REGISTRATION DAY IS
NEXT TUESDAY
VOLUME XVII.
This, That, €r
the Other
By MRS. THEO. II- DAVIS
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pi Until very recently when I d
i thear the remark that this world
It .s .1 small piace after all, I'd feel
k the speaker knew much more than
P I and voiced the opinion of one
who has seen distan es shrink and
shrivel until the (iulf of Mexico
* ou.d almost be put in Dave
9 Privette's null pond without much
over the dam. It was cm-
Wb.irra-s.ng to find my own brain
Erefusing to nd any
wear the twelve or fifteen thous
and miles casually mentioned.
H And 1 refuse to believe any
Elonger that this world is a small
place. It is far and away the big
g.st thing I ever saw and I've
seen only a very small part of it.
But that part makes me realize
something of what must be beyond
my horizon, lor instance:
Week before last my husband
went to Elm City and 1 went with
him. It is a beautiful drive from
here to there, and a nice town
when you reach it. We saw miles
* of land that were new to me. From
there we went to Kenly, where I
had been several times before, but
► from another direction. '■>,
Two days later we went to
Dunn byway of Salem, Smith-
Jficld, Four Oaks and Benson. All
Bbcyond Benson was new to me.
TRAnd 1 tell you there's a lot of
land spread out between here and
Dunn.
l Old houses, new houses and
■ those neither old nor new; cribs,
barns and sheds. Tobacco, cotton,
* wheat so dead ripe I feared it
would fall over, peas, corn, pota
toes, over and over we noted them
as we rode along. In the yards pe
tunias, verbenas, hydrangeas, those
rf4d-fashioned coppery- lilies, phlox
p'and more petunias. In pastures,
pigs, cows, yearlings, mules, goats
- and a little kid asleep in a hol
low stump. At one place we saw
what looked like dozens of head
of cattle clustered around a horse
that gazed disdainfully afar over
their heads.
t And folks! Everywhere! Along
! the roads, in stores, at their homes,
at work, at play; or idle; well
dressed, plainly clad or not clad
at all to speak of; old, young and
middle-aged; black, white and
iblended.
It was interesting to connect
i some person or persons with each
.» place. We remembered that Mrs.
f Sultan Flowers and Mrs. A. A.
Pippin were from Elm City. In
Kenly among many whom I al
ready knew 1 saw Claude Gilli
kin, about seven when I last knew
him at Morehead City, and now
owner of a drug store in Kenly.
He likes to talk about Morehead
I as well as I do and I want to
see him again soon. Smithfield
makes me think of Mazelle Cham
blee, now Mrs. Guy Lee; and
Selma reminded us of that nice
Mr. Smith who looked after our
telephones for years.
Benson is where they have
that big singing convention and
Four Oaks boasts of the biggest
rural school in the world. Dunn
meant the Miss Pope who used
to each at the Kennedy Home and
her mother who always sent cakes
for Christmas dinner; Miss Mary
Warren, former secretary of W
M. U. work in this state; Mrs.
Bain who was Miss Lydia Yates
and is one of the leaders in Sun
day school work. It meant Mil
* «dred Broughton Corbett and Mrs.
A. V. Medlin. But most of all
, m. meant my son, his wife and
* can 3 babies. Lynne the daughter,
a out in front watching for
Mar'vhich is a delightful way for
the adparents to be greeted. Inside
Cbaby, Teddy- craw-led solemnly,
of 1 went out to" Williams Lake
sure re dozens of cars were parked
be of in the afternoon and more
who l still coming when w-e left,
peaci folks in all of them.
°w, in those trips we went
only a small fraction of the
, of Wake, Nash, Wilson,
H - ston and Harnett counties.
1 North Carolina has a hun
cur’ counties. And there are forty
cri,u states in the Union besides
She Zrbulmt tSernrh
Procedure Is
Given For
Registration
Men who will register on July
I, 1941, were cautioned today by
General J. Van B Metts, state
director of selective service, to be
careful to give to the registrar
who registers them correct infor
mation as to the place of their
permanent residence. Names of
the township, county and state
must be stated specifically and
must be placed on line 2 of the
registration card. It is most im
portant that men registering be
careful to give the correect loca
tion of their residence because the
place of residence placed on line
2 of the registration card will de
termine the local board which
will have jurisdiction over them,
General Metts emphasized.
On the first registration day
many registrants gave confusing
information, and this resulted in
their registration cards often be
ing assigned to the wrong local
board. This resulted in many com
plications and selective seervice
agencies were subjected to un
i reasonable worry and trouble
transferring cards. The new se
[ lcctive service regulations, pre
pared for the July 1, 1941, reg
! istration, provide that there will
be no future transfer of cards.
