This, That & 'j
The Other
By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis I
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Sitting in church last Sunday
evening watching and listening as
the Vacation Bible School com
mencement was presented, I won
dered if any in our community are
guilty of the attitude toward such
schools described in a letter I had
recently. The writer said a mem- '
ber of the family was teaching in
the vacation school of their
church. She added that a good
many people around there seemed
to feel they had “cooperated” fully
when they allowed their children
to be carried to and from the!
church, to be taught or entertain
ed and “refreshed” daily—all at
no cost to themselves.
I am positive such persons have
never worked in the schools; nor
do they realize the benefits chil
dren derive from the training giv
en. It is also probable that they j
do not know that a word of ap
preciation would be one fitly spok- j
en and like apples of gold in pic- I
tures of silver. And I'd like to go!
on record with an expression of
sincere thanks to all who had part j
in the schools held in our town. 1 1
had no child or grandchild at
tending; but my neighbors did.
There’s a laundry strike on in
Charlotte and hundreds of house
wives are having to do the family
washing. One merchant stated
that he had sold more than 20,000
clothespins since the strike began
and could have sold many more, if
he’d had them.
Some of the women interviewed
with regard to the washing said
they mean to keep right on doing
it; that it is not so bad as they
had imagined. Some said they
had always done part and didn’t
notice very much difference; all
wanted washing machines, if they
didn’t have them.
For months or years it has been i
hard to find and keep a good laun- I
dress in Zebulon. Not that I blame
any woman for not wanting to
handle the soiled clothing of my
family; but somebody has to do
it. A nuumber of our sheets have
worn so thin I’m afraid of the
commercial laundries; one bias,
twisting wring and they’d have to
go into the ragbag. But, carefully
handled, they can be used for a
good while yet. And I am learn
ing new or different ways in
washing both sheets and garments.
Up in Virginia my sister Annie
will smile as she reads this; for
she unhesitatingly declares I used
to be one of the sorriest washers
she ever saw try to wring a wet
piece.
It took me more than forty
years to learn that it is rubbing
IN soapsuds, not above them on a
board, that gets clothes clean.
Since acquiring that knowledge I
seldom rub the skin off many
knuckles.
Taking pieces soiled with sweat
through a preliminary rinse of
warm water will keep them’ from
“killing” the suds in the main tub.
It is the salt in perspiration that
makes such garments harder to
clean.
Using warm water for all wash
ing and rinsing is a big help. With
hard water it is almost a necessi
ty, even in the last rinse. Any
particles of soap left in the cloth
ing will curdle and make ugly
specks in cold water. You can use
bluing, too, if the water is warm.
If you have soft water for your
washing, be thankful. If not,
catch rain water whenever pos
sible.
If you do thorough rinsing, the
wringing does not matter much.
In fact, the more water left in a
piece when put on the line, the
fewer wrinkles it will have when
dry; and, in consequence, the
easier it will be to iron.
Be sure to use a brush for
scrubbing really dirty clothes like
overalls or men's work pants in
stead of depending on your mus
cles and the washboard.
All these things I learned the
hard way without benefit of any
kind of washing machine.
Now, there’s no denying that
washing and ironing are work and
often hard work. But to be
dressed up from top to toe in
clean, fresh clothing, and to know
that you have the ability to put it
in that condition gives a boost to
self respect that places you on a
higher plane than those who
must depend on others for clean
liness.
THE ZEBULON RECORD
V olume 21. No. 45
In Service
Sgt. William Eatman, son of 1
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Eatman, of
Zebulon, has been discharged from
the U. S. armed forces, and arriv
ed in Zebulon last Saturday. He
was for 5 years in the service of
his country.
Sgt. Joseph Allen Perry, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Perry of Ra
leigh, is home on 60-days furlough j
after 30 months in the South Pa
cific theater of war. Sgt. Perry j
formerly lived in Zebulon and I
Wakefield.
Lt. Willard O. Davis, the son of
Mrs. Etta B. Davis, Route No. 1,
has been awarded his Second and
Third Oak Leaf Clusters to the!
Air Medal for meritorious achieve-
I ment while participating in aerial
flights against the enemy.
Davis pilots an unarmed P-38
Lightning aircraft, with the 34th
Photographic Reconnaissance Sqd.,
now stationed in Hagenau, France.
Arriving in the ETO 26 October
1944 and joining this outfit 12 De
cember 1944, he successfully com
pleted thirty-two (32) combat
J missions before the termination of
the war with Germany.
Entering the service on 25 Janu
ary 1943, Davis was appointed
Flight Officer at La Junta Field,
Colorado, the 27th of June, 1944,
and received his commission as
2nd Lt. overseas. In addition to
the Air Medal and three clusters,
Lt. Davis also has the ETO Ribbon
with one battle star, plus the Pres
idential Citation with one Oak
Leaf Cluster, the Squadron being
cited twice by the President dur
ing their stay in the ETO.
Army Ground and Service
Forces Redistribution Station,
Camp Butner, N. C.—Pfc. Jessie
C. Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.
