This, That And
The Other
By Mrs. ThecY. B. Davis
Observation and experience have
taught me that if you don't care
what people say about you, they
are pretty sure to say it; if you
don’t care what they think of you,
the chances are they think the
worst.
Defying public opinion is praise
worthy only when the matter at
stake is bigger than you are, and
when you lose yourself in a cause
for its own sake, not for personal
gratification.
When it comes to shortcake you
most probably belong either to the
school of thought that wants the
berries or fruit put on cake, or to
those who insist that a rich un
sweetened biscuit dough is far
btter than anything else. How
ever a third party is winning re
cruits. Its members prefer making
rounds of crisp pastry dough and
using that under the strataberries
or whatever.
If you want a cake shortcake,
try “Washington pie.” Why they
call it pie I don’t know, nor why
they named it Washington. It
couldn’t have been in honor of
George ,for such a truthteller
would not have called it anything
but plain sponge cake. Make it
this way:
Sift one and one-half cups of
plain flour with two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder and one-fourth
teaspoon salt. Then sift it twice
more.
Beat two eggs with three
fourths cup sugar till it is light,
and fluffy. Add the flour gradual
ly and beat in a teaspoonful of va
nilla. Have ready one-half cup
ful milk boiling hot with a tea
spoonful of butter melted in it.
Pour this into the stiff batter,
beating well as you pour. Bake it
at 350 degrees in a pan big enough
to hold at least nine seryings.
Mine is 9 inches square and near
ly two inches deep.
This cake is not quite so fine
grained as my favorite hot-milk
cake, nor is it as sweet; but it’s
plenty good for everyday in sugar
rationing time.
I worry with the farmers who
find the ground too wet for plow
ing, and I sympathize with those
who are having lights put on trac
tors so they can plow at night
when the soil does dry out.
For we are neding every furrow
and every plant this year as per- ■
haps never before. For ourselves,
for our own, wherever they may
be, for others who have no chance
to grow these things for them
selves. Seasons may vary, but
there is a mighty solace in the
promise found in Genesis: While
the earth remaineth, seed time
and harvest and cold and heat, and
summer and winter, and day and
night shall not cease.
The first of May a drive will be
started to collect clothing for the
destitute in countries across the
sea. mainly Russia. Let us begin
at once to go over what we have
packed away and give according
to our ability, remembering that
thin, fancy garments are not to
be compared in usefulness with
plain, strong clothing. Send some
thing you’d like to have if you
actually needed something to
wear and didn’t have time to patch
and darn. Glean out the closets
and chests. Don’t even try to save
too much of what your boys left
when they went away to war
When they come back, they will
likely be too large for their old
suits and shirts.
Malcolm Price Dies
Malcolm A. Price, 56, died in
Rex Hospital in Raleigh Monday
evening after an illness of several ,
weeks.
Surviving are his wife; four
children. Mrs. Robert Phillips and '
Clifton H. Price of Zebulon, Mrs.
Freddie Baker of New’ York, and
Roland H. Price of the Navy, sta
tioned at Norfolk, Va., and one
sister, Mrs. Dave Lee of Raleigh.
The funeral services were held
from the Baptist Church in Zebu
lon Wednesday at 3 p. m. Pastor
G. J. Griffin was assisted by Rev.
A. D. Parrish and Rev. Theo. B.
Davis. Burial was in the Zebulon
cemetery.
THE ZEBULON RECORD
Vol. 20. No. Ufi
School News j
Commencement is just “around
the corner.” Sunday night. May
i 7, the Rev. Charles Vale will de-
I liver the baccalaureate sermon in
| the school auditorium at 8 o’clock.
Thursday night, May 11, is Class
Night. At 8:30 the Seniors will
! present their exercises in the form
| of a play, “The Rainbow Trail.”
On Friday morning, the 12th, at
J 10:30, Dr. Carlyle Campbell will
| deliver the graduating address.
| The closing ol school has always
been observed with keen interest
j >n our community and it is hoped
that this year will prove of even
greater interest. ,
| Mrs. George Griffin will present
i her piano pupils in a recital on
Wednesday afternoon. May 3, at
3:30 o clock. All who are interest
ed and wish to come are invited.
