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Goodloe Installed Sixth NCM President Final Push For Lincoln Hospital Set For Sun. ■ ■ ■ H •*! THREE NCMf PRESIDENTS— | Shown here are, from left to right, Asa T. Spaulding, retir ing president of N. C. Mutual I Lh'fe Insurance Company, Jos eph W. Goodloe. newly named | Achievements Of Retiring HCM Insurance Company Joseph W. Goodloe, president. North Carolina Mutual Life Insur ance Company was officially in stalled this morning as the com pany's chief executive officer in a program held in the home office auditorium. Immediate Past Presi dent Asa T. Spaulding presided over the program in which the Scripture was read by Mrs. Helen R. Jones, manager, Policy Services Division and a solo rendered by Edna B. Thompson of the com pany's Data Processing Division. The Litany, especially compo sed foe the occasion, was lead by Reverend Lorenzo A. Lynch, pas tor, White Rock Baptist Church. One of the more significant peti tions read in part as follows: "Grant, O Lord Thy gifts of leader ship to our new President Joseph Waverly Goodloe;. . .Assist him in his many deliberations with an atti tude of open-mindedness to the views and insights of others, com fort him in the inevitable loneliness of his position of top leadership.." In accepting his new position, Mr. Goodloe said: "I am indeed fortunate to re ceive the torch of leadership from our retiring president. His achieve ments are well known. The only difficulty is that he has held the See CITED page 12 ——_ j Rl f I '«| "B J I SPEIGHT'S PURE OIL SERVICE STATION PERSONNEL Moses Burt Elected President City Council Human Relations Dusham attorney Moies Burt wu , elected President of the Durham Council on Human Relations at the Council's annual business meeting Saturday, December 22nd. He suc ceeds out-going President Nathanial , White; Burt, long |n active membw of j with the Low-Income Housing Cor poration In Durham. After his gra duation from the North Carolina College Law School, he went into j private practice in partnership with i | president of the company and \V. J. Kennedy, Jr., also a re tired president of N. C. Mutual. I Both the retired presidents ex tended congratulations and i W. J. Martin Named to Special Assistant Position in OEO WASHINGTON—Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz has ap pointed Willis J. Martin, 44, ■ Special Assistant for Equal Op -1 portunity to the Administrtor I of the Apprentice | ship and Training. In his new post, Mr. Martin j will be the chief advisor and program director in the Bureau I in matters related to nondis ' crimination in apprenticeship, i He will "provide overall direc j tion to the Bureau's team of 1 industrial training advisors who 1 maintain liaison with minority groups and communities, and he wil coordinate information centers in large industrial areas. - He succeeds the late Stanley W. Fink 10 the $18,400 post. Mr. Martin, a native of De chard, Tennessee, has been on the staff of the Bureau since 1966, working on equal oppor tunity programs and problems. A former coal miner, he , Floyd McKistick who is now Na tional Chairman of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE). For a time, Carolina Fund. . New officers of the Council in | elude Joseph J. Blum, Vice President; j Mrs. Joan Scagnelli, Secretary; and ufliH.m i/watt. Treasurer. Elected as members of the Executive Com mittee >we Mrs. Sally Jobsii, L. M. de Jarmon, Eugene Hampton, and 'Eugene Tucker. The findings of a special com- great hopes for the administra- I tion of their successor. Goodloe I is the sixth president of the company since it was founded in 1898. I • , I MARTIN earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Blue field State College in West Vir ginia, and a law degree from Georgetown University. He also completed two years of gradu See MARTIN page 12 mittee to study the up-coming school bond issue were discussed at the meeting. At what appeared to be i reluctance -of X&e committee. to take a stand, Dr. Ray Thompton stressed the importance of the Coun cil's taking a definite position for 01 against the bond issue before the referendum is held -on Jtnusry 30th. The Executive Committee was charged by the membership to pre pare a position paper that would be distributed and made public by (See BURT page 12) Che €4«tf 38 VOLUME 45 No. 1 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1968 T. R. Speight Named One Of Pure. Oil 1967 Top Dealers $500.00 Cash Award and IV Among Prizes . Theodore R. Speight, a na tive of