PAGE 4 — THE COUGAR CRY, APRIL 9, 1974
PEmY
Sally Reeves
Penny, a copper-colored min
iature collie, owned our family
for almost 6 years. She acquir
ed us when our eldest son was
two, and she instantly became
his most fierce protector. When
a new little boy joined us, she
became one of his favorite play
things. I often found her
plump, furry body stretched out
by his play pen. Penny would
be placidly dozing while the
baby babbled and cooed and
pulled her hair. This tolerance
did not extend outside our fam
ily circle. When a thirteen-
year-old foster son came to us,
Penny by no means welcomed
him with open paws. Only
after several months did she ac
cept this intruder and even
then she would issue a low,
throaty growl if he played too
routhly with the little ones.
Others, including the children’s
father and grandfather, heard
this same quiet but firm warn
ing if she disapproved of the
treatment of her boys. I was
always amazed that she seemed
to trust only me. I disciplined
my children (often with the
palm of my hand applied to a
bare little bottom) and played
as roughly as the others, but
she never raised a hair, moved
a muscle or uttered a growl.
Only after she was a mother
herself and I had occasion to
explain to the boys that she
would carry her children by
the neck, slap them in reproof,
and even playfully bite them,
but that she would never hurt
her babies, did I realize that
this respect for motherhood
was what she had granted me
all along.
As I write this paper, I hear
the wind’s fierce roar and re
member other wintry evenings
when the children were asleep
and the dogs (Penny had a hus
band) were curled up for a rest
after a hard day of protecting
our corner of the block and
Penny would heave her bulk
slowly to her feet, amble
through the house, up the stairs
and into the boys’ room. Once
there she would pause beside
the crib, then beside the little
bed, back down the stairs and
back to her place by my rocker;
with a sigh she would curl up
for another hours rest before
she repeated the process. After
she accepted our foster son, she
included his room in this in
spection tour. On cold nights
I have often been awakened by
a cold canine nose nuzzling my
hand that had happened to get
off the edge of the bed.
I do not like dogs or little
children. According to W. C.
Fields this is good. Of course
there are exceptions to every
rule. I like selected little
children; I even love my own
and I loved Penny. She had
distemper once and almost died.
I knew the jig was up when
my husband found me crying
after the vet’s verdict. We
pulled her through, and she
lived for several more years.
But some how I could never
again be so nonchalant about
her existence: after nearly los
ing her, she was more precious
than before.
As with all good beings.
Penny had her faults. Every
car that traveled our street was
her personal enemy. She could
never accept the fact that she
was fighting a losing battle.
Penny was not the favorite dog
in our neighborhood, ant it was
this that the neighbors disliked
most. For some reason she be
came a more ardent car chaser
each time she had a litter of
puppies. We never could ex
plain this and now there’s no
need. On a sunny day in June,
a neighborhood boy fulfilled a
threat and hit our dog. She
died, losing to a pickup that
had to run in the edge of our
yard to win the battle. And a
little boy watched and learned
his first lesson in man’s in
humanity to animals.
On St. Francis Day (St. Fran
cis loved the animals) we asked
our priest to say a prayer for
Penny. That’s all we can do
for her now except for the
tears that well up when, on oc
casion I remember her soulful
eyes as she felt the pains of
birth, the way she acknowledg
ed our shared femaleness by
coming to me for comfort when
she was in labor and when on
nights like this there are no
paws padding up the steps to
check on her boys.
Voice of Wilkes Commimity CoU^e
Wilkesboro, North Carolina 28697
STAFF
Editor: John Cashion
Jerry Rhodes, James Brooks, Charles Osborne, Carlton
Waddell, Sylvia Haymore, Reggie Turner, Ron White,
Diane Prevette.
Advisor: Mrs. Essie Hayes
PETE MANN
Pete Mann
The Best?
Linda Parker
It has been whispered on
campus that Pete Mann is
among the best teachers this
side of the mountains. Why?
We’ll let the students explain.
Student one — “I like Pete
because he can make complicat
ed things uncomplicated.”
Student two — “Mr. Mann is
really interested in you. He
cares.”
Student three — “Well, I
like Mr. Mann because he al
ways remembers your name;
it’s never, ‘hey you!’ ”
Student four — “I like his
approach, the way he has of
getting all the class involved.”
Student five — “Mr Mann’s
fair, and I like that.”
Student six — “I Uke the way
Mr. Mann laughs. He has a
wonderful personality.”
Student seven — “I like the
way Pete puts his foot on his
desk and rides the thing. I
swear, someday he will end up,
backside up with that thing on
top of him.”
Pete Mann comes to Wilkes
from Kentucky.
Well, Pete, hats off. It seems
that in the short time you have
been here you have made be
lievers out of your students at
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Joe Felmet
Head Democrat
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. —
Joe Felmet said today that, if
he is elected to Congress, he
will have his staff conduct a
survey of women’s public rest
rooms in the District of Colum
bia.
If they have pay toilets, Fel
met said, he will introduce leg
islation to outlaw them.
“I am interested in alleviat
ing the distress of dimeless
women,” Felmet said.
