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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXIX. Number 46. GULLS GET THE HOT SEAT ■y» X=v < ' / '**+. *•** WM FLICKER MYSTERY SOLVED Morehead City’s lights flick ered for days before the cause was found. So many hungry sea gulls visited the garbage dump that their overlapping wings short circuited power lines. CP&L spread the lines farther apart. Here CP&L Manager George Stovall (left, inset) and James Hardison ex amine a singed gull. Gulls almost obscure Hardison’s bulldozer. (Photos by Jerry Schumacher.) Rot aria ns Hear Young , Whitley at Two Sessions Dr. R. C. S. Young, after-dinner speaker connected with the At lanta branch of the University of Georgia, spoke to local Rotarians, their wives, and other guests last Friday night at the Wakelon cafe teria, where the Zebulon Rotary Club celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, along with the fif tieth anniversary of Rotary’s founding in Chicago. D r . Young, a native of Scotland, told of his experiences after emi grating to this country following World War I. He regards America, he said, as the land of opportunity, and advised his audience not to sell America short. President Rodney McNabb pre sided at the anniversary session, and opened the session, introducing Egbert Peeler, district governor of Rotary International, who spoke briefly. Ralph Talton presided at the in troduction of guests, and the Rev. B. A. Asbury welcomed them. Mrs. Wakelon PTA to Meet Monday; Variety Show Set Thursday Night Safety will be the subject of the program Monday night, March 21, at the meeting of the Wakelon PTA. Mr. Clarence Hocutt, Chair man of the Safety Committee and Driving License Examiner, will be in charge of the program. Music will be furnished by the two sections of the fourth grade under the direction of Mrs. Eliza beth Ellett and Miss Thompson. Caldwell on Program The Rev. Johnny Caldwell, Pas tor of the Hopkins Chapel Baptist Church, will bring the devotional message. The Nominating Committee will announce the slate of officers pro-* posed for the coming two-year per iod. The meeting will begin at 7:45 p. m. Members of the Executive Committee will meet at 7:15 p. m. L. M. Massey sang a solo, and Dr. L. M. Massey introduced the speaker and summarized his re marks following the address. E. H. Moser gave the invocation at the beginning of the supper meeting. At the meeting of the local club held a week earlier, C. V. Whitley, for years a prominent Zebulon merchant and civic leader, spoke on improving buyer-seller rela tions. Beginning with his early experiences in Wakefield, Mr. Whitley traced the development of buyer-seller transactions from the days of the old-time “time mer chant” until the present day, when highly specialized credit devices are used. Mr. Whitley praised the late Governor Bickett, under whose ad ministration the present 10% max imum time charge law was en acted. “Even this figure seems high to us today,” the speaker declared, (See ROTARIANS, Page 7) Thursday, March 24, is the date set for the big Variety Show spon sored by the Wakelon PTA. Each classroom has chosen its representative on the program, and all participants are working hard to make the show a success. There will be dancing, singing, skits, and instrumental solos. The talent will be our own boys and girls. Mr. Gilbert Beck, finance chair man, is in charge of the Show and has announced that a prize of $5.00 will be awarded to the winner of each of the three divisions, pri mary, grammar and high school contestants. The Wakelon PTA is sponsoring this event to raise funds to pay a salary supplement to Mr. Alger Batts, who is making remarkable progress with the Wakelon Band. Tickets will be on sale at the door, adults, 50tf and children 254. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, March 18, 1955 Weaver Discusses Water Law; Potato Storage Project Stalled Leader Declares Fifteen Thousand Bushels Required j Farm Bureau committee mem bers have apparently reached an impasse in their attempts to in terest local farmers in a sweet po tato project. Committee chairman Dewey Massey reported to the Farm Bu reau Monday xiight that Foster Finch, Wakelon Trading Co. opera tor and originator of the sweet po tato recommendation, wishes to be assured of 15,000 bushels of pota toes in order to justify efforts which he will have to make to wards the project. Greatest problem now, accord ing to Mr. Massey, is to focus act ive, organized community inter est along these lines. Owing to reduced tobacco allot ments this season farmers will have more surplus land available, and Mr. Finch proposed at the February Farm meeting that farm ers consider organized growth of sweet potatoes in order to take advantage of this deficiency. He has agreed to provide stor age space for the potatoes and to take responsibility for curing them at $.50 a bushel if he is guaranteed a suffifient amount to make it worthwhile. Since he will be obligated mere ly to store and cure the potatoes and not to