THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXV. Number 43.
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Top photo: It was a long haul to Ft. Jackson, and chow call
proved a welcome break. Cpl. Ray Gainey is handing out the meal
from the mess truck, and First Sgt. Sidney Holmes is watching over
the chow line.
Second photo. Cpl. Rudolph Liles and his firing section strain to
get their 105-mm howitzer into position.
Third photo: Sgt. Frank Massey's firing section spreads the trails
of its howitzer preparatory to digging them in for firing. It rained
every day, including when the picture was taken.
Fourth photo: Cpl. A. K. May pulls the lanyard and Cpl- Ralph
Creech holds his ears as the howitzer sends its projectile sailing to
ward the target over four miles away.
Polio May Stop
Swimming Classes
The outbreak of infantile para
lysis n av put an end to the Red
Cross swimming classes being held
at Tip; eft's. Bob Emanuel, instruc
tor in charge, said yesterday. E
manuel said that he would contin
ue the classes through Friday un
less the Wake County Health De
partment advised him to close the
school.
Only one person from Zebu
lon. the small son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jeff Gordon, has been reported as
having contracted infantile para
lysis. but the number of cases re
ported has increased during the
past month.
Yesterday morning the swim
ming classes had fewer pupils than
at any time since it began last
week. The small number was at
tributed to parents’ fear of polio.
ZEBULON NATIONAL GUARDSMEN AT FORT JACKSON
Thirty-seven men and two officers of Battery A attended summer camp at Ft. Jackson, S. C., from
July 2 through July 16. Pictured above in the photo taken by Capt. Barrie Davis are: kneeling, First
Sgt. Sidney Holmes, WO Clifford Gilliam, Sfc. Percy Parrish, and Lt. Henry Mangum of Henderson,
acting executive officer.
Standing, first row: Robt. L. Privette, Braxton Creech, Jimmy Spivey, Jessie Pulley, Barbee Tant,
Worth Croom, B. B. Barham, Jr., Elton Price, Cecil Godwin, Rudolph Liles, J. P. Arnold, and John Clark.
Second ro,v: Pete A. O’Neal, A. K. May, George Massey, Clyde Morris, Connie Bunn, K. D. Lloyd,
Cooper Moss, Gordon Temple, John D. Pearce, Charles Perry, Bob Sawyer, and Kenneth Chamblee.
Third row: Obie Ayscue, Peter Combs, Ray Gainey, Jimmy Greene, Wesley Pearce, Hilliard Greene,
Max Dennis, Lester Deans, Gerald Pearce, Frank Massey and Ralph Creech.
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, August 1, 19.50
Four Deaths Cause
Sorrow in Homes
Os Local Residents
Miss Madeline Hrantlev
Miss Madeline Brantley, 82,
died at her home on Zebulon,
Routs 2, Friday morning
after a lingering ill
ness. She was the daughter of the
late Pcnina and Sherwood Brant
ley.
Funeral services were held from
the home in Zebulon Saturday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock, conducted by
the Rev. Theo Davis and the Rev.
Carlton Mitchell. Interment was in
the family cemetery.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs.
I Frances Wall of Zebulon; and sev
eral nieces and nephews. She had
made her home with a nephew,
Vester R. Brantley of Raleigh for
the past year.
Arthur G. Lewis
Arthur G. Lewis, 56, of Wendell,
died Saturday night at 8:15 o’clock
in Rex Hospital after a four
months illness. Funeral services
were held Monday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock from the Central Bap
tist Church on the Old Poole Road.
Burial was in the church ceme
tery. Services were conducted by
the Rev. A. D. Parrish and the
Rev. J. D. Stancil.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Lillie Gertrude Crowder;
three sons, Charles A. of Dalh
gren, Va., John of Wendell, and
Joseph Neville of the home; three
daughters, Mrs. Ercell Fowler of
Zebulon, Mrs. Dollie Raper of Wen
dell. and Joan of the home; three
brothers, Roy of Middlesex, Leon
ard and Franklin of Zebulon; two
sisters, Mrs. A. E. Denton of Smith
fie’d and Mrs. J. D. Driver of Mid
dlesex.
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John Fiddner
John Fiddner, 61, retired rail
way express agent at Aberdeen
and Pinehurst, died suddenly
Wednesday night while at his
beach cottage at Windy Point near
Shallotte on the North Carolina
coast. Mr. Fiddner, a native of
Connecticutt, had lived at Pine
bluff since 1910.
Until his retirement in Janu
; ary, he had been railway express
agent at Aberdeen and also had
been agent at Pinehurst from 1914
I until his retirement.
Funeral services were held at
Pinebluff Methodist Church Sat
urday afternoon at 3 o’clock with
the Rev. J. R. Regan, pastor, and
Dr. W. A. Parsons, former pastor,
officiating. Burial was in Pine
bluff cemetery. Pallbearers were
members of Roman Eagle Lodge
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COTTON CUTIE
This attractive meremaid (who
really has been swimming!) gets
her quota of Vitamin D basking
in the sunshine after her dip. She j
is wearing a glamorous Roman |
stripped swim suit of cotton puck- !
erette designed by Cataline. The
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two-piece cotton suit has a solid- j
colored back.
CONSERVATION
NOTES
Just below New Hill we walked
with Mr. A. N. Lawrence over a
pasture sown last fall in orchard
grass and Ladino clover He is!
now lirn.ng another field to be
sown this fall to a mixture of Ladi
no clover and tail fescue. Mr. Law
rence is nov. grazing about twenty
hogs on two acres of Ladino clover
and orchard grass. Tiie hogs are
eating the clover down close but
allowing some orchard grass to be
come coarse. He will either mow
or put ?r>nw calves in for a few j
days’ grazing. Mr. Lawrence stat- ,
ed, “Practically all of the land now
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Window and Out the Door;
fobbed Our Licker Store?
In the
Who
Little progress had been made
yesterday afternoon in the search
for the person who broke into the
Zebulon ABC Store sometime Sat
urday night and left with SBOO.OO
from the cash drawers. Chief of
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Rocky Mount Center
Examines Persons
For Cancer Traces
Twenty-five persons were exam
ined in the Rocky Mount Cancer
Detection Diagnostic Clinics last
week, when the clinics were held
for the 26th time at the local Board
of Health.
The 25 persons examined con
sisted of two white, 19 white wom
en, and four Negro women. Oniy
four of the examinees had been
referred to the clinic by a physi
cian. Persons examined represent
ed Rocky Mount and outlying
areas. Spring Hope, Louisburg,
Tarboro, Halifax, Bailey, Nash
ville. Bethel, Parmele, Zebulon,
Weldon and Macclesfield.
In order that those who live at
a distance may be sure of an ex
amination when they come to the
*>’linic and thus not make a trip
in vain, priorities will be issued
on request to anyone living twenty
miles or more from Rocky Mount.
Requests for these priorities should
be addressed to: Cancer Control
Center, Municipal Building Rocky
: Mount, North Carolina.
.
i These clinics are operated by
j the Edgecombe-Nash Medical So
j ciety, in cooperation with the State
Board of Health and the local
1
j chapter of the America’ Cancer
: Society. They are to ■
northeastern section of N ■
olina. These clinics will I
continued through the n I
August only. 9
C. W. Bailey, Md. ■"
Durham Moore,
New CP&L Worker
Durham Moore, Jr., has been
transferred to the Zebulon office
of Carolina Power and Light from
Raleigh, where he has been em
ployed since his graduation from
the University of North Carolina
in December.
He and his wife have moved in
to the Burt Peoples house on Glenn
I Street. Mrs. Moore is secretary
for the First Presbyterian Church
l in Raleigh.
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