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VOLUME 8, NUMBER 8 PER COPY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1980
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Old Main Rededicaticn Held Saturday
JANIE M A YNOR LOCKLEAR ONE
OF THE SPEAKERS
Janle Mtymr Locklear la shown
addressing those who attended the Old
Main Rededlcatioa services Saturday
afternoon. She to flanked on the loft by
Rev. Julian Ransom and Jease Oxen
dine. Shown on her left Is Dr. William
Turner, one of the vice Chancellors
and fanner Governor Jta Ho lane user.
Il was a vary ? pedal moment; die
ribbon cutting ceremonies held at noon
Satnrday officially rededlcating Old
Main. John R. Jones, chairman of the
Old Main Commission, does the honors.
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Looking on nro Dr. Panl Glvena,
chancellor, and Jeaae Ox en dine, the
chairman of the board of trustee* of
Pembroke State University.
BRUCE BARTON PHOTOS
PEMBROKE-It was almost anti-cli
matic. The applause was mostly muted
and sedate although former Governor
Jim Holshouser did receive a standing
ovation when he was introduced to the
half filled chambers in the PSU
Performing Arts Center. It was estimat
ed that some 600 persons attended the
official rededication held in the spacious
center that houses 1700 when filled.
Most of those present seemed to savor
the moment, especially the ardent
members of the wildly successful but
mostly ad hoc Save Old Main Move
ment. A number of them like Lew
Barton, for instance, who articulated
the movement, just sat and enjoyed the
moment. For some like Barton it was
simply a moment to reflect and be
happy that the dream had become a
reality.
Behind the speakers sat most of the
faculty and administration of PSU in
Cap and Gown. They were there at the
special request of the chancellor. They
added, as Dr. Givens noted, "poise and
pageantry" to the special moment.
It was a special moment too for Mrs.
Janie Maynor Locklear, the sparkplug
of the Save Old Main Movement and
later secretary of the officious Save Old
Main Commission, the body appointed
by former Governor Jim Holshouser
following the burning of Old Main on
March 18. 1973.
She was magnanimous in her remarks
unlike the abrasive stance many assum
ed she might take if allowed to
participate in the ceremonies. She
initially was refused permission to
participate although Dr. Givens later
relented and added her to the program.
She talked on the topic; Old Main
A Realization of A Dream.
Others on the program included
Professor Emeritus Clifton Oxendine
who gave an articulate and amusing
account of Old Main--A Look at the
P"fl
Professor Adotph Dial, chairman of the
PSU ^American Indian Studies Depart
ment, gave remaffcs on Old Main, a
center of Activity. Jesse Osendine, a
Pembroke Native and chairman of the
PSU Board of Tnatees, talked about
Old Main-a universit> trust.
LeJeana Hammonds, a PSU senior,
talked about Old Main-a center of
student services. And Rev. Julian
Ransom delivered tbe speech of John R.
Jones, chairman of the Old Main
Commission, who was shaken up earlier
in the day during a minor traffic
accident he was involved in. He did
participate in the ribbon cutting cere
monies earlier in the day.
Jones discussed Old Main-a challenge
for the future.
But the crowd seemed to respond most
warmly to former Governor Jim Hols
houser. He was greeted with a standing
ovation. He noted, "We should never
progress to the point that we forget our
beginnings. Be proud of the Indian
heritage of PSU...but also be aware of
the larger community you serve as a
regional university. Old Main marks the
steps to mold the past, present and the
future."
Mayor James A. "Pete" Jacobs also
participated in the ceremonies, pre
senting Dr. Paul Givens, the Chancellor
of PSU, a framed copy of the town's seal
which depicts Old Main.
The official ribbon cutting took place at
noon with Jones, chairman of the Old
Main Commission doing the honors and
Oxendine, chairman of the local board
of trustees, officially opening the doors
to Old Main.
Visitors toured the spacious facilities
of Old Main throughout the afternoon.
The focal point of Old Main is the Indian
museum with the second floor housing
supportive services of the university,
including offices of the Indian Studies
Department and Strike at the Wind.
Dr. Givens also gave general remarks,
extolling those who saved Old Main but
also reminding them that there are
many things still to be done.
Invocation was by Rev. Wehon Lowry,
the incoming president of the Alumni
Association with benediction by Rev.
Steve Jones, the son of former
chancellor English E*. Jones. According
to family sources, Jones did not attend
because he was "not feeling up to par."
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PEMBROKE - Brigitte
Brayboy, a 19-year-old freab
man, who has five cousins
who attended Pembroke
State University, has been
voted as "Miss Homecoming
of 1980" at PSU.
She won over 11 other
candidates and received a
kiss from Chancellor Paul R.
Givens upon being crowned
during htdftime ceremonies
at the PSU homecoming
basketball game.
"It is the first time I've
ever been chosen a queen.
