THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 50.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, March 29, 1957
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
STILL NO COMMENT
Incumbent Commissioner Undecided
There’s still plenty of time for a man to make up his
mind about running, one commissioner has said.
“It’s too early for me to be thinking about running for
Town Commissioner again,” Vance Brown has revealed.
The town election is still six weeks away.
Brown said he hasn’t thought much about being a
candidate for re-election "one way or the other.”
Questioned further, he said: “No comment. It’s still
too early. Sorry, no comment.”
Explorer Scouts
To Wash Cars
For Trip Money
Zebulon’s Explorer Scouts are
going to earn some money by tak
ing in washing.
Yes, on April 6 the Explorers
will be washing cars to fill the
shortage in their funds which will
help send one of their boys to the
National Jamboree in July.
It will cost $125 to send a mem
ber of the Explorer Scouts to this
Jamboree. At present they do not
have enough money to finance this
trip for a Scout.
The car wash is to be held -be
hind Debnam’s Hardware and
Zebulon Dry Cleaners. The wash
begins at 7:30 in the morning, and
the Scouts hope there will be
enough cars for them to continue
till 7:30 that night. The price for
each job will be $1.25.
There will be adults to come for
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ZEBULON JAIL
FILLED SATURDAY
Zebulon jail bulged at the
sides with occupants last week
end.
Officers stated there was the
biggest business in many weeks.
Drunks, speedsters, bootleggers
and other.culprits filled the jail
to over-flowing.
Police Officer Willie B. Hop
kins said: “It was the biggest j
weekend for us in a long ]
time. I can’t account it to any
one thing. I understand Raleigh
underwent the same thing.”
WINS CUBA TRIP
Judd Robertson, Chevrolet
Oldsmobile dealer in Zebulon,
leaves Monday on a 4-day trip
to Havana, Cuba. He won the
trip for outstanding sales of
Chevrolet cars and trucks in
a contest during January and
February among dealers in
North and South Carolina.
Mr. Robertson will depart by
plane from the Raleigh-Dur
ham airport.
OFFICERS ELECTED
FOR WAKELON
BOOSTERS CLUB
At the call meeting of the exe
cutive board of Wakelon Boosters
Club Tuesday night new officers
for the 1957-58 school year were
appointed.
Mrs. Jack Mitchell was named
president; Willie Griswold, vice
president; Mrs. Ruth Pace, secre
tary; and Mrs. Willie B. Hopkins,
treasurer.
Officers of the club stepping
down from positions are Mrs.
Garland Richardson, president
since the club’s organization; Mrs.
Jack Mitchell, who was vice presi
dent; Mrs. Thurman Murray, sec
retary; and Ray Goodwin, treasur
er.
During the meeting the club
voted to purchase catcher’s equip
ment and a couple dozen base
balls for the Wakelon baseball
team this season.
Ways were also discussed for in
creasing the interest in the Boost
ers Club next year. Interest of pa
trons has been lagging during this
school year.
A date is to be announced for a
dutch supper meeting of the club
to be held at Parker’s Restaurant
in Wilson.
Wakelon Boosters Club has paid
a $25 a month supplement to
Coach George Spiritos this year.
“We feel we have accomplished
something this year, though not as
much as we would have liked to,”
one of the retiring board members
said. “Some how the interest has
not been shown that should have
been, but we feel sure next year’s
club will be infinitely more
successful.
International Flower Show Winner
To Speak Tuesday to Wendell Club
CHOSEN MARSHA1
Miss' Patsy Allman
Miss Patsy Allman has been
elected one of sixteen girls to serve
East Carolina College as marshal
for the 1957-58 school year. She is
a sophomore at ECC.
Miss Allman’s duties will include
representing the college at many
of the public functions, especially
during commencements.
In order to be a marshal at the
school the girls must attain an
average of not less than grade 3.
All marshals are elected by a
vote of the student body on the
basis of scholastic rating, dignity
and personality.
Miss Allman plans to major in
primary education with intentions
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Mrs. Ruth Emerson Kistner, of
Glendale, Long Islang, N. Y. will
lecture on “Flower Arrangements,”
Tuesday, April 2, 1957, 10 a.m., at
the Wendell High School Audi
torium, presented by the Wendell
Garden Club Council.
Mrs. Kistner is a blue ribbon and
tri-color winner at the Internation
al Flower Show in New York. Her
book, “Flower Arranging for the
American Home” written in col
laboration with Gladys Tabor is
now in its fourth printing. At pres
ent, she is contributing designs for
| three leading fabric manufacturers.
Ruth Kistner’s work has taken
her into each of the forty-eight
states. She was selected by the
Garden Club of Virginia to do
Woodrow Wilson’s home for a tea
honoring Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs.
! Woodrow Wilson and Lady Astor
of London. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Cannon of Blowing Rock, N. C.,
chose Mrs. Kistner to do their
lovely mountain home when they
entertained the Society for the
Preservation of Antiquities in the
South.
The Duke and Duchess of Wind
sor, Mrs. Dillard Reynolds and
Mrs. Bryant Foy are among Amer
ica’s outstanding people for whom
Mrs. Kistner has done weddings
and parties.
Articles and pictures of her work
have appeared in many publica
tions, including House and Gar
den, Better Homes and Gardens,
The Antiques Journal, Gardeners’
Chronicle and Town and Country.
