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SBI PROBE ASKED OF
PEMBROKE
BONDING COMPANY
PEMBROKE-According to
local news reports D.A. Joe
Freeman Britt has called for a
probe of Pembroke Bonding
Company.
The activities of the company
came under screening due to a
news story appearing in
yesterday's edition of The
Babeaosilan by Harvey Bur
gess. a Robeaenlan staff
writer.
According to Burgess D.A.
Britt has asked the S.B.I, to
ascertain whether Pembroke
Bonding Company is in vio
lation of bonding regulations;
he also affirms that the
bonding company has not
taken out privilege liences
with the City of Lumberton,
where the company is located,
and with the County of Robe
son.
The S.B.I, probe will also
Investigate the activities of
Pembroke Tow n Manager Mc
Dafflc Cummings and Pem
broke Fire Chief, Ray Hunt,
the owners of the firm.
The S.B.I, will look into
whether Cummings or Hunt
I
are in violation of state statut
15-A-54
According to the provi
sions in N.C. General
Statute 1SA-541, "no
sheriff, deputy sheriff,
other law enforcement of
ficer, judicial officer, at
torney, parole officer, pro
bation officer, jailer, assis
tant jailer, employee of the
General Court of Justice,
other public employee
assigned to duties relating
to te administration of
criminal justice, or spouse
of any such person may in
any case become surety on
a bail bond for any person
other than a member of his
immediate family. In addi
tion, no person covered by
this section may act as an
agent for any bonding com
pany or professional bond
sman. No such person may
have any interest, directly
or indirectly, in the finan
cial affairs of any firm or
corporation whose prin
cipal business is acting as
bondsman."
e In a brief interview both Hunt
and Cummings denied, to the
best of their knowledge, being
in violation of the statute.
Cummings noted that the
offices of Pembroke Bonding
Company are in fact located in
the City of Lumberton, next
door to the Courthouse in the
McLeod Building.
Cummings also said, "If no
privilege licenses were pur
chased it was due to mere
oversight."
Records show that the firm
has now purchased the ne
cessary privilege licenses to do
business in Lumberton and
Robeson County.
Cummings said, "I am the
Administrative Officer for the
Town of Pembroke, including
the police department but
there is no conflict of inter
est."
He went on to say, "policy
and directives emanate from
the Town Council too. And the
council is fully aware of the
details of Pembroke Bonding
Company."
Hunt said, "Business is
handled out of our Lumberton
office. I am not allowed to sign
bonds during working hours.
In fact, we sign very few bonds
in Pembroke-most are han
dled out of the magistrate's
office in Lumberton."
Other principles affiliated
with the company are repre
sentatives Enoch Glover and
Ray Cox. Gail Ivey is secretary
and keeps the office in Lum
berton open during the day."
Cummings also noted that he
did not take part in the day to
day operations of the com
pany. He said, "It is a simple
financial investment - nothing
more."
Pembroke Bonding Company
is the first and only non
white owned bonding business
in Robeson County, according
to courthouse sources.
HIDEAWAY VALLEY
a handbook to Lumbee History
BY LpW BARTON
Knlghl of Mark Twain
PREFACE
Long has there been a need
for such a book as this - a
reference book in alphabetical
order containing all known
subjects pertaining to Lumbee
Indian history. Also a book
which may be read continu
ously from cover to cover
Without losing the thread of
our story. But producing such
a work is not easy, nor has
producing this one been.
I began assembling it seri
ously in 1976 while working as
a Third Century Artist for the
North Carolina Arts Council of
Raleigh. Having expended my
residency with that organi
zation. 1 was afforded the
opportunity to continue work
ing in that 'vein by such
sponsors as the Robeson
County Board of Commission
ers. the Robeson County
Public Library, the Robeson
County Department of Human
Resources and the Lumbee
Regional Development Associ
ation. Inc. The work is now
near enough t to completion to
begin publication immediate
ly
That is why the first
installment of the work is
being published today in the
columns of The Carolina
Indian Voice Anyone wishing
to acquire a complete K w?
before publication in book
form it invited to paste clip
pings therefrom in a loose
leaf notebook. Publication in
book form, hopefully, will be
announced later.
