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EDITORIAL AND OPINION PAGE *) ! ? ? ? !; AS I SEE IT ?< ? On?ce Dorton ,???i tOD G BIFFIN, MUHAMMAD All AND . . OTHER HEROES The world needs heroes. That reminds me of Rod , Griffin, the basketball stand ?ut from Fairmont, NC and Wake Forest University and pow the Denver Nuggets pro fessional basketball team. I sincerely wish him the best, if he receives a million dollars ?r two million- he is worth it. Mostly I consider Rod Grif fin a hero of mine because he is a nice man who has never gotten bigger than his britches sad he wears some big britch es considering that he is a power ibrward probably weighing in somewhere sroond 235 pounds and loom ing op to 6'6" in height. He is Abig man physically, but he is Abigger tnan than mere size. "tk Griffin was our first banquet speaker at the First Annual braves Banquet honoring the PSU athletes last year. He was received well. He spoke just a ?ew words but they were big words. He mostly told the PSU athletes and Braves boosters that a person had to believe in . God and in himself. Hey, that Is the secret of a successful life. We wish Rod Griffin the vary best We shall be follow ing his exploits in the bos s?*e? as he kicks off the 'coming basketball season with the Denver Nuggets. mAMB MUHAMMAD Ali Muhammad All is my man. He does notachuffle. He walks pnrposeftdly with head asset. I hope he whups Leon Spinks end then retires to the nmrid stage. Ali thinks well of himself. We have been honored to follow his exploits in the boxing ring and out over the last few years. He has touched ?*r hearts. He is a man who appreciates drama and chal Tomorrow night Ali feces his toughest challenge. He takes on the impertinent Leon Spinks fer the WBA Cham ptonehip. Ali had better be toady. Spinks is a man from the streets of hard knocks. He wM not be intimidated by Ali. But AJi deserves to win. History demands it. And when AH beati Spinks Friday night I hope he will hang op the gloves forever and translate his charisma into something truly good and purposeful for mankind. All is something else. We shall not see his like again when he quits the ring. After him we shall return to talk of brawlers and thugs and heavy handed men who are not graceful and are not poetical in any tense of the word. AH is a poem in motion. He is beauti ful to watch. But Friday night will be his last dance. I hope he wins. ...AMD REV. BOB MANGUM Friends of Bob Mangum will gather Saturday night to honor him at the Old Foundry Restaurant. Tickets are a mere $4.00. It will be a big night but it probably would be bigger if Mangum were in charge of it. He is a doer, a go getter, a man of God who believes religion is God in Action. His testament is the Robeson County Church and Commun ity Center. Bob's a man with warts like all of us. He's not perfect but he is a good man who tries to make the world around him a better place to tt.e and work tnA play in. That's a nice tribute to him. And it certainly refutes those who mistakenly think I do not like and respect Rev. Bob Mangum. Of course I do. u- ? ?' . ' jsAHP Vflt* IXIMIDl ?*" ? " OXEND1NE And they did it: they honored Mr. Lonnie H. Oxen dine at Sandy Plains United Methodist Church last Sunday morning. It was done in style. First class. Like the man deserved. Mr. Lonnie personi fies the Methodist layman, ever ready to serve his church and fellow Christians. Another think 1 like about Mr. Lonnie is the fact that he stayed at the task for a long period of time. 1 like the long distance runner, the man who stays at the job until it is done. So. like Mr. Lonnie, be a long distance runner, be de pendable. Stay with it. Stay at the task until it is done. That's* the true mark of a champion and a man. Prime Time Breaking Out of j Life's Three Boxes by Cy Brickfield If the name of Richard Bolles tounde familiar, it i* probably because you have read ? or at least know about?his 1972 book. What Color It Your Parachutef. p Which n currently in iu ruin edition with total sales fast-ap proaching the magic million mark. Subtitled A Practical Manual for Job Hunters and Career Changers, the book evolved out of Bodes' work as director of the National Career Develop ment Project of the United Ministeries in Higher Education ?and from his own experience with a mid-life career change. Having gone from being a high-ranking member of the clergy to his present secular po sition with the Career Develop ment Project, Bolles knew per sonally what it is like to switch