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Tel. GY6-3283 Ten Cents Louisburg, N. C., Thursday, August 29, 1968 (Twelve Pages Today)
99th Year-Number 56
Zones, Schools, Teacher Assignments Annoonced
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Attendance Zones
No. 1 Louisburg
No. 2 Bunn
No. 3 Youngsville
No. 4 Gold Sand
No. 5 Edward Best
No. 6 Epsom
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The six-zone attendance map, ordered by U. S. Eastern
District Judge Algernon Butler August 5, is shown above. The
zones are drawn along attendance lines of areas served by
predominantly white schools last year. Students will attend
the schools in which their grades are being taught in the zone
in which they live, according to the Butler order.
ZONE ONE: LOUISBURG: Grades 5-12 will attend classes
at Louisburg High School, located on Allen Lane. Grades 1-4
will attend classes at Louisburg Elementary School located on
the River Road. The zone runs coterminus with the Louisburg
Township and special tax district:
ZONE TWO ? BUNN: Grades 5-12 will attend classes at
Bunn High Schooi located on N. C. 39 south of the Bunn
Town limits. Grades 1-4 will attend Bunn Elementary School,
located on State Rural Road No. 1719. The zone is relatively
the same as that served by Bunn High School last year.
ZONE THREE - YOUNGSVILLE: Grades 1-12 will attend
Youngsville High School. The Youngsville Elementary Negro
School has been closed. The lines run along Youngsville
Township lines on the west, north and south borders and along
U. S. 401 on the east.
ZONE FOUR - GOLD SAND: Grades 5-12 will attend
classes at Gold Sand High School. Grades 1-4 will attend
classes at Gold Sand Elementary School, near Centerville.
Lines run close to those of Gold Mine and Sandy Creek
Townships.
ZONE FIVE - EDWARD BEST: Grades 5-12 will attend
classes at Edward Best High School on N. C. 56. Grades 1-4
will attend classes at Edward Best Elementary at White Level.
Lines run along Cedar Rock Township taking in some portions
of Cypress Creek Township.
ZONE SIX ? EPSOM: Grades 1-12 will attend the Epsom
High School. The one school will serve all of Hayesville
Township.
The zoning of the county was ordered by Judge Butler and
no zone is allowed to conduct any class at more than one
location within the zone. This prohibits the so-called neighbor
hood schools. Under the Butler plan, the county school system
becomes 100 percent integrated.
Tobacco Markets Open Here Tuesday
Season sales of flue-cured tobacco
will begin on the Louisburg market
next Tuesday, Sept. 3, following start
of the auctions in the Eastern North
Carolina Belt Monday. The spread
between the Eastern and Middle Belts
is only a week, in contrast to about
two weeks normally In the past.
The crop in this area is about half
harvested, and will be much more than
that in another week. There will be
abundant tobacco available for sale
when the market opens and in the
days following.
Reports are that the crop is of
fairly good quality, with damage irom
hot weather and scarcity of rain jp
recent weeks not as serious as it might
have been earlier in the growing sea
ton.
Opening averages In other belts
have ranged a* high as 68 to 69 cents ai
pound, but there has been no accurate
forecast as to what may be the rule
here and on the Middle Belt generally.
In the 1967 season, the local mar
ket sold 10,716,487 pounds of leaf at
an average of $64.94.
Preparations for the season opening
are virtually complete, and leaf for sale
at the start of auctions will begin
moving to warehouse floors by the end
of this week.
Gets Street Improvements
The Town of Youngsville is getting
some improvements to the eastern end
of Main Street, according to reports.
The construction and improvements is
being done by the State Highway
Commission.
Plans for the improvements now
underway were made last fall by the
Youngsville Town Council for the pur
pose of the "public safety and con
venience."
Youngsville's responsibilities under ?
the project has been securing rights-of
-way and removing obstructions In
cluding utility lines. One of the larger
jobs has been the cutting down of an
unusually large tree at the corner of
Nassau and Main Street recently.
The project reaches 778 feet from
the corner of Nassau and Main Streets
in an easterly direction and consists of
installation of drainage pipes with curb
and guttering work to come.
Schools To Open
Under Butler Plan
The annual countywide teacher's meeting was held here
Wednesday at Louisburg High School amid an air of uncer
tainty as school officials announced plans for the opening of
the fall term on September 6.
The Franklin County Board of Education and its chief
attorney Edward F. Yarborough were on hand as Superinten
dent Warren Smith and Associate Superintendent Mrs. Mar
garet Holmes announced teacher assignments and disclosed
plans for the operation of the system under a federal court
order. Mr. Yarborough spoke to the group explaining the
recent District Court ruling by Judge Algernon Butler which
ordered a massive reorganization of county schools to gain
total integration this fall.
Board Chairman Horace Baker told the assembly that "we
are entering a new era" and called on all to give full
cooperation to the Board in its efforts to open schools and to
"educate our children". Lloyd West, a member of the Board,
called for a "Christian approach" to the coming school year.
In making teacher assignments, Mrs. Holmes said that every
effort had been made to keep teachers with the same children
they would have had under normal operations. Generally,
teachers of grades 1-4 at Louisburg, Gold Sand and Bunn were
transferred with their grades to new locations. Negro teachers
in grades 5-12 in the same zones were, in general, transferred
to the new schools with their grades. In the mass shuffle of
personnel, most teachers are expected to continue teaching in
their fields.
