THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 24.
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It takes a happy home to make a Merry Christmas especially
for a child. This young fellow, recently placed in an adoptive home
by The Children’s Home Society of North Carolina, is enjoying a
happy first Christmas, thanks to contributions to the United Fund
of Zebulon of which the Society is a member agency.
Greensboro Matchmakers Give
Happiness to Baby Tar Heels
Tar Heels are the most success
ful matchmakers on earth! That
► doesn’t mean, necessarily, they are
any better than folks from other
states in getting suitable mates for
Aunt Lizzie or Cousin Susie, nei
ther of whom is getting any
younger.
Besides, such a feat as that
wouldn’t necessarily be “success
ful.” It’d be more “miraculous”
than anything else.
Right now, we’re not so interest
ed in miracles as we are in the
brand of success found in bring
ing together people who will love
each other forever.
' And where would you find—
where could you find more suc
cessful matchmaking than at the
Children’s Home Society of North
Carolina?
The successful process has two
primary ingredients. First, we
have happy babies who don’t
know they are without parents to
care for them. Then we have the
childless married couples who
want nothing in life so much as a
baby to care for.
Since the Children’s Home was
organized in 1902, the two primary
UNITED FUND MEETING
There will be a United Fund Board of Director’s meet
ing tonight at 7:30 o’clock in the Town Hall, Howard Beck,
United Fund Chairman, has announced.
At this meeting the Board will elect officers for the com
ing year, and attend to other business of the organiation.
Mr. Beck urges all Board members and any other inter
ested persons to attend this meeting.
Best Wishes for the New Year
ingredients have been carefully
blended for over 6,000 babies and
their new parents.
It may be surprising to some
that there are n ore couples wish
ing to adopt babies than there are
babies to be adopted. In fact, for
every baby at the Children’s Home,
there are 15 couples who apply to
adopt a child.
The answer to the question is
that the Children’s Home is just
what the name implies and it is
that for 24 hours a day, 365 days
a year.
Most of the time the home has
its capacity of 20 babies. The care
they get is as tender and as lov
ing as any baby ever got.
And running a nursery is not in
expensive, you know.
The other expenses are wrapped
up in the opening statements —
the one about Tar Heels being
“successful” matchmakers.
It doesn’t “just happen” that
the matchmaking at the Children’s
Home Society is successful. It re
quires careful checking of both
the babies and their parents and
grandparents, and of the couple to
which the baby will be offered for
See MATCHMAKERS, Page 12)
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, December 30, 1355
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Argument ends
In Death For
Farm Housewife
After arguing for most of the
night, a young farm laborer of
near here shot his wife to death
Tuesday morning.
The victim was Flonnie Mae
Robinson. The husband, William
(Duck) Robinson, has been charg
ed with murder.
Lottie Mae Robinson, the couple’s
young 11-year-old daughter, told
officers, “Daddy came running in
to the back bedroom and said, “I’ve
killed mama. Put your clothes on
and we’ll go up to your grand
mother’s. Then I’ll give myself
up.’ ”
A .38 caliber bullet passed
through the top of Mrs. Robin
son’s head. She died instantly.
Robinson turned himself in to
the Wendell police after the inci
dent. He is 33-years-old.
The girl said she became fright
ened during the argument and
locked herself in her room. The
shooting took place around 7 a.m.
The family lives on Zebulon,
Route 4.
Lottie Mae said her mother
worked as a maid in a rooming
house and drove her husband’s car
to work.
She said that her father and
mother had argued most of the
night. Robinson accused his wife
of going out with another man.
After the shooting Robinson took
his five children to his mother’s
house. Sheriff’s Deputies Earl
Duke and H. C. Benton said Robin
son got Herley Montague to drive
him to the jail in Wendell.
After getting there, they said
Robinson “went crazy” and had to
be tied up with a rope and hand
cuffed. A doctor had to give him a
sedative to quiet him, they said.
Duke and Benton later carried
Robinson to Raleigh and lodged
him in jail there.
A. C. Dawson Family
Gives Paten to Church
Members of the A. C. Dawson
family have presented the Zebulon
Baptist Church a paten, which is
a plate for the whole bread used
by the minister in symbolizing the
bread which is broken.
This paten, which now brings
the Communion set to completion,
has inscribed: “Zebulon Baptist
Church in memory of Amos C.
Dawson, Senior, by his family.
1955.”
Wake 1954 Retail Sales $153,253,000
Retail sales in 1954 of 1,366 stores in Wake
County totaled $153,253,000, according to prelimi
nary 1954 Census of Business figures announced
by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Com
merce. This was an increase of 47.2 percent over
sales in 1948 by 1,388 stores of $104,098,000.
