THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIX. Number 28.
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Here’s something to get all puffed up about! It’s the biggest cotton
powder puff ever made. The huge two-foot powder puff was made
by the Hygienol Company to mark the manufacture of its billionth
puff. The company estimates that in the last fifty years it has used
about four million pounds of cotton to keep the ladies and babies
in powder puffs. At first goose down was used, but in 1906 cotton
velour was introduced and immediately became popular.
Aaron Lowery Tells Fellow Rotary
Club Members of Life, Business
Members of the Zebulon Rotary
Club heard an interesting talk by
its secretary last Friday night
when Aaron Lowery told the club
about himself and the insurance
business.
He told the Rotarians that
most of his childhood mem
ory consisted of the way camphor
feels on a raw wound. The mem
ory resulted, he said, from treat
ment of an incision made in the
course of a respiratory ailment.
He was born in Wake County
near New Hill, and later moved to
Harnett County, where his father
farmed and worked with the Dur
ham & Southern Railroad. Later
he attended Campbell College
where he met Dorothy Winstead
SEEN AND HEARD
It's Past Time to Trade
It’s probably time for Uncle Ferd
to trade cars.
The other day his wife started
down town with her daughters
and a neighbor’s son. All went
well until she started the engine
to the ancient (1949) station wag
on; then the little boy began to
cry.
“I can’t go down town in this
station wagon,” he declared. “It’s
going to fall to pieces!”
Selma reassured the little fellow
as best she could, stating that the
wagon was probably good for an
other 100,000 miles, and certainly
was not likely to fall to pieces.
‘‘Oh, yes, it is,” the youngster
replied. “My mama said so!”
Too Many Days
The current issue of the Read
er’s Digest carries a long article
favoring adoption of a new world
calendar.
‘‘l don't favor a new calendar,”
D. D. Chamblee says. “It’s hard
enough for me to keep up with the
days on the old one!”
Cool, Calm, Collected
W. N. Sutton says that he is a
good Mason, and cites his con
duct Tuesday night as proof posi
tive. He has been having trouble
with a leak in the liquefied gas
tank behind his remodeled home
of Zebulon, whom he later mar
ried.
“I was able to get married with
out telling her anything but my
name,” he declared. The usually
well-behaved Rotarians hooted at
this statement.
Later Lowery worked with the
7-Up Bottling Company and At
lantic Greyhound Lines. He mov
ed to Zebulon following World War
11, and took on part time insur
ance work which soon expanded
to the point that he had to give
up his bus lines position.
“Every man seeks satisfaction in
daily life,” he told the Rotarians,
“and I have found it, since I am in
a business I enjoy and I am in a
town I like.”
in Wakefield, and was thinking
about it when the dynamite was
exploded at Wakelon School dur
ing the basketball game Tuesday
evening.
“It was the right sound and the
right direction for my gas tank,”
he declares, “but I never batted an
eye, and stayed through the rest
of the communication!”
Name, Please?
The Thomases have selected a
pretty name for their daughter—
Judy Michelle. Dr. and Mrs. Ben
Thomas want to call her Michelle,
but Ben David wants her called
Judy. The Thomases may be in
doubt as to what she will finally
answer to, but Ben David isn’t.
Come to think of it, neither are we.
STORES TO CLOSE
Zebulon retail outlets will
close at 1:00 p. m. each Wed
nesday until tobacco markets
open this fall, beginning Wed
nesday, January 19, Thomas
F. Monk, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, an
nounced this week.
Wholesale firms and farm
supply houses will continue to
remain open all day on Wed
nesday, he said
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, January 7, 1955
Inquiry Continues
In Blast Tuesday
Night at School
Police Chief Willie B. Hopkins
and Deputy Sheriff Earl Duke are
investigating the explosion set off
at the south end of the Wakelon
athletic field around 8 o’clftck
Tuesday night.
The explosion, believed to have
been several sticks of dynamite
set off by a long fuse, came dur
ing the basketball game at the
school gymnasium. Apparently the
explosive was attached to the steel
cable which bars automobiles from
the playing field; the chain was
blown apart about 40 feet from
the high school building.
School Not Hurt
Garland Richardson and Ed El
lington, first on the scene after
the explosion, have reported their
observations to the police officers,
who have several other leads.
No damage resulted to the school
building itself, School Board
Chairman Ed Hales reported.
“The biggest danger lay in the
possibility that some person might
have been in the area at the time
the explosion took place,” Hales
said Wednesday night. “Fortunate
ly no one was injured by the
blast.”
Farm Bureau Plans
Important Meeting
An important Farm Bureau
meeting will be held Monday,
January 10, at 7:30 p.m., at
Wakelon School.
Bon Arrison, social security
specialist with the U. S. Gov
ernment, and C. W. Williams,
farm management specialist
at State College, will tell the
Farm Bureau what the farm
er will have to do this year
under the new Social Security
Law.
Mr. Williams will talk about
the income tax changes for
the farmer and his hired help.
All farmers come under the
Social Security Law this year.
For the ladies there will be
sewing tips and short cuts by
the clothing specialist from
State College. Refreshments
will be served.
