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THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE
I VOLUME 5 NUMBER 35
i Publicolion No. 978080
Dedicated to the best in all of us
PEMBROKE, NC THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1977
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JACK ANDERSON OPENS PSU’S
LYCEUM SERIES
Indian
Braves Club Memorial
Now Underway Cottage Dinner
people
Bruce Barton, editor of The Carolina Indian Voice (left) meets his number one
hero-hard-hitting.investlgativereporter, Jack Anderson, who kicked off PSU’s
Lyceum Series Tuesday night at the Performing Arts Center.
BY GENE WARREN
PEMBROKE--In the same hard-hitting,
no-holds-baired style that has characterized
his Pulitzer Prize-winning columns, famed
reporter Jack Anderson hammered away at
a number of topics Tuesday night here at
Pembroke State University in a talk which
drew a standing ovation at the end.
Among his topics were:
--How best to combat the energy crisis
("using alcohol fuel”).
"the bureaucrats’ continued stranglehold
on Washington despite the new
administration’s promises.
The great thing about alcohol fuel,
continued Anderson, is that it can be made
“from garbage, dry com stalks, timber
waste, spoiled grain, etc.” He said the
tremendous garbage of a city like New
York could be used for this purpose. "Are
these things possible?” he asked--and
answered his own question, “My sources
say yes.”
But Anderson warned that even alcohol
fuel is “only a temporary solution.” The
ultimate answer, he indicated, is “fuel
from the sun” because he said ‘‘we don’t
have to worry about solar energy drying
up.”
Then Anderson injected that the “oil
crowd” doesn’t want to see any drastic
changes. “You .see, Jimmy Carter left the
oil crowd in charge--and they want to bleed
us. They came up with a conservation
watchdog of energy program because they don't want us
to run out of oil until they’ve sold every last
drop—and made the biggest profits
•The Bureau of Indian Affairs sellout, possible.”
"His candid thoughts on Jimmy Carter,
Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon.
"The press’ vital role as
government,
His talk lasted two hours, including a
question-and-answer session, and finished
up with an hour-long press interview.
Dunng the entire time, he was affable,
charming and shooting straight from the
hip. He didn’t refer to a single note during
his verbal marathon.
Inflectinghis voice and using a variety of
facial expressions to stress points,
Anderson kept his audience captivated and
"intrigued” to quote one student.
He concentrated strongly on the energy
problem. “Our emphasis should be
discovering new Sources of energy," he
said. “If we can put men on the moon and
develop nuclear power-which we did when
it seemed Germany might beat us to the
punch-we can solve this problem.”
A war correspondent during World War
H, Anderson pointed to how Germany kept
Us war machine running “without oil.”
“Hitler used alcohol fuel.” Anderson
pointed out. “We can, too, because
Germany taught us how. Germany plans to
use it for 75 per cent of their energy by
1980, Brazil will use the same percentage.
could use it without even having to
change our engines. Our engines would run
t«tter with it.”
Anderson said that alcohol fuel would cost
10 cents a gallon more than gas does now,
but added, “If you think that’s exorbitant,
'''ait until a year from now and look at the
prices.”
Anderson said the ‘ ‘same crowd, the same
people” of the oil interests are still in
Washington despite the new
administration. “I think those people
would have been the first ones I’d cleaned
Speaking of the bureaurats' hold on
Washington, Anderson said when the
Carter administration took over, some
1,200 came up from Georgia to take key
Washington jobs. “But there are
2,823,000 bureaucrats, and those people
from Georgia had to ask the bureaucrats the
directions to even the bathrooms. The
bureaucrats are accustomed to new
Presidents. They know what to feed them."
With tongue in cheek, Anderson quipped:
‘‘Jimmy Carter says he will reform the
bureaucrats. Maybe he will, but I’m betting
on the 2,823,000—not the 1,200.”
In assessing Jimmy Carter. Anderson said
he would have to wait, “It’s too early to
make any judgements. I do I ike his stand on
human rights." However, Anderson added
later that American pre.stige and power
“have never been lower.”
