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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXXI Number 16. THE WORLD CAME TO ZEBULON Here ’s Reaction of Guests NOTE: Yves Laulan is a grad uate student from Bordeaux, France, spending the academic year, 1955-1956, at Carolina, with a special interest in Political Science. Both of his parents are on the faculty at the University of Bordeaux. One of five chil dren, Yves has traveled and stud ied in England and Sweden, with the usual visits throughout Europe. He edited his school papers and is particularly interested in photog raphy. Yves’ special Gallic flair for music is found in his ever present “classical” guitar on which he strums charming French airs and sings equally as charming French songs, old and new. Yves was the young man that was guest of the Rodney Mc- Nabbs during the “World Comes to Zebulon” weekend. By YVES LAULAN Zebulon has become for a week end an international town, and I am thoroughly convinced that out of those two days of life in com mon between h little American town, “the biggest of the little towns,” and 34 foreign students from the University of North Carolina, coming from 16 different countries, something exceedingly worthy has sprung; a sound knowledge of what we really are. From the very beginning we realized that we were eagerly ex pected, and that these people wait ing for the cars from Chapel Hill were already our friends; and that it was that friendliness which the little band, shivering gallantly in the evening air, wanted to ex press. And later on, all over our stay in Zebulon, we made, little by little, the discovery of that wonderful thing we had so far ig nored—a little friendly American town. We saw the town in its com munity life when we were at the Lions and Rotary Clubs. A stout, loud-voiced, warm-hearted figure of one president embodied for us the type of people who were our hosts and who were honestly hop ing our welcome and their efforts would be warm and full and hap py. We soon found the myth of America which says all men are concerned with making money and having his comfort was just that— a myth. Here we saw people we liked who were friendly and good —the men and women who live North Carolina Retail Trade Shows Near Billion Dollar Gain in 6 Years Retail trade in North Carolina in 1954 increased by almost a bil lion dollars over what it was in 1948, Director Ben E. Douglas of the Department of Conservation and Development reported today. The information, Douglas said, came from the 1954 Census of Business, U. S. Department of Commerce, and is contained in a preliminary report on retail trade in the counties of North Carolina. It is the first such study since the 1948 retail business census. The total number of retail es tablishments in this State in 1945 was 38,056 compared to 40,848 in 1948, but total sales for con cerns doing more than SSOO in re tail business annually was $3,- 230,610,000 in 1954 against $2,- 241,696,000 in 1948. Preliminary figures for the num on all the streets of all the little towns of America. We saw the town at work in the cotton factory, the tobacco mar kets, a model farm. We saw the relentless effort to improve pro duction and quality and means to help man’s pain and better his welfare. In the rambling machines, the long fields, the buildings, we saw that man’s spirit was always there and this was good in an age when man holds within his hands the power to crush himself into a nothingness or raise himself to immortality. No such change of horror can come to Zebulin for everywhere we saw a grinning, friendly face peering over and around and about the machines and in the fields. We saw the town relaxing at the square dance we attended. And the boogie-woogie and jitter bugs are merly folk dances of this land as ours represent our land. And are akin, strangely to the “bourie d’Auvergne” or a gigue in Scotland. We showed them our dances and sang our songs, and although the kind people of Zebu lon were not too clear as to exact words we used or the background of our dances, they joined us in a common bond of knowing these Court Collected $ 1,600; Zebulon Gets Only Trifle The municipality of Zebulon does not get the greater part of the approximately SI6OO collected at the Nov. 9 Recorder’s Court session, it was learned Tuesday. In fact, the town received very little. This is the session that had an overwhelming number of traffic cases on the docket. The town of Zebulon receives but $6.50 of each case that is tried at the local court. The major part of the fines go into the Wake County school fund. A typical case of the allotment with a fine of $25.00 and cost of court is as follows: Judge, $4; Clerk, $2.50; Solici tor, $4; Wake County Police Pen sion Fund, $1; State Pension Fund for all law enforcement officers, $2; Arresting officer, $3; Witness ber of establishments and total re tail sales in 1954 in the various counties of the State follow: Ala mance: 811 and $65,395,000; Alexander: 126 and $7,474,000; Alleghany: 64 and $3,480,000; An son: 191 and $11,887,000; Ashe: 130 and $5,941,000; Avery: 101 and $2,831,000; Beaufort: 432 and $28,- 332,000; Bertie: 239 and $12,225,- 000; Bladen: 196 and $15,385,000; Brunswick: 152 and $6,074,000; Buncombe: 1,194 and $118,938,- 000; Burke: 384 and $22,914,000. Cabarrus: 647 and $54,609,000; Caldwell: 133 and $24,145,000; Camden: 23 and $903,000; Car teret: 308 and $18,772,000; Cas well: 133 and $5,415,000; Catawba: 705 and $59,854,000; Chathami 274 and $18,211,000; Cherokee: 173 and $lO 093.000; Chowan: 107 and (See TRADE, Page 8) Zebulon, N. C., Friday, November 25, 1955 were expressions of the people before us and from our hearts. We saw the town in its entirety when we visited in the homes of the people and saw them where the masks of convention and social obligations were removed and they became themselves. We had known of America’s fine cars, central heating, modern kitchens, boasted over the earth by its proud citizens, but here we saw the heart of America and found it was good. Kindly. We have been to Zebulon. We hope to return —we 35 students from far-away lands France, England, Norway, Sweden, India, Pakistan. . . , We can say no more but that our visit will bring them to us as they have so kindly brought us strangers to them. —Chapel Hill News Leader November 17, 1955. • Dear Bev: That was a truly enjoyable week end. Most of the students were overwhelmed by the kindness of their hosts —each bragged that his or hers was the really