FIVE GENERATIONS . . . Two-week old Helen Rose Privette lies
in the arms of her 85-year-old great grandmother, Mrs. Lucy Driver. There
were five generations present at a recent gathering honoring Mrs. Driver.
Standing are, left to right, Mrs. Mafra Curtis, Vance Driver and Mrs. Ellen
Curtis Privette. All are Zebulon community residents.
Six Wakelon Students Are
Named Science Fair Winners
Six Wakelon students who were
winners in the local science fair
will submit their winning pro
jects in the district science fair
to be held at the University of
North Carolina on March 23.
The students are Robert Wil
liams, Faye Sawyer, Henry Tem
ple, Celia Hales, Lewis Liles and
Pat Walters. Williams was a win
ner in the junior biological divi
sion; Miss Sawyer and Temple,
junior physical division; Miss
Hales, senior biological; Liles and
Miss Walters, senior physical.
Winners in the junior biological
division were: first place, Kaye
Antone—Do Guinea Pigs Recog
nize Color?; second place, Jean
Bunn—The Soil and Its Effects on
Com; third place, Robert Wil
liams—Growth of Orange Trees.
Junior physical division: first
place, Henry Temple—Crystals
and Crystal Growing; second place,
Tim Kemp—Solar Energy and the
Future; third place, Faye Saw
yer—The Electroscope.
Senior biological division: first
place, Celia Hales—Demonstration
of the Factors Influencing Saint
paution Growth; second place,
Avon Privette—The Effects on
Growth and Development of Trop
ical Fish Fed with Live Foods
Compared with Dry Foods; third
place, Linda Sue Blackley—The
Chicken and the Egg.
Physical senior division: first
place, Lewis Liles—Silver-Chlo
ride Magnesium Battery; second
place, Pat Walters—The Refrac
tion of Light and Its Application;
third place, Freddie Ellington—An
Electric Slide Rule.
The local science fair was held
March 6.
Carolina Power & Light Gives Tips
On Safe Flying of Kites in March
Power linemen scanned March
skies this week and recalled that
it’s kite-flying time again.
P. T. Scarborough, manager for
Carolina Power & Light Company,
joined other safety leaders in the
community to suggest kite-flying
tips that will make the perennial
pastime safe and enjoyable.
(1) Fly kites in open areas away
from power lines, telephone poles,
television or radio aerials.
(2) Avoid using kites or
strings containing metal of any
kind. Dry cotton string, non-met
al kites and cloth tails are safest.
1963 Dog Tags
Go on Sale
Nineteen hundred sixty-three
dog licenses went on sale March
1. An estimated 40 licenses were
sold during 1963. “But this was
not nearly enough,” one town of
ficial said.
No estimate of how many dogs
are registered could be obtained
from town officials. They said
that a report of the number of
dogs registered could not be ob
tained until the tax books come
to the office.
Policeman L. A. Baker
made a survey of the dog owners
in October. However, no report
of this survey could be obtained.
The licenses sell for $1.00. A
penalty will be enforced but no
could be obtained.
(3) Stay out of streets and
highways when flying kites.
(4) If a kite becomes entan
gled in a power or telephone line,
Leave It. Don’t climb a pole or
try to dislodge the kite in any
way. Instead, call CP&L 'or the
telephone company. Experienced
linemen can do the job more
quickly and safely.
(5) Don’t fly kites in the rain.
Benjamin Franklin demonstrated
that a wet kite string is a good
and a dangerous conductor of elec
tric energy.
MENU
Monday: Barbecued pork in bun,
tossed salad, pinto beans, peach cup,
milk.
Tuesday: Meat loaf with gravy,
string beans, slaw, candied yams,
bread, milk.
Wednesday: Macaroni and cheese,
half hard boiled egg, green peas with
carrots, orange juice, cookie, hot rolls,
butter, milk.
Thursday: Baked ham, steamed
cabbage, potato salad, beet pickle,
Oranberry-orange relish, combread,
milk.
Friday: Vegetable soup, pimento
cheese sandwich, peanut butter sand
wich, ice cream, crackers, milk.
Fuel Usage Soars
Temperatures that plummeted
to records lows in this region have
pushed electric and fuel use to
an all-time high. The result has
been higher than normal electric
and fuel bills for the Carolina
homeowner.
Discussing the winter’s record
cold, Manager F. T. Scarborough
Off CP&L’s Zebulon office, said
CP&L’s generating plants have
been called on to produce more
electricity than ever before. For
instance, CP&L recorded the high- ;
est demand in its history, 1,516,000 j
kilowatts, 12 per cent above the
peak for the previous winter.
