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95th Year? Number 29 Lousburg. N C Tuesday. June 2, 1964 (Si* Pao?? Today) Five Cents Lake, Scott, Lanier, Crane Carry County In Primary Franklin County voters gave Dr. L Beverly Lake 3865 of the 6691 total votes cast In Satur day's primary. Lake lost In his second bid for governor, as he placed third behind L. Richardson Preyer and Judge Dan K. Moore. Statewide, 2071 precincts re porting out of 2,164, gave Preyer the lead with 266,856, Moore second with 242,483 and Lake third with 205,116. Preyer placed second in Franklin County with 1423 and Moore received 1177. Lake carried all eleven precincts in the county. Bob Scott captured all pre cincts In his bid for Lt. Gover nor as he led 'the ticket with 2800 votes. Cliff Blue was second with 1943 and John Jor dan received 1451. Blue has not yet called for a run-off, stating today that he would wait and let the people yrite him as to whether or not he should ask (ol a second primary. Incumbents In the Commiss ioners. of Labor and Insurance won eisily in Franklin County as they did statewide. Frank Crane, polling 265,879 in the state captured 2556 Franklin County votes tor Labor Commissioner. Edwin S. Lan ier, with 301,975 In the state, won in the county with 2996. The Republican candlates re ceived only a token throughout the county. Robert Gavin re ceived 22 votes for Governor as did Clifford Bell for the Lt. Governor's post to lead the GOP in the county. Franklin County supported Dr. L Beverly Lake in the 1960 race, Klvlmt the Wake Forest native 2723 to Terry Sanford's 1962 In the first primary. The highest Republican vote in that year was 8 cast for Cameron for Insurance Commissioner. Fuller Named Demo Convention Delegate By the luck of the draw, Franklin County will have a delegate to the National Democratic Convention this year in Atlantic City, N. J. The local Democrats, in cau cus at the State Convention on May 19th, elected Walter Ful ler, Treasurer of the County organization, to be delegate. The Second Congressional' District, of which Franklin County is a member, was al lotted four delegates and two alternates to the National Con vention. By agreement, three delegates were given to coun ties which were not represent ed in the last national meeting. This left the fourth delegate to be chosen by the remaining six counties, with each County Chairman doing the drawing of straws. Addison E. Pearce of Franklin County won the draw for his group. Mr. Dave McKinne of Louis burg attended the 1960 Con vention for Franklin County, but Franklin was not in the 2nd Congressional District, at that time and because of this, is eligible to have a de legate this year. Fuller, Director ol Water Resources (or the State De partment of Conservation and Development, has been a lead er In the Democratic Party In Franklin County and the state (or many years. He maintains hlS residence In Franklin Coun ty but lives In Raleigh,' since being employed by the state. Arrangement Featured Loulsburg High School Band Director Robert Watson had his band arrangement of Ros sini's "Tancrede Overture" featured by the East Carolina Varsity Band in Concert Sun day at Greenville. ^ Watson Is a former student at Cast Carolina and has di rected the band here this year. James H. Parnell, a mem ber of the EC faculty, had his composition, " Arlington 1963", performed for the first time by i student musicians. Cross Burned A burning cross is shown above, on the Courthouse Square in Louisburg, where it was discovered last Thursday night at 10 p.m. It was reported that crosses were burned in 55 counties that night. A 12 ft. cross was found in the old ball field in Centerville Monday morning, but it had not been burned. It reportedly had a large let ter "K" painted on it in red. -Times Staff Photo. at I College Commencement Principles Comroencementprinciples are shown con ferring above Sunday afternoon as Louis burg College staged its Commencement Exercises. Left to right, U. S. Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., main speaker; Dr. Cecil W. Robbins, President of the College; Rev. William K. Quick, pastor St. James Memo dist Church, Greenville, N. C., who de livered Baccalaureat Sermon and Superior Court Judge Hamilton H. Hobgood, who in troduced Sen. Ervin. -Times JStaff Photo. Sen. Ervin Speaks To Graduates -_/*fhe Honorable Sam J. Ervln, Jr., United States Senator from North Carolina, advised the seventy-three * graduates of Loulsburg College Sunday af ternoon at the Commencement Exercises to do three things In life: to search for the truth, to keep faith, and to have cour , age. Senator Ervln was Introduced by Judge Hamilton H. Hobgood of Louisburg. Associate of Arts and Science degrees, and one-year business certificates were awarded the graduates by Dr. Cecil W. (lob bins, President of Louisburg College, assisted by Dean John B. York. The following medals were presented: the Library Awards for 2-year service to Diane Beaman, Fred Cooke, Gordon Lancaster; the Chemical Rub ber Co. Award for Achieve ment In Qualitative Analysis to Harvey Moody; Sigma Pi Alpha (Language) Awards to Susan Daniel and Nancy Berger; the I. Dean Moon Award to the out standing senior man and woman to Lee Roy Durden, Jr., and Helen Suggs; The three National Methodist Scholarships to Robert Fuller Fleming, Neal Titus and Dawn West; the William R. Taylor Dramatic Award to Jean Jones; the Brantley Awards to