Carl Hit kins
SHANNON - Carl Earnest Wilkins.
77. ot 12060 Shannon Road died
Sunday (Feb. 20) in Veterans Affairs
Medical Center in Durham.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday (Feb. 23) in Shannon
Assembly of God by the Revs.
Mitchell Oxendine and Montana
Locklear. Burial followed in Blue's
Family Cemetery.
Mr. Wilkins is survived by two
sons. Billy R. Blue of Imelx City.
Michigan & William Bl'ue of
Fayetteville: 3 daughters. Frances
l.owery of Lumber Bridge. Betty
Locklear of Parkton & Christine
Blue of York. S.C.: a brother. Henry
B. W i Ik ins of Luniberton: 23 grandchildren;
and 45 great-grandchildren
Funeral services were conducted
by Locklear & Son F'uneral
Home.
Sylvester O. Hunt
MAXTON - Mrs. Sylvester O.
Hunt. 76. of 497 Cabinet Shop Road
died Friday (Feb. 18 in her home.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
(Feb. 22) in Willards Chapel
Church by the Revs. Timmie
Woods. Dean Carter & Keith Hunt.
Burial followed in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Hunt is survived by 4 sons.
Clint Hunt of the home & David
Hunt. James A. Hunt & John S.
Hunt. Jr., all of Maxton; two daughters.
Mary H. Bullard & Sally Strickland.
both of Maxton; 10 grandchildren:
& 5 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
by Locklear & son Funeral
Home. Pembroke.
Archie Lowry
FAYETTEVILLE - Archie Lowry,
78, ofFayettevilledied Friday (Feb.
18) in Veterans Affairs Medical
Center. Mr. LowTy was an army veteran
& also retired from Black &
Decker.
The funeral services were held
Sunday (Feb. 20) in Grace United
Methodist Church by the Rev.
Patrick, burial followed with military
honors in Cumberland Memorial
Gardens.
Mr. Lowry is survived by his
wife, Maria Lowry of Fayetteville;
a son, Martain A. Lowry of High
Point; two brothers, Elmer Bumette
of Maryland and Glen Burnette of
North Carolina; 3 sisters, Hazel
Hammond ofCharlotte, Clementine
Martin of New Orleans & Margaret
Locricchio of Detroit; and 2grandchildren.
Adahlia Maynor Brewer
GREENSBORO - Adahlia Maynor
Brewer, 86, died Friday (Feb 18) in
Robeson County. The fdneral was
held Tuesday (Feb. 22) at In Touch
Fellowship Ministries. Burial followed
in Lakeview Memorial Park.
She was bom in Pembroke to the
late Rev. Arthur and Penny Jane
Maynor and was preceded in death
by her husband, Roscoe "Sam"
Brewer. Mrs. Brewer is also survived
by two daughters, Connie
Brewer of Julian and Roxanne Fish
ofLong Island, N.Y.; a son, Don M.
Brewer of Cave Creek, Arizona; two
sisters, Mary Oxendine
ofPembroke and Stella Brewer of
Columbus, Ohio; two brothers,
Clamers Maynor and the Rev.
Millard Maynor, both ofPembroke;
and 5 grandchildren.
Agnes J. Locklear
LUMBERTON - Mrs. Agnes Jane
Locklear, 87, of Lumberton died
Tuesday (Feb. 15) in Southeastern
Regional Medical Center. A retired
employee ofSRMC, Mrs. Locklear
was a member of Union Baptist
Church where her funeral was held
with the Revs. Mickey Lowery and
Grady Hunt officiating on Friday,
Feb. 18. Burial followed in Oxendine
Cemetery in the Saddletree
Community.
She is survived by a son
Woodrow Locklear of Rowland; a
daughter, Betty L. Biggs of Baltimore,
Md.; a brother, Wildon
Collins of Lumberton; 4 sisters,
Mary A. Green, Ann R. Florton and
Elerise Cox. all of Lumberton, &
Alethia Beechman of Tennessee;
12 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren
and 4 great-great grandchildren.
Helen J. Oxendine
RED SPRINGS - Mrs. I lelcn J. Oxendine,
26, of 1042 Dixie Drive died
Tuesday (Feb. 15) in Cape Fear
Valley Medical Center in
Fayetteville. The funeral was held
Saturday (Feb. 19) in Crumpler Funeral
Home chapel by the Revs.