Greene County and a Pure Oil dealer at 433 East Pilot St., Durham, recently was named one of four top winners in Pure Oil's "Dealer of the Year" contest, competing with 14,000 Pure Oil service station dealers for the honors. Designed to show dealers how to better service the motoring public, the contest involved all phases of service station operations, from greeting the customer to servicing his car so factory warranties would feu honored by car manufacturers. As one of the top four Pure dealers, Speight won a 1968 International Scout and a color I television set. In addition, a cash a\vard of SSOO was split among his employees as an added bonus for their active participation in the contest. Speight started in the serv ice station business In Durham in 1840. In IM4, he moved into a service station at the corner of Fayetteville and Pettigrew and became a Pure Oil dealer. He moved into his present location in 1967. He is married to the former Miss Mary Leach and they have five children, two em ployed by him as assistant manager and as bookkeeper. Speight is an active civic worker. He is a member of the board of directors of New Hope Missionary Baptist Association, the New Hope Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Convention, is a member of Community Baptist Deacon Board, a member of the Execu tive Board of General Baptist Convention of North Carolina and the Lott Carey Convention. He also Is a member of the board of the John Avery Boys Club; Harriet Tubman Branch, YWCA, Doric Lodge (Masonic) No. 28. Durham County Plan ning Board; Durham Business and Professional Chain; Chain Investment Corporation; and the One O'Clock Luncheon Club. SSO Million Fund Meet Set For Henderson HENDERSON-The SSO Million Fund Committee of the Cotton Memorial Presbyterian Church of Henderson, will conduct a fellow ship day, Sunday, January 14. The United Presbyterian Church of America is at present in the midst of a 50 million dollar capitol im provement drive. In light of the outstanding service that the church has rendered to cMzens in the area it is felt that the churches involved rfiould set aside a day to rededicate their effort* to the worship of.God through service to man. During this day the role of the church in the home and foreign mission fields will be reviewed and emphasis will be placed on the need for financial support of the SSO Million Fund Drive by the churches participating. The 11 o'clock - Morning Set vice will feature a special message by Dr. James F. Reese, Director of Religious Education for the Synod of Batawb*. Also featured Institute Choir. , The 4:30 pjn. Service will con sist of a' SSO Million Fund Work shop with a panel discussion led See MEET page 12 |HKU, * SPEIGHT 3 Miss. Workers Paid $3,000 After Being Discharged WASHINGTON, D. C.-(Spe cial) Three Negroes, former em ployees of a Louis Dreyfus Cor poration facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi have been paid $3,000 after complaining to the govern ment of being fired on racial grounds. The firm signed »n agreement with the Departments of Labor and Agriculture to pay the three ex-employees after a Federal in vestigation of their complaint of See PAID page 12 CELEBRATING THEIR 50TH wedding anniversary here dur ing the yuletide season were Mr and Mrs. VV. J. Kennedy, Jr., of 620 Dupree Street. Mr. Kennedy is a retired president of N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Dr. Ralph Aberna To Peace Mission I Sac Official Embarks on IVitalMission ATLANTA, Georgia Dr | Ralph D. Abernathy, Vi e e j President At-Large and Treas- i urer of the Southern Christian j Leadership Conference (SCLO, will embark on a world-wide mission for peace on January 3, 1968, during which time he will serve as delegate to the Symposium on Peace to be held in New Delhi, lnlia, Jan. 14-17, Dr. Abernathy, noted civil rights leader, Dr. Martir Luth er Xing's top -associate, ahti- J also Pastor at the West Hunter Street Baptist Church in At lanta, will be attending the Symposium at the request of > See ABERNATHY page 12 Harvey Campaign Voted Top News Maker in Danviile in '67 DANVILLE, Va.