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COMMISSION ERS MEET r - \ Constables Bonds Approv ed, Oaths Administered; Many Routine Matters The County , Commissioners met at Jp o'clock Monday with the following Commissioners present: J. Z. Terrell, Chairman, H. S. Pearce, H. T. Bartholomew, Percy Joyner, T: S. Dean. The minutes of the December meetings were read and approv ed. The Tax list takers In Bunn, Youngs ville and Louisburg town ships, who had been previously appointed, being unable to serve in such capacity the following were appointed for their respec tive townships: F. C. RicHardson! ?' G. W. Winston and J. E. Will iams. upuil Iliuiiun Ui Villi. oai iuuiu seconded by Com. Bartholomew, the county attorney was Instruc ted to make deed, to W. S. Pred dy and Florence Preddy for a lot | ?which they had previously bought j and made improvements on, up on the cash payment of $150.00. Upon motion of Co.. Bartholo- j mew, seconded by Com. Joyner and djily carried the County At torney was instructed to make a deed for the county's interest in the Ed Perry-Yarboro tract of jand to Alfred Batchelor upon the cash payment of $280.00. The following reports were re ceived and ordered filed: E. R. Richardson, Supt. County Home; Mrs. J. F. Mitchiuer, Welfare I Supt. r Miss Lillier Mae Braxton, Home Dem. Agent; W. C. Boyce, ; Farm Agent; H. H. Price, Negro Farm Agent; Dr. R. F. Yarbor ough, Health Officer. A report, from the Franklin County Library Board was also read to the commissioners and is ?:tached hereto and made a part , of these minutes. S. O. Wilder was appointed a committee to investigate the al leged killing of a turkey hen of J. W. Allgood by dogs. E. H. Malone, County Chairman of Civilian Defense appeared be fore the Board in reference to small expenses of* the Ration Of fice which ajjg not paid by the Federal Government and which are necessary items for the effic ient administration of said office. Upon motion of Com. Bartholo mew, seconded by Com. Pearc?i, the County Accountant was in structed to pay these small items in an amount not to exceed $10.00 per month. Upon motion of Com. Dean,-! seconded by Com. Pearce, the County Attorney was instructed to write a letter to Mr. Ira T. In ecoe, County Chm. of AAA cou ' veying a request of the farmers' of Franklin County that his of fice be keiJt open on Saturday af ternoons for the convenience o[ the farmers, and Mr. Boyce as sured the Commissioners that his office would also be kept open in cooperation with the AAA of- ; fice. And to further assure Mr. i Inscoe that it was agreeable with | the Commissioners if they closed half a day on some other after noon in the week, in place of Saturdays. Upon motion duly made and carried, the County Accountant was instructed to issue check to H. G. Thompson for $1.00 (or dog listed in error and on which taxes had already been paid. Upon motion ot Com. Dean, seconded by Com. Bartholomew and unanimously carried, the County Accountant was instruc ted to pay tha premiums on in surance on county buildings now due and repairs to the County Home from the revolving fund, and he was further instructed ti renew the policies for three years instead of the one year as form erly, in order to obtain a lower rate, which is possible under the three year plan, and was further instructed to convert those now held to three year policies. r The County Accountant was instructed to pay the Bill of John Kerr, -Jr., Attorney in War ren County of $50.00 for services rendered in the collection of $600.00 owed by Plummer Wil liamson on land in Warren Coun ty, and the County Attorney was instructed to complete the col lection of said deed of thist. IC. E. Joyner, W. A. Phelps, Harold J. Richards. O. S. Gilliam and Clinton Swanson, Constables presented their bonds to the Board, which bonds "'were approv ed by the County Attorney and (Continued on page eight) ? RECORDER'S COURT a j Regular Cases Tried Tues day; Jury Cases Called Wednesday Franklin Count :ecorder's Court convened T.uesday and dis posed ot the regular cases. On Wednesday the jury cases were called.' This session was in 'pro gress Thursday. The following cases had been dispose^ of as the paper went to press; X Percy Williams was found not gutlty^of operating automobile