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Published Every Tuesday & Thursday The Franklin Times Serving All Of Franklin County 97th Year ? Number 9 Louisburg N C Tuesday. March 22. 196 1966 (Eight Pages Today) (Ten Cents) What Do You Do On The First Day Of Spring? - - - - ? . . ' -r- r ' : Sets Interrogation Policy Board Buys 15 Mobile Classrooms The Franklin County Board of Education, in special session here Monday, iet bids for 15 mobile classrooms, ok'd a pre liminary budget for the coming year, studied the new desegre gation guidelines and set a firm policy on interrogation in schools by outside agencies. The Board awarded a con tract for $90,112.00 to Uni versal Equipment Co. of Raleigh for the purchase of fourteen mobile classrooms and one double unit. The units, due to Rites Held For Assistant Court Clerk Funeral services were con ducted Monday at 11 a.m. from the home for Mrs. Anna Fuller Sinclair, assistant Clerk of Superior Court, who died In the local hospital early Saturday night. ? Mrs. Sinclair, who had been In poor health recently, was a patient In the local hospital, having been admitted ther? Thursday. A graduate of Loulsburg Col lege, Mrs. Sinclair Is survived by a brother, Jones Parham of Loulsburg, Burial was held In Oakwood Cemetery. Weather Generally fair today. Partly cloudy With chance of showers Wednesday. Rather warm. Low today, 45; high, 77. Native Gets Gov't Post John H. Flnlator, 54, former Loulsburg native, has been named to a newly-created post In the Food and Drug Admini stration In Washington. He took Aver on March 7 as head of the Drug Abuse Control sec tion of the FDA . Flnlator lived here on Church Street In 1017. His family moved to Frankllnton shortly afterwards His father was a conductor on the Loulsburg Frankltnton Railroad. Later the Flnlators moved to Raleigh, where a brother, Rev. William Flnlator, now serves as jjastor of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church. An uncla, Mr. Charles F. Best, resides In Frankllnton. arrive in .three to five weeks, are to be used In the Board's Reading Project under the Ele mentary and Secondary Edu cation Act Competitive bids were opened at 10 a.m., with the low bidder getting the con tract. The Board set a policy on interrogation in schools under its Jurisdiction by law enforce ment officers. On motion by Clint Fuller and seconded by Board member Jones Winston, the Board passed and set as Its policy: "No student will Be Interrogated by law enforce ment officers on school premis es or while in attendance at the school wlthcXut first obtaining the consent uf the parents." The issue had been raised by an Incident at Loulsburg school whereby FBI agents entered the school and quizzed four boys without the'consent of the paiX ents. S] The Board studled-Mfe pre liminary1 budget^suggested certain changes and ok'd it temporarily^ When complet ed. th?/fiudget is expected to caU "for about the same as J4st year. No major Increas es were noted in the initial proposal. The Board spent several hours studying and discussing the new School Desegregation Guide lines from the Office of Edu cation. No action was taken on the decision for the coming school year. The Board, authorized its ar chitect, Ralph Reeves of Ra leigh, to proceed with recom mendations for sand filter beds and septic tanks at Perry's and Gethsemane Schools, re pair to the heating system In the auditorium at Loulsburg School, a study of the possi bility of Enlarging the Bunn gym, and to determine needed repairs" to the Gold Sand gym floor. Democratic Women To Meet Mrs. Louis F. Oxnevad, president of the Franklin Coun ty Democratic Women, an nounced today there will be a' business meeting of, the or ganization at 2 p.m. on, Satur day, Warch 26. The meetlnf Is to be held In th?/fcommunlty Room of the new bank building on Blckett Blvd. Mrs. Oxnevad urged all members to be present. May Elections: The Moment To Decide by Clint Fuller Not? This is the first o series of ten articles dealing with the elections this yea' One of the series will appear weekly in The Times- The series is designed to better acquaint the public with the duties of elective offices and the obligation of the citizen to be informed on the candidates James Russell Lowell wrote in his poem, The Present Crisis: "Once to -every man and nation comes the. moment to decide." The "moment" or one of them will come on Saturday May 28, when the people vote in the Democratic Primary. Election in this primary is tantamount to a full victory, since seldom is there opposition in the November General Election to those chosen in the primaries. The right of election is the very essence of the constitu tion", wrote Junius in a L?tter, April, 1769 It is the obligation of a citizen to participate in his govern