THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIV. No. 8
Commissioner of Agriculture Acts
W. Kerr Scott, Commissioner of Agriculture for the
State of North Carolina, has written to the International
Harvester Company in Charlotte, and requested that a me
chanical cotton picker be placed in this community by the
time the 1947 picking begins, according to Coy Pate, one of
the promoters of the picker project.
The commissioner’s letter declared that this commun
ity is made up for the great part of independent farmers
who are faced with the necessity of discontinuing the plant
ing of cotton unless a mechanical picker is sold the Pate
bn thers this year.
The writing of the letter is expected to influence mate
rially the decision of the manufacturers on whether to send
the picker here or to some single corporate farm.
County Health Officer Again
Asks Anti-Rabies Drive Aid
By A. C. BULLA, M. D.
From January 1 to July 14, 1945 we received reports from
the State Laboratory of Hygiene of the examination of 140 dogs’
heads for rabies. Os this number, 44 were reported positive for
rabies. It was apparent at that time that the number of dogs
running mad in Wake County was
Zebulon Scouts Elect
Patrol Leader, Make
Camping, Court Plans
With Bill Joe Bailey as Patrol
Leader, the Indian Patrol com
pleted organization Monday night
and made the third newly organ
ized group in Troop 40. Other
patrols which have organized are
the Flying Eagle and the Wolf.
Henry Kitchings was elected
assistant Patrol Leader of the In
dian Patrol. Other members are
Bobby Gill, John Phillips, Robert
Kitchings, Charles Wells, and Bob
by McGee.
The patrols made plans for the
weekly overnight camping trip
Saturday night, and will work as
units rather than as a troop.
Transportation for the trips has
been furnished by Theo. Davis
Sons, and will leave at 5:30 Sat
urday afternoon from the Record
office.
Monday night the troop will at
tend the monthly Occoneechee
Council Court of Honor in Ra
leigh, where the promotions and
awards earned by the Scouts dur
ing the past month will be given.
The departure time is 7:00 for this
trip.
Son of Former Zebulon Publisher
Killed In Jeep Wreck at Eglin Field
Pfc. Ronald Gyles Whitley, 18,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Baylus
Whitley of near Siler City, died in
the station hospital at Eglin Field,
Fla., at 11:10 o’clock Saturday
night following an accident Friday
afternoon.
A graduate of the Siler City
High School, Whitley entered the
service in June, 1946, and was in
the United States Army Air Corps.
He completed his basic training at
San Antonio, Tex., and was then
transferred to Eglin Field, Fla. A
native of Chatham County, he was
a member of the First Baptist
Church there.
Surviving in addition to his par
ents are three sisters, Mrs. R. P.
Townsend of Greensboro, Marga
on the increase.
On July 9, 1945, we had a re
port of a mad dog having entered
Raleigh from the Western Boule
vard, spending about three days in
Raleigh and finally was killed
about 12 miles from Raleigh on
Highway 15 A, towards Oxford.
Following this report, on July 16,
1945, I established quarantine of
dogs in Raleigh and several town
ships through which the dog was
reported to have been seen.
On March 29, June 8, and June
28, 1946, other areas of Wake
County were included in the quar
antine area because of official re
ports of dogs running mad which
were confirmed by laboratory re
ports, bringing approximately
two-thirds of Wake County under
quarantine against rabies.
Since the time has arrived for
the rabies inspectors, who are ap
pointed by the health officer, to
begin the antirabic vaccination
campaign throughout the county,
I am lifting quarantine, effective
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Methodist Church
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Easter Service 7:30 p.m.
Sermon Topic: “Immortality
is Reasonable.”
—C. E. Vale, Pastor.
ret Whitley of the nurses staff of
Watts Hospital, Durham, and Beth
Whitley of the home; two broth
ers, Orville Whitley of Wake For
est College, and Clyde Whitley of
the home; his grandmother, Mrs.
Minnie Goodwin of Siler City.
Young Ronald’s father, Baylus
Whitley, as many of the older res
idents of Zebulon knew him,
was reared here. He attended
school at Wakefield and Wakelon,
graduated from Wake Forest Col
lege, and settled down to the prac
tice of law in Zebulon. Later he
bought the old Zebulon News and
about two years later, in 1924,
moved the printing plant to Siler
City where he founded the Chat
ham News.
Zebulon, N. C.. Friday, April 4, 1947
Red Cross Alerted to Aid Army
In Reburial of Local Servicemen
The Wake County chapter of the Red Cross was alerted last week to assist next of kin of
service men and women buried overseas in the Quartermaster Corps' gigantic program to re
turn such bodies to America for burial where that is desired by the survivors.
The procedure set by the Quartermaster Corps involves:
1. Mailing of a letter to the next of kin of the deceased, making inquiry as to whether it is
desired that the fallen hero shall i — *
Colonel Hubert Bailey
Serving as Trial Judge
In Durant Jewel Case
Col. Hubert Bailey and Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Portner and two chil
dren, Jackie and Peggy of Arling
ton, Va., spent part of last week
in the home of Mrs. Portner’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Eger Massey.
Col. Bailey, brother of Mrs.
Massey, who is now stationed at
121 General Hispital in Germany,
came to the U. S. the first of Feb
ruary to act as judge on the Du
rant jewelry theft trial now being
heard in Washington, D. C.
Col. Bailey stated he thought
the trial would continue for two
or three more weeks and that af
terwards he would return to his
family in Germany.
Home Owners of Wake
To Spend Two Million
On Repairs This Year
Wake County’s non-farm home
owners will spend an estimated
$2,010,000 on repair and modern
ization work during 1947.
