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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVII. Number 94. Wakelon School Opens Thursday ; Board Takes Part in 7953 Opening At 9:30 Thursday morning the Wakelon High School opened for the year; and Principal W. R. Whittenton and his stafl of 28 teachers were kept busy all morning in enrolling all students and arranging clas schedules for the hundreds of school children, some of whom rode a score of miles to reach the school. PROMOTED ■ > WESjEsk JB Charlie D. Hawkins, Jr., has been promoted to the position of Cus tomer Serviceman, First Class. Ralph Talton, Manager, announc ed Hawkins’ promotion this week. Hawkins first joined C. P. & L. in 1948 and has been with the company since that date. He has been stationed in Zebulon during the entire period, and before his promotion was a Customer Ser viceman, Second Class. Guidance, Development Program Initiated at Wakelon High School One of the forward steps in the program at Wakelon School was the establishment of a Guidance program, under the direction of Miss Irma Walker and Principal W. R. Whittenton. Miss Walker holds a Master’s Degree in Guidance from the University of North Caro lina and Mr. Whittenton has done graduate work in guidance, so the program benefits greatly from the experienced leadership provided. Guidance is a process dealing with the total development of the Individual, whether in school or in the community. It can not be set apart as a special department in the school but it must be an in tegral part of the total school pro gram. To have a successful pro gram there must be an understand ing and faith among teachers, stu dents, and parents. Development Aided The Wake School Counciling Program aims to help each pupil develop to the best of his abili ties by understanding him better and helping the pupil understand himself better. An effort is made to improve records and use the in formation available on each pu pil, and have individual confer ences with each student to discuss his personal problems if necessary. Job placements and help in choos ing an occupation are given. Mitchell Surrenders Johnny Mitchell, local Negro who killed his wife and his hog in a fit of anger Monday, surrender ed to officers Monday night, and is now being held in the Wake County jail in Raleigh. The exercises began with a pray er led by Rev. Theo B. Davis. Af ter special announcements Mr. Whittenton presented i Mayor Hin ton of Zebulon who spoke words of encouragement to the student body. Four members of the school board were present: Thurman Murray, A. S. Draughon, Wilson Gay, and Ed. Hales, Chairman, who addressed the assembled audi ence. Mrs. Ruth Chamblee, President of the Wakelon P. T. A., was in troduced and made announcements pertaining to the P. T. A. organi zation and work. Rev. S. E. Mercer, who is a member of the school board, was not able to be present owing to illness. A large number of patrons and ! friends were present to see the boys and girls begin school with 1 enthusiasm and earnestness. First Cotton Bale Zebulon’s first bale of cotton was ginned by the Zebulon Gin Company on Tuesday of this week. The 463 pound bale was grown by Williford Gay of Route 2, Zebu lon, and was graded as middling cotton. In the school cumulative records are kept an up-to-date record for grades one through twelve. Auto biographies for all high school stu dents are in locked files. Achieve ment tests and placement tests are given each student. Miss Irma Lee Walker Science A special eighth grade orienta tion day is sponsored by the Stu dent Government. This day gives the student a chance to know what courses are offered in the high school. —■ A Future Teacher’s Program is sponsored by the Student Council, and members of the Student Coun cil are on duty in the principal’s , office to help in any way possible. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, September 4, 1953 PANEL SPEAKERS AT FARM MEETING Three members of Congress will serve on a panel to answer farm questions at the 19th annual meeting of the Farmers Cooperative Exchange an! the N. C. Cotton Growers Association in Raleigh Tuesday, September 8. They are, left to right, R?p. Harold D. Cooley of Nashville, member of the House Agriculture Committee; Sen. Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee; and Rep. Clifford R. Hope of Kansas, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Also serving will be Dr. D. W. Colvard, dean of the State College School of Agriculture, and Dr. L. Y. Bal lentine, North Carolina agriculture commissioner. About 5,000 farm people are expected to hear them. Raleigh Physician Must Stand Trial Here For Alleged Speeding Violation in August The case of State v. Herring, which started out as a run-of-the mill speeding case but developed into a top North Carolina news story during the last ten days, will probably be tried in the Zeb ulon Recorder’s Court next Wed nesday. The traffic violation action, which has brought more publicity to Zebulon than either the Far mer’s Day or the industrial con ference held here last month, in volves Dr. Edward Herring, Ral eigh physician, charged by Patrol man F. R. Wicker of the State Highway Patrol with driving in excess of the legal limit. When the case came on to trial in the local court, Judge Irby D. Gill heard no evidence in the ac tion, but gave a special verdict of not guilty, which he declared could be appealed to the Wake County Superior Court. Solicitor Foster D. Finch pro tested Judge Gill’s action, as did Patrolman Wicker with sad results for the patrolman, whose superior officers slapped a five day suspension on him for reduc ing the alleged speed of the doc tor’s car from 85 to 70 miles per hour in an effort to save the phy sician’s driver’s license. A wave of editorial comment IT'S DEFINITE NOW: Rural Fire Truck to Arrive in October The bright red fire truck or dered a long, long time ago by the Zebulon Rural Fire Depart ment, Inc., will be here October 1, according to President M. L. Hagwood of the Rural Fire De partment. With three other local representatives, he made a special trip to Charlotte to tell the manu facturers of the truck to put up or shut up because the community is tired of waiting for the needed equipment. With President Hagwood went Robert Ed Horton, chairman of the Fire Truck Project entered in the Finer Carolina contest; Ed Hales, who is chairman of the Finer Car olina Steering Committee; and Willie B. Hopkins, director of the swept the state press as a result of the special verdict, but Judge Gill continued to maintain that the state could appeal from his special verdict. Tuesday afternoon, how ■ ymSm . j|B HBf m Irby D. Gill . . . plagued by press . . . ever, Attorney General Harry Mc- Mullan declared that the local case had never been tried, and there was no basis 'or a special verdict inasmuch as no evidence was heard. Rural Fire Department. The long delay in the completion of the truck was caused by the government wanting the same type of high pressure water pump re quired on the truck. The govern ment has first call, of course, so the Dolly Pump Company in Chi cago had to postpone shipment of the pump for the Zebulon truck until the government orders were filled. But the pump arrived in Char lotte Monday, according to Presi dent Hagwood, and he and the oth er three Zebulon visitors saw with their own eyes that the pump and equipment to be mounted on the truck are on the floor ready to be mounted on the chassis. Thco. Davis Sons, Publishers (A special Verdict is a verdict in which the jury finds facts, and on the basis of those facts the judge decides whether the defendant is guilty or not. Evidence is gener ally required to support such a verdict, even where a judge sits both as judge and jury, as in the local court. No appeal could be taken from such a verdict in a re corder’s court until 1945, when the legislature provided for such ap peals to both the superior and su preme courts of the state.) Since Solicitor Finch had press ed for the trial of Dr. Herring and Judge Gill had stated that he was willing to leave his decision up to the Attorney General, the Raleigh physician will probably have to answer the speeding charge in person or through counsel this month. Judge Gill stated yesterday that he had no comment to make at this time. Solicitor Finch stated only that he intended to try the case on Wednesday, September 9. The affair has caused much lo cal interest as well as statewide interest, but comment has now largely subsided here, except for speculation as to the disposition of the matter if and when it comes before the court again. The delegation visited a fire de partment near Charlotte which has been using a truck with the same equipment for the past two years. The members of this fire depart ment were highly enthusiastic about the equipment. “We renewed the contract,” President Hagwood said, “when I received a personal letter from the Dolley Company explaining the de lay in shipping was caused by gov ernment orders and not through any fault of the Charlotte firm.” The Zebulon Rural Fire Depart ment could have had the truck de livered over a month ago by agree ing to a smaller capacity pump, but the Directors felt the larger pump’s value justified the wait.
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