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VOLUME 16 NUMBER 16 25$ TUl RSI)AY. MAY 5. IHHfM
JOE FREEMAN, BRITT
HAUNTED BY THE
SPIRIT OP JULIAN PIERCE
by Conmee Brayboy
Even in death the spirit of Julian Pierce cannot be ignored.
A though Pierce was shot to death March 26, he received more
votes for Superior Court Judge than did Joe Freeman Britt.
Ejection officials did not count the votes for Pierce. Both
candidates were on the ballots and the votes were counted in
each precinct
The unofficial vote total shows, with 26 of 40 precincts
reporting. Pierce receiving 7,282 votes while Joe Freeman
Britt recieved 4,903. The voters of Robeson County said very
clearly that they did not wish Joe Freeman Britt to serve as
Superior Court Judge. It is ironic that the "deadliest d.a."
seems to have been defeated by a dead man.
IN OTHER RACES
Pete Hasty narrowly defeated Adolph Dial to retain his
seat in the House of Representatives. Unofficial totals show
Hasty with 9,855 votes and Dial with 9,677. According to the
system whereby House candidates can call for a run off. Dial
fell too short to call for a run off. A recount is of course
expected. Daniel DeVane was returned to his position in the
General Assembly with 13,828. Incumbant Sidney Locks will
continue to serve in the N.C. Legislature with 13,702 votes.
RED SPRINGS COMMISSIONERS DISTRICT
Bobby Dean Locklear easily defeated Jack Morgan in the
Red Springs District for county commissioner. Locklear
received 1,543 votes and Morgan received 1,407.
FAIRMONT COMMISSIONERS DISTRICT
Henry Douglas will apparently face a run off with John
I P. Masters unofficial votes show: Delton Jacobs received 679
votes; John Masters received 558; Henry Douglas received
r756; and Johnny Hunt received 823.
SENATE
Senator David Parnell easily overcame a challenge by Paul
Graham. Parnell received 11,391 and W. Paul Graham
received 6,614 votes.
DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
Gary Lynn Lncklear easily defeated Maceo Kemp for a seat
as District Court Judge. Locklear received 12,200 votes, while
Kemo garnered 5,569.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO...
Josephus D . Jacobs
by Barbara Bmyboy-Locklear
Special to THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE
He likens his native Robeson County to a brier patch. And
Josephus Daniel Jacobs can't stay out of the area long at the
time. "I'm like a rabbit who seems most happy when in my
brier patch," the Fayetteville resident laughs.
One of the six children born to Hersley and Matlie Bell
Jacobs, he received his early education at Pembroke Graded
School and completed less than two years at Cherokee Indian
Normal School before joining the Civilian Conservation Corps.
"I guess I did it to get away from home like boys wanted to
do back then," the 65-year-old grandfather recalls. For a year,
he held title as a fire fighter. Yet, he admits the title didn't
quite fit his duties as a company store (canteen) manager. He
received five dollars per month plus a bonus of fifteen dollars
for his job. An additional twenty-five dollars were sent home
to his parents.
With his duty in California finished, Jacobs enrolled at
Brevard Jr. College. There he studied 1 1/2 years alongside
other Lumbees before he received his draft notice into the U.S.
Army. It was an assignment which was to take him to the
Ardennes forest outside Belgium and Luxembourg where he
took an offensive part in the Battle of The Bulge.
Three years later, the Lumbee Indian returned to college
study as an Agriculture major at Western Kentucky State
Teachers College. He graduated from the school in 1950.
Afterwards he taught in the state for 16 months.
Having heard news of some homefolks being in Lebanon,
Tenn. in school, Jacobs' curious mind led him to find old
friends attending college there. During one of several visits,
he met Jo Ann Jewel. Eight months later, he took her as a
wife. Shortly thereafter, he brought his bride home to meet his
farmer father and school teacher-mother.
With a strong sense of patriotic duty, Jacobs volunteered for
military duty during the Korean Conflict. He and his wife were
to spend months in Europe before the three year military
assignment ended.
The love of nature and memories of growing up on a fram
outside Pembroke steered the 2nd Lieutenant to enroll in
North Carolina State College for advance academic study.
Drawing on his GI benefits, he studied Agriculture Vocational
Education. In 1954, he became the first Lumbee Indian to
receive a degree in Education from that institution.
An offer to teach at Pembroke High School lured him back to
the "brier patch" of Robeson County. .For 11 years Jacobs
taught young boys arts in agriculture. His teaching was
sprinkled with encouragement "to climb to the mountain
tops...never to forget where you came from...never forget who
you are." He instilled in the students the importance of
getting a formal education.
