Friday, October 24,1947
TOWN BOARD
CALLS HALT
TO BUILDING
A business building cannot be
built in the residential sections of
Zebulon, the Board of Commis
sioners ruled Tuesday night at a
special call meeting held in the
town office. The meeting was
called at "the request of Fred Hood,
who asked that the Board of Com
missioners grant him permission
to continue construction on a
florist shop started beside his
home on Arendell Avenue.
The the commissioners
in refusing to allow the construc
tion work to continue was based
on the zoning ordinance which
defines the business, industrial
and residential areas in Zebulon,
and the types of buildings which
can be in each.
Hood asked for and received a
building permit in September to
build a' building of cement or
cinder block on the back of his
lot, and, the town board contend
ed he violated the permit by
starting his building on a line with
his house facing Arendell Avenue.
Town Clerk W. B. Hopkins re
quested that building be stopped
until some action could be taken
by the Town Board, and Hood
met with the Board at their regu
lar October meeting. He was ad
vised that business buildings were
prohibited in residential areas,
and two days later announced that
he had contacted someone who
could move the building for him
to the rear of his lot.
Early this week he found that
the cost of moving the structure
would amount to over $2,000.
Since he had only SBOO invested
in the building, he decided against
the move and asked the commis
sioners to meet with him again.
Tuesday night he presented a
drawing showing how he planned
to connect the cement block build
ing to the house with a 10-foot
breezeway so that it would com
ply with the zoning ordinance.
The zoning ordinance allows addi
tions to residences. The commis
sioners studied the drawing, noting
that Hood’s residence is of wood
construction while the new build
ing is of cement block.
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After thoroughly discussing the
matter, which Mayor R. H.
Bridgers terme<j “a very unfortun
ate thing,” the Board of Commis
sioners decided that since the
zoning ordinance is law, made by
the citizens of Zebulon, they are
duty bound to enforce it, in spite
of the hardships it will invoke in
this instance. It was pointed out
that Hood’s original building per
mit stated the building was to be
built on the rear of the lot, and
was not complied with.
Hood has the privilege of ap
pealing to the Zoning Board to
have them re-zone his lot on
Arendell Avenue as a business
zone, if he wishes to do so. What
ever action the Zoning Board
takes is subject to the approval of
the commissioners. Dr. L. M.
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tions. See Mrs. Francis O. Wil
liams. Anything for the family
from baby to daddy. One mile
from Wakefield, near High
Town. Prices reasonable. 3tp
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Auto Radios
Universal Vacuum
Cleaners
Massey is chairman of the Zoning
Board. Other members are C. V.
Whitley, Kermit Corbett, Pittman
Stell, and Elbert Pearce.
Present at the meeting with
Fred Hood were Mayor R. H.
Bridgers, Commissioners R. Vance
Brown, Howard Beck, Norman
Screws, Bob Sawyer, Barrie Da
vis, and Town Clerk W. B. Hop
kins.
Cotton Estimate
Is Slightly Lower
Reports October 1 from growers
an 4 ginners indicate a 1947 cotton
crop of 450,000 bales in North
Carolina.
The figure is two per cent un
der the September 1 forecast and
about two per cent greater than
the 440,000-bale crop harvested in
1946. The crop in the Zebulon
trade area is estimated by local
ginners at ten per cent above last
year.
Harvesting of cotton is well ad
vanced in Wake County and get
ting into full swing in coastal
areas. The crop got off to a late
start in the spring and many
growers had difficulty getting a
stand. As a result, said the report,
cotton is opening very unevenly
and harvesting in some sections
may be extended over a longer
period than usual.
Late cotton suffered heavy boll
weevil damage, especially in the
coastal areas, the Service stated.
Very little “top” crop will be
made this year, and bolls are av
eraging smaller than usual. In
coastal counties, cotton is not
turning out quite as well as it was
expected earlier, but the crop in
some Piedmont counties promises
to be above pre-harvest expecta
tions.
Reports from farmers on Octo
ber 1 indicated a yield per acre
of 349 pounds, compared with 370
pounds harvested last year. Such
a yield would be one pound above
the 10-year (1936-45) average.
