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LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT
Every Tom , Dick And Harry
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A Negro graduate student at North
Carolina State University has taken
issue with the Franklin County Board
of Education's policy of charging tui
tion for children attending county
schools whose parents live outside the
state. This appears to be another in a
long and trying series of outside
people attempting to tend Franklin
County's business.
The policy applies to white and
Negro alike and there are instances
where people of both races have been
required to pay the tuition. The State
student is reported to have said that it
is an "effort to fight back against the
blacks for trying to go to white
schools." Obviously this man is ill
informed.
Franklin County is probably the
only school unit in the country that is
totally, fully and completely integrat
ed. There isn't a single predominantly
white school in the entire system.
How then, can anyone say this or
anything else is being done to keep
blacks out of wr.ite schools? There are
no white schoois, nor are there any
black schools. There are just schools
and we might add, a considerable loss
-in educational opportunities for
children of both races.
The tuition policy was adopted as a
temporary measure by the School
Board in order to lessen the chances
of undue hardship on any child or
person acting as a parent to any child.
Under the ruling of the North Caro
[ lina Attorney General, Franklin is not
required to allow these children to
attend schools at all. The Board, in
the interest of the children involved.
came up with a fee commensurate
with the amount that would have been
paid by the child's parents if they
lived here.
Where it has been found that
children are wards of legally ap
pointed guardians either by the courts
or by adoption, there have been no
charges. The policy applies only to
those parents of both races who move
elsewhere and leave their children to
be educated by the tax pay en of this
county. This, of course, hardly seems
fair. If the State student is as concern
ed as he implies, perhaps he will be
willing to pay the fee for some child.
He might be able to get the funds
from either of Raleigh's two news
papers, who obviously think he is
better qualified to say what Franklin
should do than the Franklin Board of
Education.
This Board of Education is used to
being under attack and it is used to
being falsely accused by just about
every Tom, Dick and Harry who has
any beef at all. After the past four
years, the five members have develop
ed somewhat of a tough skin.
In the sea of mass confusion and
irresponsible actions, it mi (Jit be
worthy of note that this Board just
plods along, trying as best it can,
under the most trying of circum
stances, to get the children of this
county an education. The amazing
thing is that it does this, under a
constant barrage for ill-informed
people and that these five men do it
for $15 per meeting.
There has to be a better way to
earn a buck.
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Franklinton Court Docket
(Frit. B. W.) Of the eighty cases on
the Fnnkllnton Court docket Septem
ber 9, twenty-seven were continued
and two were set for Jury trials.
The following case* were tried be
fore Mayor Joe W. Pearce:
Otha Massenburg, Charles Taylor
and James McArthur Brooks - Drunk.
Bach paid cost.
James Beaie Kearney - Stop sign
violation. Plead* guilty. To pay cost.
Buland Clayton HcBride - Failed
to comply with Inspection law. Pleads
gulty. To pay coat.
Auburn Mitchell ? Drunk. Pleads
guflty. To pay cost.
R. 0. Perkinson ? 3 cases of
worthless check. To pay cost and
check for each case.
Otee Shearon ? Red light viola
tion. Pleads fuity. Prayer for judg
ment Continued on condition he not
violate motor vehicle laws for 6
months.
Thermad Shevad Privet te ? Red
light violation. Pleads guilty. To pay
Howell Cook* ? No operator's li
cense ? Pleads guilty. To pay $25.00
fine and eost.
Clarence Woodrow Morris ? Con
cealed weapon. Pleads not guilty.
Found not guilty. Gun ordered held
for clearance.
Walter N. Mustian ? Red light
violation. Pleads guilty. To pay cost.
Henry Clifton Jackson ? Driving
under influence. Pleads guilty. To pay
$100 fine and cost and surrender
Patricia Abbott Hill - Speeding 65
mph In a 55 mi. zone. Pleads guilty.
Prayer for judgment. Continued on
condition tbt write a 300 word theme
on Highway Safety.
George Joyner ? Disorderly. Pleads
guilty. To pay cost.
Jimmie Darrell Ray ? Profanity.
Paid cost. , / .
John Wayne Arnold ? Stop light
violation. Pleads guilty. To pay cost.
Connie Mack Chavis ? Scratching
oft. Paid cost.
Blake Broon field Overton ? Speed
ing 55 mph in a 45 ml. zone. Cost
paid.
