THE ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 42. ZEBULON. N. C.. NOVEMBER 23. 1961
White Elephant
Sale on Saturday
Zebulon Rotary Club’s sec
ond White Elephant sale will
be held Saturday, November
25. This sale will boost the
club’s Student Loan Fund.
Members of the club will be i
active solicitations immedi- !
ately for contributions to be I
sold at auction. Each mem
ber has certain territories to
cover.
Any useful item with a re
sale value is requested by the
Rotarians. All items will be
sold at the sale at absolute
auction.
'Social' Drinkers
Are Dangerous,
Patrolman Says
The so-called social drinker is
the real menace on North Carolina
highways today, reports Patrol
man B. K. Tucker. And the Pa
trol means to move swiftly against
him.
The North Carolina State High
way Patrol officials report that the
people of North Carolina are defi
nitely in the disaster area. The
American Medical Association,
American Bar Association, and the
National Safety Council state that
over half of all automobile deaths
can. be attributed to the “had
been drinking” and “drunken”
driver.
Patrolman B. K. Tucker said
that each year during the winter
months and holiday seasons, the
drinking driver becomes more of
a problem than usual.
The Highway Patrol is stepping
up its operation to locate these
problem drivers, Patrolman Tuck
er said. Floodlight operations at
night checking stations will con
tinually be used during the winter
months, and “smokeout” proce
dures will be projected against
known notorious alcoholic outlets.
Most citizens feel that the reel
ing drunk is the real traffic prob
lem, Patrolman Tucker said. But
he countered that a person with
two drinks is twice as apt to have
an accident, a person with three
is three times as likely, and six
drinks increases the probability to
ten.
Puritans Planning
Birthday Calendar
Zebulon Ruritan Club and
Wakelon Future Farmers Chapter
are to publish a community birth
day calendar.
The calendar will have names
and birth dates of persons in the
community who desire them, meet
ing dates of local clubs and or
ganizations, church and school af
fairs, programs and community
social events, and other useful
information.
The calehdar will carry 18 ad
vertisements of local business
firms.
F. F. A. members will canvass
the community to make sales for
the calendar.
A $2.00 fee will be charged for
the calendar and the birthday and
anniversary listings for each mem
ber of the family. The proceeds
from the sale of the calendars will
be used for F. F. A. activities.
Happy Days for Wakefield Baptists
WAKEFIELD NOTEBURNING ... A dedication and note-burning
ceremony was held Sunday, November 12, at Wakefield Baptist
Church. Participating in the ceremony were Bernice Strickland,
left, treasurer; the Rev. Horace Hamm, pastor; Robert Eddlns, and
the Rev. Vernon Brooks, who is not shown, but who was pastor
when the structure was begun. Mr. and Mrs. Eddins donated the
land which the church is built on. The ground for the church was
broken in 1955 and the modem sanctuary and education plant were
completed about two years ago. The church is valued at approxi
mately $100,000.
Talented Wakelon Lass
A Wakelon High School senior represented Wake County at the
North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation Talk Meet and Talent Find
Monday night, November 20. She is Carolyn Eugenia (Gene) Perry.
Miss Perry, 17, did a modern jazz dance for her talent. She is
head majorette with the Wakelon band, and president of the Future
Homemakers of America. She has had 10 years of dancing, the last
two years having taken instruction with Lehman Studios in Raleigh.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Wesley Perry of Route
3,. Zebulpn. The Bureau meeting was held at Sir Walter Hotel.
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Local Turkey Man's Fowl
Center Tables Since 1938
Kuester Hood’s succulent tur
keys have been centering the ta
bles of homes since 1938.
Hood, who lives on Route 1,
Zebulon, started out with 62
poults. Thanksgiving of 1938 he
had 45 adult turkeys ready for
trussing and stuffing.
Since then, his flock has grown
to approximately 500.
Hood says that turkeys are one
of the most difficult fowls to raise.
They are so susceptible to di
seases. One of the most common
ills of the turkey is blackhead.
During the babyhood of the
poults they must be kept very
warm, he says. Baby chicks can
crowd underneath the brooder, but
not so turkeys. The temperature
of the brooder house must be so
warm they will not crowd under
the brooderr. If they do they tend
to smother each other to death.
Turkeys, he says, are very
foolish about their diet. If their
diet is changed, they will not eat.
He told of trying to fool his flock,
cutting a new kind of nutrient in
their food at the bottom of the
regular food. The turkeys ate
down to the new food, then
stopped, knowing of the change.
Hood gets his poults from the
hatchery in May. By Thanksgiv
ing they are ready for the market,
weighing 16 pounds for hens and
28 pounds for toms.
He sells the majority of his tur
keys on foot. However, for spe
cial orders he will dress them.
He estimates that his 500
Broadbreasted Bronze turkeys will
eat approximately 200 pounds of
food per day.
He has six acres of ground for
the flock to range on. After they
are four or five weeks old he turns
them out into the range.
Hood thinks he has had pretty
good luck during his years in the
business. However, right now the
prices are lower than they ever
have been since he has been in
business.
He does not plan to increase his
flock. Five hundred turkeys is
about all he can handle himself.
This number requires his daylight
hours and many time many hours
of his nights.
He said no matter how long one
ever deals with turkeys they do
not know just how to handle them.
Peculiar, temperamental, and sus
ceptible to diseases, they are
sometimes unfathomable and hard
to understand.
Hood isn’t going to quit, now,
though. He loves to work with the
beautifully colored fowls. He
finds them interesting and fasci
nating. And they love him, re
sponding to his calls at feeding
time.
Local Community
Red Cross Drive
Begins Next Week
The appointment of ex-Mayor
Worth Hinton to direct the 1962
Red Cross Fund Campaign in Zeb
ulon was announced Monday by
J. Allen Adams, Wake County
Fund Chairman.
The solicitation drive is to be
conducted next week, according to
Chairman Allen. Only towns
which do not have United Fund
drives are participating in the
Red Cross campaign.
According to Allen, Zebulon
contributed more to the Red Cross
drive last year than any other town
in Wake County. This was in ex
cess of $300.
Deputy Sheriff S. J. Blackley
headed the drive here last year.
“As Red Cross members,” Mr.
Hinton said, “every American has
the opportunity to help restore
the disrupted lives of disaster vic
tims; provide blood for the ill and
injured; train families in first
aid, water safety and home
nursing; solve personal and fam
ily problems of servicemen, veter
ans, and their dependents, and
prepare youth to become tomor
row’s family, community and na
tional leaders.”
During the past year in the Zeb
ulon area, the County Chapter
performed many home service as
signments providing services to
servicemen, veterans, and their
dependents. First Aid courses are
in progress or scheduled at Zebu
Ion Community Center and Wake
High School, and First Aid demon
stration has been given at Shepard
High School. Six different Youth
Service projects have been con
ducted at Wake Elementary and
Wakelon High School. The Zebu
Ion area has had five free swim
ming and life saving courses.
These are only a part of the
services of the County Chapter to
the Zebulon area in the last year,
according to Adams.
Two Wake towns, Apex and
Wendell, have completed their
drives, contributing $500 each,
Adams said.
Mrs. Foster Finch is a member
of the board of directors of the
Wake chapter.
Hospital Notes
The following were patients at
Wendell-Zebulon Hospital Mon
day morning.
White
Rella Privette, I. B. Long, Jr.,
William Bruce Brown, O. C. Mul
len and R. G. O’Neal.
Thanksgiving feast on foot
Kuester Hood of Route 1, Zebu Ion, is seen standing amidst his
Broadbreasted Bronze turkey flock. These fowls find places on many
tables during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.