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?THE CAROLINA^DlAN VOIC I ^ "Building Communicative Bridges j DnflPSnAI MIMT ?, PEMBROKE. M.C In A Tri-racial Setting." ROPCOiilf OOWtf VOLUME IS NUMBER 15 * 'J 25 CENTS J THURSDAY, APRIL S, _?! Southern States Expanding in North Carolina When Southern States Cooperative opened a new urban store on Atlantic Avenue in Ralei^i in early March, it was just the latest step in a program of expansion in all parts of North Caro lina. President Gene A. James of the Richmond-based cooperative told a Raleigh news conference that more than $2 million has been invested in North Carolina since Southern States began serving the Tar Hee] state in February of 1986, taking over many assets oif bankrupt FCX. The FCX facilities included 58 retail outlets and more than 20 manufacturing and wholesale facilities. New fertilizer blenders have been added at Tarboro, Williamston, Wil son and Columbia, SC. At White ville, a new bulk fertilizer plant has opened and a retail outlet that had been closed by FCX has been re opened. The store at Lumberton, also closed by FCX, reopened on Feb. 1 and has been "clustered" with outlets at White ville, Fairmont and Pembroke as Southern States' Southeast North Carolina Service operation, James said. Commenting on the new store in Raleigh, which joins an existing agri cultural service center on Cabarrus Street, Bill Goulding of Raleigh, Southern Region co-op's manager, said other urban stores are planned later this year. "Durham and Greensboro seem likely locations," he said. James said, "North Carolina has the highest potential of any state we serve," including Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and Ken tucky. He added that in addition to outlets operated by Southern States itself, "private dealerships will be stressed. We have 19 in North Carolina now and hope to add a number of others." Private dealerships feature much of the same merchandise that Southern States stores offer. BALTIMORE AMERICAN INDIAN STUDY CENTER RECEIVES GRANT PhQip Morris USA, recently awarded a grant to the Baltimore American Indian Center, Inc. to help launch the National American Indian Council, Inc. in Baltimore. Alan Miller, Manager Con stituency Development, sta ted in making the presents tion that "we are pleased to be a part of this effort and wish you the best of success.'' The National American Indian Council (NAIC) will provide off-reservation American Indians research on potential development sour ces to assist in the efforts to obtain social and economic self- sufficiency. Also, the NAIC Jvill work with Native American Organizations and otheii on the local, spfe, and _ national level to bring about programs and policy for the benefit of off-reservation American Indians. . There are ov^S! 600,000 American Indians living in rural and urban areas across the United States. The NAIC will attempt to unite this population in order to ensure that the needs of off- reserva tion American Indians are adequately addressed. Barry Richardson, Execu tive Director of the Baltimore American Indian Center, sta ted that he is... "elated by the formulaiton of the NAIC.' Mr. Richards stated that... "this organization will help bring to the attention the special problems faced by non reservation American Indians and help bring about pro grams and activities to help address these needs. The Baltimore American Indian Center is a 501-C3 United Way sponsored agency serv ing the needs of over 4500 Indians in the Baltimore Me tropolitan Area. LorueU Locklear, Jr. was recently graduated with dis tinction from the University of Lethbridge rn Alberta,*Can ada. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Science Degree. He graduated with a 3.5 grade point average. Locldear received several awards, includng the Ruby I. Lars en Scholarship which is awarded to the Biological Sciences student who shows the most promising potential for a career in scientific research; and the Province of Alberta Excellence in Schol arship Award. Locklear Graduates With Distinction Prom Canada While an under graduate student, Locktear was founder and chairman of the Biological Sciences Students' Assoc iation. Loddear is a a graduate student tn Medical Biochem istry at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine. His research is supported by a $16,000 per annum scholar ship from the Alberta Heri tage Foundation for Medical Research. Locklear's research is an attempt to discover how * the morphology [shape and cvnfiguration\ of DNA, tke? material from which genet are . tnade, it altered to allow ay gem