I'm pleased and honored,"
said the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Gene A. Brayboy of
Pembroke. She has a brother,
Terry, 23, who graduated
from UNC-Chapel Hill with a
business major. He is em
ployed by IBM in Kentucky.
Her cousins who attended
PSU are Dr. Bobby Brayboy,
Tim Brayboy and Ray
Brayboy (all fine baseball
players), Mrs. Joy Locklear,
and Mrs. Patty Brayboy.
Brigitte, who is i feat ft* -
Inches tall, is majoring in
business administration. She
, was sponsored in the
homecoming competition by
the PSU American Indian
Student Association and
escorted by Ray Cummings,
senior of Pembroke.
Her "subjects" at PSU
didn't see her Monday
because she was up bright
and early to travel as a
cheerleader with the Pom
broke Stale University
baMistbsll teams for games
at UNC-AshoiUo "We wea'
them bath," ska smiled
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happily upon her return.
She had the unusual
distinction of attending three
high schools, graduating
from Pembroke Senior High
which she attended the last
half of her senior year. Prior
to that she attended Zebulon
High School as a freshman
and sophomore and then was
at East Wake High School as
a Junior and the first part of
her senior year.
In high school she was
Sophomore Class vice
president, Senior Class
secretary, a cheerleader, a
member of the yearbook
staff, vice president of both
the Future Teachers of
America and Future Business
Leaders of America, and
lettered in basketball, soft
ball and volleyball.
She is a member of Reedy
Branch Church of Fairmont.
Her hobbies are all types of
sports, singing, dancing, and
Jogging.
First runner-up in the
competition was Brenda
Jenkins, daughter of Mrs.
Sallie Jenkins of Cerro Gordo
who was sponsored by the |
Black Student Organisation
(a Sociology major); second
runner-up was Valerie
Emanuel, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Emanuel
of Godwin who was sponsored
by Phi Mu Alpha Binfoala (an
Elementary Education (K4)
major); and IMrd runner-up
was Lisa Allen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Allen of
Lumberten whs was spon
sored by Tau Kappa EpsSen
Fraternity (aloe an <
Elementary Education (K4)
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Applications Accepted
for Pembroke Postmaster
FAYETTEVlLLE.SlC.-The United
State* Postal Service has announced
that applications for the position of
Postmaster at Pembroke, N.C. will be
accepted from February 20, 1980.
through February 29, 1980 from resi
dents of Pembroke. Although no written
test will be required, a minimum of one
year of management experience and
three years of general experience is
required. Successfully completed study
in a resident college or university may
be substituted for not more than half of
the required experience. Such educa
tion may be substituted at the rate of
one academic year of study for each
nine months of experience.
Applicants must be citizens of the
United States and must have reached
their eighteenth birthday. Applicants
must also reside, on the date they
submit their application, within the
delivery area of the Pembroke Post
Office.
Copies of the basic requirements and
'the Standard Position Description will
be available at the Pembroke Post
Office beginning February 20. 1980.
All eligible, qualified candidates will
receive consideration for appointment
without regard to race, religion, color,
national origin, sex, age or other
non-merit factors.
Blank application forms and additional
information may be obtained from the
Pembroke Post Office during the open
period specified.
AN OPEN LETTER...
TO THE EDITOR:
As a citizen, a taxpayer, and an
Indian, I should like to respond to two
articles published in the Sunday,
February 17, 1980 edition of Tbe
Robesonian The two articles to which I
refer is the Public Forum with a letter to
the editor and a series entitled. Carl
West Opinions.
I should like first to respond to the
issues addressed in the Public Forum. I
am appalled at the insensitivity of the
writer in equating a human service
delivery organization such as Lumbee
Regional Development Association to
the rank and file of bricks and mortar for
aesthetic beauty and appreciation of
residents of the City of Lumberton in
the downtown plaza. LRDA was organ
ized and incorporated to seek programs
and services which would socially and
economically benefit Indian people. The
organization's programs and services
are directed toward attacking problems
of health, employment, education, and
social services. I fail to understand the
charge of a rip-off to tax payers, since
there are a large number of taxpaying
Indians who have hiatoricly paid local,
state and federal taxes. Can it be that
the writer's real ooneern is that an
autonomous Indian agency Is adminis
tered and controlled by the Indians
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what their needs are, and who
successfully administer programs and
services to moat their needs? LRDA was
organised nut of necessity, the necessity
to provide progrsms and sent lass for
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town as a "rip-off?"
LRDA serves to provide equal
opportunity to Indian citizena-the op
portunity to participate in decision
making. the opportunity to seek ser
vices without being a number to meet a
quota, the opportunity to compete with
other organizations and agencies for
funds, and an opportunity to provide for
Indian leadership. The organization was
born out of concern for the lack of Indian
participation and lack of sufficient
programs and services for Indian people
through other organizations and agen
cies.
