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EDITORIAL
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Appetizer Kabobs
You can make a colorful
assortment of kabobs for the
appetizer tray easily with
canned luncheon meat. Sim
ply cut the luncheon meat
into -^^-inch cubes and
thread each cube on a
wooden pick with a slice
of sweet-sour pickle and a
canned pineapple chunk
that has been rolled in
flaked coconut.
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-An Editorial Viewpoint—
Treasure Of The Lumber
AS I SEE IT
Druce Dorron
LUMBEE RIVER ELECTRIC
COOP MEETS TODAY IN
SPECIAL SESSION
The Board of Directors of
the Lumbee River Electric
Membership' Corporation is
calling for a special session
today. The meeting is being
held at the Cumberland Coun
ty Memorial Auditorium and
the session began at 10 a.m.
this morning.
anyone else who wants to see,
them, if they are consumers.'
They deserve the answers to
the questions they are asking.
I for one believe the coop is
being run reasonably well. If it
is not, them maybe the
committee has a point or two to
make.
As just about every one
knows, 1 am a strong supporter
of the present board of direc
tors. 1 respect them for being
forerunners and developing a
real listening post for country
folks like myself. I especially
honor and respect Rev. Elias
Rogers because he brought the
lion to bay wiht his law suit
and now the board of-directors
is truly reflective of the
membership at large. Rev.
Rogers persevered and made
the coop responsive to minori
ties too.
Too, I believe the coop has
justifiable reason for the spi
raling electric bills. I too, as
the management does, believe
most of the fault lies with an
unresponsive federal power
commission and the haughti
ness of generating plants like
Carolina Power and Light
Company, plus the strong arm
tactics of energy producing
countries abroad. Too, the
times are a little crazy these
days.
The present administration
of Lumbee River Electric
Membership Corporatiorv
seems honestly to be trying to
grapple with the ‘‘times that
try men’s souls.”
That is why I find it hard to
justify this special meeting.
Why? Are they over reacting
to the celebrated consumer
committee that is asking them
hard but answerable ques
tions? Why not just tell the
committee what they want to
know and let’s get on with
running the coop,
AFTER TWO HUNDRED
YEARS OF NOTHING....
ARE THE INDIANS MOVING
TOO FAST
1 for one cannot attend the
special meeting. If the meet
ing was held in Cumberland
County to discourage atten
dance and participation by
those who have questions to
ask then I too strongly dis
agree with the motive seem
ingly behind the meeting. I am
for democracy period. ! might
disagree with 'the questioner
but I will defend their right to
seek answers.
The Robeson County
Board of Education’s firing of
I. Murchison Biggs has raised
an interesting but foolish
question; are the Indians
moving too fast? Ahem.
That’s the question that
was asked me by a seemingly
responsible Indian, the other
day following Biggs’ dismiss
al. He, in essence, asked me to
go easy and not push for
traumatic action, inferring that
my aggressiveness might set
back certain alliances that are
forming in the county.
1 have a newspaper to get
out today and I do not have
time to .go to Cumberland
County to read graphs and
hear experts discourse on
generating power and the hard
winter that we have recently
endured. I too want reason
returned to my electric bill
reading.
1 say answer the consumer
committee forthrightly. Let
them see the books...and
Well, to be perfectly honest,
the Indians (and Blacks) are
moving too slow. I think they
should fire Y. H. Allen as
county school superintendent
at the very next meeting.
Why? Well, 1 believe, despite
what all the experts say, that
Allen is a poor superintendent
and does not reflect the views
and needs of his constituency--
the pupil enrollment of which
80 percent is minority—60
percent Indian aftd 20 percent
Black., Fire him! To be mae-
Pembroke Drug Certler. Odom ond W. 3rd. Pembroke. NC. Diai 321-4805
Safety caps
aren’t for
every bottle
Readers Digest report
ed on a man who died a^r
trying in vain to open his
safety-capped heart medi
cine. This tragedy should
not have happened
because pharmacy regula
tions explicitly exempt
the two heart medications
in question (nitroglycer
ine and isosorbide dini
trate) from safety cap dis
pensing.
With
mind, it makes sense to
select your pharmacist
carefully. Know that he’s
aware of and understands
the most recent safe-dis
pensing relations. And
trust that he will follow
these to the letter — for
your sake!
We invite you to put
yom trust in our hands.
Rely on us and we won’t let
you down.
this incident in
pemBCC3liec“NT“.iM
nanimous for the wrong reason
is worst than being patently
cruel for the wrong reason.
