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Published Every Tuesday 4 Thursday
Serving All Of Franklin Cijunty
T?l. QY 6-3283
(Ten Cents)
LouiSburg. N C . Thursday August 26. 1965
(Eight Pages Today)
96th Year? Number 54
Franklinton Friday. County Wednesday^
It's Back To School
For 7700 Students
> SCHOOL DATES
Daces to be noted for the beginning of the Franklin
County Schools are as, follows:
Tuesday - August 31 - - Teacher-Parent Orientation
. 2:00-3:30
Wednesday - September 1 - Teacher-Pupil Orientation
1:30-3:30 \
Thursday - September 2 - - First full day of school
School Lunchrooms will be itt operation
School bells will ring out In
Franklin County beginning to
morrow, Friday, for children
In the Frankllnton City schools
and next Wednesday In the
County System scheols.
Around 6200 pupils are ex
pected to meet the bell next
Wednesday In the county units
and another 1500 In the Frank
llnton City schools.
Warren W. Smith, County
Superintendent, announced that'
all teachers In the county sys
tem have an "A" Certificate
or better. Smith explained that
this was an outstanding fact
Inasmuch as teachers are
scarce and some difficulty has
been experienced In nearby sys
tems In finding placements,
even with lowered teaching cer
tificates. This Is the second
year In succession the county
system has employed all "A"
Certificate holders. A ruling
by the County Board of Educa
tion prohibits the employment
of teachers holding a certificate
below an "A" except In an
emergency.
The county system employs ?
220 teachers and Frankllnton
City schools employ around 57.
Friday will be Teacher-PupU
Orientation Day at Frankllnton,
with the first full day of the
required 180 starting on Mon
day. In the other schools In
the county, next Tuesday, Aug
ust 31, will be Teacher-Parent
Orientation Day, and Wednesday
will be Teacher-PupU Orienta
tion Day School buses will
Kittrell
Postmaster
Exams Set .
An examination (or Postmas.
er at Kittrell, N. C., will be
open for acceptance of appli
cations until September 21,,
1965, the Commission an
nounced today. The position
pays $5,735 annually.
Competitors (or the postmas
ter vacancy In this city must
have at least one year of ex
perience (education above high
school level may be substitut
ed (or 6 months o( experience)
showing that they have the abili
ty to maintain simple records
of accounts or that It haf given
them a knowledge of postal
procedures. j,
4 Competitors must also show
that they are o( good reputatlofi
and that they can meet and deal
with the public agreeably and
effectively.
Applicants must take a writ
1 ten test. Those who pass will
be assigned final ratings on the
basis of this test and on their
experience, and fitness for the
position. They must have re
sided within the delivery of
the poet office for one year
Immediately preceding the
closing date of the examination.
In addition, they must have
reached their ISth birthday on
the closing date for acceptance
at applications. Persons over
70 years of age cannot be ap
pointed.
All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for em
ployment without regard to
' race, creed, color, or national
origin.
Complete Information a^out
the examination requirements
and Instructions for filing ap
plications may be obtained at
the poet office for which this
examination Is being announced.
Application forms must befUed
with the U. 8. Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D. C.
20418, and must be received
or postmarked not later than
the closing dats.
President gets bill curtrlng
\ sale a t stimulants.
operate in the county system,
picking up children in time to
get to school by 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday. _
Thursday, September 2, is to
be Ihe first of the 180 full
school days in the county sys
tem. Buses will run that day
and the lunchrooms will be in
operation.
Neither the Frankllnton City
administrative unit nor the
Franklin County unit has had
its Plan of Compliance to the
Civil Rights Act approved by
Washington. A report a few
weeks ago indicated that Frank
llnton City schools would have
around *19 negro pupils in the
previously all-white Franklln
ton High School.
There has been no word from
the County Board of Education
on the number of negro chil
dren expected to attend white
schools in the system this year.
Ml announcement last month
revealed around 60 applications
for transfer to different
schools. Some of these in
volved normal whlte-to-whlte
school transfers and negro-to
pegro changes.
The Frankllnton unit proposed
a twelve-wgrade desegregation
plan to Washington and the
county unit has proposed a four
grade plan. Neither, as of this
morning, has received approv
al. The ?ounty Board held a
lengthy meeting here Monday
night, presumably mapping
plans for' opening schools with
or without an approved plan.
Louisburfi Police
Members of the Louisburg Police De
partment poste for, their annual picture
above with the To-vn.of Louisburg as the
backdrop. Shpwn, . standing, left to right.
are: Earl Thar-rtngton, Charlie Lambert,
Ned Lloyd, Chief W illiam Dement. Seated,
Hubert Shearln, Kyle Prlnc? and Thurstor
Bottoms. -Photo by Dick Burnette.
Coin Shortage Termed Critical Here
/
Money is scarcedn the Louis
burg area--the hard kind, tljat
is. The shortage of'colns which
plagued local merchants last
fall has again reached the
"critical" stage, according to
J. Harold Talton, manager of
Middle Belt Next
In Line For Opening
With auctions now underway
In the sprawling Eastern North
Carolina flue-cured tobacco
belt, the ten markets In the
Middle Belt await their turn
at starting the selling season.
