THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 100.
Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, March 27,1958
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
This month Zebulon’s National Guard armory was tied in with
the administrative radio net operated by the North Carolina National
Guard when its new radio installation was completed. Shown check
ing operation of the transmitter and receiver are Capt. Jack Potter, com
manding officer of Battery A; Brig. Gen. Edward F. Griffin, director of
the N. C. Dept, of Civil Defense; and CWO Johnsey P. Arnold, Admin
istrative-Supply Technician for the local Guard unit. The National
Guard radio network can be utilized immediately by Civil Defense for
service during hurricanes or other emergencies. Power is supplied from
regular electric lines or a portable gasoline-powered generator. The
local unit has communicated with other National Guard stations as far
away as Elizabeth City and Greensboro.
Rotary Club to Select
Candidates for Symposium
Time Running Out
For RFD Membership
Persons desiring membership in
the Zebulon Rural Fire Depart
ment should contact Paul Weeks,
secretary-treasurer, at Peoples
Bank and Trust Co. at once.
Weeks said the membership
drive, which opened February 1,
will close Monday, March 31.
Membership in the Department
entitles the farmer to fire
protection for a nominal fee; oth
erwise, if the Department is called
to extinguish a farm fire there is
a $25 service charge.
Senior Supper
The Senior Class of Cor
inth-Holders School is spon
soring a barbecue supper Fri
day night, March 28. The pro
ceeds will be used for the
class’ annual Spring tour. If
you haven’t already purchased
tickets, you may do so at the
door. Pork, $1.00 and chicken,
$1.25.
Five students and a teacher will
be selected from Wakelon School’s
science department to attend the
Junior Science Symposium to be
held in the Research Triangle area
of North Carolina on May 7, 8,
and 9, it has been announced by
Ed Hales, president of the Zebu
Ion Rotary Club.
The candidates will be picked by
a committee representing the local
Rotary Club, composed of Hay
wood Jones, chairman of the com
mittee and a member of the Wake
Ion School Board; Rodney McNabb,
a former teacher at N. C. State Col
lege, and Melvin Massey, contrac
tor.
This three-day meeting of high
school students will be sponsored
jointly by the Rotary Clubs of
Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh;
the Research-Triangle universities;
and the Office of Ordnance Re
search, U. S. Army, located on
Duke campus.
The Symposium will bring to
gether approximately 400 students
and 75 teachers of science or math
ematics, as selected by Rotary
Clubs in North Carolina. The
participants will hear prize-win
ning scientific papers written this
year by twelve North Carolina
high school seniors, and will wit
ness selected examples of research
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Dentist and Wife Leave Today
For Month's Stay In Orient
Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Massey leave
Raleigh-Durham Air Terminal
this morning (Thursday) at 9:11
for the first leg of their flight to
Japan where they will visit their
daughter, son-in-law and grand
daughter, Carolyn, Luke and Amy
Massey Kitahata.
The dentist and his wife are
anxiously looking forward to see
ing their granddaughter for the
first time and their daughter and
son-in-law for the first time in
two and a half years.
Mrs. Massey said granddaughter
Amy will be seven months old the
day after they arrive in Japan.
Amy is now beginning to sit alone
and has already cut some teeth.
They are scheduled to arrive in
San Francisco today at 6 p.m.
-• There they will visit Mrs. Massey’s
sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs.
W. Hugh Richardson. They will
stay with the Richardsons tonight^
Friday, and leave for Japan Sat
urday morning.
After stop-overs in Honolulu
and Wake Island, Dr. and Mrs.
Massey will arrive in Tokyo on
March 31. It will be March 30
here, but because Japan is past
the International Date Line it will
be March 31 there.
Carolyn, Amy, and Dr. Kitahata,
who is a neuro-surgeon at the
Japan Baptist Hospital in Kyoto,
will be at the airport to meet them.
Dr. Massey will spend a month
visiting his daughter, but Mrs.
Massey said she may spend over a
month. After all, she wants to
get very much acquainted with her
granddaughter and “rock her as
much as she wants to.”
Mrs. Massey’s mbther, Mrs. A. C.
Dawson, will accompany them as
far as San Francisco where she
will visit Mr. and Mrs. Richardson.
Three ALA Members
Attend Meeting
Three members of the Zebulon
American Legion Auxiliary at
tended the 9th District meeting of
the American Legion Auxiliary
held at the Legion Hut in Pine
Level on Friday, March 21.
Mrs. Foster Lewis, Mrs. H. C.
Perry Jr. and Mrs. Frank Wall
were among the 100 members of
the Auxiliary, representing clubs
from Pittsboro to Pine Level.
At this annual meeting of the
Auxiliary, reports were read and
Mrs. Raymond Fuson of New Bern,
president of the North Carolina
American Legion Auxiliary, gave
the very informative address.
Following the general session,
the hostess unit served a delicious
lunch. Door prizes and favors
were awarded following the
luncheon.
The annual meeting will be held
in Garner next year.
Tournament
The Senior Woman’s Club
will sponsor its annual card
tournament on Thursday,
April 10, it has been an
nounced by Mrs. Irby Gill,
chairman of the event.
Mrs. Gill said the tourna
ment will consist of games of
bridge, canasta, rook, high
five, set back and bingo. The
charge for admission to the
tournament will be 50 cents.
At the conclusion of the play,
bingo may be played for 10
cents a game.
The proceeds received from
the tournament will be used
to help pay off the debt for
‘renovating the club building.
