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DISTRICT IV I
MORAL FIBER
MANY OF US FEEL THAT THE GOLDEN YEARS THAT GAVE US OUR GREAT A'
TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, AND PREACHERS ARE GONE, THAT OUR SOCIETY IS
SUICIDALLY EATING UP OUR MIGHTY RESOURCES-YOUNG PEOPLE. I CAN NAME A V
SCORE OF FAMILIES WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE FALLEN PREY TO A WORLD THAT OFFERS
NOTHING BUT INTELLECTUAL BOREDOM-NO CHALLENGE, IRRELEVANCY-NO MEAN X
ING, ISOLATION-NO FOUNDATION. MOST OF THESE FAMILIES COMPRISE MOTHERS AND
DAD'S WHO HAVE DONE WELL, BUT WHOSE CHILDREN ARE SOCIETY DROP-OUTS. THE 8
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS CONDITION ARE MANYi HOW DID THE MORAL ROT GET *
STARTED; HOW WERE THE STANDARDS DROPPED? THE STATE OF THE ART OF
MORALITY LEAVES ME WITH A SENSE OF BEMOANING THE COLLAPSE OF THE OLD
VALUES.
EVERYTHING IS NOT LOST, I BELIEVE IN THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR REVIEWING ft >
VALUES, INSPIRING OUR BOYS AND GIRLS TO TAKE THE HIGH ROAD THAT POINTS TO
MORALITY-THE SENSE OF R1GHTNESS. THIS HIGHWAY CAN BE RESURFACED, IF WE
WHi, BUT TURN TO THE BIBLE FOR DIRECTIONS. YOU SEE, OUR PARENTS KNOW ABOUT
RIGHTNESS OR WRONGNESS BECAUSE THEY HAD A STRONG LOYALITY TO THE CONCEPT
OF GOD, WITH THAT AFFIRMATION OF "GOD IS" MORALITY FOLLOWED, WITHOUT GOD
THERE IS NO MORALITY.
I HAVE FOUND THAT YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON HUMAN INTELLECTUALITY AND
HUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO SET THE STAGE FOR MORALITY. IT IS SO EASY FOR OUR
GENERATION TO LAPSE INTO SAVAGERY. REMEMBER THE CENTURY THAT PRODUCED
SCHWEITZER PRODUCED HITLER. OUR CIVILIZATION IS ON THIN ICE; AND THE
PENETRATING RAYS OF WRONGNESS WILL SOON BREAK THROUGH, IF ALLOWED TO
CONTINUE. IN OUR AGE OF TECHNOLOGY, HITLER COULD TRIUMPH AGAIN.
NOW THE TEST FOR THIS GENERATION IS TO RESTRUCTURE OUR VALUES, BELIEFS
AND STANDARDS. IF WE REFUSE TO RESTORE VALUES, BELIEFS, LAWS, AND
? STANDARDS BY WHICH OUR SOCIETY HAS FLOURISHED, OUR SOCIETY WILL
DISINTEGRATE. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REBUILDING IS LEFT TO OUR GENERATION.
FROM THE BEGINNING EACH GENERATION HAS BEEN FACED WITH THE TASK OF
RE-CREATING FOR ITS TIME A FRESH AND LIVING ALLEGIANCE TO BASIC
FUNDAMENTAL VALUES. I HOPE IN SOME WAY TO INFLUENCE OUR BOYS AND GIRLS TO
REBUILD AND GENERATE A LASTING VALUE SYSTEM THAT SPEAKS OF TRUTH
RIGHTNESS, AND MORALITY. Q
WARRIORS LOSE HEARTBREAKER
by David Male ohm
What Pembroke baseball
coach Ronnie Chavis had been
saying all season come back to
haunt his team as the War
riors dropped a 15-14 mara
thon to West Brunswick in
their season finale at P.S.U.
Tuesday night.
"When you start giving a
team more than three outs per
inning, you're going to lose
ballgames," Chavis had re
peated throughout a disap
pointing 1982 season in which
Pembroke suffered through
an 11-12 record, just 5-5
against league opponents.
Against West Brunswick
Tuesday night, Pembroke had
more than its share of chances
to win the ballgame. but
unfortunately the Warriors
gave West Brunswick golden
opportunities and the Trojans
capitalized.
