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ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1959
ISAAC S. LONDON, Editor
VOL. 42 No. 44 8 Pages This Issue
FIFTY JUnORS FOn OCTOBER 5TH
Criminal Term With
Also, A Civil Term
DOUG HAMER'S GRAND
JURY ALSO TO BE ON HAND
There, are two terms of Super
ior CoUrt for Richmond county
for October a criminial term
October 5th, and a civil term
for October 12th. Judge Donald
Phillips will preside at both
terms.
The Commissioners on ' Sept.
8th drew the two juries 50 to
report for October 5th, and 40
for October 12th.
The Six Months Grand Jury,
selected July 20th, with Doug
Hamer as Foreman, will of
course be on hand October 5th.
There is a very heavy crim
inal docket, among the cases to
be tried being that against a
colored woman of Hamlet
charged with setting her hus
band's bed on fire and burning
him up.
Here are the two juries:
October 5th Criminal Term
Charles E. Hill, R'ham
Nellie Howell, E. R'ham
Lillie Mae Crump, R'ham
Katherine Ramey, R'ham
Ella Hayne, rt 2, Hamlet
Ethel, Eason, rt 2, R'ha m
Henry Hinson, rt 4, R'ham
James W. Parsons, Norman
Frazier Smith, rt 3, R'ham
Ernest F. Saunders, E. R'ham
James Spencer, rt 1, Marston
Archie Thompson, Jr., EUerbe
Marshal C. Webb, rt 2, R'ham
Cora Mae Reddick, rt 4, R'ham
Mrs. H. M. Covington, rt 2,
R'ham
Henry C. Reynolds, Roberdel
Pate Parsons, Ellerbe
Robert L. Dulin, R'ham
W. W. Dutton, Cordova
Edie L. Jenkins, R'ham
Herman Smith, rt 1, Hamlet
Earl W. King, rt 4, R'ham
W. W. Swaim, Hamlet
D. E. Reynolds, Ellerbe
J. H. Spivey, Roberdel
Ethelrine Cash, rt 4, R'ham
S. I. Hopkins, R'ham
Brooksie Hinson, rt 23. Spgs.
Oar SmlthrE'. Rliam .-.'
. Wm.B. Lassiter, Cordova. ' l
Josie Player, E. R'ham v
James R, Cash well, E. R'ham
Melvin D. Griggs, R'ham
Paul Brown, Sr., Hamlet
Virginia H. Putman, Hamlet
F. A. Smith, Hamlet
Wilburn Lassiter, R'ham
T. D. Swails, R'ham
J. W. McKenzie, Jr., R'ham
Vance Benoist, R'ham
Elizabeth McCall, Hamlet
Fred H. Avett, Hamlet
Ethel Mae Saunders, rt 1,
Hamlet
A. E. Crump, rt 3, Mt. Gilead
W. L. Gibson, Jr., rt 3, R'ham
Ernest McLean, Ellerbe
Oscar Stogner, E. R'ham
Talmadge L. Gerald", rt 4,
R'ham
Samuel Young, E. R'ham
Fred Allen, R. 1, Hamlet.
OCTOBER 12 CIVIL TERM:
George H. Covington, Rt. 3
W. G. Gibson, R. 2, Rham
H. N. Ferguson, R. 1, Rham
James L. Godfrey, R. 1, Ellerbe
Wm. H. Brown, Rham
F. B. Rogers, R. 1, Rham
Jack D. Hearne, Rham
Jennie R. Rhodes, Hamlet
R. H. Thompson, Rham
W. Clarence Parsons, Ellerbe
Perry Pratt Gallimore, Candor
Clyde Crepps, E. Rham
Paul C. Covington, Rham
Arthur M. Cobb, Jr., E. Rham
Ethel Stogner, E. Rham
James W. Black, Rham
Paul V. Scholl, Sr., Rham
A. B. Easterling, Hamlet
Claude F. Smith, Jr., Marston
H. O. Carriker, R. 2, Rham
W. C. Myers, Hoffman
A. W. Farris, R. 2, Rham
C. H. Pope, Rham
John J. Spivey, Rham
S. W. Herndon, Rham
James E. Bryant, R. 4 Rham
Harry B. Meacham, R. 1, Rham
James L. Gainey, E. Rham
J. C. Grant, E. Rham
Clyde Herrin, E. Rham
W. L. Park, Rham
Jim Williams, E. Rham
Myers Waddell, R. 1, Rham
Ben Terry, Jr., R. 2, Rham
Robert Coble, Jr., Cordova
Lee Broady, Rham
C. F. Smith, Marston
Harold L. Ivey, Rham
Lovina Murphy, R. 1, Hamlet
John William Porter, Rham
MRS. P. T. SEALS
DIED SEPT. 8, 1959
Mrs. P. T. Seals, 75, died Septr
8, 1959, in Marks Creek town
ship. The funeral was held
September 10th from the home
near Gibson. She was the for
mer Anne Prevatte, and is sur
vived by her husband, a daugh
ter Mrs. R. L. Morrison of Ham
let, and a son Clarence Seals
of Hamlet rf d 1.
