"-ZEBULON
RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 2B. ZEBULON. N. C.. AUGUST 17. 1961
Police Chief
Charged With Slapping
Diane hailey
Loca! Girl Cuts
Rock'n Roll Record
Diane Bailey’s recording of
“Someone Else’s Hands” is rockin’
and rollin’ across the airways of
the nation. The pretty young Zeb
ulon girl’s recording was released
last week.
The rock ’n roll number was re
corded early this year by Swan, a
Philadelphia recording company.
She has also recorded two more
records to be released at a later
date.
This is the young lady’s first en
try into the big time recording
field. She has previously done re
cordings for a Chapel Hill record
ing firm.
Diane, who is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilson Bailey
of Route 1, Zebulon, is to appear on
Dick Clark’s Band Stand teevee
show in the near future. She is
also making personal appearances
throughout North Carolina, Virgin
ia and Maryland television sta
tions.
She is being managed with her
career by Thomas Lawrence of
Enfield.
HOSPITAL NOTES
The following wrere patients at
Wendell-Zebulon Hospital Wed
nesday morning.
White
Wayne Cook, Jr., Etta Robertson,
Ida Young, Harris Perry and Eliz
abeth Eddins.
White Birth
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walston
of Wendell announce the birth of
a son at Wendell-Zebulon Hospital
August 13. Mrs. Walston is the
former LaGonda Cook of Tennes
see.
Police Chief Willie B. Hopkins
has been charged with slapping a
young man he argued with over a
sports car the chief claimed had
been seen speeding through the
streets of Zebulon.
Tony Murray. 22, of Route 4,
Zebulon, a life insurance salesman,
swore out the warrant against
Hopkins Thursday, August 10, be
fore Wendell Magistrate H. V. An- |
drews. It was served on Hopkins
by Wendell Constable Billy Gay
Friday.
Hopkins posted a $50 cash bond
and the trial has been set for
August 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Wen
dell before Magistrate Andrews.
Murray charged the chief with
simple assault. He said that Hop
kins gave him a “real hard” slap
across the left jaw as the upshot
of an argument after he told the
chief the speed limit on a street
was 20 miles an hour. He said
Hopkins told him the speed limit
was 15 miles an hour.
Hopkins would not comment to
the press about the allegations
brought against him by Murray.
Scouts Tour Canada,
Eastern United States
Three Zebulon Boy Scouts were
among 65 Scouts of the Occonee
chee Council who left Thursday,
August 10, from Raleigh for a tour
of Eastern United States and
provinces of Canada.
Avon Privette, Jr., Rodney Mc
Nabb, Jr., and Ben David Thomas
are the Scouts from Zebulon on
the 2,000 mile journey and Cana
dian Good-Will Tour. In Canada
they will visit this country’s major
cities of Montreal, Toronto and
Kingston. On their way back they
will stop in New York City and
visit television programs and at
tend a major league baseball game
between the Yankees and White
Sox at Yankee Stadium.
Privette was named games and
activities leader of his group on
! the trip.
Privette and McNabb are mem
bers of Troop 540 and Thomas is
a member of Troop 525.
The trio is scheduled to return
Friday, August 18.
NURSE LEAVING
Mrs. Valaria Perry leaves to
day (Thursday) for Anchorage,
Alaska, to join her husband, Hen
ry, who is stationed with the U.
S. Army there. Mrs. Perry has
worked as a nurse for Dr. D. B.
Thomas for the past eight years.
Succeeding Mrs. Perry is Mrs.
A. W. Boyette. Mrs. Boyette, the
! former Marjorie Nordskog of Chi
cago, is the wife of A. W. Boyette
of Route 1, Zebulon. Her husband
Js a registered surveyor. The cou
ple has two children Roxanne, 15,
and James, 8.
Anti-Consolidation Forces Waiting
Anti-four-school consolidation
forces are just waiting it out.
Foster D. Finch, attorney for
the East Wake County group, said
Tuesday he understands there will
be no further hearings on the con
solidation matter until after Sep
tember.
“Any time after the Board’s first
meeting we will be prepared to
present our plan,” Finch said.
The Board is scheduled to meet
the first Monday in September.
