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UNUSUAL Pictured above is young Mike Lancaster of Hookerton, N. C. displaying a white raccoon his father reports he killed last Thanksgiving near Castalia. The youngster's father, E. J. Lancaster, refers to the animal as an albino raccoon and says Mike saw two "coons" in the same tree while hunting squirrels last fall. One had the usual markings and Lancaster says this one "was white as a kitten, not a dark hair on him". Mike will attend Snow Hill school this fall. He is an eighth grader. His father lives in Nash County near Castalia. WED.-THURS -FRI.-SAT. ' 'A SIZZLER FROM FRANCE. Makes 'THE FOX' look like a milk-fed puppy. 'Therese and Isabelle' will be the most talked-about movie around." "7n\ -WINS RADIO r rm. SI :l *1 IsaKelle starring KSSY I?KltSS< >N CI. A Woman") iin TIhtcw untl Anna (iwl as Produced and l>tr?it?<l ?>> HADI.KV MKT/(iKH A production ??f AnMlrrilmu 1 11 11 1 1 i>r|M>rn?li?i Ulitnil In I I .TIIAHCOI15 Hflriwil iMwuh AlIM IM)N KIIA1S | rtHSOMS unotn t? can not at aomittio | Williams Leads 15 Lettermen As Rams Get Ready For Opener All-Conference Cliff Wil liams leads the list of 15 lettermen, including 13 start en, as the Franklinton Rams get down to business this week following a week of conditioning. Coach Jimmy C. O'Neal reports he is "look ing enthusiastically toward the coming season." "We have fifteen lettermen returning," says O'Neal, "And barring major injuries we expect to improve over last year's record." The Rams were 1-9 last year but injuries hampered early season per formances. O'Neal has 10 seniors back from previous wars and ten freshmen give promise to fu ture years. There are four sophomores and four juniors on this year's squad. The Rams lost quarterback Mack Beckham, halfbacks Freddie Coats and Dennis Carter and wingback Brooks Bennett to graduation. Jerry Simmons, 135-junior letter man and David Thompson, 180-pound junior, who miss ed last season with a broken leg sustained in early practice, are expected to handle the Held general's post this year. Williams, who was named All Conference year before last as a center and last year as an end, will lead the back field this year at one of the halfback slots. Tim Leonard and Bobby Kearney, both seniors will probably finish out the backfield. They will expect help from Ronnie Dement, a sophomore and Stevie Pace, a freshman. Donnie Beckham, Royal Pergerson and Warren Collins are returning ends and fresh men Danny Clopton and David Strickland will back them up. Seniors Al Sandling and Stuart Eakes are back at the tackle posts. Eakes was All Conference Honorable Men tion at the position last year. Sandling is the heavyweight of the squad at 253 pounds. Buck Pearce, also an All Con ference Honorable Mention at tackle last year is returning. The sophomore weighs 217 pounds. Jasper Wilson is a freshman candidate for a tackle post. Senior Bobby Ayscue and junior Danny Preddy are re turning guards with sopho more Buddy Barefoot and freshmen George Russell, Tommy Honeycutt, Jeff Kearney and Gary Murray acting as reserves. Seniors Everette Frye and Spencer Strickland are ex pected to see action at center with aid from freshman Mark Beckham. The Rams open at home against the Gaston Rebels, Friday night, August 29. The Rebels downed Frankllnton, 26-6 last November. IGA EARLY IN THE WEEK SPECIALS GRAY With $6.00 Ontar . WATERMELONS. 10t PEPSI iooic,b IGA MILK - $1.19 LARD 25 ? 2.99 SAVE YOUR TAPE GAME wnRTH $75.00 WEEK If you've got $5,000 to save, we'll pay you to save at First Federal! Yes, we'll pay you SVi % on savings certificates of $5,000 or more when held to maturity. And your dividends are compounded quarterly ? paid by check or com pounded at the 5V?% rate. This savings plan is automatically renewed each six months. But your money is always available at First Federal when you want it. With accumulated passbook interest through the last dividend period. Immediate withdrawals with no written notice. Accounts are insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. FIRST a FEDERAL or ROCKY MOUNT 202 NORTH MAIN STREET IN LOUISBURG isp&mi I*< OfJUV Opixto* By CUNT FULLER High School athletes in this area of the state are ardent readers of Prep Clipboard, a regular News and Observer sport* feature written by Grady Elmore. Elmore has covered prep sports for more years than either of us would like to mention and he has done an outstanding job. It has always been our contention that before any brave soul is tempted to write on high school athletics, he should first visit a head shrinker. There has to be easier ways to make a living although, admittedly, there are few as enjoyable. The biggest obstacle to proper coverage of high school sports is the lack of available information. In this Elmore and other daily writers share equally with the weekly and semi-weekly reporters. This absense of information often leads to errors and to some deserving players being left out of articles. Since it is physically impossible for any one newspaper to cover personally every game and every team, the responsibility rests with the individual school. High school cannot, of course, be expected to match the colleges in treatment of press, radio and television reporters. Colleges distribute expensive booklets with all kinds of data on past and present squads. High Schools could, however, prepare mimeographed copies of their rosters, lineups, player numbers and what records they have. These should and easily could be distributed to news media in their area as well as media in communities where future opponents are located. I 1 ' The latest example of the pitfalls of covering high school teams was illustrated in Monday's mail. A "Former Franklin ton High School Athlete"--who naturally, declined to sign his name- took us to task for not knowing that one Ram gridder has transferred to a military school. We had absolutely no way of knowing this. He also said we omitted a boy named Henry Watkins, a "transfer from B. F. Person" who was on the Ram squad last year. Since his name never appeared on a single Ram roster, we had no way of knowing this either. He also took issue with us for not "giving these fine athletes the recognition they deserve". Just who else he thinks has been recognizing the Franklinton program longer or more thoroughly than this writer since 1958, we don't know. Certainly now the letter writer. Ha couldn't even write his name. We don't mind the criticism. We just don't think it's justified in this instance. We have since last week received some information from Coach Jimmy O'Neal and it is contained in an article elsewhere on this page. And in cidentally, the boys were all mentioned in last week's article taken from information supplied Ian year. Back to Elmote. In Sunday's. Prep Clipboard, ha pickad Oxford Orphanage and Wakalon to battla for tha newly formed Franklin Area Conference title. This brought on some head scratching in the Loubburg camp where the attitude this year could be described at cautiously optimistic. The Bulldogs are quiet publicly on Elmore's prediction, but privately, they are elated. They'd rather be the underdogs. And, the Frank Unton Rams might have a question or two on the predictions. But, then such are the hazzardt of high school sports writing. We'll wipe up the blood, Grady. 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