Judge Don Phillips.
Set For Oct. 12th.
Contract 4-Lane
74 In January
The Highway Commission an
nounces that the contract for
making 74 between Rockingham
and Hamlet (6 miles) a four
lane road, will be let in Jan
urary. A more detailjed story of
this is on an insider page.
By-passing Ashebojro with No.
220 will be let in fall of 1960.
PEE DEE HOME COMING
Pee Dee Methodist Church had
an unusually large .Home Com
ing Sept. 6th. Mrs. Jj. S. Swink,
78. was the oldest member pre
sent, and the largest family
Dresent went to the Claude
Maske family.
MT. AIRY VOTES DRY
Out of 2756 registered in the
town of Mt. Airy, 2041 went to
the noils Sept. 5, 1959, and ex
pressed themselves on the
question of liquor stores. 876
voted for legal sale pf whiskey
and 1165 voted against estab
lishing ABC stores.
B. F. MARKS
TILL
DAILY ON TH1
JOB
September 8th wa the 78th
birthday of Frank Marks and
he celebrated it by being on his
job in Ledbetter mill as usual.
He has been there fpr over 50
years. B. F. was born on a
Thursday, Sept. 8, 1881. He was
married June 3, 191
to Mary
Abigail (Mamie) McKay,
and
two
they have two
daughters.
sons
and
COE WAS RE-CAPTURED
John Samuel Coe, jof Hamlet,
who escaped ,;f rom the prison
camp at Carthage on! Aug. 27th,
was re-captured August 31st at
the home of ; his sister in Ham
let, and reurned to J the camp
at Carthage. This was a second
escape, and for that ; previous
aooinonju
four monts or the , roudsVThe
Carthage court this week Way
give him still: more time for
this second escape.
DR. HAYWOOD TO
ATLANTA
Captain ; T. Ashley Haywood
Jr. returned to his j home in
Rockingham the latter part of
August after two years at Eiel
son Air Base In Alaska, in the
dental department of the post.
Dr. Haywood is now) associated
with Dr. Raeford Parpe in At
lanta in the practice jof his pro
fession, for which he is so well
trained. He left herejSeptember
6th. Ashley got his BS degree at
Davidson in 1953, anjd his Doc
tor of Dental Surgery at Emory
University June 7, 1957. He in
1957 passed the Stte Dental
Boards in North and South
Carolina and Georgia. He re
ported August 21, 1957, to Ft.
Sam Houston for his ' JSAF duty,
and got to Alaska in September
1957.
Marshall Haywood, the other
smart son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Ashley Haywood, pass
ed the State Bar August 5, 1959.
and has joined the llegal staff
of Judge Edwin Stanley at
Greensboro, of this Middle Fed
eral District.
MASONS SEPT.
12TH
'inere win oe am
emergent
communication of Rockingham
Lodge 495, A. F. & A. M. for the
purpose of conferring the Master
Mason's degree this Saturday
night, Sept. 12th, at 7:30. Re
freshments will be Served fol
lowing the degree work. The
membership and all visiting
Master Masons are most wel
come. Come and give these two
initiates a cordial reception-
they are Horace Steadman Jr.
and John Blalock.
