THE ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 37. NUMBER 23. ZEBULON. N. C.. JULY 12. 1962
Wendell Father, Son Team
Raise Rabbits for Hospital
Wendell-grown rabbits are
helping save lives at Memorial
Hospital in Chapel Hill.
These pink eyed, pink twitchy
nosed, beautiful white furred
creatures grown by father and son
are being used at the Chapel Hill
hospital for medical purposes.
Cornell and Vernon Powers sup
ply the hospital laboratories with
these rabbits. The father of the
team, Vernon, said the rabbits are
primarily for running tests on
women’s pregnancies.
Powers said for the pregnancy
tests only the virgin female rab
bits can be used. However, on
special cases pregnant does may
be required, he said.
Bike Stolen
Two 15-year-old boys were ap
prehended by police last week for
the theft of two bicycles.
Night Policeman Wendell Perry
picked up the Zebulon youths
shortly after being notified of the
theft of Avon Privette Jr. and
Rodney McNabb Jr.’s bicycles.
McNabb and Privette notified
the policeman after they discov
ered the loss of their bicycles. The
two boys left their bicycles at the
home of Privette’s grandmother on
Arendell Avenue.
The thieves—whose names po
lice declined to reveal because
they are juveniles—had taken the
bikes to one of the boy’s homes.
One of the bicycles had been com
pletely repainted by the boys.
The culprits will be tried in the
juvenile court of Wake County
Domestic Relations Court, Police
Chief Willie B. Hopkins said.
Powers said there was quite a
tizzy created recently when tests
were made on a 50-year-old
woman and a college coed who
were suspected of being pregnant.
The rabbit tests showed each was
pregnant and the two women al
most committed hari-kari.
However, Powers said, another
test was run on the women with a
different batch of rabbits and the
women were found to be not preg
nant. The rabbits used in the ori
ginal testing were themselves
pregnant. Powers said a buck had
been with the group he had taken
to the laboratories, although at
the time he did not know it.
In the beginning the Powers
team did not anticipate disposing
of their rabbits to hospital labora
tories. The father said he thought
his son needed to learn to take
care of something to teach him
responsibility and he suggested
rabbits.
They started of! with 12 does
and a buck. Knowing rabbits,
there was multiplication and mul
tiplication. And Cornell soon had
more animals than he could man
age, what with his school work
and social activities.
Father Vernon began helping
and they decided to join an as
sociation where they might dis
pose of their surplus. They began
shipping them to New York. But
they found that was too expensive,
for the rabbits had to be alive.
And, too, the breeding schedule
came off about the same time as
they were to be marketed.
Then the team learned that the
Chapel Hill hospital needed rab
bits for medical purposes. The dis
tance wasn’t too great and cost of
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Eastern Star Member Named
To Position With State OES
Another Zebulon woman has
had an honor bestowed upon her.
Mrs. Cleo Perry has been named
Cleo Perry
Grand Esther of the Grand Chap
ter of the North Carolina Order
of the Eastern Star. She received
this honor with the State OES at
the Grand Chapter Session held in
Wilmington June 13.
The duties of Mrs. Perry will be
to assist Mrs. Mary S. Carter of
Garland, State OES Worthy Grand
Matron. Mrs. Perry was installed
along with the other officers by
Mrs. Mamie Lander of Washing
ton, D. C., the Right Worthy Grand
Secretary.
A tenure of one year, Mrs. Perry
is to visit OES organizations across
the State as much as she is able.
She succeeds Mrs. Irene Walker.
She is the first member of the
Wakefield-Zebulon OES to receive
this distinguished and high honor.
Exceedingly active in the local
Masonic organization since its
birth, Mrs. Perry has served as
Worthy Matron and has been or
ganist and secretary.
Mrs. Perry, after graduating
from Meredith College in 1945
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Town Resident
Found Dead By
His Wife Friday
A Zebulon resident was found
dead by his wife Friday, July 6, at
his home on the corner of Wake
field and Oak Streets.
Billie Hilliard Privette, 52, was
dead when his wife went to his
room Friday morning to call him
to breakfast. Death was attributed
to a heart attack.
Privette, a farmer and Route 1,
Wilson, merchant suffered from a
heart condition and was hospital
ized at Wendell-Zebulon Hospital
after suffering an attack the early
part of this year.
He was the son of the late Min
nie Ellington and William Hilliard
Privette of Route 3, Zebulon.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Rachel Liles; one daughter,
Billie Fay, who is a student nurse
at Watts Hospital School of Nurs
ing; one son, Teddy Ronald of the
home; three sisters, Mrs. Nathaniel
Upchurch, Route 3, Zebulon, Mrs.
Bob Richards, Route 1, Youngs
ville, and Mrs. Tom Jones of Wen
dell.
Funeral services were held at
4 p.m. at Zebulon Baptist Church
with the Rev. David Daniel, pastor,
and the Rev. W. C. Barham, pastor
of Tabernacle Baptist Church near
Wendell, officiating. Burial was in
the Tabernacle Baptist Church
cemetery.
Pallbearers were Bobby Rich
ards, Jimmy Upchurch, Lucius
Jones, Hilliard Greene Jr., Don
Driver and Douglas Cooke.
The casket was covered with a
pall of red roses.
Wakelon Again Is
Without Principal
Wakelon School is without a
principal.
C. V. Tart submitted his resig
nation to the local school board
June 25.
Tart became principal of the
school in September of 1961 after
John Hicks resigned as principal
to take a position in Columbus
County.
Tart will still be associated with
the school. He will return to his
old job and first love—that of
teaching agriculture. He had
served as head of the school’s agri
culture department for two years
prior to becoming principal.