Hedrick Jones and Weymon Oxendine.
Burial followed irythe Demcry
Family Cemetery in Pembroke.
Mrs. Oxendine is survived by
her husband, Matthew Oxendine
of Red Springs; a daughter. Sierra
M. Oxendine of Red Springs; her
father. James Junior Jones ofPembroke;
her mother. Patsy Jones, Shannon;
a brother, Tom Jones of
Maxton; three sisters, Ellie Jacobs
of Lumberton, & Denice & Sheila
R. Jones, both of Shannon; & her
paternal grandparents, James C.
and Jessie Lee Jones ofPembroke.
Josephine Hum
LUMBF.RTON - Mrs. Josephine
Hunt. 59. of 3426 Pine Log Road
died Wednesday (Feb. 16) in Southeastern
Regional Medical Center
The funeral service was held Saturday
(Feb. 19) in Revels Funeral
Home chapel by the Rev. Crites
Oxendine.
Mrs. Hunt is survived by her
husband. N.L.. Hunt of Lumberton:
a daughter. Lisa Haggins of Lumberton;
two sons. N.L. Flunt. Jr. and
I imothy R. Hunt, both of Lumberton;
two sisters. Julie M. Locklear
and Beatrice Locklear. both of Pembroke;
three brothers. Jerry Lowers
and Prentis Lowers, both of Pembroke.
Dorman L.ovvery of
Row land; and 9 grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
by Revels Funeral Home. Pembroke.
H 'inford Locklear
MAXTON - Winford Locklear. 63.
of 3870 Missouri Road died
Wednesday (Feb. 16) in Scotland
Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday (Feb. 20) in Prospect UMC
by the Revs. Bill J. Locklear.
Dwayne Lowry & Brother Dell Harris.
Burial followed in the family
cemetery.
Mr. Locklear is survived by his
wife. Fannie M. Locklear of
Maxton; 3 daughter, Maxine Locklear.
of Wagram, Flora Chavis of
Maxton & Teresa Lowry of Pembroke;
3 sons, Roy R. Locklear,
Nelson Locklear and Kenneth
Locklear, all of Maxton; a sister,
Pridie R. Porter of Maxton; 15
grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
Funeral services were conducted
by Revels Funeral Home,
ofPembroke.
Winnie Bell Oxendine
PEMBROKE - Mrs. Winnie Bell
Oxendine, 39, of 7131 N. Chicken
Road died Wednesday (Feb. 16) in
Southeastern Regional Medical
Center. The funeral was conducted
Saturday (Feb. 19) in Mount Zion
Holiness Church by the Revs. W.U.
Preskitt and Gregory Cummings.
Burial followed in Oxendine Cemetery.
Mrs. Oxendine is survived by a
son, Daryl L. Oxendine of Pembroke;
a daughter, Rhonda K. Oxendine
of Rowland; her mother,
Jessie B. Oxendine; five sisters,
Delia Sanderson, Judy Scott and
Billy Jean Locklear, all ofPembroke,
Carol Oxendine of the home, and
Peggie Bell of Lumberton.
Funeral services were conducted
by Revels Funeral ofPembroke.
Tessie Marie Locklear
LUMBERTON - Mrs. Tessie Marie
Locklear, 88, of 3463 Oak Grove
Church Road died Friday (Feb. 18)
at Southeastern Regional Medical
Center. Funeral services were held
Sunday (Feb. 20) at WOCN Channel
7 TV Gospel Chapel with the
Revs. Billy Ray Locklear & Millard
Maynard officiating. Burial followed
in the family cemetery.
Surviving are two sons, the Rev.
Billy Ray Locklear & Johnny Redell
Locklear, both of Lumberton; 4
daughters, Lois Griffin, Brenda
Lawson, Elaine Faye Oxendine and
Linda Baxley, all of Lumberton; a
godson, J.R. Hunt; 14 grandchildren;
23 great-grandchildren; and
one great-great grandchild.
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Ask advice only of your equals.
?Danish proverb
Plows, vows
and wows:
Farmer co-op
endorses
conservation
program
Richmond. Va.?Southern States
sows to help conserve the environment
with its recent endorsement of
the Maryland Conservation Reserve
Enhancement Program (CREP) for
farmers.
