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? Engagement Announced Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cum min gs of Lumbertou announce the engagement of their dBUL^rta Rhonda Sue Oxendine, to James Kdly Sanderson. The bride is a graduate of West Robeson Senior High School (1989) and is employed by Inter national Jensen. The groom is the son of Rer. and Mrs. Kelly Keith Sanderson of Pembroke. He is a 1983 graduate of Pembroke Senior High and a 1985 graduate of Robeson Community College. He is employed by Craftsman Homes Inc. of Maxton. j The wedding is planned for August 20 in the Marriage Chapel I in Dillon . A reception will be held afterwards at the home of | the bride to be. extension' scene I by i [Everette Davis | Each year the North Carolina Department of Agriculture supplies a eport to each county Extension Office that gives all the details about all soil samples submitted to their laboratories from that county. The report that we have recently received provides some surprising statistics about Robeson County. First of all, it is surprising how little our local homeowners and producers use this valuable service. One would think that with the increasing concern for profitability and maximum crop efficiency, that more attention would be given to proper liming and fertilization of crops and, therefore, more efforts exerted in taking soil samples. There were only 4,450 soil samples from Robeson County submitted to the state soil lab during this past year. This is up about 25 percent above last year, but still far fewer than what would represent a conscientious sampling program by county producers. Of these, 268 were for miscellaneous purposes and 359 from homeowners. The remaining 3,823 samples represent those taken by crops producers. Assuming that each soil sample might represent as much as ten acres of land, this would indicate that less than 39,000 acres of land were properly sampled. Considering there are over 250,000 acres of land in this county used for crop production, this means that only about 15 percent of the fields were property sampled. Another way to look at the lack of concern of our local producers is to compare the number of samples from our county in relation to the number of samples from other counties. We like to brag that Robeson is the largest agricultural county in the state, yet we ranked 15th in the number of soil samples submitted. Some counties much smaller than Robeson submitted twice as many soil samples for analysis by the state labs. One would wonder if this indicates that their producers are much more concerned about the profitability of their operations than are our producers. When considered as a whole, the results of the soil samples submitted may not give an accurate indication of the condition of soils in this county. One would ppume that it is more likely for samfpes to be taken from problem areas 'Jian from areas that are producing property. But the average results from these samples should very iccurately indicate general trends in he county. The summary of all soil samples ' taken in Robeson County indicates that over 30 percent of the fields have a pH of less than 5.4. Almost 25 percent of the fields indicate manganese deficiencies, 32 percent indicate copper deficiencies, and 53 percent indicate extremely high levels of phosphorus. As part of their normal responsibi lities, the agricultural agents on the staff of the Robeson County Agri cultural Extension Service make many farm and home visits in order to assist the producers in determining the reasons why their crops are not performing property. In most instances, the reasons for lack of performance are related to lower than optimum pH levels in the field indicating lack of proper liming practices or micronutrient deficien cies that severely limit the ability of the crops to achieve normal yield levels. Typically, when these prob lems are found in the field, the producers have not taken soil sam ples and, therefore, had no idea of the condition of their fields before they planted their crops. During the months of August through October is the best time of the year to take soil samples. By this time of the yea- the current crops have either been harvested or have removed all nutrients from the soil that they will remove. Samples submitted now will be analyzed and returned to the producers in a matter of days instead of weeks as is typical of samples submitted during late winter. And finally, samples taken early will allow the producers to apply needed lime early enough for it to be fully active prior to the next planting season and to properly plan for the primary, secondary, and micronutrient needs of the crops that will be planted during the winter or during the coming year. Soil sample analysis is a free service provided by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. I would like to especially encourage all producers to take the time to take soil samples of all fields in which they plan to produce a crop during the coming year. At least, in all fields that have not been sampled during the past year. Sampling materials, instructions on how to take proper soil samples, and assistance in understanding the soil sample re sults are available from the Agricul tural Extension Office, also free of charge. 