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WEATHER Fair and a little warmer to day. Generally fair and warm Wednesday. Low today, 52; high, 82. The Frafltfh Times Published Every Tuesday & Thursday ^ Serving All Of Franklin County Your Award Winning County Newspaper NO. 1 IN THE NATION IN COMMUNITY SERVICE * Tel. Gy6-3283 Ten Cents Louisburg, N C., Tuesday, October 3, 1967 (Twelve Pages Today) 98th Year-Number 65 Board Sets School Closing, Oct. 13 Holiday The County Board of Education, meet ing In regular session here Monday, set next June 5 as the last day o 1 school. This represents one of the latest closing dates In recent years In the county system. The delay. Is due In part to the loss of four days of school at the beginning of the year. The Board approved Friday, October 13, as a holiday In order that teachers In predominantly white schools might attend the annual NCEA meeting In Raleigh. All predominantly white schools In the county system will be closed on that day. Teachers who belong to the predominantly Negro NTEA will attend that organization's Firemen's Letter Ignored The Board of County Commissioners Ignored a letter from the Franklin County Firemen's Association calling for reinstatement of the County Elect rical Inspection Program, In Monday's session here. The letter, dated September 28, and reportedly delivered by hand to Chair man E. M. Sykes, was not presented to the Board In the regular session. The document, entitled "A Reso lution of the Franklin County Fire men's Association Petitioning the Hon orable Members of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners to Reinstate the Program of County Electrical In spection" stated, the Association "believes that there Is a need for all new electrical Installations In buildings located In the corporate limits and outside the corporate limits be in spected and a certificate of Inspection be Issued". The letter stated that It Is the "unan imous" opinion of the members that the program should be reinstated "as a safety measure In reducing future fire hazards.'-' .. . , ^ In closing, the request was agaih made that the program be reinstated. The Board killed the program earlier when several citizens complained of the lack of service. Promotion To Start The Loulsburg Business Associa tion will launch Its annual fall sales promotion Thursday, with bargains reported to be well distributed a round town. Mrs. Juanlta Plea sants, Executive Secretary of the Association, said last week that the event Is slated to be one of the biggest of Its kind ever staged here. A $50 cash prize is being offered by the Association members this year and customers are urged to register with each visit In any of the participating businesses. The drawing for the winner will be held Monday, October 9, and the lucky shopper will be notified. meeting In the Spring, it was announc ed. No holidays were knocked out of the original schedule, although the possi bility looms that, should Inclement wea ther cause further loss days, some of the Easter holidays could be af fected. As the schedule now stands, April 10, 11, 12 and IS will be ob served as Spring or Easter Holidays. Also included In the schedule Is De cember 21 through January 1 as Christ mas holidays. Two days will also be given for Thanksgiving. Board chairman Horace Baker, mem bers W. T. Boone and J. A. Winston were named delegates to the N. C. State School Board Delegate Assembly at Chapel Hill on October 26. A lengthy discussion was held on school cafeterias during the session with no actions taken. A study Is to be made of sales In. schools which conflict with the lunchroom program, however. Superintendent Warren Smith report ed to the Board that as of September 20, there were 5,802 children enrolled in the county schools. It was also reported that of the 3,236 Negro stu dents enrolled, slightly over ten per cent were In predominantly white schools as directed by the U. S. Eastern District Court in a ruling last August. Enrollment figures also show that the Bunn School leads In enroUment among the predominantly white schools with Louisburg High School close be hind. Bunn reports 778 students while Louisburg has 771. Riverside Is the largest Negro school with an enroll ment of 1,307 as of September 20 Youths To Get Hearing Four Negro youths arrested last week and a fifth picked up last Friday, will face preliminary hearings today In Re corder's Court here, in charges of as sault against five Loulsburg College students. Arrested last week were, Lymuel Rodwell, 20, William E. Clifton, 19, Hannibal Shearln , 25, and Jimmy Al ston, 19. Roy Lee Dale, 23, of Rt. 3 Loulsburg was arrested Friday. All are charged with assault with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill and Inflicting bodily injury not resulting In death. The five students were, reportedly walking along Wade Avenue here on 11 P.M. when a truck carrying six to eight Negro" youths stopped. The Negroes Jumped out of the truck and began to assault the white youths, according to reports. Bill Carpenter, 18, of Henderson vllle, N. C. received an 8-lnch gash and a 2-inch gash on the head plus an Inch and a half gash on the arm. With Carpenter, when the attack oc curred were: Jeb Koury, 19, of San ford, Bruce Chandler, 19, of Wilming ton, Delaware, Danny Taylor, 17, of Miliord, Delaware and Pat Radford, 18, of Chesapeake, Virginia. The report of the arrests was made by Loulsburg Police Chief Earl Thar rlngton who was aided In the investi gation by SBI agent, Billy Crocker. The hearings today are slated before Judge E. C.i Bulluck. Rites Held For Col. Sturges Funeral services for Conrad Boyd Sturges, 66, of Henderson were con ducted Monday at noon from the Holy