The place of residence of the reg
istrant, which will appear on line
! 2 of the registration card, will
once and for all determine the
local board which has control
over the reegistrant.
A pi ace is provided on the new
registration card for registrants to
write the place of residence and
the mailing address. The mailing
! address is not so important as the
| residence address, because the
mailing address may be changed
Jas often as the registrant estab
| lishes a new address. But the
place of residence, to be indicated
| on line 2 of the registration card,
will never be changed, and the
| original card will be assigned to
the local board having jurisdiction
over the area of the residence
address.
The new regulations provide
| that the registrant shall be per
mitted to determine what place
he desires to give as his residence
when he does not reside in one
place all the time, but once that
election is made and is stated on
registration day and is recorded
on the registration card, it may
never be changed thereafter.
Every man in the State of
North Carolina who has attained
the 21st anniversary of the day
of his birth since October 16,
1940( with a few exceptions not
ed below), must registrar with
his local selective service board on
July 1, State Director J. Van B
Metts stated-today.
Men required to register in
tthis second registration are those
who were born on or between
October 17, 1919, and July 1,
1920.
Boy Pianist
Donald Pippin, pianist, ap
peared in the annual recital given
by the pupils of Quincy Cole in
the Woman s Club, Richmond. He
is a grandson of C. E. Pippin of
Z. hulon
Hot Weather
Sunday was one of the hottest
days of this summer with Monday
its equal in oppressiveness. How
g\ r, befort the middle of the aft
rnoon on Monday a light shower
relieved sultry conditions some
what.
What's The Matter With This 1 ’
Someone has painted the fol
lowing on the Zebulon Water
tank: “Zebulon. N. C” What is
wrong with it?
This was a government job.
with five more continents con
taining countries scattered about
over the earth.
And billions of people.
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Ik is
THOMAS E. STEELE
Tommy Steele
At Union Hope
On next Sunday night a ten
days revival will begin at Union
Hope Baptist church, five miles
east of Zebulon on the new Rocky
Mt. highway. Rev. C. F. Allen
of Zebulon will preach Sunday
night. There will be services each
night through July 8. No day
services will be held.
Mr. Tommy Steele, a widely
known and successful layman in
evangelistic work, will preach at
each service after Tuesday. Mr.
Steele is not an ordained minister,
but has been engaged in evangel
istic work for a number of years.
He is head of the organization
that broadcasts over station WPTF
each week.
The public is invited to all the
services.
Bank to Close
The Peoples Bank and Trust
Company of Zebulon will be
closed all day on both Friday and
Saturday, July 4th and sth, an
nounces Cashier R. V. Brown.
This procedure is in line with
that of banks all over the state and
country.
Mrs. L. R. Hayes
Mrs. L. R. Hayes of Creedmoor
died on Sunday morning after an
extended illness. Burial services
were held at the home on Monday
afternoon. Her nieces, Mrs. Mer
ritt Massey and Mrs. Riggsby
Massey, are residents of Zebulon,
the latter having made her home
with Mrs Hayes for years before
marriage.
Buy New Home
The Graham Conns have
bought the new house just com
pleted on Horton Street and have
moved into it. This is an attrac
tive small house of the modern
type and will add much to that
part of town. It is next door to
Mrs. Julian Horton’s boarding
house.
Seen and Heard
DAHLIA—On Monday Mrs.
Ralph Lewis sent to the associate ;
editor of this paper a dahlia of 1
the Mrs. Warner variety. Perfect
in coloring, it measured nine and j
one-half inches across and nearly
twenty-four inches around, not
including the tips of a fqw petals
that were longer than the rest.
Mrs. Lewis grows beautiful
dahlias each year, using barnyard
compost as the main fertilizer.
Probably the loudest thing in j
Zebulon in proportion to its size
was the four-by-six “Motorola”
which Bob Sawyer had in the'
post office Monday morning. To
some at least, it was a new type j
of radio.
It blared forth with all the vol
ume and assurance of something
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941
Raleigh UCC Has
Series of Radio
Programs
The Raleigh local office of the
employment service division of the
North Carolina Unemployment
Compens ifinn Comnvss'nn has a :
SOT S l)t i)iOdJwu6tli Li lulu. d “Nd ,
tioi I Defense and You," which
an mot interesting a d inform
all , p rue ll.irly to eanloyeis
am un .nployzd people Thesi
bn .leasts are being heard week
ly, ach Tuesday at 1:30 p. m ,
ovi R< bn St tiin WPTi. They
de. with di industries in
clu d in the realm of national
del use industries. Series No. 5
was broadcast Tuesday, June 24,
1941, at 1:30 p. m. In sequence
the following subjects will be
taken up, each Tuesday, there
after: Construction Industry;
Iron Steel, Metal; Textiles and
Leather; Women in Industry;
Agriculture; Ship Building; Pho
tographic Apparatus and Optical
Goods; Machine Tirol Industry.
