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This, That And % The Other ijj By Mrs. Theo B. Davis Have you ever seen magnolias lovelier than they are this year? As a Southerner I’m not specially rabid, but I am very glad to live where magnolias grow. The trees alone are wonderful; straight, symmetrical and sturdy, their stiff leaves glistening in the sun? And words can hardly do justice to the blossoms. If ever flowers have dignity, magnolias have with add ed perfection in shape and frag rance. They are not one bit adapt able, but insist on dominating both an arrangement and the arranger. As Elizabeth Horton (Mrs. Robert Edd) said to me last Sunday when speaking of the large container of magnolia blooms she had brought for the table in front of the pulpit in our church: “Yo» just needn’t try to do anything with them but put them in water ” But that is enough for me. Somehow I feel that we owe it to Northerners to grow magnolias all along the highways that they may see them as they pass through. The trees grow fast. We have one set out about twelve years ago that measures twenty six inches in circumference just above the ground. We also have another variety that blooms at in tervals all summer; but it is not such a- handsome tree; is smaller, though older; and its leaves are not nearly so large as the old fashioned kind, which is the larg er one. Like other broad-leaved ever greens the magnolia sheds its leaves in spring or early summer; but it should be excused for that one annoying trait. Now is the time for all house keepers to look over the jars of fruit and vegetables they have not used. It doesn’t pay to keep can ned-stuff too long. It may not spoil, but the flavor is certainly inferior to more recent canning. And I believe tthose self-sealing tops 'eventually get tired of hold ing on so tight and loosen their grip. Rubber rings, like the old gray mare, ain’t what they used to be, .many being reclaimed or synthetic rubber. They do all right, but just don’t try to can for five years ahead. My son’s wife is working on a bathing suit for herself. Her inter est in the job is bigger than the suit is. I look at it and remember the suit I had at Morehead City some thirty-five years ggo. It would have made about three of Selma’s. The material was dark blue mohair, farirly heavy and un fairly scratchy. It had a shirtwaist top with large collar and elbow sieves. It had full, gathered bloom ers that were held in at the knees by elastic. Over the bloomers was a pleated skirt that also came to my knees. Black, ribbed cotton stockings completed this jaunty costume. No wonder I felt embar rassed when seen arrayed in it. Nor is it any wonder that I was hardly able to move around once that suit soaked up all the water it could hold. In those days it was perfectly terrible to lose a stocking when in swimming or splashing, and I ve known girls to stay in the water till they were shriveled rather than come out and walk to the dressing-room with one leg bare. This is no plea for or against modem styles. “But I •am quite sure the suits of today allow one to enjoy the water far more than we could. * Corinth-Holder Commencement On last Sunday afternoon at 5:30 a large crowd heard Rev. C. E. Vale preach the baccalaureate sermon at Corinth-Holder School. Monday evening the Senior class gave an entertainment. Mr. Free man, who has just completed his first year as Superintendent of the school, has had a very suc cessful term’. Zebulon members of the faculty are Mrs. E. H. Mos er, Mrs. C. G. Weathersby and Mrs. Ralph Bunn, teachers in the grades, and Mrs. Ollie Pearce, music teacher. THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume 20. No. 41 Church News REVIVAL AT WAKEFIELD - i. Rev. J. L .Jenkins, pastor of the Baptist Church, Boiling Springs, N. C., is assisting Pastor Turner in a meeting at Wakefield this week. Mr. Jenkins is one of the best pastor-evangelists in North ! Carolina. Services are being held each evening. The public is invited to attend. The Young Married Ladies’ Class held its May meeting with- Mrs. M. M. Turner. There were twelve members present. Mrs. Lionel Bunn had charge of the program. Mrs. Theo. Davis gave an interesting talk on trees and plants of the Bible. The host ess served peaches with cream and cake. BAPTIST CHURCH Services for Sunday, June 4. 