* THE ZEBULON
Volume XXX. Number 53. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, April 6, 1
RECORD
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Franklin R. Jones
H. Douglas Hall
Woke/on, Wendell School
Principals Are Re-elected
Wakelon Principal Franklin R. Jones and Wendell Principal
H. Douglas Hall have been re-elected by their respective school boards
Class of 1936
Holds Reunion
Twenty-three members of the
Wakelon High School Class of ’36
and their wives and husbands
gathered at the school Sunday for
their twentieth anniversary reun
ion.
The celebration was held in the
school cafeteria, decorated in the
class colors of lavender and silver.
Upon congregating the class was
taken on a guided tour of the
school plant by Ed Ellington, a
member of the Wakelon School
faculty.
James Alford, secretary of the
(See REUNION, Page 7)
Communion
The Zebulon Methodist Church!
will observe Holy Communion this
Sunday morning at the 11:00 o’
clock worship services. In the af
ternoon the pastor will take the
elements to the shut-ins who wish
it.
At the Sunday Evening Fellow
ship at 7:30 the group will study
Exodus 13-19 “The Wilderness
Journey.”
A.V/A U1C X&UKJ — KJ I OV.UUU1 jcm .
Jones is a native of Hickory.
Prior to cominy to Wakelon in
1954 he was associated with the
Henderson city schools. He is
married to the former Jane White
of Henderson, and they have two
sons.
Hall is a native of Lillington.
He has been principal of the Wen
dell school system for the past two
years. Recently he was elected
president of the Wake County
NCEA unit. He is unmarried.
Both educators are taking grad
uate work at Duke University
towards doctorate degrees.
R. Flake Shaw
Is REA Speaker
R. Flake Shaw, of Greensboro,
will be the principal speaker at the
16th Annual Meeting of the Wake
Electric Membership ' Corporation
to be held 10 a.m. Saturday, April
14, in the Wake Forest High School.
Mr. Shaw is widely known as a
farm leader in North Carolina. He
is Executive Vice-President of
North Carolina Farm Bureau Fed
eration with over 60,000 members.
Nine directors are to be elected
at the annual meeting, reports will
be presented, and routine business
will be transacted.
Billy Pippin Wins Expense-Paid
Trip to Cuba, Leaves by Air Today
Billy Pippin will leave today
for Cuba.
Billy is one of the 15 news car
riers for the Raleigh Times who
won a trip to that island for re
ceiving a record number of sub
scriptions in their delivery dis
tricts.
He said he will leave by plane
from Raleigh-Durham air termi
nal today and fly to Florida. At
a Florida seaport he will epibark
on a crusier for Havana.
“I am very thrilled and happy,”
Billy said. “And I want to thank
all those people who have been so
kind to me.”
Wednesday evening at six o’
clock he appeared on WNAO tele
vision station and was interviewed.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Allen Pippin.
Southern Association Evaluates
Wakelon High for Acceditation
Zebu I on, Wendell Report
Progress in FC Projects
There has been no total made of
the amount of money collected
from the ticket sale for the All
Night Sing sponsored by the Lions
Club for the purpose of raising
enough money to uniform the
Wakelon High School band.
“We are hoping to have an of
ficial report soon of the amount
collected from the sale, and will
publish this report in next week’s
paper,” Lion President Frank
Kemp said.
Kemp said money is still being
collected from persons who vol
unteered to sell tickets, and until
all the collection and unsold tickets
are turned in no accurate total
can be made.
“As of today (Wednesday) it
looks as if we are going to re&ch
our goal,” he said. “Things lopk
very good now.”
The goal iS to outfit the 50 mem
bers of the Wakelon High School
band with uniforms. The estimate
ed cost of this project — also a
Finer Carolina Project entry —
will be about $4,000.
The highlight of the Sing Sat
urday night was the awarding of
the door prize, a beautiful 1956
Chevrolet valued at over $2,100.
The car was purchased from J. M.
Chevrolet Company here by the
Lions Club for the grand prize.
Mrs. R. E. Kitchings was an
nounced the winner at the mid
evening drawing. She was notified
at her home, and came to the au
(See LIONS CLUB, Page 4)
| Miss Talbert Is
Painfully Burned
Exploding gasoline has caused
serious and painful injuries to the
| lower limbs of Miss Rebekah Tal
bert, teacher for the handicapped
children at Wakelon school. The
accident occurred Saturday.
It is reported that Miss Talbert
crossed the living room of her
home in Advance where she was
spending the Easter holidays with
her family with a jar of gasoline
when it exploded.
She had reportedly been mowing
the lawn with a gasoline-powered
mower. The fuel had given out
and she was going to replenish it.
