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OUR READERS CONTRIBUTE
One -of ihe exciting features about
running a newspaper in Robeson
County is the opportunity it affords us to
get to know the people of the most
interesting county in America.
Over the last four years a number of
interesting features have developed
almost of their own accord, in the pages
of the Carolina Indian Voice each week.
My brother, Garry, has developed
almost an all consuming interest in the
life and times of Henry Berry Lowry. He
writes a column each week featuring
your hero and mine--Henry Berry
Lowry. He has developed a fan club, of
sorts and is hard pressed to come up
with an interesting column each week.
Mrs. Bazie Hardin and Mrs. Violet
Locklear probably are the most popular
contributors to the Carolina, Indian
Voice. They write, respectively, “Pem
broke News” and “Mt. Airy News.”
detailing the social life of both
communities. .Said a reader recently
from Maryland, “frankly, the first thing
1 read is the social news. I want to know
what my relatives and friends are
doing...even if 1 am not there any
by Bruce Barton
longer.”
And Dr. Dalton Brooks has developed
a column named, appropriately enough,
“Educational Views.” He has a spark
ling and self-image orientated view of
education. He writes the column
because he likes to share ideas and
people like to read about his view of
education...how he feels about things
educationally.
Some people even like to read “As 1
See It”: my very personal view of
things, as 1 see them. And, as 01’
Reasonable is fond of reminding me,
“Boy, you do have some peculiar views
on things in general.” I like to think that
1 express feelings that other people in
the county feel. No one wants to be a
glaring Red Thing for that sake alone. I
am not necessarily inconoclastic about
life in Robeson. It just seems that way
some time.
And Letters to the Editor. We like to
receive letters from readers, even if
they disagree with us. We just ask that
the cussing be held down to a minimum
and that the writer not cause us to be
sued for libel. Most readers, although
they have alternative views and disa-
This scene will be repeated often in the
Pembroke State University Invitational
basketball tournament, scheduled Mon
day and Tuesday in PSU’s Jones
Physical Education Center. Coach Joe
Gallagher is shown giving instructions
to his cagers during a timeout. The
Braves play UNC-Asheviile at 9 p.m.
Monday in their tourney opener.
PSU Cagers Face
Tough Field In Third
PSU Invitation Tourney
Begins Monday at Pembroke
By Gene Warren
PEMBROKE-'Pembroke State Univer
sity’s basketball team, which has never
lost in its past two Pembroke Invi
tational tournaments, faces perhaps its
most formidable field here Monday and
Tuesday, Jan. 3-4, when the third
annual PSU Invitational Tournament is
held in the Jones Physical Education
Center.
The Braves open their tourney action
at 9 p.m. Monday against UNC-Ashe
ville, which downed PSU 71-64 in
November in the Asheville Optimist
Tournament championship game. In the
first tourney game Monday at 7 p.m.,
Coastal Carolina, which topped the
Braves 63-59 Dec. II at Conway, S.C.,
. opposes Methodist.
On Tuesday a consolation contest will
be played at 7 p.m., followed by the
championship game at 9 p.m.
The Braves, who are 3-4, resumed
practice Thursday following the Christ
mas break and Coach Joe Gallagher
calls this “the beginning of our second
season.” Despite being below .500 in
the won-lost column, Gallagher asserts,
“If we play the way we did in the second
half of our Dec. 18 game at Guilford (to
which PSU lost 84-82 after being behind
by 16 points), the opposition had better
look out. We had Guilford on the
ropes.”
Going into the PSU Invitational,
Gallagher describes the Braves as “a
much better ball club than the one
which started the season. We have been
searching for certain things-like emo-
tion and stability-and I believe we have
found them. 1 think we have developed
team character. I don’t see our team
blowing big leads any more.”
However, against UNC-Asheville in
the PSU tournev. the farp a foe
which is aspiring for the big time. East
Carolina barely beat UNC-A at Green
ville 68-65, and the Bulldogs gave
nationally seventh-ranked Wake Forest
a good game before bowing 84-73 at
Winston-Salem.
UNC-Asheville has a 4-7 record, but
six of its last seven games have been on
the road against powerful opposition.
However, UNC-Asheville has lost to
PSU in both previous Pembroke Invi-
tationals, 77-60 two years ago and 55-49
last season in the title contest. Coach
.r Bob Hartman of UNC-A has great
respect for the Braves; “PSU played a
great game in beating Gardner-Webb in
our tournament, and we had a tough
game in beating them in the finals.
Pembroke has also beaten Guilford,
which takes some doing. That score (the
Braves won 72-70 in the first Guilford
game at Pembroke Dec. 8) impressed
me.”
