THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume 24, Number 25
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Kenneth Royall of Goldsboro
and Raleigh, newly appointed
Secretary of War, is pictured with
Mrs. Royall shortly after he took
the oath of office. Royall served
Second Deep Well Proves Greater
Producer Than First; Third Planned
Zebulon’s second deep well proved a big success Wednesday
afternoon as the 24-hour check came to a close. For one full day
the test pump drew from 80 to 110 gallons per minute from the
well without exhausting the supply. The water was pumped
Red Cross Announces
Third Water Course
For Local Swimmers
Registration for the Red Cross
water safety “instructors” course,
which will start at Hayes Barton
Pool Monday, August 4th, will be
held next Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday at Red Cross head
quarters in Raleigh, it has been
announced by Louis H. Gray,
chairman of the Wake County
Chapter’s water safety committee.
Those who successfully take the
instructors course will be eligible
to instruct and qualify students in
life saving, swimming and rescue
work, including land, water and
surf. The course will be given by
A1 Demsey, of Atlanta, water
safetj field representative of the
regional office of the Red Cross.
Individuals at least 19 years of
age, and who have taken the Red
Cross course of instruction in se
nior life saving during the past
three years are eligible for the
course. Registration hours,
Chairman Gray said, will be be
tween 9:30 and 3:30 in the after
noon.
This is a followup of the Water
Safety Course in Life Saving
taught by Jack Lowder at Lake
Mirl for the last three weeks.
Concrete Blocks for Homes, Baras
Better Since State Law Passage
Dave Privette, who is regarded
locally as “the expert” on concrete
work, says that blocks being sold
on the Zebulon market are vastly
improved since minimum stand
ards authorized by a new state
law went into effect the first of
last month.
Privette said that some masonry
blocks are now being made* with
a load-bearing strength of 1,400 to
1,500 pounds per square inch of
gross bearing area, which is dou
ble the State's minimum require
ment of 700 pounds per square
inch.
The pressure on the bottom
blocks of the average concrete or
as a colonel and brigadier general
during the war, and subsequently
became assistant secretary of war
under Judge Patterson, who re
signed his post earlier in July.
from the 200 foot level and the
surface of the water remained at
80 feet below the ground.
Located approximately 75 feet
north of the first successful well,
this hole is what Mayor Bridgers
termed “a jackpot.” Drilling
stopped at about 240 feet, and
down to that depth additional
water was found with every foot
the drill went down.
These two wells will furnish
Zebulon with all the water need
ed during normal times. Con
sumption for the town during the
summer months is about 55 to 60
gallons per minute, and the two
wells will pump in excess of 150
gallons per minute.
Third Well Planned
To positively insure a substan
tial reserve, a third well is to be
drilled. Work on this well prob
ably will begin next week, but
the site has not yet been definite
ly located.
The ditch for the water line
from the wells to the main on
Arendell Avenue was begun
Tuesday. It will go from the
main in front of Mrs. Annie Jones’
to the first well and from there
north to the second. Water will
be pumped directly from the wells
into the water lines.
Some delay is expected in pur
chasing pumps for the wells. A
representative from Dillon Supply
Company advised Mayor Bridgers
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cinder block tobacco bam is less
than 100 pounds per square inch
normally, but where mortar is not
distributed evenly the pressure
may be increased as much as 500
per cent.
Regulations designed to protect
the public from sales of inferior
cement and cinder blocks were
adopted by the State Board of Ag
riculture following legislative au
thorization by the 1947 General
Assembly.
The penalty for non-compliance
with the regulations may be a fine
ranging from SSO to SSOO or im
prisonment ranging from 30 days
to one year, or both.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, August 1, 1947
Tobacco Production Low in State
Local Per Acre Yield Also Down
State Yield Expected
To Be 1,150 Pounds
Per Acre Average
Production of flue-cured tobac
co in North Carolina this year
promises to be around 864,985,000
pounds, the Federal-State Crop
Reporting Service in the State
Department of Agriculture said in
releasing its first production fore
cast for the 1947 crop.
This represents a decline of
47,985,000 pounds, or five per
cent from the all-time record
crop of 1946 when 912,970,000
pounds of the flue-cured crop
were grown on North Carolina
farms.
This forecast is based upon con
ditions as of July 1 and is subject
to change each month until th<
crop is sold, depending, of course,
upon weather conditions and the
development of the crop. The
late, dry Spring caused delay in
getting the crop to the fields and
most fields show an uneven
growth but the crop has made
much progress in recent weeks,
the reprt stated.
The acreage of flue-cured to
bacco in cultivation this season is
estimated at 811,000 acres, or one
per cent above 1946. Although
quotas were slightly less this year
than in 1946, growers attempted
to plant closer to their allotments
than during the war years.
Growers are not expecting as
high a yield per acre as was har
vested last year, which accounts
for the decline in production
prospects. In 1946, the average
yield on all flue cured farms was
1,138 pounds per acre, but July 1
conditions this year point toward
an average per acre yield of only
1,067 pounds, or six per cent less
than in the previous year.
Belt Predictions
The acreage, yield and produc
tion by types for 1946 and the in
dicated acreage, yield and pro
duction for 1947 are here given
in that order:
Type II (Old and Middle Belts):
311,000; 1,120 and 348,320,000
pounds; 1947 indicated—3l7,ooo;
1,075 and 340,775,000 pounds.
