THE ZEBULON RECORD VOLUME 36. NUMBER 41. ZEBULON. N. C.. NOVEMBER 16. 1961 TELEPHONE STUDY PLANNED Wendell Commissioners Ask For Toll-Free Raleigh Service Wendell Town Board voted unanimously to have Southern Bell Telephone Company make an en gineering cost study of the Town of Wendell and outlying commu nities. Southern Bell officials met with Wendell Town Board Tuesday af ternoon to discuss the possibility of getting toll-free calls between Wendell and Raleigh. The Board was told by W. D. Reynolds, Southern Bell district manager, that the survey would take four or five months to make. Reynolds said there would defi nitely be an increase in the busi ness or homeowner’s rates. He indicated that this increase would be about one dollar for city dwell Churches Planning Joint Thanksgiving The Zebulon Baptists will join with the Zebulon Methodists in a special Thanksgiving Union Serv ice on Wednesday evening, No vember 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Methodist Church. The service is the third this fall for the two congregations and one in a series of several interdenom inational services that has brought about much favorable comment and good will among the town’s two largest churches. The Rev. David E. Daniel will bring the special Thanksgiving message, the host pastor, the Rev. Bill Quick, will preside. Special music will be brought by the Chancel Choir of the Methodist Church, under the direction of Mrs. R. D. Massey, director of music. All persons are invited to participate. ers and slightly more for rural areas. Apex, which has had toll-free service to Raleigh for the past year, pays Raleigh rates, Rey nolds told the group. He said he couldn’t say the same rates would apply to Wendell subscribers, but he indicated that the rates would be slightly higher. The higher rates would be nec essary because of the added equip ment it would necessitate to con nect the two towns, Reynolds said. District Commercial Engineer E. A. Brown told the group to be cautious and not to make compari sons to the Raleigh rates. It was brought out in the meet ing that if Wendell gets toll-free service there will be no toll charge for calls from Zebulon to Wendell or Wendell to Zebulon. The com munication system would stay as it is now, with toll-free service. Reynolds said he believed a study should be made of both the town of Wendell and Zebulon. However. Zebulon has not made any formal request to the tele phone company for toll-free serv ice, he said. R. R. Thompson. Wendell town manager, said he believes the community would favor toll-free service. Wendell Commissioner Curtis Todd said there should be some urgency put into the request for a study. Reynolds told the Board the tele phone company is willing to do what the people want. The study would take several months be cause “it is a right involved thing,” he said. Represented at the meeting were Mayor Ira H. Johnson, Town Manager R. R. Thompson and Commissioners Proc Dean, Leo Britt, Curtis Todd, Dover Hinton and Willard Perry. Rotary White Elephant Auction To Assist Student Loan Fund To bood funds available to its Student Loan Fund, the Zebulon Rotary Ciub is sponsoring its sec ond White Elephant Sale Saturday, November 25. Last year the Rotarians raised more than §600 for the Zebulon Community Library with their first White Elephant Sale. A 1960 Wakelon graduate is be ing helped through the Rotary Student Loan Fund. Loans are pro vided to help with college expens es. Members of Zebulon Rotary Club will begin active solicitations soon for “white elephant” contri butions to be sold at auction. The Zebulon Scouters Take Honors at Louisburg Zebulon Scouts and Scouters: were given recognition for out standing work at the annual Rec ognition Dinner staged last Tues day night in Louisburg by the Sa poni District of the Occoneechee Council. The local group took the largest share of awards made during the special program. Baptists Campaign To Eliminate Debt Members of Zebulon Baptist Church Sunday launched a drive to pay a debt of $8,000 on church property recently acquired. The pastor, the Rev. David Dan iel, urged that the debt be paid as soon as possible so that other pro jects can be undertaken. More than $1,200 was raised and from interest shown more funds will be contributed at an early date. Envelopes containing contribu tions should be labeled “Building Fund” so that the money will be applied on the debt, Mr. Daniel said. Wakelon Bulldogs Smother Bethel, 53-6, As Climax to Big Homecoming Program By Bill Quick The Wakelon Bulldogs routed 53-6 last Friday night, a team that played the role of spoiler in 1960 from Person County. Bethel Hill, coming to town a year ago to up set the. high-riding Bulldogs, came out on the short end of score that surprised even the grid team’s coach. The Bulldogs completely domi nated play all evening and the Bethel Hillians failed to cross the goal until the waning minutes of the contest. Scoring honors were shared by five Bulldogs with quarterback Tommy Wood also sharing the limelight completing four touchdown passes. Freddie Ellington made his scoring debut in the first quarter, after quarterback Wood had con nected with halfback Anthony Laspino early in the game. Wood threw passes that covered 35 and 21 yards respectively to the fleet halfback who reached paydirt standing up. Ellington’s score (erroneously reported in the daily papers as Sawyer) came on an 18-yard jaunt with the conversion by Creech. Wakelon’s fourth touchdown came as freshman Randy Creech, playing outstanding ball all night, grabbed a Bethel Hill pass and rollicked 30 yards into the end zone. The third touchdown through the air came on a 22-yard play from Wood to all-conference end Michael Pearce. John Leffinweli, who previously 1 had scored one extra point all season, played perhaps his best game of the season scoring twice on a 29-yard sweep and a 1-yard buck. Laspino, Wakelon’s scoring sen sation this season, was Wood’s target for the final TD with the 6-points coming on an 11-yard play. Extra points were scored by Laspino following Creech’s inter ception, and Randy Creech