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THE ZEBULON RECORD V olume 21, Number 21 Pictured above are Hampshire hogs at a Salisbury hog show last week. At Orangeburg, South Carolina, a second showing of Hamp shires from the southeast is being held today. Zebulon will have a Poland China hog show early in December, according to C. V. Whitley, president of the Chamber of Commerce He and Ferd Davis have met with with Walter Kirby, president of the N. C. Poland China Association, and P. M. Horton of Zebulon, Route 4 vice president of the group, and negotiations are virtually completed for the fall showing here. The Governor Can't Be Will Address Legionnaires Anyway The governor of North Carolina is a very busy man, and will be unable to meet with the Wenddl-Zebulon post of the American Legion next Monday night, but he will address the membership — “just the same. Chamber of Commerce To Meet Sept. 26; Streets to Be Marked Zebulon will have markers placed at every intersection nam ing the streets of tt e town, as soon as plans of the Chamber of Commerce are carried to comple tion. Eighty cement posts were ap proved by the Board cf Directors of the Chamber of Commerce for erection in the very near future. Twenty-five of the posts were delivered from Raleig i on the town truck yesterday afternoon and stacked on the lot at ross from the Town Office until they ire ready for use. Armstrong Cannady brought the idea of street markers bofore the Board of Directors for its approv al. Previously Cannady had ap peared before the Board of Com missioners of the Town >f Zebu lon with the same idea. Upon motion by Fen? Davis, seconded by Ralph Taltor , the Di rectors unanimously voted to pay the cost, estimated at s2oo, of con struction of the cement posts. Mayor R. H. Bridgers, Commis sioners Howard Beck, Bob Saw yer, and Barrie Davis all promised that the town would do what it could to help with the project. The posts will be painted white with the names of the streets in black lettering. The Board of Directors also de cided to ask other civic organiza tions in Zebulon to join with the (Continued on Page 7) Red Cross Representative Reports On Local Learn-to-Swim Program By Louis Gray The grim specter of “death by drowning” has been struck a body blow in Zebulon and the sur rounding community this summer by the extensive water safety program put on by the Wake County Red Cross chapter. One of the innovations of the program this summer has been special training of a group of water safety instructors fitting them to teach the blind to swim. It is contemplated, Chairman Gray said, to make swimming lessons available for the blind in Here, But Yesterday morning Barrie Davis of the Zebulon Record staff went over to the governor’s office, when Governor Cherry recorded a spec ial message to the local Legion naires. It will be played via sound system at the meeting at the Le gion Hut next Monday night. A barbecue supper will be serv ed to the membership from 6:45 to 7:45, and the business session will begin at 8:00 p.m. All veter ans of both world wars are invited to attend both the supper and din ner meetings. The inside of the Hut has been painted, and fluorescent lights will be installed tomorrow afternoon. Wendell Acts to Get Big Three Buyers With sales blocked, the Wendell Tobacco Market looked vainly for more buyers this week, as farm ers waited patiently in the streets with trucks and trailers piled high with golden weed ready for auc tion. Charges of discrimination by the big tobacco companies were made by both warehousemen and farmers. Fred Richardson of the Produc ers Warehouse said yesterday that more buyers are expected any day, and quoted figures showing the tremendous amount of leaf to bacco the Wendell market has sold this year to back up his claims that more buyers are needed. Two sales are carried on daily on the market, and one warehouse reported that each day it turns away enough tobacco to complete ly fill its floors again. this area next summer. Major phases of the Red Cross water safety program for 1947 ended on Friday of last week when 22 adults graduated as in structors in water safety and life saving. The program, involving “learn to swim” instruction, life saving for both junior and senior divi sions, opened June 23rd at Hayes Barton and Pullen Park pools, and since that time Red Cross certifi cates have been awarded to 38 junior life savers and 108 senior (Continued on Page 3) Zebulbn, N. C. Friday, September 12, 1917 Zebulon Farm Bureau Begins Campaign For New Members President of Local Unit Gives Group Credit for Allotment By E. H. Moser Our campaign for renewal and new memberships fn the Zebulon Farm Bureau is now underway. At a meeting of the vice presi dents and officers Monday night, September Bth, it was decided to enlist new memberships and re new olcl memberships from now until September 29th, then ar range for our first general meeting October 13th. We don’t think any farmer needs to be convinced that the stabilization price under tobacco this year is the direct result of Farm Bureau influence. This alone is enough to convince every farm er, business and professional man in the Zebulon area that he should be a member of the Farm Bureau. Some of our vice presidents and other members of our organization have membership books and will write your membership now. We must join forces with a hundred thousand other farmers in North Carolina to keep the pressure on Washington for what we have al ready gained by our united effort. The writer was in Washington some three weeks ago and had a conference with Charles E. Gage, Chief of the Tobacco Division of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Gage told the writer that the stabilization