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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, January 14,1971 Nrmbrrnj £>un 1101 Boyce Street, Newberry, South Carolina 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 83.00 per year in advance; six months, $2.00. "Whatsoever Things By DONALD E. WILDMON rr Minister Lee Acres United Methodist Church TUPELO. MISSISSIPPI I DO, TOO, QUEENIE Some time ago the story of Queenie Williams appeared in the paper. Queenie was 106 years old at the time. While most folks consider Queenie poor, Queenie doesn’t think of herself in that manner. Chopped Cotton Queenie was born on a plantation near Greenwood, Mississippi, and grew up chopping cotton. She married and had eight children. But her husband and children are all dead now. She was living in a bedroom-kitchen shack. The rain leaked through her roof, and often she felt the snow blowing in on her head. What does Queenie do with herself? “I sing and sew. I sit around readin’ my Bible and cryin’ and prayin’.” But Queenie can laugh, too. She laughs even when she talks about crying. Queenie made it to the third grade, and can read pretty good. “I’ve read the print near-about off my old Bible,” she said. She sits at home in her big, lumpy chair with newspapers stuffed under it, focuses her eyes under the yellow glare of the naked light on the ceiling, and speaks of the War On Poverty. “I wish they’d declare that war on me. Man came out here the other day and said, ‘Queenie, I think they ought to send you to the poor- house.’ I said, ‘Man, where you think I right now?’” Queenie’s only income is $71 a " month she gets from the government. Where does she get the rest of her help? “The rest of my help comes from the Lord,” she said. She said she had seen better days. Once she had been rated an excellent enough cook for the political boss of Memphis, Tennessee—Ed Crump. Now, how ever, there’s not much to cook. Her only meal the day she was interviewed was an Irish potato. Stole Her Crutch “Yes, sir. I guess I’m poor all right. I need a mattress bad as a dead man needs a coffin.” Somebody even stole her crutch. “But the Bible says we’ll always have poor folks. They were arguin’ about that when Jesus was born.” I guess most folks would classify Queenie as poor. And, in one manner of speaking, she is quite poor. For her material riches just do not exist. But in another manner of speaking — higher than the first—Queenie isn’t poor at all. Fact about the business is that she is richer than many “rich” folks. She made it plain she is not envious of the rich. “All the rich people got when they’re dead is a fine casket. I got myself and Jesus,” she said. Then Queenie looked up at a big picture of Jesus on the cracked wall. “Maybe.” she said, “maybe some of the rich folks got Jesus, too. I hope so.” I do, too, Queenie. I do, too.—FIVE STAR Students head for Mexico Nine Newberry College stu dents and their instructor, Dr. Albert Mature, head of the de partment of modem languages, are on a Mexican Safari dur ing January studying the three historical periods of the Mexi can nation. The travelers are participat ing in one of the month-long travel courses the College is offering during its January in terim session. The short ses sion gives students an oppor tunity to travel, to focus upon independent research, or to pur sue contemporary issues that are not easily included in a semester’s course of study. The 1971 Interim semester is the second one offered by New berry. The month of Mexican study and travel which will give the students four hours of college credit, is divided into three pe riods: pre-Columbian, colonial, and the modern or contempo rary. The pre-Columbian phase is focusing attention on the Aztec, Mextec, and Zapotec cultures of Central Mexico with visits and lectures at the historical sites and the University of Gua najuato. The colonial period is prima rily classroom oriented with lectures by Mexican professors from the University of the A- mericas in Mexico City and a visit to the Vera Cruz area on the country’s gulf coast. The study of contemporary Mexico is centered in Mexico City with tours of the city’s universities, museums, shrines, and parks including the