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Louisburg, N. C., Thursday, July 25, 1968
(Ten Pages Today)
99th Year-Number 46
County Courthouse -
. - ? SOME IDEA OF APPEARANCE
Major Building Projects Underaay
Three major building projects are
now underway in the Louisburg area.
The three projects represent a total
expenditure of $762,342 plus furnish
ings and other allied items.
The County of Franklin is financing
a massive courthouse improvement
project Financed by a $200,000 bond
issue; the Board of Education, using
state school bond money is having a
five-classroom junior high school
building erected at the local school
and Louisburg College expects to com
plete a 104-bed women's dormitory
and infirmary in time for the fall
opening.
The courthouse project is well un
derway with the inside of the old
structure gutted and some of the
renovation work completed. Additions
on the north and south of the building
have reached the second story stage as
brick masons are making steady pro
gress on the work. Some idea of the
ultimate appearance of the building
can be gotten at this stage of the
project. The completion of the job is
expected around the end of the year.
Meanwhile county offices have settled
down in new quarters scattered around
town.
The new junior high school build
ing, which will contain a modern
science room is expected to be com
pleted shortly after the scheduled
opening of school in early September.
Students are not expected to occupy
the new quarters until sometime later.
The building will ease, somewhat,
overcrowded conditions at Louisburg
school, subject to an expected ruling
on assignments by the U. S. Eastern
District Court.
The College dorm and infirmary is
near completion on the outside but
much work is yet to come on the
interior of the building. Although it is
supposed to be ready for the fall
opening, there is a possibility of delay.
The design of the structure matches
that of the present Patten and Merritt
dorms built in recent years,
A number of private building pro
jects can be seen around the county
area adding emphasis that times are
relatively good in this section. Town
Franklinton Schools Opening Set
Students in the Franklinton City
Schools unit will report for registra
tion this year on Wednesday, August
28, according to an announcement
made Wednesday. Teachers will report
for duty two days earlier, on August
26.
Monday, September 2 will be
observed as Labor Day holiday with
classes resuming the following day.
The Franklinton schools will be closed
on October 15 for the District NCEA
meeting and two days will be observed
as Thanksgiving holidays.
Christmas holidays at Franklinton
will begin on December 23 and run
through January 1, 1969 and four
days have been set up for Easter
holidays on April 3, 4, 7 and 8.
Graduation exercises will be held on
May 29, 1969, the last day of school.
At last report the Franklinton
system was expecting to be denied
approval of its desegregation plan by
the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare and no mention of the
status of the plan was made in Wednes
day 's announcement. Apparently,
school officials do not expect any
delay in the announced school
opening.
Fox Resigns As Principal
Louisburg School principal Albert
D. Fox announced his resignation this
week to assume a position of principal
at Plymouth, N. C. Fox, 35, said he
was leaving "with mixed emotions"
but that the Plymouth position offer
could not be turned down.
No replacement has been named as
yet. Superintendent Warren Smith is
ALBERT D. FOX
out of town attending a conference at
Mars Hill. Board of Education vice
chairman Clint Fuller, who represents
the Louisburg district, said he has
conferred with Willis Nash, Chairman
of the local school advisory commit
tee. on the matter and that the two
have several prospects for the position.
He said they would await Smith's
return before beginning a screening
process to select a new principal.
Fox came to Louisburg in 1961 as a
teacher-coach. He was named principal
on September 17, 1964 replacing
Howard Stallings. who resigned at the
time to enter private business. Stallings
is now assistant superintendent of
Granville County Schools. Fox, before
coming to Louisburg, had taught in
Bradenton, Florida.
Fox, nU wife the former Nona
Wynn of Raleigh and their two daugh
ters, Danette 13 and Connie 10, have
made a host of friends here. Fox said
he will take over his new duties on
August 1.
Fuller said that Louisburg coach
Tommy Twitty will be asked to look
after the school buildings and parti
cularly the new building now under
construction until a replacement for
Fox it named. Both Fuller and Nash
expressed regrets at the loss of Fox
and both extended their best wishes
for him and his family in their new
location.
and Country Recreation, Inc. is under
way with its swimming pool project
and Green Hill Country Club is re
opening its golf course this weekend
following a $30,000 renovation pro
ject.
Franklin County To
Get Geodetic Survey
Franklin County is one of nine
counties in an eastern North Carolina
area that is to get a comprehensive
survey by the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey department and the
N. C. Geodetic Survey Division. The
study is expected to take four months.
GOP Convention
Here Saturday
For the first time In many years,
the Franklin County Republican Party
will hold a county convention. The
convention is scheduled Saturday, July
27 in the auditorium of the Louisburg
High School. Registration begins at 10
A.M. and the convention begins at 11
A.M., according to Richard Alston,
newly named county chairman.
