THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV. Number 15.
Applications Being Accepted
For Local Rural Carrier Post
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an ex
amination to fill the position of
rural carrier at Zebulon.
The examination will be held at
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Barning Tobacco j
Fred Vick, colored farm- j
er of Zebulon. Route 2, !
says that he is not rushing
the season it’s that the
season is rushin" him! He
began barning his tobacco
on Tuesday of this week.
Fred says that the tobac
co was ripe and ready for
barning. This is the first
report in this section of
anyone barning the 1948
weed crop.
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Vester Brantley New
President of Rotary
Vester Brantley, newly elected
president of the Zebulon Rotary
Club for the coming year, was in
stalled in office last Friday night
along with five other new officers
of the group. Dr. L. M. Massey
was in charge of the proceedings.
•Willie B. Hopkins was installed as
vice-president, Armstrong Canna
dy as secretary, and Robert Daw
son and Eldred Rountree as direct
ors.
Ralph Talton, outgoing presi
dent of the club, expressed his
appreciation for th(?**fc6operation
given him by the members and
spoke of some of the projects
which the Zebulon Rotarians have
successfully completed this year.
The new president, Vester
Brantley, took the gavel from
Ralph, and after thanking the club
for the honor of being its leader,
promised untiring efforts toward
making the coming year one of the
best in the club’s history.
Wakefield Services
To Begin Sunday
The Wakefield Baptist Church
will begin a series of special re- j
vival services Sunday night at
eight o’clock. These services will
continue each night during the
week and will loose on Friday,
July 9. The Rev. Charles McCon
nel, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Franklinton, wdl be
the guest preacher. The public
is most cordially invited.
SEEN AND HEARD:
The Sign Comes Down
Charlie Shannon, former chief
of police in Zebulon is visiting
around town this week, and is
naturally spending some time in
or around the Town Office. He
is living up at Monroe in Union
County, but spent last week at
the beach; he shows it—Charlie
is red as a beet.
Our friends down in Johnston
County are mighty happy about
the outcome of the second pri
mary. They turned out in enor
mous numbers to vote, and beat
their local machine even worse
than Kerr Scott did thj state ring.
The Johnson sign stretching
from the Privett Bldg, across Ar
endell Avenue to Dr. Massey’s
Zebulor Receipt of applications
will close on July 22, 1948.
The date of examination will
be stated on admission cards mail
ed to applicants after the closing
date for receipt of applications,
according to Postmaster M. J. Sex
ton.
The salary of a rural carrier on
a standard route of 30 miles is
$2020 a year, with an additional
S2O a mile a year for each mile or
major fraction thereof in excess of
30 miles. Salaries on routes of
shorter length or less frequent
service are proportionately lower.
All rural carriers must furnish
and maintain at their own expense
all necessary vehicle equipment
for the prompt handling of the
mails, but they are allowed an
equipment maintenance of 7 cents
a mile on the basis of the daily
mileage scheduled (this amounts
to $640.50 per year for a 30-mile
route). They are permitted to use
motor vehicles, but are required to
furnish sufficient equipment to
handle postal business properly.
Rural carriers shall be promoted
successively at the beginning of
the quarter following one year’s
satisfactory service in each grade
to the next higher grade until they
reach the 11th grade (for a stand
ard 30-mile daily route, an in
crease of SB4 a year is provided in
each grade, through grade 11).
Carriers who perform faithful
and meritorious service shall be
promoted to grade 12 after three
years of such service in grade 11,
and shall be promoted to grade 13
alter five years of such service in
grade 12, and shall be promoted to
grade 14 after seven years of such
service in grade 13. (Public Law
134, 79th Congress of July 6, 1945)
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David Massey Has
First Cotton Bloom
David Massey, of Zebulon Route
2, brought in the first cotton blos
som of the season Friday of last
week. He picked the white bloom
on Thursday from the patch on
his farm.
He reported that there were
quite a few blossoms ready to
come out in the same field. For
bringing in the first blossom, the
Record is extending his subscrip
tion a year.
On Monday of this week Donnie
Boykin-brought in another blos
som from his farm .on Zebulon
Route 2. Others were reported
all through this week.
office came down. Bill
Allman ably assisted by “High
pockets,” removed the banner on
Tuesday afternoon, but not be
fore Willard Gill had draped the
sign with black crepe.
The thunderstorm we had ear
lier this week brought about as
much lighting as we ever expect
to see in these parts, and it struck
at least twice in the same place--
one of the Carolina Power & Light
transformers.
Out in Montrose, Colorado, last
week a bolt of lightning knocked
down a fellow named Austin Ba
ca. He got up just before a sec
ond bolt knocked him down again.
