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THE ZEBULON RECORD V olume 24. Number 22 3 xmk Wfl| /' 1 ;'. ' S; ■ f m • . #' '' # > •••*’ -Z; :^B Hilliard Greene looks up from his work on the Kluge automatic job press at the Theo. Davis Sons printing plant. This press will feed papers, envelopes, and cardboard automatically at speeds up to five times that of handfeeding. The press will handle stock from the size of visiting cards and cigarette papers up to the size of a page of this newspaper. Its top speed is 3,600 impressions per hour. Hilliard Greene, Local Apprentice, Chooses Shop Career Over College This is the fourth in a series of articles intended to acquaint you with the men and machines that produce your newspaper. That long, lanky boy you see draping his six-foot-four frame around the steering wheel of his blue Oldsmobile these days is Hilliard Greene, who used to play a lot of basketball and foot ball for Wakelon High School. He now has forsaken the athletic Principal Roy Lowry Resigns Local Place To Take County Post Roy F. Lowry, principal of Wakelon School for the past three years, resigned his position here on Monday to accept a place as superintendent of schools for Washington County. Lowry, who has been one of the most successful local princi pals, is now in Plymouth, where he and his family will move as soon as housing is available. His election was announced by Wash ington County officials on the same day that he resigned his po sition here. Local school board officials had no statement to make on the se lection of Lowry’s successor, al though all expressed regret that the Wakelon principal was leav ing. Wake County Superintendent Randolph Benton stated that he hoped to have information for the local board’s consideration in a few days. Lowry is a graduate of the Uni versity of North Carolina, where he was a member of the varsity track team. He later received his (Continued on Page 8) Local Soldier, Retiring After 20 Years, Plans Career at College First Zebulon man to retire un der the army’s 20-year retirement plan is Technical Sergeant W. C. Joyner of Zebulon, Route 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Joyner. Last week Sgt. Joyner began drawing a pension after 20 years and 23 days in uniform. Joyner, who admits 39 years of age but looks younger, is farming this summer, and expects to enter college this fall under the G. I. Bill of Rights. He is married, and expects his pension plus his S9O monthly allowance for training to see him through his college course. field for that of printing. Suc cessfully, too! Hilliard, who shares with Jack Potter the distinction of being the only persons on the Theo. Davis Sons * force born in Zebulon, is going on nineteen —he was born on September 11, 1928, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hilliard Greene, Sr. He has spent all his life in Zebulon, with the exception of one year, 1940-41, when his parents lived in Raleigh. According to Hilliard, he had just as soon spend the rest of his life here, too! The Greene boy is quite an ath lete, having been high scorer for the Wakelon Bulldogs basketball team for two years, 1946 and 1947. Following his graduation this spring, he was offered athletic scholarships at both the University of North Carolina and Presbyter ian College. He tentatively ac cepted the latter offer, but turned it down in favor of serving out his printing apprenticeship. He operates job presses, both automatic and handfed, paper cutter, Ludlow, and typecaster at present. But there is one unusual thing about his training: because he works in a modern printshop, he will attain his journeyman printer’s status without ever hand setting a line of type. To such oldtimers as Staley Denton, that is rank heresy! Sgt. Joyner enlisted in the army at Richmond, Virginia, in Febru ary, 1925, and almost immediately was shipped overseas to Hawaii, where he served 9 years with the 15th Coast Artillery, after which he served 7 years at Fort Bragg with the 15th Coast Artillery and 17th Field Artillery units. The balance of his time in serv ice, Sgt. Joyner said Tuesday, was spent as a member of the military police. He was discharged at Fort Meade, Md. At present he and his wife are staying at the home of his parents. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, July 11, 1947 Red Cross to Open Local Office; Tobacco Levy Voting Tomorrow Record Breaking Vote Asked to Aid Plan For Tobacco Associates Every flue-cured tobacco grow er in Wake County whether land lord, tenant, or share-cropper, is urged by County Agent John L. I Reitzel, to exercise his right of j franchise and express himself at i the polls Saturday, July 12. This! election will have long-time es- j feet upon the economy of every tobacco farmer of Wake County. The referendum, authorized by the last sessions of the legislature in both North and South Carolina, provides for flue-cured growers to express themselves in regard to an assessment of 10 cents per acre to be used in protecting and de veloping the export market for to bacco. The money would be ad ministered by a non-profit organi zation known as Tobacco Associ ates, Inc. Mr. Reitzel quoted from a state ment by E. Y. Floyd, secretary of Tobacco Associates, to the effect that: 1. Only tobacco farmers who are engaged in the production of the 1947 crop of flue-cured to bacco will be eligible to vote. 2. Regardless of the number of farms he may have, no grower has more than one vote. 3. The polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. Satur day, July 12. 