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: Oxendine Overcomes
Rogers
in EMC Election
Hm 47th Annual Meeting
of Member* of Lumbee River
Electric Membership Corpo
ration was held on Tuesday,
October 6, at the P8U Perfor
ming Arts Center.
Incumbent Elias Rogers
who has served for twenty
years as an at-large daaster
was narrowly defeated by
Conrad Oxendine. The vote
was 496 to 458.
? In District 3 incumbent
Brandford Oxendine over
came a challenge by Brawtey
Graham. Oxen dine was re
elected 702 to 254.
In District 7 Harold Dean
Brewer soundly defeated Im:
adwaidu 557 to 398.
Newcomer Herbert Clark
from District 9 was elected by
acclamation, having no oppo
sition.
In the board meeting follo
wing the election Ward Clark,
Jr. was named president.
J.W. Hunt became vice presi
dent Timothy 9trickland is
secretary and Gus Bullard
was elected treasurer.
ANNUAL BOOK SALE PLANNED
Looking for a bargain? The Robeson County Public Library
will be conducting its annual book sale on October 15 to 17.
Items to be sold include hardcover-books, paperbacks, and
- magazines. Hie book sale will be held in Lumberton in the
-; library's auditorium. Sale hours will be Thursday, October 15,
- 5 to9 p.m., Friday, October 16, 9a.m. to6 p.m. and Saturday,
I October 17, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, contact the
Robeson County Public Library.
ROWLAND CONCERNED CITIZENS GROUP
TO MEET OCT. 8
Hie Rowland Concerned Citizens Group will have its next
meeting on Thursday, October 8, 1987, at the Rowland
Courtroom at 7:30 p.m. All of the Rowland area school
principals will be our guest speakers. Everyone is encouraged
to atfpnH
To Direct N.C. Indian
Cultural Center
Dr. Helen M. Scheirbeck, a North Carolina native who haa
worked for many years in Indian affairs on the national level,
has been named as the development director for the North
Carolina Indian Cultural Center.
"We are proud to have a person with the credentials of Dr.
Scheirbeck to assume this position which is vital to the success
of the center," said Ruth Revels of Greensboro, acting
chairperson of the Indian Cultural Center's board of directors.
Scheirbeck will be responsible for managing, promoting and
raising support for the center.
Scheirbeck, a nationally recognized leader in Indian affairs,
comes to the center from a senior-level management position
with Save the Children Foundation, an international
community development, self-help agency. She has held top
positions with the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and the U.S. Office of Education, among other
federal agencies.
Hie North Carolina Indian Cultural Center, located near
Pembroke in Robeson County, is a cultural and tourism project
being developed by the State of North Carolina and Indian
tribes and organizations in the state. When completed, it is
expected to be a major tourist attraction of the Southeast and
is expected to be of comparable size and quality to other major
Indian tourist attractions in the United States.
Hie North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs is
providing administrative support to help develop the center.
Hie commission is the only state government agency with
the specific responsibility of addressing the needs of North
. Carolina Indians. Hirough its field offices and varied
programs, the commission works to assure the rights of
Indians to pursue their cultural, social and religious traditions
and to increase their economic and educational opportunities.
North Carolina has the largest Indian population of any state
east of the Mississippi, with 65,000 Indians composing the
Cherokee, Coharie, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin and
Waccamaw-Siouan tribes in the state.
Editor'$ Note: For additional information, call Ruth ReveLt,
acting chaxrperton, N.C. Indian Cultural Center, [919]373
8686.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO...
Tessie Hunt
by Barbara Bmyboy-Lochlear
She'a known for tier hat-wearing, quiltmaking, late night
telephone calls and loyalty to church. Tesaie Lee Hunt is best
known, however, for her endless energy. "Sometimes I
wonder why people can't stay up with me," Hunt said from '
her Lumberton home. The 66 year old grandmother retired
from teaching school in 1978. Twenty eight of the 30 years she (
taught were spent at Magnolia School located in the
Saddletree community. Her first teaching assignment was at
' Fkirmont Indian School, Fairmont, NC.
1- Hunt says she didn't always want to be a school teacher.
"When I finished high school, I wanted to be a nurse." "Since
I was an Indian girl, I couldn't have training in Lumberton,"
?he added. The death of her father in 1939, changed her plans
to enter a nursing school in Oklahoma. Being the youngest
child of three, she decided to stay home with her widowed
mother. She entered Indian Normal School at Pembroke and
grmduated in 1942.
