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? ? n ????m -"v^.At ? t*emtrij ^tats ^Library Established January 18, 1973, Published Each Thursday Pembroke, NC 28372 mm r?uD^]3DL& QDOllfeDQ Pembroke, N.C. "Building Communicative Bridges In A Tri-Racial Setting" Robeson County VOLUME 17 NUMBER W THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1989 25? PER COPY HarryOxendine Announces Candidacy for Town Council Harry Oxendine Harry Oxcndinc released ihe following statement in making his announcement for election to u seat on the Pembroke Town Council: " I o the citizens of Pembroke, please allow me at this time to declare my candidacy for the of fice of town council. I have held the position for the past twelve months, replacing former coun cilman J.C. Thomas. "During this time I have have learned much about the opera tion of our town government. "I am married to the former Carol J. Locklear. We have two daughters, Darlaand Jamie. I am the past charier president of the Pembroke Jaycees. I have taught in the public schools of Robeson and Hoke Counties for the past twenty-seven years and presently am employed at Purnell Swett High School, leaching chemistry. I attend church at Berea Baptist Church in Pembroke. "Your support for me in this election will be very much ap preciated." Pembroke Jaycees to Honor Walter G. Oxendine I he Pembroke Jaycees will host a dedication ceremony on Sunday, October 8, at 3 p.m. at the Pembroke Jayeee Clubhouse. At that lime, according to Cierald Strickland, President of the Pem broke Jaycees, the building will officially be named the Walter (j. Oxendine Jaycee Clubhouse. The event is being held during the ap proximate anniversary of Oxcn dine's death which was October 14, 1988. Oxendine succombed to a heart attack after a distinguish ed professional career with Pem broke State University and the public schools of Robeson Coun ty. The Pembroke Jaycees was chartered in 1966 with Oxendine serving as a charter member. Chairing the event for the naming of the building will be Larry I". Brooks and Willie Harris, Jr. "We believe that it is appropriate to name the clubhouse in honor of Walter Oxendine," said Larry I . Brooks. "He was easily the most distinguished member of the Pembroke Jaycees we have ever had." Oxendine's accomplishments with the Jaycees include being named a Jaycees International Senator, the highest honor awarded in the Jaycee organiza tion. This honor carries lifetime membership and Oxendine was the first and only member of the Pembroke Jaycees to attain that distinction in the local chapter's history. The award is recognized in 80 countries which have Jaycee organizations. Oxendine served in many capacities with the North Carolina Jaycees, including being administrative national director which is the equivalent to being vice president. He was one of three candidates for the presiden cy of the North Carolina JayCees and was only narrowly defeated. He was named one of the five outstanding young men in North Carolina and was selected as the most outstanding of twenty-eight statewide Jaycee vice presidents. On the local level, Oxendine served as President of the Pem broke Jaycees and chaired the committee to rebuild the Pem broke Jaycee Clubhouse which was destroyed by fire. The new building was described as one of the finest in the state. He served also as Chaplain. J.P. Powers, chief executive officer of Progressive Savings and Loan and a Jaycee Interna tional Senator from the Lumber ton Jaycees,, will speak at the ceremony on Oxendine's involve ment with the Jaycees. Rev. Steve Jones, pastor of Harpers Ferry Baptist Church and a former past president of the Pembroke Jaycees, will speak on Oxendine's school days. Tommy D. Swell, Director of Special Programs at Pembroke State University, will speak on Oxendine's career with Pembroke Slate University. A reception will follow the ceremony and the public, relatives, friends and profes sional associates of Oxendine and the Pembroke Jaycees are cor dially invited to attend. Waller (,. Oxrndine ? i' Forum on black Issues to be aired nationally GENE WARREN PSU Public Information Offica Pembroke State University's Givens Performing Arts Center will host an hour-long Black Issues Forum en titled "Poverty: The Widening Gap" Friday beginning at8p.m. The forum, which the public is invited to at no charge, will be taped before a live audience and distributed na tionally. North Carolina Public Television, which will carry the program on its 10-channel network in North Carolina at 10 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 8, will tape the forum. The tape will also be to be shown Sunday, Nov. 26, over Public Broadcasting Stations (PBS) via the Southern Educational Communications Association. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. so the audience, which will be asked to participate in the forum, can be in place when the taping begins at 8 p.m. Valeria Lee, chairperson of the UNC Center for Public Television Board of Trustees and program development officer at the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, will serve as moderator. Panelists will include Ruth Dial Woods, associate su perintendent for Compensatory Education Services for the Public Schools of Robeson County; Robert B. Hill, director of the Institute for Urban Research based in Baltimore; and two members of the N.C. General Assembly: Rep. Howard Hunter Jr. of Conway (5th District) and Rep. Nick Jeralds of Fayetteville (17th District). The panelists will look back at the mid-1960s when President Lyndon Johnson began his efforts toward "The Great Society." According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of blacks attaining middle-class status fell from 32 to 29 percent from 1969-64. Hill has completed a study showing that, although the number of blacks attaining middle-class status has soared from 1.9 to 2.6 million, middle-class white Amer icans have a net worth three times that of their middle class black counterparts. Sylvester Wooten, PSU director of Continuing Educa tion and Summer Session who is a member of the Advi sory Committee for the Black Issues Forum, was in strumental in getting the forum at PSU. Meeting of Retired School Personnel Slated The Robeson County Unit of the Retired School Personnel will host a meeting of District 10 school personnel on Tuesday, October 10, at the PSU Moore Hall beginning at 9 a.m. Lunch will be served in the James B. Chavis Stduent Center. District 10 is comprised of Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke and Robeson Counties. Lowry to Represent Southern States Cooperative Memebers at Election Lycrous Lowry of Pembroke, NC will repesent local Southern States Cooperative members at the Cooperative's district election meeting to be held Friday, Oc tober 13, at the Beaverdam Seafood Restaurant in Fayet teville, ^JC. William Scott of I airmont, NC, and Douglas Roberts and Bobby Britt of C had bourn, NC, managers of the local Southern States retail outlets, will also attend. Ihc delegates will elect a member of the cooperative to serve on its corporate board of directors for the next three years. I he member elected will be con firmed at the cooperative's 66th annual stockholders meeting in Lexington, KY, on Wednesday, November 15. The group will also select a nominating commit tee for the 1992 election commit tee. The program for the meeting will include a speech entitled "Cooperatives-Working for All of Us," by the cooperative's director of institutional relations, Carroll H. Gilbert. Pembroke Official to Participate in NC League of Municipalities 1989 Convention Pembroke Mayor Milton R. Hunt will participate in the pro gram of the upcoming 1989 An nual Convention of the North Carolina League of Municipalities, to be held Oct. 15-17 in Winston-Salem. About 2,000 municipal officials and guests grom across North Carolina are expected to attend the convention. Hunt is serving on the League's Nominating Committee, which will meet during the convention to propose nominees for the 1989-90 NCLM Board of Direc tors. Officers and directors of the League will be elected during the business meeting of the conven tion. Ihis year's convention will focus on the theme, "Back to the luture." More than 20 workshops and general sessions will examine (he issues that have affected cities and towns in recent years and those likely to be critical in the 1990s. Workshop topics include the following: how to meausre the effectiveness of your community; solid waste management; employee compen sation trends; how the state's an nexation law has aided municipalities; environmental challenges; how the censiis may affect municipal election districts; and the municipal role in the war on drugs. ferry Goodard, mayor of Phoenix, Arizona and president of the National League of Cities, will address the convention on the state of relations between the led oral government and municipalities. Donald W. Bryan, mayor of Nags Head and president of the North Carolina League of Municipalities, will report to delegates on the state of North Carolina's cities and towns. He will discuss the finan cial picture for North Carolina municipalities and how cities and towns ae coping with increased responsibilities. The League's Committee on the l uture of Cities and Towns will hold a public hearing during l he The League's Committee on the Future of Cities and Towns will hold a public hearing during the convention to hear what issues municipal officals believe will be critical in the next few years. This committee will be identifying new challenges and trends for cities and towns and recommending strategies municipalities can use to meet these challenges. During the business meeting of the