10:00 Sunday School. 1 11:00 Morning Worship. Sermon topic: “God's Farm.” 7:15 Training Union. 8:00 Evening Worship. Sermon topic: “The Way to Brotherhood.” | • NOTICE Beginning June 1, 1944, all stores and the beauty shop in Middlesex will close at one o’clock each Wednesday j afternoon, and at 8 o’clock each night in the week ex With The Men In Service Sgt. Dwight Tant of Fort Dix, New Jersey, recently spent four tteen days at home with his wife, the former Miss Betsy Upchurch, •and son of near Zebulon. Chief Pharmacist’s Mate B Brantley Boyette of the USN, and his brother, Sgt. Vernon W. Boy ett of the Army had a happy re union in England recently after ' not having seen each other in over three years. Brantley entered the Navy in 1941. Vernon entered the Army in 1939 and since then he has served in Africa, Sicily and Italy. The boys are sons of J. F. Boyett and the late Mrs. Fannie Boyett of Raleigh, R 3, and bro thers of Mrs. Albert Pulley, Zebu lon, R 3. • Douglas Finch, Pharmacist’s Mate 3c has been transferred to ' the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth Virginia for duty. Eldred Rountree, USN at Camp Peary, Va., was here last week to ! see his family who are with Mrs. Rountree’s parents, the Oren Mas seys. Mrs. Rountree and their ba by daughter accompanied him to Gates County, to visit relatives. He returned to camp Friday. The contribution of North Caro lina in building the Army of the United States to nearly 7,500,000 officers and enlisted men and wo men is 181,692, as of January 1, 1944, Headquarters Fourth Service Command revealed today. This included 179,300 men and 2,392 women. The total strength of North Carolina in the Army on January 1, 1944 was given at 161, OOOmen and 1,733 women, while 31,805 men and 676 women have been separated from the service by discharge or other means. The total number given as en tering the service does not include personnel who entered prior to November 1, 1940. Lrmoore, Calif., May 20—Avia tion Cadet William L. Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Green, Zebulon, North Carolina, has suc cessfully completed his basic fly ing training at tfie LeMoore Army Air Field and now takes his final hurdle at an Army Air Forces Ad vanced Flying Training School be fore receiving his silver wings. Zebulon, TSf. C., Friday, June 2, 1944 Woman's Club Os unusual interest and plea- | sure was the final program for this season of the Woman’s Club on Thursday evening of last week, j In connection with a musical pro- i gram directed by Mrs. B. K. Mil- j ler, an exhibit of flowers had been j arranged, adding color and beau ty. No prizes had been offered, the work being done as a feature of the meeting. In the business session, presided over by the retiring president, Mrs. Z. N. Culpepper, a paper pre pared by Mrs. R. H. Brantley was \ read by Mrs. F. L. Page, bringing 5 the club history up to date. A I check for fifty dollars, to be ap- j plied on the existing debt, was ! presented by Mrs. John Barrow, j Jr., from the Junior Club. Prizes for outstanding work in Literature by Wakelon grammar grade pupils were awarded Fred Allen Mangum, Jr., and Howard Doyle, seventh grade boys who tied in the standard tests with scores of 11th grade, 7 months, as regards reading. During the school year Fred read 37 books from the school library and How ard read 45. Both had failed to I keep account of extensive outside reading. Mrs. Miller spoke of music as a magic link with God; the univer sal language; a force without color, race or creed, that gives to each according to his need. Mrs. L. M. Massey sang “Indian Love Call”, “Sylvia”, and “Desert Song”. She was accompanied at the piano by her daughter, Caro lyn. Mrs. Miller next introduced : Mrs. J. W. Rose of Pikeville, who gave three violin solos with Miss Jocelyn House at the piano. Her 1 selections were “Old Refrain” as 1 arranged by Kreisler; “London derry Air” and Intermezzo from j “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Pastor C. E. Vale of the Meth odist Church sang “Vale” (Fare- I well), “The Rosary”, and “For gotten.” His accompaniments were played by Mrs. G. J. Griffin. Miss Jocelyn