Southern States will provide its
resources to help spread the word
about C'REP to farmers. The program
pavs farmers to install
streamside buffers and other conservation
practices on farms.
"The program is a voluntarv initiative
that makes it more
cost-effective to install streamside
buffers and other conservation practices
on farms," says Wayne Boutvvell.
Southern States' president and CEO.
"CREP pays up to 100 percent of the
cost of most practices and offers soil
rental rates 50 percent to 70 percent
higher than regular soil rental rates.
In some cases. CREP payments may
even be greater than the production
value of enrolled lands. Wow, this is
a great opportunity for farmers."
To leam more about CREP. call
toll-free I-877-4BUFFER.
The program is spearheaded by
Future Harvest-Chesapeake Alliance
for Sustainable Agriculture (Future
Harvest-CASA), a non-profit organization
based in Maryland made up
of farmers, agricultural professionals,
landowners and consumers that
support profitable and sustainable
food and farming systems in the
Chesapeake Bay region.
Southern States-founded in 1923-is
a farmer-owned cooperative
operating in 16 states stretching from
Michigan to Florida and west to Arkansas.
This Richmond, Va., based
firm is one of the largest U.S. farmer
cooperatives that manufactures, purchases
or processes feed, seed,
fertilizer and fuel. It also sells farm,
animal health, lawn, home and garden
supplies through 745 local dealers
in its operating territory. In addition.
Southern States gins cotton and markets
livestock, small grains, com,
peanuts and soybeans. In its fiscal'
year ended June 30, 1999, Southern
States had sales of SI.3 billion.
Do not offer advice that has not
been seasoned by your own performance.
?Henry S. Haskins
Along the Robeson Trail
by Dr. Stanley Knick, Director, Native American Resource Center, UNCP
Over the past two weeks we have
been looking at some of the different
types of structures built by Native
Americans in early times ? on the
Plains and the Plateau, in California
and the Arctic. We have seen that in
traditional times Native people made
structures which suited their local
environments.
In the Southwest the best-known
type of architecture is the pueblo.
Pueblos were built by southwestern
farming cultures from stone and adobe
(mud), and somelimesout of sun-dried
mud bricks. Logs were incorporated
as rafters. Rooms were built next to
and on top of each other, terraced back
so that the whole structure was smaller
at the top than at the bottom. Rooms
for living and storage were usually
rectangular, and special ceremonial
rooms were round (widely known by
the Hopi word kiva). Many of the
rooms had small side-entry doors, but
first-floor rooms and the ceremonial
kivas were entered from above by
climbing down a ladder through a hole
in the roof. Some of these massive
"apartment buildings" were originally
built on canyon floors, although in
later years others were built into the
sides of high cliffs and on the tops of
mesas.
But pueblos aren't the only type
of traditional architecture in the
Southwest. Outside the pueblos lived
other groups of Indian people whose
main source of food was hunting and
gathering (and raiding) instead of
farming. These Pirn an- and Yumanspcaking
people made use of various
structures depending on which group
they belonged to and what season it
happened to be. Many of them built
domed lodges with willow poles
(sometimes with cactus ribs) insulated
and reinforced with earth. The Pima in
particular (more properly known as
Akimel O'odham) also built
rectangular storage buildings from
similar materials. Almost all of these
non-pueblo southwestern people
made open-sided, pole-and-brush,
rectangular structures for daytime and
warm weather activities.
The Athabaskan-speaking
Apache and Navajo people were
late-comers to the Southwest, and their
architecture differed from group to
group. Some eastern Apaches came
into close contact with some Plains
people, and they built tipis in the
Plains style (once Plains culture had
evolved following the introduction of
horses). Western Apaches built oval,
domed huts from brush and grass,
widely known by the Algonkian word
wikiup.
Navajo (DintS) people built their
traditional structures (their word is
hogan) in two types. The older style
was made with earth covering a
framework of interlocking poles. The
newer style (in areas where there was
more abundant wood) was built with
horizontal logs arranged on top of each
other in a polygonal shape, with a roof
made of dirt and logs. Navajo people
also built the familiar rectangular
arbors or ramadas for some activities.
