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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVI. Number 102. This, That & the Other i By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis After a summer “up nawth” the robins are back in force. I looked out one morning to find the lawn full of them. Without exception they seem to have out stayed both their welcome and their credit. Each one brought a long bill; each has on a badly fad ed waiscoat; and each has a neck piece almost bare of feathers. They are not frisky and are too busy hunting worms to pay much at tention to anything but food. Let the bluejays chatter as they will; those robins don’t even look up; they are feeding. Weather Prediction Did you ever hear that the last Friday in each month forecasts weather for the mouth just ahead? Many persons believe it does, and I have begun to take notice. Since last Friday was a fairly pleasant day, I am expecting September to be endurable. If not, there’s an other superstition gone wrong. Morning Glories The prettiest thing on our place now is something of which I am really ashamed. It is pink and pur ple morning-glory vines all over an eleagnus shrub in front of the diningroom windows. I meant to pull them up long ago, but neg lected it and they have grown as all pests do when given a chance. The eleagnus needs cutting back and I promise myself to do that when getting the vines. At least I hope to do it sometime. Space for Shrubs I do wish somebody would teach me to use sense and judgment whdh putting out shrubs. Never can I remember how soon they will take all space allotted them and begin stealing from their neighbors. Then there’s extra work to be done remedying the situation or else the whole place will look as ours does. Yankee Crepe Myrtles In the New York Times I read a letter from a gardenef who said his crepe myrtle bush was frozen to the ground last winter; but he rejoiced that the roots were not killed and that new shoots were sprouting, and hopes to have a crepe myrtle in bloom again some future summer. Os course that gardener lived in a northern state. Crepe myrtles do not win ter-kill here. And I wonder if we properly appreciate their beauty and adaptability. No plant or tree looks cleaner than a crepe myrtle that has just shed its old bark and is wearing a new sheath of greyish - green tannish skin, smooth and glossy. I love to help it peeling off the curl ed pieces of thin brown bark that are dead and discarded. They make good kindling,, if you need any. Sounds in the Night Some wakeful night I shall arise and betake myself to the edge of our yard between 1:30 and 3:00 o’clock to see what manner of mo tor vehicles and what manner of drivers they are that pass so swiftly at that time. Lying sleep less I hear them, first a hum that rapidly changes to a roar. They go by, engines declaring their power, tires screaming protests at the curves just beyond our house. And I tense myself, waiting for the crash that has not come yet, but which is inevitable some night. TAR HEEL BOYS WIN DESIGN TEST K; : . * m | 0 WINNERS in the annual model car competition of the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild are Tim M. Hendrix (left), of Maple, who took first state honors in the Junior Division (ages 12 through 15), and Robert W. Tucker, Jr., of Greensboro, whose beautiful model car w.n first in the Senior Division (ages 16 through 19). Each received a cash award of $l5O, and Tucker’s model went on to take regional honors and a chance to win a university scholarship in the national competition. I Mafia Controls American Crime, Senator Estes Kefauver Declares By Senator Estes Kefauver The Mafia is the shadowy in ternational organization that lurks behind much of America’s orga nized crime. It is a network about which no member, on fear of death, will talk. In fact, some of the witnesses whom we had good reason to be lieve could tell the Senate Crime Committee about the Mafia, sought to shrug it off as a sort of fairy tale or legend that children hear in Sicily where the Mafia originated. The Mafia, however, is no fairy tale. It is ominously real, and it has scarred the face of America with murder, traffic in narcotics, smuggling, extortion, white sla very, kidnaping and labor-racke teering. Mafia Secrets La Mafia even has its secret and, of course, unwritten code called “Omerta,” a derivation of the Italian word for “man.” The code is simple and brutal: death to those who resist or inform on the Mafia. Usually, a member of the offender’s family is killed as additional warning. “Mafiosi and law-abiding Sicilians alike live in mortal fear of “omerta.” Head of Mafia Narcotics Agent Claude A. Foll mer testified that there is “some contention” as to the identity of the New York head of the Mafia. He revealed that “ it has always Fidelis Class Holds September Meeting The Bessie Davis Fidelis Class met Monday night at the home of Mrs. Ruric Gill with Mrs. Ed Richardson, associate hostess. The meeting was devoted to business and the election of class officers. Mrs. Edith Freeze was elected president, Mrs. Paul Strickland, secretary and treasurer, with Mrs. Oscar Corbett as her assistant. The entire list has not been completed. Mrs. Theo. B. Davis, teacher, was presented a birthday gift. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostesses. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, September 7, 1951 been my understanding that it is either Vincent Mangano or Joseph Profaci.” Mangano is said by New York police to be active in Brooklyn waterfront rackets. We had plan ned to question him, but our hear ing time was consumed by other developments. His brother Philip Mangano, also active on the water front and publicly identified as prominent in the Mafia, was ques tioned by the committee in exe cutive closed session. A month af ter our New York hearings, Philip Mangano was found dead in a Brooklyn swamp, shot three times in the head. Narcotics Ring Agent Follmer told how the Nar cotic Bureau in the early 1940’s broke up a vicious Mafia-backed Kansas City narcotics ring. “All of these persons,” he related, “were members of the Mafia, or Black Hand, and were financed in the narcotics traffic as a group by the Mafia. This Mafia subsidiary plac ed the illicit drug traffic on a busi ness-like basis and hired a legal advisor, supervisor, general mana ger, traveling representative, a bookkeeper, and an extensive re tail sales force. “At St. Louis, a branch office operated under John Vitale, who was in turn under the domination of Thomas Buffa and Tony Lopi paro, chiefs of the St. Louis Ma fia.” St. Louis Statement (In St. Louis, some months la ter, the committee summoned Gangster Lopiparo, alias “Lopip,” to ask him about his presence with a group of Sicilian gangsters in Tia Juana, Mexico, about the time Binaggio and Gargotta were mur dered in Kansas City. Popiparo at first was a sullen, snarling witness. He crouched in the witness chair and refused even to admit he had been in Tia Juana. When I asked him on what legal ground he could justify his refusal, he snapped back: “Haven’t I got a Constitu tion?”) • In Tuesday’s Record Senator Kefauver will discuss other phases of the Mafia crime syndicate. Rites for C. G. Weathersby, Medlin, Breedlove Are Held Funeral services were held Wed nesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home for Charles Grady Wea thersby, 68, of Zebulon, who died at Duke Hospital Monday night, following a brief illness. The Rev. R. H. Herring and the Rev. iCarlton T. Mitchell offi ciated. Burial was in the Zebu lon Cemetery. Mr. Weathersby was the son of Methodist Revival Begins Sunday The annual revival at Zebulon Methodist Church wall begin on Sunday at 11 a. m. The pastor, Rev. S. E Mercer will bring the opening message using as his text “Behold I stand at the door and Knock.” Beginning on Monday night and continuing through Fri day night, Rev. R. W. Brawshaw, pastor of First Methodist Church in Wilson, will do the preaching. These services will begin prompt ly at 8 p. m. each night. Mr. Brad shaw has had wide and successful experience in Sunday School and youth work as well as in the pas torate. He is an able and spiritual ly minded preacher. A most cordial invitation is ex tended to the other churches and the community in general as well as to the members of the Metho dist Church. A special invitation is given to the public school teach ers as they begin the new school year. Services Announced For Baptist Church The pastor, Carlton Mitchell, will preach on the theme “The Church on the Frontier” at the reg ular morning worship service Sunday at eleven o’clock. The choir will sing the anthem. “The Promises” by Panchenko-Wilhous ky. Miss Elizabeth Salmon will sing “Come, Ye Blessed” by John P. Scott. At the evening service the pas tor will use as the sermon topic, “A Ladder for Growth.” A trio composed of Miss Helen Wall, Miss Elizabeth Salmon and Mrs. Carlton Mitchell will sing “Near to the Heart of God.” The annual church conference for the election of church officers has been post poned until September 23. BEGINS STH YEAR fry. Rev. Carlton T. Mitchell, pastor of the Zebulon Baptist Church, is beginning his fifth year of service I to the local church on Sunday, September 9. Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers j the late John and Molly Weathers by of Franklin County. He was a former town commis- I sioner in Zebulon, having directed the construction of the local water system. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Irvine Williams Weathersby; one son, Charles Allen Weathersby; ! one daughter by a former marri age, Mrs. Jack Gary of Kinston; two grandchildren; three brothers, Thad Weathersby of Spring Hope, Talmadge Weathersby of Atlanta, Ga., Robert Weathersby of Spring Hope; two sisters, Mrs. Loomis Brantley of Spring Hope and Mrs. Carl Finch of Raleigh. He was connected with Fenner’s Tobacco Warehouse of Rocky Mount for 30 years. Lee Medlin, 72 Lee Mack Medlin, 72, died at his home Tuesday morning fol lowing several months of declin ing health. Surviving are one son, H. V. Medlin of Baltimore; three daugh ters, Mrs. M. C. Pippin and Mrs. Bryant Pippin, both of Zebulon, and Mrs. Kenneth Kelly of Ak ron, O. Funeral services were held from the Pilot Baptist Church Thurs day at 3 p. m. The Rev. M. A. Pe gram officiated. Burial was in the Upchurch cemetery. Zollie Breedlove, 51 Zollie T. Breedlove, 51, died in an Oxford hospital Wednesday morning. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Tuesday. Funeral ser vices were conducted at Pittard- Vaught Funeral Home at 2:30 p. m., Thursday. Burial was in Cor inth Baptist Church near Ingle side in Franklin County. The Rev. M. L. Banister officiated. Surviv ing are five brothers, E. F. and P. D. of Oxford, W. W. of Louis burg, P. N. of Bunn and O. S. Breedlove of Franklinton; six sis ters, Mrs. W. T. Cash of Franklin ton, Mrs. C. J. Watkins of Zebu lon, Mrs. C. W. Dickens of Rocky Mount, Mrs. F. A. Strother, Mrs. S. H. Foster and Mrs. Eddie c mith of Louisburg. Kindergarten Opens Here tor Fall Term The Kindergarten to be conduct ed at the Zebulon Baptist Church will open on Monday morning at nine o’clock under the leadership of Mrs. Oleta Chamblee Smith. The school will be operated in the Primary Department. Mrs. Smith states that the Cal vert kindergarten school curricu lum has been ordered and will be followed this year. This curri culum is designed for the type school to be operated at the local Baptist Church. Enrollment of pupils may be made by contacting Mr. Wilbur Debnam, Chairman of the Kinder garten Board, or Mrs. Mary Tem ple, Board Secretary. The school will operate daily from nine o’- clock to twelve o’clock. Scouts Plan Parking Lot for Local Fair The Zebulon Boy Scouts of Troop 133 will meet Thurs day night to make plans for operating a parking lot during the Five County Fair, J. P. Arnold said yesterday. Pro ceeds from the parking lot will be used to repair the hut. Eagle Scout James Debnam will assist Arnold in directing Scout activities.
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