THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 60.v Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, June 6, 1957 Theo. *Davis Sons, Publishers
CAMPBELL GRADUATE -
Minister of Music at Baptist
Church Began Duties Monday
Miss Laura Perry assumed her
duties Monday as minister of
music of the Zebulon Baptist
Church.
The brown eyed, brown haired,
five feet three and one-half inches
tall musician is a native of Creed
moor, the daughter of the late
Mrs. Ora Perry and Mr. Perry.
Since the death of her mother she
has made her home with her uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. George Etheridge of
Creedmoor.
She is a graduate of Creedmoor
High School, and only last Friday
graduated from Campbell College.
While at Campbell she was active
in many college activities. She
belonged to the Beta IMu Kappa
sorority, Mozart Music Club, was
president of the Women’s House
Council of her dormitory and re
ceived the distinction of being
named the Most Dependable in
the college yearbook. She was
also one of the leading soloists in
the college choir.
Music has always been Miss
Perry’s love. After her summer’s
work here, she will enroll at Car
son-Newman College, Jefferson
City, Tenn., where she will seek
her bachelor of music degree. Her
plans are to major in organ with
minors in piano and voice.
This is her first job as church
musician and choir director, and
she said she is “very excited and
thrilled.” She is twenty-one years
old.
“I am sure I shall find tH| work
here very fascinating,” she said,
“and the choirs very cooperative
and helpful.”
She succeeds Miss Margaret
Anne English, who resigned after
more than a year with the church
to marry Midshipman Bill Smith
June 29.
* Churches Plan
Bible Schools
Vacation Bible School at the
Baptist Church will be launched
next Monday morning by a band
led parade up main street; return
ing to the Church for registra
tion and refreshments.
The school then begins on
Wednesday, June 12 at 8:30 a.m.
in the Sanctuary for a joint Wor
ship Service proceeded by the de
partmental classes.
The subjects for study for the
departments will be; Nursery,
“Learning of God’s Love and
Care;” Beginners, “Helping in
God’s World; Primary, “Meeting
Bible Friends”; Junior, “Living
for Jesus Everyday”; and Inter
mediates, “Discovering What God
Is Like”.
Principal for the school this
year will be Mrs. Eldred Rountree.
Around 150 pupils are expected
for this Bible teaching program.
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Vacation Church School will get
underway at Zebulon Methodist
Church Sunday, according to the
pastor, the Rev. Troy J. Barrett,
Assisting the leaders and pastors
in this annual summer church
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Mrs. Vera Rhodes was admitted
to Rex Hospital Monday for treat
ment and observation of hyper
tension. Therefore, there will be
no news of the Wakefield Com
munity this week because of hei
(•- illness.
Laura Perry
Firemen Call
Off Dances
Zebulon Volunteer Firemen have
announced there will be no more
dances under their sponsorship at
the armory.
For the past five Saturday nights
the Firemen have been sponsoring
dances at the local armory in or
der to make money and to buy
needed equipment and supplies.
On the first three dances the
Firemen lost money. On the last
two they did make ends meet, but
made less than five dollars on both
affairs.
The rent for the armory and the
charge for the orchestra were the
minimum, Firemen said, but be
cause of the poor attendance and
the lack of support from the
townspeople the dances did not pay
off.
The Firemen are now consider
ing other ways to make money to
increase their small fund.
Town's Governing
Body Takes Oath
On Monday Night .
Daniels Have
6 lb., 8 oz. Boy
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Daniel,
Jrt became the parents of a
six pound, eight ounce boy
Wednesday at Doctors Hos
pital, New York. Mrs. Daniel
is the former Margaret Tru
man. Mr. Daniel is a native of
Zebulon.
Retire<*
Joe
Louis
Minister church
Start m His
A prominent Baptist Negro min
ister of Zebulon has been recog
nized by his alma mater for his
faithful and effective service in
the field of religion.
Dr. C. E. Askew received the
Shaw University Golden Anniver
sary Award at the college’s com
mencement exercise Monday, May
27.
Dr. Askew, whose full name is
Cornelius Edward Askev., was
born May 8, 1870, in Harrellsville,
N. C. He is the son of the late
Andrew Jackson Askew and
Gloria Adeline Askew.
