* Scenes Of The New
Methodist Parsonage
This parsonage replaces one used for some 50 years to house
the minister’s family serving the Methodist constituency in Zebu
Ion. The old parsonage was located on Church Street directly adja
cent to the Church. The new residence is on Glenn Street in the
Wakelon Heights section. The Rev. Bill Quick, pastor, calls the
present parsonage, “an ideal plan for the minister’s home.” The
Quicks moved into the new parsonage November 3. An open house
is planned for a later date.
The combination family room, dining room that leads into the
kitchen is where the parsonage family spends most of the daylight
and early evening hours. The walls are in birch and the rooms are
furnished in early American.
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A portion of the living room in the new Zebulon Methodist
parsonage is shown (see story in Dec. 22 issue of The Record).
Furnished in French Provincial, the room is located on the back side
of the residence.
Unde Ferd's Almanac
Happy new year—and happy
January 1! The terms are now
one and the same, but they have
not always been; this is only the
2005th time that January first has
been the first day of the new year.
January is named for Janus,
the two-faced Roman God. Janus
was not two-faced in the 1961 de
ceitful sense, but in the sense that
he appeared over the doorways of
homes, to look over (and protect)
members of a household on their
trips outside the home and within
the home as well. If you had a
good reproduction of Janus over
your threshold, you never had to
worry about stepping on a bar of
soap in the shower or burning the
breakfast bacon. Nor did yoi
lose at poker outside the home (as
long as you remained moral and
didn’t play poker).
March, .lamed for Mars, was
originally the first month of the
Roman year. The vernal equinox
came in March, and the Romans
figured that the spring planting
and the beginning of the year
should coincide. Our crop years in
many Tar Heel counties run that
way even today.
November and December were
the ninth and tenth months in the
year 2006 years ago, and January
and February were the eleventh
and twelfth. The calendar was
otherwise loused up; the year did
not have 365 (more or less) days,
and in order to make it come out
reasonably even, magistrates were
empowered to change the length of
each year.
This worked out fine for a
while, until the magistrates realiz
ed that they were being paid by
the year, and they suddenly started
shortening the year, thereby pro
viding an automatic salary in
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RECORD
VOLUME 35. NUMBER 49. ZEBULON. N. C.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 5. 1961
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News Briefs
ALA Meet
Members of the American Le
gion Auxiliary will meet Friday
night, January 6, at 8 o’clock in
the home of Mrs. Gilford Bufkin.
Bible Class
The Lovie Perry Bible Class
will meet January 10 at 7:30 p.m.
with Mrs. Myrtle Mitchell and
Dorothy Rhodes. The meeting
will be held in the Fellowship
Room of Hopkins Chapel Church.
Practice Teachers
Two Zebulon girls who are stu
dents at East Carolina College
are participating in the college’s
teaching program for the winter
quarter. Diane Elizabeth
Broughton is doing her practice
teaching in English at Belvoir
High School, and Jean H. Joyner
is at Washington High School
teaching home economics.
Sermon Topics
The Rev. G. W. McDowell, pas
tor of Pilot Baptist Church, has
released his sermon topics for the
month of January. January 1:
Morning, In Remembrance; eve
ning, The Treasure and the Pearl.
January 8: morning, A Well-Es
tablished Hope for the New Year;
evening, film, Joseph, Ruler of
Egypt. January 15: morning,
God Never Lies; evening, The
Sheep, the Coin, and the Two
Sons. January 22: morning, Scrip
tural Certainties; evening, My
Heart’s Desire.
The Rev. Mr. McDowell is bring
ing a series of messages each Sun
day evening on the Parables.
The Rev. Mr. McDowell has been
pastor of Pilot Baptist Church for
six year. The observance of this
anniversary will be held Sunday
evening, January 22.
Garden Club
Miss Gladys Baker, prominent
teacher, bird watcher and conser
vationist, will address the Car
men Flowers Garden Club Mon
day night. Her topic will be birds
and conservation.
Each member is expected to
bring an arrangement designed
to be used on a businessman’s ban
quet table or a miniature arrange
ment expressing gaity. Horticul
ture may be a house plant in wa
ter or soil; vine growing in water
or a broadleaf evergreen.
The meeting gets underway at
8 o’clock at the home of Mrs.
Ferd Davis. Mrs. Theo. B. Davis
will be co-hostess.
Circle Meetings
WMS Circles of Zebulon Bap
tist Church will meet next Tues
day, January 10. The Dora Pitts
Circle will meet with Mrs. M. T.
Debnam at 3:30 p.m. All other
circles meet at eight o’clock. Mary
B. Outlaw, with Mrs. Philip Mas
sey: Vivian Nowell, with Mrs.
CUff Horton; Mary Lee Ernest,
with Mrs. Willie B. Hopkins; Mary
Kemp, with Mrs. DaLmon Whitley;
and the Business Woman’s Circle
members are to call Mrs. Arm
strong Cannady.
