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VOLUME 6 NUMBER 52 PEMBROKE, N.C. Thursday, December 28, 1978 ^ iJ5? PER COPY
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junior high echooia will
participate in tho 1978 Pombroka State
Holiday Pmbrtbal Trlplaiiaaflar Doc.
38-39 at Pembroke Stete Univorahy'a
Jonoa Haahh and Phyaicol Education
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In finale on Friday. Dec 29, Laurln
burg Scotland will meet Proapact at 7
p.m. followed by the Falrgrove4.umher
eon game. Pembroke will meet Rowland
In the nightcap.
Trophtai will he awarded to each team
participating la the tournament aa well
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Retires with Plaudits
from Ft. Bragg
Transportation Dept.
Josh LkUmi, oeofcv idmlret a gift
he received upon hit retirement.
Looking on (left) la Ptummer and an
unidentified i|L mqjor wtth the motor
pool at Fort Bragg.
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FT. BRAGG-Josh Locklear has retired
after more than 21 years service with
the United States Arms in the Depart
ment of Transportation as a civilian
employee.
Locklear, from Pembroke, spent all of
his years with the transportation
department ex.cept for 5 years in
communication and in the engineers.
Locklear was a drive'
He is the second mer iber of his family
to retire this year. His wife, Elizabeth,
retired earlier this yt ir as head of the
kitchen at Pembroke Elementary
School.
Locklear is an a< ive member of
Pembroke's VFW %?,1 '"v ?MoVrs
The Locklears are the proud parents of a
daughter, Heidi, and one granddaugh
ter, Holly Dinez.
Following is an extraordinary letter
Locklear received from James P.
Plummer, Sr., Motor Transport Officer
with the Department of Transportation
at Fort Bragg.
Mr. Josh Locklear
P.O. Bo* 853
Pembroke, North Carolina 28372
1. As you depart from the Transpor
tation Motor Pool to your new position
as a retiree, doing nothing in the big
city of Pembroke, North Carolina, I
want to extend my wholehearted thanks
to you as well as commend you for your
outstanding performance of duty as a
driver at TMP. I have never had an
employee of whom I have received more
compliments on the performance of
their duties.
2. During the twelve monthr that I
have served as Motor Transport Officer,
you have always been willing and ready
to perform anv task assigned. Mr.
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"Coach" Theodore Maynor Honored
PEMBROKF-Said Mrs. Fannie Lou
Oxendine, "I catch myself now telling
my children some of the things Mr. "
Theodore told me when I was in school
at Union Chapel High School. He was just
a wonderful man, he taught you more
than was in books. He taught a lot about
life too. I guess he would be sort of like
a counselor in school these days,
although there was no such thing when
we were in school."
It was sort of a surprise. It was a
special moment for sure. Many of the
students and basketball players who
won the Robeson County Indian Girl's
High School Championship in 1948
attended the meeting of the Pembroke
Kiwanis last Tuesday night.
They presented a plaque of appreci
ation to Mr. Theodore Maynor who
coached them to that championship.
Although Union Chapel was later
consolidated with Pembroke High
School it has not diminished the joy of
that special championship in 1948.
Mr. Maynor responded at the meet
ing, "I've been trying to get these girls
together for fifteen years. We were
really happy in those days. We really
enjoyed life back then and we still enjoy
it today. Today it is so meaningful to
live a Christian life."
Mr. Theodore can remember that
championship game like it was yester
day. "1 remember wc took a time out to
set up a play and we won by I point."
Mr. Maynor introduced each player
present. Two of his team members were
Adrene Locklear and Mazelene Dusan,
both daughters of Pembroke Kiwanian,
John L. Carter.
Mrs. Hartley (Fannie Lou) Oxcndine
was the team captain and she gave the
response. ? She remembered how he
taught them how to play the game of
life. Said Mrs. Osendine. "! can
remember how you took us as an
uncordinated group and brought us to a
championship. After 30 years we still
love and appreciate you."
She remembered that ^frs. Theodore
Maynor was their greatest fan and that
Janie, their daughter, was sort of the
team mascot.
Mr. Theodore Maynor, now approach
ing his 70th birthday and still an active
Pembroke Kiwanis member, said,
"Now I know why Klizabeth (his wife)
wanted me to wear my suit and this red _
vest..." 7 I
President Ed Teet presided at the
meeting. A special Christmas moment
too was the appearance of Mr. Monroe
Chavis to play the piano for the group's
singing He was a student of Mr. Ira Pate
Lowry thirty years ago.
oretenU a dIaodc of ?MMftatkm lo
Coach Theodore M.ynor In behalf of the
1948 Champa-Union Chapel!
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WATCH NIGHT SERVICE AT SANDY
PLAINS UNITED METHODIST
Watch Night Service: The Robeaon
County Cooperative Ministry Is spon
soring a Watch Night Service, Sunday,
December 31, 1978 at Sandy Plains
United Methodist Church, beginning at
8 p.m.-12 midnight.
Sandy Plains and Branch Street United
Methodist Churches will Join together in
celebrating this significant event of the
year. A very interesting program is
planned for the evening.
