THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV. Number 15
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Here’s one bathing beauty at home
In or on the water. She’s a volunteer
faculty member at a Red Cross na
tional aquatic school for water safe
ty and small craft handling.
Boating Is Added
To CP&L Lake
Boating soon will be added to
the attractions of Morrow Moun
tain State Park, it was announced
by State Park Superintendent
Thomas W. Morse recently.
Under agreement with the Caro
lina Power & Light Company, the
Park Division has graded an ac
cess road down to Tillery Lake at
the old Lowder’s Ferry site at
the edge of the Park. Here it is
planned to construct docks and
other facilities.
Sanitary facilities and a con
cession stand are also planned for
boating and fishing. Rowboats
will be available for rent, and the
Division will particularly encour
age the use of row boats and sail
boats, Morse announced.
Work on a parking area is par
tially complete, but has been de
layed to finish excavation and re
search on some interesting Indian
remains unearthed there.
Politicking Proves Tiring
To Newspaper Publisher
Oh, thzis politicking is back
breaking stuff, especially when a
candidate has to make a living
five days a week which leaves only
Saturday to circulate around and
visit with people. I thought it
would be an easy job to drop in
and chat a moment and then cruise
on down the road. That’s not al
ways the case.
Last Saturday I found a whole
lot of people that have had so
many candidates call upon them
that they were fed up with the
whole idea of politics.
“The woods are full of politici
ans,” said one filling station opera
tor. “Yeah,” said a gentleman oc
cupying the fourth nail keg on the
left, “if you fired a shotgun in any
direction, you’d hit at least six of
’em.”
I found that the wide-brimmed
western style hat I ordered six
months ago just isn't the right
thing to wear while calling
on folks out in the country. My
everloving wife, Judy, can’t bear
to look at me when I wear it. It’s
so funny to her that she rolls on
the floor and laughs.
Saturday morning I walked into
a store wearing that hat. I knew
the gentleman who ran the store
was no supporter of mine, but I
figured maybe he could be con
verted. (He couldn’t.) After I left,
he said: Look at that guy. Comes
YDC Plans Meet
On Friday Night;
To Hear Barkley
The principal meeting of the
year for Young Democrats of North
Carolina will be held in Greenville
on Friday, April 28, according to
Terry Sanford, State YDC presi
dent.
Vice-President Alben W. Bark
ley will make the principal ad
dress, and Mrs. Barkley has been
invited to accompany him to North
Carolina. The occasion will be the
first annual Young Democratic
Roosevelt Dinner, and over 1,500
young and old Democrats are ex
pected to fill the Wright Audi
torium at East Carolina Teachers
College where the festivities will
be staged.
Governor Scott and other party
and state leaders are scheduled to
attend. The Vice-President will be
accompanied on his trip by Con
i gressman Herbert Bonner, in
whose district the dinner is being
held, as well as other members
of the North Carolina Congres
sional Delegation. Hoover Taft,
of Greenville, former YDC pres
ident, is chairman of the distin
guished guests committee.
YDC Dinner headquarters will
be opened at the Hotel Proctor
in Greenville and the Hotel Kin
| ston, and registration will start in
each of these hotels at 2:00 p. m.
on the day of the Dinner. The Wo
men’s Division of the Democratic
Party has scheduled a conference
for the afternoon at the Hotel
Proctor. The Lenoir County YDC
will provide a reception at the Ho
tel Kinston in the afternoon,
i Arrangements for the dinner are
in the hands of a committee head
ed by J. B. Spilman, Jr., of Green
ville. Other members are .Tames
Dorsett of Raleigh, Rivers Johnson J
•Tr., of Warsaw, Ed Redwine of
Shallotte, Courtney Mitchell, Jr.,
of Kinston, E. S. Peele, Jr., of
! Williamston.
in here in a hill-billy hat and ex
pects us to vote for him!”
There are plenty of chances to
practice talking wherever I go. But
at one place I found myself out
talked in a big way. The gentle
man called me to the back of his
place of business, and proceeded to
give me a spiel about a new salve
which he had developed guaran
teed to cure arthritis, rheumatism,
headaches, and stomach ulcers.
“This little cloth,” the gentle
man said, “contains the contents
of a full jar of salve. The salve is
made of clove oil and certain se
cret ingredients which drive the
clove oil into the flesh. Just as the
clove oil draws the pain from a
rotten tooth, just so it will drive
the pain out of your bones.” He
went on to tell how it would draw
the fever and pain away from
stomach ulcers, so that the little
ulcers could not make big ulcers
and would dry up and go away.
It sounded good, and if I could talk
just half as good. I’d be a cinch for
the job I’m after.
Politics makes for good clean
fun, though. Mr. Chamblee, Mr.
Robertson and Mr. Liles can join
me in laughing at the gentleman
who accused me of seeking the job
for the big pay involved. There
just ain’t no such thing as big pay
for a county commissioner.
—Barrie S. Davis
Zebu lon, N. C , Tuesday, April 25, 1950
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Typical of the campaigns being waged by the three candidates for United States Senator from North
Carolina is the scene shown above on the marque of one of the larger hotels in North Carolina where
all three candidates have headquarters. First is the sign stating: “Mr. Smith Is Going To Washington.”
