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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, January 14,1971
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"Whatsoever Things
By DONALD E. WILDMON
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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. Interment was in Rock
Creek Baptist Church near
Strother.
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