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S9O Million New Business Goal Of Insurance Companies
Negro Winner In Race For Mayor Of Chapel Hill, If C.
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McKISSICK SPEAKING
Henderson Lauds WoHt
Address At St. (Joseph's Sunday
Mrs. Nola Cox Tompkins Passes
At Home in New York Saturday
"NEW YORK - Mr*. Noli
Mae Cox Tompkins of 45 Eut
136 th Street, New York City,
died suddenly at her home
Saturday, morning 'May 3.
Daughter of the late George
Wayne Cox, Sr. and Nola
Stuart Cox, she was born to
Indianola, Miss.
She was a graduate of Pal
mer Memorial Institute, Seda
lta; Wert Virginia State College
Institute, West Virginia; and
the Atlanta School of Soda I
Work, Atlanta, Georgia. She
also did graduate work in lan
guages at the University of
Michigan.
She aerved with the Red;
Cross in New Guinea as Recrea
tional Director. She was pre
sently employed as Supervisor
in the Psychiatric Department
of the Veterans Administration
in New York City.
Surviving are: her husband,
Richard E. Tompkins; one
daughter, Miss Linda Jean
Tompkins, both of the home;
her mother, Mrs. George
145 Negroes In Race for Public
Office in State of Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss.—One hun
dred and forty-five Negro can
didates are seeking election to
office in 48 communities in
Mississippi, an NAACP survey
indicates. The primary elec
tions are scheduled from May
18 and May 20 with the run-off
contest set for June 3.
The most widely known of
these candidates is Charles
Evers, NAACP field director,
who is running for mayor in
Fayette whore 60 per cent of
the is black- Ne
groes are running for mayor in
11 other communities includ
ing Jackson where William E.
Miller, Eaq., Is the candidate.
Other positions for which
Negroes are competing are
aldarman, commissioner, coun
cilman, city commissioner,
dty tax clerk, town marshal!,
town clerk and membership on
the National Democratic Exe
cutive Committee.
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MRS. TOMPKINS
Wayne Cox, Sr.; one brother,
George Wayne Cox, *., both
of Durham.
Funeral service were held
at the Loutoe B. Hart Funeral
Chapel, 1879 Amsterdam Ave
nue, New York City, Tuesday
evening, May 6, at 7:00 p.m.
Mrs. King
Marches
Charleston
CHARLESTON, S.C.
—The widow of Dr. Martin
Luther Kins Jr. Wednesday
donned a blue union hat and
stepped off leading more
than 1,900 demonstrators in
a march on a state hospital
where Negro workers are
demanding union recogni
tion.
The jubilant crowd of
marchers filling the street
ten abreast headed to the
state Medical College Hospi
tal, the marchers clapping
their hands and singing
"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody
Turn Me "round."
The march started at two
minutes before noon after
Mrs. Cooetta King was driv
en to the site In an un
marked car by Charleston
£ity detectives.
NCM OFFICIAL
URGES SUPPORT
FOR FACILITY
At a mass meeting held
at St. Joseph's AME Church
hue Sunday night, J. J. Hen
derson, treasurer of the N. C.
Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, principal speaker for the
program told his listeners that
the great question of the hour
is, "what will we do to keep
UOCI alive? This is either a
time of exciting achievements
or our failure of ability to
promote values." The meeting
was presided over by Mrs.
Bessie McLaurin, co-chairman
of the Citizens for UOCL
Henderson, who is also a
former member of the Durham
Housing Authority where he
served for nearly 20 years
stated further:
"In my opinion, the UOCI
is an organization of notable
character and has Validity and
Actuality; it knows that it is
filling a vital need to society
with an Impression of Com
pleteness, Poise and Sincerity.
Something has got to be done
about damaging campaigns that
we start amongst ourselves. If
we need changes in leadership,
speak out and let's do it in the
open. I feel that there are too
many back-handed moves going
around amongst ourselves. I
don't like back-handed moves
in any form. I don't practice
such tactics, neither do I con
done such. I don't know of
anything in the world that I
dislike more than a sneak, a
hypocrite, a cheat, a stabber in
the back and a liar. Play The
Game in the Open and You
Got a Partner or An Opponent.
