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This, That & I he Other BY Mks. Thlo. B. Davis S r Not until recently did I know there is a special variety of mus tard for use in winter, and ap propriately called "winter mus tard. Mrs. Bernice Finch told me she had some and proved it by bringing me a shopping bag full, which was ever so good when cooked. Bernice says it is hardier 'than turnips and no trouble at all to grow. With collards, mus tard and Savoy cabbage, nobody in this section need do without greens in variety all winter. It seems odd to find merchants closing their stores for a few days or longer. Instead of going North to buy new stock, they go home or elsewhere and rest. When I asked one salesman how they managed about getting new bolts of cloth, he said they just took their allotment as sent them by the wholesalers, sold it all, then waited lor more. But to me the wonder is that there is still so much to be had after more than three years of war. When we get to where we have to dig up the smokehouse floor and soak the salt out of it as our grandparents did during the Civil War, we’ll have a right to complain—unless our men overseas are having a worse time than that. If we forget them . . let our tongues cleave to the roofs of our mouths and our right hands forget their cunning. When I said last week that those who doubt the groundhog as a weather prophet should step up and explain these days we are enduring, I was mainly joking; but the groundhog is my pet su perstition. Os course I don’t ac tually believe the little beast can forecast weather, but the fact that I always watch for clouds on February second shows the trend of my mind. I was brought up watching fo’ the groundhog. A friend o whom I apologeti cally mentioned this said she never thinks of the groundhog, but if she hears a clear ringing in her ears, ;he feels certain she will shortly hear of a death. My father always dreaded dreaming of muddy water; for him it foretold trouble. Clear water was al right in a dream. A favorite i unt felt compelled to tear cloth if a rabbit ran across her path; that averted mis fortune which otherwise would have overtaken her. Mother used to quote the say ing that if one cut out a garment on Friday the owner would die before it was worn out; but it surprised me when a neighbor re fused on a Friday the help I had promised to give her in cutting a new dress. She seemed to feel I wanted to shorten her days. Told when small of the strange and awesome powers of jack o’ lanterns, I would carefully turn my pockets v rong-side out be fore peering earfully from an upstairs window at the creek bottoms wheie the “lanterns” could be seen on warm, damp nights. And no. all my father's as serting that t ley were harmless wholly convinced me. Surely jack o’ lanterns w<Te as supernatural as dreams. Why turning pocke<s could foil the power to drag me toward the w.tch lights was nev er reasoned out. None of it was acacpted fully: but a partial be lief added thrills to living. Some persons not superstitious in other things, believe events come in threes. Mr. W. W. Mangum, clerk of the Roanoke Baptist Association, wrote us that a thief broke into his house and not only stole two hundred dollars in money and valuables, but cut up the careful ly prepared manuscript for the minutes of the 1944 session of the Roanoke. Why such mutilation * is more than any one understands. If couldn’t possibly have profit ed him in any way. Years cf proof reading for as sociational minutes have made me know r that one who works with them may become desperate; but it wasn’t Mr. Mangum who did the work of destruction, though he had to do all the tabulating and copying again. I do hope that thief gets caught and punished. SPECIAL MASONIC MEETING There will be a special convo cation of the Zebulon Masonic lodge next Tuesday evening. Mar. 6. at 7:30 o’clock. All mem bers are asked to be present and visiting Masons will be welcomed. Dr. Chas. E. Flowers, W. M. Vance R. Brown, Sec. THE ZEBULON RECORD V olume 21. No. 27 f<3ovv, mote tuan ever_ your RED CROSS is at his side V* ■•frifn, $L f - IT, i RKKffioss As wounded American boys come back from the battle fronts they find American Red Cross workers in all military and naval hospitals ready to help them. This year there will be more need than ever before for Red Cross service in domestic hospitals. Red Cross Gifts Reported NOTICE RED CROSS WORKERS A Red Cross Worker’s Meeting will be held at the Carolina Power and Light Co. office Thurs day evening, March Ist, at 8:00 All workers and other interest ed citizens are urged to