FRANKLIN WILSON TO
DUTY AT FT. DEVENS
Franklin W. Wilson, of Cor
dova, on June 19th J 1959, en
listed in the Army, Security
Agency, through Sgt. Milan
Glumac, recruiting jofficer at
Rockingham. He finished his
boot training and was home for
13 days. He leaves Friday, Sept.
11th by plane for his new as
signment at Fort Devens in
Massachusetts.
4-LANE MARSH VILLE
The Highway Commission has
approved plans for making 74
a four-lane road from Monroe
eastward to Marshville. It is
already 4-lane Charlotte
to
Monroe. The work will
iif the summer of 1960.
start
EVEN ATEAGHER
CAN SPEED
MAN TO ROADS FOR TWELVE
MONTHS FOR DRIVING
AFTER LICENSE PERM
ANENTLY REVOKED
The September 8, 1959, ses
sion of County Couit was rather
brief over by noon. Presiding
was Judge Walter Lampley, and
prosecuting was Solicitor John
Pittman.
Golden Vester McLean, color
ed aged 36, was arrested by
Patrolman Mitchel Arey on
Aug. 23rd, in Mineral Springs
township, and he charged with
driving drunk.. He posted $150
cash bond, and forfeited it. He
gave his address as Niagara
Falls and Ellerbe.
Jackie L. Sherman, 18, soldier
of Ft. Bragg, was charged with
operating his car in a reckless
manner in Rockingham on Aug.
31st. Judge Lampley gave him
30 days suspended if he pays the
costs. He appealed and Dewey
Coleman signed his $100 bond to
appear in Superior Court at
Rockingham on October 5th.
Ollie Davis McBride, colored
aged 38, of Ellerbe, arrested by
Patrolman Mitchel Arey on
Sept. 5th for driving drunk. For
this he gets four months on the
roads. For driving 65 mph he
gets 30 days additional. Com
mitted to prison camp Sept. 8th.
Malcolm Floyd Currie, 52, of
Cordova, for driving a car Sept.
7th after his license had been
permanently revoked, gets 12
months on the roads, and went
to camp September 8th.
Fred Sellars, 23, was tried July
14th for driving -while intoxica
ted, and he was fined $100 and
court costs. He has now paid
in full the total of $134.06.
James Bullard, 31, 'was ; cited
by Patrolman Mitchel Arey for
an affray on. Sept. 6th. He pays
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FINANCIAL WORRIES
IN TOWN OF TROY
Ralph White,- mayor of Troyi
has aJiriduncedtha James H.
"Keaxns, 34; vown! clef k f orthe
past eight years, had resigned as
Of Sept. 3, 1959. Two water de
partment employees have been
dismissed. One was Wayne My
rick, 43, who had been with the
department for 13 years, and
Oliver O. Gaddy, colored, who
had worked with the water
department for 18 years.
Mayor White stated that an
auditor, J. B. Watson of Wades
boro, has been working on the
books for the past six weeks.
The Mayor made n6 comment
as to why Kearns resigned, nor
why the other two men had been
dismissed.
ANOTHER TOWN TROUBLE
Embezzlement charges of $2964
from the town of St. Paul's in
Robeson county have been filed
against the town clerk John
McCormick and his assistant,
Mrs. Elsie Inman. The money
has been repaid. Both resigned
but they will face trial in
Superior Court anyway..
THE LUMBERTON TRIAL
In Superior Court at Lumber
ton, J. P. Coleman, Jr., is this
week being tried on a charge of
embezzling $7290 from the Lum
berton city schools. He was the
former bookkeeper and school
treasurer.
I
DR. HAM THE SPEAKER
Dr. Clem Ham was the speak
er Sept. 3rd night at the Civi-
tan supper. He and his family
moved August 25th from Mon
roe to Laurinburg where they
will live. He is the new Health
officer for Scotland and Rich
mond counties, dividing his
time equally between the two
counties. His salary is $13,200.
Bloodbank Here
Monday, Sept. 14
The Red Cross Bloodmo
bile will be in Rockingham
next Monday, Sept. 14, at the
community building from
11 A. M. until 5 P. M.
with the American Legion as
sponsor, it was announced
today by chairman Theo
Webb.
In an urgent appeal for '
cooperation, Webb said: "We
enlist the help of every citi
den around Rockingham.
