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JTTTTl'ttTTttttf ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 1 : This, That And l The Other By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis Occasionally something happens which surprises me by proving this little paper is more widely read than we often realize. For instance: Two weeks ago we carried an ad about a lost toy ter rier belonging to Mrs. A. D. Par rish. Last week I had a delight ful letter from Jane Horton of Upsal Apartments, Germanton, Pa. She is rental agent for the apartments. Some one brought in a shivering, hungry little dog found in the street, and the jani tor had taken charge of it, feeding it and seeing it grow strong and frisky. But when the Record ad appeared they feared theirs might be the lost Zebulon terrier and Jane wrote, enclosing the ad and a pencil sketch of the one they had, which corresponded exactly with the description of the Par rish pet. She said she feared if she had to give up “Peggy” (the name given the dogs she’d lose the janitor, too. I was glad to learn that Mrs. Parrish’s Manchester had already been returned. But that no one on the paper knew of the kindness shown by the let ter I enjoyed so much. I hope some day to meet the writer. Life has many mysteries. Here’s a problem I want ex plained, but don’t know whether to report it to a scientist, a psy chologist or a psychiatrist. Why is it that on the many days dinner is ready on schedule the men folk are as liable to come a half-hour or more late as to arrive at noon; but on the exceedingly few days when preparation of the meal has been delayed they turn up on the dot or even beforehand, hungry enough to begin on cold food? Or to sit down and eat the dessert first, in case there is any? A letter last week from the youngest son said he had seen the Sphinx and the Pyramids. Spell ing the Sphinx with a “y” instead of an “i” was Barrie's idea, I’m sure; as I’ve no idea she would go in for fancy changes after so many centuries. He said she look ed windblown and tired. And well she might. And she still wore sandbags put around to protect her from Rommel. The Pyramids, he said, “were awfully big and awfully old; and they also looked like a terrific waste of manpower.” But saving manpower was one of the last ideas that would have entered a Pharoah's head. I hate to keep on mentioning it, but the fact is, those who work on newspapers are by no means able to get news without help. And I can't understand why any one should fail to hand in an account of a happening or event they’d like to see in print and then feel slighted because it does not appear. The chances are that no one on the paper knew of it. A publication so small as ours must depend mainly on co-opera tion of readers for local items. We have exchanges and bulle tins that bring us all the import ant national and state news; but no other source save community help for things which concern us only. Please send in your news — or don’t criticize when it is not in cluded in what we print. Mrs. J. C. Bunn Mrs. J. C. Bunn, Zebulon Rt. 2, aged 73, died at her home Monday night after a short illness. She is survived by five daugh ters, Mrs. J. O. Pearce, Durham; Mrs. J. R. Driver, Spring Hope; Mrs. D. D. Carlyle of Rocky Mount; Mrs. W. K. Carlyle, Spring Hope; Mrs. Minnie Jeans of Zeb ulon. R. 2; Four sons: C. F. Bunn Middlesex; Sam Bunn, Spring Hope; Cpl. Hollis Bunn of St. Pe tersburg, Fla. and J. B. Bunn of Zebulon, R. 2.; One sister. Mrs. J. B. Alford, Zebulon R. 2; Four bro thers: Eddie Williams, W. H. Wil liams, C. F. Williams and C. T. Williams all of Zebulon. Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 4 P. M., conducted by Rev. Pe gran, pastor of Pilot Baptist Church. Burial was in the family cemetery. THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume 20. No. 29 George J. Griffin Will Speak To BTU Association On Tuesday night, March 14, at 8:00 P. M. the Raleigh Baptist Training Union Association meets at the Caraleigh Baptist Church, Raleigh. Mr. Charlie Herbert, di rector, will be in charge of the program. Rev. George Griffin, pastor of Zebulon Baptist church, will be speaker for the evening. Another important feature will be the elimination contests for the different departments of the Bap tist Training Union—Adult Scrip ture Reading Tournament, Young People’s Better Speakers’, Inter mediate Sword Drill, Junior Mem ory Work Drill, and the Hymn Festival. Winners will participate in the contests at the Regional Training Union Convention, First Baptist Church, Burlington, March 24-25. All of the Raleigh Association are urged to attend this meeting and visitors are welcomed. Church News BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday, March 12: 10:00, Sunday School. 11:00, Morning Worship. Ser mon topic: “Overcoming De spondency.” 