THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 74. Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, June 19, 1956 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
WEEK OF FUN—Loading up baggage for a week's outing at the beach are Zebulon
youngsters. The affair is sponsored by the Zebulon Baptist Church. It is part of a youth
movement program which is the community’s central effort in the 1956 Finer Carolina
contest of Carolina Power & Light Company. Parents are bearing food parcels and good
wishes.
Zebulon Youths Ask for Space
For Teenage Headquarters
GARDEN TIME
Control Moisture
By Using Mulches
By Robert Schmidt
Are you getting tired of run
ning the cultivator and fielding
the hoe in your garden in a losing
battle with weeds and grass? Why
not use a mulch?
It is surprising how few garden
ers make use of mulches as an aid
in the conservation of soil moisture
and the control of weeds. A mulch
may be any material such as hay,
straw, strawy manure, leaves,
leafmold, peat, sawdust, pinestraw
or heavy paper which can be put
down on the ground around plants
for the purpose of conserving mois
ture during the hot, dry summer
weather. At the same time it will
keep down most of the weeds.
Cardboard boxes, flattened out,
have been used with excellent re
sults. Ground corn cobs are also
being used.
Many vegetables, flowers, small
fruits and shrubs are good sub
jects for mulching. Dahlias, toma
toes, peppers, eggplants and .cu
cumbers may be mulched with
straw, leaves, cardboard or heavy
paper. Azaleas, camellias, and
blueberries which desire an acid
(See GARDEN TIME, Page 8)
Zebulon hopes to “build a Finer
Carolina” by building around its
youth.
'A youth movement constitutes
Zebulon’s key project in the 1956
Finer Carolina program, sponsor
ed by Carolina Power & Light
Company. Some 140 other com
munities are competing in this civ
ic improvement contest.
Zebulon’s idea originated with
its youngsters. They formed a
youth council and asked the Finer
Carolina steering committee to help
them find space for a teenage
headquarters.
Impressed by the youngsters’ en
thusiasm, the committee adopted
the theme “Building Finer Caroli
na Youths.”
Through the youth movement or
ganization, the youths themselves
will coordinate all their present
activities such as scouting, planned
athletics and church youth pro
grams. They also will set up a
social calendar and organize teen
ager participation in civic pro
grams.
“We want the kids to learn the
meaning of responsibility,” says H.
A. Hodge, Jr., chairman of the
youth program and a state parole
supervisor. “Already they plan to
handle a house numbering project,
part of our Finer Carolina program,
and conduct a highway safety cam
paign in cooperation with the State
Highway Patrol.”
Both Baptist and Methodist
churches have active youth pro
(See YOUTHS, Page 8)
Worry Is Useless Habit
The habit of worry is a very use
less habit. It is rarely if ever it
brings any benefits. Some one has
said that nearly one third of all
worrying is over things that have
already passed. To be sorry for
past deeds and mistakes might be
of some value but worry over the
past will change nothing, for the
past will never come this way
again.
Statistics show that about forty
percent of all worry is about
things in the future that never
, take place. If they should take
place most likely we will not be
' living to be affected by them. In
my early childhood I knew a fam-<
ily that had an abundance of good
wholesome food. Plenty of com
fortable clothing and a good home
to live in but constantly they were
talking and worrying about what
they would do the next year. I
knew a woman who worried about
leaving home for fear the house
could catch on fire and bum down
or that her grand children would
come and fall in the well. The
house did not bum down but did
rot down. The well has been filled
in but none of her grand children
ever fell in it.
The statisticians estimate that
about twenty percent of our wor
ries are petty and needless wor
ries. If we really have any legiti
mate worries they constitute less
than ten per cent of all our wor
ries. The average person does a lot
of useless worrying. Then why
worry.
Reporters Do
Not See AH
By W. R. Cullom
If one depends on Will Roger’s
source of information (“the pa
pers”) I fear that he will have grea1
difficulty in finding any such
signs. I am going to point out five
in this paper which the average
newspaper reporter does not see:
1. The multiplication and use o)
devotional literature. The Metho
dists started The Upper Room
twenty-one years ago in this year,
1956. Its growth, its spread, and
its influence have been nothing
short of marvellous. I have used
it through most of its life and
can testify to its high character and
its spiritual power and help. The
Episcopalians have their Forward,
the Presbyterians have their Day
By-Day, Southern Baptists have
their Open Windows, the Ameri
can Baptists have their Secret
Place. All these publications are
flourishing in a wonderful way —
in a-way that would be impossi
ble unless there were in the souls
of people a hunger for God and
nothing short of a personal fellow
ship with Him.
2. Dr. E. Stanley Jones, This man
of God is an institution in himself
—so much so that he has become
a world figure. He has put out
something like a dozen books, each
of which has as its basic purpose
that of bringing people face to
face with God in their daily living.
