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Louishurg, N. C., Tuesday, August 20. 1968
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99th Year-Number 53
Off To Oklahoma
SP/4 Jack Avent and Lt. Chris Canipe are shown above, foreground as units of the Louisburg, Youngsville and Zebulon
National Guard boarded a huge troop transport plane at Raleigh-Durham airport last Saturday. The units flew to Ft. Sill, Okla.
where they will encamp for the next two weeks. During the stay at the midwestern artillary base, the men, part of the 5th
Rocket Battalion will Tire four "Honest John" rockets. Photo courtesy of Joe Shearon.
Twenty-Three Teacher
Vacancies In Two County Units
Teacher vacancies in Franklin
County are running about normal for
the time of year, according to reports.
Statewide teacher vacancies, released
today by the N. C. Department of
Public Instruction, reveal there are 17
vacancies in the Franklin County
system and four vacancies in the
Franklinton City system. The county
unit accepted two resignations last
week due to retirement bringing that
unit's total to 19.
Franklin Superintendent Warren
One Solicitor
To Serve
Five Counties
Henderson--When 'he new district
court system is set up, one solicitor
will be named to serve for the Ave
counties in the district. The counties
are Vance, Warren, Franklin, Granville
and Person.
It is understood the appointment
will be made by Judge Hamilton H.
Hobgood of Loulsburg, resident judge.
There has been no indication as to
identity of the new official.
The three district judges who will
serve in the area are Julius Banzet of
Warrenton, who is expected to be
chief judge by designation of Judge
Hobgood; Linwood T. Peoples of Hen
derson and Claude W. Allen of Oxford.
AU were nominated in the primary last
May. They will assume their duties the
first Monday in December after formal
election in November.
Peoples said Judge Hobgood would
meet with the three judges, probably
in Henderson, some time in the next
several weeks. The solicitor may be
named at that time or before.
Wendell
Man Hurt
In Accident
Homer Horton, 38, of Rt. 2, Wen
dell was believed to have received back
injuries in a single vehicle accident on
N. C. 56 two miles west of Louisburg
just before noon today.
The late model panel truck driven
by Hoiton ran off the highway,
sheared a power pole and overturned.
Horton, taken to Franklin Memorial
Hocpltal by the Louisburg Rescue Ser
vice, is reportedly a salesman for the
Andrew Jackson Salea Co. of Raleigh.
Smith said Monday that the 19 vacan
cies are about the same as this time
last year for his system.
Of 54,700 estimated positions for
certificated personnel in the public
schools of the state for the up-coming
academic year, a total of 1,393 re
mained unfilled on August 12. This is
247 fewer vacancies than existed at
the same time last year and 469 fewer
vacancies than two years ago.
The state superintendent of public
instruction surveys the schools for
vacant positions each August when
positions already filled cannot be va
cated, before the schools open, with
out violation of the 30-day notice
required by law.
Unfilled teaching positions totaled
1,296 as compared to 1,497 last year
and 1,676 two years ago; unfilled
non-teaching vacancies (principals,
supervisors, librarians, counselors, etc.)
totaled 97 as compared to 143 on
August 14, 1967 and 186 on August
15, 1966. The ratio of vacancies re
mains about the same as during the
past two years with the greatest num
ber of vacancies existing in the elemen
tary schools. 735. At this time last
year, 794 elementary teaching posi
tions had not been filled.
State Superintendent Charles F.
Carroll said 73 of the state's 157
county and city school systems report
ed employing, for the 1968-69 school
year, more teachers holding less than
the Class A certificate (based on
college graduation) than they had em
ployed for the 1967-68 year. A num
ber also reported hiring two people to
See VACANCIES Page 8
Tri-County
0E0 Unit
Gets Grant
Allocation of $411,521 of Federal
funds to Franklin - Vance - Warren
Opportunity, Inc., has been announc
ed from the office of Governor Dan
Moore in Raleigh.
Purpose of the money is to finance
component projects developed and ad
ministered for alleviation of poverty.
