THE ZEBULON RECORD
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VOLUME 38. NUMBER 12. ZEBULON. N. C.. MARCH 21. 1963
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\*oing Sales Keep Him Busy
A young Zebulon man who has
unending energy, initiative and a
faith in the future has begun a
furniture manufacturing business
here which is expanding yearly.
Elzie Wrenn’s furniture busi
ness is the outgrowth of another
occupation. His original business
was upholstering household furni
ture and automobile accessories.
Wrenn began his upholstery
shop here in 1948. During the sum
mer months of his high school
years he would go to Durham and
work with his brother who had an
upholstery business. There, he
learned the trade.
He said he had always wanted
to get into such a business and de
cided to open one in Zebulon. He
did not open his business, how
ever, until after his graduation
from Middlesex High School in
1947.
In 1955 he'got interested in the
furniture angle. He went to
Liberty to visit a friend who man
ufactured furniture. Back home,
he started buying sofa bed and
rocker frames and covering them.
Deciding to branch out further,
Wrenn bought rocker and sofa
frame making equipment and went
into the business wholeheartedly.
His first ventures, of course, were
Legion Auxiliary
Gives Help To
Zebulon Library
Problems facing the Community
Library were discussed at the
American Legion Auxiliary March
meeting held last Wednesday
night in the home of Mrs. Ray
mond Pippin.
The group decided that the
greatest need at present is more
space and more community sup
port.
“We feel the need is great in the
community for a library,” said
one member, “but with no more
support than it has received and
is receiving we feel it is at a
standstill.”
Suggestions were made as to:
how these problems could be met
and overcome. A committee was
appointed to begin looking into the
possibilities of remedying the
pressing problems.
The Auxiliary meets on the sec
ond Wednesday night of each
month at 8 o’clock. The next
meeting will be April 10 with Mrs.
Jean Richardson as hostess.
Lakeside Country Club is spon
soring a dance at the National
Guard Armory in Zebulon April
26 in order to raise money to
build a new club, house and pro
shop, Lakeside Pro Dick Denny
said this week.
Denny said the club is sorely in
need of a new building for the
many facilities needed at a golf
club. Money raised from the dance
will be used for the project.
Bill Joe Austin and his orches
tra will provide the music for the
dance.
Thursday, March 21, Denny will
begin group lessons in golf for la
dies who are interested. These
lessons will start at 9:30 o’clock
in the morning. Junior lessons for
persons 8 through 18 will begin on
Saturday, March 23. These les
sons will begin at 9 o’clock.
Denny said a new pond has been
created on hole seven. The tees
and greens have been enlarged. All
wooded and rough areas have been
cleared for play.
He said he considers Lakeside
greens “the finest in Eastern Car
olina.”
The club has 127 stocks and 75
paying members. If a total of 200
members are reached, Denny said i
an additional nine holes will be!
constructed.
Persons interested in the lessons
described above may contact Den
ny at the club in Wendell.
Elzie Wrenn
a cheaper grade of furniture, but
now he has brought out a line
of more expensive furniture.
His plant manufactures a sofa
bed, club chair and platform rock
er. Both plastic and fabric cov
erings are used on them. These
are in the medium priced line.
For better lines and to keep his
furniture updated, Wrenn rede
signs his furniture once a year.
Wrenn opened a frame making
plant in Murraytown two years
ago. At this factory he makes
frames for other manufacturing
firms. Here, too, he increased his
range and has * begun making
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Pre-School dink
Slated March 28
A pre-school clinic will be held
Thursday, March 28, at 8:30 a.m.
for children entering Wakelon
School for the first time this fall.
This clinic is for children who
have not been examined by their
own doctor and who have not had
their health card filled out, school
officials said.
Children who have had their
immunizations and records cleared
arc not required to attend this
clinic.
Sixty children were registered
at the preschool registration held
last week. This is about the same
number registered at last year’s
pre-school registration, school of
ficials said.
Wakelon PTA Refuses Request
To Help Raise Bonus Payment
No “Donation Dinner” will be
held by the Wakelon PTA to help
pay landowners the difference be
tween what they originally asked
for a site for a consolidated high
school for east Wake County and
what the Board of Education told
the County Commissioners the
land could be bought for.
The local PTA Monday night
voted unanimously not to hold a
barbecue supper to help landown
ers receive more than the $450
per acre the Board of Commission
ers authorized.
In the meantime, J. E. Winston,
Knightdale PTA president, was
quoted in the Raleigh Times as
Drop-Outs Lower
At Wakelon Than
County Average
The drop-out record of Wakelon
School is superior to that of Wake
County generally, and Wake
County ranks above all but three
North Carolina counties in hold
ing its children in school until
their graduation, Asst. Wake Coun
ty School Supt. Tom Grimes said
Monday night.
