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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXX, Number 92. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, August 17, 1956 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Night Policeman's Life Is Lonely and Interesting The life of a night policeman is very lonely . . . and very inter esting. So said night Policeman M. G. Crowder who has been on the Zeb ulon police force for 12 years. “It gets to be very lonesome dur ing the dead hours of the night,” he said. “There is nothing stir ring. Qnly the quiet streets, black ed out homes, and the still, unearthly silence that can envelop a small town.” Policeman Crowder became a member of the Zebulon police force in November of 1934. Prior to ac cepting a job with the police de partment he was engaged in farm ing. „ He said he decided to give up farming, which he had done all his life, because he did not have the necessary help. After hearing of a vacancy on the Zebulon police force he de cided to apply for the job and was accepted. “I stayed with the job for two years,” Crowder said, “and then found out that I didn’t like it. The hours were hard and I couldn't get used to them, so I Went back to the farm.” Alter a year of farming, Crow der was asked to come back to the force as night policeman. He has served in that capacity ever since. He is quite used to his job now, and thinks it is one of the most in teresting occupations anybody could possibly have. Almost every hour of the nighl Policeman Crowder patrols the town. He tours the residential section and the business district, ever alert for anything that is out of the ordinary. He said he has to deal with more drunken cases than anything else These, he said, usually occur or (Continued on Page 5) M. (J. CROWDER The Rev. Bray Fills Pulpit Here Sun. The Reverend Richard T. Bray of Wake Forest and pastor of the Wake Cross Roads Baptist Church will fill the pulpit at the Baptist Church on Sunday morning. Mr. Bray was born and reared in Richmond, Virginia, receiving his high school education there He is a graduate of Campbell Col lege, Wake Forest College, anc the Southeastern Baptist Theologi cal Seminary. Mr. Bray served in the Armec Forces in World War II, anc while a student at Wake Forest College and Southeastern Semi nary he served as pastor of the Wake Cross Roads Church. The church was a fourth-time churcl when Mr. Bray became its pastoi and for nearly two years it ha: 1 (Continued on Page 5) Five Recruited By Battery A; More Are Wanted i I Five more men have enlisted in the National Guard with Battery A, 113th Field Artillery Battalion, in Zebulon, during July and Aug ust, according to Lt. Jack Potter, commanding officer. All five of the new Guardsmen are from the Zebulon community. CWO Johnsey P. Arnold listed the recruits as Derwood Newton Brannon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow W. Brannon of Route 3; Ned Thorpe Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Mitchell of Route 3; Clyde Winton Boykin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donie Bunion Boykin of Route 3; Bobby Royle Weathers, son of Mr. and Mrs. j Royle Clair Weathers; and Wayne Crosby Pearce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivon K. Pearce of Route 2. * A comprehensive training sched ule of basic military subjects has been prepared to rapidly turn the recruits in trained, capable sol diers ready for specialized train ing in one of the battery sections. | Lt. Potter stated that men in a j National Guard firing battery may learn many technical skills, in cluding electronics, survey, ballis tics, automotive maintenance, and other skills required in modern warfare. Several vacancies in Battery A have resulted froqa men entering active duty, CWO Arnold reports. ' He urged young men to contact him at the armory concerning ad vantages offered by membership in the National Guard.’ Benefits are only acceptable so far as they can be requited; beyond that point, instead of gratitude they excite hatred.—Tacitus Rural Fire Dept. Is Kept Busy This Week MELVIN LANIER Lanier Becomes Funeral Director Melvin Lanier became a licensed funeral director August 8 when he received notification from North Carolina Funeral Directors Asso ciation that he had passed the ex amination. He is a native of Beulahville, and has been employed with Whit ley Furniture Co., Inc., for the past eight years. He is married to the former Wilma Nowell of Wen dell and is the father of two sons, Robert, 9, and Tim, 5. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.—Thomas Jefferson A barn on the farm belonging to Mrs. Mary Richardson, about four miles south of Zebulon, burn ed Wednesday morning about 8:30 o’clock, according to the Zebulon Rural Fire Department. Department officials were call ed to the blaze but were unable to save the barn. An adjoining barn connected by a shelter was sav ed. The shelter burned. Mrs. Richardson sustained a loss of approximately $1000. according to officials. • During the severe electrical storm over Zebulon Tuesday night about 8 o’clock, lightning struck the home belonging to J. P. Price on Sycamore Street. Firemen stated that the electri cal wiring system was burned, and the drapes and curtains in the liv ing room were set fire. According to officials, damage to to the home was slight. Mr. and Mrs. Price were not at home when the accident occurred. • The Rural Fire Truch was call ed to the farm owned by Mrs. Mil lard Chamblee Tuesday at 6:15 p. m. to extinguish a smoking oil burner in a tobacco barn. The farm is located in High Town. Firemen said no damages were caused by the overflowing oil bur ner which had begun to blaze. • Town Manager Willie B. Hop kins said that many street lights were knocked out during the elec trical storm which occurred Tues day night. No other damage was done, Hop kins said, and the lighting system has now been fully restored. Enjoying refreshments during the Garden Club’s social hour are from left to right Mrs. Ed Richardson, Mrs. Eldred Rountree, Mrs. Jerry Buffaloe, Mrs. Leo Britt of Wendell, Mrs. Theo. Davis, Mrs. Haliburton Yancey, Mrs. Bill Sanders of Wendell, Mrs. Bernice Bunn, Mrs. Norman Screws and daughter, Mrs. George Tucker, Mrs. Ruric Gill, Mrs. Ferd Davis and Mrs. Bob Sawyer. . This blue ribbon winner was done by Mrs. Bill Williams of Middlesex. It is an artistic arrange ment of gladioli set in a base of j acuba with a background of glad-! ioli foliage. Shown above are guests of the Garden Club viewing the ar rangments in the panels. Also admiring the showing. on. the left is Mrs. Ferd Davis, past president of the club. i (ARMEN FLOWERS GARDEN CLUB STRIVES TO BEAUTIFY The women of Zebulon who have belonged or belong to the Garden Club believe that “a thing of beau ty is a joy forever.” Ever since the organization of a Garden Club in Zebulon, these wo men have sought to make the townsmen more beauty conscious. They have always held to the one idea that to be beautiful one must beautify. And these women have never slowed up in their plan to make > their surroundings and their town more beautiful. Through many strenuous efforts, many hours of long, hdrd work and planning they have succeeded. As one gentleman said: “It has been the women thaFTfave made our town not only the biggest lit tle town on earth, but they have also made it the prettiest through their efforts to beautify it.” The Garden Club 'is an out- | growth of the Senior Woman’s Club. It had its origin many, many years ago. In the beginning the Garden Club was a department of the club, planned by the women to beautify their homes, thereby help ing make the town more attractive. “During the time the Garden Club was a division of the Wo man’s Club,” one Senior Woman’s Club member said, “it was a most active organization.” In the Garden Club’s infancy, the late Mrs. Clarence Chamblee in spired the club with the projection of new ideas and helped to keep the 'club working and functioning with efficiency. Some years later the Woman’s Club made it obligatory for the women to be members of the club in order to participate in the Gar den Club. “This did not quite work out,” one Garden Club member said. “There were some of us who could not be members of two organiza-j tions because of household duties or other obligations.” Finally, the Garden Club broke its ties with the Woman’s Club and became a separate organiza tion, functioning and operating wholly on its own. Under the guidance and leader ship of the late Mrs. Carmen Flow ers, one of the greatest leaders and organizers ever to inhabit Zebulon, (Continued on Page 5)
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