THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXVII. Number 1.
THIS, THAT AND
THE OTHER
By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis
Up at Montreat this summer a
small boy went to his mother com
plaining that the largest worm he
had ever seen was in his sand
box and wouldn’t get out. The
mother went to investigate and
found a copperhead moccasin coil
ed in the corner of the box. She
got a hoe and killed the snake
which is more than many moth
ers could have done.
An educator claims that some
teachers who claim to have had
twenty-five years of experience in
their profession have merely had
one year’s experience twenty-five
times. There might be a tremen
dous difference.
Mrs. Williford who used to be
a Perry has sent me a pot plant un
like any I have and which is very
much appreciated. I think it be
longs to the sansiveria family, but
do not know its given name.
Sometimes it is a bit amusing
to hear a telephone operator say
“Excuse it, please,” when she has
made a mistake in a number. It
sounds as if the phone were alto
gether at fault and the operator
had slight connection with any
of it. Ido not recall having heard
one say excuse me.
Whenever I hesitate ever cutting
out a garment that cannot be made
right away I remember how Moth
er used to say: “Go on and cut it
out. I never in my life saw a piece
made that hadn’t been cut; and I
never saw many that had been cut
and didn’t get made.”
Some time ago a friend gave me
some old magazines she had come
across while house-cleaning. There
is a Delineator for July, 1893
and two Designers, one printed in
1905 and one in 1907. The Delinea
tor has more of interest byway of
contrast than the other two. It
has page after page of pictured
fashions; and those were the days
when a woman’s skirts were both
long and wide and required seven
or more yards of cloth for making.
Not only this, but they were lined,
interlined at the bottom with stif
fened material, and finished off
with braid. Nobody could have
hemmed one of those skirts. Little
girls of five wore dresses down to
their ankles, and full of tucks and
ruffles. I remember thinking how
beautiful my little sister looked in
her Sunday best, a long white
dress, ruffled around the bottom,
and almost needing to be held up
as we walked along the country
path to Sunday School; for. grass
grew thick, except where horses’
hooves or wheel tracks wore it
off.
Middleaged women inclined to
put on fat were comforted thus:
“The increase of avoirdupois which
so often somes in middle life and
so ruthlessly destroxs all semblance
of youthful grace is frequently re
garded as a serious obstacle in the
way of a stylish appearance; but
this is an erroneous idea.” Advice
is then given as to materials and
patterns to be chosen by the stylish
stouts. Nowaday fashion eyperts
are not so considerate of feelings.
They tell us to stay slim, or else.
In 1893 women did lots of cro
cheting, knitting- and tatting and
the Delineator gave directions for
each. Drawnwork was fashionable
as were laces made of braid com
bined with fancy stitchery.
Beauty was sought and an
inquirer was told she might ex
press the juice from nearly ripe
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FLYING FARM 'WORKHORSE'
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This “workhorse of the air” is a new experimental airplane de
signed especially for performing such farm operations as crop dusting,
spraying, and fertilizing. The experimental plane, designed and built
for the Civil Aeronautical Administration by Texas A & M College in
cooperation with the National Flying Farmers Association and the
aircraft industry, now is making a series of appearances in the cotton
producing states.
FARM BUREAU HAS KICK-OFri
DINNER FOR 1951 CAMPAIGN
The Wake County Farm Bureau
held its annual kick-off meeting
September 10, 1951, at Sauls Bar
becue, with a large number of
members being represented from
seven of its eight local units and
setting for its quota 3,000 in mem
bership for 1952.
After dinner, John Eagles gave
reports and presented charts show
ing the Farm Bureau growth and
its accomplishments.
E. Y. Floyd, Director of Plant
Food Institute of North Carolina
and Virginia, gave a very interest
ing talk on the importance of Farm
Bureau membership and how Farm
Bureau is promoting the rural edu
cational program and the lifting
of Agriculture.
