THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXVIII. Number 44.
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The famed and talented Wake Forest College Traveling Choir, Music at the Wendell Baptist Church and director of the high school
pictured above, will appear Thursday night at 8 o’clock in the Wen- glee club. The appearance in Wendell will be part of the 38-voice
dell High School auditorium, according to Roger W. Cole, director of choir’s annual spring tour.
Traveling Choir
To Be at Wendell;
The Wake Forest College Choir
will appear Thursday night, March
11, at 8 o’clock in the Wendell
High School as part of its annual
spring tour.
The hour-long program will be
under the direction of Prof. Thane
McDonald, head of the College
Music Department. The choir,
which has been staging a spring
tour since 1948, is made up of 38
students selected from the Glee
Club.
The program will vary widely.
It includes a Russian liturgy, a
sacred composition sung in Latin,
Negro spirituals, semi-sacred com
positions, Southern folk hymns and
a choral benediction written by
Director McDonald.
One of the most popular num
bers in “Jacob’s Ladder.” The
choir presented “Jacob’s Ladder”
twice during the Baptist State
Convention this fall and received
considerable praise.
There is one boy from Wendell
in the choir. He is William Pearce,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred M.
Pearce.
MIDDLESEX CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM
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The Middlesex lassies who won this year’s Nash County girls
basketball title in the annual county tourney at Rocky Mount, held
last week, are shown above. They won out in the finals, 55-47 over
Red Oak, the defending champions. They also won a quarter finals
game with Spring Hope 51-28, and a semi-finals game with Bailey
70-68.
WENDELL TRAVELING CHOIR TO SING IN WENDELL
MUNICIPAL ACTIVITIES
Parking and Paving
Improvement in the traffic sit
uation in Zebulon was noted dur
ing the past few days following
work by the Zebulon police to
eliminate double-parking on Aren
dell Avenue. The added efforts
to enforce Zebulon traffic laws
met with majority approval in the
community after the first days
Chief of Polise Willie B. Hop
kins expressed his appreciation to
merchants and motorists who are
cooperating in eliminating the
double parking.
Transfer and wholesale delivery
trucks have been urged to use the
rear entrances to stores where pos
sible, and where delivery is neces
sary in front of stores, to use
available parking spaces .rather
than block the street.
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The State Highway Department
has been asked to pave 16,637
square yards of streets in Zebu
lon by the Board of Commission
ers. The paving will include por
tions of eight streets located in all
sections of town.
Work done by the Highway De
partment forces will be paid for
with money alloted the Town of
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, March 9, 1954
I Zebulon by the Powell Bill.
| The streets include Church
Street from Vance to Sycamore
and from Glenn to Judd, a total of
2440 feet; Judd Street from Church
to Arendell, 600 feet; Lee from
Church to Arendell, 600 feet; Pop
lar from Vance to Highway 264,
1,060 feet;
Whitley from Vance to Highway
264, 1,395 feet; Vance from Whitley
from Poplar, 500 feet; Gill from
Highway 264 to Stronach, 775 feet;
and Mclver from Church to Aren
dell, 600 feet.
National 4-H Club
Week Observed
The 4-H flag will be flying at
the Zebulon Postoffice this week
in observance of National 4-H
Week. The special week is being
observed in Zebulon with special
events, and was proclaimed Sat
urday by Mayor Worth Hinton.
On Friday the local 4-H club is
giving a program in the Wakelon
auditorium for the high school as
sembly. The program will be titled
“The 4-H Calendar.”
A show window at Zebulon Drug
Company features an exhibit pre
pared by club members.
Members of the club have ex
pressed their appreciation to the
people of the community for the
cooperation given in preparing for
and celebrating National 4-H Club
Week here.
PTA to Sponsor
Card Tournament
On Friday night, March 12, the
PTA will sponsor a card tourna
ment in the School Cafeteria.
Bridge, rook, and canasta will be
played. The event will start at
eight o’clock.
