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Page 4, The Carolina Indian Voice" Native American Resource Associates, Inc. Financial Planners and ronsultants General Agents for: * EquhaUelife Pi D. Lockleor, II, Presidenr Poure 4 Box 266 Lumberron, NC 28358 PURITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Providence, Rhode Island/02901 Telephone: 521-3577 : PEMBROKE I NEWS by Mrs. Bazie Hardis Mrs. Lindburg Locklear and daughter Robin and a frieid of Robin’s named Susan Oxendine and Mrs. Sally Locklear and son Kelvin spent Thursday visiting at Carowinds Entertainment Capitol of the Carolinas near Charlotte. Among the visitors attending church services Sunday at Mount Olive Pentecostal Holiness Church were Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Seals, Mr. Lewis Cummings, Mr. Redmond Locklear, Jr., and Mr. Josephus Jacobs of Fayetteville. A gift of money was donated Sunday to Mount Olive Pentecostal Holiness Church in honor of their birthdays by Mrs. Mattie Locklear for her 27th, Mrs. Mary Lee Oxendine for her 62nd, Bobbie Gail Locklear for her 9th, Mrs. Vera Doris Malcolm in honor of her father. Rev. C. E. Locklear’s, 80th birthday, Mrs. Lila Chavis of Dial Terrace accidentally fell Saturday morning at her home on the concrete walk while she was watering her flowers in a hanging basket and injured her self. The ambulance attendants of the town of Pembroke attended to her cuts and other injuries. Mrs. Chavis did not have to go to the doctor. As of Monday she was reported to be improving satisfactorily. Mrs. John Finlaw of Fayetteville spent a weekend visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Locklear. A singing will be held Sunday evening, June 26, at the Pembroke Church of God beginning at 2:30 p.m. featuring the Free Will Singers from White Hill Free Will Baptist Church, the Sampson Brothers of Lumberton, and the Glory Road Quartet. The pastor is Rev. Jack Hunt. The public is invited to attend this service. Mr. Ronald Locklear has returned home from Gatesville, Texas where he attended National Guard Camp for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Smith. Mrs. Leonard Chavis, and Mrs. Ivene Chavis attended the funeral services of Mr. Elman Maynor, 77, held Tuesday at Shiloh Pentecostal Holiness Church of Godwin. Mr. Maynor’s home was in Dunn. Among those from the Pembroke Church of God who attended a song service held Sunday evenig at the East Side Church of God of Fayetteville were the Rev. and Mrs. Jack Hunt, Mr. Winford Brayboy, Mr. Teddie Jacobs, Mr. James Bullard. Mr. Bazie Hardin, Jr., Mrs. Ernest Demery, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson l^klear, Mrs. Jerry McMillian, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Locklear, Mrs. Gail Rogers and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brewer, Mr. Todd Allen, Mrs. Alan Smith and Plummer. The Rev. C. C. Allen. Jr. is the pastor. Mrs. Leonard Chavis was in charge of the Father’s Day program Sunday at the Mount Olive Pentecostal Holiness Church. Timothy Wayne Locklear recited a poem entitled “What is a Father.’’ Rodney Jacobs led the congregation in singing “Faith of our Fathers.’’ Gifts were furnished by Mrs. Chavis to the oldest father, Mr. Donnie Locklear, who was 67, and to the youngest father. Mi . i NEED REHAIRS? y Contact; t Thomas Oxendine I NATIVE AMERICAN t REFWe^^TlQN. Rudolph Seals, who was 23. All of the fathers received presents. They received ball point pens and book markers furnished by the church. Mrs. Vashti Smith furnished the gifts for the pastor. Rev. Timothy Creel, the deacons, Mr. Ronnie Elk, Mr. Thomas E. Maynor, Mr. Randolph Oxendine, Mr. John A. Smith, and Mr. Earlie B. Maynor, who was not present due to the illness of his wife. He will receive his gift at a later date. Mrs. Dora M. Oxendine presented gifts to the fathers. I made a mistake in my news writeup last week. It was Mr. Linwood Chavis and his daughters of Stafford, Virginia who spent the weekend at home with his parents and other relatives. It was not his brother, Mr. Johnnie Chavis. Mr. Chavis’ parents are Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Chavis of Pine Street. