THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 14.
Zebulon Beauty Gold Leaf Queen
Miss Kay Pate, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Coy
Pate, was crowned “Miss Gold Leaf of 1955’’ last
Friday night as one of the features of the Gold
Leaf Festival sponsored by the Wendell Chamber
of Commerce.
Dr. J. R. Hester, Mayor of Wendell, placed the
tiara on Miss Pate’s head during the half-time cere
monies when the Wendell High School football
team played Cathedral Latin High football team.
This sixteen-year-old Zebulon girl was select
ed as winner over a group of twenty-nine contest
ants representing eight counties. Miss Betty Bain
of Clayton was first runner-up for the queen’s title.
Following the coronation, Dr. Hester presented
Miss Pate with a SIOO Savings Bond and an arm
bouquet of American Beauty roses as a gift from
the Festival sponsors. Miss Bain was given the
runner-up award of a $25.00 Savings Bond.
Other contestants competing for the ittle of
“Queen of the Gold Leaf Festival” were: Misses
Shirley Eaat of Wake Forest, Lucille Boykin of Wil
son, Golda Wright of Selma, Peggy Pearce, Kath
erine Pittman, Nan Bailey, Carol Martin, Jean
Knott, Linda Gail Long, Margaret Sanders, all of
Wendell, Janis Little of Selma, Peggy Breedlove
of Nashville, Jackie Haskins of Garner, Betty Jo
Watson, Doris Jones and Nancy Poole Moore, all
of Smithfield, and Betsy Massey of Zebulon.
Judges for the Festival were Miss Pat Cowden,
“Queen of Cotton,” Miss Sylvia Crocker of Rocky
Mount, “Miss Press Photographer of 1956,” Miss
Carole Jeaneette, a student at Wake Forest Col
lege who holds the title of “Miss Maryland,” and
United Fund
All solicitors for the United
Fund are urged to turn in their
collections by Friday night, Aaron
Lowery, chairman of the drive,
has announced.
When contacted, Howard Beck,
chairman of the Fund, said that
all is going well and urges all who
have failed to be contacted by a
solicitor to see Mr. Lowery or
Vance Brown, treasurer of the
Fund drive.
Mr. Lowery saiu that the Fund
drive is still going strong, when
contacted Thursday, and he is
confident that the town of Zebu
lon will reach its goal of SSOOO.
The total amount contributed
and collected was well over the
$3500 mark as of last Saturday.
Ginning Report
The U. S. Department of Com
merce Bureau of the Census re
port shows that 1,423 bales of cot
ton were ginned in Wake County
from the crop of 1955 prior to Nov.
1 as compared with 3,000 bales
ginned for the crop of 1954, re
ported Joseph R. Howard.
Zebulon Girl Wins 4-H
Club Trip to Chicago
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Linda Bailey
Wins Award
Hunter Wins Truck
Jack Hunter of Route 3, Raleigh, was one happy man when in
formed that his ticket had been drawn to win absolutely free %-ton
task force Chevrolet truck given by the Wendell Tobacco Board of
New Patrolmen
Five new state highway partol
men have been unleashed in Wake
County as its death tool sets a local
record and nears a state record.
The patrolmen, all rookies fresh
out of Chapel Hill patrol school,
will boost the county’s permanent
complement to 21 men.
Sgt. R. H. Chadwick said the
additions make the Wake force
equal to the detachments for
Mecklenburg and Guilford coun
ties.
Chadwick said the new ptatrol
men and their assignments are: B.
K. Tucker, Zebulon; Charles
Smith, Wake Forest; B. N. Dyson,
Garner; W. D. Teems, Raleigh; and
W. B. Wagstaff, Wendell.
Wake County is currently lead
ing the state in the number of
highway deaths, with 52 this year.
That is three short of the record
55 set in Guilford County in 1946.
Linda Bailey, 17, has been
awarded an all-expense paid trip
to Chicago as a result of her out
standing work in the field of 4-H
club work of entomology, it was
announced by State College this
week.
Miss Bailey has won top honors
in the county, district, and State
through her work in this division.
She has been named territorial
winnre of eight Southern states.
This local girl’s trip will begin
Friday, Nov. 25, following a lunch
eon at State College for the win
ners and their parents. After the
luncheon the winners will travel
by bus to Lynchburg, Va., where
they will then entrain for Chica
go.
She will represent 146,000 North
Carolina 4-H club members in the
windy city in the entomology di
vision. While there, she will be
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ItradliiK from left to riprht are Miss Diane Johnston of
Nashville, Miss Kay Pate of Zebulon, “Queen of the Gold
I.eaf Festival for I#A5,” and Miss Betty Bain of Clayton.
Misses Bain and Jones were runners>n|i for the title.
Miss Anne Webster Wreen of Chapel Hill who holds
the title of “Sweeheart of the Yackety-Yack, the
year book for the University of North Carolina.
Miss Pate was sponsored by the Zebulon Cham
ber of Commerce in the Gold Leaf Festival. She is
a junior at Wakelon High School, and is very active
in school activities. A 4-H Club member, she was
district winner in 4-H club work for dairy foods
last summer at State College.
Trade.
The drawing was held in front
of Jordan’s Hardware Store on
Main Street from a rolling round
wire basket that seemed to keep
tuned with Homer Briar Hopper
and his Dixie Dudes who were giv
ing the grand salute for the win
ner.
