THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXVI. Number 98.
Eastern Belt Opens with Much Tobacco in Fields
SCOTT SUMMERS:
YOUR CAPITAL
REPORTER
The real story of the State
American Federation of Labor
meeting at Asheville last week
hasn’t been told up till now.
And that’s the whys and where
fores of C. A. Fink having oppo
sition as president.
Fink, as you probably know,
was an ardent opponent of Senator
Willis Snpith. Some of the union
lads thought it would be well to
have a state president who, to
say the least, was not in the bad
graces of the junior senator.
That was the reason Paul Eth
ridge of Raleigh ran against Fink
although Etheridge really did
not want to run, but got talked in
to it anyhow.
You know the rest of the story.
When the balloting reached 198
to 13 in favor of Fink, Etheridge
conceded and Fink once more
was state AF of L prexy. He’s
served continuously since 1937, in
cidentally.
But the funny part is that the
folks who backed Fink who
had in turn backed Frank Graham
are considered the “conserva
tives” in state labor circles. And
those who talked Etheridge into
running so they would have some
one acceptable to Mr. Smith are
classed as the “radicals” of Tar
Heel AF of L members.
Double Deal
Funniest note of the week: A
head of one of the divisions of a
large state department is scheduled
to get the ax in the not too dis
tant future, but he doesn’t know it
yet. Meantime, he’s running around
button-holing members of the de
partment’s board, trying to get the
department director fired. Who’s
doing what to whom?
New Favorite
From the west and elsewhere in
the state outside of Raleigh word
is that Dr. Henry Jordan, chairman
of the state highway commission,
is being talked more and more as a
potential candidate for governor
next year.
Up to now, Dr. Jordan has been
mentioned only briefly. All of the
talk has been about Bill Umstead
of Orange as the so-called “conser
vative” banner-bearer and Capus
Waynick as the so-called “liberal”
tag-wearer. Others have come up
for brief mention, of course, but
have faded almost as fast as it
took to see their trial balloons drift
out of sight.
But the smart boys report that
more and more eyes are being turn
ed on Jordan. They point out that
he’s what might be termed as a
“progressive,” which they say lies
somewhere in between our loose
terms of “liberal” and “conserva
tive.” The reasoning is that folks
are tired of extremes, and that if
this is so and they want a man
who wants to make reasonable
progress in the State, then Dr.
Henry’s the boy.
He’s what you’d almost call a
“compromise” candidate, the po
litical seers say, since he would
draw votes and financial sup
port as well from both sides
of the Democratic party’s political
fence.
V. I. P. Treatment
The Camp LeJeune Marines a
board the train that crashed near
Baton Rouge, La., recently got the
Very Important Persons treatment
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SCENE ON LEAF WAREHOUSE FLOOR
Tommy Bunn, Wendell photographer, caught this picture on the local market’s opening sale
Tuesday, August 21, as the 1951 tobacco crop began its trip to market. In this picture John Bernard,
local warehouseman, has shed his shirt as the auctioneer chants the bids over a pile of bright leaf.
The young photographer’s father, Tom Bunn, is a '. live of Zebuion, and owns a Bunn Road farm.
Bobby Kitchings Now
At Electronics School
At Gulf Coast Field
Keesler AFB, Miss. Pfc. Rob
ert E. Kitchings, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert E. Kitchings, Sr., of
Zebulon, N. C. recently reported to
Keesler Air Force Base to begin
training in Electronics Fundamen
tals, an integral part of the “Elec
tronics Training Center of the
World” at Biloxi, Mississippi.
Housing the 338th Technical
Training Wing, Keesler is also
known as the “Push-Button Col
lege of the Air Force.”
The training Pfc. Kitchings re
ceives in this school will extend
over approximately a 22-week
period. When graduated he will be
assigned to field duty or to an
other school for advanced training.
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Frank Wall, partner in Wakelon
Food Market, was elected presi
dent of the Zebulon Chamber of
Commerce at its annual business
session last Thursday night. Mr.
Wall is also president of the Wake
County Retail Food Dealers Asso
ciation for the current year. He
presided at the Moijday morning
session of the Carolina Food Deal
ers’ Association, held in Raleigh.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, August 24, 1951
Blind Man Fires at Void,
Loses His Cun in Court
Lattie Strickland, elderly blind
man living near Wendell, was
tried Friday in the Wendell Re
corder’s Court for violating the
common law against public nui
sance when he was charged be
fore Judge W. A. Brame with
promiscuously discharging a shot
gun on the Eagle Rock Road where
he lives.
Evidence was before the court
that Strickland had on numerous
occasions fired his gun literally
blindly to the danger of the per
sons living near him and using the
public road.
