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Two Plan Your Giving Publicity is paving the way for the Wake County Red Cross campaign tor funds. Every effort will ,be made to exceed the quota of $50,000 set for Wake, and Zebulon will be canvassed right along with every other community. The Red Cross has accomplished a world of good, and not a day goes by but that the newspapers carry stories of worthy deeds performed all over the globe. Truly the Red Cross deserves our help. Now almost before the Red Cross solicitors have taken our contribution, appeals will be made for us to purchase Easter Seals to help crippled children. It’s the logical thing to expect, because we’ve seen in recent weeks the sale of Christmas Seals followed by a four weeks drive for the March of Dimes followed by the campaign for funds to fight heart disease and now the Red Cross. With our churches needing our help, the Federal gov ernment taking about 30 per cent of all we make, the State, County and Municipal governments exacting their portion, many folks are inclined to think there are too many or ganizations holding out hands seeking a share of what lit tle is left. It is becoming easier to say “no” when contri butions are asked. If you believe you have been hit hard and too often by folks asking contributions for charitable purposes, don’t turn them down empty-handed. Better, decide now how much you can afford to give during the year and decide how much each agency is to receive. Then when your neighbor who has volunteered his time to help solicit funds for the Red Cfoss comes around, you will know already how much you can and will give. There will be lots of time saved, and you’ll feel good inside because you will know you’ve done all you can to help. Clean-Up, Paint-Up Spring is just around the corner, in spite of what some of these chill March winds would have you believe, and every housewife knows that the time is fast approach when the annual spring house cleaning must be done. The question rises, why stop with just the inside of the house? Why not, altogether, lift the face of the whole communi ity with a united clean-up, paint-up drive to eliminate the run-down appearance of some of our homes and lots. Such things have been done in other communities with eve-pleasing results. Seeing a neighbor working around the house is often all the incentive needed to stir up a little action, and with the Chamber of Commerce and Garden Club encouraging the whole thing and helping the cam -1 aign along, we could improve the looks of even beautiful Zebulon. Seven Years Too Long? While personally favoring universal military training as an economical and practical means of building up our de fense forces without completely disrupting our national economy or way of life, we respect the view point of minis terial associations and others who oppose the measure. We can understand their fear that UMT may turn our coun try into a militaristic stronghold. Two objections we definitely do not consider valid: 1) that the army or navy will ruin the morals of our youth; and 2) Senator Willis Smith’s contention that l/i years is too long to hold a man in the reserve forces. We’ve seen enough kids of high school age who hit the bottle and park with girls until the wee small hours to know that it isn’t the army that corrupts; it is something which has or has not been done years earlier. All in all, we think the veterans have turned out several shades better than the lucky guys who never have had a taste of army life and warfare. As to the second objection, who know of men who in voluntarily gave up five full years of their lives for their country. It was an emergency, sure, but with communism running wild all over the world, the situation could be call ed rather critical now. How come seven years in the Na tional Guard or the Inactive Reserve is so bad, when a guy is training so he’ll know enough to stay alive when the chips are down and some joker is aiming to kill him? Mr. Smith, when we’re playing a game with our life as the stake, we want to practice all we can before we take the field. The Zebulon Record Published Tuesday and Friday of each week at Zebulon, Wake County, North Carolina Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post office at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate: $2 00 a year. Advertising rates on request The Zebulon Record Doesn’t pretty weather always seem nicer when it follows a spell of nasty days? James Webster Mangum came in the office last week and report ed that his altercation with Elvis Harris was not over a woman as reported in the Zebulon Record. Actually, according to James, he broke a hoe handle over Harris’ head because Harris had called him a foul name. • Rondal Phillips says that at last he’s going to have elbow room in his grocery store. He has taken down the partition between his store and the store formerly occu pied by the Western Auto Store and made it into one big grocery. Looks good, too. R. H. Bridgers, now Home Builders Corporation manager, was making ice in his new plant on Vance Street on March 11, 1935. Previously he had stored ice in Zebulon and made ice in the build ing at Little River which now houses Dave Privette’s mill. Some events of old seem to have hap pened only yesterday, but it seems like more than 17 years since the local Little River Ice Company plant was ready to make ice. There used to be a huge shade tree where J. C. Debnam’s of fice is now located, and Mike Rich ardson and Ted Davis used to melt metal for the Record under it in the summer time. Ted spilled a By Reynolds Knight Some remarks made by a Bos ton marketing consultant are par ticularly timely in these days when consumers seem to be keeping a tight grip on their money at the expense of some manufacturers with embarrassing inventories. Robert E. Elder, speaking at a conference sponsored by the Amer ican Management Association, warned that the time has come when a big advertising and mar keting budget cannot bring any thing more than