THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIX. Number 100.
Wakelon to Meet
Aurelian Springs
On Friday Night
Wakelon’s football team, still
seeking its first victory of the
1955 season, will meet the Aure
lian Springs eleven on the
Wakelon athletic field Friday
night, September 30, at 8 o’-
clock.
The Halifax County eleven will
come here for the Wakelon home
coming game, which will be play
ed following the annual senior
class barbecue supper, which will
be served in the Wakelon Cafe
teria to help raise money for the
senior projects this year.
The local boys lost a 32-6 de
cision to Wendell last Friday night.
Aided by the running of Hinnant,
the neighboring team used pitch
out sand line bucks to good ad
vantage, scoring once in the first,
third, and fourth quarters, and tal
lying twice in the second quarter.
Wakelon received the kick-off
as the game opened, and, needing
one yard for a first down, gambled
and failed on fourth down.
Wendell immediately made a
first down on a pitchout, and then
following a five yard penalty for
off-sides, made another first down
on a pitchout. Penalties carried the
ball nearly to the Wakelon goal
line, where Wendell scored on a
linebuck.
Perry Scores
Wakelon tied the score in the
first period, when Basil Perry ran
forty yards around right end af
ter a Wendell fumble was recov
ered on the forty yard line.
In the -second quarter Wendell
scored through the line after a
pitchout play was good 'or forty
yards. Hinnant scored the extra
point on an end run.
Following a bad pass from center
which prevented Wakelon punting
on the fourth down, Wendell took
over on the Wakelon 18 yard line,
and made a first down on the
Wakelon seven. Hinnant again
scored for Wendell.
In the third quarter Wendell
made a sustained drive of 60
yards, and Hinnant again scored
on a pitchout.
Coach Charles Hester substitut
ed freely during the game, giving
his reserves playing experience.
The only sustained Wakelon drive
outside of the first quarter scor
ing march was stalled in the fourth
quarter when Wakelon was pen
alized 15 yards for a personal foul.
New 'Guardsman' Is
In Circulation Here
The second issue of The Tar
Heel Guardsman, published in
Zebulon for the Army and Air
National Guard of North Caroli
na, was mailed last week. It fea
tured the Ft. Bragg and Carnp
Stewart encampments conducted
by North Carolina Guardsmen.
Other articles of the September
issue included a message by Ma
jor General John H. Manning, the
Adjutant General.
Other magazines printed by
Theo. Davis Sons and mailed from
the Zebulon postoffice include
Garden Gossip, Restaurant South,
The North Carolina Clubwoman,
and Virginia Wings.
The North Carolina Catholic,
diocesan newspaper for North Car
olina, and Wing Tips, published
for Stallings Air Base, are printed
here but are mailed from Raleigh
and Kins'on.
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Chairman W. T. Debnam
18-Year-old Boy
Caught with Still
Wake County ABC agents poin
ed forces Friday with a Federal
ATU agent to find an illegal still
near Zebulon. The still was de
stroyed and an 18-year-old Louis
burg youth was arrested.
ABC Agent Hoke Smith said
that the illegal still was located
about three miles from Zebulon in
Franklin County.
Smith said that one of the oper
ators escaped and is still being
hunted. The other, Bennie G. Perry
of Louisburg, waived preliminary
hearing before U. S. Commission
er H. A. Bland later in the after
noon and was bound over to the
next term of Federal Court under
SSOO bond.
The officers destroyed two 400-
gallon submarine type stills with
axes, Smith said. Sixty gallons of
non-tax-paid “white” liquor were
confiscated as evidence, Smith
said.
Officers in the raid besides
Smith were ATU Agent Roy C.
Longnecker, and Wake ABC of
ficers F. V. Johnson and D. H.
Perry.
Negro Kills Wife , Takes
Body to Another House
Frank Alston, 38 year-old Ne
gro of Pilot, is being held in the
Franklin County Jail on a charge
of first degree murder after ad
mitting stabbing his wife to death
Sunday morning.
