Telephone Gy6-3283 Ten Cents Louisburg, N. C. Tuesday, September 16, 1969 (Ten Pages Today) 100th Year-Number 61 Burui Gets Bargain In Water Project Bids Bunn officials- like a housewife in a supermarket -shopped around a bit and came up with a bargain price for the massive water system project last week. Bids were opened last Thursday and Bunn Town fathers and Franklin Wire Theft Brings Reward Offer Sheriff William T. Dement reports that two rolls of wire were stolen from the Henry Edwards Store on Route 3, Louisburg Friday night. He says that Edwards is offering a $50 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the guilty party or par ties. Dement described the missing items as one roll of 39-inch hog wire and one roll of 4 -barb barb wire. He says his department is continuing its investiga tion. Development people were delighted. The low bids were about 15 percent below what they had expected. Bids totalling $198,391.00 were ap proved with the breakdown announc ed as follows: Water Lines, T. A. Lovin of Goldsboro, $87,387.00; Tank Foundation, T. A. Lovin, $9,400.00; 200,000-Gallon Tank, Chicago Bridge and Iron Works, $51,600.00 and WeU Supply, Sydnor Hydrodynamics, Inc., $50,004.00. Kenneth Schubart, Industrial De velopment Director, said that an of ficial of the federal Economic Devel opment Administration was present for the bid opening and carried the bids back to West Virginia for govern ment approval. The Bunn Council is expected to meet in a few days to formally approve the low bids. "Work could conceivably start 30 days after the final awards," Schubart said. Schubart said, 'The engineers said these prices are unusually good." Bunn, it appears, got a bargain. Now, if they will help that housewife. . . . Two L.JC Coeds Killed, Two Injured In Wake A small foreign sports car ran off the road late Sunday night five miles west of Wake Forest on NC-98 as four Louisburg College coeds headed back to school after a weekend in Burling ton. Two young girls were killed, two DEBORAH LUCILLE ANDREWS others were injured. Killed were Deborah Lucille An drews. 19, of 402 Trail 4, Burlington and Peggy Joanne Harris, 19, of 307 Old Mill Road, Chesapeake, Va. Hos pitalized at Wake Memorial Hospital PEGGY JOANNE HARRIS NlbLCiU are Terry Ann Tremon, 19, of 1915 Wheat Street. Rockingham, N. C. and Kathryn Elaine Strickland, 19, of 700 Quarterstaff Road, Winston-Salem. Miss Tremon't condition was listed as satisfactory and Miss Strickland's was TFRRY ANN TRKMON KATIIRYN I LAINI STRICKLAND INJURED White Level Man Claims Youths Racing When He Fired Into Car For the second time in as many months young automobile drivers have been shot at in the late night hours and the reasons given tor the act are the same: racing and disturbing the peace. The latest incident, which occurred early Saturday morning neat Sid Champion's Store In White Level, has resulted in three warrants being issued against Jimmy H. Dean, 51, an em ployee of the store. Dean is charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and a third charge of damage to personal property. Dean allegedly fired a shotgun blast through the rear window of a car belonging to Larry Wood, a 20-year-old Louisburg, Route 2, man. Danny Murphy, 20, also of Route 2, received minor injuries when struck with flying glass, according to reports, and was treated and released at Frank lin Memorial Hospital. Three Centerville men were charged in similar incidents last month at Centerville and each claimed the youths were there to race and that they were disturbing the peace. Wood told The Times Sunday that he was driving and that Murphy was a passenger in the car around 12:30 A.M. Saturday and that they were pulling away from the Champion store when Dean fired the blast. Wood said they were not racing. Damage to the car was extensive, including several pellet holes in the rear, a shattered rear window and a broken rear view mirror. Wood said they were not "cutting up" as claimed by Dean. Dean told The Times, also Sunday, that he had gone to bed after "work ing 16 hours" and was awakened around 1 A.M. when he heard a car "scratch off" in his yard. He said the car threw small rocks and dirt against his front door and against hit car which he said he had recently pur chased and which had that day been cleaned and waxed. He said he went outside and asked Wood and Murphy to stop their actions and that Murphy, whom Dean says was driving, told him he didn't care if he (Dean) never got any more sleep. Dean said a third youth was stand ing in the intersection in front of the store with a white hankerchief and that when the road was clear, the youth would wave the hankerchief and the Wood car and another car, which he described only as "a blue racing type car" would "take off toward Edward Best High School side by side". He reported that he returned to bed only to be aroused later -he said around 2 A.M. -by the same car. He said he went out his back door and fired into the rear of the car. He then went over to the car and asked if he could call a doctor or the Rescue Service or aid the boys. State Trooper C. G. Todd Investi gated and reported that no charges have yet been filed by him in the Incident. He reported only th* one car was there when he arrived. Dean lives directly behind tbe Champion Store and reported that racing "has been going on here every Friday night for the past two years". Dean pointed to a number of tire marks on the highway which branches off in four directions from the store, as evidence of his racing claim. Franklin Sheriff William T. Dement reports that he called for help from the State Patrol after a "Centerville citizen" called him to report a gather ing a young drivers at Centerville Saturday night. Dement said seven patrol cars were dispatched to the Centerville area. Tyree Lancaster, County Dog War den and resident of Centerville, report ed "twelve car loads" of Troopers arrived around 2:30 A.M. Sunday and checked every car coming through and netted 17 arrests but none for racing. Lancaster was Involve in the Center ville incident last month. Second In Two Months Lany Wood, 20, of Route 2, Loulsburg ia ahown above pointing to holea in hi* late model car which he says were Inflicted by Jimmy H Dean 51, of White Level. Dean la charged in three warranta with firing a shotgun blaat Into the rear of Wood'a car evly Saturday morning near Sid Champion's Store in White Level. Danny Murphy, 20, atao of Route 2, received minor Injuries when struck by flying glaaa while inside the Wood car. Staff photo by Clint Fuller 38S3S5S S3 ^ W N N H ^