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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXXIV. Number 33 Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, August 27, 1959 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers Born In Virginia Mrs. Gilford Bufkin Librarian A Virginia bom but North Car olina reared woman becomes Zeb ulon Community Library’s first li brarian September 1. Mrs. Gilford Bufkin, who was appointed to the position as libra rian of the community library by the town government, expressed that she is very happy to be chos en for the position and will do her utmost to improve the service and quality of the library. Mrs. Bufkin has a modicum of experience with library work. She worked for a year as assistant li brarian of the Warren County Me morial Library. This happy, expressive woman was bom Marie Blanche Langley on August 5, 1922, in South Hill, Va. She is one of five daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Langley. Her parents moved from Vir ginia to Littleton, North Carolina, and i was from this town’s high school that she was graduated. Following high school she went to work for Branch’s Detertive Agency as receptionist-secretary. Tiring of working with sleuths, she decided to become a telephone operator and received her training in Henderson with the Carolina Telephone - Telegraph Company. When she had completed her training she was transferred to New Bern and was in charge of a switch board for three years. It was in New Bern that she met her husband. The meeting was a blind date that resulted in a happy marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Bufkin were married June 29, 1946, in a New Bern Baptist church. Mr. Bufkin at the time of his court ship and marriage was in the Army. He is a native of Delta City, Mississippi, and holds a position with Gill Buick Company here as parts manager. Traveling is Mrs. Bufkin’s real hobby. She has been in 12 states of the Union and hopes to com plete the full cycle before too many more years. Her other hobbies are television and reading. She finds housekeeping very fascinating and loves every aspect of being a housewife, except cook ing, although when she sets her mind to it she can turn out some of the most tempting dishes imaginable. She considers bana na pudding her specialty in the field of cooking. This 5-5, 120 pound woman, with short . black hair scattered with (Continued on Pace 3) Mrs. Gilford Bufkin Parents, Read! Registration of new students, who will enter Wakelon School for the 1959-60 school year will be held Friday, August 28, Principal John J. Hicks has an nounced. This registration is for stu dents who have not previously been enrolled in the school. The hours for registration are from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. • On September 1 all students attending V.'akelon School will arrive to receive room assign ments, pay fees, receive text books .and instructional assign ments, Principal John J. Hicks has announced. The school day will begin at 8:17 in the morning, with buses operating at the regular morn ing time. School will be dis missed at 11:45 a.m. School will begin officially on September 2 and will operate on a full day’s schedule, from 8:17 a.m. to 3:10 p.m. The cafeteria will also begin operation on Sep tember 2, serving the usual nour ishing and deliciously fixed lunches. Whisk Broom Sale Members of Zebulon Lions Club will be conducting a door to-door sale of whisk brooms tonight, beginning at 8 o’clock. The funds from the 200 whisk brooms sold will be used for the club’s blind activities. Service Station Burglarized Edgemont Service Station at the junction of Highway 64 and the Wendell-Zebulon by-pass was en tered some time between the hours of 8 and 12:30 Sunday night, Sher iff’s Deputy S. J. Blackley has re ported. Deputy Blackley said the gas station was burglarized of $5.00 taken from the cash register. The deputy said a wagon axle made into a crow bar was used by the burglar to pry off the steel screen over the east window. Burned matches were found a round the cash register. Deputy Blackley said fingerprint experts were called in from the Tom Monk Lands Sailfish At Beach Tom Monk landed a nice sailfish off Wrightsville Beach last Friday. He caught the beautiful fish 2V4 miles off shore and it measured 46 inches in length. Tom is hav ing the fish mounted for display. He used a spoon for bait. The Tom Monks with son Mi chael and the Henry Monks of Goldsboro were spending the week at Carolina Beach when Tom made his catch. Wake County Bureau of Investiga tion. Logan H. Scarboro is owner and operator of the service station. Brotherhood To Meet The men of the Zebulon Baptist Brotherhood hold their regular monthly meeting tonight at 7:00 o’clock at the church. The meal ■will be prepared by one of the members, H. A. Hodge, Jr. The program will consist of a series gospel renditions by the Gospel Quartet. The members of the quartet are Lee Daniels, Zebu Ion, Thurman Davis, Nevell Davis, and Walter Painter, all of Wendell. The growth of the Zebulon Bap tist Brotherhood has been phe nomenal. Since its inception ten months ago, it has grown to 24 members. The life of the church has been greatly enhanced by this strong, enthusiastic organization, under the leadership of Rodney McNabb, President; Worth Hin ton, program vice president; Wes ley Liles, membership vice presi dent; Robert Edd Horton, activi ties vice president, Bill Perry, sec retary and treasurer, and H. A. Hodge, Jr., chorister. The public is cordially invited to a'ttend this meeting, but please notify the Church Office, AN 9 2501, if you desire to be served dinner. G. Kermit Corbett Easy Going Politico; Sees Great Future C. K. Corbett ASC Election To Be Held During the first week in Aug ust, community election boards se lected nominees for community committeemen who will be voted, on in community elections on Sep tember 10. Under the election procedure, if there were other nominations which farmers wished to make, they had to do so by August 25. Additional nominees may be placed on the ballot if 10 eligible voters in the community file a petition with the chairman of the commu nity election board not later than August 25. After this date the official ballot will be run, includ ing candidates selected by the community election boards. Community election board chair men from Little River A and Lit tle River B are Robert E. Horton, Route 1, Zebulon, and D. B. Jones, Route 4, Zebulon, respectively. The following persons were se lected