THE ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 37. NUMBER 26. ZEBULON. N. C.. AUGUST 2. 1962
Piano Instructor
Late Doctor's Wife Succumbs
Mrs. Neva Barbee
.. . an early photo
Wendell Man Is
Cited for Service
Marion M. Veasey was awarded
a 30-year gold service pin and
certificate at a meeting held in
Tifton, Ga., July 24, by the Federal
Tobacco Inspectors in the Georgia
Florida area.
Veasey is the oldest employee
in point of service in the U. S.
Department of Agriculture of the
tobacco division. He has spent 22
years with the department.
The award was presented by
Stephen E. Wrather of Washing
ton, D. C., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, director of the tobac
co division.
Other officials present at the
meeting were Leonard L. Green,
chief, personnel branch; Homer F.
Taylor, chief, marketing programs
branch; Stephen H. Anderson, as
sistant to the director; and Paul
Dryden, assistant chief to the mar
keting programs branch head.
Veasey and his wife reside in
Wendell. They have no children.
License Examiner
Hocutt On Job
License examiner Clarence Ho
cutt is back on the job testing ap
plicants for driver’s licenses. He
reported to duty July 30 after un
dergoing an operation for diverti
culitis at Wendell-Zebulon Hospit
al May 30. Hocutt reports that he
is feeling very well.
Wakelon Has New Principal;
A Husky Gentleman of 260
James C. Hawkins has been
elected to serve as principal of
Wakelon School for the 1962-1963
year, according to Wake County
Superintendent of Schools Fred
A. Smith.
Hawkins, 46, is a native of
Mecklenburg County. He holds a
bachelor of arts degree from Ap
palachian State Teachers College
where he was an outstanding tac
kle on the college football team;
and has a master of arts degree
in administration and supervision
from East Carolina College.
He has held principalships in
Allentown, Fairmont, Walstonburg
and Townsville. He conies to
Wakelon from Townsville School
in Vance County.
Hawkins is married and his
wife is a teacher. The couple has
three children, a married daugh
ter, a son who will be a senior in
high school, and another son who
will be in the sixth grade.
The new principal is doing some
preliminary work now, but will
begin work officially on August 14,
according to Supt. Smith.
All vacancies on the Wakelon
faculty except two have been fill
ed, Mr. Smith said. These remain
I ing two will be filled soon.
| The strains of “Silent Night”
were played Saturday, July 28, at
the funeral of Mrs. Neva Flowers
Barbee. A favorite of Mrs. Barbee,
the song was played on the piano
by a former pupil of hers, Mrs.
Spencer Turrentine of Bell Buc
kle, Tenn., the former Jocelyn
House of Zebulon.
Mrs. Barbee, 67, died Friday
morning at Wake Memorial Hos
pital. She was taken to the hospi
tal Sunday, July 22, after she had
fallen and broken her pelvis. She
had been in declining health for
several years.
She was the seventh child of
12 children of the late Charles A.
and Neva DeElla Alford Flowers.
She was born in the quiet country
town of Cash Corners in Pamlico
County.
Her schooling was in a private
school, at home and high school,
and at Atlantic Christian College.
She later did graduate study in
music at the University of North
Carolina and in major conserva
tories in New York City.
She taught piano for more than
40 years, the majority of that time
in Zebulon and the surrounding
communities. She also served as
pianist-organist-choir director of
the Zebulon Methodist Church for
40 years.
On October 22, 1913, she was
married to Dr. George S. Barbee,
who was a young general prac
titioner here. They were the first
couple to be married in the Meth
odist Church in Zebulon. Dr. Bar
bee died in 1952.
The coup'e were the parents of
two sons. The first son, born in
1915, died in infancy and was the
first person buried in the Zebulon
Cemetery. The second son sur
vives.
Dr. Charles E. Flowers, Sr., a
brother of Mrs. Barbee, died in
May.
Mrs. Barbee is survived by a
son, George Sprite Barbee, Jr., of
the home; three sisters, Mrs. W. C.
Campen of Zebulon; Mrs. C. H.
Daniels of Alexandria, Va.,; and
Mrs. Robert Miller of Elizabeth
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On Committee
Robert Daniel Massey, cashier
of Peoples Bank & Trust Co., has
| been named to the Wake County
I Democratic Finance Committee.
I He is one of ten Wake County
J Democratic leaders named to the
! committee.
Phillip R. Whitley, prominent
Democratic party leader and for
mer N. C. Representative from
Wake County, also was named to
the committee.
The group is responsible for
| raising funds for carrying on the
! fall campaign in Wake County,
1 according to Robert A. Cotten,
; chairman of the Wake County
! Democratic Executive Committee.
Native Son Helps to Develop
Plastic Greenhouses At VP I
Dr. Howard Massey, Jr.
Plastic greenhouses are becom
ing popular throughout the United
States as practical, economical
plant-growing structures.
One of the major developers of
this type of greenhouse has been a
Zebulon native, P. Howard Mas
sey, Jr.
Dr. Massey (he has his doctor
ate in horticulture from Cornell
University) said that most of this
popularity is due to the low cost,
ease of construction, and the abil
ity to fill the need for a suitable
structure for growing early vege
table and flower plants.
He cited the Estate-type green
house is gaining in popularity for
town and country use. This type
of greenhouse can be built for an
overall cost of not more than
$250.
Massey said with the advent of
State Department Official
Says Town Is Going North
The Town of Zebulon likely will
grow toward the north, local Ro
tarians were told last Friday night
by George Monaghan, member of
the Zoning and Planning Division
of the N. C. Department of Con
servation and Development. To
provide for orderly growth, he
said, a comprehensive long-range
plan is required.
