THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIX. Number 85.
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Highway Patrol Major Charlie Speed and Bob Hope of radio-TV
movie fame get together on a topic currently in the North Carolina
news—Slow Down and Live. The entertainment industry is lending
a hand in the Tar Heel campaign with traffic safety bits from such
stars as Randy Scott, Amos ’n’ Andy, Debbie Reynolds and others.
Roosevelt Daniels Held
Following Drunken Spree
A 38-year-old Zebulon Negro,
three weeks drunk and swamped
with domestic trouble, was cap
tured at pistol point Saturday
morning by Wake County deputies
after a shooting rampage which
left one Negro shot and damaged
a police car.
Roosevelt Daniels was charged
on six counts after his capture: as
sault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill on two counts, driv
ing drunk, assault with a deadly
weapon with an automobile, lar
ceny of an automobile, transpor
tation of non-tax paid whiskey,
and driving without an operator’s
license.
Daniels, who had been drinking
all morning, went to a relative’s
house , near Zebulon carrying a
loaded shotgun, and was finally
persuaded to return to his home
by his brother-in-law, Owen
Thomas High, 18.
When the two arrived at Daniels
house, the drunken man got out of
the car, swore at High, and pointed
the gun at him. High drove off,
with Daniels firing at him. Most of
the pellets struck the dash board,
but a few entered High’s shoulder
and leg, according to Earl “Crip”
Duke, deputy sheriff who handled
the case.
High drove immediately to Zeb
ulon police station to report the
shooting.
In the meantime, Daniels had
found another target in the per
son of Macon Parham, his land
lord. Daniels fired at the man’s
feet, but failed to hit the elderly
landlord, who started running to
wards town.
While Pkrham was busy running
for safety, Daniels then stole the
man’s 1949 Pontiac.
Guest Minister
Rev. R. Grady Dawson, District
Superintendent of the Raleigh Dis
trict, will preach and preside at
the First Quarterly Conference at
the Zebulon Methodist Church
Sunday evening, August 7, at 8
o’clock.
Deputy-sheriff Duke and other
Wake County sheriff’s deputies
were alerted of Daniels’ activities.
It was then that the manhunt for
the crazed Negro began.
Duke reported that he and Willie
B. Hopkins, Zebulon police chief,
went out to the home of Daniels’
wife, thinking that he would be
out to kill her in the light of his
previous shootings. Daniels was
not there, they said, but Daniels
had been by the house without
stopping.
Daniels was captured when he
attempted to make a U-turn at
the corner of Barbee Street and
Arendell Avenue. Duke said that
the Negro pulled over to the curb,
and when the deputy sheriff
stopped and prepared to step from
the car, Daniels accelerated the
Pontiac and crashed into the police
auto, narrowly missing Duke’s leg.
Duke said that his foot was al
ready on the ground when Dan
iels sped toward the officer’s car.
The deputy sheriff then jumped
from the vehicle and pulled his
gun on Daniels, who was just
(See DANIELS, Page 8)
Local Pastor Is
Conference Leader
Troy J. Barrett, pastor of the
Zebulon Methodist Church, will
serve as coordinator of the fourth
Annual Conference Session of the
North Carolina Conference Meth
odist Youth Fellowship to be held
at Duke University, August 15-19.
The conference will include
some 450 young people and adults
from Eastern North Carolina who
will meet at Durham to plan the
over-all Conference and to install
officers.
The program will continue for
five days and will include discus
sion groups, committee meetings,
business sessions, a missions night,
a United Nations night, a folk fes
tival, recreational fellowship per
iods and worship services.
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, August
Teenagers Steal
Hilliard's Truck,
Found in Siler Gty
Two teenage youths who had
just escaped from Eastern Carolina
Training School in Rocky Mount,
were captured in Siler City after
having stolen two vehicles, one of
which was a pick-up truck be
longing to John Hilliard of Zebu
lon.
Garland Elkins, 17, and Richard
Jones, 16, broke out of the Rocky
Mount correctional school last
week, and stole a pick-up truck
in Tarboro which they drove as
far as Zebulon before it gave out
of gas.
Seeking further transportation,
the two boys stole a truck belong
ing to John Hilliard, local restau
rant owner, about 5:30 Thursday
morning. An acquaintance of Mr.
Hilliard saw the truck on the high
way and wondered why Hilliard
was up so early, police said.
It was this curiosity which led
to the theft being reported to Zeb
ulon police.
Mr. Hilliard’s truck was later
found by police in Siler City. The
youths abandoned the vehicle at
the edge of town and were caught
by police as they attempted to
steal a third car from a man’s
driveway in Siler City.
The boys are being held for
trial in Siler City, after which
they will be returned to Zebulon.
Zebulon police said that one of
the youths had allegedly escaped
from the Rocky Mount institution
“more than 30 times.”
Hospital Accepting
Nursing Students
The Wayne County Memorial
Hospital is now accepting appli
cants for the Oct. 10, 1955, class
in Practical Nursing. The course
is being offered to white students
between the ages of 17-45 who
have completed a minimum of one
year of high school. Applicants
over 30 years of age With a gram
mar school education may be given
an equivalency test for the first
year of high school.
