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ZEBULON RECORD
VOLUME 38. NUMBER 27. ZEBULON. N. C.. JULY 4. 1963
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OUTSTANDING SENIORS: Jimmy Hawkins, with a 96.1 average,
and Jane Ihrie, with a 95.4 average, were recently honored by the Zebulon
Jaycees as the outstanding scholastic seniors in the Wakelon Class of 1963.
Jimmy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hawkins and Jane the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Ihrie, III. (Photo by Bill Quick)
Sidney Eddins New President
Of Rotary Club of Zebirfon
Sidney Eddins, Zebulon oil deal
er, was installed as president of
the Zebulon Rotary Club last Fri
day night, succeeding Dr. i.. M.
Massey. Ferd Davis, past governor
of Rotary International District
778, installed the new president
and other officers for the coming
year.
Sidney congratulated Dr. Massey
on his work for the past yeaT, and
requested the help of the club
members in making the next year
as good.
“All of you have had more ex
perience at leading a club than I
have,” he said, “and most of you
have been president at one time or
another.”
Other new officers installed last
week include Robert D. Massey,
vice president; Wilson Braswell,
secretary; R. Vance Brown, treas
urer; and Amos Estes, Willie B.
Hopkins, and Dr. Lee Sedwitz, di
rectors.
Following the installation cere
mony, the new president announc
ed committee assignments as fol
lows:
Attendance, Haywood Jones;
Classifications, Barrie Davis; Fel
lowship, Billie Hopkins; Magazine,
Early Moser; Membership, Luther
I Massey; Program, Ferd Davis;
! Public Relations, Barrie Davis;
j Rotary Information, Early Moser;
| Sergeant-at-Arms, Ed Ellington;
Buyer-Seller Relations, Vaiden
Whitley; Competitor Relations, Pat
Farmer; Employer-Employee Re
lations, Raymond Pippin; Four
Way Test, Melvin Massey; Occu
pational Information, Melvin Mas
sey; Trade Associations, Irby Gill;
Boys and Girls Week, Ed Elling
j ton; Community Safety, Irby Gill;
Crippled Children, Lee Sedwitz;
Rural-Urban, Billy Hopkins and
Ed Hales; Scholarships, Awards,
and Student Loans, Ferd Davis;
Student Guests, Ed Ellington;
Youth Projects, Ed Ellington;
Special Projects, Luther Massey;
International Contacts, Lee Sed
witz; International Information,
Ferd Davis; International Student
Projects, Barrie Davis, and Rotary
Foundation, Vance Brown.
Plans were made to continue
support of two projects of the club:
books for the Zebulon Community
Library and increase of the Rotary
Student Loan Fund.
The farmer gets less than three
cents for the wheat that goes into
a 20-cent loaf of bread.
F. Shelby Alford Accorded
Honors as Oil Distributor
F. Shelby Alford of Carolina Fuel
Oil Company, Ralaigh, has been
named fuel oil man of the year in
North Carolina for his contributions
to the oil industry during 1962. He
received his award at the recent N.
C. Oil Jobbers’ convention in Myrtle
Beach, S. C.
A veteran fuel oil dealer, Mr. Al
ford is now serving as fuel oil.vice
president for the N. C. Oil Jobbers,
and has been president of the Wake
County Oil Dealers Assn., a member
of the executive committee of the
East Carolina Oil Heat Council, and
a fuel oil committee for the National
Oil Jobbers Council.
He participated as an instructor at
the oil jobbers’ spring management
institute at the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill, and has at
tended many national meetings for
the fuel oil industry in the state.
Mr. Alford is a native of Franklin
County, was graduated from Wakckm
High School, and Haidbarger Busi
ness College, Raleigh. He is now
treasurer and general manager of the
Carolina Fuel Oil Company, which
was organized in 1955.
Active in church and civic affairs,
Mr. Alford is married to the former
Rachel Pearce of Zebulon and they
have three children. |
Wakelon School District Votes
Against Consolidation Plans;
Three Districts Vote for Idea
Last Saturday voters in three East
Wake school districts gave enthu
siastic approval to plans for a com
prehensive high school to bo con
structed near Martin’s Center. Only
Wakelon School District voted down
consolidation plans—by 3 to 1.
Out of 3,049 registered for the
special election, 2,503 cast votes.
Final tabulations showed 1,559 for
the proposal and 944 against.
The vote by school district was:
District For Against
Rolesville _ 286 62
Knightdale_ 494 26
Wendell _ 588 118
Wakelon _ 191 738
Organized opposition was evident
only in the Wakelon district, where
a special committee was formed and
money raised to block consolidation
of Wakelon high with the other three
schools.
Preliminary plans for the $900,000
comprehensive high school have been
prepared. Wake County School
Superintendent Fred Smith said com
struction of the school will begin as
soon as possible.
The school will be large enough to
house the high school classes from
I all four schools. Because of its vote,
[ however, Wakelon high school stu
dents will continue in the present
facilities. The district can decide
at a later date to send high school
students to the consolidated school.
Opposition to consolidated Wake
lon high with Rolesville, Knightdale,
and Wendell, centered around several
factors. Wakelon, an accredited
Court Suspends
Driver Sentence
The following cases were disposed
of at the last session of Zebulon Re
corder’s Court. I. D. Gill was the
presiding judge.
