News obit: Author, editor C.B. ‘Chick’ Squire

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The Raleigh News & Observer today has a news obituary on C.B. “Chick” Squire of Weaverville, who was the founding editor of the leading English language daily in Lebannon:

His wife was Raleigh native Elizabeth Daniels Squire, the author of popular mystery novels, who died in 2001. She was a granddaughter of Josephus Daniels, founder of The News & Observer.

After the war, Squire was editor of the Wilton, Conn., Bulletin. He worked as a journalist in Lebanon in the early 1950s, and in 1952 was the first editor of The Daily Star, an English-language daily still published in Beirut.

His career included jobs as correspondent, editor and consultant for national and international newspapers and oil industry publications. He was the author of “Heroes of Conservation,” published in 1973.

Since the mid-1990s, he had been an editorial consultant for the Mountain Xpress, an Asheville weekly.