THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV. Number 5
RAISES HAY TO TOP OF ANY BARN
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Another example of muscle power being replaced by mechanical
aids is shown above in the electrical lift for hay, corn, whole grain,
and feed. Used most widely in the upper piedmont section of North
Carolina at present, this particular lift will be used by local farmers
as tobacco and cotton acreages are cut, rural electrification folks say.
Cold Weather Troubles
Plague Davis Household
When the clanging alarm on my
clock awakened me last Thursday
morning, I hopped out of bed to
shut it off and then I tumbled
back into bed twice as fast. As
I lay deep under the covers care
fully chipping icicles ofi my
self, I wondered how come the
house to be so freezing cold. My
shivering woke Judy, and she in
quired as to my trouble.
“The cold,” I chattered from
deep under the covers. “What hap
pened to the nice warm house we
had when we went to bed last
night?”
“Maybe,” Judy replied, “some
thing happened to the furnace.
Why don’t you look?”
With only the slightest bit of
prodding by the wife’s left foot,
I gathered the blankets around me
and ventured out to have a look
at the fire. Judy’s call stopped me
short, and I realized that in mv
efforts to keep myself warm, I had
left her with no cover at all.
She Got the Cover Rack
Somewhere amongst the clothes
in the closet I found my robe,
and after draping it around me,
I returned the covers to the bed
and started out once more.
There wasn’t fire to look at, i
because the head (?) of the house|
had failed to check the supply of
fuel and now there was nothing |
in the fire box but cold, black
soot. I peered down into the floor
furnace, and carelessly blew a few
specks of soot off the top. A verita
ble geyser of the black stuff shot
tip in my face and I backed chok
ing into the bedroom, looking like
the end man in a minstrel show.
“Move a step closer,” Judy
threatened, swinging a chair over
her shoulders, “and I’ll knock
your head off your shoulders!”
“Darling.” I pleaded, “Don’t
brain me so early in the morning.
It’s me it’s your loving hus
band!” T was wiping the black
ness off my face all the while and
edging toward the back door.
I T/earned Fast
Well, that’s one thing I learned
about Judy long before T fast
talked her intp marrying me. That
gal can sure takn care of herself
When Judy finally realized it
was me. she lowered the chair,
and we telenhoned for oil for the
furnace. Tt wasn’t long in arriv
ing though it seemed like vears
and years. Even though we have
been married just three months,
we bad trouble staying warm
that’s bow cold it was!
I re-lighted the fire, cut on a
fan, and then sat dejectedly and
watched large pieces of soot blow
through the air and drift joyfully
over to our new chairs and sofa
where they lodged. It was not
a happy time.
Though the fire burned, it gave
no heat. We called William Bunn
for help, and soon he arrived with
his helper. I can’t quote him ex
actly, but this is just about what he
said:
“There’s air in the fuel line,
which made an air lock in the
carburetor, requiring the whizzit,
to be adjusted so that the thiga
mujig will allow the proper
! amount of oil to flow unrestricted
| into the whatis, causing the fan i
to . . .”
He Greased the Differential
Well, after he assured me that
I the cylinder head was not warp
i ed, the spark plugs were firing, the
! differential was greased, and the
brakes wouldn’t need relining for
another thousand miles, I told him
to go ahead and fix it.
“We already have,” he said.
And sure enough, he had. So
now, after tacking newspapers and ;
blankets over the cracks around |
the front door to keep out the chill
north wind, our little love nest is
luke warm again and we don’t
have to heat the kitchen with the
electric stove oven. Heat, it’s won
derful!
—Barrie Davis.
Cubs so Play Today
The Cub Scout basketball team
will play the cub scouts of Knight
dale this afternoon at 3:30 in the
Wakelon gymnasium. Admission
will be 10c and 15c. The proceeds
will go to the scout treasury.
POTASH UNLOADED FOR TOBACCO FARMERS
Raleigh Alford, who was singing the blues earlier this spring because of the acute shortage of potash
throughout the United States, is lot happier because of the photograph above, which shows a shipload
of potash from Germany being unloaded February 28 at the Norfolk docks of the Robertson Chemical
Corporation. “There’ll be plenty of potash for local farmers this year,” Raleigh declares.
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, March 14, 1950
Home Agent Lists
Plentiful Foods
For Next 30 Days
Pork, Irish potatoes, and eggs
will be among the best food buys
for Southern consumers in March,
Mrs. Mclnnis, home demonstra
tion agent for the State College
! Extension Service, said this week.
These items, she explained, are
the top trio on the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture’s monthly
plentiful foods list. Eggs, she
pointed out, set a production rec
ord in January, and liberal quan
tities are to be found on all retail
markets. Pork, of course, has been
| plentiful for several months and
current hog marketings are still i
heavy enough to keep consumers
supplied with tasty and economical
pork cuts. Irish potatoes usually
move into the plentiful class in the
spring, and this year is no excep
tion. Mrs. Mclnnes said.
March also will bring a wider
variety of fresh vegetables to
Southern markets, with carrots,
cabbage, beets, and lettuce rated
plentiful, along with Irish pota
; toes.
Fruits suggested for March
■ shopping lists include apples, can
ned peaches, raisins, and dried
j prunes. The home agent said
j chickens —broilers, fryers, and
I hens—fish, manufactured dairy
j products, and dry beans were ex
pected to be in plentiful supply on
cmmhern markets in March.
