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Weather Variable cloudiness, scat tered ibowers or thundershow ers today and tomorrow. Yes terday's temperatures: High, 88; Low 63. Tal. 0Y 6-3283 Comment The Franklin Times Published Every Tuesday & Thursday ^ ^ Serving All Of Franklin County * Life Is too short to be wasted trying to please or Imitate other people. Five Cents Lou'Sburg. N. C Tuesday. July 28. 1964 (Eight Pages Today) 95th Year? Number 45 Louisburg Gets I0<* Cuts Council Sets "l40 Tax Rate Parking Meter Take Pictured above are, left to right, Louisburg Police Chief William Dement and Louisburg Tax Collector Lee Johnson, counting the take of the parking meters. Johnson is operating a time-saving machine which separates the coins according to their value and Dement Is operating a machine which rap Idly counts out 100 pennies. Meters average producing $200 each week In revenue for the Town of Loulsburg. Two Get Welch Scholarships Whitt Mobley Recipients tor the Lira and Robert Welch Scholarships at Lou Is burg College (or the 1964 1965 academic year are Lira Leigh Whltt of Roxboro and Franklin Delano Mobley o I Oak City. These two scholarships, val ued at $500 each, were set up this spring by James O. Welch of Cambridge, Massa chusetts, In memory of his father, Robert Welch, and In honor of his mother, Mrs. Lira Welch of Loulsburg. They are awarded annually to a young man with ability In mathe matics and 4 young lady with proficiency In English. Other conditions are character, seri ousness of purpose, leadership ability and financial need. Miss Whltt, who was graduat ed from the Roxboro High School last June, was active In high school and church af fairs. She Is presently en- I rolled In both summer sessions at Loulsburg College. Mr. Mobley was graduated y from Oak City High School last ' spring. He was also active 1 In school affairs, Including ath- ' letlcs, and church work. Both 1 students will be enrolled In * the general liberal arts pro- f gram. 1 t To make a living In the writing business you must say precisely what your readers have always < thought. , t Work And Life Lewlstown, N. Y. ?Work, says 01 -year-old Clark B. House s the key to his long life. He lrlves a tractor S hours a day ind helps with the harvest on lis 79-year-old son's farm. House does not wear glasses and jften forgets to come In to llnner? he enjoys his tractor jlowlng so much. Returns Watermelon St. Cloud, Minn.? A man valked Into the State Reforma ory with a big watermelon inder his arm. He explained o officials that his conscience tad bothered him since 1947 vhen he stole a melon f]?om the >rlson farm. The prison super ntendent told the man to give he melon to a needy family. One good thing about the hot lays? they're getting shorter lally. Two Injuries; No Deaths In Three Auto Wrecks Three minor auto smash ups occurred around the county dur ing the past week end, leaving heavy property damage, but only two Injuries and no deaths. As North Carolina experienced the worse week end fatality rate In years, local drivers recorded only three accidents. The first accident occurred Friday evening around 7 o'clock as Buddy Stewart, Loulsburg youth, stopped bis car, await ing oncoming traffic, as he prepared to make a left turn off Blekett" Blvd. onto Jolly Street. His car was rammed > . from behind by Clyde Ball, Loulsburg, Rt. 3 man. There were no reported Injuries but both cars suffered heavy dam age. The second accident Involved Mrs. Pattle Justice, Person St. Circle, Loulsburg, when she lost control of her late model Bulck near Royal on Highway 401 eight miles south of Louls burg, around 9:15 a.m. Satur day. The Loulsburg Rescue Service transported Mrs. Jus tice to Franklin Memorial Hos pital with Injuries not believed to be serious. The third wreck, which In volved a truck and car In a col lision at Five Points near Bunn, resulted In the truck driver being hospitalized and a woman passenger In the car receiving slight injuries. It was reported that Lester Pearce, 47,ofRt. 3, Zebulon, pulled his stake body truck onto the highway at the Five Points Intersection Into the path of a late model Bulck driven by E. R. Vernon of Madison, N. C. Mrs. Vernon suffered slight Injuries, but Vernon and his teenage son escaped without Injury. Ennls Perry, 52, Rt. 3, Zebulon, a passenger In the Pearce truck, ; was uninjured. J The three accidents reported this week end were far below the eleven of last week, which recorded one death, still unsolved, and several Injuries. The Loulsburg Town Council announced the new budget and a .10 decrease In the tax levy this week. The tax rate for Loulsburg residents last year was $1.50 per $100 valuation. The new rate for this year Is $1.40. The reduction comes through a decrease In the Debt Service. The General' Fund levy was In creased .04 from .48 to .52 for the new fiscal year, while the Debt Service was reduced 14? from .94 to .80. The new budget.