Youngsville Downs Bunn Bunn Girls Beat Epsom, Youngsville Boys Top Bunn For Tournament Crown The Phantoms of Youngsvllle, , secontf place finishers in the regular season race, took the Tournament crown Saturday night as they downed a determined Biiinn team, 59- 55/ ' _ Youngsvllle took the lead at 5 5-53 with 2:17 Jeft In the game and managed to hang on for the win. Bunn J|amped off to an 8-3 advantage. In the early minutes of play, with the Phantoms catching up to fle.at 1 7 ? "a 1 1 at the end of the first period. The game, which wars tied, six different times^ had Bunn with a 33-31 halftime lead, which the Bulldogs were able to in crease-by one at the end of the thlr(d frame of- pi a y.' ? : : ? 5__: ? . : Ralph Brown, Ydungsvllle's- All-Tourna ment, hit two foul shots with 6:56 in "the fourth period to put the Rhalntoms ahe-ad, 47-46t Charlie Mullen's field goal gave BUnn the advantage, 52-51, with 4:"12 left to play. . \Vesley Alforti and Wiley Brown accounted, for foul shots for Youngsvllle as Bunn at tempted to get ball possession In the final seconds- of play. Alford and Jimmy Keith missed from the foul line during the clos ing -seconds, as did Lee Brantley for B unry See YOUNGSV-ILLE Page 4 / In .the most exciting and unbelievable fin ish to a b&s'ketball game seen here in spv 'era-1 ye'ar's, the Burnt girls won the Tourna-I tnent Championship last Friday night from! _ aJ?tirnneri' Epsom cage contingent. " Thfe gamei' which started extremely slow with the first quarter &coj-e 4-3 in Bunn's .favor, was sent- into overtime witii a des peration play executed magnificently by little Janie' Ffazier and' Peggy Strickland 1 of Bunn. - - i Bunn trailed the Epsom girls, 21-18, with I second le'ft in the regulation game. At this point hi the game.Jaliie Frazier went to the foul line 'for Bunn. Marilyn Duke of K [)>' m h i fonleii J-' raz if r tallowing a jump ball with seconds left in *ne' g^meand Buftn .called time before Fj^izier /fried thfc foul shots to set up the utay which proved to be the ?1 ay of the se^on. Frazier made/fhtv all*important first shot good, no.dded^arnd wittked at Peggy Strickland standing merest the basket on rfffe left, and purposely missed the second shot On Strick land's/slde.^ Strickland grabbled the ball, Iboiyrced it once and sent it soa'rlng through tfrfc net to tie the game as the buzzer sound retf, at 21 -all. * . See BUNN Page 4 Bunn Tops Epsom Weather Considerable cloudiness and cooler today. Showers likely^ Wednesday. High today, 51; low, 38. ^ * Published Every Tuesday. The Times ' l sday/& Thursday -J -? ? . Serving ing All Of Franklin County Comment A clairvoyant is a person who knows where the flashlight is when the lights go off. Tal 0V 6-328? (Ten Cents) Louisburg. N C . Tuesday. March 2 1965 (Eight Pagas Today) 96th Year ? Number 3 Legislative News by Representative James D Speed Another busy week of tjie Legislative Session Is getting underway. New light Is being focused on some of the legis lation that was Introduced last week as well^as some of the bills that have cleared corn mjttee hurdles and are now ready for House and Senate debate. I am grateful for the many comments * about last week's I. Hi UUV III the Times. 'Express slons of In terest hav? come by let ter s, telephone calls and by pets.o nal conve rsa tlons. -Fur ther com- SPEED ments are Invited from week to week. Whether you agree or disagree yvlth my statements, I shall be pleased to have the benefit of your Ideas on legislative mat ' 'er?. f' \ The Speed bill: Last Thurs day y statewide bill was Intro duced by your representative which will broaden the pres ent Inheritance Tax Laws to provide .additional tax savings by allowing exemptions to peo ple over 21 years old who ^re of weak mind and/or body Un able te- support themselves and remaining In til* home of a par ent or guardian or In an Insti tution. This bill will, provide an exemptloh of 95000 from' In heritance tax. ' Minors under 21 years old are afforded the $5000 exemption under the See SpAd Pa?e 2 Most Valuable Players ? Jerry Mitchell 01 New Bern 4s shown above left, after presenting the Wiley F. Mitchell Award" Saturday night to Wiley Brown of Youngsville arid Betty Batten of Bunh'as the Basketball Totijnament's Most Valuable Players,. S u p e r i n t e n d.e n t of Schools NYarreri.Smith looks.on. THe Awara Is given each year in memory of Mitchell's father, who was County Superintendent for over '20 years, by the County Board of Edu cation. , - -.Z -Times Staff Photo. Board Sets Make-up Days And Graduation The Franklin Coynty doard of Education set Friday, June 4, as Graduation in the county schools, in thpfr meeting here Monday and /set the make-up dates for pCme lost during the recent sdOws. ^ The three days mWsed due to bad / l'oad condition^ "will