Price of admission is 50c per
person. Refreshments will be
served and a prize will be given
for high score at each table.
Special Zoning
Meeting Called
A special meeting has been
called by Mayor Worth Hinton
for Monday night, March 15, to
decide on rezoning property on
Gannon Avenue from residential to
business. The meeting will be held
at 7:30 p. m. in the municipal
building and all interested persons
are urged to attend.
The property, a 50x100 foot lot
located 185 feet from the corner
of Gannon and Arendell Avenues,
lies between the lots occupied by
the Texaco Service Station and
the W. R. Whittenton home, which
is owned by Mrs. Charles Weath
ersby.
Zoning Vote Split
It is reported that the Zoning
Commission approved the rezoning
by a split vote, 3-2, and that suffi
cient opposition to the rezoning has
been demonstrated to cause the
Board of Commissioners to order a
special meeting before acting on
the Zoning Board’s recommenda
tion.
Battery A Reaches Quota; Ten
Men Are Added during February
Battery A, Zebulon’s National
Buard unit, reported it had reach
ed the goal set by the Adjutant
General’s Department for the Feb
ruary recruiting drive. The local
unit added nine men and one of
ficer to its roll during the cam
paign, according to Unit Adminis
ter Johnsey P. Arnold.
The new men increased the
strength of Battery A to nine of
ficers and 72 men, the greatest
since it was organized in 1949.
Lt. Max Ira Loyd, a graduate
of the Ft. Sill, Okla., artillery
school who recently was released
from active duty with a 280-mm
atomic artillery battery, has joined
Battery A as a forward observer.
He is assisting in training the gun
sections.
New recruits enlisted in Febru-
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Zebulon American
Legion Post Is
Praised for Work
The Zebulon Post No. 33 of
the American Legion has exceed
ed its membership quota for 1954
according to information receiv
ed here from State Headquarters
of the American Legion in Raleigh.
Johnsey P. Arnold, Commander
of the Post, has received a letter
from the Legion Adjutant, Nash
McKee, expressing thanks to the
membership chairman, all Post Of
ficers, and membership workers
for their effort.
W. L. McMillan of Rocky Mount,
Department Commander of The
American Legion, issued a state
ment of high praise for the local
Post.
McMillan said, “I am proud to
congratulate the officers and mem
bers of Post No. 33 upon this not
able achievement. All of the pro
grams and services of the Legion
are made possible through dues
paid for membership and we ap
preciate the great part played by
Post No. 33 of Zebulon. Sincere
thanks to every member of the
Post who had a part in the mem
bership work.”
The quota of Post No. 33 is 75
and the membership for 1954 to
date is 76. Quotas are assigned each
Post by the State Headquarters
and are based on the average
membership of the Post for the
past four years.
‘‘We do not intend to stop our
membership drive now that we
have reached our quota,” Post
Commander Arnold said. “There
are many more eligible veterans
who have not yet joined our Post
and we invite them all to become
members.”
Keep' Em at Home!
Parents of Wakelon School
pupils are urged to keep chil
dren away from school when
they are ill from mumps,
measles, or chicken pox, or
any other communicable di
seases by Principal W. R.
Whittenton.
Yesterday Mr. Whittenton
had to provide transportation
to return home a number of
students who clearly were
clearly broken out with chick
en pox and measles.
ary include Julius B. Tant, David
M. Watkins, Carlton D. Walston
William F. Tant, Carl E. Pulley,
Stanley J. Price, Joseph L. McGee,
Archie L. Lewis, Jr., and Ralph D.
Ayscue.
Battery A can enlist 22 more
men before reaching it full au
thorized strength.
Request Signs Be
Left Off Poles Here
The managers of the Wakelon
and Wendell Theatres have been
requested to cease posting show
signs on telephone and electric
poles on Zebulon by the Board of
Commissioners. During the past
the signs have been tacked to
poles in both the business and res
idential dictricts.