temporary suc cess to an inferior product. Prod ucts must now perform satisfac torily under normal use and must be made to suit the consumer’s needs, he said. In Elder’s opinion, the public will no longer plunge into buying sprees because of stories about probable shortages or price in crease. After noting the rise in liquid savings he commented: “Apparently our demand-creation machinery is not turning prospects into customers as fast as before.” SUPER ELECTRONICS Two new developments of major im portance are occupying the atten tion of the electronics industry. They are Ultra High Frequency (Uhf) television, and a tiny elec tronic device called a transistor. UHF television, according to Dr. C. B. Jolliffe, vice president of the Radio Corporation of America, which pioneered the field, “points the way to a truly nationwide tele vision service with nearly 2,000 stations blanketing the nation.” Television right now is still largely a regional service confin ed to large centers of population. To find room in the radio spec trum for more stations, RCA Seen and Heard Watch for Whitley Furniture Company’s big treat coming up soon. • News of our Baum automatic folder is getting around. In recent weeks we’ve completed jobs for printers in Benson and Spring Hope; one was 12,000 booklets and the other 2,500 booklets. • We note that an Oklahoma or ganization of bald-headed men known as the “Brotherhood of the Burnished Brow” is said to have succeeded in persuading some bar ber shops to give them haircuts for half price. It might be true, but barbers we’ve talked to say that it is harder to give a bald-headed man a haircut than one who has plenty of hair. Baldheaded men are more tempermental. Uncle herd’s Almanac ladle of molten lead in his shoe one day, and after that he went bare footed, except in the dead of win ter. He still has the scar. Sixteen years ago today the A. C. Dawsons bought their home across from the Methodist Church from Mrs. Annie Chamble’e, and the same day Bobby Horton was honored with an invitation to join the University Club at Carolina. Bobby has made quite a name for himself in the field of sanitary en gineering, becoming another local boy who made good. He left a good town but if Zebulon could only figure out some way to keep its smart sons at home, it would be an even better place to live. Coal strikes are not confined to Behind the Scenes scientists explored these hitherto unused Ultra High Frequency air waves. The other new development, the transistor, is a tiny device about the size of a kernel of corn which can do much of the work of electron tubes. It needs little current to operate, needs no warm up period, and is extremely rugged. Scientists and engineers say it will find its highest uses in “electron ic devices now undreawed of.” THINGS TO COME A new type coffee can opener avoids fuss with the winding key. The device is punched into the top of the can in much the same manner as a beer can opener and acts as a pouring spout . . . Those who live in small apartments or homes where space is limited will be in terested in a newly marketed chest seat which has two spacious stor age drawers ... A colorful rolling pin plaque for the kitchen wall is now available. It features salt and THE FARMER’S PROFIT It is something which the con sumer pays. It is something about which poli ticians make speeches. 4 It is something about which edi tors and columnists write. It is something which season greatly affect. It is something for which the farmer must daily toil. It is something for which the Uncle Sam Says Tuesday, March 11, 1952, Ev'er notice how young gals look better from the rear, young la dies look good from both direc tions, and as the youth disappears, the women look better from the , front. , • Until a person tries to figure out house plans from scratch, he can never know how complicated a job it is. Judy and I worked over our plans until we had the nicest bedroom with plenty of closets and then we found there was no way to get in and out except the window! • For the last minute workers who are worrying over their income tax forms, we still have a supply of the treasury booklet, “Your Fed eral Income Tax,” on sale for 25c each. England and America; 175,000 Ger man miners struck for higher pay -40 years ago today. The Yankees took Fayetteville 87 years ago to day; they had better luck in 1865 than Klansmen did in 1952. Twenty years ago today Mrs. C. V. Whitley was hostess to a WMU study course gathering. It must have lasted quite a spell: Mesdames Whitley, John Fowler, John Outlaw, A. N. Jones, R. H. Herring, and Theo. Davis all made talks. Five years ago today Massey’s Hatchery was booked to capacity, and a year ago today Miss Anne Allman sang “O Divine Redeemer’' at the Baptist Church another good reason to stay for preaching. pepper shakers, a flower or recipe holder and hooks for three pot holders . . . Ten of the smaller coffee houses have banded to gether and will soon market a new instant coffee under ten differ ent labels. BITS O’BUSINESS Americt ns will find fowl plentiful this year. Broiling chickens, which constitute half the chicken population, are expected to number 850 million compared with 784 million in 1951. Gobbler growers expect output to increase 11 per cent over last year’s record crop of 53 million • • • U. S. output of goods and ser vices rose from $2-33 billion in 1950 to $328 billion in 1951, but about half the rise was due to price in creases, not production gains . . . The increase in non-farm housing starts in January 68,000, is 10 per cent above December may be due to builders’ efforts to get building started before new curbs are imposed. farmer must hope and wait. It is something which the leg islators do not give. It is something which nobody but farmers know. It is something for which the farmer must look ahead. It is something which keeps the farmer in the red. It is something long over due. It is something which the farmer rarely ever receives.
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