WHAT'S NEXT???
"T%* deatA of democracy u not Uktly to be an
aemuematHm from am busk It uatt 6? a slow
?xtmction from apatAu. mdtfference, and
uruie rru/uriskmtlU. "
A M. Hutchtm
k Muni some people still have a difficult time accepting
Julian Pierce's victory over Joe Freeman Britt in the race for
superior court judge. Although Julian was murdered prior to
the election. Julian won because he received more votes than
Britt, it is as simple as that. Regardless of the speculation
, concerning why people voted the way they did, the fact
remains Julian was preferred over Britt!
In talking with some people in the Maxton area we have
heard the comment, "why waste your vote on a dead man?"
This is a very sad commentary on our democratic process and
a very understandable human desire to vh (sic) regardless of
the issues. In the race for superior court judge everyone
understood Joe Freeman Britt would automatically become
judge because of the way the election law was written. But,
? some people obviously do not feel they can urn unless they
vote for the individual who finally is declared the winner by
making office. This attitude represents a fundamental
misunderstanding of what a democracy is all about In a
lemocracy, informed voters choose the best candidate
regardless of the projected outcome. Your priority should not
be to vote only for winners but rather to vote for principles! Of
course everyone hopes their candidate will win, but in the final
analysis, informed voters should choose the best individual for
the position. In our opinion, that is exactly what happened in
he race for superior court judge. Julian T. Pierce was
obviously the best candidate. Why would a person choose to
vote for Joe Freeman Britt just because Julian was murdered?
rhe logic of such action escapes us. Julian's death did not
make Britt a better man! Why should someone's desire to vote
for a "winner" (sic) override their desire for a better justice
system?
In our view. Joe Freeman Britt"s defeat only serves to
validate an observation made by Jane Ace:
"TIME wounds all heels!"
We eagerly await the impact of time on Sheriff Hubert
Stone. Hopefully, we will not have to wait until the 1990
election!
Most of the time we refrain from commenting on many of
the attitudes and actions of self-proclaimed leaders in our
community. But once in a while some actions is taken that so
offends our basic nature that we feel compelled to respond.
Such was the action on Monday night by the Rev. Mac
Legerton and the attitude his action portrayed.
On Monday night, as has happened since early February,
1988, approximately 40 people gathered outside the Gathering
Place in Pembroke. They were waiting for the weekly
meeting of the Robeson Justice Committee to begin. On this
? Monday night, we understand, Rev. Legerton rode by, looked
at the people and kept riding. He did not stop and open the
building in order for the meeting to be held.
While we acknowledge that the building belongs,
apparently, to Rev. Legerton and that he has a right to decide
that a meeting cannot be held there, we find it offensive and
demeaning to people that he did not notify Helen Oxendine,
' Administrator of the Justice Committee, that no further
meetings were to be held at the Gathering Race. We find his
actions to be condescending to all the people who were there.
And we feel that by his action he made a bold statement to the
people of Robeson County. We believe that people have a
right to assemble and the good Reverend, in our opinion,
displayed a blatant disregard for the feelings of others. This is
rortrmry to the philosophy we have -heard him
expound in times past.
This leads us to question the Reverend's intentions. Was he
saying those 40 people were not important? Does Rev.
Legerton only show an interest in the needs of people when
those needs compute into dollars gained from proposal
writing?
We understand that Rev. Legerton's wife. Donna Chavis,
has submitted a proposal to the Commission for Racial Justice
for monies to bring a coordinator into the county for the
purpose of organizing and fund raising. While we find no
reason to oppose this action, we are forced to wonder if
perhaps the Rev. Legerton feels that the existence of the
Kobe son Justice Committee poses some threat to the
possibilities of proposal writing. We speculate and question
because we really don't understand Rev. Legerton's seeming
disregard for the feelinga of people. We feel this way,
especially in view of the fact that the same Rev. Legerton was
one of the originators of the justice committee. If the idea was
good at one time, is it not still a good idea?
To say that we are disappointed in Rev. Legerton is an
understatement. We are concerned about the kind of
? Christ-like influence he left with people he didn't even know.
We hope that what we witnessed on Monday night was not the
"white missionary mentality" we are all so familiar with.
In view of the recent statements by Congressman Charlie
Rose relative to alleged corruption in our county, we just
cannot understand the continued alienation of any individual
or group. Especially when we remember the turbulent times
we are all living in here in Robeson. The reason, in our
opinion, that Congressman Rose could say publicly that we
deed to "put up or shut up" is because there is obviously no
political pressure from any one in our community. While our
self-proclaimed leaders waste their time and energies trying to
decide which committees should and should not exist, we are
no closer to a congressional investigation into the alleged
corruption in Robeson County than we were February 1st I
speak to our shame. Knowing this causes us to be
disillusioned even more with Rev. Legerton. And we ask him:
why are you seemingly working aginst people who desire to
.meet weekly? Many people are looking for answers in the
turmoil of life in Robeson County. If it helps them to
congregate weekly, why are you opposed? We suggest an
apology and an attempt by Rev. Legerton at uniting rather
than dividing people. Or perhaps the coordinator who comes
in will also organize our self-proclaimed leaders!It!
