EDITORIAL AND OPINION PAGE ? ? AS I SEE IT by Bruce Barton MY STANCE CONCERNING DR. RAUL GIVENS 'I have thought about it for quite a bit: what is my stance concerning Dr. Paul Givens. the newly named chancellor of Pembroke State University. Gene Warren, PSU's prolific word master (as head of PSU's Public Affairs Office), said recently. "Bruce, I am dis appointed with you". War ren's disappointment seem ingly is in response to some of the things I have written concerning Given's appoint ment. Of course Warren has disappointed me on many occasions, too. But he does not write for Bruce Barton; Gene Warren writes for Pem broke State University. I write both sides of an issue; Warren does not. I like to pleaae people but I do not write necessarily to do so. I write mostly to express myself, hoping, in the meantime, that I can articulate the feelings and aspirations of others. I honestly attempt to build communicative bridges be ? tween the multi racial ethnic bases in Robeson County and beyond. I also am guided'by what I consider to be right and compassionate expression. I do not like to hurt people with words; I like to lambast the issues. But. unlike Gene Warren. I am allowed to lance a wart if I sec one. If Warren sees anything wrong on the PSU campus he is not allowed to say anything about it, if he expects to continue to wdrti there. That's just the rules of ; the game; it does not mean ? that he is dishonest or any thing, it simply means thai his ? writing is one dimensional. So, I am examining Dr. Paul Givens closely. And if that disappoints Gene Warren then he will just have to be 4 disappointed. Disappointment is part of life too. Givens, if he accepts the job as chancellor, can expect scrutiny from the prcaa. Afterall. he is getting p paid in excess of S40.000 , annually to work in a fish bowl. ? People like me will keep him ? honest. He must guard against ? Gene Warren and others who ? will only say nice things about him, whether he deserves syrupy things said or not. So. | hope that Dr. Paul Givens will be a blessing in disguise. But he must under stand that I suspect that he was appointed chancellor for purely racial reasons, not of his making but racial never theless. Two Indian candidates Dr. Joseph Oxendine and Dr. James B. Chavis, were bypassed as chancellor in favor of Givens. Many of us consider the two Indian candi dates to have superior qual ifications. And many of us believe William Friday chose him (Givens) mostly because he is an out of stater. Friday is a political animal, and he did not want to chance the political liability of a local entity with political muscle of his own. In spite of all of that, we will try to be fair to Dr. Paul Givens. We will give him the benefit of the doubt, but we will not accept him foolishly and with no holds barred like our local trustees did when they assured Friday that they would support whomever he chose as chancellor. No. here is our stance concerning Dr. Paul Givens. If he is a good and decent chancellor and pays particular attention to the Lumbee Indian heritage of Pembroke State University, we will support him with all the strength we are able to muster. H he comes tripping Into town with con descension dripping from his fowls, we will fight him with al the journalistic weapons at our disposal. ANTI-GIVENS RALLY PLANNED IN PEMBROKE PARK Recently | received an un signed letter telling of a rally Sunday afternoon in Pem broke's Park. The rally i, scheduled for 2 p.m. in the afternoon. The rally is "about the chan cellorship at Pembroke State University." The letter also says, "It is time that we stand together..." Oal'd bw p>|< 1 Prisoners Plan Walk-a-thon mis when first approached about the walk-a-thon. "There just had never been anything like this before that we could find in the state or even the country," Brooks said. "I looked it over and talked to them about it. then sent it on up to the area office for approval. 'To me it shows rehabilita tion," Brooks said. "A lot of the guys we have here are here be cause they put their own wants and needs over those of their fel low man. "This sort of thing shows that they're thinking about someone else and not just centering on their own needs," Brooks said. "I think it's good for the community and for the men." "We figure this is a way for us to reach out to the community," Burch said. The prisoners are seeking spon sors who will pay 25 cents or more for every mile a prisoner walks. They also hope area residents will donate baked goods and lemonade for rest stops along the 10-mile walk. "One thing about cakes, though," Burch said. "They've got to be sliced up. Prison