Manager First Federal Now
Serving Office Full Time
R. D. Beam, executive vice pres
ident of First Federal Savings and
Loan Association, recently an
nounced that Hal Clifton Perry
had assumed the duties as mana
ger of First Federal’s Zebulon of
fice. Perry, who has been spend
ing part of his time at the Main
Office of the Association in Raleigh
and part at the local office, will
now be at the local branch during
its office hours for the entire day.
Perry, a native of the Zebulon
area, was employed by First Fed
eral on June 5 of this year. He was
previously employed by the Frank
lin County School system as a vo
cational agriculture teacher. He is
married to the former Armenia
Hocutt and lives on Route 3, Zebu
Ion.
“Although Mr. Perry has been a
member of our staff for only a
short time,” states Mr. Beam, “we
believe that his previous experi
ence in dealing with people and
his understanding of the area will
enable him to meet its needs. We
are confident that the folks in
and around Zebulon will find it
a pleasure to discuss both savings
accounts and loans with Mr. Perry
and that his addition will mean
even better service and growth by
Federal’s local office.”
Town Board's Attention Is Called
To Water Meters, Shrubbery
Response Good
Memorial Gifts To Hospital
Zebulon’s initial response to re
quests for memorial gifts to the
fund for landscaping the Wendell
Zebulon Hospital grounds has been
Methodist Men's
Conference At Duke
This Weekend
The Annual Conference for
Methodist Men is scheduled for
Duke University this weekend.
The Conference will bring togeth
er men from all over the Confer
ence’s 56-county area.
At least two delegates are slated
to go from Zebulon Methodist
Church for the entire weekend
with others planning to attend a
portion of the activities.
Garland L. Richardson, an im
mediate past president of the Zeb
ulon MM, and Wayne L. Davis,
will represent the Zebulon Metho
dist Church at the conference.
The conference begins Saturday
at noon and closes Sunday with the
worship service in the Duke Cha
pel.
Tripp Bros. Open
Wendell Warehouses
A new tobacco warehouse firm
opens in Wendell for the 1961
marketing season.
The widely-known Tripp Broth
ers of Greenville, N. C., who re
tired in 1958, have re-entered the
tobacco business choosing Wen
dell as the location of their new
tobacco auction house.
The Tripp Brothers, Jasper L.
and C. Morris Tripp, are operators
of the new firm which will use the
Farmers Warehouse for their new
location at the corner of Third
and Cypress Streets in the heart
of Wendell’s business section.
The Tripp Brothers operated
the world’s largest tobacco ware
house in Greenville. This ware
house—which they sold—covered
eleven and one-half acres. It was
known world-wide as the world’s
largest warehouse.
The experienced operators prom
ise to favor the farmer in every
possible way. Reputable in every
dealing of past years, they ex
pressed the sincere desire to aid
every farming family to get the
maximum for every pound of to
bacco sold by them.
As members of the Wendell To
bacco Board of Trade, they offer
full support to the local area.
Jasper L. Tripp has lived in
Raleigh since retiring. He is mar
ried to the former Lucille Baker
of Washington, N. C. They have
two children: one son, J. L., Jr.,
who is a senior at State College,
and one daughter, Judy, who is
a rising senior at Needham Brough
ton High School in Raleigh. They
reside at 1703 St. Mary’s Street,
Raleigh.
C. Morris Tripp of Mt. Sterling,
Kentucky, will live in Wendell
with his wife, the former Frances
Greer of Mt. Sterling. She will be
bookkeeper for the firm.
AUDIT
The town books and the books
of Zebulon Recorder’s Court are
being audited this week by R. L.
Steel Company of Raleigh.
good, according to C. V. Tart,
chairman of the project to beautify
the grounds, even though no or
ganized effort has been made to
solocit gifts.
A total of $142 has been pledged
as of Monday night, Mr. Tart said
yesterday, and other pledges are
expected this week. The goal for
Zebulon is $325 or more,
Memorial gifts made thu9 .far
include the following:
Magnolias: Mayor Ed Hales, in
memory of his parents, the R. H.
Haleses; Mr. and Mrs. Willie Lee
Currin. in memory of their son,
Lee Roy Currin; Mrs. Ferd Davis,
in memory of her father, John
Worsham Harris; Tom Monk, in
memory of Mrs. Monk’s father, W.