C. Harris, Zebulon, is currently
stationed at the Redistribution
Station, where he will spend two
weeks before reporting to his new
assignment in the United States.
Pfc. Harris was returned recent
ly to the United States after hav
ing served 35 months in the Pa
cific theater of operations, where
he served as a coast artilleryman
and infantryman. He also holds
the Combat Infantry Badge,
Bronze Star, Cood Conduct rib
bon, American Defense ribbon and
the Asiatic-Pacific theatre ribbon
with three campaign stars.
Returning veterans are given
every opportunity to rest, relax,
and regain their bearings while
being processed. The three days
of processing include a complete
physical examination, tests and
interviews to determine their
proper assignment. discussion
groups at which each soldier is
j given information on the GI Bill
of Right*, the progress of the war,
post war problems as well as an
opportunity to air any personal
or impersonal gripes.
The remainder of the veterans’
time may be spent in visiting sur
rounding communities, playing
! golf, bowling, bicycling, or just
sitting in the Post Exchange, or
the Snack Shack where coffee and
doughnuts are free, talking to vet
erans from other theaters.
Red Cross Sewing
The Red Cross sewing room is
still open each Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Wallace Temple, chairman,
announces that any who prefer
sewing on a day other than Thurs
day may see her and arrangements
will be made for individuals or
groups.
Zebulon. N. C., Friday, July 6, 1945
ThatAirmarker
Photograph
Due to the elements of weather
we were unable to get a picture of
the AIRMARKER this week, but
arrangements have been made to
get the picture and the cut in
time for next week’s paper.
New donors to the cause this
week are: Wakelon Theatre, Gill
Garage, Eugene Privette, J. K
Barrow, Sr., and Carolina Power
and Light Co. (second gift).
The complete list will be given
next week, although we are still
short about SIO.OO.
Major Bob Horton
Addresses Rotary
onPeru,AndS.A.
The Zebulon Rotary Club has a
record for over five years of 100
per cent attendance meetings,
which is the highest in the state.
Last Friday evening President
Durward Chamblee had the pro-,
gram and had for his speaker Ma
jor Bobby Horton. Major Horton
has been stationed in Peru with
other United States officers. He
gave an interesting account of that
i country. Transportation facilities
there are bad because of the high
mountains. It is a land rich in min-!
erals. The Llama is used there still
to solve transportation as their
I beast of burden can travel over
j mountain paths at a reasonable
! expense as one man can manage a
good many. They have some nice
cities.
Horton attended Rotary Clubs
there and told how and what they
serve on the table. Bobby was
asked many questions, as each
member had a question he wanted
answered regarding the people in
that far-off country. He gave an
! interesting talk which was enjoyed
j by all.
The Zebulon Rotary Club has
and is still working hard to get
! the Frozen Food Lockers here, and
have something to show for their
efforts.
OPA Acts To Keep
Canned Milk On
Hand For Babies
Raleigh. —To assure adequate
! supplies of canned milk for in
fants, invalids and other consum
ers to whom it is an essential
food, the Office of Price Admini
stration has taken action to cut off
further supplies from certain es
tablishments that have been using
canned milg in large quantities,
Theodore S. Johnson, Raleigh Dis
trict OPA Director, said today.
The action provides that institu
tional and industrial users, in
cluding restaurants, prisons and
manuufacturers who use canned
milk to make other products, will
not be permitted to use their red
points for canned milk except in
areas where fluid milk or other
adequate substitutes are not avail
able. However, in hardship cases
application may be made to OPA
and permission to use red points
to buy canned milk may be given
if need is shown, Johnson said.
During the first quarter of 1945
j the nation-wide use of canned
! milk by civilians exceeded the al
located supply by 2,483.000 cases,
it was explained. This has result
ed in short supplies in some areas.
The action just taken is expected
Ito improve distribution in these
\ areas and provide adequate sup
; plies to consumers to whom can
! ned milk is a diet essential.
TO CAMP EDGERTON
Fred Mangum Jr., Collins Pip
pin, Cloid Wade Jr., Jack Terry
and Bobby Bridgers are spending
two weeks at Camp Edgerton near
Raleigh going up Monday.
25,000 American
Girls In Uniform
Travel Abroad
Washington. "Join the armed
forces and see the world” used to
be a familiar recruiting slogan in
pre-war days.
Thousands of women have join
ed the armed forces in this war
and are seeing parts of the world
they never dreamed of visiting.
In spite of hardships and dangers,
this opportunity for sight-seeing
in remote places has given the
thrill of a lifetime to thousands of
WACS, Army Nurses, Red Cross
workers (and more recently
WAVES and SPARS at least as
far as Hawaii.)
A large proportion of them have;
made all or part of their journeys
by air transDort.
Today there are now nearly |
25,000 American women abroad in j
uniform. This is nowhere near the j
figure of 63,352 in the peak for-
I eign travel year of 1938, but it is y
a big jump from 1940 when there!
were 9592 overseas, including
wives of diplomats. More women
are now in Africa, Australia and
India than in peacetime.
Officers in the armed forces re
| port that the opportunities for see
-1 ing things while off duty have
made confirmed travelers of the
women in uniform.