ABORIGINAL POPULATION.
The aboriginal population of a
given geographic area refers
to those people who were
already thera at the time that
pth kculsr regions was invaded
or colonised Thus the Lumbee
Indians of North Carolina and
i
elsewhere may be properly
referred to as a part of
America's aboriginal popula
tion, any possible biological
considerations notwithstand
ing. Travel with me, then,
down the fascinating trail to
Lumbee Indian identification.
1 call this book. Hideaway
Valley, A Handbook To Lam
bee History, because for many
years the Lumbee River Valley
was just that - a refuge from
the onslaught of advancing
Western civilization. Com
pletely surrounded by almost
impenetratable swamplands,
here we lived, moved and had
our being from approximately
1650 to the present. As the
hills of western North Caro
lina provided a refuge for
fugitive Cherokees of western
North Carolina, so our pocoski
valley provided a refuge for us
until and even after the
coming of the White Man.
ABORIGINES COPPER,
ABORIGINES BRIGHT. What
most Americans do not realize
about their country and its
aborigines, or native popu
lation. is that there have
always been two distinctively
different physical types of the
American aborigine ever since
the dawn of American history
(as we have come to know it).
Columbus himself reporting
the sighting of such a typical
Native Americans. 32 years
later, in 1524. John de Var
razano. sailing a French
expedition, encountered light
skinned natives north of the
Cape Fear Rivers mouth in
North Carolina. In 1584. in the
vicinity of Roanoke Island,
then in Virginia but now bi
North Carolina. Amadas and
Bartowe. sailing for Sir Walter
Raleigh, encountered the Hat
teres (also called Croatan)
Indians, and later reported
hazel eyas and auburn hair
among them. From Port Royal.
South Carolina. In I MO. lav.
Morgan Jones reached the
area now Robeson County,
North- Carolina, or counties
adjacent, and found the Lum
bee Indians already speaking
English. There la extant no
record of any Englishmen
other than Sir Walter
Raleigh's coloniata of the
ISSO'i who could have taught
the Lumbee Indiana to apeak
English at so early a date.
Remnants of the Algonquian
language were still doubtless
in use among them then, as
they still are today. SEE
ALGONQUIAN INDIAN
LANGUAGE.
The oft-repeated mis-state
ment that there are no Indian
words remaining among the
Lumbee Indians has puzzled
scholars for at least a century.
The problem isn't that no such
words still linger but that so
many of them have been
absorbed by American English
as to make then indistinguish
able except upon careful
scholarly examination. The
mere fact that all Native
Americans do not fit .the
popular stereotype of the
American Indian in no way
al'ers the fact that the a
typical type forms as much a
part of our Native American
population as the other type.
Any differences are biological,
not geographical.
There are many other infal
lible historical proofs to show
that prehistorical inhabitants
of the New World included two
distinctively-different physical
types, rather than one; al
though. of course, the bronze
complexion-siraighi-black-hair
type was certainly in the
majority What matters is if
part of America's original
Inhabitants came originally
from Asia while others came
from somewhere else?
BOOK TO K CONTINUED
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Pro Baseball Behind Him,
Gene Locklear
Now Concentrates on
Being Finest
Artist Possible |
by Gene Warren
Gene Lock]ear, Lumbee Indian artist
froaaPembroke, p?U some loaches on
this seashore scene. On Ms right hand is
the World Series ring he received for
playing with the New York Yankees in
1976. Locldear wfll have an art exhibit
with some 25 pieces for sale at United
Carolina Bank [ formerly Waccamaw
Bank and Trust Co.) in Lnmberton
.Tuesday, March 4, from 7-10 p.m.
