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Pte 2, The CfoUnji lodljui Votee»Thiirfd«yi July 18, 19^ EDITORIAL PAGE AS I SEE IT I like watching the cast grow into their roles, and every performer has improved since the drama began. 3 in particular have impressed this reviewer. They are Spencer Hunt as Murray “the drunken home guardsman”; Tim Hunt as Donahoe, the sneaky one who preys on the rest of us; and young Mark McKinney I who is delightful as Andrew ' King. A biased review of ‘Strike at the Wind!’ 1 just like ‘Strike at the Wind!’ That is why this is a biased review of the popular outdoor drama that showcases the exploits of Henry Berry Lowrie and the Lumbee In dians of Robeson County. The show, under the stellar direc tion of David Oxendine, open ed July 7 to raves from the critics and the viewing public. Playwright Randolph Umber- ger called it, “the best production of ‘Strike at the Wind!’ since the production began in 1976." Of course. 1 agree wholeheartedly. David Oxendine, the director, has emphasized diction and move ment since rehearsals began. And the show is fast paced, and articulate. David Oxen dine deserves plaudits for his insistence on professionalism from a mostly amateur cast. Oxendine also has been ably assisted by Melton Lowry, who has refined the role of stage manager. Melton Low ry, who ably played Henry Berry Lowrie for a number of seasons, is a talented fella who has a good way with people. His natural abilities have allowed Oxendine to concentrate tlis efforts on improving every actor in the cast; including, yours truly, who is enjoying his role as Allen Lowrie-Henry Berry Lowrie’s daddy. The Cast ‘Strike at the Wind’ either succeeds or fails on the characterization of Henry Ber ry Lowrie. This year’s pro duction succeeds artistically because Harvey Godwin, Jr. is a superb Henry Berry Lowrie. He plays the role with verve and vigor, but always understates his emotion. That is the sign of a good actor; and Harvey Godwin is a good actor, and he is handsome besides. His beloved, Rhoda, is played masterfully by Hope Sheppard; she has perfected the role over a number of seasons. Hope Sheppard be comes Rhoda Strong Lowrie, and that is not an easy thing for an actress to do. The show is strong because Harvey Godwin, Jr. and Hope Shep pard are strong. They set the tone of the show, and the rest of us have to play up to their capabilities or look foolish in the process. The rest of us have opted to do our very best, and we succeed admir ably, as 1 see it. Derek Lowry is stately as the leader. He looks the part and acts it out as well. There is an air of dignity about him, and he is superbly cast as the stentorian one who provides narration and theme for the fast paced show. His counter part is Bobby Oxendine, who plays the “boy”, and receives wisdom and understanding from the “leader”. Brenda Jacobs plays Mama Cumbo, and Dora Chavis emotes as Aunt Mary. Both are perfect for their parts, and exude confidence and real acting ability. As 1 see it, neither can be improved upon. They have taken the pivotal roles and made them their own respectively. Carnell Locklear and Robert Bryant provide comic relief as “Boss Strong” and “Shoe maker John” respectively. In many instances, they steal the show. They are the crowd favorites, no doubt about it. After these fine performan ces, the rest of us just try to stay up with them. And I honestly think we emote quite well. Jamie Lee Oxendine performs capably as Polly; and Jim Lovell and Michelle Martin hold their own as Sheriff Reuben King and Dolly, the suffering wife. A real surprise this year is Willie Harris, Jr. as Brant (Jack) Harris, his real fore bear. Willie is deliciously nasty as the protagonist who sets the stage for the mean guys.. The cast and audience just love to hate old Brant Harris, who was purported to be “the meanest man in Robeson County” during the Civil War era which is the setting for the show. Also filling in capably are Joe Blackman as Reverand Sinclair and Keith Hight as Hector McCord. Everyone in the cast de serves accolades. The chem istry is good among the cast, and camaraderie reigns back stage. I take my hat off to Perry Hammonds as Hender son Oxendine (it is worth the show to see the hanging of Henderson Oxendine); Roger McKinney as Young Wesley; Mark Oxendine as Young Allen; Michael Deese as Zack, Frank Carter as Calvin; Frankie Hunt as Steve Lowrie (Frankie Hunt has a booming voice, and has marvelous stage presence); Tony Bul lard, who plays Andrew; Lynn Edward Locklear as William Lowrie etc. etc. Walter Spence, who plays McGreggor, another nasty guy, might be the best who has ever played the role. He is imposing and has wonderful stage presence and diction. Michael Carter plays McMil lan with beautiful understate ment. His characterization is quite good, and effective. Another who deserves special mention is Lee Wiggins, who has played the missionary and Widow McNair for ten years. She is a superb actress, and is an example for the rest of us to emulate. ‘Strike at the Wind!' most times is weakened or stren gthened accordingly