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Comment
Serving All Of Franklin County
(Ten Cants)
Louisburg, N. C . Tuesday. July 26. 1966
(ETght Pages Today)
A dictionary does you no
good unless you use It; the
same observation applies to
your brains
97th Year ? Number 45
Attorneys Negotiate Loeal School Suit
Closed door negotiations
between attorneys (or the
Franklin County Board of Edu
cation and attorneys for eleven
local Negro plaintiffs and the
U. S. Justice Department, are
expected to continue today In
U. S. District Federal Court
in Raleigh In the long awaited
decision In the Franklin
Coiinty school suit.
Attorneys spent the entire
day Monday In private argu
ments at Raleigh with the ses
sions ending shortly after 6
p.m.
There was no announcement
as to the points discussed In
private chambers by the at
torneys, but the lengthy meet
ings Indicated that some type
of settlement of the dispute
was being considered.
The suit was brought by
eleven Negro parents on be
half of their twenty children,
all of whom were dented trans
fer to previously all white
schools by the Board of Edu
cation in the fall of 1965. The ,
U. S. Justice Departr
tered the case with th
tiffs shortly after
was filed last December
In the preliminary Injunction
hearings held last February In
Clint ph, N. C. and Raleigh,
Judge Butler ruled the B?rd
h ad acted In good faith In
complying with the county plan
'ot desegratlon as approved by
the U. S. Office of Education
In the present suit, the Jus
tice Department and the Ne
gro plalntlffk are expected to
charge that "massive com
munity hostility" prevents the
Negroes (rom having a free
choice of schools under the
Board's present plan. The
suit asks that another plan be
ordered by the court.
In a recent Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals ruling In
volving Durham schools, the
court ruled that free choice
plans are sufficient except
where there exists massive
community hostility.
Loulsburg attorneys E. F.
Yarborough and Wilbur Jolly
and Raleigh attorney lrvln
Tucker are representing the
Board of Education. LaVonne
Chambers of Charlotte is re
presenting the local Negro
plaintiffs and at least six U.S.
Justice Department lawyers
were present In court Monday
Board members were dis
missed around f pi, Mon
day, having waited in court
since 9:30 a.m Some wit
nesses were dismissed ear
lier.
Closed door negotiations are
expected to continue today with
Board attorney E. F. Yar
borough and Schooti Super
intendent Warren Smith sche
duled to attend. Other wit
nesses, Including some Board
members are expected to be
heard Wednesday.
Unless some settlement la
afforded, the case la expected
to last (or at least two to
three weeks, according to re
ports.
Paula Gets Warm Welcome
*
Miss Paula Justice, Miss Congeniality of the N C. Beauty Pageant received a rousing welcome
home here Monday afternoon at the courthouse The Miss Loulsburg, 1966 won the coveted
honor over 91 other girls In Greensboro earlier this month. The festivities Monday were
sponsored by the Loulsburg Jaycees, who also sponsors the Miss Loulsburg Pageant here
annually. Shown above are Miss Justice, Loulsburg Mayor V K. Moples, Jaycee Vice Presi
dent William O'Neal, who was In charge of the event, and Jaycee President W. A. Peoples
who presented the floral bouquet In behalf of his organization. Around 100 local officials and
private citizens attended the ceremonies --Photo by Jeff Bartholomew, Loulsburg College
Franklinton Head Start
Program Reported
(Frk. B.W.) The . average
dally attendance at the Frank
Unton Head Start Program la
60. The original enrollment
was 61 but with 13 drop outs
the present membership 1*
68.
The dally schedule Is as
follows: 8:30 a m. - 9:30
a.m. - Greeting, sharing,
planning work and play; 9:30
a.m. i 10 a.m. - Mldmorn
lng snack and rest; 10 a.m.
- 11:30 a.m. -Work and play
activities; 11:30 - 12 noon -
Lunch; 12:00 - 12:18 p.m. -
Dismissal.
According to the Director ?
Ollle W. Burrell, the Head
Start Program Is primarily a
child development program.
Every effort Is made to meet
the various needs of these
children to remove deterrents
to learning. Medical needs ?
physical and dental - are given
the utmost attention. Many
experiences are made poss
ible through active partici
pation In the class room and
field trips to open their minds
to the world of knowledge.
