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A FRONT PAGE EDITORIAL
Some Choices June 5....
SOME CHOICES JUNE 5...
Like everyone else, we have
opinions about the upcoming
June 5 run off. We prefer
some candidates over others
and try not to tip our hand in
races where Indians oppose
Indians like in the Red
Springs Commissioner Dis
trict where incumbent Jack
Morgan is being challenged
by former Commissioner
Bobby Dean Lock!ear The
race seems too close to call,
and both candidates are emi
nently qualified to serve if
elected.
For Governor...In the se
cond Democratic Primary run
off. we prefer Rufus Edmisten
over Eddie Knox for Gover
nor. Although Knox is a
capable candidate and pro
gressive. we prefer Edmisten
because he seems to relate to
grassroots people best. Ed
misten. too. seems to be more
creative, and decisive in the
decision making process that
separates a good official from
a great one.
If Edmisten gets by Knox
he still has to face Republican
Jim Martin in the fall. Rufus
Edmisten has been elected
attorney general three times
by the voters of North Caro
lina, and he has good rapport
with the Indian community, 1
and most of rural North i
Carolina. We believe Edmis- i
ten would be good for
North Carolina, and encour
age our readers to vote for
him.
For Commissioner of Labor
we editorially endorse prickly
John Brooks again as the
Commissioner of Labor. Like
Edmisten. Brooks is on record
supporting the concept of an
Indian Tourist attraction in
North Carolina and especially
in Robeson County. Brooks,
as a member of the N.C.
Commission of Indian Affairs
Board of Directors has the
vote to do something positive
about the tourist center.
Too, Brooks has been his
own man. creative, prickly,
interesting and a loner some
times as the commissioner of
labor. Aren't those traits we
desire in public officials? We
recommend Brooks for anoth
er term as Labor Commis
sioner.
And. of course, we recom
mend Henry Ward Oxendlne
unreservedly as District Jud
ge in the 16th Judicial District.
Oxendine would bring hones
ty, decency, fairness to the
bench. And he would not be
bought or manipulated un
duly. Henry Ward Oxendine
is a man of honor.
The only criticism we have
heard of Oxendine is that
some of the local lawyers do
not feel he can be manipu
lated or coerced. Good! That
is reason enough to vote for
him.
Oxendine would bring a
wealth of experience to the
bench, including private
practice, a stint on the Board
of Paroles, and as a member
of the House of Represen
tatives. Now Oxendine is
working in the District At
torney's office. We ought to
put Oxendine's honor, hones
ty and experience on the
District Judge's bench where
good men are needed.
It seems to us that Oxen
dine has spent his whole life
preparing for the bench. I
hope that the voters are
discerning enough to put him
there. We editorially endorse
Oxendine without reserva
tion, believing he is one of the
best judicial candidates to
come before the voters in
many years in this area.
And J.W. Hunt as Row
land's County Commissioner.
J.W. Hunt, the incumbent
Rowland Commissioner, is a
man of honor, too. One of his
constituents said to this writer
recently. "J.W. Hunt's word
is his bond..."
What an endorsement! And
we concur. J.W. Hum's word
is his bond. We hope to see
him seated again as the
Commissioner from the Row
land District and urge you to
vote for him.
In the Rowland District
Hunt is being challenged by
Henry Douglass, and Henry
Ward Oxendine is being
challenged by Adelaide Be
han, a Lumberton lady bar
rister.
In other races. Carl Britt is
being challenged by F.E.
Shaw. Sr. in the Fairmont
Commissioner race, and in
cumbent E.B. Morton. Jr. is
being challenged by new
comer Marion Rice for a seat
on the county Board of
Education.
The only race on the
Republican ballot is for Lt.
Governor, where John Car
rington and Franklin Jordan
are vying for the chance to
challenge Democratic winner
Bob Jordan in the fall.
But, mostly, vote for who
you want to on June 5.
The British American
Festival Features Local Participants
RUNS JUNE 2-16
DURHAM-Mrs. Lela Brooks, Pem
broke, and Mr. Clause E. Sampson and
Mr. Bruce Barton, both from the Deep
Branch Community, are three of many of
the participants in the British American
Festival June 2-16 in Durham on the
Duke University campus, with films and
exhibitions at the Carolina Theatre and
North Carolina Central University, also
in Durham.
In the summer of 1584, Englishmen
first explored the coast of North
Carolina. They found a favorable site
a land of good soil and friendly people.
But that summer, 400 years ago, they did
more: They planted the seeds of a
profound alliance between two nations,
the United States and Great Britain.
Winston Churchill called it "the special
relationship."