careers in middle age, and was appalled by the lack of literature on the subject. The result was Parachute, which was followec two years later by Where Do j Go From Here With the Rest Oj My Life*, a workbook on "life/ work planning" which Bolles co authored with John C. Crystal another pioneer in this emergini area of concern. During this time, as he lec lured and conducted seminar acroas the country on his way t< becoming "the world of place ment's number one celebrity," I Bolles was developing his ideas s for integrating work, eduoation | awk lwawta.UyougboBt tbc^en- ? tire life cycle instead of isolating < and relegating them to separate i stages of life. t Although it is this concept I which forms the basis of Bolles' new and most definitive book yet, The Three Boxes of Life? And How To Get Out of Them, it is the element of his own personal tragedy and loss which permeates the work, giving it a sense of almost unrelenting ur gency. "It is one of the ironies of life," Bolles explains in the book's almost poetic epilogue, "that this very book on LIFE/ work planning was* set?by fate and circumstance?in the larger context of Death, which fact in formed and affected all that I have written here." A week after Bolles had begun the actual writing of The Three Boxes, his brother, investigative reporter Don Bolles of The Ari zona Republic, was slain in a gangland ambush. The two brothers were extremely close, and Richard Bolles was all but shattered by the shocking sud deness of his brothers' death and the manner in which he died. Speaking at a conference on life cycle planning last year, i Bolles interrupted his prepared presentation to remark off i handedly that sometimes even ! the best-planned lives don't work - as intended. "My brother had great plans," he intoned flatly without ap i parent emotion, "but he was i killed before he ever got to be gin many of the things he plan i ned to do?and the things we I planned to do together." I Thus, running throughout the f book, there is a recurrent under ' lying theme of the temporariness - of life. Although he never spells , it out in so many words, Bolles I seems to be urging us to make long-range plans, but to do all - that we really want to do now I without waiting for tomorrows > that may never come. I In a sense, this is what Bolles las been saying all along?that til education need not be con ined to the so-called formative years 6t youth. and that leisure shouldn't be postponed until the retirement years. Instead, he argues, they should be mixed in proper balance tfith work throughout the entire lifespan; in other words, do it all now. Changes in the system will probably come slowly, parallel ling the changes taking place in the composition of the nation's workforce. Meanwhile, Bolles insists, it is nonetheless possible for an interested individual "to see if he or she can at least change the box-like nature of edu cation, work and retirement for his or her own life If enough individuals were to change . . . then the system would have to change. Or, if enough individuals were to change, then willy nilly the system itself would already be changed." Although highly critical of re tirement as we know it today, Bolles offers some very sound advice about anticipating and preparing for this phase of life: "Most of us have a wide variety of opportunities to talk to people in retirement long be fore we ourselves reach that blessed estate. We usually waste such time by settling for talking with them about the weather or what's on TV, or our mutual aches and pains. You will be wise beyond your years if, in stead, you use every chance you have to interview older people . . . about what it's like, thus preparing yourself to avoid the pitfalls that they fell into, to profit from the lessons that they learned, and to use the tools that they found or find most helpful. . . . You'll be amazed at what you learn." Richard Bolles is clearly a man who continues to learn from his own experiences and those of others?and to share this vital knowledge with us. To a great extent, The Three Boxei emerges as a rather tentative work, a progress report on its author's developing thoughts on?rather than his Anal conclusions about ?this subject. It is a book which guides and illuminates while leaving one wondering what Bollei will do next end what interesting thing* he will uy. (Cyril F. "Cy" Brickfield U iht executive director of the non profit, non-port iron National Be tired Troche rt A hoc lot Ion ond A merit on A iioclatlon of Bellred Fereone In Wothlngton, D C.) THICABOIJNA INDIAN ?OKi A i The Carolina Indian Voice ImMMwI IV7J KuMuh?d h?h rhurviay MUCH BARTON OARRY BARTON Hto AwnkNM KJH.K I OONNBB BRAYBOY DON Nil UXJRUMN Ammkm ARMm CIIWRnIim M<?