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other medium can approach
this thoroughness. The regular
reader of o newspaper not
only knows what's going on,
but also why.
UP FROM DUST AND
DARKNESS
By Lew Barton- mcmtahm
STATE’S UNIQUE, CATALYSTIC 3RDS GIVE TAR HEEL
COMMUNITIES “A WINDOW ONTHE WORLD”
INCLUDING THEIR OWN
North Carolina's unique, catalystic Third Century Artists, under the
sponsorship and direction of the North Carolina Arts Council in Raleigh,
together with local sponsorship and direction, are affording Tar Heel
communities throughout the state “a window on the world,” including
their own comer of the same. These are a rare breed of dedicated,
academically trained and widely experienced professionals of various
types of which there ate more than 120 with four residing in Robeson
County.
The four Third Century Artists residing in Robeson are: Lew Barton,
writer, and Susan Templeton (photographer), sponsored by the Robeson
County Public Library (Diana Tope, Director); Helen Lowry (visual
artist), sponsored by the Robeson Technical Institute; and Steve Tolar,
sponsored by the State Department of Correction. Third Century Artist
Jim Reece resides in Robeson but is sponsored by the Sandhills Regional
Library. These artists will make a sp>ecial presentation at the Robeson
County Public Library September 18 and the public at large is cordially
invited.
Explains,Del ParkerofRaleigh, Administrative Coordinatorfor the Third
Century Artist Program: “The Third Century Artist Program, created in
1975 by the North Carolina Arts Council, has hired artists to work in
communities all over North Carolina with federal funds made possible by
the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), The use of
CETA funds to hire artists to benefit the people of the state has become the
largest government- sponsored effort to put artists to work since the
Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration of 1935.
Similar projects are underway ail over the country, yet North Carolina
serves as a national model by having one of the first programs involving
artists and communities of an entire state. Since October, 1975, over 200
artists have been placed in communities under the guidance of local
sponsors.
‘‘We are currently operating under a CETA Title VI contract which
allows for 126 positions through September 30, 1977. Nearly all the
positions are currently filled, and little hiring will be possible between
now and the close of the contract.”
Negotiations to extend the program beyond September 30 are currently
underway,
OLD KLAN-FIGHTER NOW FIGHTS ROBESON’S POOR
How success and the times do change people!
For example, SimOxendine, who led the fight against the Ku Klux Klan
in Robeson County in 1958 has just initiated a fight against Robeson’s
poor in 1977!
In a news release last week, Oxendine, now a member of the Robeson
County Board of Education and a successful businessman, told news
media that there is too much low-rent housing in Pembroke and was
circulating a petition to bring further low-rent housing here to a halt.
People among Robeson’s poor. White, Black and Indian, were shocked.
It was like watching a movie in which the hero has lost his sanity and sense
of direction and has accomplished a complete personality change. ‘ ‘Good
Old Sim,” the old Klan-fighter whc hadonce defended them, was now
acting completely out of character and the people did not know what to
make of it. They were dismayed, they were saddened. And some of them
were angry.
I haven’t talked to Sim and I don’t know what to make of his campaign
against the poor who are entitled to low-cost housing, either. A number of
Robeson people, particularly among the illiterate or near- illiterate have
approached me and asked me to help them express opposition to what they
regard as one man’s madness, or folly to say the least.
I cannot in good conscience refuse them, I cannot, as an intelligent
Robeson Indian, close my eyes to a movement that is designed to thwart or
block what is obviously in the best interests of Robeson’s poor, 1 must
now respond to the man who once flew 30 bombing missions over
Germany, particularly Berlin, as though he were a common tyrant—an
abuser of the power delegated to him by the people. I regret this but facts
are facts and realities are realities.
Consider Bob Mangum, if you would be wise. He is not Indian and he is
not Black. But he is a man of compassion and understanding. He is a man
who thinks first of the human race,. .and human justice. Not like you, of
himself, first, last and always. I’ll tell you the truth, Mr. Board of
Education member. You nauseate me. And I’m honestly ashamed for
people to know that you and I belong to the same ethnic group. You
shouldn’t be surprised that your own home town of Pembroke did not seat
you when you ran for mayor. And I dare say that the county at large would
have failed to seat you, too, had the people known the kind of man you
Do you know the kind of constituents you have? Do you know what the
word means? They are poor constituents, for the most part. They are the
people whose educational interests you swore to uphold, in a real sense.
