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The F rariklin Times
Comment
The man who knows It all
Is as dangerous as the man
who knows nothing.
Published Every Tuesday & Thursday ^ Serving All Of Franklin County
Tel. 0Y 6-3283
Five Cants
Louisburg N C . Tuesday. April 21, 1964
(Eight Pages Today)
95th Year? Number 17
Childers Visits
Industries Of 1
County
In the observance of Industrial
Appreciation Week, County Co
mmissioner Chairman W. p.
Childers, made a personal visit
to the county's various Indust
ries last week.
Childers, said "These visits
were designed to express the
appreciation of the Board and
the people of Franklin County
for the' contributions that In
dustry Is making to the growth
of our county".
He added, "1 was very much
Impressed with the things that
are going on In our county In
Industry and I appreciate the
warm welcome received by each
that I visited".
The visits Included Franklln
ton Fabrics, Blard Prultt In
dustries, Taylor -Thayer Lum
ber Co., Stalllngs Milling Co.,
Loulsburg Sportswear Co.,
Alford B-os. Lumber Co.,Bunn
Wood Yard, W. W. Nash, Inc.,
Max Brown Pulpwood Co., Sure
Rest Mattress Co., Sterling
Cotton Mills and Dean Farms.1
Industry Appreciation Week
was a state wide observance and
had been proclaimed here by the
County Board of Commiss
ioners In their last meeting.
Locals Attend
Demo Dinner
The Franklin County Demo
cratic Party was well repre
sented Saturday night at the
Jefferson-Jackson Day dlrtner
held In Raleigh. The delegates
attending were: Mr. Frank A.
Read, Jj-., Mr. Joe Lane, Mrs.
A. N. Wilson, Mrs. Louis Ox
nevad and Mr. J. W. Weathers.
The group was chosen at the
recent county dinner.
Party Chairman James D.
Speed and his wife attended
many of the activities but did
not attend the dinner. Louisi
ana congressman, Hale Boggs
was the principle speaker at
the dinner, which saw Demo
crats from throughout North
Carolina In attendance.
Beauty Contestant
Elizabeth Grace Hamm, 17-year-old
Frankltnton High School senior, is the
latest in the list of entries for the "Miss
Louisburg Pageant" to be heldon May 15 in
the Louisburg College Auditorium. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hamm
of Franklinton.
Elizabeth attended Girls' State during the
summer. She has participated in the "Miss
Francoa" contest and is this year's Home
coming Queen at Franklinton High. She is
secretary of the senior class and was cho
sen by her classmates as cutest and most
popular in the class. She is also a member
of the Beta Club, Glee Club, F, T, A. and
F. H. A.
Elizabeth -has also been active in the
Methodist Church as shown by 11 years of
perfect attendance in Sunday School and
leadership in the M, Y, F. of which she is
vioe-president and sub-district program
chairman.
Elizabeth lists collecting stuffed animals
as her hobby, basketball as her favorite
sport, popular music as her favorite mu
sic, and Bar-B-Q as her favorite food.
For her talent presentation, Elizabeth
has chosen a vocal selection.
Speed Files For House Seat
James D. Speed
Representative James D.
Speed beat the filing deadline
by ten minutes and ended specu
latlon as he paid his fee last
Friday for re-election to the
House of Representatives from
Franklin County.
Speed, 48, has served In the
House for "the 1961 and 1963
tern having . defeated veteran
E. F. Yarborough for the post
In 1960. He Is a tobacco and
cattle farmer and tobacco ware
houseman. He Is a member
of the Franklin County Board
of Health, having served since
1948.
He Ispresently ViceChairman
of the Board of Trustees of
Franklin Memorial Hospital and
a member of the Board of Di
rectors of the Franklin County
Farm Bureau, an organization
of which he was President to
1948-49. Speed is a member
of the Louisburg Masonic
Lodge, a Sudan Temple Shrln
er, Past Master of the Louls
bnrg Lodge In 1944-45.
He Is a lifelong Democrat,
Chairman of the Franklin Coun
ty Democratic Executive Com
mittee, a deacon of Mt. Zlon
Baptist Church. Speed is mar
ried to the former Martha Ray
Matthews and they have two
children, Claudia 14 and Tommy
12, both students at Gold Sand
School.
Speed has served on many Im
portant committees in the legis
lature, including Roads, Edu
cation, Appropriations, Health
and Pental Institutions. He is
Vice Chairman of Committees
on Agriculture, Conservation
and Development.
Constable
Two more late filings for
Constable have brought the
number seeking the posts to
seventeen. Joseph W. Joyner
filed for Harris Township mak
ing five running there. Ray
mond U. Wilder, a former Con
stable, filed in the Cedar Rock
race.
Senter Out Of
Solicitor Race
Franklin attorney, Hubert H.
Senter, who had filed earlier
for the County Solicitor's Job
held by W. H. Taylor, announced
his withdrawal from the race
last week.
