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F_ EDITORIAL AND OPINION PAGE... fWe Cannot Know Where We Are Going v .Jll If We Don't Know Where We've Been... So fittingly we honor our Pioneer Fathers i" \ As I See It * * * I by Bruce Barton ? ??a***#*#*#*#*****#*****#*******#* WHO'S RUNNING GOV. JIM HUNT'S CAMPAIGN IN ROBESON COUNTY? Who's running Governor Jim Hunt's campaign in Robe son County? In February Governor Jim Hunt's Campaign headquar ters in Raleigh issued a statement saying that Robeson Countv Clerk of Court Ben Fk>> d had been named chair man ot the Re-Elect Governor Jim Hunt Effort in Robeson County. Now. according to news releases floating around, they are saying that Floyd, Dr. James B. Chavis. vice- chan cellor at PSU; and George /.eigler. a Black from Maxton are co-chairmen of the effort. Another rumor says the above and adds banker R.W. Wilkins . to the list of co-chairmen. So. who's running Governor Jim Hunt's campaign effort in Robeson County? The voters need to know...if Ben Floyd is not the chairman they (the campaign headquarters in Ra leigh) ought to share it with the rest of us. *s A tri-aacis) campaign effort is necessary to win any election in Robeson County. Someone should share that news with Governor Jim Hunt. Like Rev. E.B. Turner, the Black and erudite city council man from Lumberton, said, "(I) ain't got nothing against former Governor Bob Scott." who aspires to be governor again too. Nor any of the other candidates either. IS IT PROPER FOR THE CLERK OF COURT TO HEAD HUNT'S CAMPAIGN? Robeson County's Clerk of Superior Court,* Ben G. Floyd. Jr. is a very political fellow. He is involved "Up to his elbows" in the effort to re-elect Jim Hunt governor of North Carolina. He is known as Governor Jim Hunt's MAN in Robeson County. 1 I I T~T~~ ~ As I understand it, appoint ments and jobs and political plums like that have to be cleared through Ben G. Floyd, Jr. before they are awarded to democratic faithfuls. There is probably not much to complain about if you are a friend of Floyd and an admirer of Governor Jim Hunt. But...God help the poor Republican and former gover nor Bob Scott supporter... and Bev Lake's adherents, etc., etc. etc. Who will speak for them? As I see it, it is wrong for Ben O. Floyd, Jr. to be clerk of superior court and, at the self same time, manager of Gov. Jim Hunt's re-election effort in Robeson County. A man can not serve two masters. And Floyd cannot serve all the citizens of Robeson County and Gov. Jim Hunt too. According to canons of ethics applicable to judicial * officials. Floyd ought to resign as clerk of court, or at least, take some vacation days or a leave of absence. Yeah, suppose you were a Republican? They are voters, too, you know... Tax Auditing discussed at Pembroke Kiwanis i With the annual income tax deadline teas than a month away, the topic of tax auditing is most timely. Bernard Lowry, guest speaker at the Tuesday evening meeting of Pembroke Kiwanit, addressed himself to this topic. First of all. each tax payer is held accountable for his in come tax return. What are the chances that your return will be audited-only one in Ave. Members of the medical pro fession, entertainers, sports figures are among those more apt to be audited, than the ordinary taxpayer. You can reduce your chan ces of being audited if you fill out the tax form reasonably agressively. However, such areas as entertainment ex penses. maintenance of an office in your home, or if you have tax shelters, the odds of having your returns audited are greately increased. On the other hand, deductions claim * ^mmu < ed for medical, dental and innai ii|rtl?nn espenaea are not ?P* to demand an audit. The use of professional tax advisers is helpful in comput ing your taxes but in the final i analysis the individual taxpay er is held accountable for the information filed in his income tax. Cub President Gibson Gray presided at the meeting. The invocation was given by James A. Sampson. Singing was led by Lankford Godwin with Ira Pbte Lowry as pianist. Club member Harold Hunt is presently a patient at the VA Hospital in Durham. Announ cement was made of the meeting of the Cape Fear I kiwanis Gub in Fayetteville on April 3. Lane Hudson, admis- I sions officer at PSU will be the I speaker at this meeting and members of Pembroke Kiwan is Club will also be in attendance. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Citizen Responc s Re: Fluoridation' Mr. Jim Irion. Physician's Assistant at Pembroke Medi cal and Dental Clinic present ed effective sounding argu ments for the fluoridation of the Town of Pembroke water supply, but not ail medical and dental authorities would agree with the validity of these statements, which are pre sented as undeniable fact. Opponents of fluoridation can present equally effective ar guments on the adverse ef fects of fluoridation, not only on the individual but on the whole environment. Those who remember the endorse ments of the swine flu vaccine A_ P _ by reputable public health official* can ai est to the fact that such app oval could not guarantee its i bsolute safety, but. at le&st. tl t citizens'were