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Weather Mostly sunny and mild today and Friday. Fair and cool to night. Low today, 35; high, 66. The FralMh Times ? ..... ... . . Published Every Tuesday & Thursday ^ ^ Serving All Of Franklin- County Industry Education Agriculture T?l. 0Y 6-3283 Ten Cents I Louisburg. N. C.. Thursday, March 23, 1S67 (10 Pages Today) 98th Year? Number 10 Franklin Is 153rd In School Support Franklin County has the dubious honor of being In 183rd position among the state's 169 school units In the expenditure of local funds per school child. The Franklin County administrative unit re cords $26.71 spent annually local funds per school child and the Frankllnton City unit has an average spent per child of 115.31. The Frank llnton unit figures do not re flect transportation and some other expenses borne by the county unit but for the benefit of' the Frankllnton system. This situation pulls the county figure down and raises the Frankllnton expenditures, al though neither would move from their low position within the state. Of total expenditures per child, including state, federal and local funds, the county system ranks 147th In the state with an expenditure per child per year of $3 38. 02. The Frankllnton system spends $319.56. The highest amount of local support given to schools Is found In Southern Pines where a total of $101.79 Is spent from local -funds per child as compared to Franklin's $26. 71. The lowest Is found In Cumberland County Schools where local funds amount to $12.82 per child. Fayettevllle City Schools In Cumberland County, however, are much higher In the rankings. Franklin County Is tied for 148th place In percentage at local funds spent to the over all total. Most of the state's school systems, however, are In the $300 to $400 range In expenditures per child In average dally attendance. The figures were disclosed In a release Tuesday by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The figures represent the 1965-66 school year. Franklin Masonic Notice Hal Perry, Jr., Master, an nounces there will be a stated communication of Loulsburg Lodge 413 on Tuesday evening March 28 at 7:30 in the Ma sonic Temple on Jolly Street. Work will be In the Fellow craft degree and all Fellow craft and Master Masons are Fraternally Invited. Also 25 year certificates will be pre sented. County Is listed as having re ceived only $110,828.16 in fe deral funds for this period, although ESEA funds were ac tually slightly over 9900,000 The local school office ex plained that these figures per haps did not take In federal funds contracted for, but not spent at the end of the school year. It was also believed that these federal funds would be expressed In the next such release. The county unit's total of federal funds this year was originally set at 9471, 634.00. An announcement here Monday disclosed an addi tional allocation of 126,893.00 had been granted the county unit to bring the yearly total to 9498,527.00. The year ends on August 31. The Frankllnton City unit Is listed as having received In 1965-66, 926,794.72 In federal support. The county unit re ceived 91,564,046.03 In state money for the period and the Frankllnton unit received 9371,475.00 for the period. North Carolina spent an a verage of 9368.79 per pupU In current expenses last year, an Increase of 947.15 per pu pil over the 9321.64 spent during the 1964-65 year. Total expenditures were 9406,403,177.56, an Increase See SCHOOL Page 2 Forest Fires Threaten Franklin County Ranger Jos eph Smith reports that a num ber of fires have occurred in the county in the last several weeks. Most of these fires were caused by burning de bris, with a large number of fires escaping from trash be ing burned In yards. Ranger Smith reminds youto be very careful In burning trash and debris. Make sure grass and leaves are raked away from the area where your burning will be done. If a field Is to be burned off, plow a clean line around the field edge. Do your burning late In the afternoon, when the wind usually abates and humidity is higher. When high winds and dry conditions occur, wait un til a damper, less windy day to do your burning. If you see a woods fire, please report ltto County Ranger Joseph Smith, telephone number GY-6-3665. Garden Club Gives $1000 For Academy Restoration Mrs. L D. Moon, Treasurer of th^ Lou la burg Garden Club, second from right, la shown above presenting the Garden CJub's check (or $1,000 to Herman Spencer, Historical Society Treasurer, second from left. In ceremonies here Monday. Garden Club President, Mrs. John Mills, right and Society President, Gerald Shlnn, left look on. The money Is to be spent to aid In the restosktlon of the Franklin Academy building, In background, as a county museum. The project, begun last year by College students and faculty, has resulted In the renovation of the outside of the building, believed to have been constructed between 1787 and 1004. Dr. Shlnn said "The project will probably take about five years to complete". He re ported a number ot historical pieces have already been offered for the museum. Dr. Shim, one of the prime movers In the restoration project, expressed his personal gratitude and that of the Society to the Garden Club tor "this wonderful gift". staff PWo by Clint FulUr Suddenly, It's Spring The pretty little miss, swinging Into the Easter season above Is 2-year old Elizabeth Sharon