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Salute the Future Farmers
This week is national FFA Week, set aside to honor
the young agricultural students in our high schools of to
day who will be the farmers of tomorrow.
These young men are an eager lot. They seek infor
mation on better ways of farming, and they use the in
formation to advantage. One of our local Future Far
mers, for example, was recently given a trip to Texas
for his successful effort in raising beef cattle. Others
have done nearly as well in beef production and corn grow
ing contests.
Their years of successful study will be spotlighted
even more forcefully in years to come, when they pro
duce more commodities with less expense and waste,
thereby increasing the wealth of the community. We sa
lute the Future Farmers!
Court Action Necessary
Court action should always be action of last resort,
but when such wanton disregard of the safety of chil
dren is exhibited as was recently the case with a young
man from outside the community, guilty of reckless driv
ing on the Wakelon School grounds, court action is neces
sary.
This young man who endangered life and limb of
countless children by his stupid action can consider him
self fortunate indeed to escape the consequences with only
a suspended sentence. May he and his ilk take warning,
and accept the responsibility given them when they are
allowed behind the wheel of an automobile.
The Two-Headed Turtles
In the March 1 issue of Life Magazine there is a pic
torial feature on a two-headed diamond-back turtle hatch
ed at the wildlife station at Beaufort. The turtle was nam
ed Super-Diamond by the Tar Heel station workers, and
was promptly shipped to Washington, D. C., where it lives
a life of elegant ease in its own glass pool in an acquarium
of the Department of Commerce.
Super-Diamond, according to Life, is a troubled ter
rapin. Each of its mouths tears insects and chopped meat
from the other in a vicious fight over which should swallow
food for the same stomach. Then the heads, each of which
controls the legs on its side, walk off in opposite direc
tions, and the left and right forelegs, straining to follow,
threaten to tear its body in two.
When one head is asleep, the other is awake. Thus
with two legs moving on one side and two legs station
ary on the other, the turtle merely moves in circles.
The wear and tear of this kind of life, the article con
tinues, has told on the turtle. Today after five months,
it mostly sulks, glaring at the world from its four eyes
anl never eating enough. In the turmoil of fighting it
self, it has swallowed less than is normally needed, and in
spite of its gluttony is now only one and one-fourth inches
long.
Another two-headed turtle lives its life of elegant ease
in Raleigh, and its name is Super-Machine. Neither of
its heads makes an attempt to coordinate its movements,
and Super-Machine ends up going around in circles. For
example, when one head proclaims the need for a hun
dred-million-dollar bond issue for farm-to-market roads,
the other head is asleep. Then head’number one goes to
sleep.
Head number two wakes, and feels the need for self
assertion. Unaware of the other’s actions, it declares that
there is a thirty-million-dollar surplus in highway funds.
Small wonder that Super-Machine is a nervous, irritable
turtle!
Regardless of the statement of a two-headed turtle or
anyone else, the fact remains that farmers need and must
have more paved roads. But even the farmers who need
all-weather roads the most will hesitate to vote for a bond
issue while a sizeable reserve exists in the highway depart
ment. To call a bond election while that huge surplus lies
idle would simply be a waste of money.
The Zebulon Record
Ferd Davis Editor
Barrie Davis Publisher
Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post office
at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the ac of March 3, 1879.
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The Zebulon Record
This, That and the Other
By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis
My sister taught me this trick,
and you, too, may find it useful if
windy days are also washdays:
In hanging out the clothes do
not stretch the pieces tightly
along the line, but let them sag
between the clothespins, leaving
an open space between line and
article hanging from it. This al
lows the wind to pass through
without twisting the cloth around
the line. Sheets doubled length
wise, pinned with /our pins—
one at each hem, two spaced along
the length will dry smoothly
although hanging in three loops.
Your wash may not look as pre
cise as when pinned the usual
way, but there’s a wonderful dif
ference when the pieces are taken
in.
Last week a letter from Mrs.
Fred Turner of Avon, Connecticut
told me they are having even
worse weather than has been en
dured here. She said her flower
beds were buried under six feet
of snow and she hardly expected
to see them before May. She
went about on some skis, but tem
peratures of from 10 to 20 below
zero made her deside to stay in
doors. Here is a quotation from
the letter: “What you say about
the weather in your column I
can’t let pass ... I guess
we were disappointed, for when
it all seemed too much for us here
Fred and I would declare we
were going south to our good
friends, the George Coxes.”
I have very pleasant memories
of meeting the Turners when they
were on a visit to the Coxes and
If I had no work to take up my
time, I could enjoy life visiting
the stores in Zebulon and gabbing
with the workers therein. Solic
iting advertising each week gives
me an excellent opportunity to
check up on how things are going
with everybody. It also provides
me with a weekly look at the
friendliness for which our town
is famous.
Haywood Jones was showing a
bit of snakebite anti-venom to
me Wednesday, and as I tried to
look at the container intelligent
ly, he related a recent happening.
Not long ago a gentleman came
in quite worried. His little boy’s
dog had been bitten by a snake,
and the little boy was heartbrok
en over the possibility of losing
his pet. Couldn’t Haywood do
something?
Haywod told the gentleman of
the anti-venom preparation, ex
plaining how it should be injected
into the dog with a hypodermic.
