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The Robesonian from Lumberton, North Carolina • Page 5

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The Robesoniani
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Lumberton, North Carolina
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Deaths And Funerals Darius B. Herring ABERDEEN--Funeral for Darius B. Herring, 68. Robeson county native who. died Saturday, being conducted this afternoon at tour o'clock at Bethesda Presbyterian church.

Rites are being conducted by the pastor, Dr. W. C. Neil. Burial will be in Old Bethesda cemetery.

Mr. Herring moved to Aberdeen after his discharge from the Army -after War I and became a rural mail carrier in 1927. He had planned to retire this fall. He. was.an elder in the Presbyterian church.

Surviving are his wife, the former- Bertha Cameron; a daughter, Jane, and a son, D. both of Fayetteville; five brothers, Robeson County Manager J. Herring and D. H. Herring of'uim- berton, Howard Herring of S.

Herring of Durham, and T. B. Herring of Sanford; a sister, Mrs. H. M.

King of St. two grandchildren. He was a son of the late John D. Herring and Mrs. Emma Mercer Herring of Lumberton.

Rt. i. Dr. Marion Y. Keith GREENSBORO-Dr.

Marion Keith, 62, died at Wesley Long hospital here early Friday, and funeral service was conducted Saturday afternoon in Greensboro, with burial in Forest Lawn cemetery. Dr. Keith had been intermittently ill since suffering stroke 18 months ago. Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Carole Keith Lambeth of Colorado Springs, a sister Mrs.

T. -j. Smith of. Lumberton-' hjs Fred R. Keith of Lumberton, Julian F.

Keith of Elizabethtown, James Keith of Curne. and Dr. T. R. Keith of Passaic, N.

J. A native of Wilmington, Dr. Keith had been a Greensboro resident for 35 years. He was a pediatrician and a former chief of staff at Piedmont Memorial, St Leo's and Sternberger hospitals, and was consulting pediatrician for Wesley Long where the nursery is being named in his honor. He was a past president of the N.

C. Pediatrics Society, president of Greensboro Kiwanis in 1933, and a member of Greensboro Country Club; he was a grauadte of Wake Forest and the University of Maryland Medical school. Fannie Gibson FAIRMONT Mrs. Fannie Anderson Gibson, 63, widow of John R. Gibson, died this morning at her in Fairmont.

Funeral services. will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the First Baptist church of Fairmont, of which she was a member, by her pastor. Rev. Thomas L. Rich, assisted by Rev William Gordon.

Burial will be iii the Fairmont cemetery. Mrs. Gibson was born in Cumberland county, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Anderson.

Surviving are two sons, James Gibson Fairmont, and Allen, Gibson of Lumberton; one step- ton, Douglas Gibson of.Fairmont, and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Earl Tomlin of Sanford; two brothers, Foster Anderson and Lonnie Anderson, of Hope Mills: and three tisters, Mrs. Cora Belle Smith MON. TUES. KB MMT 1SSDIANADORS EVANS M.

GIBSON WAS HONORED by fellow post- tal employees Saturday night as he retired from the service after 34 years. Following a dinner attended by 30 members of the Lumberton Postoffice staff, he was presented a gift Certificate. Mr. Gibson, assistant postmaster, is pictured at left. With his hand on the gift package is Paul -Blake, supervisor of mails; seated at center is Postmaster Gordon Cashwell; and at right is Robert Parnell, a 22-year veteran in the postal service Mr and Mrs.

Gibson plan to begin'their retirement with a Florida vacation-. (Gray photo) One Lands Safely On Coffee, Milk And Water Hydraulic System By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Airliners from coast to coast and from Massachusetts to Mrs. Bessie Martin and Mrs. Lela all of Hope Mills. Mrs.

Carrie Bullard Mrs. Carrie Bullard, 62, of 114 Warwick Avenue, Lumberton, wife of Carl Bullard, died Sunday night at 7:30 in Southeastern General hospital following "an illness of about a week. Funeral services will- be conducted Tuesday at 3 P.M. at the chapel of Biggs Funeral Home by Rev. J.

