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? ^PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY?" ' f9 THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE ? I Dodicotod to tko bott in all ol us I *aro?ur I ^SSsasiS^ ? VOLUME 6 NUMBER 23 PEMBROKE, N.C. THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1978 15<g PER COPY CAMPBELL SOUP IS COMING TO ROBESON FOR SURE World's Worsr Kepr Secrer | Officiol Now M*xt#w--Some officials privately called it the world'* worst kept secret. Campbell Soup is definitely coming to Robeson. After months and years of studying sites and exploring possibili ties. Campbell Soup Company finally settled on a tract of land approximately 2 miles outside Maxton as a distribution point and, eventually, a full fledged manufacturing facility. At the luncheon Monday at Townsend Middle School in Maxton, Campbell Soup President Harold A. Shaub announced that the distribution facility will be built on a 340 acre site recently brought which will cost more than $2 million. Gov. Jim Hunt joined Campbell officials here Monday in making the official announcement that the company would build here and is buying additional land for a canned food production plant. The 250,000 square- foot facility will employ about 65 people and have the capacity to store about 2'/> million cases of canned food products. It is expected to be in operation by early 1979. Shaub said a wide variety of the company's canned convenience foods will be distributed from the facility to customers in the Southeastern states. Shaub also revealed that Campbell will build its next canned food process ing plant on the same site. He said the firm recently exercised a purchase option for an additonal 731 acres of land which could be used for a sophisticated waste water land treatment system for the production plant. Shaub said plans are for the production plant to be built in phases and could ultimately employ 1,000 people by the mid 1960s. An initial construction phase for the plant could be under way within two years. Shaub said, and eventual cost of the facility as now envisioned would be more than $50 million. U.S. Senator Jesse Helms joined the governor and Shaub at the announce ment luncheon. Helms did not speak. Hunt said the Campbell facility would mean a "better quality of life, and opportunities for the good life for people in this entire area." He said the Campbell plan is the most perfect example yet of his administra tion's commitment to "bringing jobs to where they are needed most," and "putting new emphasis on development of rural areas that have much potential.' Shaub said the Maxton site was chosen as the site of the new facility after many other cities were examined. He said a major consideration for choosing the site was that the soil is the type needed for the waste water disposal system the plant will use. The production plant will use large amounts of water, and the treatment system will put back into streams water more pure than when it was taken out, Shaub said. Others taking part in the announce ment ceremony were Tony Smith, director of Robeson County Industrial Development Commission; Alvah Ward industrial development representative, N.C. Department Dept. of Commerce; E. McM. Clark manager,site selection, Campbell Soup Co.; J.T. Dorr*nee Jr., chairman of the board, Campbell Soup Company; N.C. Agricultural Commis sion Chief James Graham;and Sam X. Noble, Chairman, Robeson County Board of Commissioners. The Campbell Soup site selection announcement was anti- climatic. Every one had known about it for weeks and months. One of the most interesting obser vances Monday was the seating ar rangements. Who got to sit at the head table with the Campbell Soup big wigs, Gov. Hunt and Sen. Jesse Helms? One who did not sit at the head table was Maxton Commissioner Herman Dial. As a matter of fact. Dial's name was hardly mentioned at Monday's luncheon. Many insiders said that Maxton officials had taken control of luncheon arrangements from Robeson County. Maxton Mayor Bill Chestnut openly 1I A . endorsed Wyvis Oxendine, Herman Dial's stiff oppostion in the recent run off. When queried Dial would only say, "I am glad Campbell Soup is coming to Robeson County. We need the jobs that good industry can bring." But he did ' say the above with a seeming grin that j said "I know but I'm not saying any thing for publication." County