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RECEPT] N PLANNED FOR NC.HOUSE
CANDir ATE LARRY TOWNSEND
Larry Tovnseru!
A Fund-Raising Reception for Larry Townsend, 1992 at the Pembroke Jaycee Hul from 3 until 6 p.m.
candidate for the N.C. House of Representatives, District Townsend, a Lumbee Indian, is a native of Robeson
XV Wake County. The reception will beheld February 2, County.
Under the
Pome
Candidate emerges
from new district
When legislators drew new
boundaries for state House dis
tricts in Wake County, they lured
Larry M. Townsend into the spot
light, so to
speak.
Mr. Townsend,
44, of Raleigh,
said the new
lines have con
vinced him It is time to chase a
lifelong dream ? winning a seat
in tlx General Assembly.
The district he wants to repre
sent is a new one with no incum
bent. Generally speaking, it takes
in a portion of southeast Wake
County.
"I have thought about it since 1
was in Vietnam in 1960," Mr.
Townsend said. Back then, "I said
to myself 'Why am I here?' and 1
thought about various things and
the common answer was politics,
politics, politics."
Mr. Townsend, a Lunibee Indi
an, said he.pconusedJMnaeU.4hen
he would do whatever he could to
get involved in the political pro
cess and to help shape govern
ment policy.
Since then, the Southern Bell
technician has helped in the politi
cal campaigns of Democrats run
ning at virtually every level of
government.
He was a Michael S. Dukakis
delegate to the 1988 Democratic
National Convention and a fellow
at the Institute of Political Lead
ership in Wrightsville Beach in
1989.
He is a member of the commit
tee that has been working on
legislation thqt would award offi
cial government recognition of the
Lumbees. The measure recently
passed the U.S. House.
He was president of the Trian
gle Native American Society, a
group formed in 1989 to promote
and protect Native Americans. He
intends to run, he said, as the
jyorking roan s candidate.
"We're looking at workplace
fairness," he said. "We're looking
at tax equity. We're looking at the
dignity of the working class."
'We're looking at
workplace fairness.
We're looking at tax.
equity. We're looking at
the dignity of the
working class.'
- Larry W. Townsend,
state House hopeful
Reprinted from
RALEIGH
NEWS AND OBSERVER
Nov. 4, 1991
NC Commission on Archives & History
Honored for book on Lumbee Methodists
RALEIGH ? The North Ca
rolina Conference Commiuion on
Archives and History has received
an award from the North Carolina
Society of Historians for the book
"The Lumber Methodista* Get
ting to Know Them" by Stwfli and
Smith.
A "Special Merit Award" in the
Religious Section of the Society's
1991 history book award), was
presented to the commiuion Nov.
Rep
2, during the annual meeting of
the North Carolina Society of
Historians, at the Brownstone Inn
here.
Mrs. CW. Twiford, Goldsboro,
a member of the North Carolina
Conference Commission on Ar
chives and History, has been
named "Historian of the Year in
the East" by the NC Society of
Historians. She was recognized at
the Nov. 2 meeting.
rintcd from NC Christian
Those attending were Joseph
and Jane Smith, Cliff Shoaf,
Harry Gatton, Pat Bailey, Mrs.
Twiford and Lawrence Lugar.
The book can be purchased
from the commission by sending
S8.95 for softback books and
$14.95 for hardback books to the
NC Conference on Archives and
History, P.O. Box 10953, Raleigh,
NC 27605.
Advocate
DINNER MEETING SCHEDULED FOR
DUCKS UNLIMITED CHAPTER
The first chapter of Ducks Unlimited in this area will
host a dinner January 31 at the Pembroke Jaycee Hut the
Pembroke Chapter of Ducks Unlimited is the first
minority chapter of the organization in this area. Ducks
Unlimited is concerned with conservation efforts and
strives to restore, conserve and create wet lands.
January 31 meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will
include door prizes. The president of the local chapter is
David Brooks. More information on this organization is
available by calling 521-3431. Local hunters are working
toward conservation of wet lands and encouraging
the increase of ducks in the area. Dues for Ducks
Unlimited are $40 and memberships will be available at
the door.
I Pembroke Kiwanis Report
1 Attorney Ron Sutton was the Tuesday night speaker
discussing "Redistricting." He was presented by
Resident Clayton Maynor.
