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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVII. Number 48. W i W suys come up here amd need for UNITY H| ■ iSwF ' |hh * i B9hh| / / 7 f. <<*3*3S- W '&-~*ZZ'2£ZS:?; Uncle Ferd's Almanac Today of course is a very special day, the likes of which we will not encounter for another four years. That’s all right with most of us, but what about folks like Patricia Ann Brantley? Her birth day comes up today, and it’s only her third! Worse than that, if she lives to be 64 years old, she will have to go eight years without a birthday because years divisible by 100 are not leap years. The extra day in leap years (or bissextile years, as scholars are wont to say) did not always come at the end of February. It used to be that February 24 was simply observed twice, but it was sort of confusing and the calendar mak ers decided that it would be easier to have one February 24 and one February 29 in years divisible by 4 than to have February 24 come twice. Well, science is wonderful, I always say. Twenty years ago today there was a George Washington program at Wakelon School. It was supposed to have been given the previous Monday, February 22, but Mr. Mo ser had something else scheduled that day. So on February 29 little Margaret Bunn, Marie Finch and Kay Kemp portrayed the spirits of George and Martha Washington There's Plenty of Bachelors to Go Around, According to Record Survey Every cross roads for miles around is loaded down with bache lors, according to reports from our rural spies, and girls can flush whole coveys of eligible males just by listening to the bay of the hounds and checking on those par ticipating in the many fox hunts now going on. There is no indica tion in this community that girls come near outnumbering the men. Minstrel Postponed “The Showboat Minstrel,” origi nally scheduled to be presented by the Senior Class, Friday night, February 29th, has been postponed until March 11th, due to sickness. coming back to investigate the 20th century. Needless to say, George and Martha found the world right much of a mess and eagerly be took themselves off to the nether regions or wherever it was that they came from. Sixteen years ago today J. P. Fowler won an automobile given away by Zebulon Supply Com pany. Miss Inez Pitts came home from teaching duties at Mount Ulla the same day, and John T. Robertson received a carload of pigs. As if that were not enough, Rev. Theo. B. Davis predicted that morning that a man named Clyde R. Hoey would be the next govter nor of North Carolina. There was a dress rehearsal of a minstrel show at Wakelon School twelve years ago tonight. Miss Frances Barrett of Kinston and Zebulon directed same, with stars being Wilbur Hales and Wade Da vid as end men, and Jeffrey Carter, Earl Antone, Monroe Jones, and Sam Horton as circle men. Barrie Davie was the interlocutor. There’s another minstrel at Wakelon 12 years later to the night; there was a capacity crowd in 1940, and I guess there will be a capacity crowd tonight, too. Anyhow, here’s a fond hope! Heading the additions to the list this week is Rufus Hicks, hand some farm owner who can cook and keep house. Another eligible is Bo lie Watson, overseer for the C. N. Robertson farms. Others added to the list as Leap Year prospects include Laddis Jones, Proctor Robertson, Ray mond Price, Harold Ellington, Wal lace Medlin, Drextel Phillips, Eu gene Perry, Hardon Perry; Charles Massey, Ballius Lewis, Bud Green, John Burton Ray, Reg inald Lewis, Beaman Stallings, Jas- Pearce, Cadwin Cone, Willard Puckett, Max Paul Williams, Stacy per Stallings, Cloyce Alford,Kearn Williams, Forrest Williams. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, February 29, 1952 Fines Are Liberal In Judge Gill's Recorders Court It cost plenty to participate in the role of defendant in Judge Irby D. Gill’s Recorder’s Court on Wednesday of this week Fines from SSO to $l5O were usual in cases ranging from assault to drunken driving. Donald Jones of Wendell, Route 2, was found not guilty of passing a school bus unloading passengers. \ Cases of assault against James Duck and Richard Vick resulted in fines of SSO for each of them. In the first of a series of cases involving traffic violations Rob ert Lee Carlyle of Club Carlyle, Raleigh, paid $25 fine and costs for driving with an expired li cense. James Robert Taylor, for driv ing with improper lights, paid $25 and costs. Clyde Vernon Alford paid S6O and costs for speeding 75 mph, and James C. Green of Spring Hope paid SSO and costs for speed- | ing 65 mph. Hubert G. Barnes of Raleigh was fined $25 and costs for driv ing with an expired operator’s li cense, and Cleveland Speight of Wilson paid the costs for driving with no license. Harold Obie paid $25 fine and costs for no operator’s license. Drunken driving resulted in a sentence of four months for Wil liam R. Dorsett, Jr., of Raleigh. The sentence was suspended upon payment of $l5O fine and costs and the surrender of Dorsett’s li cense. Walter B. Allen paid SSO fine and costs for careless and reckless driving. Matthew Hinton paid $l5O arid costs for drunken driving. Improper loading of vehicle cost (Continued on Page 0) Revival Is Planned By Local Methodists Plans are being made by Rev. S. E. Mercer and the Zebulon Methodist Church for a revival or spiritual life mission to begin on Easter Sunday, April 13, and con tinue through the following week. Advance notice is being made so that individuals and groups who wish to cooperate with this im portant spiritual undertaking may have the opportunity of doing so. It is felt that Easter will be a very appropriate time for this re vival. Too often church programs begin to lag following Easter, but the risen Christ goes before his followers and calls