Tfl CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE
1 , ; ed each Thursday by First American Publications, Pembroke, NC
yOt.l'MF 21NVMHL ' IHt'RSIH), Jl'HE 27, 1996 / TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
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Crowt a of new queens-a part of Lumbee Homecoming
Little Miss Lumbee Contestants
Brittany Victoria Oxendine
Parents: Daryl <& PennyOxen
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Tara Nicole Campbell
Parents: Verdel! A Hrrmla
Hunt
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Chi am I ynn Oxendine
Parents: ferry & Cynthia
Oxendine
Allison Pot rice Bray boy
Parents: ('harles & Patricia
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Sherry Ashley ( able
Parents: Kenneth & Hynette
Coble
Illy a Nicole Hunt
Parents: Terry A (iloria
Hunt
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Angelica Marie Chavis
Parents: Don & Angel
Chavis '/
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Ashley Cos
Parents: Tommy ?S Ann Cos
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Junior Miss Lumpee Loniesianis
Carmen Paif>e Dee.se
Parents: Robert A Carolyn Dee.se
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Vidoria Shunt el Dial
Parents: dene <X (Hendu Dial
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Reah Ann Jacobs
Parents: Elton A Ellen Jacobs
St.
Mi/it)- Louise luck I ear
Parents: Jerry A Tanya / nek I car
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I atiishu l.ynne ( anuily
Puri'nls: Juntiv I '""ft
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Morgan Hrittany Hunt
Parents: Johnny A Ih'tnelrius Hunt
Holly Kristina Tyler
Steven X Harlene < untntin/ls
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l.akenya I in they tmunm'f
Kenneth X Carolyn I man m l
On Wcdnesda\. July 3 beginningal 7 p.m.. Chvna J Loeklcar. Little
Miss Lunibcc. will relinquish her crown to tltc new Little Miss Lunibcc
Shown below are the conlcstanls vying for lhat title The pageant will be
held al the Performing Arts Center on the campus of Pembroke Slate
Universil> Admission will be $(>
Sheriff Glenn Maynor
appointed to task force on
Racial and Religious Violence
Governor lim Hunt rcccnlly
announced (he 21 members of a
new task force designed to find
ways to protect churches around
the stale from racially-motivated
fires and other acts of racial and
religious violence
The task force includes state
Attorney General Mike Easley. who
will serve as chairman, Sec: of
Crime Control and Public Safety
Richard Moore. SBI Director Jim
Coman. state Sen. Jeanne Lucas of
Durham. State Rep William
wainwright of Havelock. Skip
Alston of Greensboro, acting state
president of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People; and several law
enforcement officials, citizens and
ministers from across the state
' This task force includes some
of our state's most highly qualified
law enforcement experts,
concerned citizens, legislators and
religious leaders who arc working
together to erase racial and
religious hatred." Hunt said "I
am counting on them to help us do
all we can to make sure even
church in North Carolina is
protected from these acts of
violence
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Other task force members
include. Rev Jerry Draylon
chairman of the NC Human
Relations Commission Rev
Harold Diggs chairman of the
MaftTjf Luther King Jr
Commission: Wake County
District Attorney Colon
Willoughby, U.S. Attorney for the
Western District Mark Calloway.
Police chief Donnic Parks of
Hcndcrsonville. Sheriff Glenn
May nor of Robeson County. FBI
special agent John Morlcy and ATF
special agent Mark Logan. Rev
William Barber of United Church
of Christ in Goldsboro: Rev John
D Fuller of Fayctlcvillc of the
General Baptist State Convention.
Rev. Charles von Rosenberg of St
James Episcopal Church.
Wilmington. Rev Joe Mann of
Raleigh. President of the North
Carolina Council of Churches.
Mayor Fred Yates of Winfall. Ken
Spaulding. chairman of the
Durham Committee on the Affairs
of Black People, and Valeria lee of
thcZ Smith Reynolds Foundation
The task force held their first
meeting today at 10:30 in the Press
Conference room of the
Administration Building
j Pembroke State University
becomes UNC-Pembroke
After more Chan four weeks of
! f L delay in the Legislature, the name
of Pembroke State Univesity was
officially changed to the University
of North Carolina at Pembroke
(UNC-P) Thursday The Bill was
introduced in the House by Rep
Frances M Cummings of District
87 and a companion Bill was
introduced in the Senate by retiring
Senator David Parncll.
After several weeks of delay,
the Senate decided to pass Rep
1 Cummings'bill and the University
f | became UNC-P
Rep Rah Sutton who represents
District 85 where the University is
located finally made an appeal to
both Chambers to pass tne Bill
The name change announcement
was scheduled as part of the
Lunibcc Homecoming activities
It was touch-and-go for several
days as the House and the Senate
scented to be stalled as debate went
back and forth about protocol,
tradition, and who was going to
get the credit But the House Bill
passed in time for the scheduled
H.umbcc Homecoming activities
O' ihe same evening milic same locsilion. Kclli V Wallace. Junior
M'jst.uinbce will CcliiH|uisli tier crown lot lie new Junior Miss I.uinbce
I lie conieslnnls for thai pageant arc also shown below
Native American
Medicine Show to kickoff
Lumbee Homecomine
I .umbcc Regional I >c\clopinent Association will sponsor the 2Xth
Luinbec Homecoming beginning June 2t)-Jul> 6 The agcncs has
sponsored Liinibcc I lomecoming since its inception along \\ illi the Tom n
of Pembroke Opening event for the Homecoming activities will be the
presentation of Scott Blanks and the First Annual Indian Medicine
Show This e\cnl is sponsored b\ the N C Indian Ciillural Center and
will be presented at the Performing Arts Center on the campus of
Pembroke The show begins at X p m Admission is $10 general
admission and $6 for senior ctli/cns and children 12 and over
Construction to begin on Home
Offices of Lumbee Bank
Lumbcc Guaranty Bank
announces construction of their
new Home Office located at 40.1
East Third Street. Pembroke. NC
(.across from the Post Office) The
"ground Breaking ceremony will
be held July 3, 1996 at 10 a m
This occasion marks another
milestone for Lumbcc Guaranty,
Bank This year marks the 25th'
Anniversary of Lumbcc Guaranty
Bank, according to Larry D
Chavis. President/CEO