THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 68.
Zebulon, Nj C., Tuesday, May 29, 1956
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Twentieth Year Class Reunion Is Held
By Corinth-Holders 1936 Graduates
On May 5 the Corinth-Holders :
graduates of 1936 and their hus
bands and wives gathered at the
school for their 20th anniversary
reunion.
Before the banquet they were
taken on a tour of the buildings
Wreck Victim
Holds His Own
The condition of Eddie Bullock
seems to be improving, according
to information given by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bullock
of West Horton Street.
Eddie, 17, and a Junior at Wake
Ion High School, was critically in
jured last Thursday when the
1947 Ford Sedan he was driving
over-turned after he had rounded
a curve on the Middlesex-Wen
dell highway, approximately three
quarters of a mile east of Maupass
Bridge. He was the only occupant
of the car.
He was thrown approximately 50
feet into a field when the car over
turned an undetermined number of
times, according to his parents. He
(See VICTIM, Page 4)
and grounds by Principal Ottis C.
Freeman.
Chad Narron presided over the
banquet, with a welcome being
given by Mrs. Willie Griswold.
Class president Ralph Green re
sponded to Mrs. Griswold’s mes
sage. The invocation was pro-1
nounced by Ralph Bunn, who also
presented the memorial to the de
ceased member of the class, Mrs.
Ransom Creech.
Present for this occasion were
Duke Bunn, Lucile Bunch (Mrs.
W. L. Cooke), Merle Cope (Mrs.
Ned Barnes, Ruth Boyette (Mrs.
Carl Manning), Ralph Bunn, Katie
Bunn (Mrs. Willie Griswold), Ma
mie Dean (Mrs. Arthur Mitchell),
Erseal Driver (Mrs. Sam Lewis),
Daisy Narron, W®lie Griswold,Vir
ginia Lee Hinnant (Mrs. Graham
Lane), Chad Narron, William R.
O’Neal, Inez Price, Ruth Snipes
(Mrs. Douglas Brown), Esther
Ward (Mrs. M. E. Upchurch), Guy
Tippett, Lillie Green, Ralph Green,
Eula Peale Davis (Mrs. John
Bobby, Myrtle Patterson (Mrs.
Loomis Whitley), and Rayo Bailey.
Guests at the event were Mr.
and Mrs. Cedric Pearce, the class
sponsor, Mr. and Mrs. Ottis C.
Freeman, and Mr. and Mrs. Hay
wood Bright of Elizabeth City.
The banquet dinner included
baked ham, string beans, candied
yams, lettuce, tomato, stuffed cel
ery, olives, hot rolls, strawberry
shortcake and iced tea.
This class made plans to meet
again for another reunion in five
years.
Hospital Site May Be
Favorable to L Wake;
Informant Hopeful
Baptist Minister
Announces Plans
The Rev. Beverly A. Asbury an
nounced his plans to the Zebulon
Baptist Church at the services last
Sunday morning.
He told the congregation of his
appointment and tentative accept
ance as chapel director and assist
ant professor of religion at West
minster College at Fulton, Mo.
This position will be effective
September 1. He will leave his
present post as pastor of the church
June 20.
During the month of July the
Rev. Asbury will attend a chap
lain conference as a representative
from Westminster College. This
conference is to be held in Mon
treat.
He will be the speaker from Ju
ly 24 to 27 at the annual minister's
institute in Atlanta, Ga. This in
stitute is sponsored by Morehouse
College and the Southern Baptist
Mission Board.
There is still a possibility Mr.
Asbury might be given a Fulbright
scholarship for study in England.
(See ASBURY, Page 4)
Information received by this
paper indicates that a decision is
soon due on the location of a site
for a Wake County hospital.
A selection of the hospital site
has been a much argued subject
since the hospital bond issue.
The informant said he feels like
the site selected will be on Pooie
Road at the south end of Peartree
Lane.
He further added that he thinks
this will be the site that will be
most satisfactory to the people in
south and east Wake County, as
well as the doctors in Raleigh.
Right now, he said, this site is
easily accessible and will be more
so when the belt line is built
around Raleigh. The new fu
ture belt line will skirt this prop
erty he said.
He stated that he feels this is
the happy solution for everybody
concerned.
Something definite will be forth
coming soon he said, possibly with
in the next 10 days or two weeks.
The property, connection of util
ities and necessary site preparation
will cost approximately $125,000,
this person revealed.
He said “it appears to us — the
site selection committee — that this
is the solution to the site prob
lem.”
Light Balloting Done Here in Saturday's
Primary; Whitley, Gill, Richardson Win
Voting was light in Zebulon in
the Democratic Primary Saturday,
□nly 747 ballots were cast.
In the race for governorship,
Luther H. Hodges received 680
rotes; C. E. Earle, 6; Tom Saw
yer, 27; and Harry P. Stokeley, 15.
Alonzo C. Edwards was high
man for lieutenant governor. He
received 330 votes; Luther Barn
aardt, 143; Kidd Brewer, 95; Gur
ney P. Hood, 85; and J. V. Whlt
Eield, 32.
In the Insurance Commissioner’s
rontest, Charles Gold received 568
rotes, while his opponent, John A.
Frederick, got only 84.
Wake County’s own L. Y. Bal
entine recorded 644 votes for Com
missioner of Agriculture. Opponent
Kermit U. Gray got only 33.
Commissioner of Labor Frank
Crane defeated his opponents with
a vote of 323. H. D. Lambeth got
169 and James R. Farlow took 113.
United States Senator Sam J.
Ervin, Jr., was assured another
term in office by receiving 615
rotes from Zebulon. His opponent
received just 35.
Harold D. Cooley, who cam
paigned in Zebulon, received 582
rotes, while his opponent, W. E.
Debnam, got only 147. This contest
was for a member of congress
from the fourth congressional dis
trict.
For state senator from the thir
teenth senatorial district, James M.
Poyner received 519 ballots. Martin
K. Green, his opponent, received
128 votes.
Philip R. Whitley, Wendell na
tive, was the top man in the Wake
County House of Representatives
contest. He received 593 votes.
His running mates George M. An
derson got 379; W. C. Harris, 334;
and W. Brantley Womble, 519.
In the County Commissioner’s
race Ben W. Haigh got 389, topping
his opponents. Walter L. Bagwell
(See PRIMARY, Page 4)
Pictured above are performers who participated in Mrs. H. C. Wade’s dance re
cital given May 18 at Wakelon High School audtitorium.
The recital participants presented terpslchorean numbers in tap soft shoe, ballet
and other forms of creative dancing.
Reviews of the evening’s performance were laudatory, and a retired profes
sional teacher who attended said it was “a-recital o£ the highest caliber, equal to
that of city studio dance recitals.”
At the end of the recital, Mrs. Wade presented awards to her five, six, seven and
nine pupils. It was estimated that more than 600 persons attend the recital.—Photo
by J. L. McGee.