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EEDITORIAL, WD OPINIOi\| - PAGE^ not Know Whoro Wo Aro Going N Wo Dont Know Whoro Wo'vo Boon... I j So fittingly we honor our Pioneer Fathers mm. I by Broo Barton I EDITOR'S NOTE: 01' Rea sonable Locklear brought me the fallowing column and told me to print It "In my name, Just like I wrote It." As you know, 01' Reasonable disap peared for a while and now teHs me that "Boys, I'm a living In public housing and liking it right much thank von. It's warn and, believe It or not, we an getting [and some of as has already got It] cable t.v." 01' Reasonable sweats that he has got nsed to Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and Is mad as the devil became Jones intercabie Is swapping him Mr. Rogers, Masterpiece Theatre and staff Hke that for around the clock sports. Said 01 Romanablo, 5hentT*rrl want Mr. Rogers rack...that ol* boy Is laid back and reminds me Undof my self." When reminded that the article was "wrote up" In better grammar than we are nsed to bom 01' Reasonable he grinned and said, "I'M admit that I had some help. You know this [Pembroke] here la a college town. Just about anybody can throw a comma In the right tater ft IwW a So hero's 01' Reasonable a fussing and fuming about Mr. Rogers having to leave our Sure wish we had cable t.v. fas Deep Branch when I live but you can't have every thing. At least I can walk out la the back yard and yeU my fool head off without the next door neighbor a abashing me. MUSINGS.... by 01' Reasonable Locklear GOODBYE. MR. ROGERS. Sunday evenings are speci al at our house, it is a time to relax and rest for the coming week, to read and to watch Masterpiece Theatre. This week was different, however, for without any notice from Jones Cablevision all Public Television was pre- empted by a new all-sports network and a second commercial station in Wilmington. At the flip of a switch Alistair Cooke introducing the last segment of "To Serve Them All My Days" was replaced bv a basketball game unrelated to our part of the country. One can understand the commercial needs of a cable company to make money, and sports...even sports television makes money in America. What cannot be understood is the kind of thinking which would permit the elimination of all Public Broadcasting from a-cable which is suppos ed to be capable of carrying a minimum of 20 channels. Even with the present limit of f 12 channels there ought to be room for at least one educa tional channel. m i So what do we loose? A great deal. Besides the qual ity drama and cultural pro gramming we also lose edu cational programming in the afternoons for our children and an alternative to network news in the evenings. No more will our children see( Sesame Street. Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, the Electric Company, or Powerhouse. All of these programs are badly needed in area where the school systems have the dub ious distincion of being the worst in the state. No more shall we have the opportunity of seeing: Nova, National Geographic, Nature, Jugues Cousteau. Washing ton Wee* in Review, of th% award winning McNeill/ Leh rcr Report. All these in addition to Great Perfor mances. Masterpiece Thea tre, Mystery. All Creatures Great and Small, Odyssey, and Austin City Limits. What is so disheartening about the loss is not only the suddenness of the change (of not knowing what happens to P.J. in the end, or whether Jemima survives the convent murders); but also the sense from the Cable Company that the change might not matter, the assumption that rural communitie are made up of such boors that we might not miss the only quality pro gramming worth paying S7.50 a month to get. No matter what the ration alizations we need to send both the cable company and the town boards which license them, a message: "We don't want to say goodbye to Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood: We want it back, and the sooner the better." After all. we are a select breed of folk who watch PBS, we have to pay twice for our viewing. Unlike the commercial networks and specialized cable stations, the funds for PBS programs come from voluntary contri butions of the viewers...and then we have to pay the cable company (theoretically any way) to bring us that signal from the patchwork quilt of UHF transmitters across the skate. Jones Intercable should not be allowed to take us for granted so easily! Even the compromise posi tion of sharing time with another channel really won't be satisfactory. Who would decide which channel is air ed? PBS airs programs all day long which are valuable and important to the community, how would the decision be made which channel would be