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Locklear and daughter of Sanford spent Sunday visiting with Mr. Locklear’s mother, Mrs. Lacy Dial and Mr. Dial and family and his brother, Mr. and Mrs. Camell Locklear. Mrs. Thomas H. (Georgia Rae) Oxendine who was hospitalized for several weeks at the Southeastern General Hospital, after which she was a patient at the Extended Care Unit of the same hospital, was discharged from that hospital. She has entered the Southeast Regional Rehabilitation Center of the Cape Fear Valley Hospital of Fayetteville. One June 6th it was reported that Mrs. Oxendine was improving and was able to walk with the aid of a cane. Mr. and Mrs. Corby Deese and daughters of Paulsboro, New ^APPI Ph. .422-mi 2 Wc Repair •Refrigerators • Air Conditioners aStoves Mpolrs On All Kinds Of Cooling Equipment! Used Water Ciwlers For Sale' •Pick Up and Deliverv Coll 422-4612 Jersey, are spending this week visiting in the home of Mrs. E)eese’s mother, Mrs. Fannie Locklear, and Mr. Deese’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hezzie Deese. Mr. Vernon Locklear, Superintendent of While Hill Free Will Baptist Church, was presented a Bible Sunday in honor of Father’s Day by the Brotherhood of the church. Also receiving a Bible was Mr. Curtis Locklear. Mr. and Mrs. James Brooks and son Jamie and Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Brooks and son spent the past weekend visiting at Myrtle Beach, SC. Fathers honored Sunday for Father’s Day at Deep Branch Baptist Church were the oldest father, Mr. C.A. Sampson and the youngest father, Mr. Jimmy McNeill, and the father with the most children present at church, Mr. Billy Bums. All three received gifts. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Golotlans 6:6 "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap everlasting life.” CENTRAL TRUTH A life committed to Jesus can never be wasted. BIRTHDAY PROVERB FOR THURSDAY. JUNE 23 Daniel 11:32 “And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries, but the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits.” MT. AIRY NEWS By Violet Locklear UP FROM OUST AND DARKNESS By Lew Barton MCotwyArtM DEATH OF A BLACK SHEEP The lovable black sheep of the herd is gone. He’s dead, now. So some people are saying at last what those clo.sest to him knew ail the time. That there was never a sweeter, kinder, gentler, more helpful, more generous, more patient human being. Which is just as it should be. But why does it take a man’s death to bring about such a realization about him? The realization of what he was while yet he lived? Is there noappreciationforthe living in this sin-cursed world any more? He was a "black sheep,” that is true. He drank once in awhile. What’s more, he enjoyed drinking. And people, especially middie-class people, can’t stand that. They deserted him in a very real sense, some of them, simply by avoiding him. At least, they were seldom seen about his modest home. And if they were, theyapologizedprofusely for his being “different.’’"You know that it is. Y'ou can’t bring oil of them into conformity.” Well, they never succeeded in bringing him into fheir own particular style of conformity, that is true. But he was really more conformative than any of them—and a lot less inclined to judge his neighbor. Sinners and saints, alike, enjoyed “getting up with him just to talk.” He was always a good listener, and if someone had a beef, they took it to him and aired it before him, knowing full well in advance that he was always ready to listen sympathetically to whatever they wished to tell him. Maybe he couldn’t solve their own particular problem, but he sure gave them a shoulder to cry on, so to speak. He was courteous and attentive, he never betrayed a confidence, and whatever was bothering you just seemed to become a whole lot less bothersome after talking it out and talking it over with him. But now he is gone. He is already being missed. And for the first time, people are really beginning to realize what a great friend they had in this man. They are realizing it, and because they are, they are extolling him to the high heavens. I don’t think he’d particularly care for that part of it. After all. he’d personally observed the hypocrisy of fellow humans for years, though without any vestige of condemnation in his heart. Which was what made him drink in the first place, probably. But now that he’s passed on, some people have forgotten in record time how many years they’ve neglected him. They’ve forgotten that there was any problem in the first place. They’re quite willing to forgive all, forget all and let bygones be bygones. But so help me, I can’t keep from wondering what possible good all this is actually going to do him now. With his exit, some people did everything on earth possible to make people unaware of the fact that they’d even regarded him as a black sheep, the beloved black sheep suddenly became angelic and saintly. His close acquaintances—and there were many of them—knew better. They knew that he was very