In 1965, Jacobs moved his wife and two daughters to
Cumberland County so he could be nearer to a teaching
assignment in Sampson County. After a year there, he
returned to a Robeson County teaching position at Prospect
School.
In 1970, the veteran teacher lay down his hammer and rule
and took an Assistant County Supervisor's position with
Farmers Home Administration in Lumberton. He worked
endlessly to help residents secure farm and home loans.
Working closely with building contractors and applicants, he
saw 70-80 houses built yearly under his program. He retired
from that position in 1985.
Today, when Jacobs isn't traveling and visiting family and
friends in Robeson County, he can most-times be found at Ft.
Bragg military base.
" I guess it's my make-up to get excited when I visit the base
and see all the activities going on then," he comments. He's
a military veteran who loves his country and offers advice to
those who don't feel likewise. "Anybody who doesn't love this
country ought to go to Russia."
The retired Artny Reserve Major says the hobby which
keeps him busiest is that of meeting people and talking with
them. He says he especially enjoys seeing former students and
hearing about their objectives and accomplishments. He's
never too busy to take generous time in talking with them.
He admits to an affinity to politics. He says he sees politics
as a vehicle for advancement for his Indian people. "The
greatest crossover in politics for our people was when we got
Indian lawyers," he adds. "We'll have an Indian governor one
day."
Jacobs enjoys long distance travel, but has not taken much
in recent years. After his wife retires from teaching in a few
years, he hopes the couple will plan on touring certain parts of
the U.S.
Until then, the "rabbit" will content himself to regular
visits to the brier patches in his beloved native county.
Joseph us D. Jacobs strikes a smile at a recent gathering in
his native Utvn of Pembroke.
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A mass meeting of the Hoke County Native American
Council will be held Thursday night. May 12, 1988 at 7:30 p.m.
in the South Hoke Gym. The meeting will be held to discuss
the following concerns of Native Americans and minorities of
Hoke and neighboring counties:
1. Distrct court judges should be elected from Robeson
alone; Scotland be combined with Hoke as is already done for
superior court judge.
2. Increase the number of Indian and Black highway
patrolmen in Hoke and Scotland through immediate transfers.
3. The district attorney for should be elected from Hoke
and Scotland instead of Cumberland and Hoke.
4. Increase the number of Indian and Black district
attorneys in Hoke and Scotland counties.
5. Increase the number of Indian and Black court counselors
and probation officers in Hoke and Scotland counties.
6. Increase the number of Indian and Black magistrates in
Hoke and Scotland counties.
7. Abolish the office of the coroner.
8. Split off Hoke and Scotland counties for the purpose of
electing members to the State House of Representatives.
9. Increase the size of the board of county commissioners
while utilizing single-member districts so that the racial
composition of the board would reflect the racial composition
of the county.
10. The racial make up of the administrators, teachers and
other staff of the school system should reflect the racial
composition of the student body. Increase the size of the board
of education while utilizing single-member districts so that the
racial composition of the board would reflect the racial
composition of the county.
11. Increase the number of Indians and Blacks on the board
of directors and staff of the local Farmers Home
Administration, Federal liind Bank and South Atlantic
l*roduction Credit Association.
12. Increase the number of Indians and Blacks employed by
the Employment Security Commission on the local level.
13. Enhance a special relationship between PSU and the
Indian community of Hoke county.
14. Registered voters should he pwrged for IsHwee *-? vote
once every ten years instead of once every four years.
15. The State Commission of Indian Affairs should be
independent from the Department of Administration.
16. The State of North Carolina should actively support the
I efforts of local Indian people to achieve federal acknowledge
or recognition.
17. Strengthen local Indian tribal government (Hoke County
Native American Council) and make it economically
independent and self-sustaining.
II THE MISS
DEEP BRANCH 19 8 8
Kristy Maria McNeill una cmumed Little Mias Deep
Bmnch 1988 oti April 2. She is the six-year-old daughter of
Linden and Evelyn McNeill of Pembroke. For her talent,
Kristy sang "Johnny Angel." She received flowers, a
crown and two trophies.
SMAZsZJ bzjeimees WEEK
BROC1L. AIMED
WHEREAS* the nation will honor small business advocates
entrepreneurs and other small business leaders during the
week of May 8-14, 1988; and
WHEREAS* a small business person will be selected from
North Carolina as well as from other locations; and
WHEREAS* small businesses account for most of the new
jobs created in the nation, our state and our community; and
WHEREAS* our community consist of many small
businesses.
