THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXXIV. Number 41
Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, November 5,1959
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
See Your School During
National Education Week
Change is bustin’ out all over in today’s schools. New curriculum
. . . new methods . . . new equipment . . . new zest and enthusiasm on
the part of students and teachers.
Such is happening at Wakelon and Shepard schools. Go and see
for yourself. Ask questions. Look and listen. Praise . . . and appraise.
Patrons of the two schools are cordially invited all the year
’round, but especially during American Education Week, November
8-14. There will bei open house all day at Wakelon on November 11.
Wake To Be Held If
A wake is being planned if the
United Fund campaign drive is
not met, UF President Crafton
Hudson said Tuesday. Hudson is
a popular mortician of Zebulon.
A little more than $1,918 had
been turned in Tuesday, Hudson
reported. This, he said, is 39%
of the goal set for the 1959-60
year.
All reports are not in from so
licitors, the president said. Per
sons who have not been contacted
are urged to make a donation to
the Fund at Peoples Bank & Trust
Company.
Methodist Church To
Honor Football Team
Coach Maurice Chapman and
his 1959 squad of Wakelon Bull
dogs will be special honor guests
on Sunday evening, November 8,
at the Methodist Church in Zeb
ulon. The Bulldogs closed out their
season last Saturday night against
the Benvenue eleven at Rocky
Mount.
The evening service, according
to the minister, the Rev. William
K. Quick, will be to honor the
local footballers and will begin at
7:30 p.m. The school cheerleaders
will also be present and will be
recognized.
All parents and friends of the
football team are invited to be
present at this special service. Fol
lowing the service, a refreshment
and fellowship hour will be held
in the Fellowship Hall of the
Church.
Legion Needs Support
Of Local Veterans
Veterans in this vicinity are
urged to attend the regular meet
ing of the Legion on November 17,
Post Commander Bill Perry said.
The membership drive is on, the
Commander said, and all eligible
veterans in this locality are urged
to join.
Those persons who are members
of the local veteran organization
are not attending as regularly as
they should. At the last meeting
only four members weTe present.
The Legion holds its meetings
at Hilliard’s Restaurant. Dinner
is served at 7 o’clock with the
program and business .meetings
conducted at 8 o’clock.
Junior Women Fete
Wakelon Teachers
Members of Wakelon School
faculty were entertained at the
Junior Woman’s Club’s last meet
ing held October 20. This is an
annual affair of the woman’s or
ganization.
The club house was decorated
with arrangements of roses, mari
golds and dahlias. On the mantle
was an arrangement of pyracan
tha foliage.
Greeting the guests were Mrs.
Bill Bowling and Mrs. Charles
Creech, who introduced them to
the receiving line composed of
Mrs. Crafton Hudson, president;
Mrs. Bobby Sherron, secretary;
and Mrs. Melvin Massey, treasur
er.
Presiding over the crystal punch
bowl was Mrs. F. E. Bunn, retired
Wakelon faculty member. She
was assisted by members of the
club. Other refreshments were a
variety of cookies, nuts and open
face sandwiches.
The table was covered with a
white lace cloth and centered with
a floral arrangement flanked with
burning tapers.
Mrs. Frank Kemp presented solo
numbers accompanied by Mrs. Ed
Ellington.
The register was presided over
by Mrs. Frank Kannon and good
byes were said to Mrs. James Al
ford.
All the club members were
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Town Board
Appoints Floyd Edwards
Civil Defense Director
Mayor Ed Hales in a statement
to the press Tuesday reported that
every phase of the town govern
ment is “going very well.”
“I am very pleased with the
way things are going,” the genial
mayor said.
Water accounts are very favor
able, the mayor said. This aspect
mayor said. There has been some
response, but not the kind the
Community Building Opens
Today In Middlesex
The Middlesex Community
Building will be opened officially
today, November 5, according to
Mrs. C. L. Corbett, president of
the Community Building Organi
zation. Open House will be ob
served from 2:00 until 4:00 in the
afternoon and from 7:00 until 9:00
in the evening. At 7:30 p.m. a
forty piece band from Wakelon
High School will present a concert
on the lawn.
Thursday will also mark the ob
n servance of Achievement Day for
Home Demonstration Club women
all over Nash County. Achieve
ment Day, which will begin at
10:00 a.m. and will last until 1:00
p.m„ will be held in the Middlesex
Baptist Church. Lunch will be
served at 1:00 p.m. in the church
by the Middlesex Home Demon
stration Club for the benefit of
the Community Building. After
ward, the whole group will tour
the building, which also houses
the Middlesex Public Library and
the Boy Scouts’ meeting place.
Civic minded people have been
busy since last fall trying to ready
the building for use. They have
operated with a minimum of funds.
Most of the money and the labor
have been donated. Among other
improvements made, the old porch
has been torn off and a new en
trance constructed, several walls
have been painted, furniture has
been donated and placed, curtains
have been made, the grounds
have been cleaned and landscap
ing begun, and the building has
been thoroughly cleaned.
Mrs. C. L. Corbett as president
of the organization has directed
the work. She has been ably as
sisted by other members of the
executive committee: W. W. Mor
gan, Mrs. W. S. Williams, Roscoe
Hales, Mrs. R. S. Coats, O. C. Hol
land, and Lonnie Lewis. The va
rious committee chairmen—Mrs.
W. S. Williams, Jr., Fred Wolfe,
Mrs. W. W. Morgan, and Mrs. R.
S. Coats—with their committees
have also worked untiringly. C. L.
Corbett has given freely of his
time and energy, too.
This house, which is located on
a one-acre lot in the center of
town, originally belonged to John
Finch, the man who gave the land
on which the town of Middlesex
was begun. This was the first home
ever to be built in Middlesex, a
fact which makes its patrons take
added pride in owning it. It has
belonged to various people since
Mr. Finch’s death, but its archi
tecture remains essentially the
same.
