Meet The Candidates!
(Editor's Note: This Is the
first of a two part series fea
turing the candidates for the
Loulsburg City Council In the
upcoming May 7th Municipal
election. By mutual agreement,
the candidates have pledged not
to badger the voters with mall
outs or by standing at the polls
on election day.)
ALLEN, William H., Jr., 67,
Manager of the Loulsburg Plant
of Wake Forest Ready Mix Con
crete Plant. Graduate of Louls
burg High School and attended
N. C. State College. Baptist,
former professional baseball
player, served as Tax Collec
tor of Loulsburg for a number
of years. Married to the form
er Ann Llverman of Winston,
two child jn. , v ?
HICKS, Robert M.,. 45, local
machlnest, Graduate Mills High
School, Loulsburg. Methodist,
former Chief Loulsburg Rescue
Service and member of the Lou
lsburg Volunteer Fire Depart
ment. Now serving the town as
Director of Civil Defense. Sun
day School Superintendent,
member of Official Church
Board. Married to the former
Pa?e Ann Bunn of Loulsburg,
two children.
JOHNSON, A.F., Jr., 36, In
cumbent. Newspaper Editor,
Graduate Mills High School,
Loulsburg. Episcopalian. Ma
son. Member Loulsburg Rescue
Service. U. Si Navy veteran
World War II and Korean Con
fllct. Now completing second
term on Loulsburg City Coun
cil. Married to the former Jean
Wrenn of FrankllnCounty. Four
children.
JONES, E. Thorton,, 39, In
cumbent. Accountant for Mur
phy House Restaurant. Attend
ed Loulsburg College. Baptist.
Purple Heart veteran of World
War II. Member local Draft
Board. Former Town Com
missioner, Town Clerk and Ac
countant, and City Councilman.
Married to the former Bertha
Wheeler of FrankllnCounty, one
daughter.
TONl^EL, Raymond D., 41,
part owner and manager Ton
kel's Dept. Store. Graduate
Mills High School, Louisburg,
attended Duke University. Mar
ried to the former Florence
Klein of Brooklyn, N.Y., one
daughter. Mason, Legionairj,
40 & 8, Past Legion Comman
der, Past President Jaycees,
Past District Commander (Dlst.
13) American Legion, U. S. Air
Force veteran of World War
II three years.
(to be continued in Thursday
issue.)
Wm, H. Allen, Jr.
Robert M. Hicks
F. John?on, Jr.
E. Thorton Jones
?
R.iymond DyTonkol
Plan For New College Library
The Loulsburg College Board
of Trustees Friday voted to
proceed with plans (or a new
library building with instruc
tion set to begin in Ma?eh 1964.
A special committee will be
appointed to secure additional
funds to complete the project.
President C. W. Robblns In
discussing the new project
brought attention to the critical
need for this facility as the
next step In the development of
Loulsburg College.
In other business the Board
elected the following new trust
ees to fill vacancies: John T.
Church of Henderson, Execu
tive Vice President of Rose's
5-10-25? Stores, Inc.; Mrs.
Charles , Lucas of Charlotte,
great - granddaughter of Ben
jamin N. Duke who gave the
college to the North Carolina
Conference of The Methodist
Church In 190 .; Graham Lynch,
prominent Roanoke Rapids
businessman; Mrs. J. Clarence
Myrlck of Raleigh, an aluma of
the college; and J. Gregory
Poole, -Jr. of Raleigh, an exe
cutive of the Gregory-Poole
Equipment Co.
Mrs. Genevieve Perry, trea
surer, reported that the college
has received $99,988 on the De
velopment Fund from the cam
paign held at the college last
spring. In addition, the college
has received $24,192 from the
North CaroHfli Conference
Crusade.
Board officers for the new
year were elected as follows:
Victims
Of Miss
Tornado
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Rohblns,
parents "f rLouisl>urg College
President Cecil W. Ro! Mns,
were reported Injured by a
tornado that destroyed their
home on Route t, Shannon,
Mississippi- fcarly Monday night.
Dr. Robblns received word of
the disaster about 10 o'clock
last night and left by air for
Mississippi early this morning.
Information recevled here was
only to the effect that his parents
had been Injured and were In the
hospital and that their home had
been completely destroyed. No
details were given as to how
serious the injuries were.
Industrial
Talk Set
Thursday
A great deal of Interest is
being generated In Franklin
County about the Industrial edu
cation meeting scheduled for
Thursday evening at 7:30 P.M.
in the Loulsburg College Au
ditorium, according to Gordon
Zealand, Executive Director of
The Franklin County, LD.C.
The Commission has entend
ed invitations to the County
Commissioners, mayors, and
town councils and the public
at large to attend this Infor
mative meeting. Mr. Dan Ste
wart, Vice President of Caro
lina Power and Light Company
will be the principal speaker.
Mr. Roberts Whlfleld of the De
partment of Conservation and
Develoom?rtt will also speak.
The purpose of this meeting
U to Inform Franklin County
residents of the Importance of
local Industry to provide Jobs,
Increased and added pay rolls,
and more economic stability
for the country. r
Each of the speakers will
welcome questions after MKT
remarks. Both are widely known
throughout the state for their
promotional activities In M
curlng new Industry In the area.