- includes a slight Increase (or the town of fice- and the police department receives an Increase of Just under $2000. The sanitation and Streets departments both receive less. The street de partment is taking a cut of around $6000, while the sani tation cut Is around $3000. The Debt Service is reduced this year by $11,700 from $40,630 down to $28,933. There ? Is an $8000 Increase In the : electric fund expense Included In the budget. However, In creased revenue from this de partment Is expected to be $6,900. The town will show a budgetary profit of $45,367 - In this fiscal year on the sale : of electric current to Louis- ? burg consumers. The total collections for this service is expected to reach $212,600 with expense of the operation Del ng $167,231 The expense of water distri bution took the biggest Jump In the new budget, going from $13, 300 last year to $50,133 In the new budget, bringing the water and sewer fund to a total of $99,300. Proceeds from the department will total $86,100, including $23,000 ttom bond sales, with the remaining deft clt of $13,200 coming from the electric fund. The recreation fund will get a $700 boost over last year. The total budget of $459,055 Is an Increase of $31,935 over the 1963-64 budget, which was $427,120. The tax levy is .52 for the General Fund; .80 for the Debt Service and .08 for the Recreation Commission, making the total $1.40. Fire Dept.: Shearin Declared Chief Local Group To Attend Hearing On Tar River A group of Franklin County leaders will meet In Rocky Mount Saturday (or a hearing with the U. S. Army Corp ?' Engineers concerning the de velopment of the Tar River, ac cording to County Commission Chairman W. P. Chllders. Chllders said, "t hope that everyone Interested In this de velopment will make plans to attend." He Indicated that he would like to have at least 25 local citizens present for this meeting. The meeting was announced some time ago by Walter Fuller, Director of Wa ter Resources for the State, and will be attended by Interest ed citizens from the entire Tar River area. The meeting Is to be held at 10 a.m. In the Rocky Mount Sen ior High School. Chllders said, "I believe that eventually there will be a series of dams and water projects from Greenville to Oranvllle County. I think some of these will be located In Franklin County." Loulsburg Mayor Louis W he less and Industrial Development Director, W. J. Benton, are In charge of the report on Indus Demo Speaker Robert B. Morgan Robert Burren Morgan, Se nator of the Twelfth District, of Lillington, will be the speaker at the annual dinner of the Franklin County Democratic Womans Club to be held on Monday evening, August 3, Green Hill Country Club. All members are urged to attend. try and Mlnlclpalltles; C. T. Dean, Jr., County farm Agent, ts preparing the report on the Advantages to Agriculture"; and Ralph J. Andrews, Direc tor of the State Recreation Com mission Is preparing the report of Wildlife and Recreation. Clint Fuller, local newspaper editor, Is chairman of this com mittee and Wilton Smith, local Soli Conservation Agent, Is a member of the committee. The program, according to Chllders, Is expected to be a long range one and Satur day's meeting Is a first step. He urged all Interested citi zens to attend the meeting. Local Man Convicted Of Burglary \ A 25-year-old Loulsburg man on trial In Wake Superior Court for his life on a charge of first degree burglary was found guilty Friday of a lesser charge and sentenced to serve seven to 10 years In prison. Judge Hubert E. May also sen tenced Bobby Lewis Elam to seven to 10 years on a charge of larceny of $500, but ruled the sentences could be served con currently. Elam had been charged In warrants with breaking Into the home of Calvin Berry Bagwell at 1300 Wake Forest Rd. during the night of March 20 and tak ing $500. According to testimony Elam had been dating Bagwell's 17 year-old daughter, Ruby Bag well. He took the witness stand Thursday and testified that he was in an all night poker game In Loulsburg and didn't go near the Bagwell home. Raleigh City Court Solicitor Bob Hedrlck and Det Sgt. R. L. Bunn testified that Elam admit ted to them that he broke Into the house and took some money. The jury had been instructed that It could bring in one of the following verdicts: guilty of first degree burglary, first de gree burglary with a re commendation for mercy, non burglarious breaking and enter ing the dwelling house of another with Intent to commit a felony or other Infamous crime, non felonlous breaking and entering The long smothering con troversy in the Loulsburg Fire Department has been halted by action taken by the Town Coun cil last Friday night. The Coun cil declared W. J. "Pete" Shearin to be Chief of the de partment with "All the authority that the office carries." The