THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV. Number 35
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Pictured is Alee Perry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sean Perry.
Miss Perry was the winner of the recent popularity contest at Wake
lon High School, held in conjunction with the Halloween Carnival.
P M A Elections to Be
Held Here December 2
Election of Production Market
ing Administration committeemen
and delegates to the county con
vention will be held next Thurs
day, December 2, from 9:30 a.m.
to 6:00 p.m. A nominating conven
tion will be held at each polling
place Thursday morning from 9:00
to 9:30, prior to the balloting.
The Production Marketing As
sociation is charged with the ac
complishment of functions form
erly carried on by the AA com
mittees, and its organization will
be along the township lines orig
inally followed by the AAA prior
to World War II when the com
munity organization system was
initiated.
All townships in Wake County,
with the exception of Little River
Township, will be represented by
one PMA committee instead of the
three groups used in the past.
Little River, because of its size,
population, and value of agricul
tural products, has been allotted
an extra PMA committee with
powv. r equal to any other township
group. Thus at the county PMA
SPEAKING OF HOSPITALS:
Carl Bjork's Tips
By Carl E. Bjork
If indifference or insensibility
are emotions, then they must
have been dormant in my life for
long periods of time, or upon cer
tain occasions. The absence of
feeling toward certain persons or
things stand out like islands in a
wide deep sea as I view back
wards my short and colorless ca
reer.
Indifference is a want of inter
est but insensibility is a want of
feeling. In some persons and
convention next Friday, December
3, will be eleven delegates:
one from each of the other nine
Wake townships and two from
Little River.
Little River B includes all farm
ers in the township who live west
of Little River, and those who live
north of the road running from
Pierces through Hopkins Cross
Roads, across Highway 264, and
into Fowler’s Cross Roads. Little
River A includes the rest of the
farmers in the township.
All residents' of the township
who participated in 1948 farm pro
gram as landlords or tenants and
did not overplant their tobacco
quotas are eligible to vote in this
election.
Little River B farmers will vote
at J. R. Fowler’s Store, Little Riv
er A farmers will vote at the Zeb
ulon Smith-Douglas office, and
Marks Creek township farmers
will vote at the Wendell town of
fice, according to Robert Ed Hor
ton, local AAA chairman, and
John I. Lynch, Marks Creek
chairman.
things I have registered zero in
interest, and there has often been
no feeling within my inne*' self
at the same time.
But time, too, plays its odd tricks
with these emotions.
Often do men sit down to scan
the years of childhood, only to
arise and compose poems upon fly
ing backward to such days of yore.
Suddenly an intense interest arises,
and a keen feeling over long and
forgotten scenes.
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Zebulon, N. C., Friday, November 26,1948
J. M. Broughton to Speak Here
December 8 at Farm Meeting
New Statewide Increase
In Rates Is Requested
By Telephone Company
Pointing out that increased rates
are necessary to meet today’s costs
and render good service, the
Southern Bell Telephone Company
has filed an application for revis
ed rates with the North Carolina
Utilities Commission, according to
K. G. Byers, manager of the Ral
eigh office, who visited Zebulon
Tuesday. •
Southern Bell declared in its ap
plication that the present rates in
North Carolina are wholly inade
quate for the needs of the business
rendering good service and that its
request is for only such rates as
are absolutely necessary to meet
the telephone needs of the state,
such as telephones for the farmers
of Zebulon.
The rates now in effect are the
emergency charges applied for by
Southern Bell in September of
1946 for business and long distance
services and in October of 1947 for
residential service, Mr. Byers de
clared. This rate increase in these
classes of telephone service, rep
resenting an over-all postwar in
crease of 12-1-3% in revenue, was
the first and has been the only
general increase in rates in North
Carolina since 1921.
The emergency rates were re
quested only as a stop-gap to par
tially offset increases in costs up
to the time application was made
and were not expected to meet all
the increased costs and provide
for the full needs for good and de
pendable service in North Caro
lina, he continued. In addition,
there have been substantial in
creases in costs since the present
rates were determined, the peti
tion declared.
Funeral Services Held
For Leamon Long
Funeral services were held
Monday at the Zebulon Baptist
Church for Leamon B. Long, 38,
of Zebulon, Rt. 2, who died Sat
urday after accidentally stabbing
himself in the leg while slaughter
ing a calf. The Rev. Carlton Mitch
ell officiated. Mr. Long lived ap
proximately fifteen minutes after
the knife entered the large artery
just about his knee.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Opal Grey Horrell; two
sons, Johnnie Lee and Charles
Wesley, and one daughter, Delores
Catherine Long, all of the home;
his father, J. W. Long of Zebulon;
three brothers, Edgar of Zebulon,
Maillard and Linwood Long of
Burlington; seven sisters, Mrs. J.