Leading the Braves against UNC-A
will be Captain Tom Gardner, who leads
PSU in both scoring with a 19.3 average
and rebounding with a 10.9 mark.
Following the 6-foot-7 Gardner in
scoring are 6-2 guard-forward Lenwood
Graham with a 16.6 average and 6-4
forward Randy Bridges with 10.3.
But Gallagher expressed concern
about Gardner’s scoring only eight
points (his season low) against Guil
ford, the coach adding, “Gardner’s got
to move more. He has got to take at
least 15-18 shots a game for us to do
weil-as has Graham.” Against Guil
ford, Gardner took only'six shots. Coach
Gallagher added PSU can’t get killed off
the boards (40-18 at Coastal Carolina) if
it expects to win the tournament.
A PSU player many will be watching is
6-1 sophomore guard Elmer Brown who
came out of nowhere to score 15 points
gree with us quite vehemently, do so in
an agreeable manner.
Etc. Etc. Etc. Elmer Hunt, a photo
grapher’s photographer has added
immeasurably to the quality of the
Carolina Indian Voice with his fine
photographs. He is a special friend of
ours and we cherish our professional
and personal friendship. And Rev.’s
Ted Brooks and D.F. Lowry and 01’
Reasonable Locklear.
Rev. Tony Brewington is doing a
special series on the churches which
make up the influential Burnt Swamp
Baptist Association. Contributors like
Rev. Brewington make the pages of the
Carolina Indian Voice bristle with life.
Thanks!
And Lew Barton, father, friend and
mentor, contributes “Up From Dusk
and Darkness,” a serial history of the
Lumbee Indian experience. No one can
articulate the unique quality of being a
Lumbee Indian better.
And Gene Warren, PSU’s prolific word
master, who keeps us abreast of
happenings on campus.
And b. lockiear (little “b” and little
“1” please...shades of e.e. cummings)
and Jackie Lugene Lowery and all the
friends and poets and aspiring writers
who have practiced their ware in the
pages of the Carolina Indian Voice. We
have grown together and learned
together and our friendship and respect
for one another has blossomed into
something positive and good and
enriching.
Yes, the pages of the Carolina Indian
Voice are filled with the sparkling wit
and joy and hope and dreams of our
readers. That is what a newspaper is
for. We promise more of the same in
1977,
in a sub role at Guilford. An NAIA
honorable mention All-American in
track as a high jumper, Brown’s
performance was the most pleasant
surprise of the season for PSU.
Commented Gallagher: “Brown pene
trated well, taking the ball to the
basket. He handles the ball well, plays
good defense, and if he continues to
play like that, it will be hard to keep him
outofthere.” It was Brown’s first game
performance of the season.
The Braves enter the tourney with the
fifth best field goal percentage mark n
in national NCAA Division 2 ranks-
56.1 per cent. However, other tourney
participants are doing well, too. Mehot-
dist ranks 15th in the NCAA Division 3
ranks with a 65.6 team defensive mark.
Methodist’s James McRae (brother of
former PSU honorable mention All-
American Alphonzo McRae) is the sixth
best field goal percentage shooter in the
national NCAA Division 3 ranks at 70.3.
UNC-Asheville’s scoring leaders are
6-3 Bamford Jones with a 16.3 average,
5- 10 George Gilbert with 15.8 and 6-7
Tony Bumphus with 12.2 and a
team-leading rebound average of 8.9.
Jones was the “Most Valuable Player”
in the Asheville Tournament.
Hartman says UNC-A has lost recently
“because we don’t have the inside
people. We have been outrebounded
almost every game—and we have been
making errors in critical situations.” In
the last seven games the Bulldogs have
lost 68-65 at East Carolina, 102-83 at
Gardner-
Webb, 72-70 at Carson-Newman, 81-74
at Milligan, 81-73 at Lander, won 78-77
at home against Augusta, but lost 84-73
at Wake Forrest.
Methodist's scoring leaders are the 6-2
McRae with an 11.8 scoring average
followed by 6-4 Clarence Wiggins and
6- 5 Gary Porter, both with 9.8, Coach
Joe Miller says “If our Methodist team
(with a 2-3 record) doesn’t play well in
this tournament, we will get blown out
of it because it represents such a good
field. I feel this is going to be the best
Pembroke Tournament yet. However,
we like to compete against such
opposition because it better prepares us
for our Division 3 schedule.”
Coach Russ Bergman’s Coastal Caro
lina team enters the tourney with a 7-2
record, the best of any tournament
participant. The Chanticleers have not
lost at home this season. Their leaders
in the 63-59 victory over PSU Dec. 11 at
Ci'Hway, S.C.. were 6-1 Robert Smith
with 17 points and 6-6, 215-pound
center Frank White with 10 points.
