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xtitl ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 38. NUMBER 25. ZEBULON. N. C., JUNE 20. 1963
Registration Heavy For Vote
June 29 On School Merger
REGISTERING . . . Walter A. Perry, top photo, 83-year-old
Route 4, Zebulon, was one of the oldest persons to register for the
school consolidation referendum to be held Saturday, June 29. In
the second photo, Nelia (Mrs. Lorenzo) Bunn of Route 3, Zebulon,
and in the lower photo J. Harvey Parrish registers. Mrs. Evelyn
Creech is the registrar.
Potter Patter
Believes Comprehensive Hi
Would Help Community Grow
Opponents of the comprehensive
high school for eastern Wake
County keep telling me' about the
Wakelon graduates who have made
their mark in the world.
The first names mentioned are
usually Dr. Charles Flowers, Jr.,
E. C. Daniel, Jr., and R. H. Brant
ley, Jr. Make no mistake about
it, I respect these gentlemen
for their accomplishments in their
chosen fields. I would like very
much to see them return to Zeb
ulon and rear their fine children
here. These men and their wives
know the value of education, and
I think they would lend their tal
ents to the fight for better schools
in eastern Wake County—if only
they lived here. Unfortunately
for our community, >most of
Wakelon’s outstanding graduates
have chosen to seek their fortunes
in other cities or states, and we
are left to build the future of our
town without their help.
You and I are now responsible
for the education of the children
who will bring honor to our town
in the decades which lie ahead.
How well are we meeting that re
sponsibility?
Thirty years ago nearly every
college had its “high school de
partment” which offered courses
needed by students who either
did not finish high school or grad
uated from substandard schools.
Until just recently most colleges
offered “refresher” or “remedial”
or “non-credit” courses in math
and English for students who
were not ready for regular fresh
man work in these two subjects—
but no more. As Chancellor John
Caldwell told State College alum
ni at a dinner meeting in Wendell
last year, scientific knowledge is
expanding so rapidly and operat
ing costs are increasing so much
that colleges can no longer afford
to use classrooms and faculty to
teach high school courses. If a
student is not adequately prepar
ed, he must attend a junior col
lege in order to make up deficien
cies. Some junior college courses
will not be accepted for college
credit at major institutions; oth
ers will be accepted, but an A
earned at the junior college will
be transferred as a C. The stu
dent is thus handicapped by a loss
of quality points if and when he
is able to arrange a transfer.
Kecentiy someone was telling
me about a fine young Wakelon
graduate who dropped out of a
college far less demanding than
State, Wake Forest, Carolina, or
Duke. “I simply don’t understand
it,” my informant commented,
“because she always made excel
lent grades at Wakelon.”
This incident reminds me of
something which happened while
I was a freshman at Meredith Col
lege. In one of my classes there
was a very intelligent girl who
had never made anything below
an A in the small high school she
attended. Naturally I was shocked
to learn that she was failing two
of her courses and barely passing
most of the other subjects. Talk
ing with her I realized that she
had never really learned how to
study independently. She had al
ways been the brightest student
in her class without doing much
homework; but at Meredith she
was seeing others excel while she
could not keep up. This had com
pletely crushed her self-confi
dence, and she was planning to
leave school at the end of the se
mester. Fortunately a wise facul
ty advisor was able to convince her
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Faster Service
Five Negroes
Register
Patrons of the Wakelon School
district turned out in record num
bers by placing their names on
the new registration book re
quired for voters to cast a ballot
on the consolidation of four high
schools into one comprehensive
high school.
Mrs. Evelyn Creech, registrar,
reported that 1,060 persons in the
Wakelon district registered and
will be qualified and eligible to
vote in the June 29 referendum.
The largest number of persons
registered Saturday, the last day
for registration.
Vote on the consolidation issue
will be held at Wakelon School.
Registrars from the other three
school districts reported their
totals. Mrs. Margaret Todd of
Wendell, 884; Mrs. L. E. Flowers
of Knightdale, 607; and Mrs. Co
ley Barham of Rolesville, 419.
Five Negroes registered in the
Wakelon district, Mrs. Creech
said. Registrars from the three
other districts reported they had
no Negroes to register.
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Hospital Notes
The following were patients at
Wendell-Zebulon Hospital Wed
nesday morning.
