i '■0 7/ c 19, ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY ACQUISITIONS DEPARTMENT UNC ... A GOOD PLACE TO LI VE WILSON LIBiiARY CHAPEL :.I THE CAROLINA.INDIAN VOICE Dedicated to the nest m all of us *vniTIME 4 NUMBER 51 . PEMBROKE, N. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1976 150 PER COPY $ ♦♦♦l(c*sicHi(‘>t‘***=l”*>'‘’''=l‘=''*************************************************^*^^^’^*^’^^’^^*^^***^*^**^^*’^'********************************* SANTA SHOWS UP IN PEMBROKE At Joycees’ Christmas Parade Rains hampered the. regularly sche duled Pembroke Jaycees Christmas Parade and the annual event was changed from last Thursday morning to the following Friday, December 17, 1976. Nevertheless, a good crowd braved the wintry day to welcome Santa Claus and the Christmas season. It was a day of spritely, high stepping bands, floats, pretty girls, and, most of all, the appearance of Santa Claus. Ah, the awe, the wonder, tfie ]oy of Christmas! Lacy, the lovely daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Maynor has Jast seen Santa Clans pass by daring last Friday’s Pembroke Jaycees Christmas Lacy’s look of awe and wonder embodies the real spirit of Christmas. HELLO : 1 UTTr 2 7 i 8 9 14 115 1 6 21 i 22 23 28 1 29 30 We have appreciated your patron age in the past and we hope that we can continue to serve you in the future. Carolina Indian Voice Newspaper And Print Shop Druce Garry Connee Donnie Ricky people and places and things Santa Clans stayed over Thorsday night and appeared Friday morning as he promised he woald. He was cheered passionately by the children ... and adalts. BRUCE BARTON PHOTOS 'Odyssey Of Mon' unveiled History buff. Dr. Martin L. Brooks, has bfeen contemplating a mural that would express his version of the odyssey of man for a number of years. The dream was realized last Saturday night as he and Mrs. Brooks hosted the unveiling of Gene Locklear’s “Odyssey of Man,’’ a huge mural that now graces the swimming pool area of their home. Gene Locklear, home for the off season, worked approximately three weeks on the mural “eleven hours a day’’ and the results were shown to approximately two hundred guests Saturday night at the Brooks residence. The mural is a curious mixture of world, national and local history. There are juxtapositions with Henry Berry Lowrie, local Indian hero, near Churci hill. Stalin and Roosevelt at Yalta. There are local scenes: for instance. Old Main, University Sportswear, Lum- bee Bank. Dr. Martin L. Brooks and Gene Locklear at their respective crafts, ball player and physcian. There are biblical scenes, Adam and Eve, the Tree of Knowledge, the parting of the Red Sea, Christ in agony, Moses and Elijah. The focal point is Michelangelo’s famous creation of man. To view the 20 feet long and four and one half feet high mural is to muse on the “Odyssey of Man’’ the curious trek across the pages of history. Seemingly, every act and personage is an intricate and integral part of history and a portent of the future. There are scenes of Martin Luther King, Henry Aaron, Louis Armstrong, tear stained Indians, pastoral scenes, moon shots, Telstar, the unknown future. The mural suggests the unknown with a naked man and woman entering an archway beyond which infinity lies, ' there is no definition beyond, just a continuing process of going full cycle. Gene Locklear, artistic and sensitive, who lives with his mother during off season in the Mt. Airy Community, has painted the mural with earth colors, dark browns, brown hues, garish, traumatic reds. He muses “many think they see hostility in my work. I don’t know about that. I just like earth colors, dark blotches of paint. That’s the way I see things.” Dr. Brooks said, “I think, basically, we got everything in it we wanted.” Assisting Dr. and Mrs. Brooks were their children. Greeting guests at the door were Mr. and Mrs. Noah Woods. A special guest was Johnny Grubb, a former San Diego Padre teammate of Gene’s, who was traded to the Cleveland Indians during the off Dr. Brooks, drawfed by the mnral, explains his view of history, ‘*the odyssey of man.” Discernible behind him is Einstein, a Yalta scene, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and other scenes, past and present, suggesting the Ironic harmony of history and the sense of it all. Walter Oxendine honored by Joycees PSU’S MIKE OLSON SERVING AS NAIA AREA 7 REPRESENTATIVE PEMBROKE--Mike Olson, in his sixth year as wrestling coach of Pembroke State University, is serving his second year as NAIA Area 7 wrestling representative to the national NAIA headquarters. Olson’s wrestling team, which current ly ranks 14th in the national NAIA poll, is continuing a winning tradition which he has had since coming to PSU. In his five past seasons at Pem broke. Olson has piloted the Braves to four NAIA District 29 titles, two NAIA Area 7 crowns and one runner-up spot in the Area. The Area includes the Carolinas, Virginia and West Virginia. Olson, 39, has coached three All- Americans at PSU: Bob Hudkins in the 1972-73 season, Steve LaPrad in 1974-75 and Dave Miller in 1975-76. LaPrad has also been an honorable mention All-American as has Hudkins and Larry Bridgewater. Last year was the greatest year of Olson’s career in wrestling. Not only did he win both the NAIA Area 7 and District 29 titles, he was chosen for the third time in five years as District “Wrestling Coach of the Year.’’ He was also selected as team leader for a United States NAIA All-Star wrestling team which last summer toured Japan and Korea. Among the gifts Olson took to the Orient from America was a North Carolina bicentennial flag, presented to hint in Raleigh by Gov. Jim Hols- houser. A native of Minneapolis, Olson re ceived his B.A. form Coe College in Cedar Rapis, Iowa, and his M.A. from Wayne, Nev., State College. PSU’S GANE NAMED TO NCAA DIVISION 2 ADVISORY COMMITTEE PEMBROKE-'Lacey Gane, athletic director of Pembroke State University under whose guidance PSU has pro duced one of the finest small college athletic programs in the nation, has been named to the four-man South Atlantic Advisory Committee for NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Associ ation) Division 2 Basketball Cham pionships. Walter Oxendine receives the Jaycee of the Month Award for September and Jaycee of the Quarter for the second quarter of the Jaycees’ fiscal year. Oxendine has been a member of the Pembroke Jaycees since their inception, and during this time he has served in a number of chairman capacities; one and one-half years as Internal Vice-Presi dent; and local president for the year 1970-71. On the state level, Walter has held the offtces of State Vice-President, National Director, and Administrative National Director of the North Carolina Jaycees. He was also appointed to the position of State Chaplain for one year. He was employed by the Robeson Serving with him are Thomas J. County School System for several years Martin, Roanoke College, committee before accepting his current position { Pembroke State University as Develop ment Officer. Having attended the local schools In Pembroke, he went on to receive his B.S. Degree from Pembroke State University in 1964 and his M.A. Degree from Appalachian State University In 1976. The Oxendines, Walter, his wife Connie, and their two sons, Kendall Blake and Kelvin Drake, reside in Pembroke. chairman; Bob Moorman, Central Inter collegiate Athletic Association: and Frank Szymanski, University of Bal timore. They will help to determine partici pants in the NCAA Division 2 Cham pionships, whose finals will be held March 18-19 at Springfield, Mass. The South Atlantic Region includes Maryland, District of Columbia, Vir ginia, West Virginia and North Caro lina. This Gane’s 12th year at Pem- [Brnce Barton photo) broke State University, 10 of which he served also as head basketball coach. He was the man responsible for PSU’s being accepted in September into the Carolinas Conference, which Gane calls his No. 1 achievement as university athletic director. Under Gane’s leadership, the uni versity’s athletic program has produced 14 All-Americans and an almost count less number of honorable mention Ail-Americans. In competition in NAIA District 29, which includes many small colleges and universities in N.C. and Virginia, PSU has captured 34 district team championships. In balloting for district coaches of the year in the various sports, PSU has won 24 and tied for one more. In his 10 years as basketball coach at PSU, Gane compiled a 169-108 record, four times piloting the team to 20 victories and in ’ 73 taking it to the NAIA national championships at Kansas City, Mo. He will be attending the NCAA Convention in January in Miami Beach, Fla. Gane, 49, a native of Ardmore, Pa., earned his B.S. at Elon College and his Master’s from the University of North Carolina. His birthday is New Year’s Eve. “PEMBROKE MAGAZINE” RECEIVES $3,000 IN GRANTS FOR NEW ISSUE PEMBROKE--Tbe • Pembroke Mag azine ’ edited Norman Macieod, associate professor of Communicative Arts at Pembroke State University, has received a total of $3,000 in grants for its next issue, which will be No. 8. The N.C. Arts Council has awarded $2,000 to the literary magazine. The publication has also received $1,(X)0 from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines in New York City. The Coordinating Council is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and awards grants to various literary magazines throughout the nation. “Pembroke Magazine” was the only publication in North Carolina to receive a grant at the Coordinating Council’s last meeting in November. The grant of $1,000 was the largest the Council awarded to any magazine in the South. Each year the “Pembroke Magazine” grows larger. Its seventh issue, which was a bicentenial issue and empha sized the works of Archibald Mac- Leish, contained 372 pages. It has a world-wide circulation and was praised during the past year on NBC’s “Today” Show bicentennial tribute to North Carolina. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY REPORT Traffic accidents claimed the lives of 23 persons during the four day Christmas Holiday period in North Carolina last year. There were 1677 reported collisions in all with 605 of these resulting in 1031 personal in juries; 21 fatal collisions resulting in 23 deaths. The remainder of these were property damage accidents (1051). As usual with holiday festivities and people traveling, ^cohol and speed took their toll, along with driving on the wrong side of the road and numerous other violations. This year will bring another long Christmas Holiday period to our state, and the State Highway Patrol requests that motorists do their part in helping make the highways safer. Separate your .drinking and driving - allow someone to do the driving who has not been drinking; obey the speed limit; and adjust your driving to the changing weather and road conditions. Please, won’t you do your part to make this a joyous holiday season? Drive defensively - drive to arrive alive! -Sergeant Robert M. Walsh Traffic Safety Information Officer RICKY LOCKLEAR NAMED ALL AMERICAN IN FOOTBALL Ricky Locklear, the hard hitting tackle for Elon College has been named All American by the Associated Press in the College Division. Locklear. 6-1. 235. is a senior and graduated from Fairmont High School. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Welton Locklear from the Fairmont area.

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