THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume 24, .Number 26.
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President C. V. Whitley and Manager Norman Screws of Whitley
Farnjture Company attended last month’s Southern Furniture Ex
position at High Point, where they secured new goods for fall and
winter delivery. Pictured at the exposition are, left to right, Mr.
Whitley, his wife, Mrs. Screws, and Mr. Screws.
New Principal of Wakelon School
Assumes Duties Here This Week
Fred Smith, newly elected principal of Wakelon School, has
accepted a contract from the local school board, and has already
gone to work, Wallace Temple, school board chairman said yes
terday.
Smith, a graduate of Elon College, is currently attending
Dog Owners Are Warned
Against Releasing Pets
Under Quarantine
Dog owners were warned again
this week to keep their pets con
fined under penalty if having the
dogs killed, as the Health Depart
ment fight against rabies continu
ed. Five rabid dogs have already
been reported and for the first
time one rabid cow.
A report that a diseased dog
was killed on Zebulon, Route 3,
came from the health department
this week. Near Wake Forest a
hunting dog owned by Jim Weav
er became mad, ran through Weav
er’s herd of cattle, and one of the
cows has been found to have ra
bies.
County Health authorities say
that there is no danger of anyone
contracting the disease from dis
eased cows if the milk from the
cow is pasteurized before drink
ing.
The development of rabies dur
ing the time that dogs are suppos
ed to be quarantined reveals the
number of people who either re
fused or never bothered to have
their dogs vaccinated when they
had opportunity.
Ned D. Medlin Given
Army Promotion
Tech. 4th Grade Ned D. Medlin,
son of Mrs. Ludie Medlin, who
resides at Route 2, Zebulon, was
promoted to Tech. 3rd Grade 26
July, 1947. T-3 Medlin is assign
ed to Co. M, 2nd Inf. Regt. sth
D’vision at Fort Jackson, S. C.
The Mayor, Ray, and Willie Young
Engage in a Little Building Work
A good foundation for the pump
houses on the first two deep wills
for Zebulon was assured Wednes
day afternoon when Mayor R. H.
Bridgers and Policeman Ray Gain
ey fell heirs to the work after their
negro helpers deserted the job.
With shovels and hoes they work
ed the mixture'of gravel, sand, and
cement, pausing only occasionally
to rub aching muscles.
During the afternoon Willie
Young and Paul Foster appeared
on the scene and were put right
Wake Forest College, where he is
working on his master of arts de
gree. He and Mrs. Smith will move
to Zebulon, where they will take
temporary quarters in the teacher
age, as soon as summer school
ends.
The new Wakelon principal
served last year as principal of
Rose Hill School in Duplin Coun
ty, to which position he was re
elected. He had accepted the post
for another year before being no
tified of the vacancy at Wakelon,
and had to be released by the
Duplin County Superintendent of
Schools before accepting the local
offer.
An instructor in the ASTRP sys
tem at State College during the
war, Smith has served as coach at
several schools in addition to hold
ing principalships. At Elon Col
lege he was a three-letter man
under Coach D. C. “Peahead”
Walker, now at Wake Forest Col
lege.
Election Held July 28
His election took place Monday
night, July 28, after the local
school board conferred with him
and Randolph Benton, superin
tendent of schools for Wake Coun
ty. No announcement of his elec
tion was made at the time, since
it was not known whether Duplin
County school officials would per
mit him to come to Zebulon.
At the same meeting Ferd Da
vis was nominated by C. S. Cham
blee to succeed Mr. Chamblee as
secretary of the school board. Af
ter Davis’ election, the board went
on record as favoring more local
publicity for its activities, also on
motion by Mr. Chamblee. He is
the senior member of the local
board, having served on the school
committee when other members
were still attending Wakelon.
to work. As Willie said, “I’ve been
working for Zebulon for years and
years, but I ain’t never worked as
hard as we did this afternoon.”
Everybody worked so hard, no
body had time to supervise.
