THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXXV. Number 29.
Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, August 4, 1960
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Night Blooming Cereus
Fascinates Owner, Friends
The watch began at six o’clock
Sunday evening, July 24, and
ended past midnight.
Slowly, as the evening wore on,
Mrs. L. R. Temple and her neigh
bors watched the night blooming
cereus unfold its virginal beauty.
The all-white flowers, with a
perfume so heady it reminded one
of the South Sea Islands, measured
six inches in diameter when fully
opened.
Inside the bloom is a star-shaped
flower with a mass of stamens.
Legend has it that the star holds
forth over the cradle of Bethle
hem.
This plant'is the best known of
that highly prized group of culti
vated cacti frequently alluded to
as “the night blooming cereus.”
It is adaptable to all climates and
is found growing all over the
world. It sends forth aerial roots
and grows rapidly from cuttings.
Mrs. Temple’s plant is five years
old. She rooted it from a leaf giv
en to her by a friend of her daugh
ter’s in Greensboro. The first year
it did not bloom. Each of the suc
cessive years it has flowered. This
year there were four blooms.
Even with its raTe beauty and
aromatic perfume, Mrs. Temple
feels that keeping this plant all
year long with tender, loving care
is too much just for a few hours
sight of its blossoms.
Editor On Panel
Barrie Davis, editor of The Zeb
ulon Record, will participate as a
panel member tor the Public Rela
tions Conference to be held in
Raleigh November 10, sponsored
by the Raleigh Public Relations
Society. Sam Ragan, Executive
Editor of the News and Observer
and Raleigh Times, will serve as
' moderator.
Others on the panel include
Steed Rollins, executive editor of
the Durham Herald and Durham
Sun; Paul Hansell, manager of
the Associated Press, Charlotte;
and Lawrence Wofford, chief pho
tographer, News and Observer.
Wakelon Loses
More Teachers
Three more members of Wake
Ion School faculty have resigned,
according to Principal John J.
Hicks.
The latest resignation was Miss
Nona Lee Cone, who taught the
seventh grade. She plans to be
married and move to Richmond.
Miss Shirley Womack, eighth
grade teacher, resigned and will
teach near her home in Sanford.
Miss Rebekah Talbert, who
taught 14 years at Wakelon, has
submitted her resignation and will
teach special education in the Win
ston-Salem city school system next
year.
Principal Hicks said replace
ments have been found for the
commercial department, first-sec
ond combination, third, seventh
and sixth-seventh grade combina
tion.
Roderick Strickland
Gets Scholarship
Roderick P. Strickland has been
chosen winner of a Froger Schol
arship at North Carolina State
College, according to an announce
ment by H. B. James, director of
instruction.
Strickland, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul A. Strickland of Route 4, Zeb
ulon, is a graduate of Wakelon
High School. In college, he plans
to study agriculture.
The $250 one-year scholarship |
is among 105 given each year by
the retail food firm at land-grant
colleges in 21 states. The pro
gram is designed to encourage
young men and women to continue
studies in agriculture and home
economics. Selection of winners
is made by the college scholarship
committee.
Roderick, who was president of
his senior class, was also a mem
ber of the Beta Club and the
Monogram Club.
Teenagers Steal Grave
Dirt; Caught By Police
Corinth Holders
\
Gets New Prindpal
The former principal of Knight
dale School for the past 12 years
has been named principal of Cor
inth-Holders School for the 1960
61 term.
H. C. Bowers, a native of Stanly
County, has been named to suc
ceed Ottis C. Freeman, who re
cently resigned after serving 17
years as principal of Corinth
Holders, Johnston County Super
intendent Evander S. Simpson has
announced.
The Corinth-Holders School Dis
trict Committee had interviewed
several applicants for the position
before deciding on Bowers.
Mrs. Bowers, who is the former
Sallie Hough of Stanly County,
will be an elementary teacher in
Corinth-Holders School.
Bowers received an A.B. degree
from Wake Forest College in 1928
and an M.A. degree from the same
institution in 1940. He has at
tended summer sessions at the
University of North Carolina and
Columbia University.
Prior to becoming principal of
Knightdale, he served at Middle
sex for six years and at Rosewood
in Wayne County for five years.
Mrs. Bowers attended Meredith
College and received an A.B. de
gree from East Carolina College.
She has also studied at Wake For
est College.
They have two children: a son,
Henry, who is a graduate of Wake
Forest College and now a first
lieutenant in the Army stationed
in California, and a daughter,
Susie, who is a rising senior at
Meredith College.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowers will re
side in the Corinth-Holders teach
erage.
Reception
Mr. and Mrs. Ottis C. Freeman
will be honored Sunday afternoon
from 3 to 6 o’clock with a tea in
the Corinth-Holders cafeteria.
Friends of the couple who serv
ed 17 years at the school are in
vited by the local PTA, which is
sponsoring the event.
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman will teach
in the Mecklenburg County school
system next year.
MASONIC NOTICE
There will be an emergent com
munication of White Stone Lodge,
No. 155 A.F.&A.M., Saturday at
7:30 p.m. for work in the Second
Degree. All Master Masons are
invited.
