THE ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 67. ZEBULON. N. C.. MAY 24. 1962
Participate in Big Parade
ARMED FORCES DAY ceremonies included a colorful parade down i
Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street with the gigantic 10-ton truck from Zebulon’s!
Battery A. Sp4 Lawrence Perry is at the wheel of the truck, and Pfc
Bobby Gravitt is at his right. Dwarfed behind the thundering truck is one
of Battery A’s huge 8-inch howitzers, a weapon capable of firing an atomic
projectile. Preceding the truck and howitzer in the parade was a jeep
carrying Lt. Dewey Brannon and Master Sergeant Ralph Creech. Behind
th truck is a scond jeep from Battery A with Pfc. Warren Boykin and
Sgt Joseph Raper. Sp4 Loomis Stallings and Pfc Tony Pearce also partici
pated in the parade. A second 10-ton truck and 8-inch howitzer from
the Zebulon National Guard unit participated in Armed Forces Day
ceremonies in Greensboro. The truck and howitzer shown above were
displayed Saturday afternoon in Cameron Village.
St. Augustine Professor
Shepard Finals Speaker
Commencement plans for Shep
ard School have been released by
Principal G. L. Crews.
The activities began Wednesday
night with a concert by the glee
club.
Today (Thursday) will be Hon
ors Day with the principal speaker
being Dr. Theodore Speigner of
the North Carolina College in Dur
ham.
The baccalaureate services will
be held Sunday, May 27, at 4 o’
clock. The Rev. J. W. Jones, pas
tor of Fayetteville Street Baptist
Church of Raleigh, will deliver
the address.
Class Day program will be held
May 29 at 10:30 a.m.
Dr. Joseph Jones, Jr., professor
Congressman Is
Speaker at Bunn
The Honorable L. H. Fountain,
Congressman from District 2,
will address the Bunn graduating
class. He will be introduced by
Senator W. M. Jolly of Louisburg.
Baccalaureate services will be
held Sunday, May 27, with the
Rev. R. Paul Kercher delivering
the sermon.
The commencement address is
set for June 1. All programs get
underway at 8 p/m.
Members of the graduating class
are: Preston Alford, Wayne Baker,
Melvin Bell, Badgie Cash, Jimmy
Fuller, Myron Gay, Nelson Hicks,
G. B. Horton, John Jeffreys, Eliza
beth Lancaster, Laura Jeans,
Linda Jones, Dorothy Medlin,
John Medlin, Robert O’Neal,
Barbara Strickland, Willis
Privette, Joyce Proctor, Peggy
Proctor, Betty Sue Robbins, San
dra Shannahan, Gary Strickland,
Glen Strickland, Jimmy Strick
land, Steve Tant, William Tippett,
Ann Ward, Darrell Wood and
Larry Woodlief.
Peggy Louise Proctor is valedic
torian and salutatorian is Margar
et Ann Ward.
W. H. Kelly is principal.
of biological science at St. Au
gustine’s College in Raleigh, has
been selected to present the com
mencement address.
Graduating from Shepard are:
McArthur Baker, Jesse Willard
Beckwith, Jr., Linda Faye Beck
with, George Hughes Blackwell,
Myrna Marie Bland, Ellis McCoy
Bullock, Charles Carpenter, Daisy
Carpenter, Carol Jean Cooper,
Jean Daniel, Clementine Ferrell,
James Milton Ferrell, Geraldine
Fox, Carolyn Joyce Gantt, Bobby
Harris, Hazel Ruth Hartsfield,
Willie Thomas Hart, Rosa Marie
High, James Norman Holden, Bar
bara Ann Horton, Harvey Horton,
Jr., Romas Horton, Leroy Jeffreys,
Bobby Lee Jones, Etta Rose Jones,
Loretha Kennedy,
Willie Kennedy, Jr., Linda Loree
Lee, Doretha Ellen Mayo, Loretha
Ellen Mayo, Calvin McNeil, Mary
Ruth Morgan, Shirley Lee Pace,
Isaac Parks, Roehell Peoples, Al
vester Lewis Perry, Millard De
wamer Perry, Pearlene Perry,
Jean Fay Price,
Elsie Jeanett Robertson, Lottie
Mae Robertson, Kay Frances Rog
ers, Gladys Scarboro, Oscar Free
man Vines, Jr., Clara Mae Whit
ley, Janet Marie Whitley, Willard
Williams, Jr., and Charlie R. Win
ston.