to be "read." To* conduct thit research it it I? necettary for Ijocklear to ute"\ a $250,000 mttrument called '. a>i Electro* Spectroecopte /< ning Electron Microtcope. ? l. >cklear it the ton of the ' la.' Lomell Locklear and it ? the . randton of Tomtie and Sua., 'ie Locklear of the St. Anna! Community near Pem broke. % ? GROWING UP iN|ROBESON COUNTY . REMEMBERING P9C by Ronald H. btrwry Virginia Beach, VA After I served my tour of duty in the Army, I resumed my college education at PSC the winter quarter of 1946-47. The male enrollment was beginning to increase with returning veterans The basketball season had started, but I went out and tried to make the team anyway. The college had a popular coach, James T. Sampson, who was a home bred Native American from Robeson County. He had to leave his native county and state, as several other natives from Robeson County had done, to qualify for his career. Ihe college band needed a tuba player, and I accepted an invitation to learn to play this instrument I qualified for the college band and made the basketball team during the winter quarter of my sophomore year. I got to travel with the basketball team to games away from home, but saw little playing time for a few games. Towards the end of the basketball season in 1947, the college band accompanied the team on a trip to Edwards Military Institute. I found myself in the odd situation of going to this game as a member of the college band and basketball teaip. I had the honor that night to represent Pembroke State College in their band as a tuba player, and on their basketball team as a substitute forward. I saw more playing time with the team that night than in all the previous games. Since we were closing out our basketball season that year, I kept my job as the tuba player until the end of the school season. When the 1946 basketball season arrived I had advanced to a regular team player, and was on the starter five in several games. I made the choice of laying aside the tuba in the college band for basketball. I was offered a position in the college orchestra as the string base player. Being a member of the college orchestra would not conflict with my basketball playing, and I took on the challenge and ended my musical career at Pembroke State College in 1949 as a string base player in the college orchestra. We had a very successful basketball season at PSC during the senior year in 1949. I was granted right much playing time ou a team that won about 75 percent of the games. I also got to do some stage acting before graduating from the historic institution of higher learning. I have concluded that the four years spent at Pembroke State College i the forties gleaning knowledge and recieving sound counseling in ways and means to cope with life was time well spent One main advantage of a small college is that its students can receive all types of individual attention. The number students in my classes at PSC ranged from the high teens down to ju^t the professor and myself. I worked my way through a calculus course in the company of two other students, but I was the lone student in an education course dealing with the techniques of teaching science in secondary schools. Somehow I missed taking this course with the other science majors at the normal scheduled time, and found out that I had to take this course the latter part of my senior year in order to qualify for a teacher's certificate. Mrs. Ariene B. Philips, one of two science professors on the college staff, arranged for me to take the course under her instruction in a one-on-one basis. I didn't particularly like being the only student in a college class, but everything worked out successfully in the end and I got an A in the course. Mrs. Philips presented sort of a grandmother image to me, and I capitalized on the relationship by playing the role of a favorite grandson. Individual attention and long time relationships were among the positive influences derived from growing up in a close-knit community. Hie interrelationships between family, church, school, and respect for those in leadership roles prevented many of the social problems we see inflicting our society today. Dean Clifton Oxendine, long associated with our insitution for higher learning in Robeson County, made a good impression on me when I was in the first grade at Pembroke Graded School and he was the principal. I got some individual attention from him one morning after my Mama made me take some extra time to comb and brush my hair before going off to school. I usually tried to get away to school each morning by