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Or. Johnson Mrs. Royster Dr. Sadie lohnson Chosen College Alumnus Of Year Dr. Sadie C. Johnson, Hen derson Chiropractor, a native of Loulsburg, and a 1930 gra duate of Loulsburg College, was named "Alumnus of the Year" at the Alumni Day ban quet Saturday evening In the college cafeteria. in presenting the Alumnus of the Year Award, Mrs. Kathryn Bullock Royster of Bullock, N. C. recalled the services that Dr. Johnson has rendered the college In serving as pre sident of the Alumni Associa tion, writer of a pageant de picting the history of the col lege, a worker In the movement to keep Loulsburg College open In the late 20' s, and a continuous donor to the Loyalty Fund. "As a Loulsburg College graduate, she has distin guished herself In her pro fession, having practiced In Loulsburg and Henderson since her graduation from the National College of Chiro practic, Chicago, Illinois. She has served her Association as editor of Its state magazine arid as secretary-treasurer lor several terms "Dr. Johnson Is president of The Franklin Times, Inc., Loulsburg, publishers of The Franklin Times and commer cial printers. She resides In Henderson and Is past present of the Henderson Business and Professional Women's Club. She Is the daughter of the late Sarah Norman Thomas and Asher Frank Johnson, Sr. and the granddaughter of "Dolly" Thomas, former editor efThe Franklin Times, all of Louls burg." Mr. C. Ray Pruette, pro fessor of Science at Loulsburg College, was guest speaker for the dinner. Pursuing the pro gress that science has made over the years and with It the changes In ways of living, the changes In language,' the changes In mathematics and the realization that these are all man-made changes, Mr. Pruette- stated In conclusion that faith In God must be stronger now than ever. Mr. Pruette, Introduced by Mrs. Russell Frazler of the college science department, delighted his audience with humorous Illustrations throughout his talk. rlA To Hold Festival Tlw annual Harvest Festl Tal will be observed at Louls burg Hlfh School on Thursday, October It. Mrs. Edgerton L. Watson, chairman, announced that the festlrltlss will begin at 1 1 .-00 with luncheon served In the Home Economics de partment. Arrangements may be made (or lunches to be "taken out" br contacting Mrs. Idgerton Watson. The "Country Store" will be open all day and Into the evening for the home-cooked, home-canned, home-baked goods and other useful arti cles lor the early Christmas shoppers. The hot dog snd other re freshment stands will be open In the afternoon and evening. The evening entertainment will be highlighted by a group known as "The Franklin Ramblers." Other phases of entertainment will Include a comedy act, and the " Popu larity Contest" In which Mr. and Miss Loulsburg will be chosen. The public Is cordially In vited to attend and participate In the different phases of fisi and festivities. Mr. Floyd Ammons of Fay ettevllle, president, presided and recognized the distin guished guests and every fifth year class. Miss Julia Mulligan and the Greenebrlar Singers' enter tained with several folk songs. Walter Williamson and Bill Barrett gave a comical skit picturing a noted professor and his famous students. Mrs. Betty Smith, chairman of the nominating committee composed of Mr. John Hodges and Mr. William Moon, pre sented the following slate of officers which was un animously accepted: Presi dent, Duffy Paul, *50, of Ra leigh; Vice-president, Dr. Thomas Manning Daniel, '40, SmiOiileld- S^retary-Trea sure i , f'lss Zelda Coor; members -at -large, for a two year term, Graham Kennedy, Rocky Mount. Mrs. J. Clarence Myrlck, Raleigh, Llnwood Finch, Zebulon; and four-year term, Mrs. Edith Boone Hill, Raleigh, Mrs. Eleanor P. Alston, Loulsburg, Norwood L. Jones, Loulsburg. Drawings for door prizes, given by Loulsburg Mer chants, were made by Direc tor David Daniel. Professor I. D. Moon led the closing song, the college Alma Mater. Prior to the dinner served buffet style by Mr. Crumpler of the Slater Service, a social hour and registration period were held In the Social Hall of Main Building. Miss Rachael Modlln of the Busi ness Department was chair man of the committee of ar rangements for the event. She was assisted by faculty mem bers. Louisburg Area To Get Cable Television Service The Loulsburg area Is to get Community Antenna Tele vision service at some time In the future. The Town Coun cil approved a permit and contract for the Jefferson Carolina Corporation to es tablish the service In the area, In a meeting here Friday night. Off To The Fair School attending predomi nantly white schools In the county are enjoying a holiday - today. Schools are