You and your family are invited to take
part in a celebration of the British
American relationship, June 2-16, 1984,
in Durham, North Carolina, USA. The
> British American Festival will be two
weeks of splendid performing arts,
sports, folklife, food, films, exhibitions,
symposia and special events commem
orating 400 years of our shared cultural
heritage. Join the North Carolina De
partment of Cultural Resources, the
Smithsonian Institution, and the British
Council as they present a once-ever
event.
Come celebrate with folk music, dance
and craft of England. Scotland and
Wales, North Carolina, New England.
West Africa, the Caribbean and the
Canadian Maritimes. Taste British food
and drink. Watch and learn to play
cricket, rugby, soccer and darts. Discuss
politics and culture with distinguished
scholars and public figures. Hear leading
British poets and writers read from their
works. Attend an important opera's
world premiere. Enjoy performances of
bagpipes and British brass bands, jazz
and rock and roll. And much more.
Every effort will be made to make
programs accessible to persons with
handicaps.
Programs are subject to cancellation or
change in dates and times. Nominal
admission fees will be charged for
certain events. Tickets will be available
at Page Box Office. Duke University.
To learn more about the British
American Festival, contact The British
American Festival, North Carolina De
partment of Cultural Resources, Raleigh,
North Carolina 27611, (919) 733-7897. Or
call the Durham Arts Council at (919)
682-5519.
For the eye's delight, the festival will
feature crafts people demonstrating their
skills.
Mrs. Lela Brooks of Pembroke will
display her skill in creating lacy crochet
patterns from tobacco twine.
Claude Sampson and Bruce Barton will
present Lumbee oral traditions, es
pecially those relating to Lumbee' hero
Henry Berry Lowry.
Arnold Richardson. Haliwa-Saponi
sculptor.- will present a selection of his
works.
Linda Oxendine, Curator of the Native
American Resource Center at Pembroke
State University, will present sample
pieces such as quilts, photos, and
baskets from the nineteenth century
Lumbee collection at the Resource
Center and will discuss their significance
to the Lumbee community. Most of these
artifacts were donated by local Lumbee
families and family stories about these
peices form an integral part of their
significance.
Dr. M.L. Brooks to be
Magnolia's Commencement Speaker
Dr. M.L. Brooks will be the principal
speaker at Magnolia High School's
commencement exercises on Friday,
June 8, 1984, according to information
released today by Mr. Noah Woods,
School Principal.
Dr. Brooks is a product of the Robeson
County School System, having completed
eleven years of formal education here
before completing his senior year of high
school in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He was
Valedictorian of that graduating class.
Dr. Brooks completed his undergradu
ate program of study at the University of
Michigan before entering the medical
program at that same institution. Having
completed his medical internship in
Michigan. Dr. Brooks returned to North
Carolina and has been ministering to the
needs of the Robeson County citizenry
for the past twenty-five years.
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Dr. Brooks acknowledges that hard
work and determination are keys to his
success in the medical profession but
gives ultimate credit for any and all of his
achievements to the many blesaings and
grace of God.
West
Robeson's 1st
Graduation
June 8
Graduation exercises -for West Robe
son High School will be held Friday,
June 8. at 6:30 p.m. in the Performing
Arts Center at Pembroke State Univer
sity. Diplomas will be presented to 390
members of the class of 1984, West
Robeson's first graduates.
The speaker for the commencement
program will be Alan Townsend, honor
student and president of the senior class.
Marshals for graduation will be Brian
Kelly Dial, chief marshall. Ronnie Alan
Lowery, assistant chief marshall, Lewis
Wayne Britt, Pamela Brooks, Windie
Bullard. Coletta Rene Dial. Loretta Dial.
Lisa Ann Ellis, Lisa Locklear. Lisa
Jean Lowery. Gwendolyn Jones and
Sherry Warner.
All members of the junior class, the
marshals were selected on the basis of
their academic rank.
Senior class officers are: Alan
Townsend. President; Jerry Newman,
Vice President; Sherita Hunt. Secretary;
Jerry Deese, Assistant Secretary; Teresa
Deese, Treasurer; Sandra McNeill, Re
porter; and Robin McLaughlin, Parlia
mentarian.
Class advisors include the following
senior homeroom teachers: John
McNeill, Mary Freeman, June Harrell,
Dell Harris, Mary Jane Bryant, Thomas
Tate, John A. Locklear, Cathy Thomas,
Ronnie Chavis, Victoria Lowery,
Hampton Brayboy, Richard Thomas,
Barbara Harris. Harry Oxendine, Fodie
Mitchell. Mabel Cummings and Barbara
Jones.
Due to the limited seating capacty of
the Performing Arts Center, each
graduate will be issued three admission
passes for guests. These official passes
will be checked at the door.
