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VOLUME 38. NUMBER 18. ZEBULON. N. C.. MAY 0. 1963
Jimmy Medlin
Kermit Corbett
J. Raleigh Alford
Pat Farmer
Floyd Edwards
Three Incumbents, Two New Members Are Elected
To Zebulon Board of Commissioners; Mayor Wins
Three Incumbents,
Two New Men
On Wended Board'
;
Three incumbents and two new
comers were elected Tuesday to
the Wendell board of town com
missioners.
Reelected were W. Curtis Todd,
with 251 votes; Willard E. Perry, I
236, and Dover W. Hinton, 204.
Mossey E. Faison, with 226 votes,
and Shelton V. Bridgers, with 223,
also were elected to the board. !
Other commissioner candidates j
were R. M. Creech, 188 votes;
Henry W. Underhill, 183; Jesse
Ray Hinnant, 116; and Monroe F.
Starnes, 18.
Constable Odel Doan was re
elected, beating Patrick Lee Stil
well, 231 votes to 73.
Mayor Leo T. Britt, who was
unopposed, got 325 votes.
* Zebulon voters evidently want
younger men on the town board of
commissioners for the next term.
Jimmy Medlin and Floyd Edwards
were elected to seats on the town
government for the next two years.
Medlin, a teller at Peoples Bank
& Trust Company, was fourth high
man in the balloting. Edwards, a
building contractor who was a can
didate in the last town election,
polled fifth.
Both young men seemed a little
startled when they found they are
the people’s choice for seats on
the board.
“I am very pleased that the peo
ple saw fit to put me in office,”
Medlin said. “Now I am working
for the people and not myself. I
shall give careful consideration to
the town and its affairs.”
Edwards said: “I shall serve to
the best of my ability. I feel the
other board members I will be
working with will be nice and
cooperative and I know I shall en
joy working with them.”
The five incumbent candidates
for commissioners stated they
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“I enjoy cooking better than
anything I’ve ever done,” Hattie
Baker Ewing said.
Mrs. Ewing is matron of Wake
Ion School dormitory. She took
the position in September after
the retirement of Mrs. Lily Dun
can, long-time matron of the dor
mitory.
The pleasant mannered Mrs.
Ewing said she doesn’t have a
recipe in her home in Wendell or
at the dormitory.
“All my recipes are in my head,”
she laughed softly.
She claims she is not a fancy
cook. She likes to cook good, old
fashioned things. Rib-sticking
meals.
This, in part, may have come
from serving the Wendell Lions
and Rotarians for so many years.
And then there was her family
which liked these kinds of meals.
'Mrs. Ewing, bom January 6,
1891, some six or seven miles
from Zebulon, is the daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Burrell Ba
ker. Her father was a surveyor
and farmer.
"I am one of nine children,” die
said, giving a thumbnail biogra
phy of herself. “Only seven of
us are now living.”
There is a brother, the Rev. E.
F. Baker of Black Mountain, a re
tired Baptist minister; J. B. Baker
of Wilmington, a retired postal
worker; Thurman Baker of the
Hephzibah community, Mrs. W. D.
Todd of Wendell, and Mrs. Jesse
Hilliard of Clinton.
She began school at old Midway
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Hattie Baker Ewing
MAYOR
Ed Hales_246
COMMISSIONERS
Kermit Corbett _209
Pat Farmer _ 198
J. Raleigh Alford_184
Jimmy Medlin_173
Floyd Edwards_172
Elizabeth Ellett_i__,_„ 161
Thurman Hepler _135 I
Bill Bowling _ 83
Elzie Wrenn 52
Write In Candidates for Mayor
Mrs. Edna Allman___ 1
Robert D. Massey_ 2
Bill Quick _ 2
Wilbur Debnam_ 3
Worth Hinton_ 1
sought office again because they
wanted to see the completion of
the water and sewer project.