Harper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forest C. Harper, Jr., Hwy 561, Loulsburg. Sharon seemingly enjoyed having her picture taken and joined Into the swing of things. Her only comment: 'Tn cold". Aren't we all? Staff Photo by Clint Full*' Easter Comes Early This Year Easter comes on March 26 this year. This Is an early date for the religious holiday, although not the earliest. Un like Christmas, Easter does not (all on the same date each year. It has a range of 35 days from March 22 until April 25. Easter Is observed on the first Sunday after the full moon after the vernal equinox. This Is when the sun crosses the equator Into the Northern Hemisphere. March 21 has been set as the date of the equinox. This Is the earliest Easter has come since 1051 when It fell Youngsville Contributions Continue Youngsville ? Fire Chief J. T. Allen reports that the following people made contri butions to the Youngsville Fire Dept. during the pest week for the replacement of the rural Fire Truck: E. M. Sykes, O. H. Harris, V. E. Faulk ner, & W. Young, Tillman a Rice, A. E. Hall, Mrs. H. R. Preddy, James O. Lye, L. M. Tomlinson, H. A. Murphy, Charles Strickland, Mrs. E. M. Mitchell, E. O. Turner, Jr., Luther Tlmberlake, War ren Oil Company, Elton White, J. P. Herring, Mrs. Florence 8. Preddy, and Haywood Holme*. All contributions are great ly appreciated. Additional fund* are still needed. on March 25. It will be this early only twice more In this century, In 1978 and In 1989. R will tall on March 23 In the year 2008. The last time It came on Its earliest date of March 22 was In 1818. The next time will be In 2285. Eas ter fell on April 22 In 1962 and will reach Its latest date of April 25 In 2038. There have been, and are, mores to assign Easter a fixed date. Should this ever be done, It would mean the end of con troversies and complications as old as Christendom itself. The Gospels note that Christ celebrated the Passover on Thursday, although the priest hood of his day observed It on Friday, the day of the Cruci fixion. Jews who embraced Chris tianity linked the Easter festi val with the traditional Pass over and believed It should be observed on the 14th of Nlsan, first month of the Jewish cal endar, regardless of the day of the week. Christians from unong the Gentiles wanted the observance on Sunday, day of the Resurrection. The controversy raged Into the fourth century. The Chris tian church In the East follow ed the Jewish tradition, that In the West the Gentile. In 325 AD the Council of Nlcaea, first of the Christian ecumenical meetings, adopted the Nlcene Creed, standardis ing beliefs of the young faith. It also decreed that Easter be Observed on the first Sunday ?fter the full moon after the vernal equinox, the date when the sun crosses the equator Into the Northern Hemisphere. This date of the equinox was to be fixed each year In Alex drla, Egypt, ancient Center of astronomical science. The full moon was tied Into the formula to give pilgrims the advantage of moonlight In their travels to shrines. But disagreement persisted. The time of the equinox varied according to longitude. When March 21 was standardized as the date of the equinox, Inaccu racies of the Julian calendar and the difficult! of reconcil ing the lunar calendar with the solar year brought more con fusion. Franklinton Lions Hear Principal (Frk.RW.) The Franklinton Lions Club met at Community House on Monday evening for their scheduled meeting. Lion Tom Poole presided over the meeting. The club members voted to send a boy to Boys State In June. Plans were made to finish visiting the Lions Club* In the dis trict. Lion Darwin Sowers Intro duced Mr. (Kile Burwell, prin cipal of B. F. Person-Albion School, who spoke about Race Relations. The speaker em phasized the fact that there was a lack of communications between the races on all lev els. County Collects $3.3 Million In Travel Expenditures Last Year Travel-related business f^rms In Franklin County re ceived. a record total of more thin $3.3 million from local, ln-state and out-of-state tra velers, last year according to an annual survey of travel ex penditures In North Carolina. The survey, conducted by Dr. Lewis C. Copeland of the Uni versity of Tennessee, shows that travel receipts for Frank lin County In 1966 climbed to $3,390,000, an Increase al $219,000 over the same period In 1965 and $553,000 over the 1964 expenditures. The latest figures disclose that $992,000 was spent by out of-state travelers and $2, 358,000 was Income from those traveling, within the state. This ninth annual sur vey also disclosed that total travel expenditures for the entire state In 1966 was $50 million more than the amount spent by travelers In 1965. For the state as a whole, the total reached a record $610,000,000 In 1966. Total receipts of firms en gaged In serving and trans porting travelers, Including the expenditures of custom ers In their local trade areas, reached an all-time high of $1.3 billion, the survey re vealed. This Is about 18 per cent of all retail trade and service receipts reported In North Carolina during 1966. Spending by out-of-state tra velers amounted to $383 mil lion last year, a gain of eleven per cent over the 1965 figure, and North Carolinians travel ing within the State during 1966 spent $227 million. Since 1954, the survey disclosed, ex penditures by out-of-state travelers have Increased 144 per cent. This represents