Ronnie Love, a 6-4 forward, had 11
rebi'unds and 6-5 Jim Gabe hauled
down 10.
James D. Chavis
Eorns Doctorate
people
and places
and things
University witn a B.S. in Mathematics
and Science. He earned his M.A. in
administration at East Carolina Uni
versity.
Chavis, who received his high school
diploma from Hargrave Military Aca
demy, was with Bethlehem Steel’s
Accounting Division from 1955-60 be
fore teaching in the N.C. public schools.
He was director of the PSU Student
Union from 1964-66. He served as PSU
financial aid officer from 1966-67. He
next became administration assistant to
the PSU president (now Chancellor)
from 1967-71. Moving next into the area
of PSU director of admissions and
registration, he held these respon
sibilities from 1971-72 before becoming
PSU dean of student affairs in 1972.
Chavis has been listed in “Outstand
ing Young Men of America,” “Per
sonalities of the South,” and as a
college student with ‘‘Who’s Who
Among Students in American Colleges
and Universities.”
He is a member of the Board of
Directors of First Union National Bank
and Riverside Country Club. He is past
president of the PSU Alumni Asso
ciation and the Pembroke Kiwanis Club.
A member of the National Association
of Student personnel Administrators, he
is also a member of the Southern
Association of Student Financial Aid
Administrators.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred D.
culating Course Cost analysis in a Public Chavis of Pembroke, Dr. Chavis is
Institution of Higher Education in North married to the former Bertha D.
Carolina.” Maynor, elementary schools supervisor
in the Robeson County Public Schools.
A native of Pembroke. Dr. Chavis, 40, They have two children, Bridgette and
i.s a graduate of Pembroke State James B. Jr.
Dr. James B. Chavis
PEMBROKE-James B. Chavis, dean
of student affairs at Pembroke State
University who has served in a number
of high offices at PSU, has just
completed all requirements for his
doctorate at Duke University.
Dr. Chavis’ doctorate is in Adminis
tration in Higher Education. His
dissertation was on the subject of “The
Development of a Formula for Cal-
REP. ROSE’S MOBILE SCHEDULE
Congressman Charlie Rose, D-NC,
announced the January schedule for his
Mobile District Office.
Rip Collins, Congressman Rose’s
administrative assistant and represen
tative in the district, announced that the
mobile office will be parked as close as
possible to each post office.
ROBESON COUNTY
Jan. 8, Saturday- Lumberton, Biggs
Park Shopping Center, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Jan. 13, Thursday- St. Pauls Post
Office, 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
Jan. 14, Friday- Pembroke Post Office,
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Jan. 26, Wednesday- Shannon Post
Office, 10 a. m. to 12:30 p.m.; Lumber
Bridge Post Officer, 1 p.m. to 3 p. m.
Jan. 28, Friday- Lumberton, Biggs Park
Shopping Center, 10 a. m. to 3 p.m.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Jan. 6. Thursday- Hope Mills Post
Office, 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
Jan. 7, Friday- Stedman Post Office, 10
a. m. to 3 p. m.
HOKE COUNTY
Jan. 12, Wednesday- Raeford Post
Office, 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
A Long and Happy Union
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Chavis and their
fourteen children are shown above.
They are: seated left to rights Ethel
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Chavis of Route 6,
Box 366, Lumberton were married April
5, 1913 after a courtship that took place
on a horse drawn buggy, and a beautiful
buggy robe that not only graced their
buggy, but provided warmth for their
bodies. Today the robe is framed and
hanging in their living room. They still
reminisce about those good old times,
even though those were difficult times
to earn a living, especially for the Indian
farmer, but they were blessed with
helpers and did not have to use much
hired labor. They worked hard and
always had plenty to eat, most of it
came from the garden or farm yards.
They were good providers. Yet, now as
always they give all the thanks to God
who has truly done the providing.
Their home has always had family
prayer, morning and night, and grace
was asked before each meal. As a
matter of fact, if most of the children
went out to the field to work before
family prayers, then when all got out to
the field, prayer was said there.
They have been married almost 64
years, and God has blessed them
immensely. They are the proud parents
of 14 children, all living and in good
health, 60 grandchildren and 61 great
grandchildren. Seven of their children
live in Michigan, one in Kansas, and '•n
Jane Howes, Emma Jane Taylor,
Margaret Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Chavis,
Clara Ballard, Doris Altson, Hazel
in this area. All of the children love to
visit their parents and are thankful that
God has blessed them so tremendously.
