THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIX. Number 65.
TAKE PART IN MAY DAY EVENT
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Emily Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Williams of Middle
sex and Wilson Eddins, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Eddins of Zebulon,
participated in May Day exercises at Louisburg College on May 7.
Little Miss Williams was train bearer for Rose Mahning of Middlesex,
and Wilson was crown bearer. Rose Manning is a neice of Mrs. H.
H. Eddins.
Wakelon Class Night Set
May 25; Awards Friday
Final exercises for the Senior
Class at Wakelon School began
Sunday evening with the annual
Vesper Service in the school audi
torium. The Rev. J. L. Caldwell
brought the sermon to the 35 mem
bers of the graduating class.
The Senior Class Night exercise
will be held Wednesday evening,
and the Commencement Exercises
Friday evening. Both programs be
gin at 8 o’clock.
Taking part with Mr. Caldwell
on the Vesper Service were the
Rev. G. W. McDowell, and the
Rev. C. C. Wheeler.
Graduates Listed
Members of the 1955 graduating
class are:
Barbara Baker Alford, Billy
Forest Alford, James David Alford,
Patricia Bunn Allman, Jeanne Ro
mana Bobbitt, Dewey Lee Bran
nan, Philip Caven Brown, Jr.,
Daphne Jean Bunn, Edwin Wat
kins Bunn, Sandra Nell Bunn, Jer
ry Augustus Chamblee, Frances
Annette Daniels, Kaye Frances
Denton, Gayle Liles Dunn, How
ard Ester Edwards, Jr., Alice Faye
Faulkner, Jesse Willard Gay,
Graduation Exercises ot Rolesville
To Be Held Friday Night, May 27
Graduation exercises will be
held Friday evening, May 27 at
8:00 p. m., with Mr. Fred A.
Smith, Assistant Superintendent
of Wake County Schools, deliver
ing the address.
The invocation will be led by |
Rev. Richard T. Bray, and Mr.:
«G. W. Davis, Principal, will pre
sent the diplomas.
Two members of the local school <
board, Mr. B. E. Rogers and Mr. j
M. T. Jones will present the i
awards of merit.
The glee club selections will be
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” by '
Rodgers, and “Battle Hymn of the ,
Republic,” a Waring Arrangement,'
William Harold Green, Armenia
Jane Hocutt, Geraldine Johnson,
Peggy Louise King, Larry Donell
Liles, Luthlr Bee Long, Jr., Mal
colm Nathaniel Martin, Jr., Linda
Lee Mitchell, Harold Cooley Mur
ray, Douglas Yates Perry, Jo Ann
Perry, Marlene Savelia Phelps,
Alice Faye Phillips, Linnie Lou
Price, Bernice Franklin Privette,
Ruth Mary Temple, Shirley Up
church, Joe Bryant Williams
Participants Named
On the program tomorrow eve
ning for the Class Night Exercise
are Gayle Dunn, historian; Patsy
Allman, testator; Jean Bunn, poet;
Jo Ann Perry, prophet; Peggy
King and V illard Gay, giftorians.
David Alford, president of the
graduating class, will present the
school key to Harold Draughon,
president of the class of 1956.
Carolyn Hinton is pianist for the
program.
Mascots for the senior class are
Don Ferrell, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Billy Ferrell, and Mary Jane Olive,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Olive.
(See WAKELON, Page 6)
directed by Mrs. J. P. Freeman,
senior sponsor, Miss Ann Cox and
Mrs. George Shrivor are pianists.
Alma Doris Doyle is class Vale
dictorian, and Edith Duke is Sa
i lutatorian. *
I Commencement Marshals
i
Commencement marshals are:
| Esther Alice Wall, Chief: Myrtas
Frazier, Betty Jean Matheny, Di
| ana Reen, Frances Rogers, Betty
i Ann Watkins, and Betty Jean
j Wall. Mascots are Jane Cook and
' Willard Eddins, Jr.
I The seniors will present their
class exercise entitled “Plantation
' (See ROLESVILLE, Page 6)
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, May 24
Burgess to Speak
At Memorial Rite
Sunday, May 29
The principal address at the
first annual Zebulon Memorial
Day service will be given by Cale
K. Burgess, Raleigh attorney, and
one of the founders of the Ameri
can Legion in 1918. This service
will be held Sunday, May 29, in
Zebulon Cemetery under the aus
pices of the local American Leg
ion Auxiliary.
National Guard members here
Will provide honor and color
guards for the service. Practical
ly every man on the p ogram is a
veteran and some are still in active
service.
Honored recognition will also go
to the boy scouts, girl scouts, cubs
and brownies standing in a body
for the service. The boy scouts
will be in charge of displaying
flags not only in the cemetery for
the service but also on the streets
of the town two days prior to the
service.
The American Legion Auxiliary
has erected a white cross in the
show window of Carolina Power
and Light Company; upon this
cross are printed the names of
Zebulon’s war dead. There honored
dead are:
Eric Farmer Davis, Warren
Pace, Kenneth Tant, Joseph R.
Pearce, Richard Hoyle, Michael
Laspina, J. R. Bell, Sr., Charles V.
Whitley, Walter Bryant Hood,
Matthew B. Liles, Davis Privette,
Curtis Critz, Malcolm Lee, Albert
G. Wiggs, Clinton Moss, Horace
Mullen, Frank Faison, Bobby Hor
ton, Azzan McKagan, and K. P.
Leonard.