The blood is badly needed
as we are using blood faster
in the hospitals than we
are collecting."
The Bloodmobile has been
sponsored for more than a
year by the American Le
gion, and is now seeking, a
new sponsor, in fairness to
the Legion.
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Ben Wall, for Years the Rockingham Team's
Water Boy, on Sept. 4th, 1959, Saw
Rockets Beat Bennettsville 46-7
Ben Wall, for many years a familiar figure with the Rock
ingham Rockets' football and baseball teams, was back again
for a visit Friday night. Ben has been ill for some time and
unable to perform his duty as helper with the team.
Since June 6, 1957, he has been a patient in the excellent
Chester Fisher Rest Home in Hamlet, following a severe
stroke of May 26, . 1957. Faithful Ben had been Rockingham
high school's "water-boy" j and friend of the players, ever
since 1915. Some friends brought him from Hamlet to Rock
ingham Sept. 4, 1959, for the Bennettsville game and of course
Coach Eutsler had a seat for him on the "Bench." Naturally
Ol' Ben was pleased that his boys won by a lop-sided 46-7.
ZionvHome Coming
-; Js This Sunday
. -. T.
VlilIOUANDN
All Home' Comings are im
portant and big to each church,
but one of the largest and old
est Home Comings is that at
Zion Church, 3 miles west of
Rockingham. This annual event
will be this Sunday, Sept. 13th,
it winding up the week's revival
by Rev. Holland Hale. Service
at 11, dinner on the grounds,
and then at 2 the get-together
and songfest.
Many of the old-time singers
will be on hand, among them
Leo Warburton, Fairley Long,
John Cole and some modern
day singers such as the Pitt
man twins, Perry Covington,
Tommy Covington etc. The bell
weather of all the singers for
years was T. G. Thomas who on
December 9th will be 89. In one
of the hymns Sunday afternoon,
John Cole will sing the verses
"Softly and Tenderly" and the
group come in with the refrain.
"BUNKIE" BACK TO SCHOOL
"Bunkie" Symmes leaves by
bus Sept. 14th for Arden in the
mountains, where he starts the
11th grade in Christ School. He
is 16, and son of Mrs. Mary
Blanche Palmer Symmes of East
Washington Street, Extension.
RESUMES SUNDAY SCHOOL
The Sunday School of the
Episcopal Church resumes its
work this Sunday at 9:45, after
the usual recess for the hot
months. Services Sunday at 11
by Rev. Mr. Remcke from State
College.
POLICE REPORT FOR AUGUST
Rockingham police in August
handled five cases of shooting
fire-crackers. There were 22 ar
rests for drunk, as against 15
for August of 1958. No shoplift
ing cases in August but in 1958
August had 3 such cases. 562
parking tickets issued in Aug
ust. SILER CITY'S CHRISTMAS
PARADE PLANS
So far, Rockingham's Christ
mas parade plans have not
been announced. But other
towns are busy on their pre
Christmas planning. Siler City
is to have their parade Nov. 30.
Siler City stores will close
Christmas Day . and the next
day (Saturday) and New Year's
Day. Their stores will remain
open on Friday nights from
Dec. 4 through Dec. 18, until
nine o'clock; and open to 9 on
Dec. 21, 22, 23. Regular closing
time Christmas . Eve.
Rockets Play At
FayettevilleErday
jBKATBENNEXTSVLLLE 46-3,
Rohanen. in R'ham Park
Friday Night at 7:30
The Rockets are going out of
its league this Friday night by
journeying to Fayette ville with
that city's high class team. The
game is at 8. Fayetteville beat
Dunn Sent. 4th by 18-0, and
Rockingham won over Bennetts
ville that night by 46-7. On
Sept. 5. 195, the Rockets won
over Bennettsville by 74-6
Many fans believe this 1959
edition of the Rockets is even
stronger than the 1958 Eastern
champs. Certainly it is a strong
er line.
While Rockingham is playing
at Fayetteville Sept. 11th,
Bennettsville is playing at Ham
let at 8, Greenwood is playing
at Ellerbe at 8, and St. Pauls
plays Rohanen in Rockingham
park at, 7:30 Friday night.