Baptist- Church Here
Not to Hold Revival
The Rev. W. Arnold Smith cor
rects an error in a news release in
last week’s News and Observer
and Raleigh Times relating to a
revival service to begin at Zebu
Ion Baptist Church on March 31
and continue through April 5.
The announcement was made in
connection with the Evangelistic
Crusade of the Raleigh Baptist As
sociation.
The pastor of the Zebulon Bap
tist Church reported that his
church is unable to participate
in the Crusade at this time because
of conflicting church schedules.
The revival is scheduled for the
early Fall, the date to be announc
ed at a later time.
First Lions Pr6xy
M. W. PAGE
M. Walter Page headed Zebulon
Lions Club as its first president
when the club was organized in
December, 1849. Serving with
Page were Worth Hinton, first
vice president; J. C. Debnam,
second vice president; Martin L.
Hagwood, third vice president; M.
J. Sexton, secretary-treasurer; and
Frank Kannon, Lion Tamer. The
first president, a former business
man, is now an insurance repre
sentative in Zebulon.
Gov. Hodges Lauds
Lionism, Blasts Ike,
Benson's Farm Policies
JOHN R. JORDAN JR.
Campaign Manager
Zebulon Native
John R. Jordan, Jr., candidate
for the Democratic nomination
for the State Senate from Wake
County, today announced that J.
Wilbur Bunn, prominent Raleigh
attorney, would serve as his cam
paign manager. Bunn has long
been associated with both State and
local political activities. At the
present he is engaged in the gen
eral practice of law with his son,
Thomas D. Bunn, under the firm
name of Bunn and Bunn.
In addition to his political ac
tivities Mr. Bunn has been asso
ciated with church and civic af
fairs for many years. He is a
charter member of the Hayes-Bar
ton Baptist Church and long serv
ed on its Board of Deacons. For
the last twenty years he has serv
ed as attorney for Wake Forest
College.
He, together with the late Gov
ernor and U. S. Senator, J. Mel
ville Broughton, was one of the
original organizers of the Raleigh
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260 Attend
Dedication Rites
Governor Luther H. Hodges
praised Lionism in a speech at the
dedication of the new Zebulon
Lions Club building on Friday
evening, March 21.
“Lions International is truly
one of our great civic organiza
tions,” the Governor said.
“This community building we
are dedicating here tonight is a
fitting monument to the Lions
Club motto ‘We Serve’,” the Gov
ernor continued. “What better way
can a community be served than
to be provided with a building
around which the life of the com
munity can revolve; a building
that can serve, not one, but many
purposes; a building that can draw
the entire community closer to
gether. You may take justifiable
pride in your accomplishment
here.”
The Governor blasted the Eisen
hower farm program. He called it
one of “lowering support prices,
restricting rural credit, raising in
terest rates on what credit is avail
able to farmers, restricting access
of rural electric cooperatives to
new sources of power from public
projects, and breaking up the
farmer-elected committee system
for administering the agricultural
stabilization program.”
President Eisenhower’s Secre
tary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben
son was raked over the coals by
the Governor.
“Aside from what Mr. Benson
has done, both in recommending
legislation and in administrative
action, in affecting the over-all
economic position of the Ameri
can farmer, he has had what seems
to me to be a rather unusual share
of unfortunate administrative in
cidents in his Department — in
cidents giving rise to very serious
questions as to the moral tone of
the administration of that Depart
ment.”
The Governor called the “so
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Beloved Doctor Given Surprise ,
Party On Seventieth Birthday
Dr. Charles E. Flowers Sr. was
honored on his seventieth birth
day last Wednesday, March 19,
with a surprise dinner party given
by his wife. The celebration was
held in Bunn Recreation Center on
West Horton Street.
When the beloved doctor en
tered, the guests, who had arrived
earlier, sang “Happy Birthday.”
ilie guest of honor’s table was
centered with an arrangement of
red and white snapdragons and
carnations interspersed with
greenery. The arrangement was
in a white styrofoam top hat with
a bright red band. Amidst the
flowers were scattered miniature
pipes, cigarettes and other novel
ties.
Centering the guest tables were
pottery pipes with arrangements
of snapdragons, stock, dahlias and
greenery.
Seated at the guest of honor’s
table were Dr. and Mrs. Flowers,
Mrs. G. S. Barbee, Mrs. Charles
Daniels, Mrs. W. C. Campen, sis
ters of the doctor; W. C. Campen,
Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Flowers
Jr., son and daughter-in-law; and
grandchildren Charles III and
Carmen.
The other guests were Mr. and
Mrs. K. B. Bailey, Sam Cassell,
Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Bulla, Dr. and
Mrs. George Tucker, Mr. and Mrs.
C. V. Whitley, Mr. and Mrs. A. S.
Hinton, Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Screws, Vernon Powers,
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wade, Mr.
and Mrs. Irby Gill, Mr. and Mrs.
J. K. Barrow, Dr. and Mrs. J. R.
Hester, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Daniel,
Mr. and Mrs. Bernice Bunn, Mr.
and Mrs. Falc Bunn, Dr. and Mrs.
J. F. Coltrane,
Mrs. Russell Brantley, Mrs. L. E.
Long, Dr. and Mrs. Ben Thomas,
Mr. and Mrs. Foster Finch, Mrs.
George Morgan and Scotte Brown.
The three course dinner consist
ed of fruit cup, turkey with dress
ing and gravy, candied yams,
snapbeans, congealed vegetable
salad, hors d’oeuvres, hot pocket
book rolls, strawberry ice cream
in green colored meringue shells
and coffee.