I would strongly suggest that the
writer take off his blinders and walk
beyond the beautiful plaza in down town
Lumberton. Perhaps he could sit for a
day at the Department of Social
Services, at the Robeson County Health
Department, at the Department of
Human Resources, and the Employ
ment Security Commission offices. In so
doing, he will find tnat tne lines are long
and representative of more than Indians
and Blacks, and that there are members
of all ethnic groups who display a "lack
of incentive" and "who are content to
sit on their duffs and let the taxpayer
support them." I would also suggest
that he examine the types and levels of
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MOVIE SHOWING AT
BAPTIST MEETING
Burnt Swamp Baptist Churches will
meet Monday night at Mt. Airy, 7:30
p.m. for the regular Church Train
ing Mass Meeting. Individual con
ferences are planned for the leader
ship in each church while others present
will view the popular movie entitled
"The Haunted Churchbetl." In addi
tion Mr. Bill James Brewington. Church
Training Director at Harpers Ferry
Baptist Church will speak to the group.
All churches are invited to participate.
Don't let the children miss this movie.
ST. PAULS SCHOOL TALKS
TO CONTINUE...
The St. Pauls Board of Education,
according to local news reports, came
out of executive session "at about
midnight" Monday night. They are
continuing to debate the situation in the
local St. Pauls schools.
They (the board of education) recessed
with intention to resume deliberations
at a later date.
The center of the controversy seems to
be Superintendent Donald Kennedy. He
is accused in many quarters with being
"high handed." Dissatisfaction sur
faced a few weeks ago when it was
reported that Kennedy had interven
ed and over ruled the selections of a
committee formed to select local
students to attend the prestigious
Governor's School this summer. Supt.
Kennedy, according to school sources,
did not follow the committee's recom
mendations, over ruling their choices
and replacing them with selections of
his own. One of his selections was his
daughter. Amy.
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j incc inai lime a icacncr nas re
signed. and then withdrawn her resig
nation, prompting the attention of the
school board. Another teacher, Mrs.
Nancy Brown, associated with the
schools for many years, resigned
Monday.
It has been reported in the local media
that a petition is underway in the St.
Pauls School area calling for Kennedys'
resignation.
GERALD B. HILL GRANTED
ANEW TRIAL...
Gerald B. Hill, the controversial
former head of the Lumberton Housing
and Redevelopment Commission, who
now resides in Beaufort, S.C., has been
granted a new trial by the N.C. Court of
Appeals.
Hill is the second convicted director of
the housing authority to be granted a
new trial after an initial conviction.
James Lamb was granted a new trial
last month.
Hill was convicted along with Lamb
last January 1979. He was given 9-1S
years by then Superior Court Judge
Robert Gavin. He was convicted of
charges he milked the agency of more
than $2,000 padded in a freight bill to
local contractor Sammy BriR.
The court set aside three charges of
corporate malfeasance and ordered the
new trial on charges of aiding and
abening false pretense.
COUNTY HELPS OUT LUMBERTON
AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT...
The Robeson County Board ef Com
nikiiiofifri Moftdsy ind nnrpfd to
allocate HOMO toward the Lumberton
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extension of a natural gas line to the
plant. The plant is undergoing plant
expansion expected to total some S2
million when completed.
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LRDA INITIATES POSSIBLE
TELEPHONE CALLS SAVINGS
Ken Mavnor. executive director of
Lumbee Regional Development Associ
ation. quartered in Pembroke, appeared
before the county commissioners Mon
day and asked them to formally endorse
a survey of customers in the Carolina
Telephone exchanges area to determine
if Carolina Telephone can "hook
directly" into the Southern Bell System,
thereby saving the customers the toll
charges customers within the respective
systems have to pay when calling one
another.
The survey offer by Carolina Tele
phone and Telegraph is the direct result
of an initiation by LRDA. LRDA. at an
earlier time, had presented Carolina
Telephone a formal petition by custom
ers in their service area who protested
having to pay long distance 04Us when
calflng Lumberton for in* tariff. "A ?
meeting centered around the issue drew
some 300 people last month.
Maynor said. "Carolina Telephone
people have been cooperative and
helpful..." noting that similar situations
have risen before...
Carolina Telephone serves the Park
ton. Red Springs. Maxton and St. Pauls
areas of the county while Lumberton,
Pembroke. Fairmont, and Rowland are
served by Southern Bell. Calls between
the two areas are long distance. A call
from Pembroke to Red Springs (a
distance of 11 miles) for instance is
"long distance."
Commissioner H.T. Taylor applauded
the efforts of LRDA saying the move
"may bring us closer to a county wide
emergency telephone number."
PEMBROKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SPONSORS RAFFLE
P.S.H.S. Booster Club will sponsor a
raffle for a Magic Chef Micro Wave
Oven. Tickets are now available from
any member of the Booster Club. The
drawing will be held April 26. I960.
You need not be present to win.
Locklear
bids for
Register
of Deeds
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