sell them, present plans do not call for a full-fledged market here; however, that is a hoped-for future development, say committeemen. Henry Covington, State College Horticulturist Specialist, at the time of the proposal advised that, presupposing favorable reception, the project should be started on a limited scale only, until farm ers gain experience. Meeting with committee mem (See PROJECT, Page 7) FORMER MAYOR TO SLOW UP: ft. H. Bridgers Announces Retirement R. H. Bridgers, for many years one of the most active citizens of Zebulon in business and civic cir cles, announced this week his im pending retirement from business because of declining health. He experienced a serious illness sever al weeks ago. Mr. Bridgers is offering for sale the business started following World War II and operated under the name of Home Builders Cor poration. Included is a dry kiln and a large steel building housing a shop adjacent to the Norfolk Southern Railroad. Because he has been advised not to climb stairs, he is also of fering for sale his two-story home on Highway 64 at the town lim its. He plans to build a new one story home on other property he owns. Mr. Bridgers first came to Zeb ulon as proprietor of Little River Ice Company, manufacturing ice in the mill building at Little River later used by A. D. Privette for his corn meal mill. Subsequently FOR TAX CUT 0 Bill fl W MMHRRc mm t Senator W. Kerr Scott voted this week to cut federal income tax payments for persons making $5,000 and less, but Republicans, joined by a few dissident Demo crats, voted the tax cut down. Sen ator Sam Ervin voted with the ma jority. Senator Scott said that Jarger income taxpayers who derived revenue from stocks and bonds were given relief by the preced ing Congress, and he felt that small farmers, merchants, and wage-earners were entitled to some tax relief this year. Speakers Are Listed For Methodist Course The Commission on Missions of the Zebulon Methodist Church, Mr. Ed. Hales, Chairman, will sponsor a Church-wide Mission Study Course on “The City,” Sunday eve ning at 7:30 o’clock. Those helping with the study include Mr. E. H. Moser, Mrs. F. L. Page, Miss Re bekah Talbert, Miss Ruth Tem ple, Mrs. Andrew Jenkins, and Rev. Troy J. Barrett, Pastor. The Junior Choir will sing. Miss Tem ple is director of this group. % jff 44Mb JBsf • I R. H. Bridgers the business grew, and a large plant was constructed in the Town of Zebulon, still in use by his suc cessor. He later operated the Zebulon Gin Company, and organized with C. V. Whitley, Dr. C. E. Flowers, Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Extension Director Says State Faces Dangerous Crisis People need to consider con structively the precarious water situation that exists in North Car olina, according to Dr. D. S. Weaver, N. C. State College Agri cultural Extension Director, who addressed local Farm Bureau members at Wakelon School last Monday night. He pointed out several factors that are contributing to shortage of water, and said that a bill cur rently before the State Legislature proposing to regulate the water supply was resigned more to provoke thought along remedial lines than to create any positive answer to the situation. “Purpose of the bill is to make people mad,” he told the group. Present law prevents one from hampering materially a water flow whether crossing private property or not. The speaker said farmers have recently been tempted to break that law. . Referred to Committee (Wednesday the joint Conserva i tion and Development committee jof the Legislature referred the j controversial bill to a sub-com- I mittee for further study after it received an unfavorable hearing Tuesday). As landowners, said Dr. Weaver, | “what we’ve got to do is to get water to enter the land.” Though our yearly average of rainfall is remaining stable there is an uneven distribution of rain fall throughout the year. This, said the speaker, is one of the prin cipal reasons for our recent lack of water. “We’re not getting it when we need it most,” he said. A growing population in relation to a fixed amount of land; lack of (See CRISIS, Page 7) and Z. J. Robertson, the Home Builders Corporation, initially to help relieve the local housing sit uation. He subsequently acquir ed the stock of the other incor porators. Wide Field of Service Mr. Bridgers has served on vir tually every local civic board since he came to Zebulon. He is both a former Mayor and former mem ber of the Board of Commissioners. Prior to his last term as Mayor, he was a member of the Wakelon School Board, and he has served both as Worshipful Master of the local Masonic lodge and as presi dent of the Zebulon Rotary Club. He was chairman of the building committee of the Methodist Church when the new church was built here. One of the organizers of the Zebulon Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Bridgers has four daughters and one son, all married except the youngest daughter, Linda, a junior at Meredith College.
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