« THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 55.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, April 13, 1956
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Wake Eiectric Membership Corporation’s large, new power sub
station is located on Highway 39 one mile north of Emit. This mod
ern substation is designed to keep a constant flow of electric power
to all cooperative members’ homes and businesses.
R. Flake Shaw Chosen
Speaker for REA Banquet
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Over 1000 members, their famil
ies and friends of Wake Electric
Membership Corporation from
Granville, Wake, Vance, Durham,
Johnston, Nash and Franklin coun
ties are expected to attend their
Cooperative’s 16th Annual Meet
ing this Saturday in Wake Forest.
Mr. R. Flake Shaw, Executive
Vice-President of the North Car
olina Farm Bureau Federation,
Greensboro, will be the main
speaker, reports of officers and
Manager, J. L. Shearon, and the
election of nine directors to look
after the electric Cooperative’s
business during the next year are
the most important items on the
program.
Directors of the Cooperative
are: T. W. Allen, President, Creed
moor, Rll, C. E. Young,' Vice
President, Wake Forest, R2, E. C.
Hunt, Secretary, Wake Forest, J.
P. Bailey, Treasurer, Wake Forest,
Rl, N. C. Brummitt, Kittrel}, R2,
J. M. Barnes, Henderson, R4, R. L. i
Peele, Middlesex, Rl, J. E. Gris- j
som, Jr., Oxford, R5, and W. O.
Fuller, Louisburg, Rl, and these
same men have been re-nominated
and recommended to be elected for
another year.
Other highlights of the program
will be entertainment by Bill
Jackson, and the Farmhands from
Radio Station WPTF, and barbecue
dinner for all who are in attend
ance at very reasonable prices in
the High School cafeteria.
This is a very important meeting
for all members of the Wake Elec
tric and a good place to go to
meet your friends.
Junior Women
To Hold Banquet
The Junior Woman’s Club is
having its annual dinner April 17
at Parkers in Wilson, Mrs. Gilmer
Parrish, president of the club, has
announced.
This annually sponsored event
by the club is open to the mem
bers of the club, their husbands,
guests and prospective club mem
bers. .. ‘ ' t
The food will be served family
style, costing each person a $1.50
per plate.
The club has reserved the main
dining room at Parkers. During the
evening there will be group singing
under the direction of Mrs. Ed El
lington and Mrs. Frank Kemp.
Mrs. Ted Milam, chairman of ar
rangements, will contact each
member of the club by telephone
this weekend for an up-to-date list
of the ones going.
Mrs. Parrish stated that it is
desired that the members, guests
and other persons interested in
attending this dinner meet at the
club house at 6:30. The dinner
meeting will get under way at
7:30.
She also wishes to be contacted
if any of the members plan to be
delegates at the annual state con
vention to be held in Durham April
24, 25 and 26.
Boyhood Pal of Daniel to be
Best Man at Nuptials in, April
jf John Knox Barrow, Jr. will be
I best man at the E. C. Daniel, Jr.
I Margaret Truman wedding.
Daniel announced last week that
his boyhood pal will serve as best
man at the wedding oft April 21.
Barrow said in an interview, “I
am very pleased at being asked to
be best man. We have been life
long friends. I am very pleased.”
He refused to divulge when Dan
iel asked him to serve as best man.
Barrow, who grew up, played,
and went to both high school and
college with Daniel, is now a resi
dent of Ahoskie. He is one of that
town’s most prominent citizens,
serving in numerous civic capaci
ties.
He is an elder in the Ahoskie
(See BEST MAN, Page 7)
R. Vance Brown Is Acquitted
On All 12 Counts in Raleigh
Fund Raising
Card Session
The Carmen Flowers Garden
Club is sponsoring a bridge tourna
m'ent Thursday, April 19, from 3
in the afternoon until 10 that night.
The club voted at its last meet
ing to sponsor this tournament
with the expectation of raising
enough money to alleviate the debt
that was incurred in 1955 when
they landscaped the armory
grounds.
Mrs. Ruric Gill, Sr., chairman of
the tournament, said the tourna
ment will be held at the Woman’s
Club house. Tables, cards, tallies
and refreshments will be furnish
ed.
She said that it will not be lim
ited to bridge alone. There will be
canasta, set back, rook, rummy,
and other card gan.es available.
The price of participating in this
tourney will be $.75 per person.
Anyone wishing tickets to the
affair should contact a member of
the club, or tickets may be pur
chased at the door.
Monday Night —
Last PTA Meet
The Wakelon School P. T. A.
will hold its last meeting of the
1955-56 school year on Monday
night at 7:45 in the school audi
torium. The girl scouts will pro
vide a nursery for the convenience
of those parents who bring small
children.
