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VOLUME 38. NUMBER lO. ZEBULON. N. C.. MARCH 7. 1963
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Nation^J/^rd Battery Has
Openings lor More Officers
Sunday, March 10, has been set
by the National Guard Bureau in
Washington as the date North Car
olina’s 30th Infantry Division will
reorganize as a ROAD unit—the j
Army’s newest idea for a combat
division. When the big change
takes place, Zebulon’s National
Guard unit will give up its 8-inch
howitzers for “Honest John” mis
siles.
Capt. Jack Potter, commander
of Battery A in Zebulon, said the
weapons change will mean greatly
increased training problems for
local Guardsmen, but increased
opportunity will be available for
qualified men.
Although Battery A’s size is
smaller as a missile unit, two
more officers are authorized. Only
one more enlisted man can be re
cruited to bring the battery to full
strength.
“We want to get these men as
soon as possible so that they can
be trained before summer camp,”
Capt. Potter said. He urged men
who are interested to contact
SFC Johnsey Arnold at the Na
tional Guard armory at once.
The change from howitzers to
missiles caused a change in train
ing site for Battery A’s summer
camp. Originally planned for Ft.
Bragg, summer camp for the mis
silemen will be conducted at Ft.
Benning, Ga., from June 9 through
June 24.
Cattle Breeding
To Be Discussed
An educational meeting on
breeding both dairy and beef cat
tle will be held in Wakelon School
agriculture building Friday,
March 8, at 7:30 p.m.
Wakelon Agriculture Teacher
C. V. Tart has announced that
Charles Waldrop, who is a spec
ialist in this field, will be the
speaker.
“We have a lot of small herds
of beef cattle in the Zebulon area
which are not large enough to
profitably buy the kind of sire that
should be used on the herd. We
think that we can present a pro
gram to you that will make you
money as well as the dairymen,”
Tart said.
Tart said that livestock is a
profitable industry, and three pro
grams of production must be car
ried on. These programs are
breeding, feeding, and manage
ment.
Two plans are under study for
transporting the 1st Missile Bat
talion to Ft. Benning. One plan is
for the Guardsmen to move in "mo
tor convoys to Ft. Benning, a trip
requiring three days each way.
A second suggested plan is for
the vehicles of the battalion to
move in convoy, but all the bat
talion except those required to
drive and command the motor
convoy to be flown to Ft. Benning
aboard huge super-Constellations
of the North Carolina Air Guard.
By air, the trip requires about
two hours from Raleigh-Durham
Airport.
Representatives of the missile
battalion, including Capt. Potter,
are planning a one-day conference
at Ft. Benning this month to coor
dinate the summer camp with
Army representatives at the Geor
gia post.
The 1st Missile Battalion is com
manded by Lt. Col. Collin McKin
ne of Louisburg. Units include
Battery A in Zebulon, Battery B
in Youngsville, and Headquarters
Battery in Louisburg.
Max P. Williams
Buys Flower Shop
Max Paul Williams, a Pilot com
munity native, became the owner
of CenteT Flower Shop March 1.
He purchased it from J. Raleigh
Alford.
Williams was the owner of a
florist shop here in 1958. Then he
sold his business and went to Ra
leigh where he worked as sales
man with Nowell’s clothing firm in
Cameron Village.
Williams and his wife, the for
mer Wilma Barefoot of Dunn, re
side in Raleigh. He said he has
plans to move to Zebulon in the
near future.
Center Flower Shop has been in
operation for 14 months. Mrs. Ro
chelle Long was manager.
Women to Meet
The Farm Bureau Women’s
Auxiliary will meet Wed) esday
night, March 13, at 7:30 ii the
Wakelon School home economics
building. An interesting program
is being planned. All members
are urged to attend and visitors
are welcomed.
M. J. Sexton New Tax Lister;
Town to Sell Surplus Land
M. J. Sexton, retired postmaster
and insurance executive, was em
ployed Monday by the town board
of commissioners as the town’s tax
lister for 1963. His salary will be
$125.
Other business of the commis
sioners and mayor was to have
town engineer John Edwards to
survey land owned by the town
which is located on the west side
of Little River.