intoxicated. Ollie Jeffreys was foi^fd guilty of no drivers license, discharged upon payment of $10 fine and costs. Maryland ^Dlck, larceny and re ceiving,' %iol . pros wi|i leave. Percy Williams ^vas found guilt.y of driving a car without li cense, discharged upon payment of $f0 line and costs. J. Marion Grainger, , through Counsel plead guilty to operating automobile intoxicated, fined $50 and. costs, not to operate a car fot "12 months. Horace Collins plead guilty to larceny and receiving and was given 4 months on roads. Not guilty as . to injury to property. Robert Henry Dunston plead guilty to assault with deadly weapon and was given 4 months on roads, upon payment of costs including $15 for Doctor, execu tion to issue any ' time in 2 years. Rosabel Moss Evans was found guilty of ^assault with deadly weapon, and was given 4 months in jail. Commissioners to hire out.| Johnnie Johnson pleads guilty of forcible trespass and was giv-j en 4 months on-, roads, suspend-) ed upon payment of costs. Leon Leonard plead guilty to operating automobile intoxicated and fined 50 and costs, and not to drive a car in 12 months. J. Clyde Wester was found not guilty of operating automobile Intoxicated. ine lonowing cases were con tinued: Richard Patton, no drivers li cense. T. V. Pool, operating automo bile intoxicated, reckless driving. P. W. Joyner operating auto mobile intoxicated, resisting an officer. The Jury cases were taken up on Wednesday and disposed of as follows: Herman Journigan, bastardy, continued. Mary Jane Green, selling beer without license. A nolle pros was taken in the case of assault on a female against A. L. Mclnnis. ? R. R. Radford, operating* au tomobile intoxicated, continued. Leroy Howard operating ( auto mobile intoxicated, no drivers li cense, continued. , ?? Zollie Medlin, operating auto mobile intoxicated, found guilty, discharged upon payment of $50 fine and costs. Appeal. Zollie Medlin pleads guilty to operating automobile intoxicated, given 60 days on road, not to op erate car for 12 months. Appeal. Robert Haywood Strickland, op erating automobile intoxicated, continued. Harvel Harris, operating auto mobile intoxicated, continued. TheCourt directed that in the future the jury trials will be call ed on the second Wednesday in each month. Also that a fee of $3.00 will have to be paid down on t}ie request for a jury trial. o Cotton farmers will have 15 more days in which to apply for Federal crop insurance on their 1943 cotton crop than on their 1942 crop, the closing date in North Carolina being April 1. o For the duration of the war we insist that our fiction give us happy endings. >V- '* NO FUN DRIVING * Washington, Jan. 6.? "If it's fun, it's out." dl1^ authorities said tonight that is' the best test for wheth er motoring is pleasure driv ing, which is forbidden begin ning at noon tomorrow in Eas tern states. These authorities, speaking anonymously pending the issuance of an official defi nition tomorrow, said: Going to church is not pleas ure driving. Taking children to school probably is all right, in the ab sence of other transportation. Going to a doctor or a hos pital obviously is all right. WORK BEGUN ON BRIDGE To Put On New Floor; To Relieve The Undesirable Water Situation Mr. G. W. Pruitt of the State Highway maintenance department arrived at Tar River bridge in Louisburg with a force and equip mentment Wednesday morning and begun." removing the psphalt top t6 the fridge preparatory to replacing it with a new concrete floor to be constructed in such way as to eliminate the ^undesir able water splashing situation that has been so unsatisfactory for a long number of years. This will be a great benefit to the walking public that has to cross the bridge. Mr, C. C. Hudson, a former County Commissioner is to be given much of the" credit for this activity as he has been ac tive in . convincing the Highway Department of the necessity and securing its activity. The public is cautioned to drive slowly in approaching and crossing the bridge as it has been placed on the one lane drive regulations. i? o Mrs. Nelle Newell Dead The many friends of tile fam ily will learn with much regret of the death of Mrs. Nelle Simp son Newell, widow of the late S. Atwood Newell, which occurred