The social agencies are
aiding In helping to bring about
more parent partlclaptlon.
This serves as a develop
mental feature for parents
as well as pupils.
The personnel, Involved with
Head Start, believe that this
program has tremendous
value In promoting the adjust
ment necessary (or the pre
school child and will prove
vital to his success as a
beginner In school.
Working with Director
Burrell are the following
teachers ? Miss Mabel Hill,
Mrs. Lucy Green, Mlas
Carolyn Sanders and Mrs.
Velma Brown, teacher aides
Betty Henderson, Mrs. Bertha
Cutchtia, Copple Green and
Mrs. Edna WUllama; volun
teer workers - Rosalind Ro
gers; social worker -William
Leathers, HI; Dietitians -
Mrs. Mattle ftrnhlll and Mrs
Thelma Joyner; bus drivers -
Jessie Milton Perry and
Ernest Sanford Perry; cler
ical worker ?^"Beverly Perry
and custodian - Jessie Milton
Perry.
The muJlpal staff Includes
Dr Arthur Mallette, medical
director; Dr?purgeon Eakes,
dentist and Dr. Richard Whlt
fleld, optometrist.
In 1SS1, the -Rev. Lorenzo
Lorraine Langstroth Invented
a better beehive, and bee
keepera beat a path to hla door
In Oxford, Ohio. Mr. Langs
troth revolutionized beekeep
ing by devising a hive with
removal be frames for hooey
combe. His basic design still
'Is almost universally used.
Suffers Broken
Arm In Wreck
Three scattered accidents
In the county Sunday netted
relatively minor Injuries to
one teen-ager and at least
three other men escaped In
Jury.
Leon Mills, n/m/20, Rt 2,
Frankllnton, escaped Injury
when the 1963 Ford he was
driving overturned shortly
after mldnlghtSunday morning
on Rural Paved Road 1211, 2.3
miles west of Frankllnton.
The car, according to State
Trooper D. C. Day was owned
by Ethel Wright Mills, Rt 2,
Frankllnton.
According to reports , Ronald
Pearce, w/m/25 of Pearces,
lost control of his IMS Ford
convertible while backing It,
In the Pearces Community
Sunday afternoon and over
turned. Pearce was uninjured,
but the vehicle suffered con
siderable damage.
A 16-year-old Mltchlner
Crossroads youth suffered a
broken arm when the car he
was driving overturned In a
curve on State Unpaved Road
1224 Just off N. C. 96 three
miles west of Loulsburg Sun
day afternoon. Fred Clarke
was taken by the Loulsburg
Rescue Service to Franklin
Memorial Hospital. He was
later transferred to a hospital
In Fayettavllle for treatment.
Sidney Laughter, w/m/H, a
passenger In the Clarke car
was uninjured.
HEW Denies
School Plan
Approval
The Office of Education In
Washington has Informed the
Franklin County Boarl of
Education that Its plan of com
pliance *o the 1965 Civil Right*
Act, as proposed for the com- -
lng school year does not meet
with the approval of the Dept.
of Health, Education and Wel
fare.
It refers to an Increase In
desegratlon of from 0.1% In
1966-66 to 0.7% for the coming
school year "lack of sufficient
progress " It also denied
approval of faculty desegre
gation efforts.
The letter, from John Hope
II, Director, Area I, Equal
Educational Opportunities
Program, states "Your school
board should consider what
additional 'steps It could take
In order to make adequate pro
gress In both student and staff
desegratlon for 1966-67.*'
The Board of Education, In
volved presently In a suit In
Federal Court, on Its 1965-66
plan, has not Issued any state
ment In connection with Wash
ington's denial of approval for
the comln? year.
Several other county units In
the state have also been denied
approval Including Nash
County and Pender County.
Franklin County had execut
ed government form 441 -B
declalnlng the Bird's In
tention of complying with the
new guidelines much on the
same order as was done In
the 1965-66 school year.
Twenty three Negro atudents
have been granted admission
to previously predominant
white schools thus fsr this
year.
Rowe New
NCADA Area
Chairman
B. T. Rowe, Jr., RoweChev
rolet-BuIck, Inc., Loulsburg,
has been appointed to serve
as Area Chalrmkn of the North
Carolina Automobile Dealers
Association for Franklin
Gbunty, according to an an
nounce ment made by NCADA
President C. Odell Matthews
of Winston-Salem.
