"-ZEBULON
RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 19. ZEBULON. N. C.. JUNE 15. 1961
Dale Beck
To Head Summer Rec Program
The Zebulon Recreation Com
mission met on Monday evening
to complete plans for the summer
recreation program. The Com
mission decided, despite sufficient
funds on hand, to go ahead with
plans for a 6V2 week program of
supervised recreation for the com
munity.
The commission will begin the
summer program on Monday, June
26. Activities will include soft
ball in three leagues: Little
League, Midget League and Pony
League. Also slated for summer
activities is a program of basket
ball for children and youth, ten
nis, horseshoe pitching contest, a
street dance and a week of Arts
and Crafts.
In the drive for funds, President
Ray Goodwin reports that some
$200.00 had been collected by
Tuesday morning. Canvassers
were disappointed in that only
about $125 was collected in the
annual drive on last Friday eve
ning. Some $1,000 is needed to
carry out the program as outlined, j
It is hoped by the Recreation!
Commission that the merchants
of the town will rally around .
the program as well as those citi
zens who did not participate in
the drive last week but “prom- j
ised” donations later. Goodwin;
reported that these “promised con- 1
tributions” may be sent to him by
mail or brought to him personal
ly. The Commission urges 100%
citizen participation.
In other action of the commis
sion, Dale Beck, a physical edu
MASS MEETING
Every citizen, parent or
non-parent, of Wakelon
School district is urged to be
present tomorrow (Friday)
night at 8 o’clock in Wakelon
School auditorium for a dis
cussion on the consolidation
issue.
’’The purpose of this meet
ing,” said Attorney Foster D.
Finch, “is for informing the
citizens of this school district
of the present situation and
acquainting them with the
proposal as submitted by the
Wake County Board of Edu
cation and our substitute pro
posal.”
Wakelon School Board
Chairman Hartin Hinton said,
“There are matters to be dis
cussed at this meeting vital to
every child, man, and woman
in this school district. We urge
you to attend and bring your
friends.”
(See Story on Page 5)
National Guard
Officers and men of Zebulon’s
National Guard unit settled down
to training routine Monday at Fort
Bragg after convoying in Sunday
for their annual two-week sum
mer encampment. Jack Potter is
captain of the local Guard unit.
cation major who attended Camp
bell College last year, was employ
ed to direct the 6 week summer
program. Wakelon school coach
Maurice Chapman offered to give
free of charge as much time as
possible to the summer program.
Beck and Chapman will choose,
along with Goodwin, the assist
ants in the recreation program.
Swimming Classes
Free swimming classes to mem
bers belonging to Zebulon Swim
ming Pool Association will be held
every Monday and Thursday
mornings from 10 to 12 o’clock.
These classes are open to both
children and adults. Qualified in
structors will be teaching the les
sons.
Identification patches are now
available, Crafton Hudson, secre
tary of the Association, has an
nounced. These patches are to be
worn on the swim suits and cost
25c each. They may be gotten at
the pool office.
Lions Dance
Adults need wholesome recrea
tion in the summer or else they
lapse into lethargy.
That’s why Zebulon Lions Club
is providing dances to keep old
lethargy away, and to provide en
tertainment and enjoyment during
the summer months.
The Lions are sponsoring a
dance tomorrow (Friday) night at
the club house. This second sum
mer social gets underway at 9
o’clock and ends at 1 o’clock, with
the Bill Jo Austin combo furnish
ing the music.
If you dance, attend; if you
don’t, attend anyway and just sit
back and listen to the music. The
LJons promise you it will be an
.evening well spent.
Former Mayor Dies;
Interment Is Here
A former mayor and sheriff of
the town of Zebulon died Friday,
June 1, in Kinston Nursing Home
in Fuquay.
Burbon Hilliard Richardson, 85,
of Wendell was a pioneer of the
Zebulon community and served the
town as mayor about 1915 or 1916.
