THE ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 33. ZEBULON. N. C.. SEPTEMBER 21. 1961
Merger Meeting Tonight At 7:30
Local C of C Holds Tour
For Raleigh Businessmen
Fifteen members of Raleigh
Chamber of Commerce were guests
last Thursday of Zebulon business
men and town officials.
This industrial tour, which be
gan at shortly before noon and
lasted slightly more than an hour,
took the Raleigh guests to the Devil
Dog Manufacturing plant, Theo.
Davis Sons Printing Company,
Beck Veneer Company, the Wen
dell-Zebulon Hospital, and about
20 other sites around town.
Historical spots, stores, Masonic
Lodge, schools and the swimming
pool were also pointed out to the
group on the tour.
This was the second “good will”
tour made by the Raleigh C of C
members. Their first visit was to
Apex in August.
The tour was made on the Bap
tist Church activity bus. A num
ber of private cars followed the
bus, making up the entourage.
Robert D. Massey, president of
the Zebulon Chamber of Com
merce, served as conductor and
commentator for the trip.
Shortly after one o’clock the
visitors and hosts f athered at the
Lions Club for a buffet lunch con
sisting of baked ham, chicken sal
ad, potato salad, corn pudding, a
variety of hors d’oeuvres, rolls,
hush puppies, coconut cream tarts
and iced tea.
Jimmy Little of the Raleigh
Chamber said “Such a series of
visits helps us to get better ac
quainted. We have a better insight
of our neighbors, and a better un
derstanding of our problems. We
don’t have any special problems—
they are one and the same.”
John Alexander of the Raleigh
Chamber commended Zebulon on
its community spirit.
The Rev. W. K. Quick, minis
ter of Zebulon Methodist Church,
said: “Growth sometimes produces
problems. We have grown and we
have problems. Nothing phenome
nal is taking place in Zebulon. We
are here as a community because
of a mistake. This was the rail
road. That mistake created what
is now Zebulon.”
The Rev. Mr. Quick said the
town “is not content to stay where
we have been.” He further stated
that one of the reasons Zebulon
has grown is that the older citi
zens have relinquished the reins
of leadership to the youqger per
sons. He cited this as good for
progress.
ojjutvc ui reiigiuua «niu
cultural environments here.
‘•We are looking ahead to new 1
people, new industries, who can
provide experiences and lift our
community standards higher,” the
Rev. Mr. Quick concluded.
Members of the Raleigh Cham
ber of Commerce attending the in
dustrial tour were Ed Wyatt, Paul
Tillery, Maurice Thiem, Jim Kil
gore, Earl Jones, Orin Cottle, John
ny Lee, Hubert Ledford, Harly An
derson, Dick Mason, Marvin
Koonce, Zack Bacon, Buster Bell.
John Alexander and Victor Bell.
Guidance Instructor Explains Program
Wakelon School is offering a
service to the pupil this year
which has never been offered be
fore in the history of the school.
This year a guidance and coun
seling program has been added
to the school’s educational system.
It is under the direction of Miss
Blanche Gay.
Miss Gay said there are five
basic services of a guidance pro
gram. Services to the pupils in
groups, to the pupils as individ
uals, to the instructional staff, to
the administration and research.
A break-down of the services
are: services to pupils in groups,
orientation, articulation and group
•guidance; service to pupils as indi
viduals, counseling analysis of the
individuals, environment informa
tion and placement; services to the
instructional staff, teacher refer
rals and teacher participation;
seVvices to administration, curric
ulum and community liaison; and
research, community occupational
survey and follow-up studies.
Miss Gay said the above services
are the basic steps in any guid
ance program. They are applica
ble to Wakelon through the fol
lowing: articulation from ele
mentary school to high school and
articulation in postschool situa
tions.
“This is to provide a continuous
flow of information about pupils
and to help bridge the emotional
gap for the pupil,” Miss Gay said,
“so that he has some knowledge
about his next step.”
Orientation of eighth grade stu
dents coming into high by eighth
grade orientation day and through
home room guidance program is
providing organized group services
to help pupils acquire needed ex
periences for intelligent personal
planning.
“There are short courses and
conferences on occupations,” Miss
Gay continued, “such as career
day, college day, and group con
ferences to discuss various topics
of interest to a particular group.”
