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] This, That And j The Other • By Mr*. Theo B. Davis Some of the most enjoyable reading I have done this summer is found in The Woodland News, a mimeographed sheet gotten out at Wake Forest by Margaret Brown, editor, and Jenny Cocke and Alice Speas, assistant editors. The first issues carried the name of Melinda Speas as Deliverer, but this was changed in later issues to Circula tion Manager. These children have had the paper as a vacation project and my copies came from Jenny’s mother, whom I knew at Gladys, Virginia, when she was Virginia Webb, special friend of my niece, Doris Thomas. The Woodland News carries va ried items of varying importance, all interesting. One story tells of Air. Cocke’s bees that swarmed on a bent-over tree and of the chil dren’s watching him in his bee suit as he hived the swarm. An other tells of the mole that messed up Mr. Brown’s bean vines and adds, “Mr. Brown was angry.” We know just how he felt. Aloles are in our bean patch. An item tell ing of a newcomer to the neighbor hood says he is nearly five, is very friendly, and likes lizards. Headlines above another item state that Frances Speas has stop ped running away, which is im portant news to Frances’ family, at least. The date of Mrs. Easley’s music recital is given with the • comment: “Most of the children are glad it is over. Most of them were scared.” Climax of a story telling of Mrs. Clonts’ slipping off* a rock into the branch and getting very wet is “She had on her Sun day clothes.” Animals, insects and reptiles share the headlines with humans. There is no effort towards elegance or eloquence, but always the facts are given clearly and concisely. I commend such undertakings to mothers of other children who have to be at s miething, school or no school. Do you remember Haile Selas sie, the Ethiopian monarch whose kingdom was taken over by Mus solini some years ago, and who re turned five years later to his throne, as he prophesied he would do? It is said he made nine fore casts, of which seven have been fulfilled. The eighth is that the Allies will be victorious in Europe “some time near November 11, 1944.” I'm hoping hard that one doesn’t miss fire. And I wouldn’t mind if the fulfillment ca lie ahead of the date set by Selassie. At our house we are planning for a celebration of sorts on Thurs day. The head of the house will be seventy that day It takes one a good while to reach that age and justifies taking a little time from work. Last Sunday my husband quoted from the ninetieth Psalm about the days of our years being three score years and ten. then asked rne about the rest of that verse. 1 replied that “if by reason of strength they be four score years”, he had reason to expect them to be labour, if not sorrow. The seventy have surely been. There are many who will agree that my husband is not an old man. But not all will be as flat tering as was Mrs. Antone, who. not sure of what his age is, said “No matter what it is, Mr. Davis, you don’t look it.” Mrs. Jenkins Made Representative Os Life Ins. Co. I Mrs. Ruby H, Jenkins has been appointed local representative for the Protective Life Insurance Co. j of Birmingham, Ala. This com-. pany is one of the largest life in surance companies in the South,j having more than $190,000,000 of | insurance in force. Mrs. Jenkins will be glad to talk over with you | your life insurance needs. The WFA has increased from 482 million pounds to 578 million, the allocation of flue-cured tobac co to manufacturers and dealers for domestic use. » THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume 21. No. 1 Daniel President Os Pharmacists E. C. Daniel, owner of Zebulon Drug Store, has been elected pres ; ident of the North Carolina Phar maceutical Association for the 1945-45 term. He is to be installed at the annual meeting next year. Nomination for the position was maed last spring at the meeting in Raleigh, and voting was done by mail. Mr. Daniel has been in the drug business 38 years. He has served layor 6f Zebulon eight y«. I has been secretary of the local school board, and member of the finance department of the Baptist church here, besides being on the board of directors of several fi nancial institutions. Rotary Club OLIVER GLOVER SPEAKS TO ROTARY CLUB Last Friday evening Oliver Glover had the program at the regular Rotary meeting. His sub ject was “Should we have compul sory military training for our young men?” He stated that the present war and the last one k would not have cost so many lives had the boys been trained during peace times, that the cost of the war would have been greatly re duced if our camps and equipment had been built and manufactured during peace times. After Mr. Glover had expressed himself, he asked Prof. Moser to speak. He was in favor of com pulsory military training. It cost the government about $50,000 to train a boy to fly our big air planes. This cost can be greatly reduced by military training dur ing peace time. n,uther Massey was asked for his opinion. He spoke against it, say- ' ing it might have a tendency to 1 make a dictator government. Thus the subject is still a debated one. Prof. Ray Lowry, the new Wake lon School principal, joined the Rotary Club. Ernest Layfield and Otis Rob ertson of the Raleigh Rotary Club were welcome visitors. Seen And Heard PAGE AND PIGS The Page Store Co. bought too much flour for the summer trade. Last winter they bought too much rye. The