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We Must Not Fail
“People in our town are proud of their Lions Club,
their Rotary Club, their Masonic Order, and Woman’s
Clubs,” we heard a speaker say the other ’av People
here sing the praises of their church- and their s hcol.
They are proud of each individual or;.an; t'on a d group,
but NO ONE IS PROUD OF ZEBULON:”
This statement did not impress us when it was made,
but we could not forget it We found oursc ves turning the
thought over in our minds. The statement is ture, we de
cided.
So we turned from the statement to consideration of
the community. We found that organizations can and
do accomplish a great many things, but these are limited
by the comparatively small membership of the sponsor
ing groups.
We found the Rotarians glorying in their ideals of
Rotary service, and the Lions taking pride in their accom
plishments, and many other groups smug in the knowl
edge that the past years have been progressive vears.
But nowhere have we found anyone taking pride in
the community. We have no community spirit!
This week Zebulon has a wonderful opportunity to
prove us wrong. There is a community-wide project un
derway in which we can all take a part and to which we can
all contribute both our time and our monev. Success in this
undertaking will encourage us to bigger things. It is larg
er than any one organization. Its purpose encompasses
the aims of any group.
If we believe in helping those in our community who
have suffered misfortune; if we believe in the tremen
dous value of Scouting for our boys and girls; if we be
lieve in a community recreation program to build charac
ter and discourage delinquency in our vouth; i we be
lieve in the value of community-wide participation in
worth-while projects then we believe in the Community
Chest.
This week public-spirited citizens are convassing the
town, taking contributions for Zebulon’s first Commun
ity Chest. The funds received will be used locally. There
will be no question about the administration of the Com
munity Chest because everyone who contributes becomes
a voting member with a voice in its operation.
Success in establishing our first Community Chest
will encourage us to continued effort toward giving our
community the many things it needs —a community cen
ter, maybe; or a library, or a playground, or anything else
we set as our goal.
Failure must be avoided at any cost. Failure will re
sult in discouragement and if we fail we will be unwilling to
trv again to harness the combined effort of all our people
for tie welfare of the whole community. We must not fail!
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Two days ago we heard a member of the National
Guard tell how last week he lost a chance for advance
ment in his business because he is serving his country. He
had a hatfull of highly complimentary recommendations
from officers of the company. He had passed all the ex
aminations with flying colors. He had an enviable rec
ord as a salesman. It seemed that everything pointed to
his immediate promotion to be district manager until
he met the personnel manager.
“Uhmmm,” said the personnel manager as he perused
the records, “Very good. Uh-what organizations, clubs, and
such do you belong to?”
“Well, I’m a member of *he National Guard, and—”
“National Guard!” exclaimed the interviewer. “There’s
no need to go any further with this because we need some
body who will stay with us a long time, and you may be
called into Federal Service at any time.”
The interview was over then and there. So were
chances for a promotion. This case is not the worst,
however, because we know of many instances where qual
ified men could not obtain employment because they are
members of our army of citizen-soldiers. Is this to be
their reward for patriotism?
The Zebulon Record
Published Tuesday and Friday of eat'h week at Zebulon,
Wake County, North Carolina
Barris. S. Davis Editor
James M. Potter, Jr Publisher
Staff Writers: Mrs. Thco. B. Davis, Mrs Ford Davis. Mrs”
Janice Denton. Miss Bonita Bunn. Mrs. T. Y. Puryear, Mrs. Polly
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The Zebulon Record
Mrs. Then. 13. Davis
When I called .. T rs Kermit
Combs at Wakefield, asked her
when her husband expected to
come home from Camp Rucker
and explained that I was getting
s me items for paper, she said:
‘ V hv, I wrote that up for the
} ; per last week and it was print
ed.” Then, when I said I hadn’t
seen last Friday’s Record she be
gan laughing as at something al
most incredible.
But it is really true that my son
Ford’s wife and I have had a
hard time tryine to see the paper.
The son and p r andson faithfully
assemble mail from the post of
fice and see that it js brought to
us. But the R 'cmd is not mailed
to us and they forget all about it
much of the time. We have threat
ened to have our names put on the
mailing list, but it would look silly
to do that. Still, it wouldn’t look
any sillier than I fael when peo
ple take it for granted I know all
that was published in an issue.
The boys are busy in the shop,
and we understand. If we were
outside town we could have our
paper mailed and delivered. As it
is, we do see most of the Records
—after a while
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My sister received two pairs of
nylon hose from a son’s wife
last Christmas. She was given
more pairs by others at different
times. In the summer she said to
the daughter-in-law 7- “Those hose
you gave me are about the best
I ever saw. Neither pair has a run
Mrs. Morris Hood received a very
welcome Christmas card from her
son, Cpl. Royce Hood, who is ta
tioned with the army overseas.
Mrs. W. A. Adcock of Wendell
is spending some time with her
daugi ter, Mrs. Morris Hoad.
The W. R. Whitten tons and son
have moved i o the house on
C: : ■ a / vmviily vac i ■ d
by the J. G. T* ’ y * mily. C. G.
Weathersby, owner of the property,
had extensive re-decorating done
before the new occupants moved
in.
The J. G. Terrys are now at
home in their newly completed
house on Arrendall Street. Attrac
tive in design and convenient in
arrangement, this is a most desir
able place in every respect.
Going from Zebulon Sunday for
the funeral of W. F Winstead at
Ransomville, were Dr and Mrs. L.
M. Massey, Miss Ruby Dawson,
Mrs. Wallace Chamblee, Mr. and
Mrs. Ruric Gill, and Mr. and Mrs.
Allan Pippin. Mrs. Irby Gill and
Mrs. Robert Dawson and their
husbands were already at Ransom
ville.
