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ELIAS ROGERS NAMED PRESIDENT
OF LREMC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
LREMCS BOARD OF DIRECTORS: They are (in front) left to right: J.W.
Hunt, treasurer; EUas Rogers, president; Alton Dudley, vice-president; James H.
Hammonds, secretary; (in rear) left to right: Davis K. Parker, Bradford
Oxendine, Gas Bollard, Frank Jacobs, Jr., Ward Clark, Timothy Strickland,
John Paul Jones, and Harold Dean Brewer. (Bruce Barton photo)
Elias Rogers was elected president during
an organizational meeting immediately
following balloting Tuesday night at the
37th annual tneptbeiship meeting of the
Lumbee River Electric Membership
Corporation held in the Cumberland
Memorial Auditorium in Fayetteville.
The membership was welcomed to the city
by Mayor Beth Finch.
In balloting. Timothy Strickland defeated
incumbent Hubert Prevatte and Gus Bullard
prevailed over incumbent Fred T. Warren
and A.F. Home.
Incumbants Davis K. Parker and J.W.
Hunt were re-elected without real
opposition although Parker was challenged
* -"by Bertha Thomas who was nominated
w from the floor.
The real surprise was the ease by which
Stri4fend won over incumbant Hubert
Prev'atte in Area IV which includes the
Pembroke area.
Bullard barely eeked by Warren in the
contest for an at large berth on the board of
directors.
Approximately 500 members registered
and attended the meeting.
LREMC operates in Robeson,
Cumberland, Hoke and Scotland Counties,
has more than 16,000 members and reports
total assest of mdre than $13.5 million.
Co-op directors serve three- year terms.
There are twelve members on the board of
directors. _
Larry Roberts Named
Pembroke Jaycee of Quarter
The Pembroke Jaycees recently
awarded the officer of the first
quarter award to Larry Roberts
who^fcas been a Jaycee member
for only one year.
, During the first quarter he
chaired such Jaycee activities as
the May Dance, the July dance, a
cookout and the boys home
football game.
Mt\ Roberts, who has won
serveral Jaycee awards including
the spoke award, Jaycee of the
month and the district speak-up
award, says that being a Jaycee
member has given him a brighter
?out look on life.
"It makes me teel good
knowing I belong to an
organization which is so devoted
to helping the community," he
says.
Being a father himself, Mr..
Roberts feels the most fulfilling
project he's been involved with
in the Jaycee's was the Yancey
Hunt Pund. Yancey is a 9 year
old boy who received severs
bums all over his body during the
month of March. The past.
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have worked at various projects
to raise money to aid the family
w Mi the incredibly high medical
bills
"Working to raise money for
Mis unfortunate young hay has
baen Me must seifsajisfyta# and
remanding aspartenslng pnsjeet
I've been involved In," he aeye
Mr. Roberts only hopes that the
his second year will be as
fulfilling as his first, and that the
Pembroke Jaycee's will goon to
bigger and better things./
Homecoming
Friday Night
Pembroke
Warriors vs
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Wolfpack
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Robeson Farm Services
Newest Business in Area
Grand Opening Friday
Bill Carmical. left, and Jim Oxendine stand in front of the new building
quartering Robeson Farm Services, Inc. (Bruce Barton photo)
Robeson Farm 'Services. Inc., a new
business in the Pembroke area, .will hold
their Open House Friday morning
beginning at 11 a.m.
The business, located on the old Pates
Road between Pembroke Junior High and
Pates Stock Yard, approximately a mile
from Pembroke, features the latest in seed,
feed", fertilizer, farm chemicals and farm
appliances.
Partners in Robeson Farm Services. Inc.
are Bill Carmical and Jim Oxendine. who
between them have 30 years in the business
of providing services to area farmers
The new business is quartered in a modern
and spacious 7500 square foot building on
a large lot. The business will receive many
of its stockable/items by rail, including
fertilizer and farm chemicals. The building
will be serviced by a railroad spur.
