THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIX, 94. Zebulon, N. C., Friday, August 24, 1956
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
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! > GIANT, THE JACK-KILLER—Workmen building a new unit at Carolina Power &
Light Company's Cape Fear Steam Electric Plant could raise this 467,000-pound
generator only 18 inches a day. Using pneumatic jacks and huge timber cribbing,
they had elevated it 14 feet when the picture was made. They, must raise it 16 feet
more before it can be skidded into position. The new, 180,000-horsepower unit will be
, the plant’s fifth and CP&L’s most'powerful.
Largest CP&L Unit Near
Final Completion Stages
Work on Carolina Power &
Light Company’s newest and most
powerful generating unit enters the
final stages as workmen install a
¥ modern, 180,000-horsepower gene
rator at the company’s Cape Fear
Steam Electric Plant.
The 467,000-pound electrical
giant must be elevated 30 feet be
fore it can be skidded into position.
By inching up the mammoth gen
erator with jacks and blocking it
up with wooden beams, the men
are raising it about 18 inches a day,
reports C. A. Watson, plant super
V intendent.
) He says the men will have la
bored in the hot, August sun some
20 days when the generator reaches
the proper height. It took them
two days to unload it from a 24
wheel flatcar which brought it as
close as possible on a specially
built railroad siding, he adds.
The generator was the largest
single unit of weight ever hauled
by the Seaboard Air Line Rail
road in its 120-year history, the
railroad announced. The trip from
the Westinghouse plant in Pitts
burgh, Pa., to Moncure, N. C., took
11 days. It will take the workmen
twice that time to move it another
30 feet.
The generator is being installed
in the Cape Fear plant’s fifth unit.
The new unit will have enough
generating capacity to supply 180,
000 average homes, accoding to A.
J. Skaale of Raleigh, director of
CP&L’s operating and engineering
department. Most powerful single
unit in the CP&L system, it will
boost CP&L’s total generating ca
pability to about one and one-half
million horsepower, almost three
times greater than what it was 10
years ago.
The unit originally was due to be
in service this summer, Skaale
says. Construction fell behind
during the long Westinghouse
strikes, which prevented comple
tion of the generator and the tur
bine to drive it.
The company hopes the turbine
will arrive in time to have the
plant operating by January.
CP&L has added generating units
at the rate of one a year since
1940 to stay ahead of power re
quirements in its two*tate serv
ice area, Skaale points out. He
says the new Cape Fear unit is
part of a $65,000,000 construction
program for 1956-58, which also
calls for an even more powerful
unit — 225,000 horsepower — by
mid-1958.
Theologian to Make Address Here
Or. Sankey L. Blanton, former
head of the Department of Relig
ion at Wake Forest College, and
now President of Crozer Theologi
cal Seminary of Chester, Pennsyl
vania, will fill the pulpit of the
Baptist Church on Sunday for the
morning and night services.
Dr. Blanton is a graduate of
Wake Forest College, and
holds degrees from several uni
versities and seminaries. A native
North Carolinian, having been
bom and reared in Rutherford
County, Dr. Blanton has held pas
torates of several large churches in
North Carolina and elsewhere. He
supplied the pulpit of the local
Baptist Church after Dr. Griffin
resigned and before the Reverend
Carlton T. Mitchell was called. At
that time he was head of the School
of Religion at Wake Forest Col
lege. .
Dr. Blanton is an outstanding
preacher, and is a forceful person
ality in the Theological thinking
of eastern United States.
For his subject at the 11:00 o’
clock service, he will use “Where
Christ is.” The Scripture Will be
the 7th chapter of Luke. The sub
ject for the night service will be
"Privilege, Responsibility and
Judgment.” The Scripture for this
subject will be taken from the
25th chapter of Matthew.
|Fire Takes A
Heavy Toll
Fires have taken their toll of
tobacco barns this week. Fire
men estimated the losses at ap
proximately $6,000.
On Sunday at 4 o’clock in the
morning the Rural Fire Depart
ment was called to extinguish fire
on Vance Raybon’s farm on High
way 96. The farm is tenanted by
Lonnie Strickland.
Firemen estimated the loss of
this barn filled with tobacco at
$2,000.
Sunday afternoon about 5 o’
clock the Rural Fire truck rushed
to the scene of a fire on the Alvy j
Bunn estate on Highway 39. This i
farm is tenanted by Connie Mack
Bunn, and the barn was a total i
loss. I
Estimated damage by firemen'
was in the neighborhood of $1,200.
The Rural Fire truck raced to a
burning tobacco barn on the Allen
Green farm in Hightown just out
side of Zebulon Wednesday at 9:15.
Firemen were unable to save the
barn which burned down causing
a total loss of approximately $1,
500.
Wednesday afternoon firemen
were called to a fire in northern
Johnston County but were unable
to locate the blaze because of in
explicit directions.
Firemen urge persons who noti
fy the department of fires to give
full and complete directions to get
to the farm, home or business es
tablishment which is burning.
All the fires which caused hun
dreds of dollars worth of damage
this week were running a high
heat, firemen stated.
POLIO-NO CASE
In a telephone conversation
with Dr. Durv'ood Stallings Wed
nesday, he revealed to this paper
that he has not had a single case
of polio this season.