Las! 1 Rsfcs Are Held
For Donovan Griffin
Donovan E. Griffin, 50. died at
his home at Bunn early Saturday
following a heart attack. Funeral
j services were conducted Monday
at 11 a.m. from the Bunn Baptist
Church by the Rev. Theo. Davis
and the Rev. A. S. Lamb. Burial
was in the Bunn cemetery.
I Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Irene B. Griffin; one daughter,
Betsy, both of the home; his step-,
mother, Mrs. Bertie Griffin of
Rocky Mount; one sister, Mrs. E.
C. Moody of Louisburg; three
brothers, Taylor of Rocky Mount, |
J. B. of Newport News, Va. and
Phil Griffin of Rochester, N. Y.
To Address Lions
Miss Rebeckah Talbert, special
education teacher at Wakelon
School, will speak before the Zeb
ulon Lions Club at their dinner (
meeting Wednesday night in the .
recreation room of the Zebulon
Methodist Church.
The speaker has done exception- <
al work with handicapped child
ren at Wakelon, and her work here *
has been cited by educational lead- |
ers as an example for the largest;*
schools in North Carolina. li
IN EASTER DRIVE
Russell Miller, 6, asks all
America to aid crippled children.
Russell is the 1950 Easter Seal
Child selected by the National So
i ciety for Crippled Children and
Adults. The Easter Seal campaign
is sponsored in this state by the
| National Society through its state
society and local affiliates.
Wakelon Sextet
I
Defeats Pinehurst
Wakelon’s girls basketball team,
champions of Wake County, ad
vanced to the quarterfinals of the
state tournament being held this
week in Southern Pines by defeat
ing Pinehurst, 49-39, in the second
game of the tourney last night.
Ruth Brown, high scoring for
ward of the local team, led the
Wakelon sextet with 29 points.
By dci'o ding Pinehurst Wakelon
\v ’i the right to meet the wihiW
of a Washington-Lincolnton game
at 6:30 Thursday evening. Linc
olnton is seeded fourth in the cur
rent tournament.
Semi-finals in the series are set
for Friday night with finals Sat
urday night.
Director of the event is A. C.
Dawson, Jr., of Southern Pines,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Dawson
of Zebulon.
> Novelty Hour Raises
Money for Athletes
, Over SIOO.OO was raised Friday
night to help finance the New York
trip which the Wakelon boys’
basketball team will make next
week. The Variety Show, with
Clarence Hocutt as master of cere- j
monies, featured tap, buck toe, and :
ballet dancing by Joris Bell and
members of Mrs. H. C. Wades’s
dancing class. Other acts included
instrumental and vocal numbers,
a blackface comedian, recitations,
and a skit by Mrs. Irby Gill.
Coach Herb Appenzeller, direct
or of the affair, was well pleased
with the performances and the size
of the crowd. He expressed his
profuse thanks for the generosity
exhibited by those who took part
in the program.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Zebulon Farmers
Urged to Grow
Cedars for Profit
Raising red cedars for Christmas
trees is becoming increasingly
popular among Eastern Carolina
farmers, according to W. G. Kelley,
forestry specialist for the State
College Extension Service.
Mr. Kelley states that a large
number of veteran farm trainees
in that area are interested in
raising the red cedars. Although
the State Nursery has exhausted
its supply of cedar seedlings for
this year, many Zebulon veterans
ate planning to get their orders in
early f or next year, the specialist
said.
In most cases the veterans will
plant the trees four by four feet
apart, setting out approximately
2,000 per acre. By fertilizing and
cultivating darefully, they hope
to have Christmas trees ready for
market in three years.
By selling the trees two or three
months before Christmas on a con
tract basis, they hope to dispose
ot all the trees they cut and have
no wastage. Some veterans be
lieve they can make almost as
much money per acre on Christ
mas trees as they can on tobacco
or other field crops. They say that
if western growers can ship trees
into North Carolina and make a
profit, they can grow the trees
heic at a profit, especially since
most purchasers feel that the red
cedar makes the best yule tree.
"Tl the veterans put one-tenth
as much care and energy into rais-
ing Christmas trees as they do into
raising the average field crop, they
should be reasonably successful,”
says Kelley. “After all, forestry is
only a specialised branch of ag
riculture, and a great many farm
ers could add substantially to their
income by regarding it as such.
Furthermore, with all the crop
controls that now exist and the
others that seem to be on the way,
timber apparently is becoming the
only crop that does not face acre
age or marketing controls. The
j average farmer would do well to
convert some of his idle land to
timber, Christmas trees, or other
special wood-product production.”
Wives of Druggists
Feted Here Thursday
Mrs. E. C. Daniel and Mrs. Hay
wood Jones were hostesses to the
Raleigh Woman’s Drug Club in the
home of Mrs. Daniels at their
monthly supper meeting Thursday.
The house was beautifully dec
orated with pink carnations and
snapdragons, and the St. Patricks
Day motif was carried out in dec
orations.
A declicious supper of chicken
salad, potato chips, deviled eggs,
pickled peaches, hot rolls, and but
ter, decorated individual cakes,
and block ice cream decorated with
a shamrock, and coffee was serv
ed.
Bridge and canasta were played
after dinner and a prize was given
to the person with high score at
each table. A Bingo prize was
riven at the end of play.
Twenty-eight guests were pres
ent.
Roger Hicks Buried
Funeral services for Roger Davis
Hicks were held at 2:30 p.m. yes
terday at Union Chapel by Rev.
Vivian Evans. Burial was in the
Hopkins Chapel cemetery. He is
survived by a wife and two child
ren.