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Weather Partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thunder showers. Low today, 71; high, 88. The FraiikMn Times Published Every Tuesday & Thursday ~ ^ Serving All Of Franklin County Your Award Winning County Newspaper Tel. 0Y 6-3283 Tan Cents Lousburg. N C . Tuesday July 11 1967 (Eight Pages Today) Industry Education Agriculture 98th Year-Number 41 What Did It Mean The 1967 session of the North Carolina General As sembly Is history. The longest session? 149 calendar dauk and 107 work days--ls nR expected to be listed among those accomplishing the most. However, a number of pieces of worthwhile legislation were passed Into law. It Is also noted that In the process many laws were passed which might be classified as worthless. What did the 1967 General Assembly mean to Franklin County? In terms of strictly local effect, the answer Is: mighty little. A handful of local bills were enacted Into law. The most notable perhaps was a con troversial pay raise bill which managed to please no one completely. It did, however, afford pay Increases which deserved. Members of the County Board of Education and the Industrial Development Com mission gained small salary Increases for meetings. 1967 General Assembly Ends Franklin and Warren were brought under state regula tions pertaining to (ox hunting and the abandoning o f animals along public highways is now forbidden thanks to a local bill. Well contractors are now required to be licensed In Franklin. Three bills were passed which are expected to effect Franklin County politics In the future. Foremost among these is the local bill which now allows for runoffs in County Commissioner races. Heretofore, the high man was declared the winner. In the future the winner must gain a majority. Beginning in 1969, school board members will be elec ted by the people. Presently, board members are nominated by the people and elected by the General Assembly. This is to say, that names are placed in the omnibus bill which meet the approval of the represen tatives from the various counties. This measure per tains to all 100 counties in the state. Franklin and the Sixteenth District were Included In the numbered seat bill and this means that Instead of every body running at large against the field, each candidate will be opposing another particu lar candidate. House of Re presentative candidates' will campaign for one particular seit and against one particu lar incumbent or challenger. This could bring back the heated races experienced here In past years where one can didate takes on another. Last two seats In the District which represents Vance, Warren and Franklin counties. Three of the five running were from Warren county, one from Vance and one from Franklin. Vance and Franklin can didates won. One unheralded bill which could well be of Importance to Franklin County Is the mea sure calling for state assis tance to counties in the im provement or establishment of local airports. Franklin, in great need of Improved facilities?- would benefit from this bill even though the ori gin request by its sponsors for $1 million was cut con siderably by the Appropria tions Committee. Rep. Speed of Franklin was a co-sponsor of this bill. Aside from the strickly local bill, a number of the state wide laws will affect Franklin citizens In the days ahead. The tax cut, of course, will be welcomed by all and the teacher pay raise and free text books for high school students will be reflected In better school operations In Franklin as well as In other cdtintles. Some citizens might be dis appointed that more highway safety measures were not en acted or that the voting age was not lowered, but few will fe'l any differently now that four new universities have been added to the state's higher education facilities. Continuation of the Advance ment School, additional com munity colleges, pay raises for university and college pro fessors or the fact that the N. C. Arts Council was made a statutory committee and that , the Mansion Fine Arts Com Franklin Remains In Second District nil I mittee was made a permanent state agency, will bring little response from -this section of the state. Technical procedures in many governmental agencies will bring changes here. For the most part, these changes will be noticed only when a -citizen finds It necessary to do business with the particu lar agency. Many laws have been passed making a number of changes In forms and pro cedures In the Register of Deeds and Clerk of Court's office as well as some others. State employees, Including those In Franklin , can now participate in politics under' certain provisions. Most were already doing so and this Is not expected to be earth shaking news. Many other laws to varlng degrees will effect the