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Alcohol Imperils a Generation of Indian Children By G1NA KOLATA ine oevaMung enecis 01 aicunoii ihnt? among Indians are reaching a 1 new generation. striking children whose mothers drank heavily during pregnancy and resulting in a popula tion that is mentally and physically dis abled. on some reservations in the Plains, the Southwest and Canada have 5 percent of children affected, while other studies have found rates as high as 25 percent Worldwide, the rate at which children are born with dis abilities due to alcohol is 1 percent or less, experts say. , Although alcoholism has long been known to afflict Indian groups dispro portionately, its harm to Indians of the I neat generation is only now emerging in studies on a number of reservations. The result is "a devastation that is worse than smallpox," said Dr. Geof frey Robinson, a pediatrician at the University of British CAimbia in Van couver. I Jeaneen Grey Eagle, who runs Project Recovery, an alcohol treat ment program at the Pine Ridge reser-1 vatioo in South Dakota, said the prob lem was so serious that it was "threat ening the very survival of the Indian I people." She estimates that 25 percent of the children on that reservation are affected and that the number is grow-j tag. Such children are often mentally re tarded and have behavior problems, in cluding hyperactivity and an inability to understand cause-and-effect rela tionships. This can make them difficult I to rear and to educate. These children usually have distinc tive physical features, including a small head, low prominent ears, poorly developed cheekbones and a long and smooth upper lip. They also are slow to develop physically and mentally. Children with symptoms in three categories ? facial abnormalities, growth problems and neurological ab normalities ? are said to have fetal al-1 cohol syndrome, under the definitions! used by Dr. Kwadwo O. Asante, a pediatrician at the University of Brit ish Columbia. Children less severely affected, who show symptoms in two of the three categories, are defined by Dr. Asante as having fetal alcohol effect. The incidence of fetal alcohol syn drome and fetal alcohol effect differs markedly from tribe to tribe, said Dr. Philip May of the University of New Mexico, who has studied the problem In a variety of Indian groups. In tribes I that disapprove of drinking, there are almost no cases, he said. But in tribes where abusive drinking I is common, experts report that large I numbers of children are affected by I maternal drinking. In formal studies. Dr. May estimated that 5 percent of the I children in some tribes on the Plains 1 suffered from feu I alcohol syndrome I or fatal alcohol effect. Dr. Robtnaon I found that 20 percent of the 500 chip J dien in a community in northern Brit-1 ish Columbia were affected, and Dr. Asante found that at least 5 percent of the children In 28 Indian communities in northern British Columbia and the Yukon were affected. "The scary thing," Dr. May said, is | that "in every tribe we researched, the Incidence is on the increase." By contrast, only about 1 to 2 chu-1 dren per 1,000, or 0.1 percent to 0.2 per cent, are thought to have fetal alcohol syndrome in the general population worldwide, said Dr. Robert Sokol, dean I of the Wayne Stale University School of I Medicine and director of the Fetal Al-I cohol Syndrome Study Center jd_tha J I 1 uetrou university. The number with feul alcohol effect is unknown, Dr. Sukol said, but two experts suggest u could be about 5 to II children per 1,MO, or 0.5 percent to 1 percent The huge number of affected Indian children Is straining the mrsgrr re sources of many Indian communities Ms. Grey Eagle said women who had babies with defects resulting from al cohol were usually so disabled by their drinking that they were unable to care for the children. But It is difficult to place these children in foster homes, she said, and it is even harder to place them with adoptive families because they are so difficult to rear. Dr. Thomas Bums, special assistant to the head of the alcoholism and sub stance abuse branch of the Indian Health Service, said the Government agency In Kockvilie, Md., had no money to deal with feul alcohol syndrome. "What we've had to do is take a very