It does nobody any good to be
merely a BYSTANDER, doing
nothing but Criticizing Dlssatis-,
faction with what is around
us is not a bad thing if it is
prompting us to seek better
ment. But the best sort of
dissatisfaction in the long-run
is setf-dis-satlsfaction which
leads us to Improve ourselves."
■ In his closing remarks which
Distinct and Unique Contribu
tions to Durham, h Housing,
Education, Recreation, Jobs,
RaWqg the level of the Poor.
See HENDERSON IDA
Che Carflsttip ©IIWS
VOLUME 16 No. 19
McKissick Blasts Opposers
Of Soul City In NCC Address
Award Winners
Get Warning
From Speaker
Floyd B. McKissick, devel
oper of Soul City in Warren
County, said Friday at North
Carolina College's annual
Awards Day ceremonies that
the people who oppose Soul
City are the ones who opposed
hip in North Carolina when
Tie was fighting "|o achieve
what some people call integra
tion."
McKissick said he thought tt
strange that the forces who
opposed integration now
oppose the concept of "a black
city lor black people.
v"I think there are people
who will oppose anything
because someone proposes it,'
McKissick said.
McKissick described what
he called "the semantics of
racism the language the man
uses to divide and conquer "
He said the word "separatist"
is an example of this language,
used to attack'any movement
which inspires black pride.
"The real separatists are those
white people who years ago
moved to the suburbs with
the money they got out ol
Harlem."
McKissick warned NCC's
See McKISSICK page 10A
MRS. WITHtRSPOON
K. C. Librarian
Saint Paul's
Sun. Speaker
CHAPEL HILL-Mrs. Ida
Battle Witherspoon is the
Mothers' Day Speaker at the
11:00 A. M. Worship Service
at St. Paul A.M.E. Church of
Chapel HIIL
Mrs. Witherspoon is a resi
dent of Chapel Hill, and an
active member of St. Paul
A.M.E. Church. She is a grad
uate of Lincoln High School oi
Chapel Hill, and received bar
B. A. Degree from North
Carolina College at Durham.
She did further graduate work
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Middle
Tennessee State University,
Murfreesboro, Tenn. and the
University of Virginia, Charo
lotteville, Va.
Mrs. Witherspoon is a mem
ber of Delta Sigma Thetha
Sorority and Pi Mu
See SPEAKER page 10A
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1969
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LINCOLN HOSPITAL GITS
OXYGEN TENT—Mrs.' Estelle
Buchanan, President of the
Lincoln Hospital Auxiliary, is
8,000 Agents To Conduct Drive
In National Insura
WEEK MAY 12-17
SET FOR 35TH
CELEBRATION
Between May
more than 8,000 agents of 46
black owned and operated life
insurance companies in 28
states will strive to surpass a
S9O million goal in new busi
ness.
These dates mark the 35th
annual observance of National
Insurance Week as officially
proclaimed by Wardell C. Croft,
president of the National Insur
ance Association and president
of Wright Mutual Insurance Co.
of Detroit. They represent the
association's one-a-year indus
try wide effort to boost sales
and increase the level and quali
ty of insurance coverage in the
black community.
This year's campaign headed
by L. J. Gunn, CLU, agency
director of Atlanta Life Insur
ance Co., will emphasize the
fact that since their earliest
beginnings black insurance com
panies have been the concerned
guardians of the black man's
welfare and security when
other companies did not care
or dare to furnish coverage.
Equipped with lapel buttons
and literature proclaiming the
provocative 196$ theme, "We
Always 'Cared!" and armed
with the assurance that theirs
is a competitive product in a.
fast-expanding.industry, agents
are planning an unrelenting
assault on the gap that sepa
rates blace families from the
national average protection of
$18,600 per family. „
See AGENTS page 10A
presenting an oxygen tent and
equipment to Larry T. Suitt,
Administrator of Lincoln Hos
pital and Mrs. L. Z. Williams,
Dr. Philip R. Cousin to Deliver
UCBI Commencement Address
Rev. Philip R. Cousin, Pas
tor of St. Joseph A.M.E.
Church, will be speaker for
first Commencement services
of the Union Christian Bible
Institute, Sunday, May 25, at
3:30 P.M.