flour betame tainted, and Walter Page did not want to carry the rye over. So he had a lot of corn ground. He bought a lot of fish meal. Next he put his men to work mixing several tons of hog feed. Then he built a fence around the vacant lot next to his ; warehouse; visited the Rocky Mount and Raleigh hog markets, and bought some sixty pigs. Along about the Chri'tmas <•;> on there is going to be one ol the hog ki 11 - ingest times in Zebulon you ever heard about. TALL TOBACCO TALES A farmer told us the other day that when his truck mule went down the row, that he could not see him any more till he came out of the field. Kemp Leonard says has primed his tobacco high enough to be able to see the folks and the mules at work under the top leaves, and that it will be two 1 more weeks before he finishes cur j ing. P. G. Curtis was in town one day lately when farmers are sup posed to be in the field. Some one asked him if he had to stop i priming and come to town to get a step ladder. He replied that it | was not quite that bad, but almost. SOME TOMATOES! On Wednesday morning T. Y. Puryear came into the Record of fice and left three tomatoes his wife sent us. Their total weight was four pounds. The largest weighed one pound and seven ounces. They seemed to be the Brimmer variety, Mrs. Puryear i Zebulon, N. C., Friday, September 1, 1944 Zebulon's Biggest Enterprise Begins On Tuesday morning the Beck Veneer Company began operation. It is Zebulon’s newest as well as biggest enterprise. All of the ground space of the old cotton mill is used, as well as considerably more, on which have been built a big brick enclosed room for dry ing the finished veneer, and two steaming rooms for logs. Also that part of the building which hodses the cutting machines is new. Back of the main plant is another building in which a 175 horse power boiler has been in stalled. A side track has been built for loading and unloading. Already 35.000 . feet of logs are on the grounds. When operating regu larly it will take 7.000 feet of logs daily to supply the plant. Forty men will be required for operation, along with about ten able-bodied women. So far only about half hie number of employees needed have been secured. White and colored men are wanted, and pref erably colored women. Farmers who have finished their crops and want work lor the fall and winter should call at the plant. Tne mill turns .it only veneer. It is shaved into strips, graded and cut into sheets, stacked and carried to the dryroom. Alter be ing cured it is loaded on cars and shipped to mills elsewhere, where it is made into ply-board and boxes. A twenty-four-inch log will turn off a strip of veneer about a mile long. Only poplar and gum are used. The poplar may be used green from the woods, but the gum must be steamed first. Farmers having such timber for sale should con tact one ol the Mr. Becks. They are: E. R„ Fred and Howard. Fred and Howard will operate the ■plant, since E. n. will be away \ most of the time attending to oth er interests of his business. Since the payroll will be above $50,000 a year, Zebulon is to be congratulated on having this busi ness and these progressive men lo cated in our community. Union Hope News Next Sunday, Sept. 3rd, is our regular preaching Sunday and all attendance will be appreciated. Misses Versa Gray Bryant, Lois and Lola Murray. Estelle Hicks, i and Georgia Bass were visitors in the home of Miss Annie Sevelia Strickland la t Sunday evening. Mr. L. C. Strickland visited Mr. W. A. Brantley of the Pilot section Sunday. Miss Clarice Brantley of Norfolk was a visitor of Miss Annie Pearl Brantley Sunday night. Mr. DeWitt Hinnnnt celebrated his last day of Earning tobacco with a barbecue supper. Mr. Raeford Chamblee gave a barn supper last Saturday night. Barbecue, chicken, coffee, tea. and ' lemonade were served to all the barn hands. A few outside friends were invited and all members of the family were also present. Mrs. Olie Brantley lost a tobac co barn by fire last Monday night, August 21st. This was her second fire in two weeks. Pfc. R. B. Batchelor of Camp Butner is home again for the week end. Cpl. William H. Brantley, son of Mrs. Hattie Brantley, was home last Monday. He is stationed at Camp Patrick Henry, Newport News, Va. SECOND DEGREE WORK IN MASONRY The Zebulon Masonic Lodge in its regular monthly meeting will have special work in the second degree next Tuesday night. All members are requested to be pres ent. Visitors are cordially invited. is some tomato grower. So far she gets the prize. Mrs. T. C. Pippin has the nicest patch of tomatoes we have seen. They are not the largest, but nice, smooth and round—just the right size for canning. And she has a l big patch, too. With The Men In Service Maj. E. E. Hr,id whose address is Camp Breckenridge. Kentucky, visited Mrs. E. H. Hood and other relatives lately. Lt. Wilbur T. Debnam, who has been in Lincoln, Neb., has been transferred to Pueblo, Colorado. Earl Antone, w'ho has been for some time in the Pacific area, is now in a hospital being treated for an injury to his front teeth. He wrote his parents, the A. D. Antones, but could give no de tails. Henry Massey of the USMC re cently enjoyed a reunion with his brother, Wilbur, also a Marine. They had not seen each other for more than a year. Both are in the Pacific area. S-Sgt. Dwight Tant has been spending a few days at home with his wife and son. News came of the death of his brother, Pvt. Ken neth Tant. in France, on