Guest Editorial
Potential Delinquency
and Summer Recreation
Bill Quick, Guest Writer
IS YOUR CHILD A POTENTIAL DELINQUENT?
Yes, your child is a potential delinquent and so is mine!
All our children and youth in Zebulon have problems that
may become too difficult for them to solve. The delinquent
child, the problem teenager is that person with an inescapable
problem which he cannot solve adequately. Circumstances
existing within our community could develop, therefore con
fronting any youngster with a problem beyond his powers.
Last summer a series of events involving teenagers in
Zebulon and the surrounding area provoked this question
repeatedly, “Why are there so many delinquents and why
does it seem to be getting steadily worse?” My answer in
variably was this: “Why is there so little delinquency?”
Ours is an age of complexity! Ours is a sensate stage
of culture in which value convictions are deteriorating rapidly.
For most of us, life consists of personal disorganization.
This complexity has been brought about in the last genera
tion. If the teenagers of 1961 seem hard to understand by
their parents and the community-at-large, it's due to the
fact that while ours was a day of A-Model traditionalism
- theirs is a day of Rocket-age restlessness.
Recently our society was descriptively described as “giv
ing the impression of an oily-rich, overgrown, adolescent “hay
seed” who’s come to town with a lot of money in his pockets
and time on his hands and doesn’t know how to conduct him
self or use his riches and time properly.”
Most of the teen-age trouble we have comes from our
times, not from our young people. We have reared since
1900 one generation after another in America in our public
schools, without any reference to religion, morals or ethics.
This was due to the fact that the races and religious groups
in our society are so diverse that any any other kind of train
ing would have taken away our freedoms.
We have taught young people how to make a living . . .
but we have not taught them how to live!
A prominent Judge of one of our courts has said, “We
adults spend far too much time preparing the path for our
youth, and far too little time preparing our youth for the
path.”
“Time’s have changed,’’ is a gross misrepresentation of
the facts. We can’t realjy conceive (just one week after
astronaut Alan Shepherd’s sub-orbital flight) how times have
really changed! '
But young people—their needs, desires and ambitions
do not change!
We should be justly proud of our space achievements,
however, it is my firm conviction that the United States’
greatest need is guided men and women instead of guided
missiles!
We need guided parents—guided by Divine Wisdom and
common sense instead of being guided by the $ sign!
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Orchid of Flowers
Iris Lover Speaks To Club
“The iris is a wonderful and
satisfying flower to grow,” Mrs.
L. F. Oxnevard of Louisburg, ard
ent iris grower and lover, told
the Carmen Flowers Garden Club
Monday night.
This was the last meeting of the
current garden club year. The
meeting was held at the home of
Mrs. E. V. Rountree, president of
the club.
Mrs. Oxnevard said that iris are
widely distributed throughout the
northern hemisphere but none are j
found south of the equator.
Few flowers have been so loved!
through the ages, she said.
The first iris in recorded history
is shown in the tomb of an Egyp
tian Pharaoh around 1500 B. C.:
The theory has been advanced,
she said, that the Biblical “lilies of ;
the field” may well have been iris
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RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 14. ZEBULON. N. C.. MAY 11. 1061
7 CouvtVi ^t°Ul Jc SutttoY
Cancer Crusade Solicitations
Biggest Ever In Town History
Zebulon’s 1961 cancer crusade
netted the biggest solicitation in
the history of the town.
According to Aaron C. Lowery,
crusade head, $819.14 was turned
in to be turned over to the North
Carolina Division of the American
Cancer Society.
“I asm justly proud of the
amount so generously given by the
people of Zebulon and the sur
rounding communities,” Lowery
voiced.
He further added that he is in
deed indebted to those persons
who volunteered so willingly to
serve as drive solicitors. “They
were all so very nice and so co
operative, giving of their time
freely and without reservation.”
Lowery also lauded his wife who
was behind the scenes working in
behalf of the campaign. “She was
great. She should get all the
credit, really.” “
Lowery said with this wonder
ful response from Zebulon, he
feels that the battle of cancer ap
pears more hopeful now than ever
before.
An active civic-minded citizen,
this was Lowery’s first crusade
drive. . ... ,
Evangelist McNeil
To Be At Church
Evangelist William McNeil from
Scotland and Raleigh will conduct
a series o' gospel meetings at
Union Hope Gospel Chapel located
four miles east of Zebulon on
Highway 97. These services will
begin Sunday night, May 14, at
7:30. Services Monday through
Friday night will begin at 7:45
p.m. The Rev. Mr. McNeil is a
fundamentalist and also a noted
Bible teacher.
