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Louisburg, N C Thursday April 23, 1964
(Ten Pages Today)
95th Year? Number 18
Beauty Contestant
Linda Sue Walser, 18-year-old Franklin
ton High School senior, is the latest in the
list of contestants for the Jaycee sponsored
"Miss Louisburg Pageant". She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Walser of
Franklinton.
Linda participated in the "Miss Francoa"
contest earlier this year. At Franklinton
High, Linda was a cheerleader during foot
ball season and was a hostess for the Jun
ior-Senior banquet. She is also a member
of the F. H. A. and F. T. A. Linda is a
Baptist.
Linda lists reading and dancing as her
hobbies, football as her favorite sport, popu
lar music as her favorite music, and ham
burgers and french-fries as her favorite
foods.
For her talent presentation in the pageant
which will take place in the Louisburg Col
lege Auditorium on May 15,. Linda will do a
dance routine.
Powell New , I
Deputy Sheriff
Franklin Comity Sheriff
Joseph W. Champion announced
today that he hasapi>ointedTom
N. Powell, Chief of Police at
Bunn, to replace Raleph E.
Beasley as Deputy Sheriff.
Beasley resigned so he could
seek the office of Register of
Deeds in the May Democratic
Primary. Powell, who lives on
Louisburg Route 1, served on
the police force at Youngsville
before taking the position at
Bunn.
Powell is married to the
former Ruby Wood of Louisburg
Route 1. They have one son,
Linwood. Champion said the
appointment would become
effective Friday April 24th.
Candidates
In Tuesday's article listing
all candidates for office, Elmo
E. Cash was omitted. Mr.
Cash is running for Constable
of Harris Township and filed
for the post last week. The
Times regrets this omission.
Warnton Pearce has with
drawn from the race for Con
stable in the same township.
Pearce withdrew Monday.
Masonic Notice
Louisburg Lodge #413 AF &
AM will hold a stated communi
cation on Tuesday evening,
April "28, at :30 in the Masonic
Temple on Jolly Street. Work
will be in the Fellowcraft de
gree. The District Deputy
Grand Master will make his
official visitation at this meet
ing. All Master Masons are
cordially invited.
Linos To Plants
County Will
Share Costs
The Franklin County. Boa'rd of Commis
sioners finally settled 011 the wording;
and have approved county aid for sewer and
water lines to industrial sites. The request
for the county to meet a proposal long ago
agreed upon by the municipalities of the
county, had been made by W. J. Benton,
Director of Industrial Development,
CAP Cadet ? At Work
Civil Air Patrol Cadets are
shown above at work at the lo
cal Franklin Air Field, washing
planes and painting their trac
tor-trailer mobile unit. Pic
tured left to right, Kert South
erland, Tommy Fuller, Jim
Wagstaff, Douglas Hayes, Billy
Fuller, Richard Smith, J. W.
Hickerson, Bill Huskey, Robert
Cassetland Darrell Collier.
-Times Staff Photo.
Patrol Cadets In Many Projects
visitors to tne t rankiin Air
Field on Sunday afternoons are
sure to notice a group of young
hoys busy at work, doing va
ried jobs around the hanger
and the planes.
This group of young men,
however, work and train at
times other than bright Sun
day afternoons. They are mem
bers of the Civil Air Patrol
cadet squadron. The Civil Air
Patrol is a national organiza
tion and serves close to the
Air Force in training and cre
ating interest in airplanes and
aerospace.
Established in 1941 and made
an auxiliary of the Air Force
in 1948, the chief purpose of
thfc Patrol is search and res
cue missions. Members, while
on duty wear the basic USAF
'The first essential in the se
curity of a worker is to be able
to work.
Boone Says No Chock Of
Voting Records Made Here
"Franklin County should not
have been included on the list,"
said Taylor Boone; Board of
Elections Chairman in refer
ence to the , list of southern
counties mentioned in the Vot
ing Record probe in Washington.