Innocents Episcopal Church. Burial followed in National Cemetery in Ra leigh. Col. Sturges died Friday fol lowing a lenghty illness. He had a military record of many years, and following retirement Aug. 1, 1969, was named executive secre tary of the Header son-Vance County Chamber of Commerce, which office he held at the time of his death. He was born In Henderson June 11, 1901, son of the lat\w. K. and EUa Belle Boyd Sturges. was a member of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church and of the Henderson Rotary Club. Survivors are his wife, the former Louise Allen of Louisburg; a ion, Conrad B. Sturges, Jr., of Taylors ville, and a daughter, Mrs. W. T. Cheatham, Jr., of Statesvllle; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. H. B. Bryan of Osford; and two brothers, W. K. Sturges of Henderson and Char les Sturges of Chicago. Col. Stnrges Joined the North Caro lina National Guard in January, 19S1, and was inducted Into Federal service Sept. 16, 1940, and served In all commissioned grades from second lieutenant to colonel. He commanded a tank destroyer battalion In the Third Army In France In World War n, and participated In all major cam paigns In Europe. After World War II, be served as senior Army advisor and chief of the military district of North Carolina, as post commander and chief of staff of the Southwest Command in Japan for four years, and as Inspector general at Fort Jackson, S. C., until his re tirement. His decorations included the Bronze Star and Oak Leaf Cluster for meri torious service; the French Croix de Guerra with (old star, and the Euro pean and other campaign medals. He was honored by the North Caro lina National Guard by promotion to brigadier-general and by presentation of the North Carolina Distinguished Service Medal. He returned to his home In Hender son upon retirement and soon there- 1 after affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce. Active pallbearers were: W. St urges Bryan of Oxford; Felix H. Allen, Jr., Louis H. Wbeless, Jr., and William C. Perry, all of Loulsburg; Robert (Bobby) Blaylock of Warrenton; H. John Hatcher, Jr., of Mocksvllle; Har ry C. James, Burlington, and Robert A. Parker of Wilmington. Negro Parents File Notice To Intervene In Franklin School Case r Eleven Negro parents, representing 55 students, filed Notice of Interven tion in U. S. Eastern District Court in Raleigh Monday afternoon. The par ents seek, through their attorney, to intervene in the Franklin County School suit. The parents claim that the original Negro plaintiffs did not represent them in the action brought by the NAACP and the U. S. Justice Department against the Board of Education. The action resulted in a ruling last August by Judge Algernon Butler requiring the School Board to assign ten percent of the Negro school population to predominantly white schools. The inter veners are opposing this assignment of their children to schools which they did not choose under the freedom of choice plan in existance last Spring when choices were made. Harvest Time In Franklin County The pretty little miss pictured above, enjoying the breath taking (all harvest scene, Is Martha Jane Powell, 3 1/2 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Powell, 140 N. Berry Hill Road, Rocky Mount. The Powell's, traveling along U. S. 64 near Pilot In Franklin County, had stopped to view the above scene and others in the yard of the E. L. T ant's, Rt. 2., Zebulon. The scene very adequately pictures the harvest season and Is appropriate today as the Loulsburg Business Association announces Its annual fall sales promotion. Superior Court Ends Here The second week of Superior Court held here, which dealt with the Criminal docket, was concluded last Friday, with Judge Hamilton H. Hobgood presid ing. Cases disposed of are as follows: George Wayne Johnson, manslaughter. Jury verdict of guilty of Involuntary manslaughter and finds that the de fendant 4s a youthful offender; there fore under the provisions of General Statutes 148-494, the defendant is plac ed In the custody of the Commissioner of Correction for treatment and super vision for a maximum term of three years or until conditionally released or unconditionally discharged by the Board of Paroles as provided by. law. William Henry Harris, murder. De fendant enters plea of guilty of In voluntary manslaughter which plea Is accepted by the State and the Coyrt. Defendant to be committed to the State Department of Correction to the cus tody of the Commissioner of Correc tion for a minimum period of not less than five years and a maximum of not more than ten. It Is further order ed that the gun Involved In this case be destroyed by the Sheriff of Franklin County. , + Loans Now Available Advance Price-Support Loan* are available now at the Franklin County ASCS Office on the 1967 crop of flue cured tobacco stored on farm* In our county. These loans will enable farm ers to get Immediate cash and hold tobacco on tbelr farms for later mar keting when congestion has lessened. Here Is how the loan program works: Visit the Franklin ASCS Office at 307 East Nash Street, Loulsburg, N.C.; or call 496-3121 to apply for a loan. Otfloe personnel will obtain appropriate information. An ASC Committeeman will visit the farm, explain the program to the grower,' and Inspect the tobacco for quality, and make an estimate of the total poundage. If the tobacco is of average quality or better, and the farmer has com plied with his acreage allotment, the grower may reoelve 45? per pound on the portion of his tobacco which has not been marketed', up to 110% of his marketing quota. Any grower In Franklin County who obtains a loan during the 95-hour period of iparketlng untied tobacco