THE ZEBULON
RECORD
VOLUME 37. NUMBER 31. ZEBULON. N. C.. SEPTEMBER 6. 1962
Dr. Leo Green
Douglas McCullough
Evangelistic Crusade Starts
Friday at Pearce Ball Park
Five community churches are
sponsoring the first simultaneous!
evangelistic crusade ever to be held j
in the Zebulon community on Sep
tember 7, 8, and 9.
Pearce, Pilot, Union Chapel,
Hopkins Chapel, and Wakefield
churches are sponsoring the event
which wil be held in the Pearce
community ball park.
An estimated 1,000 persons are
Installation
Officers to serve the American
Legion Auxiliary (or the coming
year will be installed Friday night,
September 7, at 8 o’clock, it has
been announced. The meeting will
be held at Mrs. Sidney Holmes.
expected each night of the cru
sade.
Dr. James Leo Green, professor
of Hebrew and Old Testament at
Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary at Wake Forest, will de
liver the nightly sermons.
Douglas McCullough will be in
charge of the singing at the three
night evangelistic rally. Cadwin
Cone will accompany the 100-voice
choir made up of members from
each of the participating churches.
The ministers of the churches
sponsoring the crusade said such a
rally will create a new stimulant
for the churches and every indi
vidual who participates.
There will be plenty of seating
available in the well-lighted ball
park.
Each night services will get un
derway at 7:30 o’clock.
Water, Sewer Bond Proposal
To Be Decided Here Tuesday
Zebulon’s $558,000 water and
sewer bond vote is set for Tuesday,
September 11.
Mayor Ed Hales said Tuesday
he had not heard it discussed very
much, either pro or con. He has,
however, hopes of the bond pas
sing.
Interest in the coming water and
sewer bond election has not
seemed to fire the citizens of the
town. Many citizens questioned
said they had not made up their
minds about the coming issue, had
not heard enough about it, or were
: completely indifferent about the
election.
Town officials feel strongly that
j the welfare of the town is at stake
i and the water and sewer system
are in dire need of repairing or
replacing completely.
An N. C. sanitary engineer in
formed town officials that the pre
sent water plant is old, antiquated,
and provides insufficient wateT
capacity for the town. The water
is safe with the present system,
however, he said, for human con
sumption.
The engineer urged the town to
Zebulon Baptist Church Makes Plans
For Building New $150,000 Sanctuary
Zebulon Baptist Church has be
gun plans for a new $150,000
sanctuary adjoining its present
building.
The Rev. David Daniel, pastor,
enthusiastically revealed Tuesday
plans are underway for construc
tion of the addition on the parking
area facing Arendell Avenue. He
anticipates completion of the
building by October 1, 1963.
The building will include a
sanctuary which will seat 600
persons comfortably, one assembly
room, two class rooms, three offic
es, and three toilets. It will be
Popular Staley Minister, Native
Of Pilot, Loses Life to Cancer
Cancer took the life of a popular
young Staley minister and Zebu
Ion native Thursday, August 30.
The Rev. T. Wallace Baker died
in the Staley Baptist Church par
sonage after months fight with
cancer. He was 36 years old.
Baker had been bedridden with
the disease since last Christmas.
He was taken sick in July, 1961,
and his condition gradually wor
sened until he was forced to take
to his bed in December.
Staley Baptist Church was the
first church Baker pastored. He
served the church for two years.
He attended Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Wake
Forest.
A funeral service was held at
Staley Baptist Church on Friday
at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Warren
Kerr, pastor of Hinshaw Baptist
Church of North Wilkesboro; the
Rev. Howell V. Brady, pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church of Greens
boro; and the Rev. Jack Shellew,
pastor of Pinecloth Baptist Church
of Greensboro, officiating.
A second funeral s rvice was
held for the deceased at Hopkins
Chapel Baptist Church on Satur
day at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Claude
Walker, pastor, and the Rev.
Aubrey McClellon, officiating!.
Burial was in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Robert Black
ley, Elmo Finch, Dewanna Mit
chell, Newman Brannan, Edsel
Martin and Willie Brannan. The
deacons of Staley Baptist Church
served as honorary pallbearers.
The casket was covered with a
pall of red and white roses. Mem
bers of the Hopkins Baptist Church
choir sang, “It is Well With My
Soul” and “Sweet Peace, A Gift
of God’s Love.” Mrs. Ruby
Walker and Kenneth Hopkins
sang a duet, “There’s No Friend to
Me Like Jesus.”
Baker is survived by his wife,
the former Melba Duke; two teen
age daughters, Kay, 17, and Shir
ley, 15; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Hubert Baker of Zebulon; five
brothers, Donald and Eddie, both
of Zebulon; Derward of Raleigh,
Maylon of Smithfleld, and Jarvis,
who is with the U. S. Navy in
Panama; and one sister, Mrs. Betty
Anne Turner of Yanceyville.
Wallace Baker
completely airconditioned, have
memorial stained glass windows
and the traditional steeple with
chimes.
Already 60 church families have
pledged $87,000. These pledges
will be given over a three-year
period.