FrankllrtvCounty was one of
Louisburg Post Office Changes
Louisburg Postmaster Ed
ward L. Best has announced that
changes will take place In lo
cal services starting on May j
4th. Frankllnton has already
announced the changes there.
The complete text of Best's
statement follows:
Limited adjustments In some
postal services, ordered In
Washington by Postmaster Gen
eral John A. Gronouskl to save
$12.7 million, will take effect
In the1 Louisburg Post Office
beginning May 4, 1964.
Service changes In the local
Post Office will include the fol
lowing:
1. Parcel Post Deliveries
Parcel post delivery service
will be on a flve-day week ba
sis, Instead of six days, as in
the past. There will be no
parcel post deliveries on Wed
nesdays of each week. All oth
er deliveries, such as rural de
livery and special delivery, will
continue to be made on this day.
This change affects only regular
parcel post-first class parcels,
air parcels and perishable ar
ticles will continue to lie de
livered on Wednesdays.
2. WINDOW SERVICE--The
only change In window service
will be 011 Saturdays. Money
order windows will NOT be
open at any time on Saturday.
Rural carriers will not be al
lowed to accept money order
applications on Saturdays.
Money orders may be purchased
at the money order window and
from your rural carriers every
other day in the week, as In
the past. Other window ser
vice will continue as usual,
closing at 12:00 noon, on Sa
turdays.
There will be no essential ma
jor services affected under
these orders. All of the postal
services will continue as In
the past, with the exception of
the changes listed above.
seven Norm Caro
lina counties listed as
having had their re
cords photographed by the FBI
last year In a Justice Depart
ment vote discrimination in
vestigation. .
'?No Fedexal people havepho
tographed the records In Frank
lin County," said Boone. 'Ev
eryone that is qualified ^fcrr^
glster is registered in our
county. We do everything we
can to see that those that are
not qualified are not regis
tered," he added
Burke Marshall, head of the
Justice Department's Civil
Rights Division, told a House
Subcommittee that the FBI had
photographed 250,000 pages of
voting' records in southern
counties last year. The list
included Franklin County.
Boone, who has been Elec- ,
tions Board Chairman for many
years, saldjieujiad one com- j
plaint about four years ago from
a Franklinton Negro minister j
See VOTING page 6
uniform with CAP insignia.
Joe Shearin is Commander
of the local unit and John God
frey is Personnel Director.
A number of local men are
members and many own their
own planes as well as parti
cipating in the activities of the
Patrol itself. The Patrol, ac
cording to Commander Shearin,
is in the midst of a long range
plan to strengthen its present
programs with quality member*
[ship of 100,000 cadets and 60,
000 or more senior meml>ers.
The local unit m?ets each
Thursday night at 7:30 at the
local air field.
The minimum age for ca
dets Is 13 years old and spe
cial courses In graining are
available. The Patrol has 52
wings and 2,100 units.
Rescue
The Louisburg Rescue Service
answered a call to the Home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Wester at
White Level this morninR at
8:20. There 12 year old son
^suffered some type of seizure
while waiting for the school
bus. The child was transported
to Franklin Memorial Hospital.
i iie commission
ers, meeting In spe
cial session, passed
the measure around six o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. The mu
nicipalities of the county have
agreed to bear one-haWthe cost
of sewer and water lines to
acceptable industrial sites out
side the town limits.
The County Commissioners
have now agreed to bear the cost
of the remaining one-half The
difficulty in getting the motion
passed stemmed for awhile in
the wording of the proposal.
The motion as passed is the
third proposal presented and
this final draft had been ap
proved unofficially by the in
dividual members prior to Wed
nesday's meeting. Even then,
However, it ap|>eared for awhile
that Chairman W. p. Childers'
attempts to get if moved would
fail. Childers had fought for
the measure since its request.
Commissioner Norris W.Col
lins made the motion and Com
missioner Claude Arnold^avea
second when it appeared it would
die for the lack of a second.
