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t^THE CAROLINA INDI, 1 VOICE
PEMBROKE, N.C mAJM-lMtalS^f" , E f J ROBESON COUNTY
VOLUME 12. NUMBER 47 ISc FEE COPY - 1 ? " THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1984
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GOOD NEWS AT
PEMBROKE COUNCIL MEETING
$672,683 CD Grant Underway
PEMBROKE-It was a night of good
news at the Monday night meeting of the
Pembroke Town Council as Reed White
sell (grant administrator) unveiled plans
for the town's recently awarded Com
munity Development grant of $672,683
which will revitalize the Jones Street
Area. A number of residents from the
affected area attended the meeting and
listened attentively, occasionally asking
questions, as Whitesell detailed plans for
the massive program which will improve
the quality of life for a number of citizens
in the area, and revitalize, rehabilitate or
completely rebuild at least 31 dwellings
in the area.
The citizens who live in the area.
Mayor Milton Hunt, Councilmen Larry
T. Brooks, Vemon Oxendine, Henry
Ward Oxendine and J.C. Thomas, Town
Manager McDuffie Cummings, and
seemingly everyone in the audience were
pleased at the good news, realizing that
one of Pembroke's most impoverished
areas would indeed be receiving some
much needed help. Said Bruce Barton,
editor of this newspaper, and chairman
of the Pembroke Historic Properties
Commission (in later remarks to the
council), "It is the epitome of good
government to see this positive step
unfolding. It is what government can and
ought to be..."
The comprehensive revitalization pro
gram will include $216,981 for extensive
water and sewer improvements in the
general area (as well as other areas of the
town), S4.200 for clearance activities,
$71,000 for relocation assistance.
$325,500 for the rehabilitation of pri
vately owned dwellings, and 555.002 for
administration.
Whitesell estimated that bids would be
let before Christmas and building should
commence by the first of the year, and
possibly earlier. In the meantime, the
extensive paperwork that accompanies
such a massive program is underway and
area residents will be interviewed and
information compiled beginning today
(Wednesday).
The program also includes a local
option sewer improvement of $65,580
that will go a long ways toward solving
some of the town's sewer and water line
problems.
Said McDuffie Cummings. "It is a red
letter day for the town, one that we have
looked toward with much anticipation for
some time."
HISTORIC PROPERTIES COMMISSION
/TOWN OF PEMBROKE
HOLD JOINT PUBLIC HEARING
The newly formed Historic Pro
perties Commission and the Town of
Pembroke held a joint public hearing
Monday night, beginning the first step of
many that is hoped will save the
Pembroke Railroad Station, as well as a
number of other historic properties in the
town.
Bruce Barton, chairman of the com
mission, presented remarks to the
Council and audience, detailing plans for
the eventual restoration of the railroad
station that was built in 1888 and is the
oldest building in Pembroke.
Now abandoned by the railroad.
Sartou and Jtber members. W the
commission (including Mrs. Mary H.
Locklear, Mrs. Lucy Locklear. Dr. Bob
Hersch. Mayor Milton Hunt, and Clinton
Thomas. Jr.) hope to acquire the
property, restore it to the use of the
community and possibly add a mini-park
if land can be acquired from corporate
interests now owning the property
adjoining the railroad station. Possible
uses of the railroad station include
offices for the chamber, 'Strike at the
Wind!', a municipal library, a min-con
cert hall. etc.
A lot of work remains to be done but.
as Barton noted, "the journey has
begun," as he met with commission
members earlier in the month.
In other Matters...The Town Council
approved ordinances designating certain
prefixes for certain streets within the
town and also approved a measure that
establishes a property numbering system
for the Town of Pembroke.
Mayor Milton Hunt also announced
that Pembroke citizens will soon see
positive action on "numbers" for
residences within the city limits as each
residence will receives its own number,
making location more easy to pinpoint for
addresses. Mayor Hunt said, "We
promised citizens numbers and I'm glad
to see us get around to doing this."
LUMBER RIVER BASIN COMMITTEE
TO MEET NOV. 29TH
The LRBC will hold its November
meeting in the McLean Room of the
Robeson County Public Library at 7 p.m.,
Thursday, Nov. 29th. Guest speaker will
be Mr. Bo Delaney of the Natural and
Scenic Rivers Program of the Depart
ment of Natural Resources and Com
munity Development, State of North
Carolina. The public is invited to learn
more of this program in the open
meeting.