Of Gerald Ford, the syndicated columnist
said. “He's the kind of man who wouldn't
make a sordid deal. It'.s part of his integrity.
He’s an honorable man. If someone did him
a political favor (such as Nixon’s
appointing him to the vice presidency), he
would pay off that debt.”
Nixon received Anderson’s ire, “Here
was a President committing crimes in the
White House. When he held a Bible and
swore to uphold the constitution, he should
have read it. A President is not a sovereign;
he’s merely an employee. He has no more
right to violate the constitution than you
do."
Anderson also was chagrined at the results
of the Vietnam War. ‘‘We lost our first war
in history,” he said.
The columnist praised the role of
investigative reporting. "The founding
fathers intended that those who govern
should be watched. The press should dig
out secrets of government. I’ve never
known a President to call a press conference
to admit his wrongdoings. 1 want to know
what the Presidentdoesn’t want us to know.
I want to know what President Carter is
planning—not what Jody Powell says he’s
doing.”
Of the current Bert Lance probe,
Anderson said, “We’ve had to dig out a
little at the time. Maybe it’s not as serious
as they say—but more serious.”
Speaking of how Indians stole the Bureau
of Indian Affairs papers, Anderson
commented: “Yes, I sent LesWhitten (one
of his associates) to the Pembroke area to
investigate this. He was later thrown in jail.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs sold out. The
Indian people have been fleeced, gyped and
defiled.” Anderson indicated his
amazement that the FBI should consider
“the crime" as the stealing of the papers
whereas he indicated the real crime was the
BIA’s treatment of the Indian people.
He spoke of how the tax structure favors
the big corporations and is unfair to the
poor. But he is against welfare. “I’m
Monnon, and we’d rather give someone a
handup than a handout. In,stead of giving
someone a check, I’d rather give him a
shovel or a broom. Instead of making it
easy for the big oil industries to put money
in Swiss banks, let’s help the hungry old
people. Did you know the sale of cat and
dog food has tripled because these people
can’t afford hamburger at today's prices?”
These were only a portion of the
comments of Anderson, who still
champions democracy and quoted Winston
Churchill as saying: “DemiK-racy is the
worst possible fonn of government-except
for all the others.”
An idea has cry.stalized into a reality with
the formation of the Braves Club, an
athletic booster club designed to help the
athletic program at Pembroke State
University.
It is difficult to pin down the starting point
of an idea but it might have germinated in
conversation between Jim Paul, office
manager at Pates Supply Company and
Bruce Barton, editorofTheCarolina Indian
Voice.
Paul, an ardent supporter of PSU athletics,
and a close friend of a number of the
coaches, has long advocated community
support for athletics at Pembroke State
University.
Barton, who began the Carolina Indian
Voicewiih the express idea of improving
community-campu', relationships, saw it as
a way to further tLc goal of his newspaper.
Ed Crain, the hard v/ork.'.ig track coach at
Pembroke State University, saw the need of
a boo,ster club a number of years ago and
was instrumental in beginning a Braves
Club that has recently fallen on hard times
Crain was delighted at the initiative shown
by the community and agreed to serve on
the planning committee of the new Braves
Club. Said Crain, “our club was mostly
campus orientated.. .we were pushing from
the inside out. Now we have citizens from
the outside interested, and this club is being
operated from the outside in. We’re off to a
good start and I believe it will go over
good."
The steering committee has decided to
concentrate on selling one hundred charter
memberships. ChL'r,p;r memberships will
cost $50.00 and will include a number of
special benefits, including admission to
athletic events, decals for automobiles,
sports brochures and schedules of athletic
events. Additionally, plans are underway
to place a huge banner in the varsity
gymnasium with the names of the charter
members emblazoned upon it. After the
first 100 tickets are sold to the charter-
members a full fledged membership drive
will get underway.
The Braves Club’s goal is to at least raise
all monies needed to provide 3UA full
athletic scholarships, the allowable limit in
the Carolinas Conference of which PSU is a
member.
