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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXX. Number 59. Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, May 30, 1957. Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers WENDELL PRESBYTERIANS To Dedicate Church Plant Sunday The Rev. Scott Poole Dance Recital Tomorrow Night “Stepping to Stardom” will be the title of the revue presented by the pupils of Mrs. H- C. Wade’s dance class in Wendell School audi torium Friday night, May 31. The revenue will feature rhythm tap, waltz tap, baby tap, advanced modern jazz, ballroom, ballet and folk dances. The program will begin at 8 o’clock, and the public is invited. Dedication of the new Wendell Presbyterian Church educational center will be held Sunday, ac cording to the Rev. Scott Poole, pastor of the church. The education unit is the first of three units to be constructed. It cost approximately $20,000. Other units are planned for the future, the Rev. Mr. Poole said. The style of the architecture is Georgian, and the church is located on Selma Avenue. Assisting the pastor in the dedi cation of the building will be the Rev. E. L. Barber, secretary of the Granville presbytery. The public is invited to the dedi cation services. The annual revival at Wendell Presbyterian Church will be held June 2 through June 7. Each eve ning’s service will begin at 8 p.m. The speaker for this occasion will be the Rev. E. J. Agsten, pastor of West Raleigh Presbyterian Church. Special music for the services is being arranged by Mrs. B. C. Sat terfield, music director. Members of the revival committee planning the services are Bishop Pysher, James Raybon, Mrs. Carolyn Wick er and William Thornton of Roles ville. A series of Emphasis Nights are being planned. They are: Sunday, Youth Night; Monday, Men’s Night; Tuesday, Family Night; Wednesday, Women’s Night; Thursday, Community Night; Fri day, Sunday School Night. On these nights, leaders of the church organizations named above will be recognized. Wakelon School Entered; Charred, Burned Papers Found Investigation is still going on, according to Police Chief Willie B. Hopkins, to find the person or persons who entered Wakelon elementary school building May 17. Chief Hopkins said these per sons entered the building and ransacked various rooms, leav ing the residue of burned and charred paper behind them. He said he suspected they were searching for some object, and used lighted torches to find their way about the building. The investigating officer said he does not feel these persons were “firt bugs,” but only some pranksters. School officials would not re lease any information on the en try into the building which oc curred during the dance recital May 17. Zebulon Masons Constructing Modern Masonic Order Hall This photograph is of the front view of the uncompleted Ma sonic Lodge AF&AM 609. When the structure is completed it will cost approximately $20,000, and afford the local Masons with ade I quate and convenient lodge facilities. —Photo by Jimmy Spivey. Papers Unread, Shotgun Blast Kills 'High Pockets' The afternoon newspapers lay on the desks down at Town Hall. They were somewhat awry, having been rummaged through to find the comics by passerby and loafers. The papers belonged to Artis J. “Highpockets” Carpenter. Town officials said he liked his evening paper. The paper boy always put it in a cabinet drawer and High pockets knew where to find it. If he didn’t he found the reason why. But Highpockets won’t read the papers any more. He died of gun shot wounds inflicted by his wife in St. Agnes Hospital, Raleigh, Friday morning about 3:25. The shooting occured in the couple’s two-room tenant shanty on Route 1, Zebulon, Thursday morning around 6:30. The family occupied a rented home on the W. E. Upchurch, Sr. farm. His wife, Elizabeth, told in vestigating officer Deputy Sheriff Earl Duke, that she shot her hus band when he came at her with NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE GRADUATES .. ......... These three young men of Zebulon were amon> the candidates which were awarded decrees a1 North Carolina State College Sunday, May 26. Pictured from left to right are Rodney McNaob Bell, Robert Vance Brown, Jr., and Fred A. Mangum, Jr. B 11, son of Mrs. Joris Bell and the late Mr. Bell, was awarded his degree in textiles. He has accepted a position with Proctor & Gamble Co. of Milwaukee, Wis., in the advertising division. Brown is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Brown and received a degree in ag ricultural economics. At present he has not accepted a position. He is married to the former Peggy Herndon of Cary. Mangum is the son of Mr. Mangum and the late Mrs. Mangum. He, too, received a degree in agricultural economics, and will seek his master’s degree at Oklahoma A&M College, Still water, Okla., this fall. He is married to the former Joyce Stell of Rolesville. They have one daugh ter, Teresa Lynne, three-years-old. 9 la stick of stove wood. The argu I ment, simmering since last Novem ber, burst afresh Thursday jnom ing. Deputy Duke said the mother told him that Carpenter had mo lested her 13-year-old daughter. The mother tried to force the Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter, charged with the shotgun slay ing last Thursday of her hus band, Artis Carpenter, was freed Monday at a coroner’s inquest held in the Wake County Court House. Mrs. Carpenter was exonerat ed after her 13-year-old daugh ter testified that her step-father advanced on her mother with a stick of stove wood when thi shot was fired. The woman had been held in Wake County Jail since the slay ing. girl to make the accusation in front of Carpenter, something she had never done. He denied that he had ever molested, the girl, il legitimate daughter of his wife. After Carpenter was shot in the stomach with a .410-gauge shot gun, he wrested the weapon away from Elizabeth and broke the barrel-stock over his wife’s head. Then began a wild pursuit over a field to the edge of some woods where the bleeding victim caught (Continued on Page 9) Construction Well Underway Construction of a new Masonic Hall for Zebulon Lodge AM&FM 609 is well underway, and it is hqped by the members that the building will be completed within the next couple of months. Construction on this new struc ture was begun in April and the walls of the building are now al most ready for the addition of the roof. • When it is finished the cost of the building will be approximate ly $20,000. The plans for the structure were designed and planned by Mason R. H. Bridgers. He is on hand most of the time to supervise the con struction work. The building is 35 by 70 feet, and is being constructed of a ce ment-type block. The front of the building will have brick veneer with a granite stone above the doorway inscribed with the name and number of the lodge. On the lower floor, there will be a full-length banquet hall where Masonic functions may be held. There will be a modem kitchen fully equipped and the rest rooms on this floor, also. The upper floor of the building will be used for meetings. It is to be equipped with new furniture and ceremonial rite equipment. The whole building is to be cen trally heated. Much of the labor for the con struction of the building has been given by the members of the lodge. The excavation and footings were dug by Leroy Pittman without charge. Pittman does not belong to the local Masons. The building is being construct ed on East Horton Street, beside the Zebulon post office. The property for the new Hall was purchased from Mrs. Beverly Isaacs Moore of Charlotte. The Masons have owned the land for some years, with intention of con structing a building for their or der. Soon a drive is to be made by the local order to get the roof for the building. The lodge members now meet as they have for the past number of years in the building on the corner of Arendell Avenue and Horton Street. Joe Wood is chairman of the building committee for the new Masonic Hall. DRINKING AND TALKING Leads to Blows Buddy Cotton and James Author Smith got to drinking and then to i talking with one another last month, and one word led to another; then the words led to blows, and the blows led to a cutting with Smith on the giving end and Cotton on the receiving end. The pair, tried on various charges of assault, affray, and disorderly conduct before Judge I. D. Gill in the Zebulon Recorder’s Court last Wednesday, came be fore the Court apparently the best of friends, but their stories dif fered. Cotton said he had absolutely no idea why Smith wanted to cut him, and Smith told the Court that Cotton, a much larger Negro, had picked at him until he felt forced to do something like cut his throat. Doctors at St. Agnes Hospital had to take 22 stitches in Cotton’s throat after Smith got through with him. Cases heard Wednesday in cluded the following: (Continued on Page 9)
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