The following pupils will play:
Fay Pearce, Gayle Privette, Cloid
Wade, Jr., Anne Allman, Kathrine
Baker, Linda Bridgers, Jean Rob
ertson, Aileen Baker, Norma Fay
Gill, Robert Winston. Cleo Baker,
Dorothy Carter, Jack Terry, Kitzi
Miller, Hilda Morris, Fay Privette,
Shirley Ann Chamblee, Joellen
Gill, Willie Brannon, Ruth Brown
Clyde Morris, Mary Alice Jones!
Elizabeth Baker, Bobby Brown,
Mary Sue Long, Linda Massey’
Laura James Sexton. Mary Fisher
Finch, Carolyn Massey, ‘ Edythe
Lee Medlin, Judith Robertson,
Nancy Whitley, and Charles Hor
ton.
Last Friday the entire student
body was honored to have sing
for them Miss Grace Coltrane of
New York City. Miss Coltrane.
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. F.
Coltrane, sings with the all-girl
choir on the Hour of Charm ra
dio program. She very graciously!
sang several selections Friday for >
the students who were especially
pleased with the choices she made.
Sewing Room
Last week’s sewing room work
s's were Mesdames Oscar Corbett,
D C. Pearce, E. H. Moser, R H
Herring and C. V. Whitley. This
week Mesdames C. V. Whitley,
Guy Massey, E. H. Moser, E .C.
I amel, R. H. Herring, W. G. Tem-
P'e and T. B. Davis worked. Mrs
L M. Co>nn sent in finished band
ages made at home. Now that the
weather is warmer, sewing can be
done on other days than Tuesdays
15 n °edea. Workers are
"V,* 0 come or send for sew
ing to do at home.
Mrs. Temple delivered to head
and?k | th ' S Gek 225 bandages
and 25 kits made by local workers
Local Democratic
Convention Held
town hall, Zebulon. A good attend
ance was present to attend th"
business in hand.
The Executive Committee Hect
vC ° r r ,? p P° inted ’ was as follows: j
Mrs. Rhoda W. Gill. Chairman;
Foster D. Finch, Viee-Chairman-
D. G. Hart. D. R. Arnold, Mrs.
Ernestine Privette.
Delegates to the County Con
vention to be held in Raleigh,
next Saturday, April 29: Mrs
Coressa Chamblee, Mrs. Cammie
Wade, E. C. Stallings, B. T. Ray,
Ivey Narron, B. R. Richards, M
C. Pate, T. C. Pippin, G. H. Cox.
W. A. Davis, H. H. Eddins, Pet
Horton, B. C. Bunn, Oren D. Mas
sey. Mrs. Laura Sexton, Z. J. Rob
ertson, R. Vance Brown, G. C.
Massey. W. B. Hopkins, I. D. Gill,
Mrs. Rhoda W. Gill, Foster D.
Finch, D. R. Arnold, D. G. Hart,
Mrs. Ernestine Privette, Hubert
Eddins. A. R. House, Avon Priv
ette, W. B. Bunn, Norman Screws,
Worth Hinton, S. T. Davis, J. p.
Robertson, Fred Page, Lorenza
Bunn.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, April 28, 1944
Church News
METHODIST CHURCH
Charles E. Vale, Pastor
Service Sunday Morning 11:00
o'clock. Sermon subject The Elev
l enth Commandment
This is the eighth in a series of
I sermons preached by the pastor on
the Ten Commandments. On suc
ceeding Sundays the 7th and 10th
commandments will be considered.
Sunday School 10:00 a. m.
A welcome to everyone.
Dr. J. F. Coltrane, Superinten
dent.
BAPTIST CHURCH
Services for April 30:
10:00 Sunday School.
11:00 Morning Worship. Sermon
topic: 1 Ought To Belong To The
Church.
7: 15 Training Union.
8:00 Evening Worship. Message:
How to Hear A Sermon.
The Y. W. A. of the Wakefield
Baptist Church held its monthly
meeting Wednesday evening, April
19th, at the home of Mrs. Tom
Kimball with 12 members present.
During the business discussion it
was decided to clean up the
i church grounds as Personal Ser
vice for the organization for this
month. After the business was
transacted Mrs. Berdon Eddins i
presented an interesting program
on Homeland of the King of Kings
which consisted of a series of let
ters written by Mrs. Carl Town
send during her visit to the Holy
Land. At the close of the program
the Hostess served a dessert course
of fruit jelly and cake.
