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THE STAFF OF THIS NEWSPAPER AND YOUR HOMETOWN MERCHANTS EXTEND 1952 GREETINGS THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVII. Number 30. CUT WOOD ERE WEATHER WORSENS Forest Servioe, U. S. Department of Agriculture "No* tWs a mart owner that knows this is real 'fall' weatherl’* Hilliard Greene, Flowers Are Decoration Winners The most elaborate and beautiful Christmas decorations ever pre pared in Zebulon and the sur rounding community made the se lection of prize winners in the Chamber of Commerce-sponsored contest difficult for the team of out-of-town judges on Christmas Eve night. Winners in two divi sions, stores and homes, were nam ed. The judges highly commended the Christmas spirit exhibited all through the community. Huge Santa Claus The home of Hilliard Greene, with an 8-foot-high Santa Claus in the front yard and little angels on the large picture window on the front of the house, was award ed first place. Second place went to Mrs. Elwood Perry, who pre pared a manger scene on the pic ture window of her home. Flowers 5c to $5 Store won first place for decorated stores, and Whitley Furniture Company took second. Honorable mention in the homes were awarded in the following 1951 GUARD PAY $25,000 Quarterly payrolls for Battery A will be prepared and mailed in this week, according to Cpl. Ken neth Hopkins, administrative as sistant for Zebulon’s National Guard unit. Checks will be mail ed early in January to pay the 58 officers and men in the battery for their drill time during the past three months. The payroll for the last quarter of the year is expected to bring the annual payroll to about $25,000. Members of Battery A, a unit of the 113th Field Artillery Battalion, receive a full day’s pay for each two-hour drill. During October, November, and December, 12 drills were held at the local armory. Individual pay checks for the drills will range from $30.00 Remits to over $95 for the . order: Mrs. Norman Screws, Mrs. Frank Wall, Mrs. Charles Flowers, Mrs. Riggsbee Massey, Mrs. S. H. ' Hoyle, and Mrs. Elbert Rhodes. The contests are sponsored an nually by the Zebulon Chamber of Commerce. Back from Korea » Harold F. Hales, commissaryman third class, USN, son of Calvin H. Hales of Route 1, Zebulon, arrived at San Diego, Calif., last week aboard the amphibious force at tack cargo ship USS Washburn. The Washburn, returning from her second tour of duty in the Far East, left the United States last June for the Korean war zone. When the war started in Korea, the Washburn was enroute to Alaska. After unloading her car go at Point Barrow she was or dered to Inchon byway of Brem erton, Washington, and Japan. The Washburn is tentatively scheduled for a brief upkeep and overhaul period and routine west coast operations. highest ranking non-commissioned officers. The first drill of 1952 will be held on Monday night, January 7, at 7:30. During 1952 the classes will be divided so that recruits and men who have been with the unit for longer than one year will re ceive separate instruction. Cpl. Robert Lee Privette, a cadet lieutenant in the ROTC at State College, will assist in instructing drill and tactics training for the recruits. Cpl. Talmadge Pearce, member of the communications attending school at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, was home for the Christmas holidays. Cpl. Pearce is the first member of the local unit to attend a Regular Army school. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, Dec. 28, 1951 College President » • Hopes for Reform During Next Year By GEORGE S. BENSON President —Harding College As we enter a new year grave problems and dangers confront our nation. The gravest danger of all, however, lies in the fact that so many Americans do not recognize nor understand the true situation. Many have been lulled into a “fool’s paradise.” Haven’t we just experienced one of the freest-spending Christmases in history, they ask; aren’t work op portunities plentiful, wages high, hours short; and haven’t our gov ernment leaders been assuring us that the state-of-the-nation is good, the future still bright in spite of clouds? Well, what are the actual facts? Alter winning World War II just s.x years ago at great cost in lives and resources, and then losing the peace, we are now in a shooting war with the Communists which our military leaders say we cannot ..in at tne present time. The talemated, unending, half-way in Korea is bleeding us of our .nest manhood. Korean losses: 101,000 casualties; an estimated ',OOO American prisoners of war brutally slaughtered. Hard-to-Take Facts Russia now rules a billion peo ple, she has the atom bomb and a bigger and perfiiaps better air force and submarine fleet than have we. A powerful Communist Fifth Column in America has been permitted to steal our military se crets and is ready to sabotage our factories and transportation sys tems when Stalin gives the word. Our government is taking ap proximately 30 per cent ($1 out of every $3) of the national income in taxes; citizens are working one third of their time, on the average, to pay taxes. The national debt is $260 billion —about $7,000 on ev ery family in the nation. Inflation is crippling the pur chasing power of the dollar; in fact the dollar is worth less today than at any time since the Consti tution was adopted 162 years ago. Inflation is undermining thrift, endangering our whole economic life. And