Dabney Gill was brought home
last Friday from the Veterans’
Hospital at Fayetteville. He is
able to be up a part of each day,
Breeders of purebred sheep in
North Carolina f urmed a State as
sociation at a recent meeting at
State College. President of the
group is J. W. Norris of Watau
ga County.
PMA committee elections will be
held in North Carolina on Decem
ber 14. The committeemen who
This , That , and the Other
Agricultural Facts
or a worn place vet ” Her son said
to his wife: ‘What she’s tel ing
veu, Shirley, is NOT to give her
stoi kings next Christmas” It is
disconcerting to have sons who
catch on quickly and interpret in
words different from those the
speaker would have chosen.
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Long ago I learned that the
plaids—or tartars—worn by Scot
tish clans had special significance
as to co ors and weaving, and that
by this means the wearer show
ed to w’hich clan he belonged. But
I did not know that for a while it
w'as a criminal oHense for any one
in Scotland to wear tartan. This
was a little over 200 years ago.
And, originally, the use of plaids
was to show the wearer’s rank.
Servants wore garments of one
color only; tenant farmers might
wear two; chieftians were allow
ed five colors and the King had
the right to wear seven.
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Some of the arbiters of fashions
are already concerned with what
women will be wearing fifty years
from now. That is one question
which leaves me absolutely cold.
By that time, if I’m wearing any
thing, it will be iragments of bury
ing clothes. And, if living women
haven’t changed greatly by then,
they’ll wear whatever fashion de
cides upon.
When makim* some artichoke
relish Monday by the recipe our
home demonstration agent gave the
Wakefield club vears ago, I found
Personal Items
but must still spend considerable
time in bed.
Mrs. Cebrum Harper is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Exum Cham
blee.
Mrs. Kaddar Brannon lias suf
fered another attack of illness and
is confined to ! ed in her home
on Sycamore St: cot
L v. Th< o. B. Davis supplied
for Pastor Turner Sunday at
Clvcles Chapel for the morning
service, at Holly Grove in the af
ternoon and at Bethany at night.
Mr. Turner, who lives in the Hales
Chapel community, is suffering
from complications following in
fluenza.
Loomis Parrish, formerly with
the Record, called up friends in
Zebulon while in Raleigh on short
leave from For* Benning. Loomis
does not enjoy life in Uncle Sam’s
Army as much as he did living in
Zebulon, but accepts it as a duty
and does not complain.
Joyce Temple was home from
Henderson for the weekend with
her mother, Mrs. L. R Temple.
Mack Hocutt, home for the week
end from the State School for the
Blind, was guest organist at the
Baptist Church on Sunday night.
Dr. and Mrs. George J. Griffin
of Wake Fores* visited friends in
are elected will help administer the
1951 Production and Marketing
Administration programs of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
including the Agricultural Conser
vation program price supports,
acreage allotments, marketing quo
tas, and Federal crop insurance.
A net profit of $168.61 on one
Tuesday, December 12, 1950
tnere was no turmeric m the house,
and I had no time to send for more.
I used curry powder. 1 nowing that
has a large proportion of turmeric
in it, but forgetting that curry
powder also has a lot of pepper.
The substitution is a!! right as to
flavor, if you don’t mind blowing
a bit as you eat the relish: but,
all the same, I’ve bought some
turmeric.
There are times in extremely
cold weather when ice will disap
pear without melting. Sleet on
suspended wires is about the best
example of this that 1 have seen.
Yet, when grandson Jack Potter
asked me if I remembered the
word for this process. I could
think only of evaporation, transpi
ration or liquefaction, not one of
which could have been right. Sev
eral times in the days following
I went to the dict’onarv and hunt
ed aimlessly through its pages, not
knowing what I wrnnted to find.
Then Jack cal!°d me to say he
had taken time to get out his text
book on physics and look for that
word. It is subornation. And the
intransitive verb for the changing
of ice into vapor without me’ting
is sublime. It might be impres
sive during a bitter cold spell to
say, “I think *he sleet will sub
lime.” But chances are that hearers
will believe you should have put
is in place of will.
As for me, I know so little of
physics that I am not far from that
stage of my chi’dhood that thought
the word had to do with medicine
alone.
; Zebulon Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Loomis Burke and
r Airs. T. B. Burke a! of Goldston,
came Wednesday to visit the Rob-
Edd Hortons T ie Loomis
Burkes has reto t old
er Mrs. Burk* : for
, a longei ter,
Airs. Horton.
Invitation !• , 1 < for
O l O: . - • 1 F’.
; abeth Shamburrer ban hi or of
Air. and Air ; ’ fad Fun j- ■ - ivan
Shamburger of Richm* no Vn., to
Air. Richard Ak'ide E<': oston, on
; Saturday, the 23rd of Dece iber at
four o’clock in the afternoon, in
Ginter Park Methodist Church,
Richmond. The wedding vi’l be
followed by a recention at the
Hermitage Country Club.
The bride-elect is a granddaugh
ter of Mr. Pittman Ste’l.
Airs. M. G. Crowder is confined
to bed by an attack of pleurisy.
Mrs. Mamie Kimball, recently
returned from a visit in Atlanta,
Ga., reports that she never saw
weather so cold here as she ex
perienced in that southern city,
where the murevry stood at six de
grees above zero
Mrs. John Broughton has been
confined to her home with a se
vere cold.
acre of corn i- made f j year
i y Curtis Ward, Negro 4-H Club
boy of Halifax County.
A total of 55 hmh-crado Here
ford beef heifers have been plac
ed with Lenoir County farmers
during the past few weeks, accord
ing to Assistant County Agent R.
C. Upchurch.