"-ZEBULON
RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 22. ZEBULON. N. C.. JULY 6. 1961
Auto Accident
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Kills Zebulon
A two-car collision Thursday
night four miles south of Mount
Airy on U. S. 601 killed Edward
E. Hood, 59, Boonville civic leader
and U. S. Internal Revenue Service
officer.
Investigating Highway Patrol
man Cpl. J. B. Howell said Mr.
Hood was dead on arrival at
Northern Surry Hospital.
Three other persons were also
injured in the accident, none se
riously. Hood’s wife, Mrs. Nellie
Hood, Billy Gray Holder, 26, of
Mount Airy, Rt. 4, and Miss Wanda
Moser, 25, of Mount Airy, were all
treated for minor injuries at the
hospital and released.
Patrolman Howell said his in
vestigation showed that a car driv
en north on U. S. 601 by Holder
struck the car driven by Mr. Hood
on a right hand curve. Howell
said the Holder car was four feet
over the centerline on the wrong
side of the road when it hit the
Hood car.
Howell said he charged Hold
er with manslaughter and driving
under the influence of alcohol.
Mr. and Mrs. Hood were return
ing to Boonville after visiting
friends at Mount Airy when the
accident occurred.
Mr. Hood, a former colonel in
the Army, had been a revenue of
ficer with the IRS since 1945. He
was connected with the agency’s
North Wilkesboro office.
Mr. Hood was a former presi
dent of the Boonville Board of
Trade, the Boonville Lions Club,
the Boonville Parent-Teacher As
sociation, the Boonville Band
Boosters Club, a former Yadkin
County Grange master, former
president of the Northwest N. C.
State College Alumni Association,
former master of the Masonic
Lodge, and past district deputy
grand patron of the Eastern Star
for four years.
He was also Scottish Rite Ma
son, a Shriner and a long active
member of the Democratic Party.
Mr. Hood was born Nov. 7, 1901,
Edward Hood
in Wake County, a son of Edward j
W. and Alice M. Hood of Zebulon. j
Survivors are his wife; two sons, I
Edward, Jr., of Cincinnati, O., and
Calvin W. Hood of Washington, D. (
C.; two daughters, Ann Porter
Hood and Nancy Lee Hood, both
of the home; three brothers, Frank,
Fred and Herbert Hood, all of j
Zebulon; and three sisters, Mrs.
Vera Rhodes, Zebulon, Mrs. Ursula
Puryear, Wendell, and Mrs. Mary
Alice Gay of Kinston.
He was educated at Zebulon and
graduated from N. C. State Col
lege.
He had worked with the State
Highway Dept, and the Civilian
Conservation Corps. He moved to
Boonville in 1933.
He was a member of the Chris
tian Science Church.
The body remained at Hayes
Matthews Funeral Home in Boon
ville until 2 p.m. Sunday.
Burial was in Boonville Ceme
tery.
Rec Fund Raising Dance
Saturday Night At Armory
Zebulon Recreation Commission
will sponsor another dance Satur
day night, July 8, at the Armory.
Commission officials reported
that the first fund raising dance
held last Saturday night was not
too successful. Nor was the record
hop recently held at the Lions
Club, they said.
Less than $150 has been raised
by the two above mentioned af
fairs and the house-to-house cam
paign. The rest of the funds have
been contributed by the merchants
to aid the summer recreation pro
gram.
The dance gets underway at
8:30 and lasts until 12 o’clock. Ad
mission is $1 per couple.
GA's Give Hospital
Eight members of Zebulon Bap
tist Church Girls’ Auxiliary pre
sented handmade pot holders to
the Wendell - Zebulon Hospital
kitchen last week. The pot hold
ers were made by the girls them
selves. Mrs. Eugene Bailey,
kitchen supervisor, accepted the
gifts on behalf of the hospital. The
Auxiliary leaders are Mrs. Ashley
Murphy and Mrs. Tom Scarbor
ough.
Hopkins Pastor Gets $17,000 Grant
For Graduate Study At Miss. U.
The Rev. Edward C. Lehman,
Jr., pastor of Hopkins Chapel Bap
tist Church, has been awarded a
fellowship for graduate study in
the sociology oi religion;. The
award was made recently by the
Graduate Division of the National
Defense Fellowship Foundation in
Washington, D. C. Lehman was
recommended for the grant by the
Graduate School of Mississippi
State University, where he will
undertake the study during the
three-year duration c-f the award.
