THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 85.
Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, November 7, 1957
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
First Confederate Flag
Made By Grandmother
Of A Local Woman
The grandmother of one of Zeb
ulon’s residents made the first Con
federate flag—“The Stars and
Bars”—to fly proudly on the soft
Southern breezes.
Mrs. Rebecca Winborne, whose
granddaughter, Mrs. Nannie Wat
son Pearce, resides on West Hor
ton Street here, is credited with
stitching together the Confederate’s
first ensign to be thrown to the
breezes.
When the Senators and Repre
sentatives of the seven Confeder
ate States that seceded February
1, 1861, met at Montgomery, Ala.,
the first business after organizing
was to decide whether the new
nation should have a new flag and
a new constitution or fight under
the Constitution of the United
States. The debate was short, but
both sides had strong arguments
to offer.
A new constitution was adopted
and a committee was appointed to
select a new flag. This committee
advertised in the leading papers for
designs of flags to be sent to it at
Montgomery.
The idea selected was Orren
Randolph Smith’s of Henderson.
Smith said that the idea of his
flag was taken from the Trinity,
“Three in One.” The three bars
were for the church, State and
press. Red represented the State
legislature, judiciary, and execu
tive; white was for the church,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; red
was for the press, freedom of
speech, freedom of conscience and
liberty of press.
All these were bound together
on a field of blue, signifying the
Heavens above all. A star was
added for each state in the con
federation. There were seven
white stars, all placed in a circle,
showing that each state
had equal rights and privileges, ir
respective of size or population.
The circle, having neither head nor
foot, stood for eternity, and sig
nified “You defend me and I’ll
defend you.”
Smith made the temark that he
had the flag all complete in his
mind before the Confederate Con
gress advertised for models. He
said when the advertisement ap
peared he went directly to his
friend, Mrs. Winborne (then Miss
Rebecca Murphy), of Louisburg
and asked her if she would make
him a little flag if he told her how.
This young woman Smith ap
proached to make his flag model
was gentle and charming in man
ner and had the creamy voice of
Mrs. Rebecca Winbome
. . . Sewed. “Stars and Bars”
well-bred Southern women. She
was also an excellent seamstress.
She agreed to Smith’s request.
He tore the bars and cut the stars
and when she had meticulously
sewn them on the blue background,
the little flag was sent to Mont
gomery, with the suggestion that
a star be added for each state that
joined the Confederacy.
The flag committee liked the
tiny model, accepted it, and named
it “The Stars and Bars.” They al
so adopted the suggestion, and it
was not long before the flag bore
eleven stars for the eleven Con- J
federate States that voted for Jef-!
ferson Davis to be President. j
After the small flag was sent to
Montgomery, Smith bought dress I
goods from Barrow’s Store and ]
asked Miss Rebecca to make him
a large flag, 9 by 12 feet, “for,”
he is quoted as saying, “whether [
or not the flag committee accepted
my model I was determined that
one of my flags should be floating:
in the breeze.”
When the large flag was finished
by Miss Murphy, Smith spliced
two tall saplings together a hun- 1
dred feet high and planted the i
flag on the courthouse square at ■
Louisburg where he was then liv-.
ing. The flag was sent aloft Mon- [
day, March 18, 1861, two months,
before North Carolina seceded. !
Mrs. Winborne, brown eyed and j
brown haired, stood a straight five j
feet five. She married first Dr. !
Germain Watson of Virginia who;
set up a practice in Louisburg.;
Three children were born to this:
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Dentist Protest Road
On Meredith Property
Dr. L. M. Massey, chairman of
the Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees of Meredith Col
lege, appeared before the North
Carolina State Highway Conpnis
sion Monday to protest a proposed
highway project.
The college group opposed the
proposed location of an intersec
tion with Hillsboro Street at a U.
S. 1 south relocation project. The
new U. S. 1 route bypasses Apex
and Cary to the east.
