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TSSS&* / PEMBROKE, NC In A Cri-Racial Jetting" ROBESON COUNTY
VOLUME 16 NUM&ER 6 25$ 7 URSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 19*8
Crand J ury I ndlcts
M atcher S Jacobs
I n Hostage Case
L Eddie Hatcher and Timothy Bryan Jacobs, both of
Pembroke were indicted on Tuesday after the grand jury
convened and listened to testimony about the Feb. 1 takeover
of the Kobesonian in liimherton.
The seven-count indictment chargers Hatcher and Jacobs
with conspiracy Ui make and possess firearms, conspiracy to
lake hostages, hostage taking, using firearms to commit a
hostage taking offense, two counts of making illegal firearms,
possession of unregistered firearms and making false threat
threats about explosives over the telephone.
The grand juiy. meeting in closed session heard testimony
(mm five people who were held hostage and the ediUir of this
newspaper, friend of Eddie Hatcher.
Art*''/ Mi mils, stiphomon' of Miuimit mm eniuned the 19HH
PSl' hiivii i iinniit) i/iik ii Sutunhuj viyht. She in the daughter
nl Mr. ami Mm. I humid Womlx. She unx xponsured by the
I "SI' Satire Arm man Student Organization.
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F>SU HomooomdLncf (?uoon
February is a victorious month for Kristy Woods, a PSU
sophomore from Maxton who is majoring in computer science.
lest Saturday this daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Woods
was crowned the 1988 homecoming queen at PSU. Prior to that
she had won the first howling open tournament at the new
James B. Chavis Center, qualifying her for a pro-am in March
at Winston Salem.
Along with being the tourney winner in the eight-lane
bowling center in the Chavis Center, she also had high game
of 201, which includes five strikes in a row.
Sponsored by PSU's Native American Indian Organization,
she captured homecoming queen honors in a campus-wide
vote, winning over six other contestants.
For winning "Miss Homecoming," Miss Woods won a
crown, trophy and was presented a bouquet of flowers. Her
escort was Virgil Oxendine, also of Maxton.
First runner-up in the homecoming queen competition was
Tonia Evans, sophomore from Orrum, sponsored by Tau
Kappa Epsilon. Second runner-up was Kimberfy Jacobs of
Hope Mills, sponsored by Kapp Delta. Miss Evans is majoring
in criminal justice and Miss Jacobs in broadcasting.
This is not the first time Miss Woods has won a crown.
"When I was five years old, I was little Miss lumbee," sht
said.
As for winning the homecoming title. Miss Woods said, "Ii
was very, very excited. I entered so the Native American!
Indian Organization would have a representative, but I am sol
glad about the outcome."
She said her mother was present as was her sister, lezlie,
16. "My mother said she was confident I would do well."
Kristy's mother, Joanna, has earned both a B.A. and M.A.
from Pembroke State University. And now she has seen her
daughter become homecoming queen.
Kristy Woods was a 1986 graduate of West Bobeson Senior
High where she was a member of "Who's Who Among High
School Students of America," most valuable we well as
all academic in volleyball, and a member of the Spanish and
Monogram clubs.
She is a member of Prospect United Methodist Church.
Her hobbies are singing, dancing, comedy and wnulfk
poetry.
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SPOTLIGHT ON GKi,rFiNj^^UNTiNa'
LOCAL BUSINESS PERSONS
Hobby Griffin wurku at his desk in his are minting business.
by iiumuiu tifuyuoy-Lmkiear
Special to the Carolina Indian Voire
For some, the American dream is owning their own
business. Seven years ago, the dream came true for Bobby
(iriffin, founder of (Iriffin's Accounting Service,
However, the dream didn't fully develop without some
tosses and turns on the part of the liimbee Indian.
After graduating from Magnolia High School in 1965, the
Fairmont native volunteered for the U.S. Army. The move
hack took him to Hawaii for a four-year stay.
At the end of his military tour, he look off his fatigues and
put on a wedding band. He says the change required that he
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work full lime. Yet, the aspiring accoutant entertained
thoughts of reluming to school. He began part time*study at a
Iiimberton business .college and transferred to Pembroke
Slate University.
