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Page Two Successful Beginning Tonight the first summer recreation activities sponsored by the Zebulon Recreation Commission come to an end, exclusive of the softball program which will continue through August (or until a champion has been named). All in all, it has been a good year. The commission was fortunate in obtaining the services of Lee Rhodes, who has been a fine leader for our youth and a cooperative co-worker with others interested in recreation. While he has not made a great deal of money (there was not a great deal to work with, he can feel rich in the knowledge of a job well done. The least that can be said for the portion of the program completed is that folks who contributed to the activities feel that they got their money’s worth; if the balance of the summer’s activities can be completed as successfully, this community will have set a record in more ways than one. Seen and Heard Some of the fellows who were jeering the local Guardsmen about being called up are now laughing out of the other side of their mouth since being called up for draft examination. Universal refrain of these draftees, as well as the Guardsmen, runs something like this: “I don’t mind going if only they take .” And they all mention the name of somebody locally considered a draft dodger. • Probably we just know of more tobacco barns being burned this year, but it seems as if there have never been more destroy ed by fire than during this summer. Almost every day this month there has been a barn burned within in sight of Zebulon. • Back when B. T. Nobles, now with the Kannapolis Inde pendent, worked for the Rev. Theo. Davis, we used to spend a lot of time fishing. B. T. would get a wasp’s nest, after burning the adult wasps with a newspaper, dig out the grubs, and bait his hook. All the fish in Little River would fight for first chance at the grubs. Avon Privette is partial to catalpa worms, of course, as anyone who trades with him knows. Almost any time during the summer you are apt to find him providing green foliage for several dozen catalpas, which he plans to use the next day at his fish pond. Staley Denton used to be partial to common earthworms for bait, and was highly successful, even in the heavily seined por tions of Little River. It‘s our belief that he took more jacks and bream with a hook from Little River than any other man north of the Johnston County line. We have seen other fishermen who used grasshoppers and locusts with moderate success. We have tried all the above kinds of bait plus dough and fatback, and regret to report no success with any of them. • Vance Brown, who consistently refuses to let his age catch up with him, submits what in our unbiased opinion easily quali fies as the worst pun of the week, if not the entire month. A young blade who is burning with love, Vance declares, often makes a fuel of himself. We never really thought Vance should qualify as a moralist, but unless we are awfully mistaken, he is the fellow who ad vised Preacher Mitchell that the best way to widen out the straight and narrow path is to have more people walk on it. Readers' Forum To the Editor: Last week a voter and taxpayer complained in the Record about police protection at night in this community because a liquor store robbery was not detected for some time. If this liquor store were not in Zebulon, the robbery would never have taken place. This liquor store which is located within one block of the Zebulon Baptist Church was robbed of over eight hundred dol lars which was taken from working men. I want you to take note of this: at the close of business on the day of the robbery more money was put in the liquor store safe than was raised for the 1950 recreation program in Zebulon. This is also more money than it took to buy a grand piano for Wakelon School last year—the PTA had to put on bridge parties to raise money for that piano, but men can spend eight hundred dollars in one day for liquor! This is a bad situation, I am tired of it, and I want something done about it. Woman voter and taxpayer.. The Zebulon Record Ferd L. Davis Editor Barrie S. Davis Publisher Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, aLthe post office at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate: $2.00 a year. Advertising rates on request. 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. Ollie Pearce, Mrs. O. C. Mullen, Mrs. Barrie Davis, Mrs. Jack Potter, Bobbie McGee, James M. Potter, Jr., Hilliard Greene, Jr., Jimmie Greene, Loomis Parrish. The Zebulon Record THERE'S NOTHING LIKE BEING GALLANT ———————— MAY WE HELP YOU WITH YOUR PAVING MISS WWIKOM6 JONEI - L. Local Personal Items Rev. and Mrs. Ralph J. Kirley of Portsmouth, Va., visited Mrs. Z. N. Culpepper, who has been ill for the past several weeks, last Thursday and Friday. Rev. Kir ley is a brother of Mrs. Culpepper. Dwight L. Culpepper was rush ed to Mary Elizabeth Hospital Monday afternoon for an appen dectomy. He was operated on Tuesday morning, and his condi tion is satisfactory. Mr. Charles Horton and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ellington are spending this week at Fort Caswell. Fred is spending the week with his grandmother, Mrs. Earl Horton. Mrs. Pattie Harris and Miss Lu cille Yelverton of Fountain spent Wednesday with Mrs. Foster Finch. Mrs. J. C. Screws and Miss Ethel Screws of Dalton, Ga., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Norman M. Screws. On Wednesday they all spent the day at Morehead. Mrs. Ferd Davis attended a luncheon in Wake Forest Saturday in honor of Miss Betty Stans bury, bride-elect, of Durham. I. B. Richardson lost a tobacco barn by fire Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Temple and family are on their vacation. Mrs. Dell Brantley who has, been ill, went to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lonnie Rog ers in Charlotte Wednesday. Christopher and Stephen Combs had their tonsils removed Thurs day. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hocutt returned Tuesday from Nags Head and Manteo. They attended the Lost Colony. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Bridgers will spend this weekend in Washing ton, D. C., with their daughters, Mrs. D. H. Huggins, and Mrs. Howard Armstrong. Mrs. Armstrong Cannady and Mr. F. E. Bunn attended the Wil son-Newton wedding in Raleigh Saturday. Miss Edythe Lee Medlin and Mr. A. V. Medlin are living in the apartment formerly occupied by the Elwood Mintzes. Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hawkins Tuesday night were Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Carter and Bobby of Bernardsville. N. J.. Mrs. H. G. Cates, Jr., and Ann of Durham, W. T. Hawkins of Eliza beth City and Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Hawkins, Sr., of Wendell. Mr. and Mrs. R. Vance Brown and family are at the beach. Mrs. R. M. Sanford of Rocky Mount spent Thursday with Mrs. E. C. Daniel. Willie B. Hopkins attended a special meeting for Scouters at the S & W Cafeteria in Raleigh Wed nesday night. Guests of Mrs. F. L. Page Friday were Mesdames Joe Blanks, Ir vin Brooks, Bill Walker, Alec Wrenn of Roxboro. Mrs. Tom Davis and son, Lyon, will return to St. Petersburg, Fla., Saturday night, after a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cam pen. Mr. E. C. Daniel is in New York on a business trip. Mrs. Sam Horton, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ed Horton, Mrs. Hardin Hinton and Jane spent Wednes day with Mrs. L. E. Johnson of Cary, who is critically ill. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Massey, Billy, and Betsy are leaving to day for a trip to Culpepper, Va., and the Skyline Drive. They will also spend a few days in Washing ton, D. C., with their daughter, Mrs. M. T. Ankers. Mrs. Jack Potter is in Woodard- Herring Hospital, Wilson, where she was taken on Monday. Mrs. Willie B. Hopkins was tak en to Rex Hospital Wednesday. G. C. Massey is improving slow ly at home, but will be confined for some time longer. Loomis Parrish attended the Homecoming at the JOUAM Or phanage in Lexington last week end. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Greene, Sr., Peggy Greene and Carol Wootton have been spending this week at Carolina Beach. Jimmie Greene, Mrs. Harry Reuhl and children, left Wednesday after noon to join them. Birthday Party Lyon Davis of St. P( rrsburg, Fla., celebrated his seventh birth day Monday afternoon with a party at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Campen. Games were played and horse shoe pitching and pony riding were enjoyed by the guests. Delicious refreshments of birth day cake and ice cream were ser ved. Favors of cowboy knives were given the boys and bubble sets were given the girls. Present were Phyllis Braswell, Mimi and Emma Kay Dawson, Patsy and Debba MacConnell of Greensboro, David Alford, Leary Davis, Jack Greene, Vaughn Wade, Sidney Holmes, Randy Creech, and Cornel Powers of Wendell. Friday, August 11, 1950 Hayseed By Uncle Sam Whether the mass of American citizens realize it or not the time has arrived in the American nation when we are of a necessity a mil itary power in the world. Lining up numbers of weak nations on our side is a military commitment. These defenseless nations are mil itary liabilities. We are moral ly obligated to protect them. In the present chaotic condi tion there is but one thing which will hold the aggressor nations in abeyance and that is the fear of force. Warfare has reached the point where millions may be de stroyed over night. The only hope of protection is to have the mili tary force trained and ready on a moment’s notice to meet the ene my. America now has commitments around the world. Os necessity she must have many bases and areas under the control of her mil itary forces. She can no longer move her forces half way around the world in order to protect her allies and her interests. It is a crime to defeat and then leave derelict nations not only to perish themselves but also to bring disaster to other nations. We are morally duty bound to place military control over the nations that become a menace to world peace. / Hostess at Bridge Mrs. Garland Godwin and Mrs. S. J. Ferebee entertained at bridge recently in honor of Mrs. Milton Howell, recent bride, at the home of Mrs. Godwin. The living room and den, where four tables of bridge were in play were deco rated with beautiful arrangements of roses, sweetpeas, zinnias and other mixed flowers. After several progressions high score prize was presented to Mrs. Wallace Chamblee, low to Mrs. Raleigh Alford, and floating to Mrs. Willard Gill. Mrs. Milton Howell and Mrs. Jack Potter, re cent brides, were presented with beautiful gifts. A delicious dessert course was served by the hostesses. Present were Mesdames Milton Howell, Willard Gill, Eldred Rountree, F. L. Page, Vance Brown, Eugene Privette, Julian Horton, Wilbur Debnam, Wallace Chamblee, Donald Stallings, Fred erick Chamblee, Jack Potter, Ral eigh Alford, Ferd Davis, Charles Wootton, and Miss Zyba Massey. Looking Backward From our Record files of ten years ago this week: Last rites were held for Mrs. Alonzo Cham blee. The federal government’s metal survey investigated manga nese deposits on the farm of Avon Privette. Ferd Davis received a bachelor of science degree in physics at Wake Forest College. The Hephzibah Baraca Class met with the Zebulon Baraca Class. The Zebulon Rotary Club held its 26th perfect attendance meet ing. Wesley Liles had the pro gram, and had A. C. Dawson, Sr., as his speaker. G. C. Massey at tended the sheriffs’ convention at Hickory. Cadet Charles Flowers, Jr., of The Citadel was appointed cadet captain. J. K. Barrow vis ited his peach orchard near Ham let. Funeral services were held for Chalmers Temple, 44, who died fol lowing an attack of asthma. Mrs. Carson Carter was hostess to the Senior Fidelis Class of the Bap tist Sunday School. The engage ment of Miss Mary Louise Robert son to Mr. Gilbert Davis was an nounced. Miss Ruby Temple went to New York to the World’s Fair.
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