Zebulon Masonic Lodge Installs
W. M. Sutton as Master
Welborne Morris Sutton was in
stalled Master of Zebulon Masonic
Lodge No. 609 on Tuesday, Janu
ary 10. Sutton follows Ruric Gill,
Jr., in the highest local Masonic
post.
Sutton, who will be 48-years-old
January 26, is the son of Mrs.
Crama Sutton of Rocky Mount and
the late J. W. Sutton. He is one
of five children of the couple. He
has three brothers and one sister.
The new Masonic head was born
in Atlanta, Ga. His father at that
time was associated with a railroad
firm there. When he was still
eating Pablum his parents moved
back to Rocky Mount, where his
father was yard master with the
Atlantic Coast Line Railrod.
After graduating from Rocky
Mount High School, where, he
jestingly said, he was one of the
school’s best “D” students, he en
rolled in the city’s business school
and completed a commercial
course.
Sutton worked with the A&P
chain firm 11 years, beginning
when he was just a yodng lad. He
later branched out and owned a
store of his own. He sold his
business when he was called to
Army service.
He was with the 81st Infantry,
“Wildcat Division,” during his
Army career. His entire military
service was spent in the Pacific
theater. He was honorably dis
charged in February, 1946, with
the rating of staff sergeant.
He received only a slight wound
during the conflict. A piece of
shrapnel lodged in his leg, but he
simply reached down and pulled
Realty Office Is
Opened in Zebukm
M. L. Hagwood opened a real
ty company in Zebulon January
9. It is located1 in Hales Farm
Supply Company furniture-appli
ance store.
Hagwood, 45-year-old resident
of Zebulon, Route 2, is Zebulon’s
first broker in real estate. He will
be available tor consultation, sales
and rental property.
Hagwood says there is nothing
too small or nothing too large for
him to talk over with a client. He
says he is here to serve the com
munity.
He says the major project at
present of his realty company is
developing Wakelon Heights, a
new sub-division of the town. This
is being done in conjunction with
Victor Bell of Raleigh.
Hagwood invites his friends and
other interested persons in to talk
with him if they have farm, busi
ness or home property to be rented
or sold. There is no charge for
consultation.
Mrs. Hagwood, the former Sal
lie Fowler, is her husband’s sec
retary.
Hagwood is active in civic and
community affairs. He is past
president of the local Lions Club,
a Mason, Shriner and teacher of
the adult Sunday School class of
Pilot Baptist Church, of which he
is a member.
He is the father of two chil
dren, Phyllis, 13, and Martin, Jr.,
10.
W. M. Sutton
it out, and he required no hos
pitalization.
After his discharge he became
associated with Colonial Frozen
Foods in Fayetteville. In 1950 Co
lonial Frozen Foods opened a
plant in Zebulon. Sutton is one
of the co-owners and manager of
the local meat processing plant. He
is vice president of the corpora
tion.
He is married to the former
Elizabeth Lowe, a Vonore, Tenn.,
native. She is a registered nurse,
having graduated from Garfield
Hospital in Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Sutton met in
Rocky Mount when she stopped
in that city to visit her sister, Mrs.
C. M. Foushee. Mrs. Foushee did
her grocery shopping in Sutton’s
store, and her sister came along
on the shopping expedition> It
was here that^ she met her hus
band.
Mrs. Sutton said she was on her
way to New York for a vacation.
But she never got to New York,
and she hasn’t been to the world’s
largest city yet. She is going
though. Sutton has promised to
soon one day take his family on. a
New York excursion.
They were married July 25,
1942, in Ozark, Alabama.
They are the parents of one
child, a daughter, Jean, 13-years
old.
The family are members of the
Zebulon Methodist Church where
they are active. Sutton belongs
to the Methodist Men’s organiza
tion and is superintendent of the
Methodist Church School.
He has also belonged to the
local Lions Club, Civitans and Ex
change Club. He is past Worthy
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Fourteen Receive
Postmaster Exam
Fourteen persons took the ex
amination for the position of post
master of the Zebulon Post Office.
The examination was given in Ra
leigh.
Taking the test were Mrs. Ferd
Davis, Willie Bullock, Randolph
Hendricks, Proctor Scarboro, Fred
Corbett, Hal Perry, James Wall,
Johnsey Arnold, Bobby Ray Lee,
Condon Debnam, Claude Farring
ton, Maurice Massey, John Ray,
and Scotte Brown.
