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So Much with So Little
Next Tuesday at Wakelon School Dr. A. C. Bulla, Wake
County Health Officer, together with Mrs. Ida Hall and
other associates in the Health Department, will conduct
another pre-school clinic for the benefit of children expected
to enter school in September.
Dr. Bulla began this work more than twenty years ago,
and has continued each year to see that Wake County school
children are physically and mentally fit to start to school—
to the little folks an undertaking which appears of gigantic
proportions. %
Many of us who have children attending the clinic on
March 16 were ourselves examined and vaccinated by Dr.
Bulla before we entered the first grade. From actual ex
perience then, as well as from observation, we realize the
value of the project undertaken and to this day successfully
carried on by the Wake County Health Department.
Knowledge of what has been accomplished with so little
in the way of financial support makes us wonder how much
might be accomplished if adequate funds were available for
the promotion of better health!
The Two-Headed Turtles
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In the March 1 issue of Life Magazine there is a pic
torial feature on a two-headed diamond-back turtle hatched
at the wilulife station at Beaufort. The turtle was named
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 aquarium 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 directions,
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 stationary
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 and
never eating enough. In the turmoil of fighting itself,
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 ex
ample, when one head proclaims the need for a hundred
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 sizable 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.
Hats Off to the Ladies
The Wakelon girls’ basketball team, runners-up to Cary
for the Wake County championship, damaged not at all our
feeling of pride in them by their loss in Gore Gymnasium
Monday night. Rather we were pleasantly surprised that a
team which last year was only run-of-the-mill should do so
well. They lost only to an older, more experienced team.
Even more evident than their ability has been their
sportmanship, which in itself is reason enough for inter
scholastic sports. We doff our hats to the young Ladies—
spell it with a capital ‘L’—of Wakelon School and their
capable coach, Fred Smith.
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This, That and the Other
By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis
Robert Davis, my husband’s
brother, has a method of serving
apples that is different from that
of any one else I know.
Robert peels and cores the ap
ples, slices them crosswise on a
plate, sprinkling the slices very
lightly with salt. He gets tooth
picks for those who prefer stick
ing them into slices for eating;
but you have the privilege of us
ing your fingers; and if you’re like
me, you’ll never know when to
quit reaching for another slice as
you read or play a game or just
talk.
Did you ever try grating Irish
potatoes for frying? Handle them
as lightly and gently as possible
and fry them before they have
time to turn dark. Drop a spoon
full at a time onto a hot griddle
that holds about 1-4 deep fat.
They brown quickly. Turn them
once and sprinkle with salt as
they are put on the serving dish.
If carefully done the little cakes
are thin and lacy-looking at the
edges, and have a really different
taste. Use no flour or meal; just
the grated potato.
My husband and I have an in
termittent argument about gard
ening. He has always had a
en when he had even sand to put
seeds in and feels it would be un
thinkable to try doing without one
of some sort. I say if we have to
One of Kerr Scott’s most ar
dent supporters for Governor is
his preacher, the Rev. N. N.
Fleming of historic Hawfields
Presbyterian Church, which Kerr
Scott joined as a boy 40 years ago
and of which he is now a ruling
elder.
Just as soon as the Reverend
Fleming heard that Kerr Scott
had consented to run for Govern
or he sat down and wrote a letter
to many of his friends in the
church. He has kindly consent
ed to publication of this letter in
order that people all over the
State may know how Kerr Scott
stands in his church.
His letter follows:
Recently one of the leading
Presbyterian Ministers of our
southland, a resident of North
Carolina, asked this question,
“Is this man Scott who is run
ning for Governor an Elder in
your church?” We replied, “He
is.” “Then I’m going to vote for
him.”
It occurs to me that sorqe of
your friends might ask something
of the same questions, so I just
wanted to furnish you with an
answer as to how “good he is.”
Well, he is Presbyterian by in
By Ruth Current
State Home Demonstration Agent
A large market basket provides
a handy container in which to
keep cleaning supplies. Soap
powder, polishes, cleaning cloths,
small brushes, and other articles
are conveniently stored in one
place.
To keep tools and nails from
rolling off the top of a steplad
der, simply nail a strip of inner
tube around it in such a manner
that it will form a shallow tray.
It is always a shock to look
at the calendar and realize that
hire all the work done, it will be
a costly project and we’ll lose
money on it. Why, one time it
cost us nearly ten dollars to get
our butter-bean vines equipped
for proper climbing and running,
and that’s only a small fraction of
making a garden. Plowing,
planting, cultivating, staking, will
add up with frightening speed and
to frightful totals with wages what
they are now.