a growth rate of 7.4 per cent annually, compared with the 5.7 per cent annual Increase in all retail trade and con sumer service receipts. There were 33 million out of-state travelers in North Carolina last year, according to the survey report. The detailed report, pre pared for the State and the Travel Council of North Car olina, also showed $412 million personal Income for the 99,200 persons employed In the tra vel-servlng Industry. There were 21,560 firms In travel related businesses last year, representing 17 per cent of all business firms In the state. Travel-related industries also contributed 9199 million to state finances In the form of gasoline, sales and other taxes, the report Indicated. The amount was 26 per cent of the total state tax revenue col lected In 1966. "Travel Is one of North Car olina's largest and mostprofl table Industries," remarked Bill F. Hensley, director of the Travel and Promotion Divis ion, State Department of Con servation and Development. "Expenditures by out-of-state travelers have more than dou bled in the past decade, but we are still far short of reallzlnf the full potential of this Im portant Industry." "The national travel survey has shown that one of every See TRAVEL Page 2 Mayor Peoples To Seek Re-Election Loulsburg Mayor V. A. (Tommy) Peoples announced today that hewlli be a candi date to succeed himself In the coming May municipal elec tions. Peoples, a member o i the town council 1963-65, Is completing his first term as Mayor having been elected to the post In the May, 1965 balloting. In his announcement, Peo ples stated, "If It Is the wishes of the voters, I shall be happy to continue to serve as Mayor of Loulsburg. I have no so called political promises to make. I only hope, if elected, to do what I can to continue the progress our town Is making In the many fields of service to our people". Peoples, 39, Is a television radio dealer here and Is mar ried to the former Joyce Stro ther of Loulsburg. They have two sons, A1 and Larry and three daughters, Vlckl, Susan, and Deborah. All of the child ren will be attending the local school this year, the youngest entering the first grade. Peoples, a senior member of the Loulsburg Rescue Service and a former Chief, Is also a member of the Loulsburg Fire Department. He Is an energe tic worker In the Loulsburg Baptist Church where he Is a Sunday School teacher. He spearheaded a drive among town officials to get new street lights during his administration, among a num ber of other improvements. Mayor Peoples Is the first to announce for the May 2 municipal elections here and there have been no announce ments from other communi ties In the county. Bunn Mayor Bill Andrews, Frank Unton Mayor Joe Pearce.Cen tervllle Mayor John Neal and Youngs vllle Mayor Marvin Roberts are all subject to re-election this May. All town councils are also up for grabs as well as three seats on the Frankllnton Board of Education. V. A. PEOPLES Joyner To Run At Franklinton (Frk.B.W.) In Franklinton, Mrs. Margaret Payne Hardy has been named Registrar and H. S. Daniel and Phil Whitfield have been appointed Judges tor the election set tor May 2. April 18 has been set as the deadline tor filing In the muni cipal election. Contacts have been made with four of the town commis sioners and only one of them gave a definite answer about plans for reelection. James S. Joyner, now completing his second term, plans to run tor reelection. W. A; Shearon, who Is completing 4-1/2 terms on the town board, hasn't yet made a decision about running for reelection. ' Charlie Hlght, Jr. and Hen ry Franklin Holmes, comple ting their first term on the town board, haven't decided yet whether they'll file for reelection. C. A. Payne Is the fifth in cumbent and Joe W. Pearce Is the mayor. Neither have been contacted as of this date by the Franklinton correspon dent. Saves Man's Life A Loulsburg farm Imple ment dealer has been credited with saving the life of a 53 year old Loulsburg, Rt. 3 man who was pinned In the wreck age of his burning car Tues day night around 9 p. m. Jack Hunt, manager of Loulsburg Tractor and Truck Co. here happened to pass the scene of the accident, near Rocky Ford Tuesday night. He spotted the overturned Fal con automobile of John Edgar Pendergrass overturned o n the highway and ablaze. Pen dergrass from the wreckage. Pendergrass, who wears an artificial left lag, was not be lieved seriously Injured when his car ran off the road climb ed an embankment and over turned back onto the highway. The artificial limb was burn ing when Hunt freed the man. Loulsburg Rescue Service members V. A. Peoples and Dean Holton, both of whom answered the call to the acci dent, said, without doubt the man would have perished had he not been pulled from the burning vehicle. The Epsom Fire Department was called to extlnqulsh the blaze, but the car was a total loss. Louislnifg Lions Hear Students The Loulsburf Lions Club was entertained by a group of Loulsburf College students at Its Tuesday night meeting here. Forrest Stein of Lynchburg, Va.; Boyd Kleerer of Durham; and Mm Antrim of Richmond, Va. sang Ore popular selec tions tor the local organisa tion, which Is celebrating Its 18th anniversary this year. It was announced tint the Lion's Hone Show, originally set (or July has been to June s. Charles Cook* of Loulsburg was a guest at Ha club Tuesday night.
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