in a hospital in Henderson at 11 SlS'otk Friday night following a short but serious iyness. She was found in her room ? early Thursday morning in a serious condition, having been taken ill during the night., and taken to the hospital that afternoon, where the end came the nejct evening. She was a native ol' Martin County, the daughter of the late John D. Simpson and Eliza Griffin Simpson. Sher was married to Mr. S. Atwood New ell, a prominent attorney in Wil-1 liamston in 1907. In 1915 they moved to Louisburg, where Mr. Newwell became prominent in the practice of law, and Mrs. Newell won an enviable pla6e in social and church work., She was a* member of the Louisburg Methodist Church. Surviving are a son, Sgt. John A. Newell, of Port Meade, Md.'; a daughter, Mrs. Eliza Newell Womble, of Charlotte; a sister, Mrs. Erah Cobb, of Williamston; and a brother, J. Dillon Simpson, rof Mount Airy. Funeral servises were held from the Louisburg Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, conducted by Rev. For rest D. Hedden and Rev. O. W. Dowd, of Dunn, a former pastor and interment was made in Oak wood cemetery. Quite a larg;3 number attended both services and the floraT tribute was espec ially large and pretty. The pall bearers were.: C. M. tioward, L. M. Word, P. W. | Elam, Geo. D. Davis and J. C. Taylor. ' O : Board of Health Meets The Board of Health of Frank lin County composed of Chair man J. Z. Terrell, of the Board of County Commissioners, Mayor W. C?JWebb, of Louisburg, and Supt.W. F. Mitchell, of the County Schools met in Its office on Monday and completed its organization by re-electing Dr. S. P. Burt, of Louisburg, Dr. E. V. Green, of YoUngsville, and Dr. D. T. Smithwick, of Louisburg, to membership on the Board. The Board set Monday, Janu ary 11th, as a date for the next meeting, when it is expected they will elect a Health Officer. n Take Training Miss Elizabeth G. Brown, N. Y. A. representative for Franklin, Warren, Vance, Granville and Person counties was in Louisburd the past week to accompany Misses Hortense Poole, Bessie Poole, R. 1, Louisburg, Mrs. John Lewis, of Wood, and' Owen Gup ton, of R. 1, Castalla, to Raleigh where they wHI take training for 12 weeks on State College Cam pus at Raleigh Residence Center, In the various War efforts. Mrs. Wood's husband is now In the armed service In Africa. VICTORY CONGRESS OPENS Washington, Jan. 6. ? The 78th' Congress ? dubbed the "Victory Congress" from the rostrum of the House? -met today in a mood for solemn jinited action to win the war and- for sharp insistence upon writing Its own laws on do niestic issues, regardless of the wishes of the White House. Thesp two determinations dom inated a brief preliminary ses sion of speechmaking and of or gr.nizatijjp for the tragically vital period which lies ahead. They wtre expressed by Republican spokesmen, conscious of their greatlyreinforced. strength. And they came from the Democratic side of the political barrier as well. Last fall's election, with its wide Republican gains, was re flected at the outset in the clos est vote for party control of the House in the last decade. The Democrats won. By 217 to 206, tbey reelected Speaker Rayburn. Immediately, the tension of the situation was broken. Republi cans and Democrats alike jump ed to their feet in a storijiy and prolonged ovation. And when Representative Martin of Massa chusetts, the defeated [Republican nominee for Speaker, paid it was particularly appropriate that this honor should go to Rayburn on bis 61st birthday, the pandemo mcnius was renewed. McDonald Chair man President's Birth d & y Celebration Dr. Ralph McDonald.' State Chairman for the Celebration of the President's Birthday, for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. has appointed Mrs. .Hugh W. Perry as County Chairman. The message which Pi-esident Roosevelt has dedicat ed to this cause is "Nothing is closer to Jny heart than the health of our hoys and girls and young men and young women. To me it is one of the front lines of our National Defense." Pres ident Roosevelt also states "I feel strongly, therefore, that t,heJ work of the National Foundation must be continued and I am hap py to have it use my birthday in its" 1943 fund-raising drive." Mrs. Perry expects