human, loved him for his humanity, and wouldn’t have had it any other way. Flocking out to take one last look at his pitiful remains, they set a bunch of flowers here and passed out condolences there. And all the time they were thinking: If he'd been appredoted as much in life os he seems to be in death, he might still be with us. A gentle, inoffensive rebel? Of course. But he knew how to rebel quietly and with dignity. And he genuinely loved even those who thought (mistakenly) that they were better than he. He died, as he lived, quietly. He left as he lived, at peace with « himself and his fellowman. So much so that he wouldn’t resent it right now, not .even if somehow he could look down from .some lofty perch and see the whole travesty. You see. he loved people in spite of their shortcomings and hypocrisy. And when he heard something bad about something, he just smiled his knowing smile and said nothing, 1 never knew him to condemn anyone for anything, not even those who made him the black sheep of the flock. He knew some people thought of him that way, tolorated their attitude, and might even have agreed with them. Because, you see, he left the judging up to God, just as the Bible admonishes us all to do. He didn’t even judge those who judged him, though he lived, out most of a lifetime under their scathing judgement. I hope the black sheep with the snow-white heart somehow made it in the end. And somehow, I believe he did. If so, however, he made it into the golden portals only because God instead of people was his final judge. After all, it was the lost sheep of this world, black and otherwise, that Jesus came into this world to seek out and to save. The Brotherhood and Mrs. Mary Jane Bfyant rendered special music on Sunday morning at Ml. Airy Church. The pastor was unable to attend church due to illness. The oldest father present was Mr. Noman Oxendine. He was presented a gift. The father with the most children, Mr. Roy Lacy Cummings, also received a gift. The youngest father, Alex Locklear, was presented a gift. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Locklear and daughter Vickie of Fayetteville and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buck Locklear were dinner guests last Friday night at the Country Kitchen in Fayetteville where they enjoyed a delicious seafood dinner. After dinner they toured different shopping centers. • Mrs. Cora M. Jones has returned home from the hospital. Her condition is improving slowly. The Brotherhood held a fellowship hour in the home of Mrs. Stella Locklear last Friday night. Mrs. Locklear was admitted to Southeastern General Hospital Tuesday. Mr. James Oxendine is a patient at Southeastern General Hospital. He is scheduled to be transferred to North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. His condition is serious. Misses Zine and Delenia Sampson are spending some time this week with their grandmother, Mrs. Libby Lowry and family of Barker Street, Pembroke. Mr. Clarence Griffith was able to be back in church Sunday after being out for a while due to illness. Mrs. Violet Locklear observed her birthday Tuesday, June 21st. Among her many gifts was a concrete picnic table and benches ordered by her children. She and her pastor visited McCain Hospital and enjoyed a delicious dinner together. THOUGHT FOR TODAY The only way to live happily with people is to overlook their faults and admire their virtues. r GRAND OPENING Sat. July 2, 5 p.m. until I Welcome Everyone to - the GRAND OPENING OF FIRST AMERICAN COOPERATIVE WAREHOUSE | Located on Hlghwo 711, S miles from Lumberron and 6 mfles from Pembroke. FREE REFRESHMENTS WIU. BE SERVED! PINE LAKE PARK On Picturesque Lumber River 2 miles south of Pembroke-Deep Branch Rd. OPtN DiUtr 12 NOON-I0:00 P.M. SWIMMING LESSONS Mon., June 20-Fri., July 1 Phone 521-4163 or 521-2545 MT. OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH Thursday, June 23,197^ Miss Lumbee, a Winner Rev. Tony Brewlngfon by Cathy R. Lockteor Rev. Grady Cummings In I886 a building was erected on a track of land located in the Saddletree area of Robeson County, to the west side of the aged Saddletree Swamp. The property was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Locklear to the congregation of Mt. Olive Baptist Church with the deed being recorded December 15, I886. Rev. F-A- Prevatte, a white minister living in the area, was very compassionate toward neighboring Indians and used his vast knowledge and experience toward organizing Indian congregations. This particular group of forty-two requested his assistance and called him as their first pastor. Several