Pembroke was guilty of five
errors, three of them coming
in a nightmarish fifth inning
which saw West Brunswick
score seven runs.
Eric Locklear, pitching in
relief of starter Perry Strick
land, got first batter up for the
Trojans to fly out to right field
before giving up a single to
Adrian Johnson. Trojan catch
er Henry Crawford hit a fly
ball to center for what looked
like an easy catch for Pem
broke's Randy Jacobs, but the
ball glanced off Jacobs' glove
and rolled to the fence. One
run scored and Crawford
ended up on third before the
dust settled.
Scott Evans hit a single to
left to score Crawford, but the
Warriors teemed a sure bet to
get out of the inning relatively
unhurt when the next Trojan
bitter hit t grounder to ?
Devy Bell at shortstop. Bell
ftpped the ball to Timothy
Carter to force Evans' pinch
noMt at aecond base for
out number two, but in
making the double play throw
to drat. Carter threw wide,
allowing the runner to advan
ce to second.
Carter had the chance to I
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to him
but he muffed that chance
too. Before Pembroke could
retire the Trojans, they had
collected two more hits, three
walks and had scored five
runs in taking a commanding
13-5 lead. West Brunswick
had scored six runs in a big
third inning effort that saw
the Trojans get just three hits,
but take full advantage of four
free passes from Pembroke
starter Perry Strickland.
The Warriors, who had
drawn first blood in the
second inning, responded in
the third with four runs, two
of those coming on a two-run
double by Cleo Locklear.
Another run in the bottom of
the fifth made the score 13-6.
? Again the Warriors pushed
foru runs across the plate, this
time in the home half of the
sixth inning. The big hit in
Pembroke's rally was Steve
Cummings' two run double to
left field.
Relever Jay Howard walked
Eric G. Locklear to load the
bases, but retired the next
two batters on strikes and the
inning was over with Pem
broke trailing 13-10.
The Warriors committed
two errors and alert Trojan
base-runners stole four bases
in the top of the seventh as
West Brunswick stretched the
lead to five with two more
runs.
James Bird, the third Pem
broke pitcher of the game, hit
a clutch double in only his
second at-bat this season to
start a last ditch Warrior rally
in the bottom of the seventh.
Bird's bouncer to left field '
came after leadoff batter '
Mickey Carter had drawn a
walk.
Brother Timothy Carter
drew another walk to load the
bases, and shaken, Howard
threw four straight balls to
walk Anthony Locklear and
force in a run. Devy Bell
followed with a towering shot
to dead center field that a
roaring crowd signaled was
Bell's second gram slam of
the season.
Coach Chavis, thinking the
ball might be caught, did not
wave the runners around
third. When the ball fell just
inside the fence, Chavis wav
ed pinch runner Lee McRae
on in but the relay throw
caught a sliding Timothy
Carter at the plate. Senior
first baseman Steve Cum
mings stroked his second
consecutive two-run double, a
liner to left field that drew the
Warriors to within a run of
West Brunswick with just one
out.
Howard got Randy Jacobs
to hit a soft popup to the
catcher for the second out,
and scooped up a Cleo
Locklear grounder down the
third base line, throwing him
out with less than a step to
end the game.
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VONNIE OXENDINE, JR. A Eulogy
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VONNIE OXENDINE, JR.
By Herbert Locklear
VONNTE OXENDINE, JR.
A memorial service was
held at South Broadway Bap
tist Church in Baltimore, Md.
on Thursday, May 6, 1982 for
Vonnie Oxendine, Jr. who
was born Feb. 2, 1934 and
died May 4, 1982. Conducting
the service was Rev. James
M. Dial. With eulogy deliver
ed by Mr. Herbert Locklear.
Oxendine was the beloved
son of Mrs. Sadie M. Oxen
dine and the late Vonnie
Oxendine, Sr. and the loving
brother of Mr. Craven Oxen
dine, Mrs. Vfernie Mae Oxen
dine, Mrs. Bernice Jones,
Mrs. Shirley Locklear, Mrs.
Annie Mae Oxendine, and
Mrs. Mary Delores Locklear.
The following Euglogy was
delivered by Herbert Lock
lear.
