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Aobeson County Talent Show Planned
A tobeson C< unty Talent
Show is being >lanned for
Janua y 19, 1990 it Pembroke
Elem< itary School beginning at
7:30 r .m. The evei is sponsored
by the Concerned Citizens for
Better Government.
Local talent is being recruited
td participate. Anyone interested
in competing for various prizes
snould call 521-0349 or 521-4298.
The winner of the talent show
will have their video sent to
Talent Search and many be eligi
ble to perform on that national
television show.
Pete Hasty files for 5th
term in House
Jokn C. [Pete]Hasty
Incumbent Representative John C.
(Pete) Hasty (D-Robeson) announced
today that he has filed for re-election
to the North Carolina House of
Representatives. Hasty was first
elected in 1982 to serve in the 1983
Legislative Session and is 'now
serving his fourth term in the House.
"I feel that my eight years of
experience will enable me to serve all
of the citizens of the 18th District. It
has really been a privilege and honor
to have been chosen by the people of
Robeson. Scotland and Hoke Coun
ties. No one ever had a better District
to represent.
"During my four terms. I have
tried to promote this District as a
good place to locate industry to
provide jobs for our people. As a
result, I have been able to meet and
work with those, both in government
and private industry, who are in a
position to help locate jobs for the
District. I plan to continue working to
promote more and better paying
jobs.
"Also since I have served as
Commerce Chairman, I have worked
with Tourism, Banks, Savings and
Loan, Business and Labor subcom
mittees under the Commerce Com
mittee which has helped me to
understand the total development of
the District: such as the promotion of
the Indian Cultural Center which
promises to be a big tourist attraction
to the area. The insurance area in
both health and auto insurance has
provided many opportunities to deal
with problems that plague and effect
our citizens.
"Experience ia so necessary to
deal with high property taxes,
expensive medical costs and promote
good jobs and economic growth. I
have not finished the job which i
thought I could do when I was
elected 1983. I want to use my
experience to serve the people
again."
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Hasty was born in Maxton.
graduated from Maxton High School,
attended Presbyterian Junior College
and graduated from UNC with a
degree in Business Administration.
His wife is the former Betty
Upehurch of Raeford, and they have
three children: John, Jr. of Raeford,
Elizabeth of Atlanta, Ga. and Flora
McCook of Laurinbuig; two grand
daughters, Currie and Natalie
McCook.
In addition to serving in the
legislature, he hiss been a member of
the Executive Committee of Scotland
Memorial Hospital since 1970, May
or of Maxton, served the Laurin
burg-Maxton Airport Commission
and a member of the Planning
Commission for the Town of Maxton.
He is an active member of St. Paul's
United Methodist Church In Maxton
and a former Jayeee. Hasty is an
Eagle Scout and has served as
President of the Cape Fear Council
and Board Member for many years,
he received the Silver Beaver
Award in 1977. In 1987, the Boy
Scouts honored him again by naming
the Eagle Banquet of that year the
John C. (Pete) Hasty Banquet. He
was for 34 years associated with the
insurance business 31 of those
years in Maxton. He is presently
engaged in the real estate business.
Public Schools Drug
Awareness Program to
begin at PSU
The Crime Education and Preven
tion Programs, Inc. which was
organised in Robeson County last
May, will start the visitation of public
school groups to the PSU campus for
drug breifing Wednesday, January
17, at 10 a.m., announced Burt
Dickison, executive director of the
program.
A busload of public school young
sters will be welcomed to the PSU
campus at 10 a.m. on that day and
instructed in Room 204 of the PSU
Business Administration Building.
The briefinf will include a special
video presentation narrated by Dr..
Horace Baker, chairman of the Board
of Directors of Crime Education and
Prevention Programs, Inc.
Criminal Justice students of PSU
will be assisting in hosting the public
school students.
The Robeson County Sheriffs
Dspartment's new mobile drug exhi
bit van will also be at PSU on that
date for visitation, said Dickison. The
32 by 3 fopt mobile uit was first
unveiled in September.
Dickison had had new poster*
printed about drug awareness which
he says are being put up in every
classroom in the county. The posters
were printed through the courtesy of
Southern National Bank.
Dlustraled by Shirley Eaton of
Fairmont, the posters include in their
message: "Results and consequen
ces of the illegal use of drugs and
alcohol: Destroys self respect, de
stroys self control, destroys personal
health, destroys family relationships,
destroys community program. Don'tr
reach out Addiction is only an arm's
length away. Drug bee schools. A
drug free county. Together we can
make a difference."
Dickison said that a copy of this
poster has reached the CBS televi
sion program, "48 Hours," hosted
by Dan Rather, because he received
a telephone call from Randy Morri
son. one of (he program directors,
showing interest in the Robeson
County offensive against drugs.
"Our drug program is on go," said
Dickison. "We are ready."
Fred Williams to Speak
at Monthly Meeting
of Pembroke VFW
Locklear-Lowry VFW Post 2843
of Route 1 Pembroke, will hold their
regular monthly meeting Monday,
January 15,1990 at the poet home on
Union Chapel Road. Supper will be
nerved at 7 p.m. Mr. FVed Williams.
