Light their life with Juithfi H H ,,,NS T ,r SS”"” THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVHI. Number 13. Light their life with <iMfi ith Ihh w—t r Drive to Increase Public Religious Interest Begins “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Knowing that only a small per centage of the people in this com munity go to church each Sunday, ministers and businessmen in this community are cooperating in a national campaign to promote re ligion in American life. Beginning with this issue of the Zebulon Record and continuing through the month of November articles and other publicity on the Religion in American Life move ment will appear. The articles will be written by local ministers, including repre sentatives of each denomination. The publicity will be given in advertisements sponsored by East Wake County merchants. The first, appearing in this issue, introduces the Religion in American Life movement and is sponsored by Hales Farm Supply Company. Next week Whitley Furniture Company is sponsoring the appeal which appears Tuesday and the Place of Scout Circus Is Changed But the Show is Better and Better The time and place of the big Occoneechec Council Boy Scout Circus has been changed. The new place and date are as fol lows: William Neal Reynolds Coli seum, North Carolina State College Campus November 28. The Circus had been originally scheduled to take place at the State Fair Grounds Arena on November 21. but because of several factors it has been necessary for the Circus Committee to change this, accord ing to Charles H. Campbell, Circus Chairman. Involved in the change were the facts that advanced tick et sales indicate that a larger crowd will be on hand than could be cared for at the State Fair Are na, 4,000 additional seats are avail able at the Reynolds Coliseum. Also involved in the change was the fact that the heating contrac tors could not guarantee that heat would be installed in the Fair Grounds Arena in time for the show. Scout Officials felt that the new Hudson Belk Company of Wendell is sponsoring the Friday advertisement. Readers of the Zebulon Record are invited to contribute letters or articles on the campaign to help encourage church attendance by every member of every family. During November television, ra dio, newspapers, billboards and bus cards will be employed to ear ly advertising across the nation urging increased interest and sup port for churches. The intensive advertising campaign is estimated to be worth more than $5,000,000. Charles E. Wilson, former presi dent of General Electric Company, heads the laymen’s committee sponsoring the Religion in Ameri can Life campaign. The commit tee is composed of members of the three major faiths. Twenty-three national religious bodies provide support, and Amer ican business and the advertising industry, through The Advertising Council, have contributed the na tional advertising. risk of having sick boys and an un comfortable audience in a cold building was too great. The big problem that the Coun cil is having now is getting in touch with its prospective audience to make certain that no one at tends the Circus on the wrong date or at the wrong place. Since tickets are in the hands of some 8,000 Cubs, and Scouts and many have been sold it is impossible to call in all tickets and reprint them. As a result it has been necessary for the Council to ask newspaper editors, radio stations, and tele vision stations to help carry the word to the many people in the twelve Counties of the Council. With the additional seats avail able and the fine facilities of the Coliseum on hand such as: lights, spot lights, sound system, organ music, and heat, it is felt that a much better show can be put on, : n addition to this the Cubs and fSee SCOUTS. P*g° HP Zebulon, N. C., Friday, Nov. 13, 1953 United Fund Near $5,000.00 Goal; More Gifts Needed Zebulon’s United Fund campaign is almost assured of success, Solic itations Chairman Ralph Talton re ported yesterday, but he said that a few more liberal contributions will help a whole lot in making sure the community exceeds its $5,000 goal. The end of the drive will be to morrow, he said, whether or not the full $5,000 is raised. Solicitors will turn tn all money collected, the funds will be audited, and the United Fund will operate for the coming year with what has been received. Several people who had already given to the United Fund increas ed their contributions this week, Chairman Talton said, in order that the goal might be reached. Others who had failed to give during the first days of the drive made their contributions to bring nearer one major objective of this year’s campaign giving every person an opportunity to give to the United Fund. The complete roll of United Fund members those who con tributed SI.OO or more to the Unit ed Fund will be compiled early next week for publication in the Friday, February 20, issue of the Zebulon Record. Members who join the United Fund today and tomorrow will be included in the names published. Jehovah's Witnesses Plan Bible Lecture “Happiness In A World of Gloom” will be the subject of a Bible Lecture to be given at The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Wit nesses near Stancil’s Chapel, Sun day, November 15, 1953. The past several days have been used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in this locality, in calling on the people in their homes to encourage more Bible study, and personally invit ing them to hear