THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV.
Plans for Farmers' Day in Zebulon Are Complete;
Kerr Scott to Speak; Fiddlers' Convention Planned
Wendell Tobacco Men
Predict Greatest Year
In History of Market
The Wendell Tobacco Market,
one of the fastest growing mark
ets in the entire Eastern Belt, is
ready for the auctioneer’s chant
which will begin Thursday, Aug
ust 19.
Confident that this year will be
the biggest in the market’s history,
warehousemen have spared no ex
pense in preparing for what they
expect to be the greatest influx of
tobacco ever to come to Wendell. 1
Nearly every warehouse on the
market has been increased in size,
two new modern prize houses have
been constructed on the Norfolk
Southern Railway, and a new j
warehouse has been prepared for
auction sales.
In view of the fact that in the:
ten-year period from 1941 to 1947 !
sales on the local market have in
creased from 5,900,000 to nearly
17 million, preparations have been
completed for conductng two sales
during the 1948 market with every
company represented.
Thirty-five million pounds of
within a radius of fifteen miles of
bright leaf tobacco are grown
the Wendell Market. The tobacco
grown in this area is of ihe best
quality cigarette and pipe smoking
tobacco produced in the world.
All of the major domestic com
panies and export companies, and
leading leaf dealers, such as
Monk-Henderson, J. P. Taylor and
Universal Leaf Tobacco Cc. will
have a complete set of buyers on
the Wendell Market this year.
Many of these buyers have been
on the market before and are well
known in this tobacco growing
section.
Two new prize houses have been
added. These warehouses an; of
modern construction and designed
to give the tobacco companies us-!
ing them every facility for easy j
handling of their tobacco.
Union Chapel Plans
Revival August 29
Union Chapel Church Revival
begins the sth Sunday morning.
There will be no services the sth
Sunday night, but each mght
throughout the week. The meeting
closes the first Sunday in Septem
ber. Services will be conducted
by Pastor Victor S. Dowd, Knight
dale.
EULA NIXON GREENWOOD:
Raleigh Roundup
FRlENDS—Although many of
the Southern states, through var
ious and sundry antics, are doing
their bit to send one Harry Tru
man back to Missouri, they will be
like orphans in the storm in Wash
ington when the Republicans take
over next year.
In view of all this,, North Caro
lina must find solace whereever
possible.
Well, it may be consoling for the
Democrats of the State to know
that J. M. Broughton, Democratic
nominee for the U. S. Senate, is
very friendly with the two men
who are likely to be your next
President and Vice President.
Number 21.
Board President
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Pictured is Philip R. Whitley,
president of the Wendell Tobacco
Board of Trade (Chamber of
Commerce), who predicts the
greatest year in the history of the
Wendell Tobacco Market. The
neighboring town’s market has
grown in recent years with the
coming of John Bernard and
Ronald Hocutt to the scene, and
the employing of E. H. Moser of
Zebulon as executive secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce.
Telephone Exchange
Ready on August 18
Plans to complete the installa
tion of the new dial telephone of
fice here by August 18 were an
nounced today by K. G. Byers,
Manager for the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
The equipment is being instal
led in a recently completed build
ing on Horton Street and will pro
vide facilities to serve many of the
applicants waiting for telephone
service in Zebulon, Manager By
j ers stated.
“The new equipment will nec
{essitate changing all of the pres
ent telephones at 11 p. m. on Aug
ust 18th, and a new Zebulon di
: rectory will be in the subscriber’s
hands at that time. The new ex
change is a part of our program of
improving our facilities to give
Zebulon suscribers the best of tel
ephone service and is another
step in Southern Bell’s steady
progress towards its goal of pro
viding more and better telephone
service for the citizens of North
Carolina,” Byers concluded.
When he was in California with
the Farm Bureau folks on con
vention two years ago, Mr.
Broughton was entertained by Gov
Earl Warren, and the reports
reaching here indicated that they
hit it off well right from the start.
On the day following Broughton’s
defeat of Senator W. B. Umstead,
Gov. Warren sent him a congrat
ulatory wire.
Also, a short while ago J. M.
Broughton, who had gained a
national reputation as an able and
fluent spaeker, adressed some im
portant trades group in New York
City. Gov. Thomas Dewey had him
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Zebulon, N. C., Friday, August 13, 1948
Zebulon Farmers Say
1948 Tobacco Crop
Above Expectations
Zebulon farmers, blessed with
the best tobacco crop in North
Carolina, will begin marketing
| on Thursday, August 19, when the
i warehouses of the Bright Belt
open.
Worried by lack of rainful dur
ing late June and early July and
beset by more than normal hail
storms, many farmers feared they
would not “pay out” on their 1948
icrop, but -at present tobacco looks
L?ood in general and above aver
age in this community.
Although this year’s crop is
small, acreage having been cut ap
proximately 28 per cent from last
year, warehousemen are prepar
ing for bumper yields. New build
ings are going up all over the belt,
with co-operatives building most
of them. Wilson, for example, has
followed the lead of Wendell in
forming a co-op warehouse asso
ciation headed by Hoyt Nichols.
One new house has been built
in Wendell, the Northside, and two
new prize houses have been con
structed there. Wilson has the new
co-op house located on U. S. 264-
A, and Rocky Mount's facilities,
according to Charles G. Weather
by, Zebulon tobacconist, are better
than ever.
