Elect
JERRY LOWRY
To The
ROBESON COUNTY
BOARD OF EDUCATION
"Qualify Education for
All The Children"
WHO IS JERRY LOWRY?
NAME: Jerry Lowry. son of Rev and Mrs Harvey Lowry.
ADDRESS: Rouie I. Rowland. North Carolina. Rcsidence-A2l-9044. Business-844-3132
WIFE: Dorecn L. Lowry. daughter of Mr and Mrs Calvin Lowry
CHILDREN: Elena and Ana Lowry
EXPERIENCE: Teacher and Assistant Principal in Elementary Schools
EDUCATION: Pembroke Slate University Graduate in 1970; attended University of I .as Llamas.
Santander. Spain.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: President of PTA at Union Elementary 1977-78: Past President of PSU
Alumni Association 1977-78: Member of llnion Civic Club: Advisory member of IEA for Union
Elementary.
CHURCH: Sunday School Teacher-Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church: Past Lay Leader and
l-ay Speaker: Chairman of Administration Board; Youth Counselor and Coordinator: Member of the
Board of laiity with United Methodist Church. Past Choir Director.
OCCUPATION: Self-employed Owner and Operator of Lowry's Chainsaw and J and D Grocery.
Maxton. North Carolina.
?Your Vote and Support is Appreciated
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A Note of Thanks From
Carmel Lowry
Dear Editor:
I would like to publicly thank
everyone for making our grand opening
at Cross Country Country Club a great
success.
Thanks to Shannon Wood Products.
Hubert Stone and Old Foundry Toyota
for donating the money to buy ice cream
for all the youngsters and special thanks
to the board members of Lumbee River
Electric Membership Corp. for paying
for the grand prizes. Thank you very
much.
And thanks to the following mer
chants for donating gifts that were
presented to all those who participated
in our fishing contest. They are Pates
Supply Co.. Paits Fertilizer and Farm
Supplies. Jack Pait's Furniture, Lum
bee Bank. Service Oil Co. and Pem
broke Hardware.
totono >10006 w.uui >
And special thanks to: Lumbee
Warehouse, Jack Pait's Warehouse,
Hedgepeth Warehouse. Southern Na
tional Bank. Home Federal Savings and
Loan, PCA (Production Credit Associa
tion): Lowes: Canal Wood; Barnes
Motors; Bennet Repair Shops; Interna
tional Trucking; Wilkerson Tractor Co.;
Old Foundry Restaurant; B.B. Lock
Smith and Sporting Goods; Sherd
Oxendine; Randy's Food Land; Doc
Davis Market; Biggs; Covington Sup
ply; John San Chevrolet.
Everyone is invited to come out to
Cross Country Country Club and fish
with us this Saturday. We'll be giving
away more ice cream.
Thanks again,
Camel Lowry, Owner
Croea Country Country Club
Ed Crain named
Coach of the Year
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Dr. Ed Crain named NAIA Cross Country Coach of
Year.
WINSTON-SALEM - Dr. Ed
Grain, cross country and track
coach of Pembroke State
University, has been named
NAIA District 26 "Cross
Country Coach of the Year."
He received his trophy Sunday
at the annual District 26
Athletic Awards Dinner at
Winston-Salem State
University.
This is the ninth time that I
Crain has captured the District I
"Coach of the Year" award in i
cross country. His team this
year won its ninth District !
cross country title in the last 10 <
years. His runners captured <
the first five places and i
automatic all-district selection.
The Braves' harriers also
finished third in the state and
11th in the NA1A nationals.
Garry Henry, sophomore PSU
runner from Australia, won the
individual championship in the
NAIA national meet.
Crain, 36, is completing his
12th year of coaching at PSU.
He has also won NAIA District
"Coach of the Year" seven
times in outdoor track, four
times in indoor track, and
shared indoor "Coach of the
Year" honors in one instance.
His teams have swept 10
district championships in
outdoor track, nine in cross
country and six in indoor track.
Re-Elect
? . . i
L H. MOORE
TO THE
Robeson County Board
of Education
Democratic
Primary
"I recognize the continuing pressing need for improved education through
out the country to develop better citizens, communities and economic living
conditions.
"I feel that every channel should be explored to provide the educational
means to allow every pupil to develop their God-given abilities to the fullest.
"Your Support
Will Be Appreciated."
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I Vote
LUTHER HODGES, JR. for
United Stotes Senote
"Your Support Will De Appreciated"
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Luther Hodges,
Felix Harvey, Treasurer
I The candidate
Luther offers an outstanding record to the voters of N.C.
I Luther Hodges, Jr., Democratic
candidate for the United States Senate,
was born in Leaksville (now Eden),
North Carolina on November 19, 1936.
