THE ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 55. ZEBULON. N. C.. MARCH 1. 1962
Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Britton
Distinguished Educator; Wife
Spend Weekend In Zebulon
A distinguished educator and his
equally distinguished wife spent
a few days in Zebulon last week.
Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Britton of
Charlottesville, Va., and other
points were the house guests of
their daughter and son-in-law, Dr.
and Mrs. Lee Sedwitz.
Dr. Britton, 70-years-old Satur
day, retired in 1952 after 24
years as head of the medical
physiology department of the Uni
versity of Virginia. Physiology is
the study of how the organs and
body parts function.
The elderly active professor
told of his work with apes and
chimpanzees. Experiments on
these animals produced invaluable
information that could be used for
the welfare of human beings.
Work with the higher apes and
chimps were generally with the
adrenal and pituitary glands and
the pancreas organ. These ani
mals had their adrenals and other
glands removed to see how they
would function without them, how
long they could live without them,
and what their reactions were.
Dr. Britton said as early as the
20’s and 30’s they were taking
extracts of cortisone, called adre
nal cortical hormones, from chimps
and apes.
Observations of. the higher intel
lect animals were useful in un
derstanding how humans work, he
said. Chimps are the animals
with the highest intellect.
Dr. Britton said that chimpanzees
yvill die if kept in a standing po
sition for a very long time. These
animals were partially immobilized
to prevent cruelty. His experi
ments have proved it. He also
added that chimps cannot swim
and he once almost lost a group
when his boat capsized.
Apes’ and chimps’ temperatures
are nearly equal to that of man's,
he found. And one of the marked
deficiencies was they cannot stand
extreme heat or cold, or other
unfavorable climatic conditions.
Tests were made under varying
climatic conditions to test their
temperature, pulse, and blood
pressure.
Dr. Britton declared these ani
mals are very much akin to man
and that man certainly evolved
from some lower form of animals.
He has spent a year in Central
Africa and three expeditions in
Central America collecting apes
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Surgeon Makes
Med Who's Who
Dr. Lee Sedwitz, Wendell-Zebu
lon Hospital surgeon, was notified
Friday that he successfully com
pleted Part II of the examination
given by the American Board of
Surgery in New Orleans February
12.
The popular young surgeon was
gleeful at receiving the news.
“I have worked and studied for
14 years for this,” he said.
The test was oral and extremely
hard. It was administered by some
of the most renown surgeons in
the United States.
“I was slightly doubtful as to
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First Runner-Up In World
Peace Contest Outstanding
The first runner-up’s speech in
the World Peace Speaking Contest
sponsored recently by Zebulon
Rotary Club is an outstanding
student at Wakelon School.
Lewis Liles, 14, is a member of
the 10th grade. He belongs to the
National Honor Society, Science
and F^iblic Speaking clubs, com
munity 4-H Club, and has recent
ly been made president of the
Wake County 4-H dub. Talented
musically, he has taken piano and
organ for seven years.
Lewis is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Liles of Route 2, Zebulon.
“Your grandchildren will grow
up under Communism” are the
threatening words of the corpse
mover and bomb-tester, Russian
Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Will
his threat come true? Will your
grandchildren salute the Soviet
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Lewis Liles
Town's Newest Club Presented
Charter At Banquet Ceremonies
JAYCEES PRESENTED CHARTER . . . Jimmy Mcdlin, second from
left, is shown with the charter which was presented to the Zebulon Jaycee
Cluh in ceremonies last Wednesday night. Nfedlin is president of the
newly organized club. To his left is A1 Harrison, former State Jaycee
president. On Medlin's right is Norman Lee of Rocky Mount, who pre
sided at the ceremonies and Fred Swartzburg, current president of the
State Javcees.
Nelle Kemp Has Good Chance To
Become Lion District First Lady
Like all wives whose husbands
are running for office, Nelle
Kemp is helping her husband cam
paign.
Frank Kemp is running for Lions
District Governor of 31G. The
election is held in May at Wil
mington.
And like all wives who travel
with their husbands on their cam
paign trails, she has smiled until
her jaws ached and shook hands
until she felt a touch of bursitis.
“It’s all very thrilling though,”
Mrs. Kemp said. Her voice is
lovely . . . low and sweet becai.se
of her years of voice training.
“We don’t know whether or not
Frank will win but right now we
think he has a pretty good
chance,” she said, her face alight
with pride of her husband.
Mrs. Kemp is the daughter of
the late Senora Driver and Wil
liam Turner Bryant. She was
born August 28, 1916, on her fa
ther’s farm near Middlesex. The
baby of three children, she has an
older sister, Mrs. J. L. Strickland
of Spring Hope and a brother,
Ralph Strickland of near Zebulon.
