THE ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 48. ZEBULON. N. C.. JANUARY 11. 1062
Man of Year
Named By Wendell Lions
The assistant cashier of The
Bank of Wendell has been named
the Man of the Year by the Wen
dell Lions Club. The club pre
sented the award to Willard E.
Perry December 11.
Perry 39, is the son of the late
Armada Liles and John G. Perry.
One of six children, he was born
on his father’s farm on Route 2,
Wendell. He is a graduate of
Wendell High School and was hon
orably discharged from active duty
with the Air Force of World War
II.
Perry is active in the civic and
religious affairs of his town and
community. He is a past president
of the Wendell Lions Club, a di
rector of the Chamber of Com
merce, chairman of Hephzibah
Baptist Church pulpit committee,
member of his church’s budget
committee, a deacon, teacher of
the Baraca Sunday School Class,
member of the church choir,
chairman of the Lions Club Health
and Welfare committee, and is
serving his second term on the
Town’s Board of Commissioners.
He was instrumental in securing
a new doctor for the town last
Perry is married to the former
Willie House of Knightdale. ' The
couple has no children but are
proud of their foster daughter, Elsa
Alligood, 13.
His spare time is taken up with
fishing, which he lists as his only
hobby.
He has been with the Bank of
Wendell for three years.
The family resides on Wall
Street.
The Man of the Year award has
been given by the Wendell Lions
Club since 1958. Any man in Wen
dell or Wendell School District is
eligible to receive the trophy.
Selection of the Man is made
by a member of the Lions Club
and two other persons from civic
organizations. The person is
judged on contribution to commu
nity welfare (50) points), evi
dence of leadership ability (25
points), and evidence of personal
or business progress (25 {joints).
The award is male annually at
the club’s Christmas party.
Pilot* Pastor
Announces Sermon
Topics for Month
The sermon topics for the month
of January have been announced
by the R6v. G. W. McDowell, pas
tor of Pilot Baptist Church.
January 7: “A New Start.” “A
Family Film.”
January 14: “The First Commu
nicants.” “God Is Keeping Books.”
January 21: “Teaching Chil
dren.” “The Ministry of Death.”
January 28: “Another Faith.”
“Blind Bartimeus.”
Willard Perry
Church Leagues
Begin Play
Zebulon Baptist Church basket
ball team defeated Wakefield Bap
tist Church 40-26 in the first game
of the season.
The new league organized this
winter got underway last Satur
day. All games will be played on
Saturdays.
Wayne Davis, on the Town Rec
reation Board of Directors, said a
fourth team is urgently needed.
Only three teams are now repre
sented: Zebulon Baptist, Zebulon
Methodist and Wakefield Baptist.
“We need a fourth team desper
ately,’ Davis said. “This will
round out the teams.”
Davis also added that about a
dozen teams were expected to par
ticipate in this league. However,
such has not been the case.
The Rec Commission initiated
this league for youngsters who
need wholesome recreation during
the winter months. It is also good
training, the group feels, for po
tential basketball material in the
high school.
A scrimmage game followed the
official game last Saturday be
tween Zebulon Baptist and Zebu
lon Methodist Churches. The Bap
tist boys defeated the Methodists.
Any churches or other organiza
tion wishing to join the league are
asked to contact Davis, the Rev.
Bill Quick or Ray Goodwin im
mediately.
Dentist Trustee Head
Dr. L. M. Massey, prominent
Zebulon dentist, took office Janu
ary 1 as head of the Meredith Col
lege board of trustees. His presi
dency will expire December 31,
1965.
Donations Still Needed If
Hospital Grounds Landscaped
Donations are still needed to
buy schrubbery for Wendell-Zebu
lon Hospital.
C. V. Tart, who is in charge of
the landscaping, reports that do
nations amounting to $350 have
been given. At least $250 more
is needed to do a minimum job of
landscaping. Tart added.
Tart said civic organizations in
Wendell and Zebulon will be con
tacted for donations.
Response from private citizens
has not been too heavy.
