THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX, Number 89. Zebulon, N. CM Tuesday, August 7,1956 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
10NG WAY FROM LEBANON
> Antones Find Zebulon is
Ideal In Many, Many Ways
It is a long way from Lebanon
to Zebulon. And although Lebanon
was their birthplace and their
home for part of their teenage
years, Betty and A. D. Antone have
taken Zebulon to their hearts and
likewise has the town and coun
tryside taken the Antones to their
hearts.
“I love the United States. I love
the town of Zebulon. I love every
body in and around Zebulon,” Mrs.
Antone said.
And you can believe here, for
the words spill from a heart full
of sincerity and gratitude and love.
“The people here have been good
to us,” the Antones said. “And we
hope we have been good to them.
There is nothing that we wouldn’t
do for them if we could.”
A. D. landed in New York City
August 15, 1900. It was a strange
and overpowering city to a boy of
18 who had come from a tiny town
near Beirut.
“I felt so small,” Antone said. “I j
couldn’t speak a word of English.
It was like being on some other
planet.”
Antone did not stay in New
York long, however. Just for one
day and night. Then he sailed from j
New York on the Old Dominion
Line to Norfolk and entrained at |
Norfolk for Raleigh. j
He had a brother, Ferris, in the;
capital city who had already come1
to this country and had established
a business here.
“I stayed with my brother for
three months,” Antone said. “He
had a five-year-old son who was a
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Creature is Still
Roaming About
Reports have reached this pa
per that the strange woman who
was apprehended a few weeks ago
near Zebulon for vagrancy has
been seen outside the city limits.
This strange creature, who had
no name and who officers could
not find from whence she came,
has been reportedly causing some
concern in a near-by community.
It has been reported that this
creature has been loitering near
and outside homes just a short
distance from the city. Some re
ports say she has entered various
homes.
Officers said they have not re
ceived any report of the woman
being within the city limits of
Zebulon.
Town officials advise home own
ers to lock their homes while away,
or while at home; and to report to
them immediately of any seeming
ly strange person around their
premises.
Listen My Children;
Here's Your Principal
Wake County Superintendent of
Schools Fred A. Smith has an
nounced that John J. Hicks will
succeed Franklin R. Jones as prin
cipal of Wakelon High School for
the 1956-57 school year.
Hicks, who is 35 years old, is
a graduate of Atlantic Christian
College in Wilson with an A.B.
degree. He received his master of
arts degree in school administra
tion from East Carolina College
in Greenville.
During his school years at At
lantic Christian Hicks was an out
standing athlete and a three-letter
man in the sports department.
Hicks has been principal of Moss
High School for nine years. This 1
school is located approximately 11 j
miles from Kinston in Lenoir
County. |
Superintendent Smith said that'
Hicks comes very highly reeom-1
mended and he feels that Hicks |
will be a most satisfactory and
capable principal for Wakelon.
Hicks is married and is the fa
ther of one child, 18-months-old. i
He is a native of Pennsylvania but!
has lived in North Carolina for the
past 17 years.
The new principal and his fam-,
ily will move to Zebulon as soon
as suitable housing facilities can I
be arranged. I
Dry Cleaning Plant
How Ultra Modern
A completely new method of dry
cleaning clothes which required in
stallation of all-new equipment
and use of PerClene, a DuPont
synthetic cleaner, has been install
ed by Zebulon Dry Cleaners, ac
cording to Worth Hinton, proprie
tor.
The local cleaner is one of the
first Eastern Carolina concerns to
install the equipment, which guar
antees “better, safer, and faster
cleaning” for all clothes.
Customers will note the improv
ed cleaning methods in their
clothes, Mr. Hinton said, because,
“clothes look and feel like new”
for many cleanings.
Clothes, after being checked,
are placed in the new washer and
cleaned with a 4% soap and syn
thetic solvent solution. After be
ing washed, they are rinsed with
freshly distilled solvent to remove
all traces of soap.
“This is superior to the much
publicized Sanitone method,” Hin
ton reports, “because the Sanitone
method uses a 2% soap solution
and does not have the rinse cycle.
Soap used in cleaning remains in
the clothes.”
After the rinse cycle, clothes are
placed in a controlled temperature
tumbler to remove all traces of the
solvent. Here, as in the washer, the
temperature is maintained at 85
degrees to prevent shrinkage and
fading.
Then the clothes are taken to
the new presses, which are especi
ally equipped for pressing wool,
silk, nylon, cotton, dacron, orlon,
acetate, and all other synthetic
fibers.