Vonnie Oxendine is a friend
of mine. Yes, is and not was.
|How then you ask can you be "
friendly with a deceased. The
answer? Persons come and
go.. Mortal flesh is temporary
and indefinite. Friendship, on
the other hand, lives forever.
When two people are friends
and one departs and the other
remains, the remaining party
to the friendship maintains
that friendship by being loyal
to the friendship as it survived
between the two parties.
I emphasize my friendship
with Mr. Vonnie Oxendine in
order to illustrate that he is a
friend. Many of us here
tonight lay claim to that
friendship with Vonnie, a
friend. Any person with whom
Vonnie has had any continu
ing contact will ultimately lay
claim to that relationship with
him of being a friend.
IN this eulogy, I am em
phasizing that to everyone
Vonnie has been, is, and his
memory will continue to be a
friend.
Vonnie is compassionate.
He cares. He has been an
activist that demonstrates his
compassion and his caring.
He has not sat on the side and
said I care, nor has he stood
still and said I have compassi
on. He has activated those
words. He has put them int
gear and accelerated them in
many instances to high speed.
If we remember Vonnie and
what we believe . he has
meant, let us charge outselves
with that energy thpt he
projected. Let us keep the
idea of compassion and caring
alive.
Vonnie is loving, possess
ing a love that made it
possible to put compassion
and caring into action. Per
haps in our hearts here
tonight we feel a bitterness.
Some would say I don't blame
you. Some would say you
should hate with a violence.
But I believe in Vonnie could
respond to that he would most
likely paraphrase. Oh, no, no,
no. That's not the way to do
it. He has used those words to
correct me many times.
Vonnie is a quite, reserved,
inward person concerning
many issues that on which
some of us seem to survive.
That is to say, Vonnie is a
non- gossiper. If Vonnie
knows something that is in
terpreted as adverse, Vonnie
has carried it with him for the
most part, and it is still
lockedup into his heart and
shall not now ever be pene
trated. Vonnie spoke good of
people even those sometime* 1
be had s tendency to feel wen 1
not so nice. When others
gossiped around him, Vonnie
was careful to point out the <
good qualities of the person
about whom the conversation
sat centered.
Now, let me address these
remarks to my friend Vonnie.
Vonnie, I trust in yon. I
depend on you. I rely on yon.
rhe courage you have shown,
die stamina and vitality with
which you have lived you life.
The vim and vigor with which
you have pursued our relation
ship and caused it not only to
survive but to nurture it and
cause it to grow, 1 thank you. 1
thank you for being Vonnie. 1
thank you for having made
every heart here in this great
audience glad. I thank you for
the many gifts of love, sharing
of your material things, for
your attentiveness to the
needs of those around you. I
know I echo the hearts of the
many men and women, boy*
and girls here tonight who
cannot have this opportunity
to speak when I say to you,
Vonnie, we thank you for
being our friend.
Vonnie is mindeful of the
creation about him. His faith
and trust in the power of God
and worth of prayer is une
qualed among men whom I
know. How he used that trust
and knowledge is a personal
and private matter but I know
he had it.
Now, it comes time for me
to say to you, Vonnie, my
friend, that time will pass and
you will be there and I will be
somewhere, but the friend
ship between us will be
everywhere.
i DAMASCUS
The oldest continuously in
habited city in existence
is Damascus in Syria.
...
changing the present inning
classification of the area
hereinafter described front
Central Bnsiness District (a)
to Residential (R2) as those
terms are defined in the
Town's Zoning Qrdihance.
The area being considered
for re-zoning is as foBows:
The Sou then half of that
certain two Mock area bound
ed on the East by Pine Street,
on the West by Odom Street,
on the South by Fourth Street
and on the North by Third
Street.
The time and place for a
public hbaring concerning
such an amendment will be
held at 7:00 o'clock o.m. on
the 7th day of June, 1982, at
the Pembroke Town Hall, at
which time and place all
interested parties will be
given an opportunity to be
heard concerning such
amendment.
This is the 19th day of May, ,
1982.
Ruby N. Smith
Clerk V
Town of Pembroke
P.O. Boz866
Pembroke, N.C. 28372
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I Re-Elect
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