R. M. Lyles ? Drunk and disorder
ly. Cost paid.
Andrew Rendall Howell, Katherine
Joe net Boland ? Speeding 65 mph in a
55 mi. zone. Each paid cost.
Clarence Woodrow Morris ? As
sault on female. Warrant withdrawn.
Cost paid.
Robert Lee Lewis, Jr., George Can
nady, Jr., Walter David Vangieson,
David Kim Marshall, Robert S. Taylor,
William Ernest Robinson, James Baw
den Long, Milton Fredrick, David
Robert Bryan ? Speeding 70 mph in a
60 mi. zone. Each paid cost. Also
Lewis Chester Vaughan, Jr.
Harold Baggett, Amos Dean Baker
? Speeding 65 mph in a 50 mi. zone.
Each paid cost.
Jack W. Peatross, Karl F. Trefzer ?
Speeding 75 mph in a 60 mi. zone.
Fine and cost paid.
William Lee Schools ? Speeding 60
mph in a 50 mi. zone. Cost paid.
Charlie Bland Lewis ? Speeding 45
mph in a 35 mi. zone. Cost paid.
Jimmie Darrell Ray ? Disorderly.
Cost paid.
Arnold Thomas Standi ? Improper
passing. Cost paid.
Charles Brayton Heath ? Exceeding
safe speed. Cost paid.
Margaret Pugh Monroe, William
Thomas LaPrade ? Stop sign violation.
Each paid cost.
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THINK
OF IT..:
frank count
I'm beginning to get me one of them complexes about that
Raleigh newspaper . and that complex is beginning to gnaw
way down deep . . .
We take friendly joshing good as anybody . . . 'Cause we've
been known to do a little of the stuff ourselves ... but too
much of a good thing is too much . . . and all the garbage being
dumped on us by that crowd in Raleigh is nearing the breaking
point . . .
Old Mother Nature located dear old Franklin so close to
Wake . . . and
we're sorry
about that . . .
We mean
we're real sor
ry about that
. . . but there
ain't nothing
we can do . . .
short of mov
ing the county
and this ain't
practical at the
moment ....
It's kinda
hard . . . being
a expert, in
tellectual writ
er such as we
are ... to find
fault with our
counterparts
in that air-conditioned and Daniel-rized office in Raleigh
But, hard as it is ... We feel compelled to pass on a few
chosen substitute words . . . We say substitute 'cause the
originals won't pass the proof-readers here or there . . . Well
anyway . . . they wouldn't pass ours ....
Fellows, we been camping under this old tree for many a
year now . . . and we like it. We ain't never ... in all our
years .... made any move whatsoever to tell you pencil
pushers and typewriter-punchers how to run Wake County,
Raleigh or even the rag you call a newspaper . . . And we ain't
seeking no praise for this . . . 'Cause to be perfectly honest
with yoi' boys ... We wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot
pole. ... We wouldn't wipe out .ur feet on it .
We ain't got no gripe with your sports page, the funnies, the
want ads or the displays ... We like the socials, the love
columns and the horoscopes. It's when we start reading the
news that we have to call for the Pepsi-Bismol ....
We got a lot of respect for the writing ability of many of
the slaves hanging around the old liberal plantation over
there . . . Some might even prove to be human ... if they lived
in Franklin for awhile. "'s ?hrm (nct-pnt-tvit ont of
college-amj-i-hiiuw-a-<ut duim.ii i.iuu uuuu ^ ..uc. .. i
doing no good a-tall.
Fact is ... we feel kinda sorry for tt.i whole lot of
you ... It must be some kinda miserable to go to work every
day and always get the same old assignement .... "Go Attack
Franklin County "... It must be terrible to get in such a
rut . .
And the strain on the old eyeballs must be terrific ...
Peeping day after day into that telescope trying to spot a
tiny speck of dirt thirty miles away . . . Oh, we know you use
a telescope . . 'cause there ain't a one of you ever bothers to
come over here to see that speck first hand . . .
We'd invite you over . . . but we know it'd be useless ....
We know you ain't coming . . . and we know why . . . 'cause
you're chicken . . . that's why.
So ... let it be said that if you ain't going to tell it on
Franklin like it is . . . keep your cotton-picking, key-punching
fingers in your pocket and turn that ever-loving telescope on
yourselves . . .
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