<?> A Ltftmt I iwMMiiriataMi NC Nmmh MhMltfViyllllOMOUWIBUN *Ota PO Km MTf. R III I In. Nr. IBITJ Robeson Schedules I ; September Fair LUMBERTON - Plant lor Robeaoa County's 32nd | Annual Fair have boon completed, and the six-day event | is scheduled to begin Sept It. The fair, sponsored by the Lumberton Jaycees, will I feature free parking. an expanded midway and several new rides, according to fair cwchainnan Coble D. Wil son Jr. Kkfcoff event wiR be the annual hog show at the John G. Richardson Livestock Arena on the Jaycee Fair grounds off N.C. 41 south of Lumberton. Monday will also be the night for oM-timey fair for contests, such as corn shucking, hog calling, husband calling and corn shelling. Daily attractions include the midway, the Old MacDo nald petting xoo and visits about the fairgrounds by Disney cartoon characters. According to fair co-chairman Larry Pope, this year's Fair Book has been dedicated to the late state Sen. Luther J. Brigg Jr. of Lumberton. "He was a friend to all," said Wilson, "and we thought we should do something in remembrance of one of the most outstanding Jaycees in the dub's history." Tuesday and Friday are children's days, with young sters admitted free. Senior citizens will be admitted at no charge on Thursday. State Refuses All Bids On New Central Prison RALEIGH ? All bids for construction of a new Central Prison in Raleigh came in well above expec tations, and officials have rejected all of them. The state will re-advertise for bids on the new maximum security prison, a process that will delay construction for as much as two months. Droppings Inmate Hazard? RALEIGH ? Dried pigeon droppings on old Central Prison buildings may pose a deadly threat to some inmates, as wreckers demolish the buildings to make way for new ones. Dr. William Kaplan, a fungus specialist with the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, says a fungus known as cryptococcus neoformans is present in some droppings. It can cause a number of symptoms, among them severe headaches, nausea, memory lapses, insanity and death. m ? THE CAAOUMA I IMDtAN VOICE I MtaMK ^J ; THECABOUNA INDIAN VOICE 521-2626 Prison Panel Important, Director Says RALEIGH (AP) - The North Carolina In mate Grievance Com mission has been wrestling with the problems of state prisoners for four years this week, and its ex ecutive director says it has more than justified its existence. The commission has processed 18.687 cases, Fred Morrison said, dealing with everything from smoking privile ges to clothing to legal rights Its <ery existence, Morrison said in a news release, "has helped to reduce tension and pro vide a stable rehabili tative atmosphere by providing formal chan nels for communication of complaints. The commission is composed of Ave mem bers appointed by the governor. It meets monthly to make rec ommendations to the secretary of Correc tions with the help of six staff members who screen appeals from prisoners. Morrison said the commission's work has resulted in the following changes: ?Approval of incen tive pay for inmates on prison work details. ?Employment of a full-time chaplain and recreation director at the Correctional Center for Women, and im provement of medical services. ?More books for prison libraries. ?Some relief of over crowding. But the most impor tant evidence that the commission is needed, Morrison said, is that inmates use it Sandy Plains Church Honors "Mr. Lonnie" Cont'd From Page I Said Rev. Cummings who grew up at Sandy Plaint with the honoree, "I have known Mr. Lonnie for more than 40 years and I have come to love and admire him for his devotion to this church. I have watched him up close for all these years and he has lived a good and spotless life before us." Rev. Cummings recalled the night "Mr. Lonnie was converted and some thing happened to change him. He became a new creature that night..." Accolades flowed. Many recalled Mr. Lonnie's days as a school teacher. And many of his class mates from the 1920s at Old Main on the what is now PSU campus came to honor him. One of them, Mr. John L. Carter, delivered the dedicatory message. Also from that class that finished two years of "Normal Work" (two years of college work) were Mr. Theodore Maynor, Mr. Claude Sampson and others. Many of his