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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXIV. Number 40 Wake Farm Agent Advises Complete Machinery Check The safety and usefulness of a farm workshop depend upon the condition and arrangement of the shop and its equipment, says Coun ty Agent John L. Reitzel of the State College Extension Service. He points out that now is a good time for farmers to put their shops in order and do any remodeling or rearranging which may be need ed. The well-equipped farm shop, says Mr. Reitzel, will serve as the center of activity for a great va riety of farm repair and con struction jobs. Auto and tractor repairing can be performed more readily in a well-equipped shop. With the present extensive use of machinery, farm workshops should be arranged and equipped to syste matically overhaul, repair, and possibly repaint many of the farm machines during the winter. Not only will such machines last long er, but many days of lost time during the following summer can be avoided. Your Check List If the shop is properly design ed for orderliness, good light, com fort and convenience, the work is certain to be easier, safer and more efficient. The National Safe ty Council suggests the following check-list as a guide in the ar rangement and maintenance of the farm workshop: Weatherproof the shop and equip it with a heating stove. Reserve one side of the shop for repairing large machinery, and in stall large garage-type doors di rectly in line with this area. The shop should contain large windows to admit as much light as possible. Other Safety Factors A concrete floor is recommended. Paint the interior a light color or whitewash it to improve visa bility. There should be work benches along the walls with drawers un der them. Have a definite storage space for tools and supplies. Keep every thing in its place. Some or all of the following equipment properly arranged will increase the efficiency of the shop: forge, grinder, drill press, lathe, chain hoist, air compressor, weld er, clamps, tool toter. Helen Wall to Be * v }ueen of Local Lions * Helen Wall, attractive sister of Lion Frank Wall, will represent the Zebulon Lions Club as their beau ty queen at the Goldsboro Con vention of District 31-C on January 23-24. The local group will en ter a float in the parade, it was decided at the meeting held Wed nesday night in the recreation room of the Methodist Church. The committees responsible for distributing the Christmas baskets for the Club reported that 22 fam ilies were gladdened during the holidays. Worth Hinton, Frank Kannon, Garland Richardson, and M. L. Hagwood were in charge of the groups which gave the baskets to needy families. Lion President Walter Page call ed a meeting of the Directors for Monday night at 7:30 in Smith’s Case. Committee appointments will be made at this meeting. The program time at the dinner meeting was devoted to business, Secretary M. J. Sexton reported. NEW CAR TO BE SHOWN IN ZEBULON SATURDAY v *|.j^.r'**■** ■jL jif-iz j®. 'J, " s .. vv v v. v - J As in 1949, Chevrolet’s newest line of passenger cars offers two individually designed sedans. This is the Fleet line, so described because the curvature of the rear quarters follows body roof lines. Fresh beauty in exterior Visitors Invited to Waterville Dam Os Carolina Power & Light Company Waterville. A river moved miles from its natural bed, and rushing under a mountain for six miles, is a unique feature of one of the largest hydro-electric plants in the South. And yet few people have ever seen the 20,250-acre lake which supplies the water, now the 145,000 horsepower plant to which it is fed not even the thousands of persons living within a few miles of the site. The powerhouse, in a majestic mountain setting, may be reached by going into Tennessee and back tracking into North Carolina over N. C. Highway No. 284. Over lines radiating from it comes enough power to electrify 350,000 homes. Six miles upstream is the dam backing up a large wilderness lake, enjoyed mostly by the bears and LOCAL EDITOR TO ATTEND CONFERENCES Ferd Davis, editor of The Zebu lon Record, will go to Asheville Monday for the first in a series of conferences held by the adver tising committee of the State De partment of Conservation and De velopment with tourist and indus trial leaders to develop an inte grated state advertising campaign. Others at the Asheville meeting will be Charles Parker, head of the State News Bureau; T. V. Ro chelle of High Point, president of Local Thief Dulls Masseys Axe The thief who entered Massey Lumber Company sometime Mon day night went to a lot of work for not much reward, Police Chief Willie B. Hopkins reported this week. The robber entered the building through one of the front drive-in doors and went into the office of the building supply firm from inside the building. An axe, which had been ground WAKELON CAGERS TO MEET WENDELL HERE TONIGHT Ruth Brown, scoring a record 32 points, led the Wakelon girls to a one-sided 54-23 basketball vic tory over Millbrook in the first half of a double header played Tuesday night in the Millbrook gymnasium. The Wakelon Bulldogs played list lessly in dropping a 43-29 decision to the Millbrook boys in the night cap. Gwen Smith scored nine points Zebulon, N. C., Friday, January 6, 1950 other wildlife pf the region, since it may be reached only by foot. The most practical way to get to the dam is to launch a boat on the headwaters and proceed down the hannel. Involving the solution of unu sual engineering problems, the hydroelectric plant was opened in 1930 after three years of construc tion. This included the driving of a concrete-lined tunnel 6.3 miles through solid rock. The tunnel, 14 feet in diameter, was started at both ends, the two crews meet ing deep under the mountain with their measurements within half an inch of their survey calculations. Since it was made the habitat of the Pigeon River, the tunnel has been visited only once during the war it was drained for inspec tion. the Southern Furniture Exposition; Eric