to have a County organization perfected within a short time so that an in tensive campaign may be begun on the 15 th and continued through the 30th of January. ^ - i / -o ? College Opens After Holidays and Schedules Examinations and Registration The cdllege formally closed the mid-year holidays with the opening, Tuesday, January 5. Only a small percentage of the students failed to return, a fact especially notable in view of the depletion in college enrollments generally. Somfe of the local ab sences are occasioned by the wo men taking secretarial positions and the men being inducted into armed service. Examinations closing the first semester will run on week days from 14 to 18 inclusive. Regis tration for the second semester will be held January 19. o O D T Appeals It has been requested by the Office of Defense Transportation that appeals for additional mile age and gasoline on Certificates of War Necessity be submitted to the Raleigh office by January 10, 1943, if possible, therefore, the Franklin County Farm Trans portation Committee is asking farmers in the county, who de sire to make an appeal, to do so as soon as possible in order that theft- appeals might be reviewed by the local committee and sent to 'Th^ Raleigh office by January 10, 1943.' If, at any time, the farmer feels he is entitled to further adjustment, he is free to request such an adjustment. ' J. C. NOWELL, Chairman Franklin County Farm , ? - Transportation ? Committee. o When the tickets sell at a pre mium, the show is almost certain io be good. WAR NEWS Allied Headquarters in -North Africa, Jan. 6. ? Veteran British Tirst Army troops captured Jebel Azzag and nearby points in an attack launched yesterday to 'drive the Axis from high ground dominating Allied positions alb'ng a road about 15 miles west of Mateur, the Allied command an nounced tonight. It was the first real fighting in two weeks in ^'orth Tunisia. "Successful attacks were made on hills north of the road and we captured Jebel Azzag and other points in_ the vicinity," the Allied command communique an nounced. "Our forces are mopping up isolated macliinegun posts and have repulsed a. ^counterattack against one of our uewly-won positions." In the air, a headquarters spokesman said. Fortress bomb ers scored hits or near misses on a cruiser leaving the Tunisian harbor of Sfax and left the Sfax power station in flames. Washington, Jan. 6. ? Amer ican forces pounded the Japs by land, air, and sea TuesctSy as the lohg-dorniant Solomons campaign exploded with a fury which sug gested a b'Sttle of major scope may b^1 in the making. Ai task force, carrying out the first United States- naval offensive Tii that area since the original invasion of the Solomons five months ago, swept 180 miles Tiorthwest of Guadalcanal ? the deepest penetration of Solomons waters by American surface ships --and bombarded the new Jap air base at Munda. The predawn thrust touched off a ?wift sequence of sorties which gave the Americans- per haps their busiest hours since i u:eir greai. iiavai vie roiy uv e nr ber* 13-15. The task force action was fol lowed by three aerial sweeps wliich carried deep into thi^ heart i of Jap positions in the northern ! Solomons and continued blows 'against the enemy on Guadal canal. The final accounting for the ! day showed at least seven Jap i planes destroyed^ one enemy transport hit, one Jap heavy | cruiser attacked with unrevealed results, undetermined damage to the airfield at Munda, 84 enemy troops slaughtered on Guadalcan al and two American planes lost. Moscow. Thursday, Jan. 7.? Russian armies forming both the northern and southern arms of the Soviet pincers aimed at Ros tov hammered out new gains yes terday, capturing eight villages in the Middle Don and 13 villages and two railway stations in tl)e North Qaucasus, the Red Army announced today. The Soviets pushed another 10 miles up the main Caucasian rail way from Prokhladnenski, cap tured only Tuesday, and seized the station at Soldatskaya, 310 miles southeast of Rostov, tbe midnight communique said. The communique also reported the capture of Baksan in the northern Caucasus. (A Haksa'nsk, eight miles east of newly-won Nalchik and 23 miles southwest of Prohladnenski appears on available maps.) In the Middle