Mrs. George Henry Temple, pro
gram chairman, announces that
four students will present essays
on, “What I Expect To Get Out of
High School.” Betty Baker from
the senior class, Kay Pate, junior
class, Mary Jo Pace, Sophomore
and Martha Driver, Freshman,
have been selected to present their
essays as they were chosen best in
the school. Each of these students
will be presented a prize and
judges will select the best of these
four to receive an additional prize.
The essays will be judged on struc
ture, content, sincerity, delivery
etc. Mrs. Temple and the Wake
Ion Faculty urge school pa
trons to attend this meeting and
support these young ladies in their
program.
Mrs. Eldred Rountree, P. T. A.
President, expresses thanks to par
ents and the faculty for their sup
port of the P. T. A. during this
school year. She also expresses
her thanks to the community for
its support of P. T. A. Projects this
Still Found
Saturday about 4 o’clock officers
raided a 1,000-gallon whiskey dis
tillery 5 miles northwest of Zebu
Ion on the Billy Perry farm.
Perry denied knowing the still
was on his property.
Franklin County Sheriff Willis
Perry, Deputy Hal Richards and
ABC Officer David Perry discov
ered 18,000 gallons of mash, 2,500
pounds of corn meal, 200 bags of
coke and 50 gallons of whiskey.
Officers also found provisions
nearby for eating and sleeping.
Wakeloii Senior
Wins Scholarship
Miss Dottie Privette has been
notified by J. B. Cook, Jr., Wake
Forest College secretary of schol
arships, that she is the .recipient of
a scholarship to the college.
Miss Privette, a senior at Wake
Ion school, has been outstanding
scholastically. She is an officer in
the Beta Club, co-editor of the
school annual, local winner in the
Science Fair and president of the
Science Club. She is also a talented
musician.
She is the daughter of Mrs. Dor
is Privette and she will enter Wake
Forest College this fall and study
music.
Methodist Speaker
E. H. Moser, charge lay leader
of the Zebulon Methodist Church,
will bring the morning message
Sunday at 11 o’clock. He will use
as his topic, “This I Believe.”
Garland Richardson, will pre
side during the services, with H.
V. Andrews leading the responsive
reading. Miss Betsy Brantley will
be organist.
R. Vance Brown, local banker
and member of the Zebulon Board
of Commissioners, was acquitted
of charges of embezzlement from
the local bank and making false
entries in the United States District
Court for Eastern North Carolina
in Raleigh yesterday afternoon at
4:15 p.m.
District Judge Don Gilliam of
Tarboro directed the verdict of not
guilty on all charges after Mr.
Brown testified in his own behalf,
and some two dozen Zebulon men
were tendered or examined rela
tive to the local banker’s good
character.
“There is no doubt that the
government has completely failed
to prove its charges against the
defendant,” Judge Gilliam said,
“and he is entitled to and I now
direct a verdict of not guilty on
all counts.”
Trial of the case began Wednes
day afternoon, when a jury was
selected, and the government
called Horace Gay, assistant to Mr.
Brown in the local branch of Peo
ples Bank & Trust Company, as its
main witness. Mr. Gay testified
that he had discovered discrepan
cies in service charge figures at the
local bank, and stated that he had
for a considerable period of time
(See BROWN, Page 7)
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R. Vance Brown
Main Street Scene:
Measuring, Fitting, Selecting
Pleasant Sights: Ma (Mrs. Nor
man) Screws pushing her little
granddaughter Norma Helen in her
peram on the streets . . . Mrs. Lo
renzo Temple puttering in her
flower garden profuse with bloom
ing tulips, verbena, oxalis . . .
Mrs. Sam Horton sewing bloomer
shorts for her granddaughter . . .
Mrs. John Barrow showing pic
tures of her children when they
were young . . . very chubby, cute
and pretty.
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Mrs. E. H. Moser said that dur
ing her first year of teaching at
Wakelon School she had four sets
of sisters and brothers in her fifth
grade. They were Riggsby and
Dimock Massey, Early and Maudie
Brantley, Luther and Lula Long,
and Lorenzo and Lena Bunn.
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Hasn’t another of our town’s
prominent citizens been offered an
outstanding position and will be
leaving soon?
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“If we have many more scandals
in this town,” she said taking a
bra from the bra table and holding
it up to her for size, “the old Maker
is going to rain down fire and
brimstone, halleluiah! I’m just be
fore getting my belongings togeth
er and moving out.”
“Well, I’m not,” retorted an
other, testing the elastic in a bra.
“I don’t aim to go anywhere. I’m
going to stick around and enjoy it
all. Zebulon is not only the biggest
little town on earth, it is also the
most interesting.’^
Boosters
Mrs. Garland Richardson,
president of the Wakelon Boos
ters Club, announces that a call
meeting of the members and of
ficers of the club will meet to
night at 8 o’clock at the school.
Mrs. Richardson said that this
meeting will concern the pre
sentation and adoption of the
by-laws of the club’s constitu
tion and other business.
This will be the last meeting
of the club, and all members are
urged to attend.