Guess Who's Coming * Christmas Parade Most Worthwhile Thousands of children of all ages braved a twenty-mile-per hour wind in freezing temperature Wednesday night at Franklinton. All for the chance to see Santa Claus ? and to officially open the holiday season. For nearly an hour the parade entries came by and with each passing, the eyes of the smallest children glow ed with anticipation. The brightness of First Session Light Docket At the first session of District Court on Monday. December 3rd. Hon. Lin wood T. Peoples. Judge, presided and Hon. Charles M. White. III. Solicitor, prosecuted for the state. Only three cases were docketed for trial at this session: Louis, Tony Dorsey, speeding. 8 months in jail, suspended for 2 years on payment of $100.00 fine and costs. Defendant is not to violate any laws of the State of North Carolina for a period of two years. Arnold Mitchell, assault with intent to commit rape. Probable cause found. Defendant bound over to Superior Court under $1500.00 bond. Joseph (Jene Boyd, operating auto intoxicated. Non suit./ By Clint Fuller Times Managing Editor the commercial floats, the antics of the clowns, the chilled music of the bands, failed to take the small tike's minds off the more important things. Santa Claus was coming. Franklinton's main street wal drap ed for blocks with squatting small fry. bundled like Eskimo sled dogs against the winter's cold. All faced south into the wind. Red noses, blown hair and an occasional grab by mama's protect ing hand, kept very few from continu ally edging for a better view. And they came - sixty-two entries strong. Bright, colorful and novel. A car that heads two ways, making it impossible to tell whether it's coming or going. Beauty queens displaying the reasons why. Young boys searching for an Academy Award, acting out the part of clowns overacting is a better word. Officials waving and feeling self conscious as they rode comfortably warm inside new automobiles. Girls and mothers, not so warm as tliey decorated float after float. Conver tibles. whose tops are seldom downed in summer, sporting the lines of a no-top car and equally slim lines of coal beauties. The big company floats were the prettiest. Money has a way of showing, even in a Christmas parade. But the youngster in a cart drawn 1 >y a half sized pony got more cheers. A lot of work had gone into the annual Franklinton Christmas '? parade, but looking down beside us at the beaming, almost explosive fa. ce of a young boy, age three, showe d in a flash ? it had all been most worth while. School Board Holds Session The Franklin County Board of Ed ucation held its regular monthly ses sion here Monday night and accepted resignations from four teachers in the system and approved employment of three new teachers. The Board granted a request from the Franklinton City School unit for the use of three buses for the summer program and heard Durwood Pegram explain a fire detection system for schools and homes. Much of the session was alloted to the discussion of long range plans for the county system and a host of allied details. Also discussed was the reduced price lunch program, eye clijiics. an nuity contracts and additional land needs at some of the schools. County Welfare Dept. To Give Needy Family List The Franklin County Welfare De partment will once again make public certain cases of needy families at Christmas time. The practice used for several years to assist the public in aiding the needy was discontinued some time ago, but is being reinstated this year. A release from the Department gives details of the new policy as follows: "As the Yuletide Season ap Talton Is Key Banker To coordinate the agricultural ac tivities of the N. C. Bankers Associa tion in this area. J. H. Talton has been named County Key Banker for Frank lin County. NCBA President J. Paul Ford of Belmont has announced that Mr. Tal ton will serve as County Key Banker during the next 12 months. He is Vice-President of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company in Louisburg, N. C. For 23 years the NCBA has receiv ed national recognition for its far reaching program of service to agricul ture in North Carolina. President Ford, noting the work of bankers in behalf of agriculture, thanked the 100 Coun ty Key Bankers for their role in this record. Ford called attention to the pro jects that are sponsored by the Asso ciation such as the annual Farm Credit Conference which will again be held in Raleigh, February 10-11. 1969, the two-week school at N. C. State Uni versity for young farmers who are provided scholarships given by their home community banks, and the co sponsorship of the land judging meet in the interest of soil conservation. He also reported that the banks of North Carolina continue to lend more money to farmers than any other institutional group of lenders, last year providing $161 million in loans. Mrs. Malone Named 8th Reporter Mrs. James E. Malone has been appointed official Court Reporter for the Eighth Judicial District, com prising Wayne, Lenoir and Greene Counties. Judge Albert W. Cowper, Resident Superior Court Judge, admin istered the oath of office to her last Friday, November 30th in Kington. Under the new court system Court Reporters are assigned to one district and become state employees. Mrs. Malone has had Invaluable experience at a free lance reporter, working for over fifty Superior Court Judges in as many counties of the state. She will retain her residence In ily working when courts proaches. the Welfare staff naturally reflects on the past as well as lives with the present and many situations come to mind ? a little child wants to come home for Christmas and is too