THE ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 36. NUMBER 69. ZEBULON. N. C.. JUNE 7. 1962
Kay Pennington
Sue Gainey
Kay Eddins
Elaine Doyle
Gene Perry
"Miss Zebulon" To Be Named Saturday Night
Ten girls will vie for the crown
of “Miss Zebulon” Saturday night
in the Jaycee-sponsored beauty
pageant.
They will parade their beauty
and talent before an expected
over-flow audience at Wakelon
School auditorium. Events get un
derway at 8 o’clock.
Mavie Maxine Jeans began ac
cumulating a string of titles while
she was a student at Bunn High
School. She was Harvest Queen
for the class of 1961, was among
the beauties of both her junior
and senior years, and was voted
Most Popular in her senior year.
She was Miss Franklin County of
1960.
Maxine is the daughter of Mrs.
Hattie Jeans of Route 2, Zebulon.
She is employed by the State De
partment of Motor Vehicles in Ra
leigh.
Soft-spoken Kay Pennington is
a 1962 graduate of Wendell High
School where she was president
of the student council, editor of
the annual, county FHA historian,
marshal, cheerleader, and member
of the Beta Club and National
Honor Society.
Kay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Pennington of Wendell,
plans to continue her education at
East Carolina College. This at
tractive blue-eyed blonde is 5-6 y2,
weighs 125 pounds and measures
35!&-23Vfc-36 Vfe. In the talent
competition she will bring back
the Roaring Twenties with a
Charleston.
Pert Debbie Phillips was Wen
dell High School’s Homecoming
Queen from the class of 1962.
Eighteen years old in August, Deb
bie plans to attend East Carolina
College and major in art.
In the talent competition she
will do a jazz dance number. She
is sponsored by Bunn Electric Co.
Personalble Kaye Eddins is just
barely old enough to vote, but this
blonde blue-eyed Zebulon lassie—
although she now lives in Raleigh
with her mother—has a great in
terest in art and spends her spare
time drawing.
Kaye is the daughter of Mrs.
Harold Eddins and the late Mr.
Eddins. She has hadl a year of
nurses’ training and is now em
ployed as a nurse and receptionist
for a Raleigh doctor.
Jackie Mitchell, a rising senior
at Wake Forest College, is a
speech and drama major, but she
is also a versatile musiclal and
dancer.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Mitchell of Route 4,
Zebulon. Twenty-one years old,
5-5, 125 pounds, with measure
ments of 36-24-36, Jackie has
brown hair and blue eyes.
Jackie will dance in the talent
competition. She is sponsored by
Ferd Davis.
Anyone who thinks that brains
and beauty don’t go together just
hasn’t met Priscilla Bercik.
While a student at Wakelon
High School, Priscilla was se
lected for membership in the Beta
Club and the National Honor So
ciety. She won three essay con
tests and received the D.A.R. Citi
zenship Award.
Priscilla, who will be 18 in
August, is the daughter of Mrs.
Vivian P. Trevathan of Zebulon.
She plans to attend Pfeiffer Col
lege.
Dancing is the number one in
terest in Gene Perry’s life. She
has studied dancing for 10 years
and is now taking advanced train
ing in the field.
Gene, who will be 18 next
month, is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James W. Perry of Route 3,
Zebulon. She is a graduate of
Wakelon High School and plans to
further her education at Peace
College.
During her high school years
Sue Gainey found time for bas
ketball, journalism, and band in
addition to her studies. This ver
satile girl has been a majorette,
and she has also taken piano and
dancing lessions.
Eighteen-year-old Sue is the
daughter of Mrs. Ray Gainey of
Zebulon and the late Mr. Gainey.
A 1962 graduate of Wakelon High
School, she plans to get a busi
ness education at a Raleigh busi
ness college.
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Connie Rose Martin
Debbie Phillips
Priscilla Bercik
Jackie Mitchell
Maxine Jeans
Local Lawyer Nominated for
Board Post Without Runoff
Ferd Davis has gained nomina
tion for a seat of the Wake Board
of Education without a second pri
mary when William J. Booth of
Apex withdrew.
Davis, third-place candidate for
the board, filed a petition for a
second primary against William J.
Booth of Apex. Booth was second
with 5,710 votes. Davis polled
5,111 votes.
Davis had a right to challenge
Booth for the number two position
since Booth failed to get a major
ity of the votes.
“My own view is that eastern
Wake County needs representation
on the board,” Davis said after he
filed Monday. “Particularly now
because we are confronted with
consolidation problems.”
Davis said the only issue he had
was the matter of representation.
In a letter to the chairman of
the Wake County Board of Elec
tions Booth said he felt it was his
duty to withdraw because both
high men were from the western
district, leaving the eastern dis
trict with no representation.
Henry R. Adams of Cary led the
balloting for the board with 7,924
votes.
Hopkins Has Called
For Second Primary
Billy K. Hopkins, who was
runnerup candidate for the
Board of Commissioners with
4,403 votes, last Friday called
for a runoff against D. Thomas
Bailey of Wendell. Bailey was
top man with 5,912 votes in
District One.
PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR
OF ZEBULON
TO ALL CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF ZEBULON:
WHEREAS, it is our custom in the United States to choose
a Miss America on the basis of charm, beauty and talent; and
WHEREAS, in preparation for this event a Miss North Caro
lina pageant will be held in Charlotte, N. C. in July; and
WHEREAS, the Town of Zebulon will be represented for
the first time in its history by the representativechosen in
the JayCee sponsored “Miss Zebulon Pageant” on Saturday,
June 9;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that I, T. E. Hales, Mayor
of the Town of Zebulon, do hereby proclaim June 9, 1962, as
MISS ZEBULON DAY
and do hereby bring to the attention of our citizens the fact
that on this day our representative will be chosen in the
preliminary MISS AMERICA PAGEANT on the basis of
her beauty, charm and talent.
Done at Zebulon, N. C., this the 5th day of June in
the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and sixty-two.
T. E. Hales, Mayor
David Underiiill
Killed m Wreck
An 18-year-old Wendell youth
was killed and 'his companion se
riously injured in an automobile
accident near here Friday, June 1,
about 6:45 p.m.
The victim was David Underhill,
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Under
hill of Wendell. He was dead on
arrival at Rex Hospital in Raleigh.
A Requiem High funeral mass
was sung by his classmates of
Cathedral Latin High School in
Raleigh, which he attended and
was a member of the junior class.
The mass was offered at St. Eu
gene’s Catholic Church in Wendell
at 11 a.m. Monday.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Underhill; one
brother, Henry; three sisters, Mle
lelia, Margaret and Susan, all of
the home.
Burial was in Greenmount
Cemetery in Wendell.