Rowe will act as ttalson
officer between new car and
truck dealers In this area and
NCADA and the National Auto
mobile Dealers Association.
He will also head a county
wide membership campaign
for both organizations In the
fall.
Mr. Rowe succeeds John F,
Green of Frankllnton.
Shelton Calls
NCSA Meeting
Announcement If made by
W. F. Shelton , president of
the Raleigh Chapter, N. C.
Society of Accountants, of the
July; 26th Chapter Meeting to
be held at Fuquay Springs,
N. C.
The group will meet Tues
day night at 7j00 p.m. at the
Yohanna Restaurant. Repre
sentatives Of the National Ctth
Register Company will be pro
gram guests.
,
A long head Is fashionable on
the Pacific Island of New Bri
tain, the National Oeographlc\
says. Mothers bind their In
fants' heads with bark cloth to
give the desired shape
Air Foreo Officer
Sixth Road Fatality
Photo above show* scan* of sixth highway fatality In the county as Li Cbl Albert A. Farns
worth met death on N. C. 38 early Sunday morning when his station wagon pulling a Imat and
trailer overturned. The victim was a native of Mississippi and presently stationed al Seymour
Johnson Air Base In Goldsboro He was a veteran of World War 11, Kore&jiiil Vietnam
; ? . -imnni cunt ruii>r.
Negro Dies Of Shotgun Wounds
A 27-year-old Loulsburg,
Rt 2, Negro is being held In
Franklin County Jail on
charges growing out of the
fatal (hooting on Saturday of
Dwlght Alston, also a' Rt. 2,
Loulsburg Negro.
James Lee Arrlngton alleg
edly fired a 12 gauge shotgun
blast Into the right thigh of
the victim at the home of
Arrlngton' s mother, near the
T. H. Dickens Store In White
Ltvel around 3:30 p m. Satur
day afternoon. J
According to Mrs. Judy Mae
Arrlngton, the suspects moth
er, Alston had struck her In
the ' mouth and dragged her
?later, Snookle Hedgepeth
from one room of the house
Into the kitchen threatening
to "kill her." Alston, says
Mrs. Arrlngton, had her rifle
In his hand.
The affray started earlier
when Alston, who lived In the
Arrlngton woman's home re
portedly, had grabbed her at
a neighbor's house and forced
her to return to her home
where, according to Mrs. Ar
rlngton, "He told me 1 was
going to alt here all day."
She said her sister was with
her and that she sent her 10
year-old daughter, Shirley to
"Buds," referring to Mr. Eu
gene Bobbltt on whose place
the Arrlngtons lived.
Bobbltt, according to the Ar
rlngton woman came and told
Alston to leave "Tell her
(Mra. Arrlngton) to get my
clothes and I will leave," Als
ton Is quoted as having told
Mr Bobbltt.
When the Arrlngton woman
entered the house and "bent
over to get his clothes," she
says. Alston struck her In I
the mouth, grabbed her sister I
and dragged her by the leg |
The average newly hatched
lobster has one chance In a
million of reaching maturity,
the National Geographic saya.
Lobsters raised in ? hatchery
are protected during Infancy,
and the odds are reduced to one
|n a hundred.
Into the kitchen.
Meantime, James Lee Ar
lington had heard the noise as
Alston reportedly broke some
glass and he heard his mother
scream.
Arrlngton ran the short dis
tance to his mother's home
and, according to him, Alston
"saw n\e and backed Into the
house, pointing the rifle out the
door and I shot him." Babbitt
reportedly had Just left the
scene, but returned and at
tempted to aid Alston. The
Loulsburg Rescue Service was
called and Alston appeared to
be In fair condition when he
arrived at Franklin Memorial
Hospital. He died later while
?nroute to Duke Hospital from
loss apparently of blood.
Arrlngton said he returned
to his home following the
shooting. Later when " he
"heard they were looking
me," he said he drove to
Sheriff Joseph Charnplon'is
horns ( which Is In the com
munity) but, according to Ar
rlngton, "he wasn't at home."