Included among activities is that of
conduct and administration, neighbor
hood centers, and a full year Head
Start program. People to be served are
low income residents of the three
counties, it was explained by the Rev.
J. P. Mangum.
Sept. 3 Confirmed As
Marking Opening Date
Tuesday, Sept. 3, has been of
ficially confirmed by the board of
governors of the Middle Belt Ware
house Association as the date for start
of the tobacco auction season in the
belt. The board met Friday in Durham
and voted to accept the recommenda
tion of the Tobacco Marketing Com
mittee made recently.
At the same time, agreement was
reached on Monday, Aug. 26, as the
opening date for all markets in eastern
North Carolina. The Coastal Plains
Warehouse Association, a group form
ed last spring, had previously accepted
the August 26 date, but the larger
Eastern Carolina Warehouse Associa
tion had held out for Aug. 22. At a
meeting Friday in Greenville, however,
the Eastern association accepted Aug.
26 to make the opening date uniform
for the area.
Alao, warehousemen of the North
Carolina - Virginia Old Belt voted at a
meeting in South Boston to begin
season sales on a limited basis on Sept.
3, and regular full sales to begin Sept.,
17. Thomas F. DeJarnette, president
of the Old Belt Warehouse Associa
tion, announced the dates after a poll
of members of the association's board
of governors. The dates had been
recommended by the Tobacco Market
ing Committee at a meeting in Raleigh
Aug. 9.
DeJarnette said buying companies
have agreed to furnish nine sets of
buyers for the early sales. Normally
the Old Belt operates with 26 sets of
buyers.
Action in the various belts at the
weekend clarified the situation in en
tirety as to opening of the 1968
marketing season.
Georgia - Florida Belt sales and
those in the South Carolina Belt began
July 31. In the first two weeks of
auctions in those areas, deliveries to
the Stabilization Corporation, which
provides price supports, have been
much larger thfis far than in the
corresponding period of the 1967 sea
son.
Board Moves To Open Schools
Teachers Notified To Report
August 28, School Fees Set
Faced with a Wednesday hearing on
its petition to stay a federal court
order calling for total desegregation of
county schools this fall, the Franklin
County Board of Education moved
toward the opening of schools 011
schedule in a special meeting here last
Thursday night.
Attorneys for the Board will appear
for a hearing on the petition for a stay
of the August 5 court order before
Judge Algernon Butler in Clinton. N.
C. Wednesday. The court ordered the
Board to go to a six-zone attendance
system in the county which would
totally eliminate the dual school sys
tem. The Board filled a petition for a
stay with Fourth Circuit Chief Judge
Clement Haynsworth of Greenville, S.
C.
While no ruling has come down
from Judge Haynsworth, Board attor
neys have been ordered to appear
before Judge Butler Wednesday for a
Hits At TV
Program
Tarboro, N. C. . .Congressman L. H.
Fountain said today the CfS television
program "Heritage of Slavery" did far
more harm to race relations in this
country than it did to bring about
better understanding of racial pro
blems.
The program, part of a network
series, was shown Tuesday night.
Fountain said the program was a
distortion of facts, a disgrace to the
sponsor and the television industry,
and "could serve no purpose other
than to encourage racism on the part
of both blacks and whites."
The television industry, he said,
bears a heavier responsibility today
than ever before to present programs
which strengthen, not destroy, good
will between the races.
"Regrettably, programs such as
'Heritage of Slavery' completely anti
-white, not only in their production
but in their implications have a danger
ous impact not just in the South but
throughout America and the rest of
the world," Fountain said.
He said he "rationalized in every
way I could to see the program in the
most favorable light that might have
been intended. Even with such con
scious efforts, 1 did not succeed. "
Fountain also said the profanity
used by some of the program's part
icipants exceeded all bounds of accept
able standards of conduct, especially
for broadcast over television.
"I am letting the sponsor of this
program and the network over which
it was shown exactly how 1 feel about
this shocking exhibition," he said.
finding of fact hearing in the Board's
claims that compliance with the order
will disrupt the school system.