The program of study that Leh
man will undertake will consist
of study and research leading to
the doctor of philosophy degree.
The major field, sociology of re
ligion, is a discipline that seeks to
determine the structure and dy
namics of religious groups, and the
interrelationship of religion and
culture. Lehman’s concentration
will be confined to sociology, re
ligion, and history.
The foundation will pay all of
the fees of the University and will
give Lehman an annual stipend of
$3,400. The total value of the
award over the three year period
is about $17,000.
Lehman was graduated from
high school in Rhode Island in
1949. After entering the Navy in
1950, he was commissioned and
designated a Navail Aviator in
1953. He served Anti-Submarine
Squadron 24 as an. instrument
flight instructor until 1955 when
he was released to inactive duty.
He entered Mississippi State Uni
versity then and was graduated
Magna Cum Laude in 1958. While
a student there, he was pastor of
Adaton Baptist Church, Starkville,
Mississippi. From 1958 to 1961
Lehman has been a student at
Southeastern Seminary in Wake
Forest. He completed his work
for the bachelor of divinity de
gree there recently. Lehman has
served as pastor of Hopkins Cha
pel Baptist Church since last sum
mer when he and his wife, John
nie, and two children moved to
Hopkins community.
Mrs. Lehman, formerly of Wes
son, Mississippi, has been serving
as a registered nurse in the new
Wendell-Zebulon Hospital since its
I opening several weeks ago. She
was graduated from the Baptist
Hospital School of Nursing in
Memphis, Tennessee, in 1952.
Mrs. Lehman has also attended I
Copiah-Lincold Junior College in'
Wesson, and Mississippi State Uni
versity. She also plans to com
plete wor kfor a degree in educa
tion.
The Lehman family will begin
their work in Mississippi in Sep
tember. They will remain at
Hopkins Chapel until August 6,
after which they will take a short
vacation and move to Mississippi.
Town Board Adopts Budget;
Lowers Tax Rate At Meeting
Busy Day in Court
The following cases were dis
posed of before Judge of Zebulon
Recorder’s Court I. D. Gill on
Wednesday, June 28.
Jody Williams, improper park
ing, 30 days on roads suspended
on payment of costs.
Fab Seawell Manning, driving
drunk, $100 line and costs.
Julius Perry, assault, two years
in jail suspended on payment of
court costs and pay into county
$50 per month for Hilda Mae
Blackwell, prosecuting witness.
Abraham Logan, carrying con
cealed weapon, three months in
jail suspended on payment of $50
fine and costs.
William Henry Fogg, possessing
non-tax paid whiskey, 90 days in
jail suspended on payment of $60
fine and costs.
Charles Elbert Harris, possess
ing non-tax paid whiskey, 6
months in jail suspended on pay
ment of costs.
Haywood Lee Harris, driving on
wrong side of road and possessing
non-tax paid whiskey, 6 months in
jail suspended on payment of costs.
Ivory Fowler, Jr., possessing
non-tax paid whiskey, 4 months on
roads suspended on payment of
$75 fine and costs.
Lowerys Awarded
Cancer Citation
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Lowery
were awarded a citation for their
work in the recent Cancer Crusade
in Zebulon at ceremonies last
Tuesday night at Wake Memo
rial Hospital, Raleigh.
Graham Connell, Crusade chair
man, said in making the award
that the Zebulon team had staged
“their very finest Crusade to date,
raising more money for cancer
than ever before.’’
Mrs. Aaron Lowery becomes a
new member of the board of direc
tors of the local cancer society.
Willie Mack Fowler, possessing
non-tax paid whiskey, 90 days on
roads suspended on payment of
$60 fine and costs.
Jessie Edward Daniel, carrying
concealed weapon, 90 days on
roads, suspended on payment of
$50 fine and costs.
Billie Taylor, possessing non
tax paid whiskey, 6 months on
roads, suspended on payment of
$100 fine and costs.
Willie Fairley, carrying conceal
ed weapon, 6 months on roads
suspended on payment of $100 tine
and costs.