Men to Be Honored
These men, all of those wounded
and'disabled in either of the two
world wars, will be honored next
Sunday. This program will open
with the placing of the honor
guard followed by the advance of
the flag and color guards.
Mothers and spe’akers will ad
vance to the platform, and Cap
tain Barrie Davis, NCNG, mas
ter of ceremonies for the program,
will advance and open the services.
Opening prayer will be delivered
by the Rev. B. A. Asbury. Mrs.
Sidney Holmes, president of the
local Auxiliary, will present the
Gold Star membership pen to Mrs.
W. H. Moss.
After the' mail* address by Bur
gess there will be a silent prayer
in honor of the dead, a solo by
Johnsey Arnold, a closing prayer
by E. H. Moser, and taps.
A. C. Dawson, Jr.,
To Receive Degree
A. C. Dawson, Jr., of Southern
Pines, son of Mrs. A. C. Dawson
and the late Mr. Dawson of Zebu
lon, will receive the honorary de
gree of Doctor of Laws, at the 53rd
commencement exercises of Atlan
tic Christian College at Wilson la
ter this month, college authorities
have announced.
Mr. Dawson, past president of
the North Carolina Education As
sociation, is now superintendent of
the Southern Pines High School.
He has served as chairman of the
NCEA legislative committee,
chairman of the state United
Forces for Education, and presi
dent of the Moore County Edu
cational Club.
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A graduate of Wakelon High
School, the Zebulon native receiv
ed his bachelor’s degree from At
lantic Christian College in 1937.
, 1955
Frank Kemp Elected to Top
r
Office in Zebulon Lions Club
Frank Kemp, Lions Club tail
twister, was elected Lions presi
dent to succeed Jerry Hagwood
last Thursday night by a vote of
the entire Lions Club membership.
He and other officers will take of
fice in June.
Frank 0. Kemp
Lions voted for three officers at
the meeting. The Lions nominat
ing committee, composed of J. C.
Debnam, Wilbur' Debnam and
Worth Hinton, had previously se
lected a slate of officers which
Memorial Poppy Seen as Symbol
Os Sacrifice of American Casualties
I am not just a crepe paper flow
er. I am the glowing symbol of
the sacrifice made by that gallant
flower of manhood who marched
away at the call of our country,
and who sleeps here and over
there, under their white crosses
row on row. Where poppies sway
and toss, to kiss each cross.
I am not just a crushed bud of
SPIRITED ROTARY DEBATE:
Argue Town Extension
The pros and cons of taking the
new Wakelon Heights develop
ment into the city limits of Zebu
lon were debated at the Friday
night meeting of the Zebulon Ro
tary Club, with the question being
presented and participants nomi
nated by Program Chairman Lu
ther Massey.
The background was given by
Town Manager Willie B. Hopkins,
who stated that sewer and water
service for the new residential area
would cost $40,000 to complete.
Taking part in the debate were
Vaiden Whitley, Ed Ellington, Bar
rie Davis, Sidney Eddins, Aaron
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
was presented by announcement
fto the Lions Club at the Thursday
night, May 5, meeting.
In all there are ten officers, and
( of the entire slate only three nomi
nations were made from the floor
at the May 5 meeting. Kemp was
nominated from the floor for pres
ident to oppose L. M. Hagwood,
last year’s first vice president. For
secretary Roland Gaddy was nom
inated to oppose Ray Godwin, and
Alvin geek, present club secretary,
was nominated to vie with Hardin
Hinton and J. C. Debnam for a
spot on the board of directors.
All But One Upheld
Members upheld the nominating
committee selections in all buMhe
top office. As the majority of the
officers received no opposition,
Lion President Jerry Hagwood cast
one vote apiece for them to make
their selection official.
New Club Officers
The entire list of officers fol
lows: President, Frank Kemp; Ist
.vice-president, M. M. Bryant; 2nd
vice president, Randolph Hen
dricks, 3rd vice-president, Henry
Massey; treasurer, Philip Massey;
secretary, Ray Goodwin; lion ta
mer, Charles Creech; tailtwister,
I Gilbert Beck; and directors, J. C.
| Debnam and Hardin Hinton.
paper, wound together and fash
ioned by the tired hands of those
other thousands who marched
away at the call of our country,
only to return home, broken in
Body and Spirit and with the
thread of economic success in life
broken. I am the wistful symbol
of their great Sacrifice, made dai
ly, behind the blare of drums and
cheers of frenzied multitudes.
I am not just a tag offered by
the American Legion Auxiliary,
I am the living, throbbing symbol
of the obligations and sacrifices fe
quired of all good citizens in bind
ing up the wounds of a Nation’s
Disabled and I represent your con
tributions to that cause.
“In Remembrance of America’s
Heroic Dead and in Helpfulness to
her living disabled and their de
pendents, wear me on Poppy Day,
Saturday, May 23, 1955.”
Let’s remember all those who
gave so much by our contributions.
This is a very small way to show
our appreciation, but it means so
very much to them.
—Mrs. Dabney Gill
Lowery, Ed Hales, and Jack Pot
ter.
The affirmative team cited the
benefits the town will receive by
providing water and sewer service
and incorporating the subdivision.
These include revenue, population
increase, interest in the town, and
attractiveness.
It was claimed by the affirma
tive team that the increased tax
revenue will repay the money re
quired for seviser and water lines
plug an attractive return on the in
vestment.
Not so, the negative team said.
(See ROTARY, Page 6)