THE ZEBULON RECORD
^ Volume XXX. Number 74. Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, September 12,1957 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
REC. CENTER
Saturday Is
Mr. and Mrs. Bernice Bunn,
owners of Bunn’s Recreation Cen
ter on West Horton Street, have
revealed that the Center will be.
open to teen-age groups each Sat
urday night free of charge.
These groups must be well chap
eroned, Mr. and Mrs. Bunn said,
and the chaperones are to assume
responsibility for the conduct of
the groups that meet there.
Bunn’s Recreation Center was
built for the use of the teen-agers
in Zebulon and the surrounding
communities , the owners said.
They felt a need for such a center
and they hope the youth will take
advantage of it.
Of course, they hope, too, that
they use it properly. If at any time
any of the groups abuse or dam
age the building or furniture, they
will be forbidden use of the Cen
ter.
Two of the local churches are
already planning teen-age activi
ties at the Center. There is no
restriction to the denomination
which may use the recreation h&ll.
Persons or person who want to
use the Center will be charged a
fee of $10.00. No party or organi
zation will be booked for a Satur
day night. This night is reserved
strictly for teen-age groups.
The owners stated that a mod
erate use of kitchen facilities will
be available. No group will be
allowed to prepare full meals.
As applies to teenage groups,
parties or organizations who rent
the building will be held com
pletely responsible for the care of
the Center.
Music for dancing or listening
may be provided by a piccolo in
the Center. The charge for each
record will be five cents. Ordinar
ily, there is a charge of ten cents,
with the owner getting a profit of
five cents.
Delinquent Water
Bills Numerous
Approximately MO delin
quent water bills were on the
town books as of Monday.
These bills ranged in a
mounts due from $3.80 to
$169.30.
A water bill is not classified
delinquent until it is two
months or more old.
Wakelon Students Learn
By Way of Television
The world history and eighth
grade mathematics classes at
Wakelon School began a new expe
rience in learning Monday.
They began learning the two
courses by remote instruction— ed
ucational television.
Wakelon School joins 54 other
schools in North Carolina which
are receiving instruction by tele
vision in- this new experiment
launched Monday.
Principal John J. Hicks said he
feels that such Instruction can
be very successful.
Two television sets have been1
allotted to Wakelon. These were!
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Youth Night
UF Budget Is
Being Worked Out
Zebulon United Fund’s Budget
Committee met Monday night and
made a tentative budget for the
1957-58 year, President Thomas
Monk said.
The committee refused to reveal
the tentative budget for publica
tion.
President Monk stated that the
Budget Committee will meet Mon
day night, Sept. 16, at the Munici
pal Building with all the agencies
present to voice their approval or
disapproval of their allotments.
The president revealed that the
budget will be lower than the
1956-57 budget.
“We are looking at this thing
realistically,” Monk said.
The campaign will get underway
in October. Campaign chairman is
Robert Daniel Massey.
TB X-Ray Unit
To Be Here Sept.
27,28 and Oct. 1
Mayor Wilbur Debnam has an
nounced that a mobile x-ray unit
will be in Zebulon September 27,
28 and October 1.
This unit is provided through
the Tuberculosis Section of the
North Carolina State Board of
Health.
Mayor Debnam has been trying
for some time to secure the services
of the mobile x-ray unit, but un
til recently Zebulon had not been
designated for such service.
The Mayor was notified of the
schedule September 5 in a letter
from Dr. A. C. Bulla, Wake Coun
ty Health Officer.
Mayor Debnam said he could not
urge too strongly that people take
advantage of this free service.
The unit is to be at Wakelon and
Shepard schools but no date has
been announced.
Blackley Awarded Plaque
For Meadow Stripping
Stephen J. Blackley, a promi
nent Route 4, northwest Zebulon
farmer, has been presented a
plaque for being a winner in the
Meadow Strip Contest in Wake
County.
This contest was sponsored
jointly by the Soil Conservation
Service supervisors and the Ra
leigh Jaycees, and was concluded
with a meadow strip demonstra
tion Friday, Sept. 6, on the farm
of Richard P. Hunt located in the
Millbrook School district.
Mr. Blackley, who had a low
lying area of land on his farm, had
this area graded with a bulldozer
and then planted cover crops of
ladino clover, tall fescue grass and
oats.
He said he did not receive the
kind of stand he would have liked
but that it was his first experience
with meadow stripping. And he
thoroughly recommends meadow
stripping to other farmers in this
territory.
The local winner was presented
the award by Grayson Quarles of
Wyatt Quarles Seed Company of
Raleigh. He was among eight win
ners in Wake County.
Mr. Hunt, who was presented a
trophy for having the outstanding
meadow in Wake County told the
winners and representative of the
bought on state contract for $134.
00 each. Both are General Elec
tric and are table model types.
The instruction originates over
North Carolina’s only educational
television network, WUNC-TV, at
the University of Chapel Hill.
Each TV class is 30 minutes in
length. The pupils then return
to their class rooms where there is
a follow-up of the program by the
school’s history and mathematics
heads.
Principal Hicks said the televi
sion? sets purchased for the school
will not be used for anything ex
cept educational purposes.
sponsoring organizations how he
prepared his meadows.