this Important Bible discussion. The speaker will be Mr. R. L. Dowell of Brooklyn, N. Y., who has been a minister for many years, and has traveled ex tensively in his work as a min ister. The work of Jehovah’s Witness es earth wide is rapidly increasing as can be seen by their recent As sembly in Yankee Stadium, New York City, where 165,000 assem bled from 92 countries, to worship Jehovah in spirit and in truth, says Donald L. Raper, presiding minis ter of the Stancil’s Chapel Con gregation. This lecture will be the climax of this special week of activity, and every one is cordially invited. Come and bring a friend. Annual Junior Class Play to Be Tonight The Junior Class of Wakelon High will present “Aunt Min Drops In” on Friday night, No vember 13, 1953. The play, a three act comedy is spiced with mystery and suspense. Curtain time is 8 o’clock with the admission of 25c for school children and 50c for adults. NO SCHOOL TODAY There’s no school today for Wake County children, whose teachers are attending the an nual meeting of the North Central District of the NCEA at Goldsboro. W. R. Whitten ton, principal of Wakelon School, states that classes will be resumed as usual on Mon day morning, November 16. Woodmen Make Christmas Plans The Little River Camp of the Woodmen of the World held its November meeting at the Woman’s Club Wednesday evening, Novem ber 11, at 7:30 p. m., with Consul Commander Paul Strickland pre siding. Claud Dunn, executive secretary of the local Woodmen, reported on the plans for the Christmas party given children at the Middlesex Orphanage, which has become an annual event for the members of the local fraternal order. Last year the Zebulon Woodmen gave a tel evision set to the Middlesex chil dren, and this year are planning a comparable gift. Members of the group decid ed to hold a supper meeting in December, at which officers for 1954 will be elected. The officers will be installed in January at an other meeting, which will also be in observance of ladies’ night. Baptist Have Daily Worship at 7:50 a.m. A 10-minute period of worship is held each morning Monday through Friday beginning at 7:45 in the worship center in the rear ol the Zebulon Baptist Church. The services have been conduct ed for the past month and are sponsored by the Junior Board of Deacons. This week while the pastor, the Rev. Bev. A. Asbury, has been at tending the Baptist State Conven tion, members of the Junior Board are leading the services. The public is invited to attend the morning devotional. Weather During Past Seven Days Proves Winter Has Come to Stay The freakish weather encoun tered throughout 1953 continued yesterday, when windshields were covered with ice in the early morning. Apparently winter is here to stay. For the first time in the memory of any resident of this community, snow fell last Friday before the area had a killing frost. Apparent ly the snowfall followed the line between the Piedmont and Coastal Plain, which runs east and south of Zebulon; there was heavy snow noted here and in Pilot, but about two miles east of Moccasin Creek the fall halted at the top of a hill. Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Wreck, Speeding, Fighting Fill Local Recorder's Court One case took up more time in Judge Irby D. Gill’s Recorder’s Court last Wednesday than near ly all others combined. Jim Murphy, found guilty of taking an auto and then wrecking it, even though he had no real intentions of stealing the vehicle, received a sentence of four months on the road. Bond was set at S3OO when he appealed the sentence. Elton Ray Hinton of Bailey and Walter Thomas Sanders of Route 2, Bailey, were both found guilty of speeding 80 miles per hour and were each fined S6O and costs. Truit Bunn of Pilot was fined $lO and costs for appearing on the public highway in a drunken con dition. James Anderson of Route 2 was sentenced to 30 days suspended on payment of $25 fine and costs for driving without an operator’s li cense. For using somebody else’s license to drive he was sentenced to 90 days suspended on payment of SSO fine and costs. A sentence of 90 days suspended of SSO fine and costs was given W. S. Jones of Zebulon for going to Herbert Merritt’s place of busi ness in a disorderly manner and assaulting him with a knife. William Bridgers of Route 5, (See COURT, Page 5) Special Film to Be Shown at P. - T. A . A motion picture titled “Fare well to Childhood’’ will be shown at the Monday night meeting of the Wakelon Parent-Teacher As sociation by Miss Irma Walker, guidance counsellor for the high school. The film is related to prob lems of teenagers. Miss Walker, who serves as P. T. A. mental hygiene chairman, states that the film is highly rec ommended by the State Board of Health. The devotional will be lead by Hayne Rivers, a student at South eastern Seminary at Wake Forest. Every patron of Wakelon School is urged to attend this No vember meeting which begins at 8 p. m. and there was only rain to the east and south. Durham, however, reported no snow, although Raleigh had about as much snow and sleet as Zebu lon. Extremely heavy snowfalls were reported at Louisburg and Henderson. A waterless May followed a dri er-than-usual spring this year, with the wind blowing constantly from the west (bringing in red headed sawflies and other pests not usually found this far east}, and then torrential rains fell throughout June. Since June this (See WEATHER, Page 10)

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