ment The most feasible method of doing this is to inform him' self of the issues an"d personalities 'involved and to cast his vote on election day. At last count there were 1 1,827 registered voters in Franklin County Of these, 6,638 cast their ballots in the May Primary in 1964 This represented 56 13% o? those registered There are 28,755 people living in Franklin County There is no break down on the number who are of voting age Each vote is important In the late forties, the Clerk of Court -r,ace in the county was decided by five votes One candidate s family -had troveled out-of-town for a holiday. This decided the issue in favor of his opponent. In I960, a School Bond issued involving hundreds of thousands of dollars was decided by/tour votes In the 1962 primary, a seat on the Board of Coujvty Com missioners was locked in a tie vote. One more pe^ion partici pating in his government could have decided tlje^issue without the expense of a second primary In I960, the Presidential election w^re decided by 118,550 votes out of 68,335,6.42, and changed the history. John F KenVie<^y defeated Richard M Nixpril by that margin The victory icost Kennedy his 'ife and set^tJp today's odnfini stration by then [Vice President Lyndon "Jamison If 2,371 more peopi^m each of the fifty states had bothered to participate in tj?^i r governm'ent, history would hove been changed In theory, this means 24 more people in Franklin County, foM^wed by others in the critical states, could have swung tj>e election Mp-<t of us fail to realize how .important our vote is. Even in a -lost cause, it is never lost As Junius puts it "An injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public." More aptl/put, even though your candidate loses, his lost show others serving just what the people want of them. General ly^more interest is creafted in Franklin County elec tions when there are a host of local races: Such is the case, this year Ten local offices, plus a Congressman, a Senator and |two State Representatives and a State Senator are involved in the Primary This does not include the usual number of'candi dates for the vorious Township Constable posts. Future articles in this series will deal with the responsi bilities of these offices, the compensations and the qualifita tions. They will not deal with individual candidates. It will be up to you the voter to acquaint yourself with the individual qual ifications \of those seeking 'office . Daniel tyebster referred to it as: "The people's government, made for thW people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.'' The Morrient to Decide nears. If is up to the people And we, the people have an' obligation to participate in the decision. Next A United Senator and A Congressman The Moment To Decide io Saturday Closing: Bank Hearing Airs Some Opposition Application of First -Citizens Banks In Franklin County to close on Saturdays drew some opposition from Loulsburg businesses at a hearing held here Monday afternoon. TM hearing was held by acting State Bank Commissioner Frank HarreUon In the meet ing room of the local bank building on Blckett Blvd. Jimmy Weathers, local hank official, stated this morning that "several spoke In favor of the closing and three or four were opposed." He said there was no opposition to the appli cations by the banks at Frank It nton and Bunn. I The application, which re quests permission to begin Saturday closings on April 23, coincides with similar appli cations by Henderson banks, and a hearing there earlier Monday brought forth no op position to the proposal. The Loulsburg Business As sociation, on action of Its B>ard of Directors earlier this month, voted to stay out of the contro versy when It was disclosed that 17 members polled tevored the closing and 17 opposed It. Harrelaon Is expected to an nounce his decision on the appli cation within the next few days, It was announced. Falkner, Taylor, Mrs. Dickens, Boone, Enter County Races NORWOOP^FAULKNER County/Com miss loner Nor wcxKi/^aulkner filed Monday ^preelection to the post from mstrlct 5, Loutsburg- Cypress Creek. Faulkner, now serving as Chairman, is Opposed by Prices Going Up At Post Office ? Increases In - money orders, Insurance, registry, certified mail and C.O.D. rates will be come effective March 26, 1966 the Postmasters of offices in f rankiln County said today. The cost of operating these five special services now ex* reeds revenues by $G0 million annually The fee Increases will narrow the cost-revenue gap by $37 million, based on business handled In Fiscal Year 1965. Fees for money orders, re gistry and C.O.D. were ,iast changed In 1961; Insurance and certified mall In 1957. The tee changes, announced In th? January 1 1th Federal Regis ter and\confirmed In the regis ter on February 25, are put into effect uhder existing admini strative Vuthorlty of the Post master General. The Increases include: Money Order Fees: Domestic and International money order fees will W Increased by 5 cents. \ Insurance y'ees: T|e mlnl mum fee brWket wltt be in creased from $10 to $15 and the mlnimum\ fee will be 20 cents instead of 10 cents. The revised insurance fees will be as follows: $ Q.0 1 ? $ 15.. A 20 cents 15.01 - 50 30 cents . 