by the home guardsmen and Scuffle- town and Lumberton citizen ry. This year’s cast sparkles and interplays well on stage. Some of them are Marcus Locklear, Leonard Oxendine, Edith Ward, Traci Locklear, Lisa Locklear, Jimmy Mask, David Thaggard, Latonia Cox, Lance F. Jacobs, Ronnie Eddings, Traci Oxendine, Randy Fields, Glenn Oxen dine, Ricky Chavis, David Bryant, Mark Deese, Angie Revels, Norma Lowery, Sam uel Jacobs, Stevie Jacobs, Frances Chavis, Wanda Kay Locklear, Nicole Locklear, Phillip Steffes, Crystal Ward, Christopher Ward, Shanee- quah Collins, Carolyn Oxen dine. Shari Ann Cox, Mar garet Freeman, Victoria Ox endine, Angela Collins, Jac queline M. Holmes, Donna Lingle, Robert K. Locklear, Terena Sheppard, Tonya Low ry, Angelo Lowry, Mychalene Deese, Vandra Locklear and Dale Ann McKinney. I give us all a big hand, and 1 challenge you to visit ‘Strike at the Wind!’ this year and not like it. 1 promise you this: we’ll act our hearts out to entertain you. It’s a superb show with a poetic script by Randolph Umberger and haunting mu sic by Willie Lowery. And a them of brotherhood that is worth emoting about. Come out and see the most exciting outdoor drama, in America, as 1 see it. Martha r ^ Washington's silver service was the source of the silver that went into the first U.S. coins. D^. Sherwood Hineon. Jr. EMERGENCY NUMBER 733-7303 LUMBERTON CHIROPRACTIC CENTER NECK PAIN & STIFFNESS Neck pain is a signal that something is wrong. Don't over react to pain but act immediately. Pain in the arms, shoulders, and head could be the result of nerve pressure. Your Doctor of Chiropractic is a speciolist at detecting and treating the cause of most pain. CONTACT DR. SHERWOOD F. HINSON Lumberton Chiropractic Center SALEM SQUARE: {The Newest Professionol Park) Fayetteville Rd., Lumberton, N.C. Phone; 738-3600 EMERGENCY NUMBER 738-7303 CHIROPRACTORS CONTROL PAIN NATURALLY Gil)© ®©8G ®8 GUI® WINNERS] MOSERS >oogcoocoocooooe-oo&oooc«oooocooqocogcooooo Abolish The Exclusionary Rule Sen. John East (R), North Carolina, proposes to abolish the so-called “exclusionary rule” of evidence. It's about timel The rule bars evidence against a defendant in a criminal trial if the police or the prosecutor violated any Constitutional rule or any other law while gathering the evidence. Judges do not — because the Supreme Court has said they may not — consider the value of the evidence when they apply the rule. As interpreted by the Supreme Court, the Constitution absolutely prohibits a judge from looking at such evidence to determine whether it would have any value for the jury. If the means used to obtain the evidence breached any Constitutional rule, then the evidence must be treated as if it had never existed. Obviously giiilty defendants have gone free in thousands of cases such as these: • Stopping a speeder, the trooper notices something suspicious about the driver’s behavior, and demands that the trunk be opened. Inside, he finds a gun with the driver’s fingerprints on it. The gun turns out to have been used to murder a bank teller. The court suppresses the gun, keeping its very existence from the jury, because the Constitution, as the Supreme Court reads it. demands that the officer have more than a “suspicion” to justify searching the trunk. • Because they suspect a businessman is dealing in drugs, detectives get a court order authorizing them to tap his phone. One morning they overhear a telephone conversation between one of the businessman's visitors and someone else; they are discussing their plan to murder an informant. The prosecution of the two plotters for conspiracy to murder collapses when the judge prohibits use of the tape recording because the court order authorizing the tap didn’t mention either of the defendants or indicate that the tap might find evidence of murder plots! There is nothing in the Constitution that says that improperly obtained evidence must not be used. The exclusionary rule has been developed by the courts in response to the failure of the government at times to prosecute policemen who violate the law in the course of their duties. There are and always have been laws prohibiting the police from using illegal methods of gathering evidence. Occasion ally, overzealous police violated those laws in their desire to catch and convict criminals. Such police violations rarely were punished. The exclusionary rule has been the judge’s answer to the prosecutor’s failure to discipline errant police. The courts are saying, “We’re going to make it pointless for you to break the law; if you do something Ulegal to get the evidence, we won’t let you use it. Period.” Prosecutors don’t indict wayward police because prosecu tors have to work with the police day-in and day-out. And there are some prosecutors whose crusading enthusiasm sometimes leads them to condone or even encourage improper police tactics. Because no one else has taken on the task of making the police obey the law, the judges have imposed the exclusionary rule. What is needed, obviously, is a way to preserve valuable evidence without giving the police any