Professional baseball is a thing of the I
past for Gene Locklear, the 30-year -old J
Lumbee Indian artist-ball player who <
lives some three miles from Pembroke <
with his mother. Catherine. i
I
"No, no one has called me about 1
reporting to spring training," says
Locklear, who has played with such
major league clubs as the New York (
Yankees (he has a huge '76 World (
Series championship diamond ring to 1
show for that), Cincinnati Redlegs, and (
San Diego Padres. i
1
This is the second summer he will sit I
out baseball. He went to spring training
' last year with Cincinnati, but decided to
hang up his spikes after they wanted to i
send him to a minor league team at 1
what he termed a ridiculously low 1
salary. He has heard from no baseball I
club since then. t
An outfielder who won two minor (
league batting crowns before reaching 1
the major leagues, Gene kept running 1
into roadbloack after roadblock to the i
majors. Some reports said his Fielding i
had a lot to be degired. So he played
winter ball in Vene'/uela to improve it.
Another report was that he was difficult 3
to get along with. Yet, when "Gene I
Locklear Day" was held here in January
>1, 1975, athletes like David Winfield,
Uene's teammate with the Padres, flew
icross the country to be with him as did
\nthony Davis, foorball star of the
University of Southern California. Over
700 people attended the banquet.
Locklear feels professional baseball
iealt him a bad hand. He figures with
he right opportunity he could be like
Winfield, who will earn some $2 million
>ver a 10-year peiord. Because of his
ittitude. or attempting to stand up for
lis rights, or something, he feels "that
laseball black-balled me."
? 1" '75 he led San Diego in hitting with
i .320 average and in '77 hammered
rour home runs in one game with the
fankees' Syracuse Class 3-A farm club.
He has been interviewed on such
elevision programs as "60 Minutes,"
'Wide World of Sports," and by Joe
Jaragiola prior to a 1976 World Series.
4e has been to the mountain top. He
las played baseball all over the nation,
n Hawaii, and in '78 played in Japan
vhich proved a frustrating experience.
"The Japanese were paying me
1100,000 and wanted me to be a pull
litter so I'd hit home runs. I wound up
PRISON UNIT RESPONDS...
See more on Page 6
Pembroke State University
by Gene Warren
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pulling my rib cage muscles trying to do
that and was out for l'/t months. I
wound up hitting .250 with 15 home
runs. It was a different world over
there-'with Americans receiving some
raw treatment at the plate. For
Americans only, the strike zone was
from the top of you rhead to your
heels-and the plate was three feet
wife." he shook his head in dismay.
Now art is his entire life-instead of
his off-season hobby. He is pursuing
excellence in art as diligently as he did a
career in the major leagues.
He built a few years ago a studio to
the top of the wooden frame house on
which he was raised. One climbs
outside steps to get to his perch- and
inside is a prodigious collection of
paintings. They reflect his amazing
range of imagination. The former
Pembroke Senior High graduate who
never went to college has broadened his
art work in amazing fashion.
He was already extremely talented as
is exemplified by the fact he has art
work in-Old Main at Pembroke State
University, the Lumbee Bank, and has
sold several pieces for Sl.000 each. His
most recent exhibits were in Indiana in
July and in Greensboro last January.
With paintings everywhere in his
studio and home on almost every
, subject, but almost always with an
Indian accent, Locklear is having an
exhibit Tuesday. March 4, at United
Carolina Bank (formerly Waccamaw
Bank and Trust Co.) at 700 N. Chestnut
Street in Lumberton. The hours are
from 7-10 p.m. "1 will have some 25
pieces for sale with the prices ranging
fiom $100 to $1,200," Locklear said.
"Some 10 pieces will be in the $100
range."
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celebrate its "Open House" at the Old
Main building, which was re dedicated
Feb. 16. Locklear loaned several
paintings to the school. All received
rave notices from visitors.
