The Robesonian from Lumberton, North Carolina • Page 9

THE ROBESONIAN Page 9 The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Friday, June 20, 1975 Separate Presidential Primary Affected Final Approval Expected For August State Primary Today Date cal offices on the third Tuesday RALEIGH (AP) The' legisla ture was expected to give final approval today to a pair of changes in the state's elections laws and another change won final approval Thursday. The House tentatively approved Thursday a Senate passed bill setting North Carolina's primary for state and lo primary was in May. In 1972, North Carolina's first presidential primary was held with the statewide primary. Supporters have argued tnai an August date for the statewide primary would reduce campaigning time and costs. Also, they argued, voters gathered at Pine crest Country Club this week tor wouldn't tire of politics with shorter campaigns.

New presidential primary rules and date were firmly set Thursday when the House approved a conference report that had won Senate approval Wednesday. The plan is generally preferred by supporters of former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford, a candidate for Democratic presidential nomination. Sanford has said he wants to face Alabama Gov. George Wallace headon in North Carolina next year.

Wallace, unannounced but expected to seek Democratic nomination, won the Tar Heel primary in 1972 beating Sanford who entered the running late. To narrow the field to primarily Sanford and Wallace, Sanford's supporters succeeded Budget Plan Allocations Snag On Education higher edueation in becoming a Baplist minrster wisning pursue me.r Local 13 Accept Baptist Ministry Scholarships Court Costs Increase Court costs across the state will be taking an increase effective July 1. Ben Floyd clerk of court here, said the costs in District Criminal Court will increase from $16 to $25. Theological Seminary. Ritchie James Rogers of Pembroke is married and has one child.

Rogers is now employed by Baptist Children's Homes at Odum Home in Pembroke. He attended Southeastern Community College and is continuing his pre ministerial education at Pembroke where he and his wife are houseparents of the Odum Home. Rev. James C. Seaman, Sr.

of Orrum is married and has two children. Rev. Seaman is pastor at Broad Ridge Baptist Church. He is presently enrolled at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and plans to complete his education there in July. Rev.

Steward A. Smith is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Lee Smith of Elizabethtown. Rev.

Smith is married, has two children and resides in St. Pauls. He is pastor of ML Vernon Baptist Church. Rev. Smith is presently enrolled at Southeastern Baptjst Theological Seminary.

He is married to Kathy Bryan, formerly of Lumberton. Lonnie Hal Stephens of Lumberton is married and has two children. He is a member of Hog Swamp Baptist Church. He was in the U. S.

Army for eight years. Stephens plans to attend Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in the fall. Rev. Charles Hester is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Leo Madison Hester of Bladenboro. Rev. Hester is married and has one child. He now resides in Fayetteville. Rev.

Hester served in the N. C. National Guard for three years and Inactive Reserve for four years. He attended Pembroke State University and will continue at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Coming Tobacco Sales Estimated At 85 Million Pounds RALEIGH (AP) Legislative adjournment hopes stalled Thursday as House and Senate budget conferees deadlocked on spending plans for public schools and higher education.

A two hour session Thursday afternoon failed to make a breakthrough, but the conferees were to get back at it this morning. The House and Sena'te have each approved different versions of the budget for the 1975 Check Writer Excused From Court RALEIGH Legislation to allow a worthless check writer to plead guilty to the charge and pay court costs and restitution passed the Senate Monday and is now law. Sponsored by Rep. Henry Ward Oxendine, Robeson, the new law will allow persons to pay costs and restitution and forego a court trial. Currently, a person found guilty of writing a bad check is subject to a maximum $50 fine and 30 days in jail for checks under $50, or a maximum $500 and six months sentence for checks over $50.

Oxendine said the new legislation "makes the law what the practice is." He. contended that in the majority of bad check cases, the person pleads guilty and receives a suspended sentence, court costs and is ordered to pay restitution. The new law allows a person to pay his costs and make restitution prior to trial, much as simple traffic violations are now handled, he said. higher education budget. The Senate money committee wanted to raise tuition $50 a year for state residents and $100 for out of state students, to bring in an additional $4.6 million.

In a morning session, the conferees agreed to add $6 million to $15 million appropriated by the last legislature for prison construction. The added appropriation was necessary because inflation had increased projected building costs for new facilities. The funds may be used as prison officials believe best. Previously, the funds had been specifically designated for two high rise units that aren't under construction yet. Also agreed on Thursday was an appropiation of $1 million for the building program at the state zoo in Asheboro.

Federal Granted the renovation of the exterior of housing units and installation of sewer cleanouts. The housing units are locally known as Weaver Court and Eastwood Terrace. Phase I and II of Lumberton's Modernization Program were for the complete renovation of Lumbee and Rozier Homes in Lumberton. This work was completed last summer. The additional appropriation brings Lumberton's total modernization funds, all of which are spent locally, to N.C.

