n. ZEBULON
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VOLUME 36. NUMBER 4. ZEBULON. N. C.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1061
> Wakelon Upsets Middlesex 60-59
Mr. Chapman I Mrs. Massey
Maurice H. Chapman, Wakelon coach, and Mrs. Howard Massey,
prominent Zebulon civic leader, have been named the Man and
Woman of the Year, according to Robert D. Massey, Chamber of
Commerce head who tabulated the votes.
Heart Fund Is Scheduled
For Sunday By Morgan
Heart Fund volunteers will turn
out to canvass Zebulon February
26, Heart Sunday.
Their visits will bring health
saving information about heart di
UT seases and the opportunity for
* citizens of the Zebulon and the
surrounding communities to bat
tle against the nation’s Number
One Killer.
The Heart Sunday project is
sponsored in this area by the Four
County Heart Association. It will
be directed by the following coun
ty chairmen: Wade Massengill of
Johnston, Mrs. John Shears of
Harndtt County, Mrs. John Rich
ardson of Wake, and the Rev.
Frank Pully of Franklin County.
George Morgan, prominent
druggist of Zebulon, is community
chairman for the town and com
munity.
Volunteers will distribute a
pamphlet telling how to protect
Post Office Has
Added Service
A postage stamp machine has
been installed in the Zebulon Post
Office for the convenience of the
patrons. The machine will enable
patrons to purchase stamps when
the post office is closed and also
during office hours.
Complete instructions are print
ed on the front of the machine. A
nickel deposited will give you a
four cent stamp and one cent
change; a dime, three three cent
stamps and one cent change; and
a quarter, six four cent stamps
and one cent change.
"For air mail one four cent and
one three cent stamp can be used.
The letter Tate is four cents for
each ounce or fraction and air mail
seven cents per ounce or fraction.
children against rheumatic fever,
forerunner of rheumatic heart di
sease, and dealing with the latest
knowledge about high blood pres
sure, heart attacks and strokes.
Many of the homes to be visited
will have experienced the dread
effects of heart disease. Heart
ailments claimed some 600 lives in
Wake last year, close to 200 in
Harnett, more than 150 in Frank
lin and approximately 275 in
Johnston County.
The regional Heart Sunday can
vass will be one of 10,000 being
conducted by some 1,500,000 vol
unteers throughout the country.
Volunteers will present an official
Heart fund contribution envelope
to each donor. For families away
from home on Heart Sunday, vol
unteers will leave pre-addressed
envelopes in which contributions
can be mailed to the Heart Asso
ciation headquarters.
Get Licenses
Town officials remind you to get
your city license plates.
The price of the plates is now
$1.00. But after February 28 they
will cost $3.00.
The officials don’t want you to
get pinched by the law. And they
say you will if they aren’t displayed.
The law will be forcefully enforced.
The plates are sold at the Mu
nicipal Building.
Agency Moves
Aaron Lowery has announced
the removal of his insurance of
fices from Arendell Avenue to 106
East Vance Street. Lowery was
located on Arendell Avenue for
the past six years. The new of
fices are completely modem and
finished in mahogany paneling and
matching wall paper.
Veterans To Hear Pension
Speech By Raleigh Speaker
A county-wide meeting of all,
veterans of World War I and their
wives will be held in the Legion
Hut between Wendell and Zebulon
Sunday afternoon, February 26, at
2:30 p.m. to discuss President
Kennedy’s “veterans pension pro
gram.”
“We have the best chance of
winning our pension this year that
we have ever had,” says Raymond
J. Jeffreys who will be the princi
pal speaker at the meeting. “Ken
nedy is on our side, Congressman
Teague has agreed not to fight us
this year, the major veterans or
ganizations have swung over our
way, and Congress is sympathetic
to our cause,” continued Jeffreys.
Jeffreys is author of two books
for the veterans of World War I,
called “Must They Sell Apples
Again,” and “The Forgotten Man.”
He is also the author of six other
books, two of which were chosen
is books-of-the-month. He has
also had a colorful background of
experiences as an editor, publish
er, foreign correspondent and lec
turer.
This meeting is open to the pub
lic and everyone will be free to
ask questions on any phase of the
program. The meeting will be in
charge of Raymond E. Pippin and
A. S. Hinton of Zebulon and Wil
lard White and W. C. Land of
Wendell.
Wakelon Bulldogs Pull Upset
To Take Middlesex, 60-59
By Bill Quick
The underdog Wakelon Bulldogs
completely outclassed previously
undefeated Middlesex (12-0 in
Conference play) on Tuesday
night at the Spring Hope gym 60
59. It was 5’10” Waddell Gay
who hit from under the bucket
with seven seconds showing on
the clock to pull the Bulldogs a
head for the second time in the
closing minutes and clinch the vic
tory. The bucket was the only
one for Gay in the entire game but
it turned what seconds before was
a seeming defeat into a glorious
victory.