nice host or hostess. Quite a few years of experience with both Internation al and American friends have given me the insight into the real (See WORLD, Page 8) fee, 50 cents; and Wake County School Fund, $25. The Recorder’s Court expenses for a month is $95.00. The judge receives S7O and the Clerk of the Court gets $25 for the two monthly sessions. Wake County reimburses the local court SSO to help pay the operating expenses of the Zebulon court. Cookie Sale “The Girl Scout cookie sale was one of the most successful ever held,” Mrs. Thurman Hepler, cookie sale chairman, said Tues day. This is an annual event and was held from Nov. 11 through Nov. 18. Mrs. Hepler said that 55 cases of cookies were ordered and that the Intermediate and Brownie scouts sold every one of the 660 boxes. The total amount of the sale was $264. Carolyn Pippin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Pippin, sold 65 boxes. This was the largest num ber any one individual scout sold. Carolyn is in the Intermediate troop. Kay Antone, a Brownie, sold 34 boxes, the largest number in her troop. Kay is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Antone. Mrs. Hepler said that she wishes to congratulate each and everyone of the Intermediate and Brownie scouts that participated in the cookie sale campaign. “No praise is too high for them,” she said. Big Catch Rudolph Moss caught an eight pound bass in Lake Myra last Wednesday. He used a Heddon Vamp lue for the catch. Zebulon Affected By Telephone Change All telephone numbers in Zebulon and surrounding towns will change next summer to conform to a new uniform nation-wide system at faster long-distance service, E. A. Clement, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. Raleigh District Manager, has annuonced. The new numbering plan is a part of an expansion of equipment and techniques which will bring all telephones in the country to within a few seconds of each other. It will assign office names and numbers to each telephone in Zebulon, Raleigh, Wendell, Cary, Garner and Apex. The Zebulon office name will be ANdrew and the number 9. Wen dell will be listed as FOrest 5. As an example of placing a call to Wendell from Zebulon, it will be necessary to dial FO and the number desired. Typical example: Wendell, 1234 will become FO-5, 1234. The district manager said the numbering plan is tailored to com plex electronic equipment which permits long distance operators to dial telephones in other cities. And he added that it paves the way for introduction of “direct dis tance dialing” by the public within the next 10-20 years. Mr. Clement said the other towns involved will have office names as follows: Cary, HOpkins 7; Garner, EMerson 2; Apex, ELgin 4; and Raleigh, TEmple 2, TEmple 3 and TEmple 4. The manager said that it will not be necessary to change existing digits in putting the new system into effect. All that will be neces sary will be the adding of an of fice prefix to the digits of your present number. Inter-area dialing, such as be tween Cary and Garner and Ra leigh, and Wendell and Zebulon, will remain in effect. Dialing codes now in use will not be used, however. All that will be neces sary is to dial the new telephone number. t “Since we’re very much aware of the importance of telephone numbers to subscribers and the public,” the district manager add ed, “we’re making the announce ment of this change well in ad vance. And we’ll continue to pub licize the modernized numbering system in the period between now and next summer when the new numbers go into effect.” Mr. Clement said the coming (See CHANGE, Page 5) Methodist Bazaar Set for Monday; Canned Goods, Hand Work Offered The women of the Mercer-Sex ton Circle of the Methodist Church will sponsor a bazaar Monday, Nov. 28, from 2 until 10 o’clock p. m. This is the second year the wo men of this circle have been host to such a project. They sponsor ed a like project last year. Mrs. Andrew Jenkins said that the bazaar last year was such a success that it was decided to give one this year. This bazaar is the only such thing that has ever been had in Zebulon, Mrs. Jenkins said. She also said that they began on a small scale last year and are plan ning to become bigger with this sale, and even bigger in future ba zaars. The women of the Mercer-Sex- Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers County Hospital Needs Described At Rotary Meet Foster D. Finch was the featured speaker at the Friday night meet ing of the Zebulon Rotary Club. Mr. Finch is a well-known local attorney and is the vice chairman of the Wake County Hospital Au thority. With vivid descript’ ns and pan el displays, the speaker pointed out the needs now present in the coun ty. He said that hospitals in the country today are handling a ca pacity number of patients. This causes an undue stress and strain upon hospital facilities and per sonnel. He also pointedly explained that with additional clinic-type hos pitals the patient and the county will both benefit. The people of Wake County are being asked to support the com ing bond issue to the tune of $5,- 000,000. The Federal Government will divy up with a grant of sl,- 000,000. Mr. Finch feels that $6,000,000 will provide adequate hospital fa cilities the county. The bond issue will be held in December. , New Sewer Line Zebulon sewer lines are being extended to give improved ser vice to the northeast side of town. The new line runs east from the Dairy Queen on the Spring Hope highway, then northwest back to the highway, then northeast tj connect with the Wake County line running from Shepard School. O. D. Wyatt, contractor of Ral eigh, is doing the work. His work has been complicated by beds of sand underneath the ground which have caused the sides of the deep ditch to cave in. I ton Circle have outlined plans for making this affair an annual event. Items for sale will include home-canned goods, candies, cakes, handwork such as crochet ing, emmroidery, dolls, clothing, etc. An added feature of this year’s bazaar will be the handwork done by the Intermediate Girl Scouts. These items will be pot holders, sock dolls, earrings, place mats, and many other things. Proceeds from these items will go to the In termediate Girl Scout fund. Workers downtown are invited to take theirr coffee-break and eat a slice of cake and cup of cof fee. Mothers are urged to bring their families for dessert during the sale. Parents are welcomed (See BAZAAR, Page 8)
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