The explosion caused her cloth
(See ACCIDENT, Page 9)
Auxiliary Meeting
Mrs. Pat Fanner has an
nounced that the American
Legion Auxiliary will meet to
night at 8 o’clock in the home
of Mrs. Esten Corbett
Mrs. Foster Lewis will be Ul
charge of the program, speak
ing on “Pan America.”
All Auxiliary members are
urged to attend.
A Finer Carolina progress re
port meeting was held in the Wen
dell Chamber of Commerce offic
Thursday night. Those preser
who were steering committee mem
bers were Mrs. J. J. Mattox, Mr;
Francis Dew, Dr. R. Leo Hortoi
James H. Parish, and H. D. Hal
Ira H. Johnson, general chair
man, presided over the meetinj
which was also attended by Mri
W. W. Terrell, reporting for Wen
dell’s three garden clubs; Welc!
Narron, chairman of the Lion
Club project; and Mrs. Dale Da
vis, secretary of the Chamber c
Commerce.
Mrs. Terrell, reported that th
Wendell Garden Club had spen
$18.00 and the Morning Worksho;
$16.50 for thirty-two shrubs whic
were planted in the islands 01
Main and Third Streets.
On behalf of the Garden Club
Mrs. Terrell expressed apprecia
(See CAROLINA, Page 7)
Injured Baseball
Player Is Better
Billy Wavyne O’Neal, the youn,
Corinth-Holder baseball playe
who wds hit in the head in a gam
at Micro on March 22 and wh<
underwent surgery in Duke Hos
pital, is improving, according fc
word from Corinth-Holder Princi
pal Ottis Freeman.
Freeman visited O’Neal at Duk
Hospital Sunday afternoon am
said that the injured boy showe<
“much improvement.”
“Billy Wayne had regained com
sciousness Friday and the doctor
had let his private nurses go Sun
day when I was there,” said Free
man, “so I think it safe to assumi
that they feel he is making goo<
improvement. I did not get to tall
with any of the doctors, nor hav<
1 seen the parents since last week
but Billy Wayne seems much bet
ter.”
The injured player was rushec
(See BALL PLAYER, Page 2)
Banquet Honors
Visitors; Noted
Educators Present
The visiting members of the
e Southern Association of Secondary
* Schools and Colleges were enter
- tained at a banquet Wednesday
'• everting, at Wakelon School cafe
'» teria.
The Association is visiting the
■ school for the purpose of making
■> an evaluation of the educational
* plant in connection with the school
* becoming a member of the Asso
* ciation.
s The visiting educators included
‘ Dr. A. B. Combs, Director of the
Division of Elementary and Secon
dary Education with the North
■ Carolina State Department of Pub
* lie Instruction, and chairman of
* this committee;
* W. D. Payne, Supt. of Hender
son City Schools; C. C. Linneman,
s Principal of Walter Williams High
School, Burlington; Dr. J. Minor
Gwynn, University of North Caro
lina; Dr. Samuel Holton, Univer
sity of North Carolina; Dr. E. C.
Bolmeir, Duke University;
Dr. Allen S. Hurlburt, State De
partment of Public Instruction; T.
Carl Brown, Miss Helen Stuart,
Miss Eunice Query, Henry A.
Shannon, and Roy Jewel, all of
the State Department of Public
, Instruction.
r Franklin R. Jones, principal of
; the school, introduced the educa
j tion dignitaries to the banquet
. guests which included the faculty
j of the school, the Wakelon School
. Board, the Wake County School
Board, patrons, press and others.
, (See ASSOCIATION, Page 5)
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Name Changed
John L. Stone informed the Rec
■ ord that Zebulon Lumber Com
s pany has changed its name to Stone
I Lumber Company, Inc.
The name was changed Tuesday
t after a consultation between Jim
, Stone and the company’s attorney
• in Nashville.
The corporation is made up of
I Jim Stone, president; John L.
Stone, manager; and Philip Stone.
Campbell College Choir Will Sing
Sunday Evening in Baptist Church
The Campbell College Choir, un
der the direction of Charles Hor
ton, head of the department of mu
sic at that institution, will give a
:oncert Sunday evening at 8 o’
clock at the Zebulon Baptist
rhurch.
The choir that will perform will
se composed of 45 students from
:he college’s 75 voice choir. Among
:hese will be Miss Martha Tem
ple, Miss Annette Strickland,
rommy Temple and Phil Brown.
Horton has said that the choir
vill present musical selec
tions composed of classical and
modern numbers. The music will
range from early i5th century an
thems through modern settings of
white and Negro spirituals.
In addition to the full choir, tha
program will include renditions
by the College Male Octet and the §
Girls’ Trio. *
This will be the sixth annual
tour, of the Campbell College
Choir. It has performed in many
cities throughout North Carolina,
and has received landatory praises
from over the state.
The public is invited to this con
cert.