be" made up as fo)lpws:\ one day <(n Good Friday, ^hicli was ori ginally to have bee n^a holiday; on^ daXon Saturday, April 24, and the third day was added to the end of school moving gradu ation from June 3 to June 4. The Board moved from Its re cent policy of no school on Sat urdays In order to complete the school year in time for teach-, ers to enter ^Summer school, according " to Superintendent Warren Smith. . The Board movwi a com npendatlon to Mrs. T. 11. Wuldon of Epsonv, who is retiring after twelve years on the Board. The Board unanimously praised Mrs Weldon for her ""years of faithful service." Mrs. T. H. Dickens, Chairman oi. the Board, said ' of Mrs. Weldon, "You have been an Inspiration! to this bo?rd." Mrs. Weldon stated that she "deemed it a privilege .to have had. the oppor tunity to serve on the board." She added, "My thought and prayers will always be with you, especially dyrirtg the tfy-* ing days ahead." Mrs. Weldon will be replaced on the Board by Louisburg -businessman, Lloyd A. West, at the. April meeting. . The Board also pommended the principals and coaches who make up Ihe. Franklin County League for the manner in which they conducted the recent tournament here and the regular season basketball prp gram. . No action was taken on the Federal pledge and Integration plan compliance, already ap proved by the State bepikrtment of Public Instruction. The Bo^rd discussed the issue it length, but declined to act on the- pledjge at the Monday meet ing. Local units, must sign a p\edge~and present a plan of integration to -the Department of , Healthy Education and Wei Rotary Meeting Principles Pictured above are principals it last Thursday's Rotary Club meeting here. Shown left "to right, A1 Goodwin, program Chairman; Thompson Green wood, Executive. Secretary of the North Carolina Merchants Association, guest speaker; Archie L/ee., President of the Loutsburg Business Associa tion, and Jim drown, President of the local Xotar\y Club. Greenwood showed films on shoplifting and spoke to the group on the Ids8 of business to Other trading crenters. Greenwood Speaks Here Thompson Greenwood, Execu tive Secretary of the North Carolina Merchants Associa tion, spoke to the Loulsburg Rotary Club last Thursday night here. Greenwood presented an Interesting film on ShopllJtlng and made a number of obser vations on how local communi ties could help themsefves In the fight against larger shop ping oenters. The merchants leader was In troduced by a long time friend, Goodwin of Loulsburg, Pro gram Chairman. Greenwood spoke pralslngly of Loulsburg College and Its Importance to the community. He also spoke to the group about local communities lbslng business to larger trading cen ters' and pointed out ho*- this could be combated. Member^, of the Board of Directors of the Loulsburg Business As sociation were special guests at Rofary for this program. J4m Brown, President of the local club presided at the meeting. Commissioners Fail To Act On I ducation Board Request The Board of County Com missioners failed to act Mon day on a request from the County Board of Education for $600,00. with which to consoli date Franklin County; Schools. The request was formally pre sented the Board Monday after noon by Schools Superintendent Warren W. Smith. y The Commissioners and the Education Board have held Joint meetings to discuss the long range school plans. Earlier last month the Commissioners Indicated that would give their answer In Monday's meeting. The request Is for the funds to be appropriated over a 4 to 5| year period. The discussion with Smith and Board member Clint Fuller took ji&arly, -three hours yester day afternoon, with no action taken. The request would ne cessitate a sizable tax increase and the Commissioners ap parently wanted to give the mat ter further study. In other action, the Board hired Mrs. Inez Foster as as sistant Home' Demonstration Agent for the county and heard a request from a delegation of H. B. . Cottrpll, K. G. Weldon, Wilton Srtvjth and Bennie Ray Gupton to write their Congress men denouncing the proposed cut in the Soil Conservation Louisburg Fire Dept. Trains Loulsburg Fire Department, In their training sessions, has started this year with a good record. Last week the department, along with ifcmf members from the Bunn FirX Department, put In a totai of 492L houfs of class room training. \ Mr. Elwood InsVoe, Training Instructor from the N. C. De partment of Insurance, conduct ed a twelve hour class on tlW subject of "Structural Tac tics." This class dealt mainly with fires pertaining to gas, oils and L. P. gas, and was accompanied by several in structive films. One film, of a gasoline fire in Kansas City, usly Injured In a two-car acclv lent Saturday afternoon around 5:15. Mrs. Loftln was a ' passenger In