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Hill Baptist Church, picks him up and
the two make the rounds of hospitals
and nursing homes, visiting the sick
and shut-ins. They also visit in homes.
Last week, the two men wound up in
Atlanta to see a side friend at Emory.
Mr. Hambrick is both the oldest
person and oldest in membership at
Oak Hill, which he joined in 1M».
He attends four services there each
Sunday, including Sunday School,
training union and both morning and
evening worship services. He also takes
in Wednesday morning prayer meeting.
He presently is president of the Men’s
Bible Class and taught Sunday School
and was its superintendent for a
number ot years.
“I even go in bad weather. I’m going
while I can. The Lord will take care of
his own,” he remarked.
Last week he entertained the
youngsters at Pike County Middle
school with stories of his youth.
He told them he had worked hard all
his life and started plowing when he
was 10 years oH.
“When I told them I got my
recreation behind plow handles, they
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didn’t know what I was taking about
They had never even heard of a plow
stock,” he said.
“Children now days see so much on
television they shouldn’t see. . . I
believe that’s why we have so much
crime. I don’t care a thing about
television. There’s too many ugly
things on it” he stated.
“I never used bad language. My
mother never allowed us to use slang.
She knew where we were every hour
and when we were coming back.
“I once overheard a neighbor lady
ask my mother if she weren’t worried
about her sons, and my mother an
swered, ‘No, I know they won’t do
anything wrong.’
“After that I made up my mind, I’d
never do anything to break my
mother’s confidence in me or to
disappoint her.
“We were raised near the meanest
sorriest folks you ever saw.. .They beat
anything you ever saw. I wouldn’t have
had their habits for anything. They had
a habit of criticizing people. It’s funny
how folks can get into bad habits that
tie into ’em. They have a hard time
getting rid of them, too,” he continued.
Mr. Hambrick told of an experience
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New members
Mrs. Brenda O’Brien (1), president, welcomed these new
members into the Griffin Elks Aidmore Auxiliary (1-r)
Mrs. Opal Lea, Mrs. Dot Taylor, Mrs. Christine Acuff and
Mrs. Hazel Gibson. Mrs. Emilee Light, vice president of
Northeast District, Gainesville, was the guest speaker.
Past presidents of the auxiliary were honored. These
were: Ruth Martin, Jesse Seville, Angie Patterson,
Martha Martin, Edna Bunn, Evelyn Duncan, Melba
Tomme, Jean Reeves, Edna Brisendine, and Sue
Whitaker. Those honored on birthdays in February were
Suzanne Campbell, Barbara Estes, Ann Hooks, Rae
Joiner, Belvey Perry and Evelyn Thaxton.
he had which he said may have been a
dream, but “I call it a vision”.
“A minister at Oak Hill who lived in
Milner went home on the 9 o’clock train
one Sunday night in the best humor
saying he’d return the following
Wednesday. The next day, we got the
word he had died,” he stated.
Mr. Hambrick said he couldn’t get
the man off his mind. For several years
he worried about him.
One afternoon while he was sitting on
the front porch, he saw the preacher
walking up the road with his straw hat
and red face.
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“He came up and sat on the porch
with me and said, ‘I just wanted to let
you know where I’ve been. . . I just
wanted to say, you’ve got to be saved by
grace to go where I’ve been,” the
minister said.
“From that day on, I didn’t worry
about him anymore,” Mr. Hambrick
continued.
This year Mr. Hambrick had two
special surprises on his birthday.
He received a card from President
and Mrs. Gerald Ford and a check from
his former employe, Mac Cheatham,
Dundee Mills president.
Blast puzzles Georgia State student
ATLANTA (UPI) — Randy
Mincey, a Georgia State Uni
versity junior, says he has no
idea why anyone would want to
blow up his car.
Mincey, 23, said he was in his
Cobb County apartment when
dynamite, hooked to a time
fuse, blew up his late model
sports car early Tuesday. Two
other cars parked nearby were
also destroyed. There were no
injuries.
In an apparently unrelated
case, authorities said someone
threw a bomb against the
outside wall of a building at
Oglethorpe University in De-
Kalb County blowing a small
hole in the structure.
Police said Mincey’s 1973
Corvette was dynamited about
4 a.m. at the Bordeaux West
Apartments in Smyrna. Several
windows at the apartment
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complex were shattered by the
blast.
Mincey said the bomb was
apparently placed underneath
the car.
DeKalb authorities said a
passerby was believed to have
thrown an explosive device
about 4:30 a.m. at a building
located next to the Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity house at
Oglethorpe. The bomb hit the
building and exploded, police
said, but caused only minor
damage.
Luis Echemendia, a 22-year
old Cuban student at the
college, was in the building
when the explosion occurred
but was not not hurt.
Police said they had not
determined what kind of bomb
was used.
The Atlanta FBI office has
entered the investigation of the
He worked 56 years at Rushton Mills,
retiring when he was 81-years-old.
“I was lost then. I had worked all my
life and I didn’t like retirement,” he
said.
Mr. Hambrick said he received most
of his education in night school. He still
reads some, but can’t read as much as
’he used to because his eyes are getting
weak.
The near centenarian lives alone. He
has two daughters, Mrs. Florence
Reeves, who with her husband, Harry,
prepares and delivers his meals, and
Mrs. Ethel Elliott.
A sister, Mrs. Martha Nelins, is the
only other member of his immediate
family.
His wife, who was “smart as a cricket
and a real good cook”, died in 1965.
Mr. Hambrick missed all of
America’s wars.
A Griffin physician tried to recruit
him for the Spanish-American War in
1898, but “I didn’t want to leave home. I
barely escaped World War I, at 40, I
was too old,” he explained.
Mr. Hambrick has been sick twice in
his life, once with influenza in the
epidemic of 1918, “the worse sickness
ever”, and again nine years ago, when
he fell and broke his hip “the worse
thing that ever happened to me”.
bombing at Oglethorpe, but a
spokesman declined to com
ment on what agents had
uncovered in the case.
Crystal balls
macle illegal
DALY CITY, Calif. (UPI) —
Crystal gazing and fortune
telling has been banned in Daly
City but the town council will
still allow theatrical magic and
hypnotism by medical practi
tioners.
By a 3-2 vote, the council
Tuesday voted to ban soothsay
ers within 90 days. The vote
was one shy of making the
ordinance an emergency, which
would have taken effect im
mediately.