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The First Step
Uniforms are assured for Wakelon's rapidly-improving
band, and with the purchase of the gold and black costumes
for the enthusiastic musicians, a giant step will liave been
taken toward winning a prize for the Zebulon Community
in Carolina Power and Light Company’s "Finer Carolina’
contest. Four more similar steps and success is sure.
As frequently is the case, the major portion of the work
in the band uniform project was done by a very small group
of people. The fact is that Steering Committee Chairman
Frank Kemp was saddled with not only the responsibility
of the undertaking, but an unbelievable amount of the work
as well.
If the rest of us in the community will contribute to
the remaining four projects one small fraction of what Lion
Frank Kemp has given toward the first, this will prove a
year of progress toward a truly finer Zebulon.
Rotten Plank for the Platform
Few North Carolinians believe that segregation can be
continued forever in the State. Most Tar Heels expect that,
no matter what our personal desires, segregation will end.
All North Carolinians foresee unhappy situations and un
fortunate incidents as a result of coming integration in the
schools. These are things few honest people will dispute.
However there are many who, for personal gain will
play upon the pride and prejudices of both Caucasian and
Negro races during the present political campaign. The
air soon will be filled with harrangues as candidate seeks
to outdo candidate in his views on handling segregation.
The result will be increased friction, heated tempers,
antagonism, and over-emphasis of one plank in a platform
where there are so many others which should be examined.
If we concern ourselves solely with the segregation issue
during the 1956 elections, we’re cutting our noses to spite
our faces. Consider segregation, certainly, but hold it to
a sensible, safe proportion. Don’t make it the rotten plank
in the platform.
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THE ZEBULON RECORD
Published Tuesday and Friday of each week; Subscription
rate: $2.00 a year. Advert is inf rates on request.
Entered as second class matter June 28, 1925, at the
post office at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the act of March
3, 1879. Member of the North Carolina Press Association.
Barrie S. Davis
Scotte Brown_
Jade M. Potter, Jr. _
Ferd L. Davis _
-Editor
-News Editor
- Publisher
- Fifth Wheel
THE THOMASVim TRIBUNE SAYS
The Urge to Escape
London and Paris and Moscow
... but not Zebulon, North Car
olina. Washington and New York,
and Independence, Mo., but not
Zebulon.
Who ever heard of Zebulon be
fore Margaret Truman discovered
a man who was born there?
Until yesterday Zebulon was a
quiet, rural community where the
Davis brothers run a newspaper,
inherited from their father. A
place where Mr. Daniel, Sr., has a
drug store, where there are a few
filling stations. The other side of
Raleigh from here, Zebulon is a
way station on the way to the
coast. Vacationers have hurried
through it in the dead of the night.
But now, some of them will stop
and wonder about a boy who was
born there; who hated the drug
store business and who dreamed of
the far away places that a success
ful newspaper correspondent could
be assigned to. The nearest way
out was the University at Chapel
Hill, and he took it as an open
door, with the News and Observer
at Raleigh as an outside push up
the ladder, away from Zebulon.
But there isn’t too much differ
ence between Zebulon and Inde
pendance, Mo., and the still small
er farming community near there
where Miss Truman’s grandmother
lived and died. There is in to
day’s story of an engaged couple,
something that is fundamental in
the American way of living, so
much so that the former Presi
dent’s daughter gains more than
a husband in the process.
The urge of a boy to escape from
Zebulon has brought that commun
ity more fame than he could have
dreamed of behind the drug store
counter.—The Thomasville (N. C.)
Tribune, Tuesday, Mar. 13, 1956
But A Stanhope Resilient Retorts
I’ve Heard of Zebulon
Mr. Tom Shaw
Editor of Tribune
Thomasville, N. C.
Dear Mr. Shaw:
In reply to your editorial in the
Tribune of March 13, 1956, en
titled “The Urge To Escape” you
asked the question, “Who ever
heard of Zebulon?” Well, I have.
That quiet, little rural community
(it’s a town in my language) you
spoke of or just a way station for
people who are hurrying to the
seacoast in the dead of the night
is only a hop, skip and jump from
my home community of Stanhope,
located on Route 95 (and Stanhope
is just a community) but it like
Zebulon has been around a long
r
time, much longer than Margaret
Truman.
Very true Margaret and Clifton
Daniel are about to make it na
tionally famous — all well and
good, but a lot of Eastern Carolina
citizens (including me) who have
moved to this section of the state
(and I love the Piedmont) know
and have known about Zebulon.
