THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 49.
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, March 26, 1957
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
NEW PRESIDENT:
Dr. B. E. Whitaker to Be
Next Prexy of Chowan
Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker, Secre
tary of the Baptist Student Union
for the Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina, will be named
today as President of Chowan Col
lege by a unanimous vote of the
Board of Trustees, according to
Dr. Raleigh Parker, Chairman.
Dr. Whitaker is a native of
Cleveland County and will suceed
the late Dr. F. Orion Mixon as
prexy of Chowan, 109 year old
Baptist school.
Dr. Bruce Whitaker is thirty-five
years old and, on assuming his du
ties as President of Chowan, will
become one of the youngest college
administrators in North Carolina.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker,
RFD 4, Shelby North Carolina
he is the oldest of the family of
eight children.
He is a graduate of Mooresboro
High School and holds a B. A. de
gree from Wake Forest College, F.
D., Th. M., and Th.D. degrees from
the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. Whitaker has also done post
graduate work in college adminis
tration at George Peabody College
in Nashville, Tennessee.
President Whitaker will bring
with him to Chowan College a wide
experience in the field of education.
He has served as an instructor in
Sociology at the University of In
diana, and at one time was Chair
man of the Division of Philosophy
and Religion at Belmont College,
Nashville, Tennessee. He was As
sistant to the President and Pro
fessor of Sociology at Shorter
College, Rome, Georgia.
In addition to wide experience
in the field of education, Dr. Whit
aker was also at one time Associate
Pastor and Director df Religious
Education with Dr. Louie D. New
ton, of the Druid Hills Baptist
Church in Atlanta. At one time
Dr. Whitaker was Pastor of the
Smithfield Baptist Church, Smith
field, Kentucky. i
Moreover, Dr. Whitaker has con
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OES Service Set
The public is cordially invited
to attend the Wakefield-Zebulon
Chaj ter No. 133, Order of the
Eastern Star installation Friday
night, March 29, at the Wakelon
School cafeteria, Mrs. Albert
Pulley, Worthy Matron, has an
nounced.
Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker
Lunch Successful;
Another on Mon.
The success of their first venture
of serving lunch proved so success
ful, that the members of the Senior
Woman’s Club will again be spon
sors of another on Monday, April 1.
Mrs. A. S. Hinton has announced
that a turkey dinner with all the
trimmings will be served at the
Woman’s Club Building on that
date from 11:30 to 2 o’clock. The
cost of the tickets are, as before,
?1.00, and they may be secured
from Mrs. Hinton.
Such meals, which defy describ
ing because of their deliciousness,
are being held by the Senior wo
men to increase the club’s financial
status. The money raised will be
used to alleviate a debt incurred
when the club building was remod
eled.
Kitty Coes
To School
Ever heard of a skunk fumi
jant?'
Haywood County Assistant Farm
Agent F. E. Boss says the folks at
:he Lake Junaluska school have
Eound methyl bromide — normally
a soil fumigant for weeds, grasses
and nematodes — really makes the
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Druggist to Attend Seminar
And Anniversary Celebration
E. C. Daniel will attend a one
day postgraduate seminar at the
University of North Carolina
School of Pharmacy in Chapel Hill
April 3.
The meeting will honor the 10th
anniversary of the founding of the
N. C. Pharmaceutical Research
Foundation. It will begin at 10
a.m. and adjourn at 4 p.m. The
program is jointly sponsored by the
Pharmacy School and the UNC Ex
tension Division.
Taking part in the day-long pro
gram will be Robert L. Swain, ed
itor of “Drug Topics;” Philip H.
Van Itallie, editor of “Pulse of
Pharmacy;” faculty members of
the UNC School of Pharmacy; of
ftcers of UNC and the directors of
the N. C. Pharmaceutical Research
foundation.
Also speaking at the dinner will
be Roger A. McDuffie of Greens
boro, president of the foundation,
and E. C. Daniel of Zebulon, who
was the president of the N. C.
Pharmaceutical Association when
the foundation was established.
At the afternoon session, begin
ning at 2 p m., Swain will speak
on “Outlook for Professional Phar
macy.” Also speaking at the after
noon meeting will be W. L. West
of Roseboro, chairman of the
foundation’s Legislative Commit
tee.
Part-Time
Employment Poses
Problem for Rural
People In State
Jobs for rural people seeking
part-time, non-farm employment
poses a major problem in North
Carolina, according to H. A. Aur
bach, rural sociologist at N. C.
State College.
Nationally, the number of part
time farmers has increased consid
erably during the past 20 years,
Aurbach declares. This trend, he
says, has been much slower in
North Carolina.
In fact, much of this change to
part-time farming has yet to take
place in the Tar Heel State, Aur
bach says.
Aurbach points out that the trend
toward part-time farming will
continue as long as off-farm job
opportunities are good and new
mechanization reduces or changes
the labor needs on farms.
Why hasn’t part-time farming
increased more rapidly in North
Carolina?
Two factors are primarily re
sponsible, Aurbach believes.
The type of farming is one. Many
farms — especially those with to
bacco — require a lot of attention,
particularly during certain sea
sons. As a result, he points out,
farmers find it difficult to adjust
their work to meet the require
ments of other occupations.
Another factor, Aurbach says, is
the relatively limited non-farm op
portunities available in North Car
olina, especially in the eastern part
of the state.
MANY BENEFITS
AVAILABLE FROM
FOREST
IMPROVEMENT
Landowners are finding it good
business to employ tenants in their
woodlands during the winter, ac
cording to Forestry Extension
Specialist R. S. Douglass.