The Braves Club will serve as a fund
raising organization only. AM monies
raised will be turned over to the university.
Jim Paul said it best, “We don’t want
anything for ourselves except to see the
community get involved with our
university. PSU has a good athletic
program and they deserve our support.”
Chairing the temporary committee is
Bruce Barton, editor of the Carolina Indian
Voice. Other members besides Barton and
Paul are: Ed Crain, track coach at PSU;
James F. (Buddy) Bell, evaluater of the
Governor's Reading Program in N.C.;
Arnold Locklear, local attorney; Dr. Gerald
Maynor, dean of student affairs at PSU; and
Waller Oxendine, Development Officer at
PSU,
The Brave Club is presently being
chartered and paid memberships will be tax
deductible. Those wishing to become
charter members of the Braves Club are
urged to contact any member of the steering
conimittce or write Braves Club, c/o P.O.
Box 1075. Pembroke. N.C. 28.172.
A Success!
Dinner Nets $14,000
Everyone present deemed it a success.
The Indian Memorial Cottage Fund Raising
Dinner, held at the PSU Cafeteria, netted
$14,000 toward the goal of erecting a
cottage on the Odom Home Campus in
memory of the Indians who began the
institution and kept the doors open during
the difficult days before the campus became
part of the N.C. Baptist Children’s Homes.
Special MC was Dr. English E, Jones,
Chancellor of PSU and Chairman of the
Steering Committee for the Indian
Memorial Cottage,
Among the many Indian leaders lauded
was Sheriffs Deputy Garty Locklear, who
conceived the idea of the fund raising
dinner and, by all accounts, sold more
$100.00 tickets than anyone else.
Special entertainment was provided by the
beautiful Miss Lumbee, Ms. Brenda Hunt
and the vivacious Miss North Carolina.
1975, Ms. Susan Lawrence.
and places
/ and things
Special guest was TV comedian and
humorist, Ralph Smith, who is most noted
for his appearances on his brother's TV
show, the Arthur Smith Show. He regaled
the audience with his humorous stories and
closed his presentation with a moving
testimony of the need to love one another,
most especially the children.
A presentation of slides on the NC
Baptist Childrens Homes, including Odom
Home, was shown and narrated by Mr.
Larry Sawyer, director of the Odom Home.
It was noted, during the course of the
program, that more than $590,(X)0had been
given in gifts and pledges toward the
building program at Odom Home,
With the receipt of a gift of $25,000 from
the Kresge Foundation, the patrons of the
Indian Memorial Cottage, were nearing
their slated goal of $90,000 with another
$90,000 pledged in free labor.
It was estimated that approximately 400
patrons attended the dinner.
Humorist Ralph Smith regaled the
Dr. English K. Jones served as Ml’.
WARRIORS BEGIN SEASON
non-conlcrcncp games may be just what the Warnors need to
do well in the conference. .u - i k .eo
First year coach Ned Sampson said. "I certainly hope the
experience we gel in the first bunch of games will help^
Only Marvin Butler, who started the first Sa^s last
year before breaking his leg, and Charles McCallum are
starters back from the 1976 team.
ItD WARRIORS SCHEDULE
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Nov. 4 -ot Fairmont.
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Yancy Hunt, 9 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Maynor suffered
2nd and 3rd degree burns over 65% of his body on March 26th, So far
treatment has cost .$40,(X)0.(H)and Yancy will have to continue ircatinent
for another seven (7) years. He has to be wrapped in guaze bandages every
day plus numerous trips to Chapel Hill and motel fees for the family.
All the local Indian Jayccc Chapters, including Fairgrovc, Saddletree.
Hoke County, Burnt Swamp, and (he Pembroke Jaycces will be
sponsoring a Car Wash at Jeff's Car Wash on .September 17th to help the
family in the struggle to rehabilitate young Yancy. Wc (all the Jaycccs)
are asking for your held that day. Let us wash and vacuum your car for
$3.00 or let us wax your car for $20.00. Mr. Jeff Oxendine hascoasenicd
to let us rent his car wash for that particular day and anyone wishing to
have his car washed there will he charged $3.(M).
