THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIV . Number 14
Wake County Fifth
In Tobacco Acreage
Pitt County, North Carolina, is the ranking tobacco-growing
county in the United States, according to figures from the 1945
Census of Agriculture issued by Director J. C. Capt, Bureau of
the Census, Department of Commerce. Wake County ranks fifth
Dawson Tells Rotary
Members Farm Manager
System Now Working
The possibility of employing
farm managers, to manage as
much as 2,000 acres of farm land,
was discussed by Robert Dawson
at the meeting of the Zebulon Rot
ary Club last Friday night. Farm
managers are growing in num
ber and importance in the western
states, Robert reported.
The managers meet the need of
large insurance companies and
other land holders by applying
good business methods to farms
which otherwise would be poorly
supervised. Some look after a
number of farms, where one is
not large enough to be able to
pay for supervision alone.
Discussion developed as to the
practicability of farm managers in
this section. Farmers in this area,
the club decided, are much too
independent to work under a
manager, even tho it might mean
more profits at the end of the
year.
There is a need, however, for the
amateur farmer, who does not
live on his own land, to have
someone look after his interests.
Barrie Davis stated that some
day it is his ambition to own a
farm, and Vaiden Whitley re
marked: ‘'“That will be a farm
w'hich wall need a manager!”
Tonight Vance Brown will be in
charge of the program.
Jeffrey Carter Wins
EMI Drilling Award
In Squad Competition
9 s
Jeffrey Carter, son of Mrs. J. E.
Carter, was aw’arded a bronze cup
for having the best drilled platoon
at Edwards Military Institute last
Sunday at ceremonies held in Sa
lemburg. Mrs. Carter and Mr.
and Mrs. Howard McDevitt and
son, Steven, were present at the
parade.
The drills were colorful and
were witnessed by the cadet of
ficers’ sponsors. Cadet Carter’s
sponsor was Miss Billie Jean Ham
mock of Pineland College and
Greensboro.
Last Rites Held Tuesday for Father
And Son Killed in Truck Accident
Funeral services for Leon Fow
ler, 40, of Zebulon, Route 4, and
his son, William, 18 year old stu
dent at Wakelon High School,
were conducted at three o’clock
Tuesday afternoon from Hopkins
Chapel Baptist Church by the Rev.
Charles Howard of Buie’s Creek
and the Rev. A. D. Parrish of Zeb
ulon. Interment was in the fami
ly cemetery on the Hopkins Chap
el-Rolesville road.
Fowler, delivery truck driver
for the Bell Bakeries of Raleigh,
and his son died instantly around
9:30 am. Saturday when their
truck collided with a Southern
Railway freight at a crossing in
Morrisville.
in the nation.
A total of 37,630 acres of tobac
co was reported in Pitt County in
1944. That county also led the
nation in 1939 with 43,365 acres in
tobacco.
The second highest county is
Johnston County, North Carolina,
with 32,079 acres in tobacco in
1944, as compared with 41,584
acres in 1939 when it also ranked
second.
Os the ten leading tobacco
growing counties in the country,
seven are in North Carolina, with
one each in Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, and Virginia. In 1944,
the ten leading counties reported
281,681 acres in tobacco, about 17
per cent of the Nation’s 1,630,221
acres in this crop.
The remaining eight counties in
the first ten, together with their
1944 tobacco averages, follow:
Robeson County, North Carolina,
31,778 acres; Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, 29,847 acres; Wake
County, North Carolina, 27,334
acres; Horry County, South Car
olina, 26,432 acres; Wilson Coun
ty, North Carolina, 25,571 acres;
Nash County, North Carolina, 25,-
037 acres; Pittsylvania County,
Virginia, 24,111 acres, and Colum
bus County, North Carolina, 21,862
acres.
Bridgers, Commissioners
Sworn In Here Monday
Zebulon’s new mayor and Board
of Commissioners took the oath of
office Monday night at 8:00 in the
town office and began their two
year term. Clerk of the Record
er’s Court Eugene Privette admin
istered the oath.
Sworn in first was R. H. Brid
gers as mayor, succeeding Avon
Privett. Bridgers previously serv
ed as mayor from 1933 to 1937.
The Board of Commissioners,
composed of two old board mem
bers and three new members, was
sworn in together. Taking the
oath were Howard Beck. Norman
Screws, Barrie Davis, R. Vance
Brown and Bob Sawyer.
No business was conducted Mon
day night, but a full evening is
expected at the regular meeting
the first Monday night in June.
Present at the ceremony were
Town Clerk W. B. Hopkins, Ray
Gainey, and M. G. Crowder.
Fowler had been employed by
the Bell Company for the past few
months, and previously worked
six years for the Royal Baking
Company in Raleigh. His son, a
junior at Wakelon High School,
was assisting him in his Saturday
morning deliveries when the
tragedy occurred.
Pallbearers for the elder Fowler
were Hubert Baker, Ivan Hopkins,
Billy Hopkins, Leonard Gay, Paul
V. Horton and John Brannon.
Pallbearers for William Fowler
were Rex Tippett, S. G. Flowers
Jr., gobbie V. Brown, Kenneth
Hopkins, Baxter Hopkins and Ed
sel Martin.
