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WEATHER Partly cloudy and warm to day and Friday with widely scattered afternoon and even ing thundershowers. Low to day, 70; high, near 80. ?> ' The FraMkMn Times D..u:.k..j C ...... 1 TU....J... ? V ??; \ K V f . rs.1 r- - I i ? ^ Published Every Tuesday & Thursday ' *-^ ^ \ Serving All Of Franklin County Your Award Winning County Newspaper READ 'THENEROS FIDDLE, WHILE AMERICA BURNS" PAGE 4 TODAY Tel. Gy 6-3263 Ten Cents Louisburg, N. C., Thursday, August 3, 1967 (Ten Pages Today) 98th Year-Number 48 Cool It, Baby As grownups talk of , the long hot summer, cute little Haven Byrd Cooper, 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.J, Cooper of Loulsburg, couldn't care less. The pretty little miss Is spending most of her summer days enjoying the cool of the pool at Green Hill Country Club here. It.s a pity the camera could not capture all her charm, because she Is captivating, to say the least. Franklinton Voters Approve Supplementary Water Bonds Frankllnton voters gave overwhelming approval of a $100,000 supplementary water system Improvement bond Issue last Saturday, voting 203 for the proposal and only sis against. W. P. Pearce, Jr., attorney for the Town of Frankllnton, explained to The Times Wed nesday that although the Issue passed overwhelmingly, It was Impossible to set 9 date when the project would get under way. He said It was his under standing that federal funds, while tentatively approved, had not yet been approplated for the project. The Town of Frankllnton was given tentative approval of a grant of $100,000 and a loan of $440,000 a short time ago. Officials had originally sought to obtain a grant of 9285,000 plus a loan of 9296,000 from the federal government for water system Improvements. The announcement of the grant and loan amounts brought forth the situation that Frankllnton would be 900,000 short In Its bonds, approved last December 295-14. This brought about the new election last Saturday. Officials set the figure St 9100,000 saying that bonds would not be Issued in excess of the amount needed. Frankllnton has been laced with an acute water shortage tor the past lew years and water usage has been cur tailed there. Recent rains al leviated the situation some what but lack of rainfall for It's Hot | Out There J Temperatures in the ninety's here are bring ing the familiar, "Hot enough for you" these days, but it might be a little dangerous to ask this questiw* of the Louis burg National Guardsmen now encamped at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma* Sgt. Paul Mullen, in a | o all home Monday, re ported the temperature was 108 degrees there and Sgt. Garland (Leroy) Mustian, oalling home I Wednesday night, re J ported the temperature registered 116 degrees inside his tent yesterday. As the British would say, " Beastly 'ot to day." tMIMmillllIMM any notlcable length of time will again place Frankllnton In a critical condition. Efforts will perhaps t? made to speed up the start of the massive project which will renovate the present water plant and pipe water from Cedar Creek to the town lake. Driving i Are you driving more and enjoying It less these days? If so, the reaaon could very well be the Increase In re gistered vehicles In Frank lin and surrounding counties. As if anyone need tell you, there are more cars hitting the roadways everyyear. However, unfortunately or fortunately depending oo one's twlnt of view, Franklin has not kept pace with this mark of our affluent society. While Charlotte, " for example has Increased Its motor vehicle registrations over 84 percent since 1958 and neighboring Wake County has added 66 percent more than 1058, Franklin's Increase Is Just over 7 percent. In 1058 there were 5618 Local Scouts To Start Canadian Tour Sunday Twelve Loulsburg Boy Scouts are going to embark Sunday on a trip which could be the high mark of their young lives. The locals will travel by bus up the east coast on their way to the Montreal Expo '67 on what has been tagged the 1967 Canadian Goodwill Tour. Accompanying the group will be Scoutmaster Hoke H. Steel man and Rev. Norwood Jones, pastor of the Loulsburg Methodist Church, sponsor of the local scouts. Rev. Jones will act as counselor for In dividual scouts who will be making the trip from commu nities without a scoutmaster. These were named as Raleigh, Durham and Sanford. Among those local boys mak ing the trip wUl be Kirk House, John Kornegay, Will Wilder, Daryl Evans, Bennett Steel man, Meredith Jones, Larry Romero, Roy Pleasants, Larry Lloyd, Jack Versteeg, Chuck Latta and Nell Mc Donald. The group will travel from Loulsburg to Occoneechee Council Headquarters on Wade Ave. In Raleigh to board two chartered busses at 6:45 a.m. Sunday. They will spend Sun day night at Ft. Belvolr, Va. Monday the troop will visit