Nellie Bryant (she later changed
the spelling to Nelle) was a better
than average student in Middlesex
High School from which she grad
uated. But she was a star athlete
on the school’s basketball team.
Because of her long, rangy tall
ness she played center mostly but
was equally as good playing the
forward position.
i was wrapped up in DasKei
ball,” she said, crossing her ele
gant legs caressed in blue toreador
pants at the ankles. “I had planned
to go to East Carolina (Teachers
then) College and get a degree in
physical education and coach high
school basketball.”
In fact, she was already en
rolled. But Fate stepped in and
her life was changed.
‘‘A representative from a Vir
ginia beauty college came to see
me and my parents. He painted
a beautiful picture of a comsetolo
gist career. So persuasive was he
that he convinced my father, but
not my mother, and I went off to j
beauty school.”
She graduated from Virginia '
School of Beauty Culture Febru
ary 1, 1935. In the school she was
so apt and talented that only a
few weeks after she had been
thee she was put into the advanc
ed her styling and contouring
classes.
Musical laughter broke forth as
she said her father gave her her
first lessons in hair cutting.
Because her mother wanted her
to be near home, Nellie Bryant ob
tains d a position with Zebulr n’s
first beauty salon, owned by Mrs.
R. E. Barnes. She spent a year and
a hf If with this firm and then
wen with the late Charlie Rhodes,
who owned a beauty firm in Zeb
ulon She was with that firm a
year and a half.
In February, 1939, Nelle, now
Mrs. Frank Kemp, opened her own
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Al Harrison Is
Featured Speaker
Jimmy Medlin, president of
the Zebu ion Junior Chamber of
Commerce, accepted the charter
for the newly organized club from
State President Fred L. Swartz
berg at the Charter Night Banquet
held in the Lions Club Building
the night of February 21.
Al Harrison, former State Jay
cee president, was the featured
speaker of the evening. He stressed
the opportunity for service which
is open to Jaycees in small towns.
He also pointed out how members
could help themselves as well as
the community through club pro
jects.
Mr. Harrison was introduced by
J. Dudley Harper, president of
the Rocky Mount Junior Chamber
of Commerce. It was Mr. Harper
and his members who sponsored
the formation of the Zebulon chap
ter. A large number of Rocky
Mount Jaycees attended the ban
quet.
Norman Lee, State Director of
the Rocky Mount Jaycees. was
master of ceremonies. He intro
duced A number of guests includ
ing State Jaycee officers, presi
dents of local civic clubs, town
commissioners, and school offi
cials.
Mayor T. E. Hales welcomed
the out-of-town guests and ex
pressed confidence that the club
will be an asset to the town of
Zebulon.
Robert Daniel Massey, president
of the Zebulon Chamber of Com
merce, expressed his pleasure in
the swiftness with which the new
chapter was organized. He also
gave a brief history of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce which was
active in Zebulon prior to World
War II and which he served as
president.
The invocation was given by the
Rev. William Q. Quick, pastor of
the Zebulon Methodist Church,
and the benediction was given by
the Rev. David E. Daniel, pastor
of the Zebulon Baptist Church.
Miss Rose York, the reigning
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CP&L Will Repeat Atom Youth
Prize; Open To Sophs, juniors
Carolina Power & Light Com
pany will repeal in 19J2 r public
school award ai.ned at gi\ ing in
centive to budding scientists and
highlighting peaceful uses of the
atom. ,
The award is an expense-paid
trip for two outstanding science
students and their teachers to the
National Youth Conferenc ; on the
Atom, which attracted more than
300 delegates to Chicago last year.
F. T. Scarborough, manager
for CP&L, said today that the com
petition for the 1962 award is open
to high school sophomores and
juniors whose families are served
by the company. CP&L chooses
one student and teacher from
North Carolina and one student
and teacher from South Carolina.
To be considered for the award,
the student must participate in the
physical science division of district
science fairs held in the spring,
since winners will be chosen from
among these participants.
Science fairs are sponsored by
i the North and South Carolina
' Academies of Science in coopera
| tion with public school systems
I and supported by CF'&L and others
| in the two states. Information on
the fairs is available to students
through local science teachers.
The youth conference will be
held November 8-10 at Chicago.
The 1961 program was studded
with leading scientists such as Dr.
| Glenn Seaborg, chairmen of the
Atomic Energy Commission; Dr.
Hans Betho, nuclear physicist at
; Cornell University; and Harold B.
Finger, head of the Joint AEC
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration’s nuclear propul
\ sion office.
The conference is sponsored by
60 invester-owned electric com
panies, most of which are partici
pating in atomic power projects.
Scarborough said the 1962 atomic
award has special significance for
CP&L; for in June it will join three
other companies to begin operating
the Southeast’s first atomic power
plant at Parr, S. C.