Bill Turner, ag instructor, has
submitted his resignation. He will
be returning to his home in Yan
ceyville where he will become
manager-overseer of his father’s
dairy farm.
Tart said he “enjoyed” his work
as principal but that he had been
in agriculture work so long that
he desired to return to it.
“I have learned a lot,” he said.
“I know a lot more about a
school’s operation and I under
stand some of the problems bet
ter.”
Meters on Blink
Twenty-five residences using
town water have no water meters.
One hundred residences have
non-functioning water meters.
This was the report presented
to the Town Board, and the Board
immediately took action.
Preposterous! Absurd! they said.
The Board instructed the town
manager to replace or repair the
defective meters and to install
meters at residences which have
none.
Water tonnages used at homes
with no meters or non-functioning
meters are charged a flat rate.
It was estimated that it will
cost $1,500 to correct the meter
situation.
Mayor Ed Hales said: “It is the
aim of the Board to have every
body’s meter working.”
Scout Troop Comes
Up With 18 Ribbons
Band Instructor
Needs Equipment
Wakelon School’s new band in
structor was in town this week
searching for an apartment.
The new band teacher is James
Burns. The Sumter, S. C., native
is a 1962 graduate of East Carolina
College. He holds a bachelor of
music degree.
Burns, 22, is a bachelor.
Before he left, the new band
instructor almost decided on a
small unfurnished house here.
However, just out of school and
low on funds, he will not be able
to furnish a stove and refrigerator.
Anyone having one of those items
to give or lend him is asked to
notify this paper.
The personable young man said
he could supply the other items,
living and bed room furniture.
Burns said he will begin band
practice two weeks before the op
ening of school. He said he wants
to have the band in tip top shape
for the first football games.
He is an avid stereo enthusiast,
has a palimino horse, and plans to
organize a dance band here. He
was the leader of a 16-piece dance
band while a student at ECC.
Burns succeeds Mrs. Frances
Hilburn who left to take a position
elsewhere. She served as director
of the Wakelon band for one year.
Office Closed
The Zebulon license examiner
office will be closed Tuesday, July
17, Examiner Clarence Hocutt has
announced. This change is due
because of a district meeting of
license examiners in Fayetteville.
Local School Board Gets A
Woman Appointed To It
The women have broken anoth
er barrier in the man’s world of
Zebulon. A rural Zebulon woman
has been appointed a member of
the Wakelon school board.
Mrs. Mary Green was appointed
a member of the local school
board Monday. She is the first
woman who will serve in such a
capacity. Mrs. Harold Pippin was
appointed last year but resigned
before serving.
The new board member, a
strikingly pretty woman of 46,
said she will serve “to the best of
my ability.” She doesn’t think the
board should be made up of “yes
men”.
“I feel that we (the board) are
to serve a purpose,” she said. “I
feel, too, that we should be heard
and voice the will of the school
patrons.”
Mrs. Green has some definite
ideas but she declined to reveal
them. She doesn’t want to stick
heT neck out so soon. However,
she is going to serve with all her
astute intelligence and always
with an open mind to all issues.
During her child and early girl
hood she was steeped in school
board meetings. Her father, the
late A. F. Manning of Middlesex,
was a member of the Nash County
Board of Education and local
school board for many years.
Mrs. Green is the eighth of 13
children of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Manning. A graduate of Middlesex
High School where she ranked
fifth, she later graduated from
Virginia School of Beauty Culture.
This blonde and still youthful
matron has never practiced the
art of beauty culture profession
ally. She said she never cared for
this art. However, it has paid off
in her home. She has been the
chief hair dresser and stylist for
her daughters and self and also for
her sons and husband.
“My husband and sons have al
ways had their hair cut by me,”
she laughed pleasantly. “I have
been their barber.”
She is married to Harold Green,
a dairyman and farmer of Rt. 4,
Zebulon. Their wedding took place
September 4, 1934. The couple has
six children, and the family is one
that has as much togetherness as
you will And anywhere.
“We enjoy working and playing
together,” Mrs. Green said. “I
shan’t let anything interfere with
my family. The dishes can go un
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Mary Green
Spent Week At
Camp Durant
Sixteen Scouts from Troop 525
j recently spent a week at Camp
Durant. It was a week of work
and fun for the boys.
During the week the boys at
tended merit badge classes in
which they passed off require
ments for the more than 100
badges offered in the Merit Badge
program.
The boys were offered different
activities throughout the week
which included rifle range, arch
ery range, nature trail, overnight
hike, handicraft lodge, knot tying,
canoeing, and swimming.
Wednesday afternoon was vis
itor’s day and several of the boys’
parents were present and took
part in a picnic supper. In the
evening the parents and Scouts
thrilled to the weekly Indian cere
mony which tapped members of
the troop into the Order of the Ar
row. This honor is given select
honor campers in the troop.
Attending the camp, located 17
miles north of Zebulon, were Joe
Chamblee, Drew Cannady, Mark
Wilson, Gene Mangum, Ben David
Thomas, Martin Hagwood, Steve
Seago, David Hawkins, Eddie
Smith, Richard Clark, Danny
Gordon, Robert Lanier, Tim La
nier, Calvin Pippin, Eddie Finch
and David Hendricks.
The troop was awarded 18 rib
bons for the efforts in different
events during the week. They
came home with the Honor Troop
Award.
Durwood Chamblee is the senior
patrol leader and Roland Gordon
is the Scoutmaster. Gordon was
unable to attend. Bill Bowling,
commander of the American Le
gion, accompanied the group. The
local Legion group sponsors Troop
525.