price was law and would remain under tobacco throughout the selling season. We shudder to think what would have happened to the price of tobacco this year without stabilization. The Farm Bureau and other farm or ganizations have used their in fluence directly to secure stabili zation prices. We are going to need all the (Continued on Page 7) Wakefield Boy Dies In Massey Pond; Respiration in Vain Tragedy struck in Wakefield Monday afternoon when Warren ton Bolden, 13-year old Negro, drowned in Massey’s Pond near the colored churches while swim ming with four playmates. The young boy, a fifth-grader in school, had gone swimming im mediately after eating his dinner after returning home from school. Warrenton, called “Bobby” by his playmates, was swimming with Lyn Anderson, Preston Bethea, Hyatt Junior Brocks, and Wyles Painter. The four were playing “lifesaving,” practicing pulling each other in to shore. The water was less than six feet deep. The Bethea boy was swimming out to pull Warrenton in when he (Continued on Page 7) Woman's Club to Hold Meeting Next Tuesday The Zebulon Woman’s Club will hold its September meeting at 3:45 next Tuesday afternoon at the clubhouse with the president, Mrs. F. L. Page, presiding. Mrs. F. D. Finch has charge of the program, which will be on the general SHbject of public welfare. iiilllil Shown above is Lieutenant Frances Hunt Hall. USNR, of Zebulon, who recently reported lor duty in Communications on the staff of the Commandant of the Fifth Naval District. Lieu tenant Hall is the daughter of Mrs. Ida Hall of Zebulon, Wake County Health Department nurse. Avon Privette Now Member of Wake County ABC Board Avon Privette of Zebulon, for mer mayor and commissioner, has been elected by the members of the Wake County Board of Corn mis ioners, Boards of Education and Health, and the ABC Board to fill the vacancy on the ABC Board caused by the recent resig nation of E. C. Daniel, local drug gist. Privette was nominated by Wal lace Chamblee, eastern representa tive on the Board of Commission ers, to the place, and was unani mously elected when no other name was placed in nomination. The election took place Monday. The former mayor is an Esso distributor, and dealer in Dodge and Plymouth automobiles. He also has important farm holdings here. He served as a municipal commissioner, being elevated to the mayorality when Wallace Cham blee became a county commission er. He was defeated for mayor by R. H. Bridgers in a close election in April of this year. He is a member of the Zebulon Baptist Church, the local Masonic lodge, the Farm Bureau, and the loan committee of the Peoples Bank. Clarence Hocutt Gives Rotarians Talk on Obtaining Drivers' License Clarence Hocutt, North Caro lina driver’s license examiner, spoke to the Zebulon Rotary Club on highway safety Friday night. While stressing the need of safe drivers on the highways, Clarence reviewed the examination for driver’s licenses which he is now giving to applicants in his office in the Privett building. “Until 1935,” Hocutt stated, “there were no driver’s licenses in North Carolina. At first an ap plicant could get a license to op erate a motor vehicle from a jus tice of the peace, but through the Then. Davis Sons, Telephone 2561 Lieut. Frances Hall Takes New Position At Norfolk Naval Base NORFOLK, Va. A recent ar rival at the Norfolk Naval Station is Lieut. Francis Hunt Hall, USNR, of Zebulon. Lieut. Hall is attach ed to the Fifth Naval District Commounications Office, and is presently serving in the capacity of a Communications Watch Offi cer. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, Miss Hall taught High School Social Science until enlist ing in the United States Naval Re serve in September 1942. Com muncations School was her choice after graduating with the first class of Wave Officers from the indoctrination center at North ampton, Mass., January 18, 1943. This officer spent her first tour of duty as a Coding Officer at the Communications Office, Sixth Na val District, Charleston, South Carolina. Two years later, Lieut. Hall applied for overseas service and was subsequently ordered to duty at Pearl Harbor. After serv ing there until August 1945 Miss Hall was ordered to the Naval Aviation Supply Depot, Philadel phia. Lieut. Hall also served a short time on the communications staff of the Chief of Naval Opera tions, Washington, before report ing for her present assignment. Last Services Held For Ira C. Pearce Ira Crosten Pearce, 38, died Tuesday at his home on Zebulon, Route 2, after an illness of six months. Funeral services were held from the Pine Ridge Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, by the Rev. M. A. Pegram, assisted by the Rev. William Cone. Interment followed in the Pine Ridge Cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ha zel Jones Pearce; one son, Doug las, of the home; his father, W. M. Pearce of Zebulon, Route 2; four brothers, Milton and Sherman of Zebulon, Route 2, Cloye Pearce of Farmville, Va., Johnny Pearce of Rocky Mount; four sisters, Mrs. L. C. Williams and Mrs. Thelma Pearce Sykes of Zebulon, Route 2, Mrs. R. M. Alford of Middlesex, Route 1, and Mrs. P. K. Griffin of Rochester, N. Y. years, the requirements have been tigh.ened.” This year marked the first time that North Carolina had required holders of driver’s licenses to be reexamined, and one out of seven who are reexamined fail to pass the tests. After a period of time they are given another chance, and usually pass easily. A driver’s manual published by the State of North Carolina was given to each Rotarian with a sug gestion that they be studied and the lessons learned applied to ev eryday driving.
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