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THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE Published each Thursday by First American Publications, Pembroke, NC 100th V.F.W. Anniversary I Veterans Sunday observed at Mission Church Pembroke, N.C. | Sunday sept. 12th, 1999 (Veterans Sunday ) The V.F.W. Post was guest at Mission Church Rd. with Rev. Crites Oxendine's congregation. Several Post Members arrived early enough to participate in the Sunday School Class of the adults. As you know by my reports each year a different church has graciously invited us to have service with them every veterans Sunday. This Sunday celebration we had 50 + members & the Ladies Auxiliary in this very moving celebration. The Sunday School Adult's Class had a very good topic which appropriately coincide with the Sundays Veteran Sunday Service." The title (Am 1 My Brothers Keeper). As 1 arrived with my guest "Master Joshua Simmons" we were, greeted by Ms.Cynthia of Cyria's Jewelers who escorted us and others to the sanctuary where the adult class was underway. She was a very excellent greeter for this occasion always very courteous and a big smile on her face. As the story in the Holy Bible goes "Cain slew his Brother Able and tried to hide this hideous murder from every one at the time .but God spoke to h im and asked where is your Brother Able? Which he replied I don't * know! Am 1 my Brothers keeper? God knew what he had done and told him so and put a mark on him forever that no man would take his life. So you see by this lesson, yes we are our Brothers Keeper. The church choir was singing as I we marched into the sanctuary, between the piano & several guitars praise began to flow from several songs. Every one was welcomed by Rev. Oxendine who later introduced our Post Chaplain, Mr. Archie Oxendine. He introduced the Post Officers who were present following his greetings to the Pastor & Congregation for inviting us on this occasion. He gave a very uplifting talk as always as to what the V.F.W. is about as we help others. He had an alter call which was very moving as men & women gather sd around the alter. Rev. George Locklear led the prayer. Rev. Oxendine presented the Post with a very nice plaque with the churches thoughts inscribed on it. Grace was said before we entered the fellowship hall overflowing with all kinds of meats, vegetables, and a huge variety of desserts. The tables decorated with the flag, red, white & blue tinsel on white table cloths. As usual 1 wanted to try a little of everything (no room for the chicken & pastry) it looked so tempting. You of the Post that did not attend. Don't know what you were missed unless you are watchingyour waist line. Seriously 1 want to thank the ladies & men for making us feel very welcome and helping us put on a pound or two. May God Bless you and yours. Thank you (or helping us celebrate Veterans Sunday. Erwin Jacobs, Post Advocate, VFW Post #2843 J Memorial Day Service at Pembroke Town Park, May 31st, 1999. I North Carolina declared major disaster area The White House informed Senator John Edwards on Thursday that President Clinton declared a major disaster in North Carolina and ordered federal aid to help state and local recovery efforts in areas struck by Hurricane Dennis. The declaration makes federal fundsavailableto individuals in Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Hyde and Pamlico counties. The assistance includes emergency housing and low-cost loans to cover | uninsured property losses for indiv idual and businesses. Senator Edwards had tjrgcd the White House to grant thd disaster relief sought by Governor am Hunt "For days. North Caroifna coast was battered by this sloim./fhc wind and water damage broughtjpn by the storm is well beyond the stye's capabilities." Senator E^vards^said in a letter to President Clinton " Alt hough disaster assessments continue today/ it is clear federal assistance will be needed " Damage surveys arc continuing in other areas of North Carolina, and additional counties may be added to the disaster area after damage assessments arc completed Residents and business owners who sustained losses in the designated counties may begin applying for assistance on Friday by calling 800-462-9029 or 800-462-7585 for the hearing and speech impaired: j Rend^z^p^vith Navy Shipmates from Korean wpr Era, WW II & Vietnam On Thursday morninj^-Atlgust 19, 1999 Seaman 1st Class Erwin Jacobs boarded a Southwest Airlines 737 Airplane to a convention with personnel of the Navy Amphibious Ship, the USS George Clymer APA 27 held in San Diego, California where their home port was in the United States. During his stay from 1952 until 1955 while state side he lived and sailed aboard the ship two and one-half years, having sailed to the Orient three cruises. He had not seen or heard from many of his shipmates since 1953, until a call last summer from his buddy, Mr. Loy Gene Fletcher. After writing a letter to him in Artesia, New Mexico, a planned reunion was underway for all who had served on this war ship from World War II until it was