THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV. Number 5
ANOTHER FARM CHORE MADE EASY
These power companies continue to take the poor farmer’s
pleasure away from time. This time it’s that time honored chore of
pulling at old Bossey before dawn. Electric milking machines are
doing the job now faster, cleaner, and cheaper. Then after the milk
is separated from the cow, electricity is used to cool it.
Wakelon Faculty Members to Play
Benefit Games with School Cagers
A triple-header basketball game,
featuring members of the Wake
lon School faculty against the boys
and girls basketball teams, will be
played Wednesday night in the
Wakelon Gymnasium. A third
game will be played between the
Zebulon Cub Scouts and the Wake
Forest Cub Scouts. The three
games are sponsored by the Wake
lon Parent-Teacher Association.
This will be the final game of
the year for the Wakelon varsity
teams, and the final contest of
their high school career for Ruth
Brown, Gwen Smith, and Velva
Pearce, all stellar members for the
girls team.
A full house is expected to see
Coaches Fred Smith, Malbert
Smith, and Herb Appenzeller lead
the teachers. With agriculture
teacher Ed Ellington rounding out
a four-man squad, the teachers
Local Man Returns
From Puerto Rico
Lorenzo W. Bunn, radioman,
third class, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. W. Bunn of Route 4, Zeb
ulon, is serving aboard the armed
transport vessel USS General Bur
ner, which participated in the
joint Army, Navy and Air Force
realistic war exercises conducted
in the Caribbean area including a
mock assault and seizure of the
-Island of Vieques.
Portrex, or Puerto Rican Exer
cises, largest peacetime maneuvers
ever to be held in this hemisphere,
afforded combat experience for
nearly 80,000 men of the armed
forces and included the menace to
the Fleet by submarines and at
tacking aircraft, both land and car
rier-based.
Bunn entered the naval service
Feb. 15, 1944, after attending
Wakelon High School.
Guard Strength Up
A. K. May and Lonnie Poole, Jr., !
enlisted in the National Guard this
week to bring the strength of Bat
ery A back to 53 officers and men,
Capt. Barrie Davis stated last
might. Both recruits expect to at
tend the 15-day encampment at
Fort Jackson this summer, and
were assigned to sections for
training last night.
Sfc. Clifford Gilliam, adminis
trative assistant for the battery,
stated that this week he will be
•ble to enlist one more man. He
Mrged applicants to see him at the
armory at once.
' will be underdogs.
Members of the Bulldog squad
are reported saying that they will
show their coach the correct way
to play basketball, after a year of
hearing him tell them how.
Marilyn Alderman, Janie Tay
lor, Minnie Lee Tyson, Mrs. Doris
Privett, Lucy Husketh, and Alma
1 Lewis are expected to lead the
ladies of the faculty, ably sup
ported by other former high school
stars.
Mrs. Wade’s dancing class will
present several acts between
halves of the games. Admission
to the contests will be 35c, 25c and
, 15c.
Council to Meet
A meeting designed to produce a
community council for Zebulon is
scheduled for the local recorder’s
courtroom at 7:30 tonight, Rev.
Carlton Mitchell has announced.
Mayor R. H. Bridgers will pre
side at the meeting. Representaives
from all local civic and church
groups are expected to attend.
WAKE COUNTY CHAMPIONS PLAY IN TOURNAMENT
Coach Fred Smith’s Wakelon girls, who won the Wake County championship for the first time in
the school’s history, went to the quarter-finals in the State Tournament held at Southern Pinees. The
scrappy little team is: first row: Ruth Brown, Gwenn Smith, Joellen Gill, and Shirley Chamblee; second
row: Phoebe Williams, Gayle Privett, Juana Joy Mitchell, Velva Pearce, Lila Rose Pace, Katherine
Baker, and Betty Sue Williams; third row: Inez Pearce, Phyllis Ellington, Emma Ruth Pace, and Fred
A. Smith, coach. Photo by Wayne Privette.
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, March 21, 1950
We're Just as Good
As New Yorkers;
Local Water Short
Zebulon housewives who were
alarmed Friday afternoon at the
lack of water had their fears dis
pelled by Willie B. Hopkins, who
said that the shortage was caused
by thcee burned-out motors and
not by dry wells. By Sunday noon
all four of the deep wells which
provide the town’s water supply
were pumping normally and the
water tank was full again.
Chief Hopkins stated that a Car
olina Power & Light Company
power line fell Friday between
Zebulon and Wakefield, causing a
single phase circuit which burned
out the three pump motors located
along Arendell Avenue. For some
reason, the thermo-switches fail
ed to cut out the power before the
damage was done.
The first motor was repaired and
back in operation Saturday morn
ing at 11:00, and the town had a
limited water supply available.
