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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXX. Number 92. Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, January 2, 1958 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers DRIVE HEAD NAMED Polio Campaign Begins Today A local embalmer and under taker has been named director of the 1958 March of Dimes cam paign. The cafnpaign gets under way today and will continue through January 30. Crafton Hudson was named di rector of the local area by Wilson Tew, campaign director for Wake County. In naming the community de rectors, Tew said they have been selected for outstanding achieve ment and interest in community welfare and improvement. Hudson said: “The 1958 cam paign will emphasize the urgent task of caring for those who have been disabled by polio. The ob ject is to restore them to lives as nearly normal as modern medicine can make them.” ' The 1958 theme, Hudson said will be “Survival is not enough.” “Those oT us who are contribut ing our services to the March of Dimes,” Hudson said, “realize we face a special challenge this year. We have seen the tremendous de cline of new cases, thanks to Salk vaccine. As a result, maybe there are some who think this writes a finish to polio.” _ Hudson said such thinking as this is far from true. What about the old cases? They run into thousands. The fact is that 90 per cent of all March of Dimes funds being spent on patient care in 1957 was for “old cases,” those patients left on chap ter rolls from preceding years. We owe them the opportunity to get from life something more than mere vegetable-like survival. “We also must continue to open new doors in the field of virus research. We must provide new trained hands and minds for re search, care of patients and the education of medical personnel— as well as continue to promote the use of Salk vaccine to prevent future cases of paralytic polio.” Farmers' Class Paul Dew, Wakelon agriculture instructor, will speak on swine at the farmer’s class at Hopkins when it meets on Tuesday night, Jan. 7. All members of this class are ex pressly urged to be present. CRAFTON HUDSON Tax Listing Time Comes to Zebulon Mrs. Eldred Rountree, Wake County tax lister for Little River Township, will list taxes during January at the following locations: Zebulon Town Office—January 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31. W. I. Hopkins’ Store—January 6 and 20. Austin Perry’s Store—January 7. Durwood Jones’ Store—January 10 and 22. Mack Perry’s Store—January 13 Barham’ Siding—January 15. Cary Robertson’s Store—January 17 and 24. Listing hours will be from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. each day. Auxiliary to Meet Mrs. Bill Perry has announced that the first meeting of the new year American Legion Auxiliary will be held in the home of Foster Lewis on Friday night at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Lewis will serve as hostess. Mrs. Perry urges that all mem bers be present for this first meet ing of 1958. Local Baptist Adult Choir Gives Christmas Concert Johann Sebastian Bach would have liked the way Miss Carolyn Hinton rendered the accompani ment of his “Unto Us A Child Is Born” cantata performed by the adult choir of the Zebulon Baptist Church on Sunday, Dec. 21. She tossed off the cantata in true vir tuoso fashion, although a bit too studied and too technical. The concert opened, under the direction of Dowd Davis, minister of music, with the second chorus, “Laud we the name of God most holy.” This, although done quite well, was not as striking in its presentation as it might have been. Mrs. L. M. Massey provided the tenor aria, “Lord, my thanks to thee.” Mrs. Massey was indeed out of her musical element with this aria. Her voice is rich in quality, full-bodied in tone, and was not suited to the high head tones of this composition. The recitative and aria, “Im manuel, give to me in Thy great mercy,” and “Lord, I sing Thy name forever,” was sung by Mrs. Jerry Lee. Some reservations persisted as to the depth of her communication in the passages, but not of the skill with which she rendered the selections. The concert closed with the “Alleluia” chorus. This chorus impressed most favorably, possi bly because the choir was getting into the spirit of the concert mood, and had begun to sense the feel of the rather slow-moving, lugubrious work. The concert left something to be desired. There was no continuity, thus resulting in the audience not getting the feel of the whole story of Bach’s Yuletide music, telling the story of the birth of Christ. Nevertheless, the music left a favorable impression on the aud ience.—S. B. Top Ten News Stories for 1957 Prove Interesting The top ten news stories of 1957 which appeared in the Record were: Zdbulon’s Golden Anniversary celebration held on October 18. The selection of a site just out side of the city limits for a hospital authorized by the Wake County Hospital Authority to be erected in the very near future. The Wakelon School activity bus, which caused quite a bit of concern amoug the patrons of the school and townsfolk. The Rev. Beverly A. Asbury, former pastor of Zebulon Church, denying that he held membership in the NAACP. The influenza epidemic—Asian or plain old fashioned—that hit this area in the fall and early win ter. Dogs, a thorn in the flesh with many residents of the town, and pressure being put on the town board of commissioners to enact an ordinance. Mrs. Elizabeth Ellett becoming the first woman in the town’s his tory to be elected to a position on the town’s governing body. The local Masonic order con structing a Masonic