able to choose ehether or not to receive the ?ccine. In the fown of Pemb oke. the town officials decii ed what was good for its c tizens by pre scribing fluori lation for the water supply, "here is surely no malicious intent on the part of either the Pembroke town officials nor on the staff of the Pembroke Medical and Dental Clinic in their approval of luoridation for the sake of tardening the enamel on the eeth and thus reducing the _ A -J-' _1_ number of cavities in child ren's teeth, but these well intentioned people have foiled either to examine or to heed the detrimental effects which may accompany the fluoridation of the public water supply. Some of the adverse effects of fluoridation may be: f (1) Gradual accumulation of fluoride in the bones of humans with increasing age. which reaches a moderate level of about 400 ppm in dry-fat-free bone at about the age of 6d. (2) Mottling and interference with normal calcification of children's teeth. (3) Allergic reactions on as high as 5% of the individuals . in certain risk groups. (4) Increase in the growth of cancer-cells and reduction of fertility in lower animals. (5) Adverse effects upon per sons suffering from kidney disease, heart trouble, arth ritis. bone disease, thyroid trouble, hormone imbalance, respiratory and circulatory malfunctions, and cancer. (6) Gradual increase of the level of fluoride in the envir onment. resulting in the total fluoride intake of humans, which now ranges from 2 to 5 tng. per day in communities practicing fluoridation. (7) Only a small percentage of the water is consumed, while the rest enters the envir onment. with the fluoride acting as a pollutant to water, land, and air and as a corrosive agent to water pipes. (8) Pharmacy law classifies fluoride, along with arsenic and cyanide, as a dangerous poison, which depletes the calcium supply in the body. The fluorides placed in muni cipal water supplies are not the same as those which appear naturally and contain calcium but are the artificial waste products from alumi num plants, the same sodium fluoride used in the manufac ture of rat poison, and from the phosphates of fertilizer companies, the waste, cor rosive and poisonous hydro fluosilivic acid. (9) Accidental spills and care less applications have caused death. The recent incident in Annapolis, Maryland, demon strates the dangers that fluor ide can have on the popu lation. (10) Because fluoride is a cumulative poison, no dose can be designated as safe. Much of the food sold in supermarkets is processed with fluoridated water, includ ing soft drinks; fluoride resi due from pesticides and fluor ine fallout from industry remain on fruits and vege tables; and fluoride-poisoned animals are sent to market without fluoride analysis. Therefore, the daily intake of fluoride into the human sys tem cannot be ascertained, and the individual may be exceeing the officially recom mended safe dosage. Walter Sheldon Muagrvve 521-9686 Pembroke, N.C. r congrais ior Arucie un Pembroke Bonding Co., etc. ? .1 TV* ? ? . Au To the Editor: Bruce, you are to be con gratulated on your excellent and rather revealing article on the Pembroke Bonding Com pany story. Your article in last week's issue of the C.I.V. covered more issues, or should 1 say "uncovered" more is sues. than the entire series of "copyrighted" articles pub lished in the Kebesoalan. laybe now the S.B.I, will have a legitimate reason for investigating not Pembroke Bonding Company, but in stead all other bonding com panies operating in Robeson County, as it appears that it is the others who have not complied with the necessary licensing requirements. I now eagerly await an announce ment oy mc uismci attor ney's office that the S.B.I, has been called in to make a further investigation of vio lations by other bonding com panies in Robeson County. Surely your article called this to his attention just as the Robeson Ian did with its "series of copyrighted arti cles." Bruce, I also eagerly await with much anticipation a re sponse of some kind, a reply, or just any old acknowledge ment of your article by the Robeaonlan as the C.I.V. through last week's article has clearly put the ball in their court. Will the whole truth be revealed? Can they respond? Will they respond? Or can it be that a small weekly has put the "daily giant" on the run? I'm betting that now this whole fiasco will just blow over, particularly since some one other than Pembroke Bonding Company is involved. You know the approach ignore it and it will go away ? ? or ...maybe a "calling off the dogs" approach. There exists at least one significant lesson in the come dy of errors ...and it is that before one attempts to expose another foe afegerf wrong.. that the initiator, the agressor, had better be able to withstand exposure himself, i.e., he had better have his own affairs in order. Such obviously is not the case here, as so vividly pointed out by the C.I.V. article. Finally. Bruce, through your efforts at the C.I.V.. Robe son's citizens have been made pointedly aware, particularly so in last week's "bonding" article, that what we read in the "daily giant" may be shaded