aired...and then how would I the viewers be notified when PBS would be on the air. Finally, there is some indi cation that Educational TV from South Carolina might be aired, at least part time on channel nine. What sense does that make? All of the Jones subscribers live in NORTH Carolina! We want to watch our own Public Tele vison thank you very much. The awful realization might soon be dawning on the home office of Jones Intercable that the promise of five years ago are finally coming home to roost, and the necessity of a 20 channel system in order to satisfy the FCC. the com munity and commercial viability is finally here. Per haps, if the choice had been to dump a duplicate of a network channel like one of the two CBS affiliates no one would have noticed; but to sacrifice PBS on the high alter of organized sport could not go unheralded nor unopposed... one would have thought they would have known that in the home office... Supt. Swett Updates West . Robeson Su^f^eifdSn? of Ro^sSrT" County Schools Purnell Swett was introduced to Pembroke Kiwanis members by Pro gram Chairman Bill Oxen dine at the Tuesday evening meeting of the Club at the Town and Country Restau rant. The West Robeson High School located in Red Banks occupies 57 acies. Work is presently in progress in the painting of classrooms and work on the ceilings. The school will be open for occupancy in August 1983. The roofs are slopped thus providing better drainage than flat roofs and is moie economical in the long run. In order to meet the needs of the students, advisory groups are set up for curriculum, trans portation, and student affairs. There are also committees concerned with school colors, mascots, trophies won by each school. Grades 10, 11 and 12 will be accommodated. Seating capacity for'the gym will accommodate 2000 people and will be equipped for a well rounded physical educa tion program. There is also room for the addition of an auditorium. Supt. Swett displayed architectural plans for the building. Facilities include Band and Music rooms, classrooms for languages, communicative arts, vocation al, business, home economics cafeteria, media center, science laboratories, math and social studies classrooms. There will be 3 separate parking areas and space for the addition of footSall, base ball, tennis courts, and track. New Kiwanis member Wade Hunt, principal of the Union,, Chapel Elementary School was welcomed by Club members. Wade has been prominent in Little League Baseball and many communi ty youth activities. Marshall Locklear announc ed the Kiwanis Birthday *oundation offering has been 00% and Lt. Governor Ber tard Lowry wilj present the heck to the Carolinas Foun ation. Lt. Governor Lowry as made his official visits to ie Fayetteville and Southern ines Kiwanis Gubs. Presiding was President iMn Ray Lowry. Pianist was ra Pate Lowry and the ?vocation was given by Heit T Ward Oxeadine. L 1ME CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE P.O. Bex 1875 hdMn, NC 28372 U.S. PS. #978380 Published each Thursday Established 1973 .SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT PEMBKOKE.NC L 29372 ii r Subscription Rates: In Sute I Year S9.36 ?. Year* 15.60 OUT OF STATE 1 Year S12.00 2 Years 1&00 - tL- ? . - H ?y'. . /.. .jv_ ' .5,;. New Coharie Columnist 1 ? * . % ? *. -Continued from Page 1 He died in 1973. France* was left with an 11 year old son, Rex. whi m she reared along from that time. < She took several johs as a surveyor for the program On aging in Sampson CaMfity. In October |974 she began Working with the 'N.Ci Commission of Indian Affairs and except for 8 months with the Coharie Pebple under the County Manpower Program, sfjei fias worked with the Comnission since that time with constant interruptions because of funds ending. Frances is now at work again since being off from August 31 to November 30. , ^ She is the daughter of the late James Watha Emanuel and Annie Brewington Emapuel. She has four sons, Rudy F. Mavnor of Benson who is a machinist for a manufacturing co.; Larrv Truman Maynor of Fayetteville. an instructor and supervisor for Carolina Telephone Co.; Anthony Eugene Maynor of Ra leigh who works in the Federal Depart ment of Agriculture in the Animal Health Division; and Rex Allen Maynor of Route 1, Clinton, Sampson Independent Em ployee, Frances took the HRD course, a home course in creative writing. She has three Certificate in Literacy Training and one as a 'lutor irainer. COHARIE INDIANS ' The Coharie Indianscan be found in mainly three specific areas of Sampan County namely: Shifbh-in the Dismal Township nfcar Godwin, North Carolina on the Cumberland ? Sampson line; Holly Grove or South Clinton located just