THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIX, 101. _Zebulon, N, C., Tuesday, September 18, 1956 Thep. Davis Sons, Publishers
Middlesex Serviceman Places
Second In Truck Rodeo in San Juan
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Sgt. James F. Medlin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Medlin, Route
2, Middlesex, recently won a
monthly $10.00 bonus for twelve
months by placing second in the
three-axle division of a Junior
Chamber of Commerce Truck Ro
deo in San Juan, P. R. Sergeant
Medlin is regularly assigned with
the 7516th Army Unit at Fort
Buchana, P. R. The sergeant en
tered the Army in March, 1953, and
arrived in Puerto Rico in May,
1955. His wife, Ruth, is with him
at the fort.
Wakelon Seniors
Elect Annual Staff!
The Wakelon Senior Class has
elected the annual staff of the ]
Wak-igh-an. They are:
Co-Editors: Jean Joyner and
Dorothy Smith; Business Mana
gers, Janet Upchurch and Betsy
Goodwin; Circulation Editor, Bet
sy Brantley; Assistant Editor, Joe
Wayne Tippett; Senior Class Edi- <
tor, Zelma Greene; Associate Edi- i
tor, Diane Broughton; Picture Edi- <
tor, Carolyn Hinton; Associate Edi- i
tor, Betty Kimball; Feature Editor, '
Kay Chamblee; Sports Editors,
Joseph Temple and Donna Mit- :
chell; Arrangement Editor, Carl- :
ton D^bnam; Art Editor, Linwood
Liles; and Associate Art Editor,
Charles Murphy. I
Sgt. James F. Medlin
CHANGE
State Drivers’ License Examiner
2. M. Hocutt has announced his
rhange of schedule for Wake For
:st from Thursday and Friday of
:ach week to Wednesday and
rhursday.
This change is due to the court
■oom being used on Fridays, he
said.
He will be in Wendell on every
Friday instead of Wednesday as!
le has previously been.
You Can Laugh
You can laugh, but there’s an in
teresting similarity between the
irresponsible little cuckoo bird
and today’s irresponsible motorist.
Hot weather brings song to the
cuckoo, who’s chief claim to fame
is that it lays its eggs in other
birds’ nests. And hot weather
brings to Tar Heel highways a ca
caphony — the screech of tires
and the bang-crash of metal — to
our streets and highways.
Like the cuckoo the careless or
irresponsible motorist usually
forces his trouble on -innocent
parties.
Summer of course is not the only
season for the highway menace.
But with their hordes of vaca
tion travelers, their masses of
weekend junketeers, the oppression
of the summer sun that aggravates
the impatience of the human ani
mal, summer highways are the
scene of more congestion and more
carnage than are those of any
other season.
It’s certainly true in North Car
olina.
And all summer long, Slow Down
and Live, the massive Memorial
Day through Labor Day campaign
has been aimed at curbing this
summertime slaughter.
Going into August, the final
month of the lifesaving drive,
the Governor’s Traffic Safety
Council has repeated the principle j
emphasis of the campaign to cut
down accidents. First, through in
creased law enforcement measures
and second, through an appeal to
the public for an increased volun
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Native' of Henderson
Heads Wakelon's Band
} Sinclair Newman
Sinclair Newman, a 1956 grad
uate of East Carolina College with
a bachelor of arts degree in mu
sic, now heads the Wakelon School
Bdnd program. He succeeds Alger
Batts who resigned to accept em
ployment in Wake Forest.
Native of Henderson
Newman is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Sinclair Newman, Sr.
of Henderson. He was married on
August 19 to the former Beverly
Ann Sumner of Wilmington. She
also attended East Carolina Col
lege. _
He will work in conjunction with
Wendell on a band program there.
Mr. and Mrs. Newman are re
siding in an apartment in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. William Bunn on
North Street.
Survivor Benefits
Revisions Made
The President signed the Survi
vor Benefits Act revising benefits
for the dependents of deceased
servicemen and veterans who died
of service-connected causes.
Veterans Administration an
nounced that it is taking immedi
ate steps to put this new law into
operation even though payments
cannot begin prior to January 1,
1957, the effective date of the Act.
VA stressed that this law does
not change death pension benefits
to widows and children of veter
ans whose deaths were not as a re
sult of service.
Widows, dependent parents and
guardians of orphan children re
ceiving compensation for the serv
ice-connected death of a veteran
are requested NOT to contact VA
for information.
^ Veterans Administration will
notify each person receiving death
compensation under present law
concerning his rights under the
new law.