to suit the selfish desires of a few at the expense of many. Bruce . .don't ever let the C.I.V. fall into this trap. Again, thank you Bruce and the C.I.V. for the good work. Jeff Jones Rt. 1. Box 37A Pembroke. N.C. 20 Years Class Reunion The Pembroke High School Class of I960 will hold a rwenty Year Reunion this year >n August 30, 1960. '.jr" 'fw f, For more information, please call (919) 521-4396, f919) 521 2157, or (704) 545-6805. Everyone who began with this class in 1956 is invited. We are anticipating a large attendance, so please call one of the numbers above as soon as possible. We would like for all class members to pass the word and please mail your address to Walter G. Oxen dine, P.O. Box 547, Pembroke. N.C. 28372, or you may call in your address. The number is (919) 521-4396. Looking forward to hearing From every class member and seeing you on August 30, 1980 For a great Twenty Year Class Reunion. Submitted by THE 20 YEAR CLASS REUNION Box 547 Pembroke. N.C. 28372 ( ijouncLxy ^Joypta YOUR VOLUME IMPORT DEALER! Due to the Tremendous Response to Our RECENT SALES PROMOTION our USED CAR LOT is Overflowing. |?Here are just a few of our "Select" Cars:?i 1977 THUNDERBIRD Red V-top, Automatic, P/S, A/C. A Real Buy $4495 I COMPLETE LINE OP CANE A TRUCKS J" II I ? im wmBucnu m 4 Door. Aatooiottc, t/t. ftB. A/C. Ooo Locol Ownorf 44,000 m Mo* No Othor Om UfeoH S139S | We know what you're looking for!"?j | 1977 U BUICK ELECTRA | Limited 2 Dr. Has Everything! _ Local One Owner! $4995 I 1979 CHEVROLET NOVA 2 Door, Automatic. P/S.'P/B. A/C. Very Nice Car! A Real Buy! $4995 60 Cart From Which To Chyote From $299 (Pld Jfomtdrg Bogota <3lnc. mio WitT sih IT iummrton ?Aiiflt TM-1241 rmmmm* mmon m wmrmmtM mutuioav 7 a.*.-ip.*? MON -ku j HIDEAWAY VALLEY a handbook to Lumbee History ADAPTATION* LUMBEES A CLASSIC EXAMPLE. A key to the survival of all 1Mb* thing* OB earth, plant or animal, is nSapSatfan. Adaptation means the ability of a plant or awtmsi to adjmst itself to its own particular environment and to cope with the situation, whatever the circumstances at any particular moment of its history. In the matter of human survival, the Lambee Indians are expert; and so, for that matter, are all the groups of Indian ^ survivors that dot the Eastern Seaboard where the European colonisation of what is now the U.S. of A. began. They are rightly called "Indian survivors." because somehow they survived the Indian wars, the onslaught of Western civilisation, the White Man's small pon which at one time threatened to wipe out the entire Indian population, the termination policy of the United States, and all the other trials and tribulations that were their's by virtue of the fact that they were Indian. While many other tribes are now as extinct as the bald eagle, the Lumbee Indians.. .eamehew...have coped and survived. So much so and so well that they are actually viewed occasionally by behavioral scientists as a classic example of adaptation and survival. The long, hard, uphill journey on the trail of nigh-impossible survival began on Roanoke Island, in what is now North Carolina but which was then in Virginia, in the latter part of the sixteenth century. That our exacting history has changed us somewhat in appearance, should surprise no one. Like some Uvng things (both plant and animal) which change their coloring to harmonize mote completely with that of their surroundings, our own original coloring has been somewhat altered, to better fit us for turvivsl, Butlet no one misinterpret us. We are still Indhm, as we find it necessary to prove, over and over again. t We have not only survived while inumeraMe other groups perished. Our ancestral lands, too, are still largely intact. The retention of these lands has made us the unwilling parties to a feud which first began in 1754 and has lasted to the present day. But the lands and the Indians remain ...largely and fore mostly through the power of adaptation. Few, if any, are the groups of Native Americans today who can say the same. ADAPTATION PHILOSOPHY OF CHANGE. THERE IS SCARCELY ONE OF US LIVING TODAY, including newly-born babies, who has not seen profound changes taking place on every hand; and all of us have been deeply concerned about them, at one time or another. In the world, the nation, the state, the county, the community ? and very often in our own lives ? the changes go on and on. No sooner do we become comfortable with one set of cir cumstances and conditions than ? phft! There goes another idea we once may have regarded as Everlasting Truth. "The only thing which does not change in the world today," declared one political leader recently, "is change itself. We must either adjust or be lost in the shuffle." The truth of his statement is so obvious that I cannot now even remember his name. In other words, chantre is characteristic of the age in which we live. And that we CANNOT change.