Each pointed out that all had
previously agreed to the mea
sure as proposed. Upon the
call for vote by the chairman,
all voted aye.
The motion as passed is as
follows: "That Franklin County
Board of Commissioners agree
to pay one-half of the cost of
installing water and sewer lines
to suitable and acceptable in
dustrial plants located within
Franklin County; provided,
however this offer is to only
apply to cost of constructing
said water and sewer lines
from the city limits of any mu
nicipality in Franklin County up
to a one mile radius."
The Special meeting was
called to study budget requests
for the coming year and the
Board heard from all county
departments in Wednesday's
meeting.
Rev W. K. Quick
Senator Sam Ervlr.
John L. Cimeron
Sen.Ervin To Speak At College
The Honorable Sam J. Ervirv
Jr., United States Senator from
North Carolina, will address
the graduates at Commence
ment at Louisburg College Sun
day, May 31. at 2:30 p.m. at
,the-C*>litfge Apditoriurm, Presi
dent C, W. Robbins announces.
Other speakers are John L.
Cameron. Chief of the School
Housing Section of the Depart
ment of Education, Washington,
and former teacher-coach, who
will give thfe~address at the
Alumni Banquet Saturday night,
May 30, at p.m. in the Ben
jamin N. Duke College Union,
and the Reverend William K.
Quick, college trustee and pas
tor of St. James Methodist
Church, Greenville, "kho will
deliver the baccaulaureate ser
mon at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 31,
Louisburg Methodist Church, j
Senator Ervln, a graduate of
the University of North Carolina
and the Harvard Law School, j
has had three honorary degrees !
bestowed upon him. He has j
served as a North Carolina j
Superior Court Judge, a re
presentative in the North Caco^
llna Legislature and has served
in {he 79th Congress as repre- .
sentative of the North Carolina
Tenth District He was appoint
ed in *195^ as Senator by tht;
late Governor William B U in
stead trS^cceed the late Clyde
R. Hoey, ffom which appoint
ment he has actively served as
Senator from North Carolina,
having 'been reelected by the
people of North Carolina.
Mf. Cameron, ' a native of
.Tonesboro, and a graduate of
Elon College, was associated
with Loulsburg College from
1937 to 1941 After study at
Carolina and a stint in "the
United States Navy, he was
teacher-coach at East Caro- ;
lina before entering service
with the Department of Public
Instruction in Raleigh. He
has served In his present po
sition since 1959.
Rev. Quick attended Pfeiffer j
College, received the B. A. de
gree from Randolph-Macon i
College and the B. D. degree
from DukM University Divinity
School. He has served churchtes
in Morehead City, Bahama, and
Zebulon. He is immediate past
president Of the N. C. Confer
ence Historical Society.
To Collect
Old Taxes
Delinquent tax payers In
Franklin County are In for
trouble. The County Commis
sioners have ordered county
attorney Charles Davis to ,
collect all delinquent taxes (or
[he years 1953-61.
In the action of the Board, j
Davis Is to get 10% of all
uncontested collections and
20% of any contested actions'.
The county Is to pay the cost
of envelopes and stamps.
The taxes are payable In the
Tax Collector's office.
Girls Chosen For
Governor's School
Jane McKinm*
Loulsburg High School
Reenle May
Edward Best High School
Announcement has Just been
made that ~Reenie Edna May
of Edward Best School andjane
Elliot^ McKfoye of Loulsburg
have l>e?n selected to partici
pate In the Governor's School
of North Carolina which will
open at Salem College on June
10.
These students were among
400 from over North Carolina
selected from more than 3j000
who were dominated. Dr. Jo
seph M. Johnson stated In his
correspondence that 'many ex
cellent students were not se
lected because of factors be
yond anyone's control.
