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Let's Get the Commission Started
Each morning when we pick up our daily paper, we turn
to the sports pages and read of the activities of the major
league ball clubs during their spring training. Last week,
Rev. Paul Carruth of Franklinton wrote and expressed his
regret at not being able to play second base for the Scribes
softball team this summer. The National Guard is already
lining up its squad.
Along with a severe attack of spring fever, this has
given us a great desire to get moving with the summer rec
reation program. Not only has the time come to get the
old throwing arm limbered up, but the time also is here
when the town board should get a move on and form the
recreation commission which will govern softball play.
We undertsand that the commissioners have hesitated be
cause they have no control over the school property, which
is not yet inside the city limits. We also understand that
this property cannot be taken in until the property owners
in the area included in the proposed extension sign a petition
agreeing to the extension.
But we cannot understand why a recreation commission
cannot be appointed now. When the city limits are extended
the jurisdiction of this group will include the school grounds,
and in the meantime they can draw up rules and regulations
by which softball teams may be organized.
Don't Fall Down This Time
We know from experiences gained through three and
a half years as a Scoutmaster that the Boy Scouts are a very
beneficial organization for any community. It brought sor
row to us when the local troop lost its charter at the end of
last year because no person willing to contribute of his time
could be found to help with Scouting.
Now a new effort is being made to activate Scouting in
this community. Four years ago the Zebulon troop had
nine Scouts. One year ago the troop had over forty. We
believe that if several leaders share the responsibility of
supervising the troop, it will have over 50 members before
summer’s end.
It was bad that the troop charter expired. It will be
disgraceful if we let this opportunity to be of service to
growing boys slip away.
Want the Hole in My Sock, Too?
Newspaper business makes the editor, the publisher, and
everyone concerned face one deadline after another. It
never becomes routine, because when things are going well
and we believe the paper will be printed with no last minute
rush, something always happens. Usually, we are looking
either for a little space in which to print an article or a lot
of extra news to fill empty pages. With 104 issues a year
to get in the mails, we have our share of deadlines, and we
ought to be used to them.
But once a year comes a last minute rush that threatens
our sanity—that old March 15 deadline when our income tax
return is supposed to be in the mails.
Tonight we’ll figure our gross income and our net in
come, captial assets, computations, and exemptions, and
somewhere between lines 14 and 19 we’ll be thoroughly con
fused and the Tax Computation Instructions on page 4
won’t help clear the atmosphere. It will be a bad time for
the family and the coffee pot will be overworked, but gen
erally we manage to figure out some sum which we mail
in to Greensboro. After that we sit around with nerves on
edge waiting for the Federal man to come around, slip the
handcuffs on us, and lead us off to Levenworth.
Oh, well, when we think of the wonderful good that
our tax dollars are doing with never a one wasted, we feel
like saying: “Uncle Sam, you’ve got the shirt off my back,
but if you need my underwear shirt and drawers, just beckon
and they’re yours.”
The Zebulon Record
Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post office
at Zebulon North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription rate: $2.00 a year. Advertising rates on request.
Ferd L. Davis Editor
Barrie S. Davis Publisher
Staff Writers: Mrs. Theo. B. Davis, Mrs. Ferd Davis, Mrs.
Janice Denton, Miss Bonita Bunn, Mrs. T. Y. Puryear, Mrs. Polly
Fuller, Mrs. Iris Temple.
Office Personnel: Mrs. Barrie S. Davis, Mrs Ollie Pearce,
Mrs. O. C. Mullin, Hilliard Greene, Loomis Parrish, Bobby McGee,
Jimmy Greene Miss Eloise Fretz, Jack Potter.
The Zebulon Record
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Milam spent
the weekend in Lamar, West Vir
ginia with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Ferebee and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus
Spruil of Norfolk, Va., visited Mr.
and Mrs. Garland Godwin Satur
day.
Bill Allman sprained his arm
Thursday.
Bobby Gill is getting along sat
isfactorily at Rex Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Bryant spent
Sunday night with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Davis, Ann
Davis, and Loomis Parrish spent
Saturday in Wake Forest.
Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Massey are
in Washington, D. C. Dr. Massey
is attending a dental clinic there.
They will return to Zebulon Wed
nesday.
Mrs. Jimmie Allen, Mary Beth
Allen, and Mrs. J. G. Kemp spent
Thursday night in Petersburg with
the James Rosenstocks. They were
accompanied by Mrs. Millard
Chamblee, who visited Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Wright in Richmond.
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Antone are
spending some time in Miami,
Florida.
Mrs. Ruric Gill is sick with low
blood pressure.
Seen and Heard
E. C. Daniel, Jr., reports from
London an incident of the recent
election campaign there. A
speaker was being heckled by a
rural constituent, who asked him:
“How would you tell a bad egg?”
“If I had anything to tell one,”
the candidate replied gently, “I
would break it very gently.”
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The magazine agents were in
town yesterday. They descend on
a town like a bunch of locusts,
much as gypsies came fifty years
ago. Many are crippled, and give
a sob story about getting 10,000
points and an operation if only
you will subscribe to True Confes
sions, Real Romance, or another
magazine of this type.
They violate our municipal ord
inances concerning peddlers, but
they look so pathetic people hate
Are pecan trees valuable as a
sideline source of income?
The best way to answer this
question is to cite the experience
of a Columbus County farmer, W.
