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Louisburg N C.. Tuesday. June 28. 1963
(Six Pages Today)
04th Year? Number 36
Rep. Speed Applies
\v .
For Ranger's Post
Tobacco Barning Time
>. j. vounier of Uunn prepares
to light the burners in a barn
of tobacco Monday in the first
reported barning id the County
this year. Vollmer planted the
Speights G- 10 rarte^y this year.
Council OK's $421/446
1963-64 Tow* Budget
TV Loautairg City Council
pw Injitrv approval to a
$4Zl,4-te.0C fcmfcet (or the 19C3
64 fiscal year Friday night.
TW an t?4get represents an
iKreiK of smnv~955t454> over
um rear's $365,9^0 budget and
does mot include any of the
$WC,0CC water - sewer lm
innmeu money.
T?e tax rate Is expected to
raubt the same at $1.50 per
$100 valuation.
Ton Administrator E. S.
Pord Manned the Council that
kt expected to wind up the pre
set* fiscal year with a $34,000
svpftes, wMch will hie carrted
trwanl Into the new budget
to lielp defray pah of the ex
pense of a proposed $ 18,000
electric distribution ryaeir,
Improvement program and re
cent purchases of new fire and
rescue equipment.
Broken down by departments,
estimated expenses for the
coming year are as follows;
General Government, $42,IC1.
Police Departtne^it, $40,f 5S-,
Fire Department, $29,2S0. Ctrl]
Defense and Rescue, $7 ,289,
Street Department, $25,3*7;
Cemetery, $2,424; Sanitation,
$25,220; Electric Department.
$154,758, Water and Sewer De
partments (Regular operatise
expense) $37,724, Recreation
C<*aai?fc>*, J], -ICC, Conttn
trecy Fimdk, J 12.21 -J, Bonds to
br mind, $I-lj30C ; Interest on
teroiSs. S 1C.C10.
TV total will be lipped
ne*? year tp aflpm*iraately half
ct tt** $3?JUX! of the jotnt
boroa Ftdtril ;rint water -
srwer laynwewient program
mcmf, 'Of wtKh Approximately
half Is Swims <>?<1 m the cur
x*a year.
hi Garage
Man Makes His
Liquor At Home y
TW oM saying of "W? profit
owr mistakes" was evidently
by (helley WIN
a Loulsburf, Route 3,
i members of the
Cownty Sheriffs De
arrested Mm Monday
lor doing the same
the same place that
arrest on two
- operat
a iMrti) still la the en
o f his home
years ago Wllllam
ao> was arrested by Pedaral
iflwi ?Wa they found two
MS. ?fl Brad subs behind his
garage doors; than, before he
ww brought to trial on that
oat, local officers cot him
? ? J
consoi laateo
and he was sent away tor II
months. After serving 9 months
Williamson was paroled wtt
his time running oat last Janu
ary. Mot having to pot up with
regular visits from the pirate
officer, Williamson went back
Into his home distilling bustaeas
once again, but on a somewhat
smaller scale. The result briag
Monday mornings raid oa the
200 gallon sub.
When questioned as to >tst w?y
he Insisted on making boost
at his Indoor set-up Wltltamsna
replied, "Well I don't have any
where else to make It sad when
your children are hungry yo*
have to do something to brtag
lit a little extra money." Be
said that he has eight children
with the oldest being oaly IX.
Franklin County Representa
tive James D. Speed has ap
plied (or the post of County
Forest Ranger left vacant by
the death of Ranger Joe A.
Pearce.
Speed's letter of 'application
for the post was presented to
the Board- of County Commiss
ioners last Friday afternoon
and was transmitted to the Stats
Forester In Raleigh along with
six others.
The leading contender for the
post, until Speed popped Into tha
picture, was generally consid
ered to be Joseph Earl Smith,
Forest Service "Smoke ChSs
1 er" tor the past ten years,
who handled the Job of Ranger
during Pearce's Illnesses. If
appointed, Speed, it Is under
stood, would have to resign
ss Representative.