He is survived by two sons,
Vance of Wendell, and B. H., Jr.,
of Waskom, Texas; seven daugh
ters, Mrs. Rudolph Honeycutt of
Faison, Mrs. Reese Hardee of Fu
quay, Mrs. John Myers of Garner,
Mrs. Helen Well of Wendell, Mrs.
Pat Starr of Clinton, Mary Rich
ardson of Wendell and Mrs. Wil
lis Honeycutt of Raleigh; 23 grand
children and 17 great grandchil
dren; one sister, Mrs. J. W. Sutton
of Rocky Mount; and one brother,
Fred Richardson of Bailey.
Funeral services were held Sun
day at 3 p.m. from the Wendell
Baptist Church with the Rev. W.
H. Vinson, pastor, officiating. Bur
ial was in Zebulon Cemetery.
The Junior-Senior Banquet was a prelude to a number of social
activities that brought down the curtain to the 1960-61 school year.
Caught up in the social whirl of these activities were the Wakelon
juniors and seniors and their dates.
Tommy Phillips and Janie Green are shown at the Lions Build
ing during the refreshment hour of the Junior-Senior Banquet.
Cancer Society May Set Up Loan
Closet System, Sub-Unit Here
There is a possibility of a “sub
unit” of the Wake County Cancer
Society for the communities of
Zebulon and Wendell, according to
Aaron Lowery, cancer crusade
chairman of Zebulon.
Lowery said he has heard from
the Society headquarters in Ra
leigh and they advised they are
prepared to work with the two
towns in the establishment of a
loan closet system would provide
such supplies as hospital beds,
wheel chairs, portable toilets, and
other sickroom items for patients.
This Unit, in addition to fur
nishing the cotton padding for sur
gical dressings, would also like to
keep the local Unit, if established,'
supplied with educational .mate- i
rials which would be useful in j
physicians’ offices, dentists’ offices, I
for club meetings and school
rooms.
Mrs. Emma Carr Bivins, in a
letter to Lowery said: “As you
know, the problem of the chroni
cally ill is great. With 11 cancer
deaths in Zebulon, and 10 in Wen
dell, you can estimate that there
are probably upwards of 100 can
cer patients in the Zebulon-Wen
dell area now. There is now an
swer for some of these patients,
especially those who must remain
at home after treatment, and
those unable to afford the great
expense incident to the disease.
Working with your own doctors,
and with this Unit, it seems to
us you have a great opportunity to
render specific and meaningful
service. You can make that serv
ice whatever you wish it to be,
developing it along lines the vol
unteers themselves dictate.”
Possible activities for the Zebu
lon-Wendell Service Unit are:
Preparation of surgical dress
ings for patients. Distribution of
dressings. Establishment of loan
closet service (these supplies may
be donated or purchased). Trans
portation service (arrangements to
bring individuals to your hospital
or Raleigh hospitals for treatment,
or the Detection Clinic at Rex.)
Patient-visiting service (would
need guidance of physicians).
Cheer baskets for patients (which
ordinarily include some practical
items for the sickroom—such as
washcloths and tooth brushes,
etc.). Lending library for patients
(including much inspirational ma
terial).
One individual in the area with
information about the Society—the
clinic hours, where to obtain
films, etc. (An information Cen
ter). Distribution on regular basis
through press and radio on avail
able facilities. Reporting to Ra
leigh office individuals needing
help with drugs, etc.
A network of such education
service units throughout Wake
County has been a dream of the
Society’s leaders. It is a desire of
these leaders to bring the Society
much closer to the people and their
needs. A Zebulon-Wendell unit
would be a “pilot demonstration,”
a duplication in that area, and
perhaps an improvement on, the
service rendered by the Unit of
fice in Raleigh which tries, but
does not always succeed, in
reaching the whole county with
complete service.
Any such project will be
stronger if the interested persons
ask for it themselves and if they
set it up and maintain it along
lines they themselves decide.
