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VOLUME 38. NUMBER 17. ZEBULON N. C.. APRIL 2S. 1983
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Four Jonnston County Youths
Charged with Fertilizer Theft
Warrants were sworn out Tues
day for four Route 1, Zebulon
teenagers. They were Marshall
Boykin, Larry Brown, Phil Creech
and William Driver, Jr.
North O’Neals Constable Way
Ion Hinton said the youths ad
Church Softball
League Is Begun
Last Tuesday night persons in
terested in the Franklin-Wake
Church softball League met to
discuss and make plans for the
1963 season.
The meeting, held in the annex
of Pearce Baptist Church, began
at 7:30 p.m. with the election of
M. L. Hagwood of Pilot, League
Director; J. W. Perry, Jr., Secre
tary; Ronald Perry, Treasurer;
and Bruce Creekmore, Publicity
Director.
Teams represented at the meet
ing included Pilot, Wake Cross
Roads, Hopkins, New Hope,
Pearces and Zebulon. The season
will begin Tuesday night, May 21.
A number of exhibition and
practice games have been schedul
ed before the season begins.
: mitted taking 12 bags of fertilizer
[ Wednesday night, April 17, from a
, farm belonging to Mrs. Ella Price,
j also of Route 1, Zebulon.
j The grandson of Mrs. Price, Lar
ry Price of Route 1, Wendell, tends
I his grandmother’s farm. He re
ported the loss of his fertilizer to
Constable Hinton.
The four youths hauled the fer
tilizer away on a 1949 Chevrolet
two-ton truck belonging to Price.
They later unloaded their contra
band about one and a half miles
on a rural dirt road from the scene
of the theft.
Constable Hinton said the boys
gave no reason for stealing the
fertilizer. They got no money for
it. Hinton said Creech told him
that Boykin told him (Creech)
“he had a place for it.”
Brown and DriveT told the con
stable they helped unload the fer
tilizer on the rural loop road and
then left the scene and did not
know what became of it.
Constable Hinton said he later
learned from Creech and Boykin
that the two removed the ferti
lizer to property belonging to Jesse
Bailey of Route 1, Zebulon.
Hinton valued the fertilizer be
tween $50-$56 a ton. They were
200-pound bags.
The boys will be given a hearing
in Kenly Recorder’s Court Thurs
day (today), April 25.
Middlesex Ag Teacher Plans
Retirement after 43 Years
Middlesex School is losing one
of its most beloved teachers, and
the community is losing one of its
most respected citizens at the close
of the 1963 school year.
Fred Wolfe, who has spent 28
of his 43 years teaching vo
cational agriculture in the Mid
dlesex School system, is retiring.
“There hasn’t been a year here
I’ve regretted,” soft spoken Wolfe
said. “In fact, I’ve enjoyed all
my years in the classroom.”
However, the genial ag teacher
indicated he will certainly miss
the contact with the boys.
“I have a farm—the old home
stead in South Carolina—my wife
and I are going back to,” Wolfe
said. “There I plan to do a lot
of gardening, raise some live
stock, and spend a leisurely time
of it.”
Wolfe, 64-years-old, is the son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred A.
Wolfe. He was born on a farm
about a mile from North, South
Carolina. He is the middle child
of three children bom to the cou
ple. He has an older brother,
John, who teaches in Charlotte,
and a sister, Miss Mildred Wolfe,
who is a member of the Middle
sex elementary faculty.
“I reckon I was influenced more
by my brother John into going
into the field of teaching than any
other reason,” Wolfe said. “And
I felt sure I would like to work
with young people, especially
boys.”
Wolfe received a bachelor of
science degree in agriculture in
1920 from Clemson College. He
didn’t work his way through col
lege, but received a competitive
scholarship which paid most of his
expenses.
His first seven years of teaching
were spent in his home state.
Then he came to Gold Sand School
in Franklin County where he was
head of the agriculture department
there for eight years.
Wolfe’s third and last school he
will serve is Middlesex. He fol
lowed his brother John to Middle
sex. His brother got the voca
tional system set up there.
“At that time Middlesex and
Bailey were served by one agricul
ture instructor,” Wolfe said. “The
mornings were devoted to one and
the afternoons to the other.”
The school has had only three
agriculture instructors. The first
instructor acted more or less as
an informational guide. The sys
tem then did not have a vocational
rating.
Under Wolfe’s leadership and
guidance, the Middlesex agricul
ture department is one of the best
in Nash County. The department
has all the needs to meet the stu
dent’s demand.
“I would say we have approxi
mately $6,000 worth of equipment
in our department,” he said.