"I am studying with such artists as
John Dugan (a graduate of the Art
Institute of Chicago) and Dr. Robert
Bellamy (who has studied in Paris),"
said Locklear. I go up to Cincinnati to
work with Dugan. 1 spent one or two
weeks working with Bellamy who is a
native of New York but lives now in
Asheville." Gene met Bellamy while
doing some art work on the Cherokee
Indian Reservation.
Locklear says these artists are like a
battery-charge to him. "I'm working on
anatomy in my art work now," the
Pembroke native said. "1 am now trying
to be a real professional. My goal is to
be among the best in the painting
field...and I believe I have the God
given ability. 1 think the Lord wanted
me to get out of baseball to concentrate
fully on my art work. To me. it is fate."
Here is a young man who never took a
formal art lesson. He learned how to
draw and paint by taking corresponden
ce courses, and visiting art galleries and
museums wherever his travels took him
in baseball. "When many of the
baseball guys were sleeping late in the
mornings. I would be up and going to
art galleries." he smiled. "I wanted to
prepare myself to go into art as my full
career after my baseball playing days
ended."
Incidentally. Gene lacks only SO days
to draw a professional baseball pension,
he says. "Yon need five years in the
majors; I had four years and some 120
Says." he noted. ,
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ipening a studio in what he leniu one of
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REVIVAL PLANNED AT ASHPOU
Revival services will be btM at
Ashpole United Methodist Cherck,
Rowland beginning Sunday, March 2 at
the 11 a.m. worship service. Service wfli
be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday evening.
Monday through Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
The guest speaker will be the lev.
Ray Leon Sparrow, pastor of the
Pembroke First and Calvary United
Methodist Churches. Rev. Sparrow is a
member of the NC Conference. His
former pastorate prior to coming to
Pembroke was the Aberdeen United
Church. He has served several appoint
ments in the NC Conference.
In charge of the special music is Mrs.
Louise Mitchel who is music diiector of
the church music. Special music wil be
rendered each evening.
The pastor and congregation extend a
cordial invitation to the public to attend
these special services.
REVIVAL PLANNED AT
SANDY PLAINS CHU1CH
Revival services wfl be haM at
Sandy Plains Urated Methodist Church
i beginning Sunday, March 2. at the 11
a.m. worship service. Services will be
held Sunday evening at 7 p.m.,
Monday through Friday at 7:30 p.m.
The guest speaker win be the Rev.
Bobby P. Tyson, pastor of Trinity
United Methodist Church. Maxton. He
is a member of the NC Conference. In
1977 he was appointed approved '
Evangelist 1979, pastor of the Trinity
Church in Maxton. additionally be has
several appointments in the NC Con
ference. He received his AB degree
from Pembroke State University and
completed his pastoral studies at Date .
Divinity School. He is married to the
former Mrs. Jetta Godfrey. They have
four children.
In charge of the special music will be
the music director. Brace Jacobs, of
Sandy Plains church.
The pastor. Rev. Simeon F. Cumming*
and the congregation extend a cordial
invitation to the public to attend these
special services.
revival planned at
philadelphia church
Revival services will be held at the
Philadelphus United Methodist Church
beginning March 2-9. Service will be
held at 7 p.m. on Sunday evening.
Services throughout the week will begin
at 7:30 p.m.
The speaker will be the Rev. Ted
Brooks. Associate Pastor for Philade|
phus-Collins Chapel United Methodist
Churches. Rev. Brooks formerly served
the Mount Moriah Baptist Church.
In charge of the special music wfll be
Mrs. Annie Neai Locklear. Special
music will be rendered each eveidng.
The pastor and congregation extend a
cordial invitation to everyone to attend
these special services.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCSMXNT
. The Family Medicine Clinic wH be
closed from March L 1910 until March
16. 1980.
ptatombt
The Pembroke Elementary PTA
wiU meet on Thursday ninht March 6
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