CHURCH NEWS
METHODIST REVIVAL
Revival services at Zebulon
Methodist Church beginning Mon
i day night, July 9, and running
through July 13. Services at 8:30
p.m. The preacher will be Rev.
R. G. T. Edwards, pastor of Meth
odist churches on the Tar River
circuit. Mr. Edwards is a very
fine speaker and everyone is in
vited to attend the services and
hear him.
CLASS MEETING
Mesdames W. A. Allman and
Wiley Broughton were hostesses to
the Davis Fidelis class Monday
night at the Woman’s Club.
There was no set program, the
president, Mrs. G. R. Massey, con
ducting a business session after
which a social hour with refresh
ments was enjoyed. Seventeen
members were present.
BAPTIST CHURCH
Services for Sunday, July 8:
10:00 Sunday School
11:00 Morning Worship. Com
munion Service: Theme, “Christ
Prays”.
7:15 Training Union.
8:00 Evening Worship. Sermon:
“Spiritual Growth”
After this service moving pic
tures of last five Vacation Bible
Schools will be shown.
CLASS MEETINGS
The Y. W. W. class held the
monthly meeting in the home of
Rochelle Long with Doris Long
and Lillian Lewis hostesses. Janie
Hinton led the devotional, after
which business was discussed. We
welcome as new members Lydia"
Brown, Iris Howard, Rachel Pri
vette, Helen Barham, Velma Chad
| wick.
During the social hour contests
and bingo were enjoyed, prizes
being awarded winners. The
hostesses served a salad course
with wafers, nuts, cookies and ic
ed drinks.
Tobacco Curing
Earning of tobacco begins this
week in Johnston County, which
is earlier than the usual season.
But a year with so much unusual
weather may show us stranger
things than curing leaves the first
week in July.
The warehouse season opens in
August.
$1.50 Per Year, In Advance
FishPondsCreating
NewFishingLegion
(By Bill Sharpe)
Farmers of the South, wonder
ing why they never thought of it
before are planting and harvesting
fish at a pace which is restricted
only by time available to construct
farm fish ponds.
In North Carolina, the Soil Con
servation Service ha developed
plans for ponds on 569 farms, of
which 298 already have been
built. This is probably • only a
fraction of the ponds actually
built or under construction. Many
farmers have gone ahead on their
own, and in Wake County alone
there are said to be 60 good farm
ponds. Among owners of such
ponds are Joe Tippett and W. L.
Simpson. The sudden enthusiasm
for farm fish ponds is partly due
to thediseovery that not only is a
pond relatively easy to construct,
but that even a small one will
yield from 200 to 500 pounds of
panfish a year—not to mention the
fun of year-round fishing.
Stocked from state and federal
hatcheries, and fertilized accord
ing to formulas recommended by
the SCS, a pond of an acre or
slightly less can be made the
source of a food not readily avail
able to inland farmers fresh
fish. The ideal pond for the aver
| age farm is about an acre in ex
tent, and does not need much if
any stream flow. One farm near
Apex of 7-10ths of an acre is kept
full by drainage from a watershed
of only four acres—and provides
fine fishing for the farmer's fam
ily. This particular pond cost $240
; to construct, and in the first year
the owner estimated he got his
money back when the pond sup
plied water for spraying his or
chard and watering 5,000 chickens
during a drought. Costs of farm
ponds range from SIOO up—de
pending upon size of the dam and
location.
The farm ponds are creating
millions of new fishing enthusi
i asts. Farmers and their families
' who never before had the oppor
| tunity of enjoying this sport can
now fish whenever they like.
Jet Plane Opens
Post-War Flying
Washington. Disclosure that
the United States Army has
achieved supremacy in the field of
jet-propelled aircraft has caused
widespread speculation as to the
effect of this revolutionary power
plant on the future of air trans
port.
Details thus far released indi
cate that not only does the jet
propelled craft hit speeds well ov
er 600 miles an hour, but that its
range has been increased to equal
that of the conventional fighter
plane. The early limited range
was a principal factor which caus
ed doubts as to the jet plane’s
possibilities for civilian airlines.
However, the British government
has ordered a jet-propelled com
mercial airliner.
f The secrecy enveloping the lat
est models gave rise to mystery as
to just how this new f engine works.
The popular idea that exploding
gases from the jet somehow press
against the outside air and drive
the plane forward is a major mis
conception, accordng to Hall Hib
bard, vice-president of Lockheed
Aircraft, who are making the
craft, the P-80 “Shooting Star”.
Actually, the forward motion re
sults from the direct pressure of
the explosion on the forward part
of the explosion chamber. The
rearward exhaust merely reduces
the pressure in the rearward part
of the chamber, leaving the great
l er pressure on the forward part to
' force the plane ahead.
Advantages listed for the jet en
gine are that it is far lighter than
the old type, since there is no pro
peller, radiator, cooling system,
carburetor and other complex con
trols. It needs no warming up be
fore flight and can be replaced
completely in 15 minutes because
of its simplicity. Pilots report it
flies without vibration.