EBULON RECORD
VOLUME 38. NUMBER 16. ZEBULON. N. C.. APRIL 18. 1963
RICHARD iURLINGTOM
Insurance Man Leading
Cancer Campaign Here
Richard Turlington will lead the
American Cancer Society’s 1963
Cancer Crusade in Zebulon and
the surrounding communities.
In announcing the selection of
the chairman, Bill Mahood, presi
dent of the Wake County unit of
the ACS, said, “We can expect a
very successful education and
fund-raising crusade under his
leadership.”
The crusade will start April 22,
Turlington said. Prior to the cru
sade here a coffee hour will be
held at Zebulon Methodist Church.
At this meeting several members
of the Cancer Society will be pre
sent and make short talks.
The chairman said he had agreed
to lead the crusade “because there
is urgent need for everyone to do
his share in combating a disease
that will strike some 46,000,000
Americans now alive if the present
rates continue.”
Tom Scarborough, George Mor
gan and Hal Perry will lead the
Blaine Madison
Speaks to Lions
Commissioner of Correction for
the State of North Carolina Blaine
Mark Madison will address Zebu
Ion Lions Club Thursday night
(tonight), President Johnsey Ar
nold has announced.
Madison, who has been head of
the organization since 1955, is a
native of Iredell County. He holds
a degree from High Point College
and Duke University.
He has served as principal of
several public schools, as a pro
fessor at Appalachian State
Teachers College, and from 1952
to 1955 was assistant director of
prisons for the State of North
Carolina.
He is a member of Raleigh Lions
Club and several other civic or
ganizations.
Madison will be introduced to
the club by H. A. Hodge.
Methodist Revival
New in Progress
The revival in progress at Zebu
Ion Methodist Church will con
tinue tonight (Thursday) and Fri
day. Dr. J. V. Early is the speaker.
Dr. Early will attend the Lions
Club tonight. On Friday night he
will be a guest at the Rotary Club.
He is a member of the Rocking
ham Rotary Club. He will be ac
companied to both clubs by the
Rev. Bill Quick, Methodist min
ister.
Services begin each evening at
7:45.
crusade for the business district.
Other solicitors have not been
named, Turlington said.
Turlington appealed for a record
number of volunteers to join the
crusade so that the fight against
cancer can be stepped up. He
urged volunteers to call AN
9-9448.
“If we all work together,’’ Tur
lington said, “I am sure we can
make the 1963 Crusade a record
one in lives saved and in the
funds that are urgently needed
for research.”
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| Boy Ends 50-Mile
| Walk Stranded
j
He looked tired, homesick, hun
; gry and stranded.
Night Policeman Windel Perry
and Sheriff’s Deputy Graham Bunn
decided the teenager found re
cently at Zebulon Bus Station Grill
; needed help.
The officers heard this story
from Jack Harris of Rocky Mount:
He had decided to walk from his
hometown to Knightdale. This is
about a 50-mile hike. He said he
was doing it to get his exercise.
At Knightdale, the youth hitch
hiked a ride as far as Zebulon. He
checked With transportation of
ficials at the bus station and found
he did not have the fare home. He
had only a few cents.
Deputy Bunn and Policeman
Perry found the Harris youth a
clean-cut fellow who talked nice
and possessing a pleasant disposi
tion. Feeling sorry for him, Depu
ty Bunn reached into his wallet
and gave the youth a dollar.
Harris, his face lighting up with
gratefulness, purchased a ticket
to Rocky Mount. The fare was
$1.05, but he could supply the ex
tra nickel with his meager funds.
A few days later the local of
ficers received a thank you letter
from the boy’s father, Sterling C.
Harris. The letter had enclosed
$2, and Harris wrote, “the extra
dollar is in the hope that you will
be able to help someone else at
some time.”
Perry said he and Deputy Bunn
felt “very good to be able to help
the boy. We don’t like to arrest
anybody, and it always makes us
feel better to help rather than to
do anything else.”
2,000th Patient
Wendell-Zebulon Hospital ad
mitted its 2,000 patient on April
8. She, was Mrs. Elizabeth F.
Hardy of Route 1, Wendell. Mrs.
Hardy was admitted for observa
tion. The hospital was opened
April 17, 1961.
FIRST . . .The above scene shows workmen constructing the foundation
of the first duplex apartment of the white low-cost housing development
started here. Footings are being laid and work is proceeding on the project,
which is located on the East end of Vance Street.
Zebu Ion Baptist
Revival Begins
Next Sunday
The Rev. John Wesley Lambert,
pastor of St. John’s Baptist Church
in Raleigh, will be the guest
preacher during revival services
at Zebulon Baptist Church next
week, the Rev. David Daniel,
pastor, has announced.
