THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV. Number 32.
President Truman Carries Township by 25 to 1;
Scott Leads Ticket in Township, County, Carolina
Truman's Victory
Surprises People
Around Zebulon
Residents of Little River Town
ship, who gave the Democratic
Party a solid vote of confidence
Tuesday, were only a little more
pleased with the outcome of the
national election than they were
surprised. Few local people had
given President Truman even a
fighting chance of election, al
though they voted 25 to 1 for him
against Thomas E. Dewey.
Apprehension Tuesday gave way
gradually to amazement and then ;
jubilation Wednesday morning,
when Govenor Dewey conceeded
the election to his underestimated
Democratic opponent. As much
pleasure—if 1 not surprise—was ex
pressed over the Democratic ma
jorities in the House and Senate
as over the President’s sweeping
victory.
Forgotten was the bitter civil
rights issue, as local Democratic
voters thought of the despair of the
Hoover era. Most Little River
Democrats resolved then never to
vote for any presidential candidate
except a Democrat, and at least
1,078 kept that resolution.
A poignant reminder of the de
pression was given voters by the
placing of a Hoovercart by the
Record as near the local polling
place at the fire station as election
laws allow. Barrie Davis placed on
the Hoovercart a sign reading, “If
you recognize this, you will vote
the straight Democratic ticket,”
and Maltous Alford later in the
day hitched a mule to the vehicle
and drove it about the streets.
The Hoovercart was the same
one used by President Truman in
his fighting speech at the State
Fairgrounds in Raleigh last month.
It was built by Ed Ellington and
Ashley Murphy from a trailer be
longing to Fred Smith, after a
lengthy search for a Hoovercart
requested by State Chairman Cap
us M. Waynick for the President
failed to produce a genuine Hoov
er cart in all of the township, not to
mention portions of Nash, Frank
lin, and Johnston Counties.
First Monthly Trade
Day Held Yesterday
The Zebulon Chamber of Com
merce, blessed with a day of sun
shine after a night of torrential
rain which flooded streams, spons
ored its first monthly Trade Day
auction sale yesterday, when Zeb
ulon farmers and merchants sold
cars, livestock, stoves, and miscel
laneous items.
The auction, which was held on
the town parking lot with Maltous
Alford as auctioneer, was well at
tended by farmers, who took ad
vantage of bargain offered by Zeo
ulon merchants as well as the auc
tion itself.
Fifty dollars in cash good will
prizes and items of merchandize
were given away by the Chamber
of Commerce following the sale.
C. V. Whitley and Ed Hales di
rected the auction, while President
Ralph Talton and Treasurer Vance
Brown directed the awarding of
Chamber of Commerce prizes.
THEY'LL DO IT EVERY TIME
0T the Convention the boys out before Election Day
ANO GIRLS WORK UP A LOT OF THEY'RE ALWAYS HOLDING
LOUD HATRED FOR EACH OTHER! HANDS AGAIN .'
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Plan Is Offered for Paving All Local
Streets as Board Meeting on Monday
The paving work being done on
Wakefield and North Streets is not
costing the Town of Zebulon one
cent, the Zebulon Board of Com
missioners was told by Robert
Dawson at the group’s regular
November meeting held Monday
night. Owners of the property on
each side of the street where the
work is being done are financing
the entire cost, the resident engin
eer stated.
He emphasized that the paving
service is available to any street
in town, provided property owners
on the street are unanimous in
agreeing to pay the entire cost of
the project.
Two blocks on North Street and
one block on Wakefield Street are
being paved at a cost of not over
75 cents per foot frontage, Daw
son reported. He stated that the
cost would be higher on certain
other streets in Zebulon since they
are wider and more grading and
top soil would be required.
Town Clerk W. B. Hopkins
stated that he had canvassed resi
dents on several streets in Zebulon
regarding paving streets, but that
property owners on North Street
and Wakefield Street were the
only ones unanimous in agreeing
to pay the paving costs..
Local Man Is Killed in Hit-Run Case
A wreck near Zebulon Thurs
day night claimed the lives of two
men—Ronald Lee Perry, 35, of
Wendell, Route 2, and Harvey Du
berry, 33-year-old Negro of Ral
eigh, Route 5.
State Highway Patrolmen O. W.
Dean and J. M. Cash filed charge
against Joe Foster, 24-year-old
Negro of Raleigh, Route 5. Foster
admitted he was the driver of a
car which left the highway and
struck Perry, fatally injuring him.
Perry was taken to Mary Eliza
beth Hospital following the acci
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, November 5, 1948
Mayor R. H. Bridgers reported
that the deep wells are delivering
water satisfactorily, and ridiculed
reports that the filter plant has
been required to provide sufficient
water for the town.
Members of the beard passed a
resolution asking the State High
way Department to take over five
blocks of city streets and maintain
them. The streets named are
Fund for Wakelon Athletic Field
Lights Reaches SI3BO This Week
The campaign for funds to in
stall lights at the Wakelon ball
park was proceeding fairly well,
proponents of the plan stated yes
terday, with the fund nearly half
reached.
