THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXVII. Number 58.
Lions Club Holds
Successful Sing
At Local School
A capacity crowd attended the
All Night Sing sponsored by the
Zebulon Lions Club in the Wake
lon auditorium last Saturday night,
contributing generously to the
club fund to help with their spec
ial services to the blind in Wake
County.
Aid for the blind is one of the
chief projects of Lions Interna
tional, and the local group has been
very active in this work since its
organization.
According to Thomas Smith,
committeeman from the local
Lions Club, the Wake County
Lions Clubs have joined together
to provide a variety of services to
the blind.
Included are picnics, entertain
ments, refreshments, a dinner for
the Negro blind, Christmas baskets
and toys, and a special fund of
fifty dollars to the case worker for
incidentals and emergencies.
The Wake County Lions pur
chased hundreds of pairs of glass
es for county school children, in
cluding eleven pairs at Wakelon.
Among other services rendered
the blind were the purchase of a
Braille pocket writer, clothing,
dental care, Braille textbook and
thermometer, eye examinations,
white canes, and the sponsorship
of cooking schools in the county
in cooperation with Carolina Pow
er & Light Company.
Wakelon Students
Take Top Honors
Wakelon School students walked
off with the lion’s share of honors
in the 1953 Dairy Foods Demon
stration Contest held April 25 at
the Wake County Building, ac
cording to the Wake Home Dem
onstration office.
The junior individual winner
was Judy Green of the Wakelon
Junior 4-H Club. Senior team blue
ribbon winners were Fan Green
and Ruth Temple of the Wakelon
club.
These girls will compete in the
Northeastern District Dairy Foods
finals to be held in Raleigh July
2.
Judges for the County contest
were Mrs. Minnie Ward of the
Durham Dairy Council; Mrs.
George Swicegood of Raleigh; and
Miss Nina Lee Corbett.
Bids on Zebulon National Guard
Armory to Be Opened Tuesday
It is possible that Zebulon’s Na
tional Guard armory will be under
construction by June 1, if no
hitches develop in the letting of
contracts. That was the report re
ceived by the local National Guard
this week, as the May 5 date
for opening construction bids
drew nearer.
The bids for the construction,
heating, plumbing and lighting
contracts will be opened at 2 p.
m. Tuesday in Major General
John Hall Manning’s office in Ral
eigh.
Number of Bids Surprising
A representative from the Ad
jutant General’s department ex
pressed surprise at the number of
bids being submitted for the Zeb
ulon armory. He said the flood of
bids exceeded the total submitted
AIR CADET
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Warren Green
Mr. Warren G. Green, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Green, Route
3, Zebulon, has been found fully
qualified as an Aviation Cadet —
Pilot by the United States Air
Force 350 rd Personnel Processing
Squadron (AC-OC) at Moody Air
Force Base, Georgia.
Mr. Green is a student at Mars
Hill College.
Temple Pitches
Wakelon Victory
The Wakelon Bulldogs broke the
Wendell White Rams’ two-year
monopoly of victories by taking a
2-1 win in a game played under
the lights on the Wendell diamond
Monday night. Keith Temple pitch
ed the two-hit victory while Wake
lon nabbed Nowell for six hits.
The victory was Wakelon’s third
against three losses in conference
play.
Wendell scored first in the fourth
inning on a single, and a double
by Ollie Baker. Wakelon scored
their two runs in the fifth when
Green walked to get on base and
then came home on a wild throw to
Temple. Benny Mitchell connected
with a hard hit single to deep cen
ter and went to second when Tem
ple scored.
Leads Batting Attack
Pulley led the Wakelon batting
attack with two for three. Russell
Moss hit the longest ball of the
game, a stand-up double. Battery
for Wakelon was Temple and Gay;
for Wendell, Nowell and Phillips.
Billy Massey pitched Rolesville
to a 3-1 victory over the Bulldogs
in a game played at Rolesville
Wednesday, giving up four hits.
