THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIV. Number 49
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Pictured is a house selected as ideal by a national group of
architects insofar as space saving is concerned. R. H. Bridgers
of Home Builders Corporation says that this home is similar to
some 75 buildings planned for Zebulon by his organization.
Plans Complete for Hog Sale
In Zebulon Friday, Feb. 20
Plans for an early spring show, to be held at C. V. Whitley’s
barn, Friday, February 20, are virtually complete, P. M. Horton
of Zebulon, Route 4, vice-president of the North Carolina Poland
China Breeders Association, announced this week.
Zebulon to Begin
Using Second Well
Within Next Week
Within the next week Zebulon
should have a sufficient supply
of deep well water to be com
pletely independent of Little
River, Town Manager Willie B.
Hopkins announced yesterday.
The first well has been pumping
steadily since it was installed
several weeks ago, and all that
prevents the second well from be
ing put into immediate use is con
necting it to the water main on
Arendell Avenue.
The third well, which delivers
more than 100 gallons per minute,
is already connected to the main,
but the electric motor which will
drive the pump has not yet ar
rived.
Chief Hopkins and Ray Gainey
placed the motor on the second
well this week and have had the
pipe run to the water main. “It
’ll be a good well,” Ray said.
The interruption in water ser
vice last week was caused by a
break-down of a valve in the
pump at the filter station. It re
quired several hours work to get
the pump into working condition,
during which time all the water
in the tank was used.
Daughter of Light
Company Manager
Is Honor Student
Miss Lillian Talton, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Talton of
Zebulon, was the only Wake Coun
ty resident to make the honor roll
for the term just ended at East
Carolina Teachers College, accord
ing to Dr. J. K. Long, registrar.
A total of 168 students made
the honor roll for the fall term,
Dr. Long said, out of a total en
rollment of 1401 for the fall term.
Os these 726 are men and 675 are
women; 1305 are North Carolnians,
and 96 are from other states.
Miss Talton matriculated at
Campbell College before entering
the Greenville College. Her foth
er is manager of the Zebulon office
of the Carolina Power & Light
Company.
At present 68 bred spring gilts,
open fall gilts, and fall boars are
listed for sale at the hog show,
Horton said. All are registered
Poland China stock, listed with the
Poland Record Association at Wa
verly, lowa.
“This sale will present an excel
lent opportunity for veterans and
other farmers seeking to build up
a blooded herd of swine to make
a beginning in a modest way,” he
declared. “It is being held at the
request of the county agents and
farm training instructors.”
Fieldmen at the show will be
Jack Kelly State College Exten
sion Service swine specialist, Wake
County Agent John Reitzel, and
C. J. Jackson, agricultural spec
alist of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad.
Bob Butler of Warrenton will
serve as auctioneer, and the sale,
scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. will
be conducted by the Raleigh
Stockyards.
Two Local Troops
Os Girl Scouts Plan
Important Session
The two older patrols of Girl
Scout Troop 12 met jointly Mon
day night at Mrs. Irby Gill’s.
Skating and sledding were enjoyed
during the earlier part of the eve
ning. Later the girls enjoyed Jo
ellen Gill’s wire-recorder. Sev
eral entertaining recordings were
made.
Monday, February 2nd, at 7:00
p.m. there will be another joint
meeting of this group in the home
of Mrs. Eugene Privette.
All members are asked to be
present if possible, for at this time
the girls will be given parts for,
and rehearse, a skit for the P.-Tr-
A. talent show scheduled for Feb
ruary 12.
Baptist Church
10:00 Sunday School
11:00 Morning Worship
Sermon, “The Expectation of
Our Religion”
6:30 B. T. U.
7:30 Evening Worship
Sermon, “A Letter About a
Slave.”
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, January 30, 1948
Zebulon Chamber of Commerce
To Sponsor Cage Tournament
The Zebulon Chamber of Commerce will sponsor an invitational basketball tournament at
the Wakelon Gymnasium the second week in March, Pat Farmer, member of the board of direc
ors, announced this week.
The tournament, which will be held the week after the Wake County tournament, will in
clude high school teams from the four counties forming Zebulon’s trade area —Wake, Franklin,
Masons to Be Told
Os Masonic Work
In World War II
John N. Graeber, formerly a mem
ber of the United States Air Forces
in Europe, will address the Zeb
ulon Masonic Lodge at its regular
meeting Tuesday night, Feburary
3, at 7:30 p. m., telling of his ex
periences during World War II
with Masonic members of the Ger
man underground.
Graeber, who is a Blue Lodge
member of an Ohio lodge was shot
down over Germany during the
war, and was rescued by Masons.
According to Professor James
Speece of the North Carolina State
College, department of mathema
tics, who will introduce the speak
er, Graeber has two extremely in
teresting stories to relate.
Graeber is currently a student
at State College. Professor Speece
is a lecturer certified under the
Grand Lodge of Texas. Members
of Whitestone and other neighbor
ing lodges are invited to attend the
meeting.
Ralph Bunn, master of the Zeb
ulon Lodge, will preside at the
session, which will be preceded
by the usual supper.
Fire Causes Heavy
Damage to Lucas
Mill Yesterday
Fire, caused when a gasoline
engine backfired and ignited corn
shucks nearby, severely damaged
the Lucas Milling Company build
ing and equipment yesterday af
ternoon. Firemen were handicap
ped by the billowing smoke created
by the burning smoke. The build
ing is a two-story brick structure
behind the City Market.
