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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVI. Number 29 r M 9\ REPORTER The Hackney Brothers’ firm of Wilson is unhappy. The outfit was clipped $8,500 for failing to live up to a contract with the State, and has powerful friends trying to get its money refunded. The story—first reported in this column —goes like this: On April 7 Hackney Brothers got a contract to build bodies for 450 badly needed school buses. Un der the contract, the Wilson firm was to deliver the buses at the rate of seven percent (32 buses) a w r eek, starting one month after the chassis were delivered to them. The 450 chassis went to the Wil son firm on May 10, so the first 32 buses were to have been delivered by June 9 and the contract com pleted by September 1. By July 27 not one single bus had been delivered. Hackney pleaded wartime difficulty in get ting steel but the contract was given him April 7, two and one half months before the Korean war started and while he still could have ordered the steel. On July 27. Contract and Pur- Division Director Charlie Williams sent a registered letter to Hackney Brothers calling for delivery or else. The ”or else” was WSCS Christmas Meet Held Last Monday The annual Christmas meeting of the Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service was held last Monday in the home of Mrs. J. F. Col trane. A program on health was pre sented by Mesdames Ed Kitchings, Joe Tippett, and S. G. Flowers. Investigation of Tragic Pilot Fire Continues; Bones Cause Questions Although it is possible that bones found in the ruins of the one-room house in Pilot belong to one of the victims who w T as burn ed to death last Tuesday morn ing, investigation is continuing, Franklin County Coroner William W. O’Neal said yesterday, and the case will be held open until suf ficient evidence is found to defi nitely state whether or not a third perscon lost his life in the fire. Known to be killed in the arag ic fire are Joseph Cleveland Jones, 64,year-old farmer, and Berkley R. Upchurch, 32, who worked at E. P. Privette’s Case near Pilot. Henry Tant, sole survivor, said covered by a clause in the contract which says: “In case of default of the contractor, the State may pro cure the articles or services from other sources and hold the contrac tor responsible for any excess cost occasioned thereby.” Williams pulled 100 buses from Hackney, sent + hem to a Georgia firm to have bus bodies put on them. That cost $45 per bus above the Hac. ey bid of sl,llO per bus, plus some S4O per bus extra in transportation and inspection charges. In other words, each of those buses cost the State approxi - mately SBS more than the Hackney bid. It wasn’t until August 12 that Hackney delivered the first bus. By October 16—a month and a half late the last of the original 450 buses contracted for had been delivered, with Hackney actually (Continued on Page 4) Nothing Found Stolen Following Break-in The Zebulon Drug Company was entered sometime Sunday night or Monday morning, but an initial check has disclosed nothing miss ing, Police Chief Willie B. Hop kins said. The intruder made his entry through the rear of the building in the basement and entered the main floor. Police believed it probably that he was scared away before he could take anything. The Zebulon Police Department and members of the Wake Coun ty Sheriff’s department are inves tigating the case. that he woke and found the house in flames. He ran out of the shack in his underwear to summon aid. His burns were treated by Dr. Durward Stallings, who sent him to Rex Hospital, Raleigh, where he is under treatment. Coroner O’Neal said that Dr. Stallings reported the bones “looked like human bones,” but the coroner said it is possible they belonged to either Upchurch or Jones, although they were found under the burned bed. The doctor’s report ended the possibility that the bones might have been the remains of part of a hog which had been given to Jones before the fire. Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, December 19, 1950 Community Chest Drive Continues; Women To Work Mext Week With about 25 per cent of its $2,000 goal achieved, the drive xor funds for the Zebulon Com munity Chest is continuing mrough this week in the busi ness district and until January 1 in tne residential area, Commit tee Chairman C. V. Whitley an nounced yesterday. Half the business men have oeen seen, the chairman added, and although contributions in most cases have been smaller than an ticipated, only two refusals have oeen met to date. Willie B. Hopkins and G. C. Massey were soliciting funds in me business district yesterday, and will continue their work through vVednesday. uaipn laiton and J. C. Debnam woiKed last week, collecting aboui vtsau lor the Conimunuy Chest. Tne money collected will all be used locauy, going to local charity, me recreation program and the scouting program. Members of the Junior and Se nior Woman's Ciub will work in me residential areas next week, giving every person in town an op portunity to contribute to the community Chest. This is the first time that this commumtay has had its own Com munity Cnest. In past years it tias cooperated in the Kaieigh Community Chest, but dissatis faction at the disposition of Chest funds caused Zebulon to withdraw and from the Zebulon Community Chest, under the direction of the Community Council. Every person who contributes to the Zebulon Community Chest Becomes an active member with the privilege of voting for the of ficers of the group as soon as the membership campaign is complet ed. Chairman Whitley emphasized that the committee appointed by the Community Council is tem porary and