After teaching for three years, she could not shake "nursing
from her bones " She left the classroom and entered Baker's
Santatorium as a nurses's aide, where she trained and worked
for seven years before returning to the classroom. The return
did not end her nursing career. Hunt has worked parttime with
> local surgeon for over three decades. 'T ve worked two jobs
my entire adult life," the Lumbee Indian said. She suffered a
neart attack several years ago and says her physician doesn t
tell her to slow down. She confesses, "He has no idea the pace
I keep. Why tell him when I feel good.?"
This is the same woman who has planted and picked a half
acre of cucumbers for the past five years and prepared fruits
and vegetables for her freezer. Hunt lives in the house where
she was born with her 91 year-old mother.
The mother of one son, says she doesn't leave all her eneigy
in the office where she works three days a week, or in the
vegetable field. "If my day at the doctor s office hasn't been
too busy, it's not unusual for me to come home and quilt until
Hm." Che added. Her mother makes the "quilt tops",
while the actual hand-quilting is done by Hunt. She works on a
quilting frame she constructed over twenty years ago.
The television rarely plays at the Hunt home. Hunt and her
mother have no time to watch it It is sometimes watched by
visiting relatives on Sunday afternoons. Her mother's health
Isn't "so good" anymore, and the traditional Sunday
gathering is limited mostly to the two of them.
One tradition kept alive at the Hunt home is that of keeping
tat dose touch with friends. Hunt's son gave her a cordless
telephone last year, and she is able to quilt and visit at the
same time. "One way to visit people that you can't go to their
homes to see is by telephone. I never did love to write letters,
did that's my way of keeping in touch," she said.
? Hunt lays the quilting needle down when it comes time for
hpr church work. "When the radio announcer says it's
-
'midnight Saturday", I put my needle thru the quilt batting
ind leave it there until Monday," she commented. Hunt has
seen an active and loyal member of Mt Olive Baptist Church
ill her adult life. She recently received a seven-year perfect
ittendance pin from her church located in the Saddletree
immunity. She is never seen without her hat in the church.
She says her maternal upbringing taught her to wear hats
inside a church. "When I think of going to church, I think of
wearing hats," the church goer said. She remembers when
hats replaced bonnets on women's heads. Hunt admits to
having a large collection of the head wear.'' You have to have a
collection of hats so people won't think you have only one to
wear," she laughed. She, too, wears hats to mid-week church
services.
Sunday afternoons are spent visiting friends in the church
community. No concern goes unnoticed by Hunt and her
mother, and they've become expected visitors in homes where
their friends are confined due to illness. "We have a good
time loving people," Hunt said softly. She says her
upbringing taught her to love the Lord, Church and people.
Fatigue is' a stranger to Hunt, who says she seldom gets
tired. "Fmi person that sees a lot to do and just get out there
and do it"
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; Union Chapel Holiness Methodist Church will -hold their
KaOMoaiaf activities en Sunday, October 11. The pastor,
Rev. Clyde Loddsar. invites the pnbik to sttend.
? SDMIS GROUP TO MEET OCTOBER IS
if Ihe M?gt?'' Group wfl] meet next Tuesday, October IS, at
TjOO, it first United Methodist Church. Hds group has helped
people to accept being single, ft may heip yon, too, if you wfll
cshm and Join in with the fellowship.
OARAGE SALE PLANNED OCTOBER 10
IMsSstmday, October 10. a (sinfc sale wffl be held at the
home of Aha H. Onaadhte. Many new and used fannento wfll
he Car sals bcfianfht at 7 JO.
SpotligM on
Local Business Persons
Puller and Delom Jane Ijocldear standing on the front porrh
of their rettaurant September 29, 19H7.
by Barbara Brayboy-Locklear
Special to THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE
One year ago Fuller Locklear parked his farm tractor,
donned an apron and revived an old hobby cooking hogs.
"I've cooked hogs practically all my life. It's what my daddy
did before me," Mr. Locklear said.
Locklear and his wife, Delora Jane, recently stole away
some time from the kitchen of their restaurant to reflect on
their past twelve months in business. "There didn't seem to
be anything left in farming & the only talent he had left was
cooking hogs, so we decided we would go to feeding people."
Mrs. Locklear laughed.