dipping my hands into some water and running my fingers, through my hair to get it to lay down. Mr. Oxendine came into the classroom to see the teacher soon after school began that day, ana as ne walked by my table he stopped and stroked my head while commenting before the class how nice my hair looked. That's all it took for me to start using the comb and brush on my hair on a daily basis before leaving for school. I got some more individual attention from Mr. Oxendine later that same year after I became sick in my first grade classroom and deposited my breakfast on the floor, and he took me home in his car. During this time period there weren't many cars aroudn the Pembroke area, and the cars appeared to take on characteristics of the owners. It was very easy to identify a car with its owner from a pretty good distance. Mr. Clifton Oxendine heldjn to a car about as long as my Dad did, and his car was easy to identify from a distance. Dean Clifton Oxendine gave lots of individual attention to students which helped to mold their lives into worthwhile shapes. Several years after having Mr. Oxendine as my principal in elementary school, I took his college freshman history course and I didn't skip a lecture. I believe I got an A in his history course. Most of Pembroke State University's first one hundred years were shrouded in obscurity, and its influence didn't advance very far beyond the boundry lines of Robeson County, but it has a history worth' publicizing and preserving. Those early pioneers who struggled for an organized system of education for the Native Americans with roots in Robeson and neighborig counties should n ot be forgotten. Words of wisdom and advice I permitted to be bounded around inside my cranium from within the walls of Old Main have proven to be well worth the time I tarried there. Disposal problem's the reason Emanuel Tire's still scrapping ?y Lloyd Hoy?f Ng|U Pmanuelwas II and an unhappy employee of an auto assem My plant when he fint heard that deal ing in ueed tiree could be profitable. He had moved to Baltimore from North Carolina and was working the 3 to 11 shift for Sid a week that day in 1937 when he overheard co-workers in the plant cafeteria tell how they picked up extra money buying and aefling used tires. Emanuel says he was so Interested and excited by the prospect he forgot to eat lunch. The next morning Emanuel began stopping at service stations to ask for tire discards. Before reporting to work that afternoon, he had picked up eight tires lor SI When he tried to reeel them, he found only three were worth anything. Even so, Emanuel sold the good ones for 19 ? a S7 profit More valuable than the first S7 ens the lesson Emanuel got from the tire buyer wto taokjs gking to him. The tires so ha could pick out caaiage that Emanuel Isamed fast. He poured prodts back into his pert-time business Soon came the dsy Emanuel bought 33 eertp thee and resold 32 of them at * ThJtWheo he decided he was ready to gp Into bueintas lor MmaeV. The firm day after quitting never bothered to^pick^hie teat pay Not every dn MncebnTbeen a big a^nv^f&d Am?eeei |3vX*11 uny. AItU dtmllVvl "KA7T?< V" ? m have amny often ? that there EtfC ifsfj? !TS2i Bmanue^hae ^JJ*M tHuOjarnajhe *v Cemmsadre iTySng pto'at'e't!'1 *7 In the early days it want eary. Emanuel took the back seat out of hit car and used it as a tire-hauling vehicle. Ha headquarter* for the first year was a (trace he rented for 15 a month. There wa* no heat, no electricity and no telephone, but this was the begin ning of Emanuel Tire Co. The business grew rapidly. Soon Emanuel was handling 500,000 and then a million tires a year. He sorted out those that could be resold at used tires and those with retreadable cas ings. The rest were simply thrown away. At first the disporel want much of a problem. Non-reusable tires could be shipped off to the landfill for S25 a truck load. But dumping rates kept go ing up. Eventually Emanuel da covered be was spending $5,000 a month to gel rid of bis unwanted tires. By 1979 lire disposal was coating him more than SIOjOOO a month. What was worse, soys Emanuel, was the prospect that Isndfilli soon would refusa to take scrap tires at al. In 1979 bmanvei DOUfni ni iwvt urc inrcoocr and aat about developing a market for the rubber chips It produced. He udd them as a fuel supplsiumt for In dustrial boBen Bred by wood or coal ? facilities such ? pulp and paper Last yeartoanuei Tire Q>. hnadted did albut sbotlt^Lf A ndBon of trsadtSrmjSTgoodo^taii wensold to easing Jockeys. About 20% of Km . used tires sorted out were sold at *s Emanuel The