After Thursday,. November 5,
the building will be available to
any group to use for meetings or
recreation. Mrs. Corbett urges all
community people to come to the
open house and band concert to be
held Thursday.
mayor and commissioners want to
see.
No tax suits have been brought
against delinquent payers, the
of town revenue is not troubling
him.
City license plate sales have
been splendid, Mayor Hales re
ported. Ten persons need to pur
chase city tags. The mayor said
he hopes these persons will get
their licenses immediately. “We
must have a 100% sale this year.”
At the November board meet
ing, Floyd Edwards was named
Zebulon’s Civil Defense director.
Twenty-nine-year-old Edwards
replaces Pat Former as the town’s
CD head. Farmer placed Edwards’
name before the board and Com
missioner Thurman Hepler sec
onded it.
Mayor Hales appointed Wilbur
Debnam, F. D. Finch and M. J.
Sexton on the five-man Board of
Adjustments. Ex-mayor Debnam
is to serve as chairman of the
group. His and Finch’s terms
expire in 1962. Postmaster Sex
ton’s term ends in 1961.
This board is a part of the Zon
ing Board. It has the power to
hear and decide upon appeals from
persons who register complaints
about zoning.
Dr. L. M. Massey and C. V.
Whitley, also members of the
Board of Adjustments, terms of
office expire in June, 1960.
Ground work is being laid for
the future progress of the town,
Mayor Hales said. Streets, high
ways, and other things of im
portance which will effect the
town’s future are beginning to be
studied by the town’s governing
body.
On Friday a Mr. Anderson, who
is associated with the City and
Town Planning Associates of
Chapel Hill, will be here to work
with the mayor and commissioners
on town planning.
Anderson will advise the board
on the costs and expenses involved
in seeking future improvements
for the town. Mayor Hales said
this is purely an informative ses
sion.
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Hospital Head Is
Pleased With Area
Personnel Abilities
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Dr. S. L. Stealey
To Address Antioch
Centennial Rites
Centennial Tites will be observed
at Antioch Baptist Church Sunday,
the Rev. A. D. Parrish, pastor, has
announced.
Dr. S. L. Stealey, president of
Southeastern Seminary, will be the
guest speaker at the centennial
observance and Homecoming Day
services.
Dedication services will also be
held Sunday, the pastor has said.
The minister and members cor
dially invite friends of the church
to attend the all day services Sun
day.
Baptists To Observe
Education Sunday
Claude F. Gaddy, secretary of
Christian Education of the Bap
tist State Convention and former
superintendent of the Raleigh
Public Schools, will bring the
message at the morning worship
service Sunday, the Rev. W. Arn
old Smith, pastor of Zebulon Bap
tist Church, has announced.
The Rev. Mr. Smith said the
Zebulon Baptist Church joins
hands once again with the public
school authorities in emphasizing
the needs of education.
“The Child—What Does Educa
tion Mean to Him?” is the theme
of this year’s Education Week.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this service and is urged
to take advantage of this oppor
tunity to hear this outstanding ed
ucator, Mr. Gaddy, as he speaks
to us on “A Child-Centered Ed
ucational Program”, the pastor
said.
The Wen^ell-Zebuion Hospital,
a branch of the Wake County Me
morial Hospital, is now 50 per
cent completed, it was learned
yesterday.
Progress has been fair, with
very little delay in delivery of
materials and change orders. Wake
County Hospital Authority expects
final completion of the local hos
pital about April, 1960.
“In order that the hospital and
the physicians will be ready for
any emergency on opening day
considerable time must be devoted
to adequate training of employees,
thorough preparation of proced
ures, and a complete check of sup
plies and materials following the
contractor’s completion date,”
Frank Ceruzzi said.
“This period of orientation will
probably mean that approximate
ly three months will elapse be
tween the end of construction and
the opening of the hospital,” Ce
ruzzi continued.
The erection of a “mother hos
pital” and branches of it is unique
in the South, Ceruzzi said. He
has no facts to support his belief,
he said, but he thinks Wake Coun
ty is the only place in the South
which is going to use a system
such as this.
Ceruzzi, assistant administrator
in charge of hospital units, was in
Zebulon Tuesday making a check
on the required telephone services,
garbage pickup, linen service fa
cilities and to interview nurses.
The administrator said applica
tions for employment have already
been received at the offices of the
Wendell and Zebulon Chamber of
Commerce, but final selection of
employees will not be made until
the building is finished.
Billy Massey Is In
Fort Benning, Ga.
Billy Massey, who was recently
inducted into the army, is re
ceiving his basic training in Fort
Benning, Ga. His address is: RCT
William F. Massey, US 53323310,
2nd Platoon, Co. B. 2BG, 23rd Inf.,
Fort Benning, Ga.
Nash County HD President
Makes United Nations Study Tour
A prominent Middlesex woman
who is president of the Nash
County Federation of Home Dem
onstration Clubs spent last week
in New York attending the annual
home demonstration club women’s
United Nations study tour.
Mrs. W. W. Morgan was select
ed for the honor by the Interna
tional Relations Committee com
posed of former Nash County del
egates to the United Nations.
Mrs. Morgan, along with other
delegates from over the State,
made the trip by chartered bus.
The delegation stayed at Hotel
Taft.
The group was taken on a guid
ed tour of the United Nations
headquarters where they heard a
speech by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
Dt. Clark Eichelberger and Mrs.
Eleanor Roberts. They attended a
UN General Assembly session, vis
ited Radio City, Frick Art Gallery,
and Riverside and St. John the
Divine churches.
The delegates returned from the
trip Saturday.
Mrs. W. W. Morgan