closed In order that teachefs may at tend the annual NCEA meet ing. Many of the, youngsters will take the opportunity to vlrflt the N. C. State Fair. A group of 37 youngsters left this morning from Loulsburg by bus to spend the day brows ing around the fair grounds, seeing the sights and making money disappear. School children are granted free admission with tickets distributed through their schools. All youngsters may obtain an excused absence from school any day this week to attend the fair, provided they have a written excuse from home. The Board of Education passed this policy earlier this month. Thugs Hit Local Farm Business Loulsburg Police officer Larry QUI Urn discovered ? rear office door open it Farmer's Tractor and Truck Company bar* on Blckett Blvd. Sunday night around 9:30 P.M. krrestlgatlon dlacloaad that aomaona had brokan a win dow and reached Inside and un latched the door. Wallace Tlppett, manager of the farm equipment firm, re ported he had mlaaad two chain aawa and one aklll saw, plus ?one petty cash from his out er office. ' Police officers are contin uing their Investigation today following fingerprinting the area Monday . In order to complywIthN.C. General Statute GS 160-270, ? the Council must execute a second approval at their No . vember meeting. This Is ex pected to be routine and the permit Is expected to become effective shortly thereafter. The contract ' calls for the company to use town poles and rights-of-way In running lines throughout the area. In return the company agrees to pay the Town of Loulsburg five per cent of Its grosi take each year or a minimum of $B00 and to repair to the Town's satisfaction any disruptions of property In their Installations. It is reported that the company will build a tower In the vicini ty to serve the area. Reliable sources say that the company will make a charge of around $15 for (retaliation of Its services In a home and a charge of around $4.75 per mdnth for the service. The service will eliminate the need for outside television antennas and will enable homeowners to receive clear reception from al) stations In the area. The contract calls for the Installa tion to be operational within 24 months following the is surance of the permit. In other actions, the Council accepted Terrell Place and Terrell Street Into the town street system from Mr. Sam Allen and ordered "No Park ing* ' signs to be erected on the south side at River Road from Main Street to the eastern Still No Word Official* are atlll mum on that lnduatrlal prospect which has bean considering locating In tha Loulaburi area for the pest several weeks. It la fast becoming somewhat of a Joke around the area that local development officials art ao quiet tha; aren't eren greeting friends on tha atraat. One of tha beat kept secrets in tha hlatory of tha county haa many o# the curloua and In terna tad c lttr?ns pulling their hair In attempta to dlaeorar what la, going on. Usually reliable sources, of ten quoted In theee pagaa, seemingly know nothing mora than tha general public aa to tha plana of the Industry of ficiate. 97th Year? Number 67 Louimburg. N C.. Tuesday. October 11, 1966 (Si* Page* Today) (Tan Cants) Justice Dept. Asks End To Disparities In Schools The U. S, Department of Justice has (tied a motion In U. S. Eastern District Court seeking to "Require Defen ders (The Franklin County Board of Education) to Eli minate Educational Dispari ties" In the county school system. The action was filed last Thursday. The Justice Department brought the motion In the name of the United States of America by Ramsey Clark, Acting At torney General and seeks an '?order preliminarily and per manently enjoining the defen ders, from falling or refusing to take all necessary and rea sonable steps to eliminate educational and other dlsparl ties between the predomi nantly white and the predomi nantly Negro schools In the Franklin County system." The latest request to be filed by the government In th?. two-year-old Franklin School suit notes that "Negro schools remain all-Negro and the for merly white schools remain predominantly or wholly white " The action points out, "All of the high schools In Franklin County are accredited, but the predominantly white 'high schools have been accredited tor a longer time than the Negro schools." The suit also notes that value of school property for predominantly white schools Is $9yi.44 per pupil and $283.18 per pupil In Negro schools. The motion states that acres per pupil for whites Is .04 and (or Negro pupils Is .01 and that classroom ratio Is 22.8 to 1 among whites and 34.8 among Negroes. Teacher to class ratio Is said to be 22.9 among whites and 26 among Negroes. The brief also points out there are 