This plan has District 16, the white; District 85, the
Indian and District 87, the Black. And Robeson County
haa three at large members. What is redistricting and
why. The Legislature every ten years as a result of
1990 census report submits to the courth system for
approval befor it is enacted. This year Robeson County
picks up an additional number. The Voting Rights Act
does not allow the deletion of a district Congress must
stay away from gerrymandering, the impn>per districting.
The speaker presented each Kiwanian with a drawn out
maps of the proposed districting.
Speaker Sutton presented Representative Adoiph Dial.
"Constitutionally speaking-every ten years rediatricting
takes place. Done through a mandate and the Justice
Department approve it. Creating minority districts, but
this does not mean it will help minorities. As both major
parties are looking out for themselves." Dial is not
running this year as his health will not permit it.
Presiding-Clay Maynor; invocation- Albert Hunt; song
leader Ed Teeta; program- Ron Sutton; reporter Ken
Johnson.
Pumell Swett High School nominated eleven seniors for
the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program.
The program was designed in order to meet the
increasig demand for top-guidili/ teachers for North
Carolina's public schools, the General Assembly in 1986
established the North Carolina Teaching Fellows
Program.
The most ambitions teacher recruitment in the nation,
the Teaching Fellovs Prognmt provides $5,000 per gear
for a maximum of four years of college to as many as 400
high school seniors nho agree to teach in North Carolina's (
public schools after graduating from college.
The program is governed by the Ninth Carolina
Teaching Fellows |Commission, ii grup of eleven
individuals who njw ajgniinteil butke Govt mor.
Ueuiemini'Qo've'rnor, uam Ffwohe r of Ike House. The
program is administered by the hublic Sckooi rorum of
S'orth Carolina.
Students nominated from hi nu ll Swett High School
were: ("aria Char-is, Shanhntia ("hart's, Emily Cram,
Ixslie Epps, Aanrti I/wklear, hiwrence T. Ittddear,
Stacey Ltcldear |rmt pictured], John K. Lowery, Dawn
Ijowry, Lucy Mat/nor, and Jacqueline Strickland.
The qualifications for becoming a Teaching Fellow are
stringent. Applicants are screened and interviewed by
committees nithin their schmd district and, then, by a
regional screening committee. Hoth the local and regional
committee examine a number of criteria, including high
school grades, renting samples, class standing, SAT
scores and extra-curricular activities.
The Teaching FcUows Fntgram is succeeding in
lUtraciiysi ,\orth Carolina's hrufktest ami best (biilrnlt
into teaching.
/n a middle school reading program, sponsored by the
PSU men's basketball team, Robeson County school
children were encouraged to read as many books as
possible. Title of teh program was: "Athletes and iA-atlers
Looking for Readers." PSI' basketball players and
community leaders visited the various schools promoting
the effort. There weie some 80 uitmers hi the program.
and these seem uere recognized during halftime of the
Jan. 11 PSl'basketball game uith Mt. Olive. Left to right,
they are: front row-Cherry Ann Hunt, Omtm Middle;
Tony Bridgett, Fairmont Middle; IjeTonya Jones,
Farrgmve; Itack rmv-Kimberiy McNeill, Red Springs;
Kevin Leach, Carroll Middle; Catherine Britt, Omtm
Middle; and Amanda Reeves, Fairgrove.
Fleetwood Hornet ?i Pembroke, a subsidiary of
Fleetwood Enterprises,, rankt safety a top priority.
Fleetwood pibducet 3,000 hornet annually, and shipg to
190 retail centers in the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern
region and hat an annual rate of employment of HO
associates.
A plate associate administered safety program has
steered the plant in a whole new nay of doing business
where safety comet first. The concept uns instituted by
an 8-member panel of production line associates uho
worked in various areas of the plant. The plant sets and
tracks goals, solicits safety suggestions, ononis prises
and maintains an open line of communication.
The safety committee stresses that a clean, safe work
?* ? f! ; * .' ' y ' I
environment ainiti all associate* m producing a clean,
quality product. According to Bobby Barnes, the Safety
Committee Chairman, the last lost-time accident was in
March of 1990. Jhey currently ahve 780,000 man-safe
hours and are making plans for uhen they uill reach the
plant's first million man-safe hours celebration.
The safety attitude is t<ery prevalent at Fleetwood
Home* m Pembroke. The total commitment of all plant
associates has helped the Pembroke facility to reach goals
that were once thmught unobtainable.
Shoum in the photo above: first row, left to tight.
Chairman Bobiy Barnes; Helen Orendine; Julian
Sanderson. Second row: Michael Orendine, Roy Lea
McCallum, Jeffery Cummings and Skeet Cummmgs.
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