rules. "Another thing, too," Scott said. "This isn't a gun camp (medium security) any more. Anyone who'd like to come out and watch, we'd be glad to have." -> The walk is scheduled to begin -at ta.'m. Saturday. * ? Title 1 Meeting Set There will be a meeting of the ESEA Title I Advisory Committee to the Kebbaoe County Board of Education onTueaday, Jnne 5, at 2:30 p.m. in the Planetarium claaa room. Assistant Supt Albert C. Hunt urges all members to attend^ and notes that they will be brought up to date on the 1979*80 Title I Project as well as asked for their advice and suggestions. Locklear Honored at Reception Dr. Curt Locklaar Jr.. *u honored recently at a reception givan to him by hia family to commemorate hia having re tched hh Doctor of Veterinary Ma U. ? IM?ii Umkbm, I I THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE PUM.MMBD BACH THUBSDA V v||^ PvMitlliiii C 'NNptiiy Ifw p o ?m itn. Hmkt+i. njt lir; I kMtfflMlMviM ftHfcMto LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ? 9 Questions Polipy of Biblical Recorder Dear Sir: I went to Russia in 1961 as a private citizen to see how Russia and its people differed from America. There was very little travel between the two countries in 1961. August 14, 1961 saw the Berlin wall begun. In the fall of 1961 the 100 megaton bombs were being setoff by the Russians. Bomb shetters were on display for sale in Gastonia's Alters Center. May I share the most impor tant thing I remember about this four day visit. I saw people standing in small groups look ing at something on the wall. I asked my guide what they were looking at. She replied they were reading the news paper. They were reading what the government wanted them to read, where they wanted the newspaper read. Can you imagine reading your paper in this manner? 1 lifted a silent prayer of thanks for living in a country where I can express myself and read the expres sion of others w hen and where I chose. I have found one exception. The BibHtaJ Recorder, our Baptist newspaper, restricts expression and questions on certain subjects. The Recorder especially likes to print letters and editorials that raise ques tions about other religious organizations with problems. However, I have found the Recorder will not print ex pressions of concern about it's own advertising policy. Why does the Biblical Record er censor the concerns and expressions on this matter. The editorial policy says the Recorder dqes not speak for Baptist of North Carolina. It says every Baptist speaks for himself. I wart this privilege. Han? Jonas 1104 East Osarfc Ave. Gaalonta, N.C. 28052 Why Street Signs Are Late TOi Mayor Reggie Strickland Pembroke, NC FROM: WJ. Sherriil The delay in your getting your Street Name Signs is due to hold ups in getting materi als. All purchase? such as the blades are ordered through Purchase and Contract bids. Further delays are caused vy the manufacturers in shipping the materials to Prison Enter prises. All orders received have been placed with Prison Enter ' * " prises and will be processed in that order at soon as materials can be obtained. Mr. Lewis, Sign Shop manager, informs me that in some caMs this will mean a 3 to 4 months hold up. Sign order* for Warning and Regulatory Signs should be shipped'to you by sUte trucks within 5 to 6 week! from the date the order is piaoedi Please War with us until we can get your signs to you. If this create* any problems for you plena* contact me at (919) 733-30WL, gjgy Gospel Sing News Dear Gospel Fans: Greetings to you in the name of Jesas. It will soon be time to meet and lee you again. June 2nd to be correct we are looking forward to talking with you on this 1st Saturday night singing at Deep Branch School. We have some great news as you know for two months we have ifceu talking to you over at the school where our singings have tfeen held about our annivOMry. Well, it has been drcifo to have our First Anniversary on August 31, Friday night and Saturday, September I, 1979. We are looking forward to this. One of our guest groups willbe the singing Echoes from Cleve land, Tennessee on Friday night, August 31, at a place to be named later. Our guest singers for Saturdjynight have not been decided on yet. We trust that every Singing group of this association (the Southeastern Gospel Singing Association) will be prflprat for this great event. We are going to try to give you some of the very test gospel kinging. Our membership members of the Agsociation will have a pnviledge to use your menmer ship cards for the first time and it willbe a pleasure to permit you to use them. We nope to have other groups soon so you can uae them often. The DA L Gospel Singers of Pembroke, one of our gtoupa of this Association are listing their appointments for the month of June as follows: June 2, Mt. Carmel Church of God, Dunn, NC. June 3, Laruel Hill Baptist Church Marion, N.C.; June 9-10, Raxon Revival Center, Jackson ville, Fla. June 16, Smithfield, Nc. June 22, Kinley High School, Kinley, NC. June 23, PenticoU Lighthouse, Wilson, NC. June 24, Crtntwood Bap tist Church, Smithfield',' N.C. Any time any of our groups are in your area, try to attend. Participating in this -first Saturday night singing at Deep Branch Will life The Felix Deal Family of Fairmont, NC, The Simpson Quartet of Lum berton and other groups. 