If THE FRANKLIN TIMES Issued Every Friday ?15 Court Street Telephone 288-1 u. A. F. JOHftdOK, Editor ud Muugn Junes A. Johasoo, Awlatwt Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES One T ear |1J0 Six Month* 70 Bight Wwiflu .... l.OO Foor Months 00 Foreign Adiertbtng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Nov York aci Entered at the Poetofflee at Loulsburg, N. C. as second class mall matter. AT J,, crop reports indicate good crops in this section. oOo THE great American sport ? baseball ? had its day again Tuesday. ' . oOo NOW Raleigh is considering charging people for park ing on the streets ? to get their cars smashed. oOo IT will be quite advantageous to the farmers to have the tobacco market open two weeks earlier. ? oOo A HEADLINE reads "Huge War Gold Reserve being stored in America." Why not lets divide it up and go on vacation. oOo ? BETTER business in North Carolina is indicated by usnal barometers. Let's hope this is true ? to small as well as large business. ? oOo THE old adage "few die and none resign," does'nt hold good in the Louisiana case when Gov. Leche resigned | the Governorship of agreat State. ' oOo MRS. James Monroe Smith is credited with denying the accusatious against her husband and being loyal to him. That 's what we call a wife worth having. oOo REPORTS have been heard that the price of whiskey was lowered the first of July, or that older whiskey could be bought at- the same old price ? another strike at Mr. Bootlegger. oOo THE finest kind of a co-operative spirit existed be- j tween the ABC forces and the Joint Boards. This tends I toward a big saving in expense, which will be pleasing to the public. ? oOo NO diversion of the State Highway funds was found hecessary at the end of the past fiscal year, was announ ced by the State officials Saturday. This will, no doubt, relieve the fear of many citizens. BASEBALL, like many other things, becomes so en thused sometimes that most anything will happen. With winnings running high and Strong and an undertermined record in the future the Tri-County League lost one of its mosjt eager and enthusiastic teams Tuesday, when the Epsom team "blew up." The suspension was due to some of its best players stopping. oOo CONGRATULATIONS to Ed Bdst, Superintendent of Schools of Mecklenburg County. Recently Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte held an election to au thorize a tax for the maintenance of a public library, and lost. The Library Commission in discussing what to do under the circumstances decided to close the library. Ed Best, while interested in the library said in sub stance, "the people have spoken, and didn't want it. Let them have what they want." Its a loss to lose a library, but it is a greater loss to defeat the spoken will of the people. oOo THE Supreme Court in the interest of fairness, justice and consistency, should give a ruling on the meaning of the Constitution governing double office holding that would be asily understood and not subject to so many different and inconsistent interpretations. To say that a person cannot be a Notary Public and an election offici al, or a policeman and a coroner at the same time but that they can hold two offices like County Commissioner and Board of Health and many other doubles is not right. Something along this line should be done to help restore confidence in our system of equal justice in governmen tal agencies. oOo THE editor of the TIMES has been much amused the past few weeks when asked by friends if he was leaving Franklin County and how his esteemed friend Carl Goersch, editor the State, got so badly mixed recently when he reported a visit to Western North Carolina, in which he related seeing "his good friend editor A. F. Johnson of the FRANKLIN TIMES, at Franklin, en route to Asheville, where he would locate." No, Carl, the "side fe^s" at the Legislature, nor business in general were not "sufficiently productive" to make a change possible, and our many friends in Franklin havn't sug gested to us to leave yet. We still like Franklin County and Louisburg and hope to live here a while longer. Thanks for the advertising, but locate us properly the next time, please. oOo EAST MARKS THE Illinois Legislature must have been glided by the policy of the late night club queen, Texas^Jninan ? "never give a Bucker an even break." The lottery bill which the Legislature passed and sent to the Governor provides for a luscious top prize of $50,000 every month, with lesser prizes ranging on down to small change. But, mark yon, 84 per cent of the lottery's take would go to fllnm-dearance, and six per cent on top of that is for ad ministration of the game. So that only ten per cent would be left for prizes, and the odds against the suckers would be stacked at nine to one. Jesse James was more generous with his clients. Why, even a slot machine, the one-armed kind, usually pays back two-thirds of what it takes in. And the butter 'n' eggs' odds are only two-to one against the player. And the pari-mutuel machines are even kinder. At nine to one, who would be foolish enough to take a number? Alas, half the population of Illinois! The American people are so eager to get rich quick and so tempted to take a flyer in gambling now and then that they'll bite at bent pins. And bite again. ? Charlotte News. COUNTY, CITY OFFICIALS RE- f CEIVE CALENDAR OF DUTIES t I The Institute of Government 1 has just distributed to city and * county officials in Franklin Coun- J ty, a calendar of tbe chief official duties required by statute to be , performed on specific dates dur- , ing the fiscal year 1939-40, to be j hung in the offices of officials in i the County C&irtbouse and in Clt/y : Halls, according to a statement by I Albert Coates, Director of the ' Institute. The Institute is t'his week dis- ( tributing to county and city of- , ficials