The GOP convention is expected to
name an executive committee and a
party chairman to serve for the next
two years. Those holding these posi
tions on a temporary basis are expect
ed to be made permanent party leaders
here Saturday.
Specialists are already survey
ing some areas oT the nine-coun
ty region looking for spots from
which to fly balloons. It is ex
pected that this fall, the spots
selected will be temporarily oc
cupied by tall steel towers that
will flash signals at night.
These towers will have men on top
of them, whose purpose it will be to
try to establish a more accurate net
work of surveyors' control points for
this section of the country.
Other counties involved in
the project are: Person, Gran
ville, Durham, Vance, Wake,
Warren, Nash, and Halifax. The
work will take place in an area
bounded on the west by Rox
boro, on the east by Rocky
Mount, on the south by Raleigh,
and the north by the Virginia
State line.
In the comprehensive survey which
will take approximately four months
to complete, a primary network of at
least 40 control points at}d a secon
dary grid of another 100 ^surveyors'
monuments is expected to be a big
College Dormitory
? - - BY FALL OPENING, MAYBE
County School Officials Await
Judges Decision As School Opening Set
Franklin County school officials
continue to await word from the U. S.
Eastern District Court on approval or
disapproval of a proposed plan of
operation for the system eleven
schools this fall. The Board of Educa
tion submitted a plan on order of the
Court on July 15, calling for an
increase in Negro enrollment in pre
dominantly white schools this fall and
more shifting of teachers across racial
lines. ? -
Submitted at the same time, were
two plans from plaintiffs in the Frank
lin school suit. The NAACP presented
a plan to make current Negro schools
elementary schools this fall and white
schools were proposed as high schools.
The U. 3. Department of Justice, in its
plan sought to have a total consolida
tion of present schools based on a
geographic zone with local school offi
cials to select which schools would be
used as high schools and which would
P.O. Closed Saturday
Service windows will be closed ail
day on Saturdays at the Louisburg
Post Office, beginning July 27, 1968,
according to E. L. Best, P.M. Normal
dispatch of mail will be made on
Saturdays and incoming mail will be
placed in lock boxes and both rural
and city deliveries will be made. As of
this date, the closing of the windows
on Saturdays will be the only curtail
ment in local services to our patrons.
be used as elementary schools. Both of
these plans calls for total integration
when schools open in September.
Local officials are making no state
ments pertaining to what is expected
of the Court ruling arid none will
speculate on when they believe Judge
Algernon Butler will issue a ruling.
It was learned, however, that Judge
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help in reducing boundary disputes,
confirming the correctness of develop
ers' plat maps, enabling computers to
check property tax payments and
helping to move quickly and precisely
locate underground utilities. The mon
uments are also invaluable for highway
and bridge construction and other
types of development.
The Coast and Geodetic Survey
reconnaissance team of William G.
Twaddle and Paul H. Swift now walk
ing around in the nine-county area will
spend the next few months finding
spots to place the primary markers.
They will be set from two to five miles
from the nearest other primary points.
These men are looking for appropriate
ly spaced and easily accessible sites
from which a temporary signal tower
can be seen from towers at other
primary points. A bronze disc set in a
cement monument will mark the
points. When the monuments cannot
be placed on public property, private
owners will be asked to allow them to
be placed on their land.
If lines were drawn on a map
linking the primary points, the
network would look like
chickenwire. Superimposed on
See SURVEY Page 6
Franklinton
Employees
Get Pay Hike
The Franklinton Town Board has
granted a ten percent pay increase to
town employees, according to reports,
including the Franklinton police de
partment.
It was disclosed a few weeks ago
that Franklinton police were being
paid less than Louisburg police at a
time when the Louisburg department
was t>eing plagued with resignations
due to the low salary. Louisburg town
officials upped the locals to $100 per
week in action here last week. A
report at the time disclosed that
Franklinton police started at $70 per
week and were earning $77.50 before
the new raise.
It was also reported that Franklin
ton police officer Tom Allen has been
named assistant Chief and given some
above the ten percent increase. Chief
Leo Edwards, obviously pleased with
the move, commented, "Allen deserves
it for the fine job he's done. He's the
best I've seen for tending to his job".
Edwards disclosed that Jackie
Stroud of Franklinton will assume the
duties of a police officer about August
3 or 4 and that Bobby Burger, most
recent addition to the force is resign
ing due to his residence being in
Granville County. Stroud will replace
officer Leslie Joyner who has retired
due to health. Joyner has returned
home following a lengthy stay in the
hospital.
The salary increases became effec
tive on July 1, according to reports.
Junior High School
? ? ? TO EASE OVERCROWDING