by the community election boards to be voted on in the elec tion to be held September 10: Little River A: J. B. Croom, Wi ley G. Broughton, Raymond L. Averette, Dewey W. Massey, Sprite Ferrell, W. O. Blackley, El mo C. Finch, Allen Mitchell, Her bert M. Perry and C. D. Long. Little River B: T. E. Puryear, Donald Jones, Arthur F. Pearce, J. N. Brannon, Billie Mitchell, J. O. Allen, Oris Horton, Rotcher Ray, Bobby Duke and Thomas Bar ham. Hours of voting will be between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the regular polling place. Voting will be for five nominees to serve as commu nity committeemen. The person receiving the most votes will be declared to be elected community committee chairman and delegate to the county convention. The person receiving the second high est number of votes will be de clared vice-chairman and alter nate delegate. The person receiv ing third, fourth, and fifth high est number of votes will be declar ed elected regular member, first alternate, and second alternate, re spectively. Downbeat Raided; White Liquor Got Ten half gallon jars of white whiskey were taken recently from the Downbeat, a Negro night spot near Zebulon, Sheriff’s Deputy S. J. Blackley reported. The raid uncovered the kickapoo joy juice in one of the back rooms of the road house honky tonk. Deputy Blackley reported that the night club has been reopened for the past two weeks. It is un der new management. Hester Evans, Jr. of Raleigh is the opera tor. Deputy Blackley said Evans is charged with a quantity of non tax paid whiskey for the purpose of sale. Baptist Revival Starts Sunday! Sunday night at 8:00 o’clock marks the opening of the revival to be held, at the Zebulon Baptist Church. The public is cordially invited to attend the nightly serv ices at 8:00 o’clock Sunday through Friday, the Rev. W. Arnold Smith, pastor, announces. The Rev. W. W. Finlator, pastor of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, is the guest preacher. The Rev. Mr. Finlator is no stranger to our community as he has conducted a previous preaching campaign here. Prior to going to Raleigh, he was pas tor of the First Baptist Church, Elizabeth City. He is a product of the Ra)eigh public schools and graduated from Wake Forest College with the B. A. degree. He earned the Master of Theology degree from the South ern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Ky. His other pastorates include, Pittsboro, Bonlee and the Weldon Baptist Church. At present, in addition to serv ing as minister of the 754-member Pullen Church, he is a member of Rev. W. W. Finlator the boards of trustees of Meredith College and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; chairman of the Social Action Commission of the North Carolina Council of Churches, member of the Execu tive Committee of the Council of Churches, vice-president of the North Carolina Conference on Hu man Relations, vice-president of the Raleigh Community Ambasso dor Project; president of the Local Chapter of Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State (P.O.A.U.) and a member of the National Ex ecutive Committee of P.O.A.U. “Our community is indeed for tunate to have such a renowned guest for this revival meeting,” the pastor said. “A rich, spiritual bless ing is in store for each and eveTy person who attends these inspira tional services. Begin Sunday and attend every service throughout the meeting.” He speaks with a deliberate slowness, his words falling from his lips in soft, wonderfully South ern accents. Town Commissioner G. K. Cor bett's speech is characteristic of his pernonality: thoughtful, con scientious, earnest, considerate and easy-going. The above adjectives apply to Corbett’s place as a member of the town’s governing body. Before he proposes, approves or disapproves measures for the town, they are given attentive consideration, thought over conscientiously, and studied earnestly to reveal their qualities of worthiness. He wants the most good for the most people and as long as he serves as a member of the commis sion board he will support only those things that benefit his towns people. Unlike so many public servants who have an eye toward higher political offices, he is satisfied with his lot as commissioner. He said he is thinking only about the job to be done now, and has no as pirations for higher political office. Corbett spoke of a number of things he hopes to see accomplish ed for the good of his town. One is the development of low cost housing projects. He feels that if the town is to grow and prosper houses need to be available for the incoming populace. Water and sewer projects are high on his lists of the necessary improvements which must take place for the i town’s welfare. Flooding of certain areas of the town must be remedied. Another issue close to his heart is the equalization of taxes. He firmly believes that something must be done to bring some of the taxes down and raise some others, mak ing for equalization. He feels strongly that the equalization of the tax system would be a healthy situation. Corbett, whose full name is Gid die Kermit, is one of seven chil dren of the late Benjamin Giddie Corbett and Bessie Tippett. He was born to this farm couple De cember 11, 1901, near Friendship Church in upper Johnston County. There were four sons and three daughters, and Kermit, as he is called, came along fifth. Only one brother, Otis Corbett, who is in a rest home in Smithfleld, is living; and two sisters, Mrs. Isaac Whitley of Thanksgiving Church, and Mrs. Betty Thompson of Emit. Corbett’s education ended when he finished the seventh grade at Emit School. He is sorry he does n’t have any more education and feels he has been handicapped throughout his life by the lack of it. He is very much in favor of young men and women getting all the education they can. Right out of school, Corbett mar ried his childhood sweetheart. The 18-year-old young man and Mae Narron were married May 7, 1920, in the home of his sister at Thanks giving. Justice of the Peace Way Ion O’Neal performed the marriage ceremony. Corbett chuckled as he remi nisced on the day of his marriage. He said he and his affianced had been to church and were going to the j.p.’s and not let anybody know. It turned out that the (Continued on Page 3) Dance Registration Mrs. H. C. Wade, head of Wade School of Dance, will be in her studio at Wakelon School Tuesday, September 1, to regis ter pupils who plan to take dance instruction for' the 1959-60 school year.
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