THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV. Number 48.
Keeping North Carolina
Green Is Object of Drive
J W. Bunn, chairman of the Wake County Keep North Caro
lina Green Committee, issued a statement today calling on all
citizens of Wake County to exercise every precaution to prevent
forest and brush fires during the next few weeks.
“We are told by forestry officals that March, April, and May are
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This could happen anywhere,
but usually happens only in Am
erica. Miss Jean Carothers, pic
tured above, has just made Who’s
Who in American Colleges and
Universities on the basis of schol
arship, personality, and leadership.
Two years ago she was chosen as
“Miss Winthrop College” to repre
sent her school at Charleston's Az
alea Festival. She spends her va
cations working at a textile mill
where her father is a weave room
second hand.
Sunday School Class
Has Barbecue Supper
The Men’s Class of the Hopkins
Chapel Baptist Sunday School held
a barbecue supper at the Ameri
can Legion Hut near Tarpley’s Mill
last Friday night with 27 members
and guests present.
Attending the supper were B. K.
Hopkins, Jack Gay, Durwood Mit
chell, Philip R. Bunn, Proctor Lee
Hopkins, Cedel Martin, Broadus
Gay, Graham Bunn, Austin Perry,
Wallace Baker, Jessie Horton, Gar
land Watkins, Burbon Richards.
Eddie Martin, Cecil Hopkins,
Leonard Gay, Frank Howell, Fred
die Privette, Earl Duke, C. E.
Duke, Jr., Waylon Perry, C. W.
Perry, Johnnie May, Milton Bran
non, Pressly Gay, Pettigrew Gay,
and Sweedie Barham.
Pearce Sunday School Gives Bars,
Medals Citing Perfect Attendance
Fifty-one charter members of
the Pearce Baptist Sunday School
received pine wreaths and bars
for perfect attendance in 1948 at a
special service last Sunday. H. K.
Baker of Zebulon, Route 3, is
superintendent of the Sunday
School, and Dr. J. Allen Easley
of Wake Forest is supply pastor of
the church.
First year awards were present
ed to Supt. Baker; Mesdames R. D.
Mills, Otha Upchuch, L. D. Perry,!
and Ervin Ray; S. J. Smith, Carry
Upchurch, Jimmy Johnson, Dan
iel Pearce, Horace Privette, Millie
Privette, Dalton Pearce, Johnny
the most dangerous months of the
year for fires in this State,” Mr.
Bunn said. “High winds, which
usually occur during this period,
make every small brush fire a po
tential inferno capable of destroy
ing thousands of dollars worth of
| growing timber as well as homes
and other personal property.”
Fires Hurt Everyone
“Business and civic leaders of
j Wake County realize that timber
land owners are not the only
I persons who suffer when forest
resources are destoyed by fire.
Every such loss burns a little
| larger hole in the pocket of every
citizen as that much of our coun
ty’s wealth is gone and can never
benefit anyone,” the former Zeb
ulon resident continued.
“Wood-using and wood-proces
sing industries have large invest
ments in our county. They, in ad
dition to the timberland owners,
pay a lot of taxes to support our
schools, build roads, support our
government, and provide jobs for
a lot of people. Their ability to
continue this contribution to our
economic welfare is dependent up
on a continuous supply of forest
resources. Lets not permit forest
fires to curtail it. Lets Keep Wake
County Green,’’ Mr. Bunn conclud
ed.
Week of Prayer Is
Observed by W.M.U.
The local Baptist Woman’s Mis
sionary Union is this week observ
! ing a week of prayer with services
each day at 3:30 p.m. The last
; service is schdeuled for today with
| Mrs. Exum Chamblee as program
leader.
Other program leaders for the
past week have been Mrs. Wallace
Temple, Monday; Mrs. Mamie
Kimball, Tuesday; Mrs. Ruby Buf
faloe with the Sunbeams, Wed
nesday; and Mrs. W. A. Allman.
Thursday.
George Gay Makes
College Dean's List
George Gay, son of the J. E.
Gays of Route 3, Zebulon, made
the Dean’s List at Campbell Col
lege in recognition of his out
standing scholastic achievements
during the first semester of the
current school year, the public
relations office of the college an
nounced this week.
Smith, Lawrence Perry, Donnie
Grey, Emmy Lou and Richard
Perry, Dan Baker, Emily Jane and
Jo Ann Baker, W. D. Price and
Don Upchurch.
Second year awards were pre-
I sented Mesdames Ivan Pearce and
H. K. Privette; Billy Lou Bowling,
Eloise and Lettie Privette, Jean
i and Maxine Price, Hal and Con
nie Mack Perry, Celestra Ray,
Carolyn Arnold, Boyce Pearce,
and Nick Upchurch.