incentive to violate the law. Any solution must also accept the fact that rome police will sometimes break the law and must be punished. Senator East's idea provides such a solution; Federal judges will have the power to punish, as a “contempt of the Constitution,” government conduct that breaks Constitu tional rules. But regardless of whether the rules are broken, the proposal would let the jury see and hear the evidence. And many more guilty defendants would be convicted! Workers at 102,000 places —primarily retail gasoline stations and garages—their customers and their employ ers can consider themselves winners thanks to new Occu pational Safety and Health Administration standards. They must now be protected by barriers and restraining devices from the dangers that can occur if a tire or wheel explodes. The wheel experts at The Budd Company point out that worn out or coiroded truck wheels are losers. If they are corroded to the point that there are visible pits in the metal, or if any locking sur face is bent or cracked, or any parts do not match, the wheels should be scrapped to prevent re-use. You can be a winner if you remember never to work on a truck tire or wheel unless you are properly trained and have read and follow OSHA regula tion Section 1910.177 and wheel manufacturer’s litera ture. FREE BROCHURES OSHA offers free charts and booklets to help mechan ics learn the accepted proce dures. To get a copy, you can send a self-addressed mailing label to Servicii^ Rim Wheels, OSHA Publications, Room N- 4101, Frances Perkins Bldg., Third St. and Constitution Ave., Washington D.C. 20210. EDITORIAL EXPRESSION GOVERNOR MARTIN ASKED TO RENEGE ON HIS PROMISES TO INDIAN PEOPLE Governor Jim Martin made ably. Also, further pli an appearance at the North will be done; and the id ' an Indian CultnnlCnJ'J ,11,,.. J Carolina Indian Unity Confer ence in Fayetteville last be kept alive and nurtured March and endorsed the If we had our drutfaen ii! proposed Indian Cultural Cen- Carolina Indian Voice ter at Red Banks; and spoke of rather see an Indian Cultn, other areas of concern In Center developed as oripi which his administration ly planned. It will be asadi would serve the needs of the for Indians If local co^lse^ Indian community. lives like Dr. Ernest Yesterday, according to re- are allowed to come in u d table sources. Governor Jim 11th hour and chann. j, liable sources, Governor Jim 11th hour and changi MarUn met with Dr. Ernest tions and decide, in eswoc, Brown, the chairman of the what is best for Indian P«pl! Robeson County Republican We say “no!” to such i Party, and some other locals, set, and remind Govetn and was reportedly asked MarUn anew of hli renege on his promises that support an Indian Too* he made publicly at the Indian Center; in spite of J Unity Conference. Dr. Brown Brown’s protestations to i' and his associates reportedly contrary. The ball [g asked Governor Martin to Governor Martin’s amp, forego his endorsement of the can either keep his pronij, Indian cultural center and opt, to the Indian people of Noil instead, for a state park. The Carolina, or he can do like], talk is that the proponents of predecessors of old hn the stale park plan would done. When all |g g^d ^ name It the Lumbee State done, I hope it will not be 5,1 Park. of Governor Marlin ihi “They made us tnanyproui, The North Carolina General es and they never kept [ Assembly recently allocated one...they promised to ti $100,000 in state funds to be our land and they took It,' used to develop the concept of Governor Martin follows an Indian Cultural Center suggestion of Dr. Brown i_ under the auspices of the his associates, he will bi, North Carolina Commission of broken his word. We wc Indian Affairs. With the mon- remind him anew of u ies allocated a non profit Robeson Connfy htdlao i corporation will be set up and ing, “A man is only tg o manned with Indians presnm- as his word!” HERITPGE NEW6 FORUM FROM HERITAGE FEATURES SYNDICATE WASHINGTON. D.C. SOME QUESTIONS By Edwin Feulner —Americanism Educational League Def'ty-nitions ^ A Perfectionist; A person who chooses a picnic site as if it were to be a permanent home. A Gossip: A person who just can’t leave bad enough alone. Congressman: A person who leaves his $175-a- day hotel suite to climb into a $30,000 car which takes him to a $100 million jet which delivers him to the city where he delivers a speech on economy in government. c Genius: A combination of work, dedication, perseverance, imagination, and average ability. — The American Way Features The Reader’s ForumJ Will The River Survive When Dirty Politicians Take A Bath In It??? Why does government pay for abortions, encourage illegitimacy by supporting children bom out-of-wedlock to welfare mothers, yet place in credible obstacles in the way of prospective adoptive parents? Is this the way government promotes family cohesion? Why can t the subject of Social Security be discussed without every petty demagogue in the country denouncing anyone who dares even suggest that the lousy system needs repair? Isn’t it in the public interest to have