Ray Gainey carried water by the
bucketful all day from the small
branch that flows between the
wells. Yesterday a* he limped into
the town office, he reported that it
is his belief that it took more wat
er to wet that cement than any he
has ever seen.
Zebiilon, N. C., Friday, August 8,1947
Five County Fair Premium List
Ready for Distribution Today
The 1947 Premium List of the Five County Fair, to be held here from September 22 to Sep
tember 27, has been completed, and copies are being distributed this week from the Peoples Bank
in Zebulon and the Zebulon Record office.
Cash awards for farm products have been increased, although the number of individual
Town Board Reelects
House as Solicitor;
Dawson Named Clerk
A. R. House, Zebulon attorney,
was re-elected solicitor for the
Zebulon recorder’s court at the
August meeting of the Board of
Commissioners held in the town
office Monday night. The meeting
was attended by Mayor R. H.
Bridgers, who presided, Commis
sioners R. Vance Brown, Howard
Beck, Norman Screws, Barrie Da
vis, and Town Clerk W. B. Hop
kins.
The board appointed A. C. Daw
son as clerk of the recorder’s court
to succeed Eugene Privette. Priv
ette had previously expressed his
desire that someone else have the
position because he is pressed for
time in his business.
The board rounded out raises for
all the employees of the town by
increasing Willie Young’s weekly
pay from $24.00 to $27.00, and
Paul Foster from $22.00 to $24.00.
The Junior Woman’s Club offer
ed to prepare the ladies’ rest room
at the Woman’s Club building for
use by women visitors in Zebulon
on Saturdays if the town of Zebu
lon would provide supplies. May
or Bridgers commended the ladies
on their offer and the board voted
to aid with the project.
Additional Land Sold
In a move following up the ear
lier action of the board giving Dr.
L. M. Massey an additional six
months in which to erect a build
ing on the lot on Arendell Ave
nue he purchased from the town,
the commissioners voted to offer
Dr. Massey an additional five feet
from the adjoining lot. If Massey
buys this additional footage, he
will have 55 feet facing Arendell
Avenue. At a special meeting held
two weeks ago Dr. Massey re
quested the additional five feet so
that he could build two store
buildings, each 25 feet wide.
The board approved the Septem
ber first interest payment of
$1680.62 on the town debt, and
also voted to have the town carry
workmen’s compensation on em
ployees of the town.
Leam-to-Swim Class
Completes Training
The Red Cross Swimming
Course, sponsored by the Wake
County Red Cross, came to a close
last Friday night when final ex
aminations were given by Jack
Lowder, water safety instructor.
The classes were all conducted at
Lake Mirl, scene of the recent
Life Saving Course.
Taking the course were Luther
Long, Jr., Billy Bunn, Jo Ellen
Gill, Norma Faye Gill, Linda
Bridgers, Cloid Wade, Vaughan
Wade, Faye Privette, Allene Bak
er, Mrs. Eugene Jones, Mrs. Gar
land Richardson, Peggy Richards,
Jean Richards, Cordel Page, Mrs.
H. V. Andrews, Jr., Sylvia Thorn
ton, Jo Anne Thornton, June
Jones, Mary Alice Jones, Larry
Page and Ruth Strickland.
awards has been cut. The cash
award for the best display of to
bacco, for example, has been in
creased from SI.OO to $5.00, as
have been first place prizes for
cotton, corn and other farm prod
ucts.
“We have increased the value of
the individual prizes as well as the
total amount of money offered,”
R. Vance Brown, secretary-treas
urer of the Five County Fair, said
yesterday, “in an effort to build up
the agricultural exposition aspect
of the fair. We are offering sev
eral ten and fifteen dollar prizes
as a stimulant to farmers to ex
hibit their products here.”
Morris Hannan’s Shows, which
played the fair last year, will be
on the midway throughout fair
week, according to Wade Privette,
manager of the exposition. “There
will also be free acts nightly at
the fair,” he said. ‘ We are expect
ing the entertainment this year to
be better than ever before.”
Directors of the 1947 fair are R.