children and brothers and sisters attended the dedicatory service. Mr. Lonnie H. Oxendine, who is 75 years Old, is a life long member of Sandy Plains United Methodist Church. He has served continuously as Sunday School Superintendent since 1936. A portrait pained in Mr. Lonnie's honor by Doris Nance Studios in Lumberton was also unveiled and presented to the church by Mr. Lonnie's children. His son, Leon Oxendine, presented the portrait to Mr. McDuffie Cummings, representing the church as chairman of the administrative board of trustees.. It was a nice service and one richly deserving. Said the pastor, Rev. Simeon Cummings, "Here is a man who has run a good race. It is good that we honor him today." Mr. Carter, who gave the dedicatory address, recalled many moments from the past and talked of Mr. Lonnie's virtues as a man. Said Carter, "He had ability, stay-a-bility and depend ability." Mr. Carter continued: "There are four things a man must do to be successful- think without confusion, clearly; love his? fellow man sincerely; act from honest motives, purely; and trust in God and heaven securely. Mr. Lonnie h a man has always exemplified these four things..." n . ??-. a . p When asked, following the service. If he had anything to say, Mr. Lonnie replied: "I just thank you...l believe it has all been said." TWO MINUTES HrtH THE BIBLE COINIMU* ?. STAM Ml*. ?IRIAN lUU IOCMTT /* CHICAGO, ILUNOM Mill ^ "DEAD FAITH" Nothing in the Bible is Stated more clearly or with greater emphasis than the blessed f^uline revelation of justification by grace, through faith. without works Rom. 4:5: "To him that wcrketh NOT. but believeth... his faith is counted for righteousness." (Eph. 2:8.9: "For by grace are ye saved, through faith ...It is the gift of God. NOT of works, lest any man should boast." Tit. 3:5: "NOT by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us." Yet James states |ust as clearly that "faith if it hath not works is dead, being alone" (Jas 2:171. He challenges professing believers: "Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works" (Ver. 18). and declares that "by works a man is lustified, and not by faith only" (Ver 24) since "faith without works is dead" (Ver . 20). Some have imagined a contradic tion here, while actually there is none. There is a dispensations I dis tinction. for to Raul had been com mitted "the dispensation of the grace of God" (Eph. 3 1.2). His was "the preaching of the cross" (I Cor. 1:18). offering salvation by grace through faith alone to all who would trust Christ as Savior. James, on the other hand, was an apostle of the kingdom, proclaiming the kingdom rights of Christ and offering a changed way of life on earth which had already been experi enced by the disciples of Judaea (Acts 2:29-32 . 44-47; 4:32-35). Hence with James the emphasis is on works, not because good works can save or even help to save, but because true faith inevitably bears fruit and we can judge true faith only by the fruit it bears. Our Lord said: "By their fruits ye shall know them." Hence James' epistle abounds with such phraseology as "ye see," "show me," "I will show you." etc. What we must be careful to remem ber is that according to both Paul and James, faith comes first, then good works. Faith is the root, good works the fruit. The absence of fruit indicates that the root is dead, that while there may be an intellectual assent, there is no true heart faith, and "without faith it is impossible to please God" (Heb. 11 6). The source of justification is grace, the basis. Calvary; the means. faith and the evidence, works. Think this through, accept God's grace and trust the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. He will help you to produce good fruit. Pembroke Lions President Past and Present I ! ! LRDA's Chairman Comments on PSU Chancellor Selection Criteria Mr. Chairman. members of the Board of Trustees and members of the committee. I appear before you today as chairman of Lumbee Regional Development Association. Inc.. an Indian organization with an elected board from the 14 Indian communities in Robeson County. We administer federal programs for the Lumbees of Robeson and surrounding counties with a total budget of approximately S3 million dollars. On behalf of my board of directors. I wish to relate to you our feelings on the criteria that should and must be considered in the selection of a new chancellor for Pembroke State University. As many of you know, this institution is a proud part of Lumbee history. It