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VOL. LXXXVII—NO. 255ESTABLISHED 1*70 COUteTRY GOD AND TRUTHLUMBERTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1957Howard LinkhawiReported MissingRObeson County Rescue Squad members, as well a city 'police sheriff’s deputies and volunteers, probed and dragged Lumber River today along Riverside Drive in an effort to discover whether Howard Linkhaw, missing since Friday night, is an accident victim. His submerged' car was hauled from the river late yesterday afternoon.Mr. Linkhaw, about 51, prominent business man-farmer and a Lumber ton native, left his home at 311 Winona Avenue in his car .between eight and nine o’clock Friday night, according to reports. He did not return, but friends and family were not unduly alarmed. Although police were notified overthe weekend, no official missingpersons alarm was instituted.Meanwhile on Friday night at about nine o’clock a neighbor reported to Lumberton Police that he had heard a car moving at high speed and then a crash. Police went to the barricade across Jenkins street where it dead-ends at Riverside drive and the river. They found the barricade damaged but there was no evidence beyond it (between it and the river) that a vehicle had gone through; it was assumed that a car had hit the barricade but had not been badly damaged and had left the .scene. Mr. Linkhaw was,of course, not at that time considered missing. .Yesterday afternoon, with Mr, Linkhaw still missing, CharlesWild WestSANTA’ FE. N.M. (/Ft—This let-t^r came to the New Mexico tourist bureau, written by a worried traveler in a southeastern state:“I would like to know if it is safe to tiavel in your state? Isthere not bandits on the loose there? We plan to leave just as soon as we hear from. you. I would like a letter from your governor for a safe pass/'David McNeill was called to Jenkins street because of his wreck and river experience for an opinion on damage to the barricade. He found traces of blue paint and indication that the top broken railof the barricade had been pushed toward the river. Going to the river he further found some evidence that limbs had recently been broken; he surmised that a car could have been going fast enough down the steep grade of Jenkins to partially hurdle the barricade and clear the river bank before striking the water. With a boat he located the submerged car in a very few minutes. When recovered the car doors were closed and the left hand window was lowered.Most plausible theory to police is that Mr. Linkhaw suffered some sort of attack and inadvertently caused his automobile to run uncontrolled at high speed down the steep hill toward the river,. striking the base of the barricade withsufficient force to hurdle most of.* • • *the. timbers and the river bank below.Search was suspended about nine o’clock last night because of the difficulty of lighting the area and because the condition of the river makes the use of underwater lights impractical. Search was resumed this morning at nine.Four boats, manned by rescue squad members, Lumberton fire-. imen, sheriff’s deputies, and volunteers were being employed in the search. Working in very cold and distasteful weather, they are moving in a large area below the point where the car was found, with grappling hooks and grappling poles. The men work in shifts but some have been constantly on the job without relief.The area is roped off to prevnttoo many cars and curious spectators from hindering the effort, and the workers are in constant contact wifa police and sheriffs departments by radio in the rescue truck and sheriff’s cars.Southerners DelayCivil Rights BillWASHINGTON (in - Outnumbered but persistent Southerners appeared today _ to have won theirAs*off hearings Thursday as long as governors and other officials of Soaihern states requested hear-ROBESON COUNTY RESCUE UNIT puts its boat back in the water this morning to renewsearch^ for. Howard Linkhaw, whose car was* * * * •found, submerged in Lumber River late yesterday afternoon. The lower photo is made down the hill on Jenkins.street; i)ecrlc Jinc, the deadend barricade through which the vehicle plunged into the river beyond. Point of impact with the barricade:was near its left end as viewed from the hilltop. (B.obesonian staff photos by Nor-ment)
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Robesonian
Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Wed, Feb 06, 1957
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