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.
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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
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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
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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
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