THE ZEBULON
RECORD
VOLUME 37, NUMBER 36. ZEBULON. N. C.. OCTOBER 11. 1962
Karen Lavens, reigning Miss Rodeo America, is shown with
WETC announcer Teddie Davis. Davis intei ,-iewed Miss Lavens
on the local radio station Tuesday. She will perform nightly at
7:30 in rodeo performances in the J. S. Dorton Arena at the North
Carolina State Fair, which opens October 15. Miss Lavens was
crowned Miss Rodeo America last November in Las Vagas. She was
in competition with more than 100 girls. The interview will be
played over the local radio station throughout the week.
KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
Loves, Praises Pupils
“I do feel kindergarten has its
place, very definitely,” Mrs.
Howard Bunn said. “It helps pre
pare the child, emotionally and
socially, for school.”
Mrs. Bunn has operated a kin
dergarten here since 1960.
“I have always enjoyed working
with children,” she said in her
quiet manner of speaking. “I en
joy especially working with the
small child.”
Mrs. Bunn spent 30 years teach
ing in the primary field of public
education. Both she and her hus
band retired from the educational
system in 1960 and moved to Zeb
ulon, Mr. Bunn’s home town.
“We already had our home here
completed when I decided to open
a kindergarten,” Mrs. Bunn said.
“So we just added an additional
room in which I could hold
classses.”
The room is cozy, comfortable,
Mrs. Howard Bunn
light and airy and decorated with
works of the children and Mrs.
Bunn’s own handcraft. The furni
ture is made for the small child.
There is a bathroom and a water
fountain, and everything is neat
and orderly.
“I let the children develop on
their own level,” she said. “I
don’t push them. If they want to
and are anxious to go ahead, I let
them. Most of them learn to print
their name before the year is
over.”
Mrs. Bunn strives to get her stu
dents to work as a group. Some
children come who are self-con
scious, shy, too aggressive, or
with slight speech impediments.
Most before the year with her is
over have overcome these difficul
ties.
“Love and praise does most of
it,” Mrs. Bunn said. “Love and
praise can get a lot done. And I
love every one of them.”
She said that the parents work
closely with her to carry out her
program.
“I teach almost everything ex
cept formal reading,” Mrs. Bunin
said. “I don’t teach any reading.
This I leave up to the public school
teacher. Each teacher has his
own method of teaching reading.”
One of the most important
things she gets them to learn is
following instructions. Mrs. Bunn
believes that this is a most im
portant phase of getting the child
adjusted to entering the public
school.
She laughingly said she doesn’t
have any disciplinary problems.
The kindergarten operates from
9 to 12 five days a week. It fol
lows the local school’s yearly holi
day schedule.
What would she have liked to
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Girl Scout Fund Drive to Begin
In Zebulon Next Week; Canvass Set
The campaign for funds to sup
port the Girl Scout program in
Zebulon will officially open next
week and continue ^hrough the
following week, Mrs. George Tuck
er, chairman, has announced.
Next week will be devoted to
special gifts that persons wish to
give. The following week a house
to house canvass will be held.
The money contributed will be
used to bring better scouting to
more girls in the Zebulon commu
nity.
The Girl Scouts’ theme is “Serv
ice ... a Girl Scout Promise.”
Help the program in Zebulon and
j help the Girl Scouts keep their
j promise by contributing to the
! fund drive. By giving generously
the Girl Scout program can be
j bigger and better for more girls.
Mrs. Doris Privette, publicity
chairman, said by giving gener
ously the Girl Scouts can become
better citizens in a better town.
“There is no better investment
than Girl Scouting.”
Methodist Church Is 55 Years
Old; Celebration to Be Sunday
The 55th anniversary of the
founding of the Zebulon Methodist
Church will be noted here on
Sunday, October 14, at the annual
Homecoming services. Originally
called the Wakefield Mission and
served by the late Dr. Armour D.
Wilcox, the church membership
has grown from two members of
the mission in 1907 to 433 mem
bers today. The church has expe
rienced its most rapid rate of
growth since 1950 under the pas
torates of the late Rev. S. E. Mer
cer, the Rev. Troy Barrett and the
present minister.
The special commemorative
services are set for 11:00 on Sun
day morning with the traditional
Homecoming dinner on the
grounds to follow. All members,
former members and friends of the
church are invited.
The widow of the first pastor
to serve the church now lives al
Lake Junaluska. The sole surviv
ing charter member of the church
is Mrs. W. M. Strickland, the
former Miss Mamie Temple.
The Methodist Church, located
at the corner of Gannon \venue
and Church Street, has property
valued at $127,680 and includes
the church building and grounds
the old parsonage located next tc
the church, and a new parsonage
located at 204 W. Glenn Street
The church’s budget is $21,996.
Until June, 1955, the church was
on a circuit. During the pastorate
of the Rev. Troy J. Barrett, the
Wendell-Zebulon charge was di
vided with each of the churches
becoming a Station Church.
Memorial to Members Noted
To be especially noted in the
service on Sunday are members
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ing the year. A special tribute
will be paid those who have joined
“the Church Triumphant.” They
are Mrs. J. A. Clark, Dr. Charles
E. Flowers, and Mrs. Neva F.
Barbee.
