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CME Bishop
dies after
sudden attack
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Volume 12 Number 28
Woman awakes
to find cross
burning in yard
A Richmond County woman said
she was awakened about 2 a.m.
Friday to find a cross burning in her
yard.
The woman, Louise Dorsey, 2268
Sibley Road, told The News-Review
that the son of her former landlord,
Shelton Eubanks, 18, and two or
three other men knocked on her door
and shouted, “See I told you, b
we were going to burn a cross.”
She said the men stood at the door
laughing, and when she went to a
nearby store to call police, they
followed her on motorcycles and cir
cled the store several times before
riding off.
She said the men r eturned on Sun
day and threatened her with bodily
harm and promised to set her hoGse
on fire. Mrs. Dorsey, a divorcee, lives
alone with her five children, ages 4 to
12.
On Sunday she swore out a peace
warrant. She said sheriff’s deputies
told her that if she held a gun on the
men while she called police they
would come out and apprehend the
C.M.E. Bishop, 55, dies suddenly
LOS ANGELES—Bishop James
L. Cummings, the 40th bishop of the
Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME)
Church and the first vice president
of the National Council of Churches
(NCC) died Sunday, Oct. 3, of a sud
den attack in Los Angeles.
Bishop Cummings, 55, was a native
of Allenville, Ky.
Cummings was elected bishop m
Birmingham, Ala., in May 1978, af
ter 26 years of pastoring in Norfolk,
Va., Indianapolis, Ind., and St.
Louis, Mo.
A statement from Bishop Chester
A. Kirkendoll of St. Louis, CME
Senior Bishop, read, “The passing of
Bishop James L. Cummings means a
great loss to the Christian MethodiSt
Episcopal Church. The CME Church
Augusta man
is shot
during scuffle
An Augusta man was shot Tuesday
at his residence on First Street.
Hardwick Beard, 842 First St., told
police that he had been shot once in
the upper leg by John Henry Allen,
46. The men reportedly scuffled on
the livingroom floor, when Allen
pulled a pistol and shot Beard in the
leg. Allen then fled in a red Cadillac,
according to police reports.
Allen was arrested about an hour
later, near his home at 418 Sibley St.
He was' charged with aggravated
assault with intent to murder.
Beard was taken to the Veterans
Administration Medical Center later
Tuesday where the bullet was
removed. He was listed in fair con
dition.
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men.
Mrs. Dorsey called the Georgia
legal services on Monday. Legal aid’s
Wilbert Allen said he talked with
sheriff’s Captain Gene Johnson and
found the deputies had filed no report
of the cross burning.
Mrs. Dorsey filed another warrant
against the men for terroristic threats.
Cross burning is a felony punishable
by a SI,OOO fine and/or five years in
prison.
Asked if she knew why" she was
being threatened, Mrs. Dorsey said
Eubanks wanted her to give him rent
money although she said the house is
under new ownership. “I’m not sup
posed to pay him because he doesn’t
own the house anymore,” she said.
The property is now owned by D.L.
“Jack” Thomas.
Mrs. Dorsey said that she is not
aware of any special protection from
law enforcement agencies. However,
her father and brothers are staying
with her. Allen said community
volunteers would also provide protec
tion.
has benefitted greatly from his broad
understanding of the mission of the
Church, his unique leadership
skills, his knowledge of and
dedication to social action, and his
ecumenical involvement.”
Bishop Cummings served as an In
dianapolis City Councilman for the
years 1963-69, and had been a mem
ber of that city’s Zoning Board for
the years 1960-63. He fulfilled these
offices while pastoring Trinity CME
Church, Indianapolis.
In 1966 he became pastor of St.
Louis’ historic Lane Tabernacle CME
Church. In St. Louis he served the
city Is board of education in 1970,
and was board president for 1975-76.'
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In November 1981, he was elected
first vice president of the National
Council of Churches by its Governing
Board, meeting in Cleveland, Ohio.
With 17 other NCC representatives,
he traveled to The People’s Republic
of China at the invitation of the
China Christian Council and the
Protestant Three-Self Patriotic
Movement.
In 1959 he was cited in Ebony
magazine as the first black minister in
America to institute a church-spon
sored Dial-A-Prayer. He served in St.
Louis as a member of the Eden
Seminary Board of Directors, was a
former president of the Indianapolis
Ministerial Association, and was the
CME Fraternal Delegate to the 1976
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October 16,1982
Bishop Cummings was a graduate
of Lane College (A.8.), and com
pleted graduate studies at Christian
Theological Seminary, Butler
Univeristy (M. Div.). He received
honorary degrees from Clinton
College (D.D.) and Lane College
(D.Litt.)
