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Weather Fair to partly cloudy with lit tle change In temperature today and Wednesday. High today ,'68; low, 40. The FrahkMn Times Published Every Tuesday & Thursday Serving All Of Franklin County Comment Those who make on-the-spot opinions usually have to cor rect a lot of them. Tel 0Y 6-3283 , Ten Cents Louisburg. N C.. Tuesday. November 3. 1964 l1* ? (Eight Page* Today) 95th Year-Number 73. Safe Cracked R. W. Smlthwick, manager of Rose's Dime Store here. Is shown above surveying his emp ty safe after thugs mads off with over $1,000 In a Saturday night robbery. Thieves gained entry by climbing over the roof of two adjoining buildings and breaking a window in an up stairs storage room. Thieves Hit Local Store Thieves, using a method simi lar to the one used In a re cent hardware store robbery here, entered a local dime store sometime Saturday night and escaped with over $1,000 in cash. Entry Into Rose's Dime Store on North Main Street was made through an upstairs side win dow, after the burglars had climbed a fire escape behind the Lumpkin law office build ing, crossed the roof of Harris Pharmacy and broken out a window to an upstairs storage room In the Rose building. ^ The thieves then climbed down the stairs to the Rose office, which Is one flight up from their ground floor sales room and broke open the safe. The safe was entered in a manner very much like one used at a recent entry Into Seaboard Stores, lo cal hardware firm. Burglars there had entered through an upstairs window and cracked open their safe, stealing an undisclosed amount of cash. The breakln at Rose's was discovered around 10:30 a.m. Sunday when Miss Leon Spenc er, an employee, stopped by the store. R. W. Smlthwlck, store manager was Immediately call ed. Stat$ SBI officers are as sisting loca' police In the In vestigation. Smlthwlck reports that nothing else In the store was taken as far as could be determined. The thieves left part of their tools behind In making their escape. Officers are examining the tools for possible clues. Early Voting Indicates Record Franklin County citizens thronged to the polling places early today to cast their bal lots In the general election. Early reports from many of the eleven precincts In the county Indicated an unusually large turnout. At noon today six of the elev en polling places reported vot ing was still heavy. Loulsburg reported 793 at 11a.m. and well over 800 at noon. Frankllnton reported 529 had voted shortly before noon. Loulsburg usually votes between 1300 and 1500 and Frankllnton counts be tween 1200 and 1400, which In dicates that these two pre cincts are running around the 50% mark with nearly seven hours remaining. Sandy Creek had voted 139 around noon and Lemuel Ward reported that this was about the same as voted In second pri mary In June at the same time of day. Gold Mine voters are casting their ballots In the Gold Sand gymnasium and a report from Gold Sand listed 140 as having cast their ballots shortly before noon, Indicating that this Is somewhat heavier than usual for the time of day. Cedar Rock reported 224 votes at mid morning. This precinct cast 584 ballots In the guber natorial race In June. Harris precinct had voted 180 at mid morning. Harris voted 468 bal lots In the June primary. Elections Board chairman T. W . Boone said early this morn ing, "This will be the largest turnout In fifty years." His committee had at that time visited Cedar Rock and Louls burg voting places and were headed for Frankllnton on their Inspection tour. Frankllnton merchants got Into the spirit of the day by flying their flags all along Main Youth Arrested In Phone Threat An unidentified 12-year-old Negro youth has been turned over to juvenile authorities at Frankllnton charged with extor tion. The boy reportedly called a Frankllnton businessman last Wednesday night,- demanding $5,000, with the threat that "1 will kill you unless you pay up." Frankllnton Police Chief Leo Edwards said thai his depart ment was Informed of the threat and with the cooperation of the telephone company, the youth was caught and arrested at his home Thursday evening around 6:30 p.m. The youth had Instructed the businessman to place the J5, 000 In a certain location be hind the cemetery In Frank llnton. A second call on Thursday night to give addl Large Crowd Attends Moore Rally National Democratic Com mitteeman William E. Webb told a Loulsburg audience" Fri day night, "The Republicans, In their long history In North Carolina, have not presented one single good program for the state." Webb spoke to a crowd of a little over a hundred Demo crats gathered In the local school cafeteria for a Dan Moore for Governor rally. The Statesvllle Insurance man was Introduced by Loulsburg attor ney and Precinct Chairman, Hill Yarborough. Yarborough told the group of the progress made under the Democratic Party locally and statewide. He praised Judge Moore, who he said, was at tending UNC at the time he was a student there. Introducing the speaker, Yarborough re minded the group that the late Paul "Doc" Elam had come from the speaker's hometown of Statesvllle. Webb said that the Democrat ' " iv . mmm lc Party was the oldest poli tical party In the world. "It has been long lived, because It deserved to live. Its Ideals, hope, heart and concern for all the people have made It so." He also suggested that Republi can candidate Robert Gavin study his North Carolina his tory, when pointing out Some GOP claims. Wallace Tlppett, Moore's campaign manager in Franklin County, presided at the meet ing and Introduced the guests. Hatty Principals Principals in last Friday night's Democratic rally for Dan Moore held