hp*" * m **! n , . ??? HJTHE CAROLINA INDIAN VOI : I C8B8^ \ /I? I "Building Communicative Bridges ?V / "") DORPSOM miMITV ? i I PEMBROKE. N.C ^ ln A Tn-rgqai setting. - ^ ROBcSviN COUNTY | 1 vqu-me is i^?^mrm; Awii BRUCE BARTON SEVERS TIES WITH THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE... AMIABLY BYBRUCE BARTON It was an amiable parting, but I have decided to sever my ties officially with the Carolina Indian Voice. My sister, and my spiritual better half, Connee Brayboy is replacing me at the journalistic helm as editor. She has been with me since I began the Carolina Indian Voice October, 1972. She has been the editor, unofficially anyway, since I went off to college in 1984. I received my teaching certificate after graduating from PSl' in December of 1986. I am now teaching social studies at South Robeson High School, and the new vocation has spiritually renewed me. After 14 years as editor, I was, in a real sense, burned out I needed a new challenge, and teaching has provided me with a new railing. I en- ourage all of you to continue to support the Carolina Indian Voice. We still need an Indian perspective, and I lielieve ihe hitlian Voice will get along just fine without me. When 1 have spiritually rested and renewed myself, and if I ant needed, I will bang out a few "As I See It" columns when I get soon thing pressing on my heart. Too, maybe in the future. I ran contribute with a few free lance pieces, and cover a meeting or two for the new staff. In the meantime.thanks for your prayers: They have always sustained me. liod bless each of you. I hope that I have been a positive force with the Indian camp, and that my heart felt effort will noi have been in vain. Foi the tune firing, though, I am stepping aside so that Connee and he< issociates can put their own distinctive stamp on the < ? it Indian Voice-n newspaper for Indians and their friend' et j w'"ere. Pembroke Re-elects Mayor and Two Councilmen In the quiestest election in several years, Milton Hunt was returned as Mayor for the Town of Pembroke on Tuesday. He received 232 votes. He was unopposed. Also unopposed were councilmen Henry Ward Oxendine who received 213 votes and Vernon Oxendine who received 228 votes. Mayor Hunt begins his third term as Mayor. Pembroke Attorney Appointed to State Legislative Committee of the Academy of Trial Lawyers Dexter Brooks Dexter Brook's, an attorney associated with Locklear, Brooks, Jacobs and Sutton of Pembroke, has been appoint ed to the Legislative Commit tee of the North Carolina Academy of Trial lawyers. The committee is responsible for the preparation of a legislative agenda to be sub milted to the General Assem bly. The Academy is compos ed of attorneys representing civil plaintiffs and criminal defendants. The purpose of the acade my is to protect the interests of consumers, workers and the general public. In the last ievislative session of the Aca demy successfully supported legislation benefiting workers injured on the job and oppos ed efforts by the insurance industry to dismantle the civil jury system. As an attorney representing the RobesoR County Depart ment of Social Services Brooks was substantially in volved in the drafting of North Carolina's new income with holding statute. The law is designed to withhold monies from the income of absent parents for the support of their dependent children. r ? Spotlight on: Cut and Sew-Fhbrict Local Business Persons by Barbara Brayboy-Ijocklear Special lb The Carolina Indian Voice At age eleven, her grandmother taught her how to sew a garment, and ever since then Mary Ethel Chavis has been dressing others, mostly women and children. "I lived with my grandmother and made her muslin underslips by cutting patterns from another underslip," she says. Discarded newspapers served as pattern markers, while her grandmother's antique pedal machine was used in constructing the garments. For the past 34 years, Chavis has sewen all styles of apparel which have included ladies' sportswear, Amry fatiques and fancy ruffled dresses for little girls. Twenty-two of those years were spent in Robeson County sewing factories where she learned all aspects of a cut and sew operation. Chavis left a factory in 1982. where she worked as a floor supervisor. "I felt like I devoted too much of myself and time to the factory job. When I took a day off for any reason, I felt I needed to be there. My job was on my mind 24 hours a day," she says. The Lumbee Indian now works in a building adjacent to her rural Lumberton home. She says the move is a long-time dream come true. "In establishing my own business, I feel like I can better control my time." In the two-room building designed especially for her cut and :sew operation, she works alone creating custom-made garments for her many customers whose si zes range from 3 to 50. ?BBl I'. S&Ai ?