Rotary Club
The Zebulon Rotary Club con
tinues to have IDO per cent meet
, in Ss. No member wishes to be the
one to break the record. The re
cord now stands between 110 and
115 100 percent consecutive meet
ings. Some had to go to other
clubs to make up being absent
when it was not convenient to be
in Zebulon.
Vaden Whitley had the program,
his subject being, “There is no
future without work.” Vaden stat
ed that this was the knottiest
subject he had ever been assigned
as he could not find any informa
tion on it. Vaden said that our
Creator worked and made a com
mand that man should work too.
The question comes up, why some !
accumulate or amass great for- j
tunes, while others seemingly j
work equally as hard, but live a '
life of hardship. Some men begin
life with some goal in mind to
get something, wealth or honor j
while the other person works with •
nothing in mind but to work with
out any aim in life. A person gen
erally gets what he wishes if he is
willing to pay the price. This idea
does not answer the question, as
usually the person who succeeds
well is one who has many talents
or ability, while the one who does
not succeed is a one talent man.
The party who succeeds in life
is critical, for an instance, the
Dukes, who have made millions
on tobacco, paying at times onlv a
living price to the farmer. The
Dukes and the other manufactur
ers of tobacco created a new in
come for farmers. After they had
amassed great fortunes, they then
gave millions of dollars in en
dowments to institutions, etc. For
the benefit of man. so many of
these great talent men have and
are helping the otie talent fellow.
At the close of the war, we know
that there will be changes in our
government. We are reasonably
certain that we will absorb more
socialist, also communism. Several j
members gave their views on this. I
Vaden gave the Club an excep
tionally good program, even if he
called it knotty.
APPRECIATION EXPRESSED
We wish through this paper to
express our deep and sincere ap
preciation of the sympathy shown
and the many thoughtful acts of
kindness which lightened our sor
row at the time of our recent be
reavement. Mrs. M. L. Massey,
Beth and Mary Gordon Massey.
Funeral Os Lt.
Hoyle Held Mon.
Funeral services for Lt. Richard
Hoyle of the Marines, who died on
April 17 of injuries received in an
| airplane crash, were . held Mon
day afternoon at 3:30 from the
Zebulon Baptist Church. The Rev.
G. J. Griffin, pastor, conducted
the services. Active pallbearers
were Wallace Temple, Russell
| Temple, Jack Temple, Wiley
! Broughton, John Barrow, Jr„ and
Ronald Green, all cousins of Lt.
| Hoyle.
Honorary pallbearers were John
Broughton, J. K. Barrow, Sr., L.
R. Temple, J. E. Ayscue, H. P.
Hoyle, I. H. Hoyle, J. E. Hoyle, F.
! A. Mangum. uncles of the deceas
ed: G. S. Barbee, A. S. Bogen. E.
C. Daniel, T. B. Davis, Herman
Eddins, Hubert Eddins, R. F. Ed
dins, Elmer D. Finch, C. E. Flow
ers, E. H. Greene, E. T. Jones, J.
i G. Kemp, James Pearce.
Lieutenant Hoyle, 24. was the
youngest son oi Mrs. Starkey
Hoyle and the late Mr. Hoyle of
Zebulon. He was a graduate of
Wakelon High School and of
Wake Forest College. As a col
legian, he was rated one of the
j best college baseball players in [
the South and was captain of the
team his senior year. He was
known to sports fans as “Rooster” i
and “Dick” Hoyle. After gradua- 1
tion, he played professional base
ball with Wilson in the Coastal
Plain League and was a teacher
and assistant athletic coach at C.
L. Coon High School in Wilson.
He entered the Naval Air Corps
in September, 1942. After pre
flight training ai Chapel Hill, he
received basic training at Olathe.
Kas., and earned his commission
and wings at Corpus Christi, Tex.,
on July 28. 1943. At graduation, he
transferred to the Marine Air
Corps and was assigned to El Toro
Air Station, Cal. The crash re
sulting in fatal injuries occurred
at El Toro.
Surviving are his mother; a sis
ter, Mrs. Hawkins Vester of Spring
Hope: three brothers, Henry Hoyle
of Zebulon. Lt. Frederick Hoyle of
the Army Air Corps, stationed at
Stuttgart, Ark., and Capt. William
Hoyle of the Corps of Engineers
stationed in England.
