THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIV.
Chevrolet' Makes Its 23,000,000th Vehicle
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T. H, Keating, general manager, and W. E. Fish, general sales manager,
inspect a special display of the 23,000,000<h vehicle manufactured by the
Chevrolet Motor Division. The milestone model was produced in record time.
It came off the assembly line only 32 weeks after the 22,000,000th unit.
Guard Unit Pay Reaches
Thousand Dollars Month
Drill pay for the three month
period ending December 31 a
mounted to $1941.47 for members
of Battery A, 113 Field Artillery
Battalion, Captain Barrie Davis
announced yesterday. Checks ar
rived from the Army finance of
fice and were distributed yester
day and today by administrative
assistant Sic. Clifford Gilliam.
This payroll is in addition to the
regular monthly pay of the admin
istrative assistant and the care
taker, the commanding officer
stated. Some administrative pay
is also received by members of
the battery, he said.
The long delay in delivery of
the pay checks was attributed to
changes in the system of filling
out the payroll. The forms for the
local unit were approved and mail
ed before the end of the year, and
Battery A was the first battery in
the battalion to receive its quar
terly pay.
During the past week Sfc. Gil
liam and Sgt. J. P. Arnold have
been-making intensive preparation
for the visit of Major General John
Hall Manning tonight. General
Manning, members of his staff,
and officers of the 113 FA Bat
talion. will be present for an in
spection and to observe the classes.
Lt. William Shore will conduct
the opening class tonight, and the
individual sections will take spec
ialized training during the second
hour under the chiefs of sections.
Sgt. Gordon Temple will instruct
the cannoneers on 105 mm ammu
nition.
Woodmen to Meet
Little River Camp No. 1065 of
the Woodmen of the World will
hold its monthly dinner meeting
tomorrow night at 6:30 in the Ma
sonic Hall. Consul Commander
Thurman Hepler said that a good
program will be ready under the
direction of Banker Joseph Price.
Sovereigns Jimmy and Hilliard
Greene are in charge of the sup
per. Pork barbecue will be serv
ed. The business session and
program will follow the meal.
Number 49
During January the battery re
ported an average attendance of
90 per cent for the enlisted men
and 100 per cent for the officers.
The unit has consistently better
ed the national average for Na
tional Guard units. For 1949 of
ficer attendance averaged 89.9 and
enlisted men averaged 75.1 per
cent for the entire nation.
The entire community will be
invited to an open house plan
ned for March, at which the
weapons and other equipment will
be explained. The open house
held for members and guests of
the battery proved such a success
that it was decided to show the
whole community something of the
work and purpose of Battery A.
Local Farm Bureau
To Study Pastures
The Zebulon Farm Bureau will
meet tomorrow night at 8:00 in the
Wakelon School auditorium'. Pres
ident Robert Ed Horton announc
ed yesterday. The meeting is be
ing held on Wednesday night to
avoid a conflict with the State
Convention being held in Raleigh
Sunday, Monday, and today.
A discussion on pasturage for
this section will be held under the
direction of State College special
ist, and President Horton stated
that this program would be both
interesting and informative.
Zebulon's Scribes Now Leading League
After waiting for nearly two
hours for the visitors to arrive
last Friday night, the Zebulon
Scribes began a practice session,
only to have the Bailey Cobros
finally show up for a scheduled
basketball game last Friday night.
An hour and fifteen minutes and
one closely contested game later,
the Scribes had taken a 41-32 vic
tory and undisputed lead in the
Little River League.
Carlton Mitchell, playing his
second full game for the Scribes,
scored 20 points in sparking the
local quintet. Center Hilliard
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, February 7, 1950
Check Your Barns
Carefully, Advises
Wake Farm Agent
One item that should be on every
farmer’s winter chore list is a
check of barn accident hazards,
says John Reitzel, county agent
for the State College Extension
Service. Before the rush of spring
work starts there should be ample
time to spot them and see that they
are removed.
Check your barn for loose ob
jects or things that may cause falls.
High door sills, abrupt changes in
floor levels, weak boards, pro
truding cleats or other tripping
hazards should be removed. All
floors should be solid, smooth and
continuous. Do some houseclean
ing and set things in order if the
alleyways or work areas are ob
structed with feed, tools, harness,
feed carts or other obstacles. Don’t
work in the dark; see that dang
erous corners and work centers
are well lighted. Avoid storing
those materials overhead and see
that forks or other barn equip
ment are kept in safe places.
Loft doors, feed chutes and lad
ders need special attention. A
well constructed stairway that is
hand-railed and kept clean pro
vides the safest and easiest pas
sage to hay mows. It is dangerous
to use stairwells as feed chutes
because loose hay or straw makes
footing uncertain. Separate feed
chutes with guards above the loft
floor are desirable. Where a ladder
is used see that it extends well
! above the loft floor. It should
| also have well-spaced stout rungs
that are placed far enough from
the wall for secure footing. All
elevated platforms should be equp
ped with a railing and accessible
from a safe ladder.
C. V. Whitley Has
Program at Rotary
A quiz program was presented to
the Zebulon Rotary Club by Vai
den Whitley last Friday night,
and prizes were awarded to the
members who scored highest and
lowest on the true-false test which
was given.
The question of the first white
child born in Zebulon tripped up
nearly all the members, who found
that Ernestine Whitley (now Mrs.
Avon Privett) was the first born
and Whitley Chamblee the sec
ond.
Ferd Davis won a pipe for high
| score prize and Howard Beck was
awarded an all-day sucker as low
score prize after casting lots with
Rotarians who tied his score.