Others putting their namea
Into the pot were W. C, Hunt,
Forestry Service Heavy Equip
ment Operator; J. E. Perry,
Jr., Karl Pernell, Maynard
Baker and Lawrence Perry,
PernelK an engineer with the
Loulsburg\Flre Department,
?aid Monday that although he had
asked the BoaftTfor a recom
mendation, that he had not sub
mitted an application and waa
not a candidate for \he post.
The State Forestry Service
had requested the County Com
missioners to recommend at
least three candidates for Uw
post and the BdUrd submitted
the names of all seven. The
?tate pays part of the salary
and makes appointments to the
Job, subject to concurrence by
the County Commissioners.
In House
<
Lisa Mario pearce and Brant
ley Green Pearce served as
honorary page and pagette In
the House of Representatives
June 1?.
The are the son and daughter
o( Mr. and Mrs. Urban L.
Pearce.
Vets Office
Closed 4th
George Champion, Jr., Frank
lin County Veteran Service Of
fice, announced that this* office
will be*closed the week of the
4th and anyone having business i
with that office, may dixso this
week. j ?
Anyone having business during
the week of the 4th may contact. ;
Jack H. Daniel, District Office, ,
N. C. Veterans Compissloji,
Raleigh, N.C. ~ ' '
Dual Highway Accidents
uoe^al Rescuers assist victims
from car above that overturned
on U. S>401 south of here Sun
day where^a wrecker creW was
removing another car from ra
vine (bottom photo) on the op
posite side of the road in which
a local -negro died.
Brakeless Car Overturns
At Fatal Crash Scene
?
A , 55 year-old local negro
sawmill worker was killed Sun
day morning when his cardlde
swipjped another and overturned
down ah embankment about 2
miles south of Loulsburg on
U.S. 401.
State Trooper D. M. Hlnton
Identified the dead man as Ed
ward Winston, Jr. ??
A passenger in the Winston
car, Herbert Louis Brodle, 40,
of Loulsburg, was uninjured as
were Richard Cooke, Jr., 33,
of Route 1, Loulsburg and Willie
Henry Moore, 22, of Route 4
Louisburg, driver and passen
ger in the other car. ,
The Loulsburg Rescue Ser
vice was summoned to the
Wrecked Garage Still
Franklin Sheriff's Deputies sur
vey their handiwork following
the . wreckage of a still in a
Rocky Ford Community negro's
garage this week. The still was
the third found in the same lo
cation by officers in the past
djeveral years. - Times Photo.
scene, but Winston was beyond
aid, apparently having died al
most instantly of what Coroner
James H. Edwards described
as a crushed cftest. He was
thrown out of the c%r and his
body was found on the shoulder
of the road.
Hlnton said the accident ap
parently occured when Winston
attempted to pass the Cooke
car which was signaling for a
left turn and struck the front
of the car throwing his car out
of control.
The crash almost proved
serious for four Raleigh neg
roes when the brakes^alled on
their car as they approached
the wreck and they slid to a
smoking stop upside down at the
bottom of a 15 foot fill on
the opposlt side of the road.
Assisted uninjured from their
car by members of the Rescue
Service were Malcolm Arrlng
tbn, 31; his Wife, Lucy, 29;
daughter, Bertha Lee, 6; and
Susie dee Gall, 21, all of Ra- <
lelgh.
Guard Units Return
With Top Evaluation
Franklin County's two units
of the 5th Rocket Battalion,
North Carolina Army National
Guard returned home from Fort
Benning, Georgia Sunday - fresh
from two'-weeks in the field
training.
The Loulsburg unit arrived
around 3 p.m. with Youngsvllle's
unit arriving at their liome!
armorV a bit earlier. '
The two units, along with
Zebulon's "A" Battery, left
Fort Benning early Saturday
morning and spent the night
at Lexington, S. C.'s National
Guard Armory. They departed
on the last leg of their Journey
home at 6 a.m. Sunday.
It was a tired but happy bunch
that pulled Into Loulsburg Sun
day afternoon.
The Loulsburg and Youngs
vllle units spent the entire two
weeks in the field practicing,
tor the most part, in recon
naissance, selection and oc
cupying positions, during which |
they fired one of the Honest i
John Artillery Rockets. The (
first week they had 100 de
gree temperatures and It rain- )
ed all of the second week.