7:30, Young People meet. 8:00, Evening Service. Mes sage: “Be Ye Steadfast.” Ordi nation service for Deaconesses. School News Our next P. T. A. is scheduled for Tuesday, March 14. at 8 p. m. An interesting program on the subject of “Home and School Re lationship” will be given. “Open house” will also be observed and all school patrons are urged to attend. Included in our graduation ex ercises this year will be Class Night- Last year it was necessary that this be excluded from our program and we feel fortunate and glad that conditions make it possible to carry on this tradi tion. The senior class is enter ing enthusiastically into plans to put on one of the best Class Night exercises ever held in our school. F. F. A. NEWS The F. F. A. boys were in charge of Chapel Friday, March 3. The following program was pre sented: Opening ceremony, Officers of the Chapter; Program chairman, Crocker Perry; Devotional, Bax ter Hopkins; Song, Student group; Country Boy’s Creed, Harold Den ton: History of Jersey Cattle, Bob by Brown; F. F..A. Creed, Chapter Members. On Monday, March 6, the Wake County Federation held its annual public speaking contest in the Apex vocational building. Ned Frazier represented Wakelon and placed 4th He spoke on North Carolina’s War Food Needs. Elmo Finch, F. F. A. reporter Friday night of last week high school girls and boys were in vited again to participate in a health and physical education program in the school gymnasi um. We had thought that Mr. Charlie Spencer, head of North Carolina’s health program, would be with us Friday and were very much disappointed to find that another engagement prevented this. Mr. Spencer has promised, however, to be out for one of the Friday night classes at as early date as possible. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, March 10, 1944 Every American Should Read This Letter The letter below was brought in last week by Mr. Whitley and we are glad to publish it because of the spirit it shows. To- be an American does not mean that one must belong to any special race; only that we hold and strive to ward the same high ideals. Let any who grumble here at home be shamed by the words of this Negro soldier. —Editor. 716th Medical Sanitary Co. APO 709, care Postmaster San Francisco, California February 21, 1944. Mr. Charles V. Whitley, President Zebulon Supply Company Zebulon, North Carolina. Dear Mr. Whitley: I loathe the idea oi excuses, so for that reason I won’t attempt to make any, but I hope you will ov erlook my long delay in writing you. I had planned to write you a long time ago but it seems that I could not think what to write, as you know by now I am a person of very few words. However, I am taking time out to write. It might interest you to know I am now in foreign service and have been for quite some time now—located at some undisclosed destination somewhere in the South Pacific. During my stay overseas I have witnessed some in teresting, wonderful, exciting and hair-raising experiences, most of which can’t be explained in detail here, but I will say I've seen fights and planes shot down. Things re ally pop here. Before coming across sea I had planned to come home to see you all, but due to circumstances be yond my control it was impossible. Here's Your Next Governor R. GREGG CHERRY Look at them, their records, their platforms- then vote for your choice. If enough Carolinians vote as you do, your man will be Governor. Seber Creech Seber Creech, 37, farmer of Route 2, Zebulon, died at his home Saturday afternoon. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock from Hales Chapel Baptist Church conducted by the Rev. H. C. Up church .assisted by the Rev. A. D. Parrish. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Croma Corbett Creech; three sons, Ash ley, Billie, and Garner; his moth er, Mrs. Zettie Creech; four brothers, Heber, Worley, Clem, Jr., and Albert, all of Route 1, Zebu lon, and two sisters, Mrs. Ballard Hocutt and Mrs. John Bissette of Route 2, Zebulon. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Debnam heard on Wednesday from their son, Lt. Dwight Debnam of the Marines, this being the first letter they have had from him since January. He has been in the midst of fighting on atolls in the Pa cific, but has not been hurt. [ When you are booked for oversea , duty you are called at once. You j have to be ready almost at a min , ute’s notice. Realizing the fact of where I . am and what is now in progress— the winning of this great war, I . am compelled to say I am well ; and doing fine and looking for ward to when all can return home again. As I walk across this battle-torn island I wish the people in the States that are working in the defense plants could see what their tanks, planes and guns that they are making can do. and then I think there