Filling stations and garages were
ordered not to wash any cars un
til the wells were again in opera
tion Sunday.
Last Rites Are Held
For F. R. Godwin
Funeral services were held at
3 p.m. Saturday from Antioch Bap
tist Church for F. R. Godwin, 54,
who died Thursday at his home
near Stanhope after an illness of
a few hours. Burial was in the An
tioch cemetery. Rev. A. D. Parrish
of Zebulon was in charge.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Daisy Godwin; two daughters, Mrs.
Carl Davis of Spring Hope, Route
2, and Mrs. Harold Brantley of
Bailey; one son, Edward Perry of
Spring Hope, Route 1; two sisters,
Mr.;. P. A. Murphy and Mrs. De
witt Hinton of Middlesex, Route 2;
and one brother, Donnie Godwin
of Zebulon.
Attends Clinic
Dr. Chas. E. Flowers will return
to town Tuesday night from Dur
ham, N. C., where he attended the
North Carolina Academy of Gen
eral Practice and Duke University
Symposium for three days.
TOP PLAYER
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39 Wi|Mro
Ruth Brown, senior forward,
was termed “All-State” by A. C.
Dawson, Jr., director of the N. C.
State Girls’ Basketball Tourna
ment held last week at Southern
Pines. Ruth starred in every
game Wakelon played this year.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. Vance Brown.
Mrs. Stell to Speak
At Woman's Club
At the regular monthly meeting
of the Woman’s Club on next Tues
day afternoon, March 21, Mrs.
Jethro Stell will discuss garden
ing. The program begins at 3:45.
Mrs. Stell is experienced in both
theory and practice of growing
shrubs and flowers. She is chair
man of this department of work
in the Wakefield Home Demon
stration Club, and her talk is sure
to be helpfui to all hearers.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Governor's Secretary
To Address Legion
I Post on April 13
John Marshall, secretary to Gov
ernor W. Kerr Scott, will speak
to local Legionnaires at their next
I meeting on Friday night, April 14,
Commander Ralph Bunn of Post
33 announced yesterday.
Marshall is a past commander of
I Raleigh Post No. 1 of the Legion,
and has held important state and
I ! national offices in the Legion. He
I is a member of 40 & 8, fun and
I honor Legion group.
Before becoming secretary to the
governor, Marshall directed the re-
I cent campaign for road and school
| bonds, and was editor of the FCX
? j Patron. He has served as both city
| j editor and sports editor of The
Raleigh Times.
At the Legion’s meeting here on
I March 10. Rev. Carlton Mitchell,
■ pastor of the Zebulon Baptist
I Church, addresed the post on the
I practice of democracy as opposed
to democracy in theory alone.
[ The finance committee of the
local post, Gordon Temple, Hardin
Hinton and Frank Wall, put on a
square dance at the bus station on
Saturday night. The committee ex
pects to hold a similar dance each
' ! Saturday night.
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Fred Smith Attends
I’ Meeting at Chicago
Principal Fred Smith of Wake
- lon School left Sunday morning by
n "hne for a meeting ol* special edu
v cation leaders in Chicago. He will
•e 4 ”"n Wednesday.
i Mr. Smith, who has worked on
a local special education project
with Miss Rebekah Talbert, will
v<-”->re<;e n t the State Department of
Public Instruction, the University
of North Carolina, and the N. C.
League for Crippled Children at
’ ‘he conference.
A delegate from the local school
. was selected because of the suc
cessful pioneer work of the Zebu
. ion school in providing educational
i theranv for handicapped children.
I Miss Talbert also received an in
- vitation to the national meeting at
c Chicago, but was unable to attend.
-\S. F. Mercer Is
Speaker at Rotary
Rev. S. E. Mercer, pastor of the
Zebulon Methodist Church, spoke
to local Rotarians at their meeting
last Friday night on the shape of
things to come. Mr. Mercer declar
ed that the survival of civilization
depends upon an active religion.
At the preceding meeting of the
local Rotary Club, Douglass Kelly,
area executive for the Occoneechee
Council, spoke to Rotarians on the
Boy Scout program. He expressed
the hope that Scouting would soon
be re-established in all its phases
in Zebulon.
Whitley Speaks
Philip R. Whitley of Wendell,
president of the Wendell Parent-
Teacher Association, addressed the
local P-TA membership last night
in the Wakelon Auditorium.
Mr. Whitley spoke on the gen
eral educational needs of rural
| Wake County, touching briefly on
essential legislation and the pro
; posed bond issue for school con
struction in Raleigh and the rural
areas of the county.
President Howard Beck presided
at the meeting, which heard dis
cussion of the Easter Seal cam
paign for crippled children.
The Zebulon Cub Scouts will
j meet the Knightdale Cub Scouts
jin a basketball game this after
inoon at 3:30 at Knightdale.