The Ellerbe game will be
played Friday night under the
lights their first game in a
lighted park of which they have
every right to be extremely
proud.
In the Sept. 4th game at
Rockingham which our Rockets
won by .46-7 over Bennettsville,
the total attendance was 1,862.
Of this number, '163 were on
passes, band and others. The
total paid was 890 students, and
809 adults, a total paid of 1699.
This Thursday afternoon the
Rockingham Juniors played
Lumberton Juniors in Rock
ingham park at 4.
TEACHES 11TH ENGLISH
Spending from Friday night
until Monday morning here at
her home at No. 39 Jefferson
apartments was Mrs. I. S. Lon
don. She teaches all 11th grade
English classes in the Hender
son city high school. The
school opened September 2nd
but gave a holiday for Labor
Day.
NEILLS TO BIG SPRING
The First Methodist Church of
Big Spring, in western Texas,
has extended a call to George
D. Neill Jr. to be an assistant to
their Pastor. George and wife
and two little daughters on
September 5th moved from Abi
lene to the Big Spring parson
age, and has entered upon his
new duties. Friends of George
Sr. and Lois, and of course young
George, are much interested in
his decision to enter into the
active Methodist work now at
Big Spring. This is a city now
of 25,000 with an Air Base close
by.
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H017ELL SAYS
HODGES IS NAIUE
Hamlet Man Sets
Situation Straight
PACKED COURTHOUSE AT
GREENSBORO 100 FOR
ARKANSAS CONGRESSMAN
Congressman Dale Alford
made a speech September 8th
in Greensboro to the Guilford
county chapter of the N. C.
Defenders of States Rights. The
courthouse was completely fill
ed with a 100 friendly audien
ce. Rev. James Dees, able rector
of the Episcopal Church at
Statesville, introduced the Con
gressman. .
Congressman Alford is the
man who by means of write-in
votes defeated Congressman
Brooks Hays in the Little Rock
election in November 1958. Hays
had been in Congress 16 years
Alford ran on an out-and-out
Segregation platform.
The defeat of the brilliant
and able Baptist leader (Brooks
Hays) last November was a re
markable evidence of the feel
ings of the people of the Little
Rock district. And they did it
by WRITING IN the name of
Dale Alford because he, stood
for complete Segregation of the
races in the schools. And what
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William M. Lovin
Died Sept, 9, 1959
Oldest Elder Of Church.
Mr. William M. Lovin, aged
68, died at his home on Route
1, Ellerbe, Wednesday evening
at 5:30, September 9, 1959, after
several months of declining
health.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Friday afternoon at 3 :00
P. M. from the McLean Presby
terian Church, with Rev. ,A. T.
Taylor officiating, burial will
follow- ii the Church Cemetery.,,
Mr Lovin. was born in Rich.-
mond County November:. 3,: 1890,
son of the late Frank and Mollie
Pearson Lovin. He was a mem
ber and oldest Elder of, the Mc
Lean Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are his wife, the
former - Florence . McLean; one
daughter, Mrs. Norman Rhyne of
Ellerbe; three sons, Leonard,
Vernon and Ralph Lovin, all of
Ellerbe; one brother, Lee Lovin
of Ellerbe; one sister Mrs. Mary
Peele of Gibson; and fourteen
grandchildren.
Active pall-bearers will be as
follows: Larry Lovin, Ronald
Lovin, Vernon Lovin, Jr., these
being grandsons, and Odell
Raines, Lee Blakely, and Lynn
McCaskill. Officers of the
Church will serve as Honorary
pall-bearers.
Mr. Lovin will be taken to his
home .Thursday afternoon from
the Carter-Sedberry Funeral
Home and to the Church an
hour before the services.
JOHN TO CULLOWHEE
Jack and "Scottie" Cockman
on September 6th carried John
Jr. to Cullowhee to be admitted
as a Freshman in Western Caro
lina. John will be 18 Sept. 27th.
They spent Saturday night at
the Echo Inn in Hendersonville,
operated by Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Royall, formerly of Rockingham.
Dick has twin daughters, one of
them recently married, and a
son.
