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h \ y Nothing But Praise .1 Nothing but praise may be said about the Louisburg Police Department, the S. B I and other officers for their effi cient work in the capturing of the. ac cused slayer of a Louisburg storekeeper in less than thirty hours after the dis .. covery of the crime Those viewing the scene and report ing on the events were aware of the almost non-existant clues in the slay-, ing The task of constant search and the followup of numerous leads and tips by officers caused most of them to go without sleep or rest for the total time \ The very nature of the crime dictated that an early solution be found Brutal killings such as this arouse a com munity and put fear in the hearts of many The calmness with which local officers, assisted by state experts went , about the business of solving this de plorable killing, is most commendable. , It's been said that Louisburg's Police Department is one of the best for the size to be found anywhere. The fact that murder was committed in their town in midday disturbed them, as it did- the community. Apparently, no one could * have prevented this vile deed. Except that fate might have had someone enter the store at the exact time, there was nothing to be done The promptness with which the crime was solved, serves once again to the credit of these officers. The community is proud of them for this work Franklinton's Problems I The Frankl intan community is plagu ed these days with problems Troubled by* 'b continuing and increasing water shortage and perplexing, problems in volving its shcools, the citizens are hard put to find some solutions. Actions have been taken to relieve some of the problems brought about by the depleting water supply A new pumping facility will be in operation today, hopefully.to replenish the dwindl ing supply from Cedar Creek. Frankl inton School officials are re ported to be in Washington today coir ferring with officials of the .Office of Education. Perhaps, from this meeting, \ some solution will be found for the growing school problem. Ironically, one solution hinges on local initiative, the other apparently rests primarily with federal authorities. The Town of Franklinton and its people must find some way of obtaining a greater water supply. The School Board and the people must find a way to operate their schools. We are of the opinion, that a solution to the water problem will be found and we feel, too, that allowed to do so, local citizens will find a way to operate their schools. The Frankjin Times Established 1870 Published Tuesdays l> Thursdays by The Franklin Times, Inc. ? Btckett Blvd. Dial GY6-3283 LOU IS BL' KG, ?, C. CLINT FULLER, Managing' Editor ELIZABETH JOHNSON, Business Manager NATIONAL Ni WSP API R Advertising Rates Upon Request :w3i"fr'6'fr SUBSCRIPTION RATES ? In North Carollnat Out tit State: One Year, $4.64; Six Months, ?2.83 Single Copy 10? One Year, $8.90, SI* Months, M OO Three Months, $2.06 Three Months, $3.80 Entered as second class mall matter and postage paid at the Poet Office at Loutaburg, N. C. 27549. < ? , Poor Roads: What Do They Mean To Me? An Editorial 4 r" i What does the present Franklin County road situation mean to us as individual taxpayers? Other than the inconvenience of traveling narrow, forsaken, dilapidated highways, why should we, as private citizens, be conterned? There are, of course, a number of reasons. PRIDE is one of them. We live here. We want our county, including its roils, to compare favorably with those of other counties. Our families are just as deserving of adequate, safe roads, to ride on, as other families of the state. Our children should be left a highway system, in Frank lin County, as good as children will inherit, who happen to live in Wake and other counties. We want to GROW in Franklin County Progress is just as impor tant to us here as'it is to anyone else in North Carolina. New in dustry is desired Adequate highway-transportation is a must in acquiring this type of community asset. We want to LIVE. We do not wish to die on the highways because they are in need of repairs or because they are too narrow or because a tire hits an unsuspected hole. We want peace of mind when our our families travel these roads. We want to know that they, too, will be rj,ding on highways as safe as we can make them, free from hidden dangers. And then there is the matter of MONEY. Everyone likes to get value received for the dollar spent. None of us like the idea of our tax dollar being spent elsewhere when it is needed right here at home. We want to pay our share and WE EXPECT TO GET OUR SHARE IN RETURN. These are just some of the reasons Franklin County citizens should be and are concerned with the fingering lack of improvements to our highways. If we here are concerned, what about our state officials. Are they, too, concerned? Surely they can have no PRIDE in their accomplishments in Frank lin County Governor Terry Sanford visited the county only once in his four-year term to address the graduates at Louisburg College. Governor Moore has not returned to the county since he carried it in the 1964 campaign. There is nothing here the present administration can point to with PRIDE as their doings. If, indeed present state officials are as interested in the GROWTH of North Carolina, as they say, how do they justify the ignoring of of the fact that LOUISBURG HAS THE GREATEST PERCENTAGE OF RETAIL GROWTH OF ANY TOWN IN THE STATE? If highway funds are being spent according to need, doesn't the need lie here where there have been no improvements and yet, where there has been tremendous GROWTH? And in this day of increased emphasis on HIGHWAY SAFETY, with Inspections Laws, increased manpower in the Highway Patrol, and safety-test-cars, how do state officials justify the highways of Franklin County? Most of them would be readily condemmed if check ed by any reasonable SAFETY standards. Then, in the matter of MONEY, what explanation is there for the fact that the State of North Carolina collected $135.49 from each vehicle owner in Franklin County last year and returned only (16.04 of it? Where did the MONEY go? Who was in greater need of road improvements? Wake, perhaps? Based on the latest figures available, 1963 State average vehicle tax of $162.00, why is it that Franklin County owners paid in during these three years an estimated $4, 325, 076.00 and received