44 buses serving white schools and S7 serving Negro schools. The motion was signed by Frank E. Schwelb and Francis H. Kennedy for Department of Justice and Robert H. Cowen, U. S. Attorney. At Weekly News Conference: Governor Comments On County Hoads Governor Dun Moor* com mented on Franklin County'* road situation In his regular weekly news conference last Thursday. In answer to a question posed by WPTF radio-newsman Bob Farrlng ton, Inquiring about a front page editorial In the Franklin Times, which clalmxl that Wake and Durham counties were haggling over which was to get Fifth Dirlaon funds while Franklin County received none, the Governor stated, "I believe that I will have to ad mit that Is true". "Franklin County does de serve consideration and Indue time I am sure they will get their proper share of highway funds", the Governor added. "I have discussed this with Mr. Brame (Fifth Division Highway Commissioner J. B. Brame and Mr. Hunt (Chair man Joe J|mt) and I have In formed the newspaper there", Governor Moore said, In re ference to his recent letter to Times Editor Clint Fuller. The Governor's letter dis closed that a "primary pro ject was underway to widen and make general Improve ments to U. S. 401 from Ingle side to Loulsburg." The Governor also wrote Fuller that the county Is to receive $735,000 In secondary road money from the bond funds plus $122,300 for Improve ments to Loulsburg streets. Front page editorials have been published weekly by the newspaper since last June pointing out the fact that Franklin County had not shar ed equally In the allocation of highway funds over the past number of years. entrance of Riverside School. The Council alao (ranted a request from Industrial De velopment Director W.J. Ben ton to allow the County Com missioners to tap onto the Town of Loulsburf water line to serve the new lnduatrlal prospect should, the decision to locate here materialize. In further action, the Council ordered that advertisements be placed for a new Police car to replace the 1964 model now In use and approved the pay ment of September Invoices In the amount of $13,390.19. In Retail Sales: CouTity Shows Increase Franklin County, mostly on the rising cost of food, showed s .95 percent Increase In re tail sties In 1965-66 over ths previous years, according toa (report released this week by the N. C. Merchant! Assocl atlon on Sale? and Use taxes collected by the State. Franklin's tales fortheyeir Just ended totaled $28,1 40, 898 or Just under a one percent Increase; orer the 128,824, 383.00 reported In 1984-89. Franklin County drew praise alonf with Loulsburg In IMS when It was disclosed that the county h?d shown a fire year Increase In retail sales at #0.7 percent. Loulsburf had the highest percent of Increase In the entire state, register ing a record 112.7 Jump for the fire years, 1998-83. The latest figures show that the county fell behind In such areas as taxable retail sales, apparel, and general merch andise. Slight Increases were noted in such areas as auto and planes; automotlre;furnl ture and building material*. The greatest Increase was shown In the Jump from 15, 443,780.00 for food In 1964 88 to f8,997,348 In the latest report. There was some orer a $900,000 Increase In the automotlre category. Bind ing materials showed an In crease of Just under $300, 000 tor the year. Shooting Victim In Critical Condition A carnival worker, Identified first as John Plnotte of Hot Spring, Ark. and later as B. J. Mulkey 31, of Oklahoma, re mains in critical condition to day In a recovery \room at Duke Hospital,, .following a shooting spree at the county fairgrounds last Thursday afternoon. Deputy Sheriff Tom Powell reported he had not quest ioned the suspect being held in the shooting, Herbert Gene Earl, 37 year old white man, address unknown. Earl Is being held without bond In" the county jall charged with filing four shots Into the stomach and chest of Mulkey. No reason was given for the shooting. Fair officials stated Thursday that Earl was not connectefl- with the carnival which played her*. Ha was reported to have been assoc iated with another show, per sumably the one playing Henderson's fair laft week. Mulkey was taken to Duke when It was discovered that his blood type could not be matched at the local hoslptal. Powell said that Loulsburg attorney John F. Matthews had been appointed to represent Earl. The suspect was picked 'lip on South Main Street by Powell 'and fair manager George T. Bunn shortly after the shooting around 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Local school officials de clined comment on this latest action on the part of the Jus tice Department with the ori ginal plaintiffs, a group of local Negro