Engineers measure the severity
of a winter season by the “degree
day.” A degree day is determined
by taking the average temperature
for a single day and subtracting
the figure from a base 65. For in
stance, a winter day with an aver
age of 20 degrees is scored as 45
degree days by the engineer.
Degree days ran 20 per cent
above normal, for this winter. The
result has been an all-time high
use of electricity for heating and
lighting during the coldest days
and longest nights of the year.
Scarborough said many of these
abnormally high bills arrive on
sunny, spring-like days with cro
cuses blooming and memories of
winter fading from mind. The
bill represents an earlier period
when degree days were piling up j
and temperatures were tumbling.
Native's Brother
Dies; Buried Wed. !
E. L. Raynor, 80, died Monday
morning. He was the brother of I
Mrs. A. C. Dawson of Zebulon. He j
at one time resided in Zebulon and !
was associated with his sister’s i
husband in business here. j
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday at 3 p.m. at the First Meth
odist Church by the Rev. W. B.
Petteway and the Rev. R. L. Os
man. Burial was in the Elmwood
Cemetery in Oxford.
Surviving besides Mrs. Dawson
are his wife, Mrs. Jessie M, Ray
nor; two daughters, Mrs. Wilson
Currin of Alexandria, Va., and
Mrs. Lawrence Park of Lumber
ton; three sons, H. Clinton, Em
mett L. and J. Carson Raynor, all
of Henderson; two sisters, Mrs.
Dawson and Mrs. R. L. Brown of
Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; and eight
grandchildren.
ADDITION . . . The addition at the rear of People’s Bank and Trust
Co. here is progressing rapidly. The addition’s walls are now up and the
floor was cemented this week. In a few weeks the addition' will be ready
for occupancy.
Wake Electric Meet
Don’t forget your annual meet
ing at 7:30, Friday night, March
22, in the Wake Forest Elemen
tary School in Wake Forest, North
Carolina.
A full and interesting program
is planned. William T. Crisp of
Raleigh will speak; Judy and Linda
Clark, 4-H Club members from
Granville County, will put on the
4-H Cooperative Activities Dem- ]
onstration that won them a trip
to the American Institute of Co
operation’s Annual Meeting in Co
lumbus, Ohio, last year. There
will be reports of officers and most
important, election of directors to
look after the Cooperative’s busi
ness during the next year.
For the first time in its history,
the number of consumer-mem
bers of Wake Electric reached the
4551 mark, December 1962, ac
cording to an announcement by J.
L. Shearon, Manager of the local,
home-owned Wake Electric Mem
bership Corporation.
“This represents almost 1500
percent increase over the 317
members served by the first 117
miles of line energized in March,
1941,” Mr. Shearon said. Last
year Wake Electric connected 155
new members and most of these
were equipped from the beginning
with an electric range, water hea
ter, freezer, refrigerator, televi
sion, water pump and many other
necessary and useful electric ap
pliances and electricity driven
equipment. A number of these
new nomes are eiecincany neaiea.
“One of the important features of
our electric cooperative that non
members most frequently do not
understand is that all of the lines,
buildings and equipment are own
ed by the members, who are local
people using the cooperative’s
service. Anyone receiving service
from Wake Electric automatically
becomes a member, and all mem
bers are part owners of the sys
tem,” Mr. Shearon said.
“Wake Electric is strictly non
profit, organized solely to provide
electric service to people who
could not get electric service in
any other way.” The Wake Elec
tric Membership Corporation, like
nearly 1000 other electric coopera
tives operating in 46 states, the
Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico,
was financed initially 100 per cent
by funds borrowed from the
Rural Electrification Administra
tion. Monthly electrical bills cov
er the cost of service plus funds
for debt retirement and the inter
est payment on the REA loans.
The money paid in excess of
operating service cost is actually
member capital, invested in the
system and the member is the own
er. This money, paid in excess
of the cost of service, is credited
to each member on a patronage
basis, and represents his share of
ownership in his rural electric
system. As of December 31, 1962,
members of Wake Electric had
paid a total of $415,153.40 in in
terest, and principal in the amount
of $661,289.45, on their REA loan.
Mrs. Ferd Davis
Hostess to Club
Mrs. Ferd Davis was hostess last
Wednesday afternoon to the Entre
Nous Bridge Club. The occasion was
held at her home which was decorat
ed with arrangements of jonquils.