Council had previously ordered that an election beheld by the department to decide on a Chief. The action came as a result of a petition presented W. J. Shear In to the Council several weeks ago by Fireman Davis Perry and signed by twelve members of the department. The petition requested the Council to hire a ''Full time, paid and qualified Chief of the department." While the petition made no mention of Shearln, It was obviously aimed at his ouster. Several signers later denied that this was their Intentions and Joined with the remainder of the members In giving i Shearln a standing vote of con fidence, at their last meeting. Several members of the Coun cil and Loulsburg Mayor, Louis Wheless were In attendance at the meeting arid witnessed the vote of confidence. The action last Friday night eliminates the proposed election that was set for the August meeting of the department. In a letter addressed to Shearln the Mayor said, ??. . . the matter of the letter (re questing an election) and Its effect on the fire department's bylaws was discussed. It was the considered opinion of the Council that an election Is un necessary." "The vote of confidence given you as Fire Chief Is all the evidence the Council desires. We, therefore, consider and declare that you are Fire Chief with all the authority that the office carries." Shearln made no comment on the future of three firemen he has asked to resign from the department. The letter from the Council apparently leaves this matter In the hands of Chief Shearln, with authority to make the request hold up. Davts Perry, Morris Wynne and Jolly Bunn, the firemen named In Shearln's request, have asked for a vote by the members of the department on their ouster. Such a vote was not allowed by Shearln at the last meeting. The Mayor's letter said, "All of us appreciate the tireless effort you and your department have given the citizens of the Town of Loulsburg, and we want you to know that you have our fullest cooperation." This was interpreted as giving Shearln full control of the de partment. In Rights Job President Johnson named Le-. Roy Collins, chairman of the National Association of Broad casters, to head the new Com munity Relations Services es tablished by the civil rights law. Franklin County Wage Earner Is Bettering His Position New York, July Z5? The aver age Franklin County worker has been bettering his economic position In recent years. Even though his cost of living has been going up, his Income has been moving upward at a faster rate. Without putting In any more effort than he did ten years ago, in terms of hours of labor, he finds he can live more luxur iously than he did then. The Increase In his Income has; more than made up for the In crease In his living costs. The average working man In ! Frahklln County now earns ' enough in only 35 minutes on the Job, for example, to buy a pound of coffee or a pound of bacon. Ten years ago they would have Involved considerably more working time. By putting In 54 minutes of labor he Is able to buy a pound of round steak. He can get an automobile tire (6.70 x 15) with or not guilty. The Jury decided he was guil ty of the third choice In the list. the proceeds of some 19 hours of work. The changes that have taken place throughout the United States and the comparison of present-day worktlmes with those of 1953 are reported by the National Industrial Confer ence Board and by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some Idea of the extent of this chang e Is brought out In the figures, which show the amount of time that the average Ameri can worker must put In to buy various consumer items. A dozen eggs, grade A, re quires 13 minutes of work today, compared with *26 minutes ten years ago. A pair of nylon stockings takes 23 minutes, as against 37 minutes previously. A medium-price man's wool suit, formerly a 27 1/2-hour Item, can now be bought with just 20 hours of work. The reports reveal, also, the wide gap that still exists be tween the buying power of^fce American worker and that of his counterparts In other countries. The loaf of bread that a factory worker In this country Is able to buy after only five minutes on the Job requires 11 minutes In Paris or West Berlin, 19 minutes In Tokyo, 24 minutes In Madrid and 36 minutes In Mos cow. In the last decade, It Is shown, the cost of living has advanced about 14 percent In the United States. The rise has been more than offset In Franklin County by the increase in per capita Income, which amounted to 54 percent In the period. Boxscore The Motor Vehicles Depart ment's summary of traffic deaths through 10 a.m. Monday, July 27: KILLED TO DATE 813 KILLED TO DATE LAST XEAR 689 Weekend Auto Crashes Continue On Franklin County Roads . . . Two Injured _____ - ? I .H1* ? . / ? - Bickett Blvd. Highway 401 Five Points
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