THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXXIV. Number 51 Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, January 14, 1960 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Hip Hip, Hooray
Wakelon Boys On Winning Streak
Wakelon Bulldogs
Down Wendell 50-40
By Bill Quick
The Wakelon Bulldogs, soundly
trounced by arch-rival a month a
go, played their best offensive and
defensive game of the year in
trouncing their neighbors, 5Q.-40.
Though the outcome of the game
was in question until the final five
minutes, Wendell was never in the
lead after the opening minute. The
visitors jumped to a quick 2-0
lead, only to see Johnny Smith tie
it up after 55 seconds. After
Smith’s bucket, the Bulldogs were
led by Wilson and Massey for 12
points and a 14-6 first quarter lead.
The second quarter opening with
Clark and Smith widening the lead
to 17-6 when Coach Clyde Parrish
called timeout. Slightly changing
his defensive patterns, the Wen
dell coach called for a few special
plays that culminated in Wendell
scaring eleven points to Wakelon s
one point. Midway the second
quarter, Wakelon’s lead had
dwindled to 18-17. The combined
scoring of Smith, Wilson, Kemp
and Clark and the excellent re
bounding of Massey began to click
so that minutes later the Bulldogs
had pulled ahead again and at the
half led by seven, 26-19.
Wendell began to close the gap
again during the third quarter and
at the end of the period trailed by
two, 34-32. The Bulldogs, how
ever, seemed more determined
than ever and finished in a fourth
quarter flurry, bucketing 16 points
to Wendell’s 8.
High scorers for the contest
were Ken Wilson with 16 points
and Dan Massey with 15. Ron
Clark accounted for 9 points, Terry
Kemp for 3, and John Smith for 7.
Coach Chapman stuck with his
starting five throughout the con
test.
fhe game was played before a
capacity crowd, again indicating
the intense rivalry and community
interest in the Wendell-Zebulon
athletic contests. Coach Chapman
was pleased with the team’s ef
forts and lauded each player for
a job well-done. At each crucial
point in he contest, each player
had played a strategic part. The
fine rebounding job of Massey and
Wilson, the BIG points of John
ny Smith when Wendell pulled
within one point, 18-17, the ex
cellent ball-handling by Ron Clark
and the crucial bucket by Terry
Kemp when the opposition pulled
within 2 points at the end of the
third quarter—all were strategic
plays in the contest.
In the opening game, the Wen
dell girls’ “football” team defeated
the Wakelon basketball lassies
20-19. The game has been aptly
described as “the most rugged
girls’ game ever to be played in
the Wakelon gym.” The margin of
victory, one point, came in the final
seconds after it had appeared that
the Wakelon girls would win their
second straight victory. Nancy
Strickland with 13 points and Har
riet Page with 5 markers, led the
Wakelon scoring.
Wakelon Overpowers
Spring Hope 64-49
The Wakelon Bulldogs, paced by
their big center, Dan Massey, who
bucketed 31 points, swept to their
second victory in a row Tuesday
night overpowering a favored
Spring Hope five 64-49.
The Bulldogs,_ fresh from their
Friday night victory over Wendell,
seemed poised and confident as
they racked up their second con
ference victory of the year.
Dan Massey, playing his fourth
game of the season after a six
game absence due to an arm in
jury, played his most outstanding
game of his high school career.
Massey hit for 13 field goals and 5
from the charity line for 31 points,
almost equalling the total points,
33, he has scored in the other 3
games.
Ron Clark, the dependable,
sharp-shooting guard, hit on seven
field goals and one from the free
throw line for 15 points. Although
Massey and Clark accounted for
most of the points, the game was
a team victory and boosted the
stock of the Bulldog five.
Their two wins over Wendell
and Spring Hope are definite “mo
rale-builders” for the team, for the
coach and school, and for Zebulon’s
avid round-ball fans.
In other scoring Tuesday night,
Ken Wilson accounted for 8 points,
Terry Kemp for 5, Johnny Smith
for 4 and sub Tommy Wood for 1.
In the preliminary contest the
Wakelon lassies suffered their sec
ond consecutive heartbreaking de
feat by one point, 29-28. (They lost
to Wendell Friday night 20-19).
Nancy Strickland bucketed 13
points and Betsy Rountree 8 to
lead the Wakelon team.
Mrs. J. Wilbur Bunn
World Relationships Are
Important, Says Speaker
Anything we do today seems to
have a bearing on world relation
ships,” Mrs. J. Wilbur Bunn told
the members of the Senior Wom
an’s Club last Tuesday.
Mrs. Bunn was introduced' to
the club by Mrs. F. E. Bunn, pro
gram chairman for the month of
January. The two women are sis
ters-in-law.
This world traveled wife of a
prominent Raleigh lawyer said
that religions seem to be one of the
greatest factors which keep na
tions separated.
She cited examples of religious
differences which keep countries
from being on friendly terms.
There are the Israelites and the
Arabs, and other nations with re
ligious confllicts which figure in
international relationships.
“Many things are being done
about international relationships,”
Mrs. Bunn said. “One of the grest
est is the system of sending ex
change students to different coun
tries.”