There are many like me who
support the coop whole heart-
edly but only if we can justify
it. To date. 1 have been able to
do so. I think the present'
board should stand firm and
deal with the questions by
answering them. After an
swering the questions...well,
let’s get on with developing a
coop that is reflective and
representative of all the con
sumers. But the fact of the
matter is that I do not have
time to travel to Cumberland
County to listen to lectures by
experts. I too have a job to do;
and that is putting out an
exciting and interesting news
paper. That is what I will be
doing today while this ‘special
meeting’ is going on.
INDIAN UNITY
CONFERENCE UNDERWAY
And if the committee has
enough petitioners for another
special meeting...well, let’s
hold it. Democracy is an
impartial lady. She just exists
and does not necessarily satis
fy everyone. As long as no one
is denied a right to vote I am in
favor of democracy in any
form, including a special mee
ting by consumers. I believe in
democracy and, the threat of
Cecil Dunn not with standing,
1 am prepared to stand by the
wishes of all the people, as
long' as no one is denied the
right to express himself via
dialogue or the all powerful
vote.
Creative Casseroles
Cubes of julienne strips
of ham plus a cooked
vegetable, plus a can of con
densed soup plus a dash of
seasoning add up to an ap
petizing casserole. Create
your own combinations and
bake until bubbly and heated
through-
Ham and Egg
Ham and eggs are a time-
tested team. Pan-fry slices
of leftover ham and serve
with fried eggs; stir bits of
cooked ham in scrambled
eggs or fold into omeiets.
For a deluxe brunch, count
on Eggs Benedict — toasted
English muffins topped with
hot slices of ham, poached
eggs and hollandaise sauce.
Agricultural Pests
Starlings, sparrows, Japa
nese beetles and roughly
half of the United States’
major agricultural pests
have come from foreign
lands. On the other hand,
the North American musk
rat overran Europe and the
European rabbit nearly
ruined Australia.
Big Harvest
More than 53 million acres
of soybeans were harvested
in 1975.
Government Employs
Government is this na
tion’s biggest single em
ployer. About one out of
every six persons is now em
ployed by government com
pared to one in tO in 1950.
1 for one do not believe that
Indians are moving too fast.
How can we move too fast
after 200 years of denial by
suddenly asking for our right-
ful share?
LEnER5 TO
THE EDITOR
We have Indians who are
qualified to be county school
superintendent. Why not re
place Allen with one of our
Own.
I cannot deny my honest
Opinion even for political con
siderations. Where were those
“don’t do unto them as they
have done unto us” when they
were doing it unto us? I see
nothing wrong with demand
ing quality education for my
children. They deserve the
best we can give them and Y.
H. Allen, as I see it, is not the
best.
Cry for Justice
He’s (Allen) a personable
man and 1 might even enjoy
•going on a fishing trip with
him but ! do not think he
should be superintendent of an
80 percent minority school
system when we have immi
nently qualified Indians and
Blacks standing in the wings.
Tne things in the past, the
things that happened in the
predawn of my life; these
things my hand was not ufion.
Though many things have
happened that were inevit
able, this does not take away
the suffering and resentment
from the hearts of my people.
people.
In the many years since the
first white people came to the
America that my people of so
long ago knew, it has been
bent to serve and honor them
as they saw fit.
Yet there are those who
cannot understand the Woun
ded Knee occupation of 1973,
the BIA Building takeover, the
occupation of the Alexian
Brothers Monastery on land
that was supposed to be Indian
land according to writings and
so-called “promises” of these
very same men!
It’s a happening and a
good one at that. It is the
second annual Indian Unity
Conference sponsored by the
N. C. Commission on Indian
Affairs and the Lumbee Re
gional Development Associa
tion, Inc.
The three day conference
which began yesterday is
being held in Greensboro. 1
think the theme is a good one-
Unity. God knows Indians
need more of that. And it is a
good forum for an exchange of
ideas and dialogue. It is
always good for people to talk
to each other. An Indian Unity
Conference, as is a letter to the
editor, is better than the
negative feed back of a shot
gun blast, If Indians ever learn
the art of being agreeably dis
agreeable...well, the sky’s the-
limit. We can do what ever we
want to do.
Over this span of time many
of my people have harbored in
their hearts feelings that are
not because of things and
happenings in their lives, but
because of the suffering and
misery that their ancestors
knew and lived in for so long.
Discarded and rejected becau
se of the ignorance and
prejudice of a few that became
the ignorance and prejudice of
so many, they sought to make
a world aside from that of the
“great white civilization”
from which they had been
rejected,
All the treaties and prom
ises that were broken; are
these agreements the whites
never meant , to,
keep? If so, God have mercy
on their souls!
Reprinted from
The Fayetteville Times
Moore County’s elaborate countywide
water-sewer sytem ought to be carefully
assessed for environmental impact
on the Lumber River. That assessment can
take place after the results are in on March
29 when county voters are to decide
whether to approve a $12 million bond issue
to launch the system.