“With a membership of 700 and
with the anticipated response of
the 60 families who have pledged,
there is no doubt we will construct
this new sanctuary and will be
occupying that building by Octo
ber 1, 1963,” the popular, hard
working pastor of the church said.
The Rev. Mr. Daniel said the
attitude of the church is very good
and 99 per cent of the congrega
tion is in favor of the construction
of the new building.
“A little over a year ago we
acquired the Tippett property ad
joining the church, which included
three houses and a large parking
area,” Daniel said. “This debt in
volved has been liquidated, and
we are free of debt and money for
the new sanctuary has begun to
come in.”
Daniel reported that since
July of 1961 the church has grown
by some 60 members, pointing out
the dire need of additional space
for the worship services.
The present sanctuary seats 325
persons. Last year on a number
of Sundays the present sanctuary
was overflowing.
Bulldog Football
The Wakelon bulldogs open
their 1962 football season against
Four Oaks on Friday night at 8
p.m. The opening game, to be
played on the local athletic field,
is expected to draw some 800
1000 persons. Wakelon has been
chosen as one of the pre-season
favorites in the tough Wake-Nash
Edgecombe league. The team last
year had a 6-3-1 record and is
coached by Maurice Chapman, now
in his fourth year. The captains
are Tommy Wood and Freddie
Ellington.
take steps to construct a new fil- j
tration plant which will be ade
quate in size to properly furnish
water for the town. The water j
plant and wells at present, he
said, are barely able to supply
a sufficient amount of water in |
extremely warm weather and with \
a normal population growth, he
said these will be inadequate in ■
the very near future.
Zebulon is among a long list of
North Carolina towns that has
been given a date in which to stop
polluting the streams and rivers of
the state with sewage.
In case of passage of the bond
election, the town will make appli
cation to the Federal Government
for part of the sewer cost. It is
hoped that a maximum of 30 per
cent of the cost of the new sewer
system may be obtained from
Federal funds.
The polls will be open from
6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Polling
place is at the Zebulon Fire Sta
tion. Approximately 700 citizens
of Zebulon are eligible to vote.
This will be the first bond vote
the town has had since 1950. Under
the administration of Mayor R.
H. Bridgers the town voted to
borrow $50,000 for the construc
tion of a modern and efficient
municipal building.
Opinions
Mrs. Tempie Strickland of Vance
Street said: “I think something
needs to be done about the water
system. It is the nearest nothing
at home. We don’t have any water
pressure. It’s hard to do a wash
because the water will hardly run
in the washing machine because
of the lack of pressure.”
“I shall vote for the bond,” Mrs.
E. H. Moser of Gannon Avenue
said. “The water is awful at my
house. It smells so badly you
have to hold your nose. I am in
favor of water and sewer.”
Mrs. Ruth Chamblee of Church
Street said: “I’ll vote for it if it
means more and new industry
coming to Zebulon.”
“I don’t really know,” Mrs.
Loomis Strickland of East Syca
more Street said. “I didn’t know
we were going to have one (an
election). I think the present
system is all right now.”
“I’m between the devil and the
deep blue sea,” Mrs. Zeb Corbett
of South Arendell Avenue said.
“I haven’t made up my mind. We
certainly do need more pressure
at some times of the day.”
5-Year-OM Jabs
Scissors in Eye
Joel McRae Creech, five-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thelbert
Creech of Route 1, Zebulon, almost
blinded himself Monday afternoon,
August 27, when he jabbed a pair
of household scissors in his right
eye.
The little lad and youngest child
of the couple was cutting strings
off tobacco sticks when the acci
dent happened. He was rushed im
mediately to a local physician who
referred him to a Raleigh hospital.
Doctors said he was not totally
blinded in the eye. His sight was
saved because of the new methods
of eye surgery, they told his par
ents.
CHAMPIONS . . . Pilot softball team coped the winner’s title Friday
night after defeating Wake Cross Roads, 6-5, in the Wake-Franklin Softball
League. The team members are, standing, John Ray, Gerald Brantley,
G. W. McDowell, Lynn Williams, Johnny Alford, and David Pearce;
squatting, Ted Jones, Joe Creech, Hoss Alford, Steve Tant, and Tony
Strickland.
Pilot Wins Wake-Franklin League
Playoff from Wake Cross Roads
An impressive looking group of
softball players battled it out in
the final game of the Franklin
Wake Softball League Friday night
in the Pearce ball park.
Pilot downed the Wake Cross
Roads club by a score of 6-5 in a
hotly contested game with David
Pearce the winning pitcher.
A1 Layman, Wake Cross Roads
pitcher, was the man of the hour
as he pitched a total of 24 innings.
Layman pitched 12 innings in a
game the previous night and came
along Friday night to hurl 12 more
innings of the final game.
At the end of the game Friday
night the Pilot club was presented
the championship trophy. The
presentation was made by M. L.
Hagwood, league director.
The sportsmanship trophy was
presented to Clenn Carter, mana
ger of the New Hope team.
An estimated 1,200 persons saw
the final game, according to J. W.
Perry, Jr., organizer of the softball
league.
Perry added that plans are al
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