"-ZEBULON
RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 18. ZEBULON. N. C.. JUNE 8. 1961
EDITORIAL COMMENT
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Caution Advisable
The Citizens Committee for Better Schools in Eastern Wake
County has recommended to the Wake County Board of Education
that four high schools be consolidated.
The report was not unanimous.
It was, however, the only report which the Committee could
have made, according to specific instructions given the members
by Wake County School Superintendent Fred Smith.
Members of the Committee report that Mr. Smith directed that
only two recommendations could be made following a study by
the Committee of existing high school facilities. The Committee
could report (1) that all four schools be consolidated; or (2) that
no consolidation of any kind be effected.
No provision was made for other—possibly better—proposals.
The Committee was to embrace a dream of a single high school;
or else four communities would struggle with their present programs
which admittedly are inadequate.
Citizens from Wakelon School District offered a reasonable
idea which has considerable merit. Taking into consideration the
rapid growth of the Millbrook and Knightdale areas and their
nearness to Raleigh; the short distance between Rolesville and
Wake Forest; and the ease with which a Wendell-Zebulon con
solidation can be effected, local citizens presented a plan which
demands consideration before the County School Board proceeds |
full-speed on a course which can not be changed.
On Monday the Wake County Board of Commissioners adopted i
a resolution which also must be considered before further steps I
are taken toward a consolidated central East Wake High School.
The resolution, endorsed by all three 'rural County Commis
sioners present for the Board meeting, asks for an “expert inves
tigation ... to determine the advisability of consolidating the Wake
County and City of Raleigh school systems.”
Raleigh is expanding. Its area has been enlarged and will 1
include more and more students who are enrolled in county schools. ;
For reasons of efficiency and proper utilization of facilities planning
for city and county schools must be concurrent and coordinated.
A consolidation of city and county schools has merit. This j
idea, too, must be carefully evaluated before our tax money is
poured in a single educational plant.
We have problems in our four East Wake high schools, and
they should be solved as soon as possible. But the speed desired
should not cause us to buy whole-hog the school administration’s
consolidation ideas without proper consideration of all factors affect
ing school consolidation.
Hal Perry Named Manager
Of Local First Federal Office
R. D. Beam, executive vice
president of the First Federal Sav
ings and Loan Association, last
week announced the appointment
of Hal Clifton Perry as the mana
ger of First Federal’s Zebulon Of
fice, effective June 5.
Perry succeeds Charles Alex
ander as manager of the local
Savings and Loan Association.
Alexander, who was the first
manager of the local firm, is now i
with an insurance establishment. I
Perry, 27, graduated from Bunn 1
High School and received a B. S.
degree from North Carolina State
College in Agriculture Education
in 1956. He has done further
study on his masters degree.
He entered the Army after re
ceiving his degree from N. C. State
College and served two years, be
ing discharged in March of 1958.
He became associated with the
Franklin County School system
and taught agriculture in Bunn
High School for the past three
years.
“We are very pleased to have
Mr. Perry join our staff,” Mr.
Beam stated, “and after a short
orientation period at our Main Of
fice in Raleigh, Mr. Perry will as
sume his duties as manager of our
Zebulon office. Being a native of
the Zebulon area, we feel that
Mr. Perry’s knowledge of the loca
HAL PERRY
tion and the people and his back
ground will enable First Federal
to render an even greater service
to the community.”
Perry is expected to be at the
local office about the middle of
July.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jarvis Perry, Sr., of Route 3, Zeb
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Wheat Buying Market Opened
In Zebulon by Finch and Privett
Wakelon Grain Company has
expanded its services to farmers
in this area, and Monday marked
the opening of the first local wheat
buying market.
Working under the direction of
the N. C. Department of Agricul
ture, the owners of the Wakelon
Grain Company, Wade H. Priv
ette and Foster D. Finch, recently
installed the latest equipment rec
ommended by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Weights and
Measures Division, and increased
their facilities to include faster
unloading services with elevator
capacity of 35,000 bushels.
Government graders will be on
hand during the entire wheat sea- j
son. The grading process has
been set up to facilitate service to!
the fanners by the use of most
up-to-date sample testing rods, j
sifters, moisture content meters,!
and Toledo scales.
With the opening of local mar
ket buying wheat at daily market
prices, Wakelon Grain Company
now is equipped to handle the en
tire grain crop of farmers in this
1 section.
Zebulon Citizens Offer Plan
For East Wake Consolidation
New Principal Is
Named at Wendell
Wendell School committeemen
have elected a new principal to
serve the school for the 1961-62
year, according to committee
chairman William A. Ammons.
Ronald D. Berry, who was
principal of Fairmont public
school, is a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina where he
received a bachelor of arts degree
with a major in science. He later
received a master’s degree in ad
ministration and supervision.
He has taught in two schools in
Durham County. They were
Braggtown and Lowe’s Grove
where he coached and taught the
eighth grades. In Randolph
County, he was principal from
1954 to 1958 at Tabernacle School.
His specialties were listed as
director of glee clubs, coaching
dramatics and debates, directing
physical education and play
grounds. Also, he has coached
basketball, football, baseball and
tennis.
