THE ZEBULON RECORD VOLUME 36. NUMBER 66. ZEBULON. N. C.. MAY 17. 1962 Miss Ruby Dawson Town's Second Woman Postmaster Ruby Dawson Band, Choral Concert Fri. At Wakelon Wakelon School bands and cho rus will be presented in concert Friday night, May 18, at 8 o’ clock. The concert is entitled “Spring Music Concert.” The program will begin with the elementary band, which will play: Junior Varsity March, Safety Patrol March and Red River Valley. Members of the cadet band will play: High School Cadet March, Grant Us Thy Peace, Stars and Stripes Forever, Bahama Holiday and I’m Always Chasing Rain bows. The 24-member chorus will pre sent the following selections: May Day Carol, Moon River and Sere nade to Spring. The senior band will present: Our Heritage March, Puebla de Los Angeles, King John, Peace Jubilee March, Swing Your Part ner and Riffin’ the Blues. Mrs. Frances Hilbum will direct the band and Mrs. Paulette Pugh, public school music instructor, will conduct the chorus. The concert is open to the public. The town’s second woman post master is a woman of extremely able executive ability. And one of the nicest and pleasantest peo ple to be sure. Ruby Dawson was appointed Zebulon’s postmaster March 28. She served as acting postmaster from February 4, 1961, until her confirmation. Miss Dawson succeeds Proctor Scarboro, who served an interim of five months following the re tirement of M. J. Sexton on Au gust 31, 1961. The only other woman to serve the town’s letter carrying system was Mrs. Ollie Chamblee McGuire. Miss Dawson began work as a clerk with the local post office November 15, 1934. She later be came clerk-in-charge. Prior to becoming a government employee she was a secretary bookkeeper with the now non-ex istent firms of Finch and Wade, J. A. Kemp and Sons, and the M System Stores. She is a graduate of Wakelon High School and attended Hard barger Business College. Miss Dawson is the daughter of Mrs. A. C. Dawson, Sr., and the late Mr. Dawson. She is one of five children and was bom in Jacksonville (N.C.) September 23, 1910. Her family moved to Zeb ulon in 1920. In high school, she described nerseu as jusi an average sruaeni. However, she loved sports and played forward on the girls’ bas ketball team. She still likes all types of sports, as a spectator. Miss Dawson says Ashing is an other of her very special diver sions, but she hasn’t had time lately to participate in this sport as much as she would like. She loves the out of doors and spends as much time out in the open as she can. A refined woman with a flair for entertaining, she loves to serve as hostess to small get togethers at her home. One of her favorite methods of entertaining is to cook out of doors. She likes to grill steaks and make barbecue chicken for her guests. (Continued on Page 8) Young Man Has Dreams, Hard Finding Them Fulfilled By Bill Quick There’s only one word that summarizes the name, the abil ity, and the ambition of young 17-year old Elnathan Brown, and that word is “unusual.” A senior at Corinth Holder High School, Elnathan is one of thousands of young men and women who should go to college and who has ambi tions to continue his education but who seemingly has been blocked or refused aid on every hand. He applied for scholarship aid at the University of North Carolina and was unsuccessful. He worked for a General Motors’ scholarship but was turned down. He entered the competition for a Belk’s schol arship and notified last week that “the foundation was sorry to in form . ..”—and you know the rest! Where are all these scholarships that supposedly go begging every year? Oh, yes, you are saying, “If anybody wants to go to college, he will go.” Have you ever stopped to analyze that point? Here is a young man, one of three children, who lives with his mother and grandmother. The most elemental conveniences that most of us in the Zebulon area enjoy are not claimed by this fam ily. The mother and children were deserted by the father a few years ago. His whereabouts is unknown! The family has no plumbing or television set, no car or other means of transportation, nor many things that we desire for our chil dren. But the mother and grand mother have instilled in the hearts of these children a faith in God (Continued on Page 8) Elnathan Brown Dr. Charles E. Flowers Sr. Has Heart Attack Sat; Dies Tuesday Dr. Charles Flowers, Sr. New Methodists The pastor and members of the Zebulon Methodist Church re ceived a new family into church membership on Sunday morning, May 13. The reception was not unusual because during the pas torate of the present minister, the Rev. William K. Quick, the church has averaged receiving over 3 new members each month. But the family on Sunday was unique in thaL the wife and mother, Yamada Set-suki Taylor, was an Oriental of Buddhist background. “Sue,” as she has come to be known by the Young Adults and members of the Methodist Church over the past nine months, received Chris tian Baptism and professed her faith by embracing the Christian Church and accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Born at Nago, Okinawa, Mrs. Taylor is the wife of Harold R. Taylor, who united by transfer of his church letter from the Rocky Cross Baptist Church. The Tay lor’s three children—Kenji Ray, Betty Junko, and Diana Lynne— were christened and became prep aratory members of the church. Mr. Taylor is