Contributions during the week
together with the placing of dorm
ant school funds in the light ac
count brought the total available
to $1,381.76, Treasurer Vance
Brown stated. This sum, which in
cludes no uncollected pledges, is
now on deposit at the Peoples
Bank & Trust Company in Zebu
lon.
As yet no intensified solicitation
dent, but he died within an hour
after being struck.
With Duberry riding in the front
seat with him, Foster was driving
a borrowed 1934 sedan in a west
erly direction on the Hood Road
several miles from Zebulon. A car
to which a trailer was attached
was parked on the right shoulder
of the road, facing Foster’s car. To
the right of the parked car was a
six-foot embankment.
The patrolman said that Foster’s
car left the road and went between
the parked car and the bank,
(APOLOGIES TO J. HATLO)
lof funds has been made in the
| community, but members of the
I local school board, together with
other backers of the program,
expect to make the township-wide
request during the next week.
Placed in the fund to date have
been the following contributions,
in addition to $689.76 taken from
a dormant school account:
Previously acknowledged, $400;
Wallace Temple, SSO; C. V. Whit
ley, $100; Leonard Gay, $5; K. P.
Leonard, $5; G. K. Corbett, $5; M.
W. Chamblee, $5; Loomis Strick
land, $2; Zebulon Supply Com
pany, SSO.
Wakefield Street from Highway 64
to North Street, and North Street
from Wakefield Street to Highway
NC 264, and from there to High
way 64,
Present at the meeting were
Mayor R. H. Bridgers, Commis
sioners Bob Sawyer, Norman
Screws and Barrie Davis, Town
Clerk W. B. Hopkins, and Robert
Dawson.
striking Perry and veering up the
embankment.'
Charles Creech, his brother-in-s.
law was with Perry at the time,
but saved himself by leaping from
the path of the vehicle. Perry at
tempted to save himself, but
could not clear the car’s path.
Foster ran from the scene of the
accident without identifying him
self. Officers arrested him four
hours later in a tobacco field near
his brother’s home.
Perry is survived by his wife;
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Dixiecrat Failure
Reflected Here;
Wallace Given 1
The United States went Demo
cratic again Tuesday, but Little
River Township did a little better
job of it than anywhere else. Tra
ditionally Democratic, Zebulon and
Mitchell’s Mill precincts gave an
overwhelming majority to all the
party’s candidates.
Kerr Scott, who carried the
township by 3 to 1 in the Demo
cratic primary last summer, again
got the backing of local voters, re
ceiving more votes than any can
didate for state or national office,
but he led the field only slightly.
Most voters simply marked the
straight Democratic ticket.
Governor-elect Scott also led in
the rest of Wake County, receiv
ing approximately 1,500 more bal
lots than the next high Democrat,
Senator-elect J. Melville Brough
ton, and 4,000 more votes than
President Truman.
The Dixiecrats ran much weak
er in Little River Township than
elsewhere in the county, receiving
only 5 votes; so did Henry Wallace,
who got one vote locally.
The total vote for office-seekers
in both precincts of Little River
Township follows: For president:
Truman 1,078; Dewey 40; Thur
mond 5; Wallace, 1. For U. S.
Senator: Broughton 1,055; Wilkin
son 34; Brown 1. For Governor:
Scott 1,084; Pritchard 26; Mary
Price 1.
For U. S. Congressman: Cooley
1069; Johnson 30; Wright 1. For
Lieutenant - Governor: Taylor
1052; Hayes 26; Harris 0. For Sec
retary of State; Eure 1036; Dewey
31. For State Auditor: Bridges
1060; Hickman 27.
All other Democratic candidates
received approximately the same
vote as did Mr. Bridges. They in
clude Cecil Hopkins, candidate for
justice of peace; Irby D. Gill,
candidate for judge of the Zebulon
Recorders Court; Steve Blackley,
local constable; Wake Representa
tives Arch Allen, W. T. Hatch, and
James Little; and State Senator R.
N. Simms, Jr.
Local Rotary Hears
Robert Kemp Horton
Robert Kemp Horton, former
officer in the U. S. Army, gave one
of the most interesting talks ever
heard by the Zebulon Rotary Club
at their regular meeting last Fri
day night, when he discussed the
Central American country of El
Salvador.
Following his talk, Mr. Horton
showed several dozen Kodachrome
slides taken by the speaker dur
ing his stay in the tiny republic.
As he pointed out, the photographs
told much about the life of the
life of the country.
The El Salvador discussion was
the last in a series of programs
under the direction of Dr. L. M.
Massey on the general theme of
international service. Included in
the group were talks by natives of
England and Poland, and a dis
cussion of present European con
ditions by Ed Sykes of Wendell,
who recently made a business trip
to Europe.