It would overpass and clover
leaf with Hillsboro Street in the
vicinity of Ridge Road, the west
ern property line of the college.
Some six or seven acres of Mere
dith property would be needed for
the intersection. The Meredith
group said the college needs all
of its present property for future
expansion of the Baptist women’s
institution.
Dr. Massey said, “We have hope
that we (the group who appeared
before the Commission) will be
successful in getting the Highway
Commission to move the entire
project farther west of the city so
as to avoid congestion on the
Hillsboro Street area and mar the
beauty and service of the Hills
boro Side of Meredith College cam
pus.”
Appearing at the meeting with
Dr. Massey were Herbert W. Wea
thers poon, Leroy Martin, Dr. Car
lyle Campbell, and Mrs. J. Wil
bur Bunn.
Hill Top Farm
Awarded Ribbons
At N. C. State Fair
Four Tamworth gilts from Hill
top Farm were awarded eight rib
bons in the North Carolina Fair
swine division.
The girls were raised on Hilltop
Farm which is owned by Dr. L. M.
Massey and supervised by Dewey
Massey, also joint owner of the
livestock division of the farm.
The spring sows were entered in
four different classes in the live
stock and swine display.
Paul Dew, Wakelon High School
agriculture instructor, assisted
Dewey Massey in picking the four
entrants from 16 registered Tam
worth gilts.
The Tamworth line raised on
Hilltop Farm is cross-bred with
the newly-imported Landrace Dan
ish hog. This new breed has six
extra ribs, making it an excellent
bacon-type.
The farm has two blood lines:
the Tamworth, which was begun at
Iowa State University, and the
Danish Landrace, which was de
veloped at North Carolina State
College.
Hilltop Farm is located one mile
northeast of Zebulon on Highway
64.
Clink Course To Be
Held By Baptists
“Living in Balance as We Rear
Children of Good Will” is the
theme of the clinic course being
conducted at the Zebulon Bap
tist Church for the next four Sun
day nights from 6:30-7:30, the
Rev. Arnold W. Smith has an
nounced.
These clinics are being led by
Mrs. Elizabeth Middleton of Ra
leigh. Her husband, J. Leonard
Middleton, is a professor in the
Philosophy of Religion department
of State College, and Mr. Middle
ton will work jointly in conduct
ing the clinic.
The topics for discussion are:
November 10: We Two: How
Loveable Are You?; November 17:
We Three, We Four: Do You Have
Your Parent’s Passport?; Novem
ber 24: We Four to Eight: How
Does Your Family Rate? (How Do
You Play? What do You Read?);
December 1: The Family: What is
Your P. Q.? (Techniques for Hap
py Living.
Mrs. Middleton is a graduate of*
Meredith College in Elerpentary
Education and Religion. She re
ceived her Bachelor of Divinity
Degree from the Crozer Seminary
of Chester, Pa., and did post-grad
uate study at the Union Theologi
cal Seminary of Columbia Univer
sity of New York.
The public is cordially invited
and urged to take advantage of this
exceptional series of lectures.
Mrs. Hardwick
To Address FBW
Mrs. Callie Hardwick, noted
home economist, will speak to the
Farm Bureau Women on the se
lection and arrangement of furni
ture Monday night, Nov. 11. The
meeting will get underway at 7:30
p.m. in the Wakelon Home Eco
nomic Department. All members
are urged to be present.
New Chlorinator Added
To Town's Water System
Wendell Women
Hear Local Florist
At the Hoe ’N Hope Garden
Club of Wendell, October 18, Mrs.
Allen Pippin, florist of Zebulon,
gave an informative talk and dem
onstration on making “Thanksgiv
ing Arrangements from Dried Ma
terials.”
“Plants should be selected be
fore they reach complete maturity
so as not to shed their seeds and
leaves,” the speaker said,
“while other plants should be gath
ered when at peak of bloom in or
der to retain natural colors.”
