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5 i Subscription Rates 14 PAGES TODAY SECTiorionE One Year Six Months Three Months $3.00 $1.75 $1.00 Single Copies 7c EacK VOL.' 36 No. 32 ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 18, 1953 v ISAAC S. LONDON, Editor BLAKE-BOl'JLES Furniture Folks Celebrating 5th Birthday. Prizes, etc. at their Store. On Friday, June 18, 1948, the new furniture store of Blako- j Bowles was opened in the for mer Hone or Thomas building on Pearl street. The new firm! (Continued on Page Five) J Steinbeck Canadian Trip. j The paper on June 18th re-j ceived a card from FranK Steinbeck, now makng a motor tour into Canada. He is to be in New York June 21-25 for the Kiwanis convention. Frank is J. C. Penney manager at Greenvlle. He was manager of the Rockingham unit of Penney from Jan. 6, 1941, to June 12, 1950. Succeeding bJm as manager at Rockingham was A. O. Bradshaw. Ben Hears from Charles. Charles Deane Jr. went by plane June 6th to London to join sisters Betty and Carol for the Coronation. Ben Wall, our w. k. Negro shoe-shiner, window-washer and handy-man. got a card from Charles this Thursday morning; "ever" thing o. k. Mrs. Htmeycutt This Sunday. Mrs. J. E. Huneycutt will re turn to her home on Foushee street this Sunday from Memor ial hospital in Charlotte where she underwent an operation June 9th. Highway 74 at Wadesboro. Surveys are to be made for a possible re-routing of Highway 74 leading west out of Wadesboro. MRS. BLAL0CK Mrs. Jennie Blaiock, a Gold Star Sister, Died Here June T12 "195lFBiriJune ,14. ; Mrs. Alhert Franklin Blaiock, former Jennie Cordelia Blaiock, died in our Memorial hospital at 11:57 p. m. June 12, 1953. She had wo'rked as usual June 10th, getting to her Jefferson Apart ment around 2:20 p. m. Daugh ter Virginia had the afternoon off, and was at home. Mrs. Bla iock ate lunch, then complained of her head hurting. Virginia called Dr. Watters who at once sent her to the hospital, via the Sedberry ambulance. She was soon in a coma, and it develop ed she had suffered' a brain hemorrhage. She did not re gain consciousness and slipped away two days later, just before midnight of Friday night. The funeral was held from the First Methodist Church at Rock ingham at three o'clock Sunday, June 14th, conducted by Rev. L. A. Tilley, her pastor, and Rev. (Continued on Page Four) Bertha, Husband and Step-D. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. McDonald left Iowa Park, Texas, June 15 in their car, coming to Rock ingham by way of Florida. Com ing with them is Mrs. Maurine Lancaster of New London, Tex as, his daughter. They will visit kindred for two weeks.. Mrs. McDonald was our for mer Bertha Baxley, married Dec. 8, 1945. Closing Camps The Army has announced that the following army camps will be closed: Close by Jan. 1, 1954: Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky 101st Airborne Tr. Div. Camp Robert, California, 7th Armored Training Division. Camp San Luis Obispo, in California, Signal Tr. School. Clo.se by June 30, 1954: Camp Rucker in Alabama, 47th Infantry Tactical Division. Camp Atterybury in Indiana, 31st Infantry Tactical Division. Fort Crocket in Texas. Fort Adams in Rhode Island. DEATHS Knox Jones W. H. McLemorc Charles L. Weill Vance Barrington Mrs. Jennie Blaiock Mrs. Andrew J. Stadler Mrs. Hugh Gordon McCall Manzella Jenkins, Col. Dn.P.F.VJIIITE IN NEW OFFICE Model Brick Building Now Open Near Presby. Church. One of the ablest physicians of this section is Dr. Philip F. White who came ham June 1, 1948, to Rocking and located. And now as he starts on his sixth year here, he is doing so in his own office cupyihg it Tuesday, June 16, 1953 Dr. White was porn in Ver mont, received his BS degree from the University of Vermont and his MD from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He was in the Navy 3 1-2 years, a Lieutenant witlji two years overseas. Soon after locating in Wheat Tumbles Wheat