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The Fraiiklin Times
Published Every Tuesday & Thursday
Serving All Of Franklin County \ jjptl
Telephone Gy6-3283
Ten Cents
Louisburg, N. C., Tuesday, November 25. 1969
(Ten Pages Today)
100th Year-Number 81
Photos by Ross Shufiinff.
Seven Injured As Car Flips
Seven Negro youths, riding in a 1968 Mustang, were injured Sunday afternoo.i
around 4:15 P.M. when the car ran off the road and overturned. The accident
occurred on the Kast Kiver Koad near the Louisburg Town Dump. The injured were
identified by State Trooper E. S. Monday as James Albert Rogers. 22, driver and
owner of the vehicle, 104 Cooper Street, Louisburg; Ronald Pace. 15, Route 1,
Louisburg; Phillip Walker, 16, 400 Perry's Street, Louisburg; Michael Hall, 19, Bunn
Road. Louisburg; Anthony Alston, 17, 823 Kenmore Ave., Louisburg; Alfred
Johnson, 16, 105 Bunn Koad, Louisburg and Leroy Hartsfieid, 15, Route 1,
Louisburg. .
Pace, Walker and llall were treated at Franklin Memorial Hospital and
transferred to .Duke. Hartsfieid was treated and transferred to Wake Memorial.
Alston and Johnson were treated and released. All were given first aid at the scene
by the Louisburg Rescue Service.
Trooper Monday said high speed was involved estimating that the car was
traveliQg between 80 and 100 miles an hour. He said the vehicle traveled 138 feet
sideways in the road and overturned at least four times over a distance of 240 feet.
Rites Held Here
For UNC Student
Funeral services for AJIen Thomas
Moody, 19-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill
student drowned in the Neus? Kiver
November 1, were held here Monday
at 11 A.M. Services
were conducted
from the White
Funeral Home
Chapel by Rev. Al
fred Snipes. Burial
followed in the
Bunn cemetery.
The body of the
Old Bridge,. N. J.
youth was found
Saturday. Moody
and two other
UNC students lost
MOODY
their lives while on a canoeing trip
down the Neuse River. The canoe
overturned in a heavy wind and rain
storm. A fourth youth. Albert Stler
Hudson of Florence, S. C. was rescued
after he swam to shore. The other two
victims were identified as Charles E.
Baker of Bluefield. W. Va.. whose
body was found the day after the
accident and Don Linton Lewis, Jr.,
19, of Greensboro, whose body was
found on November 15.
Moody's parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Moody, are native* of Franklin
County. Mr. Moody is formerly of the
Pine Ridge Community and Mrs.
Moody is a former resident of Bunn.
Surviving, in addition to his par
ents. are a sister. Donna of the home;
his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Vic
toria White of Bunn; hit paternal
grandmother, Mrs. Lela Moody of Bur
lington. 1
Operation Santa Launched
Franklin County Mental Health
Volunteers are conducting "Operation
Santa Claus." an annual project of the
North Carolina Mental Health Assoc is
tion, among the residents of the
Franklin County area.
There are 15,000 patients and stu
dents in the State Hospitals and Re
tarded Centers In North Carolina. Each
year the North Carolina Mental Health
Association and its local chapters con
duct the "Operation Santa Claus" pro
ject in an effort to obtain gifts for
these patients and students so that
they may enjoy Christmas
All Franklin County patients have
recently been transferred from Doro
thea Dlx Hospital to John Umstead
Hospital at Butner. The Franklin
County students In centers for the
retarded are being transferred from
O'Berry Hospital in Goldsboro to Mur
doch Center at Butner. There will be
approximately 50 patients from this
county in John Umstead Hospital in
1 - December and around 20 students at
Murdoch Center.
It is also hoped to extend "Opera
tion Santa Claus" to Incline county
people In local rest homes and depriv
ed children as indicated by the
i
schools. Department or Social sur
vives, Health Department and local
groups. In many case*, this is where
assistance will do the most good.
