THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 2.
Zebulon United Fund Coal $5,500;
Lowery and Talton Head Campaign
Solicitation to Begin
Over Community
Monday, October 24
Aaron Lowery, who headed last
year’s Zebulon United Fund Drive,
has been named chairman for the
1955-56 campaign which is to be
held October 24-29. Ralph Tal
ton, who has led many worthwhile
drives including two previous
United Fund appeals, will serve as
co-chairman.
The Budget and Planning Com
rrrttee met September 20 and 27
to make out the $5500 proposed
budget for local, state and national
agencies. The chart accompanying
this article shows the 1955-56 fig
ures as compared with the amount
actually given last year. It will be
noted that the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica need a small sum this year
since they are becoming increas
ingly self-sufficient. Most of the
money for the local Girl Scouts
will be used to form a new troop
for Senior Girl Scouts.
Carolina’s United Fund includes
six agencies some of which have
previously been in the Zebulon
budget as independent organiza
tions. They are as follows: United
Service Organizations (USO),
$114.08; American Social Hygiene
Association, $6.62; National Trav
elers Aid, $1.48; United Seamen’s
Service, $2.49; The Children’s
Home Society of North Carolina,
$103.75; and Carolinas United,
$60.48. Although some of these
items are small, they represent
Zebulon’s fair share of the approv
ed state combined goal of $257,726.
Although the Children’s Home
Society has joined the United De
fense Fund, it is still actively sup
ported and publicized by the Jun
ior Woman’s Clubs including the
one in Zebulon which was instru
mental in having the CHS placed
on Zebulon’s first United Fund
budget.
The American Cancer Society,
Wake County Tuberculosis Socie
ty, and the National Foundation of
Infantile Paralysis have requested
that they be excluded from the
United Fund budget; however, the
Budget and Planning Committee
has recommended that $650 be in
cluded in the budget for polio relief
to be given in the same manner as
last year, which was as a contri
bution to the independent drive.
The sum allocated for the Wake
lon School Band is for the purchase
of instruments and music, not uni
forms.
Anderson to Speak Sunday
Walter F. Anderson will speak
at the 11 o’clock worship service
at the Zebulon Methodist Church,
Sunday, October 9, on the topic,
“Methodism and Its Challenge to
Christian Service.”
On this Church Extension Sun
day he will emphasize the SIO.OO
Club' memberships which have
helped the N. C. Conference build
new churches over the past few
years.
With the help of the minsters
over the conference he is organiz
ing “Soldiers of Prayer,” in each
local church, three persons who
will meet weekly for an hour and
pray for specific persons and
causes.
Mr. Anderson has been Associate
Secretary of the Board of Missions
and Church Extension of the North
(See ANDERSON, Page 4)
UNITED FUND BUDGET
Proposed. Received
Organization 1955-56 1954-55
Boy Scouts of America $ 350 $ 372
Wake County Mental Hygiene 100
Girl Scouts of America 350 260
Girl Scouts (Local) 75
Carolinas United 290 142
Recreation Commission 1500 1000
American Red Cross 600 520
Wake County Cerebral Palsy 300 240
Local Welfare -200 185
School Lunch Program, white and colored .. 450 360
Wake County Crippled Children 160 160
Wake County Heart Association 200 160
Florence Crittenton Home 50
Polio Relief 650 520
Wakelon School Band 225
TOTAL $5500
World Conies to Zebulon Weekend
Endorsed by School of Public Health
The World Comes to Zebulon
weekend has received the endorse
ment of the School of Public
Health and the University of North
Carolina, and at least 35 foreign
students are expected in this com
munity during the first weekend in
November to visit in homes and
see how small town America
lives.
The Rev. Bev. A. Asbury met
with representatives of the Uni
versity on Monday of this week.
He reports they are very enthusi
astic about the project and are
giving wholehearted cooperation.
Among those at Chapel Hill who
want to come to Zebulon are six
who do not speak English fluent
ly. It is planned that students who
do speak English will be teamed
with those who do so that two stu
dents will stay in one home. One
student may then serve as an in
terpreter for the other.
Ladies' Night
The Zebulon American Legion
Post No. 33 will hold a Ladies’
Night at E. P. Privette’s Case east
of Pilot on Wednesday, October 12,
at 7:30. An entertaining program
is planned, according to Raymond
Pippin, commander. Legionnaires
should notify the adjutant by Tues
day if they plan to attend.
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Zebulon, N. C., Friday, October 7, 1955
To accommodate the students
who do not speak English, it will
be necessary for six homes to
taken two students each.
Amon gthose at Chapel Hill who
especially went to visit Zebulon
is an Egyptian family of four
father, mother, and children ages
six years and four months. The
wife and children do not speak
English. It is hoped that some home
in the community can provide for
this entire family during the
weekend.
The World Comes to Zebulon is
the largest project of this kind ever
attempted and the only one in this
part of the country. Its purpose is
to promote international under
standing by giving both foreign
students and the people of this
community an opportunity to
know and appreciate each other’s
way of life through personal ac
quaintance.
All the students who comes to
Zebulon for this weekend will be
excused from their classes, accord
ing to officials of the Univerity, be
bause the University believes the
students will benefit greatly from
the experiences during the two
days.
The students will arrive in Zebu
lon Friday afternoon, November 4.
They will be greeted by Mayor
Wilbur Debnam, project chairman,
and introduced to the families in
whose homes they will spend the
weekend.
On Friday night the students
will attend a joint meeting of the
Zebulon Lions and Rotary Clubs.