The average price on the east
j ern markets is expected to be
i above $55.00 a hundred, although
I the price on the Border Belt
! dropped slightly with the an
! nouncement this week of a 5 per
! cent increase'in next year’s aver
age allotments.
Fred Royster of Henderson,
president of the Bright Belt
Warehousemen’s Association, and
| Senator-nominate J. Melville
Broughton, counsel for the tobac
jeonists’ organization, joined in
I predicting a banner price next
j Thursday. Phil Hedrick, tobacco
J marketing specialist for the North
| Carolina Department of Agricul
, ture, also predicted top prices for
tobacco in this area.
Polio Epidemic Now
Abating Is Belief
No new polio cases were report
ed in Zebulon during the past sev
en jdays, and apparently the epi
j demic is abating slightly.
To keep your children enter
tained during the polio ban tune
in WNAO each week day after
noon at 2 o’clock for special pro
grams designed for them during
this precaution period.
Divided into several programs
to reach various age groups, it is
necessary for your child to mail a
card to the radio station with their
name, address, and telephone
number to participate in the tele
phone quiz programs presented.
Stores Open
Stores in Zebulon will re
main open on Wednesday
afternoons beginning August
18, bringing to a close the
program of giving their em
ployees a half-holiday in the
middle of each week through
the summer months.
HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS TO BE
GIVEN AWAY IN CASH PRIZES
Plans for Farmers’ Day in Zebulon, which will be observed
Thursday, October 12, are complete, Ralph Talton, president of
the Zebulon Chamber of Commerce, announced yesterday.
Highlighted by an appearance of YV. Kerr Scott, Democratic
nominee for Governor and a former Commissioner of Agricul
ture, and the Wake Forest College Band, the day’s activities will
aslo include a horseshoe pitching contest, a checkers contest, a by
cycle race, a fiddlers’ convention, and awarding of cash prizes.
Farm Progress
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Indicative of agricultural prog
ress in this community is the
farmer using the small tractor
shown in this picture. Dozens of
these small units have been sold
in and around Zebulon, in addi
tion to heavy duty machines used
on large acreages.
The merchants of Zebulon will
pay t-ibute on Thursday, October
7. to the farmers of this communi
ty when they observe their first
annual Farmers’ Day. Hundreds of
dollars in prizes will be given
away, both in contests and also
with tickets.
Zebulon Methodists
To Meet at Wakelon
' The Methodist Church will
conduct its Church School and its
Service of Worship at the Wakelon
School for the first time on next
Sunday. The facilities of the
school have been secured for use
by the Church during the period
of construction of its new build
ing. #
The Church School will meet at
10:00 o’clock Sunday morning and
the Service of Worship will be
conducted at 8:00 o’clock in the
evening next Sunday.
THIS, THAT & THE OTHER:
Meat Too Expensive?
By Mrs. Theo B. Davis
A young woman told me once
that every garment she owned was
in perfect order: every button,
hook-and-eye, snap-fastener and
zipper in place; every strap as it
should be; every hem of every slip
matched to the dress it went with;
every stocking that needed darn
ing, mended and rolled with its
mate; and that she had discarded
everything not usable. •
Then, and at intervals ever
since, I have wondered how that
woman felt. I’ll never know by
experience; for no matter how
hard I try, there comes a time
when I find myself safety-pinning
what should have been buttoned,
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
The horseshoe pitching contest
and the checkers tournament will
begin at 10:00 Thursday morn
ing, and will be completed by
noon. The tournament will prob
ably be held at the Woman’s Club,
and horseshoe pitching will take
place on the parking lot across
from City Market.
At 1:30 a band concert will pre
cede the speech by the governor
nominate, and bicycle races and
musical contests will be staged
afterwards. At 5:00 cash prizes
will be awarded to members of
the audience.
This program was approved at
a meeting of the Board of Direct
ors Wednesday night.
In the musical contests, cash
prizes will be awarded for the best
band, and the best performer with
a fiddle, guitar, harp, and banjo.
A public address system will be
used with loud speakers so that
everyone can hear what goes on.
Bicycle Is First Prize
First prize in the bicycle races
will be a deluxe model bicycle,
according to the Chamber of Com
merce. Second prize will be
SIO.OO worthy accessories, and
third will be $5.00 worth of ac
cessories.
For the checker tournament,
the winner will be $25.00 richer,
and a SIO.OO prize will be given
the runner-up. Winner in horshoes
will win $15.00, and SIO.OO will be
presented this runner-up.
A legal plan for giving prizes
with tickets has been worked out
by the local Chamber of Com
merce, and Assistant Attorney
General Bruton gave his approval
to the method after a conference
with Ferd Davis last week.
Farmers’ Day this year is ex
pected to be the greatest single
undertaking of local merchants,
and committee members are work
ing to see that everything goes
smoothly.
or tacking in place what should
have been carefully stitched. But
I believe if once I had all my be
longings in faultless order, I’d al
most want to die right then. Think
how impressed the neighbors
would be when they started to
look for burying clothes.
Sometime ago I bought Gold
Medal flour instead of the Roller
Champion that is my standby.
And for some days we had biscuit
I was ashamed of. Like many oth
er cooks, I had formed the
of putting the pan of biscuit in the
electric oven before turning on the
heat, then setting it at a little
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