"»ZEBULON
RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 6. ZEBULON. N. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 0. 1961
FFA OFFICERS. Wakelon School FFA officers, left to right,
are C. V. Tart, adviser; Richard Joyner, treasurer; Ellis King, re
porter; Charles Mitchell, sentinel; seated: Donnie Perry, secretary;
R. B. Tant, vice president; and Joe Green, president.
Uses Torn Mattress Cover
Suicide Victim Dies In Jail
The body of Buddy Junior Pul
ley was found early Sunday morn
ing dangling from a bed-clothes
noose in Zebulon jail.
Night Policeman Wendel Perry
and Patrolman John Rowe dis
covered the 30-year-old Zebulon
man’s lifeless body about 2 a.m.
when they were attempting to put
another person in the lock-up.
Wake Coroner Marshall Bennett
ruled the death suicide.
Perry said Pulley tore up the
mattress cover and tied it around
the top steel bar in his cell in order
to hang himself. He evidently
jumped from the top bunk in the
first cell Perry continued, caus
ing his death.
Pulley’s death-white, drawn
face rested against the cold steel
bars. His limp knees almost
touched the coldness of the cement
cell floor.
Pulley was jailed between 11:30
and midnight on a charge of as
sault made by his wife. Perry said
Mrs. Pulley came to the police
station and said her husband had
assaulted her and she then swore
out a warrant for his arrest.
Perry said Pulley did not seem
unusually upset and made no re
sistance. The last thing he said
to the officer was, “Bring me two
packs of cigarettes.”
Perry said Pulley constructed a
noose with the tattle-tale gray
bedclothes. They were torn into
strips about eight inches long.
The officer immediately called
Dr. George Tucker who examined
Pulley and found him dead.
A cell mate in the adjoining cell
could tell the officers nothing
about the incident because he was
sleeping off a drunk.
Pulley lived at the corner of
East Vance and Poplar Streets.
Funeral services were held at
2 p.m. Monday at Screws-Hudson
Funeral Home Chapel. Burial was
in the Perry family cemetery on
Rt. 2, Louisburg.
Survivers are his wife, the form -
er Lela Brewer; two daughters,
Connie Lou and Bonnie Sue; three
sons, Billy, Ronald and David; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Pul
ley, Sr., of Zebulon; two sisters,
Mrs. Shirley Massey of Greensboro
and Miss Mavis Pulley of the par
ent?’ home; one brother, Joe
Cleveland Perry of Wake Forest,
Route 2.
THREE PRESIDENTS AND A GOVERNOR
Three local Rotary Club presidents get together with district
governor. Left to right are Wendell President Curtis Todd, District
Governor Jim Bates, Zebulon President Billy K. Hopkins, and Middle
sex President Norman Patterson. The get together was at Zebulon
Rotary Club Ladies’ Night February 22. This was an intercity meeting.
Carillon Choir Well Received
The eighteen-bell Carillon Choir
of the First Presbyterian Church
of Durham was well-received on
Sunday evening at the Zebulon
Methodist Church. A near-capac
ity congregation was on hand to
hear the choir and visitors Were
present from Durham, Raleigh,
Bunn, Princeton, Selma and Golds
boro, as well as several churches
of the Zebulon-Wendell area.
The choir is composed of nine
boys, all in the seventh, eighth and
ninth grades and is directed by E.
Franklin Bentel, choirmaster of
the Presbyterian Church in Dur
ham. The eighteen bells used
were made at the Whitechapel
Foundry in England and cost
$480. Some nineteen bells are be
ing shipped this month to give the
group a total of thirty-seven bells
and one of the finest carillon choirs
in America.
On Sunday evening the Choir
presented the following numbers,
“The Chimes,’’ the Doxology, I
Love Thy Kingdom, Lord; O
Come, O Come Immanuel; In the
Cross of Christ I Glory; Change
Ringing In G; and Sweet Hour
of Prayer.
Prior to the Sunday evening
service, the MYF’ers of-the Church
served as hosts for a chicken sup
per. The nine choir members and
the director were joined by twen
ty-five Methodist Youth and coun
selors for the supper.
The members of the Choir are
Roy Callis, John Clemens, Stephen
Conant, John Gunter, Hugh Hall,
Lawrence Jones, Robert Mac
Caughelty, Sydney Pratt and Wil
liam Stuart.