50.01 - 100 40 cents 100.01 - 150 50 cents 150.01 - 200 60 cents Registry.. Fees: The present 60 cents and 75 cents fees will be combined Into a single fee at 75 cents for values up to H00. Registry fees for articles valued In excess of $100 will remain unchanged: C.O.D. Fees: The present 40 fents and 50 cents fee brackets See PRICES page 8 MRS. T. a DICKENS J Harold Talton, local hank executive who announced last week Mrs. T. H. Dickens, chair man of the Franklin County Hoard of Education, filed last Friday for reelection. Her filing followed by minutes the entry into the race by William Taylor Boone, 40-year-old I, ou Is burg, Rt. 4, farmer. Both are opposed for the District 4 seat by the first Negro to file, Joseph L. Strickland of Map)^ vllle. Mrs. Dickens has^rved oh the Board for 39/V?\trs and has been Chalrma-ff: since 1961. W. H. (Jat^^faylor filed last Friday Jrfr reelection to the postfix i County Solicitor, a post )me\ has held for several terms. Thus far he is unopposed. Joseph Joyner filed for re election as Constable of Harris Township. He, too, is unop posed at present. Others filing or announcing for the various county posts in clude H. Derrell Mitchell, G. Frank Hinson and Brooks W. Young for the County Commis sioner seat from District 1 (Harris - Dunn Townships); George Harris for reelection to the Board from District 3 (Ha yes vllle - Sandy Creek); Walter E. Ball for Board of Education from Louisburg Cypress Creek; James H. Ed wards for reelection as Coro ner; and Gus Stroud, Jr., for Constable of Franklinton Town ship. ? On?* race already underway Is the Sheriffs contest between incumbent Joseph W. Champion and Louisburg Police Chief William T. Dement. Emergency Farm Loans Available The Department of Agricul ture^is authorized the making ur Emergency loans pursuant to Section 321 of Public Law 87-128, through December 31, 1966, to eligible farmers In Franklin County. This action was taken because of substantial damage and los ses in the 1965 tobacco and cotton crops as the result of excessive rainfall during June and July. And farmer in Franklin Coun ty desiring information about Emergency loans or other types of assistance available through the Farmers Home Administra tion should gpt in touch with the County Supervisor of the Farmers Home Administration, Mr. Thomas B. Marshall, Jr., Perry Building, Nortlf Main Street, Louisburg. Monday Night Fire Call Firemen quickly extinguished a burning mattress at the home of Mrs. Ida Latta on North Main Street last night around 9:15 p.m. The alarm drew a large number of sightseers, but quick action by the local department prevented anydam age other than to the bedding. Brevard Man Killed At Bunn, Second Road Fatality Franklin County recorded Its second highway fatality of the year last night as a S7-year-old Brevard, N. C., man died Instantly In an accident near Bunn. Leslie Victoria Dall of 106 Allison Road, Brevard, N. C., failed to stop at the Intersection of N. C. 98 and N. C. 39 south of Bunn around 11:30 p.m. Monday night, ran acrosethe road, Into a ditch and rolled several hundred yards through a freshly plowed field The 1986 Ford, registered In his brother's name, Daniel Gaston Dall, same address, was demolished. Xoulsburg Rescue Service members extracted the victim's body from the wreckage. Dall reportedly lived with his brother U Brevard. Both are bachelors accordlnc to reports. Identification papers found at the wreck also gave Dall's address as St. Charles Hotel, Norton, Virginia. , State Trooper William Ethrldge of Frankllnlon conducted the Investigation. There have been three auto-connected deaths In the county thus far this year. Twenty-two Tear old Kurt H. Roth- was killed March 13 on an unfinished race track at Frankllnton. This was not listed as a highway fatality. The only other highway death this year occurred near Jackson's Pond five miles east of Loulsburg wheq William Richardson, 27-year-old Negro, was killed when the car he was driving hit another head-on. The county did not experience Its second road death last year until May 1. Trooper Ethrldge reported that the victim was not wearing seat belts, although the vehicle was equipped with them. He was thrown from the car. Ethrldge said had he been wearing the seat Melts It might *ell have saved his life. . *,
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