dropped j;he full ten cents limit June 15th, with July wheat touching $1.88 1-3, the; lowest price for wheat sine Feb. 14, 1950. The expanding wheat crop, concern over stor age space and belief that a Ko rean truce (not peace) is near, were factors in the decline. October cotton qn June 15th was selling at 33.70. IV20RE0F ROBBERY OF FEBRUARY 21, 1928 "Fantastic Tale of Gang Robbed Bank (Continued from Issue of June 4, 1953) The Post-Dispatch in its issue of June 4, 1953, gjave in detail the account of th& robbery at 1:15 p. m. Tuesday Feb. 21, 1928, of the Bank of Norman. We ' were ; Tight 1n f assuming - that there would be much reader-interest now in that event of 25 years ago. Many readers have phoned and written of their appreciation oi tn!e re-cap. As was stated in! that article, the two ring-leaders in that robbery were Bill Payne and John Washington Turner, alias Jack Borden. Ttese escaped from the pen sever; il times, and' in 1937 shot and killed High way Patrolman George Penn of Carthage. They were arrested at Sanford Jan. 3, 1938, tried in Asheville Jan. 20, 1938, and died in the gas chambejr in the pen at Raeigh July 1, 1938. Robbing our Bank of Norman Feb. 21, 1928, wer4 Bill Payne, Jack Borden, Worth Davis, Delia Black and . DEssie Foster. They had induced. aged K. F. Lowdermilk to leave his lunch table across the street from the bank in Norman, a: id come over to the bank to make some (Continued on Page Three) Marriages June 11 Elmer Alberto Mc- Gruder, 24 of Toledo, Ohio, and Jean Elizabeth Jackson 22, oJS Hamlet, colored. June 11 Marvin Lloyd Watts, 25, Miss Audrey Anne Dabbs, 22 June 13 Robert Stevenson Price of Indian Head, Mary land, and Miss Margaret Jewell Kelly of Hamlet. June 17 Lee Roy Chavis 22, Miss Marilyn AstorMartin 20. Sandhill F remen Convention Held on Wednesday, Wadesboro June 17th. The 27th annual Convention of the Sandhill Firemen's Associa tion was held at I Wadesboro Wednesday, June j7th. The local firemen felt, andj still feel, that their beauty nominee, pretty Norma Kearse, should have been crowned; but the judges selecteji a Wades boro girl for Queen. The Rockingham! Firemen have invited the 1954 meeting: to be held here. ; The Association includes fire (Continued on page Five) CHARLIE WEILL Died in Greensboj-o June 13. Born in Rockingham in 1884. Mother was Carriej Covington. Charles L. Weill Sr., 69, died! June 13 at his honie ,in Greens- (Continued on Page Six) 5 DIUORCES Granted in Court Here June 15, as Compared With 14 on May 25. 39 Since Feb. 16. In Superior Court at Rocking ham on June 15th, before Judge J. A. Rousseau, a total of five divorces were granted. At the? May 25 term fourteen were The 7 Monday brings the td- tal since Feb. 16th to 39. Mary from Don E. Bess Winslow from Cath Ellerbe. Hazel from Richard English , Wm. F. from M. G. Hayes Oscar from Callie Kennerly Watermelon Crop Larger. An appetizing note for water melon fanciers: The North Car olina 1953 crop is expected to produce 1,935,000 melons from 9000 acres, as compared with 1,784,000 melons on 8,700 acres last year. Masons This Friday Night. An emergent communication of the Rockingham Masonic Lodge will be held this Friday night, June 19th, at 7:30, for the purpose of conferring the first degree on two candidates. F. B. Stanley is Master of this Lodge. THAT BANK OF NORMAN How Payne, Borden Hemingway, S. C. Prison Records From the Warden of the penitentiary, e'-i'FdstDis; patch obtains the following data on this Bank robbery gang: Worth Davis (alias Neal Price), was admitted to the pen in April, 1928, for the bank robbery at Norman of Feb. 21, 1928, to serve nine years. He escaped July 26, 1934, but was recaptured July 29, 1934. He finished his sen tence and was discharged Nov. 4, 1938. Bill Payne (alias L. G. Lowe) and J. W. Turner (alias Jack Borden), were put to death July 1, 1938, ini the pen for the killing of Patrolman George Penn. Delia Black (alias Mrs. Worth B. Davis) and