He said he seeded them at a
rate of 20 pounds of tall fescue and
used 800 pounds of 2-12-12 ferti
lizer per acre. He emphasized that
he liked the heavier seeding and
possibly used more than the 20
pounds per acre. His stand was
perfect and he had very little ero
sion, not withstanding the fact that
a 5-inch rain fell in less than 24
hours this spring.
Dr. Martin Litwack, chairman of
the Agricultural Committee of the
Raleigh Jaycees, stated that more
than 100 meadows were prepared
and seeded in Wake County this
past year.
According to G. L. Winchester,
Wake County Work Unit Conversa
tionist, this is the largest num
ber that has been seeded in one
year and he anticipated a much
larger acreage will be seeded this
fall. He encouraged farmers to
prepare and seed meadow strips as
soon as possible, preferably by Oc
tober 15.
Auxiliary Installs
'57-58 Officers
New officers for the 1957-58 year
of the American Ltegion Auxiliary
were installed following a dinner
meeting held at Hilliard’s Restau
rant Friday night, Sept 6.
Legionnaire W. M. Sutton per
formed the rites of oath-taking at
which Mrs. Rosa Mae Perry was
installed as president; Mrs. Leiia
Holmes, vice president; Mrs. Sel
ma Davis, secretary; Mrs. Alice
Farmer, treasurer; Mrs. Madyline
Pippin, sergeai -at-arms; Mrs.
Marie Bufkin, historian; and Mrs.
Myrtie Crowder, child welfare
chairman.
American Legion Post 33 mem
bers were guests at the dinner
installation ceremony.
The American Legion Auxiliary
meets the firs* Friday night in
each month.
Mrs. Perry succeeds Mrs. Alice
Farmer as president.
Tentative Plans for
Golden Anniversary
Robert Moore
Head Baseball
Coach Named
Robert Moore, new faculty mem
ber of Wakelon School, teaches
eighth grade and serves as assist
and football coach. When basket
ball season begins he will be head
coach of the girls’ basketball squad,
and when baseball season rolls
around he will be head baseball
coach.
Prior to coming to Wakelon, he
taught eighth grade in Pikeville
High School in Wayne County for
a year.
He is the son of Mrs. E. E. Moore
of Ayden and the late Rev. Mr.
Moore. He holds a bachelor of
arts degree from Atlantic Chris
tian College which was awarded to
him in 1956.
Moore, 27, is married to the for
mer Dorothy Louise Anderson of
Wilson, also an ACC graduate.
PTA
Wakelon School PTA is the
third Monday night of each
month and not the second
Thursday night of each month
as was erroneously reported in
the last issue of this paper.
PTA patrons are requested
to note this change and attend
these very important meetings
that are of extreme value to
school, parent and child.
Local Grill Burglarized
Sunday Night; $30 Taken
The Meet and Eat Grill, located
on Highway 64 northeast, was
entered some time between 11 o’
clock Sunday and 9 o’clock Mon
day morning, Zebulon police have
reported.
The owners, Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Watkins, discovered the break-in
when they went to their business
establishment about 9 o’clock Mon
day morning.
Mrs. Watkins said the Grill was
entered by way of the back door.
The screen door wire had been
ripped with a sharp instrument
so as to unlatch it. Then the knob
of the panelled door was broken
off.
Inside the burglar or burglars
raided the juke box and pin ball
machine. The pin ball machine’s
finish was badly damaged in an ef
fort to break open the coin box. ,
Mrs. Watkins said she estimated
approximately $30 was taken from
both machines. She said the pin
ball machine had been emptied of
its money the preceding Wednes
day.
Also missing was a small table
model Philco radio, valued by Mrs.
Watkins at $25.
Nothing else was bothered. Not
even a pack of cigarettes was miss
ing or candies or Cokes.
The entrants left by the front
door of the Grill. In order to
open this door, the knob had also
been ripped off.
A finger print expert from the
State Bureau of Investigation made
prints Monday, but the local police
department had received no re
port at the time of this publication.
To Be October 14-20
'Tentative plans for Zebulon’s
Golden Anniversary celebration
have been announced by Ferd L.
Davis, chairman of the 50-year
event.
The celebration has been post
poned twice. The event was
planned for last February and then
for Jqly but were later cancelled.
Town Attorney Davis revealed
the celebration plans before the
mayor and town board of com
missioners at their September
meeting held Tuesday night, Sept.
3.
The chairman said the event will
get underway Monday, Oct. 14, and
conclude Sunday, Oct. 20.
At present no speakers have
been announced for the celebra
tion, the attorney said. Prominent
public figures are being contacted
and when tfiey accept their names
will be announced.
The Zebulon Farm Bureau will
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Local Grid Season
Opens Friday Night
Coach Vaughn Fowler’s, Bulldogs
open their grid season in Wendell
tomorrow (Friday) night against
the Rolesville squad.
The Bulldogs have been shaping
up beautifully and the team ex
pects to clobber the Rolesville
team in their first non-conference
game of the season.
This game is being played in the
Wendell stadium because Roles
ville High School has no stadium.
A downpour of rain flooded Ben
son School’s athletic field and
caused postponement of the non
conference football game this past
Friday night between the Bulldogs
of Wakelon and the Blue Phantoms
of Benson.
The two teams will play the con
test at the tail end of the season on
Friday night, November 15, at
Benson, Wakelon Principal John J.
Hicks has announced.
Wakelon defeated the Blue
Phantoms last year by a score of
47-6.