Studies were interrupted several limes as "Griffin took job
assignments with a national textile firm.
In 1977, he earned a degree in business with an emphasis on
management from PSU. While working and living out of slate
afforded travel for the father of three, he dreamed of real job
security which comes with working his own business.
Griffin and his wife, Christine, talked to each other in their
sleep. The conversation led to a joint derision to establish their
own business offering accounting services lo individuals and
small businesses in Kobeson County.
"We listened to people and realized the need for our type
service," Griffin says. Once the decision was made, the couple
constructed their office building on Highway 72 in rural
Robeson County near the Converse Manufacturing Hani. The
couple's residence is located behind the oil ire.
The self professed work horse is bracing for the "mad"
season of filing income tax returns. "It's not uncommon for us
to work a 14-hour day from February until mid April."
comments the accountant.
He says no appointments arc required to see him or his full
time office manager Pat Oxendine. Mrs. Griffin, as
accountant, assists part time in the business.
"Clients who need service with income tax returns are
served on a first come, first served basis." he says. Other
iervices offered by the firm are filing quarterly taxes, setting
up accounting systems for small businesses as well as
maintenance on the systems.
"We work with clients any way they wish," he comments.
"We don't specialize. Any thing in the accounting line that
needs to be done, we do it."
Griffin says the recent change in the income tax return
forms and the new lax law lends frustration to most clients.
They turn to him for help. The task of dealing with the
consequent workload extends past the office.
"Unfortunately it become impossible to get it off my mind,"
he says. Often times meal time at home is spent discussing
h esWss
Once the "mad" season is over, Griffin escapes the office
for much-needed rest. A few days later he returns to serve the
clients who have entrusted him with keeping order to their
financial books.
"I admit at times the business is too demanding. And
there's a lot of frustration in being self employed," he
comments. Then with a twinkle in his eye, he says, "It's all
part of realizing the American dream."
Griffin's Accounting Service is located l'/i miles west of
Converse on Highway 73. Husiness hours are Mon.-Fri. 8-5
p.m. Sepcial hours during income Ui.r returns filing are 8 10
p.m.
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO...
BEFiTIE EOWE\T UOC K EE A.E
I>y harbaru Bmyboy-lurklear
Special to The Carolina halian Voire
A keen sense of humor, a lot of wit and a bunch of common
sense have directed the path of flerlje lowry Ijwklear during
her nine decades of life.
Mom and reared in the Klrod community of Robeson
(bounty, she learned at an early age the value of going to
church and school. A staunch Methodist, she grew up
attending Hopewell Methodist Church.
It was there at age 13, and during the singing of her favorite
hymn, "Amazing Grace," she became a Christian. She later
became a Sunday School teacher as well as sang in the church
choir. And when at age 17, she finished Indian Normal School,
and was too young to be admitted to teach school in Robeson |
County, she went to neighboring Dillon County, SC and
'aught. A year later, the 18 year old took her first teaching
issignment in North Carolina at Fairmont Indian School in
Robeson County. - ? ?
"1 sure did enjoy teaching school," says the 92 year old.
?he all Indian school was a train's stop away from Dxklcar's
tomeand getting to work was no big problem, "I'd take what
?hey called the 'Chadboum Train,' recalls the Iumbee
Indian.
She laugh' grades one through seven and rarely had
discipline problems with her students. She says she once had a
student who gave a speech unbecoming a youth during a
session of "Society." Adied by an oak switch, she responded
to the incident. "I had good luck in keeping order in the
classroom thereafter," she comments.
The great grandmother says when the switch and Bible
were talwn out of the school, it wasn mistake. "When Itaughl
school, we always had a devotional period before classes
began. We sang, read the Bible, then the students were ready
for the books," she says.
Locklear later taught at Jacob* Swamp and Piney Grove
Srhoola in Rohesion County. Before marrige, I*>cklear hoarded
in the communities whenp ahe taught.
It was during her teaching years that she was introduced to
(?Yank locklear, a resident of the Saddletree community. The
young suitor was in the military at the time. A courtship was
perpetuated by letter writing across the miles which separated
the two lumber Indians.
In 1926, at age 81, the school teacher married the man she
loved. They settled in the Saddletree community where he
engaged In farming.