Essie Foster (alias Mrs. J. W. Tur ner), began their pen sen tences in April, 1928, and were discharged Jan. 17, 1929, at expiration of their, sentences. $15,000 Judgment In Superior Court here June 16th, the suit of -Mary, Clifton, Juanita and Floyd Muckenfuss of South Carolina against Edna Virginia Learned of Los Ange les for $131,000 damages, was compromised for $15,000. The suit was over a wreck last Aug. 8th near Rockinngham when the Learned car rammed into the rear of the Muckenfuss car. Wadesboro Band Director. Harold Grant, director of the band in Wadesboro schools, has: resigned in order to accept simi lar work for the Dunn and Er win schools. Mrs. Maske from Hospital. Another well-pleased patient from our Memorial hospital i$ Mrs. Claude Maske. She had an operation there June 10th. and came home June 15th. ' Claude and Viola Rush were married Dec. 9, 1923, and began keeping house Monday, June 16th, 1924; he at that time was working for M. L. Tucker's Nash agency. They have four children, the youngest Jimmy planning to be a speed demoix on the typewriter. Girls at Rex Business Office. Two high school graduates of June 2nd letf here for Raleigh, Saturday to begin secretarial work in the business office at Rex hospital in Raleigh. They are Paula Sanford and Faye Oliver. ROCKINGHAM'S FIRST FORD AGENCY KJ 1912 Above is the McPhail Auto Company that had the Ford Agency here from May, 1912 to 1917. The building is next door to Dewey Coleman's Station (Mrs. Guy Hudson, occupies the east part of the building in 1953 for a Beauty Parlor, and Paul Sejioll has the west half for his plumbing and heating business. You older readers will well recall the McPhail agency, with J. W. Jenkins operat in a Buick Agency in that building later) This month all Ford agents throughout the world are cele brating the 50th anniversary of the Ford Motor Company. All dealers in this area went to Charlotte June 17th, over 500 of them, for the 50th Anni versary banquet in Radio Cen ter. From Rockingham went Manager and Mrs. Lawrence L. Mclnnis of the Mclnnis agency. The Ford Company was of ficially formed June 16, 1903, by the late Henry Ford. And 50 years later, for the year 1953, the . Company is making Vmmd, Lincolns and Mercurys at rate of 2.378,000 m in An advt. in the Post-Dispatch of Feb. 22, 1918, listed the following prices, fob Detroit, Touring $45C Runabout ,. . 450 Chassis 400 And John Scales advertise ment in the 19l8 paper told the public that his Agency was "physicians to sick and disabled Fords." annually with half a billion dollars to be spent in the next two years to vastly increase even this huge production. And carrying on the FORD dynasty are his three sons . Henry, Benson and William, all grandsons of the unpredictable, profoundly radical genius who began the age of mass produc tion and created a billion-dollar empire. Henry died in 1947, born in 1863; and his wife died in 1950. The three grandsons now running the business are: Henry, aged 35, 6 feet tall. Benson, 33, 5 ft, 9in. Billy, 28, 5 feet, 7in. ," Vs v -;V " , .. ' i " , I Lawrence L. Mclnnis President and Treasurer of the newly President and Treasurer of the newly incorporated Mclnnis Motor Sales (Apr. 27, 1953). I i Mclnnis Motors Now Celebrating Ford's Fiftieth Anniversary Bp rliiTiii mm am u iikiii imvtmmmmmiMKmm)mmmm r m i ?T-mt ami - . , , MB!-; iinriyg ,yi. PrnW I I I III I I J m Y" M I . I " .1 --5 wfam fesr 'lit tei t i I 1 ft 111 51 AGENTS frvH OOCQE m The Rockingham Agencies. Now with the 50th FORD anniversary, it will interest readers to recall the agencies who have handled Ford cars at Rockingham. The first agency was that formed before World War One by Dr. L. D. McPhail, Bob Led better and W. L. Scales. It was the McPhail Ford Agency, and was in the Fowlkes-owned build ing directly across the street from the Mfg building, and on west side now of Dewey Cole man's station. This McPhail agency was established about May 1, 