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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXXV, Number 19. Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, May 19, 1960 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers RURITAN OFFICERS. C. Victor Tart, Wakelon Agriculture teacher, heads the Wakelon Ruritan Club as its first president. Serving as vice president is the Rev. William K. Quick, pastor of Zebulon Methodist Church. Other officers are Raymond Averette, treasurer; and Rex Tippett, secretary; Maurice Chapman, J. Raleigh Alford, and Billy K. Hopkins, Board of Directors. Reading from left to right are the Rev. Mr. Quick, Tart, Averette; back row, Hopkins, Alford, Chapman and Tippett. Ruritan Charter Presented To Club Thursday Evening The Wakelon Ruritan Club was presented its charter on Thursday night at Hilliard’s Restaurant in Zebulon and was immediately chal lenged by Alton Campbell of Pitts boro. District Governor, “to go out and tell some other community of the work of Ruritan and organize another club.” Chartered with twenty-three members, the group elected C. Vic •-tor Tart, a longtime member of Ruritan, as its first president. Tart is the vocational agriculture teach er at Wakelon High School in Zeb ulon. A former member of the Stovall Ruriton Club, he was in strumental in the organization of the local unit. A Methodist minister and form er member of the Ruritan Club at Bahama, the Rev. William K. Quick, was elected vice-president to serve with Tart. Quick is pas tor of the Zebulon Methodist Church and has been a Ruritan since 1955. Rex Tippett was chosen as sec retary of the club and Raymond Averette as treasurer. Elected to the Board of Directors were Mau rice Chapman, one year term; J. Raleigh Alford, two year term; and Billy K. Hopkins, a three year term. The District Governor spoke briefly to the group before the signing of the charter and opti mistically promised that the Wake lon charter would be a great aid in the betterment of the greater Zebulon corrynunity. A member of the Silk Hope Club, Campbell was accompanied to Zebulon by Morris Currin, former lieutenant governor of Ruritan, and Walter Ragan of Durham, a member of the Oak Grove Ruritan Club. The Wakelon chapter will be in the Rocky Mount-Durham District and has been placed in Zone Four in the District. The group voted to meet the second Thursday night of each month at Hilliard’s Restau rant and also voted to buy lapel pins for each member. Also dis cussed in the initial meeting was the erection of road signs at the entrance to the town. Members who signed the charter in addition to the officers elected were T. Ed Hales, Zebulon mayor; W. Arnold Smith, pastor of the (Continued on page 6) Traffic Cases Take Biggest Portion Of Court Time James Alston Barnes, following too closely, $10 fine and costs. Donald Harris Baker, speeding, $25 fine and costs. Leonard Perry, public drunken ness, $10 fine and costs. William Dock Langley, failed to stop ut stop sign, $10 fine and costs. Albert Strickland, public drunk enness, $10 fine and costs. Leroy Pretty, careless and reck less driving, $25 fine and costs. James B. Watkins, public drunk enness, $10 fine and costs. Robert Lee Brockwell, failed to stop for red light, $10 fine and costs. Kay Frances Wood, driving drunk, $100 fine and costs. Robert Harris Phillips, driving drunk, failing to stop for red light and siren, and carrying concealed weapon, 90 days on roads suspend ed on payment of $250 fine and costs. Julius Leonard Perry, speeding, $25 fine and costs. Rayo Flyn Bailey, driving under the influence, improper brakes and failing to yield right of way, six months suspended on payment of $250 fine and costs. James W. Parham, possession of non-tax paid whiskey, 8 months on road suspended on payment of $200 fine and costs. Gertha Harris, possession of non-tax paid whiskey, 6 months on roads suspended on payment $100 fine and cost. Appeal bond set at $150. Calvin O’Neal, possession of non-tax paid whiskey, $100 fine and costs. (Continued on page 6) Wakelon Finals Plans Graduation plans for Wakelon High School have been set, accord ing to Principal John J. Hicks. The Rev. William Vinson, pastor of Wendell Baptist Church, will deliver the baccalaureate address Sunday, May 29, at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. The Rev. William Quick, Zebu Ion Methodist minister, will give the benediction and invocation. Class night will be held Tues day, May 31, at 8 p.m. in the au ditorium. The commencements address [ will be given Thursday, June 2, by Dr. Albert G. Edwards, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Raleigh. Town Briefs Principal Is Reelected John J. Hicks, principal of Wakelon School for the past four years, was notified recently by the County Board that he has been reelected for the 1960-61 year. Hicks says he has no intention Mrs. Bobby Sherron Is Installed President of Junior Woman's Club Installation ceremonies of the jj new officers of the Junior Worn- j an’s Club took place Tuesday j night, May 17, at the club house. ] Mrs. Bobby Sherron is the club’s j new president. She took the reins from Mrs. Crafton Hudson. Jdrs. Sherron is thoroughly fa miliar with the workings of the club. She has been an active member for a number of years and has served as secretary to the club for three years. She expressed her delight at be coming the president of the Junior Women and said she will do her very best to make a good leader. One of her major projects, she admitted, is to