Although service to patients is
important, the Wake County Unit
want also to prosecute with in
creasing vigor the aim of “sav
ing lives.” The preventive edu
cation, it has been found, can be
better accomplished in conjunc
tion with concrete service to peo
ple. A corps of busy women help
ing patients will, even incidental
ly, have a tremendous opportuni
ty to answer the questions of the
curious and the admiring. The
better informed all the Unit’s
workers are, the more total the
contribution will be to the health
and well-being of the two commu
nities.
Hospital Surgeon's Warm
Personality Engenders Trust
And Confidence To Patients
Two things constitute Dr. Lee
Sedwitz’ happiness. Work for his
hands, and his family.
Dr. Sedwitz, surgeon for the
Wendell-Zebulon Hospital, is hap
py when he has work for his hands
to do. And in his capable hands
his patients receive longer, strong
er and more wholesome lives.
The second necessary thing for
his happiness is his family. It is
closely knit, full of love and har
mony. A happy household with
a pretty wife and two handsome
children.
Dr. Sedwitz is the youngest of
three children of Mrs. Alice Sed
witz and the late Dr. Samuel Har
old Sedwitz. There are two older
sisters. His mother now resides
in Santa Barbara. Calif.
He was born in 1923 in Youngs
town, Ohio. His father was a
general surgeon there, dying at
the age of 46. The younger doc
tor recalls how his father’s office
was usually always filled with the
sick, and how his father minis
tered quietly, willingly, working
himself to an early death.
He bears in mind that his father
never asked a patient what he
could afford to pay. The patient’s
well-being came first. And this
is a practice and philosophy the
younger doctor is following.
Dr. Sedwitz, small of statue, is
one of the nicest and most gracious
young men ever to immigrate to
the town of Zebulon. He said he
wasn’t influenced by his father in
becoming a doctor. It was while
, he was with the Army Medical
Corps in Germany during World
War II that he became interested
in going to medical school.
After graduating from the Uni
versity of Virginia in 1946 he en
rolled in the school’s medical col
lege. When he finished medical
college he served his internship
with George Washington Hospital
in Washington, D. C.
During his internship at George
Washington Hospital, he won an
American Cancer Society Fellow
ship in cancer surgery at GW. He
used this fellowship for work in
the cancer clinic there.
He spent two more years at GW
in advanced surgery.
After World War II he took an
active reserve commission with the
Navy. He had further training
in chest surgery when he was sta
tioned in San Diego Naval Hos
pital.
He was chief surgeon of the
Naval Hospital in the Philippines,
and spent a year in Porto Rico
at Municipal Hospital. Following
these tenures he was with the Na
val Hospital in Japan for two
years. He was discharged in
April, 1961, w'ith the rank of
Lieutenant Commander.
Dr. Sedwitz selected Wendell
Zebulon Hospital because the sit
uation here looked best to him
from need standpoint. He could
have established a practice in La
Jolla, Calif., but that city is filled
with surgeons. Here, all his ex
pectations have been fulfilled.
He spoke highly of the hospital,
its facilities, equipment, staff. He
said he has not been disappointed
in any phase of the workings of
the hospital and its personnel.
He has the interests of his pa
tients at heart. He doesn’t ap
prove of the nurse waking pa
Dr. Lee Sedwitz
. . . Son Keith, 2Vz
tients early in the mornings to
give them baths, take tempera
| tures, etc. Let them sleep, he
j says. This is more important
1 than baths, temperatures, back
! rubs. Besides, such procedure is
\ for the convenience of the hos
pital personnel.
Another thing he approves is of
| mothers staying with their chil
dren who are ill. He says it gives
the child confidence, a feeling of
security no one else can give. And
children patients of his can rest
assured their mothers can be with
them.
Dr. Sedwitz’ warm personality
: engenders confidence, trust. He
praised his nurses, who he said
are grossly underpaid. With his
competent staff of nurses he feels
; able to do any type of operation.
Before an operation, while he
. is scrubbing his hands for the ten
minutes that is necessary before
an operation, he refreshes his
memory of the operation and says
sort of a prayer. It is a prayer
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