attend. All workers please come pre pared to make a report to date of collection. ZEBULON DIST. Total Red Cross Collections as of: 2-27-45 Special gifts $772.00 Business employees East Side 129.00 Business Employees West Side 127.50 Wakelon School Teachers No Report Booth Bank Building 107.65 Booth Drug Store * 45.40 Brantley and Beck Employees No Report Zebulon Block Canvas No Report Wakefield Community 156.00 Glory Community No Repor) S >. *♦ mity N< Rosenberg Com. N No Report Mitchell’s Mill Com. 18.00 Hopkin’s Chapel Com. No Report Bethany Church Com. No Report Zebulon M. E. Church 6.25 Zeb. Baptist Church 65.75 Colored Community No Report $1427.55 The organization of the Red Cross Drive among the Negro citizens of Little River District has been , completed, under the chairmanship of R. P. Richard son. The following persons have been appointed to serve in the drive this year. Mrs. Fannie Prerry, North Zeb ulon Mrs Ernestine Cain, North. Ze bulon Mrs. Ethel Hopkins, Wakefield Baptist Church Mrs Ada Perry. Wakefield Miss Fentonia Roberts, Beaver Chapel Mrs. Catherine Baten. Zebulon Mrs Mattie Floyd, Zebulon Mrs.’ Lucille Parks. Rosenberg Miss Estelle Jenkins. High Town Miss Sophia Dunn, Rosenberg Mrs. Aldonia Pace, Merry Grove Miss Geneva Todd. South Zeb ulon „ _ Mrs. Christine Locke, D. R. Ba ker. Frank vPerry. White Oak Miss Seine B. Sills, Shepherd High School Mrs. Linner Ivery, Mt. Zion Zebulon, N. Friday, March 2,1945 Wake Schools Have Excellent War Sales Record The schools of Wake County, according to Mr. Randolph Ben ton, Supt., have a total fall sales of $38,880.00 in the SCHOOLS AT WAR Program: Knightdale purchased and nam ed 2 Field Ambulances $1,950.- 00 each—s3,9oo.oo Millbrook purchased and nam ed 3 Field Ambulances $1,90.- 00 each—ss,Bso.oo Garner purchased and named 1 Field Ambulance $1,950.00 each - $1,950.00 Rolesville sold $23,803.75 and will soon have purchase price of an SNJ NAVY SCOUT TRAIN ER PLANE costing $25,000.00 Fletcher’s Giove sold $44.55. RALEIGH: Raleigh City Schools reported total fall sales from war savings stamps and bonds of $60,519.50. These schools, as a combined school group, sponsored and had named for “Raliegh City Schools” an Army Pursuit Plane $50,000.- 00. Needham Broughton completed th.- r campaign for their P-51 and still have a credit of $18,562.5') applicable toward their new spring goal. Wake’s Schools, including Ral eigh. reported total sales of $99,- 400.00. NOTICE Ninety-eight per cent of our patrons come to Wakelon Theatre to enjoy the show and to enjoy much-needed relaxation in these war-trouhled times. Two per cent apparently come to create a dis turbance bv acting boisterously, talking loudly, whistling and com mitting older acts of rowdyism. If you are annoyed by unneces sary commotion ®f any kind, please step to the rear of the theatre and inform the doorman or the manager. Your help will be appreciated Sarah Eaton (Mgr.) Holiness Church. The present chairman has serv ed in the same capacity during the last two campaigns. We ex pert this group to exceed its quo ta as it has clone for the past sev eral ears. In Service \ r Friends here were indeed glad to learn that Lt. Matthew Liles, reported missing in action, is in Russia instead of being a prisoner or killed. Sir L. Carpenter, son of Ber rie Sidney Carpenter of Zebulon, has been promoted to the grade of private first class at Hamil ton Field, Calif., one of the Fourth Air Force’s Army Air Bases, it was announced recently. Carpenter joined the Army on August 25, 1943 and has been sta tioned at Hamilton Field for one year. With the 12th Armored Divis ion of the Seventh Army in France: (Special)—Tec. 5 Regi nald Cunningham, son of Mrs. Essay Cunningham, Route No. 1, Zebulon North Carolina has been awarded the Combat Infantryman Bdage. The local soldier is a member of the 12th Armored Division, commanded by Major General Roderick R. Allen, and has been overseas three months. His unit is one of the newest on the front of Lieut. General Alexander H. Patch’s American Seventh Army. With The Eighth Infantry Di vision in Germany Captain Graham V. Chamblee of Zebulon, North Carolina, received the Army’s Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in the rescue of a platoon leader during the fight for Brest, France. He was cited for the nation s second highest military honor as a result of his action on August 23,' when his battalion stormed a heavily fortified enemy hill near the city of Brest during the final phase of the Brittany cam paign. During the assault, Cant. Cham blee heard that one of his platoon leaders had been seriously