Dr. Stallings stated: “We have
been real fortunate in this area
in not being stricken with this
dread disease.”
Plans Being Made
For Town's Birthday
Clinic Sites |
Three sites for the location of the
Zebulon-Wendell clinics are now I
under discussion and observation j
by the committee, chairman of the j
Zebulon site location committee Ed
Hales has said I
Hales stated that the possible j
sites suggested for the erection of
the clinic have been on the Zebu
lon-Wendell bypass, in Wakefield
and a location west of Little River.
None of these sites have been
ruled out, according to Hales, but
the committee is desirous of learn
ing of other available locations.
Hales said that he feels for the
clinic to be effective it must be
located where it will be easily ac
cessible to the people of Zebulon,
Wendell, Hopkins Cross Roads,
Pilot and even Middlesex.
“This is for the people,” he said,
“and we want it to serve the peo
ple.”
Hales said that no meeting of
the committee is planned imme
diately.
Methodist Leader
To Preach Here
The Rev. R. Grady Dawson, Su
perintendent of the Raleigh District
of the N. C. Conference of The
Methodist Church, will preach at
11:00 o’clock Worship Service at
the Zebulon Methodist Church this
Sunday, August 26.
Mr. Dawson will also preside
over the first Quarterly Confer
ence following the service when
reports on goals for the coming
year will be heard from the fol
lowing: the Pastor, Rev. Troy J.
Barrett; Commission on Evangel
ism, Miss Sarah Eaton, Chairman;
Commission on Education, Mrs.
Joe Tippett, Chairman; Garland
Richardson, Church School Super
intendent; Miss Hazel Tant, Presi
dent, Methodist Youth Fellowship;
Commission on Missions, Mrs. J. E.
Carter, Chairman; Mrs. M. J. Sex
ton, Chairman, W. S. C. S.; Com
mission on Finance, M. J. Sexton,
Chairman; Mrs. S. G. Flowers,
Treasurer; E. H. Moser, Church
Lay Leader; R. Vance Brown,
Chairman, Methodist Men.
All of the membership is invited
to stay for the Quarterly Confer
ence and the officials of the church
are urged to attend.
According to Mayor Wilbur Deb
nam Zebulon’s utilities seem in
pretty good shape.
The town’s streets and sidewalks
are in fair condition, Mayor Deb
nam said, though the recent heavy
rains have caused some minor dam
ages which are being repaired with
j rapidity.
Questioned as to whether the
citizens of the town would soon
get house to house mail delivery,
the mayor stated that he did not
[ know all the facts necessary for
the acquisition of such a service
j and could not answer.
| Some of the townsfolk have
wondered if house to house mail
delivery' is in the very near fu
ture since the ordinance passed
by the Town Commissioners re
quiring businesses and residences
to post numbers.
Mayor Debnam said at present
he has no plans for investigating
the possibility of securing mail de
livery within the corporate limits
of the town, however, he feels
that it will not be too long in the
future before such service will be
available to Zebulon.
Postmaster M. J. Sexton, when
asked the requirements for house
to house mail delivery, said that a
2,500 population is the main re
quirement. He said he feels that if
we could meet this requirement
all others would and could be
easily met.
The annexing of another subdi
vision to the town is not immedi
ately foreseen, the mayor said. At
one time the town fathers were
consdireing the possibility of an
nexing an additional subdivision,’
but the mayor revealed that no
plans are now in the offing for
such a move.
Mayor Debnam also said that
Zebulon will be fifty years old
come February, and he is in the
process of talking with town of
ficials concerning the celebration
which is to take place.
He was asked if the men of the
town would be required to wear
a heavy growth of beard for this
celebration in February, 1957, and
he laughed and said, “I hope not.”
BASEBALL
Archer Lodge will play Wendell
Devil Dogs at Wendell Sunday,
August 26, at 3 o’clock.
Liquor Sales Given for Dispensary
The Zebulon ABC store’s sales
for the month of July totaled $7
987.15.
But officials of the store quick
ly emphasized that all this revenue
was not contributed by the people
of Zebulon. A goodly portion of it
was taken in from tourists pass
ing through.
According to officials, sales of
liquor drop in the summer months
but pick up considerably during
the fall ancTwinter season. This
is especially true around Christmas
time. ’
The local distributory carries ap
proximately a $15,000 stock at pres
ent, but it is necessary for the
stock to be increased greatly dur
ing the winter months.
Calvert and Seagram whiskies
lead all other brands in sales of
ficials said.
The slowest sellers are the cock
tail mixtures such as martinis,
manhatttans, and other party
mixes.
Another slow seller is wine. This,
officials said, is due to the fact
that wine may be bought from
mercantile establishments in and
around the city who have permits
for the sale of this beverage.
Bourbon and the blended type
whiskies are sold in about the
same amounts.
Vodka, a Russian product which
has been adopted most cordially
by Americans, is now sold in ap
proximately the same quantity as
gin at the local dispensary. Offi
cials said that gin used to be the
top seller during the summer
months, but vodka has now caught
up with gin and the two liquors
are running neck and neck in sales.
The only two imports sold by the
local ABC store are Scotch and
some richer, finer wines, such as
Benedictine. These so called select
brands have only moderate sales.