Other prizes drawn for at the
conclusion of the parade included
a General Electric Vacuum Clean
er won by a Wendelll farmer,
Waler E. Dean, Jr., donated by
Todd Electric Company. Names of
the winners for a sofa bed from
Johnson Cotton Company, en elec
tric iron from Jordan’s Hardware,
and automobile tire from C. Proc
Dean, and services from Mitchell’s
Garage were not known at this
writing.
Only One Ticket
Hunter, the winner of the task
force truck, stated that he had
only one ticket deposited in the
barrel, even though he had sold
all of his tobacco on the Wendell
Tobacco Market. He had not
thought it necessary to deposit
each ticket for each time he had
sold tobacco on the local market
this season, which proves that it
only takes one ticket to win.
Jake May, local tobacconist and
farmer, made the presentation of
the truck keys to Mr. Hunter at
half-time ceremonies of the High
School football game.
Turkey Shoot
The local American Legion
will sponsor a turkey shoot
Saturday, Nov. 19, at one o’-
clock p.m. at J. G. Bunn’s air
port just above Wakefield.
Participants may bring their
own guns or there will be
guns available if need°d.
On Tuesday and Wednes
day nights, Nov. 22 and 23 at
7 o’clock, there will be a rifle
turkey shoot at the National
Guard Armory. Rifles and am
munition will be furnished for
this affair. For those that pre
fer, these may bring their own
rifles.
Hospital Program
Is Urgently Needed
Foster Finch, vice chairman of the Wake County Hospital Au
thority, said in a recent interview that he feels that it is imperative
that the people of Wake County be made aware of the necessity of
securing local hospital facilities.
He said that the need for hos- j
pital facilities is far greater now j
than ever before. The population
of the county is increasing at such
a rapid rate that hospital facili
ties for taking care of the multi
tude of patients has become a
problem to hospital authorities.
The year 1944 was the last year
that anything was done concern
ing the expansion of hospital fa
cilities of Wake County. In that
year, 118,000 patients were ad
mitted for treatment. At the close
of 1954, 147,500 patients had been
treated. This shows an increase of
25 per cent.
He said that the increase of au
tomobiles has meant an added
number of injuries and more
deaths. In 1944, there were 24,000
cars registered in Wake County.
Today there are more than 65,491.
This represents an increase of 173
percent.
Fifty-two Deaths in 1954
Fifty-two deaths were reported
in Wake County in 1954 as a result
of automobile accidents. This
shocking figure has continued to
rise in recent weekr, until the ad
dition of more law enforcement
officers round the nearby com
munities.
He spoke of the most precious of
all assets children. There are
now more than thirty thousand
children attending the public
schools of Wake County. This rep
resents a 37.8 percent rise since
1944.
Additional Wing Added
Rex Hospital was built for a
200-bed capacity. In 1944 an ad
ditional wing was added, in
creasing their facilities to 272 bed
capacity. These facilities at this
hospital have now been outmoded.
Reports show that the average
patient stayed in the hospital nine
and one-half days in 1944. Today,
because of the advancement of
pharmaceutical supplies, the aver
age time spent in a hospital by a
(See PROGRAM, Page 8)
Zebulon PTA to Hear
Dr. Sylvester Green Speak
Dr. and Mrs. Sylvester Green,
who will speak to the Parent-
Teacher Association on Monday
night, November 21, at 7:45 p.m.,
in the Wakelon School Auditorium,
is Vice-President and Director
of Public Relations of Wake Forest
College. The topic will be “The
Crisis of Health Education.”
Dr. Green is an Educator as well
as versatile in other fields in which
he has contributed much to the
public life of North Carolina and
other States. He is a Minister and
has held pastorates at his Home
Church, Watts Street, Durham, N.
C., and Gray Street Baptist
Church, Richmond, Va. He ac
cepted the Presidency of Coker
College in Hartsville, S. C., and
after a few years he was called
back to Durham as Editor of the
DURHAM HERALD, and served on
the faculty of Duke University.
(See SPEAKER, Page 8)
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Guard Prepares
For Inspection
By CWO Johnsey Arnold
The members of Battery A. Zeb
ulon’s National Guard Unit were
busy last night preparing for the
annual I. G. inspection to be con
ducted on the 9th day of January,
1956, by a representative from the
Inspector General’s Department,
Third Army Headquarters.
Recruiting is still top on our list
of things to be done. Thus far
during the current recruiting drive
the unit has gained 6 new en
listtes. The latest new enlistee
was Joseph Herman Walden, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Solon Joeeps
Walden, Route 2, Zebulon. On No
vember 15 Carvin and Marvin
Strickland came back to the unit.
They have recently returned from
24 months active duty, serving 18
months in Germany. The Strick
lands are twin sons of Mr. and
Mrs. B. S. Strickland, Route 2,
Middlesex. They first poined the
National Guard in March, 1951.
(See GUARD, Page 8)
Knife Holders
Jack Hinton, local cabinet mak
er, has begun the manufacture of
knife holders. These holders are
made of highly polished mahogany
veneer plywood. They are of a
shield shape design, approximate
ly eleven by sixteen inches, and
will hold six to eight knives of
different sizes.
' Mr. Hinton said that this innova
cation in* wookworking is a com
paratively new thing with him.
This woodworking artisan has
given 20 of these knife holders to
the Masons to sell for their build
ing fund. He has also given a
number to the Methodist Church
for their Nov. 28 bazaar.
Mr. Hinton said that these knife
holders make very lovely *BB well
as useful gifts for any occasion.
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