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VOL.29, NO. 36 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1970 PRICE: 10 CENTS
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
THREE TRAGIC DEATHS
Wilfred Edwards
WILFRED AND WILLARD
EDWARDS
Wilfred and Wlllard, twins,
age 15, died Monday, July 13th
alter drowning in a pond in
McLeansville, N. C. They re
sided at 302 Craig St
Funeral' service was held
Thursday, July 16th, 3:00 P.M.
St. James Baptist Church. Bur
ial followed in Piedmont Me
morial Park.
Survivors include foster par
ents, Mr. James and Mrs.
Louise Gore of the home; foster
brother, Willie Edwards, and
foster sister, Mrs. Mary A. Ed
wards Pressley, both of Greens
boro; mother, Mrs. Pearlie Ed
wards, Washington, D. C.; broth
er, Hodges Edwards, U. S. Air
Force; sister, Arnetta Edwards,
Washington, D. C.; grandmother,
MR. 1. E. WADDELL, JR.
James Edward Waddell, Jr.,
age 25, of 1104 Nealtown Rd.,
died Sunday, July 12, 1970, at
L. Richardson Memorial Hos
pital, the result of an auto acci
dent. ,
Funeral services were held
2:00 P.M. Wednesday at Har
gett's Memorial Chapel. Bishop
John Troxler, the pastor, of
ficiated and burial followed in
Maplewood Cemetery.
He Is survived by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Burnell Wad
dell, Sr, one son, one daugh
ter, maternal grandparents, Mr. |
and Mrs. John Anderson, Sr.,
of Danville, Va., paternal grand
mother, Mrs. Neeley Waddell of
the home, five sisters, Mrs.
Dorothy Council, Vickie Kay,
Gloria Ann, Brenda Faye, and
Janice Renee Waddell, seven
brothers, Burnell, Herman, John,
Gaiah, Ricky, Bobby, and Alvin
Lamont Waddell, five nieces,
three nephews, seven uncles,
five aunts, and a host of rela
tives and friends.
Hargett Funeral Service in
charge of arrangements.
April was a record month!
Nearly 817,000 persons trained
under G.I. Bill provisions, the
most since June 1, 1968.
Willard Edwards
Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, Greens
boro.
Brown's Funeral Directors in
charge of arrangements.
MR. WILLIAM H. AVANT, JR.
William Howard Avant, Jr.,
age 27, of 1301 Gulf Ct., died
Sunday, July 12, 1970, at Duke
Memorial Hospital, Durham, N.
C.
Funeral services will be held
4:00 P.M. Saturday at Powet
House of Deliverance. Rev. J.
H. Covington, the pastor, will
officiate and burial will follow
with full military rites on the
Veterans Plot of Maplewood
Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Elizabeth James Avant of
the home; three children; moth
er, Mrs. Louise M. Avant;
father, Mr. William H. Avant,
Sr., both of Greensboro; one
brother, Ernest Morton of the
U. S. Army; other relatives and
friends.
The family will meet their
friendj at Hargett Funeral Home
on Friday evening from 7 to
9 P.M.
Hargett Funeral Service in
charge of arrangements.
Social Security
Helps Those Disabled
In Childhood
Social security payments to a
23-year old youth who has never
worked? There are many such
cases, says Charles H. Myers
social security district manager
in Greensboro.
Gerald Nees, of Terre Haute,
Indiana, is a typical example.
Paralyzed from a diving acci
dent at the age of 15, he was
supported by his parents. Then
he learned to draw ? using a
brush held in his mouth. He
was good enough to sell some
of his paintings. J3ut he still
needed financial assistance from
his father.
In 1961, however, his father
suffered a disabling heart at
tack. Mr. Nees was eligible for
social security disability pay
ments ? and so was Gerald,
because his disability had begun
before he was 18.
More than a quarter of a mil
lion people receive monthly so
cial security benefits because
they suffer from severe disabil
ity which began in childhood,
according to Myers.
"Persons disabled since child
hood are eligible to receive so
cial security benefits if a parent
who has worked under social
security retires, becomes dis
abled, or dies," Myers explain
ed.
"These payments can mean
a great deal to the recipients
and their families," Myers stat
ed. He cited as another example
a 29-year old man, mentally
retarded since birth, whose
parents were killed in a car
wreck. "One of his sisters want
ed to take him into her home,"
Myers stated, "but she and her
husband couldn't afford the ex
tra expense. However, his sister |
learned he was eligible for child- |
hood disability benefits because
their father had worked under
social security. The social se
curity payments enabled the sis
ter and her husband to take
care of her brother in their
home. These payments meant
the difference between care at
home and life in an institution
for this young man," Myers
continued.
