THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXXIV. Number 51 Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, February 11, 1960 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Despondency Motive
Milton Trevathan Uses
9mm Pistol to Kill Self
Despondency was thought to be
the motive for the suicide of a
Zebulon man early Tuesday morn
ing.
Robert Milton Trevathan, 36, was
found Tuesday morning about 6
o’clock lying on the sidewalk in
front of Screws-Hudson Funeral
Home mortally wounded.
He left no note, according to
Police Officer Willie B. Hopkins.
Wake County Coroner M. W.
Bennett ruled the death suicide.
Police Officer Hopkins said Tre
vathan used a 9mm pistol for the
death weapon. The bullet entered
the victim’s heart region. The bul
let did not strike the heart. He
died on the way to Rex Hospital.
Travathan was found by Rus
sell Jones, Negro street sweeper,
Hopkins said. Jones told the officer
he heard struggling and scratch
ing sounds before discovering
Trevathan.
Jones notified Night Policeman
M. G. Crowder, who called Dr.
George Tucker.
According to Hopkins, Treva
than left home about 5:30 a.m. to
go to Whitley Furniture Co. He
had been an employee of the com
pany for the past five years.
A funeral service for the victim
will be held today at 11 o’clock
from the Zebulon Methodist
Church, of which he was a mem
ber. The rites will be conducted
by the Rev. W. K. Quick, pastor.
Burial will be in the Zebulon Cem
etery.
Milton Trevathan
He is survived by his wife, the
former Vivian Privette Bercik; one
daughter, Sharon, and one son,
Bobby Milton, both of the home; a
stepdaughter, Priscilla Bercik; his
father, Robert Trevathan of Route
1, Zebulon; one brother, Darnel
Trevathan of Middlesex; four sis
ters, Mrs. Velma Johanson of
Houston, Texas; Mrs. Patricia
Rimmer of Albany, Ga.; Mrs. Ag
nes Bunn of Zebulon and Mrs.
Darline Edwards of Roseboro.
Ratings Given For
Restaurants, Markets
Ratings on eating establishment
and meat markets in Zebulon for
the quarter ending December 31,
1959, have been set by the Wake
County Health Department.
Restaurants: Hilliard’s Restau
rant, 95.0; Meet & Grill, 93.5; Smit
ty’s Restaurant, 91.0; Chiew Drive
In, 88.0; Russells Restaurant, 88.0;
Bus Station Grill, 70.0.
Markets: Wakelon Superette,
97.0; Temple Market, 96.0; Parrish
Market, 96.0; Massey’s Grocery &
Market, 94.0; Dunn’s Market, 92.0;
and Price Grocery, 91.5.
Bill Selfs Have
Second Child, Son
The Rev. and Mrs William Self
of Rocky Mount announce the
birth of a son, Bryan Edgar, Sat
urday, January 30, in a Rocky
Mount Hospital. Mrs. Self is the
former Carolyn Shealey, and was
at one time a member of the Wake
Ion School faculty.
Knightdale Methodist
Minister Is
Devotions Speaker
The Rev. Richard Harrington,
pastor of the Knightdale Metho
dist Church, will be the devo
tional speaker over Radio Station
WETC next week. February 15-20.
The devotions are sponsored by the
station as a public service each
weekday morning 9:05-9:15. The
1 public is invited to listen to these
I daily devotional messages.
Fight May Develop
Over Sewer Project
For Local Hospital
Scout Honor
Court Sunday
A Scout Court of Honor will be
held in Zebulon Baptist Church
Sunday night at 7:30, according to
Scoutmaster Howard Phelps, who
will be in charge of the service.
Troops participating on the pro
gram will be 525 and 540. Ed El
lington, troop leader of 540, and
Phelps, troop leader of 525, along
with District Commissioner Arm
strong Cannady and District Exe
cutive Hubert Ellison, will ap
pear on the program.
Saturday, February 13, the lo
cal Boy Scouts will hold a camp
site exposition on the grounds of
Zebulon Baptist Church. This will
be in conjunction with the Court of
Honor, commemorating the 50th
anniversary of Scouting in Ameri
ca.
The public is invited to attend
this exposition, Howard Phelps has
announced, and observe what scout
camping is like.
Man Of Year
Feels Church May Lose The Sabbath Day
During his short pastorate here,
the Rev. William K. Quick has
made a deep and lasting impression
on the religious and civic life of
the townspeople and communities.
The Rev. Mr. Quick, named Zeb
ulon’s Man of the Year for 1959 in
a poll conducted by his newspaper,
moved here with his family the
middle of last year. He was nam
ed minister of Zebulon Methodist
Church by the Methodist Confer
ence.
“This might sound like a pious,
‘preachery’ phrase,” the affable
young minister said, “but when I
was told of the honor I was hum
bled to feel that such an honor
came to one less deserving than
so many other Zebulon leaders.”
Between 14 and 15 hours a day,
every day, is spent by Quick exe
cuting his pastoral duties in the
community. “Tiring but reward
ing,” is the way he put it.
He said he makes approximately
250 visits per month to the mem
bership of his church. This in
cludes visits to the members of
the church, non-members, pros
pective members and hospital calls.
Quick is a firm believer in visit
ing. He says there is no substi
tute for a visit. “Fifty-two sermons
can never do what one pastoral vis
it will do.”
He says he makes it a policy in
his pastoral ministry to try to
keep his visits on a spiritual level
and in 98 per cent of his visiting
he will have a prayer with the per
sons being visited.
