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VOLUME 5 NUMBER 32
publicotion No. 97&000
PEMBROKE, NC
Dedicated to the best in all of us
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1977
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Lumbee Bank at Pembroke
FIRST INDIAN BANK NOW HAS
Paul Green Visits
Strike at the Wind!
FIRST INDIAN PRESIDENT
people
and places
and things
by Gene Warren
The Lumbee Bank of Pembroke, which is
ihe first Indian Bank in America, now has
(he first Indian president of any bank in the
United States.
He is James A. Hunt, a 32-year-old
Lumbee Indian from Rowland who was
winner of the Distinguished Service Cross
for valor in the Vietnam War and has been
employed for the past three years as
Management Service Officer for First
Union National Bank’s Regional Service
Center in Lumberton.
Hunt began his duties August 1 and sees
Ihis as a ’•challenge and tremendous
opportunity. Out Lumbee Bank really has a
great deal to offer.” he said, sitting behind
his new desk in the beautiful Lumbee Bank
downtown Pembroke.
A ’74 graduate of PSU with a B.S. in
Business Administration. Hunt envisions
the Lumbee Bank opening branch banks
the surrounding towns of Robeson
County in the next five years. "We are now
prosperous operation serving mainly the
Pembroke community, but we want to
expand. I see a tremendous futurefor us."
he said.
Hunt believes he gained some valuable
experience working under Marvin Burgess,
vice presient of Lumberton’s First Union
National Bank Service Center. "I trained
under Mr, Burgess in all phases of banking.
He is a real professional, and I owe a lot to
him," said Hunt.
Burgess praised Hunt "as a very
professional person, which is a high
compliment in itself. He has the desire,
knowledge, initiative and determination to
make a good bank president. He was a very
successful manager for us during the three
years he worked with us, but this was an
opportunity he couldn’t turn down.-”
VFW & LADIES AUXILIARY TO
MEET MONDAY NIGHT
The Pembroke VFW meeting of
Locklear-Lowry Post 2843 and the Ladies
Auxiliary of the VFW will be held at the
Post Home Monday night, August 14, at
7:30 p.m. All comrades and sisters are
asked to attend. Supper will be served.
Farmers in Robeson County are fortunate
to have the Federal Crop Insurance
available on com, soybeans, cotton and
tobacco, and the many fanners who have
contracts will find a protected investment a
rewarding thing in a year such as this, with
when farmers’ losses are sky high.
“KISS YOUR BABY” CAMPAIGN
CHAIRPERSONS NAMED
PAUl' GREEN, the ramous playwright, who is known as the father of the outdoor
drama, came to see Strike at the Wind! lastThursday night. He came Incognito and
without fanfare- Lane Hudson, who handles promotion for Strike at the Wind!,
among other duties, just happened to spot Green and tipped us off.
Mrs. Delton Lowry and Mrs. Woodrow
Sampson and the Pembroke Team have
been named "Kiss Your Baby" Campaign
Chairpersons for the Pembroke area
according to George W, Little, State
Campaign Chairperson, North Carolina
Chapter, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The
CF Foundation supports research in
children’s lung-damaging diseases such as
asthma with lung damage, chronic
bronchitis, bronchiectasis, childhood
emphysema, and cystic fibrosis, the most
serious of all.
For further information or any assistance,
farmers may contact the local Federal Crop
Insurance office located at 400 E. 2nd St.,
Lumberton, P.O. Box 721, Telephone
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COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES AT
RTI ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Green, who is most famous for THE LOST COLONY, lives in Chapel Hill.
Kandv limburger. the playwright for Strike at the Wind!, is a protege of Green s
and credits him for most of his success.
Green poses, after the showing, with Hope St. Pierre, who plays Rhoda and
Melton Lowry, the forceful Henry Berry Lowrie in Strike at the Wind!
More than 6,000,000 American children
suffer from one or more of these lung
damaging diseases of which there are
1.^0,000 in North Carolina alone. Many of
these youngsters are treated at the Duke CF
Center which is supported by the
Foundation.
Dr. Craig Allen, President of Robeson
Technical Institute, will confer 396
diplomas and degrees at the
Commencement Exercises to be held at
Lumberton Senior High School on Friday
night. A native Robesonian, Sampson
Buie, Jr., Community Relations Specialist
at NC A & T State University, Greensboro,
will deliver the baccalaureate address.
Ceremonies begin at 8 p.m. The public is
cordially invited to attend the ceremonies.
IN THE ARMED FORCES
Said Green, “ I enjoyed the show. It’s a good script and the players arc
exceptional. One is always waiting for Henry Berry Lowrie. That creates
excitement and suspense. That’s good.”
Strike at the Wind! ends its second season Saturday night.
The signs of lung-damaging diseases are
recurrent wheezing, persistent coughing,
excessive mucous, pneumonia more than
once, excessive appetite but poor weight
gain, , and clubbing of the fingertips. In
addition to the above, cystic fibrosis signs
may also include salty taste of the skin,
persistent bulky diarrhea, and nasal polyps.