W. Meares. Burial will be ia New Hollywood cemetery. Surviving besides, her husband. are two sons, Floyd Easton of Leesburg, Va.

and Bill Bullard of four sisters, Mrs. Clara Davis of San Francisco. Mrs. Alice Siesert of AK von, 111., Laura Gray of West Salem, 111., and Mrs. Ruth Dais of Phoenix, two brothers.

Jim Easton.of Fairfield, 111., and Stanley Easton of Boise, Idaho- also two grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Mrs. Hattie Bell Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Mae Bell, 69, of Lumberton, 3, were held Thursday at three o'clock at the Deep Branch Baptist church. Officiating minis- Puerto Rico- were plagued this weekend in a series of unrelated landing and takeoff difficulties ters were Rev.

T. M. Swett, Rev. Venus Brooki, Hey. W.v Jacobs.

Burial was in the church Survivors include her husband, Luther J. Bell; five Mrs. C. C. Stone of Cohinbia, S.

Mrs. Myrtle Neeley of Sacara- mento, BehaJe Locklear of Savannah; Mrs. Jack Bell of.Dayton. Ohio, and Mrs. Willie Oxendine of Rt.

five sons, James E. Bell of Lumberton, L. J. Bel! of Lumberton, Worth Bell, Halbert Bell, Bpbbie Bell of the home; five sisters, Mrs. C.

O. Carter of Pembroke, Mrs. D. W. Smith of Charlotte, Mrs.

Cattie Mae of Pembroke, Mrs. Oxendine of Mrs. Beatrice Locklear; two brothers, Donnie Oxendine and Joseph Oxendine, both of Pembroke, and six grandchildren. Pallbearers were Riley Locklear, Frank Locklear, Worth Samps- n. Prather Locklear, Woodrow Sampson, Samuel Locklear.

Honorary pallbearers were W. H. Emanuel, Thurman Locklear, Lloyd Lowry, George Emanuel. Mrs. Rosa Carter was in charge of the flowers.

Assisting were Mrs. George Emanuel, Mrs. Riley Locklear, Mrs. Dora Francis. 2 Sought In Brutal Beating Of Belhaven Chief Wife BELHAVEN, N.C.

(AP) The State Bureau of Investigation has been asked to help find the two men who beat up the wife of police Chief Sam Boger and ransacked home. Boger said Sunday his wife, in her late 20s and expecting her second child, was recovering nicely in Pungo District Hospital, at Bel- that bruised nothing but some schedules: The lone casualty was a -Emanuel, Mrs. Lloyd Hunt, Mrs Dock E. Locklear, Mrs. William Boyd Locklear, Miss Fannie Miss liar Sampson, Miss Mary Sanderson, i Elaine Emanuel.

Mrs. Leona Lennon FAIRMONT-Mrs. Leona Lewis Lennon, 50, widow of Wayland Bagley Lennon, died unexpectedly Friday night while vacationing at her cottage at Crescent Beach" S. C. Her body was discovered early Saturday morning by her A daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. John Leon Lewis of Tabor City, she is survived by one son Wayland Bagley Lennon Fairmont; one daughter, Mrs. Edward Hill of Richmond, aiid one sister, Mrs. Harriett Sikes of tabor City. The funeral was held Sunday at 4 p.

m. at Trinity Methodist Church in Fairmont, with Rev. Paul Browning in charge. Burial was in Floyd Memorial Cemetery. CONDniONED Now ng The Happy Hit Everv On- Says Id The Nicest Thing a To Lumberton In Sandra DEE John GAVIN airannnopw.

Plus Bear Color Cartoon --Starts Thursday HAYLEY MILLS In "Parent haven. Searchers found the woman's wallet about five blocks from the house with $17 missing. Asked whether he thought the attack was the result of a grudge, Boger said, "It's got me all confused. I don't know of anyone at all who has a grudge against me:" Boger came here about months ago from Catawba County. He was on duty Saturday night when the attack occurred.

