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> VOLUME 5 NUMBER 9 PEMBROKE, N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1977 15« PE * ^ I
TOWN OF PEMBROKE SUES
people
and places
and things
FORMER TOWN CLERK
FOR RETURN
OF MISSING FUNDS
■^The Town of Pembroke Wednesday
ernoon entered a complaint in the
perior court of Robeson County
ainst foimer town clerk, Mrs. May-
I pie Elk, asking for the return of some
5,000 determined missing in a recent
dit and during an investigation by the
ite Bureau of Investigation.
The judgement was entered by
Hold Locklear, attorney, representing
law firm of Locklear and Brooks, tKe
’ firm representing the Town of
nbroke.
drs. Elk was a long time employee of
Town of Pembroke and served as
-fn clerk from August of 1972 until she
tgned September 30, 1976.
he complaint asks for the return of
le S30,oio0 determined missing and
mates wilful and wrongful misman-
vment, fraud, dishonesty, and /or
j(7ezzlement and notes that no part of
missing funds have been paid for or
■Mounted for.
««
^he suit for recovery of the missing
is reads in part, “Plaintiff (Town of
ibroke) is unable to state the precise
^J)unt of the loss suffered as a result of
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Announced
NeU Lowry
the above discribed wrongful action
defendant, but plaintiff is informed and
believes and therefore alleges that....
(the amount; equals $30,(XX) or more,
which amount is due and owing from
defendant to plaintiff as a consequence
of defendent’s wrongful failure to
discharge her (Mrs. Elk) trust to
plaintiff...”
No court date had been set at press
time.
A New
Dentist
In Town
Pembroke now has a dentist in Town
— Dr. Edward E. Livingstone, now
closing out his practice in Kinston, N.C.
He will officially open his office today
at 1:30 p.m.
Dr. Livingstone’s office hours will be
Thursday, Friday and Saturday from
8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Said Dr. Livingstone, “I am in the
process of closing down my office in
Kinston and hope eventually to settle in
Pembroke and establish regular
hours.” Added Dr. Livingstone, “I am
excited about being in a small town
atmosphere where I feel I can make a
real positive contribution.”
Dr. Livingstone hopes to move his
family to Pembroke with him in the near
future. In the meantime, he plans to
commute back and forth from Pembroke
to Kinston where his daughter- is
enrolled as a senior in high school.
Dr. Livingstone credits local pharma
cist, Howard Brooks, and Dr. Martin L.
Brooks with introducing him to the
community.
Dr. Livingstone has met with town
officials, L.R.D.A. staffers, and local
towns people in his efforts to get
acquainted and acclimated to his new
environment.
Mrs. Sadie Barton will assist Livings
tone as a dental assistant. She is now
being trained on the job in the Kinston
office and will commute between the
two offices until Dr. Livingstone esta
blishes his offices full time in Pem
broke.
His new office is located next door to
Little Giant Convenience Store across
from Pembroke State University.
Honor Roll at
Dr. Edward E. Livingstone points ont
some of the new dental equipment
being installed in his office to dental
assistant, Mrs. Sudle Barton.
McLean
Business
Chain
Established
at PSU
PEMBROKE—The late Angus W.
McLeam of Lumberton, governor of
North Carolina from 1925-29, was
honored Tuesday when a professorship
bearing his name was established at
Pembroke State University here.
The professorship — technically a
“chair” — will be endowed by gifts
from the McLean family during the
next 10 years.
The money will be used to hire a
professor to do research in the business
field, teach and act as a liaison between
the university and the business.
McLeani founded Southern National
Bank (SNB), -which is based in
Lumberton. Hector McLean,, son of the
•late governor and chairman of the board
of SNB, was on hand for the ceremony.
Pembroke got a taste of big city traffic
this week as maintenance repair on the
Seaboard Coastline Railroad disrupted
traffic through the heart of Pembroke;
Regular maintenance (the replacement
of rails and cross ties and grading] by
the Seaboard Coastline Railroad Co. was scheduled every seven years or so
detoured traffic bound to Highway 711 as part of the railroad’s regular
through circuitous routes and created maintenance program,
monumental traffic jams at times.
Work is expected to be completed this
A spokesman for the railroad said the week,
work was “regular maintenance” and
B.Y.U. Lumbee Student Visits Hawaii
Rex Rennert
The Honor Roll for Rex- Rennert
School is announced by the principal,
Mr. Newman B. Oxendine. It is as
follows:
let
Paulette Dial
inton L. Thomas, Jr.. Executive Di-
■ r of the Housing Authority and
velopment Commission of Pem-
; has announced the employment
ell Lowry, as Assistant Director,
Paulette Dial, as Secretary to the
utive Director with that office.
till
j Lowry a native of Pembroke
^lated from Pembroke Senior High
^)1 in 1962. She has formerly worked
'irst Union National Bank of
Aroke, N.C. and Texfi/Industries of
Werton, N.C. with duties in ac-
uing. She has most recently served
l»etary to the Executive Director of
l^ove agency since April, 1973. Ms.
i is riiarried to Oberon Lowry, they
three children and are members of
>ers Ferry Baptist Church in
^Toke.