a native of the Rocky Cross section and is em ployed at Beck Brothers Veneer Plant. Practiced Here 34 Years runerax services lor XJr. uxiaries Ely Flowers were held Wednes day at 3 p.m. at Zebulon Methodist ChuTch. He died Monday night at 1:30 after suffering a heart at tack Saturday night. The prominent Zebulon doctor and his wife were spending the weekend at Atlantic Beach when he was stricken. He had suffered a series of heart attacks two years ago. He was bom March 19, 1889, in Pamlico County, and was the son of Charles Allen and De Ella Alford Flowers. The family moved to Zebulon in 1913. Dr. Flowers early cherished the idea of becoming a physician and in 1906 entered the University of North Carolina, where he pursued a general course for two years and then studied medicine from 1909 until 1911. He depended largely upon 'his own resources for his college expenses, working on a farm in the summer months and waiting on tables when in school. After leaving the University he enrolled as a student in the Medi cal College of Virginia, where he was graduated with the M. D. de gree in 1913. While a student there he became a member of the Phi Chi medical fraternity. After putting aside his text books he intered in St. Vincent’s Hospital at Norfolk and he served as student assistant to his brother, the late Dr. Clarence A. Flowers, before taking up his practice of medicine independently. He was associated with his brother at Columbia, N. C., and while there took an active part in Democratic politics in 1915, when Tyrrell County won its first Dem ocratic victories for a number of years. In 1916 he again went to Nor folk, where he was associated with Dr. J. A. Strickland in the establishing of the Virginia-Caro lina Sanatorium for the treatment of nervous diseases and mild mental and drug cases, special izing as a neurologist. On May 3, 1917, Dr. Flowers was commissioned a first lieutenant of the Medical Corps of the Virginia National Guard, assigned to the Virginia Ambulance Company. He received his early military train ing at Camp Greenleaf and then went to Camp McClellan, Ala., where in September, 1917, he was assigned to the One Hundred and Fifteenth Ambulance Company of the One Hundred and Fourth San itary Train, Twenty-ninth Divi sion, becoming a member of the American Expeditionary Forces in 1918. He was commissioned cap tain February 24, 1919, and re ceived his discharge at Camp Lee in Petersburg, Va., on June 23, 1919. In the same year Dr. Flowers opened an office in Zebulon, where he practiced general medicine, specializing in obstetrics and gyne cology. He continued to practice here until 1953 when he was ap pointed medical director of North Carolina State Prison. He held (Continued on Page 8) Hospital Notes The following were patients at Wendell-Zebulon Hospital Wesnes day morning. White Susan Fowler, Zettie Wheeler, Patsy May, Ruby Gay, Flonnie El lis, Lillie Walters, Nannie Pearce, Rella Privette, Mary Horton, Ollie Frady, A. C. Perry, Pittman Stell, Louis Parrish, and Armstrong Can nady. Colored Iola Horton and Mary Meeks. Colored Birth Mr. and Mrs. Alton Meeks of Route 1, Middlesex announce the birth of a daughter May 12 at Wendell-Zebulon Hospital. Mrs. Meeks is the former Mary Pearce of Middlesex. c. «, in Get Flower srjru—k Wendell community’s first na tional amateur accredited flower show judge is Mrs. Jaimes T. Clay. She was awarded the certification in December, 1961. In order to get the certification Mrs. Clay had to complete five courses and take a reading exami nation covering material from 25 books. “It took me five years to com plete the work,” she said. “All my courses were taken at State Col lege except one and that one in Boone.” She said the courses are alter nated — from State to Boone. Therefore, the reason it takes so j long to complete them. Seven years is the maximum and two and one-half years is the min imum in which to complete the courses, she said. Why did she decide to get her judge’s qualifications? A friend in Wilson got her to go to the first school. She became impressed and so on to the degree. “However, I grew up with flow ers,” she said. “My mother is a great flower grower and enthu siast.” The new judge listed a few things garden clubbers do wrong in flower shows. They use too many flowers in the arrangement, it is too crowded; the arrange Lillian Clay ment lacks design; and there is no harmonious color combinations. “The most important thing in a standard flower show is the set ting up of the schedule,” Mrs. Clay said. “That is the law of the show. And so many lack a complete schedule.” Other things listed were: know where the arrangement is to be used; choose a container for the place; select the appropriate flow ers; condition the flowers well; and use the proper mechanics. “Those are the basic principles,” she said. In the home, Mrs. Clay named a few faults many amateur ar rangers use. The container and the flowers don’t coincide. The textures of container and flowers don’t fit the surroundings. “You certainly wouldn’t use graceful, dainty violets in an iron container,” she pointed out. “Vio lets require something fragile and I delicate. Geraniums would be used in an iron container.” Mrs. Clay thinks that most house wives don’t use enough cut flowers in the home. Such ar (Continued on Page 8)

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