What are you going to tell all those poor parents of all those poor school
children now?
I know that I think they’re going to tell you. "Go pick cotton.” And I’m
going to be one of the first to say, “Amen.”
Facts And Dates
For Hog Growers
A number of events are
coming up that are of interest
to pig producers, according to a
newsletter from John G.
Richardson, agricultural agent
in livestock.
The Hog Carcass Show is set
for September 5, at 7:30 o’clock
in the evening. Animals are to
be received during the
afternoon, with five o’clock as
the deadline. The catalt^ue for
the Robeson County Fair (just
out) has all the details. The
plan (and hope) is to have the
complete cutout of the animal,
a check for parasites and a
display at Bo’s Supermarket.
Ail exhibitor is limited to one
entry, with no farm to have
more than three hogs.
Included will be a youth
showmanship contest.
The carcass show is actually
a learning experience. Here a
producer learns about the
quality of his animals and also
can dectect parasite damage.
FAIR
The County Fair will begin on
September 3 and continue
through September 10.
Livestock producers are
encouraged to participate. For
any questions, call John
Richardson at the County
Extension Office, 73&4111.
MEETING
A pork producers’ meeting on
“Management in the Control of
Swine Diseases’’ will be held at
the agricultural center in
Goldsboro, August 8, beginning
at 7:30 p.m. This is sponsored
by the North Carolina
Veterinary Association. Hie
speaker is Dr. Ralph Vinswi.
DRUGS
Residues of drugs used in
animal health are showing up
in slaughtered animals at an
unacceptable rate. Growers
are warned to be very careful
Some drugs could be banned or
restricted.
Producers should read the
label carefully and note
restrictions on each bag
bottle. Again, more
information is available fran
the livestock agent.
Some dates of importance
are:
August 20, Jack West,
Spotted Swine Show, 7 p.m.:
September S, Hog Carcass
Show, Lumberton Jaycee
Fairgrounds, Livestock Arena,
7:00 p.m.;
October 6, Broome-Dye sale
of Spots, Yorks and Durocs,
7:00 p.m.;
February 23,24,28; Lanrace,
Winter Type Conference,
Lumberton, livestock Arena.
Schools Gear Up
For Fall Return
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s public schools are
gearing to greet the more than 1.1 miJlion pupils that will
swarm through their doors later this month.
Preparations include gathering and storing some 25
million gallons erf fuel oil. 10 million textbooks and nearly
14.000 school buses and service vehicles that the state’s
almost 2,000 schools will use over the course (rf the year.
Operating those schools this year will cost 81.41 billion in
state, local and federal funds.
Alan T. Hill, management information ^tem director for
the state Board of Education, said the state will spend more
than $915 million this year paying its share of schotrf
operatiofB. In addition, nearly $227 miUion in federal money
and nearly $275 million in local funds will be spent.
C.K. Denning, director of schoirf plant (^rations for the
rtate Board of Education, said about 25 million gallons of
fuel oil IS m storage to heat the schotrfs this winter.
He explained that fuel oil heats about 70 per cent of the
dassrooms and that those which depend on natural gas have
been purchasing combination oil and gas burners and laying
in a supply (rf oil just in case there is a shortage of natural
ps dunng the coming winter. Denning said 39 of the 14S
local schocH systems have as mucrfi oil in storage as they
used last winter which was unusually cdd.
Louis W. Alexander, director orf school transportation
said the schools operate around 12,000 school buses
regularly to transport nearly 750.000 children. With spare
buses and service vehicles the total comes to about 14 000
vehicles.
Alexander explained that this year the legislature has put
up the money to end standing on scho(rf buses by revising bus
iwles, reassigning children, shifting larger and smaller
between routes and in some cases tx^ing more buses.