Berry, 38, was born in Spar
tanburg, S. C. He is married and
has three sons, 11, 7, and 4 weeks
old.
Mr. and Mrs. Berry are mem
bers of the Baptist Church.
Conference Plans
Meeting Tonight
The regular monthly supper
meeting of the East Wake County
Ministerial Conference will be held
at 6 p.m. Thursday (tonight), June
8, at the Wendell Baptist Church.
Plans will be completed at this
meeting for the establishing of a
Voluntary Chaplaincy Program at
the new Wendell-Zebulon Branch
Hospital, John D. Whidden, sec
retary of the conference, said.
The Rev. James Pemell, pastor
of Hephzibah Baptist Church, has
been chosen as chaplain supervisor
for this program by the Ministerial
Conference.
LIBRARY VOTE
Zebulon and its three neighbor
ing precincts turned thumbs down
on a county-wide library tax levy.
Registrars in Zebulon, Mitchell’s
Mill, Wendell and Eagle Rock re
j ported an exceedingly light vote on
j Tuesday.
The vote went thus:
For Against
Zebulon _41 137
Mitchell’s Mill _ 0 39
Eagle Rock _1 4 22
Wendell _51 129
Methodists Set
Budget for Year
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! The climax to the annual Every
Member Canvass is set for Sun
day in the Zebulon Methodist
Church. The canvass began last
Sunday and will culminate in a
Victory Sunday service on Sunday
morning.
T. E. Hales is chairman of the
EMC General Committee. Other
committee chairmen are P. A.
Farmer, Jimmy Spivey, M. J. Sex
ton, H. C. Wade and Robert D.
Massey.
Adopted for the coming year
was a Budget of $21,996. The
1961-62 budget was divided into;
five sections: Conference Benevo
| lences and World Service $3,388.;1
! Connectlonal Ministry, 1,537;
Local Church Program $7,984;
Our Chui -h Home, $4,087.; and
Our Parsonage $5,000.
In addition to the Local Budget,
, members of the Church are now in
the last phase of the College Capi
tal Funds Campaign of 1959 which
sought to raise $5,000,000. for the
denomination’s two new colleges
at Rocky Mount and Fayetteville
and to support the existing col
leges. The Zebulon Methodist
Church pledged over $12,000. to
the college campaign.
On Sunday the church family
present for the Loyalty Day serv
ices pledged almost $12,000. to the
coming year’s budget. Canvassers
are in the process of contacting
each resident famliy to complete j
the visitation program. !
A group of eastern Wake Coun
ty citizens have devised a plan
which calls for the consolidation
of Wendell and Zebulon high
schools and possibly the Knight
dale High School.
A tentative site for such a school
has been chosen by the group and
they have acquired an option to
purchase the 40-acre tract at $875
an acre.
Zebulon Attorney Foster D.
Finch, who is spokesman for the
group, has indicated that the
Wendell - Zebulon consolidation
plan will probably be suggested to
the Board of Education as a “sub
stitute” for the four school con
solidation plan.
The Wake Board of Education
has seriously considered the pos
sible consolidation of Zebulon,
Wendell, Knightdale and Roles
ville high schools.
Consolidation of the schools has
been recommended by the State
Department of Public Instruction
and the Division of Schoolhouse
planning.
The group for which Finch is
spokesman are opposed to the in
clusion of Rolesville in the con
solidation and they are opposed to
the suggested location, the Bethany
Church area.
Finch pointed out that Roles
ville, some distance north of Wen
dell and Zebulon, is only six miles
from Wake Forest and might
more conveniently be consolidated
with Wake Forest.
The site on which the group
holds an option is located on the
US 64 by-pass some 2.3 miles west
of Zebulon and two .miles north of
Wendell.
It is the Zebulon attorney’s be
lief that the “substitute” plan
will work in that Wendell and
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Baptists Authorize
Property Purchase
Members of Zebulon Baptist
Church voted approval Sunday,
June 4, to purchase the Edythe
Medlin Tippett property for fu
ture church development. The
property, 200 x 500 feet, adjoins
the church property and extends
from Gannon Avenue to North
Street. The purchase price is
$25,000.
Kindergarten pupils of Mrs. Howard Bunn were presented in graduation exercises Wednesday eve
ning, May 17, in Wakelon School auditorium before a group of proud and appreciative parents and
friends. At the close of the program in which every child participated, Mrs. Bunn presented diplomas
to the 12 graduates. One certificate of perfect attendance was presented to Norma Helen Screws.
After the ceremonies Dr. and Mrs. Ben Thomas entertained the graduates at their home on Church
Street. On May 24 the group visited the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Tippett. The children enjoyed
seeing a dairy farm in operation. Mr. Tippett carried each child for a ride on the tractor and Mrs.
Tippett served refreshments of cake and ice cream. School came to a close June 2 with a trip to
the local park and picnic lunch. The graduates are, left to right: Norma Helen Screws, Melissa Beck, Fred
die Wayne Pace, Catherine Sawyer, Rigsby Massey III, Pamela Hicks, Amelia Bryant, Jane Tippett, Sher
rie Blackley, Michele Thomas, Charles Estes, and John Davis. An Davis and Faye Sawyer were marshals.