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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXXIV. Number 23 Zebulon, N .C., Thursday, June 18, 1959 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers 'Strictly Long Hair* Mrs. Mack Hoeutt Is Summer Music Leader Mrs. Mack Hocutt, Zebulon Bap tist Church’s summer minister of music, says she is “strictly long hair” when it comes to music. “I don’t like anything in the popular music field,” this talented young bride said. Mr. and Mrs. Hocutt were mar ried June 10 in Zebulon Baptist Church. Mrs. Hocutt said not even some of the higher type Broadway and movie show tunes appeal to her. She, however, does like some of the music from Porgy and Bess. She will be conducting and su pervising the music at Zebulon Baptist Church during the six weeks’ absence of Miss Julia Lee Ribet, who is touring Europe. The interim minister of music said she plans to carry on Miss Ribet’s program as smoothly as possible. Mrs. Hocutt was bom in Detroit, Michigan. She is one of three children of the Rev. and Mrs. Warner Siebert, who now reside in Hartford, Wis, There is an older brother and an older sister. She graduated from Hartford High School and has been a student at Westminster Choir College for the past two years. During her high school years she attended the Wisconsin Conservatory at Mil waukee where she studied music theory and conducting. She has her teacher’s certificate from the conservatory, and the training she received there will enable her to graduate from Westminster next year. Of the piano and organ, the organ is her preference and she will take her major in it. She is also contemplating taking voice lessons, which will come at the college next year. She has taken classroom lessons in voice. Her favorite composer is Bach. She debated with herself and then said Dupre was her favorite mod em composer. Mrs. Hocutt listed her hobbies as drawing and painting. She en joys working in charcoal, pen, ink, and oils. Her sister is quite tal ented artistically and Mrs. Hocutt learned a lot from her. She is five feet eight inches tall, has honey blonde hair swept back into a tiny bun effect, and blue eyes. Her speech is crisply West ern, and she displays a likeable personality. How does she like the South? So far, she loves it. She doesn’t know, though, when it gets too awfully hot. Mrs. Hocutt began her position with the church last Sunday. She wil> conduct choir rehearsals on Wednesday and the morning and evening musical worship services. Route Four Man Tries Suicide A Route 4, Zebulon man attempt ed to take his life Tuesday night about 9 o’clock on the porch of his | home. Sheriff’s Deputy S. J. Blackley reported the attempted1 suicide of Albert Strickland. The 24-year-old man shot himself with a .22 rifle on the porch of his home while his wife looked on. Deputy Blackley reported the •bullet entered the victim’s left shoulder, barely missing his heart. He was rushed to Rex Hospital, but the deputy knew nothing of his condition early Wednesday morning. Strickland reportedly ’borrowed the rifle from his father, saying he was going frogging in a nearby farm pond, the deputy said. Deputy Blackley said Strickland attempted to take his life because he was suffering from depression. Strickland, the deputy reported, had attempted to take his life about two years ago when he took 48 aspirin tablets. Radio Station On Air Radio Station WETC, designed to serve listeners in the Wendell Zebulon area, went on the air Tuesday at 6 o’clock. Lewis V. Parrish, president of the independent radio station, said the station will sign on next week at 5 a.m. and go off the air at 7:30 p.m., or sun down. The station will operate only during day-light hours. It is 540 on the radio dial. The programming now is purely on an experimental basis. Parrish said the station will give the pub lie what it wants. During the testing of the station’s signal, Parrish said it came in loud and clear in sections of Pennsyl vania. The day time signal came in loud and cleaT as far as Sanford, Enfield, Fayetteville, Creedmfoor and points near Durham. Parrish said he is very well pleased with the signal coverage. No date has been set for the grand opening, but it is scheduled for the next two or three weeks, the president said. Swimmers Needed To Aid With Recreation Program Competent swimmers are need to to help with the Red Cross swimming program, Recreation Chairman F. T. Scarborough has announced. Any person who