IVoeident of Robe eon Community
CoOefo, will be tile guest speaker at
the Joint business session. All
members are asked to attend. Any
veteran interested in the benefits of
the VFW or joining may call Mr.
Ardell Jacobs, the Poet QM. at
521-2813 for information, or contact
any VFW member. W.D. Oxendine
is Boat Commander.
Pembroke
Kiwanis
Report
Royce McNeil, the new Director of
Athletics at Purnell Swell Hig<?
School was the speaker at the weekly
meeting held at the Town and
Country Restaurant. Mr. McNeil was
presented by Program Chairman
Buddy Bell.
The Purnell Swell athletic program
includes football, varsity and j.v., a
good cheer leading program, also in
the fall is women's gold, cross
country for both men and women.
The winter program includes varsity
and J.v. basketball for both men and
women, varsity wrestling. Women's
volleyball is in the fall. The spring
sports include varsity baseball and as
Mr. McNeil said tjie Pembroke junior
leagues is a fine place for the sport u>
begin and many grow up to become
good high achool players. Track.
Softball for women and men'a golf
make up the spring program. The
American Legion baseball program
haa also helped in developing our
varsity players. The program also
includes weight lifting for off season
conditioning. A total of 18 sports plue
p.e. for the freshmen students makes
up the total sports program. In
addition, the fine band sets off a real
good athletic program.
Mr. McNeil urged members to join
the Purnell Swett Boosters Club and
also become boosters of the Purnell
Swett Band.
Presiding: President Ron Sutton;
Invocation-IVte Jacobs; Song Lead
?r toy towiy; Program Buddy Bell;
Reporter Ken Johnson.
Three Named Morehead
11 Finalists
Three high school seniors trom
Robeson County have been chosen to
represent the South Central Region
of North Carolina at the final level of
competition for the Moiehead Schol
arship Award.
Finalists are Katherine Parker
McLean of Lumberton Senior High
School, Kenric Allen Maynor of
Lumberton Senior High School and
Nanci Paige Loddear of Pumell
Swett High School
The three were chosen from
among twenty-two students through
out the South Central Region of
North Carolina who had been nomi
nated by their respective counties, i
according to Mike Mclntyre, Chair
man of the Robeson County More
head Scholarship Selection Commit
tee. Mclntyre announced the names
of the finalists after receiving
notification from the John Motley
Moiehead Foundation in Chapel HOI.
Mclntyre stated that this marks
the first time that all three nominees
from Robeson County have advanced
together to the final level of
competition. Two candidate advan
ced to the final level in 1973.
Katherine Parker McLean, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm
H. McLean m of Lumberton, aspires
to become a medical doctor or to
study the French language. She is
currently serving as secretary of the
student body at Lumberton High
School as well as president of the
Penny Bunch Club. She has also
served previously as treasurer of
student body and as president of the
National Junior Honor Society. She
participated ip the Student Sympos
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ium of the Constitution of the United
States, and in regional and state
Math Counts competition. She is
ranked Number One in her class and
she has received a Commendation for
the National Merit Scholarship, the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion Excellence in American History
Medal and the Presidential Acade
mic Fitness Award. She has lettered
in tennis and she has been very
active in the First Baptist Church
Youth Group, Youth Choir and Clown
Ministry.
Kenric Allen Maynor, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn A. Maynor of
Lumberton, is President of the
Student Body at Lumberton High
School and sports editor for the
school newspaper. He has participa
ted in the Rotary Leadership Confer
ence. Quiz Bowl Team, Governor's
School East, 4-H Club, and several
other school clubs. He has also
served as high school liaison for the
Human Relations Board and as
student representative for the Indian
Educational Organisation. He is a
member of the National Honor
Society and was named as the
baseball team's Most Valuable Play
er last year. Hs> aspires to a career as
a Sports medicine specialist, physical
therapist, or lawyer.
Nanci Paige Loddear, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Duane
Loddear of IVm broke is president of
the senior class at Purnell Swett High
School and secretary of the student
body. She also is secretary of the
National Honor Society and has
participated in chorus performances
the Robeson County Fair and in a
Went show. She was selected to
attend Governor's School, the West
Point Workshop, and the Cullowhee
Experience at Western Carolina
University. She* has lettered in
basketball and tennis and has
received awards as the Most Impro
ved Flayer in tennis, basketball, and
softball. She has also been named
the Most Outstanding Dancer and is
assistant teacher in her church's
Sunday School. She is ranked
Number-One in her class at Pumell
fiwett High School. She aspires to a
career as a college professor, derma
tologist or fashion designer.
Morehead Awards are presented
each year to public and private high
school seniors who have demonstra
ted exceptional qualities of leader
ship, academic standing, character
and physical vigor. The scholarship,
which is worth $36,000, pays for the
entire coat of an undergraduate
education at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel HOI.
Mclntyre said that final interviews
will be held March 8 through March
6, 1990 in Chapel Hill. Hte three
students from Robeson County will
be joined by 120 other finalists from
across North Carolina and the United
States who will compete for the
scholarship.