The Academic Awards Banquet will be
held in the high school cafeteria at West
Robeson on Friday evening. June 1 at
7:30 p.m. Parents of the awards
recipients have been extended invita
tions by mail.
At
New Hope
Church
GOSPEL MEETINGS
The public is cordially
invited to attend a week of
- Gospel Meetings at New
Hope Church, near Pates.
June 34, 1984. The Sunday
service will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Services Monday-Friday will
begin at 8 p.m. Speaker for
the. week will be Simmie
Barton.
Rev. Bob
it
Mangum
Honored
Rev. Bob Mangum
Friends, supporters and admirers of
Rev. Bob Mangum will gather at the Old
Foundry Restaurant. Lumberton on
Saturday evening, June 2. 1984 at 6:30
p.m. to pay-tribute to him.
Rev. Mangum is presently serving as
Pastor of Prospect Uniied Methodist
Church. He has served in many
capacities in the County and contributed
to much social change. He served for
several years as the Executive Director of
the Robeson County Church and Com
munity Center. During his tenure there
he was involved in voter registration,
adult literacy, providing transportation
for the handicapped and senior citiuns. .
rural home repair under the Farmers
Home Administration, among other
activities that provided relief for the aged
and impoverished.
He served for several years on the
Robeson County Board of Education
where he helped plan the Vocational
Center at Hilly Branch.
Rev. Mangum's civic contributions
include the Save Old Main Movement:
the lawsuit which resulted in the
breaking of double voting: Pembroke
Community Welfare Program; helping to
organize the Prisoners Friends Society.
He was also instrumental in the con
struction of a Prison Chapel in Robeson
County which was the first in the state.
He has served on many state and local
boards and committees. Some of them
are: The N.C. Literacy Council. Tri
County Advisory Council. Four County
Board of Directors, the Adult Education
Advisory Committee for Robeson Tech
nical College, the Advisory Committee
for Social Services for Robeson County,
the N.C. Department of Corrections
Advisory Committee, the N.C. State
Advisory Committee for Civil Rights, and
the Advisory Committee on Education
for Lumbee Regional Deveopment As
sociation.
Rev. Mangum is presently chairman of
the N.C. Hunger Need Task Force for the
N.C. Conference of the United Methodist
Church.
Rev. Mangum was recently honored as
a recepiertf of the Jefferson Award.
Tickets are available for the tribute
and may be purchased from the fol
lowing: Sam Kerns. Pembroke; L.
Harbert Moore (521-9949). Bill James
Locklear. Prospect (521-2111).
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YARD SALE TO BE HELD
Mount Olive Pentecostal
Holiness Church will sponsor
a yard sale on Saturday, June
2, between the hours of 8 a.m.
and 6 p.m. next to the
Lumbee Bank. All proceeds
will go to \Falcon Childrens
Home.
VBS TO BEGIN
Pembroke First Baptist
Church will be conducting
Daily Vacation Bible School
the week of June 18-22, 1984
from 7 -9 p.m. each evening.
Registration for VBS will be
held on Monday. June 11, at 7
p.m. Refreshments will be
served. All ages are cordially
invited to attend. Rev. John
D. Bryant is pastor.
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,PSU OPEN TENNIS TOURNEY
SET JUNE 11-16
The Pembroke State University Open
Tennis Tournament will be held June
11-16 at PSU. Events will include: men
and women single and doubles, junior
boys singles and doubles, senior men
and women singles and doubles (35 and
over). Entry fee will be $5 for single and
$5 for doubles team. Each player must
furnish a can of new balls. Deadline for
paying entry fee will be Friday. June 8 at
6 p.m. Send fees to: Ken Johnson. 1
Dogwood Lane. Pembroke. N.C. Or call
521-4694 for further information.
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MAGNOLIA BOSSES HONORED
Magnolia teachers and staff honored <
their bosses during "Bosses Week" with
a special gathering in the school library
on May 17, 1984. i
Mr. Noah Woods. Principal, and Mrs.
Virginia Emanuel, Assistant Principal,
were both presented token gifts of
appreciation and the entire faculty and
staff joined them in refreshments
prepared by the Magnolia cafeteria staff.
MISS LUMBEE ANNUAL PLATE SALE
On June 8. 1984 the Lumbee
Homecoming Committee and the Pem
broke Jaycees are sponsoring the Annual
Miss Lumbee Plate Sale. The proceeds
will go toward Miss Lumbec's wardrobe
and to help defray her expense during
her weeks participation at the North
Cncntina Pageant.
The Plate Sale will begin at II a.m.
and last until 7 p.m. The sale will be in
the Pembroke Town Park.
The reigning Miss Lumbee, Sandra
Locklcar and the eight contestants that
will be vying for the title July 6th will be
present to mingle with everyone.