Serving as valedictorian and sa
lutatorian are Clementine Ferrell
and Lottie Mae Robertson, re
spectively.
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Corinth School
Commencement
Now Underway
Commencement plans are al
ready underway at Corinth-Hold
ers School, according to Principal
H. C. Bowers.
Friday night, May 18, members
of the graduating class presented
class night.
The pastor of Corinth Baptist
Church, the Rev. C. W. Driver, will
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Governor Appears on Program
Honoring Wendell's Bo Todd
The Governor of North Carolina
may have been present but a hand
some bespectacled Wendell High
School yoUth was the honored
guest.
Furney A. “Bo” Todd, Jr., was
honored by the Wendell Lions at
a banquet Monday night. Other
townsmen were also present at the
meeting held in the school cafe
teria.
Bo was second place winner in
the botany-biological division of
the National Science Fair held in
Seattle, Washington. His project
I was The Effect of Irradiation on
Black Shank Fungus.
Governor Terry Sanford praised
the high school youth and his
teacher, Mrs. Elwood Perry.
The Governor said what is im
portant in quality education is
“providing a means and place
where young people can seek ex
cellence. Excellence is something
for which we must forever strive.”
“This business of quality edu
cation is to seek excellence,” San
ford continued. “It is designed to
achieve excellence and to develop
the kind of men and women who
can provide leadership for tomor
row.”
Sanford declared there is no
more important profession in the
nation and no greater need than
the teaching profession.
“What she (Mrs. Perry) has
done is to literally touch the lives
of hundreds of boys and girls,”
Sanford said.
The Governor defended his food
tax legislation passed by the 1961
Legislature.
“As we pay these few pennies,”
he declared, “we are building a
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Wendell School
Commencement
Plans Announced
Commencement plans for Wen
dell High School have been an
nounced by Principal Ronald D.
Berry.
The Rev. Herbert Maynard, pas
tor of Central Baptist Church, will
deliver the baccalaureate sermon
to the seniors Sunday, May 27, at
8 p.m. The glee club will provide
the music.
Wednesday, May 30, at 8 p.m.
the seniors will present class
nigiht. John Spell, class president,
will preside, with other members
of the class participating.
Graduation exercises are set for
Friday, June 1, at 8 p.m. in the
school auditorium. Speakers will
be Kay Pennington, president of
the student body; John Spell and
Maxine Brown. Principal Berry
will present the awards and Dr.
R. Clifford Horton, chairman of
the board, will present the di
plomas.
Prospective graduates are Ame
lia Victoria Alford, Mary Jane
Baynes, Lela Maxine Brown,
Nancy Marie Bunch, Alvin Ray
Flowers, Alice Faye Fuller, Pa
tricia Ann Gay, Jo Ann Hinnant,
Ilene Kaye Horton, Billie Jean
Johnson,
Carolyn Dale Johnson, Margaret
Louise Johnson, James Robert
Liles, Charles Keith Marshburn,
Linda Florence Nowell, Brenda
Kay Pennington, Deborah Annette
Phillips, Pansie Faye Pope, John
Harvey Spell and Jo An Taylor.
Terri Lynn Kirby and James
Dean Scarboro III, serve as mas
cots.
Former Methodist Pastor Will
Address Wakelon Graduates;
Carl Goerch Is Finals Speaker
A former minister of Zebulon
Methodist Church will deliver the
baccalaureate address to the grad
uating seniors of Wakelon School
Sunday, May 27, at 8 p.m.
The Rev. Troy J. Barrett, now
ipastor of Wesley Methodist in
Warrenton, has chosen the topic:
“The Lure in Learning.”