Co. fUcatty ln oenaral tetarasart MdrntoATSeoTsmd Indbeet source of Jobs far many who might otherwkc f ' have difficulty finding employment. Ertunuel says only the tale of used tires and casings makes it passible for him to operate the lire shredders at enough of a profit to justify the invest ment. Tipping fees for tire disposal still aren't high enough, he insists, though he's trying to change that To make the shredding operation mode lelf-sustain ing, Emanuel Tire Co. raised its fees or coflecting tires by some 30% the first of the year ? and dtaeovered the price hike didn't cost the company a single customer. In fact, there's a waiting list for his ire collection service. Obviously, Emanuel prefers customers with a good percentage of reusable tires. Emanuel Tire has some 240 trailers parked at used tire generators ? most ly tire dealerships and retread shops ? within a 200-mile radius of its Balti more plant As traders are filled, the vra ?re iniciea 10 inc tnrcooerv The firm now hat five shredders in operation 10 hours a day, including two new and more efficient units that could help to Increase shredding vol ume to nearly seven million tires this year. CoBecthm fees vary depending on the dhtance the Bras an heaM to the at aach pickup point, but Bmanail feelt tipping fees will aventualy have view of tba current surgt of the recycl S htanapreofta^* with 2anting Over the yeast, ba said, tons an years Bmanaal voua hal npvar ba ? ) "art ef anything dmt woaM dmags: .il'pytjtion. i ? mI HHH|| I 11 I ^B1 I 11 BB 1 I B ? ? [?wbih ^mlm IIMBI HI %? BENEFIT SINGING ^IANNED Tomnta fL l ? m * M a ? vmpic uapusi i^nurcn, Hwy 211, South of Raeford, will sponsor a benefit sing on April 25, 1987 at 7 p.m. Featured singers will be Sis. Pink Barton, New Bethel Singers, St. Mary's Choir, the Jacobs Family, The Traveling Echoes, Sister Clare Belle, the Creek Road Church Choir, the Gospel tabernacle Trio, the Raeford Trio, the Zion Young Adults and the D & L Gospel Singers. Proceeds raised at the singing will be used to defray meaicai expenses ior ananara Gales, 8 years old, of W a gram, and Kenneth Bray boy, 20 years old, of Pem broke. ' Both of them suffer from kidney failure and are on dialysis three times a week. > Gales also suffers from Asth ma and Brayboy has high blood pressure. Any contributions for this event may be sent to Route 1 Box 489, Red Springs NC. 'lhe public in invited to attend. HEVIVAL PIANNED t _i j n n *? i * . ? uiina uravc ottpusi Church, Hwy 710, ftrnbroke, NC, will have revival begin ning April 12 and running through April 17th. Sunday night services will begin at 7 p.m. and week night services at 7:30 p.m. Rev. Michael Cummings of Mt. Airy Baptist Church will ms ine guesi speaker. On Wednesday usehieg there will be a special pro gram for the youth. There will be special sing ing each evening. Hie pastor, Kev. Larry LocMear, invites everyone to come and receive a blessing from God. LREMC PLANS WWW OUTAGE SUNDA Y Jerry Spivey of Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation's Red Springs office, has announced a planned outage for Sunday morning, April 12, 1987. Bower will be out from 7:00-8:30 a.m. while cnpwmen put a new line in at a substation. The areas expected to be affected are ; Philadelphus, the Old Maxtnn Road from Red Springs to . Maxton, Red Banks and Highway 710 South of Red Springs. This maintenance job will be performed, weather permitting. In case of adverse weather conditions, the power outage will be rescheduled for a later date. 1 THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE P.O. Box 1075 Phono 521-2826 1 Pembroke, N.C. 28372 BRUCE BARTON CONNER BRAYBOY STEPHANIE D. IOCKLEAR LOUEE HAYES | ISN'T THIS A ft j "Bejcuditjui^aj/.! I | EXPECT SOMETHING WONDERFUL t ft TO HAPPEN - m JUSTICE MARCH YOU ARE INVITED TO MARCH UITH US MONDAY,- APRIL 20,1987 FOR JUSTICE to end the mockery of coroners" inquest to require thorough investigations using stete and federal grand juries to demand fair treatment and respect in the courts FOR QUALITY LAW ENFORCEMENT to solve the unsolved murders to stop the use of excessive force toWnd major drug trafficking to raise the level of education, training, and pay of officers FOR A PUBLIC DEFENOER OFFICE IN OUR DISTRICT ' to counter the tyranny of the Prosecutors office to make sura the poor get a fair trial to bring "more independence end responsibility into our courts MCEt UITH US AT THE X FAIRGROUNDS N.C. 41 LUMKRTON, N.C. APRIL 20 11:a.?. SPONSORED BY CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT
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