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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXIX. Number,93. ONE SPLIT SECOND BEFORE THE HOWITZER FIRED Hrlj Jrr jgy ~w -•*?■>,., *<-, ~i ' w * ~ ft ■ ft.: affl» > , f%fc~,. «•■ ftH ~ w .,»•■. ‘ ». , r*h--. „ i x' ? ■ ~ • < m&ftfof* iforfe f' Ip ~*' rrr The first round fired by Artillery A, 113th Field Artillery Battalion, at the 1955 National Guard encampment is about to go winging its way across the western end of the vast Ft. Bragg reservation. The Zebulon Guard unit, commanded by Lt. Jack Potter, had 84 officers and men present for the 15- day training period. Shown in the picture are Pfc. Wayne Perry, Pfc. Charles Brantley, Pfc. Cortez Lewis, Lt. Jack Tippett, Pfc. Huey Allen, Pfc. Joseph Raper, Sgt. Connie Bunn, and Pfc. Ollie Baker, who is pulling the lanyard to fire the 105-mm howitzer. National Guardsmen Home Again; Win Praise The officers and men of Battery A, 113th Field Artillery Battalion, received high praise from battalion and division officers for the out standing performance of the unit during the summer encampment at Ft. Bragg from August 14 through 28. The National Guardsmen re turned to Zebulon last Sunday, bronzed and hardened from 15 days of the heaviest field training since the war. Wendell Schedule Lists Nine Games The 1955 football schedule for the Wendell High School has been released by Coach Clyde Parrish. The season opens for the White Rams on September 16 in a game with Methodist Orphanage at Wen dell; September 23, at Wakelon; September 30, at Fuquay. October 7, Cary, at home; Oc tober 14, Garner, at home; Octo ber 21, at Apex; October 28, Mill brook, at home. November 4, at Nashville; and November 11, Open. Wendell-Zebulon Ministerial Group Names Officers Monday Evening Zebulon Ministerial Association elected its first officers at a breakfast meeting in Zebulon on Monday, August 29, held in the Methodist Church parsonage with the Rev. Troy Barrett as host. The organization has been un der way for several months with monthly meetings. However, it was at Monday’s meeting the the organization elected its first official group of officers. As chairman of the group, the Rev. Preston Duane Parsons, pas tor of the Wendell Christian for Work at Ft. Bragg Battery A, a 105-mm howitzer battery, trained with other units of the 113th Battalion from Louis burg, Smithfield, Dunn, and Youngsfield. The local unit is com manded by Lt. Jack Potter. Five days of the encampment were spent on the west ranges of Ft. Bragg, where Aggressor forces, simulating a live enemy, forced the Guardsmen to combine de fenhsive warfare with their service practice. Major General Claude Bowers of Warrenton, 30th Infantry Di vision Commander, expressed his satisfaction with the progress of Battery A. He cited the armory drill training during the past year as an important factor in the way the Guardsmen performed at Ft. Bragg. During the first week of the en campment, the battery was housed in the Replacement Training Cen ter area of Ft. Bragg. Because of the shortage of mess halls, Battery A cooperated with Battery B of Dunn in operating the mess for the two units. Mess Steward Percy Parrish heads the mess section. The local Guardsmen marched in the colorful parade Saturday Church, was chosen to serve with the Rev. Beverly A. Asbury, pas tor of the Zebulon Baptist Church as vie e-c hair ma n of the Ministerial group. The Rev. Wil liam H. Vinson, Jr., pastor of the Wendell Baptist Church was cho sen to serve as the secretary and treasurer of the association. Other members of the Ministe rial Association are the Rev. Scott Poole, pastor of the Wendell Pres byterian Church, the Rev. Sidney Boone, pastor of the Wendell Methodist Church and the Rev. Troy M. Barrett, pastor of the Zeb ulon Methodist Church. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, September 2, 1955 morning, when 7,000 members of North Carolina’s 30th Division passed in review for Governor Luther Hodges. On Monday of the second week, the Guardsmen moved jnto the field, They established gun posi tions and bivouac areas in the western portion of the Ft. Bragg reservation, where they remained until Friday morning. The 1955 encampment was the first for the 30th Infantry Divis ion since it became an all-North Carolina division in October, 1954. Previously half the units of the division were located in Tennessee. For the next month, the Battery A Guardsmen will devote their (Continued on Page 2) Lions' Gospel Sing Is Saturday Night The Zebulon Lions Club will conduct an all night gospel sing Saturday night, September 3, at the Wakelon High School audito rium at 8 p.m. it was announced yesterday by the local organiza tion. Heading the list of the best quartets and trios in North Car olina which will appear on the Lions program, are the Melody Masters Quartet of Four Oaks, The Baker Quartet, Watkins Quartet, the famous Stamps Am bassadors Quartet of Winston-Sal em, and the Nunnerys Sisters of Stedman, an outfit which has been termed one of the best trios in North Carolina. It was also announced that sev eral other musical groups will ap pear on the Saturday night pro gram. Lions Club members, sponsor ing the event, urged that anyone interested in having themselves four hours of good gospel singing to come to the school auditorium in Zebulon and participate in the festivities. 