--Somehowr set as we are in our "old ways" (and our "old ways" grow old very quickly these days), we must adapt ourselves to new conditions, new situations, new con cepts ? and then even newer ones. This ? let us make no mistake about it ? is the day of scientific enlightenment. Almost every day new scientific disclosures are being made; and since true science is knowledge ? in short, truth ? we must align ourself afresh and anew in relationship thereto. It is also the day in which a million voices are crying out to be heard; and, sound or unsound, for our own good we dare not silence, or even ignore, any of them. Whatever the merits or demerits of each, they are bringing about changes; and this keeps one-in a constant state of adjustment. Adjustment and readjustment. And according to such natural laws as those of biology, which are virtually the only laws other than spiritual laws which do not change, the "fittest" organism ia that one which is capable of adaptation. ?v:.L 1 J * .J ? piainis ami aiuiuais ui y caici y cai wiutll liuuiu nut ttUJUSl UJ their environment have long since become extinct. But some plants and animals of pre-historic times showed an amazing fkculty for adjust ment. The giraffe, a large cud-chewing animal of Africa, finding It self too short to reach the topmost ? and generally 'the choicest ? leaves in the highest trees to feed upon, in time developed a longer neck, longer than that of any of its fellows. It is said that birds which once walked the earth, like most other animals, upon finding itself pursued upon land by the faster animals, developed wings and took to the air. But look what happened to the poor dinosaur! ? which was in some cases 100 or more feet long! He was too heavy, slow and cumbersome, either to fight well or to escape his myriad enemies. He would not, or could not, take up new ways and develop new skills; and because of this, he has perished from the face of the earth. Insects developed new wings or stings, or both as the case might be; and often their small sizes enabled them to seize a decided advantage over the larger animals, which also were probably more dull-witted. Result? Well, which is more numerous today ? insects or dinosaur^? The lizzards, especially those of smaller size and greater maneu verability, developed the power to conceal themselves, some of them even acquiring the power to change their color at will. In this way, they conform with their environment in color, and virtually make themselves invisible, whether the leaves are green, brown or some other color; whether it is spring, summer, autumn or winter. Such is the theory of evolution ?^or at leasLone-segment of it. But society is not a jungle, some will protest; and people are not lizzards. But the law of the "survival of the fittest," in a less fatal but no less real sense, dominates the world of men, nonetheless. The "big fish" gobble up the smaller ones. Small businesses often find it diffi cult to compete with giant corporations, so much so that they are sometimes forced out of business. The small farmer finds himself unable to compete with the larger, tractor-owning operator. Our statesmen find it necessary to pass laws for the protection of these small businesses on occasion ? and for the protection of smaller ethnic groups. We pass laws for the preservation of nature's smaller, less plentiful plants and animals; and even to protect the rivers against man-made contamina tion. In these and many other respects? thank heaven! ? we differ from lower animals. Man is the dominant creature cf the earth, commissioned by Al mighty God to "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and nave dominion over the lish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that mo vet h upon the earth." (Genesis 1:28). It is interesting and gratifying to know that He did not say over other men. Such was never His intention, if 'we are to take our authority from the Bible. While man has destroyed most of the lower animals (no commis sion for this) and some of his weaker fellow men, he has neverthe less found himself to possess something _possessed by no other animal ? a conscience. His conscience, which motivates Kim to pass laws for the protection of his less fortunate fellows, Is all that stands between weaker groups and extinction. We must not relinquish the human conscience; for it is the one thing which makes us a little like our Creator. Men's conscience will either doom or save the world. As President Johnson said during his 1964 presidential campaign, "We must love or we shall die." Without mutual consideration, we shall all eventually perish together. For the time now is when men must protect themselves frpm THEMSELVES. In The Armed Forces A 4* Naval Bm* m dM USS MbMlKM. Ha iMMtfy qmaMtylmt with M-14 Etta. Hi. ?I# ?? It itfbfki far a "Th? batt muc? if th? Nttid h*- - ? ??? '* RVI|Pi v*i IPIIII "?"/ need your help to keep North Carolina?? moving forward" Dm> F?taw CiltMn. I nam iM M budd on ?hf rr?m*ndau? pioffw ???'?? thtody unit M our St?* Kui dowrnmwo war ha bni mtw yvyiyoru port* porta TWt w?y I'm ooluni lot your ptftonol hrip m my timH'f la hMf North Cmbn* mowmf lorward hMM lab* ? mrnui* 10 M out that tuy??r and Mnd * Id md h odi MM Id m* mwiA Mr Mm Mat Ma Cdv l?- i 'VMNMCaiMM NmMMIMMI Hatox* * vun I "Thank*," OaL Afwmf* I A_
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