would be less strikes and walk-outs. Every time there , is a strike you can feel it on the , fighting fronts and it may cause , some man to die that should not r have. I wish the people would forget about labor disputes and everything else that hinders the war effort. We are the men that ■ have to use those weapons, but, however, through all of that the men’s morale is still high. Today I pray God not that my | burden be made light nor my task j . easy, but that I have and keep the ability to carry on in the mighty , clouds of darkness which lie ahead. I personally feel you peo ple on the home front are one hundred per cent behind us who ■ are on the fighting front of this great war. With this in mind we here must not falter nor fail. I conclude this letter thanking you for all you have done for me while 1 was with you. Please re member me kindly to your staff. Yours very truly, Sgt. Leo D. Harris. ralph w. McDonald Sewing Room Mrs. Avon Privette sent fuel j for the sewing room this week and it is hoped other donations may be received for later use. Workers were Mesdames Guy Massey, Wallace Temple, R. H. Herring, A. S. Hinton, W. D. Finch and Miss Matoka Pace. Some work was taken to be done at home. In addition to sewing knitting is being done by those preferring it to sewing. All who will help in either way are asked to com municate with Mrs. Wallace Tem ple or Mrs. Norman Screws. N. B: Mrs. Screws asks that all who have knitting on hand finish the work as soon as possible and turn it in to her for delivery to county headquarters in Raleigh. Wade David, another Zebulon boy, has also been in the fighting in this area and is well. $1.50 Per Year, Payable In Advance Bookmobile Notes While March winds are blowing seems a strange time to bring up summer reading, but there are only two more months of school in Wake county; and we take this opportunity to remind teachers who read this column to check up on their collections and get in ov erdue books so as to avoid book worries during the confusion of the last days of school. If you are keeping pace with war news Arthur Upham Pope’s biography of Maxim Litvinoff is the book for you, being the only biography of Litvinoff to be pub lished outside of Soviet Russia. Another fascinating book about present day events is Paris Un derground, by Etta Shiber, who helped sneak over two hundred British soldiers out of France right under the noses of the Ges tapo. With stories of childhood vice and juvenile delinquency appear ing in all the papers it’s a relief to read Our Young Folks by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and discover that things are not as bad as they seem. Two good novels are Grand Pa rade by Edith J. Lyttleton, a love story of early Nova Scotian days, and No News From Helen by Louis Golding, a story of an En glishman and his family on the Malayan Peninsula when the Japs came. Harper and Brothers has select ed as its prize nove' of 1943-44 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin. Saturday Evening Post readers and admirers of Mr. Ephriam Tutt will be happy to learn that Arthur Train presents an autobiography of that silk hatted and suave member of the bar, M.r. Tutt. Considered one of the most ex citing stories to come out of this war, God is My Co-Pilot by Ro bert Lee Scott certainly is an in tensely thrilling book and one full of adventure. Colonel Scott saw action in the far east and the fore word to his book is written by C. L. C’henault, commander of the famous P’lying Tigers. Bookmobile Schedule, March 20. Stations Arrive Leave Itolesville School 9:30 10:35 Rolesville 10:35 10:45 Hopkins X Roads 11:15 11:30 Zebulon Worn. Club 12:15 12:45 Wakelon School 12:45 2:15 Lake Myra Store 2:45 Bookmobile schedule March 21: Stations arrive leave Knightdale P. O. 9:30 10:00 Knightdale school 10:05 11:05 Wendell Wo. Club 11:15 12:15 Wendell school 12:45 1:45 Annie Laurie Wilson’s 2:00 2:15 Bunn Tells Rotary Community Needs Adequate Cannery Prof. Mark Bunn had the pro gram. His subject was The Com munity Tweeds a Home Cannery. Prof. Bunn showed how food can be saved that is now going to waste; also this canning project would help the health of the com munity. There are a good many com munity canneries in the state and they are popular. They save on grocery bills. Government helps to finance such a project; also the county will give financial aid. About two thirds of the Amount will be given; the other third will have to be raised locally. 4This cannery can only be used to can fruit and vegetables for home. It could be built on the school ground. Prof. Bunn made such a strong appeal for a can nery that a committee was nomi nated to work with in to see if it can be done. The committee: Oli ver Glover, Robert Ed Horton and Vance Brown.
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