Even with his demanding duties
of teaching, Wolfe has found
time for civic and religious activi
ties. He is a member of the Meth
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Fred Wolfe
Delegates to Girls', Boys' State
Named by Legion and Auxiliary
American Legion Post 33 and,
American Legion Auxiliary have!
elected delegates to Boys’ and
Girls’ State.
Lewis Oliver Liles and Charles
David Collins were named by the
Legion Post on Thursday, April
11. They will attend Boys’ State
which will be held June 16-22 at
the University of North Carolina.
At the Auxiliary’s meeting on
Wednesday, April 10, Celia Elaine
Hales and Donna Kay Denton
were named delegates to the 24th
annual Tar Heel Girls’ State to
be held June 16-22 at Woman’s
College of the University of North
Carolina.
Liles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
White Liles of Route 2, Zebulon,
is a member of the 11th grade. He
belongs to the National Honor So
ciety, is junior class editor for the
journalism staff, reporter for the
Beta Cli}b, head drum major of
Wakelon Band, blue ribbon win
ner in the local Science Fair, par
ticipated in the junior class play,
and is a piano and organ student.
Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles D. Collins of Zebulon, is
vice president of the Student
Council, member of the track
team, member of the National
Honor Society, Beta Club, Mono
gram Club, "ScienCe" Club, partici
pated in the junior class play, is<
a candidate for vice president of
the Central District Student Coun
cils in North Carolina, and a dele
gate to the Student Council Dis
trict Convention at Burlington.
While in the ninth grade Liles
was president of the local 4-H
Club and county 4-H talent winner
and member of the Boy Scout
> troop. In the tenth grade he be
came a member of the Beta Club,
was runner-up in the World Peace
Speaking contest, president of
Wake County 4-H Club and re
ceived the high school boy citizen
ship award.
Collins was vice president of
the freshman class, member of the
basketball and jayvee football
teams, member of science and
monogram clubs, and president of
his Sunday School Class at Zebu
Ion Baptist Church. During his
tenth grade year he was president
of his class, member of the bas
ketball and baseball teams, dele
gate to the North Carolina Student
Council Workshop at Mars Hill
College, and a member and pres
ident of the Cotillion Club!
Miss Hales became a member of
the Science Club while in the
ninth grade, and was vice presi
dent of the freshman class. In'
the tenth grade she became a
member of the National Honor j
Society, Beta Club, Journalism
Club, was art editor of Journal
ism memDer oi tne miDiic
Speaking Club, Science Club, was
a local Science Fair winner, home
room representative on the Stu
dent Council, vice president of the
sophomore class, and winner of
the World Peace Public Speaking
Contest.
This year she is secretary of the
National Honor Society, member
of the Beta Club, is Wakelon
School reporter on Radio Station
WETC, and local and district Sci
ence Fair Winner. She has been
a member of the Wakelon School
Band before being a high school
student.
She is the daughter of Mayor
and Mrs. Ed Hales.
Miss Denton, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Owen C. Denton of
Route 2, Zebulon, became a mem
ber of the Library Club and
Lewis Liles
Charles Collins
Celia Hales
Donna Denton
F.H.A. Club during her freshman
year. While in the tenth grade
she was tapped into the Beta Club,
member of the Public Speaking
Club, member of the Debating
Club, and high school chorus.
She was declared winner of the
World Peace Speaking Contest this
year, which is sponsored by the
Zebulon Rotary Club. As a result
of this honor she and her sponsor,
Mrs. Stanley Seago, toured the
United Nations buildings, New
York and Washington, D. C.,
sights.
Active in community affairs, Miss
Denton is president of the Interme
diate Sunday School Class of her
church and a member of the choir.
Alternates to Boys’ State are
Thomas Brooks Boykin and Carl
Thomas Williams.
Boykin is serving as president
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Ministerial Student Will Be
Ordained Sunday Afternoon
Jackie L. Bryant will be or
dained Sunday, April 28, in the
Christian ministry. The ceremon
ies will be held at Union Hope
Baptist Church at 2:30 p.m.
Bryant, 22, is a freshman at
Southeastern Seminary. He is a
1963 graduate of Wake Forest Col
lege where he was awarded a
bachelor of arts degree.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Bryant of Route 1, Zebulon.
His wife is the former Andrea
Temple of Zebulon. She is a grad
uate of East Carolina College and
teaches in the Rolesville School
system.
Officiating in the ordination
rites will be the Rev. W. H. Mayes,
pastor of Union Hope; the Rev.
Horace Hamm, Wakefield Church
pastor; and the Rev. Roy Smith.
Bryant was recently called as
pastor of the Aaron Baptist Church
at Montezuma. Montezuma is lo
cated south of Boone and east of
North Carolina’s famous Grand
father Mountain.