convention on Monday, Oct. 16. member municipalities will adopt legislative goals and municipal policies for 1990 and elect officers and directors for 1989-90. The League is a volun tary, non-partisan federation of 486 cities, towns and villages. The League advocates municipal interests before the General Assembly, works with the Na tional League of Cities to address municipal concerns at the federal level and provides a range of scr vices to member municipalities. An Open Letter to Rep. Sidney Locks In learning that Rev. Sidney Locks, State Representative from Robeson County has decided to leave Robeson County due to his acceptance of a church pastor ship elsewhere, I immediately forwarded the following letter to Rep. Locks. Dear Reverend Locks, It saddens me deeply to learn of your plans to move from Robeson County thereby vacating your state legislative scat for Robeson County. While you and I have main tained difference styles and dif ferent strategics in the struggle lor change within Robeson County, I firmly believe that we both hold true the same goals and desires for the minority people and the poor people of Robeson C ounty. Those being a fair and impartial judicial system, law en forcement which exemplifies the highest standards within themselves and their positions thereby operating with fairness and conduct nonprejudicial to Native Americans and Black Americans and an overall en vironment and atmosphere of equality for our Brothers and Sisters who live in Robeson County. Just as we both have fought a long and diligent fight, we must continue. Surely, I am in no posi tion to judge your heart; however, as you. through the voles of thousands within Robeson County, have been plac ed in the position of leadership, I surely have the right to judge your actions. The actions of which I now speak are those which resemble a captain fleeing the sinking ship. I beseech you to reconsider how your actions shall affect every Native American, Black American and poor person who must face the wrath of the Atilla the Hun regime struggling to maintain control within Robeson County. A few years of your life surely cannot compute with the cumulative number of years which our elderly Brothers and Sisters have fought and endured. Truly, it is a frightening, lone ly and sometimes hopeless at mosphere living inside the Belly of the Beast. However, you must decide if in fact it will be more pleasant living inside the Belly of the Whale. Your Brother in the Struggle, KDDIK HATCHKR Vitalization Project Team Selected fsJC?^"onvuiian/v Axr ?/ic* North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church Vitali/ation Project have begun their training which will continue through December, the Rev. Stephen C. Compton, team leader, has announced. Assignments for the consultants will begin in January, 1990. The project is designned to promote missional growth in local congregations and promises, to bring renewed hope, vision and vitality to the churches in volved, Mr. Compton said. Selection of the 15 consultants and live alternate consultants to serve as the consultant team in the conference for the four year program were made shortly* before the training began in mid-' September. Ihe 20 member team was chosen from a field of 42 ap plicants by a selection committee consisting of Dr. Wallace H. Kir Ivy. Durham district superinten dent, ihc Rev. Albert Shtiler, conference associate director for ethnic minority Icoal church con cerns. Mrs. Jane Smith, a membcrof first UMC in Cars, and Mr. Compton. Selected as one of the alternate consultants and pari of the team was the Rev. Jerry Lowry, pastor of first UMC Pembroke-West Robeson UMC. Each consultant will be inten sively trained by Kennon L. Callahan, author of the book, twelve Keys to An Effective Church. Beginning in 1990, consultants will be assigned to one of 195 congregations to give guidance in a process of long range planning for growth in mission and ministry by the local church. I lev en consultations will be com pleted by each consultant over the four year period. Alternate team members will conduct one consultation initially, and the team leader will lead 25 consulta tions. Churches not choosing to engage in intensive consultation will benefit from Ihc project through numerous workshops and services offered through the vitali/aton office, Mr. Compton said. I he Vitali/alion Proeject is in tended to last for four years, en ding June 31. 1993. The project was enthusiastically endorsed by the members of the North Carolina Annual Conference pt a called session held at Edcnton Street Church on March 4 1989, Mr. Compton said. There are approximately 218,000 United Methodists in the 5 counties, primarily in eastern North Carolina, that encompass the North Carolina Conference. The conference has 844 churches. V
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