Rolesville scored two runs in the
first inning and added one in the
sixth. Wakelon got its lone run in
the second.
Temple allowed Rolesville only
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on any two of the armories now
being built.
Captain Barrie Davis and War
rant Officer Joj?nsey Arnold will
be present Tuesday when the bids
are opened in the Adjutant Gen
eral’s office.
Following Opening of Bids
Following the opening of the
bids, the Armory Commission will
meet on Wednesday to approve the
low bids, and then the reports will
be sent to Washington for approv
al, Upon their return the contracts
will be signed and the construction
will begin. This is expected to re
quire about two weeks.
The local armory will be one of
the nicest in the state, with a rifle
range indoors, assembly hall, kit
chen, and showers in addition to
the usual classrooms, offices, and
storage facilities.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, May 1, 1953
Clerk Makes Statement Concerning Budget;
Candidates for Board Declare Independence
Phillips to Move,
Withdraws Name
With one candidate less in the
race, the competition for positions
on the Board of Commissioners in
Zebulon grew more fierce this
week as the remaining nine ag
gressively solicited support for the
election next Tuesday. Only five
of the nine can be elected.
Roger Phillips requested that his
name be dropped from the list of
candidates, saying that he expected
to move just outside the city limits
in the near future. As a result, he
would have to resign from the
Board if he were elected.
Door-to-door campaigns were
being conducted by a number of
the hopefuls, and letters were mail
ed by others as the tempo in
creased.
Incumbent R. Vance Brown and
Wilbur Debnam joined the list
of candidates for a place on the
Board who advertised their inde
pendence and declared they are
not affiliated with any other candi
date in either race.
Final Statements
Final statements by the nine
candidates will be printed in the
Zebulon Record for next Tuesday,
which will be put in the mails early
Monday afternoon so that Zebulon
voters can check on any last-min
ute declarations.
The Zebulon Record has offered
the candidates free of charge space
to make a statement of not over 200
words in the Tuesday issue. Pic
tures of all candidates will be in
cluded in the paper.
The deadline for advertisements
and statements for the Tuesday is
sue is 9 o’clock this morning.
The deadline is required by the
Guard drill at Butner tomorrow.
Dr. George GriHin
To Speak Sunday
Dr. George J. Griffin, interim
pastor, will speak at the morning
services Sunday at the Zebulon
Baptist Church. Mrs. Jerry Lo
wickie will sing “Thou Shalt Bring
Them’’ from “Israel in Egypt,” by
Handel. The adult choir with Mrs.
Nellie Kemp, soloist, will sing
“How Brightly Shines the Morning
Star,” by Bach.
At the evening services, Dr. Wil
lard Hamrick, professor of Old
Testament, Wake Forest College,
will bring the message. Miss Anne
Allman will sing “My Heart Ever
Faithful,” by Bach.
Local Club to Sponsor Circus May 7
The Zebulon Junior Woman’s
Club couldn’t get the local politi
cians together to help raise money
for the Girl Scouts, so they’re
bringing two elephants, some edu
cated seals, a chimpanzee, some
dogs, horses, and clowns to Zebu
lon to help the worthy cause. The
whole collection is part of the
Beers-Barnes Trained Wild Ani
mal Circus which will appear here
next Thursday, May 7, for a per
formance ajßp. m., at the Zebulon
Fair Grounds.
Members of the Junior Woman’s
Club are selling tickets in advance,
and receive a generous percentage
TOWN CLERK
Willie B. Hopkins
A statement by Mr. Hopkins ap
pears on page six of this issue of
the Record.
Boy Scouts Plan
Honor Court Here
Boy Scouts, of Zebulon’s Troop
340 are planning a big weekend
at the Wake district wilderness
North of Raleigh, and then a Court
of Honor will climax the activities
Monday night, according to Scout
master Armstrong Cannady.
The Scouts will leave the Scout
hut in Zebulon this afternoon about
3 o’clock for the wilderness site,
returning Sunday morning after
the 10:30 devotional service.