Brantley
Blue
Award
On November 9, 1984, about 90
people joined together at the Johns
Hopkins Sheraton Inn to pay tribute to
Brantley Blue and to award the Fourth
Annual Brantley Blue Award.
This year's recipient of the prestigious
Brantley Blue Award was Mrs. Elizabeth
Berry Locklear. Mrs. Locklear, or
"Duncan" as she is affectionately called
by her friends and relatives, has been
involved in Indian causes since 1966 and
was one of the founders of the American
Indian Study Center, now known as the
Baltimore American Indian Center. Mrs.
Locklear has been a strong advocate of
the Indian family and a strong advocate
of Indian Rights. Mrs. Locklear has
served as a board member of Citizens for
Washington Hill. Chairperson, South
east Community Organization, South
eastern Community Relations, Secretary
(presently secretary). Jubilee Baltimore,
and Title IV Indian Education Program
(presently chairperson). Mrs. Locklear is
a member of South Broadway Baptist
Church also. Mrs. Locklear attended
Pembroke State University and is
currently employed as a Senior Alco
holism Counselor.
In addition to the Brantley Blue
Award, the Baltimore American Indian
Center, sponsor of the event, presented
several other awards to community
people. Mary H. Lewis was recipient of
the Board Member of the Year Award,
and Avis Low cry was awarded Volunteer
of the Year honors. Clara Hammonds
was recognized as Senior Citizen of the
Year, and James Lewis was recognized
as Youth of the Year. Vera Shank was
given the Distinguished Service Award
for over 17 years of dedicated service to
the Baltimore American Indian Center
and the Baltimore Indian community.
Vera Shank was also one of the founders
of the BAIC.
Congratulations to all of these
winners!
A Holiday Benefit for the Disadvantaged
A Holiday Benefit for the Dis
advantaged will be held December 15 at
the Performing Arts Center at PSU. The
variety show will feature top name
entertainment of the region and the area
with a lively mix of popular music,
country, gospel, rock, and comedy.,
According to Willie Low cry, spokesman
for the committee organizing the benefit,
the proceeds of the benefit will be used
to help persons who are confined to their
beds by severe handicaps or disabilities.
"There are many peopple who can't get
off their beds, who are alone most of the
time and need some holiday cheer," said
Lowery. "We want to help (hem."
The benefit hopes to educate (he
public to the problems of persons
suffering with profound disabilities. A
friend of the spokesperson is repre
sentative <*f the plight of the persons the
Committee wishes to assist. "He has
been paralyzed and confined to a bed for
a year," explains Lowery. "There are
many people like him who suffer in
isolation and despair. During the holi
day, we want to give them cheer,
friendship, comfort and concern."
Featured entertainment for the event
will include Willie Lowery. popular
Lumbee singer; T.V. personalities, seve
ral gospel groups, and many others.
Guest speakers will present infor
mation on the plight of persons confined
by severe disabilities.
The Holiday Benefit is co-sponsored
by the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce
and supported by local civic clubs and
community organizations.
The Holiday Concert, in PSU's Per
forming Arts Center, on December IS.
beginning at 7:30 p.m., will be priced so
that anyone who wants to attend will be
able to. Tickets, now going on sale, are
S5 for adults and S2 for children under
12
Small
Crowd Attends
Klan Rally
ST. PAULS-Maybe 300 people ga
thered in a dusty field four miles east of
St. Pauls Saturday for a Ku Klux Klan
rally and twilight cross burning.
They heard F. Glenn Miller, Jr.,
leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan, call for white racial purity
and urge the crowd to take an aggressive
stance against government civil rights
programs. The crowd responded with
frequent chants of "white power."
There were no incidents during the
rally, although Miller said the Klanamen
had come fully prepared for any
encounter with blacks or Lumbee Indians
in Robeson County. Almost all par
ticipants in the rally were armed with
rifles or pistols. An occasional unmarked
law enforcement car patrofled the area,
but no uniformed officers were evident.
Most of the men and some of the about
40 women who attended were dressed in
military camouflage uniforms. One eld
erly man and one woman wore white
Klan robes, and another had on a
magenta chaplain's robe.
After an hour of speeches, a security
guard of two dozen Klansmen put aside
the Confederate flags they had held
during the ceremony and picked up
fuel-soaked torches. Forming a ring
around a 25-foot cross in the plowed
field, they ignited the cross as strains
from "The Old Rugged Cross" floated
across the field from a public address
system.
