THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXVI. Number 39.
BATTLING BATCH OF BULLDOGS WAITING FOR COUNTY TOURNEY
Coach Herb Appenzeller’s Wakelon Bulldogs are rounding into
one of the scrappiest aggregations ever to take the floor. The squad
is pointing for the Wake County Tournament, which promises to be
the hardest played in the history of Wake County basketball. Pic
tured on the front row, seated, are Ernie McKensie, Wake Forest
College trainer and ardent Bulldog booster, Bill Joe Bailey, George
Rev. Fisher to Make
OfflciaS Visit to Zebulon
Rev. E. B. Fisher will make his
first official visit at Zebulon Meth
odist Church on next Sunday at
11 a. m. as the new superintend
ent of the Raleigh District of the
Methodist Church. Mr. Fisher is
practically a hometown man as
he lived here during the pastorate
of his father, the Rev. G. W. Fish
er, and graduated at Wakelon High
School. He has also assisted in re
vivals here and made many other
visits to the community and to his
people.
Mr. Fisher will preach and im
mediately thereafter will conduct
a brief First Quarterly Conference
for the Zebulon-Wendell Charge.
It is expected that there will be
large attendance and a most cor- j
dial invitation is extended to all i
interested people.
Blood Needed
A mobile blood collection unit
will be in Raleigh Wednesday and
Thursday, February 7-8, to collect
blood to be sent immediately to
Korea, Travis Tomlinson said yes
terday.
Twelve Extra Paid Drills Authorized
Zebulon's National Guard Battery
One of the heaviest schedules of
drills ever planned for a Nation
al Guard unit is in store for Bat
tery A of the 113 Field Artillery
Battalion during the coming five
months. The local unit has been
authorized to conduct 12 additional
drills before June 30, bringing to
36 the number of drills for the
first six months of 1951.
According to the tentative
schedule laid out, six of the drills
will be afternoon armory drills,
two will be held at Camp Butner
for small arms firing, and four at
Ft. Bragg for service practice with
the 105-mm howitzers.
The first of the armory drills
will be staged Saturday, Febru
ary 10, weather permitting. At
this time the battery will con
duct combined sections training,
leaving the armory in the six bat
| BULLPUPS
The Bullpups basketball
♦ team, made up of boys 15
2 years and younger, will hold
j its first practice Saturday
J morning at 10 o’clock in the
| Wakelon gymnasium, Coach
! Hilliard Greene said yester
-1 day.
Boys interested in playing
2 with the Bullpups are invited
| to attend this practice.
Minister to Continue
Series on Lord’s Prayer
The current series of sermons
on “The Lord’s Prayer” will be
| continued Sunday morning, with
1 consideration on the petition,
i “Give us this day our daily bread.”
The Adult Choir will sing the
anthem, Jesus, The Very Thought
of Thee, by Brahms. Mrs. Durham
Moore Jr. will sing Repent Ye, by
John Scott.
The Boys Choir will sing At
kinson’s Spirit of God at the even
ing worship service. The pastor
will preach.
tery trucks and emplacing for ac
tion at some place to be selected
later.
Following three hours of field
training, the unit will return to
are armory for hot coffee and
routine maintenance on the equip
ment.
These additional paid drills will
give the Guardsmen an opportun
ity to put into practice the things
they have learned during the sec
tional training on Monday nights.
A great deal of interest has been
expressed by high school boys who
attended the meeting held at
'Wakelon last week, WO Clifford
Gilliam said yesterday. The unit
administrator urged men 17 and
older to enlist immediately to gain
service credit for early promotions.
The present strength of the bat
tery includes 47 enlisted men and
five officers.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, January 26, 1951
Massey, Warren Greene, Ned Moss, Henry Kitchings, Robert Kit
chings, and Coach Appenzeller. On the second row, standing, are
Bobby Murray, Ben Rhodes, Randolph Bunn, Donald Fowler, Reuben
McSwain, Lawrence Liles, Bobby McGee, and Charles Finch. The
Bulldogs meet Knightdale tonight in the Wakelon gymnasium in
a Conference contest. —Photo by Tommy Bunn.