He has also introduced the Ashram
into America. The Ashram is a
Hindu institution. I attended the
first one that was held in this
country at Blue Ridge, N. C. It is
simply a retreat where Christians
meet for a week of devotional
study, prayer and fellowship. They
are being held almost over the
whole earth now, and are greatly
enriching and blessing thousands
andjiundreds of thousands of hu
man lives. •
3. The C. F. O. — The Camp Far
thest Out. Its name is suggestive—
an effort to reach the remotest
person. And this applies not to
geography only, but to character
and life as well. The originator of
this movement was Dr. Glenn
(See REPORTERS, page 8)
NC Safety Campaign
During '55 Results
In Fewer Deaths
The following article was writ- :
ten by J. Pettigrew Price, North
Carolina State driving license ex
aminer.
Safety was in the news in 1955.
But the death and destruction
made the headlines. With fore
sight and ingenuity, safety was
built into our automobiles to an
extent never before accomplished.
With skill and inventiveness, com
pelling slogans of care were broad
cast through every medium of
communications. With indifference
and utter unconcern, the motoring
public produced a great number of
casualties.
Because of a slight decrease in
death and injuries in 1954, there
seemed some cause for optimism.
However, this proved to be another
of those fatal fallacies which
characterize the field of highway
safety. For in 1955 we compiled the
regrettable total of 1165 deaths, an
increase of 18% over 1954, and 17,
875 injuries, an increase of 15%
over 1954. Thus the trend has re
versed itself in what was the most
safety-conscious year in our his
tory.
These blunt and bloody statis
tics again substantiate the often re
peated thesis of these editorials.
In driving there is no substitute
for self-reliance. Safety belts,
special padding and other mechan
ical features all help but reliance
on them is a fatal fallacy. Reliance
on the other driver or pedestrian
to follow the rules of the road to
the letter is a fatal fallacy.
Straighter wider roads are wel
come but reliance on them is a fa
tal fallacy. And by definition, a
fatal fallacy is a mistaken belief
that leads to disaster.
This is not to dismiss all the
advances that have been made in
alleviating the seriousness of acci
dents. Every one of these steps is
a stride in the right direction. But
to his reflexes; plus his body har
nessed to his seat which is going to
produce fewer accidents. It is
brainpower not horsepower; the
power to steer and brake; not pow
er steering or power braking which
is the ultimate solution to the safe
ty problem.
Again in 1955, we saw repeated
the fatal fallacy of safety by de
cree. While the President’s offi
(See CAMPAIGN, Page 8)

The Rev. Bobby Jackson
One of the South’s leading evan
gelists is conducting a revival se
ries at Friendship Free Will Bap
tist Church near Emit this week,
Pastor Larue Davis has announced.
The Rev. Bobby Jackson, a na
tive of Fremont, is in charge of
the week’s evangelistic campaign.
He received his A. B. degree from
the Free Will Baptist Bible Col
lege in Nashvillee, Tenn., and his
M. A. degree from Bob Jones Uni
versity, Greenville, S: C.
The Rev. Mr. Jackson is married
and has a three-year-old son.
The revival campaign will con
tinue through Sunday night.
Board Members
Told About TB
Testing Program
Dr. Isa C. Grant, school health
officer for Wake County, told
members of the board of directors
of the Wake County Tuberculosis
Association something of the Tu
berculin Testing program which
she is conducting in Wake County
schools this year.
Dr. Grant stated, “Tjiis same
type of program was used in Wake •
(See TESTING, Page 3)
Guard Has Rigid Schedule
Battery A, 113th Field Artill
ery Bn. of Zebulon arrived at Ft.
Bragg Sunday, joining over 8,
000 other North Carolina National
Guardsmen of the famed 30th In
fantry Division for 15 days of ac
tive duty field training.
Lt. James M. Potter, Jr. com
mander of the unit, said that by
late Sunday evening the Guards
men were ready for the heavy
work schedule which began early
Monday morning.
The unit mess, under Mess Ste
war Percy B. Parrish was operat
ing Sunday, serving the 86 officers
and men of the unit. “It’s the best
mess on the post,” claimed First
Sergeant Sidney F. Holmes.
This is the second encampment
for the Guardsmen of “Old Hick
ory” since the division was reor
ganized entirely in North Caroli
na in October, 1954.
Training during the first week
will emphasize squad and platoon
training, and the development of
leadership in non-commissioned
and commissioned officer.
Men not qualified in their indi
vidual weapons will fire this week
on the Ft. Bragg small arms ranges.
Aritllery, recoilless rifles, mortars,
and other larger caliber weapons
will be fired next week when the
division moves to the west ranges
of the Ft. Bragg reservation.
Major General Claud Bowers
of Warrenton is commanding gen
eral of the 30th Infantry Division,
which has experienced rapid
growth since North Carolina as
sumed responsibility for the half
division formerly in Tennessee.