His tenure as a bishop carried him
to assignments in West Africa (Ghana
and Nigeria), the Ohio-Kentucky-
Indiana area (Second Episocal
District), and the Ninth Episcopal
District (western states), which he was
serving at the time of his death.
He is survived by his wife, the for
mer Miss Norma Jean Cravens of In
dianapolis, and a daughter, Denise
Marie Cummings. Both the wife and
the daughter are trained educators.
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Joseph Greene earns
top insurance degree
Joseph D. Greene, senior vice
president and chief agency officer at
the Pilgrim Health and Life Insuran
ce Co., has been awarded the Char
tered Life Underwriters designation
by the American College, Oct. 5 in
New York City. It is the highest
degree that can be earned in insuran
ce.
There are only 12 blacks in the
country, employed by black insuran
ce companies, who hold the C.L.U.
And of the 4,199 C.L.U. graduates in
this year’s class, only 12 were black.
Os those 12, only two worked for
black companies, Greene is only the
second person to earn the C.L.U. in
Pilgrim’s 84-year history. The other
person was C.O. Hollis Sr., who is
now retired.
Greene said he was inspired to pur
sue the degree by the late Pilgrim
executive M.M. Scott. Scott wanted
to earn the degree himself. He and
Greene traveled together often and
Scott constantly talked about earning
the C.L.U.
“It was a dream of his,” Greene
reflected.
“I said this is my career and I want
the highest academic training
available,” he said, adding that he
hopes that others at Pilgrim will be
inspired to pursue the degree.
Greene said he expects to serve as a
resource person to minority
businesses and professionals who
might need his expertise in estate
planning, backed by the resources of
the Pilgrim Insurance Co. There
would be no cost for his services, he
said.
Hollins paves way for
"Chappie ’ James Center
at Tuskegee Institute
WASHINGTON (NNPA)-Sen.
Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., has suc
cessfully secured the Senate Ap
proriations Committee agreement to
his amendment to the continuing
Resolution providing $9 million for
the establishment of the General
Daniel “Chappie” James Center for
Aerospace Science and Health
Education at the Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama.
President Reagan had requested
this same amount for the General
James Center as part of his 1983
Higher and Continuing Education
budget.
Citing statistics showing a shortage
in the nation’s number of aerospace
engineers, Sen. Hollings said that the
Center will help stem that shortage
and offer greater opportunities for
black Americans in the aeronautics
field. Currently, black Americans
only comprise three percent of all
aerospace engineering students in the
United States.
“To many young black Americans,
the world of aerospace is a
dream—much as it was to young
Chappie James. It remains a dream
largely unrealized,” said Hollings.
With the Chappie James Center we
mav change all of that and dreams
will become opportunities.”
Hollings noted that Tuskegee’s
location and facilities provide
uniquely favorable conditions for
launching an aerospace program. The
Tuskegee Institute is the only
predominantly black university in he
Augustans honore
at statewide
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“You’ll be surprised at the number
of black professionals who have not
even drawn a will, not to mention a
trust fund or estate liquidity.”
Another value of a C.L.U., Greene
said, is that he can provide the cash to
make a business run. “A certified
public accountant can provide the
mechanics of how the business works;
the lawyer can give the legal im
plications, but there is nobody to
provide the cash to make it go.”
Joseph D. Greene
Greene earned tne Dachelor’s
degree at Augusta College and the
master’s at the University of Georgia.
He has been with the Pilgrim In
surance Co. for 23 years.
He is president of the CSRA
Business League, and vice president
of the McDuffie County Board of
Education. He was the first black
elected official in McDuffie County.
country with it s own airfield and a
fully accredited school of
engineering. And its proximity to
Maxwell Air Force Base, Fort Dothan
and Fort Rucker furnishes excellent
opportunities for military-university
collaboration.
As for the health education
program, Sen. Hollings said it will
enhance the Institute’s work in the
health field. Located in a rural, low
income area, the General James Cen
ter will emphasize disease prevention
and health maintenance will be a cen
tral facility for training health
professionals. The health program is
expected to benefit more than 7,500
people at the Institute and some
65,000 in the surrounding area.
The General Daniel “Chappie”
Center is named for the nation’s first
and only black four-star Air Force
general. A Tuskegee alumnus,
General James was trained as a pilot,
along with hundreds of other black
G.l.s, at Tuskegee’s Moton Field for
air combat in World War 11. Hollings
said, “The proposed center carries
forward the spirit of this extraor
dinary American and his fellow
pilots.”
The Tuskegee Institute is in the
process of raising an additional $3
million for the sl2 million center
from private contributions.
Final action on the Continuing
Resolution is expected during the
final week before the October
session.
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