Gladys Alston, 36, Alston’s wife,
apparently died instantly when her
husband plunged a butcher knife
in her heart. The Alstons lived on
the M. T. Ray farm on Highway
64 at the western edge of Pilot.
A daughter of the victim by.a
previous marriage came to the
home of Mrs. Ray Sunday around
noon and said that Alston was mis
treating her. Mrs. Ray asked her
son, M. T. Ray, Jr., to remonstrate
with the Negro man, and Mr. Ray
discovered the murder when he
went to the tenant house.
Sheriff Willis Perry of Louisurg
said yesterday that Alston remain
ed at the tenant house until law
enforcement officers arrived and
offered no resistance to arrest.
Senior Barbecue
The annual barbecue supper
sponsored by the Wakelon senior
class will be held Friday evening,
September 30, from 5 until 8 p.m.
in the school cafeteria. Plates cost
$1.25 each.
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, September 27, 1955
Foreign Students from UNC
Attend Planning Meet Here
The president and secretary of the Cosmopolitan Club, a
student organization at the University of North Carolina, met
Thursday night with Chairman Wilbur Debnam and other mem
bers of committees planning the “World Comes to Zebulon”
weekend in November.
Challie Iralu of India, presi
dent, and Miss Tefta Zografi,
secretary of the Cosmopolitan
Club, expressed their pleasure
at plans for the special weekend.
With the visiting students were
John Riebel, Y.M.C.A. director at
the University, and Harry Smith,
Presbyterian minister. They re
viewed the plans made by various
committees and added their sug
gestions.
Mayor Debnam opened the
meeting with an explanation of the
weekend’s purpose, and read the
proposed schedule of activities.
About 15 committee members were
present to report on their prepara
tions.
About 25 foreign students from
U.N.C. are expected to arrive in
Zebulon at 5 o’clock Friday af
ternoon, November 4. After vis
iting in the homes where they will
stay for the weekend, they will be
honored guests at a joint meeting
of the Zebulon Lions and Rotary
Clubs.
Following the meeting, a dance
will be held in the Wakelon gym
nasium at which the foreign stu
dents will be shown various Amer
ican dances, including square,
round, and jitterbug.
Saturday morning and afternoon
will be spent touring points of in
terest in the community, including
the municipal building, post office,
businesses, and farms.
A chicken barbecue supper will
be served in Davis Armory Satur
day evening for the students. Fol
lowing the barbecue, they will
present a special program featur
ing dances and songs of their na
tive lands. The public will be in
(See WORLD, Page 2)
Alston, who was released from
prison in September, 1954, after
serving 12 years for highway rob
bery, said that he killed his wife
because she “treated me wrong.”
The Negro added that he had
caught his wife with another man
last Wednesday night and had
brooded over the matter until Sun
day morning when he decided to
do something about it.
Shirley Alston, his stepdaughter,
I told a different story. She said her
mother was attempting to defend
her against Frank Alston prior to
the slaying.
Kicked Dead Woman
After the Negro killed his wife,
he carried the body to a dwelling
occupied by J. V. Clemmons, an
other Negro, and threw it on the
porch, kicking the woman before
; he returned home.
Sheriff Perry stated that Alston
had been drinking at the time of
his arrest, but the Negro told him
that he was sober at the time of
the killing and began drinking af
ter he killed his wife, whom he
married last November.
Alston will receiver a prelimi
nary hearing before Judge J. E.
Malone in the Franklin County Re
j corder’s Court at Louisburg next
Tuesday, October 4.
Four Held
For Thefts
Roy Joyner, 37, who lives on
the Nash-Wilson county line be
tween Bailey and Green Pond;
George Edwards, 43, of Bailey,
Route 2; Harvey Hales, 47, and
John B. Nichols, Jr., 19, both of
whom reportedly live on Joyner’s
place, were held Sunday in the
Wake County jail in connection
with break-ins and thefts at two
rural stores near here.