West Point, NY-Army Reserve
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel E. Todd, Jr. of
Lumberton recently attended a week-long
Liaison Officers Conference at the U.S.
Military Academy, West Point. NY.
GOSPEL SING PLANNED
Officers attending the conference
participated in several workships, attended
academic and admission briefings, toured
the Academy facilities and met with cadets.
Workshop subjects included admissions
procession, communication with today’s
youth, and military psychology and
leadership.
Hunt believes PSU prepared him well for
his profession. "Tlie professor 1 enjoyed
most was Victor Wolf He is a man of
experience, tough but fair, and he knows
what he is talking about," extolled Hunt.
James A. Hunt, new president poses in front of Lumbee Bank.
Saturday Night The Last
of Strike at the
Wind Season
There will be a gospel singing featuring
Night
the Skyiite Boys Quartet of McCoU, SC and
The conference prepares selected Reserve
officers to serve as liaison officers for the
Freewill Gospel Singers of Pembroke at
Military Academy in their home town
communities.
Fairview Heights School Auditorium in ‘
Hamlet, NC on Saturday, August 13,1877
at 8 p.m. Advance admission is $2.00 and ,. ,, > i.- nu r-.
j r . j direct appointment. He received his Ph.D.
admission at the door is $2.50. Children “UP ....
under 12 will be admitted free. Door prizes °
Col- Todd received his commission by
The Lumbee Bank hired a dedicated
young man if Hunt’s record is any
indication. Serving in the U.S. Army
Special Forces from ’64-68, he was
nominated for the Congressional Medal of
Honor, won the Distinguished Service
Cross, plus the Silver Star and Purple
Heart, His medals came because of valor in
close combat in which he was trying to
evacuate wounded personnel.
Hunt is a member of the American jumps.
Management Assn, and vice chairman of The busy, ambitious young man is a
the Postal Advisory Committee of bachelor who plans to become very much a
Lumberton. He is also in Co. C of the 11th part of the Pembroke community as he
Special Forces Group Reserves and a becomes accustomed to his new
member of the Raeford Sports Parachute responsibilities. This first Indian bank
Club. He has made over 200 parachute president seems truly on his way.
After receiving his discharge, he was
employed at a textile plant in Laurinburg
before starting his education at PSU. He
then went to school on his G.I. Bill and
supplemented this income by working the
third shift (midnight to 8 a.m.) as a weaver
at the same textile plant.
Board of Educorion
Meers in Brief Session
Hunt worked 56 hours a week, doing his
study before reporting to work. His only
campus extracurricular activity was serving
his last semester in college as vice president
of the Veterans Assn, on campus. "There
was no time for anything else,” said the
solid business administration student.
The Robeson County Board of Education
met in one of their briefer sessions on
Tuesday,
However, hard work was nothing new to
Hunt, A ’64 graduate of Fairgrovc High
School near Fairmont, he didn’t have time
for activities at school because he and his
brothers farmed tenant land after school.
They heard a progress report on the new
Pembroke Elementary School to be
constructed in the near future. The report
was given by Supt. Purnell Swell.
Son of James D. Hunt and Sally Jane
Hunt, the youthful bank president has two
brothers and two sisters. One of his sisters,
Mrs, Ima Jean Oxendine, graduated
fromPSUin’71 withaB.S. in Elementary
Education,
Supt- Swett also reported on the public
hearings held at Purvis and Union
Elementary Schools recently to get the
community’s reaction to the combining of
the two schools under one principalship.
Mr. Swett conducted the hearing at Union
Elementary and Assistant Supt. Donald A.
Bonner conducted the hearing at Purvis.
Said Swett, " We received no negative
reaction from the people in attendance.
He explained the procedure used to inform
the parents of these two school about the
hearing. He made ccnain that a letter was
mailed to each home concerning the
hearing. The state has approved the
combining of the two schools under one
principalship. Mr. Grady Oxendine,
principal of Union Elementary, will serve
as principal of Purvis also.
Mr. Bonner reported on the 54 aides who
will work in the county school system. He
reported that there will be reading aides in
all the elementary schools in the county.
degree in 1967 from the University of
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will be given and refreshment, will be sold. Nd"!- Caralma, Chapel H.ll, The colonel ,s
The singing will be sponsored by the dean of acajm.c affairs for programs and
Sandhilk Regional Indian Association. For''**''" Univemity.
tl^ets call 997-4529 or 582-2402 (919 area WEEKEND IN
‘^"**'*' ROBESON
SBA TO PROCESS DISASTER LOANS
Law enforcement officers and rescue
The Small Business Administration has personnel were kept busy in
been authorized to accept and process Robeson County during the weekend.
Small Business Economic Injury Disaster investigating two drownings and a murder.
Loans in the county of Robeson in the State
of North Carolina, Samuel Ray Oxendine, 24, of Route 3.
Maxton, drowned Saturday around 5 p.m.
