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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVII. Number 27. TIMELY REMINDER FOR YULE SHOPPERS x ' > i '».'^'^jßj|Er spgo Yvette Dugay, of Paterson, New Jersey, Universal-Interna tional starlet, makes a pretty Christmas picture which tells its own story of “the present with a future” which will adorn many holiday trees. The Treasury Department is offering a free color ful gift jacket which you can obtain at your bank or post office. Wilmer Eddins Loses Car, Finds It on State Highway Jack Carter’s escapades finally caught up with him over the past weekend, and Judge Irby D. Gill sent cases involving Carter and Needham Winston, Jr., to the Su perior Court after setting bond at $2,000 each* for the two colored boys. Carter and Winston were charged with stealing the 1948 Hudson automobile belonging to Wilmer Eddins. Earlier in the year Carter is reported to have stolen a Pontiac car in Raleigh. He drove it long enough to get himself caught for drunken driving, receiving and serving a three-months sentence. Following his term on the roads, Carter returned to the Pontiac and again drove it until he was ar rested for driving after his license has been revoked. He was sched uled for trial Saturday in the Wake Forest Recorder’s Court. However, on Friday night he and Winston drove the Pontiac to Zebulon, where they are re ported to have shorted out the switch to the Eddins Hudson, pushed it off with the Pontiac, and made off into the darkness. Zebulon Police Chief Willie B. Hopkins, acting on information received from Wilmer Eddins, be gan a search near Rolesville for the stolen automobile. Riding with the highway patrolman sta tioned at Rolesville, Hopkins ap prehended Carter and Winston about 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning near Rolesville. Other cases tried included traf fic violations and liquor. Opie Gordon Lamm of Spring Hope was fined $16.00 costs for speeding. Robert Allen Perry, guilty of careless ad reckless driving was sentenced to 90 days, suspended Mickey Is Winner Mickey Hinton, caPed the Little Bing Crosby, won second place in the Talent Night Saturday night sponsored by the Smithfield Ro tary Club. He was awarded a S4O cash prize for his performance in the finals. Mickey did a song and dance number on the program. upon payment of S6O fine and costs. v Kerbie Bruitt Bunn, Rt. 3, Zeb ulon, guilty of speeding 70 mph, was fined $25 and costs. Jarvis Markhanna Hodges of Raleigh, guilty of careless and reckless driving, was fined $25 and costs. Hillary Earl Waller of Clayton, I charged with improper use of a ' dealer’s license, was found not : guilty. Bernice Law Perry of Roles ville, charged with drunken driv ing, failed to appear. His bond was called and papais issued. Douglas Colman, who crop clusted from an airplane in the community during the summer, was charged with giving a worth less check for S6OO. Prayer for judgment was continued until April 23, 1952, upon payment of the costs and on condition that Colman give bond of S7OO. Since his flying here, he suffered broken legs from a crackup in a plane while dusting. James Stewart of Wendell, ap pealed his sentence of SIOO and costs for drunken driving. Bond was set at S2OO. # Jerry Thomas Pearce, Rt. 2, Zebulon, was found guilty of car ! rying concealed lead knucks and ! was sentenced to 90 clays suspend ed upon payment of SSO and costs. McLeard Tant, Rt. 4, Louisburg, (Continued on Back Page) Tree Is Donated By Miss Baker In years to come Zebulon will have one of the most beautiful community trees in the country, thanks to Miss Gladys Baker, who gave the Town of Zebulon the large tree now planted at the front of the new municipal building. Although the tree will mot be used this year, because it has been so recently transplanted it is feared too hot lights will kill it, plans are already being made to decorate it in 1952. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, Dec. 14, 1951 Pastures Planted By Wake Farmers Reach High Point G. L. Winchester Walter Lewis sowed twenty acres of pasture near Morrisville the first week in September. He obtained a perfect stand and it is now three to five inches tall. He can possibly start grazing it late next spring. It usually pays to sow early following good fertili zation and liming. He used a cultipacker seeder attachment. • M. C. Todd of Wendell has re cently constructed a pond and cleared land of honeysuckle, etc., above the pond. This will be sown in lespedeza in the spring, disked in the fall, and sown in pasture. This land, while fertile, was somewhat wet and not well suited to growing of row crops. • James P. Weaver of Fuquay Springs has recently cleared some additional land so as to have e nough land to rotate his tobacco creage. The old terraces have been thrown down and two mea dows constructed. Mr. Weaver, along with many other farmers, is convinced that rotations offer the best solutions to our disease and insect damage in tobacco. • E. H. Clark of Fuquay Springs is planning a bicolor lespedeza wildlife border ctn his farm. Bi color lespedeza is one of our best sources of food for birds. Chest’ to Aid Needy Families at Christmas Again this year the Zebulon Community Chest will arrange a master list of needy families and indicate those families which are being served by various churches and groups in the community. This list is being compiled at the town offices. All persons knowing of needy families are urged to leave these names at the local town office. Organizations which expect to present Christmas baskets to cer tain families are requested to in dicate the nature of the help ex tended, whether toys, food, cloth ing, etc. This can be done by call ing at the town office. Gilbert Beck, chairman of the Community Chest, urges that