There will be barbeque and chicken
that will be prepared and served by the
Miss Lumbee Committee. The price of
the plates will be $3 each.
Everyone is encouraged to come out
and enjoy good food and fellowship.
BALTIMORE AMERICAN INDIAN
CENTER SPONSORS RECEPTION FOR
DWIGHT LOWRY
The Baltimore American Indian
Center. Inc., 113 South Broadway.
Baltimore Maryland and the South
Broadway Baptist Church are sponsoring
a reception for Dwight Lowry June 9.
1984. Dwight Lowry is a catcher with the
Detroit Tigers. The reception will be held
at 211 South Broadway and everyone is
invited to attend. Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
SOUTHEASTERN GENERAL
HOSPITAL EMERGENCY PATIENTS
TO USE NEW ENTRANCE
Effective Wednesday, May 30 at 7
a.m., all hospital emergency patients will
be received through the West 29th Street
entrance.
Private cars may unload in the marked
area along the walkway and park in the
emergency parking lot. All rescue
vehicles should use the specially marked
"ambulance only" entrance.
Patients coming to Southeastern Gen
eral beginning Wednesday. May 30 for
admission or for tests/treatments on an
outpatient basis should park in the
parting~derk and use the Floyd Avenue
entrance of the Diagnostic,, and Treat
ment Center. Also, all visitors to the
hospital's Skilled Nursing Facility and
Intensive Care Unit should use the Floyd
Avenue entrance.
Revels
honored for
Service
to Indians
GREENSBORO--Lonnie Revels, a
member of the Greensboro City Council
and a Robeson County native, received
one of the most prestigious Indian
awards recently during the Guilford
Native American Association's Eighth
Annual Awards Banquet.
About 200 people, many of them local
public officials, attended the ceremony,
conducted in the Greensboro Coliseum
Complex.
Key speakers included Ron Andrade.
staff assistant to the assistant secretary
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
and A. Bruce Jones.jexecutive director of
the N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs.
Revels, a Lumbee Indian, received the
Eagle Feather, one of the highest awards
given by Native Americans.
Revels was hailed as one who has
achieved significant gains and has
worked consistently and diligently to
improve the conditions of Indians.
A number of awards were presented to
high school and college graduates, who
were touted as people carrying the
heritage of the past into the future.
Mr. Revels' wife. Ruth Revels,
director of the association, said the
awayds are important because they
entourage youths to'coittfeflfcffc thetf
educatlon.
The Indian of the Year award was
presented to Janice Grady, the High
Point Home-School Coordinator for Indi
an Education.
Ruth Revels called Grady "one of the
most competent, caring and concerned
professionals in the High Point School
System." according to area press
reports.
Andrade lauded the youth who were
awarded, saying. "They're going to
carry something we work to preserve."
He added that Lonnie Revels might be
placed on a federal commission to study
what the Agriculture Department has
done for Indians.
Jones called the banquet meaningful
because it demonstrates that he re
presents many constituents that cannot
be ignored.
Ron ModTe, an aide to Rep. Robin
Britt. D-N.C.. attended the banquet and
said Britt is co-sponsoring legislation
that opposes a proposed shift in a federal
office that, he said, could hurt Indians.
He said Britt's legislation opposes
moving the Administration on Native
Americans from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Depart
ment of Interior. Such a move, he said,
would lump together programs for
nonreservation and nonfederally recog
nized tribes with all other Native
American groups.
Services to many in the former group
"might get lost in the shuffle" and
"services to those groups might suffer."
Moore said.
Other awards presented at the pro
gram were: Senior Citizen of the Year,
Nettie Godwin; Volunteer of the Year.
Herman Smith; Distinguished Service
Award, Dr. Helen Canaday; Youth of the
Year Award, Ernest Christley; and
Indian Businessman of the Year, Atlas
Oxendine.
Pembroke asks $669,243
in C.D. Grant Funds
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North Carolina communities have
requested $107 million in federal Com
munity Development Block Grant funds
from the N.C. Department of Natural
Resources and Coamuaity Develop
ment, $79.5 million more than the state
has to allocate.
Some 180 communities, including
Pembroke, filed requests by the April 16
deadline.
In applications received by the state
Department of Natural Resources and
Community Development, the 146 muni
cipalities and 34 counties have requested
funding for comflftunity revitsliiation
projects ranging from housing rshahiU
si p
tation to street paving and development
planning projects designed to ideulifjf
critical community needs and^ formulate
plans to meet those needs, at state has
S27.S million available for feedtag these
projects in 1W4.
Pembroke's request totals Mt9,M3 for
community revitaHaatlon activities.
Although there is ne minimum amount
established for a grant NfMtt, ne
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