scored four PAT’s. Creech played an outstanding defensive game intercepting three Bethel Hill passes. Chapman laud ed the entire Wakelon line for the job done Friday night. Wakelon closed out the season with a 6-3-1 (.650) record, and was runner-up in the conference, having tied the champion Spring Hope, 0-0. Armstrong Cannady, Saponi District chairman, presided at the meeting, held in Louisburg’s Na tional Guard armory. A “pot luck” supper was served to more than 500 people present. W. H. Trentman, Occoneechee Council president, paid special recognition to the Eagle Scouts promoted to the high rank during the past year. The Eagles—all from Zebulon—are Douglas Sey mour, Vincent Rountree, and Bun ny Bunn. Andrew Jenkins, head of Pack 525 in Zebulon, was named Cub master of the year for his work. Last year his wife, Mrs. Becky Jenkins, was honored as Den Mother of the Year in Saponi Dis trict. Mrs. Minda Finch, Zebulon, earned recognition as Den Mother of the year. Her Den is part of Pack 525. Pack 525 took second place in at tendance competition with 49 pres ent for 148% attendance. Troop 525 also was high in attendance with 32 present for 100% attend ance. Youngsville’s Troop 550 had 72 present for 280% attend ance to take top honors. Five Zebulon units took awards for table decorations. Troop 525, Troop 540. Pack 525, and Post 540 won blue ribbons, and Pack 540 won a red ribbon. Charles Pysher of Wendell was honored as Explorer Advisor of the Year for his work with older Scouts in the Wendell community. New officers for the Saponi Dis trict for the 1961-62 year include Armstrong Cannady, chairman; and James Debnam, commissioner. Taking part on the program were Mrs. Nelle Kemp, soloist, and Mrs. Ed Ellington, piano accompanist. They led the group in singing some spirited songs following the meal. This is the first year the dinner has been in Louisburg. For the past two years it has been held in Zebulon’s Davis National Guard armory. community has been portioned and each Rotarian is responsible for contacting residents of his assigned area. Any useful item with a resale value is requested by the Rotari ans. “It does not matter how large or how small the donation is,” said Billy K. Hopkins, Sale chairman, “if it has a resale value we want it for the White Elephant auction.” All items will be sold at the sale at absolute auction. What is a “White Elephant Sale?” Chairman Hopkins explained that the King of Siam used to give white elephants to members of his court whom he wished to ruin. In Siam white elephants are sacred, and the expense of keeping them is ruinous because they do nothing but eat, not. being allowed to plow or work at sawmills as other ele phants do. The term “white elephant” came to represent any item which, while normally of great use, is of no value to the person who owns it, merely taking up valuable storage space. Such a white elephant, however, would be of great value to any per son who needed and possessed such an item. The items donated will be sold and the funds used to as sist college students through the Rotary Student Loan Fund. Civil Defense Topic For PTA Program Col. John Thorne, Wake County Director of Civil Defense, will be the guest speaker at the Wakelon School P.T.A. meeting Monday, November 20, at 7:45 p.m. The devotional message will be brought by the Rev. David Daniel, pastor of the Zebulon Baptist Church. Music for the program will be furnished by Mrs. Wilson Bras well’s second grade. Mrs. Ferd Davis, P.T.A. presi (Continued on Page 4) Deadlines Deadline for all news and advertisements will be 12 o’ clock Monday, November 20. The Zebulon Record will be mailed to subscribers Tues day. Thi is to give employees of Theo. Davis Sons time to enjoy the Thanksgiving holi days. In Zebulon, Sgt. Arnold Is the National Guard For Staff Sergeant Johnsey P. Arnold, the National Guard has become a way of life. For the peo ple of the Zebulon community, Johnsey Arnold is the National Guard. This results from Sgt. Arnold’s having enlisted as a charter mem i ber of Battery A, 113th Field Ar i tillery Battalion, on June 7, 1949, , and working as caretaker and Ad ministrative-Supply Technician for Battery A almost continually since. I Changes in the unit and its fa ; cilities have been many, but, ac cording to the “redlegs” of Battery A, Sgt. Arnold just keeps rolling along. He has seen the unit grow from one officer and 22 enlisted men to ; more than 100 officers and men. He helped move the unit from one , small room in the rear of Zebulon’s old water plant to its present ar I mory which Gov. William Um t stead dedicated February 9, 1954. He has worked on 105mm howit zers and veteran WWII 2 Vi-ton trucks, and on Battery A’s 8-inch howitzers and 10-ton trucks. There’ve been changes aplenty. The popular Guardsman was born in Franklin County, Decem ber 17, 1919. He graduated from Bunn High School, then enlisted for World War II on May 5, 1942, serving with the 90th Infantry Di vision for 20 months, then with the engineers in Africa to build runways for B-29’s being ferried across the dark continent of the Far East. j Released from active duty De- ; cember 15, 1945, he farmed for j two years, and operated a saw mill j for 18 months. Custom carpenter- ] ing filled his spare time. ) When Battery A was organized ] in Zebulon in 1949, Sgt. Arnold became the unit’s first caretaker. In late 1952 he resigned for five months to act as parts manager for a farm equipment firm. Then he happily agreed to return to full- j time National Guard employment I as Administrative-Supply Techni- , cian. | During his first years in the1 Guard, when he served as Motor; Sergeant and Chief of Detail, Sgt. j Arnold completed the 10 Series of j military correspondence courses j as a hobby. The hobby paid divi- | dends when he was appointed a Warrant Officer April 10, 1953. i Promoted to Chief Warrant Of- I fleer May 25, 1956, he continued in that rank until December 31, 1960, when a reorganization of the Army National Guard eliminated the position from artillery firing (Continued on Page 4)

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