1912. The accompanying picture will show ' that old agency, which also did a JBlaWJ3,s,mes. r. cPhaili later moved to cnariotce.;jana R. M. McINNIS Born 6-1-1906, died 1-18-1953 Spark Plug of Ford Agency SSk$S3833"3kS was an outstanding physician there, dying several years ago. This McPhail agency was sold to Henry A. Page Jr. dur- 33 LH1 11 IS 3V IT k NV 1ST f X DR. L. D. McPHAIL (picture made years ago) who was prime mover in the organization of the Ford agen-j cy here May 1, 1912, under the name of the McPhail Motor Company He sold out to H. A. Page Jr. about 1917, and in the early twenties moved to Charlotte where he practiced medicine and died in 1946. ing the early part of World War One. It was called the H. A. Page Ford Service Station. One of the early managers was Nathan LeGrand; when he re signed to become a 2nd Lieut, in the war, John M. Scales (new of Durham), took over as man ager, this in the spring of 1918. And that summer the agency was moved across the street to the new Bob Steele brick build ing (now rented to the Dixie Home Stores). Bill Flake join ed the Page agency in 1919. John Scales was succeeded as manager by Pat Jackson. Exact dates from 1920 to the time Bob Mclnnis took over on Jan. 7, 1937. are incomplete. Teacherage In connection with the Mc Phail Auto Company of 1912-17, it is of interest to note that after he and fam ily moved to Charlotte, the School Board at Rockingham on March 6, 1924, bought his two-story house and 102x204 lot on Everett' street for $8,750, and it is used for the Teacherage. In 1925 the Gore company completed the new building in Great Falls and the Page agency moved there. About 1928 Henry Page divided up his six-county agencies and Bill Page took over at Rockingham. There were later various managers. Bill Flake, Rodney Page etc. And in the early 'thirties the Page agency went into receiver ship, with F. W. Bynum as Re ceiver. It was inactive for sev veral years. And Jan. 7, 1937, the Mc-Innis-Rummage Co. took over -in the old Everett garage building. The Mclnnis Agency. One., year later, on Jan. 7, (Continued on Page Seven) . '' COURT RULES OH HIGH PT. BONDS May Result in Court Action Rockingham Supreme Court Invalidates High Point Bonds Venture. Test Case May Be Planned for Rockingham Bonds. The Supreme Court on June 12, 1953, handed down a decis ion in a High Point tax appeal that may effect the $175,000 water bonds expansion voted by the Town of Rockingham on May 5, 1953. In fact, Rumor has it that . certain persons in Rocking ham are contemplating bringing a court action to upset the issuance of those bonds, based on the Su preme Court's decision in the High Point case. Rockingham voters went to the polls May 5th and by 457 Scott Opines The Post-Dispatch on June 16th received the following svire from Scott M. Thomas: Weldon, June 16th ' "In my opinion the State Supreme Court ruling in High Point bond case nullifies the affirmative action of Rock ingham voters on the $175,000 bond issue. ; "This decision will make it impossible for Town authori ties to carry out mandate of Rockingham voters. "Either the Local Govern ment Commission at Raleigh will revote its apparent ap proval, or in the absence oi such revocation the bond at torneys in New York will cer tainly refuse to recommend the bonds. V ; . . ' "This latter prospect;meam and r therefore the Rocking ham water ' situation will in definately remain as is." Scott M. Thomas to 104 voted a $175,000 bond issue for expansion of its water system. The plan was to im- Local Officials Are Not Uneasy And while Scott "opines" that Rockingham and High Point cases are alike, local official take the opposite view. In" fact say Rockingham officials, there; is not a particle of similarity in, the two cases; and that our) bonds will be issued in due; time, and be legally certified. So that is how it stands. prove the water system in town and expand it so that more (and the present) water users (Continued