Any designated group wishing to
participate in "Operation Santa Claus"
is requested to contact any of the
following: Mrs. Woodrow Warren, Mrs.
T. H. Edwards, Mrs. Sidney Boone and
Mrs. Charles L. Fuller. These four
women will be working with the
Family Counseling and Education Cen
ter to coordinate the project. Gifts and
donations should be delivered, to the
Center at 110 Clifton Avenue here not
later than Thursday, December 11.
Those desiring to work with one
needy patient or student or are desir
ous of gift suggestions are also asked
to contact the four coordinators or
contact Talmadge H. Edwards, Jr.,
Program Coordinator of the Center.
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy today with
little change In temperature. Partly
cloudy and cooler WediMday. Low,
40; high, low 60*.
Rishel Issues
Employment
Statement
R. E. Nlellish, President of Rishel
Furniture Company which is schedul
ed to opeiHts new plant here shortly, ,
has issued f statement on employ
ment. '
The statement, issued from the
Williamsport, Pa. office on November
3, stated that Rishel. all affiliates and
all major subcontrators are Equal Em
ployment Opportunity Employers and
"solicit the referral of Qualified Appli
cants without regard to race, color,
creed, national origin and sex".
The statement also advises that
"consideration for inclusion in a train
ing program, and further promotion
and upgrading shall be given on the
same basis."
"It is against the policy of this
Company to maintain any segregated
facilities of any sort," the statement
continues.
The Company official designated as
Equal Employment Policy- Officer is
Mr. John C. Goertz.
Adult Education
Program Starts
Thirty adults enrolled in the Adult
High School Diploma Program during
an organizational meeting held Thurs
day night at the Louisburg Elementary
School cafeteria. A placement testing
date was set for Tuesday, November
25, at 7:00 p.m. with a starting date
scheduled for Tuesday, December 2, at
7:00 p.m. Classes will meet on Tues
day and Thursday nights from 7-10
p.m.
This accelerated. Adult High School
Program provides instruction in Eng
lish, math, science, and social studies <*
through the use of self-Instructional
programmed materials. Adults enter
the program at their appropriate grade
levels as determined by placement
tests. Upon successful completion of
the assigned course materials and a
minimum of 150 instructional hours, a
standardized achievement test is given
to determine eligibility for the Adult
High School Diploma.
Th^ diploma is awarded by the
Franklin Board of Education which ~
co-sponsors the program with Nash
Technical Institute.
Interested adults may enter the
program or obtain additional informa
tion by attending the placement test
meeting Tuesday, November 25, or the
starting night scheduled for Tuesday,
December 2.
CHARLES DAVIS
MELBROUGHTON
"P^riotism- Old Fashioned"
PAUL BREWER
Staff /fhoto by C. lint Fullrr.
Mel Broughton Tells Jaycees To Be
Thankful For Freedom And Heritage
Raleigh attorney J. Melville Brough
ton. speaking here Monday night, call
ed for "concerned citizens" to be
"thankful for (their) freedom and
(their) heritage". The former guberna
torial candidate spoke to a meeting of
the Louisburg Jaycees.
Broughton was introduced by
Louteburg attorney Char1e? Davis, who
led the candidate's young people's
campaign in 1968.
Referring to the recently adopted
Jaycee resolution of support of Presi
dent Nixon's effort to gain peace in
Vietnam, Broughton: said the resolu
tion "represents th? expressions of
concerned citizens at a time when I
believe we need new determination
.... to bring about lasting peace in
Vietnam".
"Every day should be a day of
thanksgiving for all of us fortunate
enough to live in Franklin County.
North Carolina and the United
States", Broughton said and added.
"We must b^ mindful of our blessings
and our responsibilities."