The speaker is a native of Fay
etteville and a graduate of Louis
burg and Wofford Colleges and
Duke Divinity School.
In the N. C. Methodist Confer
ence he has served as State Direc
tor of the Methodist Student
Movement, Conference Director
of Youth Work, Director of Rec
reation and Religious Life at the
Methodist Home for Children in
Raleigh and has also served the
Broadway Charge.
In Warrenton, the Rev. Mr.
Barrett has served as chairman of
the Recreation Commission, presi
dent of the Rotary Club, and is
incoming president of the PTA.
The Rev. W. C. Barham, pastor
of Baptist Tabernacle, will pro
nounce the invocation, and the
Rev. W. K. Quick, pastor of Zeb
ulon Methodist Church, will lead
the 'benediction.
Music will he furnished by the
choral group.
Class night exercises will be
held Thursday night, May 31, at
8 o’clock. It is entitled “The Sen
iors Farewell at Tara.”
Commencement exercises will be
held Friday, June 1, at 8 p.m. The
principal address will be given by
Carl Goerch, long-time editor of
The State Magazine. He will be
introduced by Principal C. V.
Tart.
Prospective graduates of Wake
Ion are: Betsy Alford, Jimmy Al
ford, Judy Alford, Joan Allen,
Priscilla Bercik, Linda Boyette,
Bruce Brantley, Chester Brayboy,
Lois Brayboy, Ralph H. Bunn, Jr.,
Barry Ohamblee, Diana Chamblee,
Joyce Chaplman, Freddie Clark,
Connie Cooke, Barbara Croom,
Dennis Debnam, Jeanette Denton,
Elaine Doyle, Eddie Driver,
Claudie Duke, Jr., Gwendolyn Ed
wards, Barbara Fowler, Douglas
The Rev. Troy Barrett
Fowler, Sue Gainey, Carol Gay,
Waddell Gay,
Joe Green, Tim Harward, Caro
lyn Hicks, Mickey Hinton, Jimmy
Johnson, Thurman Johnson,
Charles Long, Connie Martin,
Bruce Mason, Phyllis Parrish, Mi
chael Pearce, Barbara Perry, Gene
Perry, Jimmy Perry, Tommy Phil
lips, Kay Pippin, Barbara Price,
Connie Rogers, Bobby Sawyer,
Tommy Strickland, Judie Temple,
Rose Temple, Martha Watkins, and
Vanda Winstead.
Betsy Ross Eddins and Wes Liles
are serving as mascots.
Church of All Faiths
The Rev. William K. Quick is
completing his third year as pas
tor of the Zebulon Methodist
Church. During the past 34
months, a total of 104 new mem
bers have been received: 14
children, 90 adults and youth.
These have included Free Will
Baptists, Disciples of Christ, Epis
copalians, Presbyterians, Baptists,
Quaker, Lutheran, Holiness and
Methodist.
Spirited Political Contests
To Be Decided on Saturday
Zebu Ion Town Manager Willie
B. Hopkins expects a “relatively
light vote” in the Democratic pri
mary Saturday.
Hopkins said he feels this is
because it is an off-year election.
He said he does not expect
more than 750-800 ballots to be
cast.
Wade Privette is registrar for
Little River Township (Zebulon).
R. R. Thompson, acting town
manager of Wendell, said he is
“expecting a record vote” for
Mark’s Creek Township (Wen
dell).
He said he feels it will be the
‘^biggest vote we have ever had.”
I Mrs. Bourke Bilisoly is regis
| trar for Mark’s Creek Township.
Zebulon Attorney Ferd Davis
and former Wendell School princi
pal Carl Grad are seeking seats
on the Wake County Board of
Education.
W. J. Ammons, Jr., a Wendell
farmer, Thomas Bailey of Wendell,
a prominent business executive,
and Billy K. Hopkins, a Zebulon
farmer, have been actively cam
paigning for seats on the Wake
County Board of Commissioners.
Willie Bullock of Zebulon is un
opposed for justice of the peace.
Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m.
to 6:30 pjn.