A young daughter, in bed at the time, unharmed. Mrs. Boger, who summoned aid through an incoherent telephone unable to provide a dear description of her assailants She said the men "talked like Yankees." She was attacked in her home shortly after returning from a visit' to relatives. After putting her daughter to bed, she was-running water for a bath. the lights in the house went off and she was grabbed.

Mrs. Boger toJd police heard; of the men say, "This is the damned police chief's house." After recovering consciousness -about a half hour later, she said, the men were gone and she made her way to the telephone and tried to call her husband. The operator, sensing trouble, rang the fire department. Mrs. Lillie Mae Ivey MAXTON Mrs.

Lillie Mae Ivey, 51, of the old Maxton-Laurinburg road, died Friday. She was a former employee of Waverly Mills in East Laurinburg and a member of the Pleasant View Presbyterian Church. Funeral was Sunday at 4 P.M. at Johnson Chapel, Maxton, Rev Howard L. Gilkerson Interment was in Hollywood Cemetery, Lumberton.

Survivors include one daughter. Brenda; two sisters, Mrs. M. Inman, Mrs. James Griffin; one brother, Clarence Haney, and her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Haney, all Lumberton. Ambrose Chavis Ambrose Chavis, 63, died-suddenly Friday afternoon at 5:43 at the Robeson County Prison Camp.

Funeral services were held Sunday at Hickory Hill Baptist church, with T. M. Swett and Rev. David Locklear officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers were John Carter, Willoughby Jones, 'Graham Hunt, Calvin Chavis, Junius Revels, and Ernest Strickland. Flowerbearers were Mmes. Flowers Hunt, Agnes Strickland, Mae Hunt, Bessie Chavis, Misses Annie Mae Hunt and Hazel Deese. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Maggie Locklear Chavis of Columbus, Ohio; three sons, Luther of Detroit.

Lindbergh and Ambrose Chavis, Jr. of Columbus, Ohio: three daughters, Mrs. let Locklear. Mrs. Julia Chavis, and Mrs, Ruby Martin of Columbus, Ohio: two brothers.

Rev. B. W. Chavis of Pembroke, and Mack Chavis of Rowland; three sisters. Mrs.

Lillie Johnson. Mrs. Mary Huggins, and Mrs. Bertha Cos, all of Rowland. ue Liners year-old girl who fainted 'after leaving a.

plane that had caught fire on landing. In all, seven airliners with a total of about 600 passengers were affected. A short circuit in a landing gear set off a fire, aboard a Mohawk Airlines Convair shortly before it landed at Worcester, airport Sunday. Louise McBride, a Boston University student, fainted on leaving the plane. In Portland, fire broke out in the landing gear of a Northwest Airlines DC7C as it took off from Portland International Airport Sunday night.

A fire warning in one engine caused the pilot to apply brakes to stop the takeoff, and the heat generated by the stop was believed to have set "off the landing gear fire. The original fire warning was false. In New York, a Pan American DC3 jet from Paris skidded off a runway at New York International Airport Saturday, shortly after an Eastern Airlines DCS was forced to circle the field for three hours while crew members loosened a stuck nosewheel. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a Pan American jetliner from New York; with a capacity load of 174 managed a safe landing Saturday after reporting that its hydraulic brakes were not working. There were two similar incidents in Los Angeles the same day.

An American Airlines Boeing 70? jet from Boston caught fire and blew a tire when its front landing gear collapsed as it touched down at International Airport. Earlier, crewmen aboard a Trans World Airlines Convair 830 forced to pump coffee and milk info the craft's hydraulic system as a makeshift but effective method of lowering a jammed nosesear. Architects predict that the cathedral now being built at Liverpool will be the last in Great Britain to be constructed entirely of stone. Each piece of local rose- red sandstone used in the Liverpool Cathedral must be carefully carved and fitted into place. SHOP and SAVE For The Entire Family ROBESON COUNTY'S' LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE Robwonian, Monday, July 31, 1961--Pagt 5 Three Persons Injured In rHiiral Accidents Three pet-sons were injured in mral highway accidents in Robeson county over the weekend.