NOMINATIONS INVITED
Man, Woman of Year
The Zebulon Record is again looking for the Man and Woman
of the Year. Last year the votes cast by the public selected the
Rev. William K. Quick, Methodist minister, as the Man of the
Year, and Mrs. G. R. Massey, Sr., as the Woman of the Year.
You will find below a blank on which to name your choice. Mail
this blank with your choices of the Man and Woman to Mr. R. D.
Massey, Chamber of Commerce, Zebulon, N. C.
You may vote more than once, but each entry must be on an
official Zebulon Record ballot.
Man, Woman Year Ballot
Man of the Year ...
Woman of the Year
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RECORD
VOLUME 35. NUMBER 51. ZEBULON. N. C.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 10. 1961
Dr. J. Lee Sedwitz, who this week accepted the position of chief surgeon of the Zebulon-Wendell
Hospital, is "pictured with his wife and two children. Dr. Sedwitz is now Chief of Surgery at the Nav
al Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan, the Navy’s largest overseas hospital. “We hope to be able to take
an active part in the church and civic functions of the community,” Dr. Sedwitz has written.
Ohio Native Accepts Position
As Surgeon for Local Hospital
Dr. J. Lee Sedwitz has notified
Wendell-Zebulon Hospital officials
of his acceptance as chief surgeon
of the local hospital. The notifi
cation of his acceptance came the
latter part of last week.
Frank Ceruzzi, administrator of
the local branch hospital units,
said the communities of Wendell
and Zebulon are very fortunate to
secure such a fine young man
with such high qualifications.
Dr. Sedwitz was born November
15, 1923. He is the son of a gen
eral surgeon who practiced in
Ohio. After attending the Uni
versity of Virginia from 1941 to
1943, he served in World War II.
Released from active military
duty, he returned to the University
of Virginia and was graduated
in 1951.
His internship, fellowship in
cancer surgery and research, and
early surgical training were tak
en at George Washington Univer
sity Hospital, Washington, D. C.
He finished his training at the
U. S. Naval Hospital in San Diego,
California, with additional train
ing in thoracic surgical service.
He has completed Parts I and II
of the American Board of Surgery.
His naval service took him to
Japan where he was Chief of Sur
gery at the U. S. Naval Hospital
at Yokosuka. This is the Navy’s
largest overseas hospital.
Mrs. Sedwitz is the former Bar
bara Britton of Charlottesville,
Wallace Baker Ordained
To Ministry Last Sunday
The Rev. Wallace Baker, a
Hopkins Chapel community na
tive, was ordained to the Chris
tian ministry Sunday afternoon,
January 8, in his home church,
Hopkins Chapel Baptist Church.
For the past several months
the Rev. Mr. Baker has been serv
ing as pastor of the Staley Bap
tist Church, Staley. The Staley
Baptist Church requested that
Hopkins Chapel Church confer
ordination on the Rev. Mr. Baker
shortly after he assumed his pas
toral duties there.
During the past two years he
has been attending Southeastern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Wake Forest. He will complete
his work there this spring.
Just prior to the ordination
service, he was examined by a
council composed of ordained min
isters and deacons from Hopkins
and Baptist churches in the Zebu
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The Rev. Baker
Va. She attended Cornell Univer
sity and received a Master’s de
gree from Vassar College. Her
father, Dr. Sydney Britton, was
professor of physiology at the
University of Virginia School of
Medicine and now resides with
Mrs. Britton at “Duck Woods” at
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Mrs. Sedwitz’ sister is married to
the Rev. Huntington Williams of
Winston-Salem.
In a letter to Dr. D. B. Thomas,
Zebulon physician who was in
strumental in securing the young
surgeon, Dr. Sedwitz wrote:
“Barbara and I are interested
in settling in North Carolina as we
feel that its present and future
are promising. We hope to be
able to take an active part in
the church and civic functions of
the community.”
The rest of the Sedwitz family
includes two youngsters, a son and
a daughter.
The doctor held a lieutenant
commander’s rating in the Navy.
Dr. Sedwitz and his family are
expected to arrive here sometime
next month or early in April.
Ceruzzi said that he will move
to Zebulon February 1 and start
activating the hospital. He said
he will work on various depart
ments of the unit, start employing
key personnel, get equipment set
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Resigns
Proctor Scar boro revealed
this week that he has submit
ted his resignation to postal
authorities. His resignation
becomes effective February 4.
He has been acting postmas
ter of the Zebulon post office
since September 1, succeeding
M. J. Sexton, who retired.
Scarboro did not give any
reason for his resignation. He
said he plans to sell fertilizer.