Lt. Harrell Hansen of Mississip
pi, stationed at El Toro, accom
panied the remains of Lt. Hoyle
from California to Zebulon.
Spring Festival
Wakelon’s Spring Festival will
be held on the school lawn at
10:30. May 5. The community is
cordially invited to attend this an
nual program of entertainment
presented by pupils directed by
Mrs. Miller and others of the sac- !
ulty.
Eagle Killed
An eagle weighing around ten
pounds and having a wing spread 1
of 7 feet and one inch was on ex
hibil at the Little River Ice plant
Monday morning. It. was of the
bald species and was killed in the
Pilot community by William
Brantley. He heard a commotion
among a flock of crows and saw
they were fighting the eagle. Get- 1
ting his gun, he finished the job
for the crows to their satisfaction.
Reports are that this particular
bird had been depriving the
preacher of his usual chicken din
ners in the community, so now
crows, folks and preacher are all
happy once more.
Bits Os Business
Sixty per cent of the banana
crop of the United Fruit Company
had to be destroyed in the first
quarter of 1944 due to lack of
steamship transportation. For the
first time in their history, com
mercial banks have more than
half of their assets invested in U.
S. Government securities.
$1.50 Per Year, Payable In Advance
Men In Service
MAJOR GARDNER NOW
i 744th’s COMMANDING OFFICER
Camp Chaffee, Ark.—Maj. Robin
B. Gardner, son-in-law of Mr. and
, Mrs. B. F. Pierce, is now com
manding ofgficer of the 744th Bat
talion of the 416th Field Artillery
Group and is stationed at Camp
Chaffee.
Major Gardner, whose son, Rob
in P., lives with his grandparents,
has been an ofifeer in the Reserve
Corps since 1931, and was called
to active duty in November, 1940.
He formerly was commanding of
ficer of the Civilian Conservation
Corps at Fort Macon and White
Lake.
BAILEY AT CORSICANA
Corsicana, Texas, April 17th
Kincheon H. Bailey, Jr., has just
arrived at Corsicana Field from
the United States Military Acad
emy, West Point, N. Y., as a mem
ber of Class 44J.
AC Bailey has been assigned for
primary flight training to the
j 301st A. A. F. Flying Training De
tachment. He is the son of Col.
and Mrs. K. H. Bailey of West Pt.,
j N. Y., and is a nephew of Mrs.
Eger Massey of Zebulon.
DUDE BRANNAN WRITES
Prom “Dude” Brannan, some
where overseas, comes the mes
sage below dated April 16:
Dear Mr. Davis:
I am getting along fine and sure
do enjoy the Zebulon Record. It
takes quite a while to reach me,
but finally I get the news from
home. I am on my fourth year in
the army and have been over here
19 months. I have done lots of
traveling and have seen things I
did not know existed. But there
isn’t any place on the globe like
the good old U. S. A.
I am at my same job —grease
monkey— and have done a lot
ot hard work to keep ’em rolling.
But I hope it won’t be long before
it is all over and I can be back
with my friends . . . Give my love
and best regards to all.
Just a Pal, Always,
Dude.
WILLARD Q. DAVIS
COMPLETES AAF BASIC
Aviation Cadet Willard Osborne
Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Thomas Davis, Rt. 1, Zebulon, N
C., has successfully completed his
basic flying training at the Le
in oore Army Air Field, Lemoore,
California, and now takes his fin
al hurdle at an Army Air Forces
Advances Flying Training School
before receiving his silver wings.
Russian Relief
Drive Begun
Whole-hearted cooperation in
this state is meeting the scheduled
campaign to collect clothing for
the people in war-torn Russia
during the first two weeks of May
was reported by June H. Rose, di
rector of the North Carolina col
lection.
The “Clothes For Russia * cam
paign is sponsored by the N. C.
State Department of Education,
N. C, Education Association and
the N. C. Congress of Parents and
Teachers, with the State Office of
Civilian Defense providing facil
ities for campaign headquarters
and urging complete cooperation
ot civilian defense volunteers
throughout the State.
Collection of clothing will be
gin May 1 and last through May
14. School children will canvas
their neighborhoods, and other
groups wil assist in making the
drive a success.
Former Governor J. C. B. Eh
ringhaus is State chairman of the
“Clothes for Russia’ campaign,
and Governor J. M. Broughton is
honorary chairman. A score of
leading North Carolinians are
serving as sponsors.