She said this system of exchang
ing students to attend our univer
sities and colleges is one of the
best ways of estabUshing friend
ships. While here the students
Uve in our homes and learn our
ways, customs and manners of
life.
The same thing appUes to Amer
ican students who go abroad on
the exchange student plan. Such
a plan spreads international good
will.
Only recently, she said, North
Carolina sent a group of citizens to
Europe searching for 'business.
These business men told of the
qualities and many facets of oui
State.
“Industry can tie nations to
gether,” she said.
Mrs. Bunn, dressed in a smart
red dress with black accessories,
injected human interest stories and
humor into her speech.
She is a graduate of Meredith
College and following her gradua
tion taught in the Raleigh col
lege and is on the Board of Turs
tees. She is the mother of thfee
sons and two daughters, teaches a
Sunday School class at Hayes Bar
ton Baptist Church, is past presi
dent of the Raleigh Garden Club,
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Who Is to Be Town’s
Man, Woman of 7959?
The Zebulon Record is searching for the town’s Man and Woman
of 1959.
List your preference in the space below for both Man of the
Year and Woman of the Year. Persons named must reside within the
city limits of Zebulon.
All entries must be mailed to the Record no later than January
21.
Man of Year
Woman of Year
Mayor, Board Say Tax
Equalization Program Here
Not Fair For The People
Zollie Culpepper
Prominent Citizen Dies
Zollie N. Culpepper died about
5:40 p.m. Monday in Mary Eliza
beth Hospital after an illness of
about a month. His death was at
tributed to cancer.
Culpepper was born September
3, 1886. He was the youngest of
three children of the late Dr. B. N.
and Nannie Baines Culpepper of
Nashville.
After the death of his father, his
mother moved to Wakefield where
the children attended Wakefield
Classical and Mathematical Acad
emy.
He came to Zebulon in the early
1920’s after spending a few years
in Nashville and Spring Hope
where he was associated in busi
nesses with his brother, the late
Dwight Culpepper.
He served his town and county
as tax lister for more than 14
years. At the time of his death
he was the proprietor of a small
business establishment where he
did income tax returns and notary
work.
On April 11, 1936, he and the
former Grace Kirby were married.
Mrs. Culpepper is a native of Vir
ginia. There are no children by
this union.
Surviving besides his wife are a
step-daughter, Mrs. Margaret
Jones of Silver Springs, Md.; four
step-grandchildren; one niece,
Mrs. W. Philip Hedrick and one
nephew, Tye A. Culpepper of Ra
leigh.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday at Zebulon Baptist Church
of which he was a member, with
the Rev. W. Arnold Smith, pas
tor, officiating. Burial was in Zeb
ulon Cemetery.
Display License
Display those city license
plates.
Police Chief Willie B. Hop
kins has reported that the po
lice department has been asked
to cite all persons not displaying
a city license plate on their mo
tor vehicles after February IS
to court.
Plates went on sale January 1.
Every resident in ihe Town of
Zebulon who owns a motor ve
hicle is required to purchase a
license plate.
The price of a city license
plate still remains at $1.00.
PTA Meet
Wakelon PTA is scheduled to
meet Monday night at 7:45 o
clock. Principal John J. Hicks,
who will have the program, will
discuss the curriculum of the
local school.
All members of the organiza
tion are urged to be present.
Devotional Speaker
The Rev. Harry Lee Rogers,
pastor of the Methodist Church in
Wendell, will be daily devotion
al speaker January 18-23 over
Station WETC. The Rev. Mif.
Rogers will speak each morning
9:05-9:15 a.m.
Register Protest
With Officials
—
Mayor Ed Hales and the Town
Board of Commissioners feel the
new tax equalization program is
not fair to the people of Zebulon.
The mayor and commissioners in
a special call meeting last week
registered a protest of the revalua
tion of property here.
Letters of protest have been sent
to R. E. Richardson, Wake County
tax supervisor; Ben Haigh, chair
man of the Wake County Commis
sioners; and to the appraisers.
Mayor Hales said the special
meeting was called because he and
the board felt it was due the peo
ple of Zebulon.
“We felt that some of the eval
uations were too high,” the mayor
said, “and that the people here
were due more consideration.”
Hales said that the new value
placed on the street frontage is
valued at SO per cent more than its
true market value and in some
cases more than 50 per cent.
“I had rather have property on
the tax books at today’s market
value than to have it on the tax
books at more than today’s market
value for the sake of having a low
tax rate,” Hales said.
The mayor thinks that if the
town can get the street frontages
at a realistical figure, in most
cases this will adjust the errors.
Evaluations of local property by
the country-hired appraisers vary
over the town. The highest ap
praisal was the street frontage of
the 100 block of North Arendeil
Avenue, which was set at $250
per foot.
A request by the mayor and com
missioners has been made that the
appraisers come back and revalue
some of the street frontages.
The deciding if the appraisers’
figures are too high is up to the
individual property owners, the
mayor said.
“Property owners should be a
ware of the fact that the figures
shown in red aire only 35 per cent
of today’s market value,” Hales
said.
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