The new law is designed to:
1. Revise the death cbmpensa
tion program by providing monthly
payments to widows partially re
lated to military pay; slightly in
crease existing uniform payments
for orphan children; and to pro
vide a sliding scale of benefits for
dependent parents subject to cer
tain annual income limitations.
2. Extend Social Security cov
I erage to those in the armed forces
j on a contributory basis; and
I 3. Revise the six months death
gratuity to range from a mini
I mum of $800 to a maximum of
j $3,000. This will be administer
| ed by the various service depart
ments.
The new law also eliminates cov
erage of service personnel under
the Servicemen’s Indemnity Act
(the so-called “$10,000 free in
surance’’) and coverage of reserve
personnel under the Federal Em
ployees Compensation Act on and
after January 1, 1957.
The new law continues the right
of veterans disabled in service to
apply to VA for the five-year pol
icy or any of the six permanent
plans of National Service Life In
surance within one year from the
date VA finds their disabilities to
be service-connected.
License Revoked
The Motor Vehicles Department
withdrew the legal driving privi
leges of 2523 traffic offenders in
August, the agency reported this
week.
The month’s total was split al
most half and half between drunk
drivers and speeders.
For August the vehicles agency
has 993 drunk drivers and 910
speeders.
Others offenses, also requiring
the surrender of driving privi
leges, ranged from larceny of auto
to incompetency.
WAKELON MENU
TUESDAY: Barbecued pork in
bun, slaw, potato sticks, pineapple
pudding and milk.
WEDNESDAY: Italian spaghet
ti, tossed green salad, lemon cake,
bread and milk.
THURSDAY: Chicken salad on
lettuce, string beans, cucumber
pickle, bread, crackers and milk.
FRIDAY: Vegetable soup, lunch
! eon meat sandwich, carrot strips,
! ice cream and milk.
New Junior Woman's
President Installation
To be Held Tonight
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Mrs. Ralph Bunn
Record Sited
By Gov. Hodges
For Fine Service
The Zebulon Record has been
commended by Governor Luther
H. Hodges for its service to the
community and State in publish
ing the series of advertisements
about the industrial development
program.
The letter from the Governor
reads:
“The Zebulon Record, as a mem
ber of the North Carolina Press
Association, is rendering signal
service to its immunity and State
in publishing the series of ad
vertisements about our industrial
development program.
“I am happy to see the space do
nated by the Zebulon Record and
other 161 members of the Press As
sociation, (with circulation over
I, 250,000), as it helps our program
greatly.
“This is a fine public service by
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Mrs. Ralph Bunn
Mewly Elected
President.
The Junior Woman's Club will
install its twelfth president tonight
when .the club begins its 22nd year
as one of the leading civic organi
zations of Zebulon.
Mrs. Ralph Bunn, newly elected
president of the club, will be in
stalled by Mrs. Walter C. Burgess
of Wendell, newly appointed vice
president of District Eight. The
installation ceremonies will take
place at 8 o’clock.
Mrs. Bunn is the former Mary
Croom Gulley. She was bom in
Newport News, Va., the daughter
of Emmitt Gulley, now of Sylves
ter, Ga., and the late Mrs. Gulley.
After the death of her mother,
I she moved to Selma to live with
her aunt and uncle. She gradu
ated from Selma High School and
attended East Carolina College, la
ter graduating from Atlantic
Christian College with a bachelor
of arts degree in primary educa
tion. She has been a member of
the Corinth-Holders School faculty
for the past 12 years, teaching in
the primary department of that
system.
Mrs. Bunn has been active in the
Masonic Order of the Eastern
Star. She has served as Matron of
the local Eastern Star and has
been District Deputy Grand Ma
tron for two years. She now holds
a position with the Junior Depart
ment of the Zebulon Baptist
Church.
She is the mother of two chil- ~
dren, Jean, a sophomore at East
Carolina, and Bunny, a student at
Wakelon.
Mrs. Bunn will succeed Mrs.
Franklin R. Jones, who was elected
to fill the vacancy created by Mrs.
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Grandson of LocalWoman
I Receives Appointment
| Or. Earl T. Brown, a native of
Leicester, has been appointed as
sistant professor of pharmacy at
the University of North Carolina
School of Pharmacy, Dr. E. A.
Brecht, dean of the school, has
announced.
Brown received his A.B., M.A.
and Phd. degrees from the Univer
sity and was made assistant pro
fessor in August. He will assume
his duties at the University this
week.
He is the son of Mrs. Howard
Cole of Leicester and the late
Worth Brown. His grandmother,
Mrs. Heflin Brown, resides on
Zebulon, Route 1.
The energy of the free individ
ual is the most dynamic force in
human affairs.—Dwight D. Eisen
hower