Expressing the belief that the "dis
rupters"-^ "not dissenters, this country
was built on dissent") -the former
Highway Commission Chairman said,
'"Hi ere are many citizens who do not
share the Jaycee concern. Those
people, seemingly, are against the Pre
sident's efforts to obtain peace in
Vietnam". I
"Be mindful that our freedom in
this country has come about because
of those who came before us. Too
often we take this freedom for grant
ed. The disrupters-they, too, have
much for which to be thankful," he
said.
Along the same theme, Hroughton
said, "We are in a situation which is a
testing time not only for the United
States but for the entire world. The
government of the United States needs
the support of all citizens to bring
about an end to the war- a lasting
peace. Communist agencies will move
from this point to another point unless
stopped here," he stated.
Broughton expressed his concern
for the "breakdown in morals" in this
country and spoke of the rising crime
rate and use of drugs, "particularly
among our young people". He also
spoke of the breakdown in family life
and cited a one-out-of-two divorce rate
in Los Angeles, California.
A number of special guests were
present, including local officials and
newsmen. Paul Brewer, Jaycee Presi
dent. presided at the meeting.
Fountain Introduces Bill
To Control Exits To Cuba i
Washington, D. C. -? Hundreds of
members of .radical groups are plan
ning to go to Communist Cuba soon to
help Castro harvest his 1970 sugar
crop, and, as a result of recent Su
preme Court decisions, the State De
partment is without authority to for
bid this travel.
In an effort to provide statutory
authority to the Secretary of State,
Congressman L. H. Fountain has co
sponsored a bill in the House of
Representatives entitled "A Bill Ho
Restrict Travel in Violation of Area
Restrictions."
'The bill would grant authority to
the President, and thus to the Secre
tary of State, to impose travel restric
tions to a foreign country or area by
U. S. citizens if the foreign country is
at war, or where such travel would
seriously impair the conduct of United
States foreign policy," Rep. Fountain
stated.
The punishment for violating any
such travel ban would be imprison
ment for up to five year- or a fine not
exceeding $5,000, or both.
Congressman Fountain pointed out,
"The so-called American sugar bri
gades have recruited about 600 work
ers from among the SDS, Black Pant
hers, Young Lords, and others."
GUPTON
BRAWLEY
dement
BATTON
TERRELL
STOKES
Officers Get A Really Big One i
Sheriff William T. Demerit's department and ATU officer! captured a really big one last Thursday night near Pilot in Franklin
County. Dement reports that a steam-type 600-gallon capacity still was raided last Thursday night arou.id 9 p.m. He gave the
location as 3 miles southwest of Pilot near Rocky Cross and the Narfi County line.
Two men were arrested at the site. Dement said. They were identified as Jimmy Allan Fuller, w/m/26 of Route 1, Louisburg
and Walter Parry, w/m/26 of Route 2. Wake Forest. Both will be tried in Franklin District Court on December 8, according to
the Sheriff.
Dement reported that his deputies and ATU officers returned to the site Friday morning and destroyed it. Found at the still
waa a 7-foot upright boiler, forty 1 80 gallon barrels of mash and fifteen 60-gallon barrels and a total of 4450 gallons of mash.
ITiere were 380 gallons of finished whiskey discovered at the site. Dement said. Confiscated In the raid was a 1964. * ton Ford
truck, 3 water pumps. 46 cases of (are and 2,000 pounds of coal. Photo Courtety of T. H. Ptarce.
Parade Varking
Rules Given
Louisburg Police, Chief Earl
Tharrington has announced no
parking areas downtown for
next Monday night's Christmas
Parade. Chief Tharrington said
no parking wll be allowed from
Justice Street along Main Street
to East Nash after 6 P.M. Mon
day. So 'par king will be allowed
from Main Street along East
Nash to Wake Avenue (ASdP
drive/ after ^ 6 P.M. either, the
Chief announced. This is the
route of the Parade which gets
underway at 7:30 P.M. Monday
night. Chief Tharrington request
ed the public's cooperation in
observing the no parking limita
tions.