piecemeal approach," he said. "We really can't get into any significant work." But even the best resources may not help much, said Dr. Michael Dorris, an anthropologist at Dartmouth Univer sity who is an Indian. In his book "The Broken Cord," which will be published in August by Harper A Row, Dr. Dorris told of his struggle to rear an Indian U>y he adopted who turned out to have fetal alcohol syndrome Dr. Dorris used all the medical and social re sources available, but his hopes fur his son were repeatedly crushed when the boy simply could not develop normal emotional and logical responses to everyday situations. Dr. Dorris said he was "naive and optimistic" about the prospect* for his son, who Is now 21. Despite his efforts, he said, his son is at best slightly better off than if he bad not been adopted at all. "He's a dishwasher at a truckstop," Dr. Dorris said. "He has lou of sei zures. He has no friends. It's terrible. He should not have had this life." A New Phenomenon Ms. Grey Eagle of the Pine Ridge reservation said abusive drinking among the 20,000 Lakota Sioux who live there was a recent occurrence that had come with changing social norms. "I'm 35, and alcoholism first suited in my generation," she said. "It was so cially prohibited for males and females to drink in the past, and when I was growing up in the late 1950's and early 1960's, we had only n few who drank. Everyone knew who they were and everyone talked about them. They were ostracized." Drinking caught on In the IMO'a and {HI70's, Ms. Grey Eagle said, and many Indians at Pine Ridge would routinely drink until they passed out She said that when Uquor was not available, or when they did not have enough money to buy U, some people would resort it other substances, like the household cleaner Lysoi, which has some alcohol. Forty percent of the women at Hum kuige abuse alcohol, Ms. Grey Eagle estimated. Ms. Grey Eagle ??ys that now, m the children with Tetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effect, she Is seeing ? new generation affected by alcohol, with grim consequences. When the women who are impaired by fetal alco hol syndrome or fetal alcolail effect reach child-bearing age and become pregnant, they simply cannot under stand that if they drink they run the risk of harming the fetus. Ma Grey Eagle said. One result of the fetal syn drome Is a lack of ability to understand king-term consequences. 'Really Pathetic Lives' These women are nearly impossible to counsel, she said. The women "have no judgment," Ma Crey Eagle said. "They live really putiielic Uvea just ex isting with no real happiness. Some have had seven or eight kids." As alarm about the problem spreads, inevitable questions arise: Why are In dians hit so bard? Why do some In dians drink so much? Wny is fetal alco hol syndrome so prevalent? Dr. Burns of the Indian Health Serv ice said It was not clear whether social circumstances alone drove Indians to abuse alcohol, or whether Indians had a genetic propensity to alcohol abibc. "The studies are not conclusive," he said. Ms. Grey Eagle blames social fac tors. "We have an to M percent unemployment rate," she said, " there is no business, no industry here. Every thing is based on a "welfare society. People Uve from one welfare check to another. You can see (he despair. "I don't feel that these people like to drink, but a lot of young people have no hope. Drinking is an acceptable means of escape." Dr. Sokoi of Wayne State University said Indians who drink might be more likely than others who drink to give birth to affected babies. He has found that different strains of laboratory ani mals have different susceptibilities to feul alcohol syndrome and thai black women are more than seven times as > likely to have affected children as I white women who drink the same amount during pregnancy. He said In t dians had not been studied in this way. but he would not be surprised if a genetic susceptibility made them at least as vulnerable as blacks are to ' fetal alcohol syndrome. In the general population, an alco , hohc woman has a 10 percent chance of giving birth to a baby with fetal alcohol syndrome and a 30 to 40 percent chance of giving birth to a baby with fetal alco i hoi effect, said Lyn Werner, an associ ate professor of psychiatry at the Bos ton University School of Medicine who has studied the problem for more than a decade. Locking Up Pregnant Drinkers Experts agree that the best way to prevent fetal alcohol effects is to pre vent women from drinking while preg nant. But some experts are wondering whether prevention efforts should go beyond education campaigns. A few Indians and doctors who have worked in Indian communities say they are reluctantly concluding that they would consider locking up women who continue with their pregnancy and