White
Joyce Creech, Sandra Bissette,
Ruth Moss, Lavonia Long, Lucille
Taylor, Zoma Price, Blonnie Wil
liams, John Davis, Cecil Batche
lor, Jr., Lee BTantley, Percy Ward,
William Bunn, Henry Brown, Har
ry Bissette, Ernest MofTitt, Bur
nice Smith and Jesse Adams.
Colored
Blanche Perkins.
White Birth
Mr. and Mrs. Stacy M. Creech
of Wendell announce the birth of
a daughter on June 17. Mrs.
Creech is the former Linda Joyce
Johnston of Wendell.
Shriners Told of New Program
Being Launched For Children
The Shrine Imperial Council
session which met in Toronto,
Canada, has authorized the con
struction of three hospitals in
North America for the treatment
of burns, the local Shrine club was
told last week.
The local club, newly organized,
met for its first meeting. Dis
tinguished guests from the Shrine
and ladies were also present.
Three hospitals will be solely
for the treatment of bums, and
will be in the main for the un
derprivileged child regardless of
race, creed, or color, Samuel Toler,
president of the Southeastern
Shrine Association and past po
tentate of the Shrine.
* The hospitals will cost a total
of $10 million. At present only
one site has been selected, the
speaker said. This site is in the
Boston, Mass., area.
Toler said the Shrine is hope
ful of having one of the hospitals
built in North Carolina. A com
mittee of the Imperial Council
has been to North Carolina and
made a survey. The decision will
come some time in July.
There is only one hospital which
treats bums exclusively and that
hospital is located in Texas, the
speaker said.
ioier said the program is handi
capped because of the lack of phy
sicians for the treatment of burns.
He said this is the first organi
zation to start an orthopedic pro
gram.
Nelson Banks, Recorder, gave a
brief history of Shrinedom. The
organization is 90 years old, he
said, and was founded by Dr.
Walter Fleming and Billy Flor
ence, an actor. The first Temple,
Mecca, was founded in New York.
The major program sponsored
by Shriners are crippled children’s
hospitals. Banks told of the way
the hospitals began. The idea was
born on a hot night in Atlanta,
Ga., and the first hospital was
opened in 1922 in Shreveport, La.
Today there are 17 hospitals for
ministering to crippled children in
North America. The United States
has 13; Mexico, 1; and Hawaii, 2.
'jver juujuuu ooys ana gins wno
have passed through these doors
have been made physically whole
again.
Banks said there are 850,000
wearers of the Fez in the 168 Tem
ples in the North American conti
nent. There are 7,100 Fez wear
ers in the Sudan Temple, founded
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Post Office Gets ZIP Code
Our five digit ZIP Code is
27597, Postmaster Ruby M. Daw
son announced today.
“Everyone in Zebulon will use
this ZIP Code on all their corre
spondence to speed mail deliveries
and reduce the chance of mis-sent
mail,” Postmaster Dawson said.
ZIP Code, the Post Office De
partment’s revolutionary new sys
tem of improved mail dispatch and
delivery, goes into effect nation
ally on July 1.
Postmaster Dawson stressed the
importance of all citizens of Zebu
Ion learning this city’s ZIP Code
and using it in their return ad
dress on all correspondence. In an
swering mail, she said, ZIP Codes
taken from return addresses on
incoming mail should be used.
“The ZIP Code is literally the
last word in mail addressing”
Miss Dawson said. “It should fol
low the city and state in ad
dresses.”
She cited this example of the
proper use of ZIP Code:
Ruby M. Dawson
Postmaster |
U. S. Post Office,
Zebulon, North Carolina 27597
The new ZIP Code plan, Miss
Dawson said, for the first time
will permit the Post Office De
partment to short-cut repeated
address reading.
"The address on mail must of
ten be read as many as eight or
ten times by postal employees, to
get it to the proper destination,”
Miss Dawson said. “Each hand
ling slows the process of mail dis
patch and adds to the opportunity
of human error.”
“With ZIP Code, a clerk needs
only to glance at the code to know
immediatey to what national area,
state and post office the letter is
destined, and to speed it on its
way, cutting up to 24 hours off
the time between deposit and de
livery.”
Postmaster Dawson said that
when ZIP Code is in full swing,
the UNITED STATES will have
“the most modern system of mail
distribution and delivery la ex
istence.”