Prisoners Get Aftercare Funding in rtugusi. That action would split the statewide primary from the presidential primary. Opponents of the August state primary argued that it will cost an additional $500,000 to have two primaries. Traditionally, the statewide 1976 budget years beginning July 1. Now the conference committee must come up with a compromise version of the money bill before the General Assembly can adjourn the six month plus session.

In Thursday afternoon's session. Rep. William Watkins, Granville, chairman of the House Base Budget Committee, said, "We are standing firm on House budget cuts." His committee chopped $44 million from the proposed public schools spending. He said $19 million of that was from the continuation budget and the rest from the expansion budget. The House budget for public schools would allow spending $1.6 billion in 1975 1976, some $6 million less than the Senate panel was willing to allow.

Tuition increases blocked the Second Funding For the second time this week notification has come from the federal government that funds have been approved for housing in Lumberton. Mayor J. Earl Musselwhite and Dr. Jack E. Mohr, chairman of the Housing Authority, jointly announced this morning the approval of $158,125 for low rent housing, according to information received from Congressman Charlie Rose.

The money is appropriated for Phase III of Lumberton 's Low Rent Housing Modernization Program. These funds will be used for SAMUEL EVAN'S inston Salem area. In 1965. the state began financing the school. While at the school, students will examine philosophy, psychology and the area of the pupil's special academic gif tednes.

These areas include French. English. Mathematics. science, social science and the fine arts Robeson County students attending this year and their academic areas are: William Christopher Baker, mathematics: Samuel Evans, ma: hematic. John McManus.

mathematics: Sybil Jones, mathematics: Lejeana Hammonds. English: Donna MATHEMATICS William Christ onhet Baker, a rising senior Lumberton Senior High School, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin B. He is a member of the annual requiring presidential hopefuls to ask that their names be placed on the ballot.

Sanford' has said numerous times that he wants to pit his philosophy against Wallace's. Wallace supporters had hoped to open the field up by putting every potential candidate on the ballot unless he specifically stated he won't run for president. They believed that would divide the moderate and liberal vote Sanford hopes to get. The Senate was expected to give final approval today to a House passed bill to allow North Carolinians to donate $1 of their state income tax payment to the party of their choice. The plan wouldn't add to the person's tax bill, though.

The bill would allow each party in the state up to $200,000 in a general election year. That would pay only part of the costs incurred by eligible candi dates, though. About 13 per cent of U.S. taxpayers participate in a similar federal program. If that percentage is true for North Carolina, roughly $260,000 would be available for the parties to divide.

would open. The Florida Georgia opening is the earliest ever and will last the longer than usual because of the smaller number of buyers assigned to the belt. John H. Cyrus, head of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture's field crops section, said there will be fewer buyers this season, but each will buy a greater amount. Cyrus said sales in the Florida Georgia belt will amount to 216,040 pounds a day, while eastern North Carolina will sell 331,304 pounds and the Border belt 335,678.

The committee will review its decisions on assignments at its next meeting. DONNA McLEAN graduation exercises at Maxton High School. She is a rising senior. She was secretary of the junior class and a member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish Club. FRENCH Donna Ann Mclean, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Leon M. McLean, will represent Fairmont High School at the school. A rising junior at Fairmont, she ranks in the upper one percent of her class. She is pianist at the First Presbyterian Church of Fairmont and has also been a page in the North Carolina Senate.

Her leisure activities include reading, music and tennis. She has been a member of the French Club, the student council, the tennis team, the annual staff, the varsity club and the Future Teachers of America. Robeson Youths Attend Governor's School Thirteen men gathered at Pine Crest Country Club this week for the formal presentation of the S. McKay Smith Scholarships. The scholarship fund is entrusted to and distributed by its trustees, W.

Osborne Lee J. C. Jackson and Wilson Black mon. Recipients of the scholarship are recommended and nominated to these trustees by the Robeson Baptist Association of Robeson County. The following were chosen: Ernest Ray Brooks, son of Mrs.

Annie Bell Brooks and the late Peter Brooks of Pembroke, is a member of Bear Swamp Baptist Church. He plans to continue his education at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest where he will be a second year student. David Ernest Coleman, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Pennie Coleman Jr.

of Lumberton attended Atlantic Christian College in Wilson and Pembroke State University. Coleman is a member of East Lumberton Baptist Church. He will attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas after his graduation from Pembroke State University. The Rev. Michael Cummings of Clinton is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Foy Cummings of Pembroke. Rev. Cummings is a member of Bear Swamp Baptist Church. He attended Campbell College and will attend Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

He is currently pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church in Clinton. William Thomas Hall of Wilson is the son of William Arthur Hall and Mrs. Myrtle Rose Willard. Hall is a member of Five Points Missionary Baptist Church in Wilson and is married and has one son. He attended Pembroke State University and will continue his education at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Rev. Lewis Jolly of Haeford, formerly of Lumberton, is married and has three children. Rev. Jolly is the pastor at the Second Baptist Church in Raeford. He attended Campbell College and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and plans to continue there this fall.

