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DOLLAR DAYS IN ZEBULON FRIDAY & SATURDAY THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXV. Number 51. COLLEGE MOVES TO CROSS ROADS J%jf jG| pr Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin, president of Wake Forest College, is pictured above at the left after he agreed with Milton Satterwhistle of Zebulon, Route 4, and Tommy Plushbottom of Hopkins Cross Roads, right, to move Wake Forest College to the Cross Roads instead of Winston-Salem. The Reynolds Foundation offer has now been definite ly rejected with the understanding that merchants of the Cross Roads community will provide an endowment of $15,000,000 for Wake Forest. Cash contributions, made late yesterday afternoon, were Philip Bunn, $50,000; Red Horton, $10,000; Crip Duke, $10,000; and Ivan Hopkins, $250,000. You don’t believe it? Well, today is April Fool’s Day, isn’t it? Soil Conservation Croup Begins Meadow Contest By C. L. Winchester The Wake County Supervisors of the Neuse River Soil Conserva tion District are conducting a meadow strip or sod waterway contest in 1949, assisted by the other agricultural agencies of the county. The county committee is composed of L. O. Page, State Hospital, chairman; Joe Tippett, Zebulon, vice-chairman; H. M. Olive, New Hill, secretary; and M. G. Brooks, Fuquay Springs, honorary supervisor. The committee feels that mead ows are needed to adequately car ry concentrated water from ter races down natural draws to a lower level where it will not wash a gully. Besides preventing ero sion the meadow is a source of feed either as hay or for grazing. The supervisors recommend that the meadow be located in natural draws or valleys in the field, pre pared and sown to adapted plants. For dry sandy soils sericea is rec ommended. For fertile soils, the supervisors recommended orchard Home Demonstration Agent Lists Plentiful Foods During This Month Food markets will be well sup plied in April with carrots as win ter crop marketings are expected to be 20 percent greater than last year, Mrs. Maude Mclnnes, home demonstration agent for the State College Extension Service, said this week in releasing the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s April plentiful foods list for Southern States. Carrots, Mrs. Mclnnes said, are rich in carotene, which the body changes to vitamin A. With the 1948 oat crop slightly below the highest production on record, oatmeal has been named as a plentiful food for April. Oat grass with ladino clover or alfal fa. On poorly drained soils, tall fes cue and ladino are recommended. The supervisors also recommended that 600 lbs. to 1000 lbs. of a 2- 12-12 fertilizer be applied after soil is adequately limed. Some farmers are sowing spring oats and lespedeza now on mead ows. Next fall the lespedeza will be disced and either the ladino or alfalfa and either the ladino or Prizes amounting to SIOO.OO and a barbecue to all farmers who es tablish meadows are being donated by Proctor and Barbour of Fu quay Springs, Raleigh Tractor and Equipment Company, Raleigh, and N. C. Equipment Company, Ral eigh. These companies realize that conservation farming pays in the use of power equipment. T. P. Baker has recently prepar ed two meadows and sown them in spring oats and lespedeza. The lespedeza will be disced and sown to a grass legume mixture this fall. products are an inexoensive source of food energy, the home agent pointed out. Corn products also will be in good supply in April. Among the protein foods on the April plentiful list that offer food shoppers a wide choice in menu planning are: broilers, fryers, eggs, processed dairy products, dried beans and peas, peanut butter, and fresh and frozen fish. Oranges will continue in good supply in April despite the unfav orable weather early this year, and canned citrus juices and grapefruit sections will be abund ant. Prunes, especially the small er sizes, and raisins will be plen- Zebulon, N. C., Friday, April 1, 1949 Robert K. Horton Named Engineer By River Board Robert K. Horton has been ap pointed as a sanitary engineer on the staff of the Ohio River Val ley Water Sanitation Commission, it was announced by Hudson Bi ery, chairman of the commission. The commission is the new regu latory agency that will aid states of the Ohio River Basin in stream clean-up programs. Mr. Horton, who is a native of Zebulon, comes to the commission following six years service in South and Central America where he was engaged in directing sani tation programs sponsored by the United States Government through its Institute of Inter-American Af fairs. During four of these years he was assigned to these duties as a commissioned officer of the Sanitary Corps of the U. S. Army from which he was honorably dis charged with the rank of lieuten ant-colonel. During part of this time he was stationed in Peru as sanitary pro ject director in the Chimbote area where a port and steel manufac turing center was being readied for war needs. He was then put in charge of the Institute’s health and sanitation program in El Sal vador, which included design of water supply and sewage dispos al facilities in that country as well as investigation on the treat ment of coffee-mill wastes. Prior to entering the Army in 1942 Mr. Horton was a research fellow on stream polution at the University of North Carolina. From 1938 to 1940 he was employ ed by the Textile Foundation of Washington, D. C. to conduct re search on industrial waste treat ment methods. A graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1938 Mr. Hor ton holds a bachelors degree in civil engineering and a master of science