in this County a summary of all public-local, special and priv ate laws relatling to this County and its cities and towns. Also ready for distribution by the Institute are guidebooks for tax and finance officers (includ ing tax supervisors, list takers, as sessors, collectors, city clerks, city and county accountants, managers, and attorneys. They are (1) Tax Listing and Assessing (168 pages 2nd ed.), (2) with a supplement containing 1939 legislative changes, (3) Tax Collection and Foreclosure (2229 pages 2nd ed.), (4) with supple ment containing 1939 legislative changes, (5) chart of Schedule B License Taxes with selected Sup reme Court decisions and Attorney General's rulings, and (6) Re financing of Bonded Indebtedness of Cities and Counties. Guidebooks for Law Enforcing officers (including police, sheriffs, mayors, judges and solicitors of recorders courts): (1) Scientific Aids in Crime Detection (107! pages); (2) Law and Practice of Arrests (114 pages); (3) Law and Practice of Searches and Seizures; (4) Investigation and Law of Liquor, Narcotics, Gam- 1 bling, Prostitution. A complete guidebook for registers of deeds; Chapters in a guidebook for clerks of court dealing with (1) Struc ture and Organization of office, ( 2) *ln vestment of Trust Funds, and (3 J the Powers of the Clerk of Court as Notary Public. "These guidebooks are design ed", said Mr, Coates, "to give to officials a clear and concise pic- j ture of the powers and duties of ! their respective offices, together with the methods and practices of their predecessors in office and of similar offices ia.this and ot-h- j tr states." GLADYS PERN ELL PUM Gladys Pernell, age 13, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry j Pernell. of Alert, died on June the 30th in a Durham hospital i after an illness of five weeks. She had been critically ill most' ! of the entire five weeks and her death was expected by many of her friends and relatives here while some held high hopes for her until the end. She is survived by her parents two sisters, two brothers and a 'j host of friends and relatives. Bural was in the Pernell burying ground at tWAY jOCKfYSHOtT > \ Jockey UNDERWEAR COOL COMFORT MILD SUPPORT Fot vocation or work. Jock?y'? kail lab rid absorb pmpiro Hon and lot your skis bnatb*. You 7?1 mild rapport: 412 4 13 .235 Greystone Pine Ridge Warrenton One radio fan says he listens to tbe advertising talk because it is funnier than the supposed comedy. LOU1SBITRG HCORE8 WIN OVER GKEYSTONE, 7 TO 6 Louisburg scored one run Id tbe ninth Inning to break a 4-all dead lock and earn a 7-6 win over Grey stone here Wednesday in a Tri- 1 County League game. In t>he ninth, Troutman reached first on an error. He moved up on Renn's bunt and Ford's fly. Then Grady Wheeler, plnch-hitting for Peanut Ooak, singled in tbe run. Clinton Wlnstead topped the Greystone batting attack, with a double and a single in (our trips. Horace BranMey and W. N. Fuller, with two singles in (our trips, led Louisburg. | Score: R.H.E. Greystone 000 121 002 ? 6 7 6 Louisburg 210 100 111 ? 7 13 1 Pleasants, Clayton, Bry and Richardson; Troutman, Renn and Fuller. RIDGER8 WIN Pine Ridge, July 5. ? Pine Ridge defeated Warrenton here this af ternoon, 7-6, with a four-run rally In tbe seventh. No player on either team made over one bit. Warrenton made a total of six hits; Pine Ridge seven. Curt Dickens, Pine Ridge pitch er, who took over at the beginning of the eighth, struck out five bat ters. Score: R.H.E Warrenton 102 000 200 ? 5 6 4 Pine Ridge 000 102 <0x ? 7 7 2 Wiggins and Miles; Bullock, Dickens and Moody. EPSOM WITHDRAWS , The Epsom entry in t'he Tri County League has withdrawn from further play. League officials announced yesterday that Wilton may enter a team to take over the vacant berth. Epsom had won eight games and lost eight' in lea gue play. The Farm Security Administra tion has reported that tenants and sharecroppers who borrowed gov ernment money to buy farms of theifown are repaying their loanB in advance of the date due. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINA TIONS ANNOUNCED Tbe United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations for the positions named below. Applica tions must be on Die in tbe Com mission's office, Washington, D. C? not later tban July 24 If re ceived from States east of Colora do, and not later than July 27 If received from Colorado and States westward. Cblef occupational therapy aid (arts and crafts), $2,300 a year, 3t. Elizabeths Hospital, D. C. Dept. if the Interior. Applicants pnust) have reached tbelr 21st but not have passed their 55th birthday. Silviculturlst, $3,800 a year, al so principal, $5,(00, senior, $4, 600, associate, $3,200, and assist ant, $2,800 a year, Bureau of Plant Industry and Forest) Service, Department of Agriculture. Ap plicants for the principal, senior, and silviculturlst grades must not have passed their 53rd, for the associate grade they must not have passed t-heir 45th, and for tbe assistant grade they must not have passed their 35th, birthday. Architect, $3,800 a year, also senior, $4,600, associate, $3,200, and assistant, $2,600 a year. Ap plicants for the senior and archi tect! grades must not have passed their 53rd, for the associate grade they must not have passed their 45th, and for the assistant grade they must not have passed their 40th, birt'hday. Full Information may be ob tained from J. A. Wheiess, Secre tary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the post office in this city, or from the Sec retary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners at any first or second-class post office. The new international slogan appears to be "Say it with flyers." RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ! Mid-Summer Bargain Time at LEGGET'S DRESSES! 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