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THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXXV. Number 35. Zebulon, N. C., Thursday, September 22,1960 Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Powell Bill Funds
Town To Get $6,520.70
The Town of £ebulon has been
allocated $6,520.70 in Powell Bill
funds for 1961.
Last year’s allocation was $6,
429.21, according to Mayor Ed
Hales.
Funds are distributed annually
to qualified cities and towns for
use in non-highway street work
within their corporate limits.
Checks will be mailed to the mu
nicipalities on September 30.
The neighboring town of Wen
dell will receive, $6,393.53.
Powell Bill fund represents one
half cent of the regular State gas
oline tax and this year’s total al
location represents a 3.6 per cent
increase over last year. Over the
ten-year period in which the
Powell Bill law has been in ef
fect, a total of $58,797,140.55 has
been distributed. The number of
participating municipalities has
grown from 386 in 1051 to 409 this
year.
The 'allocation is proportioned
among the eligible and qualifying
municipalities on the basis of rel
ative population and relative non
State system local street mileage,
as specified in the statutes.
Highway officials pointed out
that they were required by law
to use the 1950 census figures for
the population factor since the
statute calls for using the “most re
cent certified Federal Decennial
Census.” The 1960 census will
not meet statutory requirements of
the Powell Bill law until it is cer
tified officially. This is expected
to be done this winter.
Rates for computing the alloca
tions this year are $446.68 per mile
of non-State system streets plus
$2.30 per capita using 1950 census
figures.
M. M. Prince Dies;
Funeral Today P.M.
Melton Mac Prince, 65, died
Tuesday morning at 9:10 at Vet
eran’s Hospital in Durham. Death
was attributed to cancer. He had
been ill for sometime.
He was born near Chadbourn in
Columbus County and had been a
resident of Zebulon for the past
42 years.
During World War I he saw
overseas duty with the American
Army.
He had been employed with
Bunn Electric Co. here for the past
six years.
Funeral rites will be held today
(Thursday) at 3 p.m. from Zebu
Ion Baptist Church with the Rev.
W. K. Quick officiating. Burial
will be in Zebulon cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Oma Long; one daughter, Mrs.
Malcolm Martin of Zebulon; six
grandchildren; one great-grand
child; and four sisters, Mrs. Jasper
Tyler and Mrs. Carrie Todd, both
of Loris, S. C.; Mrs. Martha
Woodell and Mrs. Bell Woodell,
both of Whiteville.
Fair Playing To
Capacity Crowds
Hoochie-coochie dancers are
there with their bumps and grinds.
Barkers urge you to come in to
show your good arm at knocking
milk bottles over.
Little celluloid ducks float lei
surely on water for you to fish out,
with the slogan “Win A Prize
Every Time.”
The ferris wheel with its myriad
lights floats gaily over and over,
like a gazelle over mountain
brush.
The ompah-ompah of the mer
ry-go-round, with its unseeing
horses chasing something but nev
er catching it.
This is fair time.
And Zebulon’s Five County Fair
is playing to capacity crowds each
night. The weather this week has
been ideally suited for carnival
personnel and fair-goers. Tonight,
tomorrow night, and Saturday
night the crowds are expected to
break all records.
The fair is sponsored again this
year by the Zebulon Lions Club.
The Rev. and Mrs. W. Arnold Smith are shown with the silver
tea-coffee service given to them by members of Zebulon Baptist
Church as a going away gift. The service, valued at approximately
$500, was presented to the couple Sunday, September 11. The Rev.
Mr. Smith resigned his pastorate here and is taking a similar post
with the First Baptist Church in RadfoTd, Va. Mrs. Smith and the
two Smith daughters moved to Radford Wednesday. ,■
God And Country Awards Given
Two Scouts Of Zebulon Troop
Avon Privette, Jr.
Rodney McNabb. Jr.
New Traffic Ordinance Hauls
Violators Into Courthouse
Since the mayor and town board
of commissioners have passed an
ordinance limiting parking on
Arendell Avenue from Vance
Street to Sycamore Street a num
ber of persons have been given
tickets for violation of traffic of
fenses.
From Vance to Sycamore Streets
on Arendell Avenue there are
signs which state that no vehicle
may be parked more than two
hours.
The mayor and commissioners
have said this new ruling is for
the benefit of the people coming
into Zebulon to shop or transact
business. Heretofore, proprietors
of business establishments and em
ployees left their cars parked on
the streets, causing no parking
space available for persons from
out of town.
i Not all the violations are for
I overtime parking. Some are for
| other types of illegal parking.
| Policeman L. A. Baker is in
I charge of checking the vehicles
and writing up tickets.