In addition to the special Home
coming Service and dinner, the
other regular Sunday services in
clude Church School at 9:45 a.m.
with devotional by Dick Turling
ton; Methodist Youth Fellowship
at 6:00 p.m and Evening Worship
at 7:30 p.m.
Bill Pollard Resigns
From WETC Staff
Bill Pollard resigned his posi
tion as country music maestro of
Radio Station WETC September
29, according to station officials.
He is now associated with Radio
Station WOXF, Oxford. He was
with WETC three and one-half
years.
Keplacing .foiiara is muy Year
gin, 23, who was formerly an an
nouncer with Station WNOH, Ra
leigh. He is married and is the
father of one child, a son.
Ruritan Club Meets
All members of the Wakelon
Ruritan Club are reminded of the
monthly meeting tonight, October
11, at Daniels Restaurant. The
supper meeting will begin at 7
p.m. and President Bill Quick ur
gently requests all members to
be present. The club members will
try to make final disposition of the
bill that remains on the hospital
shrubbery.
Want a Parade?
To have a Christmas parade or
not to have a parade, that will be
the question.
Merchants and other interested
citizens are asked to meet at the
town hall Monday night, October
15, at 7:30 o’clock to discuss the
possibility of having a Christmas
parade, Aaron Lowery, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce, has
announced.
“The number of persons pres
ent will determine if we will have
a parade or not,” Lowery said.
A float representative will be
present to make ■ suggestions and
to inform those present the cost
involved in obtaining a float for
their business.
Last year’s Christmas parade
was the best ever presented in
Zebulon. Gotten up on the spur
of the moment, the parade fea
tured 12 professional floats, sev
eral bands, and many, many other
parade activities.
If you are interested, if the
merchants are interested, you sire
urged to be at the meeting Monday
night, October 15.
Station Agent Remains Here
The State Utilities Commission
Friday denied the Norfolk South
ern Railroad a request to consoli
date and reduce the service of the
Zebulon, Middlesex, Bailey and
Wendell stations.
The railroad company presented
plans to the Commission to con
solidate the four stations and to
have one station agent serve the
four towns at different hours of
the day. Zebulon would have had
Mrs. Mattie Bullock
Dies Friday, October 5
Mrs. Mattie B. Bullock, 81, wife
of the late Johnnie Bullock, died
Friday, October 5, at Franklin Me
morial Hospital at Louisburg after
an extended illness.
Funeral services were held Sun
day at Poplar Springs Baptist
Church by the pastor. Rev. Robert
Depp. Burial was in Pine Ridge
Cemetery. Grandsons acted as
pallbearers.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. M. C. Wilder of Route 1,
Louisburg; four sons, Leon of the
home, Ned and John Thomas of
Route 2, Zebulon, Willie of Route
2, Raleigh.
Also surviving are 17 grandchil
dren, nineteen great-grandchildren
and one brother, Everette Bed
dingfield of Englewood, California.
Baptist Tabernacle on Route 1,
Wendell, will observe homecom
ing day services Sunday, October
14.
approximately two hours a day
service if the plans of the company
had materialized.
Since the retirement of H. E.
Mann the new station agent here
is Homer Spell of Farmville. The
38-year-old agent jg now on his
twenty-second year with the com
pany and prior to coming to Zeb
ulon was the relief agent at Ply
mouth. He assumed his duties
here September 24.
Spell is married to the former
Doris King of St. Pauls. They
are the parents of two children, a
girl, 9, and a boy, 8. The family
plans to move to Zebulon after
school is over.
The Zebulon agency is open
eight hours a day, from 7:45 a.m.
to 4:45 p.rn. It has the biggest
freight tonnage between Raleigh
and Wilson.
Alec Edward Kemp
Funeral Today at 3
Alec Edward Kemp, 83, died
Wednesday morning at one o’clock
at the Wendell-Zebulon Hospital.
Mr. Kemp had suffered a heart at
tack earlier in the day.
He is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. J. F. Coltrane and Mrs. E. R.
Bunn, Sr., both of Zebulon.
Funeral services will be held on
Thursday afternoon at three o’
clock at the Screws and Hudson
Funeral Home. The Rev. William
K. Quick, pastor of the Zebulon
Methodist Church, will officiate.
Burial will be in the family ceme
tery at the Kemp Homeplace.
Wakelon Bulldogs Romp to Win
Over Bethel Hill Eleven, 34-0
The Wakelon Bulldogs romped
to their third victory of the sea
son last Friday night as they
soundly defeated Bethel Hill High
School near Roxboro, 34-0. The
only blemish on the Bulldog rec
ord is a 21-13 defeat at the hands
of Oxford Orphanage and a 14-14
tie with Nashville.
Tomorrow night, the Bulldogs
clash on the local gridiron with
Mills High School of Louisburg.
The Louisburg team is one of the
scrappiest in the tough Tar-Roa
noke Conference. Game time is
8 p.m.
In other Conference games last
week, the Spring Hope eleven de
defeated arch rival Nashville 18-0
to move into the driver’s seat in
the Wake-Nash-Edgecombe league.
Wendell was set to play Franklin
ton on Tuesday night in a make
up game cancelled recently due to
sickness on the part of several
r ranklinton players.
Support the Bulldogs!