who refuse to stop drinking. Abortion is not an option for women at Pine Ridge, Ms. Grey Eagle said. Hie nearest abortion clinic is more than 300 miles away. "No one has the money to get there," she said. Ms. Grey Eagle said the Pine Ridge tribe once locked up a pregnant woman who could not stop drinking and that she supported such action. "Our tribal .code determines that a child is a child from conception on," she said. "All it takes is for a judge to say: 'Eitlier stop drinking or we will commit you to treatment. And if you are in treatment and still drink, we will put you in jaiL'" Dr. kobinson, the Vancouver pedia trician, said a Canadian tribe had also locked up a woman who refused to stop drinking while pregnant. Tribal lead ers invoked a law saying they could commit a woman against her will if she was mentally ilL "There is no other way" to forcibly keep a woman from drinking, he said M A R y K A y* WE TEACH SKIN CARE. Mary Kay has a proven-efifective skin care program for you. Call today! A Professional Mary Kay Skin Care Consultant 521-4589 I LETS TALK MATTRESS hal&J SAVE 9 V 30%i& NOW BUY A BIGGER MATTRESS AT OUR LOWEST PRICES! IT'S YOUR CHOICE USA FROM OUR LABQE AAA INVENTORY Of IAAJ PREMIUM QUALITY VV BE DOING BY BE MOT SCEEP SETS HURRY ura&tof WHUESUPflY LASTS! 'HIWIC: BcoDins B9 fecoiiki Wfetalkbadi PEMBROKE FURNITURE CO. 3lata Furnlahlng Canter m Slmvn<n>?i i ? ^annuauzidyE^I rate ijo% I ALL ACCOUNTS INSURED UP TO $100,000 BY FSLIC Suhttantial PenJty For Early Withdrawal ? 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Box9189 Lumberton, North Carolina 98359 919-738-5530 8-17 LEGALN07TCE State of North Carolina County of Robeson Notice To Creditors & Debtors Of Marilyn 0. Pierce, Deceased The undersigned, having qualified as Administrator of the estate of Marilyn 0. Pierce, deceased, late of Robeson County, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against said estate to exhibit them to the undersigned before the 10th day of February, 1990, or be barred from their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are asked to please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This the 31st day of July, 1989. Reginald Oxendine, Administrator P. O. Box 1987F^m broke, NC 98379 james uregory tieu Chains & Ransom 108 West 9th Street P.O. Box877 Lumberton, NC 98359 [919]738-8176 8-il LEGAL NOTICE North Carolina Robeson County Robeson County Department Of Social Services on behalf of Pritchune Ann hacklear, Plaintiff, vs. Larry Gail Hunt and Roosevelt Kenny Locldear, Jr., Defendants. TO: ROOSEVELT KENNY LOCK LEAR, JR. Route 3, Box 73 Pembroke, NC 38372 TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: To establish paternity of the minor child Trystal Locklear. YOU ARE REQUIRED to make a defense to such pleading not later than the 12th day of September. 1989, said date being forty (401 days from the first publication of this notice: and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you M will apply to the court for the relief sought. THIS the 31st day of July, 1989. LOCKLEAR JACOBS & SUTTON By: Ronnie Sutton Attorney for Plaintiff 203 South Vance Street P.O. Box 999 Pembroke, NC 28372 Telephone. \919]521-3413 8-17 LEGALNOHCE North Carolina Robeson County Robeson County Department of Social Services on behalf of Nancy J. Loddear, Plaintiff, vs. Clarence Lowery and Tommy Loddear, Defendants. TO: TOMMY LOCKLEAR and CLARENCE LOWERY TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: To establish paternity of the. minor child Joseph McKinley Lowery. YOU ARE REQUIRED to make a defense to such pleading not later than the 12th day of September, 1989, said date being forty (40) days from the first publication of this notice; and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. THIS the 28th day of July, 1989. LOCKLEAR, JACOBS & SUTTON By: Ronnie Sutton, Attorney for Plaintiff 203 South Vance Street P.O. Box999 Pembroke, NC 28372 Telephone: 1919)521-3+13 8-17 LEGAL NOTICE North Carolina Robeson County Robeson County Department Of Social Services on behalf of Patricia Calloway, Plaintiff, vs. Michael Keith Cummmgs, Defendant TO: MICHAEL KEITH CUM MINGS TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you haa been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: To establish paternity of the minor child Michael Keeth Cummin gs. YOU ARE REQUIRED to make a defense to such pleading not later than the September 12, 1989, said date being forty (40) days from the first publication of this notice; and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought , THIS the 28th day of July, 1989 WCKLEAR, JACOBS A SUTTON By: Ronnie Sutton Attorney for Plaintiff 903 South Vance Street P.O. Box999 Pembroke, NC98379 Telephone: (919)591-3413 817
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