“Both landowner and tenant
benefit from such timber improve
ment work as removing undesir
able hardwood, thinning pine, or
cutting sawlogs,” says Douglass.
The forestry specialist points
out that the landowner gets his
woodland in shape to earn him a
lot more money, and tenants are
able to make extra money rather
than spending money from next
fall’s crop before it’s even planted.
“With ACP payments to help
pay a large share of the costs, the
landowner can hardly afford not
to do forestry improvement work,”
Douglass declares.
LEARNS VALUE
OF SOW CARE
Clarence Barnes of Route 1, Elm
City, says that it pays to be with
your sows at farrowing time.
W. G. Pierce, Wilson County Ne
gro Farm Agent, reports that
Barnes had been letting his sows
farrow most any place they desir
ed, and he had not been on hand
to look after the animals during
this time.
Since learning the value of
proper farrowing care Barnes has
upped his average litter size from
six to nine pigs per sow, Pierce de
clares.
He adds that Barnes has also
built a duplex farrowing house and
is moving into meat-type hog pro
duction as fast as possible.
Approximately 600,000 acres of
tobacco are grown in North Caro
lina each year.
Local National Guard
Unit Rated 'Superior'
On Annual Inspection
AA Meeting
SetMarch 29
A doctor of science in chemis
try who in turn became (1) a
wealthy liquor distiller, (2) a
“skid row bum” from overindul
gence in his own product, (3) a
successful but this time sober
businessman, and (4) an outstand
ing preacher, will speak at a pub
lic meeting in Raleigh at 8 o’clock
Friday night, March 29.
His appearance is under the
sponsorship of the four Raleigh
groups of Alcoholics Anonymous,
of which the speaker is a nation
ally active member. The place will
be the Josephus Daniels Junior
High School on Oberlin Road.
“We are inviting all the public,
not just those who may have in
their family someone with a liquor
problem,” stated the AA announce
ment of the meeting. “We want ev
erybody to know what AA is doing
and trying to do; and there are few
people able to explain our program
better than Dr. John vanD. of Mor
ris Plains, New Jersey.”
In accord with AA traditions,
the speaker and other members of
AA taking part in the program will
remain anonymous publicly, even
though many of the audience prob
ably will recognize some of the
AA’s present.
“It is not a matter of being
ashamed of our AA membership,
because we are proud of it,” said
the announcement. “But anonymi
ty appeals to the problem drinker
when he first considers affiliating
with AA; and our policy of anony
mity gives the credit for our suc
cess to the fellowship which de
serves it, rather than to the indi
vidual member.”
The career of Dr. van, has few
parallels in dramatic fiction, said
the chairman. One of the numer
ous children of a Dutch school
master, his boyhood memories fea
ture hand-me-down clothes and
secondhand toys.
Before he was 22, however, he
had not onjy his undergraduate
degree but had also won the de
gree of Doctor of Science from a
leading Dutch university. His one
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Inspector Gave
Group High Praise
Battery A, 113th Field Artillery
Battalion, climaxed 7% years of
work by earning a rating of Su
perior on the annual Third Army
General Inspection held last
month. The rating was announced
last Friday by the Office of the In
spector General for the Third U.
S. Army Area.
The local National Guard unit
was Federally recognized in July
1949, and until now has achieved
a grade of Excellent on the annual
General Inspections.
The grade given by the Inspector
General is determined by appear
ance, training, and morale of the
men, attendance during the year,
enthusiasm and initiative display
ed, facilities, records, and mainte
nance of all types of equipment.
Major Joseph E. Monnerat, Jr.,
Assistant Third U. S. Army In
spector General who graded the
Zebulon battery, was high in his
praise of Battery A.
“All key positions are filled with
qualified men,” the Regular Army
officer reported. “Morale was high,
as evidenced by the yearly attend
ance, attendance at inspections,
outstanding appearance of person
nel, and the enthusiasm and initia
tive displayed.”
Commenting on the armory, Ma
jor Monnerat said, “Facilities are
adequate and well-maintained.”
Captain Jack Potter, command
ing officer of Battery A, said that
credit for the Superior rating be
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Gospel Quartet
To Sing Here
One of the nation’s top-ranking
gospel quartets will be singing in
Zebulon Friday, April 12, at Wake
Ion School Auditorium.
This quartet are natives of
Wheeling, W. Va., and will be spon
sored by the local Lions Club for
the purpose of raising money for
their building program.
ESC Head to Be Present
At Meeting Here April
Your Employment Security Com
mission and County Farm Agent
are interested in your success in
harvesting this year’s tobacco crop;
therefore, there will be a meeting
in the Town Hall in Zebulon on
Thursday, April 4, at 2:00 p.m.
which it is hoped you will be able
to attend.
At this meeting there will be
discussed your labor problems re
garding the housing of your crop
this year and possible solution to
those problems. Last year there
was used, for the first time in
Wake County, some farm labor
from the State of Mississippi
which proved very satisfactory.
It might be that on account of
the tobacco acreage cut you might
not need any labor this year; how
ever, Mr. Lee J. Craven, Manager
of the Raleigh Local Employment
Office, and Mr. C. S. Barnes,
Farm Interviewer connected with
that office, together with your
County Farm Agent, Mr. Grady
Miller, will attend this meeting and
be glad to discuss with you any
farm labor problems you might
be anticipating for the harvesting
of this year’s crop.
We hope you will attend this
important meeting of farmers who
anticipate employing help for the
harvesting of your tobacco crop.