PEMBROKE KIWANIS
BY KEN JOHNSON
Program Chairman, Bill Oxendine presented Dr. Sid
Gautam, Director of the Cape Fear Area Center of the North
Carolina 8mall Business and Technology Development
Agency of the University of North Carolina.
Hie mission of the agency is to support the development of
small businesses in the State of North Carolina. Dr. Gautam is
a Professor of Business at Methodist College with offices in
the Continuing Education Building at Fsyettaville State
University. The State Legislature created the Small Business
Agency in 1964 as a part of the University of North Carolina. It
? provides services to those planning to go into small
besineaseo, including access to financing, planning, market
ing surveys, choosing legal forms of business, advertising, tax
requirements, financial access to governmental small business
loans and many other services to assist in small business
development. Hie Central Office is in Raleigh with Regional
gssvices in seven cities of North Carolina.
U This coming Friday at 11:80 a.m.. Garth Loddear, Club
President and the Kiwanis members will he hoetipg a cook-out
lor Handicapped Children at the Qty Park. 0\&r forty children
wfil be in attendance.
READERS* EORUM
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An "Assassination"
To Bob Home (Editor of The Robeeonun):
I have been thinking about your May 8th editorial and the
assertion 3 the asJassm.UoVof judicial candidate Julun
Pierce was apparently a domestic dispute and neither
politically nor racially motivated.
| i?*ii it an assassination because it fits the dicuonary
definition of an assassination, which is to say the murder by
surprise of someone politically important.
Even if the murder was neither politically nor racially
motivated, there is a question that neleds to be asked.
Organized crime exists in other parts of the country. Raymond
Patriarea has been the number one man in crime in New
England for decades, and the fact that no one has ever been
able to pin anything on him does not cause anyone to doubt
that organized crime exists in those states. Organized crime,
deeply entrenched, exists here in Robeson County. Would
organized crime have wanted Julian Pierce silenced for any
reason?
WES WHITE
Maxton, NC
EDITORIAL EXPRESSION
JUDGE tiEFERS LREMC BOARD OF DIREC1VRS BACK
TO THE CORPORA770ATS BYLAWS
One of the many sayings of John L Godwin was this:
"Truth and time will prove all things." On Monday, Judge
Craig Ellis reaffirmed Godwin's statement. Judge Ellis
referred the LREMC Board of Directors and the cooperative's
attorneys back to the By-Laws of the Corporation. Judge Ellis
ruled, as we had previously predicted, that the October 6, 1987
' election be set aside. Judge Ellis, in making his decision,
quoted the By-Laws of the Corporation.
The recent happenings through the court with LREMC, is in
our opinion, a blatant waste of the corporation's monies. Why
have by-laws if nobody is going to abide by them? What is
wrong with the attorneys who are hired to protect the rights of
the corporation? Who is responsible for the blatant waste of
cooperative monies? Who is going to reimburse the member
consumers for going into court and forcing a judge to tell the
board and the attorneys what they should have already
known? What he told them, in essence was that the by-laws of
the corporation will stand. We understand the president of the
board, Bishop Ward Clark Jr., is debating on whether to
appeal the decision of Judge Ellis. Legally speaking, a
defendant has the right to appeal any decision, but we hope
that Bishop Clark will not find it necessary to further waste our
time and money, seeking a decision in opposition to our
by-laws. The by-laws clearly state that the decision of the
Elections and Credentials Committee "shall be final." In
effect, what Judge Ellis did, seemingly was read the by-laws
of the corporation. He found that the by-laws did not bear
interpretation, but only a simple act of enforcement
After Judge Ellis' decision, which is really an
embarrassment to board members, attorneys of the
cooperative and the entire membership, we would hope that
whoever is responsible for this idiocy will cease and desist and
get on with the business of the co-op.
It is apparent to those of us who are watching developments
at LREMC that there are certain individuals over there who
seemingly have a personal grievance against the Rev. Elias
Rogers. We have oLcourse narrowed.those people down tq the
general manager and the president of the board. It is our
opinion that these two individuals have caused a great deal of
undue stress and harrassment, not only on Rev. Elias Rogers,
but in their seeming personal vendetta, they have cost the
member consumers a great deal of money. Perhaps some of us
who are member consumers should band together and find an
attorney who will assist us in court. Surely, we have a right to
demand that any monies spent unnecessarily be reimbursed to
our cooperative. Someone should, in our opinion, pay back the
monies that have been wasted thus far in this charade, not to
mention the added expense of another election. If our board
members, our general manager and the cooperative attorneys
would spend as much time and energy on the needs of our
cooperative as they have in seemingly trying to destroy a
board member's credability and political career, we would
once again have a cooperative that was working in the best
interest of those it purports to represent.