Washington where they will present Congressman L. H. Fountain a gift of a set of aluminum chairs manufac tured here In Loulsburg and spend the night In Frederick, Md. Tuesday, the boys will visit Gettsyburg, Pa. and spend the Burglar Mystery Solved Sheriff William T. Dement announced the arrest of a suspect In the reported attempted burglaries recently In the area of Alvln Gray's pond, eight miles east of Loulsburg. Sheriff Dement said Samuel Davis, 22-year-old Rt. 2, Loulsburg Negro, was being held In Franklin Jail without bond charged with first degree burglary at the home of Percy Gilliam early the morning of July 21. The arrest was made Just before noon Tuesday by SBI Agent Haywood Starlings and Deputy Sheriff Dave Batten. Davis was taken where he was working tobacco Several miles from the scene of the alleged crime. Mo details were made available on what led officers to him. Sometime Just prior to, or on, the night of July 10, the home of two women living in the same area was ram sacked while they were visiting relatives. This past weekend, two mobile homes were victims of attempted breaklns. Sheriff Dement did not disclose the names of the residents Involved In the latest Incidents. Since the report of the first Incident In the area on July 10, residents have been alarmed. Monday of this week Sheriff Dement warned all to lock their doors and to report any unusual occurence to his office. Davis Is being held on only one of the charges and officer* have not said whether or not he was Involved in the others. night at Camp Gordon, Dundee, N. Y. Wednesday the tour will cover Niagara Falls and the boys will spend the night at Camp Hangar, Camp of the Crooked Creek, Toronto, Ca nada. Thursday the tour moves to RCAF base and a visit to Ft. Henry. The boy^ will lodge In Lake Ontario Park at King ston. Friday the group will be treated to a 5-hour trip through the 1,000 islands on a boat cruise and to Ottawa, Canadian capital and on to Montreal. They will spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at the Scout Expo '67 Camp at D^fval, P. Q. Cana da. Monday they will leave Ca nada for a trip to New York where they will staytwo nights at Ft. Hamilton, Brooklyn and slghtsee Manhattan, returning to Raleigh around 5:30 Wed nesday, August 16. Finances (or the trip have come from a number of local sources, and Scoutmaster Hoke H. Steelman has ex pressed the scouts' appreci ation for the widespread sup port given by the community. He has referred to the boys as "Goodwill Ambassadors" for Loulsburg and he also re ports that the boys are ready anil anxious to get underway. The Times has made ar rangements through Mr. Steelman to have reports of the Scouts' activities sent back dally Including the possibility of pictures of their trips. These reports will be pub lished as received. Parents may reach the Scouts at any of the nighttime addresses given If necessary. Draff Questions Answered, 37 Report For Physicals ' E. T. Jones, Chairman of Local Selective Service Board No. 35 has released answers to some of the many questions posed frequently to the local Board, by parents and draft registrants. Jones also had urged registrants to "keep In touch with the local Board at all times." He reminded them that their classification de pends upon Information they furnish the local Board. The Franltlln? County Selective Service Board office Is located In the Perry Building at 118 N. Main Street here In Louis burg. Mrs. Mary Lumpkin, sec retary to the Board, disclosed today that 37. county m?n will debark from the local bus station Friday morning to take the physical examination to determine their fitness for County Court Has Heavy Docket The following cases were disposed of during a session of Recorder's Court on Tues day, August 1st: Donald Eugene Jeffreys, n/jn/26, speeding. $10.00 fine and costs. Charles Kearney, Jr., n/m/33, speeding. $10.00 fine and costs. Henry Flowers Marshall, w/m/49, speeding. $15.00 fine and costs. Russell Howard Proctor, w/m/27, speeding. $15.00 fine and costs. Dock Floyd Wyche, n/m/18, no operator's license, $25.00 fine and costs. John Allison Wilson, Jr., w/m/19, motor vehicle viola tion. 910.00 fine and costs. James Henry Roome, n/m/46, assault on a female. Prayer for Judgment continued on payment of costs. W. A. Davis, n/m/35, tem porary larceny. State takes nol pros with leave on pay ment of costs. Paul Cllde Engram, n/m/42, operating auto Intoxicated. Plea of guilty of careless and reckless driving accepted by state. 