He attended public schools in
Hertford, the State Norman School J
in Elizabeth City and Shaw Uni-!
versity from where he was granted
his bachelor of arts degree in 1907 j
and his doctor of divinity degree
in 1915. He also did graduate1
work at Benedict College, Colum
bia, S. C.
He has served in Washington,
N. C., Kinston, Raleigh, Pitts
burgh, Pa., and Detroit Mich.
He retired from the ministry after
serving as pastor of the Third
Baptist Church in Detroit • for
approximately 25 ye.ars.
While in Detroit, he was pastor
of Mt. Olive Baptist Church and
organized the first boxing club in
this church for the young men.
One of those young men was Joe
Louis, who was later to become
one of the most famous members
of his race.
Dr. Askew remembers Louis
vividly. He recalled what a fine
young man he was, always very
much interested in sports, es
pecially boxing. Louis at the time
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1957 WAKELON HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
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The following are graduates of Wakelon High School—Mascots: Mary Dan Martin and Ray Massey.
Left to right, front row: Kay Pate, Ola Mae Honeycutt, Carolyn ,Hinton, Betsy Brantley, Diane
Broughton, Zelma Greene, Betty Kimball, Linda Morris, Jean Joyner; Second row: Marie Shearin, Chris
Shearin, Barbara Bunn, Peggy Greene, Betsy Goodwin, Kay Chamblee, Connie Pearce, Donna Mitchell;
Third row« Judith Manning Jean Riggan, Judith Hood, Daphine Morris, Dorothy Smith, Janet Upchurch,
Nancy Martin, Faye Fuller, Peggy Richardson; Fourth row: Johnny Richardson Maynard Pearce,
Robert Draughon, Bobby Weathers, Tony Wilson, Carlton Debnam, Roger Pearce, E. B. Pulley, Frank
Murray Linwood Liles, Linwood Perry, Charles Murphy; last row: Jay Godwin, Charles Driver, Charles
Long, Jimmy Hodge Joseph Temple, Henry Cooke, Durwood Brannan, Donald Williams, Charles Black
ley, Ned Mitchell and Henry Bobbitt. —Photo by J. L. McGee
J. Raleigh Alford
Made Mayor Protem
The oath of office was taken by
Mayor Wilbur Debnam and the
commissioners Monday night. J.
Garland Godwin, justice of the
peace, presided at the oath-taking
ceremonies.
After the installation of the of
ficials who will govern the town
for the next two years, the new
Board got off to a flying start on
city business.
J. Raleigh Alford was made
Mayor Pro Tern. He will act as
mayor in the event Mayor Deb
nam is not able to preside at the
Board meetings.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ellett, one of the
new commissioners, was appoint
ed to the Recreation Commission.
She replaces retiring Commission
er Francis Wall.
One new appointment was made
to the Zoning Board. R. Vance
Brown, former commissioner, was
given a two-year appointment to
the Board, replacing R. Wesley
Liles. Liles, who was elected to
the Board of Commissioners in the
May ejection, cannot hold two
positions and had to step down
from the Zoning Board.
Other members of the Zoning
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Pearce Landlord
Blasts Tenant's
Wife Saturday
A prominent and well-known
Pearce Community farmer has
been charged with assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill,
according to Franklin County
Sheriff Willis Perry.
Sheriff Perry brought the
charges against Clifton T. Perry,
who allegedly shot the wife of a
tenant farmer in the face. The
woman, a Mrs. Arnold, was taken
to Rex Hospital where at last re
port she was in a satisfactory
condition.
Mrs. Arnold, who with her hus
band and seevral children live
at the tenant house about 400 yards
| from Perry’s* home, was shot in
the face with a .32 caliber pistol.
Sheriff Perry said he had not
determined the motive for the
shooting which occurred around
10 a.m. Saturday, June 1, at the
tenant home.
All Perry would say, according
to the sheriff, was that he went
to the Arnold residence where
Mrs. Arnold was sweeping the
yard with a brush broom. When
she attacked him with the broom,
he fired, according to the state
ment.
Mrs. Arnold could not be
questioned because of her con
dition.
The Arnolds have been farming
the Perry lands for about 14 years,
according to Sheriff Perry.
Perry, a life-long resident of
the Pearce Community had an
excellent reputation and was re
garded as a community leader,
according to the report.