on us to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. All interested persons are given a cordial invitation not only to plan to attend these services but also to begin to pray for them right away. —Rev. S. E. Mercer JL. W. M. U. Schedules Week of Prayer The WMU Week of Prayer for Home Missions will be observed this coming week with meetings J led by the following groups. Monday, 3:30, Mary Lee Earnest Circle Tuesday, 7:30, Buisness Wo | men’s Circle Wednesday, 3.30, Vivian Nowell Circle Thursday, 7:30, YWA I Friday, 3:30, Mrs. Lester Green Pre-School Clinic The Wakelon Pre-School Clinic will be held Tuesday, March 4, at 12:30 p. m., in the Wakelon School auditor ium, according to Mrs. Fred Page. All children who will be six years old or over on or before October 1, 1952, are urged to be present. Religious Group Names Delegates To Circuit Meet The following delegates from the Stancil’s Chapel, N. C., Company of Jehovah’s Witnesses will be at tending the semi-annual circuit as sembly at Kinston, N. C., Febru ary 29 to March 2, 1952. They are: H. B. Rowland, Mr. and Mrs. John nie Vause, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Godwin, Mr. and Mrs. Osbin Da vis, Mr. and Mrs. - C. R. Raper, Mr. and Msr. L. F. Raper, Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Raper, D. L. Raper and Bobby Raper. More than 700 delegates from the coastal plain section of North Carolina will convene at the Grain ger High School Auditorium, East Park Avenue on Friday and Sat urday evenings at 7 o’clock for ad vahced Bible training. There are now more than 440,000 ministers of Jehovah’s Witnesses in 119 countries of the world serving lov ers of righteousness free of any charges. The public is cordially invited to attend all of the sessions, but es pecially the high light of the as sembly, a public address by W. D. Couch of Brooklyn, N. Y., district representative of the Wachtower Society, on the subject “What Re ligion Will Survive the World Cris is?” The entire program is free and no collections will be taken. Baptist Services Listed for Sunday The regular observance of the Lord’s Supper will be held at the local Baptist Church tomorrow eve ning at 7:30. The pastor will pre sent a Communion Meditation and Miss Elizabeth Salmon will sing "Let Us Break Bread Together on Our Knees.” The pastor will use the topic “Let Us Now Turn Together” for the morning sermon. Miss Jayne Smithwick, guest soloist, will sing “The Beatitudes” by Malotte. The Adult Choir will sing the anthem “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say.” They May Not Be Big Bargains But License Plates Are Selling Tarheel motorists may not think of them as bargains but they are sure buying new license plates at an astonishing rate according to licensing officials in the Depart ; ment of Motor Vehicles. I The Department released its latest sales figure today, which topped one million several weeks ago and has since climbed to 1,- 033,533. With just over two months of the year gone new tag sales are running 64,615 ahead of last year. And based on 1950 fig— ; ures, which are still reasonably ac Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers. Farmers Are Top Dressing Pastures For Best Growth G. L. Winchester S. W. Holleman John F. Mcßane Many farmers are now top dress ing pastures with phosphate and potash. The more common mixed goods are 0-14-14; 0-9-27; and 0- 10-20. Rates per acre vary usually from 300 to 800 lbs. per acre. R. M. Brooks who has a small herd of good Herefords is applying 500 lbs. of an 0-14-14 per acre and then broadcasting stable manure on the eroded and other unproduc tive areas in the pasture. Mrs. Brooks is also making plans now to sow some additional pasture in the fall. He has some lespedeza for summer grazing. • This past week I had the satis faction of observing the pasture progress on the farm of J. Greg ory Poole. The tour of the farm was made with “Bud” Meek, the farm manager. We saw one field of tall fescue that had carried over 100 sheep and 17 head of beef cat tle during most of the winter. When good hay was placed in the lot for them, they ignored it and preferred the tall fescue even when there was ice on it. Our second stop was to observe 30 or 40 head of Herefords on some fall sown wheat. These cat tle have been on the wheat for several weeks. They will be re moved from the wheat in about two weeks and the grain will be harvested in June. A third' stop was made in a field of crimson clover and rye grass which was “shoe top” deep. It was a dark green and looked al most good enough to eat. On it was a herd of registered Herefords all grazing one way up the hill with their full, sleek bodies sil houetted against the pine forest and the blue sky was as pretty as any picture. Thp fact that we have had a very cold winter seemingly has not affected the grazing on the farm. Hay has been put in the field but little has been eaten be cause they preferred the small grain, rye grass, crimson clover, tall fescue, orchard grass, or Ladi no clover according to the field in which they were grazing. Fidelis S. S. Class To Meet Monday The Bessie Davis Fidelis Class will meet in the home of Mrs. Clarence Hocutt Monday night at eight o’clock. Mrs. W. A. Allman is associate hostess. curate, that makes North Caroli na 15th in the Nation in the num ber of autos and trucks registered. In talking about its sales record the Department also issued a stem reminder to motorists who have failed to remove their 1951 front tag. It must come off, the Depart ment cautioned, or else the careless car owner is leaving himself wide open to embarrassment when he is stopped by enforcement officers. Leace it at your favorite service station, was the Department’s ad vice.
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