L. Gibson; Ferd Davis, in memory
of his brother, Eric Farmer Davis;
Barrie Davis and Jack Potter, in
memory of Mrs. Bessie Farmer
Davis; American holly, J. L. (Bill)
Bowling; flowsering erabapple,
Miss Lila Horton, in memory of
her mother, Mrs. Lela B. Horton.
Gifts of money designating the
tree selected for donation and the
name of the person whose memory
is honored may be made to Mr.
Tart, Mayor Hales, Amos Estes,
or R. E. Pippin in Zebulon, and
to Bill Parrish or Jimmy Buchan
an in Wendell.
A second meeting of represen
tatives of local civic clubs will be
held at the law offices of Ferd Da
vis at 7:30 p.m., Friday, August
18, to discuss extension of the
memorial gifts plan. Groups asked j
,o be represented Friday night in- i
elude Rotary, Lions, American Le- j
gion, Ruritan, Chamber of Com
merce, Senior and Junior Wom
an’s Clubs, and the Garden Club.
William Parrish appeared before
Mayor Ed Hales and the Town
Board of Commissioners August
7 to express his views on paving
the area in front of his launderette
business on East Vance Street. He
was assured by the Board they
would give the matter considera
tion and notify him of their de
cision.
The clerk of the town was asked
to write a letter of appreciation to
Victor Bell for providing Dr. Lee
Sedwitz, Wendell-Zebulon Hos
pital surgeon, a house until a per
manent home could be secured for
the surgeon and his family.
Town Clerk Willie B. Bapkins
was asked to inform Frank Kan
non of the danger caused by the
shrubbery on his lot which blocks
the view on Gannon Avenue and
to ask Mr. Kannon to remove the
shrubbery. The clerk was asked
to also check all intersections of
the town for like conditions and
to inform property owners if such
conditions exist.
Attention was called at this
meeting to the complaints regard
ing water bills and the need for
correct headings of all water me
ters and the need for meter re
pairs. The clerk is to ascertain
the number of new water meters
needed and to repair immediately
all those meters that can be re
paired. A report is to be made to
the Board at its next meeting of
the number of new meters needed.
Proposed drafts of water and
sewer and sub-division ordinances
were read to and discussed by the
Board.
Mrs. Melvin Lanier was ap
pointed to fill the vacancy of town
librarian. The vacancy was cre
ated when Mrs. Gilford Bufkin re
signed to take a job in Raleigh.
Present at the meeting were
Mayor Ed Hales and Commission
ers J. R. Alford, T. B. Hepler, G.
K. Corbett and Mrs. Elizabeth El
lett.
C. B. Eddins Dies Tuesday
PM In Raleigh Rest Home
Charles Bernice Eddins died
Tuesday afternoon at Mayview
Rest Home in Raleigh after a two
months lingering illness. He was
a patient at Wendell-Zebulon Hos
pital until Monday when he was
transferred to the Raleigh rest
home.
Eddins was born July 1, 1884, in
Eastern Wake County. He was
the son of the late J. M. and Nora
Whitley Eddins. He was one of
eight children of the couple.
He was married to the former
Mary Chamblee of Zebulon. She
preceded him in death in 1949.
They were the parents of eight
children.
Eddins was a retired farmer and
cobbler. He operated a shoe re
pair business in Zebulon for 28
years.
Surviving are five sons, C. B.,
Jr., of Claxton, Ga.; Sidney of
Zebulon; Mike W. of McKees
Rocks, Pa.; Vassar A. of North
Augusta, S. C.; Wilmer B. of Dub
lin, Ga.; two daughters, Mrs. Eliz
abeth E. Pearce and Mrs. Georgia
E. Croom, both of Zebulon; one
sister, Mrs. Maggie King of Ra
leigh; one brother, Robert Eddins
of Wakefield; 18 grandchildren and
two great grandchildren.
Funeral rites will be held Fri
C. B. Eddins
day morning at 11 o’clock from
Zebulon Baptist Church of which
he was a member. The Rev. Da
vid Daniel, pastor, and the Rev.
W. K. Quick, Zebulon Methodist
minister, will officiate. Burial will
be in Zebulon cemetery.