Very seldom during their childhood
were any of them taken to a doctor as
Mrs. Chavis always had a remedy for
most of their ailments, usually made of
herbs, and administered with love and
Many people today, as always, come to
visit and have Mrs. Chavis pray with
them in time of sorrow. Both of them
have always visited the sick, and shared
with the needy. Mr. Chavis still gets
around very well, takes care of his
business, drives wherever he goes, and
will be 86 years young June 22, 1977.
It's really amazing to see how well they
are doing. Mrs. Chavis has been
half-crippled for many years, but never
confined, yet the last few years she has
had to slow down.
They have based their marriage on
Christian faith and have been members
of the Reedy Branch Church all these
years. Mr. Chavis was treasurer of the
churcli for 40 years, and only gave it up
recently. Mrs. Chavis has taught in one
of the children’s Sunday School classses
for most of these years.
Tlic entire family has been fortunate
enough to be (i>eether twice for faniilv
Brewington. Standing left to right: Fred
James, Grady, Carlis, Ray, H.B., Ted,
and Bobby Chavis.
reunions. The last one was on Mr.
Chavis' birthday, June 22, 1975. It was
a great time when “all” fourteen
children and parents were together, and
most of the grand and great-grand
children joined in.
HOKE COUNTY
Jan. 27, Thursday- Raeford Post Office,
10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
PSU REGISTRATION
TO BE HELD MONDAY
Registration for the spring semes
ter at PSU will take place Monday, Jan.
3, from 8 a. m. to 5 p.m. in the Auxiliary
Gymnasium of the PSU Jones Health
and Physical Education Center.
Those wishing to take Continuing
Education Division (CED) evening
classes during the spring semester may
register Monday evening, Jan. 3. from
7-9 p.m. in the Sampson Hall Admini
stration Building.
PSU students are now on Christmas
vacation.
Student dormitories will re- open
Sunday, Jan. 2 at I p.m.
Last semester a record 2,187 students
attended PSU.
LOWRY TO LEAD BLACK EAGLES
Cdr. Bernard F. Lowry, Jr. has
taken command of the Black Eagles,
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squa
dron 113, in ceremonies aboard the USS
Enterprise, after serving as executive
officer of that unit for over a year.
The Black Eagles have been named
as the first recipient of the Airborne
Early Warning “ExceUence Award,”
jhis competition involves all carrier
airborne Early Warning Squadrons of
both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. It is
the only award which includes interfleet
competition.
This means that Lowry son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard F. Lowry, Sr. of Pem
broke, is in charge of unit Number One
in the United States Navy. Prior to his
becoming executive officer of the Black
Eagles, in August 1975. Cdr. Lowry
completed refresher training in the
E2-B Hawkeye.
The Black Eagles range in the Pacific
Ocean, with their address out of San
Francisco, Calif.
FOUR COUNTY BOARD OF
DIRECTOR TO MEET
The Board of Directors of Four-
County Community Services. Inc. will
meet on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1977, in the O.
P. Owens Agricultural Building audi
torium in Lumberton at 7:30 p.m. The
building is located at the intersection of
Routes 72 and 711.
At this meeting they will concentrate
on the duties of Board members. It will
be, in effect, a “workshop” where
members can ask questions and become
fully aware of their responsibilities.
As always, the meeting will be open
to the public.
NEW YEAR’S EVE
GOSPEL SING PLANNED
The Area C. B. Club will sponsor a
big gospel sing on New Year’s Eve.
Dec. 31, 1976 at 7 p.m. at the Maxton
High School. The sing will feature the
Glory Bound Gospel Singers of Hoke
County, the Shannonaires and Four in
Rapture. Admission is 52.00, $100 for
children.
Quick Response by
Pennbroke and
Deep Branch Fire
Deporrmenrs Avert
Major Disosrer
The quick response of the Pembroke
and Deep Branch Fire Departments
were credited Monday night with
averting a possible disaster at a fire that
occured at the residence of Dr. Martin
L. Bnxiks.
Responding within minutes after being
called, the fire departments were able
(o contain the fire and hold damages to
an estimated $10,000 according to
Pembroke Fire Chief Ray Hunt.
The fire erupted when a frying pan was
alleged left unattended on the stove.
Extensive damage occured in the
kitchen of the Brooks residence and
smoke damage was still being assessed
at press time. No injuries occurred
thanks to the prompt response of the
area fire departments.
Both Dr. and Mrs. Brooks expressed
appreciation to the fire departments. In
fact. Dr. Brooks wrote a poem to them
which is printed on the editorial page.
The Brooks reside on Highway 711
East outside Pembroke.