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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVI. Number 49. 7 KILLED IN WRECK; SAFETY MEETING FRIDAY REPORTER Interesting note: The last Gen- ( eral Assembly in 1949 appropriat- ( ed almost exactly $38,000,000 more 1 than was recommended by the ; Advisory Budget Commission * $37,870,910 to be exact. In his mes sage to the General Assembly, 1 Governor Scott recommended ex tra appropriations this year to taling yep, you guessed it $38,000,000. • There’s no movement on foot to do it, but there has been some talk of away to raise $13,000,000 more a year to give school teachers more pay. Some of the legislators have suggested boosting taxes on liquor, beer and cigarettes. They claim an extra 15-cent-a-fifth levy on liquor would bring in $3,000,- CONSERVATION NOTES Gl LI Winchester S. W. Holleman John F. Mcßane The Soil Conservation Service technicians assisted B. A. Weath ers of Knightdale in marking trees for thinning. The trees to be cut are to be sold for pulpwood. Many of the trees to be cut have prac tically stopped growing due to be ing overtopped by larger trees. Trees unsuited for timbei because of disease or being crooked were also cut. The remaining trees will grow faster. Technicians of the Soil Conser vation Service assisted the GI in structors at Apex in holding a soil conservation field day at the farm of John Sears at Friendship. The planting of bicolor lespedeza as a wildlife border was supervised by Charles Woodhouse of the Wildlife Resources Commission. Terraces were staked and constructed with a farm tractor. The laying off of rows according to the string meth od was demonstrated by SCS per sonnel. A discussion was held on meadow strips, rotations, and con tour cultivation. R. Clyde Pleas ants, Soil Scientist, and W. O. Lambeth, District Conservationist, both of the Soil Conservation Ser vice, led a discussion on land ca pabilitv and proper land use. Guardsmen Drill on Saturday, See Special Training Movie at School Sectional training and mainte nance was emphasized at the Bat tery A drill last night, when final preparations were made for the inspection of materiel which is to be held today. Trucks, machine guns, switchboards, telephones, and all the other battery equip ment was given a final cleaning. The members of the two canno neers sections, who are rushing their training in preparation for the trip to Ft. Bragg April 7 and 8, spent the second hour learning the howitzer positions. The afternoon drill Saturday was successful, despite the small attendance. Training films on the 105-mm howitzer were shown at 000; five cents more on a bottle of beer would net $5,000,000, and . two cents more per pack of cig arettes would bring in another 6,- 000,000. It’s not likely, though. * Too many legislators expect the federal government to put extra taxes on those items, and besides the likker, beer and cigarette mak ers can afford some high-powered lobbying. j Among the study commission ( members who approved these last provisions was Mrs. Ethel Perkins , Edwards, executive secretary of the North Carolina Education As sociation. • A teacher friend of mine is dis gusted. She attended a district meeting of Classroom Teachers, a branch of NCEA, recently. The meeting was advertised as one to discuss legislation to improve the public school system. But all that was discussed was raised for teachers. Many of the teachers were demanding pay raises “as their right.” “It’s no wonder folks are be ginning to call NCEA a ‘teachers’ union’, ” my friend said. “All you ever hear at the meetings any more is talk about how much they're un derpaid and what they can do to get the Legislature to give them another pay raise.” ——————————————— Bullpups, Knightdale Divide Doubleheader The senior Bullpups ran wild Saturday night over a hapless Knightdale quint in the Knight dale gymnasium and took a 43-13 victory despite a shortened fourth quarter. Billy Greene scored 16 points and Phil Brown 20 to lead the offensive attack of the 12 and 13-year-old Pups. Victor Pace and Tony Pearce were the best defen sive players. The junior Bullpups found the Knightdale juniors too much to handle in the preliminary, and lost a 33-11 decision. Vaughn Wade | and Joseph Temple were best for • the juniors. Os the 500 production credit as sociations in the county, 176. or 35 per cent, are now fully owned by their farmer-members. the Wakelon agriculture building. After the movies, the National Guardsmen marched back to the armory for the remainder of the four hours. The probability that the 18-year draft bill will pass Congress is ; expected to increase the number of enlistments in the National Guard, but Battery A will have room for 1 only about a dozen more men, WO Clifford Gilliam said yesterday. Supply Sergeant Bob Sawyer has rearranged the battery sup ply room so that he can handle 1 clothing and equipment for 65 men. When the battery strength reaches this point, no more men I can be enlisted. Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, March 6, 1951 Wild Ride Ends in Death For Six Wendell Boys; Speedometer Stuck at 90 “She’ll get up to a hundred miles an hour in 30 seconds,” Harold Ray Hinton, 21, told five passengers in his 1951 Ford car Thursday night, and a few minutes later all six crashed to their deaths against the front of a truck one mile east of Zebulon. The truck driver, S. E. Rose, of Raleigh, was instantly killed and pinned inside the de molished cab of his truck. The speedometer needle of the Ford was stuck at 90 miles an hour. The impact of the crash was so great that one body was thrown 30 feet from the car. Killed immediately with Hinton and Rose were Jimmy Dean Wiggs, 18; J. O. Allen 19; Billy Rhodes; and Wyndell Lewis, 19. Luther Charles Haswell, 19, died about midnight. Rose was returning to Raleigh vi‘h a pirno, driving on his side of ho road, when the Hinton automo bi’e apparently swept over to the left side of the highway after rounding a curve at a terrific rate of speed and crashed head-on in to the truck. The truck was found off the highway a foot or two, and the car was crosswise on the center , f the pavement. Hundreds of people gathered at (Continued on Page 3) Johnston Baptists Join Simultaneous Crusade Approximately 40 of the 47 Bap tist Churches in the Johnston Bap tist