Mrs. Pippin said many materi
als can be dried successfully by
tying the stems and hanging up
side down. However, for those
that can not be dried by this meth
od, she explained the borax-sand,
the glycerin, and the soap-flake
methods.
From materials gathered local
ly, Mrs. Pippin made several most
attractive arrangements. On com
pletion of each, she gave an anal
ysis of materials used in relations
to their texture, color, size, shape
and blending qualities. She com
pared suitability of each container
to the contents. An open discus
sion was held with a question and
answer period participated in by
members and the speaker.
Weekly Series
Of Dances To
Be At Armory
Bill Pollard and his Rock
N’Roll Playboys will play
for a dance Saturday ni; Jt
at 8:00 at the National
Guard Armory. Bill is well
known in this area for his
appearances on WMSN in
Raleigh. He has recertly
completed an extended en
gagement in Wendell where
his band was very well re
ceived. His group, which
features Billy Kelly on
drums, can give out with !
music for round, square, .
and bop dancing—it
just depends on what the
audience wants. The Satur- !
day night dance is the first !
in a series of weekly dances |
to be held at the local ar
mory.
MEANS SAFER WATER
Water taste better lately?
Well, then it is because a new
chlorine machine has been in
stalled in the town’s water plant.
The new machine was bought
from Wallace and Tiernam Com
pany at a cost of $822. The Town
Board recommended the purchase
and installation of the machine at
its October meeting.
Water Commissioner Willie. B.
Hopkins said the new machine, in
stalled October 17, chlorinates the
water before it is Altered. Prior to
the installation of the new chlori
nator, the water had to be Altered
Arst.
With the installation of the new
chlorinator, the raw water is treat
ed with chlorine and it is then Al
tered. Water Commissioner Hop
kins said this new method elimi
nates the growth of algae in the
raw water basin and Alter bed.
Because of the action of the
chlorine killing the myriad forms
of algae in the raw water basin
and Alter bed, Water Commission
er Hopkins said there may be a
slight bitter taste to the water.
This, he assures, will clear up
very soon.
The present chlorinator required
approximately eight pounds of
chlorine every 24 hours. The dis
carded model required approxi
mately one pound of chlorine ev
ery 24 hours.
Farm Bureau
Changes Meet
Zebulon Farm Bureau will hold
its regular monthly meeting on the
second Wednesday night of this
month, Nov. 13.
The change is affected because
Paul Dew, Wakelon agriculture in
structor, is now taking advanced
courses at N. C. State College dur
ing the night. He is working to
ward his master of arts degree.
Dew said no speaker has been
secured for the meeting, but the
speaker who will be gotten will
speak on the current nroblems
facing the farmers in this and
other sections.
The local Farm Bureau members
are urged to take note of this
change meeting, and be present
for what promises to be one of the
most informative meetings of the
year.
Town Board Makes Two
Recommendations Mon.
The beauty of Indian Summer
days evidently affected the mem
bers of the Town Board when they
met Monday night. Little was act- !
ed upon and left recorded in the
minutes.
The Rev. Arnold W. Smith, Zeb- j
ulon Baptist Church pastor, and
Thomas J. Scarborough, local man
ager of Carolina Power and Light
Company, were appointed to the
Recreation Commission for a term
of three years. These two men re
place M. M. Bryant and the Rev.
Troy J. Barrett, Zebulon Methodist
Church minister, whose terms are
to expire Jan. 1, 1958.
The only other business trans
acted was the opening of sealed
bids for water lines in Wakefield
and Glenn Streets. The contract
was awarded to Heater Well Com
pany of Raleigh.
A six-inch water main will be
constructed from Gannon Avenue
north down Wakefield Street to
Glenn Street. A two-inch main is
to be laid from Glenn Street to
Church Street, beginning at Wake
field Street. The Glenn to Church
Street main will tie in with the
larger main at Church Street
making a complete conduit.
When these mains are laid two
fire hydrants will be erected. One
will be at the intersection of North
Street, and the other will be at the
intersection of Glehn Street.