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2—The Pembroke Journal, Thursday, April 25, 1968
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WHEN COURTIN' WAS COURTIN'
... A BOBSLED ... A GIRL . . .
A BUFFALO ROBE
By Don Buchan
I was just standing there, twisting
my fingers in the long hair over my
ears and remembering the days when
haircuts were 25 cents and no tax.
Then I saw him — my be-whiskered
elderly friend Harry Chinn from
Beardsford. The last time I had talk
ed with him he was, in his words,
"courtin' a widder woman” so I gave
him a big hello and a smile, anticipat
ing a story.
“Aye, Grannies," he said when he
had given me the customary hand
shake. "The air is turrible with all the
exhaust from these here gasoline en
gines. I mind the time when there was
a livery stable on every corner 'stead
of an oil station and the air was so
clean and pure you could feel every
breath clear to your toes.
“Times has changed. Now-a-days
the kids go a-tearin' out into the
country in one of them open cars
with the radio blarin’ an’ a-bleatin’
out some out-of-harmony noise with
caterwaulin’ by somebody in tight
pants that nobody can’t understand.
“In my day, Bub, we did our court
in’ in a more dignified way. It was an
art and a science. Something so de
lightful it sent shivers up and down
your backbone and made you all
goose-pimply when you even thought
of spoonin' with your gal.
“We could hardly wait for the first
“ Many Hypocrites
Attended King's
Funeral-Maddox
ATLANTA, (GPS) — Gov.
Lester G. Maddox, reflecting
on the assassination and sub
sequent nationally - publicized
Atlanta funeral rites for Dr.
Martin Luhter King, Jr., said
that in his opinion many of the
persons who marched in the
funeral procession did so only
to advance their political ca
reers.
The governor's remarks came
in a speech to the Home Park
P.T.A, in Southwest Atlanta.
This is what he said:
"When word reached me that
Dr. King had been slain in
Memphis by a sniper, m any
thoughts raced through my
mind. My first emotion was
one of fear. I knew that the
lives of many other Americans,
white and black, would be lost
in the following days.
“This fear was realized. Viol
ence broke out in hundreds of
cities and dozens of men
some of them fathers, some of
them husbands, and nil ofthem
sons—were taken by that viol
ence.
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good snow so’s we could get out in a
bobsled. We’d bundle up under some
horse hide or buffaler hide robes and
snuggle down in the straw. Then we’d
ride out into the country singin’
‘Where the River Shannon Flows’ or
‘That’s the Curse of an Aching
Heart’.
“My but it was grand and gaudy!
Yore gal would be there, all bundled
up and snuggled down beside you.
You’d kinda slip off your mitten and
reach over to get a-holt of her hand -
and there it would be, with her mitten
off, jest a-waitin’ for yourn.
“I’ll tell you it was beautiful, Bub.
Them horses a-snortin' an’ blowin’
great clouds of steam into the air. All
them bells a-jinglin’ and the clop,
clop of the horses hooves on the fro
zen road.
“Talk about courtin’. Why, Bub
when you had your best gal in a bob
sled you could go right by an old
swamp full of toady-frogs and dead
fish layin’ on the bank and if you was
a-singin’ 'I Wonder Who’s Kissin’ Her
Now’ you'd be a-smellin’ honey suckle
and magnolia.
“There was somepin’ about courtin’
in a bobsled that kinda made things
different. You might be paired off
with a gal as homely as a mud fence,
but danged if she wouldn’t git to
lookin’ as kittenish as Lillian Gish
and as inticin’ as Theda Bara after
you'd been out bobsleddin’ with her.
“I mind the time I got paired off
with a red headed gal. Her eyes was
crossed so bad you couldn’t tell if
she was lookin' at you or ’way off
“I did not weep at the death
of Dr. Martin Luther King, nor
did I weep for those who died
in the next few days. Tears are
not shed for the death, but for
the living.
"My heart went out to Mrs.
King and her four children. I
sympathized with those people
who looked to Dr. King for
leadership. My heart was heavy
too when I thought of the wives
and children of the fireman,
the policemen and the innocent
bystanders who have died, and
will die yet, because lawless
ness has been sanctioned and
financed by leaders in govern
ment, in industry and in the
church.
"I was sympathetic, but my
sympathy came from a deep
feeling of Christian love, and
not from guilt at having been
a hypocrite. I felt no need to
do penance, for I had done Dr.
King and his followers no
wrong.
“The streets of Atlanta were
filled with people from all over
the world to honor Rev. King.
The tribute accorded him was
equal to that usually reserved
for a president.
“I have no doubt that many
of the people who marched that
day were expressing their love
for a powerful leader. But oth
ers were there for other rea-
sons.
"Some came because they
felt it would advance their po
litical careers. Others came
with hopes of filling the
vacuum which Rev. King’s
death had left in the leadership
of the civil rights movement.