Rev. P. R. Cousin, is the
son of an A~.M.E. minister,
Rev. S. A. Cousin, who is the
presiding elder of the Miami
District in Miami, Florida. His
secondary school work was
done at Central State College,
Wilberforce, Ohio, where he
Graduated cum laude. He then
entered Boston University grad
uate School of Religion where
he received the Degree of
Sacred Theology in 1956.
Rev. Cousin has held pad
torates in Florida, Danville and
Norfolk, Virginia, b 1960, he
was selected as President of
KittreU College where he served
until 1965. He was appointed
pastor of the St. Joseph A.M.E.
Church. Under his dynamic
leadership not only the church,
has felt his influence, but the
entire city of Durham.
Hh influence has not only
been felt in the spiritual life
of Durham through his pastor
ate, and as President of the
Durham Ministerial Association,
but in the political and civic
Ufe as welL He is Chairman of
the Political Action Committee
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Director of Nurses. Looking on
is Mrs. Mamie Raines, secretary,
and Mrs. Buelah Hill, Treasur
er of the Auxiliary.
DR. COUSIN
of the Durham Committee on
Negro Affairs and Vlce-Chak
man of the Human Relation
Committee for the city of
uurnam.
The Union Christian Bible
Institute will confer upon Rev.
Cousin the honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity for his con
tributions to the school and to
the Durham comminity.
The Commencement exer
cises will be held at the New
Bethel Church onC
in Durham. The exercises „.U
begin at 3:30 p.m. with a band
concert by the Hillside Concert
| Band under the direction of
| C. A. Edgerton.
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H. Lee First of
Race in State
To Hold Spot
CHAPEL HILL - Howard
Lee, Duke University Employ
ee Relations Director, was
named mayor of Chapel Hill
in an election held here Tues
day, May 6. Lee is the fkst of
his race in North Carolina to
hold such a post in a predomi
nantly white community.
Lee, 34, was winner oyer
Roland Giduz, 43, former
newspaperman who is present
ly employed as manager of the
UNC Alumni Review.
Lee has held his present
position at Duke for the past
four years. He is a graduate of
Fort Valley State College of
Georgia, from which he holds
the degree of master of science
in sociology.
At a victory meeting held
at the St. Joseph's AME Zion
Church Tuesday night and
packed to capacity with an
audience of over 500 support
ers, who gave him a standing
ovation upon his entrance, Lee
extended thanks to all of his
supporters.
See LEE page 10A
Rapier Named
New President
VEA For 1970
RICHMOND, MD. -Don
Rapier of Fairfax county has
defeated Frank L. Hege Jr. ,
of Campbell county by a mar
gin of 10,737 vote* to become
president-elect of the Vkginia
Education Association in 1970.
A classroom teacher at McLean
High School in Fairfax County.
Rapier will become president
elect of the 48,000-member
teacher's organization on Jan
uary 1, 1970.
Elected to serve another
two-year term as VEA treasurer
was John R. Graybill of Rao
noke defeated Frank A. Soiori,
Jr., director of guidance at
Hermitage High School in Hen
rico county, by a margin of
16,492 votes. Thus Graybill
will continue in his position as
VEA treasurer until 1972, his
new term becoming effective
On January 1, 1970.
Returns from the statewide
balloting gave Rapier, currently
president of VEA district Sand
a Member of both the legisla
tive and executive committees
of the Board of Directors,
22,553 votes. Hege, assistant
superintendent of schools in
Campbell county, and immedi
ate past president of VEA. dis
trict F, received 11,816 votes.
In the treasurer's race, Gay
bill received 25,933 votes and
Solari, immediate past presi
dent of VEA district Q, polled
9,441 votes.
In a five-way race in tbe
preferential primary for Nation
al Education Association direc
tor from Vkgtaia, Charles W.
• Perdue of Norfolk topped the
r Hat of candidatea with 34 par
! cent of the votes. The principal
> of Norview High School In Nor
folk tan ahead of Incumbeot
John B. Madden of Richmond,
who received *2B pet cent of
the votes, and Mrs Nancy H.
Gib be of CheeterfMd who
received 23 per cent.