There have been nine winners of
the Morehead Scholarship Award
from Robeson County since the
program was established in 1945.
First Coach of Pembroke
State Recalls Athletic Era
J. PAUL SAMPSON, Pembroke
Stale's first athletic director aad
coach.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: J. Paal
Sampson, the first athletic direc
tor and coach of Pembroke Stale
College when It became a four
year school in the. 1939-40
academic year, recently retained
to the PSU campus from his
home in Decatur, III., Hecame
for the inauguration of new PSU
Chancellor Joaeph B. Oxeadine.
With Mm was Ms wife,
former Kathrya Page! of Eff
ingham, Dl. Sampson, now 77,
shares ia this first persoa article
the fascinating story of the laun
ching of a new Pembroke State
atMetic era at that time when the
institution was establishing
athletic relations with other
schools. He also tells of the hixu
ty of the college's first gym,
which wm completed In 1939, the
conditions that PSU teams travel
ed under in those days-aad recalls
salaries of that ear prior to the
U.S.'s entrance
entrance into World War II. H
makes amemoraMe story.)
by J. Pant Sampson
Pembroke Stale AtMetic Director
And Coach From 1939-41
In 1939 the Pembroke High
School was moved into a new
building west of teh college. I was
the high school coach and had
just completed a successful yea
rof coaching by having and
undefeated football team. Curt
Locklear, James and T.B.
Sanderson, John R. Lowry,
Glenn Lowry, George Dial, Earl
Cummings, Donny Woodell,
English Jones and Earl Sheppard
were some of the team members.
I'm sorry I can't remember the
whole roster.
I was hired by Mr. G.G.
Maughon, Pembroke State Col
lege superintendent, to be coach
and ahtletic director. My salary
was a whopping $1,200 a year.
That was great because I had
startedteaching in 1937 for $73
per month.
Before I had drawn a paycheck
or attended a faculty meeting, I
started by pioneer joumey. Since
I had already started attending
summer sessions at the University
of Illinois, I decided to get some
help in constructing a curriculum
in physical education. University
of Illinois faculty could not
believe it. Here was at teacher do
ing it all-teaching and coaching
both boys and girls.
Everything worked out
beautifully. The students looked
forward to their P.E. classes. A
new world had been opened to
them. Instead of poor facilities
and facing the elements out
doors, hers was a new building
called a gymnasium. It had cen
tral heat, rooms for class instruc
tion and a spacious floor for
basketball, volleyball, handball
and other activities. T~he elevated
bleacher seats provided good
comfort and viewing. Instead of
their customary Saturday night
weekly bath standing in a tub
back of the kitchen stove,
students had shower stalls with
hot and cold running water. In
stead of bringing their equipment
to school in paper bags, they had
lockers. Indoor toilets were really
appreciated. No more Sears and
Roebuck or Montgomery Ward
catalog "tissue."
As the college year started in
1939, the most challenging part
of my job lay ahead: how to build
roads and bridges that would lead
to friendly cultural relations with
neighboring institutions in our
tri-racial culture. Die next few
paragraphs contain some per
sonal background information.
Many years ago, the Pembroke
community started using baseball
to start the mixing-bowl process.
We played a high level of semi
professional baseball that at
tracted good teams to the com
munity. I remember a 1931 tour
into western North Carolina
where we played several all-star
teams. We were well received and
put up in local homes.
I left Pembroke in 1933 with
nine dollars in my pocket and the
promise of an athletic scholarship
to attend McKendree College in
Legation, III. It was 900 miles
aways. rhree hitchhiking days
later I arrived safely.
I was born into Oscar R. and
Susie Sampson household of IS
children, being No. 11. My father
was a teacher, farmer and
preacher. (PSU's Sampson Hall
was named after Oscar R. Samp
son). He had instilled in me, by
word and example, that in
preparing for the future 1 would
need all the education 1 could get. <
I accepted much of his
philosophy.
I believe submission to God is
the beginning of knowledge/
When we put ourselves in His
hands, He puts His peace in our
hearts. Being at peace crowds out
anxiety and worry in my opinion.
I have a real bond and
closeness to PSU. My father was
one of the early activities for
education. He saw the need to
move education beyond the
elementary level to secondary and
higher. His efforts were rewarded
in 1898 when the various leaders
from surrounding communities
got together and formed their
first education district. They
elected him chairman of the
Board of Trustees, a position he
held until his untimely and sud
den death in 1928. But his work
had been done. High schools had
been established in every com
munity, and the groundwork had f
been laid for higher education.
With these experiences and
orientations, I was fortunate to
have been in the right spot at the
right time.
I immediately after the of the
1939-40 school year, I began to
contact schools within a 200-mile
range. I realized that we could
not take on their varsity teams,
but we might be able to play a
respectable game against thdr
junior varsity teams, fwas able to
schedule an adequate basketball
and baseball program on a home
and-homc basis.
The day arrived for our first
basketball road trip. Our desitna
'tion: Boiling Springs, NC , some
200 miles away. The student body
and faculty came out in front of
the school to guve us a tuonnlous
send-off. The college did not own
a vehicle orprovide money for
travel. Local men donated or
drove their cars.
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