4. It will require at least a two thirds favorable vote to put the program into effect. All eligible producers will cast their ballots in the community in which they live. The polling places will be the same as farmers had in the quota program unless the commit tee notifies otherwise. Mr. Reitzel said that for Wake County, the following polling places will be open: Little River A, Hopkins Cross Roads; Little River B, J. R. Fow ler’s Store; Little River C, Zebu lon Firehouse; Marks Creek A, Wendell Town Office; Marks Creek B, Robertson Bros., Knight dale; St. Matthews A, Cooper’s Service Station; Wake Forest A, Rogers Store, Rolesville; Wake Forest B, Wake Forest Town Hall Record Editor Made School Board Member Ferd Davis, editor of The Zebu lon Record, was sworn in yester day as a member of the Wakelon School Comimttee to fill the un expired term of R. H. Bridgers. Z. N. Culpepper administered the oath. Bridgers, whose term would have run for the next two school years or until April, 1949, resign ed his place on the committee fol lowing his election as mayor of Zebulon in April. Other members of the Wakelon board are Chair man Wallace Temple, H. C. Wade, C. S. Chamblee and Frank Gay. Davis is a 1940 graduate of Wake Forest College, and did graduate work there in 1941. Lat er he studied at the University of Miami. Before going overseas for air force combat duty, he headed an army navigation school at Co lumbia Army Air Base, Columbia, IS. C. W?0t : Vg| JI& m1.,.-, , Jgf WJ|I| KJ| ig| DR. L. M. MASSEY Local Dentist, Officer Os Farm Bureau, Asks Favorable Levy Ballots Dr. L. M. Massey, who helped to organize the Farm Bureau in Wake County, serves on the State Board of Directors and is also a member of the five-man Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, says that unless the export trade can be expanded the cut in acreage next year must be sufficient to cut the production down to the domestic consumption of the flue-cured tobacco. Dr. Massey appeared on Frank Jeter’s program over Radio Sta tion WPTF on last Friday, July 4th, to urge support in the refer endum Saturday of this week which is July 12th. From reports received all over the state, he says that the ma jority for the referendum will be more than 90 per cent. Work on Sewer Lines To Begin Next Week Work on the three sewer exten sions in Zebulon will begin the middle of next week, according to the F. D. Cline Construction Company, contractors for the work. Necessary tile and brick have been unloaded on the lot across from the town office. If bad weather does not hinder the work, it should be completed in less than two weeks, said a company representative yesterday. The deadline for the work as set in the contract is August 16. Mechanical Cotton Picker Not to Be Available Here for 1947 Season Zebulon will not receive a me chanical cotton picker before the 1948 picking season, Coy Pate, promoter of the plan to place the machine in this community, said Wednesday. Lack of special equipment in local gins to process the machine picked cotton was given by Pate as the reason for non-delivery of the unit this year. He and his brother, Thurman Pate, expect to continue their efforts to get a ma chine, he said. Local ginners estimated the cost Theo. Davis Sons, Telephone 2561 American Red Cross Has Plans for Worker Here Each Thursday Morning A Red Cross Worker trained and equipped in all branches of that organization’s far-flung ac tivities—will be in Zebulon each Tuesday morning, starting July 15, to serve residents of this area. Announcement of this new ser vice by the Red Cross was made this week by Mrs. Foster Finch, local member of the board of di rectors of the Wake County Chap ter of the American Red Cross. Miss Pauline Abernathy, staff member of the Red Cross chapter in Raleigh, has been assigned to the Zebulon service. Her office will be in the Woman’s Club, and her hours will be from 9:30 to 12 o’clock each Tuesday. Miss Abernathy will be avail able to give assistance in the preparation of and filing of all types of claims by ex-servicemen and women against and with the federal government, including the Veterans Administration. She also will give aid and advice, to those seeking it, in all other activities of the Red Cross. Mrs. Finch announced that a similar office and service will be opened by the Red Cross in Wen dell next Monday morning. The Wendell office, to be maintained in the City Hall of that town, will be open from 9:30 to 12 noon, each Monday. It also will be in charge of Miss Abernathy. Farmers Begin Tobacco Curing Here This Week Farmers in this section are cur ing tobacco now, according to scattered reports received in the Record office this week. Although most of the weed crop is not yet matured, some fields are ahead of t>me and ready for the barn. A. D. Parrish got the jump on other farmers and began barning Wednesday of this week. Mrs. Parrish is also ahead of gardeners, growing a canary colored dahlia over 10 inches in diameter in her flower garden. Cleveland Hicks also began barning tobacco Wednesday. B. R. Phillips celebrated his 62nd birthday on July 4 with a barbecue dinner attended by his 10 children, 22 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. of special equipment required to process cotton at about $30,000 per gin. The equipment is not im mediately available, and would not be in local gins until October 1, had the orders been placed for the equipment even earlier. Ap proximately 30 days is required for installation of the machinery after it is placed on the gin floor. Last year cotton picked by the Weil picker in Wayne County had to be shipped to Cleveland County for ginning; this year machine picked cotton w;ill be processed in gins there.
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