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Remember You Pass at 50 mph!
“Over five city blocks are needed in passing a vehicle
moving at 40 miles per hour when you are doing 50,” reads
a release from the N. C. Motor Carriers Association. “Be sure
you are proceeding at a much faster rate than the vehicle
being overtaken and passed.”
This is one time when folks take their own advice. Many
are the times when we’ve been cruising happily along at 40
miles an hour and had trucks roar past at better than the
recommended 50. Fact is, we’ve been balancing the speedometer
needle on a lawful 55 miles per hour, and still numerous lum
bering giants have zoomed past.
Yep, they took their own advice and got a running start—
right down the hill and past us.
“We in professional driving feel that many of these (traffic)
accidents could have been avoided had the drivers known the
fundamentals of safe passing,” Executive Vice President J. T.
Outlaw of the N. C. Motor Carriers Association said.
’Twould be nice if Mr. Outlaw could educate his own boys.
Farmer's Day
It isn’t often that a town has an opportunity like the
opportunity Zebulon has coming next week. We are going to
be able to show our farmer friends in neighboring communities
that we are interested in more than the dollar they spend with
us. We are going to be able to join them in celebrating the
arrival of the new rural fire truck, an accomplishment which
is made possible by a new spirit of cooperation among inde
pendent farmers and merchants.
On August 12 all of us should go all out in promoting a
real celebration. The ingredients are present for insuring a
successful day. All that is necessary now is for all of us to
mix the ingredients up in the proper proportions—and it will
require the efforts of more than a few.
Few towns the size of Zebulon are blessed by two gifted
speakers of the caliber of Kerr Scott and Major General John
Hall Manning. And during the same day the famed 94th Army
Band will present an hour-long concert.
The quality of these three attractions present a challenge
to us to bring other events of the day up to the same standard.
Our farmer friends will be watching. They will judge us
by what we do.
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Irrigation Can Be the Answer
Three bad crop years in a rcw can cripple the economy of
a community, and hail and dry weather has brought three bad
years to areas around Zebulon. The time has come when we
must make long-range plans for our farming or we won’t be
farming long. For many, many years we have seen acre after
acre of tobacco, corn, and cotton dwarfed by lack of rain. We
have seen whole fields parched to worthliness as the broiling
sun shone day after day with never a cloud to block its rays.
The soil is good. Plenty of work was done. But plants can’t
grow without moisture, and the moisture was no there.
In other states and in sections of North Carolina farmers
have found irrigation the answer to their problems. Bountiful
harvests in one dry year frequently will more than repay the
initial investment in equipment. It could do it for tobacco, too.
This year, in the midst of the arid heat, we have heard
more than one farmer say he plans to turn to irrigation next
year. We hope, for the sake of a stable economy, that they do.
The Zebulon Record
Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post
office at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Member of the North Carolina Press Association.
Published Tuesday and Friday of each week at Zebulon,
Wake County, North Carolina. Subscription rate: $2.00 a year.
Advertising rates on request.
BARRIE S. DAVIS Editor
JAMES M. POTTER, JR Publisher
FERD L. DAVIS Fifth Wheel
The Zebulon Record
Let Us Run with Patience
Bev. A. Asbury
In the game of football, neither
side is satisfied when the score
ends in a tie. The players of both
teams are usually disgruntled, be
cause a decisive victory cannot be
claimed. The records of the teams
have not been hurt, but they have
not been improved either, in most
cases. Even though one side may
claim a “moral victory” over what
was considered a superior oppo
nent, how much tastier it would
have been to have a complete vic
tory even if it had to be only
one point.
The same is true of all sports.
We play for a win, and we push
for extra points. We shall not be
happy over a draw. So if the game
is tied at the end of nine innings
of baseball, we play extra innings
until one side bats out a victory.
In basketball overtime periods are
played until one side or the other
ends up with a higher score. In
the American world of sports we
want a definitive win, and we are
seldom happy unless we get it.
The same has been true of us—
as a people in our attitude to
ward war. We have had the habit
of thinking that complete victory
over and total destruction of an
enemy is necessary. Ours has been
a philosophy of total war, and con
sequently. we have believed that
unless the enemy is completely out,
we can’t expect peace. This is “the
only good Indian is a dead one”
line of thinking.
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So while we are very grateful
to God for the armistice in Korea,
for the halting of the killing and
maiming of young men, many
people are not pleased. Our pride
is hurt because we have not driven
to the Yalu River, and severely
punished and destroyed the Chi
nese Reds. Many folks believe that
our action in Korea has failed, and
that no real peace will be forth
coming. The war that wasn’t a war
has ended in a tie, and there is no
allowance for a playoff. There is
no winner. The effort ended in a
draw.
Yet is this not the way with
most of life? It is so seldom that
we live our lives on the basis of
clear-cut decisions. All of life is a
continual give-and-take; it is an
on-going compromise. We must al
ways be settling agreements by
bargaining, and it is not often that
one side wins a complete victory.
What married couple could nave
lived together over the years if
one of them had always demanded
that the other surrender to his or
her ways all the time? What busi
nessman could be prosperous and
sound if he ruthlessly pursued his
own interests and disregarded all
others? Is there one of us alive
who has had his own way every
day of his life? No, life requires
that we live in a state of differ
ences which we must always be
reconciling. We must always be ad
justing ourselves to certain new
conditions in our private and pub
lic life, because few, if any, of
Friday, August 7, 1953
us ever win total victory.
Thus, let us try to see present
events in light of the present
time. The decision in Korea is far
from perfect, yet it looks wonder
fully good when compared to the
“old-style” wars. It certainly post
poned World War 111, and it may
have made a general war out of
the question. Therefore, while we
do not feel exhibarated over an
Armistice (which may not last,)
we must see it as a partial vic
tory for peace, as one step along
a rough road of compromise.
Though it is not the usual clear
cut victory, it is a sign of clear
headed, realistic, and determined
thought and action that will make
for peace. The cold war is not
over, and it may even get wanner,
but over the long-haul we may
have time to learn to live together
in peace in our world. In the words
of old “... let us run with patience
the race that is set before us.”
PRIZES
(Continued from Page 1)
$10.00: Bunn Electric Co., $15.00;
Atlantic Service Station, $15.00;
Flowers sc-$5 Store, $5.00; Cun
ningham’s Store, $10.00; Home
Builders Corporation, $12.00; Zeb
ulon Motor Co., $18.20; Harold
Massey, $5.00; Massey’s Hatchery,
$5.00.
The list is by no means com
plete, Chairman Kemp stated, and
will be published in its entirety in
Friday’s Record.