About 25 boys will make the trip,
and while at the camp they will
participate in scheduled contests,
games, and other activities.
Assistant Scoutmaster Bob
Overby will be in charge of the
group going on the trip.
Five Scouts, Dan Perry, Freddy
Beck, Jay Godwin, Leary Davis,
and Joseph Temple will receive
Second Class badges at the Court'
of Honor to be held in the Munici
pal Building at 7:30 Monday night.
Troop committeemen of the lo
cal group will be installed at the
Court of Honor, and the Troop
Charter will be presented. The
public is invited to attend the
ceremonies.
At the last meeting of Troop 340,
Larry Page joined the Boy Scouts.
PTA BARBECUE
Tickets are selling now for the
PTA-sponsored barbecue supper
to be held in the Wakelon lunch
room Friday, May 8, from 5:30 to
8 o’clock. The public is invited
to attend.
on all admission tickets sold before
the big show arrives.
The club will not benefit on tick
et sales that circus patrons wait
and buy at the ground, and so
Mrs. Norman Screws, president of
the club, urges everyone to buy
tickets from club members who
will canvass the community and
neighboring schools.
The prices have been pegged by
the sponsoring club women at 40c
including tax for children and 80c
including tax for adults.
The Beers-Barnes Circus offers
two performing elephant acts;
“Congo Alice,” the largest (four
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Mayor's Letter
Gives Program
The fact that Mayor Worth
Hinton failed to have the budget
for the. Town of Zebulon published
should not appear as the wilful
neglect of the mayor, Town Clerk
Willie B. Hopkins declares in an
advertisement appearing on page
six of this issue. The town em
ployee inserted the paid adver
tisement following discussion
caused by a statement published
by candidate Ferd Davis which re
lated how Zebulon’s mayor has
failed to comply with the laws
governing municipalities and
thereby endangered the credit of
the town.
Reliable sources said that Clerk
Hopkins refused the mayor’s of
fer to pay for the advertisement,
in which Hopkins assumed the
Mayor’s responsibility for comply
ing with the law.
Efforts made all yesterday morn
ing and yesterday afternoon to
contact Mayor Hinton for a state
ment proved futile, although word
was left at his place of business at
9:30 a.m. to call the Zebulon
Record as soon as possible.
Davis Cites Law
When informed of the statement,
Ferd Davis commented: “Os course
it is very generous of Mr. Hopkins
to shoulder the Mayor’s respon
sibility, and I am happy to know
that he believes the Mayor’s neg
lect was not willful. However,
this does not change the law, and
if Mr. Hinton believes it unfair
to require him to live up to the
provisions of Chapters 153 and
160 of the General Statutes of
North Carolina, his quarrel is with
the legislature and not with me.
“If I am elected Mayor of Zeb
ulon,” he continued, “it will never
be necessary for the town clerk to
sign such a statement as that
which appears over Mr. Hopkins’
signature, because I will not per
mit such a situation to arise; I
intend to discharge faithfully ev
ery duty which comes within the
proper bounds of the Mayor’s of
fice.”
Other activities in the Mayor’s
campaign this week included a
two-page mimeographed letter
mailed to voters in which Mayor
Hinton stressed the accomplish
ments made in Zebulon during his
term as Mayor. He emphasized
the present financial status of the
town. The letter went into de
tail giving the program the
hopes to follow during the coming
two years.
tons), and “Hazel,” 1200 pounds.
Capt. Wilis presents his educat
ed seals; and Patsy, the chimpan
see who rides bicycles, roller
skates, and walks the tight rope,
rates high on the program.
The Lois Troupe of all-girl wire
walkers is also an outstanding act.
A trained dog act, a liberty horse
act, Shetland pony drills, several
good clown numbers with fun
makers who not only perform in
pantomime but carry on intimate
dialog with the audience, and
aerialists, acrobats, trampoline
gymnasts are a few more of the
acts in the thrill packed show.