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Franklin League Expands Tn Eleven Teams Oxford Orphanage, Cardinal- Gibbons, Apex New Members Edward Best, Epsom Return Soap For Bait Ossie Smith, Louisbuig College student from Oxford, is shown above with the 11 pound 4 ounce catfish he hauled from Tar River Tuesday night. Smith also caught an eight pound, 10 ounce cat Monday night. He says he used soap as bait. Staff photo by Clint Fuller. IGA - SAVE YOUR TAPE GAME - $( ( ( FOR YOU 9 9 9 EACH WEEK. IN IGA'S SAVE YOUR TAPE GAME Be A Winner - Trade IGA "Si" $100.00 ANOTHER CHANCE TO WIN! N ? MATCH YOUR AUTO LICENSE NUMBER WITH NUMBER POSTED IN YOUR IGA STORE WIN $5.00 NEW NO. POSTED EACH DAY. WEEK-END SPECIALS TABLERITE FULL CUT ROUND qa. STEAK pound o"v TABLERITE T-BONE OR CLUB 1 C STEAKS pouno 51.13 TABLERITE . Aft SIRLOIN ??hd}1.(J9 MUCHMORE Pfli BACON UB ree IGA LONG LOAF M <M BREAD 29c., "Z V YELLOW J Ax CORN 480 KB Look For Week-end Specials In Your News t Observer. The Franklin County League, operating for years as a seven-meniGer athletic conference and l/st year as a six-school league, has expanded to eleven teams for the 1969-70 school year. The action came Monday night in a meeting here. After debating about thirty minutes on requests to join, league members voted 4-2 to accept Oxford Orphanage of Oxford. Cardinal-Gibbons of Raleigh and Apex High School of Apex as new members. Edward Best and Epsom were allowed to return to the league after having withdrawn for this year. Louisburg and Gold Sand voted against the additions. Franklinton, Bunn. Youngsville and Wakelon voted in favor of the expansion. The three new schools said their reason for requeuing admission into the Franklin league was that they "had no place to go." Thcimas Currin. head of Oxford Orphanage's High School told the group, "We have^o place to go. We have been in the Vance Coun ty league and in the Franklin County league for baseball. We will work with you in any way to cooperate." Franklin ton School Superintendent R. B. Gordon said that Oxford Orphanage, "Is a very good school to deal with." The spokesman for Cardi nal-Gibbons said about the same promising that his school "hospitality wise-gives the greatest treatment around-to teams and specta tors. One-A schools just aren't around anymore," he said. "This would take a terri fic burden off ui," he added. Joe Collins, speaking for Apex said, "We're another lost soul looking for a home." He said Apex is committed In football for this year in the Harnett County league but that he would be "interested in football another year." He also said his people, "have supported us well." Epsom and Edward Best were represented and asked to be taken back into the league. Both schools decided not to field teams last year. Both will participate in base ball and basketball next year in the league but left the question of girls varsity or boys jayvee squads hanging. Some discussion was held about the late exit of Edward Best and Epsom from the league last year which result ed in the loss of some funds to the other schools which were unable to fill their sche dules after the two schools withdrew. Marvin Moss, League Presi dent told the group that with the new teams the league could now have five champ ionships. He mentioned foot ball (although this sport has not yet been consolidated in to the league), baseball, bas ketball, track and golf. There Is to be a meeting of the Tar River Football Conference to night In Oxford. Louiaburg, Franklinton, Wakelon and Oxford Orphanage are mem bers of both leagues now. Elm City and Saratoga Cen tral have indicated they would like to join the foot ball conference next year. A motion t<4 change the name of the league to Frank lin-Wake-Granville was killed when there was no second. Another suggested dropping the word "County" and mak ing it simply the Franklin League. This failed to get a motion and Moss named a committee to study and re port back on May 14 when the league will meet again to set up schedules and elect officers. All schools indicated they will field girls basketball teams except Franklinton with Edward Best and Epsom saying they were not sure. Most said they will have boys jayvee teams in basketball and some mention was made of boys jayvee football. For many years the league operated with the six schools in the Franklin County school unit and Franklinton in the Franklinton City School unit, all in Franklin County. With the withdrawal of Epsom and Edward Best last year and the acceptance of Wakelon into the league, the six-team conference worked satisfactorily this year. Some coaches voiced concern at the hasty action Wednesday night and ques tioned the possibility of major problems arising. The question of scheduling a season of all conference games arose and the length of the season question was never resolved. The distances from Gold Sand, Epsom and other schools to Apex was also dis cussed. Most of the questions are expected to come up again in May. Apex was given until Friday to confirm its membership since Collins told the league that he would meet tonight with another conference. However, he said he could give an answer last night and that Apex would join the Franklin league. Youngsville expressed con cern that the new lineup might