Immediately above it. a streamer reads: “Our Bob Will Be in Washington to Receive Mr. Smith.” And
topping them both is the statement: “Frank Graham Is Already There!”
Editor Is Delighted
With Piano Pupils
We note with interest the in
creasing number of local adults
who are taking piano lessons.
There are no two ways about it
it helps them and the commun
ity. Furthermore, it confirms our
belief that a person can get an
education even if he is denied col
lege training.
Many of our readers will re
call that Capus Waynick, now am
| bassador to Nicaragua, and his
wife learned Spanish (virtually a
prerequisite for a diplomat in Lat
in America) with a set of record
ings in just six weeks. The in
terpreter your editor used in the
Dutch East Indies was a buck ser
geant who learned the Malayan
tongue the same way.
Few of these persons taking pia
no will find it aids them in quite
the way* the two persons men
tioned above used things they
learned afte reaching their
twenty-first birthday, but they
i will find added pleasure in mu
| sic. And, after all, God meant for
us to have pleasure along with
the tears.
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Your editor’s only daughter has
a voice that would put a large
sized foghorn to shame, and she
doesn’t mind using it.
The other night Ann had talked
and talked, and asked questions
galore, while all the time the edi
tor was trying to compose an es
pecially difficult letter. Finally
he got fed up, and brusquely told
his daughter to be qi iet.
“I don’t have to be quiet,” she
stated importantly. “I’m a wo
man.”
Two Local Boys
In Campbell Court
S. G. Flowers and Johnny Al
ford of Zebu lon are Gentlemen of
the Court for the May Day exer
cises at Campbell College, Buies
Creek, on May 6. Campbell Col
lege will be host to high school se
niors in eastern Carolina on that
day, and Bob Lasater of Buies
Creek and Marshale Moody of Siler
City will resign as May King and
Queen.
High School students will spend
Saturday as guests of the college.
The most recent installation they
will see will be the new light on
Tayor Ball Park.
YOU PAY YOUR MONEY AND TAKE YOUR CHOICE
ONE OF MANY
W. W. WILLIAMS, JR.
Lots of Acls/ivJ
a
in k iouse Ceuian
W. W. Williams, Jr., insurance
man from Raleigh, was a visitor
in the Record office yesterday,
making the call on a tour of Wake
j County. 11c is one of the 13 men
: seeking the three seats in the
House of Representatives alloted
Wake County.
Bill, as he prefers to be known,
is a member of Episcopal Church
in Raleigh, the Jr. and Sr. Cham
bers of Commerce, and the Civitan
Club.
Phil Whitley of Wendell, promi
nent lawyer and business man,
has also been a frequent visitor.
He is waging a spirited campaign
over the county, gaining friends
daily.
Earl Purser from Raleigh, Rt. 3,
called last week to announce his
candidacy. He is a Wake Forest
College graduate, and after serv
ing with the armed forces, taught
school.
Jimmy Little, the lone incum
bent seeking reelection, is basing
his campaign on the experience he
has gained during his term of of
fice. Os the remaining incum
bents, W. W. Hatch was appointed
a judge by Gov. Kerr Scott, and
Arch T Allen, who is exceedingly
popular in this community, decid
ed to devote his time to his busi
ness.
L. W. Umstead of Gamer, who
is seeking election to the County
Commissioner’s seat held by T.
Floyd Adams of Willow Springs,
was a visitor in Zebulon ten days
ago. He is a retired school princi
pal, and is now' active in farming.
rheo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Bulletin Published
v..i value Parasites
The State College Extension Ser
"ice announces publication of
"Controlling External Parasites of
Livestock,” an eight-page circular
prepared by Walter M. Kulash, as
. ate entomologist of the Agri
itural Experiment Station. Cop
e ;re available on request.
impose of the circular is to re
view recent developments in the
of insecticides for killing flies
i"'i other insect pests of farm ani
■ ils as well as to answer some
• lions about the present status
f DDT and its use.
Lulash emphasizes that DDT.
e cenerally accepted for fly
control on animals as well as for
residual control in dairy barns and
ther farm buildings, is no longer
recommended for insect control on
animals producing milk for human
consumption or in any places
where milk might be contaminated.
A number of other insecticides
besides DDT have been used not
only in fly control but also in
limited tests for the control of
external parasites of livestock.
These materials include methoxy
chlor, TDE (DDD), toxaphene,
chlordane, and and purified ben
zene hexachloride (lindane). Ku
lash describes the characteristics
and use of each of these.
The author asserts that sanita
tion is just as important in fly
control as is the proper use of in
secticides. In many cases, he says,
failure of insecticides to control
flies has really been a failure in
observing ordinary sanitation
methods on the farm.
Dr. Jensen Speaks
To Rotary Club
Dr. James H. Jensen, plant path
ologist at North Carolina State
College in Raleigh, was guest
speaker before members of the
Zebulon Rotary Club last Friday
night, and talked of the many dis
eases which attack plants in North j
Carolina. The speaker was intro
duced by Dr. L. M. Massey, who
complimented Dr. Jensen on the
splendid work being done in his
department.
Dr. Jensen held the close atten
tion of his audience as he explain
ed the difference in the diseases
which attack plants. He brought
for examination specimens of
mold, fungi, and other organisms
which attack plant life.