Mayor Ed Hales said this land,
about three or four acres, is going
to be sold because the town has
no use for it. An interested party
is wanting to buy the land, the
mayor said. If the person inter
ested in purchasing it does not
■> make a bid satisfactory to the com
missioners, the land will be sold
at public auction.
Mayor Hales and Town Mana
ger Willie B. Hopkins will meet
with the state stream commissioner
on March 18 to ask for a time ex
tension on the stream pollution.
Hales will ask for a year and
one half extension from the state
stream commissioner. He feels
confident the town will receive
this extension because work is
progressing on getting a sewage
disposal plant for the town, thus
eliminating dumping sewage into
local streams.
Town Attorney Ferd Davis was
asked by the commissioners at
Monday night’s meeting to draw
up a resolution for the town elec
tions which will be held in May.

The Wake County Board of Ed- ;
ucation met Tuesday afternoon
but took no action to purchase a
consolidated high school site ap-1
proved Monday by the Board of j
Commissioners. The consolidated
high school district comprises the
present Wakelon, Knightdale,
Wendell, and Rolesville districts.
Tne site approved by the com
missioners is located on the Mar
tin Center-Rolesville road, and
was first offered to the County for
$800 an acre. The Board of Edu
cation requested approval by the
commissioners on this basis, but
action was postponed by the gov
erning body. Subsequently the
price was lowered to $450 an acre,
and the commissioners approved
the price at their Monday session.
At Tuesday’s Board of Educa
tion meeting the members, with
the exception of Harry Stewart
who was absent, heard a presenta
tion of a proposed site by Ferd
Davis, board member-nofninate.
Davis proposed a site east of Buf
falo Creek owned by Miss Pattie
Lee, and presented the board an
option for 47 acres at a total price
of $15,000 obtained from Miss Lee
by Willard White of Wendell.
Davis claimed the site would re
sult in substantial transportation
savings as well as initial site sav
ings, and George Monaghan of
the State Department of Conserva
tion & Development presented a
study made by his group backing
up Davis’s claims.
Opponents Are Heard
The meeting Tuesday produced
several clashes between Davis and
retiring Board Chairman C. V.
Whitley of Zebulon, but the two
parted on apparently good terms.
Speaking at the meeting Tuesday
in addition to Davis and Mona
ghan were Mrs. Davis, local PTA
president, and Raleigh attorneys
Wilbur Bunn and Clem Holding.
“We hear a lot of talk about
Wakelon people not wanting their
children to have quality education
because of the stand of Zebulon
folks on consolidation,” Mrs. Da
vis said, “but we have proved we
are in favor of quality education
already. We have given $100 a
plate dinners, Halloween carnivals,
and cash contributions to our
school already, and as a result we
have the only accredited school
among the four being consolidated.
Other folks may say they are for
educational improvement; we
have proved ourselves at Wake
Ion.”
Davis presented the Board of
Education information of a pro
posed injunctive action. He said
he was not a party to the proposed
suit, but had been asked by the
tentative plaintiffs to make known
to the board the possibility of an
action asking that Wakelon not
be consolidated with the other
three schools.
In the meantime in Raleigh The
Newt and Observer, which had
been critical of the action of the
commissioners in withholding ap
proval of the Martin Center site
acknowledged yesterday that the
commissioners had been right. The
paper said, in part:
“Credit where cretht is due: It
now turns out that the County
Commissioners served the county
and its people by holding up de
cision on the school 6ite tor East- i
em Wake County. The result is
the same site and a saving of
$17,500.”
Text of the report adopted by
the county commissioners follows:
The Committee appointed by the
Wake County Board of Commis
sioners to study the cost of a pro
posed school site in Eastern Wake
County makes this report to the
Wake County Board of Commis
sioners:
1. At the outset, we would
like to say that we feel the overall
job being done by the Wake
County School Board is a good
one. We are impressed with their
sincerity and realize that they can
not possibly foresee every eventu
ality. We sympathize with their
problems and the decisions they
are compelled to make.