The speaker was introduced by
Amos Estes, member of the Zeb
ulon Planning board. For the past
year Mr. Monaghan has been
working with the Board of Com
missioners, Planning Board, and
Zoning Board preparing for future
growth of the town.
Mr. Monaghan, who proved to
know more about the community
than did many long-time residents,
illustrated his talk with elaborate
maps which showed the present
use of land within the town limits,
and the proposed or expected use
of land in Zebulon and the sur
rounding area for the future.
! Nearly half the acreage inside
| the town limits is undeveloped at
i the present time, his study showed.
Although most houses are satis
factory, there are a number which
should be torn down.
Among the suggestions advanc
ed during the program were cov
ering and developing the old town
dump to provide a play ground in
the northeast section of Zebulon;
developing Vance Avenue as an
extension of the present retail bus
iness area; providing for industrial
expansion along the railroad east
of Zebulon; and zoning the area
around Wendell-Zebulon Hospital
i to provide space for convalescent
! homes and clinics.
A population chart showed com
parative growth of the towns of
Local Boy Named
| Gov't. Grader
! Tony Brooks Pearce has been
I appointed as an Agricultural
I Commodity Grader and is now
undergoing a training period in
1 Richmond.
Following the training period,
Pearce will work in many eastern
J states in the Fruit and Vegetable
Division, Processed Products
Standardization and Inspection
Branch of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
j Elbert L. Pearce of Zebulon and
I a graduate of N. C. State College.
Wake County. Apex, Wendell, and
Zebulon have had nearly parallel
growth; while Garner and Cary
have soared in population during
the past 10 years to 3,500 each.
“The new highway to Raleigh
and possible industrial growth in
this area could cause such a boom
here,” Mr. Monaghan said of Zeb
ulon. He urged the town be pre
pared.
Softball Standing I
Only two weeks of play remain
in the Franklin-Wake Softball
League.
Ploy-offs will be held after the
regular season. All teams will par
ticipate in a double elimination1
tournament.
Standings
Team Won Lost
Wake Cross Roads . 12 3
Pearces . 9 5
Pilot . 10 6
Zebulon Methodists . 6 8
Pine Ridge . 4 9
New Hope . 3 13
School Board Approves Cuban
Teacher; County Pays Salary
Dr. Jose L. Roy Barreau, Cuban
refugee from the Communist dic
tatorship of Fidel Castro, was in
terviewed by the Wakelon School
Board on Monday night for the
position of Spanish-instructor in
the Wakelon High School this
year.
Dr. Barreau, a graduate of the
University of Havana, speaks Eng
lish fluently and studied English
at Red Bank, New Jersey from
1936-39. He is also eminently
qualified to teach American His
tory and other related subjects.
Having taught at Havana, Dr.
Barreau has a rich background in
Cuban governmental, banking and
export trade. He has made num
erous trips to the United States
and in 1956 was secretary to the
Cuban Sugar Commissioner in
Washington, D. C. During that
time he became acquainted with
Rep. Harold Cooley of Nashville.
The following year, Dr. Barreau
was at the United Nations for a
brief session and from 1957 until
the overthrow of the Batista gov
ernment made several trips to the
lightweight, easily worked, trans
parent plastic films, home garden
ers living in town and country
areas have been constructing
small greenhouses to extend their
gardening enjoyment.
Horticulturists have recognized
for some time the need for a prac
tical, low-cost, plant-growing
structure, Massey said; one that
would be suitable for a grower
just getting started in home grow
ing, in business or for an estab
lished grower to use for expansion
purposes.
Massey said the large amount
of capital needed to build and
maintain glass greenhouses has
kept many interested individuals
from growing vegetables and flow
ers. The advent of plastic film to
cover greenhouses has, to a large
extent, met this need in a practi
cal and economical manner.
Seven years ago, the depart
ments of Horticulture and Agricul
tural Engineering at Virginia Poly
technic Institute began a compre
hensive experiment on plastic
greenhouses.
Massey, who was among the
group of researchers, said the ob
jectives of this study were: to de
velop improved unit construction,
including framing, heating, venti
lating, and plastic coverings; and
to study plant growth rate and
yield of vegetables when grown
in glass and plastic greenhouses.
Research on the projects paid
off. Today a 21 x 40 foot plas
tic greenhouse can be built with
unskilled labor and cost less than
$500, including the heating sys
tem. Massey said. A glass green
house of comparable size would
cost at least $2,500.
Massey will be at the 16th In
ternational Horticultural Congress
in Belgium from August 31 to
September 8 where he will deliver
a 3,000 word paper to the Congress
of about 3,000 members on the
seven-year research program in
plastic greenhouses done at VPI.
He is one of 25 university men
in the United States who will be
attending the Congress. He is the
only professor from the State of
Virginia and the only person from
the South who will attend. North
Carolina is not represented.
While there he will make horti
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States.
Prior to the Castro regime and
until his “vote for freedom” and
decision to come to the United
States to live, he was associated
with the Cuban Bank for Export
Trade. He was offered a prime
position of responsibility in the
governmental operation of export
trade if he had become a Commu
nist. A bitter foe of Marxism, Dr.
Barreau chose to forsake the Com
munist-controlled government and
came to the United States in No
vember, 1961.
His wife, Georgia, and son,
Jose Antonio, came two months
later by way of Jamaica. The
family was forced to leave all pos
sessions and belongings behind,
able to bring only two changes of
clothes with them. Since Novem
ber, he has been in Miami and
has worked wherever he could find
employment. There are some 150,
000 refugees in Miami.
County to Pay Teacher
Chairman Philip Olive stated,
“The State has granted Dr. Bar
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