With 22 seconds on the clock
Larry Whitley fouled Tommy
Wood and the aggressive little
guard stepped to the line for two
shots with the entire pressure of
the gym on his back. The score
was 58-57 and folks thought this
would put the game on ice for
Wakelon. Wood, who had been
quite proficient on the line dur
ing the game, missed his first,
then the second. Then in a strange
twist of fate, Johnny Smith stole
the rebound, sank the basket, on
ly to see it nullified because a
Middlesex player’s toe was on the
line of Wood’s second free-throw
I shot. So little Tommy got a third
try, failed to connect, Stone got
the rebound, raced down the court
and put it in for two and a one
point Middlesex lead, 59-58. Clark
tried to get the ball in from the
back of the court, it was stolen
by Stone and Johnny Smith was
charged with a foul. The first at
tempt was no good, as was the sec
ond charity throw. Gay ended
National FFA Week Celebrated
The Future Farmers of Amer
ica of Wakelon High School Ag
riculture Department joins 380,000
more F. F. A. members in cele
brating National F. F. A. Week
during the week of February 18-25.
The week containing George
Washington’s birthday is set aside
each year as National F. F. A.!
Week to pay tribute to a great po- j
litical, military and farm leader.
George Washington was a farm
er several generations ahead of
his time. He experimented with '
new crops, new tools, new meth- j
ods of cultivation and conservation
and new methods of marketing j
that came into use years after his
death.
The main aim of the Future
Farmers of America is the devel- j
opment of agricultural leadership, j
cooperation and citizenship. Oth- j
er purposes are to improve schol
arship, practice thrift, participate
in worthy undertakings in agricul
ture and to encourage the develop
ment of organized rural recrea
tional activities.
There are fifty-one members of
the Wakelon F. F. A. Some of
the activities that they will have
a chance to participate in this
year to help develop cooperative
effort are a father and son ban
quet, a shrubbery project for
home beautification, making
equipment for the school such as
bicycle racks, cornices and book
cases, taking soil samples for
farmers, participating in a trac
tor rodeo, and making things to
sell to raise money.
Each member has a chance to
participate in several contests
which help to develop leadership,
ability to evaluate and the ability
to make decisions. Some of the
contests for this year are public
speaking, parliamentary proce
dure, livestock judging, land judg
ing, rural electrification, tool
identification and many others.
The chapter gives a prize to the
winner in these contests and the
winner has a chance to go on to
district, state and national con
tests to win more money and hon
ors.
Five boys obtained 5500 pine
seedlings to plant on land that is
idle. Eight members have order
ed materials to seed for wildlife
food patches and habitat improve
ment. At present members of the
chapter are participating in a poul
try and pig chain.
The short motto of the F. F. A.
is “Learning To Do By Doing.”
The members have many oppor
tunities to do this through the va
ried activities of the organization.
up with the ball under the Wake
Ion basket and connected for his
sole field goal and the margin of
victory 60-59. t
Middlesex Leads After
First Minute
Middlesex took an early lead
and by the end of the first quarter
was ahead by three, 16-13. Clark
and Wood were responsible for
ten quick points between them
with Wilson hitting for one field
goal and converting a free throw.
The lead by the Royals stretched
to as high as 15 in the second
quarter and as the teams retired
at halftime, the Middlesex boys
were ahead 34-22, having doubled
the number of Wakelon points in
the second stanza 18-9.
Anthony Laspina connected for
six points in the third, Clark for
five, Wilson for three charity
throws, Smith for one bucket and
Wood for three charity tosses to
cut the margin from 12 to 9 at
the end of the third, 50-41.
With three of their starters in
foul trouble, Middlesex had to
forego the aggressive play of the
previous three stanzas and this
was a determinative factor in
Wakelon’s superiority in the fourth
quarter. Donnie Whitley fouled
out early in the quarter, then
followed Jimmy Coats who up to
that point had been high scorer
for Middlesex. Next to go was
Larry Whitley. Coats had col
lected 15 points when he fouled
out and Larry Whitley 13.
Laspina also collected his fifth
foul in the fourth quarter and
was replaced by Gay. Ken Wilson
was playing the fourth with four
fouls but his aggressive play
netted eight big points, half of his
game's total. Clark hit early in
the fourth for a field goal and a
free throw, Smith hit for one,
Wood made good on two free
throws and a FG but the biggest
points were Gay’s 2 that came at
the game’s end.
Wakelon ted in the rebounding
41-22, according to unofficial sta
tistics. John Smith played a fine
defensive game in the last half
blocking several key shots. Gay
did a marvelous job, alternating
with Laspina in keeping Stone’s
total down.
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Police
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an Retires, Is Honored
Zebulon Town Manager Willie B. Hopkins presents a Certificate
of Appreciation from the municipality to retiring Night Policeman
Crowder and Mayor Ed Hales beams approval.
He’ll no longer patrol the busi
ness and residential districts.
He’ll no longer see lovers locked
in close embraces in the wee small
hours of the night.
There will be no more family
fights to help settle.
Or Saturday nights when the jail
was teeming with inhabitants
screaming, cursing and hollering.
Or long, lonely nights when all
was quiet.
No, there will be'none of these
things for M. G. Crowder any
more. He has retired from the
town police force.
Mayor Ed Hales said he has
nothing but praise for Crowder.
The mayor said Crowder has ren
dered a very good service to the
town and he will be missed.
Police Chief Willie B. Hopkins
said he has never worked with a
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