programs of rennovation have little affected the traditional style of the original building still being used. Additional land has been acquired from the firm of K.M. Biggs. A portion of this property has been developed into a cemetery. A Fellowship Hall was constructed in I971 and a ten year program of total church building renewal has been initiated. Other pastors serving the church after Rev, Prevatte are as follows: Rev. J.W. Blanks, Rev. A.D. Locklear, Rev. P.R. Locklear, Rev. A.T. Taylor. Rev. L.W. Jacobs, Rev. C.E. Locklear, Rev. Percell Locklear, Rev. T.M. Swett, Rev. Dawley Maynor, Rev. Charlie Warriax. Re_v. Tilford Locklear and Rev. Grady Cummings the present pastor since I973. Mt. Olive has a present membership of sixty-eight and a Sunday School enrollment of one hundred sixty. The oldest member is Mr. Ambrose Locklear, age 93, who serves as a deacon along with Mr. Stenson Revels and Mr. Wilbur Locklear. The youngest Sunday School member is Stacy Locklear, son of Mrs, Sally Locklear. In 1946 Mt. Olive sent the following messengers to the associational annual meeting: Mr. Tommie Chavis, Mr. Loyd Lowry, Mr. Frank Locklear, Mr. A.B. Locklear, Mr. Loy Locklear, and Mr, Henry Hammonds. On Saturday, January 30, 1926. the associational churches met at Mt. Olive for the quarterly meeting. A message was preached by Rev. W.G. Hunt and prayer by Mr. S-M. Beil. Mr. W.D. Oxendine prepared the minutes of the meeting, Mt. Olive has always manifested strength in its leadership and vision in its goals. It has also been very consistent in support of mission efforts. To this fine congregation, the association expresses thanks and good will. The scene backstage following • the crowning of the new Miss N.C. at Reynolds Auditorium in Winston Salem recently was a mixture of smiles and tears. Few people are aware of what goes on behind stage after a pageant. Those frozen smiles begin to fade as soon as the new queen is announced and the remainder of the contestants realize that the pageant is over. The joy for the new queen is quickly replaced by disappointment and unhappiness. Many retreat immediately to their dressing rooms while others openly show their disappointment by shedding tears on each others shoulders. But neither was the case for Linda Locklear, Miss Lumbee for though she offered her shoulder to many, she accepted a shoulder from no one. Perhaps her anguish was deeper. She felt little sorrow for herself, but thought instead of her many supporters. “Ididmybest, 1 didn’t win, but I did my best,” she said with a soft, sad smile. She immediately added, “what I dread now is going home to face the people who expected so much from me and received nothing but disappointment.” Only Linda's supporters are not: disappointed for they all realize that she is a winner in hero-fl right, more of a winner ila many of the other contesianis perhaps even more so than il* new Miss N.C., Mary Kathryi Fleming, because she has woi the lasting • friendship aix admiration of many. Sis received phone calls ani telegrams from people sts doesn’t even know commendinj her on her ’’outstanding laleni and beauty.” She receivedoffen from talent scouts and va encouraged by many, including Ray Hollingsworth of the Ra) Hollingsworth School of Dance, to continue her dancing. Miss Lumbee was also recognized along with three of the other contestants in an article in the Winston Salem Joimu] concerning her talent.- Donna Axum, a judge who sang “The Joker” during fre-sfton entertainment said. "I have seen here this week in observing its girls, that they are all queens in that they have an enthusiasm and spirit unmatched by any.'’ She continued with, “it is not ils crown that makes a queen; it tarnishes, it is not the trophy it collects dust, and it is not the flowers: they die. But it’s that striving for excellence, that spirit, that makes a queen." In this respect, Linda definitely must be considered a winner. Costume Coordinators Magnolia Graduates Future Plans Announced The seniors of the class of 1977 at Magnolia School are graduated and are now involved in making plans for the future. The class membership numbers sixty-six. Of the sixty-six graduating seniors. 22,8 percent will be going on to college. 