"It's not necessary for a per
son disabled since childhood to
have worked under social se
curity, since ? his benefits are
paid on the basis of his father's
or mother's social security rec
ord," Myers stated. "Normally a
child receiving payments based
on his parents' work record
would stop receiving checks at
age 18 if he was not in school,
or at 22 if he stayed in school
and did not marry," Myers went
on. "However, a child's pay
ments may continue indefinite
ly or start at any age if he has
a severe physical or mental
handicap which began before
18 and which will keep him from
working as an adult. Nearly 65
percent of those receiving child
hood disability benefits are
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Local Residents Attend National
Meeting of Presbyterian Women
Lafayette, Ind. ? Christian
unity, church efforts to combat
hunger and poverty and renew
ed commitments to give spirit
ual strengthening to needed so
cial change were among the
topics considered by the trien
nial national meeting of the
United Presbyterian Women onj
the Purdue University campus
here.
Among the more than 4,000
women attending the meeting
just concluded (July 11) were
Mrs. Mary Wynn, 810 S. Ben
bow Rd.; Mrs. Estell Eaton,
415 E. Lindsey St.; Mrs. Beulah
B. Green, 1008 Pearson St.
An Indian American woman,
Mrs. Roy Denham of Albu
querque, New Mexico, was
elected president of the na
tional body which numbers
nearly half a million women.
She succeeds Mrs. Harold E.
Boesch of Kensington, Md. I
Nationally known speakers
presented various aspects of the
conference theme, "What Time
is it?" The theme was taken
from the passage in the Old
Testament book of Ecclesiastes
that begin.: "To everything
there is a season and a time to
every purpose under the heav
en ~ ,
Rev. Dr. William Sloane Cof
fin. Yale University chaplain,
challenged the women to help
the church re-align its priori
ties "We care about the wrong
thing; we put secondary virtues
ahead of primary ones. We stress
cleanliness, punctuality, humil
ity at the expense of the prim
ary virtues: ruthless honesty ?
the kind of criticism that Jere
miah gave - and self-sacrific
ing love," the clergyman said.
There is a generation gap in
the church today, he said be
cause "the church tends to
stress personal morality and the
kids know social morality is
what's important."
Dr. Coffin was both critical
of and sympathetic with work
ers whom he caUed "flag-waving
Hard Hats." Such workers have
a full stake in the American
dream, he said. "Only what kind
of a dream is it, when you spend
your day in spirit-mangling la
bor. have practically no say at
all in the conditions which gov
ern your life, and come home
at night to a mortgage on the
house, payments on the car, a
"olor-blind television set, an
overheated teen-age daughter
and a D-in-Engllsh, car-smash
;ng son?"
The assembly renewed its
commitment to strive to end
lunger in America through a
variety of programs. Mrs. Unita
Blackwell, a community organ
izer for the National Council of
Negro Women in Mississippi,
recalled in graphic detail her
experiences in the civil rights
struggle in the South.
Acknowledging herself as "a
militant," Mrs. BlackweU de
nied that she is motivated by
hate. "I hate the way I have
been treated but I love the way
I still have faith in people,"
she said. She expressed apprecia
tion for the support her work
has received from national
Church women's organizations.
Veterans Administration
News
Q ? I was discharged from
service in June. How much time
do I have to use my education
al benefit?
A ? You have eight years
after your separation to use
your educational benefit, pro
vided you have served at least
180 days, any part of which
occurred after Jan. 31, J955.
Q ? Will the VA tell me
which is the best option to select
when preparing a bcneficiary
and option for my G.I. insur
ance?
A ? No. The tables of in
stallments are cited among the
policy provisions. This is n
tended not only as a provision
of the contract, but as a ref
erence from which the insured
must make a judgment
Q ? My husband, a World
War I veteran, died recently.
Will^ the VA allow any reim
bursement on his burial ex
penses?
A ? Yes, up to and including
$250. The VA also reimburses
for transportation of a veteran's
body to place of burial, if he
was properly hospitalized or
domiciled at a VA facility.
Q ? I have $10,000 National
Service Life term insurance
which I obtained during World
War II, and plan to convert to
Modified Life. Is there a dead
line for converting my insur
ance?
A ? No, except that it must
be converted to the Modified
Life plan before you reach in
surance age 61 (insurance age
extends from six months before
to six months after insured'#
birthday).
ANNUAL PICNIC
The annual Church Picnic for
Browning Chapel United Meth
odist Church has been schedul
ed for Saturday, July 25, 1970.
This year the picnic is a whole
day at the Lakeside Amusement
Park, Salem, Va. And the
buses will depart at 7:30 ajn.
from the church at 1710 East
Market St., returning at 6 p.m.
Although the cost per person
is four (4) dollars several seats
are being reserved for the com
munity and reservations will be
accepted on the first come first
serve basis. ?.
Mr. Harvey Waddell of Guil
ford College is in charge of all
arrangements. A welcome is ex
tended to the community. The
Rev. Peter Addo is pastor of the
church. '