House, dean of music at the State School for the Blind, gave three piano solos: “Butterfly”, by Grieg; “The Hunting Song”, Mendelssohn; and “Idilio”, by Lack. A social hour followed adjourn ment. Mesdames J. K. Barrow, C. E. Flowers, F. D. Finch and H. C. j Wade, hostesses for the day, serv ed punch and cookies from a lace covered. candle lighted table, dec orated with a large bowl of red roses, blue cornflowers and white deutzia. Bookmobile Notes Schedule Monday, June 12th. Haithcock’s Service Station 9:10- 9:30: Rolesville 9:45-10:00; Mrs. J. B. Watkins 10:10-10:25; Mrs. Blackwell’s 10:30-10:45: Hopkins Cross Roads 11:00-11:45; Wake field Woman's Club 12:00-12:30; Zebulon Woman’s Club 1:05-2:15; Tarpley’s Mill 2:30; Mrs. E. V. Richardson 2:50; Watkins Service Station 3:00; Wilder’s Grove 3:15. Schedule Tuesday, June 13: Knightdale 9:30-10:30; Wendell Woman’s Club 10:45-12:00; W. T. Sherron’s 12:30-12:45: Eagle Rock P. O. 12:45-1:15; Lake Myra Store 1:30-1:45; Bethelehem Church 2:00-2:15; Samaria Church 2:30. Primary Returns The tumult and the shouting have died; the captains and the kings have departed. Which be ing interpreted means that cam paign headquarters have closed with the winning or losing of their candidaates and that for a season politics will W less evident than for months. Cherry, Hoey, Ballentine, Hatch, Allen and Ransdell had great or small majorities. A. R. House, lo cal atttorney, was fourth in the House race, making a far better showing than in his former candi dacy. Pittman Stell had more op position for srveyor than hereto fore, but won out with a good ma jority. Home-town neighbors and friends gave House a big vote, far more than any of his opponents. Norfolk Southern Planning Freight Service Expansion , The Norfolk Southern" Bus Cor poration, a highway freight and I passenger carrying affiliate of the i Norfolk Southern Railway Com pany has applied for exttension of its motor freight lines from Greenville to Raleigh. The freight division of the Bus Corporation | now serves the territory from Norfolk to Morehead City, ex tending as far west as Kinston and Greenville, and eastwardly to j Columbia, Belhaven and Oriental. Under the trucking franchise sought the Company would pro vide co-ordinated rail and high way Service to and from practi cally all of eastern North Caroli na, connecting at Raleigh with the Norfolk Southern’s main rail line to Charlotte, thus forming co-or dinated rail and highway freight service to and from the south and west through Charlotte, and from and to the east and north through Norfolk. L. P. Kennedy, general superin tendent of the Norfolk Southern Railway Company with headquar ters in Raleigh, was in the city today and stated that the propos today and statted that the propos ed extension of tucking operations |of the Bus Corporation from Greenville to Raleigh would pro vide an ideal co-ordinated rail and highway freight transporta tion service to and from all east ern North Carolina east of Ral I About Typhoid Since 1915, from year to year, the people of Wake County have had an opportunity to be vacci nated against typhoid fever, Since about 1923, from year to j year, parents had had an oppor tunity to have their babies and young children immunized against diphtheria. We know —and people living in both urban and rural communi ties know —that typhoid fever and diphtheria, two diseases for which there are known prevent ive measures, occur less frequent ly than they did 10 and 20 years ago. Statistical records prove this. A community is no healthier than the individuals living in it. Each individual by taking advan tage of these preventtive measures to protect himself against disease plays an important part in making his community a safe and happy place in which to live. The preventative measures and i three esentials for good health j and sanitary living in any com munity are: (1) The administra j tion of vaccines and sera of known proven value; (2) A safe water supply: (3) Some approved type of sewage disposal; and (4) I Screens to keep out flies and other insects. Add to these measures a sense of cleanliness and decency which every community should enjoy and we will have an ideal , place in which to live and the satisfaction of knowing that