Senter, In stepping down, Is
sued the following statement:
"Because I will not be able
to adjust my legal practice
so as to avoid considerable fi
nancial loss In my criminal
practice, If I should be elected,
and after careful consideration
of this matter such financial
loss would be an Injustice to
my wife and children. I wish
to thank my friends throughout
the county who have offered
their help and support In this
proposed campaign."
Senter's withdrawal left
Loulsburg attorney, W. H. Tay
lor without opposition In the
Democratic Primary on May
30th.
The worker who always has
a clean desk arouses our su
spicions.
Mother Is
Charged In
Shooting
Mary Elizabeth Fogg, 30 year
old negro mother of eight, 1*
charged with assault with Intent
to kill 111 the earlyFrlday morn
ing shooting of a boy friend.
David Williamson, Jr. 30 year
old negro man is In Duke Hos
pital with a .22 caliber bullet
wound In his right side.
Williamson was transfered to
Duke after receiving emergency
treatment at Franklin Memorial
Hospital here. The shooting
took place on the River Road
near the Riverside School early
Friday morning. The shooting
occured in the highway.
An eleven year oil boy accom
panied his mother to the police
station after the shooting, ac
cording to reports. He Is the
oldest of eight children of the
accused woman.
She has been charged with
assault with Intent to kill and
the condition of the victim was
not reported, other than that
he Is expected to recover.
New Postal
Regulations
Announced
The limited adjustments in
some postal services ordered
in Washington March 10 by
Postmaster General John A. i
Gronouskie to save $12.7 mil
lion will begin to take effect in
Franklinton and other cities
May 4, Postmaster (OIC) Hoyle
said tuday.
Services changes planned
locally- include the following:
(1) Parcel post will be de
livered on Monday', Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
as usual. There will be no de
livery of parcels on Wednesday
of each week, Except First
Class, Special Delivery, Air
Mall parcel and perishable ar
ticles. This will not effect
mail delivered by rural car
riers.
(2) Window service will be
Monday through Friday 8:30
a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 Noon.
(3) No money orders will be
Issued on Saturday.
There will be no essential
services affected under the or
ders. There will be no change
In home delivery or special
delivery for example, Regular
business mall deliveries will
continue as usual. Letters and
other first class mail will be
handled with the same priority
as ever.
The economy step Is in line
with President Johnson's pro
gram under which the recent
F ederal income tax cut was pro
vided.
E. M. Sykes
Sykes Seeks
Board Seat
E. M. "Buck" Sykes, 55 year
old Cedar Rock farmer has filed
for the District 4 County Co
mmissioner seat now occupied
by W. p. Chllders. Sykes
made an unsuccessful bid for
the post against Childers In
1960, but limited his campaign
ing due to illness.
Sykes is married to the former
Alma Rice of the Justice Co
mmunity. They have three
children, Larry 19, a student at
N. C. State College and two
daughters, Mrs. Walter Schacht
of Charlotte and Mrs. Dean
Thomas of Raleigh.
Sykes is a member of the
Cedar Rock Baptist Church and
is associated with a Louisbufg
tobacco warehouse In addition to
his farming operations.
Explorers At Work
Shown above are some of the boys of Ex
plorer Troop No. 555 working on their pro
jectof painting the cannon on the courthouse
grounds* The work took place Saturday
morning. Fictured, left to right, Roger
Kornegay, Jr., C. B, Patterson, Bobby
Pleasants and Mark Warren. Staff Photo.
5 File; One Withdraws:
Filing Dead
Line Passes
The filing of an incumbent for the House
seat, four newcomers for Constable and the
withdrawal of a candidate for Solicitor
marked the filing deaciline for the May 30
Primary last Friday. - 7
Incumbent James Speed beat the clock by
ten minutes as he made official his intentions
to seek reelection to the House of Repire
Chopper Brings Vaccine
Dr. Doyle Medders, is shown
above right, receiving addition
al Polio Vaccine from an un
identified Army Sgt. after local
officials requested more serum
be flown in Sunday afternoon.
Joe Shearin, Civil Air Patrol
Commander is at left. "Chop
per" landed at local air field.
-Times Staff I'hoto.
16,118 Receive Second
polio Vaccine In County
sentatives, a position
he now hoLds. Perry Tharrlng
ton, Sandy Creek; Gene Mullen,
Dunn; Raymond Wilder, Cedar
Rook and Wesley Allen, Harris
all Hied (or Constable bringing
the number In these races to
seventeen.
Frankllnton attorney Hubert
H. Senter withdrew from the
race for Solicitor of Recorders
Court leaving Loulsburg at
torney W. H. Taylor unopposed
for the office.
The complete list of candi
dates for all offices is as fol
lows:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTA
TIVES: Norrls W* Collins,
James T. Moss and James D.
Speed.
REGISTER OF DEEDS: Alex
T. Wood and Ralph E. Beasley.
JUDGE OF RECORDER'S
COURT: W. F. Shelton.
SOLICITOR: Robert H. Senter
(Withdrawn) and W. H. Taylor.
COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2:
John W. House, John P. Man
grum, Charles H. Pergerson,
Carl M. Bell, Richard H. Cash
and Wlnfleld Garrett.