Strickland’s explanation for
shooting his gun was that some
imagined foes were using a ma
chine of some diabolical design to
drive him mad. He said they could
Verne Davison, Regional Biolo
gist with the Soil Conservation
Service, recently spent a part of
two days in Wake County answer
ing some of the questions on fish
pond management.
Mr. Davison found several ponds
with entirely too many bluegills of
intermediate size. To correct this
condition he urged that very few
bluegills be taken out of new
ponds until the bass have spawn
ed, which will be the second
spring or early summer after the
pond has been stocked with blue
gills.
More Food for Fish
In ponds where there are thous
ands of small bluegills ranging
from one to three inches in length,
he suggested that ponds be seined
removing 1-3 to 1-2 of these “in
termediate” bluegills, thus allow
ing the remaining ones to have
more food so they can reach pan
size.
CONSERVATION NOTES
throw its beam on him and “take
dway my brains,” and also use it
to poison his well and other ag
gravating things.
Obviously of disordered mind,
the defendant declared that he
stood the machine as long as he
could, and then shot at it.
Strickland lives alone in a house
on the farm of C. M. Martin.
Although the neighbors of
Strickland think he should be plac
ed in the State Hospital, they ex
pressed the belief that he was
harmless enough if the gun were
taken away from him.
Mr. Brame’s judgment was that
that the nuisance be abated by
taking the gun of the defendant,
selling it, and turning the proceeds
over to Strickland.
“In the second year after a pond
is stocked and fertilized, it will
contain its limit of fish, measur
ed by weight,” says Mr. Davison.
“No more pounds of fish will be
produced unless you remove some
fish. If you remove 50 pounds of
fish, then in a few weeks the re
maining fish will use the released
food to put on 50 pounds in weight.
You may fish your pond without
injury any time after the initial
bass have spawned.”
Mr. Davison found that some
ponds were not fertilized proper
ly. He urged that ponds be kept
will fertilized if maximum fishing
is to be realized. He also urged that
ponds be cleared'of stumps, trash,
etc., so seining can be done if ne
cessary in the management of the
pond.
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Kentucky-31 tall fescue was
tried in a rotation with small grain
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Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Tuesday Opening
Finds East Again
Ready for Season
The day looked forward to al
most from the sowing of the first
tobacco seed in the plant bed
the opening of the bright leaf to
bacco marts—dawned bright and
clear Tuesday, August 21, and at
9:00 a. m., the song of the auc
tioneer heralded the beginning of
the 1951 marketing season.
Early sales on all markets were,
as usual, of best quality leaf, and
initial averages for leaf sales ran
as high as $70.00 per hundred, but
the price quickly dropped as av
erage and nondescript tobacco was
sold.
Most market towns took on a
holiday air as crowds here for the *
sales thronged the streets.
Church Ladies Serve
Ladies from church societies and
civic organizations in each town
hailed passersby to come in for a
lunch or sandwich, and merchants
were kept busy selling wares for
newly acquired crop money.
Inasmuch as the early opening of
the market found many farmers
still in the fields priming the gol
den leaves of tobacco, floors of
warehouses were not blocked and
the sales went off smoothly.
At this writing the average for
the season’s sales is not available;
but experts predicted it would be
a few dollars under the opening
averages last year. Actually it ap
pears to be about $5.00 below the
1950 opening day’s figures.
The quality of the tobacco was
said by expert observers on the
markets to be better than that of
last year as a whole.
Local National Guard
Is Encamped at Fort
In Northern Alabama
Full-scale training operations are
now underway for some 10,000
North Carolina and Tennessee Na
tional Guardsmen, including Bat
tery A, 113th Field Artillery Bat
talion, Zebulon, encamped at Fort
McClellan. Ala., for the annual
two-week tour of active duty for
men of the 30th Infantry Division.
Battery A made the trip to Fort
McClellan in good order, arriving
late Sunday afternoon despite hail
and rain encountered en route.
Highlighting the training pro
gram Wednesday was an air “fire
power” demonstration. Some 2,-
000 Guardsmen watched air units
demonstrate the fire power of
fighter bomber aircraft and their
employment in close support of
ground forces. The demonstration
illustrated the procedure followed
jointly by tactical air and ground
forces.
Stanley in Charge
In charge of the demonstration
was Major G. A. Stanley, of Nash
ville, Tennessee, working in con
junction with Lt. Col. Clarence B.
Shimer, of Raleigh, N. C. During
the demonstration, the planes
dropped jelly bombs, fired rockets,
and machine-gunned ground tar
gets. Planes used were P-81’s.
Under the command of Major
General John Hall Manning, of
Raleigh, most of the Guardsmen
are now becoming accustomed to
Fort McClellan. This 1251 en
campment marks the first time
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