Ronald Warren Perry, cruelty
and injury to a dumb animal, 4
months on roads suspended on
payment of $100 to Elton Mitchell,
owner of animal, and pay court
costs.
Joseph W. Temple, speeding 100
mph, judgment reserved.
Henry Thomas Taylor, engaging
in an affray, 60 days on roads sus
pended on payment of $50 fine and
costs.
Elsie Taylor, engaging in an af
fray, 60 days on roads suspended
on payment of $50 fine and costs.
Henry Thomas Taylor, possess
ing non-tax paid whiskey, 6
months on roads suspended on
payment of $50 fine and costs.
Jim Pearce, trespassing on Es
telle Sims property, 6 months on
roads suspended on payment if
$100 fine and costs.
Ellis Lewis, Jr., improper mul
fler, $10 fine and costs.
Percell Watson, driving on
wrong side of road, disregarding
stop sign and improper brake;.,
$30 fine and costs.
Orocpter Miles, failing to stop
far stop sign and improper muf
fler, $30 fine and costs.
Weldon McCoy Baker, failing
to stop for stop sign, $10 fine and
costs.
Charles Raeford Driver exceec
ing safe speed, $15 fine and costs
Odell Vinson, public drunken
ness, $10 fine and costs.
Mavis Jane Pone, disregarding
stop sign, $10 fine and costs.
George B. Bunn, driving in a
careless and reckless manner, $25
fine and costs.
Thomas A. Lenderink, speed
ing, $35 fine and costs.
James Arthur Parker, failing to
stop for stop sign, $10 fine and
costs.
(Continued on page 6)
Hospital Has Experienced
Laboratory Technicians
The laboratory of Wendell
Zebulon Hospital is staffed by two
experienced technicians.
Mrs. Pauline Stallings, 43, the
first technician employed, holds a
registered nurse's degree from St.
Vincent Hospital, Norfolk, the New
York University X-ray School,
and the Manhattan Medical Col
lege for technicians.
She is the daughter of Mrs.
Bertha Clark of Wendell and the
late C. E. Clark. She is the wife
of Jasper V. Stallings of Pilot, and
the mother of two children, Mrs.
Doris Ann Bandy of Fayetteville
and Arthur H. Jones of Jersey
City, N. J.
Mrs. Stallings is also the grand
mother of two.
Ben Bartlett, 35, is a native of
Goldsboro and a graduate of Pike
ville High School and Gradwohl
Laboratory and X-Ray School of
St. Louis, Mo.
He was associated with Victory
Hospital in Miami and’came here
from Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro.
A bachelor, Bartlett was with
the Navy during World War II.
He rooms with Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Jones. •
The tentative budget for the
coming year was set by the Board
of Commissioners Monday night at
their regular meeting. The ten
| tative budget, calling for esti
mated receipts and expenditures of
$114,010, was adopted and will lie
open for public inspection until
July 28, when it will be approved
if no objections are received.
Last year's budget was $87,985.
Most of the increase in the bud
get is represented by an out-lay
of $38,715 for streets, water and
sewer improvements. This is more
than twice last year’s expendi
ture for this purpose.
The tax rate was also set at this
meeting. The new rate is $1.65,
or 10 cents less than that in effect
last year. The rate is based on
each $100 valuation.
A decrease this year was made
possible because of the five per
cent increase in valuations and
also because considerable new
property was added prior to Jan
uary 1.
Hospital Notes
The following were patients
at Wendell-Zebulon Hospital
Wednesday morning.
White
C. V. Whitley, Clee Liles, John
Whitley, Polly Council, C. B. Ed
dins, Zelma Pearce, Taylor Veasey,
Millard Strickland, Mae Barham
and Judy Richardson,
Colored
Geraldine Merritt, Estelle Crews
and Irene Standi.
Legion Pknk
Members and their families of
the American Legion Post 33 are
invited to the Legion’s annual pic
nic to 'be held Tuesday, July 11,
at the park. Bring a picnic basket
and join in the fun which begins
at 7 o’clock.
Poolside
Demonstration
The Red Cross will conduct a
poolside swimming demonstration
Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock. A
film will also be shown. This dem
onstration is for parents, who are
urged to be present, in helping
teach their children how to swim
and water safety.