He named several men in town
who were skilled at administering
the needle.
While the gentleman rushed out
in search of one of the men, Hay
By Ruth Current
Excellent dusting cloths may be
easily made by placing squares
of cheesecloth or soft cloths into
a glass jar containing a small
quantity of furniture polish. Al
low the cloths to become thor
oughly saturated with the polish
then remove, allow the excess
moisture to dry out, and excel
lent dusting cloths will have been
created.
other friends in this section, and
do hope they come again—say,
in the summer.
My little granddaughter’s
mother went to the hospital Sun
day and the rest of us have tried
to keep the baby—now eighteen
months old—satisfied. But Mon
day evening her father found her
walking the floor and saying tear
fully, “Hurts! Hurts!” He search
ed carefully for a stray pin or
a tight binding, but found noth
ing wrong. She continued to
moan “Hurts!” Finally he per
suaded her to tell him the trouble.
“Mama gone. Hurts.”
You may be able better to de
scribe loneliness, but I can’t.
CHICKEN PIE
Unless I am wrong, this recipe
has already been published in
this column; but so many have
asked me to give it that here goes
again. It is for that chicken pie
I’ve made for years to serve to
Rotarians.
Don’t try to make this with a
young chicken. Take a hen, not
too old, but be sure she is fat.
And also be sure to take off all
the fat you can get easily and
dry it out slowly, say in a frying
pan inside the oven. Set it aside
till crust-making time.
In only a small amount of
water, boil the hen until tender,
using either a pressure cooker or
the older way of cooking, adding
barely enough salt to season light
ly. When cool enough to handle,
cut into pieces about the size for
a good mouthful. Do not use the
skin, unless you run it through
the meat grinder; then nobody
Around the Town
wood studied the instructions on
the container. Soon the gentle
man hurried back, saying he had
found someone to administer the
serum.
“I am not sure about the dose
that you should give the dog,”
said Haywood. “This serum is for
humans.”
“Well,” replied the gentleman
thoughtfully, “the pup is right in
telligent. I reckon that ought to
do.”
It must have, because the dog
lived.
Then there is the true story
about the gentleman who, before
his marriage, had been used to
frequent evenings with the boys.
After taking for himself a wife he
settled down, spending his eve
nings quietly at home with his
spouse. But as time passed on, he
became increasingly restless. Fin
ally, after a period of months, he
began to return to his old haunts.
At first he managed to get home
early, but gradually his return
home became later and later.
Finally one night long past mid
night he came in. As he undress
ed in the bedroom, his wife sat
Farm Home Hints
Walls and wood trim should be
washed from the bottom up, be
cause when water runs down a
soiled wall it leaves streaks. It
will not, however, stain a wall
that has already been moistened
and cleaned.
To be comfortable on house
cleaning days dress comfortably;
have music from the radio; plan
for a rest period if you have lots
Friday, February 27, 1948
will be able to tell it is being
served and it makes that much
more.
You’ll need to take some fat
from the broth left from boiling
the hen, if she is as fat as she
ought to be. This pie doesn’t
want to be greasy. And you
want little more than a pint of
the broth. To it add a pint of
sweet milk and put it on the stove
to come to a boil. You may use
evaporated milk for this with
fine results. Put in a little black
pepper, if the family taste per
mits.
When the milk and broth mix
ture boils, thicken it with a flour
batter. Make it so thick it will
barely pour from the spoon. Add
the cut-up chicken to this, stir
ring hard and fast. When well
mixed pour it into a pan or pans
about two inches deep and place
where it will keep very hot un
til the top is ready.
Proceed as if you were going
to make three cupfuls of flour
into biscuit, but instead of lard
for shortening use the fat dried
from the hen; and use enough
to make a dough almost as short
as for pie crust. Roll it fairly
thin, use a fork to stick it full
of holes, cut it with a biscuit
cutter.
Now, making sure the chicken
gravy mixture is boiling hot,
cover it with the biscuit and bake
in a medium oven until the top
is nicely browned. That’s all ex
cept the eating, and remember
ing that this pie is as good warm
ed over as when fresh.
(It takes three of the largest
hens you can find for the Rotar
ians.)
bolt upright in bed and demanded:
“What do you mean coming in
here at this time of night?”
Without turning his he d he re
plied: “I live here.”
Once upon a time (six days
ago) there lived a housewife in
Zebulon who needed some very
nice print material for a bit of sew
ing. Immediately she dashed out
to the family auto, and drove 21
miles to Raleigh where she pur
chased the cloth after an extensive
search throughout the city.
Alas, when she had nearly fin
ished her dress, she found her
self a bit short of material. An
other trip in the family auto to
the capital city proved futile. The
Raleigh store had sold out.
Yesterday this housewife was
bemoaning her sad state of affairs
in McPhail-Farmer (read their ad
in this issue) Company. Mrs. Pat
Farmer heard the story and im
mediately laid a bolt of the iden
tical goods on the counter. The
price: 10c per yard under the
cost in lots of other stores.
Moral: Try the home town
first.
to do; renew your energy or
change your pace by stopping to
eat an apple, banana, or something
light, or to drink a glass of fruit
juice; change your shoes to rest
the feet,
If you have stove-pipes, when
taking them down place a paper
bag over each end and the soot
will not blow out into the room
during the process.