More Profit Recieved from Good
Use of Land Devoted to Cotton
It’s more profitable to make 10
bales of cotton on 10 acres than
;to make 10 bales on 20 acres.
So say specialists of the State
College Extension Service, who
this week advised Tar Heel grow
ers to plant all the cotton they
can care for properly in 1951, but
no more. This suggestion is con
tained in “North Carolina’s Ag
ricultural Outlook for 1951,”
j which was recently released. The
! publication is based on data sup
plied by the U. S. Department of
j Agriculture’s Bureau of Agricul
! tural Economics.
The national carryover of cot
ton by August 1, is expected to be
only 2.6 million bales, compared
with a “normal” peacetime carry
over of 4.3 million bales. If exports
had not been limited, the carry
over would be estimated at less
Than 0.7 million bales.
North Carolina’s cotton produc
tion for 1950 is estimated at 180,-
000 bales, compared with 490,-
000 in 1949. The small crop was
due to reduction in acreage, un
favorable weather during July,
and disastrous insect attacks. The
estimated yield per acre for 1950
is only 147 pounds, compared with
a 10-year average of 373 pounds.
To meet the expected cotton
shortage, Tar Heel growers are
advised by the Extension Service
to:
Secure supplies of good planting
seed adapted to your area. Do this
EASY WAY
A Zebulon housewife call
ed Temple’s Market yester
day and said she wanted to
make a contribution to the
March of Dimes but she had
seen no solicitors.
“Well,” said Wallace, “we
have a March of Dimes bank
here in our store for contri
butions.”
“Fine!” said the housewife.
“Put a dollar in it for me
and charge it to my grocery
bill.”
So the fight against polio
gains another dollar.
now.
order insecticides when fertili
zer is ordered.
Follow recommended practices
in fertilizing, poisoning, defoliat
ing, harvesting, and marketing.
Follow good farm management
practices, working your increased
acreage into your over-all pro
gram in the most profitable way.
Apply poisons if needed to con
trol bool weevil. Growers who ap
plied poisons as recommended in
1950 averaged better than a bale
to the acre on their entire acre
age.
Building
The verbal battle on the location
of the municipal building continues
this week in the Readers’ Forum
column o (1 +he Record on page five
of this issue.
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Chairman Hales Reports
$230.50 Collected in
March of Dimes Drive
The first report of the March of
Dimes campaign in Zebulon has
shown a total of $230.50 collected
I to date, Ed Hales, local chairman,
said Thursday. This includes the
sum of $165.15 turned in by solici
tors Pat Farmer and Wilbur Deb
nam, Ed added.
The Zebulon chairman said that
he expects the final total to be
more than SI,OOO, which is greater
than any past year’s contribution
j by this community toward the fight
| against infantile paralysis.
In 1949, $867 was given to the
March of Dimes from Zebulon. The
|1950 total was slightly greater.
The polio victims from within
j the city limits of Zebulon and in
the surrounding community struck
j fear into the hearts of parents last
j summer and made the whole com
munity conscious of the benefits
! derived from the March of Dimes,
j Four out of every five dollars
| used in the research and treatment
;of polio victims comes from the
! money collected by the March of
Dimes.
The campaign ends Wednesday,
January 31, the chairman said. He
urged local people to make their
gifts as generous as possible.
In order for the SI,OOO goal set
Ib\ Chairman Hales to be reached,
lit will be necessary for contribu
tions to be much larger than the
i dimes suggested by the title of
the drive.
GRANDMOTHER
We have heard all sorts of
stories about young grand
mothers, but Etta Singletary
deserves the record of being
the youngest, wc think. Her
grandson was born last No
vember. and the grandmother
is just 29 years old!
The colored woman lives
on Robert Ed Horton’s farm,
and she and her 14-year-old
daughter both helped with
his tobacco crop last fall.