Miller urged people to join him and
Klansmen from four other KKK chapters
in a Jan. 26 rally in Raleigh to lay a
wreath at the Confederate monument on
the state Capitol grounds. He said the
march would be a celebration of Gen.
Robert E. Lee's birthday, designed as a
show of opposition to the Jan. 19 national
holiday honoring the birthday of civil
rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The implied threats bf violence never
occurred and many people. like a middle:
aged Lumbee Indian who participatedlA
the 1958 rout of the Klan near Maxton.
said. "Good riddance! And may they
stay wherever they came from."
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Pete ..
Jacobs
Honored
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James A. [Pete) Jacobs, Robeson (
County Tax Supervisor, was one of ten (
Tax Supervisors to receive the profes- p
sional designation of "Certified North
Carolina Assessor" by the North Caro- ~
Una Association of Assessing Officers at
its annual conference held at the t
Institute of Government In Chapel HiU
last week. ^ candidate for this desig
nation must have a minimum of five |5|
years experience in a tax office and must
successful^ complete five prescribed
courses of instruction in property ap
praisal and assessment administration. a|
Jacobs, a member of the North ()j
Carolina Association of Assessing Of- |r
fleers and the International Association Q]
of Assessing Officers, has served as R
county Tax Supervisor slneiVJVjX He s
was president of the State organization in
1977 and was the State Representative
for IAAO in 1976. He was also named the
state's Outstanding Tax Supet visor in ^
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PEMBROKE SR. HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1969 REUNION
The Pembroke Senior High School
Class of 1969 will observe its Reunion
December 28. beginning at 7 p.m., at the
Pembroke Jaycee Hut. Tickets will be on
sale for S12 single, and S24 per couple.
Contact Gwendolyn Lowry, Ed Chavis,
Randall Jones or Lillie Deese. Or, for
further information, contact Lilly Deese
at 738-9351 during the day, or Randall
Jones at 521-2371 at nights.
DIAL FAMILY REUNION
A Family Reunion for the descend
ants of Marcps and Elizabeth Dial will be
held December 29, 1984, beginning at 2
i.m., at Prospect United Methodist
Ihurch. Descendants are encouraged to
tring a covered dish and a photo of
larents if possible.
HAVE A SAFE, HAPPY
\ND PROSPEROUS THANKSGIVING!
PEMBROKE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE SPONSORS RAFFLE
ON ORIGINAL WATER COLOR OF
PEMBROKE RAILROAD STATION
Tickets can now be purchased from
iy member of the Pembroke Chamber
F Commerce as well as at the Carolina
idian Voice, for a chance to win an
iginal watercolor of the Pembroke
ailroad Station by Pembroke artist
andy Stratil.
Tickets are being sold for, JH. The
ainting is valued at $150 and will be
iven to the lucky winner, most likely, ai
le annual banquet of the Pembroke
hamber of Commerce in January.
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K1WANIAN PANCAKE SUPPER
AND BREAKFAST
The annual Pancake Supper and
Breakfast will be held at Pembroke
Elementary School on Friday, Dec. 7
from 5 til 9 p.m. and breakfast Saturday
morning, Dec. 8 from 6 a.m. until 10
a.m. Tickets are S3 andmay be obtained
from any Kiwanian.
Speaker at the recent meeting was
Henry W. Oxendine. Presiding was
President Arnold Locklear. Invocation
was given by Adolph Dial. Ticket
chairman is Reggie Strickland. The
weekly meeting was held at 7 p.m.
Tuesday at the Town and Country
Restaurant.
LOW INCOME ENERGY
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
The deadline for applying for the
Low Income Energy Assistance Program
at the Robeson County Department of
Social Services is Friday. Nov. 30. Low
Income households that wish to apply but
have not done so should go to the
Department of Social Services as soon as
possible. Income and reserve available to
households in October will have to be
verified by the agency. Households will
have to meet certain income require
ments to qualify depending upon the
number of persons in the household.
IN THE ARMED FORCES
Air Force Capt. Keith Locklear, son
of Barbara Locklear of 505 W. Fifth St..
Pembroke. N.C., has participated in Red
Flag '84, held at
The exercise provided combat skills
training for U.S. Air Force, Navy, Army,
and Marines along with other NATO
forces.