At least a third and probably
more than half of all dwellings in
the county will be improved or
repaired this year, according to es
timates released by the Tile Coun
cil of America. “Increased sup
plies of building materials and
easing of restrictions should make
possible a record volume of home
modernization throughout the
country,” said F. B. Ortman, chair
man of the Council’s Residential
Construction Committee.
The county’s 19,129 single
family homes will account for
most expenditures, the study re
vealed. Painting is the most often
wanted improvement, with about
a third of all owners planning to
redecorate homes, exteriors or
some room of the interior. At
least one out of every 16 dwellings
needs carpentry repairs, and large
numbers will have waterpipes re
paired, bathrooms tiled or show
ers installed during the year, ac
cording to the report.
As evidence of the increase in
building supplies, Ortman pointed
out that floor and wall tile volume
is expected to hit an all-time high
this year. “Stepped-up production
of materials means that the con
struction industry can build rec
ord numbers of houses and do the
repair work neglected during the
war,” he said.
Home repair expenditures in the
county are part of a $54,480,000
modernization program being un
dertaken in North Carolina this
year, according to the study.
Wakefield Church
Easter Sunday, April 6, 1947
10:00 A. M. Sunday School
6:30 P. M., B. Y. P. U.
7:30, Preaching service by our
pastor. All are invited to come.
remain in a permanent American
Military Cemetery overseas or be
returned to the United States for
burial in either a national or pri
vate cemetery, or shall be returned
to a foreign country—the birth
place or home land of the deceas
ed or the next of kin.
2. A formal application blank
setting up the wishes of the next
of kin will be enclosed with the
letter as will two folders listing
military and national cemeteries
and giving other pertinent data.
The Red Cross has been desig
nated to advise with and assist
next of kin in instructing the
Quartermaster Corps as to what
permanent disposition shall be
made of the body. Case workers
are being given special training
in preparation for giving this ser
vice.
The Red Cross has been advised
that the task of bringing back the
war dead will require from two
to three years and it will take 18
months to get in the mails all of
the letters of inquiry as these let
ters will be sent out only when
the time approaches to plan for
the removal of individual bodies.
The War and Navy Departments
urged that families refrain from
making any inquiries to those de
partments prior to receipt of their
letters of inquiry.
The Quartermaster Corps is also
returning to this country, when
desired by the next of kin, the
bodies of American civilian war
dead and the same procedure is
being followed.
Edwin C. Flythe, Home Serv
ice Chairman of the Wake County
chapter of Red Cross, said that
case workers are being specifical
ly briefed in procedure which will
be followed by the government in
this gigantic undertaking so that
they will be able to give maximum
service to those whose old wounds
will be reopened upon receipt of
the letter of inquiry.
Baptist Church
Sunday School, 10:00
Morning Service 11:00. Sermon
by Dr. Blanton.
B.T.U. 6:30.
No Vesper Service.
J. C. Richert, Jr., Made Manager
Os Power Company Service Units
J C. Richert, Jr., a former resi
dent of Zebulon while serving as
local manager for Carolina Power
and Light Company, has been
elevated to the position of mana
ger of divisions for CP&L’s entire
service territory.
Richert served in Zebulon
shortly after his graduation from
N. C. State College in 1924 with
a degree in electrical engineering.
After leaving Zebulon he was lo
cal manager for CP&L in Wades
boro, N. C., and Dillon, S. C., and
later was district manager in Mar
ion, S. C. In 1939 he returned to
Theo. Davis Sons, Telephone 2561
Rev. C. E. Vale Makes
Address to Zebulon
Rotarians Friday Night
Rev. C. E. Vale, pastor of the
Zebulon Methodist Church and a
former Rotarian, told the Rotary
| Club Friday night that although
he resigned from the club some
time ago, the spirit of Rotary had
never left him. He had as his
! subject, “What I Have Missed In
Rotary.”
Charlie, who was forced to re
sign from the club because of ill
health, said that it was impossible
Ito list all the things he missed.
I His talk, which was highly com
; plimentary to the club, was en
joyed by all the members.
Plans were made to attend the
District Rotary meeting in Dur
ham in May. Nearly twenty from
the Zebulon club will go.
Baker Making Training
Cruise to Porto Rico
Jarvis A. Baker, 19. seaman,
first class, USN, son of W. Hubert
Baker of Route 4, Zebulon, N. C.
| is serving abroad the light crui
ser USS Little Rock, which has
; completed a two-weeks Naval Re
j serve Training Cruise to Puerto
' Rico.
The Little Rock. on< of the Na
vy’s newest type cruisers, became
one of the most widely traveled
good-will messengers of the Unit
ed States after her commissioning
in 1945. She participated in num
erous tours to Europe, Africa, Cen
tral and South America.
Easter Sunrise Service
Planned Here Sunday
The joint annual Easter Sunrise
Service of the Zebulon Baptist
and Methodist Churches will be
held at the Zebulon Cemetery at
5:30 Sunday morning. Rev. C. E.
Vale and Dr. Sankey Blanton will
conduct the service. Members of
both these churches, along with
any others who care to attend, are
cordially invited.
Raleigh, where he served as as
sistant manager of the Company’s
Distribution & Service Depart
ment. He was transferred to Ashe
ville in 1944 to serve as general
operating superintendent for that
area, the position he held until the
present time.
Richert will assume his new du
ties on April 1, with offices in
Raleigh. His wife, the former
Dimock Massey, is a native o1
Wakefield. They have two chil
dren—Joe, 111, a student at David
son College, and a daughter, Joyce,
who is a junior in high school.