Commissioner Sam Noble reportedly had decided not to attend the luncheon until he was seated next to Gov. Hunt. The source said Noble decided to attend so as not to embarrass the governor. Publicly Maxton Mayor Bill Chestnut said he had nothing to do with the seating arrangements. Everyone, including Chestnut, said that seating arrangements were the responsibility of Tony Smith, Robeson's director of the Industrial and Agricul tural Development Commission, the county's chief industry hunter. Smith said, "We tried to be fair in our seating. We only had so many places. We tried to cover everyone. The county commissioners were represented by Sam Noble, the chairman." COMPLAINT FILED CONCERNING PEMBROKE POST MASTER SELECTION A complaint has been filed with the Equal Employment Opportunities Divi sion of the federal government concern ing the selection of the Pembroke Post Master. A White, Jacob Curtis, most recently employed with the Hickory Post Office as a distribution clerk, was chosen over four Indian applicants, including Simeon Oxendine, who has filed a complaint of racial discrimina tion. Eddie Chavis, an Equal Employment Opportunities field representative is investigating the case. Most Indians seem to think that the postal authorities ought to consider sociological motives too when choosing a postmaster for Pembroke, since the town has a notorious history including the governor appointing non Indians to the position of mayor and councilman until the late forties when the first Indian was appointed to the town council of Pembroke. Except for the Pembroke Post Office, no Indian, until recently, was employed in any other post office in Robeson County. Many Indian leaders, for years, have called on the post office to institute an affirmative action program in employment. To date, no affirmative action program exists. According to the postal authorities, postmaster selections are made on the basis of merit from a list of qualified candidates submitted to the Regional Management Selection Board. The board, composed of a representative of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, a postal district manager and two post masters, selects and recommends to the postmaster general the best qualified person for appointment to the post master slot. The job carries a salary of more than 118,000 and fringe benefits. It is reported that Curtis'* post master reeom mended him highly for the job. The Indian applicants were repor tedly ranked and given a rating by someone although no one know* who did the rating yet, although the best tource* in the post office ted u* that It was probably done by ane ef the many officer* In charge Pembroke ha* had In the teat lew month* white waiting tor the peat maater to be named One of the Ifl Hllffld was MtofVIti IhfhllM ^*T9^W9 V 999 S"ft po wPV PVOfTIVI Ofwwtowt , ?ewiand'* paafaMai who served a* Pembroke's OK twie* # MiiIm Co?I?I?ar Hanamm DM ?I? m a table with citd af c?ri Baa Floyd, Bad Sprlaga Ca??laalaaar Mky Daaa Laeklaar and faraar ?4 T? ? Dean Chavers to Address Awards Banquet ?WW " Dr, Dean Chaven, left Preaidenl of Bacone College with Mr. Reave* Nihwookiy, Member- Board of Trus tee*. One of the highlignts of Lumbee Homecoming 1978 will be the Awards Banquet. This banquet will be held at the Pembroke Jaycee Building on June 29, at 8 p.m. The purpose of this affair is to present three prestigious awards to Lumbee Indians who iave dedicated their lives to making faft plight of the Indian people easier to bear. These awards are the Businessman Award, the Henry Berry Lowry Award and the Distinguished Service Award. Guest speaker for this affair will be Dr. Dean Chavers of Muskogee. Okla. He is President of Bacone College. Dr. Chavers holds the following degrees: B.A. in Journalistic Studies from the University of Calif, at Berkeley, M A in Communication from Stanford Uni versity, M.A. in Anthropology alv) from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Communication also from Stanford University. He is married to the former Antonia Navarro qt Calif, and they b^ve two children: Cynthia Christine and Monica Lynn. A Steak dinner will be catored by the Pembroke Jaycees and Jaycettes with live entertainment provided by Gene Lowry and his Short Circuit Disco. Tickets for this event may be obtained from any LRDA staff member of by contacting Gary Deese, ANA Project Director at LKDA's Main Office be tween