Following the meeting a dance will
be held in the Wakelon gymnasi
um where all types of American
dances round, square, and jit
terbug will be shown.
During Saturday, the visitors
will be shown over the community,
seeing the postoffice, business, in
dustries, and farms.
Saturday evening a chicken bar
cause the University believes the
armory. Following the barbecue,
the public is invited to a program
by the students during which they
will tell of their homelands and
demonstrate native dances.
On Sunday, the students will at
tend local Sunday School classes,
speaking in both the Baptist and
Methodist churches. They will be
in charge of the morning worship
service.
After dinner in the homes, the
students will re cum to Chapel
Hill.
Five Die in Head-on
Crash Near Zebulon
Thursday Morning
Excessive speed and driving on the wrong side of the road was
the cause of a head-on collision which snuffed out five lives 2*6 miles
east of Zebulon on Highway 64. Four of those killed were trapped
beneath a flaming 1955 Ford convertible, which burned them beyond
recognition. The fifth victim, driver of a 1950 Chevrolet sedan, was
thrown clear of his car and died of head injuries. The Chevrolet
also burned. ;
The wreck was discovered by a
passing Rocky Mount motorist. It
placed the Wake County death toll
at 42 for the year.
Killed in the convertible were
Randolph White, 23; Gerald Tay
lor, 20; Douglas Preston Hicks, 20;
Jerry Thomas Pearce, 20; all of
Route 2, Zebulon.
Clyde Lee Burns, 29, of 305 E.
Randall Ave., Norfolk, Va., was
driver of the Chevrolet. He was a
member of the coast guard and was
originally from Sanford, it was re
ported.
Injured was Nathan Hicks, 18,
of Zebulon, Route 2 He is confined
in Rex Hospital with head injuries.
According to Police Chief Wil
lie B. Hopkins, the boys in the
Ford stopped at a Zebulon sta
tion for gas before they left for
Norfolk. Preston Hicks, who was
discharged from the Army in
August, was planning to seek em
ployment there, and Taylor and
White were stationed there with
the Navy.
When they left the station the
attendant said Douglas Hicks was
driving and Nathan Hicks was
asleep in the back seat, because
he planned to drive the car back to
Zebulon.
According to Chief Hopkins, Na
than Hicks had wrecked a 1955
Ford convertible near Zebulon
about 60 days ago and the car was
an insurance company replace
ment. It was registered in the name
of Mrs. Otis Hicks, mother of the
Hicks boys.
Highway Patrol records show
that this was the worst traffic
accident in four years. The other
accident was also neai Zebulon on
Highway 64 a mile nearer town.
Seven persons, six boys and a
Raleigh man, were killed in that
tragedy, which also was a head
on collision blamed on speed.
Judge Proves Mixture of Whiskey
And Autos Is Expensive in Zebulon
A lengthy session of the Zebu
lon Recorder’s Court was held last
week to pass judgment on cases
ranging from drunken driving to
possession of home brew for sale.
For drunken driving, B. J. Julley
Membership Drive
Farm Bureau members all over
Wake County conducted a one
day membership drive Thursday,
confidently expecting to exceed
the quota assigned for the day.
The Zebulon Farm Bureau hoped
to surpass the 550 member quota
given the local group.
Membership solicitors are asked
to report to Robert Ed Horton by
Saturday the number of member
ships collected up until that time.
A final report of the Zebulon
membership drive will be made
to the Wake County office Satur
day afi<_rnoon.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Pearces Revival
To Begin Monday
Homecoming will climax the
week-long revival at Pearces Bap
tist Church which begins Mon
day, October 10, and continues
through Sunday, October 16. Serv
ices are held each evening at 7
o’clock with the Rev. Charles How
ard in charge, assisted by the Rev.
Johnnie Caldwell of Hopkins
Chapel.
Special music is planned for each
night and on Sunday afternoon.
The Baker Quartet of Hopkins, a
male quartet from N. C. State Col
lege, neighboring church choirs,
and the Pearces choir will lead the
singing.
Contributions and pledges will
be accepted for payment on the
parsonage debt.
All former pastors, former mem
bers, and visitors have been ex
tended a cordial invitation to at
tend the revival services and the
homecoming.
Garden Chib
The Carmen Flowers Garden
Club has postponed its October
meeting until Tuesday night, Oc
tober 18, to avoid conflict with the
Baptist revival next week, accord
ing to Mrs. George Tucker, presi
dent.
The meeting was originally
scheduled for Monday night, Oc
tober 10.
Christmas decorations will be
the subject of a talk by Willis
Honeycutt of Fallons Florists in
Raleigh. The meeting will be held
in the home of Mrs. J. C. Debnam.
was sentenced to four months sus
pendde on payment of $125 fine
and costs. He appealed and bond
was set at S2OO.
Jones Lewis Parker of Shaw
Field, S. C., guilty of a second of
fense of drunken driving, was sen
tenced to eight months suspended
on payment of S2OO fine and costs.
For having in his possession a
quantity of non-tax-Raid whiskey,
he was fined SSO and costs and
given a 60 day suspended sen
tence.
Odell Harris of Route 1 receiv
ed a four months sentence, sus
pended on payment of SIOO fine
and costs for drunken driving.
Kenneth Dwight Tripp of Ral
eigh was sentenced to four months,
suspended on payment of S2OO fine
and costs for drunken driving.
For careless and reckless driv
ing, Joseph Wood Temples of
Route 1, was fined $25 and costs;
(See COURT, Page 4)