THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIX, 103.
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, September 25, 1956
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
SCENIC OILDRUM — Mrs. Wayne Jordan, vice president of
the Wallace garden club, found it difficult to landscape her oildrum
with real plants. So she tried painting instead of planting. She put
her talent to this unique use in support of Wallace’s Finer Carolina
program, which features a beautification project. Wallace is com
peting with some 140 other communities in the community improve
ment contest sponsored by Carolina Power & Light Company.
* Organized Effort Needed
To Save Tobacco Farmers
The plight of the North Carolina
tobacco farmer is perhaps as grave
at this time as it has ever been.
^Numerous problems now face him
which have hitherto been un
known. And many of them can
not be solved over night; and it
is only by greater organized ef
fort ana unwavering aerermina
tion among the dirt farmers them
selves that they will ever.be com
pletely and satisfactorily righted.
Farm Bureau is pleading for
such organized effort as is needed
now! How long must we hesitate
between organized security and
unorganized exploitation and even
poverty?
Directors and workers of our
local Farm Bureau organization
are now on the verge of another
membership drive. Our goal is
525 — it should easily be 1000 or
more, if all farmers would assiitne
their proportionate $hare of the
load; Within the next few days
someone will probably contact you
regarding your dues; if they do not,
see the president, secretary, or one
of the directors about the matter.
Thursday, September 27, has been
designated for our special cam
paign drjve for new members and
the payment of membership dues.
Leave your dues with some mem
ber of the family if you have to be
away on this day.
Farm Bureau directors discuss
ed the matter of a barbecue sup- j
per to be held sometime during'
the early fall. Finances of the
organization will not permit feed
ing more than the actual paid-up
members, however, arrangements
will be made for wives, chil
dren and non-members to obtain
the meal at the same rate charged
the organization for members.
' Watch ine Kecora for an
nouncements, meeting dates, etc.
Mailed notices of meeting dates are
being discontinued as an economy
measure for the time being.
Aunt Jemima
Here Friday
Aunt Jemima is coming to Zebu
Ion.
She will be at the Wakelon Su
perette Friday and Saturday serv
ing her famous and delicious pan
cakes.
Thurman Murray and Francis
Wall, proprietors of Wakelon Su
perette, announce that on Friday
morning breakfast will be served
at their store from 7:30 until 10:30.
The menu will consist of hot cakes,
Jesse Jones sausages, Staley’s pan
cake syrup and coffee or hot choc
olate.
Pancakes and syrup will be serv
ed all day Friday and Saturday,
Messrs. Murray and Wall said, and
the public is invited.
MAIN STREET SCENES:
ScupperiKNigs . . . Presley Music
FAIR PREVUERS . . . Sunday
afternoon fair prevuers ambling
over the ankle-length grassy
grounds . . . Mayor Wilbur Deb
nam and daughter . . . Mr. and
Mrs. Randolph Hendricks and son
. . . Mr. and Mrs. George Henry
Temple and children with Mrs. L.
R. Temple.
•
RENT . . . From Walter Win
chell’s column: Maggie Truman
Daniel and her groom pay $13,500
a year rental at the Carlyle Hotel.
Only 3 rooms, yet.
DOTING GRANDFATHER . . .
Vaiden Whitley holding to the
hands of his toddling grandson,
Charles Estes . . . Taking a tour
of the furniture^ store.
INDIGNANT . . . One lady in
town furiously indignant over the
unclean alley running from Syca
more Street to Horton Street be
hind the post office ... Weeds head
high, never cut . . . and when the
city dump truck comes down the
alley the paper flies off littering
the street and catching in the grass
. . . The most unsightly street in
town, she said ... A disgrace.
•
CANDIDATE, WELL? . . . May
or Wilbur Debnam said he hasn’t
made up his mind about being a
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Scouts Field Day
A Successful Event
We had a successful Scout Field
Day at Wake Forest last Saturday,
September 15. We all had a won
derful time.
There was also a dance Satur
day night that our boys enjoyed
very much.
The Explorer Scouts from Zeb
ulon won first prize in the field
day events, and Charles Murphy
one of our Explorers, won the bicy
cle race.
The Zebulon Boy Scouts wor
second place in their field day
events.
There were about 100 Scouts
there out of the six hundred in oui
district. From Zebulon we had one
Cub Scout, four Boy Scouts, foui
Explorer Scouts, and two leaders
Zebulon should have had 50 Scouts
and 8 leaders there. But where
were they?
But our community is so mucl
like many other communities. We
all sit back and say: “Let someone
else do it.”
Our community doesn’t really
get behind Scouting or anything
worthwhile. Maybe a few will try
but to really get anything done we
all have to work together for wha
is best for our community.
Take the Scout committees: yo\
ask a person to serve as a leadei
on the committee. The answer
you get are: “I don’t know any.
thing about Scouting; get someone
else.”
A person doesn’t have to knov
anything about Scouting, just hov
to work anti give a little time, no
only in Scouting but other event
of the community. Most towns hav
a community building for thei:
teen-agers to meet. Why doesn’
Zebulon?
Milton M. Bryan
The Zebulon Scouts who partici
pated in the Field Day exercises
held at Wake Forest last week re
ceived high praise and commenda
tion from Saponi Scout officials
The only float in the parade was
entered by the Zebulon Explore)
Scouts and was highly commendec
by the officials for its educational
and scouting values.