31.8 percent to technical institutes, 1.5 percent to the miliury, and 43-9 percent will enter the labor force. Those students planning to attend college are: Fayetteville State University: Edmond McLean, Jr., Gladys Stokes, Gladys Ann Tyndall; Pembroke State University: Effie Hunt, Cindy Branch. Dennis Davis. Lorrie Chavis, Christina Locklear: Campbell College: Karen Hammonds, Tonya Kerns; North Carolino State University: Deborah Hamrick. James Craig Bell; Southeostem Community College: Alfredia Oxendine, Lorraine Burnette, Rosie Delong, Attending technical institutes are: Robeson Technical institute: Lacy Lowery, Gloria Vanderhali. Jerry Paul. Donald Locklear. Biliv Jones. Reitv Hunt, Annie Gail Hardin, Jerry Chavis, Renea Oxendine. Gerald Wayne Bell. Jeffrey Carter, Charles Bruce, Barbara Brewington, Shelby Jones. Audrey Jacobs, Annette Bruce, Brenda Chavis, Janice Brewer. Debra Lowery; Fayetteville Technicol Institute: Linda LaClaire, Keno Carroll Locklear. Eddie Lee Hammonds, Jr. plans to enter the Army and Timothy Spears plans to take some type of music training in Charlotte. The following students plan to enter the labor force: Judy Mclver, Vicky Whitted, Cloanne McNeill, Tommy Locklear. Wilma Locklear, Winford Hammonds, Gail Locklear. William Humphrey, Carlene Locklear. Keith Jones, Ira Locklear. Woodie Locklear. Ronnie Locklear, Vicky Locklear. Odell Wilkins. Jerry Snow. James Oxendine. Timothy Fipps, Jerline Hunt, Debra Bell. Henry Grimsiey, Frank Jones, and Susan Britt. Still undecided are Joy Freeman, Sandra Britt, Audrey Davis, Jackie Locklear and Karen Byrd. Costumes, their design, and upkeep, play a major role in any drama production and Robeson County’s outdoor drama, Strike at the Wind is no exception. Three young ladies. Vanessa Holdsworth, Karen Coronado, and Cindy Sampson, have taken the jobs of costume co-ordinators for the show this summer, designing, making and keeping up the costumes for 65 actors. Strike at the Wind is not an easy play to dress, according to Karen, since it is tri-racial and takes place following the Civil War in Robeson County. The iruse story of the Lumbee Indians and their folk hero Henry Berry Lowrie, Strike at the Wind is in its second season this summer. "I have a theatrical book that traces dress down through history, but it shows how people dressed in London, Paris, or maybe New York.” said Vanessa, “but not how they dressed in Lumberton or Pembroke, We had to go to old local photographs and into people’s closets to get the right ideas,” Vanessa, who is 20, was bom in Los Angeles, California but goes to school at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Lauringburg. She is studying theatre with an emphasis in costuming. According to Karen, who is a 24 year old PSU student, and Cindy who is also a PSU student, about 75 percent of the costumes will be new this year. Both girls are art majors at PSU. Strike at the Wind needed a costume designer, and I have a number one qualification. I can and do hke to sew.” exclaimed Cindy. I don't care to act but I do like getting into the costume end of It. I have to learn the character and what he wears. Because of the very nature of the drama, the distance between the audience and action on the stage the costume has to reinforce the character’s role in the play.” Color and style are raciic . important than most peopk realize. The choice ofdressand color combination has to refkci the actors role, but at the same time, it has to suit his imponatK in'the play. A minor part wouM never be dressed flashier than a lead part. ■ 'For this type of work, since iiis a grass roots organization," said Vanessa, "it is a learnin? experience and that much past experience is not italll necessary. But to work m professional costuming, an apprenticeship period with a known fashion designer of theatrical designer is requW you have to build a resume and portfolio of your work, and basically you have to knowilx right people. Once accepted, yw have to prove to these people yon have talent and will do what yon say you will do.” Historians have proven that ij* Lumbee Indians are part of w tribe that absorbed the W Colony. This idea is introdicj into Strike at the Wind in W prologue, the first scene oft show. "The prologue is goingtobet|K most exciting pari of the sho*' this year," smiled Cindy. we are doing with the costumft will make it very dramatic. It the prologue the Lumbee poi"' view is shown and their dj* must be an expression of the feelings and heritage. strike at the Wind •» acclaimed last year as the successful new outdoordr^^ the nation, seen by over Ht people in just seven weeks over 25,000 persons are exp« to see the Robeson Cou . production this sum Opening June 29. the show*"! run through jl Wednesday through SatunUy. the Lakeside Amphitheatre a Riverside Country Club west Pembroke on ,|, Tickets are still ava ajj according to the 3.50 and 4.00. Call 521-24»1» reservations.
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