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The
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Louisburg, N. C. Tuesday, February 27, ]?68
(Fight Pages Today)
NO. 1
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Q9th Year-Number 3
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Youngsville Boys & Girls Add Tourney Titles oa
Tourney Champs Pho,? by Ro" stu,p ng
Vickie Rogers, left, Most Valuable Player in the Tournament, and
Sandra Cash of Youngsvillc accept Conference Championship
trophy while holding Tournament Championship award.
Wednesday Closings Undecided
The Loulsburg Association, the or
ganization that annually faces the task
of getting local merchants together
on Wednesday afternoon closings, has
Power Off
Sunday In
Some Areas
Electric service to some communi
ties on Highway 39 will be Interrupted
for two hours on Sunday, March 3,
according to Tom Dabney, Carolina
Power & Light Company manager In
Zebulon.
The Interruption, which will be from
1:15 P.M. to 3:15 P.M., will affect
communities between Pilot and Ed
wards Store? Pine Ridge, Tant's
Crossroads, Poplar Springs, Bunn, Old
Bunn, Margaret, Gethsemane, and
Johnson Town.
The power will be off to permit
linemen to replace some poles and
to rework lines to Improve service
to the area.
I S \r aim ?
released a statement on reason; why
some stores will not observe the clos
ings this year.
The statement, as received from
Mrs. Juanlta Pleasants, Executive Sec
retary of the organization says, "It
Is believed the Wednesday closing of
a small town makes a "dead" town.
Since large competitors and shopping
centers are only a short drive from a
small town, they believe it helps to
build up the small towns by keeping
the customers at home. Shopping cen
ters and cities are open 9 to 9 every
day, so in order to help ourselves
as merchants, the twon needs to be
open. A closed business can not make
mq;iey". -
Mrs. Pleasants said, in the accom
panying note, "I am listing some of
the reasons that have been received
from the department store corporations
for not closing Wednesday afternoon".
No announcements have been made
by the Association or individual. bus
inesses on plans for other than those
referred to In the Association release.
In the past some businesses have
started the short day about this time
of year.
Last year's bridesmaids became the
brides Friday night as the conference
champion Youngsville girls downed
Epsom for the Franklin County Tour
nament crown. Saturday night's boy's
championship was more of the same
as the Youngsville Phantoms, number
two ranked team in the state, slapped
the Bunn Bulldogs for the title.
Vickie Rogers, voted all conference,
all tournament and Most Valuable Play
er, led the Youngsville girls to the
48-36 win over Epsom Friday night,
scoring 21 points. Larry PaschalL
? chosen all conference a,nd all tour
nament, paced the Phantoms with 22
points as high scorer in the Saturday
night game as Youngsville captured the
title, 80-59.
Bur\n's Milton Horton, selected to
the all-tournament squad, led the Bull
dogs with 22 points in a stellar per
formance. Delores Falkner, all con
ference and all tournament from Epsom
led her team with 19 points.
At the end of the first half, the
Youngsville girls held a 25-14 lead
and the decision seemed to have al
ready been made. But the never -say
die Epsom girls came roaring back
in the third period and catching Young
sville with a cold hand brought the
score back to 25-21 at the 3:52 time
mark. Youngsville failed to score in
the first four minutes ?f play in tlie
third frame. Harriet Pearce scored a
field goal to make the tally at the end
of three, 33-26. lif tlie final frame,
the Youngsvlile cagers again found the
range and led by Vickie Rogers, they
outscored Epsom, 15-9 to take the
final 48-36 win.
The Saturday night championship con
test was Youngsvlile boys all the way.
They Jumped out to a 21-11 first period
lead, made it 36-23 at, tlie half and
started the final period with a 56-38
edge.
Four Phantoms hit in double figures.
In addition to Paschall, Morris Catlette
had 18, and C. L. Wrenn and Rodney
Roberts each had ten. Except for
Morton, only Robert Bowden of Bunn
hit in double figures, scoring 11 points.
Youngsvlile will represent the county
as "A" team in the District HI play
offs at Rocky Mount, with the first
game slated for Saturday night March
2, at 8:30 p.m. against Johnston
County's "A" team. Bunn will go
to Rocky Mount by virtue of finish
ing second in the conference as the
County's "B" team and will also play
Saturday night,- March 2 at 7 p.m.
against Johnston's "B" team. Winners
in Saturday night's playoff games will
advance to the District III tournament
See YOUNGSVILLE Page 8
sportswear Hearing
Continues Today
Motion To Bar Newsman Denied
Testimony was resumed this morn
ing at 9:30 A.M. in the case of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
of America versus Loulsburg Sports
wear Company. The hearings are tak
place In the courthouse before the
Honorable Harry R. Hlnkes of Wash
ington, National Labor Relations Board
Trial Examiner.