Walter Sanders, 31, and Clarise Sanders, 30, both Negroes of Brooklyn," N. M'ere injured in an accident at 5 a.m. Sunday. Walter Sanders was admitted to Southeastern General hospital and is reported in condition with multiple fractures and other injuries. State Trooper.D.-R.

Cuddington reported that Edwin L. Clark of Brooklyn was- driving the car south.on US 301, five miles north of St. Pauis, when he met a.truck at Little swamp-bridge and the bridge in avoiding a collision with the truck. Damage was jaoo. James.

Ervin Devane. 18, of Lumberton was injured in an accident at 11:25 p.m. Thursday, four miles east of Lumberton on NC Tpr. Cuddington reported that Richard Evander Devane of Lumberton was driving west when his car left the road and struck a utility pole of Carolina Power and Light company, causing $75 damage to the car and $150 damage to the pole. No injuries were reported in five other accidents.

Tpr. J. C. Davis reported that at 7:15 p.m. Sunday, Ransom Dix- on of route 2, Fairmont, was driving west on rural road No.

three miles south of Lumberton, when a calf ran into the road and was struck and killed. The car was damaged $100 and the calf, owned by Jessie Mitchell of 2, Lumberton, was rallied at Tpr. J. E. Greene reported that at 10:05 a.m.

Sunday, Earner of Lumberton was driving west on rural road No. 1752 and that Brantley Brownie Oxendine of route 3, Lumberton, entered, the road from road No. 1529, their cars colliding. Damage to the Oxendine car was $100 and to the Earner car $200. Tpr.

Greene reported that at 8:45 a.m. Sunday, James Henry Jackson of Lumberton was driving east on US 74, one-half mile east of Lumberton, and attempting a left turn into rural road No 2115 (Old Whiteville road), as Roy Benjamin Lee of route 5, Lumberton, attempted to pass, their cars colliding. Damage to the Jackson car was $400 and to the Lee car $200. Tpr. Greene reported that at 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, Manford Locklear of route 1, Pembroke, was driving east on rural road No. 1576, four miles north of Pembroke, and James Locklear of route 1, Pembroke, was driving a truck west when their vehides collided in a curve. Damage to vehicle was $200. Tpr. W.

M. Denning reported that at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Emmett Willianuon Fontaine of Raleigh was driving south on US 301, seven miles south of St. Pauls, and had stopped behind another vehicle, with a truck driven by Dean Allen Geedings of Orangeburg, S.

stopped behind him, when a car driven fay Amelia Winfield of Patterson, N. struck the rear of truck and forced it into the Fontaine car. Damage to the Fontaine car and the truck was each and to the WinfieJd car $300. Entomologists estimate that insects ruin at least one tenth of man'i. crops and destroy more timber each year than forest fires and fungus rots.

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4th Phone RE 9-7174 5:00 Bandstand 5:30 Rin Tin Tin 6:00 lassie 6:30 Reporter Weather Channel 11 WTVD Durham Doug Edwards 10:00 Glen ililler Time :00 Pete Gladys 10:30 Alcoa Presents Cheyenne oo Ne tvs 3fr. Jones 11:15 Badze 714 3:00 Spike Jones 3:30 Ann Southern PROGRAKTPREVlEWS Monday's top television shows as previewed and selected by TV Key's staff of experts: Spike Jones--Guests are the big thing. Comic Charlie Mann and singer Buddy Greco. Also. Helen Grayco does a monologue and Spike chats about traveling abroad.

9 p.m. 8-lt Glenn Miller Time--Lots of sentiment, bits of nostalgia, plus eager-to-please Ray McKinley and his band. Patty Clark does a solo or two. 10 p.m. 8-11 Brenner (repeat) Good first half.

In line of duty, young Brenner shoots a neighbor's teenage son and suffers pangs, of remorse. Realistic, but the drama is much too talky. 10:30 p.m. 8 Jack Paar Show--Charlie Weaver, Hermione Gingold, and Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee) make up adlibbing panel, with Betty Johnson, for songs. For 12:30 interview, Jack's got a so-called expert on gambling.

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