MRS. WAY IS CHAIRMAN
Mrs. James Rhine of Dela
ware, the new President of the
National group of some 6000
VFW auxiliaries, last week ap
pointed Mrs. George Way of
Hamlet, as National Publicity
Director for the VFW Auxiliaries.
She had done an outstanding job
as chief of staff of the N. C
organization.
The 1959 Census
Coy S. Lewis Jr. of Robbins
is the new field assistant for
the 1959 agricultural census.
He has 21 counties. He will di
rect a force of 18 crew leaders
and 289 census takers. He will
be responsible for recruiting
these crew leaders who start to,
work Oct. 26th. The crew lead
ers will in turn recruit the cen
sus takers who start Nov. 18th.
The 1959 Census of Agricul
ture will collect information on
the number and size of farms,
acreage and harvest of crops,
livestock production and in
ventories, selected farm facili
ties, selected farm expenditures.
farm values, and mortgage debt.
Khrushchev Coming
PRESIDENT ON TV TONITE
The Russian leader, Nikita
Khrushchev will reach the U. S.
Sept. 15th, 1959, on his tour. He
was born April 17, 1894, is 5.5
tall, weighs 220. Bringing his
family son and daughter by
first wife, and his second wife.
He is coming not to bring a
message of Peace : but to make
propaganda. He doesn't want
to see the real America just
to be seen and heard.
President Eisenhower who
looms bigger amL bigger in
world's esteem as one of our
greatest Americans, will : be on
TV this Thursday night for 15
minutes starting at 7:30 EST.
He will discuss his recent visit
to Europe (Aug. 26-Sept. 7), and
the approaching visit of the
Russian premier.
$34,400,000 Election
A state-wide election on a
$34,400,000 bond . issue will be
held October 27th with voting
from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. It
is " not a new registration, but
the Registrars will be at each
polling place Oct. 3, 10, and 17
from 9 a. m. to sunset to reg
ister all who are eligible and
whose names may not now be
on the books.
Of the big bond issue, $18,891,
000 will be used for capital im
provements in the colleges, and
$12,053,000 for new buildings for
the mental institutions.
$250,000 is for historical sites
etc. and of this amount, a nice
slice is ear-marked for the In
dian Mound 10-acre project two
miles north of the Richmond
county line, in -Montgomery
county.
There are nine issues on the
long ballot. You can vote for ALL
or just any one of the nine that
you may think wise.
No Picture
An Asheville newsman check
ing out a fire alarm which sent
trucks screaming to ' the same
section - where he lives-, called
his wife. - :
- "Any - fexcitemtnt Out there?"
w: 'J7U say there is " was the er
cited reply. Trout daughter just
pulled the -false alarm.
'And the little six-year-old
Deborah is still wondering why
the little red box didn't take
her picture like her older play
mate said it would.
HARRY WEST GOES ,
TO FT. JACKSON
Harry A. West, Jr., on Sept
ember 9th enlisted in the regular
Army, through Sgt. Milan Glu
mac here. He left Wednesday
by bus for Ft. Jackson for his
boot training; and then will be
assigned to the Army's Security
Agency.
Harry was born Sep. 25, 1939,
a star on Rockingham's ath
letic teams, and more recently
was a student at the University.
He is son of Harry and Virginia
Wentz West.
Federal Court
Federal Court for the five
counties of the Rockingham di
vision of the Middle District,
opens at Rockingham at 10 a.
m. Sept. 14th. Judge Edwin
Stanley presides. This paper on
Sept. 3rd printed the list of for
ty jurors summoned from the
five counties of Richmond,
Scotland, Hoke, Moore and
Montgomery.
But seldom does a jury have
to pass on a criminal case in
Federal Court. Very few defen
dants fight their case. Federal
officers generally have air-tight
cases, and the defendants may
tninK he will get off lighter by
submitting and appealing to the
mercy of the Judge.
Marriage Licenses
Sept. 4 Manley Harris Hayes
22 of Raleigh, Miss Blanche
Carol Short 21 of Hamlet.
Sept. A, James Clayton Benoist
21, Miss Christine Edwards 20.
Sept. 8 Rufus Pinkney Glide
well 23 of Ellerbe, Miss Nancy
Cornelia Moore 21 of Cordova.