Stores with payroll in 1954 numbered 882, had
7,707 paid employees in November, 1954, reported
payroll of $17,369,000, and accounted for sales of
$143,681,000.
Preprietors of unincorporated businesses num
bered 1,212. The number of stores and their 1954
sales, grouped by major kinds of business, were:
Stores Total Sales
Kind-of-Business Group (Number) (Dollars)
Food stores 317 32,340,000
Tax Listing Dates / Places
Mrs. Eldred Rountree, Wake County tax lister for Little
River Township, will list taxes during January at the following
locations:
Zebulon Town Hall—January 4,5, 7,8, 10, 12, 14, 19, 21
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 31.
Hopkins Cross Roads—January 3 and 17.
Mack Perry’s Store, Mitchell’s Mill —January 11.
Austin Perry’s Store, Mitchell’s Mill—January 18.
Fowler’s Cross Roads—January 6 and 16.
Cary Robertson’s Store—January 13 and 20.
Barham’s Siding—January 23.
Listing hours will be from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. each day.
There will be no listing done at homes this year, Mrs. Rountree
said.
Liquor, Fireworks, Auto Law
Violations Fill Court Docket
During the December 21 session
of the Recorder’s Court, Judge I.
D. Gill presented Christmas gifts
of sentences and fines to persons
charged with traffic violations,
possession of non-tax paid li
quors, possession of fireworks, and
other misdemeanors.
Johnny Harvey Hartsfield, Rt. 1,
Louisburg was charged with driv
ing on wrong side of road not in
passing. The case was nolprossed
with leave.
Artemus Mann, Rt. 1, Louisburg
was charged with driving with im
proper lights. The case was nol
porssed with leave.
Vance Raybon, Jr., Wendell was
charged with driving with an ex
pired driver’s license. Charges were
nol prossed with leave.
Allen Hood was charged with
the possession of fireworks for
the purpose of sale in the Town of
Zebulon. Found guilty and was
given 90 days on the roads, sus
pended upon payment of S2OO fine
and cost.
Edwin A. Brantley, Rt. 1, Spring
Hope was charged with speed
ing 90 mph on highways. Found
guilty of charges and sentenced to
60 days on roads, suspended upon
jayment of SIOO fine and cost.
George Mockel Hodge was
charged with speeding 70 mph and
found guilty and fined S3O and
cost.
Colen Vaiden Whitley was
charged with disregard of stop
sign. He was found guilty and
was fined $lO and cost.
Davern Alvins Murray of Mid
dlesex, Rt. 2, was charged with
being in a drunken condition on
the public highways. He was
found guilty and fined $lO and
cost.
Bill Marvin Farmer of 121
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Eating, drinking places 192 8,327,000
General merchandise group .... 98 22,055,000
Apparel, accessories stores 112 10,211,000
Furniture, home
furnishings, appliances .... 69 7,335,000
Automotive group 54 29,678,000
Gasoline service stations 200 10,799,000
Lumber, bldg, matls.,
hdw., farm equipment 45 9,333,000
Drug stores, proprietary stores 44 3,985,000
Other retail stores 165 15,997,000
Nonstore retailers 70 3,193,000
For 101, a report for the State’s counties and
places of 2,500 or more population is available from
the Bureau of the Census, Washington 25, D. C.,
or from Department of Commerce field offices in
most large cities.
Helm St., Rocky Mount, was
charged with allowing another
person to operate his vehicle
while drunk. He was found guilty
and fined SIOO and cost. A second
count against him for public
drunkenness was tried and he was
given 30 days on the road, sus
pended on payment of $lO fine
and cost.
Oscar Paul Forbes, 1114 Boone
St., Rocky Mount, was charged
with driving dfunk, third offense.
(See COURT, Page 5)
Christmas Cheer
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Packages Given
Twenty- six families were given
Christmas Cheer packages by the
local Baptist and Methodist
churches. These churches worked
in conjunction with the Salvation
Army.
The district headquarters of the
Salvation Army in Raleigh allocat
ed $l5O for the purpose of Christ
mas Cheer parcels to the needy
in this community.
Approximately 50 dolls were
contributed by the Army and were
distributed to the various circles
of the local churches to be dressed.
Mr. E. H. Moser is chairman of
the over-all committee of this ter
ritory working with the Salva
tion Army. Others are Mrs.
George Temple, Mrs. Irby Gill,
Mrs. George Morgan, Mrs. James
Creech, and Dr. Ben Thomas.
This committee expressed ap
preciation to Mrs. Hunter, pro
prietor of Hunter’s 5 -and 10, for
the gifts of toys she contributed to
the Christmas Cheer packages.