Tart said no planting will be
done until about the middle of
February.
The hospital grounds have no
shrubbery. The only beautifica
tion done is grass.
Hospital Notes
The following were patients at
Wendell-Zebulon Hospital Wed
nesday morning.
White
J. T. Boykin, Sophie Privette,
Pennie Whitley, C. V. Whitley,
Mary Johnson, Myra Chamblee, B.
C. Hodge, Mildred Ferrell, Peggy
Wilson, Maggie Doan, Rella Priv
! ette, Carolyn Jo Massey, Billy
Privette and Eurtress Adcock.
Former Resident
Authors Book
The fifth edition of a widely
known X-ray text and reference
book by a former Zebulon resi
dent has been published by the
Duke University Press.
John B. Cahoon, who is assist
ant professor of x-ray technology
at the Duke University Medical
Center, is the author of the text.
Entitled “Formulating X-Ray
Technics,” the 351-page book is
intended as a “compact text on
radiographic exposure” for stu
dent X-ray technicians.
The book’s five editions over a
14-year period were prepared in
order to keep up with advances in
X-ray technology.
Cahoon is a past president of
the American Society of X-ray
Technicians, and in 1956 was
elected a Fellow of the Society in
recognition of his outstanding tech
nical contributions in the field of
X-ray technology. Two years la
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of the American Registry of X-ray
Technicians for service during the
preceding decade.
In 1960, Cahoon was chosen
Jerman Memorial Lecturer for the
annual convention of the American
Society of X-Ray technologists or
radiologists selected on the basis
of professional leadership.
A native of Columbia, North
Carolina, Cahoon studied at Duke
and became a member of the Med
ical Center staff in 1940. He is
technical decorator of die Center’s
course in X-ray technology.
Ralph Talton Is
Promoted by CP&L
Ralph W. Talton, district man
ager for Carolina Power and Light
Company in Rockingham since
1957, has been promoted to mana
ger of the company’s Dunn dis
trict.
Talton is a native of Johnston
County and grew up in Selma and
Smithfield. He attended N. C.
State College and joined CP&L
in 1929. He served the company
in Raleigh, Asheville, Henderson,
Goldsboro, Spruce Pine and Zebu
Ion. He was promoted to the
Rockingham district post in 1957.
Talton is a Rotarian and is presi
dent of the Rockingham Chamber
of Commerce and Merchants Asso
ciation and the Richmond Indus
trial Development Corporation. He
has served as community TB seal
sale chairman for two years, has
been active in the Baptist Church
and a member of the choir five
years, is a former director of the
visits, messages of condolence, and
been active in fund campaigns for
the North Carolina Symphony.
Mrs. Talton is the former Clyde
Sanders of Four Oaks. They have
two daughters, Mrs. F. M. Coiner
of Hendersonville and Mrs. Lauch
Faircloth of Clinton.
Health Department
Employee To Speak
To PTA Members
J. O. Maynard, of the Wake
County Health Department, will
be the guest speaker at the Wake
Ion School P.T.A. meeting Mon
day, January 15, at 7:45 in the
school auditorium.
Mr. Maynard will talk about a
serious community health prob
lem, rabies. People, household
pets, farm animals, and game an
imals all benefit from a strictly
enforced rabies control program.
Father Robert Wilken, pastor
of St. Eugene’s Catholic Church in
Wendell, will bring the devotional
message.
Mrs. Ferd L. Davis, P.T.A. presi
dent, announces that the new pia
no has been purchased and it has
arrived at the school.
Optometrist Will Open
Office In Zebulon Friday
Zebu Ion’s first opeometrist opens
his offices here Friday.
Dr. Nathaniel Perry Grogan and
his family moved to Zebulon be
fore Christmas and he has been
supervising the equipping of his
office since then.
The offices are located at 204
Arendell Avenue, between Hepler
Auto Supply and Theo. Davis Sons.
Dr. Grogan, 39, is a native of
Bluefield, West Va. He is the
youngest of five children of Mrs.
Leon P. Grogan and the late Mr.
