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THE ZEBULON RECORD \ Volume XXVI. Number 10 NEW EQUIPMENT INSTALLED AT GIN I ' a®* J| i. imm ■ - MmmMmmMMt, : ( J pi jw 4 - "" '"if, ■ . I Ili&iiiJaPl&Hf ;.; , SvK*:' ajfox The Zebulon Gin has recently installed complete new Murray ginning equipment, giving it one of the most modern plants around. Raleigh Alford is operator of the Zebulon gin, and states that he is now able to do excellent ginning on hand and machine picked cotton. This gives Zebulon two up-to-date gins, offering cotton farmers the best service found in any town. —Photos by Jack Potter. P | Soil Demonstration On Joe Tippett Farm To Be Held Thursday A Soil Conservation Service Demonstration will be given on the farm of Joe Tippett, two miles South of Zebulon on the Wake-Johnston County line, Ed Ellington, agriculture teacher at Wakelon School, announced yes terday. The demonstration will be gin at 1:00 on Thursday; Oct. 12. Strip cropping, meadow strip ping, and pasture planning will be shown. The display is sponsored by the Wakelon agriculture de partment and the public is invited. Loomis Marvin Parrish Stationed at Benning Ret. Loomis M. Parrish, Jr., formerly a linotype operator with ' the Zebulon Record, has been transferred from Ft. Jackson to Ft. Benning, Ga., where he is a member of Company A, 78th En ginering Combat Battalion. He has been made a squad lead er at Ft. Benning. Small Fire Sunday At Wake Builders The Zebulon fire truck answer ed a call at Wake Builders Supply in Wakefield shortly after noon Sunday, where a motor caught fire frorh an electrical short cir cuit. Policeman Ray Gainey, who ex tinguished the fire, said that lit tle damage other than to the mo tor resulted. POSTPONED The Negro Minstrel Plan ned by the Wakelon Parent- Teacher Association for Mon day night, October 17, has been postponed to a later date, which will be announced as soon as final plans are com pleted. Harold W. Duke Dies After Long Sickness; Buried on Saturday Harold Wayne Duke, 30, of Ral eigh and Zebulon, formerly opera tor of a service station on New Bern Avenue at the junction on the Poole Road and Highway 64, died in Mary Elizabeth Hospital Friday following an illness of sev eral months. Fur ral services were held Sat urday ui. 3 p. m. at Hopkins Chap el, and the body was taken to the church an hour ahead of rites to lie in state. The Rev. Fred Crisp I of Zebulon, the Rev. R. D. Carson of Raleigh, and the Rev. Carlton Mitchell officialted. Burial was in the church ceme tery. Harold was very popular in this ! community and in Raleigh. He was a member of Millbrook Ma sonic Lodge No. 97, AF&AM. Surviving are his father, Char lie Erwin Duke; two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Hopkins of Zebulon and IMrs. Millard King of Raleigh; two (brothers, Earl and Mitchell Duke, j both of Zebulon. Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, October 10, 1950 National Guard Recruits Exempted from Draft; Enlistment Limit Is Set Men who enlist in the National Guard now will be exempt from the call by the draft as long as they attend the weekly drills reg ularly and go to the 15-day sum mer encampment, WO Clifford Gilliam announced yesterday. The Battery A administrative assistant said that notice of this change came from the North Carolina Ad jutant General last Friday. Although the local unit has not had any men drafted after they enlisted with it, men were not immune from the draft unless they enlisted before they were 17 1-21 years old. A host of volunteers are expect ed to present themselves at the j armory on Vance Street following this announcement, but Capt. Bar rie Davis, commanding officer of Battery A, said that the local unit has room for only 15 men. Only top men will be taken in to the local field artillery battery, Capt. Davis continued. “We have won excellent and superior rat ings since our Federal recogni tion,” he said, “and we want good men who will help us continue our enviable record.” The National Guard offers a wonderful opportunity to men 17 years and older. They receive a full day’s pay for each two-hour armory drill, and have an oppor tunity to learn while they work. Promotions are rapid in the local unit because it has been organ ized only fourteen months. In ad dition, the men earn retirement points which will permit them to retire from the National Guard with as much as SBS per month re tirement pay. WO Gilliam is at the armory | from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday j through Friday of each week. Physicals are given to recruits by Dr. Chas. Flowers, Dr. Durvvard Stallings, and Dr. Ben Thomas. Community Chest Directors Meet An organizational meeting of the temporary Board of Directors of the Community Chest met last night to discuss plans for the local group and a membership drive to be conducted in the near future. Present officers of the group in clude C. V. Whitley, chairman; J. C. Debnam, vice-chairman; and Mrs. Irby Gill, secretary. j Pvt. Royce Hood Is Wounded in Action Pvt. Royce Hood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hood of Zebulon, suf