Alice Peedin and Jackie V. Parrish; and the Alpha Pi Epsilon (Busi ness) Award toSandra Edwards. Those students from Franklin County receiving degrees were: A. A. Degrees--Dewey Mor See EfcVK SPEAKS page 2 Speed Leads; Moss Run-Off Likely Sykes, Cash, West Win? Wood Ticket Leader < In a record turnout, Franklin County citi zens went to the polls last Saturday and elected two new County Commissioners, one new Board ol Education member, retained a veteran Register of Deeds and left hang ing the question of a Representative to the General Assembly. James D. Speed led a field of three for the I v v - - _ C II > Rescue Unit Aid In Wreck Tim Lou is burg Rescue Service answered a call for help for a small boy injured in a Sunday afternoon collision at Five Points near Bunn. The child, 4 1/2 month son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Elmer Balllnger of 5612 Winthrop Drive, Raleigh, was transported to Franklin Me morial Hospital for treatment. The child's injuries were not believed to be serious. The accident reportedly hap pened when a car being driven by Rol>ert Dubose, 22 year Ne gro from New York, N. Y. fail ed to stop at a stop sign at the Intersection of N. C. Highway 98 and State Rural iroad 1001 two miles west of Bumraround 4:30 Sunday afternoon. The Dubose car, a late model Olds mobile convertible, landed in an open field several yards from the crash scene. Very little damage was inflicted on the car. The Rescue Service was called Saturday around 6:30 P.M. to the scene of an overturned car a few miles south of the Franklin Boarding Home on State Rural road 1109. An unidentified negro man received an Injur**! pelvis when the car failed to make the turn at intersection of State Rural 1110 and 1109 on the Youngsvllle road. The victim was transported to j the local hospital by the State Highway Patrol. The Russians have changed their tactics; now they apo logize after shooting down our planes. Richard H. Cash E. M. Sykes Alei^ T. Wood Lloyd A. West County Man Killed A car-truck collision at the intersection of State Rural Road 1726 and 1 103 near Pearces took the , life of a 56-year-cfld Route 3, Zebulon man last Friday. The accident occurred around 9:30 a.m. when a car driven by James Meldrin Pearce hit a truck load ed with 31 hogs, driven by Cor dell Richards, 22, of Route 1, Youngsvllle. Pearce died o I Injuries re ceived In the accident early Friday afternoon. Richards was uninjured, It "was report ed.. Eleven of the hogs being hauled on the Richards truck See KILLED page 0 Crossroad Death Top photo snows scene? at crossroads near Pearces, where James Melbrin Pearce, 56, of Zebulon, Rt. 2, met death last Friday morning. Bottom i I left, is truck which landed in side the old Privette Post Of fice building and right, the car in which Pearce was riding. -Times Staff Photo. House ui neprc sentatives seat as he edged James T. 11 Joe* b Moss of Youngsville, 2648 to 2530. Norris W. Col lins received 1354 as third nun. Moss has not announced if he plans to seek a run-off with Speed, although most observers think this is likely. Moss captured six of the elev en precincts, including Louis burg, where Speed operates a business.' Speed took Hayes vllle, Sandy Creek, Gold Mine, Cedar Rock and Cypress Creek. Collins led in his own pre cinct, Franklinton, with 607 votes. Alex T. Wood, incumbent Register of Deeds, led tlie en tire ticket as he polled the largest vote ever cast in. a con tested race In a primary in this county. Wood received 4356 of the G376 votes cast in his race. He defeated former Deputy Sheriff Ralph Beasley who polled 2020 in his first attempt at an elected office. Richard H. Cash led a field . of six In the race for District 2 County Commissioner. Cash received 2466 to his nearest opponent's 1119, cast for John W. House of Franklinton. John P. Mangrurn was third with 977; Charles Pergerson, fourth with 922, Wlnfield Garrett received 505 for fifth and Carl Bell finished sixth with 196. E. M "Buck" Sykes unseated County Commissioner Chair man, W. P. Childers, receiving 3408 votes to 2784 given the incumbent. Childers failed to carry Franklinton where he^ drew a large majority in the last race. Lloyd A. West, Louisburg businessman, defeated Mrs. Tollle H. Weldon of Epsom 3519 to 2633. Mrs. Weldon is an j eleven year veteran member of the Board of Education. In the five contested Township Constable races, Joseph Joyner edged a field of five in Harris Township; K. B. Hill defeated Sanford Pearce in Youngsville; John Horton won over Gene Mullen in Dunn; Van Champion beat Raymond Wilder in Cedar Rock, 388 to 247 and Perry Tharrington won in Sandy Creek with 238 to Thad Bobbitt's 49 and Harold House's 140. WW I Vets ~" To Meet The 9th Annual State Conven tion of the Veterans of World War I, will be held In Raleigh at the Sir Walter Hotel this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 5, 6 and 7. More than a thousand delegates and friends from every cbunty in the state will attend. The Salvation Army will serve coffee and doughnuts, just as they did in Franqe during the First World War. Continuous entertainment will run through Friday, business sessions will be held all day Saturday, a huge banquet will be given on Satur day night, and a Memorial Ser vice will be held Sundav. Taking A bwing Around I he Precincts baruraay Louisburg Franklinton Harris Youngsville Dunn # 1 Gold Mine
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