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Observer, Li Grande, Pro., Mon Dee. 21, 1959 " Page 7 BURR0-IN5 OUT Pretty Limlr Forest, 13, tries out a burro-drawn Indian travois in Albuquerque, N.M., as pelting snow assaults the patient donkev. Schools closed, lights failed and hundreds ot drivers were stranded on drift-dogged roads as snow piled up 10 inches deep. 'MISH MASH' He Was The Very Last One Of Famed 'Thin Grey Line' By GRADY PANNELL . Obitrvtr Stiff Writer Sing the requiem! Lower the Stars and Bars to lalf mast. ... Tap out the message bn muffl ed drums to Dixie's National An them. The old soldier has faded away. He is tied. It was fitting that the last vet eran of the War Between the States should have been a Texan. Old Soldier Walter .Williams would have preferred U that way, but he was so feeble as he lay half dead for several weeks near his Houston home that he didn't leallv care. '"'' Lost en his. deaf car was'the ruckus some Yankee newspaper man was raising up Nawth, say ing that Williams never actually rode those cavalry chargers nor hrd he seen a day of service fighting for his beloved South ern cause. Saw Everything " The old veteran really wouldn't have cared, for he had seen ev erything in his time and was around even when they were all talking about moon flights and trips to far-out yender. He died a General even if the title was mere ritual or honor befitting the last of his kind. He even died with his "boots on" and was to be buried with the leather about his gnarled feet. The boots were exact replicas of those worn by the famed horse soldiers of Texas Brigadier John B. Hood. coatst" Old Sailing told this re porter 1C years ago. Sailing was the center c a tt'lebrat'on staged in the little southwest Virginia community of Slant back then. All the veter ans of the area, from Spanish American service through World War II, gathered for old John's birthday and gifted him with ci gars. Old Crow and a brand, spanking new Conferedate Grey uniform. He sat on an old wooden porch. ipat chewing tobacco, sipped '.amethinf ' from" i Jug" and told stories the kind that would I'ave caused the elegant ladies of his fighting days to faint from. It was always "me and Walter" in far as Sailing war concerned. Those two were the ablest of the vanishing ' Dixie Greys and centenarians, this being an ex treme feat of life. As far as Sailing cared, the boys ti'om Dixie's, troopers' would "Win the war" and by that he meant they would outlive the last couple or three yankee soldiers , up North o( a decade ago. '(The last linion soldier was named Wool ton and he died at Duluth, Minn., while there were still three or four Johnny Itebs alive and talk ing-J J: . . vr. ' . Sailing was asked during the interview if he was still saving his Confederate money. r Many Descendants ' Yep," he growled, "it wuz le Ml tender fer me and my kin- folk tfcen and I ain't about to part with ir now. Sailing was a spry and able man matter of FACT mm fie died in the Texas he loved until he reached about 90 years so well and was turned under her,1"' aac. The 'entire mountainside soil which he had vowed to de fend almost 100 years before. He was the last of the long prey line, the men of Lee, Stone wall Jackson. Pirkott, Jeb Stuart and others who arc immortal to i enna rt thti Cnnih Sailing's Wish We are sure that old John Sailing, . next to, the last Great War survivor and a Rebel true and through, would have wanted Williams to be the Last SeMier. of the Slant area swarmed with descendants. He had outlived at leapt Uirce wives and they all had large families by him. in sailing was the same spirit mat marie up the Williams char acter. When Sailing spoke it could as well have been Wil liams drawling of those glorious dys w(hen the Dixie boys drove up mto Pennsylvania and won practically every battle in the Keystone state .except the one Sallmg, Virginia's one of tens '-'Mi at Gettysburg. ci incusanas ot volunteers wrtk sailing claimed he never Lee. Jackson and the rest dwing "drew a sight" on a Yankee Wtrt jihe Civil War and a member of; he did hear the founds of gtm iM fawed "Flower of Virginia"! fire and galloping horses at King's ltAmy in his youth CthoMh his Mountain, site of a Civil War iikt was te die faltaetor from a Virgwia mine for exatosives) (lso Wanted it that way! Wilhatas was the eldest and in the days of antebellum the older heads had command. "Leave him be the last gen eral, for he is the oldest and skirmish which was won by Co! oncl Mosboy s mounted ' "We hid in a saltpeter mine for three days, and those Yankees were beating the bush for us all the time," Sailing recalled. He claimed they didn't engage the Inicn men because they "out- wisest; me and Walter will out-. numbered us 50 to one, live them all (he mcarrf the Blue- Yes, Williams had his wish. So ?PT. MAKI YOUI H01IDAT ftWNft A MOUUM 51 WWII WITH A CHOICt Of". .' , HOUUM iKSJiSfy ''t- eTwfc.'rWtSUatlww'attfieirfSi ' A35VA - HOUtAd Un hU itfc . . . HOUUM 1.!'t".::. No Overhaul Of US. Tax G System Seen WAfilSST.TON "I'M- - Chn1'-, man Wur D. M.H' nf v I ilnro Viivt & Mri's Co mr't'c today tried on' the p-stibil.t c' a maw ove:ha'il of t.i. lavs J r.-:i. year. ' ) j The Arka-M-ai Dcnv -ia'. co.iv! mcitcd u Ivs conniitlce v.ouul up five v.eoki of hca-i'i.;- iim i K , which .f' beard ta:t reform iro-; pc.a!a frcm 175 ta4 iy:pe"ls. eon ! omisti a'ld nthers. I Mills said in a prcpa e.l state ment thtit the hearings were "ex-; ploialory" nn:l th? next step woiUI bo fer tho staffs of the committee aid the Treasury to sift thrcugli the mountain of supgestirns. He said it wculJ take "at leas: unld l!Kil" Mure His staffs cou 1 1 lay a tax revision la i oe ore nis committee, which originati-s til tax legislation i i Congress. Mills' closing slateme-.t JeaM only with the theme of the hear ingshow ta broaden tax cover age to newmit a rate cut. without reducing overall government rev enue, lie did not address himself to whether Congress in the com ing elecJon year might vote an across-the-board tax reduction. However, reliable sources said the administratio.i has no inten tion of asking for a general tax cut in l!i'.n. rVinncratic rnngres-Icaii-rs Inivi- rvlaateii a rea-li-cvs to iih 'lf tiv li.i" a Inmi -t.j'i i.S v.i.'-liiit el llns nutter. . GIVE I THA I DIFFERENCE! ULOVt it Tfl m9St tfvfeed ealuiri in fin lMeii.bprccifoi i'-V 111 J iM"i. CfiMiK rQ &itW ; rtlttnt, with JDI m4insnnn? 159 SO Sung by Teuton poets long before the Angles and Saxons ever thought of crossing the channel to England, Beowulf is the earliest English epic poem. It was not written down until some , time during the 10th century. The Anglo-Saxon, or Early English in which it is written, is almost as much like German as it is present-day English. The original manu script of the poem is preserved in the British Museum, London, C Encyclopedia BrltRnnlca, WELL PROTECTED NEW YORK IT1 More than 12J. million Americans were protected by some kind of health insurance by the end of. 1938. the Health Insurance Institute said Sunday. did Sailing. Old Walter died the List one oi his kind and very last of the Great War. 7 " ' Sing the requiem for an Old Soldier! WHEN YOU ARE A FAMILY ' Your Pharmacist is a friend and neighbor. His business is a centrally-located head quarters for prescription and health needs lor those dear to you. t . i i . . v- Your Pharmacist is qualified to advkc. 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