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I went over to see George the other ni|>l. Myrtle wont home and if you want to talk to Gtofj* that\ the bed time - ^ when Myrtle aint borne. Fart *, if yo? wMt to talk at all, you'd battat (at it done whan Myrtle aiat around. We've had three rescue calif to my houae wfcea tfce tttk woman and Myrtle got together. Folks thought a tyritaae had hit and called the reacue They really buzx, Um two. "George", I said, "How'd you make oat gitting your chickens arrested. Did you take them to the High Sheriff. Did be lock 'em ? ? "Frank", he said, "I been meaning to come see. you and talk about that wry thing. I took them chickens to the High Sheriff and he charged them with being a public nuisance. He said i he didn't have enough evidence to 1 hold them on the air conditioner r stealing charge." "Did he lock 'em up, George? What'd he do with them?" "He aid it wont no good putting them in ja*. He said the ban was too wide a part. He said them chickens would be out before he could git home." "What did he do with them, then, if he couldnt put them in jail?" I asked. "He put them in that old building near the police station. You know the place, Frank, where the county puts their surplus stuff." "Did he put some water and feed in there for them or did the jailer come by three times a day and feed them?" "I ain't quite sure, Frank. I didn't go by to see about them until today and you aint never gonna guess what's happened." Xome To Think Of It m By FRANK COUNT "That's for sure and I'm beginning to think you ain't gonna never git around to telling me neither " "They're gone, Frank. Every last one of them chickens is gone." "Gone? Did you report this to the High Sheriff? What'd he say? Could he explain it, George?" "I couldn't And the High Sheriff, Prank. But I seen another of the big shots in the courthouse and I told him my chickens was missing." "Wed, hurry up, man, what'd he say? Did he offer any advice?" "Well, he started out making some kinda speech about working for the people and how we was always asking favors and bow he wished he'd stayed on the farm. Finally, 1 just asked him straight out if he knowed what happened to my chickens." "Yeah? Well what'd he say? What'd he say, George?" "Frank, this is gohna git to you, boy. I know how easy you are to git upset. Promise now you won't go to pieces when I tell you what he said." I promised and agin I asked "What'd that courthouse wheel ay, George? What happened to your chickens they put in the county storage house in front of the police department?" "The ducks got 'em, Frank. That's what the man said. He said flat out-the ducks must a got them." mmimm Well, I ain't never. That's what I thought of first. I aint never. I lino wed George was upset. He wanted to kill them chickens. He didn't want nobody hurting them. And here he was full of doubts. He must a had a load of worry on his mind. He didnt have no way of knowing what happened to his chickens. They could be cold and hungry for all he knowed. They could be crying for George for all he knowed. 'Course this woBt very likely. Even chickens don't miss George but so much. I allowed as how maybe somebody had 'em for Sunday dinner and George started to cry. He likes fried chicken. "George", 1 said. "You got to git a all points bulletin out for your chickens. I seen 'em do that on television and the suspects always turned up. This is s serious thing, George. What if them chickens is loose somewheres? They're fugitive*. George. Somebody could shoot 'em on sight." "1 hadn't thought of that. Frank. It's more serious than I thought. What if they attacked a innocent citizen. I'd be responsible, Frank. I can't sleep thinking about It." "Well, cheer up George," I told him, "Things ain't all bad. Chances are them chickens aint loose. Chances are some friend of yours thought about the trouble you'd be in if they was running around town. Chances are he done you a favor, George. Chances are he et them for you. So cheer up, George. Count your blessings." A nickel still goes a long way today. You can carry it around for a week without finding anything to do with it. "LITTLE LAMB, YOU SEEM TO BE TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING" in Times I ??' 1 T **%d,y 1 Thv'?4?V Your Award Winning County Newspaper LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT Happy Dreams If you want-something to keep you awake at night or if you already can't sleep and went an excuse, mull over these latest crime figures, released this v week by the FBI: -Almost 4,500,000 serious crimes were recorded in 1968, a 17 percent rise over 1967. -Risk of being a victim of a serious crime increased 16 percent 1968. Your chances? Two out of 100. -Firearms were used to commit 8,900 murders, 65,000 assaults and 99,000 robberies last year. -Since 1964, use of firearms in > murder is up 117 percent. -Daytime burglaries of residences rose 247 percent in the past eight years. -Property valued at more than Sheer Madness It's that time again. In just a matter of a few weeks the school bells will tie ringing. It hasn't been so long ago that one could follow these sentences with some glowing phrase of grandiloquent language noting the joys of childhood and the best days of their lives -school days. But these days are not now. The Franklin County schools and the Frankiinton City schools are where they have been for the past several years-ready to start but not knowing just how they will be allowed to do it They are not alone. School systems in Halifax, Warren and any number of other localities are in the same boat. The courts are bogged down with school desegregation cases. HEW is causing confusion and doubt in others. Back-to-school sales are even uncertain in some- areas. There are systems unaware today whether or not they will operate a school this year. Just how long this madness is going to continue nobody seems to know. Millions of dollars worth of school buildings are being abandoned and in many cases by school systems unable to afford the luxury. Families are being split as children are carted away to new strange and private schools: Children are being separated from their parent* at a time in their lives when they need parental guidance. Normal pleasures attendant to school attendance are fading. PTA's have been abandoned. Supporters Of the schools are finding other avenues of service. Attendance at school func t ions-- once a community happening- is dam in many cam to alarming pro $1 ,700,000,000.00 was stolen in 261,730 robberies, 1,828,900 burglar ies, 3,442,800 larcenies and 778,800 auto thefts. -Arrests of juveniles for serious crimes increased 78 percent since 1980; the 10^17 year group, jumped 25 percent. -Narcotic arrests jumped 64 per cent last year. -gixty-four law enforcement offic ers were murdered last year. -Seventy percent of the persons under 25 