C.C. Warren, state textbook director, estimated that the
Khools have more than 10 million textbooks on hand for the
free textbook program. Warren said the local school
pstems have been ordering language and composition,
toreign language and science textbooks this summer to
catch up on their supply.
Wa^ noted that his division spends from $7.5 million to
$9 million a year to buy books, but will have $13 3 million this
year because of the need to provide new social studies and
language textbooks.
Woman’s Diary Of Civil War
To Be Printed
Why are you down on the poor of Pembroke? Because they wouldn’t
vote for your to be their mayor? Honestly, do you blame them?
JUDGE SAM BRITT
Anyone who fancies himself to be a servant of the people, ought to
observe Judge Sam Britt, He could learn volumes' and with the judge, it
comes naturally. He is given to lectures but he is a psychologist. He is
gruff but he is fair. He can scare the pants off an offender, but his true
humanity shines through in every session, and I don’t know a dam soul
who dislikes him. He is my kind of man, given to droll expressions, but
his heart is always in the right place, and if the breaks are coming to
anyone, it’s usually the ones who come before him. He knows they’re
mostly poor people who come before him, and you can almost hear him
groan when the law says he has to hand out a particularly hard jolt. His
bark is terrible but his bite is usually the minimum that the law allows.
I like Sam Britt.
I like Sam Britt!
He reminds me of Solomon with a little bit of Job thrown in for good
measure.
Her h(^>es, her fears and her
dreams - all will be revealed as
a 100-year-old diary is finally
readied for publication.
Catherine Devereux Edmon-
ifaton found her comfortable
lifestyle suddenly and per
manently altered during the
years 1860-1866, and while ceding
with war and privation, f^th-
fully recorded her experiences in
her diary.
As a result of a bill passed in
the 1977 General Assembly and
co-signed by 61 legislators,
Catherine’s (lay-by-day account
of her life on the Halifax County
plantati(m will be set in type as
the first step toward printing
this significant record.
Upon the insistence of eastern
North Carolina constituents, a
bill introduced by Sen. Guy
Revel provided $8,000 to begin
printing the diary. It will be
published by the historical
publications section of the
Department of Cultural Resour
ces.
The story of the printing of
Catherine’s diary is a long one
beginning with the interest of
Beth Crabtree the N. C Ar
chives who began typing the
nianuscript in the 1940s.
“I became fascinated with the
diary and the family,” Miss
Crabtree said, “and D. L. Corbit
(then historical publications
editor) asked me to edit the
manuscripts.” She added that
the story begins with the Civil
War years, but the family
background extends back to
colonial Gov. Thomas Pollock.
Criticism Of
Under Attack
Thursday, August,,
Federal Crop Insurono
Could Help Formers
ATLANTA , - The
f('dcTal General Accounting
Office’s ‘'nitpicking’’ could
threaten millions of dollars
in overseas tobacco sales by
disrupting the industry’s
internationally recognized
grading system, the {wesi-
dent of the Cieorgia Farm
Bureau said Monday.
The GAO has proposed
Uiat the $5.8 rniliion it costs
ea(A year to grade tobacco
leaf be paid by tobacco
farmers. Since 1935, the
federal government,
through the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, has
funded grading programs.
“The grading program we
have developed over the
years is a highly skilled,
very successful program for
identifying tobacco quality,
and the system is recog
nized and respected
throughout the world,” said
farm bureau president H.
Elmmett Reynolds.
“Now, the federal govern
ment wants to change it
over a nitpicking $5.8 mil
lion in an industry that
produces $6 billion a year in
taxes,’’ he said.
The GAO has estimated
that to pay for their own
grading, tobacco farmers
would have to spend 23 cents
per hundredweight of leaf.
“That seems much loo
high to me.’’ Reynolds said.
“Why would a farmer want
to pay the federal govern
ment to do it if he can find
someone in private industry
to do it cheaper?
“And if everybody ■.•tarts
getting their own pc^iple to
grade tobacco, that destroys
the uniformity of the sy'stem
and could disrupt the entire
international and interstate
program,” he said.