They will appreciate your listen
ing in as many times as possible.
L J Craven
Raleigh Office
Change Is Made
In Business
Announcement is made in this
paper of changes recently made
m Page Supply Company. This
firm will operate in Louisburg as
well as in Zebulon; but this town
is to be congratulated that at
least a part of the force remains
here. Graham Conn and Frank
Kemp will stay in Zebulon.
Statement of consideration for
customers and of plans for the
remainder of the year will be
found on another page. Your at
tention is called to it.
Bushels, Bushels
J. C. Lamm of Bailey, Route 3,
was in the Record office Mon
day. Mr. Lamm has just finished
setting four acres in sweet potato
plants. He says he usually makes
ibout 200 bushels of No. 1 sweets
to the acre, which to the assistant
editor sounds like lots of potatoes.
M Lamm has a surplus of plants
he bedded 35 bushels to grow
s'i| s and offers them for sale at
75c a thousand
Avon Privette will buy your
surplus corn and cotton seed meal.
THE SOUTHERN SHOTLERS,
of WGBR, will be at Pilot
Tourist Home Service Station
Saturday night at 8:00 p. m.
for a program of free music.
They feature Eason Brothers
and Raymond Phipps, and
broadcast at 2:30 Saturday.
J. J. Johnson owns the sta
tion; J. S. Alford is the op
erator.
EGGS —Wallace Reed Brantley
jof the Union Hope community
brought the editor two eggs, both
laid by hens on his farm. One
egg had two distinct whites as
well as two yellows and while of
| the usual shape weighed five
; ounces. An ordinary egg seldom
weighs over two ounces, most fall
ing below that. Its all-round
length the long way was 7 3-4
inches while the short way meas
ured 6 1-4 inches.
The small egg was shaped like
a gourd with a handle and weighed
too little for household scales to
jbe exact about. Its all-round
I length was less than four inches,
its “handle” was one-third inch in
j diameter, the “bowl” part about
i twice as large.
It might be feared that the
JSrantley hens are crazy with the
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This fourth Carolina farm woman inspects the many cotton
articles which will be available under the AAA surplus cotton
stamp plan to cotton farmers in stores throughout the state this
year. Farmers who curtail cotton acreage will be paid at the rate
of VJ cents a pound, on the basis of normal yield, with stamps
good for purchases of any and all new cotton goods made in this
country. The farmer eats his own wheat on the farm, now he
may wear his own cotton, and that without cost to him. More
than seventy thousand North Carolina cotton farmers will receive
ttvo million dollars in stamps and there will be sheets and shirts,
soc\s and shirts, towels and trousers, handkerchiefs and handi
cloths a plenty for the farm family. Cotton prices already have
felt the stimulus of the reduced acreage and price experts predict
markets will hold strong throughout the year.
CHURCH NOTES
Methodist Church
Please note this: We will not
have the regular church service
sth Sunday morning. Instead
there will be programs at the
Methodist Orphanage for all who
can and will attend. We are in
vited to spend the day. We are
to carry our lunches with us.
Services for sth Sunday:
Church school, 10:00.
Young people, 7:00.
W. M. S. Meets
The Wakefield Philatheas met
on June 11 at the church. Thir
teen were present. The subject
Perfect Meeting
Held by Rotary
Last Friday’s meetmg was the
73rd consecutive 100 per cent one
for Zebulon Rotarians; for though
Albert Medlin and Vance Brown
were absent, one of them had al
ready made up attendance. Wes
ley Liles, program leader, said
that not being a public speaker,
he had asked Charles Allen to
speak for him. Charles spoke on
vacations, emphasizing his subject
with a casting reel, a twenty-two
rifle, golf clubs and miniature
camping tents.
He declared that all need va
cations yearly, both body and
mind requiring rest. He said that
one should retain respectability
on a vacation, not taking along a
bottle or making a hog of himself.
He gave each member a slip
of paper with the request that
he write down the name of the
place he would prefer for a va
cation. The result was a fifty
fifty vote between mountains and
seashore.
Harry Myers of Raleigh was a
welcome visitor.
Pneumonia Case
Mrs. W. L. Simpson is critically
ill in Rex hospital with double
pneumonia. She is not allowed to
see callers. Her mother, Mrs. M
D. Terry, has been with her dur
1 for discussion was Faithfulness
and Obedience. After bus i
ness hour the hostesses Mes
dames R. T. Harris, William
Honeycutt and H. B. Rowland,
served ice cream and cake.