-The newsmen and women of the two daily news paper of Danville, Virginia, voted Attorney Ruth L. Harvey and her two political campaigns and a citi zens Write-In Campaign on her be half, the top new» story of this southside Virginia City for 1967. In releasing the selection of Attorney Harvey as top newsmaker the daily paper stated, "If any one person dominated the Danville-Pittsylvania County political scene in 1967, it was Ruth Harvey, a lawyer who garnered no more than one third of the vote in three-separate elec tions. But what Miss Harvey did do was demonstrate the potency of the Negro vote. She stunned all the political powers in July by leading the Democratic Primary for the City-County Floater House of De legates seat." She polled 8,000 votes in an unprecedented August Run-Off Primary. "When her sup porters launched a Write-in Cam paign for her In the November general election, ahe received 4,000 despite the magnitude and difficul ties, and finished second in a four way race. The daily paper went on to say, Company and Mrs. Kennedy is left to right, Mrs. Margery Gil the sister of the late C. C. lard of Birmingham, who played Spaulding who was also presi- the wedding march at the Kerf dent of N. C. Mutual up to the nedy wedding; Mr. and Mrs time of his death in 1952. Kennedy; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shown congratulating tha Ken- Clay, Mr and Mrs. J. H. Lucas nedys in their home are from and Mrs. Lee Smith. Walter W. Twitty Named New NCM Charlolte Dist. Manager W. A. Clement, CLU, agency | vice president of North Carolina 1 Mutual Life Insurance Company, j announces the retirement of Ro i bert C. Robinson and the promo j tion of Walter W. Twitty to the managership of its Charlotte Dis trict effective January 1, 1968. Mr. Robinson, formerly mana ger of the Company's Charlotte District retired after thirty-six years Born in Pee Dee, North Carolina where he attended the public schools, Robinson attended A&T College in Greensboro. He began "Iff career with North Carolina Mu tual as an agent on the Charlotte District on February 9, 1931. He was promoted to the position of Assistant Manager June 19, 1933. I'RICE: 20c E? 0* 1 jiH ATT'Y HARVEY "Miss Harvey's primary performan ces, while not good enough to win, is expected t) make the Negro vote more sought after in the future. Miss Harvey's showing was the most stunning political news of the year because it was so unexpec ted." Attorney Harvey, upon hearing the news stated, "That this is really a tribute to the Negroes of Danville See HARVEY page 12 On May 1, 1957, he was named Manager of the Charlotte District, Robinson is a LUTC giaduate and has won many company spon sored trips. He has served as a mem ber of the Managers. Advisory Council. He was replaced by Walter W. Twitty former member of the Home Office Agency Officers Styff and Special Representative arid Field Training Supervisor *siiTCe 1961. Twitty was born in Rutherford ton, in 1915 and studied for two jity. His record with North Caro lina Mutual consists of: Debit Ma nager 1939 - 1948; Special Ordi nary Agent Representative, Char- See TWITTY page 12 Drive to End at Morehead Ave. Baptist Church latest report from Chairman Asa T. Spaulding of the Lin coln Hospital Campaign launch ed here Sunday, December 10, disclosed that a total of $75,000 in cash is now in hand. The goal of $103,000 is expected to be reached at a mammoth'clos ing rally to be held at the Morehead Ave. Baptist Church here, Sunday afternoon at 4:00 p.m Spaulding is urging all work ers and worthwhile citizens to be on hand Sunday afternoon with their final report for the hiy push which is expected to result in the go a I being reached. Originally the drive was scheduled for 30 days but with the goal now in sight the chair man is hopeful of closing the campaign Sunday He cautioned however that even though the campaign, so far, has been a success that this is no time to let up if the goal is to be reached Sunday and it#hoped that every effort will be con tinued to reach every organi zation or individual that has not made a contribution. Persons not able to see or contact an authorized worker are urged to bring their con tribution to the closing Rally at Morehead Avenue Church Sunday afternoon. The same applies to representatives of organizations. American Tob. Co. Reidsville Plant Still Open for Business REIDSVILLE The Ameri ca n Tobacco Company an nounced Thursday that its Reidsville Branch and Leaf De partment are open for business and will continue normal op erations despite the fact that some employees have not come to work because of claims on the part of officers of the To bacco Workers ' International Union that Reidsville I>ocal 192 is on strike. While the Company has ex ressed no opinion as to the •galitv of the strike in Reids- See AMERICAN page 12 6 100,000 80,000 ■ 70,000 60P00 ■ H 50,000 I ■ 30,000 20,000 ■ 9> , ■ 10,000
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