August 8, while he was home. Billy Ferrell of the Coast Guard spent the week end with his moth er, Mrs. W. T. Ferrell. He has been taking amphibious training at Camp Bradford,. Va. Pfc. Robert Lee Kimball, who was for some time in Ireland, ar rived in Norfolk a week ago and was sent to Quantico before being given a thirty-days furlough, which he is spending with his mother, Mrs. Mamie Kimball, and other relatives, arriving here last Friday. He is spending this week w'ith his sister, Miss Marie Kim ball, in Marion, S. C. A letter received by relatives told of George Henry Temple and Melvin Massey seeing each other in England recently. S-Sgt. J. R. Sawyer, who has been for some time in a hospital, was here for the week end with his wife and baby son. KILLED IN ACTION Pvt. Kenneth Tant of Route 2, Middlesex, was reported killed in action in France on August Bth. Before entering the service in December of 1943, he was employ ed as a welder in the Wilmington ship yards. Pvt. Tant went over seas in June of this year. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Julian Whitley and Mrs. Curtis Glover, both of Route 2, Middle sex, artd three brothers, Corbett Tant of Wilmington, Staff-Ser geant Dwight Tant of Fort Dix, N. J., and Jack Tant of Cypress Chap pell, Va. HephzibahW.M.S. The August meeting of the Hephzibah W. M. S. was held in the home of Mrs. Lurnis Horton with the following members as sisting her as joint holtesses: Mrs. W. S. Caudle, Mrs. J. P. Winston, Mrs. William Jones, Mrs. Hilliard, and Mrs. D. L. Martin. The meeting was opened with the theme song, “The Morning Light Is Breaking.” The watch word was repeated in uni on. Our soldiers were remembered in the usual way, followed with prayer by Mrs. Caudle. A lovely devotional was given with each hostess taking a part. | Mrs. W. S. Caudle, program leader .then presented Mr. Caudle, who gave the program for the month. At the conclusion of the pro gram, the roll was called and min utes read. Business was trans acted, and the meeting adjourned for the social hour. The hostesses served ice cream with cake. • Kudzu is one of the best tempo ray grazing crops for building up | the dairy industry in Rockingham . County, say Extension Service I representatives. $1.50 Per Y ear, Payable In Advance Tobacco Market Opened Monday While Wendell took on somewhat the appearance of former years Monday, as the tobacco market opened, there was lacking the big crowd. Very noticeable was the absence of younger men of other openings, who are scattered over the world, engaged in the biggest job our country has ever undertaken. Then, too, most farmers were busy trying to fin ish up curing what, many believe to be the best tobacco crop in years. One farmer said he came be cause he needed some money, oth ers came because pack houses were filled and they needed more room. Still others needed more sticks and they could not buy nor bor row, so they brought their tobacco to empty the sticks needed. Then there was the usual crowd of spec tators. Sales were far below normal, but higher-than-usual average prices were paid. When the day’s salt’s were ended the growers were happy over the prices. Tobacco that brought from $16.00 to $35.00 ; a hundred would have brought on ly 2 or 3 cents a pound a few years ago. or the warehousemen would have advised taking it back and using it for fertilizer. Much of the sales reached close to the ceil ing. On the better grades the price, otherwise, would have been far above the ceiling. Better grades sold for from $40.00 to $47.00. Wlpilc the offerings on the local market were much less than usual, considering present conditions, both farmers and warehousemen were pleased with the opening day sales. 119,470 pounds were sold for $52,213.92, an average of $43.67 per hundred pounds. The present market outlook indicates that Wendell will exceed the total sales ol las’ year by many thou sand pounds, if not the most in the history of the local market. All warehousemen are “on their toes” to make it so. Only failure of the tobacco growers of this sec tion to cooperate will prevent its being realized. Red Cross Sewing Workers in the Red Cross sew ing room are really stitching. Borne one said that at the present rate Zel.-ulon will almost take care of Wake County’s emergency quota of 1200 kits. Mrs. C. V. Whitley made 39 kits last week; Mrs. E. H. Moser made 36; Mrs. L. E. Long made 25, and Mrs. J. E. Carter 19. Others completed smaller numbers. Mrs. R. H. Her ring keeps bandages cut and ready for those who will make them. Mrs. Guy Massey told of seeing Mary Sue Long, eleven years old, and Jean Bunn, seven, busily cut ting scraps for fracture pillows. Jean paused and remarked that her hands were tired. Mary Sue, whose fingers had been blistered by the scissors and bandaged, re plied, “Yes, but think of the sol diers’ feet.” Both went back to cutting. The sewing room is open all day Tut jay, and Fridays of each week. Some of the most faithful workers have had to stop to help with the tobacco crop, and there is room for all who can sew. Church News | BAPTIST CHURCH Services for Sunday, September i 3rd: 10:00, Sunday School for adults 1 and young people above 16 years | of age. 11:00, Morning Worship. Ser mon: “Tension.” 8:00, Evening Worship. Sermon: j “Isaiah’s*Experience of God.” There will be about three fourths as many canned tomatoes | for civilians this year as compar led with 1943-44.
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