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"1 had to adjust," she says, "and a lot of times I had n
to adjust to ignorance because a lot of people have prejudices
and don't know why. i
"As a black woman in religion, you have to weigh d
these things and come to the realization that there's a lot r
of educating to be done," she says..
That is why Sister Towns makes the annual trip she's t
been making since 1969 to the National Black Sisters 4
Conference to share experiences and discuss with other /
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On a whole, the Catholic Church is beginning to face a
severe shortage of men and women willing to commit t
their whole life to the church, and Sister Towns says she r
sees the lack of commitment in a contemporary world as t
being the root of the problem.
Says Sister Towns: "Any young person who decides 1
they want to go-into religious life has to sit down and i
Candidate Speaks At
The Rev. Sidney A. Locks Jr., State Represenative 1
elect for District 16, will be the second candidate to speak ,
at First Baptist Church this Sunday at the 11 a.m. worship
service. <
Locks is presently pastor of Sandy Grove Baptist i
Church in Lumberton. He is an administrator with the j
Sandy Grove Dare Care Association and a coordinator 1
for the Robeson County Operation Sickle Cell.
A native of Opeloussas, La., Locks received his B.A.
degree from Wiley College in Marshall Texas and his
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"Because of my schedule af the bank," Betty says, "I
am up and out of the house by seven. Jerry gets the boys
dressed, feeds them and gets them off to school. And in
the afternoons, I go on shift (taking care pf.the boys).
And when it comes to driving- the kids f^errrschool to
field trips, Jerry does the driving. In fact, most of the
time he is the only father there."
Although Jerry carried the majority of the load, the
t\Vo also share house-cleaning and cooking chores. "I did
it because it had to be done, but I hate house-cleaning,"
Jerry says.
Betty and Jerry, who call each other momma and daddy,
seem to have adjusted to the reversed roles easily. But
convincing Betty's mother proved difficult.
'7 didn't get jealous when Betty's career was
moving ahead because I was a part of her doing
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9 -- Jerry Hanes
"My momma had a hard time adjusting to-our arrangement,
" Betty says. "She used to tell me, 'You leave
Jerry at home with them boys. He doesn't know what
he's doing.' But I like the fact that he has no problems
about helping me with the boys. I couldn't imagine having
anybody else."
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"The^ see it as a way of lifiH," Jerry says. "They say,
'my momma or daddy might come to school, or wash the
4 dishes or cut the grass.' We m?y overlap."What
makes the team of Jerry and Betty Hanes work?
"Not only are we husband and wife," Jerry says, "we
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' Vivian. "He likes to be in the background and enjoys seeing
other folk make it. If you have ever seen someone
who is willing to let all the attention go to someone else,
then that's how I feel Logan is."
Says Logan: "I've never been a person interested in a
bunch of fanfare. Whatever you do or accomplish,
knowing yourself that you accomplished it is enough
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capable and thinks for herself," he says. "She has herown
personality and involvements and I have my own. I
don't see myself as ... propping her up. She is capable
herself."
But sometimes just sitting in the background can-get to
be a little too much for anybody. When Logan was on
m vacation last summer, he decided that he would do some
much-needed painting around the house - which turned
out to be only a desire.
"Every time I stuck the brush in the paint bucket," he
says, "the phone would ring. From early that morning
until 3:30 when Vivian got home, the phone rang 30 or
more times. I never did paint that day."
And Vivian's hectic schedule has also forced Logan to
take to other tasks around the house. "I don't clean the
house," he says, "but I do admit to washing the clothes.
You know when the colorful shirts were in style? Well, I
had one and Vivian washed it and messed up my shirt and
I said I will wash from now on."
And the cooking. "Well, we both do the cooking," Vivian
says.
"Usually Todd and I will go out and get something to
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ealize just what committing their total life to God really
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"Many young people today aren't willing to make that
otal commitment/' she says. "Look at the rate of e<
livorce. With society offering so much, we've found that rr
eligion is not being emphasized the way it used to be. tl
"The things we have valued as religious traditions have
>een taken away and it all starts in the family," she says, fi
4A lot of our heritage was lost when we came over from a
Africa." . a
No one could convince Sister Maxine Towns^that the t<
iecision she made more than 20 years ago was a bad one^- b
"I wanted to give myself totally without any inerference,"
She says. "There^e people who are rhar^ n
ied, who are very religious, but they have to commit tijne h
o their family, too. ii
"My whole life, however, is to God and His service, so i d
[ can listen and carry out the mission he has given to N
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Locks is a former commissioner for the Robeson
County Jury Selection Committee and former member of
the board of education for Lumberton City Schools. He ,
also served as an executive board member of the General ^
Baptist State Convention.
Locks is also a member of tfte^NAACP, Alpha Phi
Alpha .Fraternity, Inc. and was elected by the National - ?
Jaycees as an Outstanding Young Man in 1981.
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tionship whole and fruitful.
"And you have to show that person that you love them j
instead of just saying it. If you love that person, you have s
to let your work speak for you. And remember, the sun is j
not gonna shine every day."
Says Betty: "A lot of marriages have problems because 1
folk don't try to relate to each other. I have to unders- r~
tand that Jerry is an artist and may not do things in a
systematic way, like I do. But I have to combine his
positive assets with mine to make a whole.
