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The Frali'IMii Times Published Every Tuesday & Thursday *?? ru i nn All Of FranUin fountv Serving All Of Franklin County 96th Year ? Number 97 Louisburg. N C . Thursday. January 27. 1966 (Ten Pages Today) (Ten Cents) Sweeper Walkers Snarlers Pusher Franklin loins In Action Group Franklin County joined Vance and Warren counties to form a trircqruity-or-gaiiization Mon day jiifnt for the purpose of taking advantage of the federal government's Economic Oppor tunity Act. The agreement was reached In a meeting held In the county building In Hender son and followed several earlier meetings between Representa tives of the three counties. Arthur Lloyd of Vance County was elected chairman of the group, which was named Frank lin, Vance, Warren Opportunity, Inc. Luther Baldwin, Franklin County Negro Extension Agent, was named vice chairman, and James H. Limer of Warren County was elected secretary. The officers were instructed to complete the organization and to obtain a charter, hopefully by an April 1st deadline. Mrs. Jane York, Director of Welfare for Franklin County, was present at the meeting and reported the group was|()yery "enthusiastic arfd cooperative" on the Idea of the three-county association. While the parent organization will be operated as atri-county project,' ? each county may choose Its own programs. Each county is also required to set up Its own organisation under Body Of Local Negro Discovered The body of a 57 -year-old Lotiisburg Negro was found this morning around 9:30 a.m. In an alley behind the old Planter's Warehouse on Nash Street. Coroner James H. Edwards said that Jamesl Bulluck, unem ployed laborer, apparently died of a heart attack and not from exposure. The body was dis covered by Walter frown, Ne gro employee of Benton Furni ture Co. ^ Phillip McKinne,. operator of1 Seaboard Stores, Inc. near the scene told Edwards that he saw Bulluck enter the alley Wednes day afternoon around 4 p.m. It is not known if the Negro suf fered the attack at that time or reentered the alley later. Bul luck lived with his father, in the Negro settlement back of Louis burg College here. the parent organization struc ture. Representatives from the County Commissioners, Board of Education, Health, Welfare and other agencies are re See GROUP page 0 Picture Window View On Jolly Street What Do You Know About The Snow? By Clint Fuller Aside from the beauty of it, the nuisance of it and the spiri tual uplift which comes with it. what do you know about snow? Did you know that snow Is not always whfte? Indeed not. De pending upon where you live, the soft fluffy flakes may be blue, green, red or. even black. This is caused by tiny fungi or dust particles collected en route by falling" snow. Occasionally, you can catch a single snow flake In your hand and give it a once -over before it melts. Usually, how ever, flakes combine into groups before they reach earth, i Throughout history man has been fascinated by the so-called winter rain. The word crystal j comes from the Greek, Kryos? icy cold, frost. Snow is a word of Anglo-Saxon derivation. In 1555, Archbishop Olaus Mag nus iof Uppsals, Sweden, dis covered that all snowflakes are si* sided. Silver Lake. Colorado, holds the record for most snow fall in a single day? 76 inches back in 1921. The greatest seasonal snowfall, 73 feet, occurred in Tamarack. California, in the winter of 1907^ .according to researchers at Allied Chemi cal Corporation Technically, s now/lakes are a form of precipitation com posed of ice cry.sia.ls and occur when the water vapor of the air condenses at temperatures be low 32 degrees. An Inch of snow will approximate 1/10 of an Inch of precipitation. It is never toorcold to snow. Falling sn(5w has1 been officially ob served in Alaska at 73 degrees Weather . Clearing and not quite so cold today Fair and rather cold Friday Low this morning, 20; high, 35. ' below zero Snow has been the topic for many outstanding works Of writ ers, artists and photographers. John Greenleaf Whit tier's "Snowbound," (I860), Longfel low's ''Tire Cross of Snow" (1879), ?