south of Clinton between highways 421 and 701; and the New Bethel area in Hecrirjg Township eight miles north of Clinton on highway 421. Until about 1940 the Coharie people made their living mainly by farming. Since that time some of our people ha^e gone into public work, such as, teachers, doctors, anfl to other related fields. The mass meeting for which we can account was held in March 1910 for the purpose of organizing an annual reunion and picnic at that time known as a Clan meeting. There were very few years that meetings were not held annually. Records can be shown of the meetings held during this time. Most of the Coharie Indians have lived isolated lives and seem to have developed a feeling of not being able to rise to the standard of living enjoyed by other races, especially as having better jobs, education; this perhaps accounts for the Coharie Indians having a tendency to remain mostly in the Coharie Dismal swamp and^South Clinton areas. Until 1944 there was a separate elementary school for each of the three cbmmunites. But at this time the three were consolidated and the East Carolifia Indian School was a result of this CQnsolidation. Due to low population in the Sanfpson County area a progress was hampered but the sdjpol maintained until 1966. All efforts were madeflWfiake Eftt a standard high school. High school students were brought from Columbus, Harnett, Bladen, Person, Cumberland and Hoke Counties in order to increase the enrollment and aid in making ECI a standard high school, as well as providing a high school education for students from these other counties. In 1966 Sampson County schools were integrated and to the disappointment of many of the Coharie people, ECI became Sampson Technical Institute. School children are doing fair in Sampson County and Clinton City Schools, but need much motivation and encouragement from parents and other interested people. V In some areas living conditions are improving, but much needs to be done in every phase of Indian life in this area. Residents from the five counties named herein, have intermarried over the years, as well as, many other counties and states. But the Majority have followed the tradition of the early American Indian by marrying within the Indian race. Most of the Coharie people prior :o the last few years, have seemed content to earn a reasonable salary eyen though some times their ability and expertise out weighed their efforts for advancement. During the last few years there has been a strong desire among some of the Coharie people to motivate our people to search ways of acquiring a better education, homes, jobs,,and above all the feeling of being equal to other races in every sense. We find many talented and gifted people among the Coharies. Looking over the material and records we find that among those earnest and hard working ancestors who have preceeded us into the great beyond, much talent and expertise was hidden and unused because of the inability and know-how to use it. The Indian people of Sampson County in 1967 reorganized and called themselves the Coharie Indians. The name Coharie coming from the Coharie River, also by this time some of (he population had moved to the Harnett County area. God grant that we might motivate and encourage within those fortunate bfaves of today a desire to use the great gifts given to them by the one in whom our forefathers trusted. Thus making easier paths for their moccasins, homes to replace the teepees, jobs to relieve the hard laborers* strength to accept as well as to be accepted by our feUpw man. By Frwcto E. Mayas* To seek Election to N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs w mmmm m WMM Carnell Locklear Carnell Locklear, general manager of 'Strike at the Wind!' and a long time Indian activist, is the first one to announce his candidacy for a seat on the North Carolina Indian Commission's board of directors. Locklear will be vying for the seat left vacant by Mrs. Ruth Dial Woods' decision not to sdiak. re-election. ? Said Locklear, "1 love to ' workftbr my Indian people and I believe this would be a wonderful opportunity for me to be an advocate for them. I promise, if elected, to do my very best." Carnell, his wife, Peggy, and their five children live in the Red Banks community. The election will take place January 27 beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Pembroke Senior High School Cafeteria. The seat represents Indian people from the Maxton, Smiths, Philadelphus and Pembroke areas and townships. t 1 'T ? U A new mortgage plan is available to homeowners and buyers that has low er effective interest rates? sometimes even in single digits. The plan?called the "Fannie