He says he met Mr. Van
Champion \(Township Con
stable) on theway back to his
home and bl^w the horn for
Champion to stop and surrend
ered He was Jailed following
the death of Alston.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Powell Is
the investigating officer.
Lt. Col. Albert A. Farns
worth, 43 , 207 Boiling Drive,
Goldsboro, N. C. became the
sixth highway fatality of the
year liwFranklln County when
the late model Volkswagen
station wagon he was driving
overturned early ? Sunday
morning eight miles north o*
Loulsburg on N. C 39. "
The accident, which occur
red sometime after midnight
and before 2:30 a.m. was dis
covered by passersby who
were unidentified. Rescuers
from the Loulsburg Service
searched the area for other
possible victims, believing
that there might have been
other occupants of the vehicle.
None were found.
Farnsworth, believed to have
been enroute to Kerr Lake
was pulling a boat and trailer
behind the Volkswagen and lt
was theorized that he lost
control In a curve causing the
vehicle to overturn, throwing
him through the left front
wrndow. The vehicle and boat
came to rest In an upright
position against a load slim
The vehicle was apparently
not damaged to a great extent.
This is the second fatality
of the month, both single car
accidents and both on N. C.
39 north of Loulsburg. This
Is the fourth highway death to
occur on N. C. 39 In Franklin
County this year, the- sixth
In the county on K C. 39 in
^he past three years.
TMS was the first road death
since the accident which
claimed the life of Stephen
Virgo Mullen, Loulsburg Ne
gro on July 3. This passes
by two, the number killed
at this time last year and
matches the six highway dead
in the county by this date In
1964.
Farnsworth was Chief of
Tactical Training of the
Fourth Tactical Fighter Wing
at Seymour Johnson Air Base.
He was a native of Pasbagoula,
Miss and a combat veteran of
World War n, the Korean War
and Vietnam He had been
stationed at Seymour Johnson
since August, 1965.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Joyce Farnsworth and three
daughters.
Franklinton Lions Endorse
Times' Better Roads Efforts
The twenty-two member
Frankllnton Lions Club has
endorsed the efforts of The
Franklin Times for Improved
rosd conditions In Franklin
County. In a letter from Lions
Club Secretary John F.
Gonella, the Frankllnton civic
club pledges "our whole
hearted support and cooper
ation in your efforts to
secure for Franklin Counfy
oti r fair share of our highway
tax dollar."
Clint Fuller, Managing Edi
tor of The Franklin Times and
wiiter of the front page edi
torials which have brought
attention to road conditions
In the county, said In ex
pressing The Times' and "my
personal fratltude to the
Frankllnton Lions, that this
was the first endorsement of
the road efforts by an orga
nized body In the county.
Fuller said he had received
i letter from the President of
:he Frankllnton Township
Chamber of Commerce which
incou raged the writings and
hat ha considered this to be
somewhat of an endorsement
The Board of County Com
missioners and the Better
Roads Committee held a joint
meeting with Fifth Highway
Commissioner J. B. Brame
several days ago, but neither
organization ''has Issued an
endorsement of the newspaper
efforts.
The Lions' latter urges,
"More power to you. We
really have been awakened
by your expose of the highway
situation In Franklin County,"
The letter concludes, "If we
can do anything to help, Just
let us know."
Council Sets .80 Tax Rate
The Loulsburg Town coun
cil gave Anal approval to the
1966-67 budget tn a special
meetlnc last Friday night, set
ting the new tax rate at 80$
per $100 valuation.
The total budget was set at
*901,701.00 and the new rate
represents a decrease from
the $1.25 set for last year.
Increase In the property va
luation la credited with the
lower rate.
In other action*, the Coun
cil approved certain salary
Increase* and Councilman E.
F. Thomas moved that the
Town Administrator's recom
mendatlons on future salaries
be followed. The Council ap
proved the motion with Mayor
V. A. People* an0 Councilman
S. C. Foster abstaining from
voting.
Later In the meeting, Coun
cilman Jonah Taylor moved
that the revised salary sche
dule be adopted and Foater se
conded the motion with all
members voting In tavor.
The Council agreed to ac
cept Terrell Place from Mr.
S. R. Allen tor Installation of
water and sewer lines altar
the street is constructed to
serve the development.