At the preceding Rotary meeting
Ferd Davis told Rotarians of his
work as a member of the Board
of Conservation and Development.
He declared that modern fac
tories, like people, come to clean,
progressive communities.
Greene pushed 17 points through
the hoop.
For Bailey J. L. Stone played
well offensively and defensively,
scoring 14 points. Manager J. R.
Stone hooked eight points and
Phil Stone scored six points.
The Cobros take thei unique
name from their family rela
tionship, every member of the
team being either a cousin or a
brother to every other member. A
misunderstanding handicapped the
Stones when only five showed up
to play the Friday night game.
With every member present the
Pianist-Athlete
LuLong Ogburn, 17-year-old
| student at Smithfield High School,
appeared as guest pianist with the
N. C. Symphony orchestra at
Smithfield last Friday night. Miss
Ogburn is also an outstanding
basketball player.
Bulldogs Divide
|Twc Cage Tests
Coach Herb Appenzeller’s
Wakelon Bulldogs, stung from the
one-point loss they dropped to
Youngsville earlier in the week,
ran wild over Wendell last Friday
night in the Wendell gymnasium
ending the basketball game with
a 51-19 victory.
Jimmy Greene, Warren Greene,
and Bobby Kitchins held the Wen
dell scorers in check all through
the game, allowing just eight
points in the last half.
I with 10 led the Wakelon scoring.
Moss with 12, and Donald Fowler
! with 10 led the Dakelon scoring,
j Lewis Todd was high for Wendell
with 10 points.
The jinx that the Wendell girls
: have held over Wakelon proved
still in effect in the preliminary,
! when a last half surge gave Wen
dell 6(5-63 victory over the Wake
lon sextet. This was Wendell’s
eighth straight conference victory.
One game they lost to Wakelon
was not a conference game.
Ruth Brown continued to burn
the basket, scoring 34 points. Gwen
Smith scored 17 and Joellen Gill
14. For Wendell, tall Nan Mat
tox looped in 29 points, and Pat
Godwin scored 24.
Rose and Ruth Pace and Shirley
Chamblee were defensive stars for
j Wakelon. Alease Roach was best
on defense for Wendell.
Legion Post Meets
The regular meeting date for the
Zebulon Post of the American
Legion was set for the second Fri
day night of each month at 8:00
p. m., by members of the post at
a meeting last Thursday night in
the court room. Over 25 members
attended.
Cobros quintet will be hard to beat
during the remainder of the sea
son.
Tomorrow night Zebulon plays
at Wendell at 8:00. The first
game two weeks ago between the
two teams resulted in a 32-30 vic
tory for Zebulon. Wednesday
night’s contest is expected to be a
close one.
Other league games this week
include Wendell at Bailey and
Youngsville at Knightdale on
Thursday night; and Bailey at
Youngsville and Knightdale at
Zebulon on Saturday night.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Zebulon Residents
Pay Under U. S.
Current Average
Residents of Zebulon last year
paid less for their power than
residents of most communities in
the United States, according to a
recent report of the Federal Pow
er Commission, as revealed here
by R. W. Talton, Manager of the
Zebulon office of Carolina Power
& Light Company.
For 25 kilowatt hours per month,
which is the amount of current
sufficent only for lighting and ope
ration of small appliances, the typ
ical bill for Zebulon was SI.OO
compared with a $1.30 average for
all cities in the United States.
Among cities of its size group, the
typical monthly bill for this type
service was $1.42.
The ordinary residential custo
mer, however, used 100 or more
kilowatt hours per month, which
is about the volume required for
lighting, appliances and refrige
ration, and in Zebulon the typical
monthly bill for this volume was
$3.40, which compares with a
North Carolina average of $3.58,
a South Atlantic region average of
$3.72. and a national average of
$3.78. The typical bill in cities
the size of Zebulon, was $4.03.
Residences using the above ser
vices and also cooking with elec
tricity, ordinarily run into the 250-
kilowatt hour per month bracket.
The typical Zebulon bill for this
amc mt was $6.75. The typical
bill in the same class in cities this
size was $7.31, and in all cities
in the U. S. it was $7.01.
Throughout the whole CP&L
system, said Talton, the average
use of current by residential cus
tomers is 2,497 kilowatt hours per
year, which is far above the na
tional average of 1,664 kilowatt
hours for the twelve months end
ing October 1.
Rates in this community, and
established by the N. C. Utilities
Commission, are based on a sliding
scale according to the amount of
current used, but for the whole
system the price paid for electrical
current by residential users aver
aged 2.34 cents per kilowatt hour.
The rate paid by the average U.
S. consumer was nearly 27 per
cent higher, said Talton.
Baptist Youth Choir
Names 7950 Officers
The organization of the Youth
Choir of the Zebulon Baptist
Church was completed last Wed
nesday night when Billy Pippin
was elected president of the group.
Wilbur Conn is director of the
i Youth Choir.
Other officers included Bobby
Gill, vice president; Phil Brown,
secretary and treasurer; and Wil
bur Conn. Mrs. Armstrong Can
nadv, and Bobby Gill as social
committee.
Director Conn has extended an
invitation to interested boys be
tween the ages of ten and six
teen to attend the weekly rehear
sals each Wednesday night at 7:00
at the church.
Brain Specialist
Dr. F. J. Bell, native of Canada
and graduate of Cornell Univers
ity, has been appointed seed and
small grain specialist for the State
College Extension Service.
Dr. Bell is the first person to
hold the newly created post. His
principal duty will be to work
through seed dealers, growers, and
county agents in encouraging sar
i mers to use quality seed.