THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 4.
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Jet Powered Automobile
Is Feature of Thrill Show
America’s first turbo-jet auto
mobile will be seen in action when
the Irish Horan Lucky Hell Dri
vers make their appearance at the
North Carolina State Fair on
Tuesday night, October 18.
In preliminary tests at India
napolis the new jet car was clock
ed at times varying from zero to
90 miles per hour in 500 feet, up
to speeds in excess of 125 miles
per hour where straightaway space
permitted a greater take-off
thrust. The jet is a rear engine
installation and gathers its flow
from an added air scoop in the top
of the jet engine compartment di
rectly behind the driver.
In addition to a normal run on
the track, the car will be driven
through a giant catapulting can
non at a speed in excess of 75
Sr. Club Meeting
The Senior Woman’s Club will
meet at the Zebulon Methodist
Church Social Room at 3:45 p.m.,
Tuesday, October 18. Mrs. Howard
Massey will have charge of the
program. She will speak on “Our
Relations with the Indians.” All
club members are urged to be
present.
Mrs. Wallace Chamblee, Mrs.
M. J. Sexton and Mrs. A. R. House
are hostesses for the meeting.
Good Place to Live Is Responsibility
Os Town and Country, Rotarians Told
Better rural-urban relations are
a two-way proposition, with re
sponsibility resting on the should
ers of both farmers and the busi
ness and professional men who
serve them, Earle Green, former
president of the Portsmouth Junior
Chamber of Commerce, told Ro
tarians and farmer guests Friday
night.
“Responsibility for proper goods
and services belongs to the mer
chants,” Mr. Green declared, “but
neither rural resident nor town
dweller can alone make a good
school or a good place to live.”
The speaker, who is an official
of the Smith-Douglass Corporation,
was introduced to the Rotary Club
and guests by T. E. Hales, local
S-D dealer. The rural-urban
night is planned as an annual
event by the Rotarians, with a dif
ferent group of farmers being in
vited each year.
Mr. Green outlined proven pro
jects in the field of rural-urban
relations, and suggested that this
community might well adopt one
or more from his list. He con
miles per hour. The force of the
jet power will carry the car about
30 feet into the air, to land on a
specially constructed ramp 75 feet
from the mouth of the cannon.
Veteran Hollywood stunt man,
Dynamite Bill Horton, star of the
Horan presentation, will pilot the
car in its exhibition run as well as
through the mammoth gun.
The program consists of 28 su
per speed and thrill events, per
formed by Irish Horan’s national
ly-known contingent of seventeen
stunt artists.
School Fair Day
Wakelon School, with other
Wake County schools, will be dis
missed at 12:30 Tuesday in order
that parents can take their chil
dren to the North Carolina State
Fair, according to Principal Frank
lin R. Jones. He warned that stu
dents leaving school for the fair
on other days will be given un
excused absences.
Tuesday afternoon was desig
nated Wake County Fair Day by
county superintendent Randolph
Benton.
Lunch Tuesday will be served
at Wakelon. Parents are asked
not to take their children out for
the fair except at the specially
scheduled time on Tuesday.
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Earle Greene
eluded by citing the Rotary “Four
Way Test” as a fine aid to better
relations of all kinds.
About 40 persons attended the
event, which was held in the
Wakelon School Cafeteria.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, October 14, 1955
Miss Talbert New
Head of Special
Education Group
Miss Rebekah Talbert was elect
ed president of the Special Educa
tion Group of Teachers Friday,
October 7, at the North Central
District Annual Convention of the
North Carolina Education Asso
ciation in Raleigh.
Miss Talbert is a member of the
faculty of Wakelon School, a
position she has held for nine
years. Her election to this office
followed outstanding service in
special education.
Members of the NCEA from 17
counties comprising the North Cen
tral District make up the member
ship of the various departments
and divisions. Each department
or division is made up of special
ists in their professional field of
work.
The convention was attended by
about 2500 school personnel. Two
general sessions were held in the
auditorium of the Needham
Broughton High School.
Outstanding speakers appearing
at these general sessions included:
Dr. Philip Lovejoy, lecturer and
world traveler, Utica, New York;
Dr. Olin T. Brinkley, Professor of
Christian Sociology and Social Eth
ics, Southeastern Baptist Seminary,
Wake Forest; Jesse O. Anderson,
Superintendent, Raleigh City
Schools; Bert Ishee of Fayetteville,
NCEA State President; Dr. Charles
F. Carroll, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Raleigh; Mrs.
Ethel Perkinson Edwards, NCEA
Executive Secretary, Raleigh; Ger
aldine Jones, Vice-President, North
Central District, NCEA; Nathan
Lelton, Raleigh Executive Secre
tary, Teachers’ and State Employ
ees Retirement System.