Rodgers, publisher of the Scotland Neck Commonwealth and Enfield Progress ; Dr. Locke Rob inson, Mars Hill physician; Wal ter Damtoft, treasurer of the Champion Paper & Fibre Company; and Percy Ferebee of Andrews, president of Western North Caro lina Associated Communities, which functions as a chamber of commerce. On Tuesday the local editor will Monday for a customer, was used in an unsuccessful attempt to chop the front off the steel safe. Al though the combination was brok en off, the door was not opened. Owner Riggsbee Massey said that evidently the wouldbe-safe cracker was inexperienced, or he would have been able to get to the contents of the safe after his work. A check of the merchandise in in helping the girls, who pushed to a 23-13 lead at halftime. The second half was a run-away, as Wakelon looped 31 points to 10 for the losers. Sonny Rowe scored 14 points and Jimmy Greene pushed in sev en in a futile effort to equal the highscoring Millbrook quint. Three of Wakelon’s first team fouled out of the game. and interior treat.nent is visible to the eye with increased power and comfort highspotting chassis improvements. In addition, the company offers i n automatic shift in the optional Powerglide transmission. The difference in the elevation of the fall pond and the water below the plant is 861 feet, a head which for some time was the highest of all hydroelectric plants east of the Rockies. The force of falling water makes it possible to generate a large amount of elec tricity with a relatively small amount of water. The arch-type dam lBO feet high and 870 feet long was named for Charles S. Walters, of Asheville, Vice-president of CP&L, and has rugged neighbors in the Great Smokies. One of these is nearby Mt. Sterling, a 5,835-foot peak popular with hikers along the Appalachian trail, and reached by a 3-mile footpath. From a 60- foot steel lookout tower on the mountain is a wide view of the wilderness area of the park. return to Raleigh for a conference with Attorney General McMullan and the C&D Parks Committee on acquisition of property for the Try on Palace pestoration, for which nearly a half million dollars has been provided by the state legisla ture and individual gifts. Tuesday night he will attend another conference at Sedgefield with tourist and industrial repre sentatives from piedmont North Carolina. the office showed the loss of six pairs of gloves, a few pocketknives, a hammer, and between 50 and 100 pennies taken from the cash reg ister. Papers from the office desk were strewed over the floor. W. P. Whitley of the Wake Coun ty Sheriff’s Department is work ing with local officers on the case, but no clues as to the identity of the thief had been disclosed yes terday afternoon. Both Wakelon teams, girls and boys, meet Wendell tonight in the Wakelon gymnasium. The girls’ game shapes up to be a thrilling encounter. The visitors will be led again this year by Nan Mattox, who racked up 27 points in lead ing Wendell to 51-45 victory over Middlesex earlier this week. Starting time for the first game tonight is 7:30. Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Haywood Farmer Takes Corn Prize; Local Man Places A Haywood County farmer who produced 141 bushels of corn on one acre has been declared North Carolina’s champion corn grower for 1949, Dr. E. R. Collins, in charge of agronomy extension at State College and chairman of the State Corn Contest Committee, announced this week. The new champion is Dwight Williams, who will receive a SIOO bond as regional winner for the mountains and another SIOO bond as State winner. He won first place with an acre of Dixie 17 which was seeded May 6 with 12-inch spac ing in 42-inch rows. The field was fertilized with two tons of stable manure plus 200 pounds of 7-7-7 at planting and two side dressings of 100 pounds ANL each. Massey Is Winner High producer for Wake County for 1949 is Oren D. Massey of Zebulon, who produced 129.6 bushels of corn per acre last year. Dale Gainey, 15-year-old Wayne County youth, won the Coastal Plain regional title with a yield of 139.3 bushels. The Piedmont winner was Charlie Barbee of Stanly County, whose yield was 129.2 bushels. Gainey and Barbee will receive one SIOO savings bond each. All of the prizes are donated by the North Carolina Foundation Seed Producers, Inc., and will be pre sented at a meeting in Raleigh later this month. Certified Seed Com To Be Available Here A good supply of certified seed corn will be available to Zebulon farmers for planting this spring, according to Dr. R. P. Moore, di rector of the North Carolina Crop Improvement Association at State College. A record of 5,580 acres of hybrid corn met certification requirements in the State this year, Dr. Moore said. Inspectors approved for cer tification fields on 313 farms. Main purpose of field inspections is to see that seed corn fields are properly isolated to prevent cross pollination and impure seed. One or more fields of the fol lowing hybrids were certified: Dixie 17, N. C. 27, N. C. 1032, U. S. 282, N. C. T-20, W. Va. 1163, Tenn. 10, N. C. 26, N. C. 5-23. Scotland County led in number of acres certified. Five growers in Scotland had 1621 acres of hy brids approved. Beaufort Coun ty was second with 310 acres ap proved on five farms. Six grow ers in Halifax County had 257 acres approved, 14 Rowan growers had 250 acres, and seven Nash growers had 243 acres. Four Hundred Acres Four hundred acres of seven open-pollinated varieties were also approved for certification. The seven varieties are Lathm Dou ble, Jarvis Golden Prolific, Biggs Two-Ear, Southern Beauty, Hol combe Prolific, Indian Chief, and Cocke Prolific. Hoke County led with 110 acres on three farms. Two Beaufort County growers had 95 acres approved, and two Edge combe growers had 60 acres ap proved. Dr. Mocre said there is marked improvement in the processing and handling of seed corn this year. Many new artificial dryers have been installed. The required moisture content for certified seed corn is 15 per cent.
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