THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXVII. Number 100.
Recorder's Court
Has Full Docket
Here Wednesday
It was a full day on Wednes
day for Julge Irby D. Gill and
his Zebulon Recorder’s Court, and
a full docket was taken care of
with the usual generous fines and
costs being levied upon the guilty
defendants.
Willie C. Jones of Zebulon, guil
ty of public drunkenness, was
sentenced to 60 days suspended up
on payment of $25 fine and costs.
Bobby Street of Zebulon, guilty
of the same charge, also paid $25
fine and costs.
Wright Richard of Middlesex
was found not guilty of allowing
an unlicensed person to operate a
motor vehicle.
Geneva R. Brown of Zebulon,
guilty of driving with no opera
tor’s license, was fined $25 and
costs.
Erbie Lee Ferrell, guilty of as
sault with a knife and using vul
gar language, paid $lO fine and
costs.
A nol pros was taken in the
charge against Willard Lee Vick,
in which he was charge dwith
being drunk and disorderly.
Ulysses Fowler of Route 1, guil
ty of public drunkenness on the
highways, paid $lO fine and costs.
Wade Jack Smith received a
sentence of four months suspended
upon payment of SIOO fine and
costs for assault with a deadly
weapon and engaging in an affray.
Sentence Suspended
Luther Richardson of Zebulon,
guilty of the same charge, was
sentenced to four months suspend
ed upon payment of SSO fine and
costs.
Allen Ervin Driver of Route 1
paid SIOO fine for drunken driving.
Leßoy John Hicks of Route 1
paid SSO fine and costs for speed
ing 75 miles per hour.
Russell Debnam of Baltimore
failed to stop at a stop sign and
was fined $lO and costs.
Robert Harvey Thompson of
Rocky Mount, guilty of speeding
and driving with no driver’s li
cense, was sentenced to 90 days
suspended upon payment of SIOO
fine and costs.
James Webster Mangum of
Zebulon was guilty of four sepa
rate charges. He was sentenced
to 90 days suspended upon pay
ment of SIOO fine and costs for
assault with a deadly weapon, a
car. For careless and reckless driv
ing he was sentenced to 60 days.
For disorderly conduct and resist
ing arrest, and assault on Officer
M. G. Crowder, Judge Gill gave
him two years. For drunken driv
ing Mangum was sentenced to six
months.
License Case
Rex Raymond Holder of Route
1, guilty of driving with no opera
tor’s license, was fined SSO and
costs.
James Calvin Adams and Eu
gene L. Gaskins of Grifton were
fined $lO and costs for driving too
close behind a truck.
Robert Earl Holman of Route 3,
guilty of allowing an unlicensed
person to operate a motor vehicle,
was fined $25 and costs. Roosevelt
Horton of Route 3, guilty of driv
ing with no operator’s license, was
fined $25 and costs.
Lemon Wilson of Route 3 was
found not guilty of operating a
motor vehicle with improper
equipment.
Harvey Harris, Jr., of Zebulon
was fined $lO and costs for assault
upon a female.
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Garden Club Changes Name, Honoring Founder
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Following Mr. Ellington’s talk,
Mrs. Carsey Tippett presided at
freshments of cocoa, nutsj cheese
wafers and sandwiches. Mrs. Carmen Flowers
Rocky Mount Cancer
Clinic Offers Check
To Public; No Charge
Eighteen persons were examined
in the Cancer Detection and Diag
nostic Clinics yesterday, when the
clinics were held for the 111th
time by physicians of Edgecombe
and Nash Counties.
These clinics are held each
Wednesday at 12:00 o’clock at
the Municipal Building in Rocky
Mount, and they are open only to
persons forty years of age, and
older, regardless of race or abil
ity to pay.
The 13 persons examined con
sisted of: one white man, 14 white
women, and three colored wo
men. Only three of the examinees
had been referred to the clinic
by a physician.
Zebulon Patients
Persons examined represented
Rocky Mount and outlying areas,
Scotland Neck, Elm City, Winter -
ville, Wilson, Zebulon, Eagle Rock,
Castalia, Louisburg and Whitakers.
In order that those who live at
a distance may be sure of an ex
amination when they come to the
clinic and thus not make a trip
in vain, priorities will be issued on
requests for these priorities should
be addressed to: Cancer Control
Center, Municipal Building, Rocky
Mount, N. C.
Permanent Basis
These clinics are operated by the
Edgecombe-Nash Medical Socie
ty, in cooperation with the State
Board of Health, and the local
chapter of the American Cancer
Society. They are being operated
on a nonpermanent basis as an ed
ucational feature and public ser
vice. While on this basis, there
is no charge to anyone.
The Detection Clinic, although
open to anyone, is primarily for
service to the local public; but the
Diagnostic Clinic is designed to
service the population of North
eastern North Carolina.
Junior Club to Meet
The Junior Woman’s Club will
hold its first meeting of the fall
on Tuesday night, September 16,
at 8:45 o’clock. The late hour is be
ing set to avoid conflict with the
revival being held at the Baptist
Church, Mrs. Norman S. Screws,
president, announced.
Mrs. Theo B. Davis will be the
speaker for the occasion.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, Sept. 12, 1952
Baptist Revival to Begin Sunday;
State Mission Program Planned
Revival Services w’ill be held at
the local Baptist Church each eve
ning during the coming week with
the pastor preaching. The services
begin Sunday with the morning
theme, “The Need of Our Hour”
and the evening theme ” “On Be
ing Unashamed of One’s Work.”
The music will be led by the
church choirs. On Sunday morn
ing the choir will offer the an- i
them, “My God and I” and Mrs.