Wc will appreciate your coiuributioi
and
rill Yancy,
Chairman;
Larry T. Roherts
Also appearing was Miss North
Carolina, 1975, Ms. Susan Lawrence,
who was as pretty as she .seemed to be on Beautiful Miss Lumbee, Ms. Brenda
TV when she finished as First Runner Up Hunt, provided special entertainment in
in the 1976 Miss America Pageant. song.
lEA TEAM ANNOUNCED
The Ri>beson County Bo;ii-d of [•Iducation Mr. Grady Locklear will serve as Director
met in a sjK'cial callcil meeting on Tuesday of Eihicalion. And Mr. Donald Locklear
to aniioimcc the new Indian Educaiioii Act will serve as Director of Youth
Project Ailminislrativc .SlalT. Mrs. Ruth Development. The Board appuned these
Dial Wiiods will serve as Project Director recommendations from Superiiuciulent
for Robeson County Indian E.ducalioii Act. Piirnell Swclt.
FINAL REGISTRATION SESSIONS
FOR FALL QUARTER AT RTI
The final registration sessions for the fall
quarter at Robeson Technical Institute has
been issued by Frank Leggett,
Vice-President of Student Services.
Anyone who plans to enter a curriculum
course for the fall quarter and who has not
pre-registered must attend one of these final
registration sessions.
The last registration for returning daytime
students will be held on Thursday,
September 1. New vocational students and
Police Science I students register on Friday,
September 2. New students in the
technical, general education, and
developmental studies program register on
Tuesday, September 6. Students must be
present at 8:30 a.m. for these sessions.
Classes begin on Wednesday. September 7.
The last registration dates for night
students was Wednesday. August 31, and
Thursday, September 1, New students
should report to Room 70! by 6:30 p.m.
Students who have preregistered should
pay fees and purchase books on one of these
two nights. Evening classes begin on
Tuesday, September 6. and Wednesday.
September 7.
IN THE ARMED FORCES
FT. BRAGG, N.C.—Army Private
Glcniiwood E. Hammonds, son ofElwood
Hammonds of Lumberton, N.C.. recently
was assigned as an artilleryman with the
82nd Airborne division at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
Pvt. Hammonds entered the army in
January of this year.
His mother, Mrs. Edith Hammonds, lives
at 1268 Prospect Place. Brooklyn. N.Y.
Army Sergeant Donald K. Chavis, whose'
wife. Karen, lives on Route 1. Rowland.
N.C., recently was assigned as a helicopter
mechanic with the 82nd Airborne Division
at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
Set. Chavis entered the Army in April.
1966.
He is a 1965 graduate of Pembroke (N.C.)
High School.
His parents. Mr. and Mrs. Willie A.
Chavis, live on Route 3. Maxton.
PSU PRAISED BY UNC SYSTEM
FOR ITS REMEDIAL PROGRAM
CHAPEL HILL—Pembroke Slate
University has been cited by the University
of North Carolina system for its program of
providing remedial help for students who
need it, while a number of other schools in
the 16-campus system have been criticized
for deficiencies in this area.
Of Pembroke State University, the UNC
system report noted it as having a
■ pervasive, coordinated, integrated and
accepted" remedial program backed with
•'a substantial hard-money investment."
Universities receiving the same praise as
Pembroke State University were
Appalachian State. East Carolina. N.C.
Central. Western Carolina and
Winston-Salem State.
Schools with "occasional or speiradic
remedial pix^grains" were as
UNC-Chapel Hill. UNC-Charlotte.
UNC-Greensboro and UNC-Wilmington.
Schools noted as not having special
remedial courses indued Elizabeth City
Stale University and Fayetteville State
University,
Schools with less comprehensive remedial
programs, according to the report, arc N.C.
A&T and N.C. State University.
The N.C. School of the Arts in
Winston-Salem was excluded from the
study because of its specialized curriculum.
The 526-page study was reeentiv
completed by the Research Triangle
Institute at the request of the UNC Board'of ,
Governors. ' '