Association are joining the 18,- 000 Baptist Churches East of the Mississippi in a Simultaneous Evangelistic Crusade, which will culminate in revival services March 28 April 8, in each co operating church. The Simultaneous Crusade is a program of the Southern Baptist Convention which includes 17 sou thern states and the recently add ed territories California, Ore gon, Washington, Kansas, and Alaska. The revival program, the pattern of which is being followed by the Johnston County churches, is a part of a five-year crusade among Southern Baptists which began in ; the churches west of the Missis sipi River last year and resulted in 76,410 additions (49,370 by bap tism) to the 5700 churches in that | territory —a membership increase I over the previous year of 299 per ! cent. The actual revival services will be preceded by various prepara tion activities. In many of the lo i cal churches, a week of study using the Convention President, Dr. R. G. Lee’s book, “The Bible and Prayer,” was held in A census of most of the church com- j ! munities has already been taken. I In the 5 “divisions” (or groups of churches) in the Association, 1 classes of study emphasizing the theme of evangelism will be of fered. Large Increase Columbus County’s income from dairying has increased from $9,- 000 in 1945 to more than $300,000 in 1950, reports County Agent Charles D. Raper. AF&AM NOTICE The stated commmunica tion of Zebulon Lodge No. 609, AF&FM, will be held to night at 7:30 in the Masonic Hall, following the regular monthly dinner. All Master Masons are invited to at tend. Construction Bids Listed For Municipal Building; Priority Request Made Bids hava been received for all phases of the construction work for Zebulon’s proposed Municipal Building, town manager Willie B. Hopkins stated yesterday. Con tracts will be negotiated with the low bidders as soon as a building priority can be obtained from the Department of Commerce. At the March meeting of the Town Board, held last night at the town office, action was ini tiated to obtain the necessary pri ority through the Richmond office of the Commerce Department. Low bids for the construction work, which totaled $55,752,85, were received for the building, jail equipment, plumbing, heating, and electrical equipment. Associated Contractors of Mar ion, Virginia, were low in the bid ding for the building construction I with a figure of $42,121. Low bid of $3,482 was submit ted by Decatur Iron and Steel Works of Decatur, Alabama, for the jail equipment. Low heating bid of $3,550 was submitted by Vickers and Ruth of Raleigh. The Raleigh firm of Bullock and Proctor were low bid ders with a figure of $4,234 for the plumbing work. Fleming and Hester of Raleigh submitted the low bid of $2,365. 85 for the electrical work. The contractors estimate that the construction work will re quire 120 working days. They ex pect to be ready to begin the work in 30 days, if a building priority can be received from the Federal government. The municipal building will be located on the lots on Vance Street behind the Peoples Bank and Trust Company. This country’s 11,600 locker plants afford an estimated 80 mil lion cubic feet of gross storage for perishable foods at 0 degrees F. Lions Honor Ladies Thursday Night; State Secretary Principal Speaker Norman Trueblood, Elizabeth City Lion and State Secretary of Lions International, was the prin cipal speaker at the quarterly La -1 dies Night of the Zebulon Lions Club, held last Thursday night in the Wakelon cafeteria. There were 126 Lions and guests present to hear an inspiration ad dress by the speaker, who is a Past Governor of the Eastern Dis trict of North Carolina. Lion President Worth Hinton -welcomed the visitors to the din jner meeting, and Mrs. Charles Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Community Council Calls Meeting of All Citizens To Solve Safety Problem In an effort to solve the dual problems of planned recreation, and highway safety a special meet ing has been called for Friday night at 8:00 in the Wakelon School auditorium by Carlton T. Mitchell, chairman of the Com munity Council. Every teen-age boy and girl and every adult is urged to attend this meeting and take an active part in the discus sion. A meeting of the Community Council was held Sunday afternoon at the Baptist Church, and initial plans for the community-wide gathering were made. A program and planning committee, with Ed Ellington as chairman, was ap pointed. The tragic collision Thursday night, which snuffed out the lives of seven people, has aroused the emotions of everyone, emphasiz ing the necessity of some method of promoting highway safety in the teenagers. At the meeting Sunday, the re sponsibility for the irresponsibil ity exhibited by young people was (Continued on Page 4) Livestock Producers Invited to School The Wake County livestock pro ducers are invited to attend a one-day school on Friday, March 9, to be held in the County Office Building beginning at 10:00 o’- clock a. m. This school is sched uled to give practical and use ful information on the care and management of beef cattle, swine, and sheep. The control of diseases and par asites, along with other timely in formation on the outlook and mar keting situation will be covered. A group of well-informed speak ers will be on hand. They are: Dr. Clark Osburn, Professor of Veterinary Science, N. C. State College, H. D. Quisenberry, Mar keting Division of the N. C. State Department of Agriculture, Jim Butler, and Sam Buchanan, both of the Animal Husbandry Exten sion of N. C. State College. Wake County Agent, G. W. Mil ler, Jr., states that he hopes the livestock producers will take ad vantage of this program. You are asked to invite your neighbors and other members of your family to attend with you. Flowers responded. Lion Rev. S. E. Mercer gave the invocation. Gilbert Beck, program chair man, presented Miss Betty Salmon ! and the Wakelon Glee Club. The assembled Lions thoroughly enjoy ed hearing the group render sev ; eral selections. Howard Massey introduced the principal speaker. A special feature of the meeting was a drawing held for a ham, which was awarded to Tom Smith, who donated it to the club to be auctioned with the proceeds going to the Lions program for the blind.
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