years of age released in 1963 were rearrested within five years. -Forty-six percent of the 94,467 offenders arrested in 1967 or 1968 had been imprisoned on a prior charge. Happy drearps. portions. Fear abounds on many school cam puses and with some justification. Professional educators are leaving the teaching field for safer and more secure positions. Many are taking a decrease in salary. People who can ill afford it are doing without things they have worked for and need to pay taxes in support of a public school system and pay large tuitions to send their children to private schools. We can call it what we will, but sheer madness comes as close to de scribing it as any phrase we know. Grown people completely shatter ing public education; grown people knowingly taking some of the happiest days away from their child ren. One can only hope that someday, someway social reform will prove to have been a rewarding thing. Surely, we are paying dearly for it The greatest fear is that the price will prove to be too high. And as another school year comes around, we have learned little. The madness goes on and on. V.y, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I would like to make a few comments on your editorial in the Aug. 7 issue of The Franklin Times. First, and foremost, let me state that i thank God I am a southerner. I am proud of the fact that I am a Southern Conservative of the George Wallace-Lester Maddox school of thought. I am proud of every opportunity to fly the Confederate Flag and I stand when 1 hear "Dixie", the finest song ever written. You speak or North Caro ltnlins and Franklin Countiam being proud of their heritage, Ih the past tense. Many of us an still proud of, and honor the memories of those men who fought for the Confederacy and we are still proud that the Stars and Bars first flew over Louisburg and Franklin County. No one need apologize for Governors Maddox and Wal lace. If it weren't for the men we have left, of this type, where would we be today7 Suppose we had only those opportunist politicians of the San ford- Kennedy- John son-Scott type; which we seem to have in such abund- . ance here In North Qarollna. These so called "progressives or "moderates", as they term themselves rather than the out and out left wing liberals that their actions show them to be. You speak of Wallace and Maddox as "lacking In soph istication". That Is Indeed a compliment. Have you ever looked up the meaning of the word "sophisticate." It means to adulterate; to render artificial;.. ?pe who argues smartly, but evades the truth. Thank goodness Governors Wallace and Maddox are not sophisticated. As for their grammatical errors; perhaps you are just confusing this with a south ern accent. After all Governor Wallace la a college graduate and an attorney. If only more of our politi cians, school board members In particular, had the Intesti nal fortitude, shown by some of our "red neck" Wallace and Maddox type southern en, to take a stand against federal encroacnmeni on State affairs. I think it would be well to remember that If one travels the middle of the road he is likely to be hit by traffic from either direction. By the way, who was it you were working for in the last election? Wasn't it that same fellow you are now r somewnai critical 01 tor noi meeting with Governor Mad dox? What's that bit you had in the paper that time about wanting to be on the winning side? As for me I prefer being on the right side, win or lose. A red neck, southern con servative and proud of it. T. H. Pearce ON THE MOTH OF CHAPPAQUIDDICK wmmm john j. synos Once or twice, now, I hive made a false ftart at paaaing an opinion on this Ted Kennedy mess. But I find, beyond the obvious, there is not much to say about him, personally. In a word, he is unclean - in Ute biblical sense. If he were put behind bars (or the rest of his life, it would suit me just fin*. And that is about all there is to say of Edward Moon Kennedy. But he won't be put behind bars. Ted Kennedy will go on being a member of the United States Senate and as sure as God makes foolish women ? specifically, 28-year-old, moonstruck spinsters - just so will Ted Kennedy, one day, become the Democratic nominee for the presidency. That is what is of public significance in this affair: T|W forces that have made this essentially-oafish scion Into a glittering symbol - a .hypnotist's bangle with which to mesmerize the American people - such as these will maintain him, so. At whatever price, ttjey will. However little, then, is to be said of the rotter, personally, there is plenty to be said of and against the cabal of hogs that pull his strings. I don't refer to the likes of Kennedy's foot washer, the man Joe Gargan, nor to the former U. S. Attorney Paul Markham who, the two of them, so Kennedy says, shared some part of his tragic "nine hours." I point at the whole of the kingmaking Liberal Establishment. Do I believe the stable will be cleaned? Indeed I do not; not by those who, today own the shovel. I dont because I am as certain as I can be that they themselves are the filth. Th?y themselves are what must be cleaned ? out; or turned into salt. How well I remember, just a few years ago, the action* of another of these Great Liberals, this one the governor of a State. His high-flown nibs, you might recall, slipped into * man's child-packed home and stole the mother-wife. How did the public react to that? They re-elected the adulterer, knowing he was an adulterer, is how they reacted. And that some who read this will wonder just which governor I refer to proves how easily we, as a people, shed the memory of the contemptible. And that sort of memory, born of the Liberal's permissive creed, is why this particular American Tragedy wil blow over and the witless will support the polluter in degree greater than they ever did. Unless thoae Americans who are concerned about their collapsing country coOect 'round an old-fashioned banner ? that of God and Country - and throw the rascals out, we will all find ourselves spasm wracked, struggling in a bubble of air with no hand to hdp us. We will struggle, gurgle and die j* did ? the moth of Chappaquiddick. A motorist is a person who, after seeing an accident, drives slowly for the next five minutes. NEW TO THIS AREA - A line of Home and Business cleaning products that cuts work by 50%. Carries A 100% money back gurantee. Call 496-5166 for more information or demonstration. If you've got $5,000 to save, we'll pay you to save at First Federall Yes. we'll pay you 5V*% on savings certificates of $5,000 or more when held to maturity. And your dividends are compounded quarterly ? paid by check or com pounded at the 51/4% rate. This savings plan is automatically renewed each six months. But your money is always available at First Federal when you want it. 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