Lions Accepting Amateur Entries
For Cash Prizes at Talent Nights
The first of six talent nights
sponsored by the Zebulon Lions
Club will be held Saturday night,
September 29, in the Wakelon High
School auditorium, the Lions Com
mittee heading the program an
nounced yesterday, and entries for
the opening night are already com
ing in. Members of the commit
tee include Worth Hinton, Frank
Kemp, and Wesley Liles.
Cash prizes will be awarded the
winners at each of the preliminary
contests, and at the final night the
15 preliminary winners will com
BUSY YEAR IN PROSPECT FOR ZEBULON
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PRESIDENT SAYS
A busy year is in store for the
Zebulon Chamber of Commerce,
the newly-elected president of the
group to the Rotarians at the reg
ular meeting of the club last Fri
day night. Frank Wall, Commerce
head, spoke at the Rotary meeting
as guest of J. Raleigh Alford, re
tiring Chamber of Commerce
president.
Committees have been appointed
to solicit members for the Cham
ber of Commerce for the coming
year, the president said. Dues will
remain the same, and he urged the
Rotarians to support the Commerce
group.
Zebulon, N. C. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1951
L. Y. Ballentine, Commissioner
of Agr eu.ture,-presented an inter
esting talk on how and why the
farmers should organize and the
importance of each Farm Bureau
member’s interest in promoting an
educational program to show the
people the purpose and progress of
our organization.
A motion was carried that the
Wake County Farm Bureau go on
record in favoring a ten per cent
reduction in tobacco acreage for
1952.
Robert Ed Horton is president of
the Zebulon Unit. Rodney McNabb
is secretary. The membership drive
in this section will begin in about
ten days.
pete for the grand prizes.
Already entered for the Septem
ber 29 contest are Ginnie Wicker
and her Band, and Mrs. H. C.
Wade’s Girls’ Dancing Class.
Worth Hinton said that the com
mittee hopes to have Morris
Knott and his Tub Band for this
night.
Talented amateurs should con
tact any of the committee mem
bers now giving their choice of
nights to perform. Programs will
be scheduled in advance, and an
early request will insure the per
former of his choice of nights.
The speaker emphasized that
business in small town on longer
was determined on transporta
tion, since so many roads are pav
ed, and merchants and business
men must give the customer what
the customer wants if trade is pro
moted.
Some of the promotional activity
planned by the Zebulon Chamber
of Commerce for the coming year
was listed by the speaker, includ
ing a profit-sharing plan design
ed to reach people who live an
equal distance between Zebulon
and’neighboring towns.
State College Extension Specialists
Discuss Alarming Increase of Leaf
Foes, Especially Dread Black Shank
By H. R. Garriss, Plant Pathologist, and H. R. Bennett, Tobacco
Specialist, N. C. State College Extension Service
Tar Heel tobacco growers now face the biggest challenge in their
history. Diseases, notably black shank, have hit the flue-cured
crop in North Carolina harder this summer than ever before. A large
number of growers tried to get by with non-resistant varieties and
in many cases the results were disastrous.
Recorder's Court*
fries Full Docket
At Wednesday Session
Over SI,OOO was charged in fines
and costs at the Wednesday session
of the Zebulon Recorder’s Court,
with driving and drinking provid
ing the cause for most of the
cases. Judge Irby D. Gill had a
busy day, and if a large number
of cases had not been continued,
the day-long session would have
been more lengthy.
Junior David Sanders assaulted
his wife, Christine Sanders, with
his fists, and threatened to cut her
with a knife. For his actions. Judge
Gill sentenced him to 60 days, sus
pended upon payment of SSO fine
and costs.
John W. Montague, guilty of pos
session of non-tax-paid whiskey,
received 60 days suspended upon
payment of S4O fine and costs. For
driving drunk and with expired
driver’s license, Montague received
another six months sentence, this
one suspended upon payment of
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Funeral Held Sunday
For Hurley P. Hoyle
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon from Overby’s Fu
neral Home Chapel in Raleigh for
Hurley P. Hoyle, 60, who died of
a heart attack at his Raleigh
home Friday night. Dr. J. A. El
lis of Tabernacle Baptist Church
officiated. Burial vas in Mont
lawn.