The purpose of Red Flag was to offer
"combat experience" in a peaceful
environment.
Locklear is assigned with the 55th
Tactical Fighter Squadron at RAF Upper
Heyford, England.
PEMBROKE K1WAN1S CLUB MEETS
Program Chairman Alvin Ray Low
erv, an Extension Agent himself, pre
sented Kelvin Starr, the Horticultural
Extension Agent, who described the new
extension teletip service offered by the
North Carolina Agricultural Extension
Service. The service ik toll free by calling
1-800-662-7301. The hundreds of tapes
dealing wjth food, fruits and nuts,
vegetables, home maintenance, house
plants, lawns, shrubs, flowers, pests in
and around homes, soil testing for Ph
content, are just a few of the many
problems that the Agricultural Service
offers to the citizens of the state.
Reggie Strickland announced work
assignments for the Pancake Supper and
Breakfast to be held at the Elementary
School on Friday. Dec. 7th and Saiuidav.
Dec. 8th.
Presiding was President Arnold Lock
lear; song leader was Ray Lowry; and
invocation was given by Bernard Lowry.
The meeting was held at the Town and
Country Restaurant. Tuesday, at 7 p.m.
This program was in observance of
Farm and City Week.
CHRISTMAS PARADE DEC. 7TH
On behalf of the Pembroke Jaycees.
Town of Pembroke and the Pembroke
Chamber of Commerce, we would like to
invite the citizens of Robeson County and
surrounding counties to participate in
our 1984.1 Ith Annual Christmas Parade.
The Christmas Parade will start at 10
a.m. on Friday morning. Dec. 7, 1984.
All iniercsied citizens, organizations,
churches and schools are asked to be at
Pembroke State University, in front of
the Performing Arts Center, between 9
a.m. and 9:30 a.m. for line up numbers.
Last year's parade was very spec
tacular and colorful, with beauty queens,
floats, marching bands, marching units,
fire trucks and. of course, the main
attraction. "SANTA CLAUS" and his
LITTLE HELPERS." The parade last
year had well over 4,000 spectators with
82 entries participating.
Marching bapds (High School and ^
TUSCARORA TRIBE OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC.
P. O. Box 1455, Pembroke, N. C 28372
(919) 843-2160/521-4454
The Tuscarora's are once and forever a "UNITED PEOPLE", solidified
and working for economic and social development within the Tuscarora
Indian community.
This unification occurred on September 2, 1983 when elected
representatives from the three separate Tuscarora Indian organizations
-realized and resolved all differences for the good of all Tuscarora
Indians.
The three organizations which represnted all Tuscarora Indians
in southeastern North Carolina formed the "NOW" new and "EXISTING"
Tuscarora Tribe of North Carolina; which was incorporated on
January 26, 1984 with the state of North Carolina, forming The
Tuscarora Tribe of North Carolina,Inc.
For the purpose of clarification the three merging organizations
and the elected representative from each organization were (1) the
Hatteras Tuscarora organization ;Vermon Locklear,representative, (2)
the Tuscarora Indian Tribe,Drowning Creek Reservation;Huel Cummings,
representative, and (3) the Eastern Carolina Tuscarora organization;
McKever Locklear,representative.
At this time a governing Council Board was elected from the three
united organizations; consisting of thirteen members and a Tribal Chief/
Administrator.
Under the guidance and leadership of Brawleigh Jason Graham the
Tuscarora Tribe of North Carolina,Inc. submitted and received a grant
from the Administration For Native Americ.ans a Department Of Health
And Human Services, Washington, D.C.
The purpose of the ANA grant is to promote within the Tuscarora
Indian community social,economic,educational,and legal interests / '
of the Tribal Members;preserve and perpetuate the Tribal i ientity
and culture of the Tuscarora Indians of North Carolina;uni ;e in a
common organization those persons interested in the suppo I, maintenance
and operation of the corporation;and to pursue State and Federal
Recognition for the Tuscarora Tribe.
This grant is administered by Brawleigh Jason Graham, Tribal Chief/
Administrator, under the authority of the Tuscarora Tribe of North
Carolina's Council Board.
The Tribe will have a day of celebration in view of its'new
accomplishments on December 8, 1984 at 1:00 pm at the Tuscarora
Tribal Administrative office locatqd on the old Maxton/Red Springs
Road.
Enrollment applications will be available for interested persons.
We encourage you t$.join us .
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