COMMISSIONER DISTRieU ??:
W. P. Chllders andE. M. Sykes.
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCA
TION: District 3: Mrs. T. H.
Weldon and Lloyd A. West
District It Horace W. Baker.
CONSTABLE: LOUISBURG
TOWNSHIP: Grey Moon.
? SANDY CREEK TOWNSHIP:
Thaddeus W. Bobbltt, Harold
House and Perry Tharrtngton. ,
YOUNGSVILLE TOWNSHIP:
K. B. Hill and Sanford pearce.
DUNN TOWNSHIP: JohnHor
(See FILING Page 8)
The second of three big steps
to Wipe out polip in Franklin
County was carried out this
Sunday in a mass immunization
program at eleven stop polio
clinics. There were seven
teen thousand residents who
took time during a fine Sunday
afternoon to take the sugar cube
containing the type III polio
vaccine. *j->J
A helicopter was required to
fly In extra vaccine to Frank
lin County as various clinics
around the county began to run
short during the late hours of
the afternoon. It landed at
Winfleld Garrett
Garrett In
Comm. Race
Winfleld Garrett, 48-year-old
Frankllnton man, made the sixth
candidate to file for the District
2 seat on the Board of County
Commissioners as he paid his
filing fee last week.
Garrett, who Is associated
with Sterling Cotton Mills In
Frankllnton, has been a resi
dent of Frankllnton since 1935.
He Is married to the former
Doris Hale of Frankllnton. They
have no children.
He Is a Methodist and lives
it 108 Layton Street Jn Frank
llnton. Garrett joins five other
candidates making the race,
John W. House, John P. Man
jrum, Charles Pergerson,Carl
M. Bell and Richard H. Cash,
rhe seat Is being vacated by
Sorris Collins, who is running
tor the House of Represen
tatives.
thy Franklin airfield outside of
Louisburg with a thousand doses
of. the vaccine which were dis
tributed by the Louisburg Res
cue Squad to the clinics need
ing the vaccine.
Despite this, the officials were
again disappointed with the
turn-out of the campaign, for
they had hoped to reach twenty
Candidates
Meet To Be
Held Here
Invitations to participate in a
Candidates' Meeting, sponsored
Jointly by the Louisburg Le&gue
of Women Voters and the Louis
burg Junior Chamber of Com
merce, were mailed to all can
didates subject to election by
all of Franklin County following
the filing deadline last Friday.
The Candidates' Meeting will be
held in the Louisburg College
Auditorium on Thursday, May
21, at 8 p.m. . _
With the i/ivltations the can
didates were mailed a request
for biographical information,
and candidates for policy
making boards were sent ques
tions on vital issues. The bio
graphical information and the
candidates' answers to the
questlonaire will be mimeo
graphed and will be available to
the public after the first week
in May. I ' ^
At the Candidates' Meeting
candidates for policy making
boards jtfiU be allowed three
minutes each to explain their
stand on important Issues, and
then time will be allotted for
questions from the voters pre
sent. Candidates for non-poll
sy making positions will be ln
:roduced and will be permitted
:o speak briefly to the group.
The boards with policy making
josltlons to be filled include the
louse of Representatives, the
bounty Commissioners, and the
bounty Board of Education.
Both the Junior Chamber of
Commerce and the League of
Women Voters are non-parti
san groups, and- they are pre
lenting this meeting as a ser
vice to the voters of Franklin
bounty.
one thousand (21,000) people
throughout the county, tye num
ber felt to be required If polio
is to be eliminated from Frank
lin County. Dr. Doyle Medders,
President of the Franklin
County Medical Society and
Chairman of the Stop Polfo
Campaign, stated,' "Again 1 am
impressed with the results that
we had in this second campaign,
but feel that we have again
fallen short in our attempt to
eliminate polio completely from
Franklin County. We are again
going to have make-up clinics
at the Franklin County Health
Center in Loulsburg this'week,
Monday through Friday, be
tween the hours of 2:00 and
4:00 P.M. in a hope to reach
more people in Franklin
County."
Officials in Franklinton also
(See POLIO Page 8)
Fire Hits
Royal House
Fire destroyed the home
of John, Tharrtngton and his
family near' Royal Monday night
around 9 o'clock. H. D. Mitch
ell, Chief of the Dunn Rural
Fire Department, reported the
dwelling and its contents were
a total loss.
"The only thing saved was the
clothing onthpir backs," Mitch^
ell said. He added that his de
partment received the call from
Mrs." Eva Drodgen, who owned
the property and lived nearby,
at 9:04 and the house was be
yond saving eleven minutes la
ter when his unit arrived.
Mitchell said the Bunn Fire
men did save all the out build
ings, however.
Governor Appoints Warren
Mr. Woodrow Warren (right) is seen with
Governor Terry Sanford discussing plans
for the North Carolina drive for the benefit
of the John F. Kennedy Library. Mr. War
ren is serving as chairman for. Franklin
County. The tribute, featuring Dr. Billy
Graham as speaker, will take place on
May 17 at Kenan Stadium on the University
of North Carolina campus.