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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXX, Number 3. Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, October 9, 1956 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers "Don't Walk Yourself to Death" Urges Department of Motor Vehicles “Don’t walk yourself to death!” That advice isn’t from the Socie for the Abolition of Exercise, but from the State Department of Mo tor Vehicles. Joe W. Garrett, assistant com missioner of the vehicles agency, issued the warning this week to Tar Heel walkers after examining last year’s pedestrian fatality rec ord. Of the 1165 persons killed in traffic accidents last year, he said, 238 were pedestrians. Garrett remarked that the Motor Vehicles Department isn’t trying to discourage people from walking. It is trying to encourage people to walk safely. “I’d especially like to urge older people to use the utmost caution when out walking,” the commis sioner said. “Older people move and react slowly and often their sight and hearing is impaired. These are serious handicaps in traffic. My advice to them is to fol low safety rules meticulously and to avoid walking at night in traf fic or venturing out in bad weath er.” Not only the oldsters need to watch their step in traffic. Garrett has a set of rules for all walkers. They are: 1. Cross streets at corners only. 2. Never walk into the street from between parked cars. 3. Obey traffic signs and signals —cross on GREEN or WALK only. 4. Wait on the sidewalk — not in the street— for the GREEN or WALK or for a gap in traffic if the corner has no traffic signal. 5. Cross streets in crosswalks— (Continued on Page 4) Barbecue Supper Nets $1,600 The Wakelon High School sen ior class supper held Friday night at the school cafeteria netted more than $1600, according to Mrs. Ro chelle Long, chairman. Mrs. Long stated that the “sup per was one of the finest successes ever held.” The funds made from the supper will go to help sponsor the seniors’ annual trip. There has not been an accurate count of the total proceeds taken in from the chicken barbecue sup per, but Mrs. Long said she feels that the amount will exceed more than $1600. The parents of each senior con tributed $10 toward the financing (Continued on Page 4) Spencer Love 1956 Christmas Seal Campaign Chairman Is Greensboro Native Spencer Love of Greensboro will be the 1956 State Christmas Seal Chairman, E. N. Pope, presi dent of the North Carolina Tuber culosis Association, announced to day. Mr. Love is chairman of the board for Burlington Industries, Inc., the leading fabricator of tex tiles in the world. As state chair man, he will be the titular head of 101 local chairmen representing TB associations throughout North Carolina. Funds from the Christ mas Seal Sale .support the pro j grams of the local, state and na ' tional TB associations. The 1956 j Sale will begin November 15. ! j Spain Urges Early i Grain Seedings in N. C. A North Carolina farmer who “puts off” seeding grain often finds this one bad practice costs him the profit from his crop. This is the opinion of Field Ex tension Specialist George E. Spain at North Carolina State College, who believes that, “farmers may be more lax in the applica tion of the principle of planting on time than in some others.” Early cold spells and heaving of the soil sometimes cut young small | (Continued on Page 4) Curiosity Pays Off For Wendell Farmer ' Curiosity paid off for a Wake County farmer. Millard Privett of Wendell, Route 2, says he started using arti ficial insemination on his cattle a few years ago just to satisfy his curiosity. He didn’t really believe that the offspring could exhibit the fine dairy qualities he was seeking, but he had heard so much about it he decided to give it a try. Assistant Negro County Agent C. L. Boone says that now Privett is definitely an advocate of artifl cial breeding and wouldn’t think of keeping a bull. Boone is just hoping that more farmers will become more curious and use artificial breeding with their family cows. Legion to Meet The American Legion will hold its regular monthly meeting Wed nesday night at Hilliard’s Drive In at 7 o’clock. All members are urged to be present for this supper-meet ing. Wakelon to Give Minstrel Saturday Night, October 13 “America Is On Stage Tonight,’ a minstrel being given at Wakelon High School auditorium Oct. 13, is “shaping up very nicely,” accord ing to Mrs. Frank Kemp, director, Mrs. Kemp has announced more novelty numbers for the produc tion. Superintendent of Wake County Schools Fred Smith will render a solo; Mrs. Kemp and Mrs, L. M. Massey, a duet; Mrs. Vir ginia Wood, a solo; and the Harold Greene dance band. More variety numbers will be announced in Friday’s issue of this paper,” Mrs. Kemp said. “We are seeking to give everybody some thing to enjoy.” She has announced the stage setting chairmen, who include Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Newman, Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong Cannady and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Braswell. During the intermission Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hales will conduct a cake and coffee walk, Mrs. Kemp also has announced. Methodist News Circle 3 of the W. S. C. S. of the Zebulon Methodist Church announces the sale of a Keepsake plate in commemoration at the church’s 50th anniversary. The gold edged plate with Old English style border will picture the church building in black and white and the caption “Zebulon Metho dist Church, Zebulon, North Caro lina, 1907-1957.” On the reverse I side there will be a brief history I including the names