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I THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXX, Number 13. Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, November 13, 1956 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers FIRE CONFERENCE SPEAKERS — Here are eight of the speak ers for the Governor’s Conference on Forest Fire Prevention to be held next Wednesday in the N. C. State Fair Arena at Raleigh. Purpose of the Conference is to curtail North Carolina’s 35-million-dollar annual loss to forest fires. Speakers on the top row (left to right) are: Governor Luther H. Hodges, who is also serving as honorary chairman of the Conference; Thomas J. Pearsall, Rocky Mount businessman and farmer; W. Lunsford Crew, state senator of Roanoke Rapids; and Fred H. Claridge of Raleigh, state Forester. On the bottom row are: T. Wade Bruton of Raleigh, assistant N. C. attorney general; Turner W. Battle, Jr., of Rocky Mount, N. C. Wildlife federation president; D. Hiden Ramsey of Asheville, retired newspaper publisher; and C. E. Hartford of Wilmington, vice president of Riegel Paper Company. More than 6,000 Tar Heel leaders have been invited to attend the one-day meeting. Yule Parade on Monday Raleigh Plans Colorful A colorful, fun-packed parade will open Raleigh’s Christmas sea son Monday evening, Nov. 26, Ex ecutive Secretary Wesley Williams of the Raleigh Merchants Bureau announced today. The gay procession, over a mile in length, will start at 6:30 o’ clock at* the intersection of Hills boro and St. Mary’s streets, pro ceed to the Capitol and then down Fayetteville St. It will be the 12th “Christmas Opening” parade presented by the Merchants Bureau, and it is ex pected to attract, as usual, peo ple from all over this area of the State. As many as 125,000 people have seen the annual event. The parade will not include com mercial displays. There will be a large number of lovely floats, de signed and built specially for the Raleigh parade, but they will carry only the name of the sponsoring firm or organization. Williams ex plained that the parade date was set in line with the Bureau’s pol icy of not having the “Christmas Opening” prior to Thanksgiving. A brand-new scheme of street i decorations will bedeck Fayette ; ville St. from the Capitol to Ca j barrus. They will be illuminated : by thousands of multi-colored | bulbs. The decorative lights will i be turned on for the first time when the head of the Christmas parade I reaches the Capitol. Several inter ' sections on Wilmington and Salis I bury streets also will be decorat ; ed in the season’s motif. Within the parade itself will be | a “Wonderland Parade” — 30 ! colorful units of giant balloon fig (Continued on Page 4) Dear Editor: I have had the privilege of visiting a number of small towns as well as some of the larger cities of North Carolina, and I must say that my home town of Zebulon is the friendliest and most hospit able little town in North Carolina. Those who live in and around Zebulon cannot fail to see and feel the friendly atmosphere that per vades both white and colored cit izens. Not only those who grew up here and whose friendship and ac quaintance gropes back through the years to grandsires and sons, but anyone regardless of color whose life and behavior shows a worthiness of friendship will find an outreached hand comparable to anywhere in the country. The citizens of Zebulon recog nize the contribution made by all of its citizens to make Zebulon the progressive town it now is. Hav ing visited the cosmopolitan cities, including some in Canada, I thought of John Howard Payne, who wnote: “Mid pleasures and palaces wher’ere we may roam. Be it ever so humble, There’s no place like home.” Mrs. Lizzie B. Askew Esten Corbett Dies Of Heart Attack Sunday Evening Funeral services for Esten Ker mit Corbett, 35, who was stricken with a heart attack Sunday eve ing and died at 8:30 p.m., will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’ clock from the Zebulon Baptist Church. He was a barber and was asso ciated with his father who owns City Barber Shop. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Troy J. Barrett. Burial will be in the Zebulon Cemtery. The body will lie in state one hour prior to the services. He is survived by his wife, the former Ava Massey, two daugh ters, Phyliss Laspino and Mary Alice, and one son, Anthony, all of the home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Corbett, one brother, Fred of Warrenton, and his mater nal grandfather, Ivey Narron. Scott, Cooley to Be Featured Speakers For Bureau Meeting Tar Heel political leaders Har old Cooley and W. Kerr Scott will be principal speakers at the North Carolina Farm Bureau’s twenty first annual convention next week in Charlotte. Scott and Cooley are themselves farmers and have for a long time championed legislation designed to raise the farmer’s standard of liv ing. Cooley is ranking member of the agricultural committee in the House of Representatives. He has been chairman of that committee since the first session of the eighty first Congress. Cooley is said to have seen more of world agriculture than any oth er member of Corfgress. Scott, unlike Cooley, has held various agricultural and political posts. Cooley has been the state’s 4th district congressional repre sentative for twenty-three years. During that time Scott has served in organizational, administrative and elective positions in North Carolina. First as Master of the State Grange, then as commissioner of agriculture and finally as gover nor of North Carolina, Scott has been active in almost every phase of the modem farm program since its inception in the New Deal era. Cooley considers himself a dirt farmer; his home is in Nashville, N. C. Scott is a dairy farmer of Alamance County where he was once farm agent. These speakers will appear on the Farm Bureau’s convention pro gram Tuesday, November 20. The convention will begin Sunday. Church Meetings Bazaar Tickets are now on sale for the lunch at the Methodist WSCS ba zaar on Nov. 26. Plates will be 75?. Anyone wishing Ho donate something to the bazaar for sale can call Mrs. Garland Richardson, Mrs. Frank Wall or Mrs. Douglas Finch and they will pick up the articles. Take your coffee break from home or office at the Methodist WSCS bazaar on Nov. 26. Do your Christmas shopping while there. Study Course The Woman’s Missionary So ciety study course, conducted by Dr. Satterwhite, will get underway AF&AM NOTia An emergent meeting of Zeb ulon Masonic Lodge No. 609 will be held tonight at 7:30. All mas ter masons are invited. L B. Richardson, W. M. tomorrow night at 7:30. Dr. Satter white is a well-known missionary of the Southern Baptist Conven tion. He has recently returned from Japan where he was in charge of the Japan Baptist Hos pital. The topic of this month’s study course is entitled “Japan Ad vances.” Native Japanese articles will be on display, and also pictures made by Dr. and Mrs. Luke Ki hata. Thanksgiving Service A special Thanksgiving service will be at Pilot Baptist Church Wednesday evening, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m., it has been announced by the Rev. G. W. McDowell, pas tor. Special music will be provided by the Pilot choir under the direc tion of choirmaster Cadwin Cone. A short devotion on "Great Things for Us” will be given by the pastor. James B. Alford will discuss Thanksgiving as an Ameri can holiday. Other parts of the program in (Continued on Page 4) Lester Chalmers Lester Chalmers Rotary Speaker The duties of the Solicitor of the Superior Court are two-ford, Lester Chalmers of Raleigh told Zebulon Rotarians last Friday night. He must convict the guilty and protect the innocent. The popular solicitor related personal experience to illustrate the points in his talk. He explained the method of se lecting both grand and petty juries, and detailed the duties of each. The watchcare of the law for the individual from before birth to af ter death was described by Solici to Chalmers. Mr. Chalmers was introduced by Dr. L. M. Massey, program chair man. Joins Opposition To Win Contest Murphy Keyes, a Nevills Creek fanner in Beaufort County, chal lenged his father and his uncle to j a com growing contest. Keyes ; was going to prove to them that it I pays to fertilize corn adequately. [ He told the two older men that he could grow as much corn on one acre as they could grow on two, | using their customary rates of fer ' tilization. Beaufort Negro County Agent C. L. Bright says that Keye’s un cle accepted the challenge. Mur phy used 700 pounds of 8-8-8 per acre at planting time and side dressed with 300 pounds of am monium nitrate per acre. Although he planted a recommended hybrid and spaced the plants to give the recommended number of plants per acre, bis stand was not per fect. But this was due to weather conditions. He still has a pretty good stand, says Bright, and he (Continued on Page 4) Attend Gold Leaf Festival, Wendell, Friday, Nov. 16
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