The float constructed by the Ex
plorers exemplified a communica
tion system. Two Explorer Scouts
and one Cub Scout manned the
communication system.
Charles Murphy was declared
second place winner in the Ex
plorers bicycle race.
Rolesville won the day’s hon
ors at the Field Day.
Leaders Armstrong Cannady anc
Pete Bryant said the “event was
highly successful and we are verj
pleased with our boys.”
Following the day’s events a
dance for the Scouts was held ir
the Wake Forest Community Cen
ter with Woody Hayes and his com
bo of Raleigh furnishing the mu
sic.
Rotary Hears Hicks
At Friday Meeting
CP&L Treasurer
Quotes Poetry
at Local Banquet
Horace Seeley, assistant treasur
er of Carolina Power & Light Com
pany, Raleigh, was the principal
speaker at Lions Club ladies night
Thursday.
Seeley, who has been with
CP&L 42 years, is the oldest active
member of the company, and is
noted for his recitations of both
heavy and comical verse.
Besides entertaining the Lion
esses, the club also had as- their
guests the the Wakelon School fac
ulty and their husband and wives,
and 20 members of the Raleigh Sir
Walter Lions Club.
Mayor Wilbur Debnam intro
; duced the faculty, and Ray
Goodwin introduced Mr. Seeley,
i M. L. Hagwood presided over the
■ meeting.
; Entertainment for the evening
• was given by performers from Mrs,
; H. C. Wade’s dance school. Mrs
Frank Kemp also rendered vocal
r numbers.
r The banquet-meeting was held
t in the Wakelon. School cafeteria.
; Methodists Meet
The Rev. Troy J. Barrett has
announced that the Methodist Men
will meet Wednesday at 6:30 at
the church to reorganize for the
new year.
Prior to the meeting the organi
zation will hold a banquet. Re
servations may be made by calling
Andy Jenkins.
The organization’s officers in
clude R. Vance Brown, president;
Ed Hales, vice president; Andy
Jenkins, secretary; and E. H. Mo
ser, church lay leader and re
porter.
Brownie Scouts
Brownie Scout Troop 107 will
not meet until a later date, Mrs.
Ray Goodwin has announced.
Troop members will be notified of
the meeting place, time and date
when’arrangements are completed.
This Scout Troop is being spon
sored again this year by the Zebu
Ion Junior Woman’s Club. The
membership of the Troop last year
numbered 20, and it is expected
that at least that many or more
will be members this year.
Names Areas to be
Developed
John Hicks, principal of
Wakelon School, told the Zebulon
Rotary Club that his philosophy of
education is based on “keeping the
child as the center of thought in
building a total school program.”
Mr. Hici.s spoke at the Friday night
meeting of the club.
The Wakelon school head was in
troduced by Fred Smith, Super
intendent of Wake County schools.
Eight implementing principals
for his philosophy were listed by
Mr. Hicks. They included:
1. Teach democracy as the only
way of life. Practice democracy as
well as teach it.
2. Try to develop the child to
think critically and to use justifi
able criticism.
3. Have an appreciation of
home life.
4. Teach economic competence.
5. Teach basic academic sub
jects.
6. Include character education.
“We need to be concerned with the
moral standards of our chilren.”
Mr. Hicks said.
7. Promote health and safety
education. “Parents must set an
example,” the speaker urged.
8. Give guidance in vocations
and education.
His survey of the Wakelon
School program showed four areas
for improvement, the superintend
ent reported. While time and
money will be required to make the
improvements, they can serve as
improvement goals.
Included in the areas is a com
plete commercial course, with
shorthand, business law and secre
tarial practices courses added to
the present courses of bookkeeping
and typing.
Other areas are the physical ed
ucation program and the musical
program. “Our music program is
now excellent,” Mr. Hicks said,
“but it does not meet the needs of
any but those now participating.”
The fourth area is teaching stu
dents who do not plan to attend
college a trade.
“The type of program that is
wanted by the peopled of a com
munity depends on the coopera
tion, leadership and support in
the community,” the speaker said.
“A school is no better than the
community makes it. A good com
munity makes a good school,” he
concluded.
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Uncle Ford's
My old friend and fellow-Wood
man of the World, Claud Dunn,
took time off from his grocer du
ties last week to show me a cotton
wood behind his store.
At least it looked like a cotton
wood to Claud and me, although
my botany expert says that it’s
really Populus deltoides. He is
probably right since he really is
an expert, but it’s still a cotton
wood to me.
Now you can see cottonwoods al
most any place any other tree will
grow and lots of places that no oth
er tree will grow, but Claud's tree
is something special. It has leaves
two feet long and over a foot and
a half wide.
The average cottonwood leaf—
my Populus deltoides expert says
—contains 16 to 24 square inches.
Claud's leaves average over 450
square inches each. That makes
them somewhat larger than John
Zebulon’s diapers but somewhat
smaller than the napkins at the Sir
Walter Hotel. (I dropped my fork
in my napkin there one night and
never did And it; had to eat my
steak with a spoon. Did folks
ever' stare, and did my wife
ever frown!)
Cottonwoods are not highly re
garded in North Carolina where
we have countless trees more
beautiful and more useful. But
in the west, where you can go for
miles without seeing any sort of
tree, the cottonwood is prized;
you know how it is — a hen with
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