Bobby Keith Driver, given one year
in May 8 court. After reviewing the
case and remarks by the defendant’s
attorney, the judgment of the court
is; one year in Wake County jail
assigned to work the roads under
the supervision of the State Prison
Department, suspended on the fol
lowing conditions: pay a fine of $25
and cost, and remain on good be
havior for two years, and not to
interfere in any respect with the State
Highway Patrol for five years.
Clyde Milton Pitts charged with
drunken driving, charge reduced to
careless and reckless driving, $25 fine
and costs.
Sherwood Brantley, assault on
colored female by striking with piece
of wood, nol pros.
J. C. Mitchell, procuring advances
from his landlord to enable him to
make a crop on the lands rented by
him and did refuse to cultivate and
work the same, nol pros.
James T. Richardson, colored, no
operator's license, driving in a care
less and reckless maimer, and failing
to remain at the scene of an accident
and give information, six months on
roads suspended on payment of $75
fine and costs.
James B. Pearce, taking a guitar
valued at $50 from Maylon Alford,
six months on roads suspended on
payment of $90 fine and costs and to
pay prosecuting witness $10.
John Arthur High, driving in care
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school, had most to lose in the con
solidation. The Martin Center site
was considered too far removed from
VVakelon. The County School Board
was charged with failing to give
consideration to proposals from the
VVakelon District and with acting
without adequate planning.
Anticipated opposition in the Roles
ville District, whose students will
have farthest to travel to high school,
failed to be evident as 82% of those
voting approved consolidation plans.
Knightdale and Wendell, leaders
in the effort to establish a compre
hensive high school voted 95% and
82% in favor of the plan.
Wakelon, where proponents and
opponents were most active, registered
over 75% against the measure.
The new high school should be
ready by the fall of 1964, Superin
tendent Smith has said. Initial en
rollment from Knightdale, Wendell,
and Rolesville is expected to be about
550.
Wakelon High School witl have
about 250 enrolled.
Wakelon Band Building
Cains Board Approval
Wakelon School will obtain a
band building in the near future
as the result of action taken Mon
day by the Wake County BoaTd of
Education.
County School Superintendent
Fred Smith recommended to the
Board that construction of the
building be authorized, and Henry
Adams of Cary made a motion di
recting its construction. Mrs.
John Q. Adams seconded the mo
tion, and it was passed unani
mously.
Wakelon band students have
been using the basement of the
elementary school building for a
band room, and construction of
the band building was projected
by a bond issue several years ago.
Failure to construct the building
after plans were drawn for it be
came an issue in the recent school
consolidation election here.
Local county board member
Ferd Davis did not make the con
struction of the music building an
issue in his successful election
campaign last year, but he was
known to have favored construc
tion of the building whether
Wakelon voters favored consoli
dation or not.
“Fortj-four of 63 students par
ticipating in Wakelon’s 1963 band
concert were from grades below
high school level,” Davis stated
last month, “which I think justi
fies construction.” The statement
made Monday to the county board
Zebulon Swimmers
'Sink' Clayton,
Lose to Pfttsboro
Zebulon swimmers have spirit
and speed, but a lack of numbers
cost them one of their first two
meets. Last week the local team
“sank” Clayton, winning by near
ly a 100 point margin, with the
competition held in Clayton’s pool.
At Pittsboro Monday night, the
Zebulon team lost a match which
was decided by the last event of
the evening. Although Zebulon
scored high in every event in
which the team competed, several
matches had to be forfeited to
Pittsboro because Zebulon had no
one to compete.
More team members are needed
in the 12 and 16-year classes to
guard against forfeits in future
matches.
by Superintendent Smith was in
substantial agreement with the
Davis remarks.
In other action by the board
Monday James Debnam, local
merchant, was elected unanimous
ly to succeed Floyd Edwards on
the Wakelon School District Com
mittee. Debnam, a 1952 graduate
of Wake Forest College, will fill
the unexpired two years of Ed
wards’ term. Edwards recently
was elected a member of the Board
of Commissioners of the Town of
Zebulon. Work of Edwards was
praised by Davis who added that
service of a like caliber was ex
pected from Debnam.
The board, acting on results of
last Saturday’s election, voted to
exclude Wakelon from the new
east Wake consolidated high school
district, and authorized construc
tion of the school for Knightdale,
Wendell, and Rolesville students.
Dorniie Perry
Awarded Degree
Wakelon FFA president, Donnie
Perry, received the State Fanner
Degree at the 35th annual meeting
of the State Association of Future
Fanners of America held in William
Neal Reynolds Coliseum on the N. C.
State College Campus last week. The
State Farmer Degree is the third
degree in the Future Fanners of
America organization and the highest
degree given by the State Association,
Qualifications for receiving the de
gree are based on achievements in
the field of Vocational Agriculture in
cluding classwork, shop work, the
farming program, leadership ability,
and citizenship.
The degree was presented by Larry
Whittington, vice president of the
National Future Fanners of America
Association. Larry is a native of
Benson, N. C. and represents the
association in the Southern Region.
Donnie, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert A. Perry of the Glory Com
munity has been very active in all
phases of work in Vocational Agri
culture including FFA for the past
four years. He has served on several
committees, participated in leader
ship training activities, helped spon
sor cooperative projects, and parti
cipated in several contest sponsored
by the State FFA Association, Dur
ing the 1962-63 school year, Donnie
led the Wakelon chapter through a
successful year.