The Governor's School Is a
? unique experiment In North
Carolina to gjve students of the
State who have Indicated talent
In certain subject area fields
summer experiences which will
broaden their knowledge in
these fields. It is to be held
In Winston-Salem oil the campus
of Salem College from June 10
to July 31
The following students from
Franklin County were nominat
ed: Susan Lloyd, Kate Muggins,
Emma Ruth Bartholomew, and
Jane Elliot McKinne from
Loulsburg, Gerald Lee Mar
shall from Dunn; Jimmy Cur
rln of Epsom, and Heenie May
of Edward Best.
In making this announcement,
the Franklin County Board of
Education feels that it is an
honor to have two students se
lected from the schools of the
county and wish to compliment
the entire group of nominees
on their scholastic excellence.
i
Series On Public
Offices Starts Today
In an effort to keep, its read
ers well Informed, The Times,
begins today the first in a
series of eleven articles on the
offices being sought by candi
dates in the May 30th Demo
cratic Primary.
The offices to be covered by
this series are: Governor,
Lt. Governor, Commissioner
of Labor and Commissioner of
Insurance on the state level and
the House of Representatives,
Register of Deeds, County Com
missioner, Board of Education
and Constable on the county
level. Brief coverage will be
given on two offices locally
whose incumbents are unop
posed, Judge of Recorder's
Court and County Solicitor.
ThiSt. series is intended only
to inform our readers and is '
in no way an endorsement of '
any incumbent or challenger for
any of the offices.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
The Franklin County Board :
of Commissioners is composed <
of five members. Their terms
are staggered, so that two mem
l>ers run this year and three
will run next election. This is
done in order to maintain con
tinuity on the Board.
Their terms are for four
years. The average pay for a
member in 1963 was $048.20.
The Chairman receives $40
monthly above that paid to the
other four members. They re
ceive $23.15 |>er meeting and
meet monthly on the first Mon
day plus special called meetings
when necessary. Each member
receives seven cents per mile
travel to and from the meetings.
Each member is voted on by
the entire county, but must run
in' the district in which he lives.
The Board is not a legislative
body. Its authority is either
required or authorized by the
General Assembly of North
Carolina.'
The chief power of the Board
lies in its control over County
finances and the exercise of
authority granted by the General
Assembly. It adopts the annual
See OFFICES page 6
Adcox Seeks State Senate Seat
*
John Adcox, a Henderson ad
vertising and public relations
executive was announced as a
candidate for the State Senate
in the district comprised of
Franklin, Granville and Vance
counties.
Adcox, who terms himself as
a "Conservative Republican" is
45 years old and a native of
Henderson. He graduated from
Henderson High School and
spent 20 years in the U. S. Ar
my in the Civil Affairs-Military
Government section.
He attended the Coast
Artillery School Civil Affairs
Military Government School in
Europe and Columbia Technical
Institute in Washington, Dv C.
He holds a number of medals
for outstanding service and
"Certificate of Merit" which
is the highest award of the Re- I
serve Officers Association of !
the United States.
"1 have filed to offer a voice j
of dissent. in behalf of the peo- <
pie," Adcox said in announcing j
his candidacy. Adcox accom- i
panied his three page announce
ment with a 3,000 word state
ment of "Where 1 Stand on
The Issues". He says he
favors State's sovereignty, free
enterprise, Speaker Ban Law,
renewed belief in God, and im
proved education. He is against
further taxation, and the Civil
Rights bill.
John Adcox
Adcox Is opposed by Demo
:rat Charles Blackburn of Hen
derson.' Both are seeking the
seat now held by LoulsbuTg at
torney Wilbur Jolly. Under
in agreement, among the Demo
:rats In the district, a rotation
system has been instigated
thereby Jolly jrtll not seek an
Jther t&rm at present, but that
he Democrat candidate Is to
joiine from Vance County.
The Republican candidate Is
ywner-operator of John Adcox
uid Associates, advertising
business in Henderson and Is
married to the former Irene
VicPeak of Henderson.