THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV.
REASON FOR CAUTION
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Driver of the car in the ditch failed to yield the right-of-way, even
to an ambulance. He ran through a plainly vitible stop sign, directly |
into the path of the ambulance, and teas knocked across the road.
Driver teas killed, and a passenger teas injured. Emergency vehicles
always have the right-of-way—but at other times, too, it pays to be
courteous at intersections. Failure to grant right-of-way ranked second
jas a cause of motor vehicle deaths in 1946. National Conservation
I Bureau advises: when in doubt, always yield the right-of-way.
Wake County Rural Schools
Will Open on September Ist
Wake County schools will open
for the 1948-49 year on September
1, unless the opening is delayed by
health authorities because of the
polio epidemic, Principal Fred
Smith announced yesterday.
No statement relative to the
school opening has yet been made
by Dr. A. C. Bulla, Wake health
officer, although other authorities
have declared the polio peak is
now passed.
The largest first grade enroll
ment in ten years is expected, ac
Funeral Services Held
For Mrs. 0. B. Parrish
Funeral services were held
Wednesday at the Hales Chapel
Church for Mrs. Ruby Barham
Parrish and her infant son, both
of whom died in Rex Hospital
Tuesday. The Rev. J. N. Stancil
conducted the services and burial
was in the church cemetery.
Survivors besides her husband,
Otis B. Parrish, include four
daughters, Mrs. R. W. Watkins,
of Zebulon, Rachel, Shirley, and
Joyce of the home; six sons, Percy
of the Army, William Earl, Gene,
George, James, and Bill of the
home; her mother, Mrs. W. J. Bar
ham of Richmond, Va., two sisters,
Alma and Pinkie of Richmond;
two brothers, Milton Barham of
Zebulon, Rt. 1, and W. T. Bar
ham of Wendell.
EULA NIXON GREENWOOD:
Raleigh Roundup
KINGS AND BEAUTY QUEENS
—ln this land of the plunging
neckline and the bare midriff, it
is a lowly hamlet indeed which
does not have one or more beauty
queens these days.
Speaking at the Peach Festival
held in Rockingham last week,
J. M. Broughton, cutting a twink
ling eye at the queens assembled
there, reminded them that one of
the first beauty contests of which
we have any v history occurred
while King David lay on his death
bed. As usual, J. Melville knew
whereof he spoke. Fact is, he
might have added that the serious
condition of the man who had
ruled with iron hand over Israel
for 40 years prompted the search
for a comely young woman.
David, even as his son Solomon
after him, had an eye for the
Number 19.
cording to a statement by Super
intendent Randolph Benton of the
Wake County system. ‘War babies’
totaling 1,030 attended the Wake
County pre-school clinics, Mr.
Benton said, and most of them
are expected to enter the first
grades. Compared with last year’s
401 student graduates from the
county schools, this year’s total
number of graduates is expected
to be approximately 1,000. The
total average enrollment last year
was 14,323.
Wakelon School has virtually its
entire teaching staff selected for
the 1948-49 term, although no
coaching selection has been made.
Mrs. Dewey Massey, luchroom
manager, Mrs. Pattie Harris,
teacherage manager, and J. W.
Bowling, janitor, will all return
this fall.
One new building addition, an
annex to the vocational agricul
ture structure, has been completed
during the summer.
Sings Role of Mercedes
Mrs. Frank Kemp sang last Sun
day evening at nine o’clock over
WRAL as guest solosit for the
Raleigh Opera and Concert Group.
Mrs. Kemp will sing the role of
Mercedes in the opera. Carmen, to
be presented by the group in the
Little Theatre, Raleigh, in early
fall.
beauty in words, wisdom, good
ness, and the female form as well.
So, as David lay dying, his ad
visors—see first chapter of First
Kings—decided to bring in a young
virgin: “and let her stand before
the king, and let her cherish him.”
After quite a search, Abishag
was brought in. Although she
was very beautiful and did cherish
him, David responded not in the
least. Well, they knew then and
there that David was a goner. Sure
slept with his fathers,” and Solo
mon ascended the throne.
These modern North Carolina
misses may be no great shakes as
Abishags, but the response they
get from the audience and from
the photographers and the papers
realy puts the young Shunammite
of King David’s day in the shade.
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Zebulon, N. €., Friday, July 30, 1948
Wake Health Officer Restricts
Activities to Halt Poliomyelitis
Managers of Amusement
Centers Are Notified
Os Plan for Prevention
By A. C. Bulla, M. D.
Wake County Health Officer
In an effort to more adequate
ly cope with the increased num
ber of poliomyelitis cases occur
ring in Wake Count, the Wake
County Board of Health has adopt
ed an over-all plan of control.
Following the action of the Ra
leigh City Council, July 19, in
closing city swimming pools and
recreational facilities, the Raleigh
Ministerial Association, on this
date, July 22, 1948, called a meet
ing and passed a resolution to sus
pend all church activities involv
ing the young age group up to and
including 16 years of age.
While this resolution was being
passed, the managers of theaters,
swimming pools, and other places
of recreation were informed of the
action of the Board of Health and
were notified of the over-all plan
of control, and were asked that
beginning on Friday, July 23, at
11 o’clock to refuse the admittance
of children 16 years of age and
under. All who have been con
tacted have agreed to do so; those
who have not yet been contacted
will be and will be asked to fol
low this plan.