decommissioned during the V ietnam Era. Jacobs got to be with twenty of his shipmates and others who had served on the ship in three wars. The reunion was from August 19 until August 22nd. Having waited since the summerofl953untilthe 19thofAugust to see his close ship mate, Seaman Loy G. Fletcher, which they had planned to meet at the San Diego Airport, Jacobs arrived at 12:00 noon. It was 3 3/4 hours until Fletcher's flight would arrive. It was well worth the almost four hours wait since he had waited since 1953 to get to see his big brother. What a time they had greeting each other and getting to meet Mrs. Fletcher for the first time. Both Jacobs and fletcher had lost a son in less than a year. Fletcher's son died in October 1998, Jacobs son was beaten to death August 10, 1999. There were many years of catching up to do since they were young sailors. Time was very precious and they spent many hours of the three days with each other, remembering old ship mates and months spent on the ship to Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and other ports the ship travelled to. This was the sixth reunion but the first for Jacobs. At the dinner and last meeting at the P?cd Fox Restaurant near Balboa, Captain Edward Hunt, U.S. Navy (retired) gave the history of the George Clymer APA 27 commissioned years of active duty and a farewell speech to all who attended this reunion. We all teamed from Mr. Fred Pellegrene and other speakers the fate of our dear old Navy home. It rests on the ocean floor off San Diego, California. The ship was named for George Clymer, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. He lived in what is nowClymer, Pennsylvania where a ship museum is housed. 1 donated my ship cruise from 1954 with all men and places we cruised in a book for the museum which we plan to see at the seventh reunion next year in Clymer, PA. I he photo below shows Mr. Erwin Jacobs in striped shirt, his big brother Seaman Loy Fletcher, his lovely wife, jean; Charles Ackert. standine and Boatsman Mate Second Class Bill Webber at brunch in the Hotel Breakfast Room. Thirty-eight men and spouses attended this reunion. (News and photo submitted by Erwin Jacobs. SM 1st Class. 1st Division USS GeorgeClymer APA 27-1952-1955. now residing in Maxton. NC. (910) 844-9697.) Public Library to sponsors bnok sale The Robeson County Public Library Annual Book Sale will be September 23. 24 and 25 Ft will be Held in the warehouse on First Street across front the Luniberton Library lhc library is located at 101 Norih ??. It will run from 9:00 am until 6 00 pm on September 24. and from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm on September 25 Special events will be held on opening night only The D A.R E Band will play from 5-6 pm. There will be sloiy-tellingfrom 5:30-6.30pm and at 6:30 pm the Public Schools of Robeson County Studio Lab One w ill present AMidsummcrNighi'sniYvim in the library garden In addition to these activities the Robeson County Heritage Showcase Museum Building w ill open w ith the Military exhibit the Fireman's Museum Building will be open with ;i corn of the plans for renovation, the CTuldrcn'sTlaee crF" Robeson. Inc Hands-On-Lcnrmug Lab building \yill be open with the plans for renoynlion and the .iDrary's site for the new Osieinech Audilomini will be open for rcy icw. Sybil Bullard appointed to FSA Committee Agnculturc. Dan Glickman. has appointed Sybil I Bullard of Pembroke. NC. as an Advisor to the North Carolina Farm service Agency (FSA) State Committee^ She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Davidson College in 1980. After working with Wachovia ? ? f rusl and attending the MBA Program at Wake Forest University, she returned to Robeson ? 0l!nlv 10 manage the family Owned business. J R. Jones Grain Inc. and Red Springs Milling Mrs Bullard serv es on theCorponilc Board of Directors at Lumbce Guaranty Bank. President of Southeastern Utilities Development. Inc. member or the Board of Directors of Southeastern Grain and Feed. Chairs lhc Robeson County Communities in oc I fools Boiird. and serves as a memher of the Board of Trustees at (he Uni versity of North Carolina at Pembroke She attends Pembroke First United Methodist Church She is married to Danny Bullard Nicy have (wo children. Ehka is 7 years old and Amber is 11 years old Local church presednts "Prodigal Son" ar,?!?