all groups, cooperate in order that un necessary duplication may be a voided and to provide for the wid est possible coverage of the needs existing in our area. Greek Girl to Speak At Rotary Club Here dairy Gouma, Rotary Exchange student attending Meredith Col lege, will be guest speaker at the meeting of the Zebulon Rotary Club tonight. Miss Gouma is a native of Athens, Greene. Before coming to the United States, Miss Gouma attended Pierce College in Athens. She is interested in sociology and child psychology and expects to be a teacher in her home county. The Zebulon Rotary Club has joined with the other American clubs in Rotary International in sponsoring and financing foreign students attending America col leges and universities. The Student Exchange Plan was intiated to encourage interna tional understanding. Three of the students are enrolled in District 278, at Meredith, Atlantic Chris tian College, and the University of North Carolina. Vic Vet says f VETERANS ENTITLED ID NONSERVICE* CONNECTED PENSIONS WHO ARE SO HELPLESS THAT THEY NEED THE REGULAR AID OF ANOTHER PERSON IN THEIR HOMES MAY BE ENTITLED TO THE HIGHER PAYMENT OF 4l| o. AHOKW UNDER A Express Delivery Made by Truck Replacing the Norfolk South ern’s Raleigh-Norfolk express train, Railway Express trucks be gan rolling Wednesday carrying shipments which earlier in the week would have moved by train. The change from railway to high way service was approved last week by the State Utilities Com mission after the Norfolk South ern pleaded at a public hearing that its train had ceased to meet expenses. One tractor-trailer unit will operate between Raleigh and Washington; another will operate between Norfolk and Plymouth; and van-type trucks will make shuttle runs between Plymouth and Washington and between Nor folk and Elizabeth City. The truck through Zebulon will leave Raleigh at 7 a. m., arrive in Washington at 1:10 p. m., leave Washington at 2:30 p. m., and re turn to Raleigh at 8:30 p. m., stop ping at all Norfolk-Southern sta tions with express service. Effect of the change will be an additional pickup here each day. Rev. M. Jack Suggs Resigns Wendell Post M. Jack Suggs resigned as pas tor of the Christian Church of Wendell, effective on January 22, 1952, in a notice given last Sunday. The popular young pastor re signed to give full time to his studies at Duke University Divin ity School where he is working for a Ph. D. degree that will be com pleted in August. Mr. Suggs has many friends in Zebulon as well as Wendell. Baptist Yuletide Services Listed A Christmas Cantata, “For Un-| to You a Child is Born,” by J. S. Bach will be presented by the Adult Choir of the Baptist Church on Sunday evening at 7:30. So loists include Mr. Elwood Perry, Mrs. Frank Kemp and Mrs. L. M. Massey. Miss Elizabeth Salmon will direct the choir and Miss Anne Allman will be at the organ console. The Youth Choirs will sing at the regular morning worship ser vice. The Junior Choir will sing His Candle.” The Girl’s Choir will sing the traditional seventeenth century air “Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones.” The pastor’s sermon topic will be “The Messiah Meets Teresa Del Riego’s “A Star Was a Religious People.” Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Special Ceremony Planned Tonight For Light System A special ceremony inaugurat ing the Christmas season in this community will be held tonight in front of Zebulon’s new munici pal building, during which the new “white way” will be present ed to Mayor Worth Hinton and the Christmas lights in the business section will be turned on. Following the ceremony, Miss Elizabeth Salmon and the Wake lon Glee Club will lead those pres ent in a community sing of Christ mas carols. The services this evening will begin at 5:30. Short talks will be made by community leaders, in cluding Frank Wall, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Dr. L. M. Massy and Ralph Talton. The presentation of the “white way” will be made by R. A. Snow, district manager of Carolina Pow er & Light Company. A booklet which will contain the words of the Christmas carols to be sung will be given to every person attending the program. Mrs. Allie O'Neal Is Buried on Tuesday Mrs. Allie Davis O’Neal, 73, died Monday afternoon at the home of her son on Wake For est, Route 1, after a long illness. She was the daughter of the late Charles and Lucy Harrelson O’- Neal and the widow of Wilbur A O’Neal. She was a lifelong resident of Wake County. Funeral rites were conducted Tuesday at 2 p. m., from the Stony Hill Baptist Church by the Rev. W. C. Bar ham, pastor, and the Rev. A. E. Lowery. Burial was in the church cemetery. Last Rites to Be Held For Mrs. K. Brannon Mrs. Kader Brannan died at 1:23 Thursday afternoon. The funeral will be held at the Zebulon Baptist Church Friday at 3:00 p.m. conducted by Rev. Theo. B. Davis and Pastor Carlton Mitchell. Burial will be in the Zebulon Cemetery. Mrs. Brannan had been in ill health for several years and critically ill since last Friday. ALA to Meet The American Legion Auxiliary will meet at the home of Mrs. Melvin Massey on Friday night, December 14, at 8 o’clock. The traditional Sunday School Vesper Service and Christmas party will be held on Wednesday evening, December 19. White Christmas gifts will be brought at this time. • On next Sunday evening, Dec. 16, at 7:30 o’clock the Adult Choir of the Wendell Baptist Church will give a program of Sacred Christmas Music in the Church Sanctuary. In the absence of the Music Director of the Church, Mrs. Paul C. Brantley, (due to illness) the program will be under the direction of Mr. J. W. Winchester, Associate Direc tor of Music. Mrs. Leo T. Britt is Church Organist. The public is cordially invited to attend. ,
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