parents. The County system Is under court order and filed last month reports of the progress lnde segregatlon this year, with the court. The Justice Department and local plaintiffs filed response to the Board of Education's ."Standards for Employment of Teachers" last August. No date has bean set (or a hearing on this request or the latest one. Judge Algernon Butler or dered a new free choice period last August for all Negro pupils In the county system. This resulted In over fifty Negro pupils requesting and being assigned to predomi nantly white schools. Case Continued Until October 17 Assault casses against Frankllnton Schools Superin tendent Fred W. Rogers were continued here In Mayor's Court Monday night until next Monday, October 17. The con tinuance came at the request of defense attorney Hill Yar borough, who stated he needed more time to prepare* the defense. Hubert Senter, Frankllnton attorney for the plaintiffs, asked for a prompt trial, but did not oppose Yarborough's request for at least a one-week postponement. A crowd, estimated at nearly one hundred persons, mostly from Frankllnton, were on hand to wltneas the trial. The ?mall court room could not Assistant Clerk Resigns Mrs. Edith Murray, wife of County Accountant Lee Mur ray, has resigned her position as an assistant In the Clerk of Court's office, according to an announcement Monday by Murray. The Accountant, who re cently resigned to accept a position as Treasurer Finance Officer In Wake Coun ty, said the reason for his wife's resignation had nothing to do with the fact they were to move later to Wake County. Murray stated that his wife resigned for "personal rea sons" and Indicated the de cision was her own. Mrs. Carolyn Pearce, for mer assistant In Murray's office has been hired In the Clerk's office. Mrs, Pearce was an unsuccessful appli cant for the position of Ac countant being vacated by Murray. accomodate but a small num ber. One reaion given by Mayor* Judge V. A. Peoples for the continuance was an error In the warrants, which made them returnable today Instead of last night, as It should have been. Rogers Is charged with simple assault against Charles D. Smith, 15, and Melvln D. Hayes, 17, both Frankllnton High School stu dents. The Incident reportedly occurred In the parking lot at Loulsburg High School during the Frankllnton-Loulsburg football game two weeks ago. Market Average *66.89 The Loulsburg tobacco mar ket, opening MoMfry following a week's recess showed an average of $66.88 for the one day sales. The three local warehouses moved 318,070 pounds of leaf for a total of $211,410.40, according to Mr. William Boone, Sales Super vlser. Attends Meeting Mrs. Juanlta Pleasants', Ex ecutive Se cretarv of the Louls burg Business Association Is attending a two-state meeting of the Associated Credit Bure aus this week at Wrtghtsvllle Beach. Mrs. Pleasants, who Is in charge of the local business organization office Is Uso In charge of credit reporting for the association. The meeting, ibelng held In the Blockade Runner Hotel, be?%n on Oct ober 9 and will conclude to fey. County Records Eighth Road Fatality it * ? Franklin Count) recorded lis eighth highway fatality of the year Sunday night, the second In the past nineteen days. Q. W. Wllklns, c/m/21, Route 1, Castalla, reported to have been the driver of a 195S four door Ford, died Instantly when his ear overturned around 9 p.m. Sunday night on State Rural Road No. 1824, at the Nash County line. Wllklns had reportedly stop ped a short distance from the scene of the accident to let a friend out of the car. The un identified Negro told members of the Loulsburg Rescue Ser vice and State Trooper W. S. Etherldge that a passenger was also In the vehicle at the time of the accident. A two-hour search of the area by Rescuers, officers and volunteers failed to reveal the whereabouts of the re ported passenger, Leon Strickland. Strickland later showed up at Franklin Memorial Hospital where he received treatment for undis closed Injuries. Trooper Etherldge report edly said that high speed was the cause of the accident, which completely demolished the vehicle, stripping off the door* and hood. The car tra valaa several hunarea .yaras down the rural road, finally Jumping a ditch and coming to rait In a nearby flald. Wllklna was thrown from the car and la ballavad to hava dlad In suntiy. This brings the total killed on county highways to date -to ?lfht. This la two mora than mat death In the entire twelve months of 1965. The death of a Selma serviceman on Sep tember 20, followtnf an acci dent near Pilot on Septem ber II, was the flrat fatality on county highways since last July 24. Death Car I
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