'World Comes to Zebulon' Scheduled November 2-4; Program Report Submitted GOODWILL PROGRAM TO BRING FOREIGN STUDENTS TO ZEBULON FOR GET-ACQUAINTED WEEKEND A schedule of activities to be fol lowed during the “World Comes to Zebulon” weekend, to be held No vember 4-6, was adopted tenta- tively at a project meeting held Tuesday night at the Town Hall. The major portion of the meet ing was concerned with the report of the Program Committee, which contained a three-day schedule of events to be followed when the group of Chapel Hill students visit Zebulon. The overall project, originated last month, is being conducted as a good-will program whereby for eign students enrolled at Chapel Hill during the coming year will visit Zebulon for a weekend. The purpose of the visit will be, aside from the recreational phase of the affair, to enable the students to witness first hand the daily life of an American town. It is hoped that the project will also afford its par ticipants a valuable and inter esting exchange of ideas. Previously scheduled for either late October or early November, the latter date was chosen at the Tuesday night meeting. Plans, as tentatively adopted by project officials Tuesday night, call for the students to be wel comed to Zebulon at the Town Hall following their arrival at 5 p.m. At 5:15, the students will be escorted to the homes in which they will stay during the weekend. *At 6:30 p.m., a joint banquet for the students and townspeople will be held which will last un til 8:00 p.m. From 8 until 8:30, a dance is planned, during which time the students will demonstrate some of the native dances of the countries represented. The students will return to their homes at 11:15 p.m. Saturday’s schedule calls for a meeting at the Town Hall at 9 a.m. They will be shown the Recorder’s Court beginning at 9:15; then the fire and police departments, the post office, the printing office, a cotton gin, and Wakelon School, preceding lunch. After lunch, the students will continue the tour of the town by visiting a typical farm and farm home and a tobacco marxet, where it is hoped that a mock to bacco auction might be staged for their benefit. The visitors will return to their guest homes at 5:30, prior to attending a chicken barbecue at the Davis Armory at 7 p.m. At 8 p.m., it is planned for the students to participate in an eve ning program.which will give the Tobacco Barn Fires A Wednesday afternoon blaze, stemming from a faulty oil burner in the tobacco barn of Willard Bai ley, located on the farm of A. C. Moody, five miles south of Zebulon on highway 96, caused complete destruction to the barn and the 800 sticks of tobacco inside the building. Firemen who answered the 3:30 p.m. fire estimated damage at approximately SI3OO. It was Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers students and townspeople an op portunity to become more famil iarly acquainted. The program will end at 10 p.m., at which time the students will return to the homes. Sunday morning plans call for the students to assume the teach ing of Sunday School classes at both the local churches, half of the students being assigned to each church. The visiting students will also conduct the morning worship services at both churches. The “World Comes to Zebulon” undertaking will be concluded Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. when the students return to Chapel Hill. The next meeting of the program officials is scheduled for Septem ber 22, at which time a representa tive from Chapel Hill will be in Zebulon to discuss these plans and make any necessary alternations. Corinth Holders To Open Tuesday Corinth Holders school will open for the 1955-56 school year Tues day morning, September 6, at 9:30 a.m. with a general assembly for all students in the school au ditorium. Rev. Beverly Asbury, pastor of the Zebulon Baptist Church, will have the devotional. An announcement of the school faculty and bus drivers for the coming year was published ear lier this week in connection with the September 6 opening. Returning faculty members are Mrs. Irvine Weathersby, Ist grade, of Zebulon; Mrs. W. H. Keller, Ist grade, of Route 1, Wendell; Mrs. John G. Terry, 2nd grade, of Zeb ulon; Mrs. Ralph Bunn, 2nd grade, of Zebulon; Mrs. Annie V. Priv ette. 3rd grade, of Spring Hope; Mrs. Phillip Massey, 3rd and 4th grade, of Zebulon; Miss Isla Mae Phipps, 4th grade, Wendell; Mrs. Myrtle Moser, sth grade, of Zebulon; Mrs. Annie L. (Continued on Page 2) Postponed The Y. W. A. meeting of Hop kins Chapel scheduled for to night has been postponed. The date will be announced later. The regular meeting of the WMS of Hopkins Chapel will meet Tues- day night, September 6, at 7:45 with Mrs. Sam Doyle's. also reported that insurance on the tobacco covered a part of the loss. Another Wednesday afternoon fire alarm sent local firemen to the T Grady Doyle tobacco farm north of Zebulon where an oil burner, overfilled with oil, was in danger of exploding and causing a fire. Fire damage was averted, how ever, and the burner brought un der control. I ft | t
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