Don, northeast of Rostov, the newly-occupied vil lages Included Maryinskaya and Kamyshevskaya. (Available maps list neither town by that spelling, but do in clude a Mariinskaya, on the north bank of the Don 25 miles west southwest of Tslmlyanskaya and 95 miles northeast of Rostov, and a Kamisovoskaya. also on the north bank of the Don and five miles east of Mariinskaya.) vj Harris Names Committees Lieutenant Governor K. L. Har ris yeSterday set the stage for a short session of the 1943 General Assembly by announcing his com mittee appointments within 25 minutes after the Senate .pfUcial ly convened at noon. Harris told Democratic party members at Tuesday night's cau cus that he hoped the General Assembly would finish its busi ness in 50 days. His early an nouncement of committees was the first step in sending the Sen ate 'off to a quick start. The appointments usually are made the second or third day. Senator H. P. Taylor of Anson, was named chairman of the ap propriations committee, and Sen ator Thtftnas "O'Berry of Wayne was named head of the finance committee. JPLEASURE DRIVING BANNED Washington, Jan. 6.? OPA to day banned pleasure driving in thu. East and slashed thte amount of fuel oil that schools, stores, theatres and other non-residen tial establishments may consume in the 17-State area. Many such buildings facet the possibility of curtailing their hou-rs or days of operations un der the order. OPA left it to the school boards, store opera tors and others in charge of oil consuming buildings to deter mine how they will meet the re duced fuel rations. Amusement places especially were hit hard. The order for bidding pleasure driving in the East specifically banned motoring to theatres as well as race tracks. I With this order certain to cut down amusement centers' patron age and the fuel oil order threatening to make theaters and night clubs cool beyond comfort, continued operation of some of the establishments seemed in doubt. Use of fuel oil in non-residen tial establishments in the East was curtailed 25 per cent below present rations, giving them abput 45 per cent of normal require ments. Noon loiluy Under the edict against pleas ure driving, effective at noon to morrow, any motorist driving to amusement centers or to "purely social engagements" faces the ; cancellation of all or part of his j gasolin<j ration. I OPA called upon State, county and local law enl'ocement agen cies to carry out t|n; new rcgula tion in 17 Eastern states and the District of Columbia where the oil-gasoline shortage is acute. The ruling; immediately threat ened the operation of race tracks. President John C. Clark of the Miami (Fla.) Jockey Club said Hialeah Park, scheduled to open next Wednesday, would not op erate "until such time as there Is full approval of the continuance of racing."* Chairman Herbert Bayard Swope of the-New York State Racing Commission said racing would continue if it could do so legitimately ? " If not, it wiH 'stop. It asks jjojipecial con sideration." ? i ? -j OPA prohibited all pleasure motoring by holders of A, B and C passenger car ration cards. It did not define "pleasure driving"] fully, but said the term would have "broad meaning" and would be interpreted in an official reg ulation tomorrow. However, the finding of a pas senger car at a race track will be taken as "prima facie" evidence that gasoline rations and tires1 are being dissipated needlessly and illegally," the announcement stated. Essential Driving Price Administrator Leon Hen derson made it clear that he had chosen this action in preference to a new slash in the value of A coupons. He said checks had proved that nearly half of all A rations in the East were being used for essential driving only. This ration is good for only three gallons a week In the Seaboard area. " / "The chief abuses, insofar as gallons used for pleasure (are concerned)",' ? said Henderson, "seem to stem from the B and C card holders, who either have ex aggerated their needs or are not fulfilling the car-sharing plans they outlined to procure the ra tions originally.' . .. ? ft h The second scrap drive in Transylvania County is being un dertaken by 4-H Clubs in coop eration *lth the schools. o PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following is the program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday, Jan. 9th: Saturday ? Charles Starrett in 'Riding Through Nevada' and John Hubbard and Virginia Qrey in 'Secrets of The Underground.'] Sunday-Monday ? Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan in 'George Washington Slept Here.' Tuesday ? The Dead End Kid' and the Little Tough Guys in 'Mug Town.' Also. Wild Bill El liott in 'Valley of Vanishing Men". Wednesday ? Boris KarlofT, Pe ter Lorre and Maxie Rosenbloom in 'The Boogie Man Will Get You.' Thursday-Friday ? Errul Flynn | and Alexis Smith in 'Gentleman AFTER THE WAR EMPLOYMENT Babson Forecasts New Technical Colleges By ROGER W. BABSON Washington, D. C7, Jan. 8. ? Next to the spiritual condition of *?* -*?*- - i ^iit; iictnun me full employment of its people is of primary im portance. Under normal condi tions about 45, 000,000 are gainfully e m ployed. Today this has gone up to about 55,000, 000; while dur ing the depths of the depres BAB SON sion or the X930's there were on ly 35,000,000 so employed with 10,000,000 unemployed walking the streets. Of these, probably 2,500,000 were unemployables. Don't Get Panicky > ? ' ? With doubt the United States and Canada will be faced with a big unemployment problem after World ? War II. Not only will" 10,000,000 men be returning from the army, navy and air forces to their homes but anoth er 10,000,000 or more now working* in war plants, shipyards, etc., temporarily -at least, will be thrown out of work. To the av ! trage statistician the situation I looks dark aftd unsolvable. Yet, there is no reason for getting panicky. To begin with there will be a tremendous "consumer demand" 1 after the. war. People will stam pede for new automobiles, new | refrigeratory, rfCR- radios and new appliances of all kinds from kit chen utensils to farm implements. ! Moreover, the .pfeople will have j the mojiey and bonds to pay for | these. thing-!. Merchants will again j stock up with goods which means that manufacturers must quickly "convert" and re-enyiloy millions of people. i apuausm 10 lie Tested During the years directly fol lowing peace, employers ^hould forget themselves in order to save themselves. Many millions will j be tired and sick , of rationing, price-fixing and government inef ficiency. The businessmen will then have a real chance to throw off the "ball and chains" which the New Deal has put upon them. To do this, however, we employ ers must assume more responsi bility , and must make a greater effort to give employment than we fever have in the past. Unless businessmen do then wake up and assume leadership, the free-enterprise system may get a severe beating. These re turning soldiers will be in no mood to see factories needlessly shut down. Then the Commun ists and other radicals will come forward with crazy plans which will make the New Dealers look like hard-shelled Republicans. Yes, the unemployment problem must then fearlessly be met and solved, OR ELSE! Preventing Unemployment No new .committees need be formed nor new reports need be issued. The files of the Depart- , ir.ent of Labor contain volumi nous studies on how unemploy ment can be reduced during a depression. These plans range from raising the school, age and getting women back into " the homes, to the quota system in which I was so much interested fen years ago. We will not need new plans (or work, but rather we will need merely to work the plans we havq. 1 Here at Washington I have heard of plans to turn some of the great~government . buildings, now full of clerks, into a mam moth National University for re turning soldiers. These plans also include having branches of this great University in different sections of . the country using empty- munition plants for school rooms and laboratories; while the students can live in the new houses now occupied by war workers. It is estimated that this new National University may have an enrollment of 1,000,009 students! What About Our Ivy College*? Of course, such a plan Will be fought bitterly both by the old line endowed colleges tike Har vard, Yale, Princeton, etc., and also by the State Universities which have great political in | (Continued on Page Bight) ?
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