The program will consist of special
music, choirs, quartets and a Men's
Chorus, one of Billy Graham's World
Wide pictures. "Heart is a Rebel," a
memorial service and Holy Communion.
Refreshments will be provided for the
Fellowship Hour. A nursery will be
available for the children. Special music
is under the direction of Mrs. Pan this
Locklear, Johnnie BuDard and Harold
D. Jacobs.
The program committee Is Mrs. Mary
F. Reagan, chairperson, Mrs. Peggy
Thomas. Jerry Cummings and Heebie
Oxendine.
A cordial invitation is extended to the
public by the pastor, the Reverend
Simeon F. Cummings.
riVuCTED rvJK rl\J5HXT SCHOOL
On Thmaday, January 4,197*, at 748
p.m. the Guidance Department of
Prospect School will sponsor a financial
aid workshop for parents of our juniors
and seniors. The purpose of this
workshop is to talk with parents about
money for their son/daughter to attend
college (technical school also), how
much college costs and bow to apply for
money for their son or daughter to
attend college or technical school. Ms.
Ester Jacobs, financial aid officer wtt
Pembroke Sate University will be the
speaker.
MT. M0R1AH BAPTIST CHURCH
PLANS WATCH NIGHT SERVICE
Ml. Moriah Baptist Church is plan
ning a Watch Night Service New Year's
Eve. The public is cordially invited to
attend.
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Rev. Ted Brook* l> the pastor of Mt
Morish Baptist Church.
GROUP PROTESTS GRAVE
TRANSFER
Mart on- The excavation of a myster
ous graveyard found at the site of the
Campbell Soup Co. warehouse here has
led to at least one minor protest by a
group claiming to represent the Tusca
rora Indians of Robeson County.
Sheriffs deputies were sent to the
soup company site Wednesday after
four men claiming to represent the
Tuscaroras staged a noisy, but report
edly peaceful protest of the opening and
transfer of 42 to 44 graves discovered
during construction of the plant last
October,
The four men, who were unidentified,
claimed Dr. David McLean of St.
Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurin
burg was disturbing a sacred burial
ground by opening the paves and
transfering the remains to graves in the
Maxton's McLean Cemetery.
McLean Is supervising the grave
openings. His early estimates are that
the paves date from I82S-1BS0.
McLean and his assistants from the
college began opening the graves
Tuesday, and began drawing enrtoae
spectators to the site Wednesday
The four protestors reportedly shouted
st Hi I son sail iweelj sfhdele supmtls
the worfc^hutdldMt attrofc the mtm.
Samples ef the romaies have been odnt
fo|> pathologlo' Chapel Mite
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of cause and time of deaft.
The Tuscmroras, aa Mha group h
the county, earlier had protested
opening the graven, bet coadd eat
produce evidence the aha had been
used as an Indian beriai griund.
The grave excavations have turned up
pewter coffin handlea, hinges, buttons,
and other small artifacts, ???"t?g la
McLean.
The pathologist's report on the re
mains from the graven is net
before next spring.
REGISTRAR* S SUIT MAT BSTUB
SOON
Lumbal Inn Attorneys for E*B. Turner
have filed a statns report which
Indicates the trial of a slander salt
against Turner could be scheduled la
the near future.
Turner, who is a Lumberton city
councilman and chairman of the loba
son County Democratic Party, is being
sued far 1500,000 by Imogene Horton, a
Republican elections registrar from
Lumber Bridge.
Mrs. Horton is also mating >500,000
from Charles M. McDowell, thahaian
of the Robeson County Board of
Elections, claiming Turner and Me*
Dowall libeled and
twainteremove kwmnhxffllK^
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In the status report addtaeead In
Robeson County Superior Court Judge
Henry A. McKtnnoa, Earl Brttt, Turn
er's attorney, said there was "an
problems to suggest the case could not
be set in the immediate foture."
The report also estimated the case sHR
take two days to hear, and that
negotiations for a settlement had net yet
ended.
Mrs. Horton has charged that Turner
and McDowell indicated she was
considered not to have a good character
in the community during August 1977,
when they attempted to remove her aa
registrar for Lumber Bridge.
McKinnon last month refused te
dismiss the suits, finding there was
sufficient grounds for the cane to be
heard in court.
MOBILE HOME fhtb FATAL
TO BUBAL MAN
A rural Lumber-ton man died Sunday
night at Southeastern General Hospital
aa a result of injuries sustained in a fire
at his mobile home.
Carson Jones, 69, at Bt. 6, succumbed
to burns and smoke Inhalation. Jones
was injured Saturday at about 2:30 p.m.
when his trailer, located beside U.S. 74
about three miles west of Interstate 95,
burst into flames.
According to Chief Billy Burns at the
Deep Branch Fire Department, Jones
was apparently asleep en the pouch
when the gas stove in the kitchen
caught Are. A neighbor who sew the
smoke pulled Jones from the trsHsr.
Janes was alone la the truBar. The Are
chief said Jones suffered third dopes
bums about Ms bands and mee, la
addition to the smoke inhalation.
llamas when the Etapp^Branah Pha
Department arrived, and was Brted MP
total leas.
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