This area was declared an Economic Lumber River off U.S. 74 near White
Injury Disaster Area by the Department of j^j|] (;^hurch.
Agriculture pursuant to Section 321 of the
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act. This action was taken because of
excessive rainfall May !9through May 24
1977, and hail, rain and windstorm on June
6, 1977. Assistance can be provided if the
applicant can establish that the business has
suffered substantial economic injury as a
direct result of a natural disaster.
A report on the drowning was made to
Pembroke police by a witness to the fatal
accident, and Pembroke Rescue Squad
recovered Oxendine's body at 6:05 p.m.
Saturday.
Authority for acceptance of loan
applications under this program will expire Loc'klear Street
on March 30. 1978.
Paul K. Hines. 9. of 612 Hilton Heights,
Lumberton. drowned Sunday around 5:20
p.m. while swimming with friends in
Lumber River near the dead end of
For further information, please write or
telephone the Small Business
Administration. 230 South Tryon Street,
Charlotte, NC 28202. telephone number
(704) 372-0711, Ext. 441.
Visiting the meeting was Mrs. Agnes
Chavis, President of the Robeson County
Unit of the North Carolina Association of
Educators.
Victor Lane from Raleigh plays the part of Shoemaker John, a member of the
famous Henry Berry Lowrie gang in the outdoor drama, “Strike at the Wind!”
This is the last week of the show which plays Wedhesday through Saturday at the
Lakeside Amphitheatre at the Riverside Country Club. Tickets are still available
and reservations can be made by calling 521-2401.
FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE
EDA Hearing Delayed
U.S. District Court Judge F T. Dupree
of Raleigh has rescheduled a hcanng
here from Monday to Friday, Aug. 12, at
9-30 a m. on a restraining order blocking
the Economic Development Administra
tion from distributing public works job
'™udge Dupree told court officials he
had a conflict of a criminal term of U.S.
District Ck)urt.
The continuance was on a restr^ning
order issued by U.S. District Court
Judge John Larkins to the EDA,
prohibiting distribution of public works
job funds to the counties of Cumberland,
Robeson, Columbus and New Hanover
ponding the hearing.
The towns of Hope Mills, Maxton,
Pembroke, St. Pauls, Chadbourn, Tabor
City and Carolina Beach filed suit
recently over their exclusion from the $4
billion public works program to create
jobs in high unemployment areas.
Robeson County Farm
Tour Planned
$1070 per acre. The guarantees are
determined by what the farmers have
harvested and sold in past years. The
highest producing farms get the most
coverage, the lowest get the least, and the
premium for all of them is about the same.
The average premium rate on tobacco in
Robeson County is about $33 per acre.
Federal Crop Insurance may be applied for
at any time before planting the crop to get
coverage for a given crop year.
A farm tour is being planned lor county auents office before the dale of the
Robeson County for Tuesday. August 23. tour so that adequate plans can be made for
1977 beginning after lunch and being everyone,
completed in the Maxton area about 7
All farmers, agri-business and others
interested in fanning are invited toattend.
Those plannina to oo should notify the
Since transportation is not being
provided, persons planning to attend may
meet at the couniy agents offee at 1 p.m. in
order to ride several in a car and conserve
transportation.
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According to police reports, four young
boys went to the river to swim, and Hines
was caught in a strong current after
venturing out into the river.
The Lumberton Rescue Unit found Hines’
body at 6:58 p.m. about 50 feet from where
he was last seen.
In Robeson County. Federal Crop Sheriff’s deputies were called to Maxton
Insurance pays benefits as high as $1910 jround noon Saturday to investigate the
per acre for some tobacco crops. The lowest f^ol shooting of John D. Oxendine, 34, of
benefits in Robeson County would be Route 2. Ma'xton,
By 2 p.m, Saturday, officers had arrested,
charged with murder and jailed Gene
Davis, 25, of Route 2, Maxton.
Oxendine was reportedly shot at a
"joint" on rural paved road 1382 off N.C.
7 i north of Maxton.
Reports indicate the victim was inside th
the building and the fatal shot was fired
. from a .22 caliber pistol through a window
Those fanners who have Federal Crop of the building, from the outside.
Insurance contracts should report damaged dehAEVA DRAKE SELECTED
cobacco lo Ihc Federal Crop Ensuranee p,(;.s ALL AMERICAN GIRL
office. GiK)d farming practices must be
followed through harvesting of the crop. If Oehaeva Drake of Lumberton, a graduate
loss is expected, stalk inspections must be of PSU with a B.S. in music education, has
made before cutting the stalks. Insured selected North Carolina’s
fanners are cautioned to not plow up stalks national All-,
until an adjuster .sees them. They are ^^nierican Girl competition scheduled for
lurthcr reminded to report lo the Federal August 11-13 in Memphis, Tenn. First
Crop Insurance Office by Units, 15 days the competition is a $5,000
from date of last sale, if guarantee is not scholarship. Miss Drake is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John W, Drake.
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