|pd- Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) are among the best known poems. In. Hh?' what-to-do-about snow-^hen-lt-falls category, the first; snow-melting appa ratus was patented by a New York City resident in 1869. The peculiar device separated a mass of snow Into flakes and See KNOW page 6 ? ?V Itf Largest Snow In Years Hits Area (SEE OTHER SNOWS PAGE 6) The largest snowfall to hit Franklin County In eight years spread a white, frosty blanket over the entire area Wednes day and continued into the early hours of this morning. Most of it is expected to remain for the next few days, as weather men predict temperatures around 36 degrees today and 32 degrees for Friday Local weather observer G. O. Kennedy reported this morning that the measurement at the Louisburg weather station was eight Inches. The snow began to fall around 7 p.m. Tuesday night and continued unabated until around 1:30 a.m. today. This is the largest amount of snow to hit Franklin County in recorded weather history. Methodist Meet Reset The Raleigh District Confer ence of the Methodist Church scheduled for its annual ses sion Friday, January 28, at Trinity Methodist Church north of Louisburg, has been re scheduled ^or Sunday, January 30, at LoUJsburg College, /at 2:00 p.m. in tfle College Audi torium. / District Superintendent N. W. Grant, will preside. Featured on the three-hour program will be Dr. Ralph Jolly, President of Greensboro College; Dr. H. P. Powell, of Raleigh; and Dr. Karl Tooke, with the Methodist Board of Missions. The Louisburfe College Choir will sing during the session. Special recognition will be given to the oldest church in the dis trict, Plamk Chapel; located near Kittrell. The session will end at 5:00 p.m. The Raleigh District Includes Wake, Franklin, Vance, and Warren Counties. \ k tt\ v i Based on the files (if The 1 Franklin Times,! the largest recorded snowfall occurred on March 3, 1927, when the area suffered between 15 and 18 inches, while most of North Carolina measured upwards to 26 Inches. Drifts of six feet were prevalent throughout the area at that time. ; The second largest snowfall occurred on January 31 and February 1, 1048, when the area received 13 inches, lie ginning .on a Saturday night and continuing through early Sunday morning This one came 'on the heels of falling sleet and a temperature of 5 degrees above zero The snowfall in January, 1965, reached 7 1/2 inches locally, according to Kennedy, which almost matched the deluge this week. Over 6,000 Franklin County and Franklinton schoolchildren received a welcome holiday Wednesday ami today with pros pects good for the holiday to extend through Friday. The Louisburg Fire Depart ment reported only one fire. This was a tenant house on the D. T. Ayscue farm near Epsom around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and was extinguished by the Epsom department. Mrs. Earl Murphy, North Mam Street, Louisburg, re ported this morning that the carport at her home, collapsed from t he weight of the smow, damaging two lautomobiles parked beneath the shelter. Most retail businesses in the Louisburg area either failed to open Wednesday or closed early, most of them forced to curtail business becaijfe em ployees could not get to work. The curtailment continued this morning with most stores, wlWi some exceptions, operating on See SNOW page C Business Association Abandons Promotion \ The? fcoulsburg Business As sociation Board of Directors voted to abandon a previously announced plan to hold a car give-away promotion scheduled to culminate at Easter. The action came in a special called meeting held here Tuesday af ternoon. A1 Goodwin, president of the organization, explained that some question had arisen con cerning the promotion' and the i state lottery laws. He said that he conferred with Vice Presl- i dent Clay McBride, chairman of the promotion, and Clint < Fuller, recently eletted direct- j or, who was to aid in the pro- ] motion of the give-away. Goodwin requested that Fulled seek a ruling from the Attorney General's Office In Raleigh. Fuller reported to the*doard that an assistant attorney gen eral informed him that such a promotion did come under the lottery laws of the s4ate, even though it was being done, in some localities. McBrlde, Fuller and past President Archie Lee were appointed to a special com mittee to set other trade pro motions for the coming year. Goodwin appointed permanent :ommittee chairmen for the ('ear at the Tuesday meeting. Lee was named Legislative See BUSINESS page 6 Riders 1 "* . Fighters Hiker
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