"■ ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 30. NUMBER 12. ZEBULON. N. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 27. 1961
Hermit Corbett
. . Commissioner
Elizabeth Ellett
. . . Commissioner
PAT FARMER
. . . Commissioner
Part Farmer
. . . Commissioner
Thurman Hepler
. . . Commissioner
Town Officials All File; No Opposition
Spirited Campaign Assured
In Wendell, 17 Candidates File
Seventeen candidates for seven
municipal offices in the Town of
Wendell assure a spirited cam
paign leading up to the election
on Tuesday of next week. In
creased interest is centered on the
race for mayor for which Ira H.
Johnson is competing with former
mayor J. R. Hester.
The two men met once before
in a race for mayor, with Dr. Hes
ter, then the incumbent mayor,
winning by a single vote. Since
then Joe K. Henderson defeated
Dr. Hester for the post.
Henderson, who now holds the
position, is not seeking reelection.
All five incumbent commission
ers have filed for reelection. They
include Leo Britt, Curtis Todd,
Willard Perry, Mossey Faison, and
C. Proc Dean.
Seeking a place on the Board
are Mrs. J. B. Bilisoly, editor of
the Gold Leaf Farmer, Dover Hin
ton, Oscar Chaplin, R. E. Barham,
Ben Tongue, Willard White, A. S.
Johnston, Ed Andrews, John Rad
ford, and Silas Todd.
When he paid his filing fee, Ira
Johnson stated he is seeking the
mayor's post because he “believes
in the prosperous future of Wen
dell, and he wants to actively
serve in a leadership capacity,
spearheading a more vigorous
growth effort for the community.”
Long active in civic affairs,
Johnson is a member of the Wen
dell Baptist Church, having serv
ed as deacon and Sunday School
superintendent. He is a former
Scout Master of old Troop 15 in
Wendell, a member of the Ameri
can Legion, 32-degree Mason,
member of the Scottish Rite, Chap
lain for the Order of the Eastern
Star and Wendell Director of Civil
Defense.
Born in 1902 near Hood’s Pond
(Lake Myra), he attended Wen
dell School. He graduated from
Kister School of Advertising and
Display in Chicago, then worked
as manager of merchantile display
and salesman for mercantile firms.
He is now associated with Lewis
Furniture Company in Wendell.
Johnson’s six-point platform in
cludes development and improve
ments for Wendell's water supply,
library, municipal building and
other facilities, and recognition
and encouragement of civic and
church organizations.
Parents of Son
Mr. and Mrs. George Morgan
became the parents of a son April
14. He has been named Bruce
Kendal Morgan. His mother is the
former Elizabeth Baucom of Gar
ner. His father is owner of Mor
gan Drugs in Zebulon. It is the first
child for Mr. and Mrs. Morgan.
MUSIC DIRECTORS. At the Raleigh District Music Workshop
of the N. C. Methodist Conference held last Tuesday at Zebulon
Methodist Church three accomplished church musician leaders par
ticipated. They were, left to right, Geraldine Cate, voice instructor
of St. Mary’s College and choir director of Pullen Memorial Baptist
Church, Mrs. W. D. Miller, instructor in organ at Peace College and
organist for Edenton Street Methodist Church, and Mrs. Robert D.
Massey, district music director for the past two years and organist
choir director for Zebulon Methodist Church. Mrs. Massey reported
that 44 persons attended this workshop.
Dr. L. M. Massey, right, is shown presenting Miss Takako Sakai
a certificate for the completion of a dental technology aide course
offered at Massey Clinic here. Looking on is Dr. Zyba Massey, who
is also associated with the clinic. Miss Sakai spent a year training
at the Massey Clinic.
Japanese Dental Aide
Receives Certificate
A charming young Japanese
woman who spent a year in Zebu
Ion studying dental technology
leh her imprint on the town and
surrounding community.
Miss Takako Sakai, now study
ing at Bowman Gray Hospital in
Winston-Salem, was recently
awarded a certificate of completion
of apprenticeship in the trade of
dental technology.
The diploma was awarded by J.
B. Archer, state supervisor of the
Bureau of N. C. Apprenticeship
Council of the N. C. Department
of Labor. Miss Sakai completed
one year’s apprenticeship in the
Massey Clinic in Zebulon.
Miss Sakai, who served as sec
retary to the director of nurses
of the Japan Baptist Hospital in
Kyoto, Japan, met Dr. and Mrs.
L. M. Massey of Zebulon while
they were visiting their daughter,
Mrs. Luke M. Kitahata, whose
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Ed Hales
... Mayor
Zebulon’s incumbent mayor and
commissioners will suffer no oppo
sition in the forthcoming town
election to be held May 30.
No candidates are opposing
Mayor Ed Hales and commission
ers Raleigh Alford, Thurman
Hepler, Mrs. Elizabeth Ellett, Pat
Farmer and Kermit Corbett.
Of his candidacy Mayor Hales
said:
“During the next two years Zeb
ulon town officials will be faced
with important matters for which
decisions must be made. We know
that to pay for such things as a
water filtering plant, a sewage
treatment plant, and to improve
our street system, it will take a
bond issue to finance these pro
jects. With the approval of the
N. C. State Local Government
Commission a vote on a bond issue
for these needs will be brought
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Gov. Sanford Speaks At Wendell
Chamber Of Commerce Banquet
“The time has come when the
people of North Carolina must
move out with quality education,”
the Governor of North Carolina
said at Wendell last week.
Governor Terry Sanford was
featured speaker for nearly 200
members and guests of the Wen
dell Chamber of Commerce at the
annual banquet held Thursday
night, April 20, in the Wendell
School cafeteria.
The Governor was introduced
by Phil Whitley, chairman of the
Industry Committee of the Wen
dell Chamber of Commerce and
former member of the Legisla
ture.
Congratulating Wendell on its
progress and its efforts to improve
the town and community, Gover
nor Sanford said the beautification
work, industrial growth, and pro
gram tp increase business will
pay dividends in the future.
The Governor’s topic was edu
cation, which he termed a business
that pays highest dividends on
investment. “It is the State’s
chief business,” he said.
As a business, the schools take
raw material (children) and mold
it, clean it of rough spots, and
put the laquer of learning on it.
“The value of added manufacture
is priceless,” the Governor pointed
out.
An adequate program for edu
eating youth costs money, he said
adding, “No profit was ever earned
which was not preceded by an
investment of time, effort, and
money.”
Sanford’s program proposes a
substantial increase in the State’s
investment in education. “A busi
ness must keep up with the times,
or you’ll get run out of business,”
he cited.
The need for expanding the
education program is pressing, he
said. “We have delayed too long
in modernizing schools,” Sanford
explained. "Other states—our
competitors—have easily outbid us ,
for teachers. Other careers have
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