The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 6

I'l I 1 rr 1st EDITION fveninp, Joumol, Wilmington, WtJiwdoy, Dec 4, 1974 Clendaniel Wins Cooper Faces Dec. 19 Challenge FOR. Leadership of Dover NAACP Tax Vote Tomorrow In Laurel Its Rezoning Plea past 2 years, claims member if From the Dover Bureau DOVER Dover's Central Branch of the NAACP will elect a president Dec. 19 in a race between incumbent Wil-bert L. Cooper and challenger Mary Jo Baker.

Mrs. Baker charges the branch under Cooper's leadership is made up mostly of middle-class, educated blacks who are "not doing anything for the poor." Cooper, president for the He concedes the membership is largely middle-class, but denies that is intentional. "I've never known it to be NAACP policy to close doors" to any economic group, he said. The election will be held from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

at the Mt. Zion AME Church, Queen and Fulton Sts. Anyone who has been a member of the Central Branch for 30 days is eligible to vote. ship has increased 350 percent since he took office. He refused, however, to say how many members the organization has.

Cooper also points out the NAACP under his leadership prompted a federal probe into Dover's use of revenue-sharing funds for the Bobbins Hose Volunteer Fire Company and was active in making it easier for blacks to join the company. to integrate schools and business establishments and register black voters in Alabama. She said the state educational system most notably in Milford and Dover is her prime area of concern. She said her tack in fighting discrimination is to document complaints. "Then, go to the school board and let them know we're aware of the problem to see if we can effect a change.

Give them time to make the change. That's sometimes effective," she said. Only if that approach fails, she said, is it time to pursue Cooper, 42, retired from the Air Force in 1971. He is a senior at Delaware State College, majoring in distributive education. He works part-time for Sears in Dover and is Dover bureau manager for the Delaware Spectator, a state wide weekly newspaper oriented to the black community.

Mrs. Baker, 36, describes herself as "a part-time home-maker." Her husband is a technical sergeant, stationed at Dover Air Force Base for the past year and a half. She said she became actively involved in the civil rights movement in 1963 and worked From the Sussex Bureau LAURALVotcrs go to the polls tomorrow in Laurel in a referendum seeking approval to raise the school property tax 25 cents to $1.29 per $100 of assessed valuation. The polls will be open from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Laurel High School.

Increasing the rate is expected to raise about $46,000, which would be split equally between a pay rais for teach3rs and current operating expenses. Officials say the district is short of the buying power it had 18 months ago because of inflation. From the Sussex Bureau GEORGETOWN Frank Clendaniel Inc. won a long-sought rezoning yesterday when the Sussex County Council overturned the planning and zoning commission's earlier, decision. The agricultural processing facility on Butler Ave.

in Lincoln was operating before there was zoning in Sussex. When the land was zoned, it became agricultural-residential. Clendaniel wanted its 2.5 acres changed to light-industrial. Had the council upheld the commission's denial, the plant would have become a nonconforming use in the agricultural-residential area and could not have expanded. Now it can.

Explaining its decision to overrule the commission, the council simply said it did not believe the facility would harm the area, since it has been there for many years. Narrows Is Longest By United Press International the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn, has a 4.260-foot suspension span tin longest in the world. OBITUARIES Bertie B. Wise SMYRNA Bertie Barnes Wise, 84, of 241 Maple Smyrna, died yesterday at Kent General Hospital, Dover, Trice and Evelyn Root, both of Greenwood, Marguerite Brubaker of Denton, Edna Hayes of Wyoming, and Ruby Beebe of Fede-ralsburg, and four brothers, Clyde of Farming-ton, Roy of Dover, Frederic of Milford, and Othel of Newark, Del. -Service will be tomorrow after a long illness.

Her husband, Harvey E. Wise, died in 1945. Surviving are two daughters, Thelma Broadwater of Hampton, and Nancy W. Faries of Smyrna; a son, Harvey E. of De Funiak XPRINGS, 12 21 TOP CRAMPS QTjPISPLAY jf grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren.

Services will be Friday morning at 10 at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Carmel L. Collins GUMBORO Carmel L. Collins, 49, of Gumboro, died Tuesday at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia after a long illness. He was owner and operator of the Collins and Sons lumber mill in Gumboro and was also involved in farming and the poultry business.

HE is survived by his wife Dorothy his parents James and Georgia Collins of Gumboro; a daughter Joyce Morris of Laurel; four sons, Leroy, Allan, Sherman and Richard, all of Gumboro; four brothers, Floyd, Robert and Gerald, all of Gumboro and Donald of Millsboro; three sisters, Elsie Boyce of Laurel, Betty Rust of Millsboro and Carol Murray of Georgetown, and four grandchildren. Services will be private with interment at the Millsboro Cemetery. There will be no viewing. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations made to the Gumboro United Methodist Church in care of Wayne Cooper, RD 3, Millsboro. Cecil J.

Wyatt NEWTON-le-WILLOWS, England Cecil J. Wyatt, 60, a Delaware native and a retired Dover Air Force Base civil service employe, died here Sunday of a heart attack. Mr. Wyatt lived at 186 Market Newton-Ie-Willows, Lancashire. He made his home in Milford, until 4 Family Size WASHER at the Chapel of Rest, Newton-le-Willows.

Jennie S. Barrett LINCOLN Jennie S. Barrett, 70, of near Lincoln was dead on arrival Monday at Milford Memorial Hospital of an apparent heart attack. She is survived by her husband, Clarence Barrett; three daughters, Mary Passwaters, Margaret Warren and Annie King, all of Lincoln; two brothers, Thoedore Ivory of Greenwood and Wlter Ivory of Woodside; 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Services will be tomorrow afternoon at 2 at the Lofland Funeral Home, 219 S.

Walnut Milford, where friends may call tonight. Interment will be in Lincoln Cemetery. Louise C. Robinson LEWES Louise C. Robinson, 87, of Lewes died Monday at Beebe Hospital after a long illness.

A widow, she is survived by two daughters, Helen M. Pierce of Lewes, with whom she lived, and Florence Van Skike of Colorado Springs, eight grandchildren and WWAS40O with interment in Mt. Holly Cemetery, Onancock, Va. There will be no viewing. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to St.

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