THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV. Number 2
Wakelon Girls Beat Cary
In Real Thriller Tuesday
To Garner County Title
The Wakelon girls basketball team climaxed their most success
ful season by winning the Wake County Championship from a
hard-fighting Cary sextet in a game played before a packed
house in the Knightdale gymnasium. Forward Ruth Brown, who set
two new tournament scoring records, paced the Wakelon team with
31 points and led the way to victory.
Cary, winner of the West Wake tournament last week, was high-
ly favored to cop the county
CANDIDATE
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Pictured is Philip Whitley of
Wendell, who has announced his
candidacy for the House of Repre
sentatives from Wake County, sub
ject to the Democratic primary in
May.
Philip R. Whitley
To Be Candidate
For Seat in House
Philip R. Whitley of Wendell
announced Monday that he is
candidate for the State House of
Representatives subject to the
Democratic primary on May 27.
Whitley is the first to announce
formally, his candidacy for one of
Wake’s three seats in the House.
Two have announced for the Sen
ate, James H. Pou Bailey and
Charles A. Poe, both Raleigh at
torneys.
Eastern Wake County, where
Whitley lives, has not had a repre
sentative in the General Assembly
in nearly 20 years, Whitley pointed
out.
Arch T. Allen and J. C. Little,
Jr., Raleigh attorneys and incum
bents in two of Wake’s seats, have
not formally announced yet, but
it is known that they will be can
didates. The third 1949 Wake
member, W. T. Hatch, has been
appointed to the Superior Court
bench.
President of P-TA
Whitley is the son of the late
R. B. Whitley and Marietta Harper
Whitley of Wendell. He is a mer
chant-farmer and is vice-president
of the bank of Wendell, and is a
member of the Grange and the
Farm Bureau. He has been active
in support of schools, and now is
president of the Wendell PTA. He
has served as president of the
Wendell Chamber of Commerce,
the Tobacco Board of Trade, and
the Rotary Club. He is a past
commander of the Wendell-Zebu
lon Post of the American Legion
and during the last legislature was
a member of the State Lesion De
partment’s legislative committee.
In 1936. he married Ruth Bal
lard of Mountain. They
have three children, Anne, Ruth
Raye, and Philip Hugh.
crown, but Coach Fred Smith’s
cagers took an early lead, and
' lost it only once during the rest
| of the game.
Wakelon scored first, but Cary
i took the lead at 6-4 midway of the
first period. Four field goals, di
i vided among the Wakelon for
: wards, put the winners ahead by
12-11 at the end of the quarter.
! Midway of the second period,
■ Ruth Brown began burning the
net, and the Wakelon guards suc
ceeded in holding Jennie Morris
and Edna Earl Cooper in check.
Wakelon took a seven-point lead
at halftime. 28-21.
Through the third period Wake
lon held at least a five point lead,
but their play grew ragged as the
quarter progressed. As the fourth
quarter began, Wakelon led 41-36.
Game Tightens Up
Joellen Gill fouled out after
45 seconds of the final period, and
for the rest of the game Betty Sue
Williams, Phoebe Williams, and
Catherine Baker alternated at her
position.
With 1:35 remaining Cary had
pulled to within one point of
Wakelon at 48-47. A field goal in
: creased Wakelon’s lead to 50-47,
; but Cary mrde good on a free
throw awarded on a double foul,
( and with one minute remaining,
| the score was 50-43.
The Wakelon forwards, Gwen
■ Smith, Ruth Brown, and Phoebe
(Continued on Page 5)
NEW RADIO SERVICE IS INITIATED BY POWER COMPANY
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No more checking back into the office to pick up eiviee c • mplaints. Troubleshooters of Carolina
Power & Light Company now are equipped with of ice-to-truck and ti uck-to-truck radios. Upper left,
a divisional maintenance man calls a truck ten mills away. Below, a lineman gets the message. Right,
the crew is on the job, putting juice in a remote farmhouse which in the old days might have been
blacked out for a couple of days.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, March 3, 1950
BRIL
Pictured above is the prize-winning float of the Zebulon Lions Club at the district convention held
recently at Goldsboro. The entry of the local organization, judged the best decorated car in the Lions
parade, was prepared by M. L. Hagwood, J. C. Debnam, Link Cox, and Worth Hinton.
Truck-to-Truck Radio Service Initiated
By Carolina D ower & Light Company
Science aid sscience nowadays
in maintenance of electrical ser
vice. After three years of experi
ence with a two-way radio sys
tem, Carolina Power & Light of
ficials say the truck to office,
truck to truck communications
program has speeded up service
more than 100 per cent.
In individual offices throughout
North and South Carolina are
transmitters over which flow a
constant stream of messages to
trouble-shooters in the field. Be
fore 1947, a maintenance truck
LOCAL LIONS HAVE PRIZE-WINNING FLOAT
I might do an emergency job ten
| miles from town, come back to re
port, and go back within a few
: hundred yards of the place it had
just left to do more work.
Gone Forever
Those days are gone forever.
The radio-equipped maintenance
trucks now get assignments while
on the job or on the road.
Greatest asset of the system is in
handling emergencies which fre
quently come from unpredictable
causes. Recently in Asheville, an
! automobile hit a pole, knocking out
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
a main power line. Through the
use of the radio system, the entire
construction facilities of the area
were mobilized to make repairs,
: and a power interruption which
i might have lasted for hours was
I cured in less than 45 minutes.
One of the advantages of in
! stantaneous communication which
j 'night not bo obvious to the public
[ s the fact that when such an in
i terruption occurs, one of the time
losing factors is the fact that all
employees working on the job
must be notified that the breakage
has been repaired and that all
linemen must stand away before
the line can be made “hot” again.
With the radio system, it is simple
to check all maintenance men, and
the hot electricity can be poured
back on the line in a matter of
minutes rather than hours.
Local Experience
A substantial saving in time also
results when a power break occurs
at an unknown point. Trucks are
mobilized to run down the trouble.
When one crew finds the break, it
radios to the others to cease the
hunt, relieving them for other
duty.
Manager Ralph Talton of the
local office of CP&L, recited an
instance when a housewife had
electric line trouble. It so happen
ed that a CP&L truck was just
around the corner from her house,
and the crew got the complaint
while she was still talking. She
told Mr. Talton to hold on a min
ute while she answered a ring at
the door.
The good lady almost fell on her
face when she saw the familiar
red and brown truck in front of
her house.
Blue Mold Warning
Given Local Farmers
Dr. J. H. Jensen, head of the
plant pathology section at State
College, released a warning on
Sunday for farmers to begin blue
mold control measures at once.
Farmers of southeastern North
Carolina were alerted for imme
diate action since the disease has
been found in tobacco plant beds
in Marion, S. C.
The disease starts each year in
Florida and moves north as the
season advances.