the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m Old Main Reconstruction Contracts Approved Pembroke- The awarding of contracts for "renocations and additions" to the Old Main building at PSU as received on June 1 has been approved by the General Administration of the Univer sity of North Carolina, based on the recommendations of C hancellor English E. Jones of PSU. The total project will cost $I,6(X),(XX) with work expected to begin in the next six weeks, according to William S. Mason, Jr. PSU business manager. The State Division of Properly and Construction must still give its approval contracts must be signed, and an official stalling date be determined, with a 30-day grace period, before work begins. Low bidders for the Old Main contract are as follows: general contract - T.A. Nye and Sons, Inc. of Fairmont, $971,200; plumbing- Town and Country Plumbing, Inc. of Fayetteville $41,000; mechancial contract- T.R. Driscoll Sheet metal Works of Lumberton. $181 .(XX); electrical contract- Steele Electric Co. of Monroe $144,040; and elevator contract Southern Elevator Co. of Greensboro, $17,628. The $! ,600,000 total contract includes $110,000 in movable equipment and $41,632 in contingency. The architect firm is Jordan. Snow don and McVicker, Inc of Laurinburg. "Based on my recommendations, the UNC General Administration has ap proved the awarding of these contracts, said Dr. Jones. "Everything is set to go. This has been a long and difficult situation. I'm looking forward to the beginning of construction-- and I want to express my appreciation to all those people who have soon this project through to Its fruition. When Old Main Is rooooetroctod, It will ho a tremendous asset to the academic program of this university." The "now" Old Mam wMI honor the AdOdRdMM^ aooM^yro esg B^hm aawtsiwraM it WOeP^wfIfeV *? s^w Bwlvwf wee ? and Inriude areas tor the Americas Indian toadies Dept., Native American Museum, media eootor. ate. the exterior of the building will look the same as whenit was first constructed in 1923 as the first brick bui'ding on the campus. Inside, however, the building will be modernistic in every respect. Built originally with a state appropri ation of $75,000, Old Main was burned down in 1973 after a controversy arose other whether or not to tear it down and build a new performing arts center in its place. It was finally decided to construct the performing arts center at another part of the campus. The former Old Main Building was a landmark of the campus. Across its facade was inscribed in former yeais "Indian Normal School," "Pembroke State College," and finally "Pembroke State University." High school classes used to meet downstairs and college classes upstairs. Graduations--and even funerals--have been held there. Funds that are making the $1,600,000 restoration possible came from the following sources: $000,000 in state appropriations from the 1975 voted bond act; $500,000 under an Economic Development Administration Gfant; and $.300,000 under a Department of Housing and Urban Development Grant. - ?$*<. *m m *J , ; A) B ? m JCJ KJM ? /?, III B B I ?? ? Bi ? ' BT|W KB PLATE SALE PLANNED JUNE 30 The Pembroke Rescue Squad will sponsor a chicken and barbeque plate sale on June 30, from II a.m. until at the Pembroke Fire Dept. Tickets are on sale by members of the Pembroke Rescue Squad. Proceeds will be used for the construction of a Pembroke Rescue Building. DANCE FOR CANCER FUND Jaycees President Steve C'havis has announced that the Hoke County Jaycees will sponsor a disco dance on Saturday. June 17th, at .the Hoke County Jaycees Club House in the South Hoke Community. The dance will begin at 8 p.m. and will end at 12 p.m. According to Chairman Willie R. Jacobs, all proceeds will go to the Hoke County Cancer Fund Drive. "The goal for our chapter." said Mr. Jacobs, "is 4200 and we hope to raise it with this one project." The Jaycees would like to encourage as many people as possible to attend and help raise funds to stamp out one of the nation's largest killers. BULLARD FAMILY REUNION PLANNED The descendants of tfre late John Bullard and Cattie Graham Bullard will meet for their 4th family reunion on Father's Day, June 18, at 12 noon. The reunion will be held at the "Bullard Homeplace" on Highway 710, the home of a grandson. Mr. and Mrs. John K. Brayboy. All relatives and friends of the family are cordially invited to