THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX, Number 82. Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, July 17, 1956 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
IN NEGRO RECREATION PROGRAM
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Left to right, front row: Anthony Vick, Wayne Taylor; second
row: Joan Jones, Ann Fowler, Barbara Jones, Norma L. Champion,
Veronia Fowler, La Verne Vick, Gwendolyn Taylor; third row: Caro
lyn Jones, Doris Pearce, Judy F. High, Ruby Jones, Trelesta Pearce;
fourth row, Mrs. Iva Carpenter and Mrs. Jessie Vick. These young
sters have been participating in the Negro recreation program at
Shepard School headed by Mrs. Gloria V. Taylor.
MAIM STREET SCENE:
Local Drive-In Tops
County Eateries; Temples
Highest for Markets
CONGRATULATIONS to Hil
liard’s Drive-In Restaurant . . ,
tops all Wake County eating es
tablishments in health ratings . . ,
. . . Hilliard’s has consistently
maintained a high standard since
opening never falling below the
94 percent mark . . . and to
Temple’s Market . . . receiving
a 97.0 health rating for meat
markets and groceries.
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COOL, MAN, COOL . . . that’s
how the Town Clerk’s office in the
Municipal Building feels now since
the installation of a three-quarter
ton air conditioning unit. . . addi
tion was made week before last
. . . and Kenneth Hopkins and
Mrs. H. V. Andrews, employees,
are over-joyous ... it was quite
unbearable on hot days.
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ON SCHEDULE AGAIN . . .
Recorder’s Court has gotten back
on its old schedule of operating
two days a month ... . the second
and fourth Wednesdays . . . when
the court dockets became so load
ed with traffic violations and other
misdemeanors, court officials add
ed an extra Wednesday to speed
up the clearing of the dockets . . .
now the dockets have become less
crowded, it is felt by the court
officials that resuming the old
schedule will be satisfactory.
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New Masonic Lodge . . . Plans
for the new Zebulon Masonic
Lodge are now in the hands of
I. B. Richardson, the Lodges’ Wor
shipful Master. No definite date
has been set for the construction
of the building, which is to be
located on Horton Street between
the Post Office and the home of
Mrs. Viola Perry.
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STOPLIGHT . . . more opinions
. . . Some of the ladies are be
ginning to grow a shade angry
over the stoplight situation . . .
they are wondering why they can
not be put up, especially where
needed . . . one lady indignantly
said if a stop light isn’t erected
at the intersection of Arendell
Avenue and Sycamore Street
someone is going to be killed or
seriously hurt . . . it’s such a blind
crossing, she said . . . why, you
, can’t see a thing . .. it’s absolutely
! foolish to keep the stoplights in
storage when they should be
I put up to help save life, limb and
'nerves. . . .
House Numbers Ready
To Be Assigned — Soon
House numbers for Zebulon are
' closer than ever.
Town Clerk Willie B. Hopkins
has announced that the number- :
ing system has been completed. It
was finished last week.
All residences and businesses
have been assigned numbers, and
these residences and business es
tablishments will receive a card
within the next two weeks with
the assigned number. j
Hopkins said that a number has
been assigned for every SO feet of
residence property and every 25
teet of business property.
Me is asking that the citizens not
ret buy numbers until the Town
Board delegates some specific
ityle and design.
There is a possibility that some
dub or organization will sell these
lumbers as a project for their
dub, Hopkins said.
There has been no definite time
issigned when the numbers must
>e up, it was reported.
The Town Board adopted the
[See HOUSE NUMBERS, Page 5)
NG Fills Gift
Quota; 25 Men
Offer Support
Battery A, 113th Field Artillery
Battalion, of Zebulon last month
became one of the first North
Carolina National Guard units to
enroll its full authorized strength
of contributing members when Lt.
Jack Potter, the battery com
mander, enrolled the 25th hon
orary Guardsman for the local
unit.
Gains High Recognition
Zebulon, which has gained re
cognition by the high strength of
its Guard unit as compared with
the town’s population, is now the
smallest town in North Carolina
to have the maximum permitted
number of contributing members
for its Guard unit.
Lt. Potter and CWO Johnsey P.
Arnold, the Battery A unit admin
istrator, both expressed their
appreciation and the thanks of the
95 officers and men in Batterv A
for the outstanding support given
them.
The roll of contributing mem
bers include J. Raleigh Alford,
James M. Alford, W. Bernice
Bunn, D. D. Chamblee, Wilbur
Debnam, Sidney Eddins, Pat O.
Farmer, Foster D. Finch, Sr.,
Thurman B. Hepler, T. E. Hales,
Frank Holder, Worth Hinton;
Z. J. Robertson, R. Wesley Liles,
Aaron Lowery, G. R. Massey, Sr.,
Robert D. Massey, Dr. L. M.
Massey, J. Thurman Murray,
Thomas F. Monk, Elwood P. Perry,
Bobby H. Sherron, Wallace G.
Temple, Ralph W. Talton, and
Frank B. Wall.