Room, board and laundry of uni
forms, as well as books and a
monthly stipend are given the stu
dents while in training by the
hospital.
The School is accredited by the
State Board of Nursing Education
and the Vocational Educational
Department of North Carolina.
Graduates are eligible to take the
North Carolina Board of Exami
nation for registration as a Li
censed Practical Nurse.
For further information, those
interested are requested to write
to the School of Practical Nurs
ing, Wayne County Memorial
Hospital, Goldsboro, N. C.
Tobacco Barn Fire
An exploding oil burner in a
tobacco barn on the farm of Mrs.
K. P. Leonard ignited a fire which
destroyed one-half of the tobacco
stored in the building Sunday
morning about 9:30.
Thurmond Johnson was tending
the tobacco when the fire broke
out. Firemen rushed to the Leon
ard farm, which is located on
Route 1, Zebulon, and suceeded in
extinguishing the blaze before any
damage was done to the bam.
2, 1955
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Charles Horton
New Head Named
For College Music
Charles Horton, minister of mu
sic at the First Baptist Church,
Rocky Mount, has accepted a po
sition as head of the Music Depart
ment at Campbell College.
He will begin his duties there
with the fall term. Besides head
ing the Music Department, Horton
will direct the college choir and
the touring choir.
Horton received his training at
Wake Forest College, Westminster
Choir College, and Union Theo
logical Seminary, New York City.
While serving at the Rocky Mount
Church he has directed the com
bined choirs of the city in annual
performances of “The Messiah.”
Mrs. Horton has accepted a po
sition as head of the Organ De
partment at Campbell. She also
holds a Master of Music degree
from Westminster Choir College.
Horton organized and directed
the Rocky Mount Opera Workshop
which produced several operas in
eastern North Carolina cities dur
ing the past two years.
Record Grain Crop
Expected in 1955
The 1955 total grain crop prob
ably will be the second largest in
history. “This is good news,” de
clares John M. Curtis, extension
marketing specialist at State Col
lege, “if you have a safe place to
store grain.”
Curtis explains that this year’s
(See GRAIN CROP, Page 8)
Coroners Inquest to Be
Tonight in Wreck Death
Wake County coroner Marshall
Bennett will conduct an inquest
into the death bl Luna Mae Tip
pett of Wendell tonight at Zebulon
Recorder’s Court at 8 p.m.
Miss Tippett died Saturday
morning, June 18, following a col
lision of the car in which she
was riding with a pickup truck
driven by Harold MacDonald
Draughan on a rural road connect
ing highway 96 with Glory.
The seventeen-year old Draugh
on youth of Route 4, Zebulon, and
Mrs. Jack Tippett, sister-in-law
of the crash victim, and driver of
the car, was hospitalized follow
ing the accident.
The inquest was tentatively
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Busy Two Weeks
Set for Battery A
Before Camp Trip
The next two weeks will be busy
for the Guardsmen of Battery A,
according to First Lieutenant Jack
Potter, commander of the artillery
unit. Only 12 days remain before
the Guardsmen leave for summer
camp at Ft. Bragg, and much re
mains to be done to prepare the
new men in the unit for the inten
sive training, he added.
Combined sections training and
work with the battery as a unit
will be conducted Saturday after
noon of this week and next Mon
day night.
The hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of equipment will be
checked and loaded Thursday
night, August 11, in preparation
for an early morning departure
from the armory Sunday, August
14.
This year the National Guards
men will spend nearly the entire
second week in the field, leaving
the main post Monday morning
and returning Friday afternoon.
The field problem, which in
cludes three days of artillery fir
ing, will be as realistic as possible
with enemy forces simulated by
Aggressors and attacking without
warning day and night.
Battery A is a part of the famed
113th Field Artillery Battalion,
which gained recognition for its
work in France during World War
11. Commanded by Lt. Col. Ed
ward Yarborough of Louisburg, it
includes batteries at Smithfleld,
Dunn, Louisburg, and Youngsville.
Editor of Record
Promoted to Major
Major Barrie S. Davis was pro
moted to his present rank July 22,
according to an announcement by
the Adjutant General’s Depart
ment, Raleigh. He is public in
formation officer for the 30th In
fantry Division.
Major Davis served in Africa
and Europe with the Air Force in
World War 11. He joined the Na
tional Guard in 1949, when he or
ganized Battery A in Zebulon.
In April Major Davis graduated
from the Advanced Course of the
Artillery School, Ft. Sill, Okla
homa. He is editor of both The
Zebulon Record and The Tar Heel
Guardsman, a monthly magazine.
scheduled to be held as soon as the
injured persons were able to ap
pear.
District Atty. L. V. Chalmers said
yesterday afternoon that it was
“doubtful” if his office would have
anyone attending the Tippett in
quest.
“I just got back in town,” he
said, “and did not know about any
inquest being scheduled. If we
sent anyone over there, it would
have to be my assistant, Will Yar
borough, though I can’t tell at
this time if we will have anybody
there. We usually leave matters
of that sort up to the coroner un
til everything is official,” he add
ed.