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Zebulon, N. 0., Friday, May 16, 1917
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Pictured are the Wakelon Bulldogs, this year’s edition of the school baseball team. First row,
left to right: Bobby Phillips, Fred Bunn, Bobby Bridgers, Bill Brantley, Harold Denton; sec
ond row: George Massey, manager, Dan Privette, Charlie Wayne Pace, Bobby Duke, Ed
ward Finch, Bobby Kitchings; third row: C. W. Collier, coach. Cooper Moss, Fred Mangum,
Johnny Gay, J. C. Liles, R. P. Pearce, Roy F. Lowry, coach.
Gov. Broughton, C. E. Yale to Be
Speakers at Wakelon Exercises
J. Melville Broughton, former governor of North Carolina, will deliver the commencement ad
dress at the Wakelon School graduation exercises Wednesday night, May 21. The program be
gins at 8 p.m. Closing exercises for the school get under way Sunday night, May 18, when the
Reverend C. E. Vale, pastor of the Zebulon and Wendell Methodist churches delivers the
Directors of Zebulon
Chamber of Commerce
Writing Constitution
Bob Sawyer, chairman of the
Zebulon Chamber of Commerce,
j met with Barrie Davis, secretary,
; and the Board of Executives Tues
j day night to study and discuss the
Constitutions of similar groups al
ready organized. The meeting
was held in the Peoples Bank and
Trust Company.
Present for the discussion with
Sawyer and Davis were Dr. Chas.
Flowers, Howard Beck, Avon Priv
ett, R. H. Bridgers, R. Vance
Browm, and Roy Lowry.
The group decided that for the
Town of Zebulon, it will be best to
follow the constitution of the Ra
leigh Chamber of Commerce in
drawing one for this town. Later,
l if the members desire, functions
not incorporated in this constitu
tion may be added.
From a study of a constitution
prepared by the North Carolina
Merchants Association and of the
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, it
was found that the local organi
zation can draw on a larger group
for its membership as a Chamber
of Commerce.
Barrie Davis was named chair
man of a four-man committee for
drawing up a constitution and by
laws for Zebulon, and he named
Roy Lowry and Dr. Flowers to
prepare the Constitution, and will
work with Vance Brown in pre
paring the by-laws. The four will
meet together Saturday night to
consolidate their work and will
submit the completed constitu
tion and by-laws to the Board of
Executives next week for its ap
proval.
Commencement sermon. Rever
end T. B. Davis will pronounce
the invocation and the Scripture
will be read by Rev. J. H. Mc-
Crimmon. Rev. R. H. Herring will
pronounce the benediction.
On Monday night. May 19, at
8:15, Miss Cornelia Pearle Cobb
will present her piano pupils in
their spring recital.
Class night exercises will be
presented Tuesday, May 20, at 8
p.m. Judy Robertson will deliver
the valedictory address and Nan
cy Whitley will make the saluta
tory address. Penina Bunn will
read the class history and Dwight
Bunn the last will and testament.
The class oration will be present
ed by Carolyn Massey and the
class prophecy by Fred Bunn.
Jeannette Horton and Cyrus Ben
nett will present the class gifts
and Bobby Ferrell the key.
Athletic letters, perfect attend
ance certificates, and other awards
will be presented at 9 a.m. Thurs
day. May 22.
Wake County AAA Leader Advises
Farmers Not To Overplant Tobacco
Russell Powell, Chairman, Wake ] i
County Agricultural Conservation (
Association Committee, today cau- '
tinned all tobacco growers in Wake
County against overplanting their
farm acreage allotments this year.
“Growers who harvest any ac
reage of tobacco in 1947 in ex
cess of their farm acreage allot
ments are subject to marketing
quota penalties and will not be eli
gible for full participation in Gov
ernment price support loans,” Mr.
Powell stated.
Growers who plant within their
; farm acreage allotments car mar- ,
! ket all their tobacco without pen- !
Theo. Davis Sons, Telephone 2561
17 Zebulon Families
Aided by Red Cross
During Month of April
The dreaded words, “prisoner
of war’’ were heard again in the
office of the Wake County Red
Cross Chapter a few days ago, for
the first time in several months,
the April report of the chapter
shows. Red Cross workers had
thought all prisoners of war had
been released, that is, an£ prison
ers whose welfare they would be
called upon to aid.
A Raleigh resident called at the
Red Cross office to ask assistance
in sending a food package to her
brother—a soldier of Germany—
who is still confined in a French
prisoner of war camp. She re
ceived the assistance requested.
Among those securing Red Cross
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alties and are eligible for full
Government price support loans,
Mr. Powell added.
In connection with price support
loans, Mr. Powell emphasized that
any acreage harvested in excess
of the farm acreage allotment will
make all the tobacco produced
within the allotted acreage on the
farm ineligible for any price sup
port loans. “This year there will
be no acreage tolerance in estab
lishing loan eligibility, as contrast
ed with the 1948 tolerance of the
lesser of three-tenths acre or 5
i percent of the allotment. Any ac
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