In Thursday's meeting, the Board
authorized Supt. Warren Smith to
notify teachers and principals to re
port for a countywide meeting on
August 28. as originally scheduled.
The meeting, to be held at Louisburg
High School, is the traditional kick-off
for the opening of schools.
Following the original schedule,
students may register on August 29 or
30 and the first full day will be
Tuesday September 3. This schedule,
however, is subject to change depend
ing on when a ruling is handed down
and the contents of such ruling.
The Board also set the fees for the
coming year as follows: Elementary
fees: Supply, $2.00. NDEA $2.00,
Insurance $2.50, (optional) and Activi
ty $1.00; High School fees: Supply,
$2.00, NDEA $2.00, Insurance $2.50
(optional). Home Ec. $2.00, Agricul
ture $2.50, Science $1.00, Typing
$13.50 and activity $1.00. The fees
are the same as those paid last year.
Resignations for the purposes of
retirement were accepted by the Board
from Mrs. Mary Belle Davis, Louisburg
Elementary School and Ruben M. I)ar
den, Gethsemane High School. Resig
nations from Miss Martha Yarborough,
Louisburg Elementary School and Mrs.
Susan Allen, Gold Sand High School
were not accepted.
With Board member William T.
Boone voting "No", the majority of
the Board voted to hold teachers to
contractual agreements which call for
thirty-day notices to be given upon
resignations.
In other actions, the Board declared
Cedar Street School unneeded for
further school purposed and leased the
building to Garland Mustian of Louis
burg. Board member Clint Fuller op
posed the move "at this time" al
though he said he favored leasing the
building to Mustian once the final
school plans were settled. He did,
however, vote for the motion after
expressing his belief that the Board
should wait for the court ruling.
Plans are being completed for the
annual election of Agricultural Stabili
zation and Conservation Service com
mitteemen for 1969. and balloting will
be by mail this year as in 1967, John
Davis. ASCS office manager, announc
ed today.
Davis said ballots will be mailed to
eligible growers about Sept. 6, and
must be returned not later than Sept.
16. All producers who share in the
production of crops are eligible to
vote. Persons who consider themselves
eligible to participate in the election
and who do not receive a ballot by
mail are asking to contact the ASCS
office.
Nominations for community com
mitteemen will be made and balloting
will be on the slate offered. Chairmen
of community committees will be del
egates to the county convention,
which will name officers for the coun
ty wide committee.
C. C. Perry of Rt. 3, Louisburg is
currently serving as chairman of the
county committee.
ASCS
Planned
Two Youths Drown
In Justice Farm Pond
Two 14-year-old Negro boys
drowned in a farm pond in the Justice
Community sometime last Saturday,
according to reports. The bodies were
discovered late Monday afternoon by
the owner of the pond.
Charles Elbert Harris and Nathaniel
Hardy, both of the Justice Community
had been missing from their homes
since Saturday afternoon, according to
the Hardy boy's father. They were
believed to have been spending Satur
day night at the home of one of the
youth's sister.
The bodies were discovered by Gra
ham B. Ball, owner of the pond
Monday afternoon around 4:30 P.M.
The Louisburg Rescue Service re
covered both bodies in a matter of
minutes, after being called to the
scene.
The twin-drowning brings to three
the number of water deaths in the
county this season. Four persons lost
their lives in water accidents in Frank
lin last year.
The first drowning of the year
occurred on July 22 when 14-year-old
Clarence Perry lost his life in a farm
pond on the Don Joyner Farm five
miles east of Louisburg just off N. C.
39. Perry was also a Negro.
Going back to August 7, 1967, all
four drownings since that time have
been Negro teenagers.
Scene Of Twin Drowning
The Louisburg Rescue Service prepares to recover bodies of two 14-year-old Negro youths who drowned in a farm pond at
Justice sometimes Saturday. The bodies were discbveted late Monday afternoon by G. B. Ball, owner of the pond.
Photo by Clint Fuller.