^ Dial who is also a native of
^)roke is a 1966 graduate of
' roke Senior High School. She is
nfa 1969 graduate of Fayetteville
^^ical Institute, and a 1976 graduate
/mbroke State University holding
|2€S in Accounting from both
'lljtions. She has been employed
tPembroke State University since
/I working' with the Institutional
&jrch Office until 1973 when she
^^romoted to Accounting Techni-
Dial is married to Kenneth Dial of
Toke, they have one son.
Grade: Wendy Pruitt, Lisa
Edna Quick. Kellie McGirt. Third
Grade: Karen Troublefield, Penny Furr,
Aliria Richardson, Tammy Lou Oxen-
^'Sine, Thelma Locklear, Monica Locklear
and Bobbie Jo Burns. Fourth Grade:
Archie Clark, Carleen Morgan, Thomas
Espey, David Barnes, Robert Burnette.
Fifth Grade: Pamela Clark, Felecia
Locklear, Lisa Walters, Tony Oxendine,
Gordon Richardson, Mary Marie Lock
lear, Gregory Shelton, Steve Peterson
and Lunar McMillan. Sixth Grade: (A)
Margaret Burns, Anita Clak, Jolene
Godwin, Tonya Patterson, Erlene Pat
terson and Tony Shelton. (B) Cathy
Charlton, Patricia Brewer, Dwight
Locklear, Lorie Locklear, David McMil
lan, Melanie Brayboy, Barbara Jeanie
Locklear, Valarie McMillan, James M.
Jones, Robert Locklear and Frances
Oxendine. Seventh Grade: James Scott,
William T. Ivey, Lancey Locklear, Lori
McRae, Mark Peterson. Andrew Bums
and Jody Godwin. Eighth Grade:
Barbara Warriax, Darlene Jacobs,
Cynthia Morrison, Cindy Shelton,
Sharon McNeill, Lola McArthur, Ann
Locklear, Jerry McMillian, Teresia
Sierra, Diane McCallister, Jasper Ox
endine and Sharon Chavis.
UPWARD BOUND PARENTS NIGHT
Tommy D. Swett, Director of
Special Services at Pembroke State
University announced today that the
Upward Bound Program will host
Parent’s night on Monday, March 7,
1977 beginning at 7:30 p. m. in Room
204 of the Mary Livermore Library.
Sandra K. Lucas, a 19 year old
Lumbee, visited the State of Hawaii to
present an eagle feathered war bonnet
to the Brigham Young University at
Oahu, Hawaii. In the fall of 1975, BYU
at Hawaii presented the Tribe of many
Feathers Indian Club of BYU in Provo,
Utah, with a Hawaiian War Bonnet. So.
in return Sandra Lucas presented a gift
to them.
Jean Harmon, Miss Indian BYU. Jeff
Simons and his wife, Betty Simons of
the Indian Education Department of
BYU Provo, Utah went along on the
cultural exchange to Hawaii also.
While there Sandra met with all the Sandra and the other three Indians
club presidents and advisors and had a
Leadership Seminar with them. She
learned of the many cultures of the
friendly Island people. She, and six
other Indians, performed a one-hour
cultural, program to the entire student
body at BYU on the Hawaii campus. She
met with President Anderson and Dean
Fox of BYU Hawaii and shared ideas
relating to the world’s largest university
club of which Sandra is president, The
Tribe of Many Feathers. The dub
consists of approximately 600 Indian
students comingj. from 77 different
tribes.
were in Hawaii for two weeks doing
consultant work and other school
business. Ray Soloman received the
Indian War Bonnet on behalf of the
BYU at Hawaii. He is from New Zealand
and thanked Sandra in the New Zealand
way, with a rub of the noses.
Sandra is a sophomore at Brigham
Young University at Provo, Utah. This
university consists of 26,000 students.
She graduated from Pembroke Senior
High in 1975 and is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Lucas of Pembroke.
Ray Soloman Is shown saying thank yon
to Sandra Lucas in his native New
Zealand style, by robbing noses.
Sandra Lacas
PEMBROKE BPW CLUB
ANNOUNCES SHAMROCK BALL
Various community service projects
are implemented by the Pembroke
Business and Professional Women’s
Club. Among projects which have been
conducted this year are contributions to
the Foreign Student Exchange Program
at Pembroke Senior High School, a
Christmas Service Project to the Aging
at nearby rest homes, donations of
clothing to Robeson House in Lumber-
ton, and the largest single project of the
Club, theCareer Advancement Scholar
ship Project which awarded two scholar
ships in the amount of $200 each to
young women pursuing their education
at institutions of higher learning. A
pending project is a service project to
the Women’s Correctional Center in
Raleigh where the Club will initiate a
program to assist area women who are
currently at the Correctional Center.
A major fund- raising event for the
Pembroke BPW Club will be a
Shamrock Ball on March 11th at the
Jaycee Clubhouse in Pembroke. The
ball will feature a dinner followed by a
dance with music by Gene Lowry.