By using compressed air to dry
the clothes as soon as the steam
from the press has touched them,
the shine frequently seen on dry
cleaned clothes is prevented.
“There’ll be no more ‘dry-cleaned’
look to your new dress or suit,” the
proprietor said.
The PreClene fluid used in the
new Butler-built dry cleaning
plant costs over 10 times the fluid
formerly used in Zebulon Dry
Cleaners. The old fluid is in gen
eral use in better cleaning plants.
Only the superior reclamation
features of the Butler plant make
possible use of the costly PreClene
solvent. Very little fluid is lost
during the cleaning cycles.
Though he still speaks with won
der at the cost of the new plant,
Mr. Hinton happily looks forward
to his new fire insurance rate. “It
will be lower,” he says, “because
there’s no fir# hazard in our new
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Planning Committee
Discussed Sites for
Local Clinic Monday
Hopkins WMS
Meeting Tonight
The Hopkins Chapel WMS will
meet tonight with Mrs. Austin
Perry. The meeting is scheduled to
get underway at 7:45 o’clock.
Joseph Creech will be in charge
of the program, speaking on the
topic “Ye Christian Heralds, Go
Proclaim.”
All members are urged to attend
and visitors are welcome.
Half-Crazed
Woman Enters
Wakefield Homes
A Raleigh Negro woman caused
some undue anxiety among some
Negro homes of Wakefield last
| week.
• Maybelle McKay, 35, of 1308
I East Lane Street was apprehended
j after entering several Negro homes
in the Wakefield section. f
Arresting officer James Rich
ardson said the woman seemed to
be in a highly nervous state. He
quoted the woman as-saying she
entered the homes to get some
food.
When her husband was notified
he came for the woman and
explained to Constable Rich
ardson that at certain times of the
month his wife became very irrita
ble, moody and nervous and she
would leave home.
The woman told thi officer she j
had walked from Raleigh, and that:
she was very hungry and wanted a
place to sleep.
She was released in custody of
her husband. No preliminary date
for her hearing has been set.
Funds for Plant !
Congress has approved funds to
construct a storage plant for a na
tional seed storage laboratory at
Fort Collins, Colo.
Seeking to avoid the prolonged
agitation and discussions leading to
selection of the site for the Wake
County general hospital while
achieving as desirable a result, two
committees from Zebulon and
Wendell met last week to discuss
sites for the proposed clinic in
eastern Wake County.
Presiding at the meeting, held
last Monday at the cabin of Dr.
J. R. Hester, mayor of Wendell,
were J. H. Parish of Wendell and
T. E. Hales of Zebulon. Other
Zebulon residents at the meeting
included Mayor Wilbur Debnam,
J. Raleigh Alford, and Ferd Da
vis.
Persons who haVe property, ag
gregating four to five acres and
located on paved roads, suitable for
a clinic site are requested to noti
fy co-Chairman Hales or Parish
by August 17. Non-site owners
who wish to seek local support for
any particular site are also re
quested to contact Parish or Hales.
The clinic, which will be ad
ministered by the Raleigh hospital,
is designed for 20 beds, and will
cost approximately a quarter of a
million dollars. It will probably be
constructed following the comple
tion of the main hospital which
will be located on the Rogers prop
erty on Highway 64 east of Ra
leigh.
Polio Clinic
Well Received
One hundred thirty white per
sons and 77 colored received polio
myelitis shots in the mass clinic
held at Wakdlon and Shgpard
schools last Friday, according to
registrar Juanna Joy Mitchell.
The teenage group ranked high
est in number who received the
vaccinations, though there were
a goodly number of infants and
prenatals.
For those persons who were not
able to take advantage of the mass
clinics, the polio vaccinations are
given every Thursday at the Zeb
ulon Municipal Building.
It has been announced that the
next mass clinic to be held at the
local schools will be August 17.
Alaskan Bound School Teachers
Mrs. John Gordon
'-A.-'W
Mr. John Gordon
| Mr- and Mrs. John Gordon will
| leave August 10 for Coopers Bay,
\ Alaska, where they will teach in
t the schools of the Alaskan city
| for the next year.
t Both John and Wilma said they
| are looking forward to teaching in
\ “The Land of the Midnight Sun."
| They are expecting it to be “quite
: a treat, filled with many, many
l experiences.”
John is the son of Mrs. W. O.
- Gordon and the late Mr. Gordon.
He is a graduate of Appalachian
Teachers College, and was award
ed his master of arts degree only
a few weeks ago from that same
institution. For the past year he
was on the faculty of Highlands
High School, serving in the foreign
language and social science de
cleaning solvent. We could use if
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