Merchants Association Head
Tells Group of Need For Action
To Jump Saturday
Pool Ceremonies Set
Band Concert
Enthusiasm is running high
among Wakelon band members.
They will be off to march in the
Azalea Festival parade in Wil
mington April 8.
But first of all, they must secure
the money for the trip to the Festi
val. This they will do by selling
tickets tp a concert* to be held Fri
day, March 10, at 8 p.m. in the
high school auditorium.
Tickets, $1.00 each, are being
sold by members of the band.
Director Herbert Ireland said the
concert program by members of
the 60 strong band will consist of
a variety of numbers, including
Latin American and Dixieland
numbers.
Miss Martha temple, one ot the
town's most beautiful girls and ac
complished water nymphs, will
make the first plunge into the
town’s newly completed swimming
pool Saturday afternoon at 4 o’
clock, pool association officials have
announced. ,
On this occasion the official pre
sentation of the keys to the pool
will be presented to the president
of the association, Dr. B. D. Thom
as, and other pool officials. The
keys will be presented by Col. Gor
don Hammond, construction engi
neer of the pool.
I Dr. Thomas and Tom Monk, vice
president, invite the general public
to these ceremonies Saturday.
Doll House Owner
Buys Children's Shop
Mrs, Martha Flowers has an
nounced the purchase of Jean’s
Children Shop from Mrs. Lawrence
Liles. The purchase becomes ef
fective Monday, Match 13.
Mrs. Liles owned the shop for
the last two years. She became
a bookkeeper with Cameron
Brown Realty Co. of Raleigh
Monday.
Mrs. Flowers, who for the past
year has operated Martha’s Doll
House on North Street, will move
her doll house down town.
The new management Will be
Martha’s Doll House and Chil
dren’s Shop.
Mrs. Flowers said the customer
will receive the same helpful,
courteous service and name brand
children’s clothes as formerly car
ried by Jean’s Children Shop,
along with the most beautiful dolls
all jn one delightful store.
Mrs. Flowers invites' the public
10 visit her new 'business establish
ment located on Arendell Avenue.
Mrs. Flowers is the wife of Dr.
C. E. Flowers.
Legion Meet
The American Legion Auxiliary
will hold its regular monthy meet
ing Tuesday night, March 14, at 7
o’clock at Hilliard’s Restaurant.
All members are urged to be pres
ent.
community that does not have an
organization on the ball, with in
tegrity, energy, interest, enthusi
asm and funds is going t6 be left
out at the end of the row,” Thomp
son Greenwood, executive secre
tary of the N. C. Merchants’ Asso
ciation, said.
Greenwood spoke to a group, of
Zebulon merchants and civic
minded citizens Tuesday night at
Hilliard’s Restaurant. The purpose
of the meeting was to explore the
idea of organizing a Merchants'
Association for the Town of Zeibu
lon.
The speaker said the trading
area of a town either expands or
contracts. He said it will take the
forces of all business people of
Zebulon to make the trading area
expand.*
“You have to work concertedly
to protect the trading area,”
Greenwood said.
Greenwood indicated that in or
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Woman's Club
To Have Luncheon
Members of the Senior Wom
an’s Club will sponsor a luncheon
Monday, March 13, from 11:30 to
1:30 o’clock in the club building,
Mrs. Wallace Temple, club presi
dent, has announced.
The club, which has freed itself
of indebtedness by having these
luncheons, is now desiring to raise
funds to buy additional equipment
for the building such as heaters,
drapes, etc.
The final luncheon for the year
will be held April 17, Mrs. A. S.
Hinton, who is in charge of the
meals, said.
The menu will consist of broiled
chicken, new potatoes, peas-car
rots, harvard beets, hot rolls, lem
on pie and coffee or tea.
Tickets are on sale for $1.00.
They may be bought from the
club members. A few tickets will
be on sale at the door the day
of the lunchedn.
j 1961 WAKE COUNTY CLASS A CHAMPS. Back row: Principal John J. Hicks, Tommy Wood, Ken
Wilson, Johnny Smith, Ron Clark, Waddell Gay, Anthony Laspino, Maurice Chapman, and Hardin Hin
I ton; front row: Tim Harwood, manager; Ed Ellington, Jimmy Perry, B. Brantley, Debnam, Bray, and
I Sidney Holmes.