1 know you will be Tflnanrfil to hear these fine groups. They will bless your souls. As all the groups have done in the past, they will you. Now, rememUhr, there Is no charg^ and you are invited to attend. Now rememyfcr on June 2, 7:30 p.m. at Deep Branch School. We hope to aee you. Rev. Grover Oindist I NEW I 6-MONTH I CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT I I Only *1000.00 MINIMUM 1|#|| I 6%% I Pnfrwlw SaviacsiLm, 1*1 HI N I tUMTAMTlAi PffiAlfV KM tAftV WttHOMWM I DCKMIIt MMMCO UN TO M <00 00 |v HCtOC [ Futyr* It Our Fyturi ? ? Ai'if, ? -1? ? MT. AIRY NEWS -by Violet Locklear Rev. Mike Brook* delivered a wonderful message on Sun day morning af Mt. Airy Church. Special music waa by the Young Adult Ladies who were accompanied'%y "cv Mike Cummings. Our pastor deftv^ed the message on Sunday night. After service they loaded the bus and went down to Mac Donalds for refreshments. Visitors were Rev. Mike Brooks and children. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Locklear. Jullia Bullard, Jennings R. Bullard, Nichote Locklear. Nannie Jon es. Joann Locklear, Rev. Jos eph Oxendine. Rev. Rtfoert Locklear. Mrs. Joy B. Locklear and children, Jerry Cummings and many more. All graduates received Bi bles by Mr. John L. Carter donate^Vy his daughter, Mrs. Mazeltne Dusan of Jackson ville, Fla. High school gradu ates were Ray Bryant. Jeffery Revefc, Myra Griffith, Marina Clark. College graduates in cluded' W.D. Oxendine who has recieyed his masters de gree and Reggie Strickland and Marlon Lowry. This hat been a custom of Mrs. Dusan for a number of years. Mrs. Rockie Jane Locklear still remains a patient in McCain Hospital. Her condi tion is improving slowly. Mrs. Emory (Nora) Locklear of Fayetteville has returned home from the hospital. Visit ing her last week were Mrs. Goldie Low cry and OdCBa Locklear. The Locklears are members of our church. A plate sale was held Satur day, May 26 at the Mt. Airy Church Community Building, sponsored'^ the Mt. Airy Jayceds.All senior citiqgjg, all sick and handicapped, were donated a free plate. 1 know the Jayceds appreciate your cooperation with them. We'll have mote as to the number ef tickets sold later on. Mr. Greg Maynor. one of our new memtfers, will be leaving this Saturday for a week at Ridgectdst in Youth Ministry Conference. We hope it will be a successful week for all those going for churches in our aiwoMwn. As Memorial Day passed and time roBedfeck the memories of many of our friend! and loved ones who gave their so bravely that we may Hve, let us ndbly "remember thoae who laid themaetvi^ eetweea our country and her toes. Aa I passed a cenugery the other day. I stopped and looked at a grave. The thought came to me: it could hawws my son. I only had one but he had to go and fight for his country. And 1 can never thank God enough for sparing him and allowing him to come buck. That day wiD always aetvd as a remind er to a lot of people. Mrs. Stella Maynor returned home last Friday from South eastern General Hospital where she underwent |urgery. Hope she has a speedy recov ery. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buck Locklear went on a busindtt trip to Tabor City. N.C. on Monday. Mr. Robert Locklear is a patient in Durham Hospital, i He ujidqrwent surgery on Wednjfrday. We hope him a speedy recovery. PleaaC re member him in your prayers. Also, Mr. J.H. Locklear, who is undergoing treatment twice a week, for they are two of our main leaders of our church. I certainly appreciate the ? different ones who had guts enough to stand up against our chancellor selection. We appreciate someone who teUS something good in us, who calls forth our Hht qualities. We know justice did not come out in that decision. We arc not dismayed "by what seems unjust and unfair. For we now are living in such days. We have the faith to know that God's law of good works to make things right. It may not be as toon aa we would like, but just be patient Pem