The public Is invited and the
?Metis* will start promptly at
1:S0 P.M.
James E. HUlman, Raleigh,
president; Edgar B. Fisher,
Greenville, vice-president' and
A, E. Henderson, Loulsburg,
secretary.
The Board also voted Its en
dorsement of the College In
centive BUI now before the
General Assembly of North
Carolina.
Dr. Allen p. Brantley of Ra
leigh, Executive Director oftha
Commission on Higher Educa
tion of the North Carolina Con
ference, reported on the Con
ference Capital Funds Crusade
and presented the college with
a bronze plaque commemorat
ing the Aldersgate experience
of John Wesley, founder of the
Methodist Church.
House Slows
ABC Vote
For Bunn
The House Committee on Pro
positions and Grievances Fri
day applied the brakes to a
Senate - approved measure to
allow an ABC vote inthe vlllagi
of Bunn.
The slowdown for the Bunn
bill waa made at the request
of Franklin County Rep. James
D. Speed who said he wanted
It. he^d until he could prepare
some amendments.
Speed spoke after the com
mittee heard from Rev. R. L.
Coffman, pastor of the Bunn
Baptist Church.
"Bunn Is a very small town,
only 332 people," he said.
"Some of us feel this would be
setting a precedent, allowing a
town this small to vote on
liquor stores, especially when
the town has no police protec
'tlbn."
Speed said he wanted to amend
the bill to Insure that before
Bunn has ABC stores It has
"adequate police protection"
and the stores would be locat
ed "A certain distance from
schools and churches."
Louisburg
Bonds Sold
0
The s-le of $225,000 In Town
of Louisburg sewer-water Im
provement bonds, conducted by
the Local Government Commis
sion In Raleigh this morning,
saw the Goodboyd t Co., ofNeit.
York bid In the lot for a net
Interest rate of 3.7388.
Town Administrator E.S. Ford
said that he was wel^ pleased
at the sale and Interest rate
received.
Still Hunt
Stolen Car
Louisburg Chief of Police Wil
liam T. Dement said today that
he is still searching for a 1957
Chevrolet, stolen from the Bry
ant Best residence on Jolly
Street here last Thursday night.
Chief Dement said that he be-,?
Ueves the car was stolen by one
of tw> Vance Prison Camp
escapees, who fled from a Pri
son road gang above Ingleslde
earlier In the day.
The Chief said that he made a
trip to Henderson Monday to
question one of the -scapees,
who had been recaptured, but
was unable to get any informa
tion on the ear. The other es
capee has also been recaptured,
but has not been returned to the
Vance County Camp as yet.
The Reason
"My clothes didn't look so
good this morning. The boy left
them On the floor."
"Didn't he pick them up for
you?"
"He couldn't, 1 was In them."
Bryant In Custody
^Accused rapist Sylvester Bryant is pictured
above bging accompanied to jail here Friday
afternoon by Franklin Sheriff Joe W. Cham
pion with Deputy David Batton bringing up
the rear. - Times Photo.
Of Girl, 11
Negro Confesses
To Rape-Kidnap
A 33 year -old Route 1, Lou
isburg negro pulpwood worker,
broke under repeated question
ing by the SBI Thursday and
confessed to the April 20th
kldnap-assault of an 11 year
old Needmore Community white
girl.
Sylvester Bryant, arrested In
crime by Loulsburg Chief of
Police William T. Dement on
suspicion, after he was spotted
driving a car described by the
victim, _ broke while undergoing .
a He detector test administered
by the SBI In Raleigh, and made
a full confession.'
-Friday, Bryant was returned
to the scene where he re-en
acted the crime for Franklin
Sheriff Joe W. Champion and
SBI Agents L. M. Harton and
Haywood Starling. He Is being
held at an undisclosed Jail pend
ing a preliminary hearing of
charges of kidnapping and rape.
Bryant was first charged with
accessory before the (act of
rape after the girl positively
Identified his car as the one In
which she had been abducted.
Officers said that she waa
unable to positively Identify
Bryant is her assailant, but
had postlvely Identified hi*
1951 Ford as the one In which
she was driven to an Isolated
spot about two and a half mile*
from her home. She said she
waa raped there and that her
assailant then drove her back to
within several hundred yarda
of her home and let her out.
It was a few minutes before
5 A.M. that her parents, law
enforcement officers and neigh
bors saw her coming across a
field in her pajamas. Officers
said that her mother had heard
a noise In the bedroom and that
when she investigated she found
the chfld missing. Her 16-year
oldest ster slept In another room
police said. .
The girl told officers that her
asaallant woke her, held his
hand over her mouth and forc
ed her to accompany him under
the threat of killing her.
The crime set off a wide
I
spread manhunt in which armed <
neighbors and members of the <
Louisburg Rescue Service join- <
ed police and other officers in <
the search.
Franklin Sheriff Joe W. Cham- !
pion, reportedly 111 and unin- <
formed of the incident despite <
calls from the victim's parents <
and one of his deputies, has I
come under heavy and wide- 1
spread criticism for not going J
to the scene to personally head ]
up "the Investigation. I
Showers an^ scattered thun
ders^owers" today. Low, 55;
high, 70's. Wednesday, general
ly fair and cooler.