J. Collier of Route 1, Whiteville.
Collier has 20 pecan trees around
his house and yard. They are use
ful for both shade and nuts. Dur
ing the past season he gathered
1.496 pounds of nuts and sold them
for 22 to 25 cents a pound. His
receipts were $328.63, slightly
more than twice the amount of his
county taxes. However, pecans
James Carl Boyce, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Boyce of Tyner,
has been awarded first place in
the Chowan County 4-H peanut
contest for 1949, according to Rob
ert S. Marsh, assistant county
agent.
Approximately one out of every
four Caswell County farm opera
tors attended a series of farm
management schools held recently.
Zebulon Personal Items
Farm Questions Answered
Tar Heel Farm Facts
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Debnam
carried their grandchildren back
to Raleigh Sunday afternoon.
Their mother, Mrs. W. H. Jones is
getting along fine following an
operation.
The W. A. Allmans visited Mrs.
Tom Bunn of Wendell' Sunday.
Mrs. Bunn has just returned from
Rex Hospital after a spinal opera
tion.
Mr. Howard Beck. Mrs. Gilbert
Beck and Howard, Jr. visited their
parents in Thomasville Sunday.
Miss Irene Pitts spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Rodney
McNabb.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney McNabb
visited relatives in Oxford Sun
day.
Mrs. Mamie Debnam of Wins
ton-Salem is visiting Mrs. Millard
Chamblee.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Dawson and
family of Southern Pines spent
from Thursday until Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Dawson.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Pippin and
Kay, of Smithfield were supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Daw'son Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Clem Godwin of
Coats visited Mr. and Mrs. Barrie
Davis Sunday.
to turn them in. In a land as rich
as ours there should be, and are,
better ways for cripples to make
their living than by this particular
form of begging.
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Vance Brown’s definition of an
irreducible minimum is a sliced
chicken sandwich with the bread
removed.
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Sunday was a hundred-per cent
spring day hereabouts, and most
Zebulon folks took advantage of
the weather to get outside. The
rocks at Pleasant Hill and Mitch
ell’s Mill had their share of visi
tors, as did local fish ponds.
Many of our local beauty spots
are losing their natural attractive
ness because of indiscriminate and
unlawful dumping. At Pleasant
Hill we counted over 400 tin cans
trees will not grow in all types
of soil. Before a farmer begins
this enterprise, he should consult
his county agent for complete in
formation.
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Where can l get information
about pastures for hogs?
Write to the Agricultural Editor,
State College Station, Raleigh, and
ask for a copy of Extension Folder
No. 67, “Graze Hogs for 12
Months,” which has recently been
revised. This publication, prepar
ed by Jack Kelley, animal hus
bandry extension specialist at
Falls are the principal type of
injury that occur on the farm and
in the farm home.
Brunswick County pastures are
in excellent condition as a result
of the mild winter weather.
Grasshoppers, boll weevils, and
European corn borers may cause
U. S. farmers serious trouble in
1950. say entomologists of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture.
Tuesday, March 14,1950
S. V. Chamblee, brother of Mrs.
Pattie Harris, was taken to Duke
Hospital Thursday for an operation
to be performed this week.
Mrs. M. E. Whaley of Ahoskie
visited Mrs. Hannah Liles all last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Talton
visited Miss Lady Talton in
Greensboro Sunday.
Miss Nancy Whitley and three
guests from WCUNC spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. V. Whitley. Her guests
were Miss Louise Griffin of Wil
liamston, Miss Mary Eleanor Gray
of Lexington, and Miss Elizabeth
Outlaw of Mount Olive.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Temple
had the Carlton Mitchells and Mr.
Claude Cook as dinner guests Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wade and
family visited in Clayton Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Finch and
Mr. and Mrs. Doug Finch and
Faye visited Dr. and Mrs. Sigma
Finch in Oxford Sunday.
Mrs. Susie Alford will return
Wednesday after a five months’
stay in Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Brantley of
Wilson visited Mr. and Mrs. S. J.
Ferebee on Sunday.
in one pile; only the Lord knows
how many there are in this area.
Philip Whitley says that one car
dumped 26 empty whiskey bottles
next to his pond between Zebulon
and Wendell, and other land own
ers tell the same sad story.
This problem is not peculiar to
eastern Wake County. Sections of
beautiful drives in the mountains,
not to mention coastal areas, have
been turned into dumping areas,
too.
Some people are stupid, some are
lazy, and some are just plain mean;
and they will continue to ruin our
country side until they are car
ried to our courts of law.
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“Failures are divided into two
classes—those who thought and
never did, and those who did and
never thought.”—Salak.
State College, emphasizes the im
portance of thorough planning in
order to have pasture every month
in the year. Kelley says Ladino
clover makes one of the best hog
pastures for dry sows, boars, and
hogs being fattened for market.
This is a permanent pasture, he
says, and should not be used .more
than one out of every three years
for sows nursing pigs in order to
control worms. Ladino clover
should be seeded in August and
September, so that there will be
plenty of grazing from early spring
until late fall.
Tn 1948, nearly 30 per cent of all
city families were using less than
a pint of milk per person each
day.
Net farm income i n 1949 was
about 16 per cent lower than a
year earlier.
Fats and oils produced from do
mestic materials in the year be
ginning October 1949, are expected
to total over 12 million pounds.