“Counseling is the most impor
tant service offered to individual
pupils,” the guidance counselor
said. “Counseling provides a re
lationship in which the individual
is stimulated (1) to evaluate him
self and his opportunities, (2) to
choose a feasible course of action,
(3) to accept responsibility for his
choice, and (4) to initiate a course,
of action in line with his choice.” I
Counseling requires a number of |
complementary services, she said, j
Students frequently need help in
evaluating themselves. They want
to discover their strength and
weaknesses. This information is
supplied through the service of
analysis of the individual which
includes such techniques of test
ing, anecdotal records, personal
data blanks, and the cumulative
record.
“Enviromental information con
sists of opportunities available to
students in regard to the outlook
for various occupations, informa
tion on colleges, apprentice train
ing, trades and occupations which
require little formal training,”
Miss Gay said.
The placement service consists
of providing a student with a
transcript of his high school rec
ord if he plans to go on to college,
providing a prospective employer
with information about a student,
she said. In general, it includes
placing the student in the next
training institution, whether a
graduate or a drop-out.
“The third set of guidance serv
ices is provided for the instruc ion
al staff of the school,” Miss Gay
said, “by assisting teacheTs in
their attempts to understand pu
pils, to provide formalized in
service training activities, and to
provide a counselor to whom
teachers may refer nupils they i;->n
not understand or pupils whose in
dividual problems they do not have
time to work through.”
Miss Gay continued. “The guid- '
ance program can render a service j
to administration as it plans the,
Consolidation Forces To Lock Horns
Pastor's Opinion
The Lions Club is a worthy or
ganization. I approve of its pro
gram and its fellowship. Many
projects of magnitude greatly
benefit our community. However,
one project which does not bene
fit our community is the Lions Five
County Fair. The exhibits are
good, the rides are wonderful for
the children; but how can we
justify open gambling and “girlie
shows.” The old-time carnivals
and fairs with their crooked games,
their dirty riff-raff and their in
decent shows are dying out. But
here we are, people of Zebulon,
fostering the very thing we say we
are against on Sunday. Many peo
ple in our community will fall vic
tim to the pitfalls that lay waiting
for them at the fair. Money will
be lost that has been hard to come
by in our tobacco fields; morals
will be dropped low as indecency
prevails in the person of “Vicky.”
Can we honestly say that this pro
ject is worthy of us? 1 think that
we deserve better.
David E. Daniel, Pastor Zebulon
Baptist Church
LEAVING
Lloyd Douglas Stephenson has
announced he is leaving his florist
business here. He is the owner of
Steve’s Florist at the corner of
Arendell and Horton Street. Steph
enson cited his reason for leaving
is because of health. He will de
vote his full time to another florist
establishment he owns in his home
town of Clayton.
curricular development, of the
school by identifying the needs
and requirements of each of the
pupils and can serve the adminis
tration in providing a liaison with
the community. The counselor, by
the very nature of her work, must
seek information about the com
munity—the resources and oppor
tunities available for young per
sons in the immediate vicinity.”
The final service: is research.
Miss Gay said. Research activities
will consist of a community which
is concerned with c survey of in -
formation in addition to occu - .
tional opportunities, to conduct a
follow-up survey of both high
school graduates and drop-oui; in
order to help, evaluate the activi
ties of the school, particularly the
curriculum, to evaluate the gur
ance program itself, and to idevi
fy those former pupils in need of
further assistance from the sc \ool.
This year the schi ol will par
ticipate in the PSAT (Preliminary
Scholastic Aptitude Test) testing
program,” Miss Gay said. “Ti, *
test will be administered to the
juniors who plan to attend college.
This is primarily for the purp ,e
of predicting an individual’s per
formance on the SAT (CoJ’ege
Board to be taken during the
senior year.”
The National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test (Achievement
Test) will be administered to ne
juniors in addition to regular
county testing program, she said.
“This guidance program is de
signed primarily for the benefit
of the student, providing him A’'th
educational-occupational inforn a
tion,” Miss Gay said. “The core i'f
the guidance program is that o'
counseling, which includes both
student and parent conferences.”
Miss Gay, who was born in
Princeton but now lives in Raleigh,
is a graduate of Atlantic Christian
College with a bachelor of arts de
gree. She is beginning her ♦ th
year on the Wakelon faculty.
Wakelon Group To Give Plan
Wakelon Upsets
Norlina 14-0
By Bill Quick
The underdog Wakelon Bulldogs
pulled one of the season’s first up
sets in Class A grid circles last
Friday night by whipping Norlina
14-0. Both Wakelon touchdowns
came in the opening quarter.