Claude Farrington, Master
Albert Pulley, Secretary
Fout teenage Zebulon boys
were apprehended Saturday night
by local police for causing a dis
turbance in the city cemetery.
Police Chief Willie B. Hopkins
would not release the names of
the four to the press. He said the
ages of two were 16 and the other
two were 15.
The Chief said the local po
lice department received calls
from Negro residents in that area
that these youths were “cursing
and carrying on and driving about
the cemetery without lights.”
When Hopkins and Night Po
liceman M. G. Crowder arrived on
the scene, the boys “flew out
through a corn field near the cem
etery.”
“I hollored at them to stop and
one did,” the Chief said.
Later, Crowder was left with
the boys’ car and when they came
back to pick it up he nabbed the
other three.
Hopkins said the boys told him
they were “only pranking.” He
said they told him they “dared
each other to go to the cemetery
and steal some dirt off a grave.”
Hopkins said he did not see any
of the stolen dirt gotten by the
boys.
The four were taken to the lo
cal police station. They were not
booked on any charges.
“But I gave them a good talking
to,” the Chief said.
Hopkins said he feels the boys
got a good chastising when they
were sent home.
“In fact, I know of one boy’s
father who beat his son’s tail real
good. I think this boy has learned
his lesson.”
Mrs. Wallace Temple To Discharge
Duties As New Head Of Club
“There is much civic-minded
women can contribute to a
town’s leadership, and our club
begins a new year completely dedi
cated to discharging its responsi
bility to Zebulon.”
So said Mrs. Wallace Temple,
newly elected president of the
Senior Woman’s Club.
A tall, trim, striking woman of
51 (she was born June 27, 1909),
Mrs. Temple takes the reins of the
town’s oldest civic organization
from Mrs. I. D. Gill.
Mrs. Temple said the Senior and
Junior clubs (an outgrowth of
the Senior club) have plans for
enlarging the clubs to capacity
membership, thus enlisting the
talents and energies of most of
the women who find civic activities
challenging. ,
The new president was born
Rachel Pritchard Hoggard, daugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Hoggard of Lewiston in Bertie
County. She is the youngest of
nine children.
After graduating from Wood
ville High School in Lewiston, she
enrolled in Meredith College and
was granted a bachelor of arts in
science in 1931. She explained
that at that time a bachelor of
arts degree might be in science,
whereas today this is associated
with a bachelor of science degree.
Her first job was at Wakelon
School. She served on the facul
ty of this school for five years,
teaching science in the high school.
Teaching, however, ended when !
she married Wallace Gardner
Temple, a Zebulon native and
prominent business man. They
were married June 27, 1933, by the I
late Rev. R. H. Herring. The nup
tials were held in a friend of the I
bride’s home in Rocky Mount.
They are the parents of two
children, Martha, a graduate of
Mrs. Temple
Atlantic Christian College and a
teacher in the Raleigh city schools,
md Wallace Gardner, Jr., a stu
dent at Gordon Military College
in Barnesville, Ga.
Mrs. Temple, sincerely religious,
has and does play an active Tole
in her church, Zebulon Baptist.
She has served as superintendent
of the Primary Department for
more than 15 yeais.
“I have enjoyed every minute
of it,” she said. “Of course, I have
done practically everything else in
the church, too. Sunday school
teaching, library, WMU work, etc.”
She has found that a person who
really wants to give of his time
and talents can do so, regardless
of barriers.
Cooking, she reasoned, is her
foremost hobby. She enjoys all
aspects of kitchen cuisine. It
doesn’t matter if it is navy beans
or turnip salad or chicken caccia
tore or lobster newburg. Under
heT expert hand the dishes turn
into something of a delicacy.
“Yes, I like to make them my
own. I may follow the recipe for
the proportions, but I always like
to add something here, something
there, to suit my taste and my
families’.”
She enjoys housekeeping, and
considers it “my full time job.”
Her beautiful home at the corner
of Arendell Avenue and North
Street shows her handiwork. It is
always neatly and smartly kept,
with good taste in the selection of
its decor.
“Oh, no,” she exclaimed, when
asked does she like to sew. “I don’t
even sew on buttons.”
But she does like to garden. She
loves flowers of all kinds, but she
said she prefers roses, peonies.
She takes pride in arranging them,
but doesn’t consider herself an
arranger in any sanse of the word.
“My arrangements don’t meet the
critic’s eye.”
She was at one time a member
of a garden club. This was when
the local garden club was spon
sored by the Woman’s Club.
Normally poised, and always
gracious, Mrs. Temple slips easily
into the Tole of hostess. She likes
to entertain, but does not do it on
a grand scale.
Her friends say she is a “superb
hostess,” and they always like to
be included on her guest list at
her socials. Mrs. Temple says en
tertaining does not unnerve her.
She always plans things ahead of
time and has things well worked
out. “This saves a hostess time
and frayed nerves.”
She likes to read, with her cov
erage running to the women’s
magazines, novels and current
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