No. 2
re-enter military service for he
would be eligible to retire in only
eight years. (However, to take
maximum advantage of retire
ment benefits, he plans to serve
10 years )
Mr Porter enlisted in the US
Air Force last May with the rank
of Al/c and recently was trans
ferred to a base about 40 miles
from Tokyo, capital city in Japan.
For a while in the spring, he
6erved at IXmaldson A F B ,
Greenville. 8 C He made it home
nearly every week end. Mr- Pur
ter says, and was able to get a
lot of work done (including put
ting up 1.000 bales of hay
Burden Shifts
When he left South Carolina.
[again the whole burden shifted
to Mrs Porter
She recalls an incident that oc
curred just before Mr Porter left
for California "Our old barn has
a high loft and we couldn't get
hay bales up there so James de
cided he would build an elevator
he's a good mechanic.
"He worked on the thing when
he could, just getting parts here
and there. The night before he
! was to go to catch the bus for
California at 6 o'clock the next
morning he worked until midnight
trying to get one final adjustment
made A pulley kept throwing the
drive belt off.
'We'll Manage'
"I said to him: 'James, you
come on 111 here and get a little
sleep. I'll take that shaft out
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tomorrow and get Lee Tippett to
fix it. We'll manage .'
And between them. Mrs Porter |
and Mr Tippett did manage. The
homemade elevator was fixed It ;
will lift four or five bales to the ,
loft at a time
"James made a tongue and put
it on the elevator so I could pull
it away from the barn with the
tractor But I've never done that,"
says Mrs. Porter, "I'm afraid I
couldn't get it backed in again '
Aside from the regular farm
work. Mrs Porter canned 750
quarts last summer. She also
keeps a garden and currently is
i tending a flock of sheep, nine
Herefords. five sows, and 14
k boats The land she cultivates
totals 83 acres and is all in hay.
| "I've got Duroc, Hampshire, and
I Essex pigs, and what I guess you
might call a 'Duke's Mixture' .
I'll trade a pig for anything. I'm
known in three counties as 'the
! hog woman'."
Not Alone
| Though her husband is away.
Mrs. Porter is not alone. Several
dogs are there for company, but
"Tinker", a Collie, is her favorite. !
Where Mrs. Porter goes. "Tink" j
goes.
Next to her dog. she prizes !
her Jeep. "We've never been able
| to get the state to fix our road
; and the thing got so terrible that
at one point I wondered how we'd
I get in and out much loimer.
'Thank goodness they invented the
Jeep about that time. I've worn
out three of them and have a new
one now."
Mrs Porter has no family living
on Hall Farm to help her. At hay
time last summer she baled 800
.bales she hires help to do lifting
work she can't do. The machinery
.she can handle alone The auto
matic halei- is her pride "All I do
is drive the tractor. The baler
follows a Ion" behind, bales it and
throws it off It's even got a
counter on it."
Apr No Secret
Mrs. Porter makes no secret
about, her a <\ "I'm 43." She
dresses appropriate to her work,
in denim coveralls. The bob. a
hairstyle she's worn since a girl,
is well suited. Mrs. Porter is a
medium-sized woman with a strong
build Her complexion is flawless
Six days does shfc labor and on
the seventh she rests. "The Lord
provides me beans and I don't
have to work on Sunday." She
regularly attends services at Cowee
Baptist Church where she is a
member.
The house she lives in contains
part of the old home built by
Colonel Hall when he came into
Cowee in the 1820's That part of
the structure is put together with
wooden pees. The door hinges are
of iron, hammered out in a forge
long ago.
I*st Of Ilalls
"I'm the last of the Halls. They
didn't have many children, just
'one to a hill', you might say.
Colonel Hall was my great-great
great-grandfather. This farm of
his contained 1.000 acres when
he moved here and many of the
farms in this community 'Rose
Creek' were created out of his
tract."
When asked what kind of a
breakfast she eats to provide
energy for the hard work she
does daily. Mrs. Porter said: "The
usual ? bacon and eggs and bread.
No coffee I've never drunk coffee.
"I'll tell you what, though It's
good to get about 5 o'clock and
work a couple of hours before
breakfast Give me a piece of
fruit cake ? not a sample, I don't
like samples ? give me a whig of
fruit cake and two glasses of ice
water and I can hold a hoe to
any man till breakfast."
No. 4
ported that Dannie also direct
ed her twin brother, Ronnie, in
carrying out one of the children
who perished in the blaze. Ron
nie attempted to save the
O'Shields child, but could not
get him through the door of
| the burning house and dropped
him.
It is understood that Mrs.
Vines was baby sitting for Mrs.
O'Shields, her sister, while she
was in Ravenna looking for
work. She also was watching
five children of her brother,
Verlon Jones, who lives in Ra
venna.
Mrs. Vines went to the home
of her landlady nearby and
when she returned the two
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room house In which she had
left the nine children was In
flames.
A faulty stove Is believed re
sponsible for the fire.
Firemen found the O'Shlelds
baby on the floor near the door.
The Vines baby's body was on
a bed.
Funeral services for the two
children are set for today
(Wednesday) at the Black
Mountain Baptist Church at 2
p. m. The Rev. James Sanders
will officiate and burial will be
In the church cemetery.
No. 5
come any closer. He fired one
shot to show him he meant
business. Barnes, however, ad
vanced to the porch and was
raising his gun when the boy
shot through the door and
wounded him.
Warrants Drawn
Sheriff Thomas has drawn
two warrants lor Barnes, pend
ing his recovery from the gun
shot wound. One charges him
with forcible tresspass and the
other with assault with a deadly
weapon with Intent to kill.
The boy was placed under
bond on an open charge, the
officer said.
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of Greenville, S. C? are visiting
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