will be replaced by permanent officers as soon as the present drive is completed. Worship Program, Social Hour to Be Held Wednesday by Church The Zebulon Baptist Church will have its Christmas party Wednes day nifht at 7:30 when a worship program will be followed by a social hour with Santa Claus as guest of honor. “The Christmas Story,” told with color slides and music, will be shown. Gifts will be brought to the party as part of a White Christ mas. The gifts will be for local charity, distributed through the Church Welfare Committee in co operation with the Welfare Com mittee of the Community Council. Christmas Play To Be Presented At Methodist Church “Three Gifts,” a short Christ mas play, will be presented Friday evening at 8:00 by the Methodist Church. The public is Invited to enjoy the fellowship of the Meth odists at this time The White Gifts will be a part of the program, the gifts being sent to the Methodist Orphanage. Smokey Says: Prr ain't much trcu b (startin' a fire^- — / hilfE THIS BUT \ JTO' (rr's a whale of a K 1 jy k&Ame to stop |L Carelessness and forest fires are companions, y . Cannoneers Prove Hard To Beat but Frat Boys Finally Emerge Victorious The Battery A Cannoneers bat tled through two overtime periods before dropping a thrilling 66-64 basketball game to the visiting Sig ma Chi fraternity team from Wake Forest College, in a game played in the Wakelon gymnasium last Friday night. With seconds remaining at the end of the regulation game, Cope land ties the score for Sigma Chi with a long shot, sends the game into overtime with a 58-58 score. Clif Gilliam laid up a field goal to tie the first overtime period at 62-62 for the Cannoneers after the frat five had gone ahead, and the rough contest extended into another overtime period. The collegians outlasted the Can noneers in the final period to take their two-point 66-64 victory. Copeland scored 29 points to lead the winner, and Greene with 21 points and Strickland with 12 led the Cannooners. Walter T. Walker, 64, Dies of Heart Attack Walter T. Walker, 64, a retired farmer of Zebulon, Route 3, died Tuesday night, December 12, at Watts Hospital in Durham. He was visiting his son when he was stricken with a heart attack. Mr. Walker was born in Person County. For the past fourteen years he had lived near Zebulon and was engaged in farming. Surviving are his wife; two step-daughters, Mrs. James H. Parrish, Jr., and Mrs. Samuel Ed wards, both of Zebulon, Route 3; two daughters, Mrs. Ben Veasey and Mrs. Otis Melvin; three sons, Hicks, Henry, and Luther Walker, all of Durham County. Mystery Surrounds O'Neal Death; Johnston Officers Aren't Talking Mystery shrouded the death of Foch P. O’Neal, 32-year-old far mer of near Zebulon, whose body was found in an overturned au tomobile Tuesday night, the John ston County Sheriff’s Department reported yesterday. Conditions surrounding the wrecked car led to doubt that O’Neal lost his life in a car wreck. Felton Ennis of Wendell has been jailed pending the completion of an investigation into the death. The dead man was found by En nis and Mrs. Eddie Joseph, es Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Long List «f Families Need Christmas Aid Os Clothing and Food With the additional names pro vided by the Wake County Wel fare Department, the list of needy families who will be greatly help ed by Christmas baskets has been completed, Kenneth Hopkins said yesterday. The list is available at the Town Office for organizations and individuals to use in selecting persons to be helped. I ersons and groups who plan to provide Christmas baskets are urged to contact Kenneth, giving tne names of those they will help so that the names may be taken from the list to avoid duplication. Those groups who want the names of persons needing help can contact Kenneth any time this week. Included on the list are the fol lowing cases who are badly in need of aid this Cnnstmas. Karnes and addresses are available at the I’own Office. No. 2: Family, consisting of hus band, wife, four girls and one boy, ranging in ages from five months to six years. No. 3: Family, widow and three children. No. 4: Family, mother, and two children. No. 5: Family, father part blind, five children. No. 6: Family, colored, mother, three children, boys 2 and 5, girl 3 years old. No. 7: Family of ten: five boys, ages 9 months to 13 years; two girls, two and ten. No. 8: Family of twelve; four boys, ages two to ten; six girls, ages two to twelve. No. 9: Family, two adults. No. 10: Family, one adult No. 11: Family, two adults. No. 12: Family of eight; three girls, four to eleven; three boys, six to twelve. No. 13: Family of seven; three boys, two to eleven; three girls, four to eight. No. 14: Family of four; boy nine; girl three. No. 15: Family of four; boy twelve; girl eleven. No. 16: Family; boy twelve. No. 17: Family of six; boy six; four girls, one to eight. No. 18: Family of three; boy twelve; girl eleven. No. 19: Family of two. No. 20: Family of two. Christmas Program Union Chapel will have its an nual Christmas Program Friday night at 7:30 when a Christmas program will be given, followed by a movie, “Child of Bethlehem.” Following the movie, presents will be given out. tranged wife of the operator of a Wendell case. A preliminary investigation led officers to believe O’Neal had died in the accident, but subse quent investigation, the nature of which has not been disclosed, led to Ennis’ arrest. The Johnston County Sheriffs office refused to comment on the case, other than to say that bond had not been set for Ennis, that they had no information to re lease, and that the investigation is continuing.
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