"We have our problems just like everybody else," she
says. "Whatever daddy (Jerry) does has a direct impact
on thi? circle we are trying to keep complete th$t includes
the boys, our careers and managing, the household."
And after 11 years of marriage, and a lot of trial and
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"When I met Betty 1 knew she was jus< my kinda
woman,'* Jerry says. "She was like your favorite food."
And Bettv describes Jerry as "fantastic." "When_L
need him, he is there and I get good support and I get
mutual respect," she says. "I don't worry about competition
from my husband because this is a team."
The two will adjnit that although things are working
well for them, they have not located the magic formula.'
"We are still working on it. We are still mixing the potions
together,"Jerry says.
One of the hardest tasks Jerry has ,had, has been
describing to his male friends his present role. "When
they call and say they wanna do something, if I have to go
pick up some groceries, I tell them that," he says. "If he
or she is a friend of mine, then they will understand. The
biggest thing is trying to keep away from the peer
pressure." And
if all goes as planned, both Jerry and Betty Hanes
will carve their own individual nooks -- Jerry imart and
Betty in the field of banking.
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eat," says Logan. "Vivian is always on some kind of
, diet."
Despite all the little inconveniences, Logan says he is
happy for his wife.
"I wish her luck and I would be happy to serve as her
campaign manager again (if she decides to run for
^gther office)," he says. "Franjclv. J ih^ ^---"^pald
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still, on the other hand, I am not envious," says Logan.
"If that's what she enjoys doing and that makes her happy,
then OK. She is more productive now than if she were
at some bridge table or involved in a lot of social
organizations.
"A lot of women are probably out of the house as
much as Vivian, and if you look at what they have accomplished
in terms of making a commitment to the
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But just who is Logan Burke? You won't find out
much if he has to tell you. Instead, his wife, who never
seems at a loss for words, tells his story and he hesitantly
fills in any gaps.
"I am an unusual person in a lot of ways. I enjoy just
relaxing. I enjoy spectator sports and I enjoy spending
time with our son (a law student at North Carolina Central
University who shares an apartment with Logan in
Durham during the week)."
"Unselfish, that's the one word I would use to describe
Logan," Vivian says. "Logan has done a lot of good
things. And a lot of people in this community know him
for the things he has done." s
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But George is responsible for the beginning of
irginia's political career. * rn
"In 1963," Virgirfia says, 44George told me that 1 needi
to run for school board (in Raleigh). He told me to put tc
ly clothes on so we could go downtown to file. The next
ling 1 knew 1 was filing for school board."
Virginia lost that race, bpt that didn't stop George G
:omencouraging her to try again. But Virginia said she R
lways thought that George should hold public office. E
Jter all, his grandfather, John T. Newell, served foyr o
:rms in the state legislature. "George had it in his S
ones," Virginia says. "I didn't." A
But political family ties soon proved not to mean a
luch. Since then, the name Virginia Newell, not George
Jewell, has become a household word in political circles R
i Winston-Salem. She has been instrumental in the
evelopment of the East Winston Shopping Center, tl
Mechanics and Farmers Bank, the East Winston Restoraion
Association and the East Winston Crime Taslc h
rorce, just to name a few. t<
It's a wonder that George doesn't have a tinge of C
ealtiusy. v ^ s
"You know," George says with the help of -<vhat he I
alls the 44l Jniversitv nf Fxnerience " 2
Mato and Socrates didn't care what Platf) said because he f
vas the teacher." tl
And that seems to hold true for George and Virginia
>ecause she was a student of his when he taught ETology p
it Atkins High"School. h
"She was a very ambitious little girl," George says.
'And when she went away to college, I kept my eye on ?p
ter pretty closely." d
But keeping his eye on Virginia took up only half of his f
ime. George says that in his day he was considered "a
nan about town. Several ladies threatened to commit s
;uicide if 1 didn't marry them." j
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But Virginia says, "... when he met me, he met his
latch."
And a match the two of them are, except when it comes
) politico _ *
Virginia is a Democrat and George is a Republican. J,
"1 don't believe all blacks ought to be like cattle,"
ieorge says of the reasons he decided to join * the
epublican Party. "Now all blacks vote the straight
emocratic ticket and if a Republican gets in, they ain't
bligated to serve us. The South is no longer a Solid
outh. You got to have a two-party system to compete.
lS it is now, some black people are voting Democratic
nd don't even know what they are voting for."
He adds that he predicts this election year will favor the
epublicansj
He says: "From the courthouse to the White House,
lis is the best year to run on a Republican ticket."
George, who always seems to haveliwtqrical stories at
is fingertips, could be described as an Africaft griot. He
alks about his days as a young boy who had to leave
^larkton to find a-school that he could attend eight intead
of six months, his college days at Johnson C. Smith
Jniversity, the difficulties Jie had trying to attend
raduate school in 1931, his various jobs -- despite the
act that he has never filled out a job application ? and
he rearing of his-children.
Since his retirement diys, George has slipped from the
?ublic eye and is more of a homebody. He even tries his
land these days at cooking and cleaning.
Although he won't admit to domestic chores, he slip>ethfrom
the interview into the kitchen, where smells of
linneEjand the clanging sounds of pots and pans could be
ieard-in the frontroom. .
When asked who is the strongest of the two, Virginia
ays, "He's behind me." But George, not wanting her to
set one over on him, adds, "And she's behind me."
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