Wakelon kicked, Norlina receiv
ed and failed to gain thereby giv
ing Wakelon the ball on their own
40-yard line. After three series of
downs Randy Creech bulled over
from the four to score the first
TD of the season for the Bulldogs.
Laspino made the PAT and Wake
lon pulled in the lead by seven.
The second TD came just min
utes later and resulted from full
back Ralph Boykin recovering a
Norlina fumble on the 47 yard
line. The Bulldogs got a first
down on the Norlina 37. Tommy
Wood then passed to Randy Creech
for 18 yards and another FD. Las
pino picked up eight and Boykin
hit the line from the five and Las
pino carried for the extra point
to give Wakelon a 14-0 edge.
That was all of the night’s scor
ing but the remainder of the con
test was filled with excitement
aplenty.
After Wakelon kicked and a se
ries of exchanges, the Bulldogs
| fumbled on the Norlina 40, then
I proceeded to hold on the 30. Las
! pino made an exciting 32-yard run
that gave Wakelon the ball on the
48. A series of penalties finally
forced the Bulldogs to boot the
ball with Tommy Wood kicking to
the Wakelon 10-yard line.
In the second half, Norlina
made one sustained drive (aided
tremendously by the never-ending
penalties) to the Wakelon 29 but
their second-string quarterback
Buck Wiggins was downed as he
attempted to pass.
The first string quarterback, Bill
Fuller, was out for the opponents
with pneumonia. Wiggins per- j
formed for Fuller and was aided
by Andrew Hundley whose big
No. 20 was a constant threat to
the Bulldogs. I
Chapman had the gridmen play I
conservative ball the second half,
seeking to avoid the pitfall of <
Spring Hope a week earlier. Spring
Hope led at halftime 18-0 only to
have Norlina come roaring back in
AWARD WINNERS . . . William Roth, right, Scout executive
with the Occoneechee Council, is shown presenting the trustee mem
bership plaque to Elliott Rieger, left, plant manager of Devil Dog
Manufacturing Company of Zebulon. The award was made at a
kick-off campaign breakfast last Thursday at Zebulon Lions Club.
In order to get this av/ard, a company or firm must contribute more
than $500 to the annual Scout drive. This is the first time such an
award has been given to a Zebulon firm. Next to Rieger is Amos
Estes and Roth is Mrs. Minda Finch, a 'Den Mother and employee of
Devil Dog, who helped with the drive at the manufacturing firm. Ap
proximately 40 persons from the Council and Zeulon attended the
breakfast. About $3,000 was collected during the campaign.
Patrons Urged To
Attend This Meeting
Consolidation forces lock horns
again tonight.
Patrons of Wakelon School Dis
trict are urged to meet with others
tonight (Thursday) at the Wake
school system’s office on Noble
Road in Raleigh.
The meeting, open to all persons
from the areas involved, is set for
7:30. It is for the purpose of fur
ther hearing on the question of
consolidating four eastern Wake
County high schools.
The anti-consolidation group
from Wakelon appeared before the
county board in June to protest
the merger of Wakelon, Wendell,
Rolesville and Knightdale schools.
The Wakelon delegation to this
meeting did not present the alter
nate plan to the 300-some patrons
attending the session, many of
them in favor of a new central high
school.
foster D. Finch, attorney for
the Wakelon group, said: “We ap
preciate the Board giving us this
time and we are intending to pre
sent our proposal as clearly and
as perfectly as we can, and in
such a way that we hope will con
vince the Board there is some mer
it in our proposal.”
The attorney hopes and feels
there will be a good representation
of persons from Wakelon School
District at the meeting tonight.
“We feel that this is of commu
nity-wide interest and the effect
of the decision will be felt in the
community for generations to
come. We also feel that every per
son in the community should lay
aside any other plans tonight in
order to attend this worthwhile
meeting,” Finch said.
Chairman of the Board C. V.
Whitley declined to comment on
the out-come of tonight’s meeting.
the second half to win 19-18.
Wakelon picked up 192 yards
on the ground, completed one of
three passes for 18 yards (one was
intercepted). Wood averaged 39.2
yds. per kick and Boykin was the
leading ground gainer with 53
yards on 9 carries. Wood picked
up 30, Laspino 32, Sawyer, 43 and
Creech 34.