prohibit their schedul ing basketball with Wake Forest, which has proven profitable gate-wise over the years. Louisburg expressed similar concern over Its tradi tional rivalry with Warrenton. The next meeting of the league was set for 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, May 14 at the Franklin County School of fice. ~ l Upsets Vance Zebulon - Wakelon handed top-ranked 1-A power Vance County its first lou of the season by edging the Cougars, 3-2, here Tueaday afternoon behind the three-hit pitching of Earl Bunn. Wakelon kayoed starter and loser Pete Newman In the first inning on Ricky Rogers' run-producing double and a two-run triple by Robbie Kemball. Bill Ellington doubl ed for Vance County. Thorne Leads Bunn The Bunn Bulldogs down ed the Franklinton Rams Tuesday afternoon, 13-7 be hind the hitting of McGreg Thorne. Bung's Phil Hagwood struck out 12 while walking four Rama. Collins fanned" five and walked eight for Franklinton. Thorne had a triple and two singles and Allen Pace grabbed a three-bagger to lead the Bulldogs. Mack Beckham and Harold Kearney paced the Rama with a double a piece. [nu if burn .(G) SUGGESTED FOR (M) SUGGESTED FOR GENERAL AUDIENCES MATURE AUDIENCES (R) RESTRICTED, PERSONS UNDER 16 NOT ADMITTED UNLESS WITH PARENTS OR GUARDIAN (X) PERSONS UNDER 16 NOT ADMITTED RATING POSTED AT BOX OFFICE FOR EACH PICTURE. 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Finch and Enfield's Sammy Rothrock are the only boys selected from Class A schools on the squad. Both will play for the North. Twenty-seven of last year's North Carolina high school football stars have been se lected. according to an an nouncement from the North Carolina Jaycees, sponsors of the benefit game. Players were selected jointly by the North team coaching staff of Homer Thompson of Win ston-Salem, head coach and Don Palmer of Lexington, as sistant, and the Boys Home All Star Game Advisory Com mittee. Selections were made from over 400 nominees from throughout North Carolina. Finch, a senior and a three-letter man at Louisburg, It an outstanding linebacker and defensive end. He has been All Conference three years and All East 1-A for the past two years. As a freshman he averaged 14 tackles per game. As a junior he broke all conferehce records for the most passes caught, most yards gained by passing and most unassisted tackles. He scored nine touchdowns that year. Plagued by an injured knee in his senior year, his performances were still out standing. Playing sparingly, he caught 19 passes for 198 yards, made 68 tackles and averaged 40 yards per punt. Coach Tommy Twitty said that Finch is certainly deserv ing of this latest honor and adds that he will do well in the game. This year's North squad consists of 15 linemen and 12 backs, including: BACKS: Johnny Charles Jr.. Elkin; Bruce Shelton, Winston-Salem: Allen Alls brook. Scotland Neck; Gill Markham. Pasquotank Cen tral; Sammy Rothrock. En field; David Shepperd, Wil liamston: Ronnie Miller. Thomasville: Steve Evans. FI NCH LC Golfers Down Southwood Louisburg's golf team scored a 302-358 victory over South wood here Tuesday. The scores were much better than in the past match against Chowan. The victory against Southwood pushes Louis burg's record to 7-1 in con ference play, and 8-2 overall. The 'Canes golfers' were led by Dwight Leadbetter who returned to his old form by recording a 74(38-36) which included consecutive birdies on the last two holes. Not far behind Dwight came Stamper's 75(39-36), and Green's 75(37-38). High point of the day was Deane Hege's 78(39-39). Deane has had trouble all season getting his scores below the 80 mark, but in this match, everything fell Into place even though he had 6 three putt greens. His 78 rounded out the scoring for Louisburg with Klingel following with an 81, and Radford with an 83. The next match is Monday against UNC. In the previous match against them, Louis burg lost 12-6 in a close one. This match should prove to be very interesting for both teams, and fans will see excel lent golf played by both sides. Louisburg Takes Doubleheader Louisburg swept i double header from Youngsville, 8-6 and 16-3, here Tuesday after noon. Charles Moon and Mike Wynne picked up the mound wins for Louisburg. In the opener, Robby McDonald and Jimmy Wrenn each got two hits for Louis burg while Worth Keith and Beryl Keith collected three apiece for Youngsville. In the nightcap, Robby McDonald had three safeties for Louis burg while J. Wrenn, Carey Wrenn, and John Davis had two each. North Davidson; Conrad Gra ham, Winston-Salem; Mickey Hickerson, Lenoir County; Jimmy Henderson, Lexing ton; Dan McNatt, Mt. Tabor. ENDS: Harry Threatt, Rocky Mount; Charles Brant ley, Durham; Thomas Finch, Louisburg; Robert Batts, Wil- i liamston. TACKLES: Rick Sigmon, Jr.. Lexington; Heber Whit ley, HI, Greensboro; Don Pope, Winston-Salem; Phil Johnston, Millbrook, Raleigh. GUARDS: Gary Cecil, High Point; Larry Johnson, Williamston; Alex Hargrove, Tarboro; Fred Beeson, East Davidson. Vikings Take Eagles Creedmoor - Glen Brink lpy's sacrifice fly brought Rofck Haskin scampering across the plate with what proved to be the winning run as South Granville squeezed past Edward Best, 1-0 here Tuesday. 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