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EBULON RECORD
VOLUME 38. NUMBER II. ZEBULON. N. C.. MARCH 14. 1963
Wakelon Advances in Cage
Tournament at Rocky Mount
By Bill Quick
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The Wakelon Bulldogs, sporting
a 14-7 season’s second, advanced
to the quarter-finals of the Dis
trict II tourney at Rocky Mount
Thursday night. The Bulldogs
will clash with Epsom at 7:00.
Cnwned the Wake County Class
A champs for the third consecu
tive year, the Bulldogs meet the
Franklin County representative by
virtue of their defeat of Oxford
Orphanage last Friday night 57-41.
The Orphanage, Granville
County champs, had a 17-4 record
and were odds-on favorites to take
the Bulldogs. Three of the Oxford
Orphanage losses were to 3-A
schools: Henderson and Chapel
Hill. Their fourth defeat was at
the hands of Stovall.
Wakelon took the early lead
against the Red Devils and coast
ed on to victory. Led by the 25
point effort of Jimmy Hawkins,
the Bulldogs played one of their
best games of the season.
Coach Maurice Chapman is not
selling the Epsom Club short.
There is a good ball club,” Chap
man stated on Tuesday and “from
now on in we’ll be hitting the
best.”
The winner of the Wakelon-Ep
som game on Thursday night will
advance to the semi-finals on Fri
day night meeting the winner of
the North Edgecombe-Youngsville
game.
9-3 Conference Record ~
The Bulldogs‘ended the regu
lar season with a 9-3 conference
Hospital Receives
Gift of Money
Wendell-Zebulon Hospital was
among institutions receiving allo
cations from the Duke Endow
ments. The local hospital received
$890 this year compared to $675
last year.
Allocations by the Endowments
are made to institutions to help de
fray charity costs.
The Endowment, which was
founded by the late James B. Duke
in 1924, makes annual appropria
x tions to assist non-profit hospitals
and child care institutions in their
charity programs. It is the nation’s
third largest private philanthropic
foundation and has assets of ap
proximately $500 million.
record. They soundly defeated
the Wake County opposition with
Bailey and Middlesex the peren
nial formidable opposition. The
Wakelon five defeated Middlesex
63-59 after an opening loss of 66
44 to the Nash County school.
The locals did not fare as well
against outside opposition. Losses
were registered against Louisburg,
Angier and Youngsville.
Wakelon has averaged 64.5
points per game against the oppo
sition’s 55.6 average. The three
top scorers for the Bulldogs have
been Tommy Wood, with a 20
point average; Jimmy Hawkins,
whose 16.6 average has increased
steadily in the last few games; and
Thurston Debnam with a 12.5 av
erage. Hawkins and Wood were
named to the Tri-County Western
Division All-Conference second
team. Randy Creech and Freddie
Ellington round out the starting
five for Wakelon.
The Bulldogs have scored a total
of 1355 points in 21 games to their
opponents 1159 points. Wood has
hit for 421 points, Hawkins for 300
and Debnam has totaled 263.
Coach Maurice Chapman is pi
loting the Wakelon squad for the
fourth consecutive year and has
brought the Zebulon athletic for
tunes to new heights of promi
nence. The Wakelon gridiron
eleven were Wake-Nash-Edge
combe .champs in the fall after
being runners-up for two years.
Wakelon’s 1962-63 victories
were recorded over the following
teams:
Wakelon 58
Wakelon 51
Wakelon 82
Wakelon 72
Wakelon 58
Wakelon 73
Wakelon 62
Wakelon 68
Wakelon 85
Wakelon 74
Wakelon 85
Wakelon 66
Wakelon 57
Wendell 38
Knightdale 29
Rolesville 42
Townsville 58
Townsville 57
Spring Hope 47
Middlesex 59 -
Wendell 37
Knightdale 34
Rolesville 52
Spring Hope 44
Spring Hope 42
(tourney)
Oxford Orphanage
41 (tourney)
The Bulldogs seven defeats
were at the hands of:
Middlesex 66 Wakelon 44
Louisburg 70 Wakelon 54
Bailey 83 Wakelon 65
Angier 85 Wakelon 76
Youngsville 70 Wakelon 66
Bailey 80 Wakelon 44
Middlesex 54 Wakelon 47
(Western Div. tourney)
Farmers Meet Congressmen
For Talks on Weed Problems
Thirty-nine members of the,
Wake County chapter of the Flue
Cured Tobacco Growers Associa
tion met with North Carolina con
, gressmen during the weekend to
discuss the MH-30 treatment con
troversary and poundage control
measures.
