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Page Jackson Sun Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1999 Leave COl conservative group, RNC chairman advises Members of the party of Abe Lincoln shouldn't belong to 'racist' organization, GOP official says. The Associated Press WASHINGTON The chairman of the Republican National Committee called on his fellow party members Tuesday to resign from the Council of Conservative Citizens because "it appears that DEATHS Nannie Mae Thomas, 85 TRENTON Nannie Mae Thomas, 85, died Tuesday at Gibson General Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete. For more information, call Gibson County Funeral Home at 784-1797.

Terry Thomas, 43, center coordinator Services for Terry Thomas, 43, will be at 2 p.m. today at East Trinity United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Beech Bluff Cemetery. Mr. Thomas, technical graphic center coordinator at Progressive Inks, died Sunday at home of injuries received in a tornado.

He is survived by his wife, Teresa Newman Thomas; his mother, Martha Thomas; his father, Billy Joe Thomas; two children, Jamie Thomas and Michael Thomas; a brother, Steve Thomas; and his grandmother, Hattie Little, all of Jackson. For more information, call Lawrence-Sorensen Funeral Home at 424-2424. I More deaths, 6A, 11A. this group does hold racist views." "A member of the party of (Abraham) Lincoln should not belong to such an organization," GOP Chairman Jim Nicholson said. He appealed directly to Buddy Witherspoon, one of the party's national committee members from South Carolina, to resign from the council.

Witherspoon, an orthodontist from Columbia, S.C., told Nicholson he would not do anything of the sort. Witherspoon insisted the council's South Carolina chapter holds no racist views, but is simply an advocate for conservative causes, especially fighting to retain the right to display the Confederate flag in the South. "Never have I heard anything said about race in any way, shape or form," Witherspoon said in an interview. The St. Louis-based council has mushroomed into a national embarrassment for the Republican National Committee in recent weeks amid reports that, both Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and Rep.

Bob Barr, spoke at its meetings. Both Barr and Lott have said they were not aware of the council's racist positions. Barr 'said last month he disagrees "with many of this group's ridiculous views." Last week, Lott also distanced himself from the group. The council's World Wide Web site includes numerous articles suggesting that the white race is under siege. Study: There is life, a good one, Gannett News Service Long-term breast cancer survivors enjoy a quality of life that's just as high as women never diagnosed with the disease, suggests a groundbreaking new study of 278 California women.

"We know so little about what happens to long-term survivors of any cancer, and this is one of the first careful studies with large numbers," said Andrew Baum of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. There are more than 1 million breast cancer survivors in the United States. About 180,000 cases will be diagnosed this year. The report, in the current issue of the journal Cancer, surveys mental and physical health of 161 white and 117 black women five to eight years after diagnosis. It covers perceptions of mental and physical health, social relations and work.

"These women are functioning at a high level. Their scores are the same as what we have from in healthy outpatients," said UCLA medical oncologist Patricia Ganz, author of the study with psychologist Kimlin Ashing-Giwa. There were no racial differences in quality of life, nor did women with mastectomies fare Woman who changed name barred from ballot The Associated Press CHICAGO Carol MoseleyBraun won't be on the ballot in next month's city election. The former Lauryn K. Valentine who changed her name to match the former senator's didn't register to vote under her new name in time to run for alderman, the Chicago Board of Elections ruled Tuesday.

Board members also said it appears the 21-year-old market researcher intended to mislead voters by changing her name to run for public office. Valentine changed her name to Moseley-Braun in September, saying she just wanted to honor her role model. Three months later, she announced her bid for alderman in the Feb. 23 election, prompting protests from the original Moseley-Braun and incumbent Alderman Percy The new Moseley-Braun's campaign manager, Ernest Henton said he'll appeal the decision. "It's a total, total miscarriage of justice," Henton said.

"How can one say that it's false and misleading to use your name?" Giles said he feared some people would have voted for Moseley-Braun thinking she was the former senator. An attorney for the original Moseley-Braun, 51, said the Chicago Democrat still plans to ask a judge to reverse the name change. The former senator lost her re-election bid to Republican Peter Fitzgerald in November. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS 1998 COUNTY PROPERTY TAXES ARE NOW DUE AND PAYABLE IN THE MADISON COUNTY TRUSTEE'S OFFICE UNTIL MARCH 1, 1999 WITHOUT INTEREST AND PENALTY. 1997 COUNTY DELINQUENT TAXES WILL BE DRAWING INTEREST AND PENALTY THROUGH THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY AND WILL BE FILED IN COURT MARCH 29, 1999.

WILMA ALLEN, MADISON COUNTY TRUSTEE HELP IS HERE Allstate Emergency Claim Information: 1-800-54-STORM Call for immediate help with your storm-related claim, or contact your Allstate Agent or any Allstate facility. You're in good hands. Allstate Insurance Company, Northbrook, IL. On Tuesday, visitors were urged to forget "petty pretenders" such as Martin Luther King and celebrate the birthday of "the greatest American who ever lived" General Robert E. Lee, leader of Confederate forces during the Civil War.

"There is no room for racist views in the Republican Party," Nicholson said. "I never heard of the CCC until a few days ago, but it appears that this group does hold racist views. The Republican Party rejects and condemns such views forcefully and without hesitation or equivocation." The issue is likely to come up at this week's RNC's winter meeting. At the meeting, Witherspoon is planning to also attract action because he plans to propose a resolution that would require. the GOP to stop taking donations from gambling interests, and require that party donations be withheld from any candidate who supports legalized gambling.

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