In the next segment of Along The
Robeson Trail we will turn to the
structures built in the long-ago time by
Native Americans in the Great Basin,
on the Northwest Coast and in the
Eastern Woodlands.
For more information, visit the
Native American Resource Center in
historic Old Main Building, on the
campus of The University of North
Carolina at Pembroke (our Internet
address is www.uncp.edu/
nativemuseum).
Children's Choir Festival
rriaay, Marcn J and Saturday
March 4, Chestnut United Methodist
Church in Lumberton will host a
Children's Choir Festival. First Baptist
and First Presbyterian Churches
in Lumberton will bejoint sponsors of
this event. Registration for the festival
will be6:30 to 7:00 P.M. on Friday
evening and the rehearsal will begin at
7 and continue Saturday at 9:00 A.M.
with the closing program at 2:00 P.M
Mr. John D. Horman, a nationally
acclaimed specialist in children's
choirs will be the guest clinician for
the weekend. Mr. Florman has recently
retired at the completion of 26
years of teaching in the Montgomery
County Public School System, Montgomery
County. Maryland. He taught
for 21 years at the elementary level
and 5 years at the secondary level.
During his tenure with the Montgomery
County System, John received the'
Broom Award for excellence for his
work in composition for children. He
is presently Director of Music at
Warner Memorial Presbyterian
Church in Kensington, Maryland, a
position he has held for 28 years. He
oversees 4 choirs and writes extensively
for all of them. John's
compositions are found in the catalogs
of ten nation-wide publishers
and his choraJ works, both secular
and sacred and sung throughout the
country. John wrote for both the
Silver Burdette and Macmillan Publishing
Houses for their 1988 music
series. His composition have been
heard on national television in the
United States and Great Britain. John
also travels widely as a choral clinician
and consultant, giving workshops
in children's and youth choir techniques
and repertoire. Presently, John
is a member of a partnership with an
artist and Christian educator called
New Paths. This team services
churches and community groups with
programs that utilize music, visual
arts and drama, to assist individuals in
discovering spirituality through the
arts.
They will hold the final service of
music at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday at
Chestnut Street United Methodist
Church located at the comer of Eighth
and Chestnut in Lumberton. They
cordially invite the public to attend.
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Card of Thanks
Words cannot express our appreciation
for the kind deeds during the
sickness and death of Ms. Callie M.
Jones. We thank you especially for
the phone calls, home visits, prayers,
offerings, food, flowers, and kind
works shown during this time. We
would like to send a special thank
you to Pemberton Hospice, Dr. Joseph
Roberts, Mrs. Bernice
Hammonds, the staff of Lumber River
Family Practice and all family members,
friends and others. Thank you
for rendering your labors of love
during her time of sickness. We ask
that you remember us in your thoughts
and prayers.
The Family of Callie M. Jones
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LRDA/LUMBEE HOUSING
DEPARTMENT (LHD)
SCOPE OF SERVICES
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LRDA/Lumhee Housing Department programs provide for assistance to
low to moderate income enrolled Lumbees who reside in Robeson, Hoke,
Scotland and Cumberland counties. Programs are intended to help Lumbees
to access safe, decent and affordable housing. Planned direct housing
assistance programs include the following:
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Lldcrlv, near elderly and handicapped rental units;
Down Payment assistance for enrolled and eligible Lumbees to purchase or construct
a home financed through a "conventional" mortgage;
I ease-Purchase assistance tor eligible, enrolled Lumbees to acquire a home over time
with financing through 111 D and the tribe's NAHASDA grant;
Rehabilitation of existing stick-built or modular homes; and,
Counseling services which prepare clients to assume homeownership and selfsulheiency
responsibilities in addition to assistance with securing an affordable
mortgage.
The LRDA/Lumhee Housing Department provides the following housing services
to enrolled Lumbees:
1) Down Payment assistance for enrolled members to purchase a stick-built or
modular home or to build a new home.
2) lease-Purchase assistance, which provides for LRDA/LI ID construction or
purchase of a "stick built" or modular home. ,
3) Rehabilitation of existing applicant owned homes, which are taxed as real
projrerty. Note. Mobile homes are taxed as jrersonal projrerty and, therefore,
are not eligible for rehabilitation services. H>