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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXIX. Number 49. Easter Mission Begun Here; Warren Carr Guest Minister The Rev. Warren Carr, pastor of the Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, began Easter Preaching Mission services Sunday evening, March 27, as guest minister at the Zebulon Baptist Church. These services will continue through Wednes day night as the local Baptists participate in a southwide revival which has “The Church” as its theme. EVANGELIST " ' vv ' £- If * t mk The Rev. Warren Carr Mr. Carr, Baptist minister of Durham, will preach tonight and tomorrow night here. Hopkins WMS Mrs. Dwight Watts will be in charge of the program for the W. M. S. of Hopkins Chapel tonight at Mrs. Austin Perry’s, 7:30. Mrs. Watts’ husband is pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church. Zebulon Methodists Set Transition to Full Time Zebulon and Wendell Metho dist Churches will go full time in July pending formal sanction to the proposed division by the Meth odist Conference in June. Special Boards from each church met March 22 at Zebulon Metho dist and climaxed a month of hard ymrk towards the move by voting to favor the proposal which has been considered since Feb ruary. Although local approval has been given final state-level action regarding the separation will wait until the Methodist Conference in June. This proposal would give each Mrs. Pearce Killed in Accident; Funeral Services Are Held Sunday A 72-year-old woman was kill ed near Zebulon seconds after she alighted from a car which had brought her home from a party in the community. Mrs. Z. H. Pearce of Zebulon, Route 4, was struck down in front of her home at about 10 p. m. Friday. State Highway Patrolman F. R. Wicker reported that Mrs. Pearce had alighted from a car driven by a woman identified only as Mrs. Alford, who had brought Mrs. Pearce home from a social gather ing in the neighborhood. Mrs. Pearce walked around the rear of the parked car and “dart ed” into the path of a car driven Topic of the Rev. Carr’s first sermon was “Is the Church Neces sary?” Last night he preached on “The Crisis of Evangelism.” His Tues day and Wednesday night topics will be, in order, “The Minister’s Manifestation” and “The Com munity of the Eternal.” After each of these sermons the Rev. Carr is conducting discus sion periods in the Baraca Room of the church. There will be an additional dis cussion period especially for young people Wednesday afternoon in the Baraca Room. Church Held Fortunate According to Light and Truth, official publication of Zebulon Baptist, the church is fortunate in having the Rev. Carr to conduct these services as he is widely rec ognized for his work at Watts Street in Durham. He is a native of Lexington, Kentucky, and holds degrees from Transylvania College in Lexington and from Southern Baptist Theo logical Seminary in Louisville, Ky. The Reverend has been pastor at Coeburn, Virginia, and Prince ton, West Virginia, and is now in his eighth year at Watts Street. He is past president of both the Durham Minister’s Association and the Family Service Association. j church a full time minister. The Rev. Troy Barrett is at present al ternating pastor of the two churches, residing at the Zebulon Methodist Parsonage. H. C. Wade headed the local Board for considering the change. He was assisted by M. J. Sexton, F. D. Finch, Vance Brown and Mrs. S. G. Flowers. If the Methodist Conference passes on the proposal in June two i ministers will be appointed at that time for each church. Plans were also discussed at the meeting concerning proposed di vision of parsonage property, which up to now has been main tained jointly. by Waverly Horton, about 25, of Wendell, the officer reported. He termed the accident “unavoidable.” Walter Gay of Wendell witnessed the accident, it was reported. Horton’s car was coming in the opposite direction from the car that had parked to let Mrs. Pearce out. Gay’s car was meeting Horton’s car and Gay told the officer he saw the woman “dart” into the highway. Patrolman Wicker reported that Horton’s car stopped within 30 or 40 feet from the point of impact, and this distance indicated speed well within the legal limit. Funeral services were held Sun (See FUNERAL, Page 5) Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, March 29, 1955 CP&L PUTS CABLES ACROSS CAPE FEAR CP&L CABLES GO UNDER RIVER—To bring more electricity to Wilmington from its big, new Louis V. Sutton plant, Carolina Power & Light Company is laying submarine cables across the Cape Fear River. Here, two tugs buck the tide to straighten the tubing before it is lowered into a trench dredged in the river bed. Empty