Wednesday, September 8, Is
the date fixed tor growers to
start the trek to market.
Producers have been encour
aged by high prices that have
prevailed where sales have be
gun, or, as In the Georgia
Florida Belt, have been vir
tually completed. South Caro
lina and Border North Carolina
centers are well on toward com
pletion of their season, though
a great deal of leaf remains
to be disposed of there.
The Middle Belt crop has been
variously described as from
good to excellent. There are
spots where too much rain has
hampered maturity, while else
where and generally the rains
have been helpful and high quali
ty leaf has been produced.
Harvest of the Middle Belt
crop Is half finished or more,
and In another week or two
will be virtually completed.
As In all other flue-cured
areas, there will be less to
bacco for sale because of the
reduction In acreage allotments
and restrictions on marketings
under the new poundage limi
tation program. Higher pric
es will In a measure offset the
difference, though cash In
come from tobacco this year
Is not expected to equal the
record production and revenue
realized by growers In 1964.
Closings End
Mrs. Juanita Pleasants, Ex
ecutive Secretary of the Lou la
burg Business Association,
announced today that moat
bualneaaes In Lou Is burg will be
open Wednesday afternoons be
ginning next week.
The announcement also stat
ed that moat businesses would
be closed on Monday, Septem
ber 6, Labor Day.
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Auctions starting September
8 will be under regulations sim
ilar to last year. The same
number of buyer groups will
operate on all centers. Buy
ers for the Middle Belt will
transfer from South Carolina
and Border Belt markets, and ;
full staffs will be available at
the opening and throughout the
season.
the local" bank.
Talton said, "We're ou< of
V\ J I
tei >n we will b<
t( two dimes and a nickel
in change, and we might have j
to give five nickels.'1 '
He issued an appeal to *11 !
merchants in the area to ex- j
change paper money with vend
ing machine operators whoj
come around .and empty their j
machines. "Much of this change I
is being taken back by the vend
ers to banks in their own home
towns," said Talton.
Manufacture, of the so-called
synthetic : coins, recently or
dered by the government, is
scheduled to begin right away, j
Talton says, "These coins will!
not be in circulation before
January." And, meantime, the;
supply gets smaller. J
The apparent shortage^of half]
ddllars has been noted in the
various stores in town for some |
.time. The lack of the fifty-cent
pieces, of course, places a
-double burden tfa the quarters.
This add.< to the shortage of
these and'' so on down the line.
Many local stores are using
their own Initiative In Obtaining
ctiange for their cakh registers.
Some are- having employees
bring in change froin\{>unday
church collections. OtiMn ?> 1 1
Iffhlm customers for Gomel
change at checkout counters.
The shortage, bWieved to be
nationwide, has been blamec
on i oln collectors, the closing
of serine government mints In
an 'economy move some time
age. and varluu*- other things.
As .was the case last fall,
the acute shortage" dSffhe at the
best selling season for local
merchants. ' With the college
and school openings and tobacco
sales ready to begin, a real
liardShlp could develop for lo
cal businesses should the short
age get worse.
Investigation
Launched In
Epsom Fire Cases
F
The -Franklin County
Sheriff's Department rt>;
ports that an unidentified
s usp eel in the arson ,
eases in the Epsom Com
munitx was' taken into
eustod) today around
'iioon. No further details
were made available.
Sherttf Joseph W. Champion
reports that his department and i
Mr. A. E. Pearce of the N. C. i
Insurance Department are in- j
vestlgatlng suspected arson in j
three fires near the Warren )
County line on Highway 401. 1
The latest fires in the area i
were discovered Wednesday af- <
ternoon around 4:30 p.m. and <
while members of the Center- ]
ville and Epsom Fire Depart
ments were fighting a blaze at t
one house, another was dlscov- j
ered nearby. * v
The dwellings Involved Wed- I
nesday reJ>orf#dly belong to
Claude Good sou,, an Epsom
Community white man. Both
houses are occupied by negro
tenants.
About ten days ago, on a
Sunday afternoon, a tenant
house, reportedly belonging to
a Mrs. Kearney In the area,
was destroyed by fire.
The first house to burn was
occupied by the family of John
Daniel Davis, negro, and was
reported a total loss. Wed
nesday, the first fire was re
ported at the home of Davis'
ion, John Daniel Davis,. Jr.
While firemen were busy fight
ing this fire, another blaze
was sighted at the nearby horne
Df young Davis' mother, the
jstranged wife of the elder
Davis.
Sheriff Champion said that
irson is definitely suspected
ind the Investigation Is contln
jlng into the cause of the three
blazes.
Bureau Head
Hits Farm Bill
^ Raleigh, N. C.?The presi
dent of the North Carolina Farm
Bureau today took a verbal
sJLap at a congressional bill
which, he said, would force
farmers for the first time to
pay unemployment compensa
tion.