The Coach's Corner
BY KEN JOHNSON
Bobby Knight - LITs Basketball Coach
He has really gotten the headlines lately over two issues. 1)
Over whether or not he will take the vacant coaching job at
New Mexico or stay at I.U. 2) His remark concerning rape, and
president Thomas Ehriich's censorship of him. He has turned
down the New Mexico job but probably is still stinging from
being censored by his new boss. President Ehrlich. T m sure
his wagging tongue will continue unabated. But in his behalf
the "locker room" habit and the remark that he made would
bring a laugh at any basketball clinic. But he was in a mixed
group consisting of both men and women and he was no doubt
at a loss for words so the stupid remark came out He has a
reputation for temper, for pulling his team off the floor against
the Russians and for throwing a chair all the way across a
basketball court. Some how he is tolerated for his complete
negative atti'. <de, a disregard for human dignity. This
negative attitude does motivate players because he is never
satisfied with their performance and they try even harder, so
they do win. For example ? call a player "rotten or his
performance rotten" and h^.wiJI "bust his butt" to prove he
isn't rotten. This is negative psychology often used by parents
to get their kids to do something or the negative psychology of
not sparing the rod. It gets results, no doubt about it. So
because "good guys never win" Bobby Knight wins, and
there is his remorse for being mean to practically everybody.
He has to live with his conscience if he has one. The positive
attitude of a coach is often taken as weakness so Bobby Knight
does not want that reputation and he sure does not convey that
impression if he does not carry it too far as did Woody Hayes
when he slapped the Clemson football player.
Kiwanian Ed Teets it assisting Boy Scout Troop No. 27 in
fund raising by telling drinking coffee cups, cost is $6., for the
50th Anniversary Boy Scout Coffee Mugs.
Visitors from the Sandhills Club were A.J. Woody, Wayne
Adams. Dick Pratt, retired U.S. Navy Admiral and Charles
Simon.
Presiding-Garth Locklear; Song Leader, Ray Lowry;
Invocation-Dorsey Lowry;
Tha aardvark gtti its nam* from tha Dutch for "oorth
pig." It's note looks somewhat pig-Ilka, but If a not
raiatad
TODAY-TOMORROW-THEFUJURE1
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Some people My. that my life la over.
They aay. I should ba put away, never to ba
baa again.
But my paopia. thay My that I should ba
sat bue and not put away.
But to mo, that doaan't "f at point.
What matters to me is you, my paopia, my relatives.
I worry about my little brother and sister,
and my younger relatives as well.
But most of all, I think about my older
brother and his wife.
I think about my unborn nephew or neiee
that I hope to have someday.
This world that he or she will be
entering into, the drugs and corrupt people
that control and destroy everyone and every
thing, that stand in their way.
? But if I can help put an end to all
this, the drugs and corruption.
Then I an! happy and in my heart, I
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am free.
And to bm, my lilt wo t compere
to the His of a young child or aa
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unoorn cnxiu 4 t .
Bocauao to bm, children that aio young
and unborn, they're the future of our
people
But we, aa adult's must prepare a
. place for them today.
And teach them what's right and what's
wrong in life.
Because then and only then will you
see or change and that is when, our
people will have a future here.
If we, don't take a stand, we have
no future, we have no tomorrow.
We, as a nation will cease to exist
Timothy Bryan Jacobt
Tkjamrra Tribe North Carolina
5-10-88
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Diet and Pregnancy:
Surprising New Findings
The need for adequate pre
natal nutrition has been well
established, though the old
"eating for two" adage has
been somewhat fine-tuned. New
data suggests that what a
woman eats during the three
to six months prior to concep
tion may affect her pregnancy
and ultimately her baby's
health.
According to Myron Winick,
M.D., R.R. Williams Professor
of Nutrition at Columbia Uni
versity, the period preced
ing conception is important
because it gives women the
opportunity to correct nutri
tional deficiencies and to
build up important nutrition
stores which will be needed
during pregnancy and breast
feeding. "If a woman waits
until she knows she is preg
nant before considering the
importance of good nutrition,
she has missed the earliest
and most important period in
the development of her fetus,"
Winick says.
Emphasis on the early, crit
ical weeks of fetal develop
ment builds a strong case for
the need to have pregnancy di
agnosed as early as possible.
Today, a woman can use a home
pregnancy test such as First
Response as early as the day
she misses her period for ac
curate, easy-to-read results
in minutes.
Women who plan to conceive
in the near future can take
steps now to help ensure a
healthy pregnancy and a healthy
birth outcome. Dr. Winick
suggests women identify and
approach their ideal weight,
then plan to gain about 20
percent more during preg
nancy, and eat a balanced
diet rich in iron, zinc, calcium
and folic acid. Women should
ask their doctor about taking
a prenatal vitamin before
they conceive and avoid alco
hol and cut down on caffeine.
These suggestions should be
incorporated into a woman's
lifestyle as soon as she decides
she wants to have a baby.
These nutritional guidelines
are parOof a new "12-month*
approach to pregnancy plan
ning and management - the
nine-month pregnancy per
iod?and the three or more
months preceding conception.
Health professionals also
urge women to adopt and
maintain a regular but mod
erate exercise program and to
use pregnancy planning tools.
Over-the-counter aids such
as the First Response ovula
tion predictor test can help
women conceive within a spe
cific time and may help reduce
the time it takes to conceive.
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