Members playing were Mrs. Fred
Smith, Mrs. Wallace Chamblee, Mrs.
Foster Finch, Mrs. Wallace Temple,
Mrs. Vance Brown, Mrs. Doris Pri
vette, Mrs. Russell Brantley and Mrs.
L. E. Long. A table of guests included
Mrs. Irby Gill, Mrs. Philip Olive, Mrs.
A. S. Hinton and Mrs. Steve Blackley.
Club high and low score prizes
were awarded to Mrs. Brown and
Mrs. Privette, respectively. Guest
high went to Mrs. Olive and low was
presented to Mrs. Gill.
Prior to the beginning of the three
progressions the hostess served pine
apple upside down cake, nuts, and
tea and coffee.
Card of Thanks
Illnesses and recoveries are al
ways made lighter by the wonder
ful way friends and relatives re
spond. I am very deeply grate
ful for all the cards, visits, flow
ers, prayers and the staff of Wen
dell-Zebulon Hospital. May God
bless you all.
Mrs. Bessie Gordon
Surprise Brithday
Party Given Lady
Mrs. Lizzie B. Askew was hon
ored on February 28 with a sur
prise birthday party. Hostesses
were members of the Mt. Pisgah,
Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter
112 of Zebulon.
The informal occasion was held
in the home of the honoree, and
was decorated with a white, green
and yellow color scheme.
The refreshment table was cen
tered with an arrangement of
white and yellow chrysanthemums,
flanked with white candles. Re
freshments consisted of star
shaped sandwiches, nuts, mints,
cookies and green ice punch. Mrs.
Bernice Dunn presided at the
punch bowl.
Mrs. Askew was presented a
white corsage, pinned on her by
Mrs. Ada Perry. Mrs. R. H. Ma
lone presented the gifts. Inciden
tal music was provided by Mrs.
Vernetta Harris at the piano.
Attending the party were Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Parks, Mrs. Arrie
Rogers, Mrs. Calonia High, Miss
Elizabeth Dunn, Mrs. Bernice
Dunn, Mrs. Alpha Lawrence, Mr.
and Mrs. R. P. Richardson, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Perry, Mrs. Mar
garet Taylor, Mrs. Vernetta Har
ris, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hodge,
Mr. and Mrs. John Hodge, Mrs.
J. T. Locke, Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey
Perry, and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
C. Boyd.
Brief testimonials in Mrs. As
kew’s behalf were made by the
following persons: Mrs. M. N.
Perry, Theodore Hodge, R. P.
Richardson, Mrs. Lucille Parks,
Worthy Matron of the chapter, and
Mrs. John Hodge, secretary of the
Riley Hill chapter.
Sweetheart Banquet
A Sweetheart Banquet was held
Saturday night by the young peo
ple of Antioch and Watkins Cha
pel Churches at the Antioch Com
munity Building.
Guest speaker for the evening
was Bill Mills, a graduate student
at the Southeastern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary at Wake Forest,
whose topic was “Look Before You
Leap.” He said that in choosing
a life partner, every one should
look first with his head and then
with his heart.
A welcome was extended by
Hugh Wilder, master of ceremonies
for the program, which also in
cluded the singing of favorite love
songs, ' accompanied by Miss
Yvonne Akin of Meredith College,
and skits by the young people.
The banquet meal prepared by
the women of the churches, con
sisted of meat loaf with gravy,
peas, creamed potatoes, pickled
beets, jellied salad on lettuce, bis
cuits, and red velvet cake.
Around 75 young people attend
ed the function which was termed
a great success by the pastor, the
Rev. Ellis Taff.
Dr. and Mrs. Tucker
Entertain Club
Dr. and Mrs. George Tucker were
hosts to the Saturday Night Couples
Bridge Club at their home last week.
A St. Patrick^ theme was carried out
in tallies and refreshment and decora
tions.
Playing were Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
Finch, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Beck,
Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong Cannady and
Dr. and Mrs. Ben Thomas. Mr. and
Mrs. Cannady were high score prize
winners, with low going to Dr. and
Mrs. Thomas.
After the close of the three pro
gressions the hosts served chocolate
nut parfait, cup cakes and coffee.
Lime punch and candies were passed
during play.
Mayor to Run
Mayor Ed Hales said this week
that he will seek re-election for the
town’s highest office.
“I want to see this water and
sewer project completed,” Mayor
Hales said, “then 111 gladly turn the
job over to somebody else.”
Starched things resist dust and
dirt, so starch everything that is
practical. They look better and
last longer.