- .St Adjusting patterns to fit various body measurements poses no problem for the tailor who sews more ladies' dresses than anything else. "I guess it's a gift to be able to sewar,1 I like to see how good I can make a piece of work look," says the young grandmother of five, who has never had any kind of business advertisement except "word of-mouth." Along with custom sewing, C'havis < ffers an array of sewing notions and fabrics. An added seivice is alterations and custom-sewing of country curtains. She warns, "Don't be in any great hurry for them. There's a six week waiting period on country curtains." Her sewing is never sub contracted due to quality control. "I want things made right, so I do all my work," she says. Chavis says she doesn't find it haul to please the public, because she, too is hard to please. She has refused contracts to sew for retailers who admire her sewing skills, especially in making her fancy ruffled dresses for little girls. C'havis says she never tires of sewing because she loves anything that involves a needle and thread. She loves people and adds, "If I didn't love them, I probably wouldn't be in this business sewing for them." To locate Cut and Sew, from lumber-ton travel 5 miles west towards Red Springs on highway 211. Cut and Sew is located in the building next to the first brick house on left past third intersection. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO... Jjicy Ann Sampson i ? 1 - ? ? ? ? 1 ? " - by Barbara Bmyboy-Ijocldear Sj? rial To lite Carolina Indian Voire She refers to herself as a child of God. Hundreds of former customers call her the "ice-cream woman." She is Dicy Ann Sampson, the petite woman who served ice-cream at what used to be known in Pembroke as the Dairy Queen. Sampson says even though she make and served thousands of cones of the sweet, frozen milk delight, she rarely ate any during the 28 years she worked at the daily bar. "No, ma'am I didn't eat ice-cream. I didn't want it, and I got sick of looking at it." She says that too much of her milking the cow during her childhood years on the farm turned her taste against milk. She admits that since her retirement five years ago, she has an occasional serving of ice-cream. Sampson still gets teasing requests for the dessert "Some of my old customers still come up to me now and ask for a cone of ice-cream. Just the other Sunday at a churrh gathering one said she'd love to have one of my sundaes," she laughs. Years have done little to change the facial lines of the 78 year old grandmother who attributes her youthful appearance to hard work. "Laz ness is what kills people. I can't stand laziness," she commi nts. She says it worries her now that she is unable to do the chores in her home which she built in 1935, and where she lives with her son, one of three children. Arthritis limits her mobility. Twice widowed, Sampson worked 51 years before retiring in 1982. She left farming after the death of her first husband and worked for 12 years in a restaurant outside Pembroke before a local h an kerchief manufacturer then lured her into its plant where she worked as an inspector. Shortly thereafter, she again began cooking in another restaurant before her last job assignment with the dairy bar loegted a few yards from Pembroke State College. "t always cooked because I knew I'd never be without a job as long as people had to eat," the American Indian says. Her job duties became one of sole ice-cream maker, cook and dishwasher. " 'was by myself when 1 first started. We started out cooking on a hot plate, and I fixed eight hot dogs the first day that wo began selling items other than malts, drinks and ice-cream." Later as the college allowed students to leave campus for meals, other kinds of ssodwichee wore added to the dairy bar mSnu. "It got so I was making so msny eauduhhea. dining rooms were added, end an assistant was Bred," she says. Sampson became such a familiar face at the restraufant that local people started calling it Dicy Ann's. This proved a problem for out-of-towners who returned to Pembroke and were told the local "hangout" was Dicy Ann's. "One man drove up and down the street a dozen times looking for the sign saying Dicy Ann's before he finally stopped and asked just where the place was," she chuckles. For almost three decades, local citizens called the Dairy Queen, Dicy Ann's. Sampson says-she learned the secret of handling rowdy customers from a former restaurant employer. She remembers one cold Friday night years ago when a rowdy bunch of high school basketball fans came in, "They started showing themselves, and I just cut off the lights." This signalled the place was closing for the night When a later request came from the students asking her to work late to serve