Sheriff Robert J. Pleasants said
that they are implicated in the rob
bery of the H. B. Jones Store at
Wake Cross Roads on August 11,
the date of Hurricane Connie; and
Blackard and Peebles Store in Lit
tle River Township between Roles
ville and Knightdale on Sept. 19,
the date of Hurricane lone.
Merchandise valued at between
$2,500 and $3,000 was taken from
the store of Blackard and Peebles,
it was reported, and about $1,600
stolen from Jones’ Store.
Merchandise Recovered
A quantity of the merchandise
was recovered at the residence of
Joyner, who faces felony charges
of breaking and entering, and lar
ceny and receiving.
Nichols will be charged with be
ing an accessory aftei the fact, it
was stated, because he hid some
of the tires in a wooded area near
Joyner’s residence.
Edwards, who admitted being at
Blackard and Peebles Store with
Joyner two days before the rob
bery, faces a charge of receiving
stolen goods, deputies said.
Hales also will be charged with
receiving stolen goods, and be
ing an accessory after the fact
for allegedly helping unload a
truck used in hauling the stolen
merchandise, officers said.
Deputies H. C. Benton, L. S.
Covert and Earl Duke worked on
the case all last week, according
to Sheriff Pleasants, and were as
sisted by the State Bureau of In
vestigation and officers of Wilson
and Nash counties.
AT ROME Mrs. Calvin
Spann of Pilot, her daughters,
Judy and Dorothy, and her hus
band stand in one of Italy’s mod
ern sport centers on a trip to
Rome. Mrs. Spann’s account of
the recent trip follows:
As we approached Rome, Cal
vin and I tried to recall all we
knew about Rome’s past and pres-
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Wakelon Principal
Tells How School
Became Career
The unusual way in which he
decided against continuing to study
for the ministry and eventually
entered the field of education was
related by Franklin Ross Jones,
34, Wakelon School principal, to
members of the Zebulon Rotary
Club Friday night.
The program was another of a
series which acquaints the Ro
tarians with the lives and back
grounds of new members.
After over a year of graduate
work at the Southwestern Baptist
Seminary in Texas, he decided not
to continue his preparation for the
ministry, Mr. Jones reported.
It was while helping in Sunday
School work in Florida, where his
brother was pastor, that he first
taught school. He has been teach
ing ever since.
He was junior high school prin
cipal in Henderson for six years
before coming to Wakelon last
year. Previously he had taught
and served as athletic director in
schools in North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Georgia.
He married a Henderson girl
during his second year there, and
they have two sons, Ross and
Morty.
Richardson Rites
Held Yesterday
Charles (Charlie) Hilliard Rich
ardson, 46, died at 9 a.m. Sunday
at his home on Rt. 2, Zebulon, af
ter a long illness.
Surviving are his wife, Shirley
H. Richardson of the home; one
daughter, Mrs. R. S. Powell of
Ahoskie; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie Richardson of Zebulon, Rt.
2; two sisters, Mrs. B. W. Sykes of
Spring Hope, and Mrs. W. W. Bul
lock of Zebulon; two brothers. Ru
dolph Richardson of Louisburg,
and Eddie R., Jr., of Winston-Sal
em; and one grandson.
Funeral services were held at 3
p.m. Monday from the Poplar
Springs Baptist Church with the
Rev. B. E. Dotson, Presbyterian
minister of Mount Olive, offi
ciating, assisted by the Rev. L. R.
Lollcy, pastor of the church.
Burial was in Oaklawn Ceme
tery, Louisburg. The body was car
ried to the church one hour before
the funeral.
ent history. We recalled some say
ings that we had heard all our
lives, “Rome wasn’t built in a
day” and “Rome is built on seven
hills.” After being in the city
for a few days we realized both
of these sayings to be very true.
At first we didn’t think the hills
were very noticeable, but as we
(See ROME, Page 2)