“It is so easy for some ministers
to take advantage of the wholesale
invitation of members of other
churches to visit in their homes and
therefore cause a misunderstand
ing among the clergy,” he said.
He stated that he does not make
it a policy to visit persons who are
not members of his church unless
asked by some member of his
church to do so.
Quick doesn’t believe in visiting
just for the sake of visiting.
“Church people shouldn’t expect
their preachers to make social
calls.”
,MAN OF YEAR AND FAMILY. Above are the Rev. W. K. Quick,
Zebulon’s Man of the Year for 1959. He is holding son, Steve, 4, Mrs.
Quick is holding daughter, Kathy, 22 months.
i
; One of the greatest joys he gets
J is mingling with those outside the
! church.
i “It is a habit of mine to do visit
ing at various times in the week
| in the business establishments and
; on the street. The minister can
i reach people and be a witness in
[ the market place. The great di
vorce of our time is the divorce
between the church and the mar
ket place.”
“One of the great tasks, ministers !
have today,” Quick said, “is to j
confront people to take religion i
with them Monday through Satur
day.” He said the only Bible a lot
of people will ever read is the
lives of Christian laymen and lay
women who witness not only Sun
day but from Monday to Saturday
in the market place.
Of great concern to him is the
fact that today’s ministers are so
entangled with church adminis
tration responsibilities and the like
that so much of their time is tak
en up with unimportant things.
“Yes, we must have organization,
but the minister has been called
and educated to preach Christ
and to teach people in the faith
of the Christian church.”
He freely admitted that he en
joys the church and pastoral min
istry most of all; administration
and organization, least of all.
Another thing which disturbs
him terribly is that the church is
in danger of losing the Sabbath.
“In most communities churches
are as dark on Sunday nights as
the pits of hell, while the rest of
the town is blazing with neon
| signs, theaters, restaurants, gas
stations and the like. In some
areas, hardware stores remain
l open on Sunday.
“We have just about lost Sun
day night. Shall we give it to the
Devil? Come the four-day work
week with a three-day holiday
weekend, the Sunday School and
i morning worship will be next to
I go.
1 “Some people cannot understand
j within the church, I am sure, and
I outside the church, why we started
! a Sunday night service at our
church. I believe Sunday night
belongs to God and we can spend
it in no better way than in His
house.’
“It takes real effort to be a
‘twicer,’ but church will lose its
meaning with ‘effortless’ Chris
tians. In too many communities
the church is no longer an influ
ence but an affluence.
“The easiest thing in Zebulon to
join is not a card or bridge club but
any one of the churches. There
was a time when men paid a price
for discipleship. The church has
ceased to preach that Christ has
vast demands from a person’s life.”
Quick thinks that if a man has
none of the qualities of a scientist
or a lawyer, he can always become
a preacher.
“This attitude is so prevalent a
mong our youth today, and is to
me a great tragedy. It points to
the pessimism and moral decay
of our country.”
He said further it is in essence
that there is doubt and pessimism
in both the pulpit and the pew.
The preacher doubts that the con
gregation believes what the
preacher preaches and the pew
doubts if the preacher believes
what he preaches.
“If this is true, and in so many
cases I think it is, this could
be the reason for the rise of de
linquency and the moral decay of
our mid-20th Century America.”
“Some laymen,” he said, “say
| that the church generally is
plagued by a ministry that has
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Heirs Won't
Give Right
Of Way Consent
A court battle between Wake
County Hospital Authority and the
George Broughton heirs over the
erection of a sewer line to Wen
dell-Zebulon Hospital may devel
op.
In a letter to Frank Ceruzzi, as
sistant hospital administrator, Dr.
J. O. Broughton, Wilmington dent
ist and trustee of the George
Broughton estate, said that he
“finds it is not to our best advan
tage to give a deed of easement”
across the property for the place
ment of a sewer line.
Dr. Broughton pointed out that
it would greatly depreciate the sale
value of the property in any fu
ture development; that it would
render a large portion of the land
along the line area unsuitable for
cultivation due to the closeness of
the pipe to the surface; and that it
appears the grade or fall of the
line which would be more service
operational problem to keep open,
requiring continuous trespassing
across the land that would be in
cultivation.
Dr. Broughton also stated that
he believes there are other ways
of installing or running tnis sewer
line which would be more servic
I able and require less maintenance,
j The local hospital is about 70
I per cent complete, according to
Ceruzzi.
The installation of the sewer line
was postponed last year because
the land which the line had to cross
was in cultivation. Plans were
made to make the installation
when there were no crops under
cultivation.
The Authority may bring a con
demnation suit and place the line,
or they may place the line and then
wait for action from Dr. Brough
ton.
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New Secretary
Mrs. Carrie R. Martin has be
come secretary to Attorney Fos
ter D. Finch. She assumed this
position Monday.
Mrs. Martin is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rogers of
Route 1, Youngsville. Her hus
band is Edsel Martin, and she is
the mother of two children, a boy,
7, and a daughter, 4. The family
resides on Route 4, Zebulon.
Wakelon PTA
To Observe
Founders Day
A short Founders Day program
will be followed by an open house
at the meeting of the Wakelon
School Parent Teachers Associa
; tion Monday night.
' Beginning at 7:45 p.m., the
I Founders Day commemoration and
j business session will take place in
the school auditorium. Entertain
ment will be given by some of
Mrs. H. C. Wade’s dance students.
Upon completion of the events
in the auditorium, the parents will
be invited to visit their children’s
class rooms for light refreshments.
During this period the teachers
will discuss the program of studies
for the year.