THE ZEBULON RECORD
>'Volume XXVII. Number 82.
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Zebulon Folks Speak
Minds on Republican
Choice for President
Newspapers are always interest
ed in public reaction to national
as well as local events, and so are
the people who read newspapers.
For this reason the Record is print
ing a number of replies from Zeb
ulon folks in answer to our ques
tion, “From what the Republicans
had to choose from, what do you
think of the nomination of Eisen
hower and Nixon for vice presi
dent?"
C. T. Young: “The Republicans
have named a man who will be
hard to beat. I plan to vote the
Democratic ticket, but I prefer
Eisenhower over Talft.”
Ed Hales: “I think the Republi
cans did the best thing they could
do so far as winning the election is
concerned. Russell could beat Ei
senhower in the south, but I don’t
know whether anybody else ex
cept maybe Kefauver could carry
the entire south over the Republi
cans."
Carver Sea well: “I think the Re
publicans could have done better.
Eisenhower’s military record will
help him, perhaps, but soldiers
don’t appeal to most voters.”
Made a Mistake
E. H. Moser: “I think that the
Republicans made a mistake when
they selected Eisenhower over
Taft. Senator Taft is the greatest
statesman of our day and while
he may not have the appeal of
General Eisenhower, I am sure he
has greater abaility than the nomi
nee.”
Dwight Culpepper: “The Re
publicans were wasting their time
in even holding a convention. All
they did was decide which one of
their men was going to take the
licking from the Democrats this
fall.”
Wade Perry didin’t give us a
quotation he just winked and nod
ded his head when Dwight made
the foregoing statement. Knowing
Wade, we think that means he
agrees.
Eugene Bailey: “Eisenhower
was a great general, but the best
garage mechanic in the world
couldn’t help me house tobacco. I
think the voters will prefer a man
with experience in civil rather
than military affairs.”
Sidney Eddins: “My attitude is
to wait and see. But as between
Eisenhower and Taft, I prefer Ei
senhower. There’s too much Hoov
erism and old-line Republicanism
about Mr. Taft to suit most folks.”
Rondal Phillips: “I guess the
Republicans did the best they
could.”
Abner Baker: “I think the Re
publicans had better candidates
than General Eisenhower.”
Praises Nixon
Ayden Wall: “I think that Sena
tor Nixon strengthens the Repub
lican ticket. He’s young, a war
veteran, and real vote-getter.
He won both the Republican and
Democratic nominations for Unit
ed States Senator in California,
and the Democrats will have to
really get out the vote to beat the
Eisenhower-Nixon ticket.”
Battle Corbett: “How well the
Republicans do with General Ei
senhower as their candidate de
pends on whether they can sell
the people on the idea that he is
the man to clean up corruption in
our government. Most people are
sick of graft in and will
* vote for a man they believe will
do something about the present
state of affairs.”
TOBACCO FARMERS: PROTECT YOUR PROGRAM VOTE FOR QUOTAS JULY 19
This, That & the Other
By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS
She was pretty as a picture, as
neat as a pin, and so nice to look at
I found myself staring at her just
ahead of me at the meat counter.
Evidently ordering meats was fair
ly new to her and she carefully
considered kinds offered. Decid
ing on pork chops, she wonder
ed how many would be needed. It
seemed there were to be guests.
The butcher told her, if the chops
were fairly large—andthey were—
and if sh served other food with
them, one apiece should be enough.
She agreed, then added seriously:
“But you’d better put in another.
I might burn one.”
•
Back in the days when I thought
salad meant only turnip greens
for boiling Mother used to put on
the dinner table in summer a big
platter of sliced tomatoes, onions
and cucumbers with salt, pepper
and vinegar over them. And to
day I’d put that ahead of any other
salad I know. Use sweet onions
and pull the rigs apart, cut toma
toes in chunks instead of slices,
be sure cucumbers are crisp, and
let them stand a while after mix
ing before serving. I don’t even
want any oil dressing or mayon
naise with it, or any lettuce
around.
•
The longer I live the more I un
derstand that age is relative.
Last Saturday the granddaugh
ter who is nearly six showed me
what she said was a boat she had
made and which she had decided
to leave to her cousin, six months
old. She thought she had better
write on the bottom of the boat
so there might be no mistake, and
therefore printed carefully ANN
LEFT THIS BOAT TO DANI.
Ther ;he asked if I would promise
to keep it until Dani is grown-up
and see that it is given to her. I
agreed Impressively she told me
to “be sure to wait till she is
grown-up”; and, in order that all
should be done fittingly, I asked
just how old she meant by that
word. ‘ Oh," she replied, “two
and-a-half, or three.”