It is not that I don’t want our
own vegetables, or am unwilling
to help grow them. But I do hate
to work myself to a frazzle and
still lose on it.
However, I do mean to have a
few tomato plants, some broccoli
and some winter squash.
While sugar was rationed my
one and only cake pan with a
spout rusted. It was a cheap one,
and too small anyway. But when
I decided to bake a loaf cake re
cently there was no suitable pan.
I had a casserole of just the di
mensions the recipe called for, and
thought I might use a small tin
can in the middle to serve for a
spout. The can would slip as the
batter was poured in, so I partial
ly filled it with little rocks. All
should have been well; but the
cake rose higher than directions
called for, and when it was taken
from the oven the top was smooth
all over. I had to slice off enough
to find my can—and all the little
rocks were buried in cake, and I
Readers Forum
heritance. Over a hundred years
ago one of his grandparents
was clerk of Hawfields Session.
His father, Robt. W. (Farmer
Bob) Scott was Deacon, Elder,
Trustee of this church, originator
of our Cemetery Endowment
Fund, and leader in all forward
work of our church. Kerr Scott’s
mother was a Presbyterian by
birth from Eno, sister church of
Hawfields.
W. Kerr Scott joined Hawfields
when he was just a boy, over 40
years ago, has been Deacon,
Church Treasurer, has taught a
Sunday School class, Trustee of
the Church since 1929, Ruling
Elder since 1933, Trustee of our
Endowment Fund which he start
ed in 1929, Chairman of our Fel
lowship Building Fund in which
he was the prime mover.
He has repeatedly represented
our Church at Presbytery, of
which he was Moderator in 1941,
at Synod, and was sent as Com
missioner from Orange Presby
tery to the General Assembly of
the Southern Presbyterian Church,
in 1939.
When he became Commissioner
of Agriculture I expected his in
terest to somewhat diminish. I
Farm Home Hints
some friend’s birthday or anni
versary has just passed and you
have neglected to send a gift or
a card.
Here then is the solution: Be
fore tacking up a new calendar at
the first of each year, go through
and encircle in red the dates for
all the special birthdays and an
niversaries. Then as the days
and weeks and months pass, the
red circles will serve as remind
ers and no friends will have been
forgotten.
The bottom of the scouring pow
der can will not leave rust marks
Friday, March 12,1948
hated losing that much.
We have been trying to find
one of those spouted pans, but
have failed. We used to call them
cake moulds. Some were fluted,
some eight-sided and some plain
round, but nearly every house
keeper had several. I hope they
come on the market again.
An expert on cakes told me that
sometimes angel food falls because
the sides of the baking pan are
too smooth. She said this cake is
so delicate in texture it needs
something to cling to when rising;
and that it is a good plan to rub
the mould lightly with rough
steel wool, if it seems perfectly
smooth inside.
Some women, aided and abetted
by some men, are clamoring for
equal rights in drinking liquor.
They declare that a woman has
as much right as a man to enter
a saloon, or whatever name it
bears, and stand there drinking
the intoxicant of her choice. One
of the statements made is that
woman’s appearance in such
places has a “refining and ennobl
ing influence.”
All right, or all wrong. How
ever, I stand by the assertion that
the few drunken women it has
been my misfortune to see showed
very little of either refinement or
nobility. Os course I didn’t see
them in saloons, and that may
make a difference.
have been gratified (and so wrote
him several years ago) at his
regular attendance upon Sunday
School and Preaching Services,
and especially that he seldom
misses our monthly Business
Meeting of the Officers. It has
been during this time that he has
been Moderator, has gone to the
Assembly, and has started and
promoted our Building Fund.
For the benefit of the women I
would like to add that Mrs.
Scott, (whose father, Mr. J. R.
White, was for years a Ruling El
der in our Church) has been a
partner with Mr. Scott in the
work of the Church. She has
served as President of our Wo
man’s Auxiliary, as Historian of
our Church, as a teacher in the
Sunday School, has been a mem
ber of the Executive Board of the
Presbyterial, and is now a mem
ber of the Synodical Executive
Board.
I personally thank you for any
support you can give Mr. Scott
and believe you will be doing the
State a service when you help
elect him to the office of Gov
ernor.
I am, Sincerely yours,
N. N. Fleming
on bathroom fixtures if it is dip
ped in hot parrafin.
A yearly weeding out of worn
out kitchen utensils, and other
odds and ends, will get rid of
dust collectors, save extra work
and valuable storage space.
The hardy climbing varieties of
roses, those which bloom only in
the spring, should be pruned im
mediately following the period of
flowering.
Turkeys are usually kept in a
brooder house during the first six
to twelve weeks. After that time
they may be placed on the range.
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