of all minis i ters who have served during this half century. The exact date of delivery is not known, but the plates will arrive in plenty of time for Christmas giving. Those wishing to own one or more of these beautiful plates are asked to contact one of the fol lowing women: Mrs. Troy J. Bar rett, Mrs. Jack Perry, Mrs. Jimmy Spivey, Mrs. Foster Lewis, Mrs. John Hicks, Mrs. Robert Daniel Massey, Mrs. O. B. Spivey, Jr., or Mrs. Christine Liles. Only a lim ited number have been ordered, so it is advisable that you get your order in early. No money will be collected until the plates are de livered. The plates will be $2.00 each and i wall hangers or easels are avail able at 301 each. Play Host to Foreign Youth International Farm Youth Ex changees from Argentina, Turkey, and Belgium will be living with North Carolina farm families be fore returning to their own coun tries in two or three months. The young people who are now living with North Carolina farm families are Guven Merzeci from Turkey, Enrique O. Rossi from Ar gentina, and Nicolas George from Belgium. L- R. Harrill, State 4-H Club Leader, said that the young am bassadors will work on the farms where they are living, and partici pate in family and community ac tivities during their stay in the state. According to Harrill, young Merzeci is at present the guest of John Carpenter of Route 3, Lin colnton. He will later visit in (Continued on Page 4) Murderess Receives Life; Pleaded Guilty Chairman kfl C. V. Whitley C. V. Whitley, prominent Zeb ulon merchant, has been appoint ed co-chairman of the Master Gifts Committee in the current Camp bell College Building and Develop ment Campaign. Mr. Whitley has been a trustee of the college for a number of years. Tar Heel Girl Worked On Farm in Luxemburg “I will surely hate to leave in November because this tiny coun try now seems like home to me,” writes Nelda Cobb, an Interna tional Farm Youth Exchange dele gate. Miss Cobb, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Cobb of McLeans ville in Guilford county, has al ready spent two months in Luxem bourg. This 1954 National 4-H winner in recreation and rural (Continued on Page 4) Mrs. Dorothy R. Taylor, 29-year old Negro, pleaded guilty to the first degree murder of Clarence Day, 60-year-old Negro, from Johnston County. The young woman murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Malcom Seawell of Lum berton. The woman told officers that Day entered her house and pro positioned her and that she shoved him out. He fell to the ground and she fired a shotgun blast that missed, tearing up dirt beside him. He raised up to say something to her and she fired again, this time the load ripping into his left side. She was given a preliminary hearing in Zebulon Recorder’s Court Sept. 26. Judge Irby D. Gill bound her over to Wake County Superior Court on the probable cause of murder. Last Rites Held for Mrs. F. P. Pearce Mrs. Florence P. Pearce, widow of Omri Pearce, age 79, died Mon day at her home on Zebulon Route 2, after a lingering illness. Surviving are seven daughters, Mrs. Johnny S. Carter, Mrs. Rob ert Perry, Mrs. Bertha Pearce, Mrs. Herbert E. Stallings, Mrs. Robert Pearce and Miss Maude Pearce, all of Zebulon, Route 2 and Mrs. Frank Bowling of Franklinton; four sons, Oris and Wallace Pearce of Raleigh and Vaden and Melvin Pearce of Zebulon, Route 2; a sis ter, Mrs. Helen Jones of Zebulon; two brothers, Ellie and Thomas Pearce of Zebulon, Route 2; and 24 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The funeral service was con ducted from the Pearce Baptist Church near Zebulon by the pas tor, the Rev. Warren Kerr. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Pittman Stell Celebrates Eighty-Eighth Birthday One of Zebulon’s oldest and most I revered citizens celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday Saturday. Pittman Stell, retired Wake County surveyor, was feted Satur day by his children at a buffet birthday dinner at his home on Arendell Avenue. Mr. Stell was bom Oct. 10, 1868, in the Wake Cross Roads community of Wake County. He is the son of the late William and Elizabeth Watkins Stell. He was elected Wake County surveyor in 1919 and held that po sition until his retirement in 1952. Mr. Stell recalled that he learn ed the fundamentals of surveying from the late William B. Fowler of Wake Cross Roads during the summer months he was not em-. ployed as a teacher. He taught in various schools of Wake County prior to entering the surveying profession. He has retired as Wake Coun ty’s surveyor, but he has not re j tired fro mthe surveying profes sion. I He has retired as Wake County’s surveyor, but he has not retired from the surveying profession. He is busy almost every day making surveys over the county on a pri vate basis. He said he has no intention of retiring and crawling into a shell. He believes that elderly people should be active and alert, making themselves as useful as possible. Mr. Stell is a member of the Zebulon Baptist Church, where he is an active member. He is also a member of two fraternal organi zations, the Masons and the Jun ior Order. He was married to the late Florence Pippin and is the father of Mrs. Carter Studdert, Mrs. B. H. Johnson, Mrs. R. B. Duckett, Mrs. M. E. Shamburger and Jethro Stell. Also attending the celebration of Mr. Stell were Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Shamburger II, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Shamburger III, and chil dren, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Good night and children, Mrs. W. W. Merriman and daughter and Ivey Jones.
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