Walter Dean, president of the
newly organized tobacco growers’
association, said the group was
well pleased with the results of
discussion with the congressmen.
They met with Congressman
Harold Cooley and had a question
and answer session with him. They
later met with Steve Wrather,
U. S. Department of Agriculture
grading sevice representative, and
heard the proposed plan for a to
bacco grading system. The group
is to talk extensively with Wrather
later on the subject.
Henry E. Ferrell is president of
the Wake County chapter of the
organization.
Attending the meeting were A.
C. Faison, James R. Faison, Cary
Clifton, Grady Douglas, H. Titus
Painter, Bobby F. Horton, Ralph
House, S. G. Anderson, T. S. Yan
cey, A. R. Wall, Jr., James E. Pope,
Henry E. Ferrell, Huey B. Allen,
Joe Buchanan, L. Thomas Faison,
Walter Dean;
Willard White, J. C. Pearce, B.
C. Roberts, Cecil Hopkins, B. A.
Weathers, R. B. Hopkins, Kenneth
House, Clifton House, J. N. Horton, i
R. R. Robertson, L. B. Woodard,
Milton E. Tart, H. R. Callahan,
W. A. Wilborn, J. R. Ellis, Walter
Massey, Clarence Wootton, A. B.
Knott, R. S. Phipps, T. E. Bunch, I
Joe W. Todd, Walter T. Painter,
and C. B. Mitchell.
Legal Action Considered to Stop
High School Consolidation Plans
Last Thursday night a large
group of East Wake County citi
zens approved plans for legal ac
tion blocking Wake County Board
of Education plans to consolidate
four high schools on a site just
northwest of Martin’s Center. The
action came after a series of speak
ers recounted numerous efforts to
gain consideration for Wakelon in
the scheduled consolidation of the
Zebulon school with Wendell,
Knightdale, and Rolesville.
The meeting was supervised by
Mayor Ed Hales. It was held in
the Zebulon Recorder’s Court
room.
Ferd Davis, nominee to the
Wake Board of Education, was
first on the agenda. He related
events during a visit by the Coun
ty Board of Education to the Pat
tie Lee property near Lizard Lick
on Monday, March 4, and dur
ing (his appearance before the
County Board the following day.
On Monday all members of the
County Board of Education re
garded the Pattie Lee property as
an acceptable school site, he said.
At the County Board’s request,
he met with it in Raleigh Tuesday,
presenting Zebulon’s proposal.
During the meeting, he said, he
was “treated worse than I’ve been
treated before,” but the Board’s
reaction before the end of the
meeting caused him to think “we
were going to get a little consid
eration.”
The County Board suggested that
the Pattie Lee property could be
acceptable provided the four local
school boards concerned were
agreeable to a consolidated high
school there and provided the price
Wendell Church
Plans Revival
Spring revival services will be
held at the Covenant Presbyterian
Church in Wendell beginning Sun
day and continuing through March
22, the pastor has announced.
The ReV. Russell B. Fleming of
Raleigh will be the speaker. He is
the son of a Presbyterian minister
and was reared in Alamance Coun
ty. He attended King College in
Bristol, Tenn., and Union Semin
ary in Richmond.
The Rev. Mr. Fleming now
serves Western Boulevard Presby
terian Church in Raleigh. He came
to Raleigh from Rocky Mount. He
is president of the Raleigh Council
of Churches and a member of the
Subcommittee on Legislative Af
fairs of the Christian Action Com
mission of the North Carolina
Council of Churches.
A special service for youth will
be part of the revival week, the
pastor said. On Thursday night,
March 21, the Rev. Mr. Fleming,
who serves as chairman of senior
high work for the presbytery of
Granville, will speak to the youth
concerning the challenge of Chris
tianity.
Covenant Presbyterian Church
is located on Selma Road in Wen
dell and serves Presbyterians in
the Knightdale, Rolesville, Wen
dell, and Zebulon areas.
PTA Meeting
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Wakelon PTA will meet Mon
day, March 24, at 7:45 p.m. in the
school auditorium. A study course
will be held.
of the property could be reduced
sufficiently to prove the Board of
Education could “save money, too.”
Before the Zebulon attorney
could return to Zebulon, however,
Vaiden Whitley, County Board
chairman, had placed a call to
Davis to say he wanted the at
torney to know that the Board
members were joking about the
possibility of the Pattie Lee site
being selected.
Pat Farmer, Mrs. Harold Green,
and Mrs. Selma Davis also were
present at the meeting. Farmer
verified Davis’ story, saying, “Ferd
Davis did a wonderful job and
when we left I thought we
had a chance and all others there
thought we did. ... It didn’t sound
like a joke to me and I’ve never
been any more surprised than
when Ferd said it was all off.”