in return, for all road purposes on $486,319.14? Or a LOSS of $3,838,756.86 in three years. At this rate, a four-year loss would exceed ALL FUNDS SPENT IN FRANKLIN COUNTY ON ROADS IN THE PAST 29 YEARS. Pride, Growth, Safety and Money. Four good reasons for every citizen of Franklin County to be concerned with road conditions Good reasons, too for our state officials to be concerned. And it's about time they were. Wrong Secret,, Wrong Time, Wrong Way ^ by Jesse Helms Jonathan Daniels's decision to rattle the skeletons In the closet of a dead President who trusted him and for whom Mr. Daniels once worked will of course be evaluated by different people In different ways. Mr. Daniels wants to sell some books, and no doubt he will. But In exposing, at this late date, President Roosevelt's feet of clay It seems to us that Mr. Daniels Is revealing the wrong se crets at the wrong time In the wrong wa y. The "other woman" In Mr. Roo sevelt's life hail been common know ledge In Washington lor a long time. On countless occasions we have heard the details from various Senators and Congressmen who were close to Mr. Roosevelt during his days In the White House. But this was, somehow, a subject to be discussed only In private, not so much to protect a man? or even his family?but to pre serve the personal Image and public respect tor the office of President of the United States. There are other secrets Involving Mr. Roosevelt's career in the White House that Mr. Daniels, or other historians Intimate with the late Pre sident, would do well to disclose. Mr. Roosevelt's disenchantment with his "Aren't Those Folks Up North Erer ' Going To Solve Their Racial Problems?" Recorder's Court The following cimi were disposed of during a session of Recorder's Court on Tues day, August 10: Tom Wilson Shearon, w/m/ 46, careless and reckless driving. $15.00 fin* and costs. Johnny Robert Webb, c/m/ 51, assault. ( months in Jail, suspended on payment of $15.00 fine and costs and de ? fendant to be placed on pro '< batton tor two yeara. ' Wilson Shearon, worthies a check. Judgment suspended on payment of check and costs within 80 days. James Thomas Ho rt on, c/m/ 43, motor vehicle violation. Not (ullty to first count. $25.00 tin* and coat* of court. Harold Houa?, w/m/36, mo tor rehlcle violation. Not guilty. Albert Wayne House, w/m J 23, Speeding. 110.00 fine and costs. Floyd WUllama, c/m/29, murder. Defendant to be bald tor Franklin County Grand Jury. Millard Fillmore Boone, in, c/m/U, speed Inf. $10.00 tin* and coata. Willie John Lone, worthless check. State takes Not Proa. J. P. Parry, c/m/18, carry ing concealed weapon and I assault. Stat* tek** Nol Pro*, with 1**t*. Thorn** Llmrlrt B*U*y, non support. Stat* taka* nol pro* to chare* of t*llln? to support wlf*j court find* defendant guilty of not *upportln( chil dren t month* In Jail, *us p*nd*d on p*)rm*nt of $30.00 **ary two imU and cost* a f court. Macon Jom*, w/m/lt.cir* 1*** and r*ckl**? driving (S c*a*a). tM.OO fin* and cost*. OMrg* Buster Klac, c/m/ 66, no optfitor1! llctoN. ? month* la )*llt *u*p*bd*d on p*rm*nt of U5.00 tin* and cost*. own "New Deal" program comes to mind as an example. He revealed on numerous occasions, In conversations with friends In the Congress, that he was alarmed that federal controls might one day get out of hand. Occa sionally he even stated his appre hensions in public, as in the case when he signed a Social Security measure Into law. On several occa sions he warned, publicly and pri vately, that public welfare fnust never be seized upon by politicians seeking votes. To Senator Harry Byrd, who now lies dying of cancer, he once frankly confided his concern about the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was not his original Intent, he told Senator Byrd, that the federal gov ernment should get so deeply Into the business of generating and dis tributing electric power. This, he said, is strictly a function of pri vate enterprise. It la remarkable, when one stops to think about It, that th? liberal his torians who always seem to write about dead Presidents never get around to circulating the second thoughts expressed by the deceased Chief Executives regarding their po litical and philosophical mistakes. Franklin Roosevelt's apprehensions about federal spending and federal controls, his fears about political manipulation of public welfare and even Social Securtty? these wlU for ever go unchronlcled, we suppose. Meanwhile, ex-Presidents still liv ing have been Ignored on great vital questions of the day except when their ? I views happened to fit snugly within the tight little fence of the ultra liberal doctrine. Not until Herbert Hoover was dead and in his grave was any attention paid to the real cause of the Great Depreaslon. For a fleeting moment, In occasional obi tuaries, it was grudgingly acknow ledged tt?t the depression was not really of Mr. Hoover's making and that nothing he might have done could have prevented It. Harry Truman has been all but by passed with respect to the racial conflict that has swept America. When great hordes of demonstrators began to disrupt commerce and He down la the streets, Mr. Truman made one at his typically tart comments during an Interview at hU home In Missouri. Since that time, his opinion has not been sought. Hi warned then, as beet he could, the perils of anarchy and civil disobedience. But his views didn't fit the "Liberal" doctrine, so he haa been consulted no more. Meanwhile, Lyndon Johnson has been the beneficiary o I a protective screea thrown over his secrets, Q* dear, no doubt, he wUl be eaposed--al?ervhel? no longer useful to the ultra -liberal cause. The majority of Americana know little or nothing of Mr. John son's political background, how he went to the Senate In surely the mart corrupt election' In Texas history, oc how he amaaead such a personal for tune. Even the Bobby Baker stench has been carefully squelched and stifled. |ft quite proper, In our view, to expose the feet of clay of public flgvfree when they are alive and can defend themeelvee. Indeed, we 0O? alder It In the public Interest to do ao. But writing about Frasfclla Roo sevelt's extra-curricular 1 an lite more than two decades after the man's death-- seems purpose lees ex cept, perfcape, to sell hooka. BH, then, maybe all of this tells more * about the author than abort a deajfe President. ^
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