Type 12 (Eastern Belt): 395,-
000, 1,150 and 454,250,000 pounds;
1947 indicated 399,000, 1.090
and 434,910,000 pounds.
Type 13 (Border Belt): 96,000,
1,150 and 110,400,000 pounds;
1947 indicated—9s,ooo, 940 and
89,300,000 pounds.
The burley crop in Western
North Carolina is estimated at
15,250,000 pounds, or 16 per cent
greater than last year. The acre
age was placed at 10,000 acres
an increase of two per cent. Con
ditions on July 1 indicate a yield
of 1,525 pounds per acre, or 50
pounds larger than 1946.
Tommy Temple Back
From Hospital Stay
Tommy Temple has returned
from Duke Hospital where he un
derwent an operation to restore
full use of his right arm, which
was injured when he fell through
a glass pane at Wakelon school
two years ago. His arm is in a cast
to prevent further damage to it
while it is healing. The cast must
be changed every two weeks until
the arm is completely well.
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Vic Huggins of Chapel Hill, dis
trict governor of Rotary Interna
tional, will speak to the local club
next month on his plans for the
189th District during 1947-48.
Huggins is a past president of the
Chapel Hill club.
Early Moser Speaks
To Zebulon Ihtary
Club on Principles
Early Moser spoke to the Zebu
lon Rotary Club last Friday night,
giving the charge to all new Ro
tarians and reviewing the prin
ciples of Rotary for all the old
Rotarians. The program was an
other in the series planned by
Program Chairman Sidney Ed
dins to acquaint the members
with the working of Rotary Clubs.
The entire organization is plan
ning to attend charter night of
the Middlesex Rotary Club,
which is just being organized.
The Zebulon group will present
the new Rotarians with a gavel
and bell in the charter night cere
monies.
The Rotary Annes will return
to the kitchen to serve the Rota
rians next week. They have been
on vacation for about six weeks,
during which time the club has
subsisted on sandwiches and cold
drinks.
Alton Temple, Bobby Gill Take
Cub Scout Soap Box Derby Here
By Armstrong Cannady
Saturday afternoon before sev
eral hundred spectators, the Cub
Scouts put on Zebulon’s first Soap
Box Derby. Weeks of hard work
were put into this race to make it
a success, and we all think that it
went over big for the first one.
The local merchants were a big
help in making Derby Day a suc
cess, as they supplied all of the
prizes and material used in the
race. Each of the following mer
chants gave either money or help
in a big way: Wakelon Food
Store, Temple Market, Carolina
Power & Light Co., .Firestone
Store, Theater, Theo. Davis Sons,
Zebulon Dry Cleaners, Zebulon
Supply Co., Massey Lumber Co.,
Massey Lumber Co., and Western
Auto Supply. We are indeed
grateful to these merchants who
showed such a splendid coopera-
Theo. Davis Sons, Telephone 2561
Local Tobacco Light
With Drop of 200
Pounds Per Acre
Tobacco farmers of Zebulon and
the surrounding area may expect
to receive slightly more per pound
for their crop this fall than farm
ers in other sections, but expect to
produce fewer pounds per acre
than the state average, reports
from local farmers indicated yes
terday.
The yield per acre is expected to
be 200 pounds under the 1,300
pounds reached last year by most
farmers of the section formed by
the junction of our four counties.
Local farmers predict a yield of
1100 pounds an acre this year, as
against an expected Eastern Belt
average of 1150 pounds.
Robert Ed Horton, Little River
Township AAA chairman, reports
that his tobacco has a fine color,
but his first three primings have
all “felt like paper."
“I averaged 1300 pounds per
acre on 25 acres last year,” he
said, “but I don’t think I’ll aver
age over 110 pounds this year. I
think my crop is about average
for this section this year.”
Paper thin tobacco is also re
ported by others, including C. S.
Chamblee, Waylon Finch, Cleve
land Hicks, Jesse Bunn, Millard
Duke, and Pettigrew Gay of Zeb
ulon, and Philip Whitley of Wen
dell.
Rev. A. D. Parrish says that
much of his crop is light, but men
tions a test plot on his Pilot farm
which is fairly heavy despite the
recent rains.
Soft Soil Holds Up
Extension of Sewer
With two lines already complet
ed, work on Zebulon’s third sewer
extension was proceeding slowly
this week along Arendell Avenue.
Considerable dificulty on the ex
cavation toward the school, said
Foreman O. D. Wyatt of the F. D.
Cline Construction Company, is
causing the unexpected delay.
A dragline is being used to dig
the third ditch in the soft soil.
tion in Community Service. '
The seventy-five yard course
started from a ramp in front of
The Peoples Bank & Trust Co.
and ran down the hill to the rail
road tracks. The streets were
roped off and the local Police De
partment, assisted by Cub Scouts,
directed traffic around the course.
The race was run in four heats.
Winning first place was Alton
Temple, crossing the finish line in
16 seconds. Second place was won
by Bobby Gill, who took 18 sec
onds. Third and fourth places,
respectively, were won by Mal
colm Martin with 20 seconds and
J. L. McGee, 26 seconds.
First prize was a brand new
Daisy air rifle and twelve passes
to the local theater. Second prize
was an air rifle and a free air
plane ride. Third and fourth
prizes were hunting knives and
cases.