The Board of Health is making
this action county-wide and will
officially notify each manager
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Negro Family Nearly
Trapped In Local Fire
A Negro family narrowly es
caped death shortly after 11
o’clock Wednesday night when 8‘
women and children were nearly
trapped in a bedroom of their
blazing home.
Lillie Morgan, who owned the
dwelling located about a half mile
behind the Merry Grove Church,
two miles south of Zebulon, her
daughter, and six children, were
asleep in a front bedroom, when
they awoke to find the wallpaper
afire and the ceiling smoking.
The family rushed from the
room in nightclothes, and was un
able to save anything from the
blazing building. They were able >
to dress from clothing hanging on
a wash line, and neighbors put
them up for the night.
The cause of the fire, which is
believed to have started in the
kitchen, has not been determined.
Local Man Receives
Commendation of VA
W. L. Bullock of Zebulon was
presented with a Certificate of Ap
preciation by Chief Administrator
Carl R. Gray, Jr., of the Veterans
Administration, for a suggestion
he made regarding more efficient
use of the equipment in the hos
pital at Fort Bragg.
The commendation stated in
part that “you are to be commend
ed for your interest in the activi
ties of the Administration Services
and for the development of the
information which you submit
ted ”
Mr. Bullock’s work at* the Vet
erans Hospital is as attendant in
charge of issuing equipment.
Baptist Coed
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Bessie Kay Williams, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Pink Williams,
who is the first Zebulon co-ed to
take her entire four years of col
lege work at Wake Forest. A 1948
graduate of the Baptist school,
Miss Williams plans to enter med
ical school this fall.
Howard Beck, Jr., Is
Rotary Club Singer
The Zebulon Rotary Club was
treated a variety in its program
last Friday night, with Howard
Beck of the Club Service Com
mittee speaking about member
ship, and Ralph Talton and How
ard Beck, Jr., providing the enter
tainment.
The Rotarians were delighted
with the younger Beck’s singing
of “Home on the Range,” and
“Four Leaf Clover,” as he was
accompanied by Ralph.
Howard, Sr., brought a very in
formative talk on the benefits
of Rotary Fellowship and what it
meant to him in the short time
he has lived in Zebulon. In re
sponse to his questions, Early Mos
er and Vaiden Whitley agreed the
fellowship in the club today is
as good if not better than it was
15 years ago.
Visitors for the meeting were
Roy Liles, Occoneechee Boy Scout
Executive, and Frank Horn.
SEEN AND HEARD:
Snow Cream in July
A few days ago when most of
us were mopping the sweat off
our fevered brows, Billy Bunn,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernice Bunn,
went down to the Colonial Froz
en Foods place of business, w r ent
to his freezer locker, and took out
a container of snow cream which
he had prepared last January
when all of us were cussing the
deep snows all over the place.
As Billy feasted on the delicious
cream, which he says was as good
as when new, he reasoned that
there must be good in everything
when the terrible snows of Janu
ary bring pleasure during the ter
rible heat of July.
Early Sunday morning J. P.
Arnold noticed a strange biplane
circling Zebulon as though lost.
Knowing that no one would be
at the Zebulon airport at that
early hour, he drove out to see
Thco. Davis Sons, Publishers
Sunday Schools Closed
As Churches Join Fight
Against Dread Paralysis
Poliomyelitis caused the closing
of Sunday Schools in this com
munity to all children 16 years
and under, as local churches voted
to cooperate with the county and
state health officials in fighting
the worst epidemic of the dread
disease in history. Zebulon, on
the eastern boundary of the epi
demic zone extending from Ra
leigh to Asheville, waited hope
fully to see if the quarantine
would end the epidemic.
The second case here struck
15-month old Bernice Swain Car
roll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James W. Carroll, who live south
of Zebulon, just across the John
ston County line. She is suffering
paralysis of the throat and hos
pital attendants reported the
child’s condition to be critical.
The Rev. Paul Carruth and Rev.
Carlton Mitchell have announced
that all church activities for chil
dren have been curtailed at the
local Methodist and Baptist
churches. This action followed a
meeting of the Raleigh and Wake
County ministers, at which time
it was agreed that the best inter
ests of the children would be serv
ed by producing a radio broad
cast of the Sunday School lesson
for children and discouraging any
group meetings.
Decision Is Commended
Wake County Health Officer A.
C Bulla commended the decision
and announced that all other pub
lic gatherings would be closed to
children, including theaters and
playgrounds.
The ministers encouraged par
ents to teach the Sunday School
lesson in the home during the per
iod of curtailment. The Sunday
School Council of the Baptist
Church agreed to keep weekly
records of the children in Sunday
School who continue their work
at home. *
Worship services and other
adult activities will continue as
usual at the churches.
On orders of Roy Liles, Occo
neechee Council Scout Executive,
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if he could be of any assistance.
He found two Negro army pilots
flying a Stearman, as lost as any
birdmen could be. They had start,
ed from Norfolk to Blackstone,
Virginia, flying a course which led
them north of their destination.
Turning south toward Blackstone,
they flew, expecting to hit the
town.
But somehow they missed
Blackstone, and, low on gas, be
gan circling the first town they
could find, which turned out to
be Zebulon, completely equipped
with an airport, but no marker to
tell them where they were. And
they didn’t have a map to help
them out.
Arnold drew a map for them on
a piece of paper, showed them the
way back to Virginia, and waved
them off. The next time, he said,
they’ll be carrying a whole air
plane full of maps.