Awards for three years of per
[ feet attendance were presented to
R. H. Johnson, Delona Upchurch,
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Zebulon, N. C., Friday, March 4, 1949
RECEIVES INTERFAITH AWARD
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Judge John J. Parker, second from right, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit,
receives from Harry Golden (at extreme left), editor of the Carolina Israelite, the publication’s annual
Gold Medal interfaith and human rights award at dinner at Hotel Charlotte, while Judge Francis Biddle
(at extreme right) and Richard E. Thigpen (secon I from left), president of the North Carolina Bar
Association, observe the ceremony. Previous winners of the award, made annually during Brotherhood
Week, incluue Senator J. Melville Broughton, Dr. Frank P. Graham, Herschel Johnson, and the late Jo
sephus Daniels. The Carolina Israelite is published by Then Davis Sons, and is mailed through the Zebulon
post office.
Honorary Chairmanship
Os Red Cross Drive
Accepted by Mrs. Scott
Mrs. W. Kerr Scott, wife of the
Governor of North Carolina, will
serve as honorary chairman of the
1949 Red Cross campaign for funds
in Wake County, S. Paul Vecker
of Raleigh, county chapter chair
man, announced this week.
Mrs. Scott will work with the
general campaign committee, of
which Harold Pitser is chairman.
No local chairman has been named
as yet, nor has any quota for
Zebulon been set, but is is expect
ed that the Zebulon Rotary Club
will again be asked to assume re
sponsibility for direction of the
drive here. Dates of the drive will
be announced next week by Mr.
Pitser.
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Ralph Talton served here as
community chairman in the suc
cessful campaigns of 1947 and
1948. Last year the local quota was
$725; in 1947 Zebulon’s quota was
SI4OO. The 1949 quota for the
Wake County chapter, one of 121
in North Carolina, is $45,032.
Zebulon Bank Deposits
Increase 300 Percent j
Edward A. Wayne, vice presi
dent of the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond, revealed last week
an increase of 325 per cent in de
posits in eastern North Carolina
banks since 1941 at a meeting of
agicultural leaders and bankers in
Rocky Mount.
The Peoples .Bank & Trust
Company, according to Cashier R.
Vance Brown, has more than kept
pace with other banks of this area.
The local bank now has deposits
totaling more than $15,000,000 as
compared with less than $4,000-
000 on deposit in 1941.
The Federal Reserve official,
who appeared at the request of the
North Carolina Bankers Associa
tion and the State College Exten
sion Service, declared that better
days are ahead for Tar Heel
farmers. He pointed out that the
325 per cent increase in this area
far surpasses the national average
increase of 140 per cent.
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All parents who have ;
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PI A Hears Lecture
By Dr. Ralph Eilis
Dr. Ralph Ellis, professor of Ed
ucational Guidance and Counseling
at the Univ'ersity of North Caro
lina, gave the first of a series of
lectures comprising the 1949 PTA
study course at Wakelon Monday
night, February 21.
Dr. Ellis, who came to Chapel
Hill from the University of lowa
where he did special work in oc
cupational guidance for 4 years,
spoke on the subject of “Integra
tion of the School Guidance Pro
gram with Home Guidance.”
Principal Fred Smith introduced
the speaker, and president Willie
B. Hopkins presided at the busi
ness session of the Parent-Teacher
Association. The next PTA meet
ing is scheduled for Monday night.
March 21.
Several Local Students Enrolled
In State School of Engineering
The winter term enrollment in
the School of Engineering at North
Carolina State College includes 594
students from Wake County, a
survey of the institution’s registra
tion figures revealed this week.
Dean J. H. Lampe announced
that the School of Engineering
now has a total enrollment of
2,609 students, including 1,823 vet
erans of World War 11.
The Mechanical Engineering
Department attracted the largest
number of students with an enroll
ment of 743, followed by electrical
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Second Leaf Increase
Meets Disfavor Here;
Royster Hits New Plan
Zebulon tobacco farmers were
watching this week for an an
nouncement concerning an in
crease in tobacco acreage for 1949
above the 5 per cent announced
last fall. Most local tobacco grow
ers are opposed to any further in
crease at this time.
Fred Royster of Henderson,
president of the Bright Leaf
Warehouse Association, last week
placed his organization on record
as being against the increase. He
cited the billion-pound crop of
1948 and the one and one-half
billion pound carry-over, as of
•July 1, 19488, as reasons for no
increase this spring.
Last year the acreage cut was
27.52 per cent, and the poundage
drop was 16 per cent; farmers re
i ceived approximately the same for
the 1948 crop as they got for the
1947 crop.
Much dissatisfaction was regis
tered last year when the 5 per cent
increase was announced, with most
criticism being directed at the U.
S. Department of Agriculture for
poor timing of the announce
ment; most farmers felt that re
! vealing the increase before the
markets closed would force prices
down, and subsequently tobacco
prices did drop an average of 5
per cent.
engineering with 565, civil en
gineering with 470, general en
gineering with 301, industrial
engineering with 202, chemical
engineering with 76, and geological
engineering with 182.
Included in the enrollment of
the School of Engineering are
Donald W. Alphin of Wendell,
David R. Arnold, Jr., of Zebulon,
William C. Coley, Jr., of Wendell,
Ronald B. Greene of Zebulon, Rod
erick W. Horton of Zebulon, Jack
Potter of Zebulon, Horace B. Rich
ardson of Wendell, and Warren G.
Tyson, Jr., of Wendell.