/?r Wilkins conDlav "PmH-V,t.ecyOU ,0 See ,heir L.' P/od'8al Son" on Fridav night, September 24, 1999 at 7 P-m. at the Youth of Christ Holiness Church, Hwy 71, between ' ffiT a"d thC CcaPbell Soup | , Crazy Horse Open House to Feature Wampum Belt (Crazy Horse Mew., Su) ? An elaborate replica of the famous George Washington Covenant Wampum Belt has been presented to Crazy Horse Memorial. The belt is six feet long and contains about 10,000 glass beads. It was a gift from the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina of the League of the Iroquois Confederacy. The belt will be on display during the annual Labor Day Weekend Open House at Crazy Horse Memorial Sal - Mon... Sept 4-6. DuringOpen House Admission is free for residents of N D:, S.D., Wyo. and the Ncbr.. Panhandle. A donation of canned goods for the KOTA Care and Share Food Drive is encouraged The paving ofUS 16/385 has been completed, and traffic again is flowing normally on the newly rebuilt concrete highway. Monday Night Blast This year's Open House will include a night blast on the mountain car\ ingon Mon.. Sept. 6lh. That date traditionally includes a night blast because it is the dual anniversary of the 1877 death of Cra/y Horscandthc 1908 birth of Cra/y Horse sculptor Kore/ak Ziolkowski WctUher permitting. the night blast will be approximately 7:45 P.M on Labor Day It will include several ceremonial fireballs, and it also will remove a large quantity of granite Friendship and Brotherhood ThcTuscarora Nation had the his toric wampum bell recreated cspc;ially for the Crazy Horse Memorial, md Chief Leon Locklcar presented it "in friendship and Brotherhood, to share some of our historv with other people." About 40 tribal representatives accompanied Chief Locklcar to Cra/> Horse for the recent presentation of the belt which had been blessed in the longhousc of the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina. "The original George Washington Covenant Belt, the longest wampum belt extant in the United States, testified to the friendship between the original 13 colonics,..represented by 13 of the figures of the figures'on the bell, and Six Nations of the Iroquois, represented by two figure grasping a longhousc." said Dr| James Gillihan of New Harmony, litliana. art expert on Native Amcricanfartifacts. "It w as given by tfc Iroquois either at a conference wiljf Colonial representatives at Albanian 1775 or at the Treaty between thefroquqis and the United Sates signed^'Jan 9, J 789 at Port Harmnr." he said / The replica was made for the Tuscarora Nation by Wyandot (Huron) artist George "Star" Ewalt of Pennsylvania who Spent about three months creating it. He made a personal gift of a wampum belt and choker in honor of his father George Ewalt. Sr These two items were made in the traditional way with Quahog clam shells Educational Tool "The Washington Wampum Belt is a very distinctive addition to our Museum, and it is a beautiful and effective educational tool." said Mrs. Korczak (Ruth) Ziolkowski. chairman of the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation "It also helps underscore that the Memorial honors all North American Indian tribes. "As marvelous as the belt is. it was more wonderful to have Chief Locklear and the largedclcgat ion visit to make the presentation." she said 60th Anniversary Open House visitors will be able to help the Memorial observe this year's 60th anniversary of Lakola Chief Henry Standing Beat's invitation to Korczak to cane Crazy Horse. His 1939 letter to the sculpior said. "My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the real man has great heroes, loo " On the mountain carv ing v isitors will be able to see the progress on the first stages of w ork on the 22-story high horse's head. That involves crcltion of a series of benches across the nounta in, the first of which is ncari ng completion The nine-story -high face of Crazy Horse was completed last year, and the work shifted to the horse's head. During Open House the Laughing Water Restaurant at the Memorial will be open from 11 A M to 7 P.M serving Native American and U.S. favorites At Crazy Horse coffee always is frcc-a 51 year tradition The mountain is lighted for one hour nightly from onc-hal f after dusk UNCP students awarded Alumni Loyalty scholarships The Alumni Relations Office of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke is proud to announce its Alumni Loyalty Scholarship award recipients. Seven scholarships were awarded for the 1999-2000 academic year. This scholarship is awarded to sons and daughters of UNC Pembroke alumni and recipients arc chosen based on academic and leadership ability, potential for success in college, and financial need Each recipient will receive a $ 1.000 scholarship that will be divided equally between the tw o semesters The Alumni Loyalty Scholarship recipients for 1999-2000 arc: Ernie Mitchell Barton, a 1999 Purncll Swell High School graduate planning to major in Art. who is the son of Rick Barton and Lois Janctta Bullard of Pembroke Benjamin Bryon Brcwington. a 1999 Purncll Swell High School graduate planning to major in Criminal Justice, w ho is the son of lames P and Ha/.cl Brcwington of Pembroke Chad Elvington Hunt, a 1999 Purncll Swctt High School graduate presently undecided about a major, w ho is the son ol Lorctla Hunt-Hagen of Red Springs Jordan Rcid Sampson, a 1999 Purncll Swctt High School graduate presently undecided about a major, who is the son of John H, and Wanda L. Sampson of Pembroke Chad Elvington Hum Emle Mitchell Barton Benjamin "Ben" Byron Brewington Jordan Reid Sampson Carolina Indian Voice is published every Thrusday by First American Publications Inc. V , . E Mail Address: carolinaindian@Hotmail.com. Phone (910)521-2826
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