Mae" Mortgage So lution?is 'available on any one- to four-family home on which the existing mort gage is owned by Fannie Mae, the nickname of the Federal National Mortgage Association, which is the largest single source of mort gage money in the country. Under the plan, existing FNMA loans can be "traded in" by a home owner or buyer for a new Fannie Mae loan. * * * i n ^ TTie new loan can be for up to 95 percent of the ap- ' praised current market value of the home. A brochure , that tells all about the L Fannie Mae Mortgage Solu- 1 tion is available free by f writing to: Federal National ii Mortgage Association, Mort- c gage Solution, 3900 Wiscon- b sin Avenue, N.W., Washing- v ton, D.C. 20016. n BREWINGTON & REGAN UNITED IN BAPTIST CEREMONY ??1??* Mrs. Richard Regan PEMBROKE - Miss Zenetta Gail Brewington and Richard Regan were united in marriage on Fri day, Ddu. 31, at three o'clock in the afternoon at Berea Baptist Church. The Revs. Tony E Brewington and L.P. Hardy officiated at the double-ring ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Brewington. Parents of the bridegroom are Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Regan. A program of nuptial music was presented by Mrs. Cathy Thomas, organist, Mrs. .Peggy Brewington, pianist; Miss Ramona Gerald of Luinberton, vocalist; and Richard Watts of Dillon, S.a, trumpeter. <"he?bride was escorted to tha altar by her parents. Ho- gown of white organza arl Chantilly and silk V^iise lace was fashioned with a Queen Anne n/ckline, Gibson girl sieves, empire waistline. A-line skirt with tiered lace hemline forming an apron effect, and attached chapel-length train. Attending the bride as matron of honor was her sister, Mrs. Judy B. Scott of Greensboro. Bridesmaids were her nieces, Sharon K. Scott and Denise Scott, both of Greensboro; and the bridegroom's sisters, Rosalind R. Lowry and Sheila A. Regan. The attendants wore knit gowns designed with draped fronts and backs and pleated skirts. The matron of honor wore burgundy and the bridesmaids wore Daphne rose. Shelli Brewington. the bride's niece, and Christina Lowry. niece of the bridegroom, were flower girls. Nanci Brewington and Brian Brewington, niece and nephew of the bride, were miniature bride and bridegroom. Acolytes were Gabriel Brewington and Joel Brew ington, nephews of the bride. Miss Carlita Brewington. the bride's niece, Mrs. Christy S. Strickland. Ms. Angeline Demery, Mrs. Rhonda McDowell and ? 1 Mrs. Jody A. Honeycutt of Rockingham, were honorary attendants Jason Lowry. Jr. of Dillon. S.C. was best man. Ushers were the bridegroom's brother. Bob by Regan; the bride's brothers, Jimmy and Ricky Brewington; and her nephew. Ray Brewington. Ringerbearer was Jeremy Brewington. directing the wedding were Mrs. Mary Bell and Johnny Bullard. The bride received a B.S. degree in music education from Pembroke State University in May, 1982, and a master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in December. 1982. The bridegroom received a B.S. degree in business administration from Pem broke State University in 1980 and plans to attend Southeastern Theological Seminary in January. The couple will live in Wake Forest. RECEPTION A reception was held in the church Fellowship Hall hosted by the bride's parents. Greeting guests were Mr. and Mrs. Hart man Brewington. Assisting at the reception were Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Bullard, Mrs. Daisy Demery, Mrs. Lillian Chavis. Mrs. Hazel 0. Brewington, Mrs. Queenie Lowry. Mrs. Fannie Oxen dine, Mrs. Christy S. Strickland, Miss Angeline Demery, Mrs. Josephine Barnes. Mrs. Barbara Locklear, Miss Louise Cummings, Mrs. Gertrude Locklear and Mrs. Patty Brayboy. SOCIAL COURTESIES Miss Brewington was honored on a number of oc casions prior to her mar riage. The ladies of Berea Bap tist Church entertained at a shower. Mrs. Rosalind Lowry. Mrs. Sandra Neville and Mrs. Barbara Locklear hosted a shower at the home of Mrs. Maureen Regan. Mrs. Helen Sampson and Mrs. Vicki Bass entertain ed at a rhower at the home of the fo-mer. REHEARSAL DINNER The Rehearsal Dinner was hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Regan, parents of the groom. m- t 1 rhe word "crystal" came rom a Greek word mean rig both ice and rock rystal since the ancients relieved that rock crystal ras a modified and per nanent form of ica. MlftKsiPP? pntte 1 **" Vn It WII one# believed that if a penon dreamt of a rieer. it meant that sometljinQ standi between him and his wishes. k The zebra is basically a light animal with dark stripes. The word tuxedo it an Al- - gonquin Indian word maan inft "ha hat a round foot." , k
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