These fast moving people who
hurry to the seacoast in the dead
of the night would do well to
change their schedule and travel
through Zebulon during the day
light hours. They have been miss
ing something. That something is
a lovely residential street (High
way 64) lined with lovely shade
trees and well kept lawns and
beautiful flowers that present a
good front to many lovely homes.
A very peaceful and soothing scene
on a hot summer day. Zebulon
has several stores, too, including
dime store, clothing stores, hard
ware and grocery stores, feed and
implement stores and of course
drug stores and many other types
as well as filling stations^
Yours very truly,
Mrs. Clifton Black,
Nee, Imogene Strickland,
of Stanhope, Nash County, N. C.
located 13 miles East of Zebulon,
N. C.
Thomasville, March 19, 1956.
Uncle Ferds Almanac
Happy Friday the thirteenth to
you! Today is the second Friday
the 13th this year,' and we’ll have
one more, come July. The first one
was in January.
Of course you know that Friday
the 13th is an unlucky day; all in
telligent, educated people know
that.
Thirteen is an unlucky num
ber, and has been for quite a spell.
Many Christians believe that the
Last Supper of Christ and His
twelve apostles gave rise to the
superstition, but it is much older
than Christianity, dating back to
the evil Loki making the 13th guest
at a Valhalla banquet and tragedy
resulting — and maybe it dates
back beyond that.
Friday has always been a day of
significance, especially for murder
ers. Practically all death sentences
rail for execution on Fridays.
Adam was created on a Friday,
and he was expelled from the gar
den of Eden on a Friday; anybody
know what day Eve was made?
Adam repented on Friday, and
he died on Friday. Christ also died
on Friday, and the dead will rise
for the last judgment on Friday.
You can see that Friday is quite
a day, even without its falling on
the 13th day of the month. And
when it does, look out!
It is bad luck to spill salt on Fri
day; if you happen to spill salt
today, be sure to toss a little over
your left shoulder, turn around
twice, and recite the 23rd Psalm
backwards.
It is also bad luck to drive a car
faster than 55 on a Friday, espe
ial if a highway patrolman catches
you at it.
It is bad luck to call an Italian
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a “Guinea” on Friday the 13th, and
it is bad luck to make disparaging
remarks about Robert E. Lee to a
Virginian on on Friday the 13th.
You should never take a shower
and then cut off the bathroom light
without first drying yourself on
Friday the 13th; and you should.
not take long bus trips (without a
ticket) on Friday the 13th.
My other suggestions which may
get you safely through Friday,
April 13, follow:
Make sure any mushrooms you
eat today are not toadstoods.
Don’t slide down lightning rods
in thunderstorms.
Don’t argue with your wife when
she has a meat cleaver in her
band.
So much for Friday the 13th;
low I can start worrying about
Saturday the 14th.
A Pretty Proud Fellow
Your average Tar Heel car own
er — and there are a whale of a
lot of them in North Carolina —
is a pretty proud fellow when it
comes to the family car. In fact
a family is often judged by the
type car it drives — or a business
by the appearance of its fleet. The
automobile has become a yard
stick of success —a badge of dis
tinction.
It’s no wonder, then, that auto
mobile owners keep them groom
ed to the teeth, interiors swept and
garnished, chrome and glass pol
ished to dazzling perfection.
But unfortunately there are too
many motorists who are mainly
interested in the shiny outside.
They don’t realize that the me
chanical condition of the vehicle
is much more important than its
beauty. Important not only be
cause locomotion is its basic func
tion, but because an unsafe car is
a dangerous car.
A motor vehicle with unsafe
brakes, lights, or steering mechan
ism may not cause its owner to lose
face, but it can easily cause him to
lose his life.
Because too many drivers are
not sufficiently aware of tM«.
they neglect vehicle maintenance.
As a result countless unnecessary
traffic accidents occur in North
Carolina each year.
Just how many the State De
partment of Motor Vehicles is un
able to say accurately. The true
case against inadequate vehicle
maintenance can never be fully
presented' because in many fatal
accidents the car or cars involved
are so badly smashed that preex
isting repair needs cannot be de
termined.
However, the National Safety
Council has established from an
extensive gathering of figures that
nationally about six per cent of the
vehicles involved in fatal smash
ups were mechanically unsafe.
In North Carolina there is rea
son to believe that the figure in
last year’s fatal accidents was
greater than six per cent.
The facts indicate there is a re
lationship between mechanically
unsafe cars and accidents. The ob
vious way to check accidents
caused by unsafe vehicles is to
have them checked periodically.
Does your car get the mechani
cal attention it needs?
Let’s take a closer look at . . .
BRAKES: Do they take hold
evenly on all wheels? ... Do they
stop in at least 30 feet from 20
mPh? • • . Find out by inspec
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