Baptist Church
Worship with us Sunday. Our
services for June 29 are as fol
lows :
9:45 Sunday school.
11:00 Morning worship. Sermon
topic: “The World Within the
Bible.”
7:30 Young People’s meetings.
8:00 Evening worship. Sermon
topic: “Religion No Play.”
G. J Griffin, Pastor
Hopkins Is
Exonerated
Coroner Banks has stated that
no inquest will be held into the
death of Robert Donald Griffin,
aged four, who was fatally hurt
last week when struck by a car
driven by Willie B. Hopkins,
member of Zebulon’s police force.
The accident occurred as Hop
kins was driving along the road
one mile north of Raleigh. The
child is said to have slid down a
bank into the road directly in
front of the oncoming car. Every
effort was made to avoid hitting
him, but there was not enough
space to stop the vehicle. The
parents agreed in the coroner's
decision.
Cotton Blossoms
The first cotton bloom
brought into the Record shop
this year was on last Satur
day, June 21. The grower was
W. C. Creech of Bailey, Route
2, on the farm of M. H. and
B. C. Griffin.
On Monday two bkioms
were brought in by Dee
Mayo, colored, who lives on
the L. J. Creech farm in
Johnston county, Wendell,
Route 1. One of the blossoms
was red, showing that it had
opened not later than Satur
day. Mayo says he has not yet
seen any boll weevil and
REMEMBER TO REGISTER
NEXT TUESDAY
Local Board Is
Ready lor Second
Listing of Men
Below is a letter which is in
itself an announcement On Tues
day of next week thousands of
young men will register in re
sponse to their country’s call.
J Van B Metts
Brig. Gen., AGD
State Director
Selective Service
Raleigh, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Tins board is ready for the
July 1, 1941 registration. All reg
istrants will be registered at the
Board office in Zebulon, N. C.
Office will be open from 7 a.
m. to 9 p. m. in keeping with
the proclamation of the President
of the U. S. A. and the Governor
of N C.
Yours truly,
A C Dawson, Chairman
Local Board No. 3, Zebulon
Assistance Pay
Is High for 1941
Public assistance payments for
tthe fiscal year ending June 30
were $627,340 higher than the
previous year, Nathan H. Yelton,
director of the division of the state
welfare department handling old
age and dependent children funds,
said this week.
Os the 1945)-41 amount, $476,-
177 went to needy old people
over 65 years of age, of whom
37,734 received checks averaging
slOl9 out of the $384,385 dis
tributed in this category in June.
The June figures for old age
assistance included payments av
eraging $25.52 and amounting to
a total of $15,029 going to 589
widows of Confederate veterans
who had met public assistance re
quirements and had been trans
ferred from the state pension
rolls.
In June, 23,733 dependent chil
dren received an average payment
of $7.06 in the total spent for the
month of $167,595.
All funds are made up jointly
by federal, state and local units,
the national government contrib
uting half the cost of grants and
administration and the state and
counties making up the remain
der on the basis of one-fourth
each.
The 1940-41 fiscal year repre
sents the fourth since North Car
olina first instituted its public as
sistance program on July 1, 1937,
under provisions of the federal
Social Security Act.
The sixth anniversary of the
establishment of the National
Youth Administration will be
marked by the holding of open
house on all NYA projects in
North Carolina as a part of a
state and national observance on
Thursday, June 26.
The state celebration of the an
niversary features the dedication
of the Raleigh resident center, at
which time Governor J. M.
Broughton will bring greetings
and June Rose of Greenville,
chairman of the state advisory
committee of the NYA, and State
NYA Administrator John A.
Lang will speak. The program will
be broadcast over Station WRAL
in Raleigh at 11 :05 o’clock a. m.
At 1:50 o’clock p. m. over Sta
tion WPTF in Raleigh, June 26,
Mr. Lang will speak on the his
tory and program of the National
Youth Administration
The National Youth Adminis
tration is now operating 475 proj
ects in North Carolina.
In Wake county, a resident
center near State College is pro
viding work in machine, radio,
and woodworking shops for de
fense industries and manufactur
ing gun racks, desks, and other
equipment for the United States
army. Other Wake county proj
ects include a laundry project for
negro girls on Cabarrus street, a
sewing and pattern making proj
ect for white girls on West Har
gett street, a homemaking project
for negro girls on Cabarrus street,
hospital assistance at Rex and St.
Agnes hospitals, and clerical as
sistance in various federal, state,
county and city offices.
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