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THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 97
Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, February 27,1958
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Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
V FOR VICTORS. Wakelon girls basketball team became Wake County champions last Friday night when they defeated knightdale. Left
to right are: Anne Hopkins, Ann Curtis, Julia Pace, Pat Phillips, Fay Fowler, Sandra Beasley, Diane Strickland, Jackie Mitchell, Jean Murray,
Jean Fowler, Ann Bobbitt, Margaret Walters, Wilma Gay, Judy Green, Judy Creech, Nancy Strickland, Ida Walters, Betsy Rountree, Carolyn
Beck, Harriett Page, Phyllis Braswell, Ann Dora Whitley, Ann Creech, Carolyn Bunn, and Glenda Wilson. Standing with their coach, Robert
Moore, are Judy Overman, Janie Green and Billie Faye Privette.
Wakelon Girls Edge Knightdale,
37-34, For County Championship
Banker Named To
Shriner Position
Robert Daniel Massey, cashier
of Peoples Bank and Trust Co. of
Zetmlon, has been appointed on
Ambassador-at-Large of Sudan
Shrine Temple for 1958. The hon
or was conferred upon him by Po
tentate Otis M. Banks of Cary.
Ambassadors are called upon
when special work is to be done
in their communities for the
Shriners Crippled Children's Hos
pitals and other related matters of
importance to the Shrine.
Massey, who has been a Mason
since 1946 and a Shriner since
1948, will attend the ceremonial
in New Bern January 22-23.
The affable cashier is the first
person in Zebulon to be appointed
an Ambassador of the Sudan Tem
ple.
LECTURES
Dr. Charles E. Flowers, Jr. of
the University of North Carolina
School of Medicine will be one of
the lecturers at the two postgradu
ate courses in medicine to be held
in eastern and western North Car
olina early next month.
One six-week course will get un
derway in Wilson on March 5 and
the second course, also to last six
weeks, will begin in Catawba
County on March 6.
The courses are sponsored by the
University of North Carolina
School of Medicine and local med
ical societies.
First Trophy To Be Brought
Home Since 1950
For the first time since 1950,
the Wakelon girls basketball
team brought home a champion
ship trophy last Friday night.
The Wakelon sextet defeated
the Knightdale team by a score of
37-34.
Coach Robert Moore had noth
ing but praise for the Wakelon
girls basketball team. He said,
“They played an excellent game.
They played good basketball all
the way through the tournament,
in fact.”
Both teams which met at Gore
Gymnasium in Wake Forest for
the championship play-off got to
a slow start.
At the half-time the score was
16-15 in favor of Knightdale.
Knightdale was put out in front
with a desparation shot which
gave them a two point lead.
In the early part of the third
quarter the teams were nip and
tuck.
Judy Green and Ann Hopkins
(built up a 10-point lead in the
latter part of the third quarter and
the beginning of the fourth
quarter.
Coach Moore said he told his
girls to “let go so long as they did
not foul,” and the Wakelon lead
was cut to four points in the last
four minutes.
Forward Jackie Mitchell’s pass
ing and guard Julia Pace’s re
bounding paid off in the game
against Knightdale,” Coach Moore
said. ■*
Moore spoke highly of the
guards, feeling that he has had
some excellent material to work
with.
Coach Moore released some
statistics for the year. In the
17 games played, Wakelon girls
team scored 685 points to their
opponents’ 613.
“We averaged 42 points per
game,” the coach said. “Our op
ponents averaged 37 points per
game.”
In the three games of the
tournament, Wakelon girls scored
117 points, averaging 39 points
per game. The opponents scored
100 points in the three games,
averaging 33 points.
‘Our opponents played good de
fensive basektball,” the coach
added.
The coach reported individual
Wash Days Are Now
Cinch for the Housewives
The automatic washing machine
has been a lifesaver for housewives
who have dreaded wash days be
cause of the back-breaking
drudgery associated with old-time
washing methods.
In the Zebulon-Wendell area,
over half the housewives enjoy the
benefits of automatic and conven
tional washers.
But electric appliance dealers
are eager to help those without
washers to “walk away from wash
daze.”
^Dealers are offering bigger, bet
ter, and more beautiful 1958 mod
els, with prices and terms to fit any
pocketbook.
The February-March sales cam
paign is aimed directly at pro
spective customers in the Zebulon
Wendell area. The appliance deal
ers in this area are close enough
to the customers to give superior
service on the appliances sold.