feels he is qualified and would like to help with the swimming program is asked to contact the chairman im mediately at his office at Carolina Power and Light Company or at his home. The program will begin Mon day, June 22, and continue through Friday, July 17. Beginner instruc tion will be from 10 to 11 o’clock, and intermediate instruction will be from 11 to 12 o’clock each morning. Senior and junior life saving is scheduled from Monday, June 22, and will continue through Wednes day, July IS. This instruction will be from 9 until 10 o’clock each morning. Persons taking this instruction will be required to fur nish their own transportation. Transportation for the beginner and intermediate swimming courses will be by Zebulon Baptist Church activity bus. The bus will leave the church with the begin ners at 9:20 and returns to trans port the intermediates to the lake at 10:30 for instruction. Bill Bowling, a licensed chauf feur, will drive the bus. It has been requested that three mothers supervise and" chaperone the groups each day. Each child attending the swim ming classes must have a registra tion card properly filled out and signed by his parents before enter ing the bus. Books Needed If you have any books you would like to discard, why not de note them to the Zebulon Commu nity Library. They are desperate ly in need of all types of books, especially some of the more recent fiction suited, to children and adults. The library, now being used more than ever, is open each Tues day afternoon and Thursday night. Librarians are members of the American Legion Auxiliary. Gets Aeronautical Engineering Degree James Raper, husband of the former Bety Simpson, was gradu ated from N. C. State College May 24 with a degree in aeronautical engineering. He was also a com missioned officer in the school’s ROTC, holding the rank of first lieutenant. Raper, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Raper of Thomasville, ac cepted a position as a research aeronautical engineer June 2 in Newport News with the National Aeronautical and Space Adminis tration. Mrs. Raper is employed in the adoption offices of Newport News City Welfare Department. She was formerly associated with the Wake County Welfare Department. The couple reside in Apartment D, St. James Terrace Apartments, 31st Street, Newport News. Lions to Attend N. Y. Convention Four Zebulon Lions and their wives will attend the 42nd Annual Convention and the International Association of Lions Club in New York City from June 30 to July 3. Mr. and Mrs. Crafton Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Hagwood, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Massey, Jr. and' Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kemp and sons from the local Lions Club will be in attendance at the con vention of the largest civic service club in the world. The North Carolina headquarters in New York will be the West Olympia Room of the Manhattan Hotel, where Hubert Kanipe of Haw Creek and his committee will “show off” some of North Caroli na products and extend real Tar Heel hospitality to thousands of Lions from throughout the world. Hudson is president of the local civic club. Attending the N. C. Lions Con vention held in Wilmington last week were Crafton Hudson, F. T. Scarborough, Ray Goodwin, M. L. Hagwood and Thurman Hepler. The local club was awarded the secretary and attendance trophies at this convention for their superb work. Attends ALSAC Festival in S. C. Miss Lillian Kannon, Alsac State Co-Director for North Carolina, and a member of the North Caro lina Inter-Se Club, was one of the members attending the Alsac Char ity Festival in Columbia, S. C. Other persons attending the Fes tival were Mitchell G. Rabil of Smithfleld, Alsac State Director for N. C.; Miss Louise Lewis of Smith field, that town’s city director; Miss Josephine Abdalla of Selma, Albert Jowdy of Washington, and Miss Freida Fadel of Fayetteville. Miss Fadel was a contestant for the title of Miss Alsac of North and South Carolina. She was second runner-up in the beauty pageant composed of 17 beauties. She is to represent North Carolina in the Houston (Texas) beauty pageant at the Southern Federation Con vention of Syrian Lebanese Amer ican Club from July 1 through July 5 for the title of Miss South ern Federation. Miss Kannon and Rabil were members of the steering committee for North Carolina. Miss Lewis is also a member of the steering com mittee and beauty pageant chair man for North