I wo Die In
j A
Vance Crash
Two young Franklin County
men were killed when their
car ran off N.C. 39 near Gill
burg, hit a stump and over
turned about 2 o'clock Saturday
morning.
State Trooper W. J. currin
bf Henderson, said that Eugene
Marshall Wilder, 23, of Koute
3, Louisburg, was lielieved to
have died almost instantly In
the crash, and that the second
man, Darrell Wayne Aycock,
19, of the Rocky Ford section,
?aid to l>e the owner and pro
bably the driver of the car,
<ied enroute to a Henderson
?Qspttal,
Trooper Currin said indica
tions were that the car went out
of control on a curve ? the
T). Y. ftoyle service station,
about a pille and a half south
of Gillburg on N.C. 39. Travel
ing' south, it veered to the left
shoulder of the road and across
a stump and rolled over possi
bly twice into the yard of the
residence of Mrs. Medie Ed
wards. It halted on its wheels,
headed toward the residence
and about half way lietween the
highway and house.
Parts of the car and Its con
tents were scattered some 40
yards along the highway, the
road shoulder and in the yard.
Henderson merchant B. M.
Newman, who Mves nearby, said
he heard a noise about* 1:50
>r 1:45 A.M., but was unaware
of the accident. The crash was
Jiscovered by a Lancaster Fun
Bral Home official, James N.
Terry, who was enroute from
Louisburg to .Henderson for
iuty. He told of spotting some
thing beside the road as he
Irove past, turned around to
Investigate and' after learning
itfhat had happened went to the
Newman home to summon help.
No one was at home at the
Edwards /residence. ?
Funeral services for Wilder
uere conducted Sunday after
loon at thre** o'clock in New
Bethel Baptist Church /at Ep
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Receive Service Awards
District ASC Tieldman Carl
Bunn, left, presents Service
Award Certificates to C. C.
Perry, M rs. Dorothy Clay, Wal
ton Hayes, E. G. Brewer and
R. S. May at the Annual Frank
lin County ASCS Committee
men's Banquet here last Thurs
day night. - Times Photo.
Ag Workers Receive Awards
Dr. David S. Weaver, Inter
nationally famous farm pro
duction expert, now special as
sistant to the Dean of Agricul
ture at N. C. State College, told
the farmers of Franklin. County
that they and the rest of the
nation's farmers must keep up
with new developments in the
field if they're to remain in
competition with the rest of the
nation's economy.
_ Dr. Weaver, speaking before
some 200 farmers, agricultural
workers;? vendors and related
services and their guests at the
Annual Franklin County ASCS
Committeemen's Banquet here
Thursday night, gave the audi
ence a vjvld picture of the pro
gress of agriculture to date and
Its prospects for the future.
"What the people want," he
said, "Is plenty of good food
cheap." ? ? ,
Dr. Weaver was introduced
by E. G. Brewer^ Chairman of
the County ASC County Com
mittee.
A. P. Hassell, Jr., Executive
Director of the State ASCS,
made comments In regard to the
^ Miss Louisburg Beauty Contestants
Contestants in the upcoming 3rd Annual local Jaycee sponsored Miss Louisburg Beauty
Paeeant are pictured above during rehearsal. They are 1. t6 r., Pat Lancaster, Peggy
Medlin Betty Wrenn.'Marilyn Timberlake, Sondra Cash, Skyler Odum, and Dale Arnold.
Not present when picture was made was Andrea Beaty. - T.lmes Pbflto^i i .cnbiuoa
19G4 wheat program, and H. V.
Mangum, of the State ASC Of
fice, also made a few remarks.
Five persons from the County
ASCS organization were re
cognized by Carl Bunn, District
ASC Fieldman, and presented
with franked service awards.
They were E. G. Eirewer, Coun
ty Chairman, 25 years; Mrs.
Dorothy Clay, Chief Clerk, 15
years; C. C. Perry, Cfounty
Committer, 10 years; Walter
Hayes,, Community Committee
men, 5 years; and H.S, May,
Community Commfttee-men, 5
years. - /.
Miss Alicia Suarez, student
at* .Lou rsburg" College and a
native of Aruba, island of An
tilles, provided entertainment
for the occasion and JOhn R.
Davis, County ASCS Office Ma
nager, served &s Master of
Ceremonies.
Pageant
Tickets
On Sale
The Loulsburg Jaycees would
like to remind you >' <<t tickets
are now on sale for the Miss
Lotlsburg Pageant to be held
on May 3 at 8:00 P.M. In the
Loulsburg College Auditorium.
Tickets are available from any
Jaycee member as well as the
following business establish
ments: V - _
Frankllnton - Corner Drug
Store; Bunn - Bunn Drug Com
pany; Centervllle - L.S.Ward's
Service Station; Youngsvllle -
Hart's Soda Shop.
You art urged to purchase
your ticket In advance, however
If this Is not convenient for
fQu, they wilt be available at the
loor on the night of the pageant.
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