broke. Victory will be ours Vfi we pull together. As far as Friday and the other politics* Pow's, hope to ace their decision go dowr. the drain. Fast, feat, feat. As for Friday, if he were a dMUt man. something this indncgnt would not have happenhdi UP FROM OUST & DARKNESS by Lew Barton. Third Century Artist mom OF THE SITUATION Dr. Joseph Oxendiae and Dr. James B. Chavis are eminently qualified to assume the CTtan celoeship <* Pembroke Slate University. A nationally km?" athlete U a tough candidate to nlout. even if he didn't have all the other qualifications to hack it up. (which he has) And at for Dr. Jame* B. Chavis. he couldn't be better qualified if he had deliberately educated himself for that *pecific poat. In fact, iome people My he did just that-with the eocourage ment and as a piotege olf the retiring chancellor. Both have had vast administrative ex perience, one at PSU itself and the other as a dean at Temple University. The Indians ivould have been happy and fortunate to have had either;*" like any other red-blooded American community, there were those who preferred ooe and those who preferred the other. And whv not? We are,human, too. We should not be expect ed to have unanimity of opinion like a herd of sheep. Both of these candidates were Lumbees. And I was extremely happy that wt " their people were aWe to offer not one but two superbly qualified candidates instead of one. I remember the time when we couldn't have offered one for consideration. 1 saw our first Ph.D.. a personal friend of mine (I was his protege), rejected even as principal of a high school because of dirty, rotten, stink ing politics. He served for a time as dean of faculty at PSU. But he never forgot that rejection as Principal of Pem broke High. He pined away and eventually died-of cere bral hemmorrhage. Our people have not forgot ten that, nor double-voting, nor Old Main, nor a hundred other miscarriages of justice. Oh, yes. we all feel strongly about PSU. and any Lumbee who is turned away because of raw. pore racial prejudice.^ After sir, W fcave a long history td dppreaaion. Our own kin gave birth to than institution after being thrown out of white schools and denied any form of education ior half a century. We preach ed the gospel of education among ourpeople^Wejinrtur^ ed that institution with loving care, as a mother hen watches over her chicks. While white institutions of the area ftzxtti out and died, we kept ours going, largely through person al sacrifice and sheer energy of spirit. No one has ever told as that Indians had never before created a university from the word go. We luckily didn't know Indians can't build a university; and so. by God's grace and through His ben evolence. we built one .h was and is our pride and joy. How happy we were to be able to offer an institution of higher learning w hen integra tion camel In fact, we had admitted whites and other Indians eves before i ntoi gist too We ourselves had the fore sight and daring to have removed from our official name, the words "for In dians." Thus did we make our contribution to the community at large. Many took advantage of the escellent school that Pembroke State had become. But instead of accepting our preferred hand in friendship, thru brotherhood and in the name of humanity, others gave us the back of their hand. For them, it was all or nothing. But we survived. Just as we will survive this crisis. We will survive this just as we did on Roanoke Island when the English deserted da and reck oned us dead. But we are a people of dignity and understanding. We shall survive with honor-not in the simpering way a recent letters to-the -editor opportunist puts it. Dr. Givens has stated that there will be no discrimination against Indians under him. And I fervently hope not. If worse comes to worst,. I hope We will retain our dignity and our dedication. As Dr. Martin Luther King's followers used to sing, we too shall ultimately overtime. < ft ?i k. In God hasten the day when our people will no longer suffer discrimination in con ne net ion with the very institution they chartered) But above all. grant us grace and good sense to accept whatever is yuur will in this matter. In Jesus' name. Amen. SUMMER TUNE-UP AND i CLEAN-UP SALE I ?4 Chickasaw Oil Filters $2.25 Fits Most Popular Cars and Trucks ECHLIN EASY-TUNE Reduced 10% Umqua oont*ci-cond*r>Mf aaaamtriy oombtn** haavy-duty contact Ml ?ilap'ool oondinur Easy to [ matall NAPA GOLD HAT ? $1.00 With $10 Purchase A NAPA Professional Gold Hal is available lo vou at your NAPA store Airt FILTER Reduced 10% Napa air hilar maata an vaftda war ranty parformanca apacihcationa S