after game food, she warned, "whenever you all start acting like humans and not dogs, I'll stay open for you." She says she never had to call the police even though she was often times accused of it whenever local law officers patrolled the area. "I don't know how they thought I could call the law with no telephone in the place," she comments. In retirement Sampson has remained busy. She works five days a week as a volunteer arranging lunches and serving them to senior citizens who gather at a housing project near her Pembroke home. She is a loyal member of First Baptist Church where she has held membership since 1935. Not one to miss church, she says the entire time she worked, which required Sunday afternoon duty, "I prayed that Td get to go to Church and not have to work." Much of her time is spent reading the Bible. She reads three chapters daily and five on Sunday. She expects to have her third complete reading of the Book finished by the year's end. Sampson says her busy schedule has no time for another husband. "I'm a widow, and I*m going to remain one too. Til never marry another man. I've had a bate." LOCAL HAPPENINGS WEST ROBESON BOOSTERS TO MEET The West Robeson Band Boosters will have their monthly meeting on Thursday, Novembers, 1987 at 7 p.m. in the band room of West Robeson High School. Allf&rents and interested supporters are encouraged to come out and support the band. BIKE SAFETY CLINICS The Robeson County Coalition On Minority Health is sponsoring Bike Safety Clinics for children at the following sites on Saturday, November 7, 1987: Burnt-Swamp-Philadelphus Fire Department; Lumber Bridge Fire Department; Pembroke Fire Departments (rural and town); Raft Swamp Fire Department; Raynham Fire Department; Red Springs Fire Department The clinics are being co-sponsored by the Robeson County Fireman's Association with the Volunteer Firemen of each department operating the clinics. The Bike Safety Clink hours are scheduled for 8:90 a.tn. through 12:00 noon. The Volunteer Firemen will be offering the children Bike Safety educational materials, as weB as, performing minor bicycle adjustments. Additional reflecting material will also be available for the children's bicycles. AB children Are invited to visit one of the dink sites on Saturday, November 7, 1987 between the hours,of 8JO a.m end 12:00 noon. Countdown To 5,000 Subscribers Continues Our countdown to 5,000 subscribers continues. This week we heard fn>m: 247. Robeson Co. Recreation & Park Comm.-Lumberton 248. Gene Warren-Pembroke 1249. Patricia B. Cavan Matt hews, NC 250. Margaret locklear Pern broke 251. Marvin Id wry Pembroke 252. Richard Brown NJ 253. Millard ft ttiyllis Iow ery-NY 254. Betty Lou Bell Pembroke 255. Rev. Harvey Brewington Pem broke 256. Museum of American Indian Library-NY 257. Lumber Bank Pembroke 258. James Strickland Pem broke 259. IX. Christopher L Hunt CA . a 260. Clewis Dimory-Pem 1 broke 261. Carson Lowry IN 262. Eutherd Ray locklear-FL II 263. Nora S. Moore- Maxton I 264. Lumberton Housing Au I thority-Lumberton 265. Daphine Strickland Jamestown. NC jj 266. Ann Dial Pembroke 267. Buddy Barnes-Pembroke j I 268. GH Wilkins-Pembroke 269. Pine View Motel-New ( London, NC 270. James B. Hunt lorn berton 271. James Sheffield Pern- I broke 272. John Thompson-Maxton I 273. Dora lowry Lomberton 274. James Dial Pembroke |9 I To Subscribe to the Carolina ? % Indian Voice Call Sil-i8t6 Mary Ethel Chavis tews a garment for one of the many customers. PEMBROKE HARDEE'S COOK WINS BISCUIT BAKE OFF COMPETITION Lori LockUar, biicuit cook at /tardea'? of Ptmbrok* makes a batch of her award vmnmo biscuit*. She was Lori Locklear of Pembroke vu recently named one of Hardee's beat biscuit makers in con petition among the 390 Hardte's restaurants operat - ed by Spartan Food System a She is a biscuit cook at Hardee's 3rd Avenue A Odom Street Spartan Food Systems, the '?* iK; cLsen o~ J U? U !! biscuit cocks in 390 south ?oftern Hardee's restaurants during the 1907 Biscuit Bake Off competition. laigest franchisee of Hardee's fast-food restaurants, recently concluded its fifth annual Biscuit Bake Off content in which more than 800 of the company'a certified biscuit cooks participated. ,$ger of each of the 390 H:irdee's chose the best bis i iit cook in their restaurant .Vinners advanced through city, state, and regional com petition until the 21 best Hardee's biscuit cooks in S.artan food Systems' nine su te market area were sel ected. As one of the company's best biscuit cooks, Lori re ceived a cash award, along with a President's Club pin, jacket and engraved clock. She 'ias been employed at . Har e's since September, 198C Tit final bake-off compe tition was held at company Headquarters in Spartanburg, SC. Spartan Food Systems is a divisio.. of TW Services, Inc. I OUR MEN