B. Croom, Mrs. S. C. Alford, Mrs.
S. G. Bunn, Mrs. Franklin Lewis,
Mrs. H. M. Perry, all of Zebulon;
Mrs. B. B. Alford of Burlington,
and Mrs. Ira Macon of Raleigh.
This is the second accidental
death in this family within the last
few years, a son having been kill
ed by an automobile.
Union Services
Union worship services were
held yesterday morning at the lo-
Baptist church. The Rev. Paul Car
ruth, Methodist pastor, delivered
a Thanksgiving message, and the
Baptist Junior Choir sang.
TO SPEAK HERE
j
Senator J. Melville Broughton,
former governor of North Caro
lina. He will be in Zebulon on
Wednesday, December 8, to ad
dress the local Farm Bureau.
Second Monthly Trade
Day to Be Held Here
Next Thursday, Dec. 2
Zebulon’s second monthly Trade
Day will be held next Thursday,
December 2, when an auction sale
will be held by the local Chamber
of Commerce for the benefit of
farmers of the community, and
cash prizes and merchandise will
be given away as good will
awards.
In addition to the auction sale
and awards, members of the Zeb
ulon Chamber of Commerce are
again offering special prices on
merchandise, much of it at a price
below actual cost, President Ralph
Talton announced.
Farmers are asked to have their
goods at the town parking lot
across from City Market by noon
Thursday in order that they may
be properly listed. The auction
will begin at 2 p.m. In the event of
rain, the sale will be held in the
Five County Fair exposition hall.
Merchants are expecting a big
day on the basis of their special
offerings. Because of the dual at
traction of Trade Day and tht P
MA election, many farmers are
expected to be in town to take ad
vantage of the monthly specials.
Satisfaction was expressed with
the first Trade Day (November 4)
by both Zebulon businessmen and
local farmers. Cars, mules, cows,
pigs, and farm and home supplies
were sold at auction.
MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS:
This, That & the Other
By Mrs. Theo B. Davis
If I hadn’t seen it in the Record,
I might not have believed that fif
teen years have passed since I be
gan making chicken pies for Ro
tary club supper§. In checking
over the files of the paper I found
the recipe printed in ’36, with a
statement saying it was published
by request and that I had been us
ing it three years. Think of the
hen and the biscuit dough! But
what a joy to know how to make
a dish that stays popular so long.
I made three and one-half big
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Annual Barbecue to Be
Held in Wakelon Gym;
Membership Drive Lags
Senator J. Melville Broughton
will address the membership of
the Zebulon Farm Bureau at their
dinner meeting Wednesday, De
cember 8, at 5:30 p.m. at the
Wakelon Gymnasium, Robert Ed
Horton announced yesterday. The
senator will be accompanied by
his wife.
Around 600 farmers and their
wives are expected to attend the
annual barbecue, which is open to
all members who sign up for 1949
by November 29. The local unit of
the Farm Bureau is now in the last
phases of its 1949 membership
campaign.
Membership quota for the local
Farm Bureau was set by the coun
ty organization at 600, and ap
proximately three-fourths of this
number of members—individual
and associate—have been secured
thus far. The Wake County quota
is 2,750, and through yesterday
2614 members had been obtained.
“We are still running behind the
quota and our own expectations,”
Horton stated, “and we are anx
ious to reach our quota because
previously we have always led the
entire county. Fuquay Springs has
already exceeded its own quota of
655 members, obtaining over eight
hundred.”
Other Wake County units of the
organization have either reached
or come within 10 per cent of their
quotas. Apex, Panther Branch,
Swift Creek, Fuquay Springs, and
Knightdale have exceeded their
quotas; Wendell and Rolesville are
within 35 and 12 members, re
spectively, of attaining their quo
tas of 350 and 400.
Any local farmer who has not
been contacted personally in the
membership campaign is urged by
the Farm Bureau to bring or mail
his dues to D. D. Chamblee, John
H. Ihrie, or R. E. Horton.
Terminal Grill Now
Under New Owners
Terminal Grill, located at the
Zebulon bus station, is now man
aged by Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Brannon, who took over the su
pervision of the business succeed
ing A. W. Parker.
The Grill will offer hot dogs,
hamburgers, and complete foun
tain service, in addition to a full
line of magazines and pocket nov
els.
hens into pies last week by that
same recipe, and they were the
main feature of the Rotary supper.
Before I got round to putting
the gladiola corms in paper bags
with napthalene flakes sifted over
to kill thrip, I read in the Country
Gentleman an expert’s advice
that says it is better to use a
dusting powder containing from
three to five per cent DDT. This
has the advantage of not having
to be taken off, thus doing away
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