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I: Uh, I believe you got your college training at Pembroke State University,

 is that correct?

S: Yes, I finished Pembroke State College.

I: Where did your wife get her education?

S: She finished Pembroke and Prospect High School--only finished the

 twelve grade.

I: Did you get your high school education at Prospect too?

S: Yeah, I finished at Prospect.

I: That's P-r-o-s-p-e-c-t.

S: That's right.

I: Uh, I was talking to you at the time when you opened up your super-

 market over there and I bdieve you told me you had about a hundred

 feet of store space on that alone or is my memory bad?

S: Well, it's about 4500, about 4500 square feet and. .

I: Well, you sure are growing and uh, most of your customers, are they

 Indian or. ?

S: Well, we would say 98% of them are Indian. we have 1% maybe 111/2%

 and about 1/2% white.

I: Well, uh, I've known you for a long time and I've always known that

 you were a very smart boy and this certainly proves it. Uh, what did

 you do before you went into the merchandising business?

S: Well, we started off farmers, and taught school for ten years.

I: Where did you teach at?

S: We taught. Walemore--that was a school about sixty miles from Pembroke

 down at Bowling, North Carolina and then I also taught three years

 at Federal School and started into the building program and had to

 force myself out of the school house, because we started construction