Under the recent court order. Riverside, Perry's and
Gethsemane High Schools were closed and the Board, in
special session here Tuesday, officially eliminated these
schools from further record. Where facilities of these schools
are to be continued in use, names have been changed to
Louisburg, Gold Sand and Bunn Elementary Schools. Each
will house grades 1-4 this year. The original Louisburg, Gold
Sand and Bunn plants will house grades 5-12 under the court
plan.
Epsom and Youngsville will house grades 1-12 with Cedar
Street and Youngsville Elementary Schools being taken out of
U9e by the Butler order. Edward Best High School will house
grades 5-12 with Edward Best Elementary taking care of
grades 1-4.
Principals were assigned in Wednesday's meeting as follows:
Louisburg High School, Thomas A. Riggan; Louisburg Elemen
tary, Carl A. Harris; Gold Sand High School, James V.
Marshall; Gold Sand Elementary, J. E. Wilson; Edward Best
High School, Robert Fleming, Edward Best Elementary, Mrs.
Myrtle T. Parrish; Bunn High School, W. H. Kelly; Bunn
Elementary, A. A. Lane; Youngsville High School, David L.
Godwin; Epsom High School, Archer Usher.
Confidence was expressed at Wednesday's meeting that
while the opening would be somewhat disruptive, it would be
accomplished with a minimum of disorder. Makeshift facilities
are being readied in several of the schools in order to meet the
Friday, September 6, deadline when students will report from
1 : 30 p.m. to 3: 30 p.m.
Some mobile classrooms are to be relocated, some relocat
able buildings will be erected and five classrooms are expected
to be completed at Louisburg within a short period of time.
Little dissatisfaction with assignments was noted at Wednes
day's meeting and a number of teachers expressed their
confidence in the Board and commented on the job the Board
has done. j
Franklinton Schools Open, Three
Person Grades Transferred
Franklinton City Schools opened
Wednesday with 1,022 students re
porting to the Franklinton High
School and B. F. Person-Albion
School. Under agreement with the U.
Jury List
Reported
The following names were drawn
for jury duty for the week of Septem
ber 23 in the Superior Court mixed
Civil and Criminal court.
Dunn ? David G. Batton, W. J.
Braswell, Corbet Medlin, Glen B.
Strickland, Nathaniel T. Clemons,
Nora W. Jeffreys, H. P. Jeans, Jr.
Harris - Reginald R. Carpenter, Mrs.
H. M. Pridgen, Henry F. Tant, C. E.
Wallace, John W. Wheless, Jr.
Youngsville - Ernest Hockaday,
Mrs. Sanford Pearce, L. D. Lloyd,
Joseph E. Alford, Mrs. W. Tobie Hol
den, Willie Roger Fleming.
Franklinton - Mrs. C. L. Alston,
Mrs. Charlie Crudup, Mrs. Rachel Bell
Cooper, Mrs. Owen Piper, John Simp
son Wilder, William E. Murray, Ann H.
Collins, Walter Edward Upchurch, Mrs.
George Stallings, Eugene Benard
Spooner, Paul Walker, Rev. Loyd F.
See JURY LIST Page 8
S. Office of Education, grades 10, 11
and 12 from the Person Negro School
were enrolled in the predominantly
white Franklinton High School.
Wesley Jackson, Franklinton High
School principal, reported except for
the usual organizational problems the
opening was orderly. Superintendent
R. B. Gordon reported that he was
pleased with the operation of the two
schools on opening day. He urged all
students not registering Wednesday to
do so as soon as possible.
Jackson praised teachers and stu
dents for their cooperation and termed
Wednesday "one of the best opening
days" at the Franklinton School.
0. W. Burrell, principal of the
Person School, reported that atten
dance was down from that expected.
He said this was due to the confusion
accompanying the announcement by
the Franklin County School system
that school opening was being delayed.
Franklinton High School reported
612 students enrolled and Person
School reported 410 students on open
ing day. The first full day schedule
began today at 8:15 A.M.
Franklinton Court Docket
(FRK. B.W.) The following cases
were tried in Franklinton on Monday,
August 26:
Jack Strother ? Drunk- Cost paid.
Charles T. Blacknall - Affray- Cost
paid.
George Edward Long - Affray,
Drunk and resisting arrest - Cost paid.
Armond Wendell Scott - Speeding
(71 MPH in a 60 mi. zone) -Fine and
cost paid.
Joseph Lee Brodie - Speeding (55
MPH in a 45 mi. zone)- Cost paid.
George Calvin Goodman - Speeding
(64 MPH in a 55 mi. zone)- cost paid.
Evelyn Jordan Stange, Sarah Jean
Peele and Robert A. Middleton -
Speeding (70 MPH in a 60 mi. zone)
Each paid cost.
Floyd T. Watson ? Speeding (80
MPH in a 60 mi. zone)- Fine and cost
paid.
Bruce Relmer Champion - Exceed
ing safe speed - Cost paid.
Larry J. Parker - Stop light viola
tion - Cost paid.
Charlie Harvey - Assault on female -
Cost paid.
Robert Lee Alston - Failed to stop v
for red light - Cost paid.
Violet Jane Huesingh - No opera
tor's license and speeding (70 MPH in
a 60 mi. zone)- Cost paid for speeding
- Nol pros- no operator's license