Official campaign photo
if it fat I ift th? late Luther H Hodge*
wat governor of North Carolina from
1953 through 1960. and U 6 Com
mere* Secretary under President John
F Kennedy Hit mother wat Martha
Biakeney Hodge* of Monroe. N C She
H wet a trhool teacher and principal of
the high school m Leaktvtlle
Hodget graduated from Trl Ctly
High Schoof m Leaktville m 1953 He
played basketball, football and tennis,
and won most scholastic honors,
including membership in the National
Honor Society His sophomore year
was spent in Frankfurt, West Germany
while his father served as director of the
industry division of the Economic
Cooperative Administration, better
known as the Marshall Plan
Hodges attended the University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill and gradu
ated with an A.B degree in economics
in 1957 While at Carolina, he was
involved in numerous campus activities
and won nearly every campus and
scholastic honor available: Phi Beta
Kappa Order of the Golden Fleece...
president of the UNC Student Council...
freshman letter in track In his senior
year, he was a regional finalist for a
Rhodes Scholarship
After college. Hodges went on active
duty as a lieutenant in the U S Naval
Reserve, serving with the U S Sixth
Fleet in the Mediterranean for two
years. 1957 59 He remained in the
reserves for a total of eight years
Returning from active duty. Hodges
enrolled at Harvard University's Gradu
ale School of Business Administration
as a J Spencer Love Fellow He
received an M B A In 1961 and
finished in the lop one third of his class
Hodges then joined the faculty of the
UNC School of Business Administra
lion One year later, he began his career
with North Carolina National Rank
He rose rapidly through the execu- J
tive ranks of the corporation, and
became chairman of the board of the ?
bank in 1974, at the age of 37 NCNB is |
the largest financial institution in North
Carolina and the largest in the <
Southeast
Hodges resigned as chairman on
June 30, 1977, to begin active
^reparation for his Senate candidacy.
The following is a listing of Hodges'
:areer highlights:
PIMM fry Itftn C?Mr?M
Leaviny no doubt m to hit preference for U.S. Senator,
Luther pointt with pride to the Hodgat campaign emblem.
The Hodges Record I
EDUCATIONAL
? member of the Board of Gover
nors. University of North Carolina
-trustee of Johnson C. Smith
University in Charlotte
member of the central selection
committee for the prestigious Morehead
Scholar program
?evening faculty. Queens College.
Charlotte
CMC
?director and officer of the Charlotte
Chamber of Commerce for six years.
Chairman of the Chamber, 1976
-active member of the Rotary while
with NCNB in Chapel Hill and
Charlotte The recipient of the Paul
Harris Fellowship Award given by
Rotary International
?member of Dimensions for Char
lotte Mecklenburg, and chairman of its
economic development subcommittee
PROFESSIONAL
? past chairman, N.C. Manpower
Council
chairman. MDC. Inc.. 1967-77.
MIX." is a non-profit agency concerned
with job and employment policies of
federal, state and local governments.
-former director of the North
Carolina Fund
-former member of the executive
committee of the American Bankers
Association's urban and community
affairs committee, and chairman of the
banking industry's first urban affairs
conference in 1976
?former president of the Medical
Research Foundation of North Caralina
? former chairman of the public
affairs committee for the Association of
Reserve City Bankers
? member of the boards of directors
of Burrls Industries,-J.B. Ivey &
Company, the Research Triangle Foun-I
dation of North Carolina, the N.C
CitiMns Association, and the Business
Foundation of North Carolina. Inc. He
was a member of the board of
Burlington Industries, Inc
CULTURAL
-board of directors of the N.C
JcEisa!
-first chairman of the N.C. Beaux
Arts Ball, which is the fund-raising
mechanism for the N.C. Art Museum in
Charlotte
?member of the board of directors
of the American Council for the Arts
POLITICAL ?
? member of the Mecklenburg I
Young Democrats and the Mecklen
burg County Democratic Men's Club
-co-chairman of the Democratic
Party's Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner
in 1972
? chairman of the Mecklenburg
County Democratic Party, 1969-70
? member of the finance committee
for the inauguration of President Jimmy
Carter
HONORS ?
?named by Time magazine in 1974 I
as one of America's 200 emerging I
national leaders
?outstanding young man, Mecklen- I
burg Jaycees
-state chairman. East Carolina I
stadium expansion drive
? appointed by former Gov. Bob I
Scott to the state government reorgani- I
zation task force
? recipient of the Brotherhood I
Award of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg I
chapter of the National Conference of I
Christians and Jews. The award I
recognized his activities in minority I
hiring at NCNB and the bank's I
involvement in minority businesses.
MISCELLANY I
?co-author, with Dr. Roilic Tillman,
Jr., of th? UNC School of Business
Administration, of Bank Marketing:
Text and Cases (1968), and co-author,
with Proftssor Joe S. Floyd, of
Financing Industrial Growth (/962).
-traveled extensively In Asia, Africa,
South America, Europe and the Middle
East. He has visited all lOO North
Carolina counties.
-lives in Charlotte with his wife,
Dorothy, and their two children, Anne
17. and "Hart," 16. The family attends I
Christ Episcopal Church m Charlotte