Locklear taught school a couple of years after marriage and
retired shortly after the birth of her first child.
Her life became one of caring for her husband, six sons and
three daughters. She made moat of the clothing worn by her
family and always found time to preserve foods to carry the
family through non-harvest seasons.
And ahe saw to it that colorful, special- designed handmade
juilta always covered the beds in the farm home.
Flowers always adorned the grounds surrounding the
farmhouse. "I always looked out to have a pretty flower
yard," recalls Locklear. She says ahe la now unable to do much
yard work. Her physician advised her to slow down, so ahe had
to give up gardening.
After marrying a Baptist, th?' "straight out" Methodist
moved her membership In another church. For 52 years.
liH'klear and her husband together attended Ml. Olive Baptist
Church.
"I felt it a wife's duty to follow her husband to his church,"
she comments. And when Ioeklear's "fine husband" died in
1977, she continued to attend her beloved Mt. Olive Iiaptist
Church.
"Going to church has been one of my goals in life," she
adds. The veteran leachertook her love for young children and
teaching skills to the Sunday School class. A few years ago she
was recognized by her church for having taught there for 50
years.
Today, the Saddletree community resident lives at the same
location she moved to with her sew husband 65 years ago. She
lives with her daughter. Hazel I or Idea r, a retired school
teacher.
Lockelar says her daughters keep her pretty busy on the
road. "They plan trips for me and insist I get ready ancl go,"
she laughs. She obliges when she feels up to it.
On her days at home, she busies herself sewing mostly
mending or doing garment alterations. She has no problem
threading a needle. She needs no eye glasses for the job. She
enjoys reading and usually jmanages with out reading
glasses. They see, however, kept near herrhairside table for
use when she gets "pushed up" and has to read fine print.
Iitcklear keeps in touch wiht friends by telephone. "I've
made a lot of friends over my lifetime snd I like U> keep in
contact with them," she smiles. She values her friendships
and applies her life's rule in nurturing them. She says it's a
simple rule, "Do as you'd like to be done by." Her voice then
drifts off, "And blessed is the pearemakA."
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A BROFIDE OE
SOUTH HOBESON ' S NEW
SOCI AIL. STUDIES TEACHER
South Bobeson High School may he said to have plucked a
prize when Bruce Barton was assigned to the school to the
Social Studies Department. Me brought to that department
rich pool of experience gained from years of interacting with
government people and agencies.
But he did not start out to be a teacher. He edited the
Carolina Indian Voice newspaper in ITSm broke for some 12
years. He covered hundreds of meetings of planning boards,
commissions and other governmental groups and agencies.
He had no idea of going hack to school to work out a teacher's
certificate.
Bruce Barton was reared in almost a 'library." His father,
lew Baiton, n Newspaperman, author, educator, and Indian
historian in his own right, had a Masters Degree in English
from the University of Norths Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bruce
saw books from birth and lived among books. He says his i
home was filled with hook*. There were hooks on shelves, on [
the floor, under the heds; wherever space could be found there |
were books. Bruce acquired from his father the love of
adventure through reading.
So, when Mrs. Barbara Bartdn started back to school, she
had an excellent resource person right in the house, ner
husband Bruce. By that time, he had a decade of newspaper
editing and editorial writing-A8I SEE IT -under his belt. He
started helping his wife with hag, studies.
One evening, Mrs. Barton came home to report she had
checked into Bruce's records at Pembroke State University.
He could get bark in school. He roiild made it He could earn a
teacher's certificate. She asked him why not
Bruce Barton look the challenge with the same high spirits
he had taken on the newspaper work. In about UV* years, he
had worked out a teacher's certificate at Pembroke Stale
University. He attended summer school and carried full loads
while Jie still worked for the newspaper. He graduated in
record time.
It may have been just luck that South Kobe son High School
got Bruce Barton on its staff for the 1987 88 school year, tf it
was luck that he landed in the Sicial Studies Department
teaching a course titled: "Economic, legal ind Dilitical
Systems in Action," it was good luck. His year of travel, his
years of newspaper work, his years of interaction with the
economic, legal and political systems of Kobeson County and
North Carolina had perfectly prepared him for teaching he
the course.
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