Emergent
Communication
There will be an emergent com
munication of Zebulon Lodge, No.
009, Tuesday, January 10, at 7:30
o’clock for installation of officers
for the ensuing year. All mem
bers and other Master Masons are
urged to be present.
New officers for the year are
W. M. Sutton, Master; C. T.
Pearce, Senior; W. Floyd Edwards,
Junior; R. H. Bridgers, treasurer;
and R. Vance Brown, secretary.
$15,000 Action Is Filed
Against Drug Company Here
Radio Personality
Speaks To Club
“The general public must
change their attitude toward com
mercials,” Mrs. Ruth Chamblee
told members of the Senior Wom
an’s Club Tuesday night, “because
merchants who pay for the com
mercials to advertise their mer
chandise support the station and
enable it to broadcast public serv
ice announcements.”
Mrs. Chamblee, woman’s direc
tor of Wendell-Zebulon Radio
Station WETC, spoke to the club
on the woman in public service.
“So what is wrong,” she con
tinued, “with commercials? You
can’t call them public services,
but certainly it is a service to the
listening public to tell about the
values in our local stores.”
The speaker listed some of the
public services rendered by the
station.
She also told of three women in
public service who have helped
her. They are Louise Morgan,
New England’s first lady of tele
vision, Harriet Pressley of Radio
Station WPTF, Raleigh, and Bette
Elliott, woman’s editor of the Ra
leigh Times..
Mrs. Chamblee ended her talk
with: “Any time a woman can
make her living with her tongue,
she’s got it made.”
She has been with WETC since
September 1.
Hostesses for the January meet
ing of the club were Mrs. B. H.
Johnson, Mrs. E. C. Daniel and
Mrs. C. V. Whitley.
Refreshments were Russian tea,
toll hoiise cookies, and pimento
cheese sandwiches.
A $15,000 damage suit was filed
in Wake Superior Court Tuesday
against a Zebulon druggist and his
company as a result of the death
of a 73-year-old Zebulon man in
1959.
Mildred C. Stallings, widow and
administratrix of the estate of
John C. Stallings, filed the suit
against E. C. Daniel and the Zeb
ulon Drug Co.
In the complaint, Mrs. Stallings
contends John C. Stallings fell on
a stairway in a building owned by
the drug company. She contends
the fall caused injuries which led
to Stallings’ death.
Mrs. Stallings contends the
stairway was in an unsafe condi
tion and that Stallings’ fall was
due to negligence on the part of
the defendants.
In her complaint, Mrs. Stallings
described the stairway as slippery,
dark and without a handrail.
Soil Tests Urged By
FFA Members
Farmers should take advantage
of every facility to improve eco
nomical crop production, says C.
V. Tart, teacher of agriculture.
Taking a soil sample is just one
more way for the farmer to know
more about his soil and how to
treat it for more economical yields.
The Wakelon Future Farmers of
America are sponsoring a program
to aid farmers to do this important
task this year. Anyone desiring
to take soil samples should con
tact any F. F. A. member for con
tainers and other materials neces
sary for taking and preparing
(samples for the State Laboratory.
These samples will be collected by
the Wakelon Agriculture Depart
ment for transportation free of
charge to the Soil Testing Lab.
Applications
Accepted
•The Board of U. S. Civil Service
Examiners applications will be ac
cepted for positions of substitute
clerk-carrier at Zebulon, Apex and
Wake Forest post offices until fur
ther notice. The pay is $2.16 per
hour.
Study Course
A Sunday School study course
is being held at Pilot Baptist
Church this week. The study be
gins each evening at 7:30. “Studies
in First Corinthians’’ is being
taught by the pastor, the Rev. G.
W. McDowell.
Tax Listing Dates
Little River Township tax lister, Mrs. Eldred Rountree, has an
nounced dates and places for listing 1961 taxes.
Zebulon Town Office: January 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21,
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, and 31.
W. I. Hopkins Store: January 4, 16.
Durwood Jones Store: January 6, 23.
Mack Perry Store: January 9.
Cary Robertson Store: January 11, 20.
Barham Siding: January 13.
Austin Perry Store: January 18.
Hours for listing are from 9 a.m. to 5 pjn., Mrs. Rountree said.
Tobacco Specialist Scheduled
To Speak To Farm Bureau
By C. V. Tart
The January meeting of the Zeb
ulon Farm Bureau will be held
in the Wakelon Agriculture De
partment on January 10, 1961, at
7:30 p.m.
Mr. R. H. Crouse, Tobacco
Specialist from N. C. State College
will be the speaker of the evening.
Each farmer and Farm Bureau
member interested in increasing
tobacco on farms in Wake Coun
ty is urged to attend this im
portant meeting.
Now is the time to support the
Farm Bureau organization so it
can take its place in farming poli
cies in Agriculture for the years
ahead. Progress is made by large
organizations and big business.
Farmers should band together in
order to progress and become big
business in our national economy.