wound ed and was lying in an open area subjected *to artillery fire. Fight ing his way through to the stricken officer, Capt. Chamblee carried him to safety, though hit by enemy fire during the res cue. He refused medical aid and immediately returned to action. In r second attack that day, the Germans surrounded Capt. . Chamblee and demanded his sur render. He, however, opened upon them, and succeeded in fighting his way out of the en circled position. He then took an observation post from which he directed artillery fire on Nazi po sitions. His action was instrumen tal in the repulse of three enemy counterattacks. Ho accepted medical attenion only after his company soldiers had been treated first. With The Fifth 'Army, Italy— Private Noel C. Fowler, son of Mrs. Hattie Fowler, whose home is on Route L Zebulon. North Carolina, has been cited by the 339th “Polar Bear” Regiment of the 85th “Custer” Division and :■ warded ’he Combat Infantryman Badge for actual participation in combat against the enemy with the Fifth Army in Italy. Tech.-Sgt. Donald G- 'Joyner, with the Eighth Air Force in Eng land. has been awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clus ters for meritorious achievement in accomplishing several aerial op erational missions over enemy oc cupied Europe. He has also re ceived the Purple Heart. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Joyner of Zebulon. Dexter C. Joyner, a Merchant Marine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed gar Joyner of Zebulon, arrived home last week from a trip to France. This made his third trip —See MEN IN SERVICE, Page 4 •51.50 Per Year, Payable In Advance Bus Station To MoveToHiway The bus station will be moved soon (from the Zebulon Drug Store to the Atlantic Service Station on the highway near the Baptist Church. It has been down town ever since the first buses stopped in Zebulon. The Drug Store has been and doubtless will continue to be a sort of get-together place for everybody. Among the rea sons for removal seems to have been the two extra block, of trav el over what is often a very bad piece of unpaved street. Mr. Gill, who operates the At lantic Service Station, is changing what was the wash and greasing room of the station and making it into waiting rooms for white and colored people. He is having it thoroughly renovated by plaster ing the inside, building a partition between the rooms, putting in front doors and a glass front. Rest rooms will also he provided, A fountain will be installed with sandwiches, drinks, and dinners. He will discontinue the sale of beers. ZEBULON ORDINANCES Miscellaneous Preventive Ordi nances Section 24: All automobiles must be park ed according to police rules and regulations, and no double park ing will he allowed on the main business streets of the town. If an automobile is left standing outside a parked car, the owner shall he subject to a fine of SI.OO for each offense. Section 25 —That no person shall park an automobile within 20 feet of any corner within the business district of the town: no | part of the automobile when parked shall be within 20 feet of the street corner under a penalty of SI.OO. UNC Meds Meet A meeting of the Graduate Medical Alumni of UNC, Chapel Hill, was held recently at the home of Dr. G. S. Barbee, re tiring ' president. Dr. Barbee is succeeded by Dr. A. E. Riggshee of Durham. Dr. E. B. Lloyd of Tarboro is the new vice-presi dent and Dr. R. P. Noble of Ral eigh continues as treasurer. Speakers at the meetine were Dr. Hubert Royster of Raleigh and Dr. C. E. Flowers of Zebu lon. Church News BAPTIST CHURCH 10:00 Sunday School 11:00 Morning Worship. Ser mon topic: “The Basis of Hope” 7:15 Training Union 8:00 Evening Worship. Sermon topic: “Kindness Pays” (Note change in hour of even ing services.) WAKEFIELD Y. W. A. MEETS The Nowell Y. W. A. held its regular monthly meeting with Mrs. Ray Gainey t n February 14. During the business session va rious committee. 1 gave their re ports. Mrs. Forres) Hendricks was in charge of the program. Two topics were discussed: “The Need of Workers in Out Baptist Field” and “A Look Into ihe Life of One I of Our Service Boys." The hostes served Jello. cakes and tea. There were ten members present, including one new mem ber. Mrs Kenneth Kennedy and lit tle son, Kenneth, Jr. of Burling ton and Mrs. James Coleman of Blacksburg, Va., are visiting their parents, the J. K. Barrows. Harold Bunn, who was badly hurt in a motor accident recent ly, has come home from Rex Hospital and is making good progress toward complete recov ery.
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