government policies are feeding inflation, not heading it off. The “Gimme” Disease . Nearly 25,000,000 people are now regularly getting checks from the Government. More and more people are getting the “gimme” disease. The virtue of self-reliance, which built America, is becoming a casualty of the times. It now requires 2,500,000 civilian workers to staff the Federal bu reaucracy.' The salaries alone a mount to $8 billion a year—nearly two times the total federal taxes collected in any year before 1940. Studies made among school student bodies in many sections of the nation in 1951 indicate that our schools and colleges are turn ing out a generation of young men and women who, while qualified along special lines, are not well educated, are not aware of the comparative advantages of the American economic system, do not understand how it works, and are therefore easy marks for the prop agandists seeking to change our way of life into a government-op erated welfare state. Nationwide polls show the adult public to be woefully uninformed on economic facts. (Continued on Page 4) SLEEPY HEAD pi | / Is gMlil j^Kgg Br figp B / f ML V- 1 «v. yWK : This pretty coed may not be a Phi Beta Kappa, but she is smart as can be when it comes to clothes. She made her shorty nightgown, a favorite style with college girls everywhere, from two ordinary cotton print feed bags. Wake Polio Drive Will Begin Soon There’s a job for everyone in the 1952 March of Dimes, which is the layman’s v/eapon in the fight' against infant, le paralysis, says Willis Smith, Jr., Wake County campaign direc tor, in an appeal for volunteer workers to assist in the month-long campaign current ly under way. “Don’t wait 1o be asked,” he said. “Offer to help now.” The director suggested that peo ple wishing to assist the March of Dimes drive offer their services by reporting to headquarters at Chapel Hill by telephoning 2-2722. Throughout the county, efforts will be redoubl ;d in this year’s March of Dimes in an attempt to end the “deficit financing” for pa (Continued on Page 4) GARDEN TIME While you were out in the woods looking for Christmas greens and berries, you probably noticed that many of the holly trees had no berries at all and, if you will ob serve them again, you may find that they never will have berries. The American holly is a dioeci-; ous plant—that is, it has male flowers on one plant and female on another plant. Therefore, only the female plant will have berries. The same is true of persimmons and most varieties of Muscadine grapes. Also you fill find that some hol ly plants have better and larger berries and leaves than others. Where possible the better strains should be selected for planting or propagation. Holly may be propa gated by means of cuttings treat ed with rootone and placed In a mixture of half sand and half peat. They are very difficult to root. Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Baptists Set New Radio Hour Next Sunday Afternoon The Raleigh Baptist Association will sponsor a radio program orig inating in the Wendell Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock and lasting for one hour. The program will be given on three successive Sunday after noons, December 30, January 6, and January 13. This program is in the nature of an experiment whereby the Ral eigh Association is seeking to go into the various churches in its membership for the presentation of this type of program. The combined choirs of churches in the Zebulon-Wendell area will provide music for the services. The Rev. Earle J. Rogers of Wendell will deliver the sermon on December 30, to be followed by the Rev. Charles Summey of Knightdale on January 6, and the Rev. Carlton T. Mitchell of Zebu lon on January 13. Other participants include Mr. John Holmes of Raleigh, music director; the Rev. Kermit Combs, the Rev. Malbert Smith, the Rev. Joe Roach, the Rev. Fred Crisp, the Rev. Albert Lamm, the Rev. Joe Puckett, the Rev. Theo. Davis, the Rev. Robert H. Herring, and Mr. John Parker. The Executive Secretary of the Raleigh Baptist Association, the Rev. Lee Pridgen, also will par ticipate on the programs. The series of programs will be produced under the direction of the Rev. L. J. Morriss of Raleigh. All are invited to attend the worship service in the Wendell Church. Two Cage Games Two doubleheaders are schedul ed for the Wakelon basketball teams next week, according to the scheduled released by Coach Jim Fish. The new year opens with the Wakelon boys and girls playing Millbrook Tuesday night on the • Millbrook court. Friday night, January 4, Wen dell comes to Zebulon for the highlight of the week. The American holly is classed as a tree and not a shrub. There fore, it should be planted where it will have plenty of room to grow. I have seen holly trees with a trunk diameter of more than 15 inches. However, they the very slow growing and are very often used as shrubs. Other species of holly which make excellent evergreen shrubs in most of North Carolina are Chi nese holly, English holly, Japanese holly, and for Eastern North Caro lina, Yaupon and gall berry. The Japanese hollies (Ilex crenata sp.) do not have red berries but are valuable for their beautiful foliage and low growing, bushy form. The deciduous hollies (those that lose their leaves in winter) are native in all sections of the State and are valued for tneir pretty red berries during the win ter season.
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