on Capitol Hill seem not to be concerned. Most southerners in Congress pro bably are largely, of the same mind as Governor Maddox, but at best they are a minority and their hands are tied by being overpowered from other sections of the country. Whatever the motives of the Gov ernor, and however meritorious. It remains uncertain as to what can be accomplished. The South could switch its party affiliation, but it could at the same time continue to be the whip ping boy of those from the populous centers who, to put it midly, may be saturated with prejudice and jealousy over the progress this section of the country has made and could continue to make if allowed to do so. ? ftA<TM-AN| f SH I A-' ?IMCLL. In ifw NMhviii* Ttwumw and I'm not getting any younger. Go with me this time and I will be eligible for a retirement of $100 a month for the rest of my born days." If the office seeker doesn't come out and say what he's thinking voters out front will see his plea etched in his wrinkled face. Isn't it wonderful. Some Joe spends about five sessions warming a state-owned chair seat and is rewarded with a pension for life. He has a business at home to which he hurries early Friday to tend and then stays with it until late Monday. Actually, the senator or representa tive puts in only three days a week of socalled General Assembly work. Give him credit for 'a sort of check-in Monday night and his month's attend ance, not altogether intensive work, will run not more than 1 2 to 15 days if that much. Take the 1969 session just conclud ed! The first month was spent messing around discussing whether they should put a tax on tobacco and what the results would be. That month produced little in the way of construc tive legislation and the whole 170-crowd might as well have been home skinning clients or catching up on mercantile pursuits. A whole lot of talk, just talk, was spent on what to do about the fishing industry, these socalled experts, you know. Just time wasted because these authorities, if you may, refused to listen to fishing folk, those who know the problems and know how to deal with them. The people who get up at 4 a.m. and sail to the ocean at five o'clock know more about the fishing industry than these elected chair warmers will ever know. But the chair-borne command assumes it knows all of the answers. Who gets the pension? The chair warmers. . .and they voted to take care of themselves. Every one of the 170 ought to drop his head in shame. Thousand* of public school teach ers with 10, 20, 30 and 40 years of service in schoolrooms nine months of every year have been set aside as "too old" and forced to survive on not much more than these political oppor tunists voted for themselves. We have had and still have a minor ity of energetic, statesmanlike mem bers in the General Assembly, real working men and women, but not so with most of them. If some are disgruntled about pay and pension, who pushed them into the job? Call the retirement stipend a pen sion if you so choose. To us it seems to be something akin to welfare. . .the taking care of political hacks for questionable questionable service. Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor said GA mem bers work not more than three days a week at best. So that $100 a month, more for some, is pretty fair wages. GOLDEN GLEAMS Ba Instructed, jre Judgea of the Mitt. Bern- the Lord with feu. Puthi 2:10-11. A good *nd faithful judge prefers what la rlcfat to what la eipedvit. -florae*. TIM good Judge condemns the cruae hot does not ravaal the criminal. ?una. k'COME 1 T0 THINK OF IT. by frank conn' I tike rich follu. I always have liked them. They got moMjl. They're my kinda people. Creech Gooch, who live* not too UK from me, aint exactly rich. He aint got no monly and he aint exactly my kinda people. But somehow Creech got blwif Into one of them shindigs the other night. Now, if there's ever been anybody that likes to talk b|f about where he's been and what he's done, it's Oeech. Hi repeats the good parts over and over. Half the time healflH doing nothing but dropping names of folks he thinks an bif shots. He had a field day over that thing. They was all bjf shots, to hear Creech tell it. "Frank", he said last night, "You just ought to a been there. We had steak and biscuits and coffee and entertainment. It's was the year's biggest tear". I know'd he was dying to tell me all about it and sine* 1 hadn't done my good deed for the day, I incouraged him. "Tell me all about it Oeech", I said. Man was that ever a mis take. "They all was there, Frank. The politicians, smil ing, shaking hands, the busi nessmen, the car dealers, the wood dealers, the sales men and all was there. The man with the micro phone made funny jokes about them and everybody laughed. You'd a died Frank if you could have heard all that waa said "They give away a mesa of stuff, too, Frank. They gi?* away a car, a color TV and some golf clubt-you'd a like them, Frank, they're good at killing chicken. You could a given them to George, if you'd a won them. Then they ghre away 4 shotgun and a camera, too, Frank. "Course, the Strang thing about H all was that they didn't really give away the car, the dubs and the color TV. Son# fellow bought them. He didn't exactly buy them himaelf. He bought the tickets that was supposed to have won them. Do?t that make any sense to you, Frank?" "Well, yeah, Creech, I guess so. You lost me back than when you mentioned a thing called steaks. I meant to ask you what they was and to tell the truth, I wasn't paying mud) attention after you passed there." "Frank, I was telling you about all them prizes they (Iff away. Man did they have fun. Everybody could play the gam*. There was fellows who aint never seen that much yelling they'd pay thousands a dollars for them tickets. Then theft was some who aint seen even that much saying they'd sail 'eat for less. Finally one of them quiet fallows jumped up sad shook hands with one of them ticket holders and doeed a deal. The party broke up after thant, Frank. "But, I just got to tdl you about them folks. They all ooiaa prettied up. They was wearing their fancy suits with coats an) ties and they looked real nice. When some of them left, they was litchry to have on their pants. It was the heat, Frank. It waa terribly hot at the party. "But, I shore had a big time, Frank. It was worth washing all them dishes just to get to see all them big shots. Two of three of them even spoke to me, Frank. Made me feel rw| good being spoken to by them folks. "I decided they was real nice boys having a good time aad they shore do know how to put on a party." "Well," I finally said, "Creech. I am glad you could go and I'm glad you had a real good time. Parties aint exactly my cup of home-brew but what ever turns you on, I always say." "Me", I continued, "I'd rather been Invited to tba Centerville shoot-out, but I didn't get s invitation. I dont know what your party accomplished, Creech, but I bet tha other done away with the Centerville drag strip for awhile. It ain't safe, Creech. A body could git killed drag radng." 1 1 "Tid, wtk* up. I think you'd batter tik.ov.rfwa ?kite.
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