Cotton acreage for harvest is
nine per cent larger than last
year. It is estimated at 619,000
acres, compared with 570,000 in
1946.
Reports from ginners showed
that about 44,000 bales of the
North Carolina crop had been gin
ned to October 1.
TJie October 1 forecast of pro
duction for the nation places the
1947 cotton crop at 11,508,000
bales. This is a decline of three
per cent from the September 1 es
timate and about 33 per cent
above the 1946 crop.
Yield per acre now is estimated
at 261.3 pounds of lint, compared
with 235.3 pounds last year and
the 10-year average of 250.6
pounds.
FRYERS FOR SALE
Massey's Hatchery
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many different brands people smoked? As a result xay*.*,. I
of that experience . . . those comparisons . . . more
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The Zebulon Record
Sound Plan Urged
For Saving Cream
Agriculture Commissioner W.
Kerr Scott has urged that bak
eries eliminate consignment selling
of bread and thus save “untold
thousands of bushels of wheat
daily” to help the emergency food
situation abroad, but yesterday
local grocers advised the Record
that they were still having to buy
i on a consignment basis.
Scott said in a* wire to U. S.
j Secretary of Agriculture Clinton
P. Anderson that the bakeries’
practice of “crowding the market”
with consignment bread resulted
in the loss of approximately 150,-
000 bushels of wheat annually in
North Carolina alone, and he
placed the estimated money value
of the loss in this State at about
$1,000,000 a year.
Scott’s wire said:
“I earnestly urge that the gov
ernment take immediate steps to
get the bakeries of the nation to
cooperate fully in eliminating the
consignment selling of bread dur
ing the food emergency. That will
save untold thousands of bushels
of wheat daily and in North Car
olina alone will result in the sav
ing of approximately 150,000
bushels of wheat annually.”
Scott said he got his figures
from Department of Agriculture
field men in the Pure Food and
Drugs Division. Their survey
showed, he said, that thousands of
loaves of bread were wasted daily
in North Carolina through the con
signment practice of taking day
old bread off store shelves and
withholding it from human con
sumption, with most of it going to
city dumps.
This practice, Scott explained,
resulted from the bakeries’ stiff
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Made to order
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Phone 3496 or 2241
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competition to keep only oven
fresh bread on store shelves.
Scott asked Anderson to send a
Department of Agriculture repre
sentative into North Carolina for a
series of conferences with bakers.
At these conferences, the Federal
representative would explain the
need for food conservation and
just how the bakers could cooper
ate in making more grain avail
able for foreign commitments.
He acted after calling in William
C. Mclntire, Jr., of Greensboro,
secretary of the North Carolina
Bakers Council for a conference
regarding the big waste of bread.
Mclntire said he would plan a se
ries of meetings as soon as Secre
tary Anderson notifies him that a
Federal representative will be
available.
Scott pointed out that under the
War Powers Act bakers were bar
red from consignment selling dur
ing the war. He urged that bak
ers themselves take the initiative
in starting at once an industry
wide program to stop what the
trade terms “crowding the mar
ket.”
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NOODLE-CHICKEN SOUP pound jar 25c
PEACHES No. 2|/ 2 Can .• 20c
Vel and Dreft WASHING POWDER 29c
Orange MARMALADE pound jar 25c
WE HAVE FRUIT CAKE INGREDIENTS
. Del Monte Fruit Cocktail
Crushed and Sliced Pineapple in 9 ounce cans
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PERSONALS
Mrs. B. J. Lawrence, Mrs. Will
Lawrence, Mrs. R. G. Blackwelder
of Raleigh, and Mrs. J. K. Barrow,
Sr., were luncheon guests of Mrs.
C. E. Flowers Tuesday.
The condition of J. B Kemp is
much improved.
Mrs. Theo. B. Davis left Sunday
for Palisades, Washington, to join
her husband, who is hospitalized
as a result of a fall from a ladder
recently.
HENS WILL BRING YOU MORE
Egg sss if you feed the Wayne
Way. Come in and get your Free
“Eggzamination” chart. Page’s
Store Co., Phone 2861, Zebulon.
WANTED Two white tenants.
7 or 8 acres of tobacco. See
T. E. Hinnant, Pine Ridge, N. C.
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