“I have yet to see a urinal
which a man has to pay to use,
and, as a supporter of rights
for women, I believe women
should have equality in this
important area of human exist
ence.”
Felmet is a Democratic can
didate for the U. S. House of
Representatives from the Fifth
District (counties of Davidson,
Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes,
Ashe and Alleghany).
Mi' VEAR CHILPREN,
G^toce and peace to you ^Kom God ouA. FatheA and the Lond Jtiui
ChnJjit. ^
Take. CjOKt that no one. dec.eA.ved you; becaaie many uiitl come
ui.ing my name and iayZng, "I am the dVLt&t" and they Mitt dzcxAve
many. Vou uUJU hejxA oi and fumofU> o^ uxvu; do not be alaAmed,
ion thli, iM Aometking that muit happen, but the end uiUZ not be yet.
foK nation uuJU iighit againit nation, and kingdom againit kingdom.
TheAe uxUZ be ianinet> and earthquakes heJie and thene. Ml tkU h>
onty the beginning o\ the blAthpaini.. .many uiitt ^alt amy; men
ooitt betAoy one another, and hate one another. Many ^atie pAx>pheti
uiitZ aAise; they mJtt deceive many, and Mcth the IncJiea&e o^ taia-
tei/>neA6, tove In. moit men uUZt gftxM cotd.
The Good UeiM oi the kingdom mJtZ be pfuodbaAjned to th.e w/io£e
voonZd 04 a wlXneii to aZZ natcom. And then the end utiti come.^
You may be quite auac that In the toit days theAe axe going to be
some diiiilciilt times. People will be seli-centeAed and gnasplngj
boastful, oAAogant and Aude; disobedient to tiielfi pan.ents, un-
gnateiul, lM.etiglous; hexvitless and unappeasable; they uUJtl be
slandeAeAS, pw^lgates [abandoned.to vice, extfvemely mjste^ul.;
fiecklessly extravagant], savages and enemies o^ everything that
Is good; they uxill be treacheAous and reckless and demented by
pride, pre^eMlng their om. pleasures to God. They Mill keep up
the outward appearance o^ reZiglon but uUll have rejected the
Inner power o{ It. Have nothing to do with people like that.^
It Is not those who say to me, "Lord, Lord”, who will enter
the kingdom o^ heaven but the peASon who does [my will]. When
the day comes many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not pro
phesy In youA name, cast out demons In your name, work many mir--
acZes In your name?” Then I shall tell them to t^elr ^aces: T
have neveA known you; aMay ^rom me you evil men!"
'Everything wUJi soon come to an end, so, to pray better,
keep a calm and sober mind. Above alt, never let your love, ^or
each other grow Insincere, since love coveu over many a sin.
Each one o^ you has received a special grace, so, like good
stewards responsible ior all these dl^^trent graces o^ [mine],
put youAseJives at service o^ others.^
Vou must live your whole ll^e according to the Christ you
have received - Jesus the Lord; you must be rooted in Him and
built on Him and held iVm by the ialth you have been taught,
and ^ull 0|5 thanksgiving. Make sure, that no one traps you cmd
deprives you o^ your freedom by some secondhand, empty, ratconal
philosophy based on the principtes o{ this world Instead o^ on
Chris^.^ The one who siands ilrm to the eM mil be saved.'
Now be patient, brothers, until the Lord's coming. Think
0^ a farmer, how paXlently he waits ior the precious f^uiit o^
the ground until It has had the autumn rains and the spring rains I
Vou too have to be patltnt, do not lose heart, because the Lord's
coming will be soon.°
Because I love you,
GOV
hi Cor 1:2, ^Matt 24:4-8; 10-14; ^11 Tim 3:1-5; Wt 7:21-23;
Pet 4:7-8, 10 ®Co1 2:6-8; ^Matt 24:13; ®Jas 5:7-8
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Miss Donna Turner,
Michael McNeil
Plan June Wedding
Mrs. Harry Turner announces
the engagement of her daugh
ter, Miss Donna Kaye Turner,
to John Michael McNeil. Miss
Turner is also the daughter of
the late Mr. Harry Turner.
The bride-elect is an instruct
or at Wilkes Community Col
lege.
Mr. McNeil is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Chelsie McNeil of
Ferguson. He is employed at
Empire Oldsmobile - Cadillac
and Toyota, Inc. in Wilkes'boro.
The couple plan a June 30
wedding in Wallace, North Car
olina.
Prediction
“I can safely predict that
between now and 1975 we will
have an energy crisis in this
country. Then the people will
say ‘The industry is to blame,
why weren’t we told?’ Well,
I’m telling them now.”
Michael J. Halbouty, Presi
dent of the American Associa
tion of Petroleum Geologists
(AAPG) Speech In Los Angeles,
1960.
MISS DONNA TURNER
CALL “SAM”
Everybody does it: Occasion
ally everyone exhibits his stup
idity by locking his keys in the
car. If this happens to you, as
it surely must, don’t despair.
Just locate a coat hanger; then
locate Sandy “Sam” Brooks.
She’ll have it open in a “New
York minute.”
If Henry Pepper got his PHD
would he be called Dr. Pepper?
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