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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1947
Page
4
Testimony details Jessup's approach to Roy Towe, the fatal shooting, and claims by Leo Jacobs and others. Witnesses describe a pistol and cartridges, a long barrel eight and a half millimeter weapon, and Jessup’s alleged statements about the killing. The jury proceeds under first degree murder charges.
The defense shows two witnesses saying Roy Towe carried a pistol at the Bunker Woods station before he was killed by Jessup. Prosecution witnesses claim Towe had the weapon as he fell, while others deny mentioning the pistol in sworn statements. Probing the gun’s ownership, threats, and past crimes, the testimony outlines a volatile Mount Airy feud culminating in a fatal shooting.
W. E. Lewis returns from a ten day business trip to South Carolina and Georgia. Mrs. E. B. York visits Newport News before returning home. Many residents attend graduations and commencements, visit relatives in Maryland Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee, and travel to events from Arden Delaware to Wrightsville Beach.
Two Cork County boys in a mopping up party discover ten to twelve Germans asleep in a shell hole after the main assault. Seam and Dennis debate waking them for a fight, choosing action despite the calm day.
The fire chief praised the England station crew for orderly gear and rewarded them with a drink. While he visited a local pub to celebrate, a fire at the station destroyed all equipment, undermining the reward.
A factory owner refused a bill for 60 dollars after the expert fixed a motor with two hammer taps. The invoice itemizes tapping for 1 dollar and knowing where to tap for 49 dollars.
Miss Katherine Fulcher travels to Greensboro for the cake cutting wedding and reception of Miss Arlene Kirkman, a High Point College classmate, this weekend.
The McMillian murder at the branch near Mount Airy shifts from a possible drowning to homicide after an autopsy by Dr. Woltz. Constable Sparger leads an intensive probe as deputies reopen the case with no solid clues. Mrs. McMillian and family details are given, with local notices of residents visiting, travel, and a church homecoming announced on Pipers Gap road.
Sixteen year old Charles Mommerency of Monroe Michigan confessed taking his father’s 3100 savings to buy a farm. In six weeks he used 2700 on cowboy clothes shooting gallery shows bowling girls and a gun. He claims 400 was stolen from him.
Mount Airy High School graduates who belong to Grace Moravian Church will participate in the Sunday night service. Participants include Misses Mary Jo Dillon Elaine Frye Rachel Hall Barbara Jean King Mildred Pruett Burton Dinkins and graduate David Lee Atkins who is on a Naval Reserve cruise. Principal H M Finch will attend and speak briefly. The sermon will be delivered by Rev H B Johnson the church pastor.
The War Department calls for women aged 25 to 35 with at least two years of college training or equivalent recreation experience and two years of group experience. Enlisted girls are needed for hostess duties with pay around $3,000 per year.
A 1856 British Guiana stamp valued at 50 000 dollars, billed as the world’s most precious, vanished during a daily check. Officials found it behind a wooden frame, its mounting loosened by heat from the exhibit lighting.
Junior L Hiatt, son of Mr and Mrs D L Hiatt of Mount Airy, received a Bachelor of Science in commerce as one of 487 graduates at Brigham Young University Provo Utah. The May commencement marked the first since the university’s 1875 founding.
Mrs. P S Rothrock receives a state honor for service to the U D C and has an invitation to attend the unveiling of the painting of Mrs Longstreet widow of Confederate General Longstreet. The painting will hang in the Georgia State Library in Atlanta June 17 representing North Carolina in the gift of the American people.
More than 300 volunteers offered to donate skin to save Eldon Clark a 25 year old veteran of three and a half years in the South Pacific. Specialists said he had a chance to live if new skin could be borrowed. Twenty one persons with Type A blood volunteered to provide the skin needed for the delicate operation.
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