Reynolds said Georgia
produces about $110,000,000
worth of tobacco a year, 70
per cent of wliich goes to
overseas markets.
According to a GAO re
port. free tobacco grading
was established because “it
was believed that the heavy
taxes imposed on tobacco
limited consumption, th«e-
hy having a direct be-irLig
on the producers' income.”
But the GAO concluded
that tobacco grading should
now be provided on the
same reimbursable basis as
USDA services provided to
producers of most other
commodities.
Reynolds said he believed
“it could well be” that the
GAO’S suggestion was part
of an overall effort by the
federal government to dis
courage the tobacco indus
try because of the alleged
hazards of smoking.
The rain finally came buc it
could be too late to help some of
the tobacco farmers. Early com
has about done all it will. Federal
Crop Insurance will help the
farmers who carry this
protection.
Vera Goodwin, Office
Representative for the local
Federal Crop In,surance Office
serving Robeson and Scotland
counties, reports that officials of
the Federal Crop Insurance office
in Raleigh, expect North
Carolina farmers to collect
between 20 and 25 million
dollars in benefits to tobacco
growers in 1977 under the
Federal Crop Insurance program
administered by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture. The
exact amount they will collect
will not be known until the
markets dose in November.
These heavy losses are brought
about in Robeson County by
excec'i'"' rains i" '^av.
panicularlyo„T„5j a ,
drownmg out acre, a.j“*«
K>bacco. man, acre,
had a pond-litp” ,
also, damaging re,®"*'
yosa. Thi,
funher damaged by !„*•
“"•lb rrercc he.!i»
1“ '•>: “f >!>= l.b.U
rendering much of i,
marketable.
These fam, ,
subsequently affec, "U
morchun,, andoihe,,*!*
on farm dollars,
About 60 percent of the tc*.
grown m Nonh
covered by
In.surance, In R„be,„. . “
manyfatmershavebcencm-
thisptolecionontobaccoi
was made .yailableiaj*
Coonry 1955, s„,be„y,
and cot,on crop,
applicable f„, pedeoi c
Insurance ,n ihi, co„„|,
THE CAROLINA
INDIAN VOICE
521-2626
JACK’S FURNITURE
AND APPLIANCE COMPANY
305 West Third Street
Pembroke, NC
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easy to pay Jack’s way”
What to do about the
cost of electricity. Besides
just complaining.
Everybody knows that the
amount of electricity you
use this month directly
affects the amount of your
electric bill next month.
But what few people
know is that the amount of
electricity you use now also
affects how future electricity
prices are determined.
"ihu see, right now, we're
ping through one of the
hottest times of the year.
When air conditioner usage
reaches its peak. And when
electricity usage reaches
its peak.
Naturally to avoid having
blackouts or brownouts, we
must have the generating
capacity to handle these
"peak load"periods of time.
Nobody knows exactly when
they will come, but they
usually occur during the
summer Last year our peak
load period occurred on
July 29. Whenever it comes
this yeat; it determines the
maximum generating
capacity we have to supply
During recent years, peak
load has continued to climb,
requiring us to invest in more
generating capacity And
with building costs higher
than ever before, eventually
this means higher prices for
your electricity
'fbu don't want that. And
neither do we.
The trick is to keep the
peak load as low as possible.
MonthlvDeak
during early morning or late
evening hours, preferably witf
cold water.
When you have to use the
dishwasher, wait until it's
full and turn it on just before
you go to bed.
Try to take showers before
10AM orafterlOPM
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possible during peak load.
And finally keep your air
conditioner at the warmest
possible comfort setting.
Of course, these and other
conservation measures we
Honrly usage
The best way to help do
that is to use less electricity
between the peak load hours
of 10 AM and 10 PM during
the hottest months, June
through September (As you
can see from the chart,
summer usage starts getting
high around 10 AM and stays
high until 10 pM).
Do your laundry either
talk about will always help
you keep your costs down.
But, during these critical
hot timesj'they can also help
us keep future construction
costs down.
And, in the long run, the
less we have to spend to
make electricity the less
you II have to 1
spend to use it. WPC»