"•ZEBULON
RECORD
VOLUME 36, NUMBER 24. ZEBULON. N. C.. JULY 20. 1961
Frank Kemp
Frank Kemp New Deputy
District Governor for Lions
Zebulon Lions Club has pro
duced its first Deputy District
Governor of 31 G.
Frank Oliver Kemp has been
named Deputy District Governor
of 31 G and will be installed in
official ceremonies August 4 at the
YMCA Building in Raleigh.
Kemp, one of the most active
Lions in the State, said this is the
highest honor yet bestowed upon
him since he has been a member
of the organization.
“Of course, I am very proud
and thrilled,” he said.
He has been a member of the
Zebulon Liions Club since the club
was organized in 1949. Charter
night here was the largest ever
held in North Carolina, and this
still holds true.
His first office in the new club
was that of tailtwister.
! “The duty of a tailtwister,”
Kemp said, “is to create good
humor and fellowship among the
club members. A good tailtwister
changes a member’s attitude and
frame of mind after he has had a
hard day at the office or with his
business.”
He served in this capacity for
several years, and only recently
relinquished the position because
of the demands which he will
have with his new job.
In 1956 Kemp was made presi
dent of the local Lions Club. One
of the major projects of his tenure
of office was the purchase of band
uniforms for Wakelon High
School Band.
“The Lions saw the need for
outfitting the band members with
! uniforms,” Kemp said, “and they
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POTTER PATTER
Give Us the Facts
By Eloise Potter
Recently I had. a happy reunion
with a former teacher of mine
whom I greatly admire. For those
of you who have lived in Zebulon
more than nine years I shall
describe her as a Bessie Farmer
Davis with a Ph. D. For the rest
of you I shall describe her as a
brilliant, well-educated woman
with a generous amount of good
common sense.
Naturally I wanted to discuss
with my dear teacher the most
important subject on my mind at
the moment, school consolidation.
Although she would not express
an opinion pro or con, she did
give me a guide to organizing my
own thoughts.
First step: Admit to yourself
that the views you now hold may
be wrong. Admit to yourself that
a big school is not necessarily a
good school. Any school, regard
less of the buildings and enroll
ment, is what the students, par
ents, and faculty make it.
Second step: Examine your own
motives. What do you hope to gain
by having a bigger high school?
Better curriculum? Better teach
Litttle League
The Lions Little Leaguers con
tinue their winning streak and
are top men on the totem pole.
They are losers of only one game
out of five played.
League Won Lost
Lions . 4 1
WETC . 2 2
Piggly Wiggly . 1 2
Ruritans . 0 2
ers? Better library facilities? Or
do you favor a bigger school be
cause it can field a winning foot
ball team and send an impressive
band to parades? Do you hold a
grudge against the leaders of any
faction?
Third step: Examine other peo
ple’s motives. This Ls very difficult
because people rarely give their
true reasons for choosing their
course of action, and often they do
not admit their real reasons even
to themselves. What do the leaders j
of each faction hope to gain? Fi- j
nancial profit? Gratification of
personal ambitions? Higher status
in the community? Do the leaders
ef any faction hold grudges
against the leaders of any other
faction?
Fourth step: Forget personal
ities and examine the facts. Once
you have made up your mind on
the basis of facts and facts alone,
you will know what to do to im
prove the educational opportuni
ties for your children.
Examine the facts_What are
the facts?
If the case for the consolidation
of Zebulon, Wendell, Knightdale
and Rolesville high schools is as
strong as some supporters have
indicated they believe it to be,
why have the people of Zebulon
not been fully informed at PTA
meetings and in newspaper arti
cles? A manufacturer does not try
to sell his product by keeping its
good qualities secret. Neither
should county school officials ex
pect to win support for consolida
tion without letting parents and
taxpayers know what advantages
the proposed school will offer the
students.
Explorer Scouts Navigate Neuse
Aboard Home-Built 'River Rat'
Ten Explorer Scouts assembled
a handmade raft on Neuse River
Tuesday morning, July 4, and set
sail for Morehead.
The 10 Explorers, Fred Flowers,
Roger Currin, Willard Currin,
Charles Hood, Howard Beck, Jr.
Joe Green, Jack Phillips, George
Byrd, Vincent Rountree and Tom
my Kimball, under the direction
of Explorer leaders Milton Bryant
and Oren Massey, assembled the
raft and loaded their gear and
provisions and got the craft, “The
River Rat,” underway at 10:45 on
the Neuse at Goldsboro.
A hundred yards downstream
the raft ran into a pile of snags,
bu1 the crew quickly learned how
to handle the situation. Then they
continued to drift slowly down
the stream to Cliffs of Neuse State
Park without too much trouble.