degree in sanitary engi neering. He has been honored in academic and engineering circles by election to Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. Mr. Horton and his wife have taken up residence in Cincinnati at 7158 Eastlawn Drive, Roselawn. He is the son of Mrs. John D. Horton and the brother of Mrs. Eugene Privette. Scott to Address Wake REA Meet Governor W. Kerr Scott will de liver an address at the Wake REA Cooperative meeting of stockhol ders in Wake Forest next Sat urday morning, April 9, at 10 o’clock. A barbecue dinner will be serv ed to co-op members after the morning session, and a meeting of the Board of Directors will be held. C. S. Chamblee of Zebulon is a member of the board. Old Maids to Meet The ladies of the Zebulon Meth odist Church will present “The Old Maid’s Convention” on Thurs day, April 7, at 8 p. m. in the Wakelon School auditorium. The program, described as “packed with laughs,” is being given for the benefit of the Meth odist Church building fund. Mrs. H. C. Wade will present a group of her pupils in a short dance revue. ENGINEER Robert Horton of Zebulon, re cently named an Ohio River sanitary engineer. Will Fowler, 54, Dies at Hartford; Buried Wednesday William Lee (Will) Fowler, 54, of Reedy Branch Farm near Wen dell, died Sunday morning at 5:15 o’clock in Hartford Hospital at Hartford, Conn. He was bom in Granville Coun ty on November 27, 1894, the son of the late Joseph and Mary Fow ler. He had made his home in Johnston County since he was 18 years old, and retired last year from active management of the farm he had operated for many years. Mr. Fowler was a veteran of World War 1, a member of the Masons, the American Legion, Woodman of the World, and a jus tice of the peace in his community. He was a member of the Corinth- Holder Baptist Church of Wendell. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruby Barnes Fowler of Wendell; a son, Will Barnes Fowler of Wen dell; a daughter, Mrs. Annie Mae Horton of Windsor, Conn.; two sis ters, Mrs. G. Roy Barnes of Wen dell, and Mrs. Leonard Fulghum of Goldsboro; three brothers, El vin George Fowler of Newport News, Va., Henry Joseph of Wen dell, and A. Graham Fowler of Zebulon; and three grandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock at the Corinth-Holder Baptist Church of Wendell. The Rev. Paul Hardy officiated, assisted by the Rev. C. W. Teague, the Rev. Debro Stancil and the Rev. A. D. Parrish. Negro tenants of the Reedy Branch Farm served as pallbear ers, and interment was in the fam ily plot of the Salem Church Cem etery in Wendell. Wendell Tobacco Market Makes Plans for 1949 Selling Season New plans of operation for a number of the warehouses on the Wendell Market for the 1949 sea son have recently been formally announced by E. H. Moser, Sales Supervisor and Secretary of the Wendell Chamber of Commerce. J. M. Talley, popular ware houseman of Durham and Fuquay Springs, will manage the sales of the Producers Cooperative Ware house during the current market ing year. The warehouse heretofore known as Bernard’s No. 1, and Bernard’s No. 2, will this year carry the names of Banner Ware Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Drive-In Theatre To Open Tonight On Highway 64 The Wenlori, Drive-In theatre, located on Highway 64 between Wendell and Zebulon, is expect ed to be open to the public on Friday, April 1, 1949. The car capacity of the new theatre will be 265 with individ ual speakers for each car. The Wenlon will have another feature believed to be the only one in North Carolina. This is a talk-back system to the conces sion stand. This stand will fea ture drinks, cigarettes, candy and popcorn. The new drive-in theatre will be owned and operated by Ben Allen, of Raleigh, N. C. Allen is well known in Wendell. Mrs. Allen is the former Lucille Stott, of Wen dell. The Allens are living in Raleigh at the present time. “The best pictures available will be shown at the Wenlon Drive-In Theatre,” said Allen. Opening at 6:45 p. m., the show starts at 7:15. There will be two shows each night. There will be no charge for children under 12 years of age. Father of Zebulon Woman Dies at Apex Funeral services for Dixon Wil son Maynard, who died at his home in Apex Saturday morning, were held at 4 p. m. Sunday from the Apex Baptist Church, con ducted by the pastor, the Rev. Ross A. Cadele. Mr. Maynard is survived by four children, Misses Lillian and Edith Maynard of the home, Mrs. Philip Massey of Zebulon, and Ben May nard of Apex; one grandchild, Mi's. Anne Massey Snell of Zebulon; and two great grandchildren. His wife, the former Dora Bea vers, died in 1941. i Juniors to Present Class Play Tonight When the Wakelon Junior Class presents its annual production to night at 8 p. m., an evening full of side-splitting laughs is prom ised, The play, “Take It Easy,” features Beagle Jones, the human bloodhound, as he tracks down a famous jewel thief. Also seen is a painting of Mrs. Highgate’s by—not one—but three artists, as she tries to “keep up with the Joneses!” Admission for the play is 15c for children and 35c for adults. house Number One and Two. Operating these houses will be a team of experienced tobacconists, J. W. Dale, Jr., of Nashville, Ga., Fred Harris and I. C. Medlin, both of Bailey, N. C L. R. Clark and his son, L. R. Clark, Jr., will again operate the popular Farmers Warehouse with a competent and friendly staff to aid them. Courteous treatment has won the Farmers many loyal : friends. Making its bid for tobacco for the first time last year, the North side Warehouse proved to be one (Continued on Back Page)
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