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19 NUMBER 36 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1991 28 CENTS PER COPY
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Lumbee pow-wow to feature special
familv attractions
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Hie Lumbee Tribe's annual Raw
Wow and Cultural Festival, spon
sored by LRDA, is scheduled for
September 12-14 at the N.C. Indian
Cultural Center. Hie Row-Wow will
officially lock off Friday with Grand
Entry beginning at 6 p.m.
As an added attraction to this
year's Row-Wow, a carnival will be
set up to provide games and rides for
children and adults. Thursday night
is Family Night, admission is $6.00
per person with unlimited rides.
This year's Pow-Wow should
attract some of the best dancers from
across the country, with over $5,000
to be awarded in prize money in
dance and drum competition.
Thousands are expected to attend
this year's event to share in and learn
more about Lumbee Indian Culture
and enjoy all the activities.
Visitors can enjoy camping during
the event or canoeing on the
beautiful Cultural Center lake. Can
oes and campsites are available for
rent at the site.
Indian craftsmen and traders will
sell crafts and handmade items and
also for sale will be Indian frybread
and other food items.
Hie Pow-Wow is open to the public
This is an opportunity to enjoy
traditional Indian dancing and music
and other forms of art that were a
part of the ancient religions of Indian
cultures of the past
This event is sponsored in part by
a grant from the N.C. Arts Council.
For more information call LftDA at
(919)521-8602.
^Only in Robeson
It seems that everyone off the reservation wants to
know how to get to Gator's Country Store.
Some folks have even asked me to tell them my friend's
real name.
Well, Gator's is a real popular place on the reservation.
You can get a little credit until Saturday. You can get
those hard to find things like a new cooler shell hat and
the coldest Baptist beers in three states.
With the unemployment the way it is around the
reservation, people just hang around Gator's and talk
about Gorbachev and the price of blue corn.
So if you folks want to partake of some high level
debates and an joy a good cold Baptist beer to boot then
here's how to set to Gator's.
Ones you get to the canter of the reservation turn right
Follow that road until you pasa a cow pasture on your left.
As soon as you pass tire cow pasture you will come upon
aa intersection. Keep going on down that read a place
until you go through the swamp. After you get out of the
swamp, turn to the left at the first road and follow that
road and you can't miss Gator's.
Gator's Country Store is the one with two gas pumps.
Little Debbie cake stickers on the window and a large
green trash can with "Custer got Siouxed" painted in
white letters.
Now that you "tourists" have arrived at the
Kennebunkport for Indians, I know you will want to meet
Gator.
Gator is not his real name and for the life of me I can't
remember anyone ever calling him any other name. 1
know he has another name.
Hie word is that Gator got hia name from his younger
days when he went up north to work. It seems that Gator
bit off a finger, an ear, a toe and a nose?not off of the
same man mind you. But from four men who did not
respect Gator's heritage.
We need more Gator*
A ? A A s A
Upcoming Activities
REVIVAL PLANNED A T CHEROKEE CHURCH
Fall Revival at Cherokee Chapel Methodist Church
will be held September 18-20. Sunday night services will
begin at 7 p.m. and Monday through Friday at 7:80 p.m.
Special guest speakers and music will be featured each
night The speakers will be: Sunday night- Rev. Mike
Cummings: Monday night-Rev. Bill James Looklear
Tuesday-Rev. Donald Bullard; Wednesday- Rev. Patrick
Cummin gs: Thursday night-Rev. Johnny Chavis; Friday
night- Rev. James H. Woods.
The church ia located off Highway 71 between Red
Springe and Maxton, across from Onendine School.
The pastor, Rev. Julian Ransom, cordially invites
everyone to attend.
YOUTH CRU8ADK PLANNED
A Youth Crusade will be held at Purnell Swett High
School on Sunday, September I- through Wednesday,
September 11. Sendees begin nightly at 7 p.m. Special
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The Mitchell Family Reunion will be held Saturday.
September^,^from 11 a.n>. until 7 p.m. at Oedwin
For further information, please call Shelby Dial at
521-9761 or 422-8010 or Do vie Freeman at 788 8767.
junior msslumbee pageant 1991
The Junior Miss Lumber Pageant will be held
September 6. 1991 at 7 p.m. at the P8U Performing Arts
Center. Thirteen contestants will be competing for the
title. Admission ia 86 per person. This will be the first
Junior Miss Lumber Pageants.
"local vrw news
On September 7, 1991 the Pembroke VFW Post will
prepare an old fashioned free military breakfast. (808) st
the poet home at 8 a. m. All veterans are Invited to attend.
Harold Hunt is commander.
On September ft, the loddoar Lowry VFW post 8848
will obaarve their annual Veteran's Day Sunday at the
Rowland Church of God on Highway 180, located two
miles west of Rowland. All veterans and guests are ashed
to assemble at 10:80 a.m. (or morning worahtp and a
fellowship meal will follow.
