THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIV.
DANISH GYMNASTS ON U. S. TOUR
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Seven members of the Danish Gym Team, a group of 35 boy and
girl amateur athletes, perform in unison a difficult handstand on cars
being used on a 20,000-mile, 11-month motor tour of the United States.
Members, carefully selected by competitive tests in their native Den
mark, appear under auspices of churches, colleges and YMCA’s.
Snider Tells Road Story
From Start Until Present
By William D. Snider
North Carolina’s Highway Com
mission supervises the largest state
system of roads in the United
States.
The Tar Heel road network em
braces 63,000 miles of double-lane
boulevards, regular hard-surfaced
highways and remote rural roads,
spreading from Manteo to Mur
phy, and from Georgia to Virgin
ia. It includes a four-lane high
way from Charlotte to Gastonia,
and a new dirt road by Graham
Bunn’s home. Such is the scope of
its operation.
Only three other states—-Vir
ginia, West Virginia and Delaware
—have direct jurisdiction over all
rural roads as well as highways.
North Carolina’s 63,000 miles ex
ceeds the mileage managed by
highway departments in these
states and all the others in these
states and all the others in the
Union.
Enormous Task
By statute the Highway Com
mission has a task which includes
the building of roads with its own
forces, the supervision of road
construction in charge of private
contractors and the maintenance
of the State’s 63,000 miles of roads
and highways.
To do this job it employs about
8,000 regular and approximately
3,000 temporary workers. The
size of the payroll varies with the
roadbuilding season. (Construc
tion has been at peak capacity
recently because of the mild au
tumn.)
The Commission itself comprises
a chairman and ten members, one
from each of ten designated high
way divisions. The Governor ap
points both chairman and commis
sioners for four-year terms. Work
ing directly under the commis
sioners is a State Highway
Crop Gifts Will Be
Accepted for 9 Days
Dr. U- M. Massey, member of
the Wake County CROP Com
mittee. announced last Friday that
contributions would be received
through December 15, by Kenneth
Hopkins at the local town
office as well as by Raleigh Al
ford at the Zebulon Gin.
The local campaign, he declar
ed, should produce a thousand
bushels of corn. He urged per
sons having no com for donation
to give a dollar to buy a bushel
for overseas relief.
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Engineer. He supervises an en
gineering staff consisting of
engineers who handle equipment,
maintenance, construction, road
way planning, bridges, statistics
and planning, materials and test
ing and roadbuilding activities in
ten highway divisions. All sub
ordinate positions of an engineer
ing nature come under the author
ity of these department heads.
• Heading administrative depart
ments are general assistants to
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Supervisors' Election
Scheduled This Week
County supervisors of soil con
servation districts are being elect
ed in 88 of North Carolina’s 100
counties during the week of De
cember 5-10.
Joe Tippett of Zebulon, Wake
supervisor, is not up for reelection
this year, having 2 years of his
upexpired term to serve.
Four counties New Hanover,
Watauga, Henderson, and Macon
—are holding supervisor elections
for the first time and will elect
three supervisors each. The other
84 counties will choose one super
visor each. The three supervisors
in each county serve staggered
terms of three years each.
A number of polling places
have been set up in each county,
and voting may be done any time
during the week.
County supervisors do not re
ceive a salary for their services.
Late Fall Planting Program Is Given
For Zebulon and Surrounding Area
If you haven’t already planted
all your bulbs, do so at once. They
will flower a little later in the
spring when planted now than
those planted earlier. Now is a
good time to plant English, Dutch
and Spanish Iris.
If you have any steep banks or
slopes on your lot now is the time
to throw Italian rye grass seeds
on them and the grass will hold
the soil during the winter freezes
and thaws and rains which erode
the soil.
William Lanier Hunt of Chapel
Hill says that Camellias are hard
ier than most people think and that
some gardeners in more and more
inland areas are beginning to grow
camellias of the very early va
rieties those that begin to
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, December 6, 1949
Farm Engineer
Cites Local Fire
As 'Unnecessary'
Much of Wake County’s costly
property destruction and tragic
loss of human life from farm
fires this fall could have been
prevented, believes H. M. Ellis, in
charge of agricultural engineer
ing for the State College Exten
sion Service.
Nearly a dozen farm residents,
including one child from Little
River Township, have lost their
lives in disastrous fires in the
eastern part of the State during
the past month. Wake County suf
fered two bad blazes in 10 days,
and several other counties have
been similarly hit with family
tragedies. The loss in farm build
ings has been considerable.
Ellis recommends several steps
to keep down farm fire loss. First
he suggests a periodic inspection
of the home heating plant. He
urges checking for rusted stove
pipes, fallen leaves gathered in a
place where they may be ignit
ed by sparks, collections of soot
in the chimney, and inflammable
material on the roof.
Second, Ellis advises an active
program of fire prevention. This
includes keeping matches away
from children, storing gasoline
and kerosene in tight containers,
and avoiding use of these materials
in building fires. At least one of
Wake County’s disastrous fires is
thought to have been due to pour
ing kerosene on live embers.
Third, says the State College
specialist, the farmer should
have a good fire protection system.
Ladders and fire extinguishers
should be readily available, as
well as pails and barrels filled
with water so that precious time
will not be wasted at the well. A
good source of water has saved
many a buildings.
K. G. Byers Addresses
Local Rotary Friday
K. G. Byers, manager of the
Raleigh office of the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, addressed local Rotarians at
their supper meeting last Friday
night, on the subject of telephone
courtesy- He was introduced by
Dr. L. M. Massey.
