"BULON RECORD
.w»l.UME 38. NUMBER 44. ZEBULON. N. C.. NOVEMBER 7. 1963
Sprite Barbv
Carnie Folks Great
Sprite Barbee has great admira
tion for people who work with
carnivals. His admiration in
creased when he spent the week
of September 14-19 working with
them.
“Carnies are great people,” Bar
bee said sincerely. “They are
good people, but they are clan
nish.”
Barbee said people who work
with carnivals stick together.
They must first be certain of you,
and if they find you are stable,
close-mouthed, true-blue you are
“in.”
Barbee secured a job as a dish
washer with the main cook house
of the carnival that played with
the North Carolina State Fair.
“I’ve never washed so many
dishes in my life,” Barbee said.
“Carnies eat, but they have to
because they work so hard. Car
nival life is a lot of hard work.”
Barbee said he worked from 12
to 15 hours a day. He swished
dishes through the sudsy water in
jig time. He had to because of
the demand for them.
“Christi (the owner of the cook
house) could have had more
dishes but he didn’t. And I didn’t
even get dish pan hands;,” he
laughed.
Barbee gave an example of the
To Organize
Girl Scouts
An organizational meeting of a
Junior Girl Scout Troop for Zebu
Ion community will be held No
vember 13, Mrs. Ruric Gill, Jr.,
leader, announced this week.
Parent consent forms have
been passed out to interested girls
who are within the age qualifica
tions. Approximately 70 girls ask
ed for forms.
Mrs. Gill said indications are
that interest in the Scout Troop
is running very high. She added
that both she and Mrs. Frank Wall,
another leader, are very pleased
that such interest among the girls
is shown.
The meeting will be held at the
Lions Club building beginning at
3:30. This will be one of four in
formational meetings the girls
must undertake before they be
come Scouts.
Lions To Have
All Night Sing
Zebulon Lions are sponsors of
another all-night sing, it was an
nounced this week. The gospel
singing event will be held Satur
day night, November 9, in Wake
Ion School auditorium.
Three quartets will be featured
on the program which starts at 8
o’clock. Appearing will be the
Dixie Melody Quartet of Durham,
the Craftsman Quartet of Wilson
and the Baker Quartet of Zebulon.
The Lions sponsored an all
night gospel sing on September 28
which was considered very suc
cessful, according to a member of
the club.
At a recent club meeting, Lion
members voted to contribute $50 to
Wakelon Band Boosters Club, $304
to the White Cane Drive, and $114
to the Boys’ Home at Lake Wacca
maw. This Boys’ Home is a project
undertaken by all North Carolina
Lions, and was constructed at a
cost of approximately $65,000.
ravenous appetites of the carni
val employees. He said the owner
ordered 15 cases of chickens and
they were sold out before 11 p.m.
Serving began at 9:30 a.m.
Chickens come in cases of 25,
and each person was sold a quarter
of a chicken.
Even with his long hours, Bar
bee mingled with the people of
the carnival. Yes, he saw all
sorts, but he found them all inter
esting and fascinating.
“Many have vices, if you call
drinking and doping vices. But
they get tired and take a little
nip after the show. The life is
exhausting. It drains everything
out of you.”
Barbee considers his week with
the camie people a great experi
ence. He considers it an experi
ence most any health inspector
ought to undergo. He has been
associated with the health depart
ment in the past.
Christi’s cook house left for Au
gusta, Ga., Sunday following the
close of the fair. The owner was
eager that Barbee go with the unit.
“I decided I couldn’t. That type
of work is seasonal, and I ex
plained to Christi that I reckoned
I had better go on back to Zebu
Ion. He was understanding, and
I took my pay and left.”
Barbee ended the interview with
a sincere note. He admires camie
folks. They are sincere with each
other, fair and square, and very
clannish.
“And look,” he exclaimed, “no
dish pan hands after a week of
washing umpteen dishes.”
Low Rent Units
Completed Here
Applications for low cost rental
units recently completed by the
Wake County Housing Authority
in Zebulon will be taken soon, ac
cording to Melvin J. Massey, exec
utive director.
Accommodations for both white
and non-white units have been
constructed by the Authority. The
white units are located on the old
fair ground property and the non
white units are across from Devil
Dog Manufacturing Co.
Application blanks may be se
cured from Massey as soon as he
receives them. Massey said the
blanks are being printed now.
Final notice of the time and
place where applications may be
made will be in The Record, Mas
sey said.
Massey said occupancy of the
units is expected to be December
1.