Tickets are available for $15 per couple
from members of the Pembroke BPW
Club.
The next meeting of the Pembroke
BPW Club will be held on Monday,
March 7 at 7:00 p.m. at the Maynor
Manor Community Room. The meeting
will be a combined planning- business
session and hostesses will be Ms.
Gearldine Maynor, Ms. Betty Roberts
and Ms. Evelyn Cummings.
PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC
PLANNED AT PROSPECT
A pre-school clinic will be held at
Prospect School on March 9, at 9 a.m.
Parents should bring the necessary
records with them, birth certificate,
shot record, etc. It is not necessary to
bring the child. A child must be 5 years
old by October 15th in order to register
for kindergarten, and six years old by
October 15th in order to register for first
grade.
HOMEMAKERS CLUB HOSTS FIRST
AID COURSE
A second session of the First Aid
Course being offered at Bethel Hill
Church Neighborhood Service Center
was held on Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. The
course session was hosted by the Bethel
Hill Homemakers Club, a chapter
sponsored by the Lumbee Regional
Development Association.
Mr. E. L. Whiting, Civil Defense
instructor, is teaching the course. After
reviewing what was taught the first
session (Stopping Bleeding), Mr. Whi
ting began the main topic for the night
“Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation.” A
film demonstration showed how to
revive a person whose breathing has
stopped. Later, the group actually
performed the routine on a life- sized
doll.
After the film and demonstrations
Mr. Whiting closed with the announce
ment that the next session, the
following Thursday, would deal with
“How to Bandage Wounds.”
Club Vice-President Mrs. Mazell
Hunt opened the meeting and welcom
ed everyone. Mr. fteese Hunt gave the
invocation. The audience was treated to
refreshments by Mrs. Lucy Huggins.
Approximately 17 persons attended the
first aid session.
TOWN COUNCIL MEETING
POSTPONED
The Pembroke Town Council Meeting
scheduled for March 7, 1977 has been
postponed until March 21 at 7:00 p.m.
PHSH HEALTH CAREERS CLUB
FINAUST FOR
“CLUB OF THE YEAR AWARD”
The Pembroke High School Health
Careers Club is a finalist for the “Club
of the Year Award.” The winner will be
announced at the HCCNC Congress
which is being held at the Sheraton Inn
in Charlotte, March 3-5, 1977. Club of
the Year is a coveted award for which
clubs all over the State compete. The
award recognizes a club for having had
the best overall program for the club
year.
Donna Dial, club president, will give
an oral report to the delegate assembly.
The Pembroke Oub has been very
active in District as well as local events.
They sponsored an officers Leadership
Workshop for local elected Officers in
District IV. One hundred and twenty-
five members from fourteen clubs
attended. They also sponsored the
District IV Rally which was attended by
250 club members. Three officers and
their advisor. Ms. Miriam Edwards
were among a delegation which repre
sented District IV at the HOSA Consti
tutional Convention in Arlington, Texas
last November.
Fifteen members from the club are
attending the HCC Congress in Char
lotte. They are: Donna Dial, President;
Geanice Ransom, President - Elect;
Rhonda Jones, Secretary; Cynthia John
son, Historian-Reporter; Helen Moore,
Parliamentarian; Karen Revels, Connie
Bullard, Waylon Kennedy, Gregory
Nevilles, Enid Cummings, Sherry Re
vels, Jennifer Oxendine, Paulette
Smith, Jay Juren, Ricky Oxendine, and
Mrs. Mirian Edwards, Club Advisor.
Miss
Pembroke
Senior High
Brenda Carol Hunt
Brenda Caro! Hunt, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Hunt, was crowned
“Miss Pembroke Senior High School”
on Febrary 26, 1977 in the Pembroke
State University Performing Arts Cen
ter.
Brenda, a senior, represented the
Spanish Club. She sang the popular
song "Feelings” in both Spanish and
English which was preceded by a
monologue. Her talent was enhanced by
a vivid-red satin Spanish dress designed
in the Spanish tradition for performers.
The theme of the pageant was
“Happy Days” which was interpreted
by the Drama Department, the contes
tants and their escorts. The theme set
the pace for the entire pageant which
was in a realistic malt shop setting.
Miss Congeniality’ was Miss Denise
Strickland, daughter of Mayor and Mrs.
Reggie Strickland. Denise is a senior
and represented the Monogram Club.
First Runner-up was Tamara Jacobs
who represented the Drama Club. She
is a junior and the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Welton Jacobs. Second-Runner-
up was Veronica Bryant, daughter of
Ms. Betty Bryant. Veronica represented
the Chorus. Ramona Maynor was third
runner up. She is the daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Gerald Maynor and repre
sented the Key Club. Fourth runner- up
was Windy Vest who represented the
FHA. Windy is the daughter of Ms.
Annie Lois Vest.
Mr. Steve Tyner was the Master of
Ceremonies. He was assisted by Stuart
Locklear, a senior at PSHS.