lives of Franklin citizens. However, perhaps of most interest to locals Is the fact that after much debate and prolonged stalling, the redisricting bill was passed without changing To Franklin County? Franklin's position in the Second Congressional Dis trict. Franklin county has ap parently been very happy in Congressman L. H. Fountain's District and most here pre ferred to remain In the Second. Barring unexpected actions by the courts, Franklin Is sate In the Second and will re main there. There have been no public comments by either Rep. John Church of Vance or Rep. James Speed of Franklin on the overall accomplishments of the General Assembly. Most legislators have voiced opin ions that It was a fruitful session as Indeed It was. However, the fact remains that the average citizen In Franklin County Is going to find little change In his day to-day living brought about by any single act or collectives acts of the recent legislature. Most will be glad Its over. Practically none would agree that annual sessions are needed or desirable. Find No Money, Wreck Home Thieves ramsacked the un occupied home of two Rt. 2, Loulsburg women sometime in the last few nights, leaving considerable damage to the contents of the house. Deputy Sheriffs Dave Batten and Lloyd Gupton are conducting the Edward Best FFA Wins Top Awards The Edward Best Chapter of Future Farmers of America was awarded 'a national and a state award for Cooperatives Activities In the Ninth Annual State Convention held at North Carolina State University re cently. The winning drew high praise lor the Chapter by Warren 8mlth, Franklin Superinten dent of Schools. James Boone and Edward Shearln were delegates to the convention from Edward Best, tdual awards were pre to Leo St tilings for Farm and Home Electrifica tion and Donnle Shearln tor Soli and Water Management. Shearln and Robert Griffin, Jr. received the State Farmer Degree. W. T. Wlnbornelsthe Chapter Advisor and Teacher of Agriculture at Edward Best High School. Investigation and Batten re ported Monday afternoon that footprints had been cast at the scene. He also said the In vestigation Is continuing. Mrs. Ben Wlggs and Miss Mollle Brewer were visiting with Mrs. Wlggs' sister a few miles away from the home and had not returned since Tuesday of last week. Upon their return home Monday morning around 9 a.m. it was discovered that someone had broken a window pane and gained entry through a bed room window. Appearance of the rooms Indicated that the thieves were looking only for money. Beds were torn up, drawers pulled out and a host of papers, purses, letters and other per sonal belongings were strewn throughout the house. One lady's purse was missing. Mrs. Wiggs said It contained some small-- change and was much less than four dollars. A razor, belonging to her late husband, was also reported missing. Officers believe there were at least two persons Involved In the burglary. The two wo men live alone In the house, which Is located near several other homes. None of the neighbors reported hearing anything unusual. Some of those living closest were re ported away from home during some of the period. One ob server theorized that the entry probably took place Friday or Saturday night. Former County Man Gets State School Post A former Epsom Principal and a teacher at Gold 8 and High School has been named to a top post In the Stats De partment of Public Instruc tion. Dslphos J. Dark has been appointed director of the State Board of Education's Division of Transportation. Hs was named to the post by the State board to succeed C. C. Brown, who died June 30. Dark has been assistant di rector of the division for the past 10 years. The director's post carries a salary range of 912,528 to 918,936 a year. Dark Joined the Division of Transportation In 1945 as a school bus route supervisor. He became assistant director in 1951. He Is a graduate of Wake See POST Page 8 Louisburg Native Named Eighth District Solicitor Governor Dan K. Moore tap ped a Loulsburg native , now practicing law In Wilmington, to become Solicitor of the Eight District last week when he appointed James C. Bowman, 57, to the Superior Court bench. William Allen Cobb, 49, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Cobb of North Main Street, Loulsburg, was named to re place Bowman in the solici tor's post. He had served previously as assistant solicitor. Commenting on the appoint ment, Cobb said, "I appreciate the appointment and will try to do the best Job I can." The attorney graduated from W. R. Mills High School here, attended Citadel graduating as a 2nd. Lieutenant. He received his law degree from the University of North Carolina Law School at Chapel Hill in 1941. He served with the armed forced In Panama, with the reserves and later in the European Theater