Mr. Grimes made his remarks
praising the local school in the
course of a panel discussion deal
ing with the drop-out problem held
by the Wakelon PTA as its 1963
study course.
Mrs. John H. Ihrie III was PTA
study course chairman, and panel
ists were Mr. Grimes, Mrs. Eliza
beth Ellett, Mrs. Doris H. Priv
ette, and Miss Blanche Gay. Rev.
William Quick served as modera
tor.
A large crowd attended the
study course which followed the
business session at which Wilbur
Hales was elected president to
succeed Mrs. Ferd Davis, Mrs.
James Robert Fowler was elected
vice president, Mrs. Leroy Pittman
was elected secretary to succeed
Mrs. Frank Wall, and Mrs. Wilbur
Debnam was elected treasurer. The
nominating committee was headed
by James Alford.
There will be no PTA meeting
at Wakelon during April, Mrs. Da
vis announced, because the regu
lar meeting date falls on Easter
Monday. The next session will be
held the third Monday night in
May.
Zebukxi Jaycees
Looking Beauties
Zebu Ion Junior Chamber of
Commerce is accepting entries in
the “Miss Zebulon” beauty pag
eant, it was announced this week.
All entrants must be 18 years old
or by September 1, 1963, and not
over the age of 28. Any interested
girls are asked to contact Bruce
Creekmore, entrants chairman.
The date of the pageant will be an
nounced soon. Chairman of the
pageant is Douglas Perry.
saying: i
“People must realize that we are
asking for donations and each per
son in eastern Wake County who
is interested in a fair site for all,
can now have the privilege of fin
ally getting the school built
through their donations.’’
The story in the Times stated j
that the Knightdale PTA would j
hold its supper this Thursday night!
with Wendell and Rolesville plan
ning suppers for April 1 and 4.
Deeds already recorded in the
Wake County Courthouse, how
ever, recite that the full purchase
price of the property has been paid,
and N.C.G.S. 115-131 bars con
struction of any school building on
property that is not owned in fee
simple by a county or city board
of education.
Dr. Edgar Alden, founder and director of the North Carolina String
Quartet, is shown above. This outstanding quartet will appear in a concert
with the Zebulon Baptist Church choir on Sunday evening, March 31.
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String Quartet to Piay Here
With Baptist Choir in Concert
An outstanding group of North
Carolina string players and singers
will join the Zebulon Baptist
Church choir in a performance of
Sommervell’s cantata, “The Pas
sion of Christ,” on Sunday eve
ning, March 31.
Instrumentalists joining the
choir for the concert will be the
North Carolina String Quartet of
Chapel Hill and Mrs. Susan Hor
ton, organist, of the music faculty
of Campbell College.
Soloists for the concert will be
Mrs. Vivian Massey, Mrs. Nelle
Kemp and Dr. Joel Carter and
James Gibbs of the University of
North Carolina.
Charles Horton, minister of mu
I sic at the church, will conduct
this performance of the choral
composition.
In 12 years that the members of
the North Carolina String Quartet
have been playing together they
have built up an extensive reper
toire, including more than 40 com
plete quartets that have been heard
in public performance. They have
appeared in many localities
throughout the Southeast. Last
October their Florida tour took
them to Sarasota, St. Petersburg,
and Florida State University at
Tallahassee.
The quartet consists of four Uni
versity musicians who have played
together for 11 years. All are fac
ulty members at the University.
Bobby Perry Named to Head
1963 Campaign for Red Cross
The appointment of Bobby
Perry to direct the 1963 Red Cross
Fund Campaign in Little River
Township was announced this
week by Edward E. Hollowell,
Wake County Fund Chairman.
The solicitation drive is to be
conducted during the last week of
March in all Wake County town
ships which did not participate in
a United Fund last fall.
“As Red Cross members,” Per
ry continued, “every American
has the opportunity to help restore
the disrupted lives of disaster vic
tims, provide blood for the ill and
injured, train families in first aid,
water safety and home nursing;
help solve personal and family
problems of servicemen, veterans,
and their dependents; and prepare
youths to become tomorrow’s fam
ily, community and national lead
ers.”
During the past year the Little
River Township area, the county
chapter performed many home
service assignments providing
services to servicemen, veterans
and their dependents. First Aid
courses and First Aid demonstra
tions are planned for the spring
and summer. Many different
youth service projects have been
conducted and are planned, and
various water safety programs will
be conducted. These are only a
part of the services of the county
chapter to the Little River Town
ship area, according to Hollowell.