Delay Proved Best
2. The Committee is confident
that the School Board acted in
good faith when the proposed
school site was offered to the Wake
County Board of Commissioners
only four weeks ago at a price
of $40,000.00. The fact that this
same land is now being offered to
the County for $22,500.00 is heart
warming to all Wake County tax
payers who have seen their tax
bills grow to staggering propor
tions in the past few years. We
join other taxpayers in thanking
the School Board and we are hap
py that the short delay imposed
by the Wake County Board of
Commissioners has been more than
justified. We further hope that
those parties who have been so
openly critical of this Committee
and the full Board of Commis
sioners over this short delay will
derive some measure of satisfac
tion from the fact that this four
week delay has saved Wake Coun
ty over $550.00 per day. This
savings will be reflected in the
tax bills of all of the taxpayers of
Wake County.
Four Must Be Included
3. Therefore, it is the recom
mendation of this Committee to
the Wake County Board of Com
missioners that the $22,500.00 ex
penditure be approved for the
purchase of the proposed school
site near Martin’s Center in East
ern Wake County. The land, as
proposed by the Wake County
School Board, will specifically be
used for the construction of a
comprehensive high school for the
districts of Wendell, Knightdale,
Rolesville and Zebulon. This Com
mittee respectfully suggests that
the Board of Commissioners rec
ommend to those in authority that
they proceed with extreme cau
tion in the purchase of this land
so as to insure the full participa
tion of all four districts involved
and thus protect the investment
of Wake County.
4. The Committee has one fur
ther observation to make and this
pertains to the purchase of school
sites in the future. Again, this
Committee respectfully suggests
to the Board of Commissioners
that School Boards in the future
give serious thought to the possi
bility of handling the purchase of
school sites in some other manner
as experience has proven that local
government is forced to pay higher
prices than individuals when buy
ing land and we strongly feel
some other method can result in
considerable savings to the Coun
ty.
The report of this Committee is
respectfully made to the Wake
County Board of Commissioners
this 4th day of March, 1963.
W. J. Booth, Chairman
New Case Worker
Named for Zebulon
Mrs. Byrd Young is the new
welfare case worker for Zebulon.
She accepted the position with
Wake County Welfare Department
in October and was assigned this
area.
Mrs. Young, who succeeds Mrs.
Ann Jones, now acting supervisor
with the department, is a 1961
graduate of Duke with a bachelor
of arts degree in political science.
The blue-eyed blonde social
worker is a native of Timberlake
in Person County. She was mar
ried to Warren Young, Jr., of Ra
leigh, September 1.
Mrs. Young said she likes her
job. “I feel helping somebody is
a great personal satisfaction. No,
it is not depressing to us. I like
the personal contact with folks.”
Mrs. Young is here each Friday
afternoon. Her office is in the
Municipal Building.
Seven-Inch Snow Falls Here;
Two Accidents Caused by Ice
A seven-inch snow blanketed
Zebulon and the Surrounding areas
last Tuesday, closing schools and
bringing hazardous driving condi
tions to streets and highways.
Only two accidents were re
ported by local police, but there
were no injuries.
Billy Joe Price and Edward Lee
Skinner were involved in an auto
mobile accident about 6:15 p.m.
at the intersection of Gannon and
Arendell Avenues. Skinner, a
resident of Zebulon, hit the back
of Price’s 1958 Chevrolet as he was
waiting for the stop light. Price,
of Route 2, Zebulon, had damages
estimated at $200. Skinner’s 1962
Ford was damaged approximately
$150.
Night Policeman Windell Perry,
who investigated, said no charges
were preferred.
The second accident occurred on
Arendell Avenue about 8:15 p.m.
James Edward Ray of Route 3,
Zebulon, skidded into Adrian Hol
land’s 1960 Chevrolet which was
parked in front of his Jewelers
shop. Ray’s car suffered $15 dam
ages and Holland’s, $50. No charges
were preferred.
The onslaught of sleet and rain
early Tuesday morning quickly
turned into snow, and the white
downy flakes fell steadily through
the rest of the day and into the
night.
Local schools dismissed the pu
pils in early afternoon, and em
ployees of manufacturing plants
were allowed to leave early.
Business in downtown Zebulon
slowed to a trickle.
Street-clearing crews went into
action to keep traffic moving, and
Tuesday night local streets were
all but deserted.
A portion of Franklin Street,
from Arendell Avenue to Church
Streets, was roped off by order of
Mayor Ed Hales for children to
skate and sled on Wednesday.
Town Manager Willie B. Hop
kins said this was the biggest
snowfall here in several years.