fered a shrapnel wound in his hip on September 16 during action in Korea. He wrote his mother that his wound was responding to j treatment satisfactorily. ED'S BUILDING NEARING COMPLETION The question which has been presented to Ld Hales, popular Zebulon fertilizer de; ler, is, “When is your building going to be finish ed?” Ed says he has answered that he does not know so much that he keeps on answering it in his sleep. The cement shortage held up construction for quite a while, but, as the photo by Jack Potter shows, lots of progress is now being made. TO PREACH HERE Jig: 5 ,'Mr. 1 ■biii. jftr The Rev. James S. Potter, pas tor of the First Baptist Church of Statesville, will conduct revival services at the Baptist Church each evening beginning Sunday October 15 and continuing through Friday October 20. Mr. Potter is a native of Wilmington and was formerly pastor of the Apex Baptist Church. He is a graduate of Wake Forest College and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Raleigh Alford Talks To Rotary on Friday On Commerce Group J. Raleigh Alford, president of the Zebulon Chamber of Com merce, gave a report on the pro posed activities and the member ship drive being conducted by that group at a meeting of the Zebulon Rotary Club last Friday night. He began his talk by giving a history of similar Chamber of Commerce groups in this country, and then told the story of the Zebulon or ganization. According to membership chair man Vance Brown, 43 members have already become members of the Zebulon Chamber of Commerce group for the coming year, and the drive is still continuing. Raleigh said that he hopes the coming year will be a big one for the Chamber of Commerce, but that the cooperation of all the members will be needed. Methodist Barbecue To Be Friday Night A barbecue and brunswick stew dinner will be served by mem bers of the Zebulon Methodist Church in the Wakelon School cafeteria Friday, October 13, from 5 p. m. to 8 p. m. A Harvest Sale will be held at 8:00 in the high school gymnasium. The public is invited to both events* Price for the supper is SI.OO per plate. Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Mayor Bridgers Receives Unwanted Excitement In Four-Car Collision Mayor R. H. Bridgers had an unexpected bit of excitement run into him on his 54th birthday, when he stopped to let some ap | proaching cars pass before turn ing across the highway into his drive and became the head man of a four-car pile-up. The accident i took place Sunday afternoon about 3:30 in front of the Theo. Davis home on Gannon Avenue. The Mayor, driving his 1949 Buick, signalled and stopped on his side of the road waiting for cars coming from Raleigh to pass. Iris Pleasants Flythe, North Caro lina Public Welfare Worker from Conway, N. C., driving a 1949 Ford, stopped behind the Bridgers’ Buck. Just before the Mayor was ready to turn off the highway into his drive, a 1949 Mercury, driven by James Elbert Earp, was unable to stop and smashed into the rear of a 1949 Chevrolet pickup truck, which bounced into the back of the Ford, and knocked it into the Bridgers’ Buick. Earp said that Griffin Todd, 22- year-old Negro driver of the truck, failed to signal when he slowed to stop behind the Ford. When Eary saw that the truck had stop ped, he locked his brakes and slid 60 feet before running into the rear of the pickup. The Bridgers Buick was not damaged, and the Ford, although the grill was smashed and the rear dented slightly, was able to con tinue on its way to Raleigh. Nei ther Mayor Bridgers nor Miss Flythe were hurt. Riding in the pickup truck with Todd were his wife, Gladys Todd, and Vermal Heath, 13, and Shirley May Heath, 15, all colored. Shirley May suffered a cut on her fore head. The truck had to be tow ed to a garage. In Earp’s Mercury were his wife and children, Jerry Wayne, 1 year old, Sherry Anne, 4, and Margar et Joanne, 7, Earp was cut in the mouth and his wife suffered bruis es in keeping the children from being injured. None of the chil dren were hurt. The grill and front fenders of the Mercury were bad ly smashed. Lions Hear Speaker, Listen to Vocalists A double feature program was presented to the members of the Zebulon Lions Club last Thursday night in the recreation room of the Methodist Church, when Barrie Davis told the group about the local National Guard unit and Joe Tonkel, presented a group of singers known as “Dave and His Singing Cavaliers,’’ who won several prizes at the Rocky Mount Fair recently, Gilbert Beck introduced the commander of the local battery, who gave a short account of Bat tery A, and told of the recruiting drive which has just begun. The instrumental and vocal numbers by the Cavaliers drew rounds of applause from the Lions who.called for several encores. Lion Thomas Smith gave an ex cellent report on the White Cane Drive in which well over SIOO was raised for the Lion program of helping the blind. President Worth Hinton said that attendance for last month was 100 per cent for the Zebulon Club and urged the Lions to continue their good work.
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