Seen and Heard About Town
Paul Bunn, who looks many
years less than his fifty, spent
the larger part of his vacation in
Zebulon last week and the week
before. He had intended to stop
off in Zebulon for a couple of days
on his way to the beach, but in
stead spent his time here and stop
ped off at the beach a couple of
days on his way back to Richmond.
Paul put in a good part of his
time sitting on his brother Wil
liam’s front steps.
“Had the time of my life sit
ting there chatting, too," he says,
and we believe him; the days we
saw him out there he looked like
the picture of contentment, just
the way you’d expect a man to look
who had left Zebulon 30 years ago
and up till now had made only
short visits back home.
•
Sideny Eddins was selling a col
ored fellow some Ronson flints the
other night, and took the last
package of two flints off the card.
“That’ll be a dime,” Sidney
told him.
“You mean I just get those two
little flints for ten cents?” the cus
tomer said.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, July 18, 1952
While washing dishes on the out
side last week I noticed that the
siding just below the window sill
was dirty. * I washed it, too. That
made the surrounding wall look
so bad I had to wash more of it;
and, first thing I knew, I was
washing that entire lower wall.
Luckily it was the gable extension
of one room and not the whole
side of the house.
\s I worked I thought about how
fine it would be if one had a sort
of long-handled brush that could
be used to scrub walls clear up to
the roof. There may be such a
thing already; but I’d have mine
carry a small tank of soapsuds;
and I’d get out and use it while a
hard rain was falling and let the
rain do all the rinsing. A good
scrubbing helps the walls of a
house almost as much as a coat of
paint does and is about as hard
to give.
It’s the rinsing that makes trou
ble. Wherever dirty water runs
down it leaves bad smears. A
pouring rain,would take care of
that. Maybe a hose might do the
work; but ours wouldn’t, unless
pressure is stronger here than I
think it is.
If you don’t realize just what
cleaning a building does for its
looks, go to Raleigh to see our Cap
ital. Only its being in the same
place makes one sure it is the same
structure. Seems to me a business
of washing much smaller houses
ought to pay well.
•
Don’t the Republicans have an
attractive ticket to offer voters?
Democrats will need to be up and
doing, if they expect to beat it.
And I do feel sorry for Taft, while
being grateful he was not nominat
ed. He has tried so hard and so
long.
When I was young William Jen
nings was the perennial candidate
and quadrennially I suffered for
and with him. Yet now I believe
it was best that he never became
president. So often it is better
that we don’t get what we think
we want.
“Why, yes, that’s the price,” Sid
ney declared. “But if you don’t
want them, that’s all right. They
are the last ones I have, and I
need some, for my lighter.”
“Oh, well,” the colored boy re
plied, “in that case I’d better
take them!”
•
Two weeks ago we ran an item
about “Great-Uncle Ferd’s Alma
nac.” Last week we told how far
K. P. Leonard exceeded our mea
ger attainments in the field of un
cle-ing, and now Jimmy Spivey
really puts us in the shade, viz:
“I v/as an uncle four times al
ready when I was bom, and five
times more since birth. I was a
great-uncle at the age of 13, and
now have two great-nephews and
one great-niece, with two more
due in October. Tell Brother
Leonard to give me time for the
great-greats, as I am just a young
man of 21 years.”
Okay, Jimmy, you win. If Mr.
Leonard and the writer can get
together on a suitable gift, we’ll
make a public presentation of
same. What about some solid gold
safety pins?
Vote on Important Tobacco
Questions Coming July 19th
Saturday, July 19, 1952, Flue
cured Tobacco Producers will
again have the privilege of cast
ing their votes to determine
whether or not Marketing Quotas
will be in effect for three years,
one year, or against quotas.
Any person who shares in the
proceeds of the current calendar
year’s tobacco crop as owner, ope
rator, tenant, or share-cropper, is
eligible to vote. In the case of a
husband and wife engaged in the
production of tobacco as joint
ownership of a farm each is eligible
to vote. A minor is eligible to vote
only if he is the owner-operator of
a farm on which tobacco is pro
duced in 1952, or if as a party to a
bonafide lease, or operating agree
ment he has a share as operator,
share-tenant, or share-cropper.
The polling places for Wake
County include:
Buckhorn, E. E. Olive’s Store;
Cary, Cary Town Hall; Cedar
Fork, Barber’s Service Station;
Holly Springs, I. J. Wilson’s Store;
House Creek, Cashwell’s Store;
Middle Creek A, Talley Bros.