Mrs. Kistner’s arrangements are
always made in full view of the
audience and her ability to condi
tion plant material enables her to
take her owri flowers and foliage
with her and to work with them
many days. Her collection of early
books and rare prints is sought by
many groups for exhibition pur
poses. She owns four Furber orig
inals.
She lectured in Wilmington, N.
C. last spring and many arrangers
and garden club enthusiasts at
tended from over the State.
The lecture will begin promptly
at 10 a.m. followed by luncheon in
the school cafeteria. Tickets for the
lecture are $1.00, sold in advance
or at the door. Tickets for the
luncheon are $1.00, sold only in
advance of March 27. Write ticket
chairman: Mrs. John L. Glover,
Box 171, Wendell, N. C.
Thursday Publication Date
This issue marks the end of several years of twice
weekly publication for The Zebulon Record. Beginning next
week, the Record will appear only on Thursday of each week.
Hereafter weekly news of communities around Zebulon—
along with editorials, sparkling features, and money-saving
advertisements—will be distributed only half as often . . .
but in king-size doses.
M/Sgt. Cecil Alford
Local Citizen
Gets Promotion
M/Sgt. Cecil C. Alford took over
as 6000th Support Wing Sergeant
Major this week, filling the vacan
cy left by M/Sgt. Oscar Keenan
who returned to the United States.
Sergeant Alford is the former
sergeant major of 6000th Installa
tions Group, and he has been in
Japan since September, 1956. Prior
to his assignment here, Sergeant
Alford was stationed in Hawaii.
He is married to the former The
da Privette, and is thd father
of two sons, David, 15, and Larry,
12.
He is the son of Mrs. Susie Al
ford who resides on Sycamore
Street, and the late Mr. Alford.
Ray Goodwin Says
He Will Not Run
Ray Goodwin, district engineer
of Carolina Power and Light Com
pany for the Zebulon area, “doubts
seriously” that he will be a can
didate for the town board of com
missioners.
Goodwin said he had been con
tacted by some Zebulon citizens
asking him to place his name on
the ballot, but he said he feels that
he has not been a resident of the
town long enough. He has lived in
the city limits for one year.
He also added that if he changes
his mind he would have to get the
consent of his company. He said
CP&L doesn’t like for their em
ployees to become involved in poli
tics.
NFLA Plan Meet
Stockholders of the Smithfleld
National Farm Loan Association
(about 900 fanners) will hold their
annual meeting Friday, March 29,
at 10:30 a.m. in the Commissioners
Room, Johnston County Court
house at Smithfleld. This is the
40th Anniversary of the associa
tion, which evolved out of the
consolidation of several associa
tions, chartered to make and ser
vice Federal Land Bank loans on
farms in Wake, Johnston and
Wayne Counties. Among them
was the Fuquay National Farm
Loan Association of Fuquay
Springs, its charter being granted
on June 1, 1917, its first president
was R. D. Overby and its first sec
retary-treasurer was A. J. Fletcher;
the Kenly National Farm Loan As
sociation of Kenly, its charter be
ing granted July 24, 1917.
Boy Scouts Plan
Biennial Circus
At State College
Boy Scouts from Zebulon and
11 other counties in the Occo
neechee Council will stage their
third biennial Scout Circus in Wil
liam Neal Reynolds coliseum on
the campus of N. C. State College
on Saturday night, April 13.
W. H. Carper, Raleigh’s City
Manager and the Council’s Pro
gram Committee Chairman, an
nounced plans here today which
include sponsorship of the event by
the Raleigh Kiwanis Club and an
ticipate more than 5,000 Scouts
participating, with at least 10,000
spectators.
Paul Hoover, local insurance
man as General Chairman, and
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Radio Bid Given
For Police Work
A representative from Motorola
Radio and Television Company
visited Zebulon Tuesday and made
an estimate of the needs for a
two-way radio system for the po
lice department.
He left an estimate of the cost
of the system which totals $790.50.
Half of the cost of this system will
be paid by Wake County Civil De
fense.
Police Chief Willie B. Hopkins
said the order has not been for
warded to the Motorola Company
yet, pending the approval of the
Wake County Civil Defense offi
cials.
LIQUOR RAIDS
Slop Jar Has
Illegal Contents
When the law arrived, Alice
Scott, Negro of Rt. 2, Wendell,
reached under the bed and grabbed
the slop jar and clutched it tight
ly
Deputy Sheriff Earl Duke asked
the woman for the container and
she refused to give it to him. He
reached for it and in the struggle
the contents spilled.
And it wasn’t urine that spilled
over the bed clothes.
“It was plain old bootleg moon
shine,” the deputy said.
Under questioning, Alice said
'she had poured approximately one
half gallon of moonshine into the
slop jar, thinking the officers
would not be the wiser.
Alice’s 14-year-old daughter was
at the scene, too. But she stood rig
idly by the door. Deputy Duke
asked her to move. She still con
tinued to stand stock-still.
When the deputy told her he
would have to arrest her and take
her to the police office to be search
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Librarians for April
Mrs. Sidr y Holmes, chairman
of Zebulon Community Library
for April, has announced the
librarians for next month. April
2,’ Mrs. Holmes; Mrs. Gilford
Bufkin, April 9; Mrs. Holmes,
April 16; Mrs. Tom Scarborough,
April 23; and Mrs. Dabney Gill,
April 30.
The library is open every
Tuesday afternoon from 3 to 5
o’clock.