The Rev. Mr. Lambert is a na- |
tive of Raleigh. He attended1
Campbell College, Wake Forest
College, Southern Seminary in |
Louisville, Ky, and Crozer Theo- j
logical Seminary in Chester, Pa. J
He has held pastorates in Mt.
Olive, Chadbourn, and has been'
at St. John’s since 1958. For the!
past several years he has given his j
free time to Dorothea Dix State j
Hospital as associate chaplain.
The Rev. Mr. Daniel said he
will be available at any time to
talk with persons interested in i
making a decision for Christ. The \
Rev. Mr. Lambert will also be
available the week of the revival
to talk with anyone who will make
their needs known.
Each morning next week the
Rev. Mr. Lambert can be heard
over Radio Station WETC at 9:05
a.m. on the Morning Devotions
program.
During the week several or
ganizations in the community will
be represented in the revival by
sitting together in a bouy. Special
music has been planned for each
evening under the direction of
Charles Horton, minister of music.
The services will begin each
evening at 8 o’clock.
Rotarians Hear
Story of Tobacco
Growers' Group
Walter Dean of Wendell, presi
dent of the Flue Cured Tobacco
Growers Association, told Zebu
Ion Rotarians Friday night that
the new organization is fast grow
ing and is proving its worth to
all farmers who grow flue cured
tobacco.
He described how the idea of an
association of flue cured growers
was originated during a discussion
of problems facing flue cured to
bacco.
Already the association is active
in 26 counties, and trips to Wash
ington to confer with Congressmen
have paid dividends to tobacco
growers, he said.
Members of Congress are taking
heed of the new association. “To
day,” Mt. Dean said, “I talked on
the telephone with five Congress
men. I called one of them and the
other four called me.”
Officers in the association must
be farmers deriving the major por
tion of their income from flue
cured tobacco. The term an officer
can hold office continuously is lim
ited to insure against any small
group gaining control of the asso
ciation to the detriment of its
members.
Concert
The Atlantic Christian College
choir will present a concert Tues
day, April 23, at 8 p.m. in the
Wendell Christian Church. All
friends of the church and the
college are invited to attend this
concert of an excellent choral
group.
Street Improvement Work
Completion to Be Next Week
Paving of north Arendell Ave
nue began Tuesday after the com
pletion of widening and curbing
and guttering.
Edwin Richardson, inspector,
said all curbing and guttering and
driveways have been completed on
the portion from Gannon Avenue
to Lee Street. He said there is
a modicum of cleaning and filling
in left to do, however.
The street was widened from 26
feet to the present 40 feet. A
widening of seven feet on each side
was done, Richardson said.
The old and new portions will
get a one and half inch coat of
asphalt paving, he said.
The intersection has also been
widened and when completed will
have three traffic lanes at each
entrance to the intersection.
Richardson admitted difficulties
were met during the construction.
They ran into the town water
lines, and the sidewalks had to
be lowered in a couple of places.
These difficulties were overcome,
though.
Richardson said if there is good
weather the job should be com
pleted in about a week.
The project was begun February
1 and will cost approximately
$60,000. T. A. Loving Co. of Golds
boro is the contractor.
Wanted
The Historical and Records Com
mittee of the Zebulon Methodist
Church is seeking information on
Earpsboro Methodist Church. This
church and a Methodist Church es
tablished at Emit were the fore
runners of the present Methodist
Church in Zebulon. Only factual
information is needed by the group.
Zebulon Youth
Struck by Auto
A 15-year-old Zebulon boy suf
fered a broken leg and other minor
injuries April 8 on Highway 64,
Patrolman D. B. Wagstaff has re
ported.
Richard ClaTk, son of Mrs.
Frances Clark of Gannon Ave.,
was hit about 10 p.m. by a car
driven by Louis Todd of Wendell.
Todd was driving a 1963 Ford.
Patrolman Wagstaff said the
youth told him that he and three
other youths had ridden to Wen
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Jaycee Party Held
For Miss Zebulon
Contest Prospects
The Zebulon Junior Chamber
of Commerce held its “Pepsi
Party” Saturday morning as a
kick-off for the Miss Zebulon
Pageant of 1963. Guests of the
Jaycees were numerous young
ladies from this area who are in
terested in becoming contestants
in the pageant.
Attending this event was Mrs.
Betty Lane Bissette of Spring
Hope, Miss North Carolina of
1959.
Following the party three young
women signed applications which
qualified them as the first official
entrants for the pageant. Pictures
with information about these con
testants will be in the next issue
of this paper.
Douglas Perry, pageant chair
man, and Bruce Creekmore, en
trants chairman, remind all young
ladies between the ages of 18 and
28 who are interested in the con
test to contact them.