oil drums support the weight. Inset shows Bill Crane, frogman who explores the murky depths to inspect the job. The project, unique in North Carolina, is due to be completed next month. Three Fires In Ten-Hour Period Cause Losses During Weekend Within a ten hour period Satur day night and Sunday morning local volunteer firemen received calls to three fires in this area, two of them causing property losses estimated at S4OOO. S2OOO was the estimated loss at Tarpley’s Mill west of Little River on the Wendell highway as sev eral chicken houses, 550 four-week old chicks and 75 laying hens, all belonging to J. W. Tarpley, were lost in a midnight blaze fought by Zebulon and Wendell firemen for two hours. A similar estimate was- made by E. P. Privette, proprietor of Priv ette’s Case, whose tobacco barn located off Highway 64 east of Zebulon, containing 350 bushels of bedding sweet potatoes, caught fire approximately at 6:30 a. m. Sunday. Brush Fire Extinguished < An earlier fire at 8:30 Saturday night did not do any damage. A brush fire of undetermined origin, the flames were swept by strong east winds in the pine woods across the highway from Hotel Clayton. The fire, burning in a circular path about 45 feet in diameter, was completely under control in less than five minutes although fire men continued to spray water on the embers for a period of twenty minutes. For most of that twenty minutes cars parked behind the truck con gested the highway and interferred with oncoming traffic. Strong winds were at least par tially responsible for each fire. Mr. Tarpley remarked Sunday that he had turned up the heat in a chicken brooder to protect his baby chicks from the cold and that apparent ly the wind had caused the brood er to burst into flames. Mr. Privette indicated that winds coming through crevices in his to bacco barn probably fanned an oil burner, which he was using to cure sweet potatoes, into flames that ruined not only some SIOOO worth of potatoes but destroyed the tobacco barn and a shelter that connected to a barn opposite. Both fire scenes were still smol dering late Sunday afternoon. Tarpley Loses Chickens At Tarpley’s Mill a large two story chicken house and several surrounding sheds, covering an area 38 x 40 feet on a hill above the river, had crumbled into a maze of blackened tin, partly burned timber and charred dirt mounds. Mr. Tarpley expressed gratitude for the efforts of Zebulon firemen who reached the scene in time to Jim Thornton Says Hinton to Run; Mayor Says Statement Is Coming Jim Thornton, TV and stage en tertainer who praised Mayor Worth Hinton while “announcing” Mr. Hinton’s candidacy for reelec tion on March 18 at Wakelon School, said yesterday that “you can bet the family jewels that Mayor Hinton will be a candidate.” While Thornton was freely pre dicting that Hinton jvill run again, the Mayor would not commit him self, stating that he would have a statement regarding both his pro spective candidacy for Mayor of Zebulon and district governor of Lions International at a later date. Hinton’s candidacy for district governor of the Lions is regarded as a certainty, inasmuch as the local Lions Club has printed and distributed folders on behalf of their fellow Lion, and have put on a benefit show to obtain funds to further Hinton’s campaign. Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers save other houses situated further up the hill. Close to 11:30 Saturday night he looked out the window and saw flames bursting through the tin. It was already late to call the fire department, he said. Winds were from the northeast and were not blowing the flames directly into other nearby sheds, although firemen arrived just in tinTe to save them, he said. Water Supply Exhausted The Zebulon truck used up its supply of water with the flames still mounting. Firemen were hurrying to get the fire hose in the river but the hose would not draw water and the flames were about to catch on (See FIRE, Page 8) Thornton’s remarks, in which he urged Zebulon voters to support Mr. Hinton, came, in fact, during the “Country Style Show” staged to gain funds to defray expenses incurred by Mr. Hinton in his Lions campaign, local Lions said last week. Forgets Who Suggested It “I don’t remember just who sug gested I make some remarks fav oring Mr. Hinton,” Thornton said. “They just told me that he was going to be in a pretty tough cam paign, and it would help him.” Thornton added that Hinton had not talked to him since he made his remarks. Mayor Hinton stated last week, however, that he wish ed Thornton had said nothing about his candidacy and added that he had told Thornton “he ought not to have done it.”
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