here ar?. .pic tured above. Left to rlghC Wal lace Tlppett, Moore county manager; William E. Webb.Na tlonal Democratic Committee man and guest speaker, and Loulsburg attorney, Hill^Yar borough, who Introduced the speaker. The meeting was held in the local school cafeteria. tlonal Instructions led to his capture. Lynn Hardin of the SBI and Edwards made the arrest. Ed wards said that officers Joyn er, Allen and Kearney assist ed In the case. Frankllnton has been plagued with onscane calls to local wom en for the past couple of months Edwards said, but he added he believes that these calls will stop. He said that his depart ment knows who Is making the calls but has been unable to catch the caller In action. He had pinpointed the party line from which the calls are made and an arrest Is Immi nent. He emphasized that these calls had nothing to do with the extortion call, and urged local citizens to report any such calls' to his department Immediately. Louisburg Woman Fined $1,000 U. S. Eastern District Court Judge Algernon Butler fined a Louisburg woman $1,000 and handed down a two year sus pended sentence, In Federal Court In Raleigh last Friday. Mrs. Mary Louise Sul livan Hobbs, 44, former em ployee of Installment Loan De partment of First Citizens Ban|t and Trust Company here, plead guilty to a six-count criminal Information filed against her last week. She convicted of "abstracting" a total of $445 from her employees. Govern ment agents charged that Mrs, Hobbs took the money In amounts ranging from $50 to $90 during the last three months of 1963. She had been employ ed by the bank for about ten years. Judge Butler sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of $1,000 and to a total of two years in prison, suspended on two years probation. Tips are for extra service; ' they are not mandatory. Never take yourself serious- r ly. The world Is too vast. Street. In Loulsburg, business was at an almost standstill with everyone seemingly preoo cupled with the events of the day, except on the tobacco mar ket, where sales were bristling at a steady pace The county cast a total of 6,371 ballots in the second pri mary in June. This was some less than the 6,789 cast In the May primary. Today's ballot lng Is expected to exceed the record May vote. Locals re turns will be tabulated at The Franklin Times Office tonight and relayed to national and state news media by phone. Local citizens can check on the results at The Times office, where tabulations will be posted as readily as they are received. Voting scenes Scenes above show heavy voting early this morning at Louisburg Armory. Re gistrars reported voting was\heavy throughout the county around noon today, indicating record turnout. -Times Staff Photos. Board Approves Gold Sand Request The Franklin County Board of Education, In Its regular monthly meeting Monday, vot ed to pay one half the cqst of new tables and chairs for the nearly completed Gold Sand cafeteria. This move was In keeping with long-time board policy of matching local funds to purchase such equipment lh new cafeterias. The other half of the $1,745.95 cost will be raised by Gold Sand school patrons. The Board approved a request from the Loulsburg Senior Class to hold a supper and sell candy to raise funds for a non school trip to Washington during the Easter Holidays. The Board spent quite some time in discussing the long range plan for consolidation it had adopted at Its last meeting. No action was taken on these plans, but a general discussion was held. Times Election Returns The Franklin Times will again ict as Election Return Head luarters tonight. All Registrars are requested ?o phone In the results of their jreclncts as soon as possible. :all Gy 6-3283, collect, If lecessary. The Times will relay the results to all major vlre services and television radio networks. The public Is requested not o call The Times unless ab iolutely necessary, so that the lne may be open for Incoming lection results. Returns will ? posted as rapidly as they are ecelved at The Times office. Franklinton Plans Christmas Parade (Frk. B.W.) The business auid professional people of Frankllnton have set the date of Wednesday, December 9, for their annual Christmas Parade. The date was set at a meeting last week. The time for the parade has been set as 7 p.m. J. T. Echols, parade chair man last year, presided at the meeting. Charles Woodllef and Sidney Johnson were named Vice Chairmen and Arthur Hall was named Treasurer for this year's parade. The annual affair, which has proved extremely popular with folks In the area Is sponosored each year by Frankllnton busi nesses and featured a home de coration contest, which Is slated again this year. December 21 Is the date set for Judging In this contest. A call has gone out to all church and civic groups as" well as youth organizations to parti cipate In the parade. As In past Life would be a lot simpler without so many organizers. Time will cure all scars and wounds ? It there Is time. years, a number of high school bands will be Invited to take part. . Bloodshed Boxscore Ralelglt--The Motor Vehicles De partment'^r summary ol traf fic deaths through 10a.m. Mon day, November 2: KILLED TO DATE 1286 KILLED TO DATE LAST YEAH, . 1097 Advisory Committe Pictured above Is the local Advisory Committee of First Federal Savings and Loan, as they welcomed visitors to the dedication of their new building here last Thursday night. Left to right, Ronald Tharrington, Cedar Rock merchant; J. P. Timberlake, Jr., Louisburg businessman, and T. M. Harris, farmer and drug store operat or In Louisburg and Franklin ton. Several hundred people attended the dedication and open house ceremonies. ? j -Times Staff Photo.