Max Weill
Stanley Faulk
Mrs. L. A. Bird
Mrs. P. T. Seals
The Dunn infant
William M. Lovin
George H. Stogner
Sgt. C D. Winbourne
William Clark Querey
James Benson Collins
Mrs. Tom (Kath) Cooper
DEATHS
MYSTERY BEAT!!
IN PITTSDUD6
QUEREY WENT TO MOTHER'S
FUNERAL NEAR PITTSBURGH
AND WAS KILLED RETURNING
Mystery Surrounds Death.
Two Have Been Arrested.
Funeral Held Here Tuesday.'
The death in the early hours
of September 5th of William
Clark Querey, 50, of Rocking
ham, is surrounded in mystery.
But the Pittsburg police are fol
lowing several hot clues and the
story may "DreaK" witn per
haps some startling results
momentarily.
Mr. Querey, who has been with
the State Employment office in
Rockingham since April 1954
and his wife and son here since
August 1957 was called to New
Brighton, 20 miles from Pitts
burg, Tuesday night, Sept. 1st, a
cousin having phoned him that
his mother, Nora McKenzie
Querey, 72, had died at 9:15. Mr.
and Mrs. Querey, and their son,
aged 12, had driven to New
Brighton about two weeks ago
to visit his mother who had suf
fered a fall, broken her hip and
suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
She had regained consciousness
and was so much improved that
the family returned tp Rocking
ham August 29th. And then
scarcely three days later word
came of her death.
Mr. Querey went to Charlotte
Sept. 2nd and caught a plane
for New Brighton. The funeral
was held there Friday afternoon,
Sept. 4th. While away, Mr.
Querey phoned his wife here
three times, the last time on
Sept. 4th stating that he was
getting a plane early Sept. 5th
bound for Charlotte. From that
moment, the intervening time is
shrouded in mystery.
The night of Sept. 4th he got
a room in the Motel at the air
port in order to be ready to
catch the plane early next
morning for home. When he
failed to answer his phone next
morning, a maid investigated
and. found him; dead. It -was at
irom. natural causes, dui iuruier
checking showed he died of an
inter-cranial hemorrhage, with
. " ' ' " A . 1 1 .
contusions on tne tempie.
The Pittsburg detective force
have been on the cape constantly
since finding him murdered
Sept. 5th. Latest reports are that
Mr. Querey
was driven to the airport
Motel by a man named John
L. Hart, 26, another man,
and z woman named Pat
ricia Kister. Hart is a driver
tor the Yellow Cab company
v but the trip was made in his
personal car. Both Hart ana
the Kister woman were ar
rested Sept. 9th by Pitts
burg police, and are being
held without bond.
It is known that Mr. Querey
withdrew several hundred dol
lars from the New Brighton
bank either Sept. 3rd or 4th
but he had only $32 on his per
son when found.
It is reported that the phone
call received the night of Sept.
i "t of his mother's death came
fro'n a cousin and not from his
nie.
In fact, there seems to be
more than one angle to this
case but it is tragic that such
a fine gentleman as William
Querey should have been mur
dered. THE FUNERAL HERE
The casket was shipped to
Rockingham night of Sept. 7th,
and the funeral held at 11 Sept.
8th morning from the Marks
Funeral Home chapel. Conduct
ing the service were Rev. James
Lloyd of the Park Avenue Pres
byterian Church, of which he
was a, member, assisted by Rev.
Mr. Hanks pastor of the Pres
byterian Church of Rowland. A
quartette of Rowland friends
sang two hymns, with Mrs. Theo
Smith at the piano. Friends
from the Employment office were
the pall -bearers, and the Office
was closed for the service. After
the funeral in the chapel, the
funeral party drove to Rowland
for burial in the town of Mrs.
Querey's birth. She was the
former Ann Adams, an RN who
was on duty in Memorial hospital
here for a year, but in recent
months has been with the Mc
Cain Sanatorium.
Mr. Querey had been a mem
ber of the Rockingham Civitan
club, and a very genial and hon
orable gentleman. It is tragic
that such a man, in the prime
of life, should be murdered all
apparently for the sake of rob
bery. He is survived by his wife and
son Billy, aged 12 he a mem
ber of the 8th grade of Rock
ingham Junior High.