Wakelon Menu
MONDAY: Frankfurters with
chili, lima beans, stewed prunes,
rolls and milk.
TUBS DAY: Smoked sausage,
turnip greens, pinto beans, pickled
beets, banana pudding, bread and
milk.
WEDNESDAY: Browned beef
with gravy, collards, mashed po
tatoes, sweet relish, ice cream,
corn bread and milk.
THURSDAY: Sliced luncheon
meat, cheese cubes, steamed cab
bage, buttered potatoes, peach
halves with cookies, bread and
milk.
FRIDAY: Vegetable soup, meat
and lettuce sandwich, fruit cup,
bread, crackers and milk.
Big Apples!
Based upon October 1 reports
from growers, commercial apple
production in North Carolina is
expected to total 3,100,000 bushels
this year. If realized this will be
the heaviest crop harvested since
comparable records began in
1934.
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Judy Green
Miss Green, a Wakelon student,
has been named as the school’s
“citizen of the month.” See story,
page 4.
Several Identify
Farm This Week
The mystery farm pictured in
Tuesday’s Record was taat of Roy
Brown on highway 39, five miles
southeast of Zebulon. The place
is known as the John Brown Farm.
John Brown was the grandfather
of the present owner. Roy Brown
has lived on the place 18 years,
having moved there in 1937.
Improvements on the farm in
clude three new tobacco barns, a
pack barn, a twc room addition to
the home, three rooms wallpa
pered, and three rooms finished
with sheet rock.
Brown married Vandelia Tillett
in 1929. They have one daughter,
Mrs. Betty Jean Bell of Raleigh.
Hales Chapel Members
Mr. and Mrs. Brown are mem
bers of Hales Chapel Baptist
Church. Mrs. Brown belongs to
the WMS and is an assistant Sun
day School teacher. Mr. Brown
lists his hobby as old fashioned
farming, and that of his wife as
making pretty quilts.
This year he plans to tend 7%
acres of tobacco, 5V2 acres of cot
ton, 12 acres of corn and 15 acres
of grain on the 105 acre farm.
Mr. Brown’s favorite livestock
is mules, for which he grows his
own feed.
In the near future the Browns
plan to paint both their house and
the out buildings.
Games Tonight
Wakelon High school will play
Rolesville High School in a double
header basketball game Friday
night at 7:30. in the Wakelon gym
nasium.
Township Tax Listing Dates
Mrs. Eldred Rountree, Wake County tax lister for Little
River Township, will list taxes during January at the follow
ing locations:
Zebulon Town Hall January 1,5, 7,8, 12, 13, 15, 19, 22.
24, 25, 20, 27, 28, 29, and 31.
Hopkins Cross Roads —January 3, 17.
Mack Perry’s Store, Mitchell’s Mill—January 4, 11.
Austin Perry’s Store, Mitchell’s Mill—January 18.
Fowler’s Cross Roads —January 6, 20.
Cary Robertson’s Store—January 14, 21.
Barham’s Siding—January 10.
Listing hours will be from 9:00 a. m. until 5:00 p. m. each
day. There will be no listing done at homes this year, Mrs.
Rountree said.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Local Legion Post
Lauded by Faust
For Reaching Goal
The local post of the American
Legion will sponsor a stage show
by Central Prison performers, if
arrangements can be made with
the school and its organizations,
members decided Wednesday
night.
The decision was made after a
report from Treasurer Carl Kemp,
who stated that funds realized
from the turkey shoot, together
with a reasonable profit from a
stage performance, would enable
the Legionnaires to carry out their
regular program and help the local
high school band as well.
Each year the local post sends
two boys to the Tar Heel “Boys
State.”
The Legionnaires expressed a
desire not to conflict with pro
grams of the PTA, and requested
Legionnaire Ed Hales, chairman of
the local school board, to assist
Kemp with arrangements.
Other business transacted at the
meeting, which was held follow
ing a barbecue supper at Hilliard’s
Drive In, included a report by
Wade Perry on Christmas baskets
given by the local post and a mem
bership report.
Under the chairmanship of
Charles Hawkins, former com
mander, the local post has ex
ceeded its 1955 membership quo
ta already. The post commander
has received a communication
from Milton Faust, state Legion
commander, commending the Zeb
ulon unit for its achievement.
Commander James Alford pre
sided at the meeting. J. P. Arn
old pronounced the invocation.
Local Laundry Hit
By Smoke Friday
Lots of excitement but little
damage resulted last Friday night
when a motor in Gill’s Self-Ser
vice Laundry next to Carolina
Power and Light Company started
smoking.
The fire department answered
the fire call about 7:00 p. m- Chief
Willie B. Hopkins reported that
smoke damage was slight and that
there was no open blaze in the
laundry.
Unit Meetings
The General meeting of the
WMU will be held at eight o’clock
Monday evening. An executive
meeting will be held prior to the
General meeting at 7:30 o’clock.
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The American Legion Auxiliary
will meet Friday night at eight
o’clock in the home of Mrs. Pat
Farmer.