on Page Two) GET DUILDIUG PERMIT JULY 1 New Law Requires Building Permit from Tax Office to Make Repairs or Build at Cost Exceeding $100. The last session of the Legis lature adopted a law pertaining to Richmond County requiring a building permit to be issued by the county before any one may commence construction of (Continued on Page Two) New Judge at Wadesboro. Judge Walter Brock and Soli citor M. D. McLendon Jr., of the Anson County Court, ha vet resigned in order to form a, partnership for private prac tice. 1 ' The Anson commissioners lasll week appointed ex-Judge Bar-i , rington Hill as Judge, and ex Solicitor George Childs as Soli citor. They take charge July 1st, each at $250 per month. Berta's Op. Mrs. Robert N. Stansill, of the, Richmond County Bank staff, went to Baltimore June 8th for a check-up on her eye. She underwent a successful opera tion June 17th at one p. m., with a tumor removed from just! back of right upper eye-lid. She expects to get home next week. rjunsEsnc:.m SUHB1Y Open House June 21 Hospital 2 to 5 p. m. The Nurses Home at the Richmond County Memorial Hospital is now completed, and it will be formally opened to the public this Sunday, June 21st, in the nature of "Open House." The public is., cordially invited to come and inspect the new building YOUR building, be cause it and the hospital be longs to the people of the county. The Nurses Home is 80 yards due north of the Hospi tal, one mile southeast of Rock ingham. It is near the top of that hill perhaps the highest point around Rockingham. The entire hospital land of twenty (Continued on Page Eight) The Dickers ons Contractors who Started On Shoe-string but Have Now Developed Into Big Tune. The contracting firm that built the Nurses Home to be opened June 21st is DICKER SON, Inc. of Monroe. And the same company is building the new Howard Johnson restaurant building half a mile south of AUEUUEQS Donaldson Air Base In Exercises Camp Mackall. Report has it that "exer cises" or maneuvers by the Donaldson Air Base from Greenville, S..C, will be held at Camp; Mackall "for two weeks beginnings June 22nd. Harris and Jo Ann were Married April 5, 1953. He Improving in Hospital. Mrs. Carl Furr of West End announces the marriage of her pretty daughter, Jo Ann, to Harris Rummage, the marriage having taken place at Bennetts ville on April 5, 1953. " Harris, as you readers may know by this time, has waged a terrific fight for life in our Memorial hospital; but he is definitely on the mend now. He was taken off the critical list June 11th, and will be allowed to sit up' a bit June 19. Harris had a major operation hefe last February, and then be tween May 20 and June 4 he had three more major operations. His will to live, fine ' nursing and surgery and hospital care the loving attention by his par ents, sisters and this little bride- . sweetheart, have combined to enable him to pull through. Har ris will be 20 this July 29th. His bride of Easter is 17. RS. STABLER Mother of Mrs. Whit temore Died June 17 Burlington. Mrs. Bertha Enoch Stadler, 72, died at her home at Burlington Wednesday, sJune 17, 1953. The funeral was held today, June 18th, at the Rich & Thomp ( Continued on Page Four) Peach Crops Looks Good. Early peaches have been mov ing to market but of course not the large and superior varieties. But the peach outlook for the Sandhills, is good. The Agri Department forecasts a peach crop of 1,360,000 bushels for North Carolina and 3,380,000 for South Carolina. The Georgia crop is expected to total 3,220, 000 bushels. Urological X-ray The Picker X-Ray Corpora tion has installed a complete Urological X-ray Unit in the Clinic of Dr. V. Gregg Watters and Dr. A. M. Covington at 303 Leak Street, Rockingham. This Urological X-ray Equip ment is of the very latest type and makes it possible to do complete urology examinations, utilizing the most modern tech nics. v- '.-y ;:v:V- " 4 V
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