The Saddletree community couple has to rise early each day
in order to get the food ready for the crowds that flock to their
restaurant located in rural Lumberton. A typical week begins
with Locklear going to pick up the "dressed" hogs while his
?on lays a fire of oak and hickory wood. These woods, cut from
the family farm, are chosen for the flavor they yield to the pork
cooking process. Mrs. Locklear and two daughters, a sister
and sister in-law arrive at the restaurant to begin their day at K
a.m.
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me nogs are pu-cooKea ai me uocwear nomr. unci- me
wood has burned to charcoal, a son transfers the burning coals
by shovel into a pit which is housed in a closed-in building.
"We start cooking early in the morning and finish up 12 hours
later," Mr. Locklear commented. The demand for his special
barbecue requires 12-14 hogs a week. A commercial food
chopper quickly replaced the hand chopper shortly after the
restaurant opened. Locklear and his son personally cook all the
barbecue served at his business. His recipe for its sauce was a
gift from his late father who cooked hogs as a hobby. The 53
year old Lumbee Indian says he has changed the recipe only
slightly.
The Locklears draw on their farm for items served in their
restaurant TTiey grow the vegetables which fill the buffet
trays, and often pick the fresh berries which appear in the
desserts served to diners.
Working together in the same kitchen has its interesting
moments for the couple who are parents of six children,
grandparents to five. "Sometimes it's rough working
together," Mrs. Locklear said. "It gets hot in the kitchen bbth
ways," she laughed. "We try to stay in our own territory, he
commented. "He stays in his cor < r, and I stay on my side.
she added. They each have their rtuUes in the kitchen. I <
cooks the breads, meats, collards. turnips and rutabagas, y >
cooks the other vegetables and the desserts. "That stove is
practically mine," he bragged lorklear says he learned to
cook by watching his mother, i always liked to eat, so 1
followed my mama around the kitchen stove as she cooked."
He often times wanders from his kitchen to visit with
customers in the two dining rooms of his restaurant He pulls
* up an old fashioned "stand" chair, wraps his hand around a
mason jar filled with iced tea and catches up on the
community news. "Hike people, and I like to eat," he admits.
The long hours required in managing and operating a
restaurant sometimes overwhelm the Lockleare, but
"as long as the people keep roming, they'll keep cooking and
watching them eat"
To locate Fulleris, travel from Lumberton on Hwy. 211
north. Go towards Red Springs 3"? miles. See Fuller's on the
left Serving hours are 11:30 a.m. 3 p.m. Mon., Tues., Wed.:
11:30 a.m. 9 p.m. Thura.-Sat. Sunday buffet is served from
11:30 2:30 p.m. Buffet is offered every day except Saturday
lunch hour. Seating capacity is 90. Reservations required for
large groups.
Gene Locklear named
Superbowl Logo Artist
by Barbara Bmyboy-IjockUar
Special to THE CAROIJNA INDIAN VOICE
Gene Iocklear whose ten years as a professional baseball
player brought him to the attention of millions of American
sports fans is now achieving recognition in a career as an artist
and interpreter of the American scene and Sports world.
Iocklear has been officially named the exclusive artist for
the San I tie go Super Bowl XXII! lost Logo. The announcement
of his recent appointment came from the San Diego Task
Forre- a committee established to handle all pre-game events
and publicity of the Super Bowl XXII, which is scheduled for
play on national television from the Jack Murphy 9tadium in
January 1988.
The appointment entitles the lumber Indian artist to all
inherent rights to the San Diego Super Bowl XXU Host logo.
He will work directly with the Task t-oese under the direction
of the NFL Logo, and his appointment comes with full
approval of the NFL "As far as Fm concerned, the Super
Bowl is the second biggest U.S. sporting event next to the
Olympic games," Locklear said this week from his California
home.
Hie title as Super Bowl artist will again give Lockiear
national recognition as a professional artist His life ar.d
works of art was the subject of the nationally televised AI-'
Wide World of Sports program hosted by Joe Garagiola prior
to the World Series in 1976. "The Tobacco Farm," a painting
depicting life in his native Robeson County, North Carolina,
was chosen to hang in the White Houae in Washington, D.C.
"My latest appointment as San Diego Super Bowl Logo
artist doesn't necessarily mean my work is better than that of
other artists, but the title does separate me from other
artists," Locklear said. He readily admits that the honor len>
itself as an important element to an already impressive
resume.
PLEASE SEE GENEtOCKLEAR
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