Farm Auxilary
Meeting Set
The Farm Bureau women will
have their November meeting
next Wednesday night at 7:30
p.m. in the Home Economies
Building of the Wakelon School.
Miss Mary Lacy Palmer will give
a demonstration on making coat
hanger baskets and pictures. Mem
bers who want to make one should
bring their materials.
A. G.
Vonnie Anne
Margaret
Young Couple With Retarded
Child Feel It's No Disgrace
“You just can’t tell the feeling
you have,” A. G. Creech said.
“You can’t understand until
you’re faced with it,” Margaret
Creech added.
Mr. and Mrs. Creech were speak
ing of the moment they were told
their child was mentally retarded.
Vonnie Anne, the young cou
ple’s first child, is now at Caswell
School in Kinston. She has been
at the school for the past three
years.
“It was hard to part with her,”
A. G. said. “We hadn’t fully
made up our minds, even though
everything was in readiness, when
we went down to take Vonnie
Anne. But the minute we walked
through the door, something came
over us. We decided then and there
that this was the right thing to do.”
And they haven’t regretted the
decision for one second.
“It is the best thing we could
have ever done for Vonnie Anne,”
A. G. said.
“We know now that Vonnie
Anne’s future will be better, and
she will have a better future,”
Margaret said.
They feel that were she not in
the school which is giving their
daughter the very best training
she might be a burden to herself
and society in years to come.
Mr. and Mrs. Creech were told
that their daughter was mentally
retarded when she was about three
years old. She was slow in walk
ing, some past three years. And
she was slow in talking. They
I were advised to take her to Duke
! Hospital and there they learned of j
Vonnie Anne’s condition.
The couple were shocked, to say
the least. Vonnie Anne was their
first child, and at that time their
only child. The shock of learning
their daughter’s brain was im
paired and that she would be a
semi-invalid for life took a long
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MONEY FOR ZEBULON!
The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
yesterday approved a grant of $55,670.00 in Federal funds to
assist in construction of a sewage disposal plant for Zebulon.
Congressman Harold Cooley telegraphed the news to Mayor
Ed Hales. Total cost for the plans is estimated at $185,600.00.
iaycees Erect Bleachers
On Wakelon Football Field
The idea was suggested, and the
Jaycees went to work.
At a board of directors meeting
of the Zebulon Junior Chamber of
Commerce on August 7 someone
expressed the opinion that Wake
Ion School athletic field needed
new bleachers, concession stand,
press box and rest rooms.
No sooner than the opinion was
expressed the Jaycees went into
action. A committee was named
and the work was started with all
members pitching in to do his
share.
Funds were solicited from mer
chants and individuals of the town.
The goal of $800 for the equipment
was obtained in short order.
It was decided by the civic club,
after a tour of other county facili
ties, to build the unit 18x18x18,
centering the grid iron field. The
plans were presented to and ap
proved by local school board mem
bers with recommendations that
the building be of concrete block
and the bleachers of steel construc
tion.
After the approval of the plans
by the local school board, the
plans were sent to Wake County
Schools Superintendent Fred
Smith. Smith approved the plans
and informed the club that the
bleachers and materials for the
building would be supplied by the
county if the club would supply
the man power for construction.
The approximate cost of the en
tire project passes the $8,000 mark,
newly elected Jaycee President
Bruce Creekmore said. He add
ed that money left over from the
construction cost was put into the
school’s athletic fund.
“Wakelon School has one of the
best facilities in the county as
far as bleachers, concession stand,
press box and rest rooms for an
athletic field is concerned,” Creek
more said. “Our thanks go to the
support of the people, local school
board, county school board, and.
civic clubs.”
Middlesex School
PTA B-B-Cue Supper
Middlesex School PTA will
sponsor a chicken and pork barbe
cue supper Friday, November 22.
The supper will begin at 5 pm.
Following the supper a basketball
game between Middlesex and Cor
inth-Holders School will be held.
Tickets for the benefit supper are
now on sale.
Resident's Son
Gets Promotion
John Gordon received an ap
pointment in September from the
governor of Alaska to head the
state’s Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The 32-year-old Zebulon native
has been in Alaska for five years.
He was associated with the state’s
public school system at Point Bar
row prior to his recent appoint
ment.
His wife, the former Wilma
James of Highlands, was also a
teacher in the public school sys
tem.
Gordon holds B.A., and M.A. de
grees from Appalachian State
Teachers College. He is the son
of Mrs. Bessie Gordon of Zebulon
and the late W. O. Gordon.
The couple are the parents of
four children, Nancy, 10; Sabrina,
6; Dana Brooks, 4; and Johnny, 2.
They reside in Bethel, Alaska.