tor the Middle Belt may sell the tobacco under loan In the untied form with price support on any belt, even after untied sales have ended for that belt. A grower may not obtain a loan on tobacco on which a lien Is held, unless the Uenholder waives his prior rights. Loans must be repaid by December 18, 1967 or the tobacco under loan will have to be delivered to a re ceiving station for a full price support loan from Flue-cured To bacco Stabilisation Corporation. The Interest rate for these loans la 3 1/2 %, and there Is a >4.00 service fee for each loan. Visit or call the ASCS Office for more information. Ernest Newell Ayscue, breaking and entering; larceny, attempting to break and enter. Pleads guilty to the charges of breaking and entering; larceny; and enters a plea of nolo contendere to the charge of attempting to break and entering. The Court order* that the defendant be committed to the State Department of Correction to the cus tody of the Commissioner of Correc tion for a minimum period of not less than five years nor a maximum of not more than seven. Marlon B. Jeffreys, ID, larceny of automobile; breaking and entering; lar ceny; breaking and entering and lar ceny; larceny of automobile. Pleads guilty to both cases of larceny of auto mobile and breaking and entering. Upon recommendation of the Solicitor, the State takes a nol pros with leave to See COURT Page 2 seeKlllK iu uetume ? the case through Henderson attorney .lnwood T. Peoples, the eleven par ents claim, "That the plaintiffs do not represent the Interests of the defendant-lntervenors, but "J* of the Court have adversly affected this Interest and rights of the defendants lnterventors." The action also declares, That In the Spring of 1967, the defendants lntervenors under the Freedom of Choice plan administered by the Frank lin County Board of Education freely chose to attend predominantly Negro schools In Franklin County and this choice was made without threat or Intimidation from any source and without fear on the part of the defen dants-lntervenors. That these de fendants-lntervenors still desire to attend the schools that they freely chose to attend In the spring of 1967." The Board of Education assigned 282 Negro children to predominantly white schools last month in compliance with the Court order. The 55 children mentioned In the action filed Monday were among those so assigned. The Interveners say they are "In formed and believe that the freedom of choice plan administered by the Franklin County Board of Education was approved by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and as to these defendants-lntervenors, they allege that the freedom of choice plan Is constitutional." The defendants-lntervenors aleo alalm that they will " suffer irreputable Injury unless they are allowed to Inter vene to defend themselves In this action." \ In the original complaint, Rev. Luther Coppedge and ten other Negro parents claimed to represent "other parents similarly situated." The latest ac tion In the two-year old suit bring* out a discount to this claim. In a separate action, filed Monday and entitled "Answer to Complaint", the eleven parents seeking to become lntervenors on the side of the County Board of Education state: "It 1" admitted that the plaintiffs (original eleven paretns filing the suit) . . ? are plaintiffs herein but It Is speci fically denied that the defendants-ln tervenors are similarly situated and affected by the policy custom, prac tice and usage complained of in plain tiffs complaint. That the Interveners have never been contacted concerning this matter; that the defendants-lnter venors are not members of the class on behalf of whom the plaintiffs bring the action; that the rights of the de fendants-lntervenors are not common to the plaintiffs herein; that defen dants-lntervenors do not seek the same relief as the plaintiffs and that plain tiffs do no freely and adequately re present the Interest of the defendants lntervenors." The Board of Education recently deni ed the request of the parents of the 55 children to have their children re assigned to schools previously attend ed. The reason stated In the denial was that the Board was complying with the orders of the federal court. A petition to stay the ruling was denied by Judge Butler last month and the School Board was given until next April 1 or thirty days following an appel decision before the Fourth Cir cuit Court In Richmond, to file a plan otljer than freedom of choice with the court. j The parents filing Monday's action have asked the Court for Immediate permission to Intervene. Board Orders Election The Board of Count; Commissioners, after an aborted start Monday morning, reopened their meeting at 2:30 P. M. Monday afternoon and proceeded to set in motion the legal documents necessary to calling the 1200,000 Courthouse Bond vote. Commissioners Norwood Faulkner, George Harris and E. M. Sykes showed up for the announced 10 A. M. session, but all had other business and In the absence of the two other members, adjourned until Monday afternoon. Commissioner Richard Cash was pre sent for that session. Commissioner Brooks Young was absent. Polling places and precinct Regis trars and Judges were announced for the November 25 voting on the Issue of renovating the present courthouse facility. They are as follows: Dunn? Bunn School; Registrar, How ard Tant; Judges, Wlllard White, Beanie Williams. Dunn #2? Pearces Church; C. K. Pearce, Sr., Registrar; Judges, a B. Perry, H. K. Baker. Harris ? Hagwood Store; B. T. Bunn, Registrar; Judges, Robert Ward, D. If. Pearce. Toungsville? Town Hall, Mrs. E. J. (EsteUe) Pearce, Registrar, Jadges, See ELECTION Page a
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