temple, which is yet to be completely finished. The town’s police department and Civil Defense system obtaining a two-way radio system. The local National Guard, Bat tery A, 113th Field Artillery Bat talion, being given superior rating by the inspector general. Legioni Auxiliary Has Yule Meeting The American Legion Auxiliary was delightfully entertained last Friday night when Mrs. Dabney Gill was hostess to the regular De cember meeting and the annual Christmas party. Mrs. Melvin Lanier, Child Wel fare and Rehabilitation chairman, reported that the Auxiliary has a total of 44 hours of hospital work. She has also received a card ac knowledging receipt of the gifts for the gift shops and thanking the club. Mrs. Perry read a letter from Veteran’s Hospital in Durham thanking the club for the ward party held on Nov. 14. The club was scheduled to work in the hos pital gift shop, Monday, Dec. 9. Several volunteers accepted foV the gift shop work. Immediately following the open ing of the Pollyanna gifts, the members adjourned into the din ing room for refreshments. Omission Someone said that hindsight in a critic may be pardoned. Oversight is a more serious mat ter. The review of the Zebulon Methodist Church Christmas concert unintentionally omitted to mention the exceptionally affecting solo performance given by Mrs. Jimmy Spivey. Amends arc therefore offered to Mrs. Spivey, along with an extra mea sure of sincere critical appre ciation. Zebulon Panty Ripper Is Sought by Police L. V. BAU.KNTIXF. Ag Commissioner To Address Local Farm Bureau L. Y. “Stag” Ballentine, Com missioner of Agriculture for North Carolina since 1949, will address the Zebulon Farm Bureau when it meets Wednesday night, Jan. 8. Commissioner Ballentine, well known throughout North Carolina for his interest in the farmers and farming, is expected to discuss some of the problems that face the farmers and that the farmers may expect to face. The speaker was born on a farm near Varina in Wake County on April 6, 1899. He is the son of James Erastus and Lillian Yates Ballentine. After attending Oak wood, Cardenas Elementary schools and Holly Springs High School, he enrolled in Wake Forest College and took an A.B. degree in 1921. He has served as a member of the Wake County Board of Com missioners, State senator, member of the State Board of Agriculture, Lieutenant, chairman of the State Board of Education, and presently Commissioner of Agriculture. In 1951 the Progressive Farmer named him the “Man of the Year in Service to North Carolina Agri culture” and he was named “Man of the Year” by the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation in 1952. Negro Sighted The clothes hanging on the line fascinated him. Not to take but to slice with a switch blade pocket knife. He especially liked to stick the long blade into the ladies’ shim mery under things and rip them in to shreds. Mrs. Millard Parker reported that the maniac had been to her clothes line for four or five times in the past six weeks and had cut the clothes she hrfd hanging on the line. Mr. and Mrs. Parker and their daughter, Deloria, reside on East Wakefield Street. On Monday, Dec. 23, Deloria left the home and went to Paul Brant ley’s service station number two where her father works, Mrs. Par ker reported. When she returned home and came on to the front porch of the Parker residence, Deloria saw the man in the hall. When the intruder heard the foot steps of Deloria he escaped by way of the back door. Mrs. Parker said that her daugh ter could not distinguish the race of the intruder because of the dimly lighted hallway. Last Monday, Parker decided to set a trap for the ripper. He had his wife and daughter leave home on the cars. Then he sta tioned himself with a shot gun in the pantry facing the clothes line in the back yard. Shortly, the person came again to the clothes line and began whacking away at the clothes, especially the ladies’ lingerie, smiling crazily all the while the switch blade knife was being wielded. Parker shouted to the man to surrender but the maniac did not heed the warning and took off in a run. It was then that Parker raised his shotgun and fired. Mrs. Parker said her husband did not know whether he hit the man. But Parker was able to distinguish that the man was a Negro. Parker then notified the Zebu Ion police department who began an investigation. The investiga tion is still continuing. Mrs. Parker said a *call was placed to the Bunn prison camp for bloodhounds to aid in the cap ture of the Negro, but that the dogs were unable to be secured. Emit Development Project Offered Land for Home A very spirited group in the Emit community development program under the leadership of their chairman, A. R. Strickland, held their second meeting recent ly at Watkins Chapel Church. Following a welcome address by the chairman, John L. Glover, one of the development’s advisors, showed several film strips of some of the things which other com munities have done toward im proving their areas. After a round table discussion of the many projects which the group might be interested in, the follow ing projects and their chairmen were appointed: Agriculture, Ro land Hales, Connie Wilder, Jr., and Odell Creech; Program, Mrs. Mary Strickland and Mrs. Lennie Creech; Youth, Roland Hales; Home Improvement, Mrs. Worth Creech and Mrs. A. G. Glover, Jr.; and Sign, Ervin Lewis. A committee composed of Avon Creech, W. P. Narron, Connie Wilder, Jr., Coy Driver and Mrs. Osbone Wilder were appointed to investigate the land sites which have been offered on which to (Continued on Page 2)
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