Heavy emphasis is being placed
on clothes dryers—one appliance
not found in more than 98% of
the homes. But housewives who
have clothes dryers are quick to
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scoring of his sextet. In the 17
ball games, Judy GTeen scored 446
points, averaging 26 points per
game; Jackie Mitchell, 17 games,
scoring 96 points, with an average
of 5.4; Ann Hopkins, 11 games,
scoring 96 points, averaging 8.1;
Ida Walters, 37 points, averaging
2.1; Pete Creech, 1 game with 2
points, averaging 2 points; and
Harriet Page, 2 games, scoring 2
points with a 1 point average.
“We probably would be called
the champions if rated on foul
shots,” Coach Moore said.
Wakelon girls had 263 foul
shots, with an average of 16 per
ball game. This was two better
than the opponents who averaged
14.
Coach Moore revealed that the
Wakelon girls were weakest in
the field of foul shooting.
Wakelon girls tossed in 275 field
goals as compared to 234 from
their opponents. This averages
43 per cent as compared to the
opponent’s 39 per cent.
Five of the Wakelon team grad
uate this year. They are Ann
Hopkins, Judy Green, Julia Pace,
Glenda Wilson and Jean Fowler.
“But we have fine forwards
coming around for next season,”
Coach Moore said. “I see no
reason why we shouldn’t have an
excellent ball team again next
year.”
Wakelon girls lost four con
ference games to Apex, 48-42;
Eolesville, 31-30; Apex, 65-61 and
Millbrook, 44-37.
RFD Membership
Drive Still Open
The membership drive is still
open for the Zebulon Rural Fire
Department. The drive opened
February 1 and will continue until
April 1. Membership dues are to
be paid to Paul Weeks, secretary
treasurer, at Peoples Bank and
Trust Company.
Senator Scott Says He Wants
Federal Government's Tobacco
Research To Be Doubled
Senator W. Kerr Scott called
for the Federal government’s to
bacco research program to be
doubled and other areas of agri
cultural research “sharply stepped
up.”
Scott, in an address before the
adult farmers of Wakelon, Wen
dell and Knightdale school dis
tricts Friday night, said the current
half million dollars a year spent
on tobacco research “is a very small
amount when we remember that
we have a total farm research bud
get of over $100 million and we get
about $1.5 billion in Federal taxes
on tobacco.”
The Senator, a member of the
Senate Agriculture Committee and
Chairman of the Senate Tobacco
Subcommittee, made his statements
while addressing the banquet meet
irig of the adult farmers in the
Wendell school cafeteria.
“Experience has taught us that
money spent on basic agricultural
research is the best investment we
can make in our farm economy,”
he said.
“The magic of frozen foods, the
convenience of non-fat dry milk
and instant coffee, the mastery of
many plant diseases and pests and
the discovery of new uses for
farm products all were found in the
research laboratory.
“In the final analysis, research
has been the salvation of modern
farming, as well as all phases of
modem living,” he said.
Scott said the Eisenhower Ad
ministration’s budget request for
advanced research in possible new
industrial uses for farm products
“are piddling and puny.”
He said a special Presidential
commission made a study of indus
trial uses of farm products last
year and found that there is a
"challenge for all of us.”
The report, Scott went on to
say, “shows clearly that many of
the hopes and dreams of hu
manity can be fulfilled if we un
lock more of the unknowns of na
ture through research.”
Among the things the report
show, the Senator said, are possi
ble new uses for milk substances
in explosives, plastics, paper and
cosmetics. It also points up the
possibility of profitable uses of
grain starches to manufacture rub
ber, to produce asphalt and other
uses.
Soott said the Administration
asked for only $5 million dollars
to carry out the suggestions of the
commission.
He said he is now preparing spe
cific suggestions he will ask Con
gress to endorse to boost the indus
trial use research as well as to
bacco research.
He said the “policymakers” in
the Department of Agriculture
“look on tobacco as an unwanted
stepchild.”
Scott was introduced at the
meeting by Ferd Davis, Zebulon
attorney. During Scott’s term as
governor of the State of North
Carolina, Davis served as a mem
ber of the State Board of Conserva
tion and Development.
Paul Dew, Wakelon agriculture
instructor, introduced Davis. L. C.
Liles, Knightdale agriculture in
structor, introduced the guests, and
G. T. Horton, Wendell agriculture
instructor, acted as master of cere
monies.
ALso attending this banquet were
Philip R. Whitley of Wendell, a
member of the House of Repre
sentatives from Wake County; C.
M. Robertson, County Commission
er; A. G. Bullard, State Supervis
or of Vocational Agriculture and
E. N. Meekins, District Supervisor
of Vocational Agriculture.
A banquet of this type is being
planned as an annual affair, Dew
said, adding that he “feels that it
will bring the three communities
closer together.”