a sound retirement-income system that doesn’t make hollow prom ises while draining the economy? Why isn t English the official language of the United States’’ What should it be: Croatian? Why is there great agreement on what’s wrong with American educa tion, but no consensus on “what every child should learn in school”? Actress Ah McGraw said recently she thinks the school day should include daily “therapy.” Is that the answer — gening in touch with one’s feel ings. Or would most Americans vote for grammar, literature, history, and math? In other words, are there some fundamental values common to Ameri can society that the political process has either distorted or ignored? In a first-ever joint study involving America’s major think tanks, a fourteen-member study panel - which 1 was pleased to be part of - looked at many of these troubling questions. The answers in many cases were disturbing because we found that instead of defending and protecting the family — from birth, through school, to retirement — government iwlicy in many cases is contributing to the destruction of the family as the basic unit of society. Known as the Committee on the Next Agenda, the smdy group on ganized by the Hudson Institute included representatives from the Hoover Mitution.pe Heritage Foundation, Brookings Institution, American En- terpnse Institute, and the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taia- One of the most prominent concerns for residents of Robeson County is Lumber River. Lumber River is not only a major source of recre ation and fishing for Robeson residents but it is also a major or the major supply of water for several municipalities in the county, Lumberton in particular, So why would a large and influencial munici pality such as Lumberton stand idly by while a toxic nuclear waste treatment plant is about to be given a permit to build? This very plant will emit processed materials into Lumber River at night that will force Lumberton to dis continue using the river as its source for water. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the residents of Lumberton don’t care that they would have to build new facilities for processing that precious commodity of H20 or that the great august political machine that dictated the course of Robeson County and governed its agenda is now dead or completely power less. It is rather interesting to note that this plant that is presently being planned to be built in Scotland county will have its most devastating effect on Robeson County is bieng fought most vigorously bv residents of Scotland County. 0 by the way, the damage from nuclear waste is irreverisible. Have you thought about Campbell Soup? No one in his right mind will want glow in the dark soup to eat. It seems like the Mafia of Robeson County has joined forces with the Mafia of Scotland County to perpetrate this infamous deed upon their respective resi dence. In the words of a socialist analyst, “They think we are dumb enough to let them do it to us.” Which brings me to this point. Lumber River can and has taken a lot, but the day wherein our benevolent elect ed officials decide in their finite wisdom to take a bath in it, even with anointed Ivory Soap, that will bring polution to the “maximeneia.” No more swimming for me in Lumber River. Also if resi dents of Robeson and Scot land Counties will get off this Rip Van Winkle trip they are on, maybe, just maybe, the plant will not be built and the river saved. If you want to help, please write Save the River. P.O. Box 759, Pembro ke, NC 28372. Harold G. Dial The study panel suggested that; should encourage, rather than hinder, adoption, hiiild a fa J h ’u f^ilics. And couples who are attempting to -"‘ierstanding of whai oar convene a “Whi,. P™' suggested that President Reagan leaders In .e f of state officials and education and vLL we ™ “f successful school yet.'”'’*’*" " society Envh'Ih'’ h” absorb the immigrant community into U.S. sS’bemuet B U.S, languagT Children we need to mlc allowancL’foTtho“'’'T‘* else we akn mi . ^ u whose native language is something educltion is the proper way to prepare a child to succeed in U.S. society. must assure'^rnire'd mople™nd'lh Security must be created. We are secure Af rhe ^ neanng retirement that their benefits BabrB^mts see '‘c P •» Baby Btmmers and post- own old aee — withn T opportunity to provide for their ataxburdeLheycan’tafer^ '“"““S' cracy, the Lmber o^f tSbhl sKtev”*" h" n “ “*''** ’"f attention of lawyers” should h, j “d™* realtors and paralegals should be nTve”"**' cute legal documents, and hmdfe “ “Pf"‘‘‘=* PO"'''* > *"" f‘‘f —I ...ill ® fcal estate contracts and settlements, divorces, and wills. In addition, the point a national com2onTLmrt"'"'“‘*'‘* Bfcsident Reagan y ca epon c t on the state of family life in Amen- idea of indiviLal I'ves has helped replace families need not be re^nsihl?^ ”.1 we start asking the right aiies,i„ decisions and choices, n (Feulner is president of The"HeA‘^‘*'’o"'P public policy research institute ) “ Foundation, a Washington-based
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