ev erything is being done for welfare and comfort. Sometimes, it is difficult by epi demiological investigation and laboratory analysis to determine the- source of a case of typhoid fever, but this much we do know, it did not “just happen”. We know that the germs that caused the case came from a person who at some time had had typhoid fev er which may o rmay not have been recognized and had remained a “carrier” of that infection. If we could control the .habits and customs of persons who are car riers of typhoid fever germs, we could very definitely control ty phoid fever infection without vaccination; but, since all car riers are not known, we should resort to vaccination and the three essentials for every home for pro tection against the spread of ty phoid fever. The law passed by the General Assembly of 1939 requuiring par ents or guardians of infants be tween the age of 6 and 12 months to have them immunized against $1.50 Per Year, Payable In Advance -• ■ - eigh. Mr. Kennedy expressed the opinion that there would be a rapid expansion in business fol lowing the end of the war and. stated that the Norfolk Southern Railway Company and its subsi diary, the Norfolk Southern Bus Corporation, were making plans to be ready to render the sort of transportation service the public will need and demand when the country turns its efforts from war to peace time activities, Mr. Kennedy says the Railway Com pany already has freight stations conveniently located and the ex perienced organization necessary to properly conduct a co-ordinated rail and highway transportation service, also a vast system of pri vate telephone and telegraph communication lines and estab lished pick-up and delivery ser vice in the principal cities and towns, all of which will be devot ed to the co-ordinated rail and highway transportation service. The advantages and many con veniences to the public of the co ordinated rail and highway ser vice proposed would be quite ben eficial and would undoubtedly aid materially in the expansion of commerce, agriculture and manu facture in eastern North Carolina according to Mr. Kennedy who says the proposed service is some thing new in this section of the country. | Vaccinate Dogs For the past three years the veterinarians of this county have requested the Wake County Health Department to make it possible for dispensaries to be owners of dogs could bring them held throughout the county where for vaccination against rabies, preventing the loss of their ani mals and possibly the spread of rabies to human beings. This is in compliance with an act passed by the General Assembly of 1935 and amended in 1941, requiring all dogs to be vaccinated. The charge of 75 cents for each vaccination will be refunded on the dog tax if the dog has been listed for tax- PS. The dates and places for vacci ! nation are as follows: Wendell, Thursday, June 1, 2- 4 p. m.; Zebulon, Thurs., June 15 2-4; Knightdale, Fri., June 16, 2-3; Eagle Rock, Fri:, June 16, 3-4; Stony Hill, Mon., June 19, 2-4; Robertson’s Store, Wed., June 21, 2-4; Rolesville, Fri., June 23, 2-3; Hopkins Cross Roads, Mon., June 26, 2-4 p. m. BILLIONS FOR VICTORY U. S. A. war expenditures abroad totalled $30,362,687,362 as of April 1, last, the Senate was told recently. Os that amount, $19,700,297,674 went to Great Bri , tain, $15,640,479,250 in Lend-Lease while Russia got $4,214,921,439 and Latin America $2,327,378,789. Loans, military outlays, and in vestments made up the balance. BETTER BE A JANITOR Sixty teachers in a school near Pittsburgh struck when they were refused a S2OO annual wage -in crease. Janitors got $2,400 and teachers $1,700 maximum. dihptheria should be complied with 100 percent, however, up to the present time,’ this has not bee n accomplished, although we see improvement from year to year.. Two to three months after the last dose of toxoid has been ad-' ministered, the Schick test should be given to determine whe ther immunity has .been estab lished. If the test is negative, the child is immune from diphtheria; if positive, another dose-of toxoid is indicated. A Schick test should be repeated when the child Is about three years old and again I before he enters school.
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