Despite the fact that they were )
training with the Honest John
exclusively for the first time,
the local units stacked up with f
tfie top in their evaluation by *
3rd Army Inspectors. Youngs-? g
vllle's 44 B" Battery and the Bat- t
talion Staff were rated ^'Super
ior," while the local Headquart
ers and Headquarters Battery,
and Zebulon unit were rated
"excellent,"' - - r-?- '
The Battalion, under the com
mand of Lt. Col. Collin McKlnne
of Louisburg# had 195 officers
and men present for the en
campment. ?
Closed
Alford Brothers Lumber Co.
will be closed from June 28th
at 4:15 P.M. until July 8th at
7:30 A.M.
Bloodshed
Boxscore
Raleigh - The Motor Vehicles
Department's summary of traf
fic deaths through 10 A.M. Mon
lay, June 24, 1963:
(llled to Date 547
tilled to Date Last Year 555
Bombers lose Injured Mantle
or five weeks.
Historic
[Plantation
Owner Dies
Bennett H. Perry, 78 year
old dean of the Henderson
Vance County Bar and owner
of the historic Casclne Plan
tation near Loulsburg, died Fri
day In Maria Par ham Hospital
In Henderson.
Perry was president of the
State Bar In 1945? 1G, had twice
?erved on the Bar Council and
was a former member of the
Board of Law Examiners In
the state. He was a member of
tfie committee on unauthorized
practice of the American Bar
Association.
He was a native of Gran
ville County and was educated
It Horner Military School In
Oxford. He received the bache
lor of law degree at the Unl
.verslty.of North Carolina In
1907. In 1909 Perry served
In the State Legislature and
was mayor of Henderson In
1915.
He was a director of Citizens
Bank & Trust Co., the Harriet
Henderson Cotton Mills and of
Rose's Stores Inc., and was a
?entor member of the Hender
son law firm of Perry and Klt
trell.
Funeral services were con
ducted Sunday at 3 p.m. at Holy
Jpnocents Episcopal Church by
ftev. Herbert Na?h' Tucker.
Burial was In Elmwood_
Cemetery. ?
Surviving are one son, Bennett
H. Perry; Jr. of Henderson;
one brother, Col.'(Ret.) Red
dine Perry of the u. s. Arm^;
and three sisters, Mrs. R. G.
Klttrell of Henderson, and Dr.
. Isabel Perry and Miss Leah
! Perry.
New County
Pay Bill
Clears House
Franklin County Representa
tive James D. Speed tossed
another County Pay Dill Into
the legislative hopper last week,
hut just what his bill will ac
complish, If anything, Is a mat
ter for debate. .
The Bill XHB 1370) amends
the present statue' to provide
the county commissioners au
thority to increase or decrease
the salarlesof the various coun
ty officials by not more than 5
per cent.
This would supposedly In
crease the salaries of the vari
ous assistants and deputies In
the C)erk of Courts and Re
gister of Deeds' offices as well
as the Clerk of Court, Register
of Deeds, Sheriff, Deputy She
riffs, Recorder's Court Judge
and Solicitor, as well as the
Coroner by 5 per cent over
amounts fixed in the 1961 act.
However, the commissioners
In July 1962 granted an ap
proximate 5 per cent across
Ihe-board pay raise and the
lew hill has been Interpreted
>y some leading legal authorl
ies as acctynpollshlng nothing
vhatsoever.
The bill, Introducted last
Thursday, passed the House
in .Frlday and was sent to the
lenate where It was placed on 1
he Calendar Committee.
Franklinton
Gets $6,000
The Federal Community F?cW
titles Admlnstratlon Friday
ipproved a $6,000 advance tor
jrellminary plans tor water
lne extensions and water treat -
nent plant improvements tor
he Town of Franklinton, ac- j'
:ordlng to Second District Con
gressman L. H. Fountain
Total cost of the project,
scheduled to begin In 1864, Is
!Stlmated at $524,000.
The grant Is the third such
or local governmental units
n Franklin County, the second
h as many weeks. A $19,000
;rant to Franklin County was
innounced last week tor the
onst ruction of a new county
public wu If are building and the
'own of Loulsburg Is currently ?
n the *ildst of a $190,000
rater - sewer Improvement
rogram - half at which Is
elng paid for by a federal
rant.