H. Bridgers, C. V. Whitley. F. D.
Finch, Avon Privette, H. E. Stal
lings, W. S. Williams, V/. J. Wild
er, and Wallace Chamblee.
New Wake County Red
Cross Secretary
Assumes Her Duties
Mrs. Robert C. Walker, new ex
ecutive secretary of the Wake
County Chapter Red Cross, has
assumed her duties as successor
to Miss Robena A. McLean who
met a tragic death in an airplane
accident several weeks ago.
Mrs. Walker came from Way
cross, Georgia, where she was ex
ecutive secretary of the Red Cross
Chapter there.
She is a native of Catawba
County.
On Monday evening of this week
there was a meeting of the Red
Cross Boa’ of Directors, of which
Mrs. Foster Finch is a member, at
which time Mrs. Walker was pre
sented to the group by Chapter
Chairman C. A. Dillon. An inpsir
ational talk was given by George
Geoghegan, president of the Ra
leigh Chamber of Commerce.
One of the great values of the
Red Cross, Geoghegan said, “is its
ever present availability. It is a
comfort to "know that Red Cross
with its paid personnel and its
volunteer forces is ever ready to
meet disaster and other needs.”
Editor of Durham Herald Delivers
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Address at Joint Rotary Meeting
Dr. Sylvester Green, editor of
the Durham Herald, addressed the
joint meeting of the Zebulon and
Middlesex Rotary Clubs at the
Zebulon Woman’s Club last Fri
day, when the local group was
host to the newly organized Mid
dlesex club at a barbecue supper.
Editor Green, who is a Baptist
minister and has served as presi
dent of Coker College, charged
the members of both clubs with
the responsibility of giving their
best both to their community and
to Rotary. He was introduced by
Theo. Davis Sons, Telephone 2561
Local Member Wake
County ABC Board
Resigns September 1
E. C. Daniel of Zebulon, who has
served on the Wake County Board
of Alcoholic Beverage Control
since the three-man board was set
up in 1937, has submitted his res
ignation to the Wake County Com
missioners, effective not later than
Monday, September 1.
Daniel did not make public his
reason for resignation, although
his duties as a board member have
occupied a large portion of his
time. (Last year he served as
president of the North Carolina
Pharmaceutical Association in ad
dition to his duties with the county
store unit.) His only comment was
a joking remark yesterday to a
member of the Record staff that
he had “a lot of fishing to catch
up on.”
Swain Expresses Regret
Action on his resignation, sched
uled to have been accepted last
’Monday at a called meeting of the
Wake County Board of Health, the
Board of Education, and the five
county commissioners, will be tak
en next Thursday, August 14, if a
quorum of the three groups is
present.
In a letter to John P. Swain of
Raleigh, chairman of the Board of
Commissioners, Daniel asked that
his resignation be acted on dur
ing August. The onty suggestion
made concerning his successor
was that he should come from
outside Raleigh, preferably from
Zebulon or Wendell, since there
are liquor stores in the two East
Wake towns.
Action Planned Thursday
In making the resignation pub
lic, Swain said, “It is with regret
that I note your resignation which
you asked to be submitted, and I
personally would like to express
appreciation for the service that
you have rendered.”
At the July meeting of the
county commissioners the local
druggist was reappointed to serve
on the ABC board for another
three-year term.
Voting on Daniel’s successor will
be C. V Whitley and M. W. Cham
blee of Zebulon, Whitley as a
member of the Wake County
Board of Education and Chamblee
as a county commissioner.
up on.”
Dr. L. M. Massey.
The meeting, which was plan
ned as part «f the indoctrination
of the Midlesex Rotarians, was at
tended by some thirty-five Rotar
ians and guests. Ralph Talton,
president of the Zebulon club, pre
sided. ' t ' '
Attending the meeting from
Middlesex were Percy Johnson,
Lonnie Lewis, Adron Parker, Se
ba High, Clarence Holland, W. S.
Williams, Roscoe Hales, Claude
Lewis, Homer Bunn, J. H. Wright,
and H. C. Bowers.