The fire on the ground floor was
quickly extinguished, but not be
fore it had spread to shucks stored
on the second floor of the building.
It took over three hours for fire
men, directed by Policemen W. B.
Hopkins and Ray Gainey and Dep
uty Sheriff G. C. Massey, to com
pletely put out the upstairs fire.
Mr. Lucas had not estimated his
loss last night but stated that his
machinery was not hurt too much
by the fire. Water pouring down
from the second floor did some
damage to the equipment. His
heaviest loss, he said, was in feed
and grain.
Pictures of Children
To Be Made Here
Friday Afternoon
Next Friday is the big day for
the picture-taking of your young
sters! The Zebulon Record is hav
ing pictures taken of all children
who are brought by their parents
or other guardian to the Woman’s
Club Building between 1 p. m.
and Bp. m. absolutely free of
charge. The Woltz Studios, of
Des Moines, lowa, nationally
known children’s photographers,
will be in charge. The Zebulon
Record wants a picture of your
child to print in its forthcoming
feature “Citizens of Tomorrow,”
Johnston, and Nash.
Both boys’ and girls’ teams will
be invited to participate, with a
tentative roster of eight of each
picked. Trophies will be awarded
both to teams and individual play
ers.
Permission of county school
authorities is necessary before the
local gymnasium can definitely be
obtained, but no difficulty is an
ticipated, Farmer declared.
Known as the Gold Leaf Tour
nament, this will be the first invi
tational contest to be held here for
many years. It will be an annual
event designed to promote better
basketball in this section.
Trophies will be awarded to the
top boys’ and girls’ teams and to
players showing the best sports
manship through the play.
Elimination contests will be held
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday, March 9-10-11-12. The
final game to decide the tourna
ment champions will be played
Monday night, March 15.
Young Local Boy
To Undergo Brain
Operation Today
Wayne Harlon Price, son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. M. Price, will be ope
rated on at 8:00 o’clock this morn
ing at Duke Hospital for a brain
tumor.
The seven-year-old boy has
been ailing for three weeks, and
was taken to the hospital Monday
mornng. He is student at Wake
lon School, where he is an honor
student in the second grade.
Wakelon Farm Vets
Receiving Training
In Record Keeping
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The 72 veterans receiving farm
training at Wakelon School, under
the direction of Ed Ellington, are
receiving thorough indoctrination
in farm record keeping, C. Brice
Ratchford, in charge of Farm
Management for the State College
Extenion Service, said yesterday.
The local veterans, because of
records kept on this year’s opera
tions, will have a better balanced
system of farming in 1949, Ratch
ford continued.
Records kept by farmers in this
state last year probably outnum
ber those kept in any other year.
Ratchford said, and this means
that the strong and weak points
of the farm business can be de
tected and adjustments made in
the 1948 operations also.
There are still a large number
of farmers in the state who do not
keep recods, he said, and, because
of this, many of them have no idea
why their expenses are so great
some times and their receipts so
small. Here are some of the reas
ons why records should be kept
on every farm.
Properly kept records give the
farmer an idea as to which enter
prises were the most profitable,
which practices were the most
profitable, which expense items
were the highest, and whether the
farm, as a whole, paid off, the
specialist declared,
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Mrs. L. M. Massey
To Sing at State
Farm Bureau Meet
Mrs. L. M. Massey of Zebulon
will appear on two programs at
the 12th annual meeting of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau in
Asheville February 1-4, the office
of the Associated Women of the
Farm Bureau announced yester
day.
Mrs. Massey will sing at a
Candlelight Vesper Service, spon
sored by the Associated Women,
at 8 p. m. Sunday in the main
ballroom of the George Vander
bilt Hotel. The service will in
clude an address by Mrs. Charles
Sewell of Chicago, adminstrative
director of the American Farm
Bureau’s Associated Women.
The local woman, a member of
the choir of the Zebulon Baptist
Church, will appear again Monday
when she will sing at a meeting
of the parent organization. Miss
Ruth Current, of Raleigh, State
Home Demonstration Agent, wiU
deliver the main address at this
meeting.
Dr. L. M. Massey, a member of
the state organization’s board of
directors and a member of the
Zebulon Farm Bureau, will serve
as one of Wake County’s delegates.
Bulldogs Win Brace
Os Games from WF
Cagers Last Friday
The Wakelon basketball teams
took a twin-bill from Wake For
est last Friday night, the Bull
dogs edging Wake Forest, 34-33,
and the Wakelon girls romping
to a 20-points winning margin.
Ralph Lewis hooked in the win
ning points for Wakelon just as
the final whistle blew in the fea
ture. Rex Tippett topped the
scoring department for the win
ner.
Coach Fred Smith was well
pleased with the performance of
his fast-improving sextet. Ruth
Brown, versatile forward, was
high scorer for the night, and Jo
Ellen Gill played guard well.
Baptist Pastor Stars
In 54-40 Victory
Over Lewis Outfit
Paced by sharp-shotting Carlton
Mitchell, the Zebulon basketball
team trounced Lewis Sporting
Goods of Raleigh, 54-40, in a game
played in the Wakelon gymnasium
last night. Trailing 12-8 at the
end of the first period, Zebulon
took a four point lead at halftime,
and coasted on to win.
Mitchell poured in 18 points for
the winners, and was aided by
Hilliard Greene with 16 and Coley
Barrum with 12.
McNeil and Mitchell led the vis
itors from Raleigh with 9 and 11
points.
The local quintet has scored 420
points in eight games for a 50.3
average. Greene and Mitchell
have led Zebulon to six victories.