try to build up the club’s membership. Mrs. Sherron is the former Lou ise Bowling. She is the youngest of three children of Mr. and Mrs. (Continued on page 6) Mrs. Bobby Sherron of leaving the school at the pres ent time. He has worked diligently for the school, trying to maintain high standards and go forward in ev ery respect. Methodist Luncheon Circle I of the Methodist Church 1 WSCS will sponsor a luncheon May 24 in the Fellowship Hall of the church. The menu will be com posed of fried chicken, fresh snap beans, new potatoes, spiced ap ples, rolls, home made pies and tea. Time of the luncheon will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tick ets may be secured from Mrs. S. G. Flowers or Mrs. M. J. Sexton. Memorial Day Services Memorial Day services will be held at Zebulon Baptist Church Sunday, May 29, Bill Perry, Le gion commander, has announced. Legion and Auxiliary members are expected to sit in a body at this service. Dr. Chas. E. Flowers Suffers Heart Attack Dr. Charles E. Flowers suffered a heart attack Tuesday night about 8:30. He is in Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Dan Massey Winner Of Randolph-Macon $4,000 Scholarship Dan Massey Attorney, Wife Honored at Meet Of Rotary District Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Davis were honored Saturday evening, May 14, at the Governor’s Banquet of Ro tary District 771 at The Carolinian Hotel in Nags Head when the North Carolina Rotarians present ed them with a sterling silver cof fee service in appreciation of their efforts during the past year when Col. Davis served as District Gov ernor of Rotary. The Governor’s Banquet was the final event of the annual Rotary conference, for which the Manteo Rotary Club served as host. Three hundred Rotarians and their wives from Burlington to the coast at tended the sessions, which began Friday afternoon. At Saturday morning’s session, Col. Davis was elected to membership on Rotary International’s Council on Legis lation and also became a member of the District 771 Executive Com mittee, which he has served as chairman during 1959-60. The district has noted a mem bership gain of five per cent under the leadership of the local attor ney, and has maintained two for eign students as fellows at Elon College and N. C. State College. (Continued on page 6) Graduates From Wakelon In June Dan Massey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Massey, has been named a winner of a Randolph Macon Scholarship, according to an announcement from Dr. J. Earle Moreland, president of the Virginia institution. Massey, a senior at Wakelon High School, is a member of the Beta Club and the National Hon or Society. He has played foot ball and basketball during all four years of his high school career. During the 1959 football season, he was named co-captain of the All-Conference Team and received Honorable Mention on the News and Observer All-Eastern squad. Due to an arm injury which hampered him in the basketball season, he saw only limited action . but scored 123 points in 10 games for a game average of 12.30. In the All-Tournament selections by the Wake County Coaches, he was named to the all-tourney team along with two other of his team mates, Ken Wilson and Ron Clark. Accepted at Duke, Carolina and Davidson Massey was accepted by Duke University, the University of North Carolina and Davidson College but the best scholarship offer came from Randolph-Macon and after a visit to the campus at Ashland, Virginia in March, he decided on the Methodist institution. Ran dolph-Macon offered Dan a schol arship valued at $1,000.00 annual ly and was renewable annually for a total of $4,000.00. The schol arship was awarded to him on the basis of his academic standing and sports prowess. A tuition schol arship was given on the basis of (Continued on page 7) Call Meeting Monday Night for Zebulon Recreat'n Commission Ray Goodwin, chairman of Zeb ulon Recreation Commission, has announced there will be a call meeting of the Board Monday night at 7:30 at the Municipal Building. This meeting will be held to straighten out preliminaries discussed and planned in the first meeting held two weeks ago. Goodwin said a summer recrea tion director will be named in the very near future. Zebulon Brownie Scouts 'Pinned' In Ceremony Held Monday Night One of the most impressive ceremonies seen here in many a day was given Tuesday night at Zebulon Woman’s Club when the Brownie Scouts were honored by the members of the Junior Club. The Brownies, who had the pro gram, began their meeting as they regularly conduct their meetings. Later, their leader, Mrs. James Alford, presented pins and ex plained the significance and mean ing of the pins and pinning cere mony. Five members of the Brownie Troop must “flap” on to the Inter mediate Troop, but there is no such troop organized in Zebulon. The girls who have risen above Brownie age are Judy Scarbor ough, Linda Pearce, Susan Davis, Julia McNabb and Donna Price. One year pins were presented to 12 Brownies. They are Jeanne Alford, Brenda Brantley, Martha Susan Gill, Paula Hudson, Mary Jane Olive, Sandra Smith, Mar tha Horton, Drucilla Pearce, Fran ces Barrett Massey, Vicky Gordon, Zahayia Kannon, and Frances Amelia Massey. Martha Susan Gill was present ed a gift because she was the Brownie who sold tne most Girl Scout cookies. Mrs. Alford, who has been the Brownie leader for two years, was presented a tea pot as a gift from the troop. (Continued on page 6)
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