'Crisis at Wakelon 7
P-TA Panel Topic
“The Crisis at Wakelon” will
be the topic for the panel discus
sion at the October meeting of
the Wakelon Parent-Teacher As
sociation planned for Monday night
at 7:45 in the school auditorium.
This is the second meeting of the
year for the group.
The panel will have as modera
tor the Rev. Troy Barrett, pastor
of the Zebulon Methodist Church.
Panel members will include Frank
lin Jones, principal of Wakelon;
Thurman Murray, chairman of the
school board; and Mrs. Steven
Blackley, teacher.
Following the discussion of the
theme by the panel, the floor will
be open for questions, according to
Mrs. George H. Temple, program
chairman.
After the program, the teachers
will return to their classrooms for
visits from parents. All school
patrons are urged to attend this
meeting.
Hymn Convention
The Third Annual North Caro
lina State Fair Hymn Singing Con
vention will be held Sunday, Oc
tober 16, in the big arena on the
fairgrounds. Many of the best
song groups in the state have ac
cepted an invitation to attend
and a large crowd is expected.
There is no admission charge and
no collections are taken.
(See CONVENTION, Page 8)
Wakelon Heights Is
Taken into Zebulon
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Mrs. E. I. Terry of Raleigh will
teach the course, “Teaching Youth”
in the Christian Workers’ School
at the Zebulon Methodist Church,
October 23-26. This course is for
all workers with and teachers of
youth, and for others who wish
to attend.
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$50,000 Damage
Suit Filed Monday
A $50,000 damage suit was filed
in Superior Court Monday by Jack
Tippett, administrator of the estate
of Luna Mae Tippett, his sister,
who was killed in a car accident
near Zebulon June 18.
The suit was filed against An
drew S. Draughon, Harold M.
Draughon, and Andrew A.
Draughon, all of Zebulon.
Harold Draughon, 17, was dri
ver of a truck that struck a car in
which Miss Tippett was a pas
senger. She died upon arrival at
Rex Hospital following the wreck.
The suit charged that Draughon
and his brother, Andrew A.
Draughon, were racing the truck
and a car at over 60 miles per hour
(See $50,000 SUIT, Page 8)
Congressman Harold Cooley Speaker
At Festival Banquet in Wendell
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Harold D. Cooley
Congressman Harold D. Cooley,
chairman of the House Agricul
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Town Area Increased
By 33/2 Acres When
Ordinance Is Passed
The Town of Zebulon was in
j creased in size by 33 V 2 acres Tues
| day night when the Board of Com
| missioners approved an ordinance
i annexing the Wakelon Heights de
j velopment to the Town of Zebulon.
I The three commissioners present
voted unanimously in favor of the
ordinance.
There was no opposition, verbal
or written, to the ordinance, which
was published for the past four
weeks in the Zebulon Record.
The area annexed extends 150
feet west of Wakefield Street from
the present town limits at Glenn
Street to a point 150 feet west
of the northwest intersection of
Wakefield and Judd Streets. From
there the new limits extend north
east 790 feet along the north side
j of Judd Street to the present city
! limits.
Motion to adopt the ordinance
was made by Commissioner G. K.
Corbett, seconded by Norman
Screws. They were joined by
Frank Wall in approving it. Com
missioners R. Vance Brown and
J. Raleigh Alford were absent from
the meeting.
The Wakelon Heights develop
ment was originally laid out by
the late Dr. G. M. Bell. It was
(See HEIGHTS, Page 8)
Football Today
The Wakelon Bulldogs will meet
an undefeated Methodist Orphan
age eleven in football in Raleigh
today. Except for second string
quarterback Mickey Phillips, out
with an injured hand, the Wake
lon squad will be at full strength
for the contest.
Coach Hester’s grid squad this
year lacks experience. He has
used his reserves extensively to
gain experience for play during
coming seasons.
Next week, in the homecoming
game, the Bulldogs play Millbrook
under the lights on the Wakelon
field.
ture Committee, spoke Wednesday
night at the Gold Leaf Festival
Banquet held in Wendell in prepa
ration for the Gold Leaf Festival,
planned for November 11.
J. H. Sanders, Jr., president of
the Wendell Tobacco Board of
Trade, presented Congressman
Cooley, L. R. Clark was master of
ceremonies for the occasion. James
H. Parish is president of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Congressman Cooley called for
a program which would produce
for a world market instead of a
national market. “All farmers
must cooperate to learn the art
of distribution as well as they have
learned the art of production,” he
said.
Purpose of the gathering was to
emphasize the importance of to
bacco and its contribution toward
the economic solvency of eastern
Wake County and surrounding
communities.