Carolina. Cucumber Market Has 130 Acre Contract TROY WATKINS Watkins Gets Job As New Constable Troy Watkins, 44, of Route 4, Zebulon has been named: by the Wake County Commissioners to fill the unexpired term of James D. Richardson as constable of Little RiveT Township. The appointment of Watkins was made June 1. Watkins is married to the form er Bertha Watkins. They have three children, Mrs. Shirley John son of Wakefield, Mrs. Alice Brant ley of Route 4, Zebulon, and Wayne, 15, of the home. Modern Woodmen Hold Wiener Roost At Lake Modern Woodmen Junior 13967 of Wendell held a wiener roast at Lake Glad Saturday, June 13. There were 40 present. Club work for the month was making handicraft objects to be displayed at the July meeting. Shut-ins were remembered with calls, flowers and cards. A hamburger fry was planned for the July meeting, at which the handicraft objects will be on dis play. Parents are invited to attend. Conference Delegates E. H. Moser, Zebulon Methodist Church Lay Leader, and the Rev. Troy J. Barrett, pastor, will be Lay and Clerical delegates, re spectively, of Zebulon Methodist Church to the N. C. Annual Con ference of the Methodist Church meeting at Grace Methodist Church in Wilmington from June 22 to June 25. Others are wel come to visit the Conference at any time. Zebulon’s cucumber market is in full swing. The first cucumbers were brought to the market on South Wakefield Street Monday, June 1, by Eddie Driver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raeford Driver of Route 4, Zebu Ion. According to J. R. Alford, sta tion manager, 130 acres of cucum bers are under contract from farm ers in this vicinity this year. “The crops look very good,” Al ford said, “however, the fanner had right much trouble getting a good stand.” Bob Fowler of Route 4, Zebulon, has a contract with the most acre age. He has eight acres of cucum bers under cultivation. Alford feels that the planting of cucumbers is a good way of sup plementing farm income. The local station processed be tween 20 and 25,000 bushels of cu cumbers last year. The market began operating in 1953. Prices are the same as last year. No. l’s sell for $4 per hundred pounds; No. 2’s, and $2; and No. 3‘s, $1.. Alford urged persons marketing the vegetable to bring them in the same day as they are picked, pref erably within a few hours. There should not be any bloom or stem ends on the vegetable. The local market has a contract with Mt. Olive Pickling Company. Bales Ginned Because it was one of the best cotton crops in many a year, 1,801 bales of cotton were ginned by Zebulon Gin Co., according to J. Raleigh Alford, president. Alford said the 1958 cotton crop was the best since 1948, and more bales were ginned at the local gin nery than the 1957 year. According to Alford, the cotton farmers in this vicinity had a very good crop of cotton. Grandmother Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Foshee of Radford, Va., announce the birth of a son, Charles Scott, June 10, at Community Hospital in Radford. Mrs. Foshee is the former Elizabeth James of Rocky Mount. Dr. Foshee’s mother, Mrs. C. S. Foshee, resides on East Horton Street in Zebulon. WINNERS Two Zebulon girls were named winners of scholarships and prizes at Shaw University for achieve ments during the 1958-59 school year the dean of the college, Dr. Foster P. Payne, has announced. Mary Margaret Taylor was the recipient of $75 in the college of arts and sciences. She is a junior at the college. Joan Pretty was awarded the Beta Lambda Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho So rority award of $150. Correspondent's Son Gets Commendation By Navy Bill Gene Marshall, US Navy, son of Mrs. Earnestine Marshall, Zebulon Record correspondent, re ceived the following commendation from his commanding officer, W. J. Doyle: “You are hereby commended for your excellent performance of duty while serving aboard the USS NEW and as a member of the mo tor whale boat crew on May 28 when you assisted in recovering two crewmen from an S2F aircraft | that crashed over the side from the ! USS Randolph. Your excellent 1 performance of duty was consist ent with the high standards of the US Navy and reflects upon both the Navy and yourself. “It gives me great pleasure to recognize such excellent perform ance of duty on your part and to award you this commendation.” Marshall’s wife and daughter, Debra Lynn, reside on Route 3, Wake Forest.
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