Warehouse; Middle Creek B,
Claude Jones’ Store-Five Points;
Panther Branch A, Carlie Adam’s
Store; Panther Branch B, Fellow
ship Clubhouse; Raleigh, Wake
County P. M. A.; St. Mary’s A, W.
H. Watt’s Store- Auburn; St.
Mary’s B. Garner; St. Matthew’s,
Daniel’s Store on Hwy. No. 64;
Swift Creek, Swift Creek Club
house; White Oak A, Apex Town
Hall; White Oak B, Council’s
Store-Green Level
Buckhorn, E. E. Olive’s Store;
Zebulon Divides Two with Raleigh;
Third Base Stands Have Fine Time
The most satisfied looking man
of the week was Bud Perry last
Saturday night, when he hit a
game-winning triple against Ral
eigh, after having gone hitless five
times in a row.
The triple highlighted a 3-run
inning which enabled M. L. Hag
wood’s boys to defeat Raleigh by
one run after dropping the opener
by a 4-2 score.
There was considerable bench
jockeying during the softball
doubleheader, which is under
standable when you consider that
Bubber Eddins, Frank Kemp and
Bill Allman were all sitting in the
stands near third base.
Everybody but the writer got a
big kick out of the carryings-on,
and I would have enjoyed it, too,
if it hadn’t been for the fact that
Raleigh’s big, rawboned shortstop
would look directly at me every
time Bill Allman hurled a taunt at
him.
I spoke to Bill about it, but Bill
assured me that the shortstop was
Ed Hales New Chamber President
Members of the Zebulon Chamber of Commerce took ad
vantage of Ed Hales’ absence from iheir meeting Wednes
day night, July 16, to elect the young merchant as their president
for 1952-53. New directors elected at the meeting are Thomas
Monk and Mrs. Cornelia Smith. Mrs. Smith is the first woman
to be named to the board.
President Frank Wall made a report of work of the part
year, and the members, on motion of Gilmer Parrish, passed
a resolution of ppreciatlon for his work. A similar resolution
was passed with reference to the work of R. Vance Brown as
secretary-treasurer of the organization.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers.
Cary, Cary Town Hall; Cedar Fork,
Barber’s Service Station; Holly
Springs, I. J. Wilson’s Store; House
Creek, Cashwell’s Store; Middle
Creek A, Talley Bros. Warehouse;
Middle Creek B, Claude Jones’
Store Five Points; Panther
Branch A, Carlie Adam’s Store;
Panther Branch B, Fellowship
Clubhouse; Raleigh, Wake County
P. M. A.; St. Mary’s A, Wm. Watt’s
Store Auburn; St. Mary’s B,
Garner; St. Matthew’s, Daniel’s
Store on Hwy. 64; Swift Creek,
Swift Creek Clubhouse; White
Oak A, Apex Town Hall; White
Oak B, Council’s Store Green
Level.
Baptist Services
Mr. Charles Horton will be guest
organist at the morning worship
service Sunday at the local Bap
tist Church. Mrs. Horton will sing
“I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
by Boatner and will join with Mrs.
L. M. Massey in the duet, “How
Beautiful Upon the Mountains”
by Harker. The pastor will preach
at both the morning and evening
services Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Horton serve as
Minister of Music and organist of
the First Baptist Church, Mont
gomery, Alabama. They have been
vacationing with Mrs. Horton’s
parents in Bluefield, West Virgina
and Mr. Horton’s parents in Zeb
ulon. Both hold Master’s degrees
from the Westminster Choir Col
lege.
crosseyed and was really looking
at him. Just to be on the safe side,
I moved my seat twice, but didn’t
feel quite safe until I got home
and bolted the doors.
The needling got under the skin
of one of the Raleigh players., and
he yelled some sort of challenge at
(Frank Kemp toward the end of the
second game.
“Look here, fellow,” Frank said,
“you may be big, but if you want
trouble” pointing at Bubber Ed
dins “you can see him!”
Somebody shoved an old broom
in Bubber’s hands and said, “Clean
house, Bubber!"
Bubber went along with the gag
and started out of the stands, but
he tripped before he got two steps
from his seat. It was the first time
I ever saw a man having a stick
fight with himself.
Just to give you an idea of the
tempo of the verbal battle, Bertie
Brantley was also in the third base
stands, and I didn’t hear his voice
but once all night.