Carmical and Oxendine invite all farmers
and friends to come out and share their
opening day with them. They will barbeque
a couple of pigs for their friends. Oxendine
summed up his feelings concerning the new
business when he said, "We want to give
good and honest service to our farmer
friends "
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3 Title IV-A Indian Education Focuses on
Eastern Native American Culture
According to John Lawson's History of
North Carolina, the Native Americans of
th Carolinas during his 1700 travels were
widely known for their baskets made of thin
reed and cane. Fortunately for the Title
IV-A Robeson County Compensatory
Indian Education Project, a local craftsman
was identified to assist the project in
perpetuating cultural activities in keeping
with traditional culture of the Eastern
Native Americans in North Carolina.
"You put something together with your
own two hands and then you set there and
look at it- you touch it, I mean- and you say.
'I done something nobody else can do.'
Ain't no feeling like it in the world." says
Cleveland Jacobs, a native Georgian who
has lived in Robeson County for over half
of his life and who learned the craft of
basketry from an Indian in Robeson County
in 1946 when Mr. Jacobs was 41 years of
age and blind. He takes pride in his ability
to make the white oak strips bend and
weave into oak baskets which are much in
demand and which were utilized by Native
Americans years ago in gathering foods
from the forests and planting grounds.
Last week was National Hire the
Handicapped Week, but the Robeson
County Compensatory Indian Education
Project identified Mr. Cleveland Jacobs as
a potential craftsman during the initial
planning of the project, and approached
him with the possibility of serving as a
craftsman to the Arts and Crafts progam
component. On October 3, Mr. Jacobs
began working at Magnolia School. He will
also teach basketry in other high schoolf
across the county.
Mr, John Mark Brooks, principal or
Magnolia School staled that the "students
have a high interest in this project and Mr.
Jacobs is doing an outstanding job."
Students at Magnolia School are
learning to make white oak baskets
under the guidance of local craftsman,
Cleveland Jacobs. The art of basketry
was practiced by Native Americans
on the East Coast of North Carolina in
the early 1700s. (Elmer Hunt photo)
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DANCE FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS
The Robeson County Hairdressers
Association will sponsor a Costume Dance
for Cystic Fibrosis on October 22. 1977 at
the Old Foundry Restaurant in Lumberion
from 8:30 p.m. until 1:00a.m. Music will
be furnished by the Short Circuit Super
Disco by Gene Lowry. Tickets are $7.00
per couple and $5.00 single
Refreshments will be served and three
money prizes will be presented for best
costume First prize will be $15.00; 2nd
prize will be $10.00; and 3rd prize will be
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PSHS HOMECOMING DINNER
SLATED
The Pembroke Senior High School
Booster Club is sponsoring a Homecoming
Dinner on Oct jber 21, 1977 from 5-8 p.m.
in the school cafeteria. Chicken and
barbeque plates will be served for $2.50
each Proceeds from the project will be
used to support the athletic programs
offered at Pembroke Senior High.
SOCIAL NOTES FROM PEMBROKE
Mrs. Clifton Graham of Route 2,
Pembroke and daughter, Lois of Savannah.
Georgia, have recently returned from a
few days visit to Vermilion, Ohio. While
there they were the guests of a daughter and
sister, Mrs. Billie Jean Friar and family
On October 8th they traveled along with
the Friars to Stagg Field at the University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, to witness the
Chicago Maroons defeat Belott College
from Wisconsin 21 to 1* Mrs. Graham's
grandson. Dale Ft tar, is a running halfback
for Chicago University and a sophomore
there studying medicine.
Dale who has a 10.0 in (he 100-yard dash
and was interested in PSU's track team
before he got the football scholarship,
remarked to his grandmother, "It was a
shame Pembroke didn't have a football
program." (submitted by Ms. Nell
Lowry)
REVIVAL PLANNED AT BEREA
BAPTIST CHURCH
Revival services will be held at Berea
Baptist Church in Pembroke beginning
Sunday evening. October 23, and
continuing through Friday, October 28.
Services will be at 7:30 p.m. nightly. Rev.