For the second time in succes
sion, Kermit Corbett, a commis
sioner for many terms, polled the
greatest number of votes. The
popular politician took the lead
early and held it until the end.
He had a vote of 209.
Pat Farmer, incumbent commis
sioner candidate, polled the sec
I ond highest number of votes, 198.
Farmer is a dry goods merchant!
! here.
j Corbett, slow of action, said
1 quietly, “I appreciate what folks
{ have done. I have tried to do the
' best I can. I shall continue to
| serve the best I know how."
A commissioner who has served
! 16 years, J. Raleigh Alford, was
third in the running. One hun- j
j dred eighty-four ballots were cast
! for him.
“I appreciate the vote of confi-j
dence the people have given me,”
Alford said. “I will continue to
give my best efforts to continue the
good government of the town.”
Mrs. Ellett, the first woman ever
to serve on the town board, lost
her seat by the same margin she
defeated Edwards in the last elec
tion. Her vote was 161, 11 less
than incoming commissioner Ed
wards.
“1 am glad to relinquish my job
to two energetic young men like
Jimmy Medlin and Floyd Ed
wards,” Mrs. Ellett said. “I feel
their vim and vigor will be an as
set to the board.”
She added: “I have enjoyed ev
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Shriners [Meet
| Zebulon Shrine Club will meet
Tuesday night at 6 o’clock in the
Masonic Hall. Flans will be made
for a ladies' night to be held on
i charter night.
Mayor to Quit at Close
Of Coming 2-Year Term
One of Zebulon’s most popular
mayors was given an overwhelm
ing vote of confidence in Tues
day’s municipal election. Ed
Hales, prominent businessman, was
unopposed for the office of mayor.
It will be his third term as head of
the town government.
Hales said prior to the election
that he wanted to see the water
and sewer project completed be
fore he retires from office. The
water and sewer project is one
of the biggest improvements to
be constructed for the town in
many years.
“It has been a pleasure working
with the old board for the past
four years,” Hales said. “We feel
that Zebulon has made progress
under our leadership. For the
next two years I feel
that this progress will con
tinue. We have two outstanding
young men (Edwards and Medlin)
on the board and we know that
they are going to do a good job
in their new venture.”
Of the 296 votes cast in the
election Tuesday, Hales received
246.
There were several write-ins
for mayor: Wayne Davis, 8; Mrs.
Edna Allman, 1; Robert D. Mas
sey, 2; Bill Quick, 2; Worth Hin
ton, 1; and Wilbur Debnam, 3.
Poll holding officials considered
there was a medium turn-out of
voters Tuesday because of no
heated race for the mayorship.
There are 669 person registered.
Fifty-one previously unregistered
persons were added to the books
for this election.
Mayor Ed Hales
Three Scholarships Awarded
To Outstanding Musicians
The beginning, junior and sen
ior bands of Wakelon School will
be presented in their spring con
cert Friday night, May 10, at 7:30
in the school auditorium.
Jimmy Burnt, director, said
during the program intermission
three winners of scholarships to
East Carolina College band camp
will be announced. The scholar
ships are being offered by the local
branch of First Federal Savings
tc Loan, Senior Woman’s Club and
the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Burnt said the scholarships are
being given to outstanding mem
bers of the band. He added that
he hopes that this will be an an
nual affair.
The band camp is the last two
weeks in July.
The concert will feature a brass
choir, Burns said. This is the first
time such an invocation has been
instrumented in the band. Re
cently a woodwind choir was
used and it has performed in a
local church.
One of the outstanding band
members, Linda Green, will per
form an alto saxophone solo in
the concert.
The concert will have composi
tions of “Billboard March,” Han
del’s “Water Music,” “Memories
of Stephen Foster,” “Colonial
Rhapsody,” "Showcase,” “Lady of
Spain,” “Greensleeves,” “Jalopsy,”
“Klaxton,” "Trumpets Ole,” and
“Carribean Fantasy."
There are 05 members of the
three bands.