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12-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem,' Ore., Siin.i Aprfl zl, TSt'
Florida Town
Tries to Forget
Race
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By HENDREC CBANDLEB
MADISON. Fl., April 10 IA
Like child who has beea burned I
by a forbidden firecracker that I
exploded unexpectedly. Madison tel
reluctant to talk about the racial
. controversy which rocked it a fowl
., months pack. . : .
"It i water ever the dam." saidl
a prominent Madison attorney.
"A far at moat people here are I
concerned the-matter forgot
ten."
Dr. Deborah Coerins, the at
tractive former tricounty health
officer who saw a ctomt break I
over her bead when the had a I
buii neat luncheon with a Negro I
nurse, is as averse as most people I
here to rehash the events.
. The Sz-yearold Dr. Coggint
said she felt no bitterness over I
? beins fired from her $S75-a-month I
- health officer job, and hoped
there was no resentment toward I
- her. , ;,
Opened Private Practice
Last Jan. 1, she set up offices I
with her doctor husband in pri-l
vste practice here. And she has!
beea a busy helping to attend to
the physical aihnenta of the town
she has had little time to dweO
a the past. She and her husband
Dr. Wilmer J. Coggins constitute
' has of the force of four physicians
servinj this county seat town of
"1 l.wo persons.
4 ' "I'm very happy in my work,
the said, fingering .a ttelhoscope
v during an interview between ap-
" potntments.
"you don't do the good for a
, large number of people as in pub
lic health work, out i Believe
that here I no more IndividuaJ
good, and yon get more of the
I personal touch through getting to I
j know the whole family.
; Tesb!, Cowards
I It was a composed Dr. Coggins
' - to her trim white uniform, unlike I
tha fired-up young physrciaa who!
" 1 stormed up to the Madison county I
Commission last October. She I
called them "fools" and
. ardi" for refusing to teS
whether she was being fired bl
ef the hmcneoa with the I
Metre.
At the time ef her dismissal
the blonde Dr. Coggina was Flor-I
" Ida's only woman health officer. I
She said the bad planned to gel
Into private practice when the I
need foir a tricounty health officer I
: developed last May and the aud-l
dently found herself thrust that I
position. .
"I had m particular ambitions I
k the public bedltk fjeld af I
though I certainly enjoyed the I
work and see tb groat need," she I
roaid. I
"My husband needed me In his I
practice aa I probably would have I
quit m nine, anynow.-
e'lMe
Dr. Coggint repeated thab the
bad no idea of breaching South-
era social custom when she ar
ranged the luncheon conference
with a Negro midwue consultant
for the State Board of Health in
the private dining room of a res
taurant here last Aug. n.
"But I dont believe I would do
I again la the tame manner,"
out f the great uproar wtucn ivu
mcusea nauonai aueniio ner, i
Dr. Coggias says she can per
tvall
haps see some lasting gooo.
Bees Draw No Cesar Line
1 believe it may nave stirred
some respect for the individual
whether ha be white or colored.
she said.
"Let's call it human dignity. In
the ipedical profession we draw
no color distinction when we treat
human ailments.'
There is a feeling here that a
ehaia of events blew the matter
sut of focus and magnified the
' situation. A member of the Mad
ison County Commission which
dismissed her. Graver Cone of
Greeneville. said:
"I consider Dr. Coggint a very
fine woman and aa able doctor.
1 No member of the commission has
anything but the highest respect
lor ber.
Every mm Wants to Forget
Z Cone said be believed the tlUia-
' Hon could have beeiv smoothed
over "if a couple of fellows had
used their beads at the very start.
The thing kept getting bigger
and bigger and pretty soon it was
out of control.
T. C. Merchant Jr., editor ef
i the weekly Madison Enterprise
Recorder, who defended Dr. Cog
'. gins, said be had experienced a
"negligible amount" of economic
retaliation as a result, but that
he like everyone else wanted
to forget the thing.
Merchant told the Madison
County Commission the day of ber
firing Dr. Coggins had been "sub-
1 jected to the most vicious assort
r ment of lies, misrepresentations
and slander that I have had oc
casion to witness in this commu
nity" - f
Race RelaUoM Called Gad
, Merchant said that on the whole
' racial relations in Madison were
good, and there had been no in-
. indents growing out ef the differ
ences which split the town sharp
ly. Now, be said, "the wounds
' are about healed.'
Dr. Coggins' job as health ofQ
cer was taken over several weeks
ago by Dr. H. H. Ring, a quiet-
spoken man with. a north rlortda
tl bsckground who it being Kept
busy rebuilding the health orgsn-
mm , XkaftwimM nf fur WArlr ft! til nf.
Ti to and hospital, and attending
to the needs of ber three small
; children. Dr. Coggins said there
It Utile) Urn, for other activities
I She ' used to be active in
women't club and civic work be-
; fore she took the public health
job. A woman of diverse interests
: . ana many hobbies, sne piays gou.
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