The Union contends that the election
held at Sportswear last October 12 In
which the ACWU was soundly defeated
by a vote of 121-39, was improper
because the "employer'scampalgnwas
Intertwined with a local businessman's
campaign In which furtive threats of
plant closing made by individual bus
inessmen to Individual employees and
the public lnuendo of plant closing was
made by the local newspaper on Sep
tember 28 and October 5, 1967, so
polluted the atmosphere that the hold
ing of a free and fair election was
rendered Impossible".
ACWU also contends that certain
actions on the part of the company,
such as wage Increases and improv
ed hospital benefits affected the out
come of the election.
In testimony heard Monday afternoon,
three witnesses Identified their Union
cards and all said they had been
promised nothing by the persons, not
disclosed, who presented them the
cards. All said that an election was
not mentioned at the time the cards
were passed out. The witnesses, Mrs.
Dorothy Dickinson Batton, Peggy Jean
Fogg and Mrs. Agnes P. Leonard ag
peared for the prosecution and the
Union.
Larry Eubanks of Winston-Salem is
prosecuting attorney for the NLRB and
Nell Llpton of New York Is assistant
General Counsel of the ACWU. Richard
Keenan of New Orleans represents the
company. Rachel Barnes, union organ
izer, who has been here since last sum
mer when the union first started acti
vities, is assisting the prosecution
and Jerry Costa, local plant executive
is assisting the company attorney.
Just before the start of testimony
See HEARING Page 4
Society To Meet
The February meeting of the Franklin
County Historical Society will be held
Thursday night February 29, In the
community room of (the First Citizens
Bank Building on Blckett Blvd.
A varied program is planned, with
several members taking part in dis
playing and describing items pertain
ing to Franklin County History.
Tlmf* for the meeting is 8 P.M.
and the public is Invited.
Tourney Champs Pho'? by Ro" st"""n?
^ oungsv i lie s l.arr\ I'asehall. Jesse Preikly. L. J. Wilder
and ( I. W'renn gel Tournament Trophy
from Sup!. Warren W. Smith.
Dean Farms Expands
Local Operation
Dean Farms Inc. has completed here
the only egg products facility in North
Carolina capable of processing multi
ple blends of egg yolks and whites,
as well as whole eggs.
Jackson Dean, owner of the Dean
Farms operation, today announced his
new facility is ready to start supply
ing bakeries, restaurants and insti
tutions or special accounts with a
wide variety of special egg blends.
Dean indicated that salt, sugar, stabi
lizers or other ingredients may 1*
blended to meet the specific needs of
the customer. The facility, valued at
approximately $200,000, is an addition
to the existing Dean Farms shell egg
processing plant.
Planning for the new facility was a
co-operative effort with the North Car
olina Department of Agriculture which
administers egg regulations, promote
quality ahd assists in other egg market
ing operations.
Agriculture Commissioner James A.
Graham said the operation will pro
vide expanded outlets for the North
Carolina's nrnHnror aivt mill
ply consumer^ with an increased sup
ply of whole and blended egg ingred
ients. He noted the facility has a
capacity for pasteurizing 3,000 pounds
of egg per hour.
Jackson Dean stated that seven new
jobs, for people in the Louisburg area,
were created by the addition. The firm
expects to hire five other persons
in the next few months when two
more breaking machines *o comple
ment the two now in operation. Each
machine is capable of handling 20
cases, containing 30 dozen, of eggs
per hour.
Commissioner Graham said an egg
inspector and grader from the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture's
grading service will be on hand con
tinuously to assure that all products
are properly graded and labeled with
the USDA shield of quality. The NCDA's
poultry and egg \ services section was
extensively involved in the planning
and the technical aspects of( the fac
ility to make" Sure it met the North
Carolina and * USDA regulations for
Collier Home
Pictured above is the ruins of the old Percy Joyner home
piece where Are destroyed all furnishings of the Charlie
Collier family, who occupied the dwelling The blaze struck
Saturday morning around 10:1S a.m. Four children, ages
7 to 14 escaped the blaze while their parents were away
at work. Bunn firemen answered the call. Bunn also was
called Saturday around 3:15 a.m. to a grass fire near
Popular Springs Church, which destroyed tour out buildings
on the Tommy Williams estate (arm.
Day Home
Scan* above shows home o f the Ralph Day family as It was
destroyed by fire around 1 p.m. last Thursday. The dwelling
was located Just off Halifax Street here behind the Rowe
automobile agency on N. C . 561. All furnishings were des
troyed with the house as the Day family was away at the start
of the blaze. Loulsburg firemen answered the call.
Staff Photos by Clint Fullor