Grogan. His mother resides in
Beckley, West Va.
The new doctor has North Caro
lina ties. His father, who was a
coal broker, was a North Carolin
ian.
After graduating from Woodrow
Wilson High School in Beckley,
Dr. Grogan took a bachelor of sci
ence degree in 1951 from Rich
mond Professional Institute. Then
for two years he worked as a lab
oratory lecnmcian in tsecKley do
ing coal analysis.
In 1956 he was graduated from
the Southern College of Optometry
of Memphis, Tenn.
What possessed him to go into
optometry? He said he had a good
friend who was an optometrist.
And then his own eyes caused
him to be more conscious of the
world of vision.
Dr. Grogan says men of his pro
fession call themselves “vision
specialists.” They practice the art
of eye examination, the fitting of
glasses, contact lenses, and visual
training.
He says that the most often
found malady is near-sightedness.
Near-sightedness seems to be more
prevalent than other diseases of
the eye. Of course, there is astig
matism, which almost everybody
has to some degree.
Why is there so much near
sightedness? He indicated that
children have so much school
work to do now. It has greatly in
creased since he was a youngster.
This close work seemingly has in
creased this eye malady.
He does not feel that television
has affected vision to any great ex
tent. Under proper viewing con
ditions, Dr. Grogan dosn’t feel that
television will damage children’s
or adult’s eyes.
Dr. Grogan had a private prac
tice in Man, West Virginia, prior
to coming to Zebulon. He was
there five years.
How did he happen to select
Zebulon? Well, he was passing
through and stopped at the Dairy
Queen here. Up drove the Rev.
William Quick, minister of Zebu
lon Methodist Church. The Rev.
Mr. Quick, seeing the West Vir
ginia license plates on the doctor’s
car, introduced himself and re
ported that Mrs. Quick is a native
of Bluefield.
Dr. Grogan informed the min
ister of his desire for a change
and the minister hastened to give
him the wonderful aspects of Zeb
ulon and the surrounding commu
nities. In fact, the Rev. Mr. Quick
took the doctor on a guided tour
of the town that day.
The young doctor and his wife
were duly impressed with the town
and its opportunities. They made
up their minds immediately. “We
decided Zebulon is the place we
want our children to grow up in,”
the doctor said.
The soft-spoken, easy going op
tometrist’s only hobby is golf. He
is anxious to get onto the green.
Low eighties? “No, I’m lucky if I
break a hundred,” he laughed.
Dr. and Mrs. Grogan are mem
bers of the Methodist faith. The
family plans to join Zebulon Meth
odist Church.
He is married to the former
Mary Katherin Beavers of Beck
ley. They were not high school
sweethearts even though they at
tended the same school. They did
not meet until college days.
The couple are the parents of
two daughters, Marcia Kay. 3V2,
and Carol Lynn, 1%.
Dr. Grogan is a member of
W. Virginia Optometric Association
American Optometric Association,
Optometric Extension Program and
the Better Vision Institute. In
college he was a member of Ome
ga Delta, Iota Chapter, a fra
ternity for optometrists.
The family resides on East
Franklin Street.
School Gets New
Piano; PTA Gift
One of the proudest possessions
Wakelon School now has is a piano.
The PTA organization has made
the school a a gift of a Hamilton
studio piano. It was acquired De
cember 22.
According to Principal C. V. Tart
the piano cost $655 but would re
tail for approximately $1,000.
Principal Tart expressed his gen
uine appreciation to the PTA for
the school for the acquisition.
The piano, completely paid for,
was bought with money left last
year and money made this year
from benefits. The PTA was to
sponsor a public school music
teacher but the State alloted the
school a teacher so the organiza
tion had a surplus fund. This was
added to by benefits.
The school has been badly in
need of a piano for the auditorium
for a number of years. This pia
no will be used for assembly pro
grams and for public school music.
Mrs. Ferd Davis, president of
the PTA, expressed her delight in
the organization being able to ac
quire a piano for the school.
Dr. and Mrs. Grogan, Carol and Marcia