L. M. Massey will sing “Hear My
Cry, O Lord” by Wooler. On Sun
day evening the choir will sing “O
God Our Help in Ages Past.”
Church Activities
Emphasis will be placed on the
ministry of the church activities.
On Monday evening the Training
Union members will be recogniz
ed. Monday evening the W. M. U.
circles and auxiliaries will be rec
ognized along with the men pres
ent to form a Brotherhood. On
Famous Clown Here
Lions Meet, Plan Ladies' Night
One of the most entertaining
programs of the year was staged
for the Zebulon Lions Club
Thursday night when Herman Jos
eph of Goldsboro, for years a top
clown with big circuses, gave a
performance and played the accor
dian. After a 25-minute talk, the
famed performer played request
numbers on his $l,lOO instrument.
The speaker was introduced by
Jerry Buffalo, who was program
co-chairman with Frank Kemp.
Joseph has been with Ringling
Brothers, Barnum & Baily Circus
Two Local Men Serve in Korea
Pfc. Marvin M. Pleasant, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Milton M. Pleas
ant, Route 1, Wendell, has been
awarded the Combat Infantryman
Badge while serving with the 25th
Infantry Division in Korea.
The badge is a symbol of the
frontline fighting man. It consists
of a miniature Revolutionary War
rifle mounted on a blue rectangle
with a silver wreath.
A jeep driver with 35th Infan
try Regiment Headquarters, Pleas
ant entered the Army in June,
Tuesday evening the various
church districts will receive at
tention. Wednesday night is Sun
day School Night with classes and
departments leading. Thursday
will be Family Night and a ser
vice on dedication will be held on
Friday evening.
* All are invited to attend the ser
vices.
State Missions
A special program for State
Missions will be held Monday,
September 15, at 3:30 in the Zeb
ulon Baptist Church.
Discussion will be in the form
of a playlet emphasizing the prog
ress of missions in North Carolina
for the past twenty years.
This meeting will take the place
of all circle meetings for the
month. It is hoped that every cir
cle member will make every effort
to be present.
for 22 years, and during his fab
ulous career has worked with Buf
falo Bill Wild West Show, Tom
Mix, Tim McCoy, and Will Rogers.
Other guests included Miss Car
olyn Hinton, pianist and John
ny Tant, who sold nearly 100 tick
ets to the Lions All Night Sing
which was staged Saturday night.
The Lions Ladies Night was set
for Thursday, September 18, in
the Recreation Room of the Meth
odist Church. Louis Day, Interna
tional Counselor of Lions Interna
tional, will be the speaker.
1951, and arrived in Korea last
February.
Visits Japan
Sergeant First Class Btaxton
L. Jones, Zebulon, recently spent
a five-day vacation from Korea
on a rest and recuperation leave
in Japan.
A member of the 25th Infantry
Division, he stayed in one of the
finest hotels in Japan and enjoy
ed many luxuries unobtainable in
Korea.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers.
Traffic Ordinance
Passed by Board
At Monday Term
The problem of speeding within
the city limits of Zebulon faced
the members of the Town of Zeb
ulon Board of Commissioners at
their September meeting held
Monday night, and the Board or
dered that the 35 mile per hour
speed limit in the town be enforced
on all streets. The State Highway
Patrol was asked to cooperate with
municipal authorities.
The motion to end speeding was
made by Raleigh Alford and sec
onded by Philip Massey. It met
unanimous approval.
Present at the meeting were
Mayor Worth Hinton, Commis
sioners R. Vance Brown, Wesley
Liles, Philip Massey, Howard Beck
and Raleigh Alford. Also present
were Clerk W. B. Hopkins and
Town Attorney A. R. House.
Crowder Gets Raise
Night policeman M. G. Crow
der’s salary was raised by $25.00 a
month by the Board of Commis
sioners.
The paving stones on Arendell
and Gannon Avenues beside Irby
Gill’s property will have to be re
placed or else a drive will have to
be paved, according to require
ments incorporated in a motion
by R. Vance Brown and seconded
by Wesley Liles. The motion stat
ed that the stones were removed
without permission of the town
and that water is running from
the street to the sidewalk.
Armory Site
Immediate action on purchasing
a lot for the proposed armory
for the National Guard unit was
promised by the Commissioners to
Capt. Barrie Davis, commander of
the Zebulon battery, who brought
a letter of Major General John
Hall Manning listing the procedure
to be used in making the deed for
the land to the State of North Car
olina.
Action on acquiring the lot has
been delayed by legal difficulties,
but Mayor Worth Hinton states the
purchase will be completed in the
near future.
State to Get Deed
Before any action can be taken
by the Adjutant General’s De
partment to have an armory built
in Zebulon, the State of North
Carolina must have the deed to
suitable property where the arm
ory is to be constructed.
Huge Still Captured
Here by ABC Agents
A 500-gallon capacity submar
ine-type liquor still was seized
and one alleged operator caught
at the site about five miles north
of here in Little River Township
Wednesday by Wake County ABC
officers.
Arrested was Clemmon Davis,
Negro, about 40, of Louisburg,
whose bond was set at S2OO for
his appearance in the local Re
corder’s Court for trial on charges
of bootlegging.
The officers raided the still
about 12:30 p. m., and reported
that they found 42 barrels of fer
mented mash ready to be run.
Approximately 2,000 gallons of
mash were in the vats, it was
stated.
Making the raid were J. H.
Brown, chief of the Wake ABC
law enforcement division, and Of
ficers David Perry and Floyd
Johnson.