The crew had trouble docking
at the Park because of the swift
current. It was a peaceful night,
though, with the crew taking or e
and one-half hour watch shifts.
When “The River Rat” tried to
get underway the next morning,
Wednesday, the boys had trouble
because during the night the wa
ter had dropped one and one-half
feet, and there was trouble get
ting the raft off shore.
When they arrived at Seven
Springs, to get ice and gas, the raft
bumped into a bridge and lost
half of a bumper (an old tire).
The storekeeper, from whom they
got the provisions, gave them an
old broom with which to sweep
the deck of the raft.
It was rough traveling to Kins
ton. The water was swift and the
river was crooked, making the raft
hard to handle. They arrived in
Kinston at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
“The River Rat” was docked at
Kinston, after hitting the Queen
Street Bridge. There, the boys
went up town for more groceries.
A few of them called home. Some
of them heard the history of the
Battleship Neuse and its sinking.
The Battleship Neuse was built
in Smithfield. It was on its way
Willie Bullock Is Named
Little River Township JP
Litle River Township has a new
justice of the peace. He is Willie
Luther Bullock, 53, of Zebulon.
Bullock, who since March has
held a position as postal clerk with
Willie L. Bullock
the Zebulon Post Office, was ap
pointed Little River Township
justice of the peace July 10. The
appointment was made by Wil
liam Y. Bickett, resident judge of
Superior Court of the Tenth Ju
dicial District.
The new justice of the peace is
a member of Union Chapel Bap
tist Church where he is assistant
superintendent of the Sunday
School, a member of the Zebulon
! Masonic Lodge, and is Worthy I
| Patron of the Wakefleld-Zebulon
Order of the Eastern Star, 133.
He has nine years active duty
with the U. S. Army and seven
years with the Army Reserve. He
is associated with 396 General
Hospital, USAR, in Durham where
he is chief ward man.
He is also a practical licensed
nurse.
Bullock is marired to the form
ed Dixie Brantley, and they are
the parents of three children, Gil
bert of Zebulon, Joel of the U. S.
Navy, and Gloria of the home.
There are also two grandchildren.
The family resides on West
Horton Street.
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“The River Rat” and Her Crew
to New Bern during the Civil
War when the Rebels blew it up j
in Kinston to keep it from being
captured by the Northern armies.
In Kinston some of the boys
visited the fire station and rescue
squad and police station. Then j
they took their turns with the
watches again. It wasn’t hard to
stay awake for the watches, for
they had to battle the mosquitoes.
After breakfast the craft was
put into motion again. This time
things were easier. The river was
much wider and straighter, and
the current had slowed down.
As they arrived in Pitch Kittle,
a storm was brewing. The raft
tossed and rolled. The boys had to
fight the current going back up
stream to dock at the town of
Pitch Kittle.
Provisions were purchased at
Pitch Kittle and the boys settled
down for the night. The rain came
in sheets and the canvas topped
raft leaked. There was not a dry
thread on anybody aboard. And
the mosquitoes came like maraud
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Quick to Speak
At Virginia Meet
The Zebulon Methodist Church
minister, the Rev. Bill Quick, will
be speaker for a city-wide Youth
Activities Week in Arlington, Va.,
July 23-28. The youth week is
being sponsored by the five Meth
odist churches of greater Arling
ton: Calvary, Cherrydale, Del Ray,
Washington Street and Arlington.
The week opened Sunday night
at 8 o’clock and thereafter each
evening at 6:30 with a felowship
supper.
Activity each evening will cen
ter around the worship service,
quest period and recreation. The
Rev. Mr. Quick will be the in
spirational speaker each evening.
Theme for the week’s activities
will be “The Path Ahead.” The
nightly topic centering around the
theme will be: Sunday: “The
Christ Who Converts Us”; Mon
day: “The Book That Commands
Us”; Tuesday: “The Church That
Confronts Us”; Wednesday: “The
Faith That Compels Us”; Thurs
day: “The Frontier That Calls
Us”; and Friday: “The Gamble
That Challenges Us”.
The Methodist Youth Fellow
ship of the five Arlington churches
is the sponsor of the week.
Radar Specialist
PFC Michael C. Pace was grad
uated from U. S. Army Signal
Corps School in Fort Monmouth,
N. J. last month. He graduated as
an electronic technician, special
izing in radar. This course carries
the equivilant of three years of
electrical engineering in college.
While at Fort Monmouth, Pfc.
Pate was chosen “Soldier of the
Week,” an honor which no other
soldier in his platoon had achieved
during his term there. He was also
a member of the ceremonial unit.
Pate is now stationed at McCoy
Air Force Base in Orlando, Fla.,
where he will attend school at
Martin Missile School. This is a
private school in advanced elec
tronics and is government classi
fied.
Pate is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Pate of Zebulon.