Moore County authorities have promised
such a study (to be undertaken by the
engineer for the system), if the voters
approve the bond on March 29. That study
should involve more people than just the
engineers who made the plans. It should
involve experts in growth planning as well
as in water resources.
The environmental impact of the project,
which would create one of the most
elaborate such public works systems in a
rural area anywhere in the country, ought
really to have been considered earlier. But
it is the nature of engineers to largely
ignore such considerations when the
opportunity is presented. The Moore County
project was put into planning before
environmental impact requirements were
written into law.
The system would undoubtedly serve its
main purpose, which is to promote
industrial and population growth in the
county. Moore County does indeed need
industrial growth. Despite being home to
famous golf resorts, the county has one of
the lowest family income levels in the
state.
SOU!-
in the same form taken from a
except for phosphates.
The real worry of environmentalists .,
people who live along the Lumber is i;
the longrange impact of such an eiaboJ
public works system would be to pro^
-ndustrial and urban sprawl on ^
headwaters of the river and evenlu*
damage the ecology of the river dl!
stream. They have noted that statistics us
to justify the water-sewer systt
estimated a population of over 135,odj
the area in two decades, compared to k
than one-third of that now. Even \
proponents of the system concede
figures may be nothing more than
engineer’s pipe dream.
Before any such system is carried to
final form, the impact of such growlii
the lower Lumber should be assessed tr
scientifically and in a policy sense. {
Lumber is one of the state’s finest naiu:
watercourses. In its lower reaches, it is
immensely rich swamp-and-river resouit
That area is too valuable in its natural st
to be offered up on any altar of induslr.
growth upstream. There are alternafc
which could allow Moore to grow witti
damaging the Lumber.
I plead to my people that
they will not allow the preju
dice that condemned them to
come into their hearts and
guide them on the path that
was the one chosen by those
who had condemned them.
But such projects can also promote
building sprawl and unwise location of
industrial and commercial facilities, and
invite developers to develop terrain which
would best be left in its natural state.
Again and again my people
were deceived, cheated, accu
sed of doings from which lies
were told, from which evil
images of Native Americans
were conjured up. Injustice
after injustice followed for my
Indifference to the problems
of Native Americans on the
parts of all of our people will
only aggravate the problem
that has ruined so many.
Indifference will only bring
more problems and will de
stroy what progress has been
achieved.
The proposed system has many safe
guards in it, especially in its sewage
treatment provisions. The treatment plant
would be of the so-called “tertiary" type.
Such units return waste water essentially
A thorough-going environmental sic
could well provide recommendations'
cooperative use of the river and
headwaters, use which could serve -
needs of people all along the river. I-
Lumber is, after all, not merely
potential water-sewer resource -oA
people of Moore County. It is a nalt
treasure for people all along its eoiirs
Indeed, it is a natural treasure of all I
people of North Carolina (and Sot;
Carolina, too, which knows it as the Lit
Pee Dee). It can serve all of then
properly used as a total resource ani
such projects as the Moore water-s(r
system are held strictly accountable in j
overall use plan.
Oh God be with i
L. D. Malcolm
Pembroke, NC
Nudist Party
The person to loatch in
future Presidential elections
might be the Nudist Party
candidate. Their slogan is:
We never keep anything
covered up.
Probably the high light of
the meeting will be the
banquet tonight when the
special speaker will be Mr.
Howard Lee, Sein’etary of the
N. C. Department of Natural
and Economic Resources.
Pembroke Girl Scouts Observe
Girl Scout Week
On March 6 the Pembroke
Girl Scouts observed Girl
Scout Week by attending their
sponsor church. First United
Methodist Church in Pem
broke.
But the three day series of
workshops, presentations, i
banquet, etc. is just an old
fashioned pow wow where
Indians throughout North Car
olina come together and talk
and reason together and learn '
about one another. That’s a
good reason to have a meeting
any time.
Leaders: Mary Lene Ozendtne
Pat Maxwell, Maureen Regan,
Karen Revels, Sherry Revels, Jones.
Belva Locklear and Doreen
Letters to Editor Poli
Front row, left to right: Dixie
Oxendine, Tina Marie Jones,
Karen Kay Deese, Karen
Stickney, Amanda Hunt, BUIIe
Jo Hunt; back row, Angela
Sawyer, Lisa Scboffler, and
Sherita Hunt. {Elmer Hunt
Photos]
BIG BELL...Small vis
itors are dwarfed by for
mation in Missouri Caverns,
Leasburg, Mo., called the
nation’s largest Liberty Bell
replica.
Broiled Potato
Cut one medium peeled
crosswise in one-eighth inch
thick slices. Place slices on
rack with beef patty; brush
with one teaspoon butter;
sprinkle with dill- Broil until
tender and lightly browned
—about six minutes. Makes
one serving.
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