"Still others came out of (a
feeling of) guilt. These were
the wealthy who, having done
nothing to earn that wealth,
felt guilty for having plenty
while others were in need.
These were the liberals who
had searched their souls and
found that even they were not
completely pure of heart.
"I ask now that those people
who are laden with guilt go
and do penance as they feel
compelled to do. Teach the il
literate to read. Train those
without skills to be tradesmen.
Help to heal the sick and to
feed hungry children.”
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across the prairie. She had teeth
stickin' out so far she could eat corn
off the cob through a picket fence.
"Hadn't been out with her but
three or four times 'til I began to
save my money and go around all
mooney-eyed like I was in a comma
or a transom. Fell over a wagon
tongue and cracked my shin. Was in
bed three weeks. She kept cornin’ to
see me bringin’ chicken soup and the
Youth’s Companion.
"But I’d been away from bobsled
din’ long enough by then that she
began to look natcherel to me. I got
out of there and run away. Went to
Onawa and stayed three weeks. When
I come back she had run off with a
wealthy barber. Met him on a bob
sled ride.’’
“How are you coming with the
widow you were courting?” I ven -
tured.
“That stuff is off,” he replied. “I
seen the handwritin’ on the wall. I
was beginnin’ to weaken and without
no bobsled courtin’, nuther.”
“Marriage is a wonderful institu
tion,” I offered.
“I ain't ready for no danged in
stitution,” he shot back as he shuf
fled off down the street singing, in a
high, reedy voice, “Brighten the Cor
ner Where You Are . . . !”
, Americans Must
Demand Law And
Order-Burson
ATLANTA, (GPS) — Ex
( press the opinion that “the
, most crucial problem confront
, ing our nation—and our state—
today is one of law and order,”
, Col. R. H. Burson, director of
the Georgia Department of
, Public Safety, warned of the
। consquences unless steps are
immediately taken to correct
this pernicious situation.
Noting history has recorded
that “19 of 21 civilizations have
died from within and not by
conquest from without,” the
state's top law enforcement of
ficer in a speech to the Carroll
ton Kiwanis Club declared:
“Our nation seems to be on
a path of just such self-de
struction, and this threat comes
from forces working within our
society and not from any direct
aggression from the outside.
We see signs of it this very
moment in every major city in
this country.
"Unless this tide of lawless
ness in our country is reversed,
and respect for the law and the
police is restored in all our
people, the consequences for
our society are unthinkable.
i “The crisis that has develop-i
■ ed here at home is even graver
’ than the situation in South
. east Asia. But we continue to
’ send more and more of our
troops to Vietnam, and we do
► nothing here at home while
" people are being killed, stores
. are being looted and burned,
■ and the total moral fiber of our
‘ country is being unraveled
, thread by thread.
• “We must do something
' about this situation and we
. must do it now! . . . while
• there is still time."
Col. Burson pointed out that
, riots occurring in major U. S.
cities last year resulted in 83
persons being killed, 1,900 oth
ers being injured, and property
damage totaling millions of
dollars. And just recently, he
added, the country has experi
enced more deaths, more in
juries and many more millions
of dollars lost by fire and loot
ing as the result of riots.
“Wheer will it end ? ” he ask
ed. “When will the decent, God
fearing Americans wake up
and demand a return to law
and order?”
The colonel left the answers
to these vital questions square
ly up to the responsible citizens
Birthday Time At The Antwerp Zoo
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If the animals at the Antwerp Zoo could talk, no doubt they'd
tell you that the management really knows how to throw a birth
day party, especially the baby orangutan, Ursula, who’s enjoying
her first birthday cake - banana, of course. At birth Ursula weighed
in at 2 lbs. 2 ozs. and is now
a comely 14 lbs. 11 ozs.
Speaking of birthdays, the I
Royal Antwerp Zoological So
ciety is preparing to celebrate ■
its 125th anniversary during '
1968 with a modernization pro !
gram costing several million I
dollars. New construction is :
already under way with facili
ties for the polar bears and
brown bears almost completed
The ursine contingent enjoyed
of Georgia and the nation. Said
he:
"The answer lies with you—
the voting citizens of this state
and nation. You must elect re
sponsible officials who place
the respect for law and order
above the consideration of poli
tical power.
“The law enforcement offi
cers of your community, your
state and the entire country
need every strand of public
support that can be mustered.
The police must have support
and leadership from all officials
in order to deal with the com
plex problems that we face in
our efforts to keep the peace.
“And every voting American
must demand this support and
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' illness.
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14 grandchildren; 19 great
grandchildren ; and several
nieces and nephews, including
Mrs. R. L. Wadsworth, Mrs. H.
T. Bazemore, and Mrs. Calvin
Floyd, all of Pembroke.
Funeral services for Mrs
Sims were held at the Irvine
Henderson Funeral Home, Sat
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the Rev. /ohn T. Tippett Jr
officiating.
Pallbearers were George
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