Mrs. Davis, president of the
Wakelon PTA, reported she told
the County Board of Education
“the people from Zebulon were not
strong for consolidation but were
reconciled to it if Zebulon were
considered.” Closing her remarks
to the Board, she said, “A con
solidated school would get Zebu
Ion support if Zebulon were con
sidered.”
“We all felt encouraged when
we started home (from the Coun
ty Board meeting),” Mrs. Davis
concluded.
Foster Finch related the history
of the proposed four-school con
solidation. He told of local citi
zens’ attempts to gain considera
tion of Zebulon ideas.
“No member of the (Wake)
Board of Education has shown any
interest in our presentation,” he
said. “This indicates just a pre
tense of being polite. . . . They
are going to put us where they
want us to go.”
Noting that a short delay in
approval of the site purchase
caused a substantial savings in
money, Vance Brown advised
that “additional savings in money
should be considered when choos
ing the site. The (county) School
Board is not taking the interest of
the taxpayer at heart.”
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IN SPITE OF WARNING...
Deeds Made Early
In spite of warning from the
Wake Board of Commissioners to
“proceed with extreme caution,”
deeds conveying 49.26 acres to the
Wake County Board of Education
for a consolidated school in eastern
Wake County near Martin Center
were signed and acknowledged
from two to three days before the
Board of Commissioners approved
purchase of the site, records of the
Wake County Register of Deeds
office show.
The Registry records further re
cite that Clarence Kirk, Wendell
attorney, prepared all four deeds
for the parties conveying land to
the Board of Education.
Kirk told the county commis
sioners on March 4, according to
The Raleigh Times, that he was
“not employed by any group repre
sented” in the matter before the
commissioners.
A deed from R. L. Scarboro, Jr.,
and wife, Isabelle S. Scarboro, ex
ecuted and notarized March 1,
1963, conveyed 9.52 acres to the
Board of Education for a consid
eration indicated by documentary
tax stamps to be about $4,500.00.
A deed from W. H. Collie and
wife, Eula M. Collie, also executed
and acknowledged March 1, 1963,
conveyed 11.77 acres for an indi
cated consideration of $5,500.00.
The R. L. Scarboro and Collie
The Zebulon Record at
tempted to call Clarence
Kirk to clarify his remark
quoted in The Raleigh Times.
He was reported out of his
office until Friday.
deeds were acknowledged before
D. W. Thomas, a Wendell notary.
A deed from B. A. Weathers and
wife, Betty K. Weathers, conveyed
9.15 acres for an indicated consid
eration of $4,500.00. This deed was
executed March 1, 1963, and ac
knowledged before Frank Parrott,
a notary public, employed by C. N.
Robertson, former county commis
sioner.
A deed from A. G. Scarborough
and wife, Mavis R. Scarborough,
attorneys in fact for A. G. Scarbor
ough, Jr., and Robert Scarborough
and their wives, conveyed 18.82
acres for an indicated considera
tion of $8,500.00. This deed was
dated and notarized March 2, 1963,
and powers of attorney were no
tarized February 25, 1963, and
March 1, 1963. This deed was ac
knowledged before Jane C. Bruce,
a notary public working with a
Raleigh hospital.
The four deeds were recorded at
B:30 a.m., Thursday, March 7,
1963, and are recorded in Book
1542, pages 138, 131^ 130, and 106,
respectively.
Hales Pastor Is Ordained
In South Carolina Services
Robert Lovell, Jr., pastor of
Hales Chapel Baptist Church on
Route 1, Zebulon, was ordained in
the gospel ministry Sunday night,
March 10, at 7:30 in the Mullins,
S. C., First Baptist Church.
Conducting the service were the
Rev. Lewis C. McCormick, pastor
of the church; the Rev. D. E. Can
nady, pastor of the First Methodist
Church of Mullins, and the R’v.
George Lovell, pastor of the First
Baptist Church in Conway, S. C.,
and uncle of the young minister.
The Rev. Mr. Lovell served as
assistant pastor and youth director
of the Mullins church for two sum
mers. He is presently a sophomore
at Southeastern Baptist Theologi
cal Seminary in Wake Forest.
The 26-year-old Leesburg, Fla.,
native is married to the former
Jewell Barnhill, daughter of Mrs.
Maywood R. Barnhill and the late
Mr. Barnhill of Mullins. He is the
son of Mrs. C. R. Lovell, Sr., and
the late Mr. Lovell.
He is a graduate of Florida State
University.
About 25 members of the Hales
congregation attended the ordina
tion service.