After a brief talk in which he
cited progress made in this com
munity by his company during the
past two years, Mr. Byers showed
a sound movie on telephone cour
tesy. The film, he said, is available
to other organizations on rela
tively short notice.
bloom in late fall and early win
ter. These make fine Christmas
presents. One of the earliest is
Daikagura, and in recent years
several new varieties have been
derived from the original Daika
gura.
Now is the time to move any
large shrubs. Before moving
large shrubs, trim them back con
siderably. Hollies and other
broad-leaved evergreens can be
shaped by clipping and shearing.
Don’t be afraid to cut back long
branches of holly or magnolia.
They will be more shapely.
Prune grapes, scuppemongs, and
Muscadines before Christmas.
Apply a dormant spray to all fruit
trees.
Feed azaleas and camellias now
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Malbert Smith, member of the
Wakelon High School faculty, is
now serving as supply pastor of
the church at the Kennedy Home,
Baptist orphanage near Kinston.
Wake H-D Agent
List Cheap Foods
Pork is first on the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture’s monthly
plentiful foods list for December,
Mrs. Maude Mclnnes, home dem
onstration agent for the State Col
lege Extension Service, said this
week.
The very large corn crop of last
year, followed by heavy spring
farrowing this year, has resulted
in a nationwide bounty of pork,
she explained, and hog prices have
declined seasonally under heavy
marketings.
Next to* pork, USDA lists tur
keys, apples, cranberries, and tree
nuts as top plentifuls for south
er nmarkets.
Three bushels of apples were
grown this year for every two pro
duced last season, and on Novem
ber 1, USDA estimated total 1949
production at 133,388,000 bushels.
The cranberry harvest will equal
835,000 barrels —about 26 per
cent above the ten-year average.
Three tree nuts—almonds, fil
berts, and walnuts—will set pro
duction records. The pecan crop,
estimated at 130,000,000 pounds,
is about a fifth above average.
Fresh fruits on the December
plentiful list are grapes, winter
pears, and oranges, with dried
raisins and prunes added for good
measure.
Good vegetable buys, the list
shows, will be spinach, snap beans,
kale, and canned corn, with chick
ens, dairy products, eggs, dried
beans, and frozen fish plentiful in
the protein class.
Other foods listed by USDA as
southern plentifuls for December
are honey, cooking fats, sugar
cane sirup, and molassses.
if you haven’t already done so.
Place garden furniture under
cover.
Scour, sharpen and oil garden
tools.
Keep sod or mulch away from
fruit-tree trunks.
Plant hardy annuals now. Sweet
peas should be planted now.
Clean up the garden by remov
ing dead limbs, dead annuals,
leaves, trash, and stalks of dor
mant perennials. Mulch peren
nials and border shrubs. Spade
flower and vegetable beds and al
low the soil to lie as dug for win
tering.
Don’t burn your leaves when
you rake them up. Make a com
post pile and add them back to
your flower and vegetable gardens.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Over 500 Lions
To Attend Local
Charter Night
Five hundred or more Lions and
Lionesses from all sections of
North Carolina are expected here
Friday night, December 9, for the
most elaborate “Charter Night’'
program in the history of Tar Heel
Lionism.
The occasion will feature the
presentation of the official char
ter of Lions International to the
new Lions Club of Zebulon and
Governor W. Kerr Scott, recently
made an honorary member of the
Lions Club of Swepsonville, as the
principal speaker.
The North Carolina Lions are
focusing their official attention
upon Zebulon because the new
club here, happened to be Club
No. 200 organized in Tar Heel
Multiple District 31. It was spon
sored by the Lions Club of Rocky
Mount, home club District Gov
ernor Louis K. Day of Eastern
District 31-C.
1 Emphasizing the Statewide sig
nificance of chartering Club No.
200, all three district governors
will be on hand, the others be
sides District Governor Day being
Jeff B. Wilson of Biscoe, 31-B, and
Paul L. Cashion of North Wilkes
boro, 31-A.
Other Notables
In addition, Edward H. McMa
han of Brevard and Raleigh,
Southeastern Director of Lions In
ternational, and Zone Chairman W.
Paul Lyman of Raleigh, in whose
Wake County zone the club is lo
cated, also are on the program.
Many former district governors
also are expected, these being
known as counsellors of Lions In
ternational.
The local Lions, who expect to
have around 40 charter members
by Friday night, are making plans
to handle an audience of from 500
to 800 Lions, Lionesses and guests.
Such a throng would break all
records for a North Carolina
“Charter Night’’ celebration.
The program for Friday night
will open at 7:30 in the Wakelon
Gymnasium, with President M. W.
Page of the Zebulon Den calling
the assemblage to order for the
singing of America and the pledge
of allegiance to the flag.
Tail Twisters
Zone Chairman Lyman will in
troduce the tail twisters, who will
make merry by fining Lions for
various infractions of Leonine law.
District Governor Wilson of 31-B
will introduce the toastmaster, In
ternational Counsellor Dr. W.
Amos Abrams of Raleigh. Guests
will be presented by Deputy Dis
trict Governor Wilbur A. Pike of
Pikesville. The address of wel
come to the new club will be made
by District Governor Cashion of
31-A and a Zebulon Lioness will
respond.
International Counsellor Nor
man Trueblood of Elizabeth City,
now a special representative of
Lions International organizing ne w
clubs in all parts of the State,
will present the extension awards
to members of the sponsoring
Rocky Mount club; and this will
be followed by an entertainment
interlude furnished by the Zebu
lon Lions.
International Director McMahan
will introduce Governor Scott.
After the Governor’s speech, Pres
ident C. W. Parker of the Rocky
Mount club will present a Lions
gong and gavel to the local club
and District Governor Day then
will turn over the official club
charter to Zebulon’s President
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