Xochi- milco Gardens. Students will be staying with bilinguab Mexican families during their stay in the capital city. The tour will end when the collegians leave Mexico City on Friday, January 29, and re turn to Newberry College. Four Newberry students — Ellen Altman, fr., 2015 Evans Circle; Ralph ti. Mayer, fr., 2231 Eleanor St., Deborah Par- tain, fr., 1507 Glenn St.; and Jane T. Paysinger, 2010 E. Wells Park Drive, junior, are among those taking the Mexi can safari during Newberry Col lege’s Interim session. WITH MEN IN The SERVICES VIETNAM NOV. 27 - For gallantry in action, Army Ser geant First Class James Crooks, son of Earnest Crooks, New berry, received the Silver Star in recent ceremonies near SA Dec. Vietnam. Sergeant Crooks was cited for action last August 3, while serv ing as light weapons advisor to a battalion of Vietnamese infantry. On that date, the bat talion was attacked by an es timated two battalion enemy force. Throughout the ensuing bat tle, Sergeant Crooks moved from position to position to rally the friendly troops and assist their commander. “He conti nually disregarded his own safe ty,” reads the citation. “As he moved about to coordinate gunship strikes. Through his valiant actions, the battalion responded by repulsing the te nacious enemy.” Sergeant Crooks is a mem ber of Division Combat Assis tance Team No. 60 and assigned to the 1st Battalion, 14th Regi ment, 9th Infantry Division, Army of the Republic of Viet nam. He holds three awards of the Bronze Star Medal and has also earned the Combat Infantryman Badge. The Sergeant was stationed in Germany before coming to Vietnam in November 1969. His wife, Ruby, lives at 519 New York St., Long Beach, Calif. TRANSFERS OF REALTY Newberry No. 1: Rufus E. Amick to Duke Po wer Company, right of way, $1. Murray Lumber Co. to Nancy G. Gray, two lots and one build ing, $5. R. Aubrey Harley, substitute trustee under the will of Ralph T. Williams, deceased, to John C. Billingsley, 179.04 acres, $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside: John C. Billingsley to Azalee Greenwood, 1.75 acres, $5 and other valuable considerations. “Ann Pitts Bundrick to Joyce H. Pitts, one lot and one build ing, $5. Mary Ruth S. Bickley to Faye G. Seibert Turner, 10 acres, $5 love and affection. Faye G. Seibert Turner to Faye G. Seibert Turner and George Turner, 10 acres and two acres, $5. Faye G. Seibert to Mary Ruth S. Bickley, 19.5 and 16.7 acres and one lot, $5 love and affec tion. Pomaria No. 5: Louise D. Suber to Margaret H. Dowtin, 58.81 acres, $5 love and affection. Eugene E. Piester to Mary Lou H. Piester, 55.40 and 57 acres, $5. H. M. Hentz & Son to Jim and Gertrude Henderson, one acre, $5. Little Mountain No. 6: Bessie Inez Boozer to Melvin Carroll, one lot, $1500. Leonard C. Boland, Myrtie B. Wessinger et al to Eva S. Bo land, 51 acres, $5 love and af fection. Prosperity No. 7: G. C. Wilson to Oradell F. Cagle, one lot, $650. Henry W. Wise rites Wednesday Henry Walter Wise, 67, of Rt. 3, Newberry, died Monday. Born in Newberry County, son of the late Jim and Minnie Der rick Wise, he was a retired em ploye of Greenwood Mills, Jo anna plant, and a member of St. James Lutheran Church. Clay S., John Walter and James E. “Jimmy” Wise of Newberry; three daughters, Mrs. Robert C. Harmon of Newberry, Mrs. Harold P. Prater of West Colum bia and Mrs. Ricky Richardson of Prosperity; and 10 grandchil dren. Funeral services were at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. James Lutheran Church. Burial was in Newberry Memorial Gardens. W. C. Robbins dies Sunday Walter Clark Robbins, 51, died early Sunday morning at the Fairfield County Memorial Hospital after an illness of seven months. He was born and reared in North Carolina and was the son of Mrs. Sallie Mosley Rob bins and the late Phillip Odell Robbins. Mr. Robbins had made his home at Rt. 2, Po maria, for a number of years and was in the logging busi ness. Surviving are one brother, James W. Robbins, Pomaria; his mother, Mrs. Sallie M. Rob bins, Pomaria and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. from the McSwain Funeral Home with Rev. Kenneth Tompkins conducting the ser vice. 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