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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXIX. Number 66. DELEGATES TO GIRL'S STATE ■jfm Nancy Alford Named for Girls' State Wakelon Delegates Are Nancy Alford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Alford, Route 2, Zebulon, and Dottie Privette, daughter of Mrs. Doris Privette, Zebulon, have been chosen to rep resent Wakelon School and the Zebulon American Legion Auxil iary unit at the 16th Annual Tar Heel Girls’ State to be held June 12-17 at the Woman’s College in Greensboro, it was announced to day by Mrs. Pat Farmer, Girls’ State Chairman of the local Aux iliary unit. Each year two outstanding girls in the rising Senior class are se Memorial Day Service Sunday Twenty honored dead, who gave their lives for their country, will be remembered at Memorial Day services held Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock in the Zebulon cemetery. Cale K. Burgess, prominent Ral eigh attorney and one of the foun ders of the American Legion, will be featured speaker. This marks the first Memorial Day service held here. It is spon sored by the American Legion Auxiliary. Members of the National Guard will form the honor and color guard, and Boy Scouts of Troop 340 will stand in a body for the Guard Battery Plans Drill Sunday; To Hear Baptist Minister Speak The shrill, piercing blast of First Sergeant Sidney Holmes’ brass whistle Sunday morning will sig nal the beginning of the first all day drill of the year for the Na tional Guardsmen in Zebulon’s Battery A. Roll call is at 8:45 for the citizen-soldiers. A religious service directed by the Rev. Btev. Asbury, pastor of the Zebulon Baptist Church, will be Mrs. Stallings Buys Self-Service Laundry The Self-Service Laundry in Zebulon has been purchased by Mrs. Mildred Stallings from Mrs. Ruric Gill, Sr. The laundry is be ing redecorated this week, and Mrs. Stallings invites present cus tomers and others to continue us ing the facilities. It will be reop ened June 1. j%;§§os/ jflHf ,/flHHb*. Dottie Privette lected by their principal and teach ers to attend this event. The Tar Heel Girls’ State was originated and established in 1840 by the American Legion Auxiliary, Department of North Carolina, as an Americanism project to provide for high school girls of the Stdte an opportunity to study and prac tice citizenship in a democracy. For fifteen years it has devel oped within several thousand young leaders a deeper sense of their responsibility as citizens, and proved to be a practical source of instruction in the structure and operation of the State government. conducted immediately following roll call. Through the day the Guardsmen will learn how to care for and use their famous Garand rifles under the supervision of Lt. Jack Potter, executive officer. Many of the men will receive their first training with the weapons since joining the Guard. Dinner for the 85 men partici pating in the training will be pre pared by the battery mess sec tion, under Mess Steward Percy Parrish, assisted by the first cooks, Sgt. Max Williams and Sgt. George Massey, Jr. Another all-day training period will be conducted on June 5, and Battery A will join the other five batteries comprising the 113th Field Artillery Battalion for a weekend of firing at Ft. Bragg on June 11-12. n, N. C., Friday, May 2 Zebul Registration to Be Tuesday Morning For Summer School Registration for the Wakelon summer school will be held be ginning at 9 o’clock Tuesday morn ing, according to Principal Frank lin R. Jones. Regular classes will segin on Wednesday. The school has been organized primarily to assist students in making up work on subjects failed during regular sessions and im proving their knowledge of sub jects where they are weak. The only advance work offered during this summer school will be for those who need to improve their class standings because of previous failures. The North Car olina requirement of 75 hours for remedial work will be ob served. Classes will be held at a time most convenient to the students attending. The time will be an nounced Tuesday. Members of the regular teach ing staff at Wakelon will instruct the school. Because no state sup port for summer schools is avail able, a nominal tuition charge will be charged. The tentative program of in struction will include seventh and eighth grade English and mathe matics, high school English, I, 11, 111, and general science or biology, and social studies. Persons interested in enrolling in the summer school are asked to contact the Principal. service. The opening prayer will be de livered by the Rev. B. A. Asbury. After the main address there will be a silent prayer in honor of the dead, a solo by CWO John sey Arnold, a closing prayer by E. H. Moser, and taps. Members of the Zebulon Amer ican Legion Auxiliary will be sell ing Memorial Day poppies tomor row to earn money to assist in their work for disabled veterans. Citizens of the community are urg ed to give generously for the priv ilege of wearing the flow’ers. METHODISTS LEAVE FOR CAMP SUNDAY The Zebulon and Wendell Meth odist Churches are sponsoring a Church Camp at their Conference Youth Camp at Don-Lee, 20 miles below New Bern. The group will leave Sunday afternoon, May 29, and return Saturday, June 4. The theme is “Christ above All.” Mrs. Jean Liles is in charge of Morning Watch. Rev. Troy J. Bar rett will direct the camp and teach in the Bible Study hour. Quest Leaders include Mrs. H. C. Wade and Mrs. Troy J. Barrett. Vesper programs will be under the leadership of Miss Ruth Temple and Lowell Pulley. Miss Laura James Sexton will direct the mu sic. Evening programs include an emphasis on Faith, Home, Friends, Alcohol, Peace, Missions, Brother hood, Vocations, and a Commit ment Service Friday night. (Continued on Page 5) , 1955 Wakelon, Wendell Final Exercises to Be Tonight; Bryan, Albright Speakers Thirty-Five Members in Graduating Class At Each School; Honor Students Named Dr. D. B. Bryan, Dean of Wake Forest College, will be the speaker at the graduation exercises for Wakelon School tonight at 8 o’- clock, when 35 members of the sen ior class will receive their di plomas from Principal Franklin R. Jones. Others taking part on the pro gram include Barbara Alford, val edictorian, and Ruth Temple, sal utatorian; the Rev. J. V. Brooks, and the Rev. T. J. Barrett, Both Miss Alford and Miss Tem ple have received scholarships to the Woman’s College of the Urti versity of North Carolina for their outstanding scholastic work. Miss Temple also was winner of one of the two Danforth Leader ship Training School Scholarships awarded in North Carolina. This scholarship covers the cost of two weeks training at the Ameri can Youth Foundation Leadership Training Camp held in August of each year at Camp Miniwanca on Lake Michigan and Stoney Lake in Oceana County, Mich. Three Are Hurt In Triple Wreck Three cars filled with Wakelon juniors, out to see where a road led to, rolled over one behind the other on the route to Knightdale from Hodges Store on Highway 64 Wednesday night, sending one passenger to the hospital in a crit ical condition and injuring two others. Drivers of the three vehicles, in the order they rolled, were Aubrey Gay, Vernon Pearce, and Billy Etheridge. Roger Pearce was taken to Rex Hospital, seriously injured. He was thrown out of the car and pinned under an open door. Oth ers hurt were Leland Creech, who suffered a scalp wound, and Au brey Gay, whose lip was cut open. Eleven passengers were in the three cars, all but two members of the Wakelon junior class. The curve where the accidents occurred was unmarked, but Pa trolman Wicker, investigating of ficer, reported it could be safely navigated at 50 miles an hour. Water Safety Classes Are Scheduled At Lake Glad Beginning Monday Swimming classes for beginners will be held at Lake Glad begin ning Monday, May 30, and con tinuing through June 3, at 2:30 to 4:30 each day. Boys and girls not already registered should attend the first day to enroll. Boys and girls of high school age with experience in water safe ty instruction should contact Mrs. Marietta White in Wendell if they are interested in assisting with the instruction. A Junior and Senior Course in life saving will be offered at Lake Glad June 6 through June 18 by the Wake County Chapter of the American Red Cross. These classes Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Graduation exercises at Wendell High School will begin tonight at 8:15, when R. Mayne Albright will deliver the commencement address to the 35 graduating seniors. He will be introduced by Principal H. D. Hall. Officers of the Class of 1955 are Douglas Raper, president; Ross Gay, vice-president; and Hunter Ann Johnson, secretary. Mascots are Carole Roberts and Keith Led ford. Graduates Listed Members of the class include: Huey Bragg Allen, Wanda Gay Anderson, Linda Louise Andrews, William Buchanan Apple, Joyce Faye Atkinson, Mary Alice Braud well, Dewitt Byrd, Jr., Suzanne Walyse Cook, Emily Dean, Walter Ross Gay, Sallie Joe Griffin, Hunter Ann Johnson, Jane Ma rie Johnson, Ruth Marie Johnston, Julius Chesley Knott, Luther El lis Ledford, Jr., Dorothy Sue Liles, Barbara Jean Martin, Marilyn Faye Martin, Charles Robert Med lin, Pauline Morgan, Glenn Frances Nowell, Larry Gene Price, Bruce Carlton Priv ette, Douglas Lane Raper, Betty Jean Richardson, Patricia Faye Richardson, Lloyd Sanderford, Charles Buren Smith, Norma Jean Snead, Charles Ray mond Stott, Willard Milo Turnip seed, Betty Jean Wall, Carlton Donald Walston, Gilbert Wood. Joint Service Is Planned Sunday The Zebulon and Wendell Meth odist Churches will worship to gether in a Fifth Sunday Union Worship Service at the Zebulon Church this Sunday, May 29 at 11:00 o’clock. Rev. Trop J. Bar rett, minister of both churches, will preach on the topic, “Unto These Hills.” The members of the Wendell Church will be guests of the mem bers of the Zebulon Church at a picnic dinner following the ser vice. Each congregation will go to its respective church for Church School at 9:45. will be held each evening at 7 o’- clock. Everyone 12 years and older who are strong swimmers are invited to attend an organizational meet ing at the home of Gayle Privette, directly across from the Zebulon Baptist Church, at 2 o’clock Sun day afternoon. Registration and distribution of material for the course will be made at this time. The average family in the 1920’s spent about 25 cents of its wage dollar for food. Today’s family’s still spend about the same propor tion of their income for so 1.
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