The following persons have been
cited to town office for receiving
illegal traffic tickets:
B. E. Mitchell, parking on left
side of street;
Jesse Be*aver, double parking;
Johnny Richardson, overtime
parking (second offense);
Mrs. Nell Watkins, overtime
parking;
Mrs. Russell Williams, parking
other than parallel;
Kenneth Pearce, double park
ing;
P. Craven Brown, overtime
parking;
Aaron Strickland, overtime
parking;
Joe Robinson, overtime parking;
Forest (Peck) Gordon, parking
on left side of street;
Billy Brantley, overtime park
ing;
Jerry Jordon, overtime parking;
C. V. Tart, overtime parking;
James C. Debnam, overtime
parking;
R. L. Moss, parking between
signs and comer;
John Hilliard, parking on left
side of street;
Ferd Davis, overtime parking;
Frederick Pearce, parking on
left side of street;
H. G. Eddins, overtime parking;
Nancy Allen, overtime parking;
Early B. O’Neal, overtime park
ing;
Garland L. Richardson, overtime
parking;
Claude Whitley, overtime park
ing;
Millard O. Parker, parking on
left side of street;
Mrs. Pettigrew Pearce, overtime
parking;
Whitley Chamblee, parking on
left side of street;
Ellis Medlin, parking on left
side of street;
William Bunn, overtime park
ing;
Mrs. Crama Kemp, overtime
parking;
Mrs. Lennie Creech, overtime
parking;
Mrs. Norma Bailey, parking on
left side of street;
Mrs. Perry Moody, parking on
left side of street;
Mrs. Bettie H. Perry, parking
on left side of street;
H. B. Rowland, parking on left
side of street.
Two Zebulon Boy Scouts have
been the third and fourth Scouts
in the Saponi District to receive
the God and Country Awards.
Avon Privette, Jr., and Rodney
McNabb, Jr., were presented the
awards in a ceremony at Zebulon
Baptist Church last Sunday eve
ning. The youths’ pastor, the Rev.
W. Arnold Smith, made the pre
sentations.
One of Scouting’s top-most hon
ors, these awards were the results
of a year’s intensive study and
program participation in church
activities. They studied the de
nominational doctrines, special
scripture passages, history of the
local church, books of the Bible,
and the world mission program of
the Southern Baptist Convention.
They were required to study and
make maps of various Baptist mis
sions. Privette made maps of the
islands of the Pacific. McNabb
made maps of South American
missions.
They also had to make maps of
Baptist Colleges and orphanages of
North Carolina, and do a 1,000
word essay on the church board
of deacons. They were also re
quired to do six service projects
and to serve as an officer in one
of the units of the church.
Evidence of faithful church at
tendance and personal devotions
were also a required part of the
award program.
Hubert Ellison, executive of the
Saponi District, addressed the re
cipients and congregation on the
place scouting plays with God and
country. The boys’ troop leader,
Ed Ellington, presented them with
the charge.
Both Privette and McNabb are
13-years-old. They are in the
eighth grade at Wakelon School,
where they participate in the band,
4-H club and sports. Both are
First Class Scouts.
The inspiring service, carried
out in a gold theme because of the
Scouts 50th birthday, was high
lighted when the boys presented
an awarding pin to their mothers
for the parental encouragement
from mother and dad.
Ralph H. Bunn, Jr., was the first
Zebulon Scout to receive this
honor. Vincent Rountree was the
second.
Speech Sidelights
Kennedy Wows Audience
Scotte Brown, news editor of
The Record, was among members
of the press corps at Senator John
Kennedy’s speech at Reynolds Col
iseum. The following sidelights
were made by the news editor dur
ing the speech.
Speech Scenes
Seen at the Coliseum Saturday
night when Senator John Kennedy,
Democratic presidential candi
date, spoke.
Senator Kennedy, suave, slimly
handsome, dressed in a slate blue
summer suit with white shirt (not
French cuffed) and blue tie with
a tiny white print.
Coming into the Coliseum and
up the steps to the speaker’s ros
trum, he was followed by North
Carolina Gubernatorial - Nominee
Terry Sanford and other members
of his retinue.
Press and television cameramen
scurrying around the front of the
podium.
Newspapermen sitting laconical
ly, waiting, smoking, doodling on
telegram forms furnished by West
ern Union.
Younger members of the press,
high school journalism students,
making rapid notes of the shin
dig.
Multi-colored balloons floating
through the air. And placards
with various and sundry catchy
slogans.
Kennedy Girls mingling with
the crowd, dressed in dark skirts
and white blouses and wearing
imitation straw hats with the pic
ture of a smiling Kennedy on the
crown.
After the affair was over, saw
I two Kennedy Girls who were
[ walking around the Coliseum with
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