WakelonTeacher's
Contract Renewed
After Meeting
The Wakelon School Board vot
ed last Friday night to renew the
contract of Mrs. Lois Wall, first
grade teacher, after a majority of
those present at a public meeting
expressed their friendship for
Mrs. Wall and their belief in her
good character. Mrs. Wall has
taught at Wakelon for 20 years.
More than 100 persons were
present for the meetings, which
had previously been postponed
from Thursday night.
The great interest developed af
ter a number of parents expressed
opposition to Mrs. Wall’s being
retained for another year. Those
objecting to Mrs. Wall agreed that
she is a very successful teacher,
but objected to certain of her
methods.
Last fall a conference was held
with the first grade teacher to dis
cuss complaints reported to Princi
pal John Hicks by parents.
At the Friday night meeting,
however, a majority of those pres
ent spoke in Mrs. Wall’s behalf.
Members of the Wakelon School
Board include Dr. Ben Thomas,
Raymond Averette, Philip Olive,
Frank Wall, and Hardin Hinton,
chairman.
Surgeon Arrives
Dr. Lee Sedwitz, surgeon, ar
rived Saturday and began duties
Monday at Wendell-Zebulon Hos
pital. He was recently discharged
from the Navy. His wife and two
small children are here, too. The
family resides on East Franklin
Street.
Zebulon’s fourth Eagle Scout
has been named and will receive
honors at the Sunday evening
worship service on May 14. This
highest award in Scouting will be
conferred upon Vincent Rountree
in ritualistic ceremonies Sunday
night.
Rountree, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Eldred Rountree, gets the award
after a lapse of many years in
bestowing this honor to a Zebulon
Scout. Former recipients of this
honor were Roderick Horton,
James Debnam and Jack Terry.
Officials of the Occoneechee
Council as well as local Scout
leaders will participate in the pro
gram.
Ret Program Not
Stopping Because
Funds Are Short
Absence of funds is not stopping
the Zebulon Recreation Commis
sion from planning a program for
the summer months, but it has
limited plans. Final arrange
ments can not be completed until
the Commission knows the money
is available for its work.
Failure of the United Fund,
through which the recreation pro
gram has received its money in
recent years, has caused the Rec
reation Committee to plan a fund
campaign to finance the 1961 pro
gram.
The date of the campaign will be
set at the next meeting of the Com
mission. A part of the campaign
will be a barbecue supper planned
for the opening of the new swim
ming pool.
Included in initial plans for the
summer are a midget baseball
league, slow softball league for
adults, basketball goals and
benches at the park, and im
proved facilities at the park.
A full time director for the sum
1 mer program will be provided by
j the Commission.
Ray Goodwin again is serving as
head of the Commission, and Mrs.
Georgia Croom is secretary-treas
I urer.
Prominent Negress Feels White, Colored
Relationships Here Been Very Successful
One of Zebulon’s most charming
and respected colored citizens
feels that the town and community
have a very fine white-colored re
lationship.
"I feel that the white and color
ed have worked together and have
lived together here very success
fully,” Mrs. Lizzie Askew said.
”1 am proud of the good neigh
borliness that exists between the
two races, and I hope it con
tinues.”
Mrs. Askew, who has a warm,
soft, cultured voice, said she has
lived other places, in other towns,
cities ard states, but she prefers
Zebulon above all.
"People are so nice here, so
friendly. We are not strangers,
like some other places.”
Mrs. Askew was bom near Zeb
ulon—in the community of Rosen
borg—in 1890. "No, indeed, I
don’t mind telling the date,” she
laughed. She is the ninth child
of the late Fenner and Frances
Williams. Only two of the family
are still living, two sisters, Mrs.
Lucy McKay of Raleigh and Mrs.
Emma Toms of Zebulon.
Her first schooling was at St.
Paul elementary school. She re
Mrs. Lizzie Aslcew
membered her first teacher. Miss
Cora Pear, later a Thomas. On
their first day at school Miss Pear
said: “Children, I am a Pear but
not the kind you can eat. And we
all thought that was funny.” Miss
Pear later went to Africa as one
of America’s first missionary
teachers to that continent.
Then there was Hickory Grove
Academy, where colored Wake
field Baptist Church is now. Her
formal education continued at
Elizabeth City State Teachers Col
lege and ended at Shaw Uni
versity.
Mrs. Askew’s life has been spent
in the class room. She found a
joy in teaching.
“Every one of my teaching years
were pleasant,” she reminisced. “I
was not troubled with too many
discipline problems. Those I had
I knew how to cope with. Oh,
naturally, there were some prob
lems and I even had to get rough
at times.”
But tire children loved her.
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