We got mildly shocked by light
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ONCE AGAIN—THE LOST COLONY! And Old Tom dances merrily through the scenes of
Paul Green’s symphonic drama which relates the tale of the first white colonists to establish English
colonies in America. At left above, two of the players mix paint for the scenery which decorates the
stage of the outdoor amphitheatre (right above) over the waters of Roanoke Sound on Roanoke Is
land. N. C. Virginia Dare, first white child born in the New World is christened by Father Martin (bot
tom left). At court, Queen Elizabeth smokes the new weed brought over from the New World by the
friendly Indians.
Scott Wrecks Machine in State
With Landslide Victory Saturday
Little River Townslftp turned
| out an even thousand strong last
1 Saturday to give Kerr Scott, the
| people’s candidate for Governor, a
I tremendous majority over his
{ machine-backed opponent, Char
: les M. Johnson.
The Haw River farmer, who re
i signed as Commissioner of Agri
culture to make the race for the
state’s highest elective office, re
ceived 729 votes in Zebulon and
and Mitchell’s Mill, against 271 for
Mr. Johnson. In the first primary
Scott received 493 in the Township
against 238 for Johnson and 207
for R. Mayne Albright.
A heavier vote was cast in the
Township in the second primary
than in the first. The 1000 ballots
Saturday showed an increase of
45 over the May 29 victory for
Scott, when 955 people voted in
Little River Township. Elsewhere
in lorth Carolina balloting was
heavier than generally expected.
The local township balloting
resulted in more votes for the peo
ple’s candidate than was given
him in each of 21 entire counties:
Avery, Brunswick, Camden,
Chowan, Clay, Currituck, Dare
Gates, Graham, Henderson, Hyde,
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Stores to Close
All the stores in Zebu
} lon will be dosed on Mon
j day, July 5, to ?ive a long
j er Independence Day va
j cation to store employees.
I The stores will reopen as
! usual Tuesday morning.
Stores in nearly every
town in North Carolina
will observe the July 5
holiday.
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SIGHTS ZEBULON FOLKS WILL SEE AT MANTEO
Madison, Mitchell, Pender, Per
quimans, Surry, Swain, Tyrrell,
! Yadkin, Yancey, and Cabarrus
Mr. Johnson carried only two
precincts in Wake County, his
I home precinct of Hayes-Barton j
where he led Scott by 464 to 456,
: and Garner, home of Paul Banks;
who managed Johnson’s campaign!
I in Wake County. He failed to car
ry a single precinct in Durham
County, which Oscar Barker
I carried in the first primary. Bark
er, whose home is in Durham, had
endorsed the machine candidate
, in the second primary.
Franklin, Nash, and Johnston, 1
and Wilson Counties were also j
numebered among the 65 counties!
EULA NIXON GREENWOOD:
Raleigh Roundup
HL BLE— The tumult and the
shouting dies; the Captains and
the Kings depart; Still stands
Thine ancient sacrifice, an humble
and a contrite heart.
Last Saturday night just be
fore W. Kerr Scott left + he ball
room of the Carolina Hotel to re
turn to his country home in the
Back Creek section of Alamance
County, one Charles Johnson of
Asheboro, no relation to the de
feated candidate, asked h’m for
his autograph and some comment.
Scott, rather inarticulate at the
moment, did not know what, to say
on the piece of paper which Mr.
Johnson shoved at him. He was
advised to pen simply the words:
“I won.”
“No, let’s not say that!” re
plied Scott. With that, he placed
the sheet of paper on one knee
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
carried by Kerr Scott. The results
of Saturday’s balloting in this sec
tion of North Carolina follow:
Wake—Scott 12,562, Johnson
6,205; Johnston—Scott 5,510,
Johnson 3,167; Nash —Scott 4,258,
Johnson 2,486; Franklin—Scott
3,123, Johnson 994; Durham—
Scolt 5,029, Johnson 2,120; Ala
mance —Scott 7,304, Johnson 685;
Chatham —Scott 2,844, Johnson
867; Randolph—Scott 3,087, John
son 1,408.
Every county in the fourth con
gressional district was carried
with a comfortable margin by
Scott, who was high man in 7 of
the state’s congressional districts
in the first primary May 29.
| and scribbled: “We won. W. Kerr
Scott.”
He was humble in victory.
IN 1932 AND 1936 There was
J no absentee ballot in the Primary.
That’s virtually the whole story.
This column agrees with thous
ands and thousands of good Demo
crats throughout the State who
firmly believe that Dick Fountain
really won in 1932 and Dr. Ralph
McDonald really won in 1936 . . .
but they lost.
J. M. Broughton became Gov
ernor in 1940, and the 1942 Legis
lature gave-the hatchet to the ab
sentee ballot in the Primary. Willie
Lee Lumpkin of Franklin County
introduced the bill. Franklin last
Saturday gave Scott 3,123 and
Johnson 994. Lumpkin was in
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