attend and bring a covered dish. PLATE SALE PLANNED The Town of Rennert is sponsoring a chicken and fish plate sale on July 1 from 12 noon until. Price of the plates will be $2.50 including drinks with proceeds going to the construction of a town hall. ? Everyone is invited to visit the friendly town of Rennert and participate in the sale. EXEMPTION FROM PORTION OF VOTING RIGHTS ACT PROPOSED Kep. Horace Locklear recently stated that he is considering filing a petition to the U.S. Attorney General asking for the exemption of Robeson County Indians from the bi-lingual portion of the Voting Rights Act. ' The proposed petition would be for no other reason than to clarify that there is no need for voting ballots to be printed in two languages to accomodate the Indians of Robeson County. Anyone who has any opposition to this proposal is encouraged to contact Repr. Locklear. HAMMONDS RREPRIMANDED BY LABOR COMMISSIONER The Commissioner of Labor, John C. Brooks has reprimanded Jimmy Ham monds for not reporting to them about his indictment for second degree murder, prior to coming to work for them. The reprimand will be perma nently placed in Hammonds' file, how ever, it will not interfere with his new position as a skills training officer. Rodger Gibson Off To Hollywood S*? photo pog* 0. "Strike at the Wind!" is a summer phenomenon. Work begins in May and the lights go out for the last time in August. The costunfes go into storage and the actors go to their homes with memories to share before the winter fireplaces. What happens in their lives between seasons? Plenty. "We begin preparations for the following season the day after the show closes." explained Lane Hudson, the drama's general manager. "And we like to think 'Strike at the Wind!' is a stepping stone for some of our staff and cast." Indeed it is; for several cast members will begin other work in drama late this summer. Rodger Gibson, a cast member during the show's premier season, will return to do the choreography for the 1978 show. Later this summer Gibson will fly to Hollywood to begin filming a television series with Bruce Jenner. After a whirlwind visit to Hollywood last week, Gibson shared some of his experiences. "1 got a call from Allan Carr (producer of "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease") asking for some photographs of me. We had met briefly at the North Carolina School of the Arts. I decided to fly the pictures out personally. That was the beginning of several days spent traveling around the country with Mr. Carr. We talked whenever he was available, and he offered me a supporting role in the Bruce Jenner series. I plan to fly back out there after I finish my work with "Strike at the Wind!' and maybe do a few commercials and some modeling before I start shooting the series." Upon completion of the series, Gibson plans to return to the North Carolina School of the Arts where he will be a third year drama student. Rock Kershaw is another "Strike at the Wind!" alumni who has moved on to share his talents with others. After presiding over the drama as general manager for the show's first two years, Kershaw took a position with the first and most widely known outdoor drama in the United States. He is now the assistant general manager for "The Lost Colony." "Working with an outdoor drama has given me a foot in the door at other * professional theatres." explained Steve Karns. Karos. third ? year lighting designer for "Strike at the Wind!", spent nine months in Alaska after the drama ended it's first season. He worked as the master electrician for the Alaska Repertory Theatre at that time. Mr. Karns added. "After this season 1 dtope to be working in college th sales as a technical director." " Strike at the Wind!' has savaral functions," said Hudson. "Our primary mil ivim la to nortrav the trifacial ae voe sana sassy is^a a a g ^ns heritage of southeastern N.C fhssnmh an entertainment medium, bat ma also help to build the confidence ef aiur cast and crew Their work here |gs. in many casta, lad to other theatre oppertuni tias. We am just as pes ad afftsiiiaa are of the ghow Itself." * Vnkt* || til# WMI" !>c-: ft-f n-.rif, r? TnMfMlp WWfH I MBfCfflBKECT I WWOVATION A NO AOOVTIOM TO OLO MAM BULOINO PWWWBIM WW mWWIWTvj J ladMi K JMM rf fwfr l^lf ||g| U?S%?raM| wMi ippfttW j ^ I,, ,^WrTT?j^PPSte mmpt 01 ?* m*ia f
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