during World War II. He began prac Field Meets To Be Held A series of field meetings at Tobacco and Corn demonstra tion plots conducted by t|je Coker Seed Co. will be held on July 13 and 14, according to C. T. Dean, Jr., County Extension Chairman. The schedule Includes a stop in Franklin County at the Ben nle Ray Gupton farm, located See MEET Page 8 ticlng law In Wilmington In 1946. A member of the N. C. National Guard, he retired In 1966 with the rank of Lt. Colonel. Cobb Is married to the former Catherine Rogers of -Wilmington and they have three children, Ann Terrell, Allen, Jr., and Catherine Rogers.' The Eighth Sollcltorlal Dis trict encompasses the counties of Brunswick, New Hanover, Columbus, and Pender. William Allen Cobb To Be Buried Here Son Of Former Resident Killed In Vietnam Lance Corporal Charles Manley Gattls III, son of the late Charles M. Gattls, Jr. of Franklin County died In the base hospital at the Marine base In Dong Ha, Vietnam last Thursday, July 6 from severe wounds received In an ambush attack on June 27th by North Vietnamese on the Marine Base atConTheln. Gattls' grandfather, Charles M. Gattls was a well-known county citizen prior to his death several years ago. His father moved to Chicago, 111. after finishing State Univer sity at Raleigh. HI* mother, Mrs. E. C. Betus now lives In Crete, 111. She Is a native of Raleigh. Young Gattls was born In Chicago. The body will be shipped to Lancaster Funeral Home here lor burial In Oakwood Cemetery. Funeral arrange ments are Incomplete pending the arrival of the body. Cpl. Gattis is survived by his mother, one sister, Mrs. Dale Spiese of Jollet, 111.; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lessle Bradley of Raleigh and four aunts: Mrs. F. N. Tyson of Durham, Mrs. S. P. Gupton of Wilmington, N. C., Mrs. Robert E. Lee of Winston-Salem and Mrs. H. C. Leach of Mt. Airy, N. C. and one uncle, Marvin Bradley of Baltimore, Md. He Is also survived by several cousins In Franklin County. . Council Awards Street Contracts The Louisburg Town Council awarded the contract for re surfacing Market, Court and West Nash Streets here to the T. A. Loving Company last Friday night In a regular ses sion of the body. Loving was low bldd-r at $3,335.00. Franklin County, by action of the Board of Commissioners, Is contributing 91,000 toward the cost of the project. Work Is expected to be ac complished on the three down town streets when the firm returns to Louisburg to re surface Justice Street, a state bond project. Tne Council, in other ac tions, voted to extend sewer and water service to Oak Drive with the provision that assess ments would be made against the property owners. C. R; Sykes was reappointed to a three year term on the Town ABC Board and Coun cilman H. D. Jeffreys was named to succeed himself for another two year term on the Town Recreation Commis sion. E. T. Jones was reap pointed to the Firemen's Relief Committee for a two year term. The Council also passed an Interim budget ordinance to allow for expenditures by the town until the new budget gets final approval. The action co vers salaries, principal and Interest on debts and other ordinary town expenses to be spent at the same rate as provided In the 1966-97 budget. Final approval of the new budget is expected when the Council meets for that purpose on July 20. Fountain Urges Farm Program Support WASHINGTON, D. C. - Con gressman L. H. Fountain today urged North Carolina farmers to give overwhelming support to cotton, tobacco and peanut programs when they vote next week. Farmers will decide In the July 18 referendum whether to continue assessments for Tobacco Associates, the North Carolina Peanut Growers As sociation and the Cotton Pro motion Association, and whether to continue tobacco quotas. Fountain said the asso ciations have contributed Im measurably to Improving marketing conditions (or North Carolina farmers. "We should keep in mind the fact that In today's world, growing more competitive and complex, we simply must have our growers' association in order to properly serve our people," he said. "It Is hard to think of a product that competes suc cessfully In today's markets that does not have an asso ciation." Fountain said a simple ma jority vote In favor of the programs Is not enough. "At least a two-thirds ma jority is required, and I urge all farmers to go to the polls and make sure the margin is overwhelming," he said. "If the Congress ever gets the impression that our far mers are not enthusiastic In their support of these pro grams, the programs will surely be eliminated. So the bigger the vote for these pro grams, the stronger our posi tion will always be when 111 advlsed efforts are made to do away with a program." Market And Court Streets
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