is symbolic of the social, cultural, economic. , educational, and political past, present, and future of the Indian ! community. Within this institution lies the cultural soul of a people comprised of thousands and thousands of deprived citizens. It was ; through the efforts of these Indian people that this institution was conceived. Its original roll was to serve the Indian community and it should continue to do so. The new chancellor should be sensitive to the uniqueness of the i Robeson County population and willing to assert the leadership to mobilize the Indian community in support of higher education and the institution. He must be someone who understands the past and can relate to the future of the Indian community which surrounds its campus. We feel very strongly that the institution has a moral obligation to maintain its Indian identity and the new chancellor should be committed to that cause. We ask that any Indian applicant be given fair and equal consideration and that you bear in mind that they will possess the necessary qualities to ensure that the university remain a community institution. No matter who the person is. he should work to promote a marraige between the community and Pembroke State University. In closing. I leave for your consideration a few lines from the poem I Am Old Main by Ruth L. Revels: "Conceived out of love and necessity, I was bom in the early I900's. My parents-the brave Indian men and women of Pembroke and surrounding communities. Having been denied the opportunity for formal schooling, they saw in me a chance?a chance for an education?a chance for their children to have a better life. Yes. but of necessity. I was bom. Like the innocent man condemned to death. I ask you to Listen to me. I was bom out of necessity! Let me live out of love! A love for tradition. Indian heritage, and fond memories of a glorious past made possible by me! . ' Musing \ by Reasonable Lockleor MB. LONNIE AND ME AND JOE BROOKS COME TO THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME A lot of people thought Joe Brooks was a toot worker or somethin'. He scared the bejabbers out of people, back in the thirties with his brains and know how to do things ability. HE was sort of a genius. From his brains come Red Banks and Indian identity and talk of Indian recognition. Ol Reasonable watched him and Jim Chavis and the rest of the boys from the 30s and 40s. Ttiey match up good against the young'uns of today. Course the boys back then didn't talk and politic as much as these do today. They kept secrets. And minded their own business. Hardly ever did you read anything about their doings in the Robesonian, a paper even then that was for plantation owners and confed erate generals. Joe Brooks, now in a rest home, and Mr. Jim Chavis, now enfeebled somewhat (but still crystal alert) are both in their 80s. They have never received their just recognition. Men like them, back in the thirties and forties, watched after Indian blood like the precious commodity it is. Lonnie H. Oxendine grew up in this period of time. And Claude Sampson and John L. Carter and Theodore Maynor and Rev. Oscar Cummings and hundreds more. They were a remarkable group of men. Lonnie H. and some of the boys mentioned above started in the dass of 22 in Old Main (in the 9th grade) on what is now the PSU campus. They cared about education. All of them turned out good. Most of em turned out to be educated. I mean real educated, not this fancy stuff they call education today. They learned how to conjugate verbs and dedpher latin and do elongated 'rith metic. They had stick-to-it iveness. All of em. Like Mr. Lonnie H. Oxenidne. 01' Rea sonable didn't try to sneak in last Sunday for the proceed ings but 1 got a good account from smart elecky Bruce Bar ton. He was there a taking pictures and looking purty so he'd be seen you know. And the boys and the church said a lot of good things about Lonnie H. Let 01' Reasonable add his remarks to them that was made Sunday. Lonnie H. Oxendine was a good man. He found his place to work (Sandy Plains Metho dist Church) and he stayed on the job. Sandy Plains will survive because of caring men of God tike Lonnie H. Oxen dine. He stayed on the job. 01' Reasonable appreciates that. Ol' Reasonable ain't a Methodist but Christians like Brother Lonnie almost per suades me. ^ km r+* mmm W Im UlN h I Old & Rare Coins ? I MMMMCM I KM ItM I VI*M|NM MT>V I *tf thm,m ? | MkNM MM IMtH KUFI
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