Mr. Hoyle had been a resident
of Raleigh for 30 years and for the
past 19 years was connected with
the Durham Life Insurance Com
pany. Prior to moving to Raleigh,
he lived in Zebulon and Wakefield.
Pallbearers were B. Fred Par
tin, C. D. McKinney, R. E. Baird,
C. B. Barber, E. B. Chapel, and
M. H. Green.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. An
nie Bain Hoyle; one daughter, Mrs.
Robert Carter of Washington, D.
C.; two sisters, Mrs. John E. Ays
cue of Buies Creek, Mrs. L. R.
Temple t of Zebulon; two brothers,
Dr. Irby H Hoyle of Henderson
and J. E. Hoyle of Winterville.
Addison N. Pearce
Buried on Monday
Addison N. Pearce, 56, farmer
and merchant of Franklin County,
died in Mary Elizabeth Hospital
early Sunday morning after sever
al days of illness. Funeral rites
were conducted from Pearce Bap
tist Church yesterday at 3 p. m.
by the Rev. Alton Lamm, pastor.
Burial was in the church cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Adna Privett; four daughters,
Mrs. David Clayton, Durham, Mrs.
C. R. Poythress, Key West, Fla.,
Mrs. Joe F Wright, Lawson Okla.,
and Valda Jean of the home; three
sons, W. T. of Garner, A. E. of
Charlotte, and F. N. Pearce, Ral
eigh; his stepfather, Arthur Medlin;
a brother G. C. Pearce, Wendell;
and nine grandchildren.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Even the black shank resistant
varieties, such as Oxford 1, Ox
ford 1-181, the Vestas, and Dixie
Bright 101, were damaged heavily
by attacks of the disease in a few
fields in some countries. Heavier
damage was suffered by the mod
erately resistant varieties than by
the three varieties carrying high
er resistance.
As a result, many growers are
asking
“ What next? Where do we go
from here?”
Research is being continued, and
every effort is being made to find
varieties with good quality, good
yields, and higher disease resist
ance. But because the problem is
complex and such a large volume
of work is required to develop
even one acceptable variety, prog
ress along these lines is slow at
best.
No Immediate Improvement
Growers should not expect, in
the very near future, varieties
with higher resistance than is
found in the varieties now availa
ble.
What, then, can be done?
The individual farmer can do
much to help solve his own prob
lem of tobacco diseases. He can
follow practices which research
and experience have shown will
contribute to success with the
crop.
We have visited and observed a
large number of tobacco fields in
North Carolina this summer. We
found black shank present in all
but four or five flue-cured coun
ties located on the fringe of the
flue-cured area.
We discovered that Dixie Bright
101 was the predominating black
shank resistant variety used by
growers, with some acreage plant
ed also to Dixie Bright 102, Ox
ford 1, Oxford 1-181, and the Ves
ta lines.
In general, Dixie Bright 101 has
performed very satisfactorily in
that good yield, good quality, and
satisfactory resistance are in evi
dence throughout the State. How
ever, in a few instances in sever
al counties, Dixie Bright 101 as
well as other black shank resist
ant varieties did not live satis
factorily.
90 Per Cent Losses
In one county where about half
the acreage was planted to Dixie
Bright 101, growers on about 20
farms out of 1,000 lost from 18 to
90 per cent of their tobacco in cer
tain fields or parts of fields. In
another county, about 15 farmers
out of 600 lost a high percentage of
the plants of resistant varieties to
black shank.
These percentages of failure or
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The Zebulon Lions Club
will honor their Lionesses
with a special Ladies’ Night
program to be held Thursday
night, September 27. Includ
ed on the program will be a
talented trio including Mrs.
Carlton Mitchell, Miss Betty
Salmon, and Miss Helen
Wall.
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