1100.00 fine and costs. More And Enjoying It Less? automobiles and 1506 truck* In the county (or a total re storation of 7124, the latest figures for 1866 reveal a to tal Of 9,663. The North Carolina Motor Club figures lists Loulsburg as the only town In the county and shows that Loulsburg's Increase Is near the same as the county as a whole. In 1988, Loulsburg had a total of 4,324 vehicles and In 1966 there were 6,697 re gistered here showing an in crease of almost 8 percent. ft Is, however only In the past two years that Franklin has begun to move In this area. In 1986, for example the county had 9,261 vehicles for a high which held until 1965 when 9,311 were recorded. The low was in 1658 when the county had only 7,124. Q f the 100 counties In North Carolina, Franklin ranks 61st In the number of registered vehicles. Charlotte's motor -vehicle registration of 158,307 leads all cities in North Carolina. Complete figures for 1966 show Raleigh, ranked fourth In population, holding second place among the state's ten largest cities with a re gistration of 95,687, followed by Greensboro's 90,761. Others In the top ten are: Winston-Salem, 88,393; Dur ham, 57,400; Ashevllle, 48, 548; Fayettevllle, 47,500; High Point, 39, 870;Gastonla,33, 097; and Wilmington, 32,409. The ten leading counties are: Mecklenburg, 171,930; Gull ford, 148,099; Wake, 129,204; Forsyth, 110,208; Buncombe, 70,724; Gaston, 66,143; Cum berland, 65,185; Durham, 59,545; Catawba, 49,035; and Alamance, 48,879. Tyrrell had the smallest registration of the 100 counties with only 1,426. North Carolina's total 1966 registration climbed to 2,587,117, a gain of 177,139 or 7.4 per cent over 1965. The state's Increase was al most double the national gain of 4.2 per cent, from 90,360, 721 to 94,176,799 motor ve hicles. North Carolina ranks eleventh In the nation. Thirty states had more than a million motor vehicles registered. James Freddie Williamson, w/m/22, larceny. To be held for Franklin County Grand Jury under $500.00 bond. W. A. Davis, n/m/37, lar ceny. 90 days In Jail, sus pended on payment of $50.00 fine and costs and to pay 14.00 for use and benefit of W. B. (Buck) Harris. Lawrence Long, n/m/39, larceny. 90 days In Jail, sus pended on payment of $50.00 fine and costs, and $3.00 for use and benefit of W. B. (Buck) Harris. Festus Alfred Mltcher, w/m/54, speeding. Prayer for judgment continued on pay ment of costs. Charlie W. Morgan, n/m/27, speeding; wrong side of road; falling to comply with re striction on operator's li cense. Court order bond for feited. David .Lee Alston, n/m, as sault with deadly weapon. Not guilty. John L. Perry, attempted breaking & entering; damaging personal property. State takes nol pros with leave on pay ment of costs. Lawrence Long, n/m, lar ceny. Court finds no probable cause. Herbert Vendric Whitehead, n/m/47, speeding. $10.00 fine and costs. Oliver Steven Baker, n/m/19, speeding. $10.00 fine and costs. Joseph Lynwood Nicholson, n/m/35, speeding. Prayer for See COURT Page 6 Induction Into the armed ser vices. Fifteen others are scheduled for Induction, leaving here on August 8. The questions and answers as released by the Chairman follows: Question: We have only one son. Can he qualify for the ? Sole Surviving Son IV- A clas sification? Answer: The selective ser vice law provides he must be the sole surviving son of a family of which the father or one or more sons or daughters were killed In action or died In line of duty while serving In the Armed Forces of the United States, or subsequently died as a result of Injuries received or diseases Incurred during such, service. Question: Must a registrant return to his own local board for his Armed Forces physical examination and induction? Answer: No. He may trans fer for physical examination See DRAFT Page 6 Legion Asks Civil Defense Travel Aid Frankllnton Post 52 ot, the American Legion voted last week to petition the Frank llnton Town Council to appro priate funds to pay traveling expenses of the Civil Defense Director. Commander Bruce Honeycutt disclosed the mo tion also attested to the Post's desire to give full support to civil defense In Franklln ton. .State Trooper W. S. Etherlage Is presently Civil Defense head at Frankllnton. In other actions, Honeycutt said the Post set August 16 as the date for the annual merchant's fish fry. The event is to take place at 6 P.M. at the Legion hut In Franklln ton. Anatomy Of An Accident Any way you look it It, Mm accldant acana above shows two automobiles badly damaged. At left, looking aouth, tha front of a late modal ear la amaahad and at right, tha front of a 1086 Bulck fared no better. The accident occurred on Rural Unpaved Road 1424 Juat off NC-SC (tartly after noon last Tueeday. Ftre children were riding In the car at left, with Vaylene Cocart, c/m/41 of Creed moor driving. On* 9- year-old boy was a pas eenger In the Bulck, driven by Willie Lee Massenburg, c/m/56 of Route 4, Loulsburg. Thli child, Warren Price of East Orange, n. j?| wu taken to Franklin Memorial Hospital with head In juries not believed to be serious. Both care mat headw oa a curve on the dusty, bumpy road. ?MI *
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