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Governor, Farmers, Barbecue —
5,000 of them gathered in Raleigh
Tuesday to attend the Annual Co
op Day meeting of the State Cot
ton Association and Farmers Co
opo'ative Exchange. Above (read
ing from left to right) are: S. D.
Oldsmobile Begins
New May Contest
Substantial awards are offered
participants in Oldsmobile’s na
tional SIO,OOO cash prize contest
announced today by D. E. Ralston,
general sales manager.
50 cash awards will be presented
for the best 50 letters submitted by
persons who visit their local Olds
mobile dealer and receive a dem
onstration in an Oldsmobile equip
ped with the automatic safety
transmission.
The rules of the contest are
simple, according to Ralston, and
any resident of the United States
over sixteen years old is eligible,
except employes of Oldsmobile, its
advertising agency, or its dealers.
Contestants will go to their Olds
mobile dealer and after driving the
car and receiving a certificate of
entry, which includes details of the
event, will write a letter of 200
words or less on “Why I Like Olds
mobile’s Automatic Safety Trans
mission.”
The contests started May 1, and
all entries must be postmarked not
later than midnight May 31, 1938.
Additional information can be ob
tained from any Oldsmobile dealer.
Uncle Jim Sans'
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THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 13,1938
Sanders, Washington; Gov. Clyde
R. Hoey; M. G. Mann, General
Manager of the Coops; I)r. G. M.
Plato of Rowland; Dr. Clarence
Poe, Editor of the Progressive
Fa-mer.
Open Letter to a Drunken Driver
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Travelert Safety Service
SURE, you can drive home a’right. Don’t let ’em feed
you any of that bunk about letting somebody else take
the wheel. Any time old Pete can stand on his two feet
he can drive an automobile, drunk or sober. Whatsh a
few drinks between friends, anyway. You show ’em who’s
going to drive.
Pile ’em into the car. That sweet little wife of yours,
who’s such a swell kid even if she does nag you about
driving when you’je drunk. And that funny couple with
you who want to take a taxicab home. Imagine! Wanting
to take a cab! Pile ’em in. Step on the gas. Whoopee! Go
places. ...
Brother, you’re not the big shot you think you are.
You’re just a fuzzy-brained, liquored-up, obstinate ass
with about as much right to drive an automobile on the
public highway as a monkey from the zoo would have.
I won’t appeal to your reason because it’s obvious that
you haven’t any. I won’t appeal to your emotions be
cause they’re pickled. *
I only hope you’ll start to drive home some night, alone,
when you’ve one too many under your belt. Then I hope
same little emergency will arise which your addled brain
and fumbling hands won’t enable you to meet. I hope
you’ll have an encounter with a tree or a telephone pole
that will land you in a police cell and your car on a junk
heap. As you sober up I hope the baseness of your con
tinued offenses against society will be borne in upon
you with sickening clarity. I hope the newspaper head
lines will scream out to all your relatives and friends
and business acquaintances: PROMINENT LOCAL
MAN GETS DRUNK AND LANDS IN JAIL.
Yes, I hope an All-Wise Providence will arrange thi*
little lesson for you. And soon, before you kill somebody,
as you surely will if you continue to drive when you axe
drunk.
There were 400 Wake county
farmers present. After the meet
ing, a barbecue dinner was served
to the 5,000 farmers and farm wo
men f'om all sections of North
Carolina.
COMMENCEMENT WAKE
FIELD-ZEBULON SCHOOL
Commencement exercises at the
Wakefield-Zebulon School, colored,
brought the year’s work to a close
this week. In many ways pro
gress has been made and both fac
ulty and patrons are to be con
gratulated upon the results of
their efforts.
Large crowds attended the exer
cises.
FORTUNE’S FORSYTHIA
Forsythia's golden rain first
joyous bloom of spring in the
North Temperate Zone—is almost
as common as the dandelion today,
yet twenty-five years ago it was
little known. A century ago its
sunny brightness was confined to
its native China. The world owes
forsythia to one of that unsung
band of intrepid plant hunters who
penetrate remote regions to add
new shrubs and flowers to the gar
dens of Europe and America.
Robert Fortune, Royal Horticul
tural Society naturalist, discovered
and named the plant for his fellow
Scotsman, the botanist William
Forsyth. In the days when China’s
interior was forbidden territory
to foreigners, Fortune, on a salary
of 40 pounds a year, roamed the
land disguised as a native and ob
tained for the Kew Gardens a
score of indispensable plants.
From China also the English horti
culturist John Reeves brought that
gorgeous lavender climber, wistar
ia. There Ernest A. Wilson of the
Arnold Arboretum, Boston, surviv
ing serious accident, discovered the
famous Regal Lily.
Back in the seventeenth centry
the Dutch obtained the parents of
today’s geraniums from Cape Col
ony. South Africa, too, gave us the
progenitors of our modern gladio
lus, of which nearly 100 species
grow wild in that land. From South
America came fuchsias and begon
ias, and still other gems of loveli
ness were brought from the South
Seas and Australia—but richest of
all floral sources is China.
Plant hunters first brought home
food plants to the western nations
which sent them forth. All who
read “Mutiny on the Bounty” will
recall David Nelson, the young
Kew gardener, who accompanied
Captain Bligh to Tahiti to obtain
breadfruit trees for the British
West Indies. Horticulture, agricul
ture’s handmaiden, gratifies man’s
Where's Elmer?!
Although our Elmer is bold,
He feared that he could never
hold
The lady, who’s in straits most
dire
And fainting from the smoke and
fire.
If two Bhould fall from off that
ladder
Instead of one, ’twould be still
sadder.
So Elmer thought he’d take no
chance
And rushed to call the ambulance.
atfhe Zebulon
SUPPLY COMPANY,
aesthetic yearnings after agricul
ture satisfies his bodily needs.
—Chistian Science Monitor.
The Butcher Boy
C/ Jr ROASTS
CHOPS ARE At s2jj
superfine V 2
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dinnertime should be
ONE OF THE HAPPIEST
events of the day. You can make
certain of your mealtime joy if
you will purchase meats of us.
Phone your order and you’ll be
pleased by the rapid manner in
which we deliver.
We supply the entire meal. W ith
the meat let us send Vegetables,
Fruits, Bread, Beverage and Des
sert. Save yourself the worry and
work of cooking three meals a
day, and at the same time keep
your family well-fed.
CITY MARKET
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MAY 14 21
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Zebulon, N. C.