Public Invited
To Visit Catholic
Motor Chapel
St. Eugene’s Church of Wendell
is host tp the Catholic Motor
Chapel which will be in Zebulon
for two weeks.
The program began Monday,
July IS and will continue each
evening at 8:00 for two weeks,
closing on the 29th.
Father Thomas Clements, a
native of Raleigh and Father
Joseph Hart of North Wilkesboro
are in charge of the motor chapel,
which is located on the parking
lot of the Devil Dog Manufactur
ing Company, Highway 264 east of
Zebulon.
Public Invited
The public is invited to attend
each evening and to sit in their
own automobiles or use the chairs
which the priests will provide.
No offering will be taken.
Each evening there will be a
brief talk on some aspect of re
ligion: the purpose of life, the for
giveness of sins, Christ’s plan for
continuing His mission, etc. A re
ligious movie will follow. Questions
are encouraged; a question box is
provided for visitors’ convenience.
The purpose of tha motor chapel,
one of two which travel through
out North Carolina is to teach the
truth about the Catholic Church,
especially in communities where a
parish has not been established.
Fathers Clements and Hart will
offer Mass at St. Eugene’s every
day at 7:00 a.m. and the Sunday
Mass July 22 at 9:00 a.m.
Son of Local Couple
Killed in Accident
Sunday; Burial Today
Miss Richardson
To Be Youth
Delegate of MYF
Miss Peggy Richardson will at
tend the Youth and Missions Con
ference at Lake Junaluska to be
held July 19 through the 25. She
will represent the Raleigh District
Methodist Youth Fellowship. She
was chosen from youth delegates
from over the district.
Miss Richardson has been presi
dent of the local MYF, president
of the Louisburg Subdistrict, and
is at present treasurer of the local
MYF. She is a rising senior at
Wakelon High School and is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garland
Richardson.
Softball Season
Ends Wednesday
The Zebulon softball season is
over. Playoffs start the day after
the All-Stars finish playing in
Raleigh.
If the All-Stars are beaten
Wednesday, the playoffs will
start Thursday, Charles Hester,
recreational director, has stated.
At 7:30 the Methodists will play
Union Hope and at 9 o’clock
Wakefield will play the National
Guard. The winners will meet in
the finals and play the best 2 out
of 3.
Tuesday’s schedule: 9-12, super
vised play in the Park; 2, swim
ming, 7, girls’ softball — Zebulon
vs. Union Hope; 7-9, tennis.
Wednesday: 9-12, supervised
play at Park, 2-5, Termite, Mid
get, Intermediate baseball; 7-9,
tennis lessons; 7:30, All-Stars
(See SOFTBALL, Page 5)
| The teenage son of a local cou
I pie was fatally Injured and eight
j other youths were slightly hurt
j Sunday when the pick-up truck
they were riding in left Highway
264 west of Bailey and overturned.
Willie Edwin Bullock, 17, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bullock,
died at Rex Hospital at 2 p.m. Sun
day. Death was attributed to a
concussion and a fractured skull.
• Young Bullock and the injured,
who were all believed to have been
riding in the bed of the truck, were
strewn over the highway, J. W.
Lynn of the State Highway Patrol
reported. Lynn said at least two
other persons may have been in
volved.
Driver of the truck was Tony
Marshall Wilson, 17, of Zebulon,
Rt. 3, accordirg to Lynn. Wilson
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. David
Wilson.
Wilson said he was traveling
west three miles west of Bailey
when he attempted to pass an
other vehicle. At the same time a
third vehicle attempted to pass the
pick-up forcing it to the right
shoulder of the highway where it
overturned, the driver told police.
Patrolman Lynn said repair and
widening operations had just been
completed on the road at the wreck
scene and that signs were posted
warning of low shoulders. Lynn
said the truck apparently hit a low
shoulder and upset as Wilson at
tempted to steer the vehicle back
onto the road.
The other two vehicles Wilson
(See ACCIDENT, Page 5)
Methodist Minister
To Assist Youth
The Rev. Troy Barrett, minister
of the Zebulon Methodist Church,
will be one of the leaders of the
Youth Leadership Conference at
Lake Junaluska. This conference
will begin July 19 and end July 26.
He will help in the area of Chris
tian Fellowship.
Petty Officer Simpson
Reenlists in the Navy
Leslie Grey Simpson
Leslie Grey Simpson, teleman
first class, USN, has reenlisted in
the U. S. Navy for six more years.
The reenlistment occurred at the
Submarine Headquarters in New
London, Conn.
Petty Officer Simpson is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Simp
son, and is married to the former
Mary F. Gordon, daughter of Mrs.
W. O. Gordon and the late Mr.
Gordon.
Simpson enlisted in the Navy
in October, 1944, and following
basic training at Bainbridge, Md.,
served 12 months on Guam. He
was discharged in April, 1946, and
reenlisted in September, 1947, re
porting to the Fifth Naval District
Headquarters in Norfolk for duty.
Since then he has served with
Commander Training Command,
Atlantic Fleet Staff aboard the
(See REENLISTS, Page 5)