I Farm leader B. C. Man^um
said the -legislation^ now being
' considered by the -House Ways
1 and Means Committee, would
affect an estimated 9,000 North
Carolina farmers at the out
set, should It become Uw. ?
The bill, H. R> 82?2, would
become effective In 1966. Un
der Its provisions, any farmer
employing 300 man-days of
labor In any quarter would be
subjected to payment of unem
ployment Insurance taxes of
Louisburg Flier In Emergency Landing
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CorXmander Douglas Joyner,
li S.\ NaVal Air Reserve of
tjpldsboro and spn of Mr. and.
Mrs. HerVry Joyhet of 513 Ken
rpore Ave., Lbul^burg, made
an emergency landing at Harney
Air Force Base, Puerto Rlc??
while returning on a night from
Antigua, British West Indies
to Quanta namo Bay, Cuba, Nav
al Air Station.
CDR. Joyner and two other
pilots had flown ten girls of
the "Nonu^te" Special Ser
vices Show group of Norfolk,
Virginia, from Guantanamo to
1927 Pontiac
E. H. McFarland of Loulsburg, left, and
Capt. C. F. Farley of Hl^gh Point are shown
above with Farley's 1927 Pontlac which he
drove from High Point this week for a visit
with McFarland. Farley, 88 years old,
\
u | . ,
said it took about three hours to make the
trip. He has been displaying the car in the
area and has taken some youngsters for a
ride in the fumble qeat.
-Times Staff photo.
Antigua for their next perform
ance Their HU-16C, twjn
englnV Gruman Amphibian a
plane J os I the starNiard en- (
glne on\ the return flight the
following day 100 miles out |
of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
They Immediately turned their
plane around and headed for
Ramey AFB, the nearest land
and airfield. They were picked j
up by another plane the next {
day and flown back to Cuba. ,
: COR. Joyner Is on two weeks
training duty ln'Cuba with Anti
submarine Warfare Squadron
VS-864 from Norfolk, Virginia.
In June CDR. Joyner was on
two weeks special training duty
at NAS, Norfolk and In July
had another tour of special
duty, this time operating out
of Norfolk aboard the Nave's
nuclear powered aircraft car
rier, U.S.S. Enterprise,
CVA (N) 65. He Is squadron
Administrative CTflcer for
VS-864,
In civilian life CDR. Joyner
Is math teacher and assistant
principal at Charles B. Aycock
High School, Plkevllle, N. C.
His wife, the former Edna
Moye of Goldsboro, teaches 7th
grade at Greenwood Junior High
School, Goldsboro. They have
one daughter, Debra Lynn, three
and a half years old. s
U. <6. urged to buy food to
aid needy nations.
3.25 per cent- on wages up to
$5,700 paid to each worker.
The North Carolina Employ
ment Security Commlsslon.es
tlmates that Tar Heel (arm
payrolls of approximately $54. 5
million would be taxed.
Mangum said that H.R. 8282
would thus Impose anadditlon
al tax burden of som? $1>770,
000 on North Carolina farnVem
ployers.
"Farmers are already strug
gling in a mire of record pro
duction costs/' he said. "This
wage bll) would make the going
even rougher. There Is no
semblance of fairness in it."
The bill, according to Man
gum, provides that the federal
government retain 55 per cent
of the additional funds to ad
minister the U. S. employment
security program.
'/This would federals our*
unemployment*" security ? pro
gram," he charged.
In addition; said Mangum, the
measure would extend the pay
ment period for Jobless work
#rs from 26 to 52 weeks. The \
axtra payments would be drawn
from the federal hopper after
workers exhausted their regu
lar state benefits.
"This even applies to work
ars who voluntarily quit their.
Jobs/' he said. "They would
have a six-week postponement
3f payments, but then could
:ake a free ride of 52 weeks
it the taxpayer's expense."
Franklinton
Trooper Is * J
Transferred
State Trooper E. M. Roberta
it Franklinton Is belnf trans- ,
ferred to Raeford, according ?
0 an announcement today. Rob- ?
irts, a native of Broadway,
i. C., has served In Franklin
bounty for the past (our and
1 half years.
Roberts reported anewtroop
ir would be sent to the area
o replace him, but (U did
lot know the details. The
ransfer becomes effective
leptember 1. Trooper Roberts
s married to the former Maude
larrlngton of S-oadway. They
lave four children.
Safety Urged
L. A. Howes, former Epsom
Principal, and E. A. Stalling*,
Safety Education Supenrlsera
for the North Carolina Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles Issued
a Joint reminder yesterday to
the motorlnc public to drive
especially carefully now that
school busses are a(aln on the
highways.
The two men were in Louls
t
v, - . r ?
burg to attend a meeting of
school principals and super
visory personnel and to stress
the Importance of safety In the
schools transportation sys
tem.
Franklin County will have 8J
busses on the highways begin
ning tomorrow, Friday when
the Frankllnton City schools
see safety Ptgt a
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