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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXX, Number 81. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, July 13, 1956 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers RECORDER'S COURT Drunks, Traffic Violators Pay Heavy Fine to Court Recorder’s Court continues to be filled with traffic violations and drunken cases. Judge I. D. Gill presided and pronounced judgment on the following cases. John Henry Healy was given a $25 fine and costs for operating a motor vehicle with an expired chauffeur’s license. Frank Virginia Hood was found guilty of appearing on the high way in a drunken condition. He was ordered to pay $10 fine and costs. Adolph C. Brantley, Bailey, was ordered to pay a fine of $10 and costs of court for havinp an im proper muffler. Cyclone Mack Perry was given a fine of $15 and costs for having improper brakes. Roy L. Oakley was found guilty of being publicly drunk and given a 30 day road sentence sus pended on payment of $10 fine and costs and to remain on good behavior for six months. Leo Ganus, Wendell, was given a 30 day road sentence suspended on payment of $10 fine and costs for having been publicly drunk. Elbert Harris Driver was found guilty of speeding and given a fine of $15 and costs of courts. Don Rebmon Pearce was found guilty of speeding 75 mph in a 55 mph zone. He was ordered to pay a $35 fine and costs of court Willie Jenkins Perry was ordered to pay a fine of $10 and costs for having an improper muffler. Rachel Bention Jackson, Reids ville was found guilty of speeding 65 mph and fined $25 and costs. Nathan Rogers Perry, Wendell, was given a fine of $10 and costs of court for having an improper; emergency brake. Fred Moore, Sr., Middlesex, was given a fine of $10 and costs of court for appearing in a drunken (See COURT, Page 7) Union Hope's Lead Smaller; Another Team Organized Union Hope’s softball team still heads the league, although their lead is gradually being narrowed. Tuesday night Wakefield defeat ed the newly-organized National Guard team, and Methodist upset Union Hope. At the Wednesday night /ames, Wakefield topped Union Hope and Methodist put the clamps on the Guardsmen. Hopkins team was dropped from the league because of some ineli gible players and the National Guard entry replaced them. Today’s schedule: supervised play at the park from 9-12; story | hour at 9:30-10:30; Midgets versus Union Hope at 2; and tonight Tay lor Dobson, recreation consultant for North Carolina, and Methodist (See SOFTBALL, Page 7) Zebulon Lassies On NCC Honor Roll Four Zebulon girls whose rec ords in academic work during the Spring quarter at East Carolina are above average have just been announced. Hilda Marie Morris made the dean’s list, and the following girls were listed on the honor roll: San dra Nell Bunn, Gayle Liles Dunn, and Sue Richards. Wendell students include Pattie I Sue Grimes, dean’s list; and Jesse j Vause Beaman and Elizabeth Dean Richardson, honor roll. CATHOLIC MOTOR CHAPEL TO BE IN ZEBULON Father Cranor F. Graves, administrator of St. Eugene’s Catholic Church in Wendell, has announced that the Catholic Motor Chapel will visit Zebulon July 16 through July 29. Each evening at 8 o’clock, Father Graves said, Father Thomas Clement of Raleigh and Father Joseph Hart of North Wilkesboro will conduct services. The services will consist of three parts: a brief sermon, questions answered about religion, and a religious movie. The Motor Chapel will be located on the Devil Dog parking lot. Miss Green Now With Health Dept. Miss Mitzie Green has been employed by the Wake County Health Department as senior pub lic health nurse for this territory. She was hired July 2 and replaces Mrs. Ida Hall who retired at the end of June. Miss Green is a native of Elm City. She is a graduate of Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing. She has done graduate study at George Peabody College, and received her public health de gree from the University of North Carolina. Sne has been senior public health nurse of Gaston County, and carried that same title in Edgecombe County from 1940 to 1952. Miss Green assumed her duties here last Friday, ably assisted by Mrs. Hall. Thomas J. Horton, 78, Durham realtor, died of a heart attack at his home, 215 Forest Wood Drive, Monday morning at 1:30 o’clock. He was born in Wake County, the son of John Calvin Horton and Martha Strickland Horton, and had been engeged in the real estate busines for the 26 years. Mr. Horton came to Durham in 1890 and his first employment was with the cigarette department of Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co. Late in 1894 the Durham Hosiery Co. was organized and began op erations on Church Street. Mr. Horton joined the new firm which later became the Durham Hosiery Mills. In 1898 Mr. Horton accepted the WAKELON HIGH SCHOOL BAND PARADES IN NEW UNIFORMS Leading the 50-piece Wakelon High School Band, attired in their new black and gold uniforms, is drum major Vaughn Wade. The uniforms, a Finer Carolina project completed by the Zebulon Lions Club, cost approximately $2,500.00. Pictured on the left is Sinclair Newman, the band’s new director. Newman succeeds Alger Batts, who resigned to accept a position with the Wake Forest, Rolesville, and Morrisville high schools as band director. The photograph was made by the Raleigh Times during the July 4 parade in Zebulon. position of superintendent of a Burlington hosiery mill but lived there only a few months. He re turned here and opened a bicycle and machine shop on Church Street. He sold his business in 1906 and went to Zebulon where he lived until his return to Dur ham in 1927. While in Zebulon he organized a hosiery mill, served as bank president and for one term was mayor of the town. Most of his life following his re turn to Durham was devoted to the real estate business. Mr. Horton was a member of the Duke Memorial Methodist Church, the Pastor’s Aides Sun day School Class, the Elks Club, and the Knights of Pythias. In addition to his wife, he is survived by four children, two sons, James E. Horton of Arling ton, Va., and Norman W. Horton of Virginia Beach, Va.; two daugh ters, Mrs. R. C. Barrett of Raleigh and Mrs. W. L. Morris of New port Beach, Calif.; one grandchild, Ann Horton; and a sister, Mrs. Jettie Holloway of Durham. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning, at 11 o’clock at the Hall-Wynne Chapel. The body remained at the funeral home until the hour of the rites, interment was in the new section of Maplewood Cemetery. Dr. Virgil E. Queen, pastor of the Duke Memorial Methodist Church, and Dr. Edgar B. Fisher, a former pastor officiated. Oven Fire Does Heavy Damage The Rural Fire Department was called-to the scene of a fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Young last Friday at 10 o’clock. The Youngs live approximately four miles north of Zebulon. Firemen stated that the fire started in the oven of the electric stove when food being cooked be came over-heated and flamed. Damages were estimated at $300.
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