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141 Hif EirttiprlM, TfcMndkty, 21, IN) CLEARED OF FALSE CHARGES Pair Buried With Wealth After Abused By Society By BILL EAST WinstofrSalem Sentinel Written for the AsMciated Press N.C. (AP)On a lonely knoll a mile south of this Stokes County community stand two tombstones, surrounded by an ornamented iron fence. One of the tombstones belongs to Col. Martin V. Mabe, a distinguished veteran of the Civil War.

The other belongs to his housekeeper and kinsman, a shy, i i woman named Nancy Jane Mabe. The fact that they are buried in a little 40-by-40 foot plot of their own climaxes one of the strangest stories in Stokes County history. There are still a number of people living in the Lawsonville community who knew the old colonel and his housekeeper and what happened to them. There is the story they tell: Mabe was reared as an orphan and when the Civil War broke out, he hurried away to fight. When the war ended, he came home to Stokes County and went to live with relatives.

Meanwhile, he acquired a tract of land and built a house which, compared with most of the log cabins in Stokes County then, was considered "quite a mansion." Since Mabe never married, he Airlines Strike Is Scheduled WASHINGTON (AP)-A strike that could tie up one-fourth of nation's holiday air passenger traffic is scheduled against United Air Lines a week before Christmas. There are no more procedures RECLUSES' GRAVES Shown are graves of Col. Martin U. Mabe, Civil War veteran, and his housekeeper, Nancy Jane Mabe at under the law for settling the dispute with the AFL-CIO International Association of Machinists, an airline spokesman said. "They can negotiate," said a union spokesman after the machinists rejected a presidential emergency board's recommendations and set a strike for 12:01 a.m., Dec.

19. The airline accepted the presidential board's report on the dispute. The board recommended pay increases of 36 cents an hour over a 43-month period for most United employes and 30 cents for the others. Journeymen mechanics average $3.13 an hour, the airline said. The union is asking a 39-cent increase over three years.

United carries about 25 per cent of the nation's ah- passenger traffic on its 87'jets and 151 propeller craft, the spokesman said. The airline serves every major area of the country except the Southwest. The spokesman said the strike if called would shut down all United flights. Lawsonville. AP vowed that because of what her were left for the colonel's use- eg ftfdS: relatives a neighbors cups, two plates, a water ters kinsman with whom' done to her.

none of them would (bucket, a bed, a stove and two he had been living. Her name ever have any of her posses-jsets of silverware. i0ns A few later, Mabe She asked the colonel to see to wrote his will. It asked that he was Nancy Jane Mabe. As the years went by, the colonel acquired more land and money.

He became one of it that everything she owned on be buried next to his house- earth was put in the grave with keeper and her possessions and Stokes County's best known bus-j her. He agreed. the area be fenced off and inessmen. His advice was sought) Jane Mabe died on i never included in the sale of Then envy reared its head. 30, 1916, at the age of 72.

Neighbors began to talk. They A few days latei) two holeSj accused the colonel and i a 1Q fee square; were dug housekeeper of living in adul-j behind her grave Into try. They swore out a warrant. was placed all of the woman's! possessions: Chairs, trunks, bu-j N.C. Associated Press Bureau Chief Succumbs CHARLOTTE (AP) Tim Parker, 46, Associated Press bu- reau chjef for thp di(jd Wednesday 9evert undergoing open rt heart surgery.

Parker, who worked his way wide news service from a copy boy, had undergone surgery lasting 6 hours at a Charlotte hospital. It was his third major heart operation since 1951. He was best known in the Carolines for his supervision of the coverage of several major racial stories, notably the admission of Negro Harvey Gantt to previously all-white Clemson College. Through his arrangements on Tuesday Talks Are Continued WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson will continue the Tuesday morning conferences with Democratic leaders of the Senate and House with the irst one next week. Re-Roofing Siding MAXUM M.

BINGHAM THOMASVILLE, N. C. Phone: Day 3197 Nirlri 21331 Call Collect For Information Or Free Estimates Plans Considered For Maintaining Eternal Flame WASHINGTON (AP) Army that story, AP scored clean chief in Charlotte in September, officiate are amkterinf varimtt beat. 1960. plans for maintaining the etern- As chief of the AP's Charlotte Parker had rheumatic fever al flame burning at the gravt bureau, Parker supervised the service to 50 daily newspapers and 175 radio stations in North Carolina and South Carolina.

He began his AP career as a copy boy in Lincoln, and worked his way through the University of Nebraska. He then became a newsman and later AP state editor in the Nebraska capital. He was transferred from Omaha to Dallas in 1948 and became Texas state editor. In 1956, Parker was appointed correspondent in charge of the AP's Jackson, bureau. He re- to Dallas as a bureau executive in 1958.

For his work in radio news and membership in Dallas, 'arker was promoted to bureau as a child. In 1951 and 1951, be underwent surgery to correct a mitral valve condition. Neither operation was entirely successful. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Jane Martin of Omaha, four daughters, Suzie, Patty, Becky and Kathy, and a brother, Joseph Parker of Los Alamos, N.M. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

Parker's family lives at 512 Cooper Drive, Charlotte. of John F. Kennedy. The flame, quickly designed and put together so it could ba lighted at the burial rites Monday, is fed by propane gas piped from a tank 200 feet from tot grave. Army Engineers believe the present apparatus could be operated for several years.

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HIGH ST. any land. On Aug. 11, 1918, Mabe diedi at the age of 79. He willed nothing to individuals.

Bequests were made to the North View and Snow The colonel and his house-j a i was hstands, dishes, im-jPrimitive Baptist churches and keeper were hurt deeply. They plements stoves a sewing ma tne Baptist Orphanage at Thorn- went into court and fought for, chine) 150 ars of canned ru and won, acquittal. preserves, jellies, a gallon of Today tne ground around the honey, buckets, wearing appar- gr av es of the colonel and i el, jewelry, books and is sunken from the neighbors. They went before the Stokes County grand jury and had the colonel and his house-1 keeper indicted. Once again they were i and again the testimony of doctors cleared them.

By then, the colonel and his housekeeper were so outraged that they withdrew from society. Mrs. Calvin Mabe, who lives in Lawsonvflle, remembers incident. "It was just a shame nobody went to see them," she said. "They just started living to themselves.

They talked to noj one." The housekeeper was more than the She; RFK Seen Likely To Hold Post By JOSEPH E. MOHBAT WASHINGTON (AP)-The political future of Atty. Gen. Rob-j ert F. Kennedy is the farthest thing from his mind just now, close associates of the brother of the assassinated president reported today.

"He just hasn't had time toj sort things out in his mind andj plan a future," said one aidej w'jo asked not to be quoted by name. But as the capital rebounds from the shock of John F. Ken-j nedy's death, one of the top po-j litical questions is: What will become of Robert Kennedy now? Until the death of the president, Robert Kennedy probably was the second most influential man in the executive branch. He was his brother's most intimate adviser. Today, like nine other men, hej is a member of President John-' son's Cabinet.

It is generally felt that Kennedy at least for the foreseeable future will remain attorney general. He would like to see the civil rights legislation pushed by him and his late brother get through Congress. He most likely will want to be around to see what happens to Teamsters President James R.i Houa when Hoffa's jury-tamper-1 ing trial begins next January, Friends of the attorney gener-! al report that he has developed' high regard for Johnson because; of the hard work and loyalty the; Texan gave Kennedy while vice president. Loyalty to his older brother was Robert Kennedy's trademark, and he demanded and responded warmly to that devotion in others. Should Johnson seek tion and win, it is a pretty safe' bet that Kennedy will not stay in the Cabinet beyond the present presidential term.

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