George H. Wallace of High Point, NC will
be the visiting Evangelist. The public is
cordially invited to"attend these services
PSHS GIRLS WIN
TENNIS CONFERENCE
Pembroke Senior High Girl's Tennis
Team defeated Whiteville Monday and
. West Brunswick Tuesday to become the
Three Rivers Conference Regular Season
Champions The overall record of the girls
is 9-1 and conference record of 9-0. Next
Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, the
girls will play in the conference tournament
at Southeastern Community College. Team
members are: Pat Maynor, Lone Jacobs.
Nan Locklear, Belinda Brewington,
Regina Oxendine, Lisa Locklear. Karen
Deese. Enid Cummings. Tanuel Kerns and
Jo Ann Lowry
PLATE SALE PLANNED
AT CHEROKEE CHAPEL
A plate sale will be held at Cherokee
Chapel Church on Saturday. October 22,
1977 beginning at 10a.m. and lasting until.
Chicken and barbeque plates will be on
sale
PEMBROKE ELEMENTARY*S
OPEN HOUSE MOST SUCCESSFUL
A parent's night "Open House" at
Pembroke Elementary School, attended by
over 900 patents and patrons, was one of
the most successful ever held according to
Principal James C. Dial.
The Open House was from 700-9:00 pm
with parents free to go to individual
classrooms to dlacuas the school's
curriculum with teachers Students.from
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of these for the gifted and talented. The,
school has a full time nurse and a faculty of .*
fifty-one professional teachers. The school
also has a staff of thirty paraprofesaional
personnel working directly with the
children. The school's entire staff exceeds
one hundred (100) people serving the
school.
The school has a full time music teacher
and one of the best bands in this area of the
state Because of its proximity to Pembroke
State University, a cooperative program
has been worked out which benefits both
the University and the school.Under this <r
program college students servfas interns in
the instructional program in the school. In
this program, college students serve as
instructors in reading, music, health,
physical education, special education and
other areas under the supervision of their
college professors This method provides
the prospective teacher with leas
educational theory and more real
life-school experience.
Plans are underway for the construction of
a new elementary school. The Architect is
finishing the final drawing of the plans. The
actual construction of the school is
expected to begin in January on the new
site.
REVIVAL PLANNED AT PLEASANT
GROVE UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH '
Revival services begin at Pleasant Grove_
United Methodist Church on October 23 at"
7:30 p.m. each night. And continues"
through Friday night. Guest evangelists
wiH be Rev. Cheslev McNcH from Deep
Branch Baptist Church mut the Rev.
Charles McDowell from the Star of
Bethlehem Baptist Church. Fairmont. The
public is cordially invited to attend these
services by the pastor. Rev. Simeon D.
Cummings.
GENE WARREN NAMED
CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL
BROCHURE COMPETITION
Pembroke-Gene Warren, public
information director of PSU has been
named chairman of the national wrestling
brochure competition this year conducted
by the College Sports Information
Directors of America.
In this capacity he will decide the winners
of the best wrestling brochures printed
in America, including those published by
both NCAA and NAIA schools.
Warren has himself won 12 national
brochure awards for both basketball (which
always includes a section on wrestling) and
spring sports.
PSU perennially has a wrestling
powerhouse. Its wrestling coach. Mike
Olson, was team leader in 1976 of an NAIA
All-Star team which toured Japan and
Korea.
Pembroke Council
Meets
In Brief Session
The Pembroke Town Council met in a
brief session Monday night and endorsed
the two bond issues and a number of
amendments that will be on the November
ballot. The endorsements came on a motion
by Mayor protem Sam Dial and was
adopted without opposition.
The voters will decide on a 300 million
dollar highway bond issue and a 230
million dollar clean water bond on Nov. 8.
Voters will also cast ballots on a numocr
of constitutional amendments, with the
vote on succession by the governor and it.
governor garnering the moat interest
Among other amendments, one call* for a
balanced budget and two of die
amendment* deal with the rightsef woman.
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