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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXXVI. Number 6 LEAD WAKE FOREST S BIG 4 CHAMPS Gene Hooks and Paul Livick are currently tied for home run hon ors with four each in Southern Conference play. Both players are tied in the Big Four race with two homers in league games. Both Hooks and Livick are playing their third year with Wake Forest. Hooks is holding down the hot comer and Livick patrols right field. Dancing Class to Present Revue at School Tonight Wakelon School will present Mrs. H. C. Wade’s dancing class in a revue, “Stars of Tomorrow,” at the high school auditorium at 8 o’clock, Friday night, May 20, Mrs. Wade announced this week. Kenneth Hopkins will serve as accompanist. Ed Ellington Addresses Rotary Club on Friday Ed Ellington, popular agncul- ( ture teacher at Wakelon School, spoke to the Zebulon Rotary Club last Friday night on the vocation al program which is carried on at the school for the boys. His pro gram was another in a series planned by the Vocational Com mittee of the club headed by Rod ney McNabb. The completeness of the courses was emphasized by Ed, who also told of the tremendous value of vocational agriculture, which is revolutionizing farming in this: territory. Beginning tonight, the Rotari ans will begin their meeting at 7:00, instead of 6:30 as has been the case during the winter months. The half hour delay will give ex tra daylight for members to work in their gardens. Ten Thousand Expected to Attend Southern Baptist Term This Week Ten thousand Baptists from 21 states will converge on Oklahoma City, Okla., May 18-22, for the an nual meeting of the Southern Bap tist Convention expected to be the largest religious gathering in America in 1949. Rev. Carlton Mitchell, pastor of the Zebulon Baptist Church, said the 26,822 churches cooperating with the Convention have a total membership of 6,491,981. The number includes 312,246 new con verts baptized into the churches in 1948. The Convention at Memphis will hear reports of the many agencies supported by it both in this country and in foreign mission areas, and will plan for future activity, Mr. Mitchell said. Evan gelism and mission expansion are Participating in the revue will be Vaughan Wade, Nancy Martin, Tony Pearce, Gwyn Perry, Linda Jones, Peggy Richardson, David Alford, Faye Temple, Donna Mit chell, Jackie Mitchell, Jean Gay, Judy Perry, Kay Martin, Patricia Murray,, Patricia Brantley, Shir ley Rogers, Peggy Weathers, Bet sy Rountree, Connie Hepler, Di anne Strickland, Betsy Alford, and Sandra Bunn. Also Jo Ann Jones, Juanna Joy Mitchell, Eloise Bogen, Elva Jane Cox, Ernestine Corbitt, Harold Brown, Carolyn Hinton, Judy Manning, Jenny Watkins, Ann Hopkins, Betsy Brantley, Dottie Privette, Wilma Gay, Carolyn Beck, Margaret Privette, Andra Temple, Mimi Dawson, Phyllis Braswell, Brenda Bunn, Sue Med lin, Emma Kay Dawson, Sidney Richardson, Leary Davis, and Bob bie Alford. Others in the revue will be Tony Pearce, Martha Watkins, Gloria Mason, Bobbie Sawyer, and ; Georgia Hinton. slated for primary emphasis in the years just ahead. Day sessions of the Convention will be held in Oklahoma City’s 6,500-seat Municipal auditorium and all night and Sunday ses sions will be held in Taft Stadium, seating 20,000 people. A youth revival service led by Texas col lege students Saturday night and an evangelistic service Sunday night are expected to climax the sessions. The Southern Baptist Conven tion is one of the most uniquely or ganized groups in the world. The Convention is constituted of “mes sengers” rather than “delegates” from the churches, in that no one carries authority to bind his con gregation back home to the deci sions of the Convention. Zebulnn, N. C., Friday, May 20,1949 Local Unit of National Guard Enlists First Men on Monday Mrs. Charles Flowers Reports Good Response In Cancer Campaign Mrs. Charles Flowers, chairman of the local 1949 cancer fund campaign, announced this week that Zebulon and the surrounding community contributed a total of $401.71 to the fight against can cer during the past month. “I am very grateful to the peo ple of the town and country who made this year’s campaign a suc cess,” Mrs. Flowers said. “I am especially grateful to the workers and to the businesses who contrib uted 100 per cent.” Firms whose employees gave SI.OO or more each to the cancer drive are Whitley and Scarboro, Little River Ice Company, Whitley Furniture Company, Zebulon Sup ply Company, Zebulon Drug Com pany, McPhail-Farmer, Peoples Bank, Beck Brothers, Wakelon Trading Company, Zebulon Motor Company, Phil-Ett Motor Com pany, and the stores of J. W. Cun ningham, Philip Olive, and W. R. Sherron in Wakefield. “Mrs. L. E. Long and Mrs. Garland Richardson brought in the largest contribution from the house-to-house canvass,” Mrs. Flowers stated, “with a total of $50.05.” Other individual reports are Wo man’s Club, Mrs. R. H. Herring, chairman, $24.60; Junior Woman’s Club, Mrs. D. M. Fidner, chairman, $18.80; Shepard School PTA, $lO.- 83; Oak Grove School PTA, $4.50; Wakefield, Mrs. Cliftoh Pippin, chairman, $11.65; and Wakelon Dormitory, Miss Mary Lacy Pal mer, chairman, $10.50. Ferd Davis Speaks At Troy, Albemarle Ferd Davis, editor of the Zeb ulon Record, spoke at a better schools and roads rally at the Stanly County Courthouse in Al bemarle last night at 8 o’clock. The local editor addressed a similar gathering at the Mont gomery County Courthouse in Troy last Friday night, where sup porters of the bond issues for schools and rural roads from Montgomery, Richmond, and An son Counties made organizational plans. Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor is leading the campaign in Anson County. Judge J. Thomas Paige is county chairman in Richmond. Woman's Club Holds Picnic Supper May 17 The May meeting of the Wo man’s Club was held Tuesday af ternoon in the outdoor living room at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Coltrane. A picnic supper, brought by those attending was served, with husbands of members as guests. Mrs. Irby Gill spoke briefly in appreciation of the work done by Mrs. Fred Page, retiring president of the organization, who made fit ting response. The Coltrane ros i garden and shrubbery were at their most beau tiful for the season, and sincere thanks were extended host and hostess for their gracious hospital ity on this and other similar oc- PRESIDENT If Pictured is S. G. Flowers, Jr., son of Mrs. S. G. Flowers of Zeb ulon, who was recently elected president of the student body at Campbell College in the annual student balloting. He is a 1948 graduate of Wakelon High School. Howard Beck Elected PTA President; Raleigh Woman Speaks Here Howard Beck, local manufactur er, was elected president of the WakelSfi Parent-Teacher Associa tion for 1949-50 at the last regu lar meeting of the current school year Monday night. The election of Mr. Beck pre ceded a talk by Miss Ella Stevens Barrett of the State Department of Education on vocational guid ance. Miss Barrett, who used in creased knowledge of one’s abili ties and possibilities as a theme, was heard by members of the Wakelon senior class in addition to teachers and school patrons. Miss Barrett was introduced by Principal Fred Smith. Rev. Carl ton Mitchell gave the devotional President Willie B. Honkins ex pressed appreciation for efforts of PTA members to make the past year successful for the school, and gave a resume of his own activities on behalf of Wakelon during 1948- 49. Mrs. A. S. Hinton administered the oath of office to the new pres ident and other officers. Ferd Davis will serve as vice president and program chairman, Mrs. El dred Rountree will serve as secre tary, and Mrs. Willie B. Hopkins will serve as treasurer. There were no nominations other than those made by the nominat ing committee, which was headed by Mrs. Garland Godwin. Members of Local Boy Scout Troop Take Trip to Fort Macon and Beach Two carloads of Scouts journey ed to Atlantic Beach near More head City for a day of sightseeing and swimming. Hilliard Greene and Barrie Davis provided the transportation, and the group ar rived at the beach at 10:50, after a delay caused by a broken oil line of Hilliard’s car. Historic Fort Macon proved very interesting to the Scouts, who went all through and over its rooms, walls, and fortifications. Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Sidney Holmes Accepts First Sergeant's Place In Field Artillery Unit Robert Lee Privette and Jimmy Green became the first men to en list in the new National Guard unit being organized in Zebulon when they filled out their papers on Monday afternoon of this week. Dr. Ben Thomas gave them their physical examinations on Tuesday afternoon and both passed easily. Robert, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Privette, now is ASN 24997900 in the National Guard Field Ar tillery. and Jimmy, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Greene, has 24997901 as his serial number. Sidney Holmes, veteran of both National Guard and combat duty in the field artillery, will be First Sergeant for the outfit. Vacancies still exist for many of the other ratings. Captain Darrell Perry, of the 113th Battalion Headquarters in Louisburg, showed a film on the National Guard to students at Wakelon School on Wednesday morning. Afterward he answered ouestions about the National Guard. An estimate on finishing an ar mnrv for the battery in the rear of the Recorder’s Court building set the cost at less than $2,000. which will provide an office, strong room, toilet facilities, con crete floor, and fenced in area for vehicles. This money will have to be raised in this community be fore the work can begin. Barrie Davis, who will command th« battery, said that enlistments will be accepted all next week. He will be in the Theo Davis Sons building every day beginning Tuesday. The battery first ser geant. Holmes, will assist with re cruiting- from time to time Charles Horton Hired As Summer Worker Charles Horton has been en gaged by the Zebulon Baptist Church as full-time minister of music and assistant to the pastor for the summer months. The chil dren and young people of the com munity will be led in an extensive program of Bible study, training in choral music and recreational activities under his direction. Mr. Horton will receive his de gree from Wake Forest College this month. Next September he will enter the graduate school of music at Columbia University in New York City to continue his training for the ministry of church music. Porpoises playing offshore rous ed the curiosity of the troop, which followed the school of big fish about a mile up the beach. Making the trip were Robert Lee and Herbert Privette, Lowell Ray Pulley, Jack Terry, Bill Brantley. Doug Cook, Bobby McGee, and Cloid Wade. Other Scouts meet ing the group at the beach were Jimmy Greene, George Massey and Bill Joe Bailey. Also making the trip with the Scouts were Jimmy Spivey and Loomis Parrish.
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