On September 8 the Loekiear Lowry VFW feat 8848
will hold their regular monthly mooting at the post heme
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will he served at 7 p.m. Membenhip la new epea for all
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News from Compensatory Echjcatior\
Title V
Indian Education Project, TitJe V, Director Maybelle
Elk announced today that the project has scheduled
SATURDAY ACADEMY, a five-week program open to
150 students at Purnell Swett and Red Springs High
Schools.
On September 14, at both campuses, a program
especially designed to assist students in improving their
SAT scores will begin.
During the five-weeks Academy students will be taught
techniques which should improve SAT scores in math and
verbal reasoning.
One hundred eleventh and twelfth grade students from
Purnell Swett High School will be selected to participate.
Enrollment in the program is open to 50 students in
grades 9-12 at Red Springs Hieh School.
According to Ms. Elk, instructors for the Saturday
morning (8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) sessions will come from
faculty staffs within the Public Schools of Robeson
County.
"We will utilize teachers who hold expertise in
test-taking skills." the director commented.
This is the second year that the federally-funded project
has sponsored the Academy at base school sites.
"Indian Education, Title V is committed to designing
programs which help improve SAT scores for students in
Robeson County," she continued.
Five weekly sessions are scheduled for September 14;
21; 28; October 5; and 19. Ms. Elk stressed the
importance that students must understand that once they
are enrolled in Saturday Academy they are required to
attend every session.
Interested students at Purnell Swett and Red Springs
High Schools may contact Ms. Elk at the Central Office of
the Public Schools of Robeson County; or the guidance
counselors at their respective schools. Application
deadline is September 12.
Ms. Elk announced that the SAT will be administered
at Pembroke State University on December 7, and at a
location to be announced on November 12. She has
encouraged students to take the test on one of these
dates.
Pembroke Kiwanis Report by Ken Johnson
Program chairman Ron Sutton presented Judge Robert
F. Floyd of the Robeson County District Court System.
Judge Floyd is from Fairmont and a graduate of Campbell
Law School.
'**Ihe responsibilities are many including juvenile
cases, child and spouse abuse, divorce, first offender
criminal cases, basically the cases we deal with are non
jury cases, civil cases and driving under the influence.
Our court has nothing to do with insurance cases. We
have manxdout cases. It seems that poverty brings on
these problems where an easy quick dollar is needed. So
many of them turn to selling drugs. We see this problem
more and more, as poverty and drugs go hand in hapd.
Our prison facilities are over crowded. We have house
arrests, probations, community services, misdemeanors.
DWIs with 60 days to 2 years incarceration,. 10 is enough
for conviction. Any time you drink you are at risk.
Insurance rates go up from $2500 to $4100. Child abuse
cases are among the worst as the inability to testify is
prevalent in children."
The club voted $100 to the Durham McDonald House.
The Kiwanis Family Day will be held on Sept. 7 at the
Boys and Girls Home at Lake Waccamaw. Dr. Rim berg
announced Circle K Club at the College is being
reactivated and their officers will attend next Tuesday's
Kiwanis meeting. Also on September 16th a Town
Meeting type of meeting will be held at the Lumberton
Civic Center at 6:30 p.m. Buddy Bell. Clay Maynor, Mitch
Lowry and Judy Revels attended the Lumberton Club last
.Thursday at the Southern Kitchen.
Members ti the Elisabeth ton Kiwanis Club attended
oar club including LL Gov. Jerome Jospeh who spoke of
the need for us to increase our merrle.-ihip and we
extend an invitation to people who wish ? help us to serve
the community of FVmbrohe. We need you.
Pre siding-Clay Maynor invocation Garth Lockiear.
song leader- Ed Teete; Program Ron Sutton; Reporter
Ken Johnson.
LOOKING BACK...
Summer1954?All Star Teener Baseball Team
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Thirty seven summers ago John W. "Ned" Sampson, a
beloved Lumber Indian coach of Robeson County,
brought together a group of young Native Americans to
form an all-star teener baseball team.
To form the team Sampson drafted players which had
shown athletic potential and excellence in their schools
and communities. In the spring of 1954. selected players
from Pembroke, Magnolia, and Prospect schools
re pro ted to practice at Pembroke State College's baseball
field.
Pembroke businessman Hubert Oxendine coordinated
a financial drive to local merchants to purchase uniforms
for the players Pembroke VFW Post 2843 became the
team's official sponsor.
Under the leadership of Coach Sampson, and with the
support of their respective communities, the young
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athletes swept their district as champions and achmneed
as participants in the statewide teener baseball
tournament held thai year in Monrne, NT.
During the first round of competition the Native
American All Nar Team defeated the Monroe team
before falling to Iincotnlon in the second round.
Those representing the team were: foreground:
Tecumeeh R. Brayboy, m. bat boy. Front row. kneeling,
left to right: Jeffery Maynor. Tim Brayboy; Horace Hunt:
Roderick Usitlear; Jackie Rav Iss-klear: H. Dobbs
Onendine. Jr.: Pumell Locklear and George Hayes
"Ronie" Sampson. Rack row standing: Welton loeMear:
ttaroid thavis; haodali L'havia; Abner Lowry Jr.; Adrian
Woodell: McKinlny Jones, Jr.: and Pete Butler,
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