Charles Jeffrey Kinlaw is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Kinlaw of Lumberton. Mr.

Kinlaw is a member of the First Baptist Church of Lumberton. He attends Wake Forest University. Rev. Merle Travis Martin is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Travis Martin of Lumberton. Rev. Martin is pastor of Back Swamp Baptist Church. He attended Southeastern Community College in Whiteville and will continue pre ministerial study at Pembroke State. James Terrell Roberts of laurinburg is the son of Mrs.

Marjorie Roberts and the late Thomas Roberts Sr. Roberts is married and is a deacon at Shiloh Presbyterian Church in Laurinburg. He attended Pembroke State University and plans to continue at Baptist RALEIGH Funding ior prisoner pre release and aftercare programs in the N. C. prisons system was assured here Thursday, as House and Senate budget conferees earmarked $685,331 for each year of the 1975 77 biennium.

Rep. Joy Johnson, Robeson, vice chairman of the House Corrections Committee, had earlier joined with other corrections officers and prison critics in urging the retention of the innovative programs, after the House Base Budget Committee had deleted their funding from the House version of the state budget. 'Hie Department of Corrections' pre sentence program was not funded, however, as part of a compromise prison funding program. The pre release program is GO per cent financed by the federal RALEIGH (AP) Tobacco sales of about 85 million pounds a week are expected in the selling season which opens July 8, the federal Flue Cured Tobacoo Advisory Committee decided Thursday. The volume was determined by the amount the buying industry said it could handle.

The first market to open will be the Georgia Florida belt July 8 followed by the South Carolina Border North Carolina belt July 9, the committee decided. North Carolina's eastern markets will open July 15 and the committee put off a decision until its July 10 meeting on when the western North Carolina and Virginia markets LEJEANA HAMMONDS in Red Springs. John is vice president of the Red Springs chapter of the Future Farmers of America and was a marshal for graduation. A consistent Honor Roll student, he is a member of the Beta Club and football team. Sybil Jones is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Jones of Rt. 2, Pembroke and is a rising senior at Pembroke High School. She has been a governor's page and a legislative page. She in a member of the Beta Club, the annual staff, the Future Business Leaders of America, the Humans Relations Committee and is president of her church youth choir.

She has received school English and geometry awards. ENGLISH Lejeana Hammonds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hammonds of i. Maxton.

served as chief marshal during the 1975 jj govenmieiu through me Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LFAA), with the state providing the rest. The program counsels short term inmates about to be released, to help them in re entering society. Democrats on the base budget panel earlier this year criticized the two programs, calling them a "Republican boondoggle" and charging that counselors and consultants in the 7G member staff doubled as a campaign staff for Department of Corrections Secretary David Jones, who is considered a likely contender for the 1976 GOP gubernatorial nomination. The aftercare program helps inmates find jobs and works with their families in adjusting to the return of a convict. Inmates serving one to three year are the only ones eligible for aftercare.

BROOKS SANDERS "a threshold is reached whereby special privileged access to a oublic official is secur ed." To the often voiced charge iha; such disclosure will stop any persons determined to break the law. Oxendine responded by saying is equally irue ilia; persons who would cut corners, if they thought they could get by with it. would not do so if the felt their acts would be noticed "1 believe nirthcr." he said, "that those who are lost to public service because of the disclosure requirement would be more than effse: those win would weicoim trie opportunity Return Of Public Confidence Urged By Oxendine WILLIAM C.BAKER Six Robeson County high chool students, representing he six county school systems, inve been selected to attend the IPTo session of the Governor's rth Carolina. The ins Jm and will 9 on the vomer's School is a six summer program ro; itifteri high school "fr.ir Fo dred students from across th Carolina are selected to Students are nominated tucli intelligence raung and trior and are selected men stau level screening fir thve, het'umins: in the the Governor's as financed a grant Carnegie Corporation tennis: grants from the SYBIL JONES staff, Spanish Club, Classical Club. Itin Club, student council and Chestnut Street United Methodist Church.

He has been a member of the varsity baseball, jayvee basketball and Babe Ruth baseball teams. He has won awards in the National Piano Playing Auditions and has received the annual staff award, the junior high basketball award and the outstanding achievement in ltin award. Sam Evans is a rising senior at St. Pauls Senior High School. Sam has been active in St.

Pauls" sports activities, having lettered in baseball and tootbali. He is the Mr. and Mrs. Sam Evans of Wilkerson St. Pauls.

Red High School will be represented by John M. McManus. a rising senior. He is M. Mi Ma 2iW Main St.

Rep. Henry Ward Oxendine called for mandatory periodic disclosure of personal finances by public officials" Thursday evening in a guest editorial presented on WRAl. TVs Viewpoint." Oxendine contended that trust in government has been seriously undermined and cited a recent poll in which only 24 per cent of those polled expressed confidence in government. Public disclosure of private financial records could, he says, go a long way in restoring confidence. Pointing out the opportunities for private gain available if elected officials.

Oxendm added that even when there is.