NOW* THEREFORE* I, Milton R. Hunt. Mayor of the
Town of Pembroke, do hereby Proclaim May 8-14 to be
SMALL BUSINESS WEEK in the Town of Pembroke.
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the corporate seal of the Towrt of Pembroke to be
affixed, this the 11th day of April, 1988.
F*EJyiBROKE TOWN CZOUlsrCJLJ-.
CONSTEERS CHANGES JUST ZONJONG ZjAWS
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The Pembroke Town Council met in chambers on May 2, at
7 p.m. considering five proposed changes in the town zoning
law. Three of the five changes -received a favorable
recommendation from the Town Planning Board.
Mr. Herbert H. LJoyd received favorable action to allow the
contruction of a home on what was described as the Mr. Stacey
Locklear house which is located approximately one mile
outside town, off Highway 711 east.
Mr. Howard Brooks received a favorable recommendation
to allow for the construction of multi-purpose housing in the
College Court area west of Pembroke.
Carl Ricky Jones porposes to cut a street between Southern
Interiors and Locklear and Son Funeral Home and divide the
area into Iota for commerical development He received a
favorable recommendation to change the zoning from IV A
residential to C/3 commercial.
A great deal of discussion time was on the last two proposed
changes in the zoning law to allow a conditional use permit to
allow the development of two trailer parks at the Pine Street
extension. Two property owners, Mrs. Barbara Simmons and
Mr. Charles Oxendine, both propose to establish trailer parks
which would have approximately 40 trailers each.
Citisens seem to all be very cautious and concerned about
the possibility of* the parks being located so near the city
limits. Mrs. Shirley Lowry of West End, Pembroke, said,
"I'm concerned about the safety of the people in the area. Hie
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road at nne Street extension needs to be straightened up. A
person could run in the ditch there without knowing that a
ditch was near."
,Jdr. Harry Oxendine, also, of West End. stated, "I would
like for the town to give consideration for persons with private
homes. Multiple housing concentration will cause problems
that we are all familiar with."
Mr. Laverne Thomas, a horqq owner in the area 9aid, "I'm
right there. T ve got a ball field, a public housing development,
and now two proposed trailer parks with 80 units. Do you have
any trouble with the current mobile home parks or public
housing? It seenis like anybody can come into town and build
what they want to and the town board goes along with it"
The Mayor, Milton Hunt, responded: "Mr. Thomas, the
town turned down an apartment complex a few years ago
which would have brought in a considerable amount of taxes.
This board has not set any precedent as to mobile home parks.
Manufactured homes can be brought into town as long as they
meet lot size requirements." The Mayor asked the town
attorney. Ronnie Sutton, to explain conditional use permit.
Sutton said, "Permission to use property for that that K is not
zoned for would be a conditinal use permit. The council has
the authority to cancel the permit if the developer does not
meet the requirements of the conditional use. It can "be done
after the developer has expended considerable money even."
Councilman Larry T. Brooks, speaking as a private citizen,
said, "It seems that we have been looking at that area for
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annexation for years. My input as a citizen is that I woulfl De
against it"
Councilman Henry Ward Oxendine said, "Free enterprise
is a foundation of our system but the home is the cornerstone.
I would echo Mr. Brooks' statements. Would we have enough
police protection for the area? I personally would like to look at
it a little longer after the Planning Board makes a
recommendation."
Councilman J. C. Thomas asked "Are paved streets a
requirement?" To which town engineer Don Jacobs replied,
"I think it would be ameniable to the mobile home parte."
Mr. Charles Oxendine, one of the developers, said, "I plan
to build my house in front of the trailer park. We have it in the
family and do not plan to put a mess back there."
The town council instructed the Planning Board to schedule
a meeting with citixens from the area and bring back to council
their recon mendation.
In other business, Mrs. Ann Boyle, tyre. Mary Loddear,
Mrs. Jessie Bell Chavis and Mrs. Shirley uowry, representing
the 9in?le Adults Friendship Chib. United Methodist Chureh.
Pembroke, asked the board to establish a Tree Commission for
the town to help start a beautiflcatkm project tor the town. The
proposal is to start with west Third Street, ail the way through *
lima Tin I tlnul fnin tell11 in s stowlgg
committee to work with the town attorney to set up suck a
commission kCj
lastly, s budget work session was set for May
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