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THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXVHI. Number 13.
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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)