JV. C. Mutual Elects 2
Joseph W. Goodloe, presi
dent and chief executive offi- '
cer of the North Carolina j
Mutual Life Insurance .Com- ,
pany, announced the Board |
of Directors' election of two |
officers to vice presidencies at j
the January meeting. They
are: Louise T. McCrae, Cor
porate Secretary and Murray
J. Marvin, Director of Corpo
rate Planning.
In making the announce- •
ment, Goodloe recalled that he
originally recruited both the I
new vice presidents for em- i
ployment with North Carolina !
General Motors To Deposit $5 Million in Minority Banks
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photographed last Thursday at the funeral of
the Rev. E. T. Browne held at the Mt. Vernon
Baptist Church which he pastored here for
the past 23 years. The top photo shows hix
wife Dr. Rose Butler Browne being escorted
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U. 5. Black Catholics Hail
Commutation Death Penalty
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
In response to official U. S.
State Department notification
that the death sentence given
Bishop Albert Ndongmo by a
Cameroon military tribunal
has been commuted, the Na
tional Office for Black Catho
lics said "it was time that such
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j. A. CARTER, Illustrious Commander in Chief of Durham Consistory 218 Receiving
the Charge.
Mutual. And, in his former
position as personnel officer
has had a close association
with them in their professional
growth and development. It
was his feeling that their new
positions of responsibility will
afford them additional oppor
tunities for broader work and
service.
"Mrs. McCrae's career,"
Goodloe pointed out, "spans
a period of twenty-seven years.
In her progress through the
ranks she chalked up several
trail-blaxing "firsts" here in our
Company. She began her ca
into the church by her son, Emmet T. Browne
Jr. and Mrs. Almeta Hinton. The photo at
the bottom shows part of the crowd filing
into the church which was filled much be
yond its capacity.
(Staff Photo by Purefoy)i
matic responsibility of a world
agency."
Msgr. Ndongmo had been
condemned to death by firing
9quad in Cameroon, Central
Africa on January 6. The
NOBC, representing one mil
lion black catholics in the
U. SI immediately rallied the
World Council of Churches,
reer as a stenographer in the
Industrial Department in
1944. By 1950 she had ad
vanced to the position of 'ac
ting chief clerk.' A year later
she became chief clerk and in
1952 became the first wo
man to serve as department
manager in our Company.
Later, the same year, she was
appointed administrative assis
tant to the corporate secre
tary, a position she held until
she was appointed assistant
secretary. (First woman in the
Company's history to hold this
post.) In 1967 she, again, be
the Synagogue Council of
America and fellow Catholic
agencies, in an appeal for cle
mency by the President of
Cameroon. In a telegram sent
to President Nixon, Secretary
General U Thant, Secretary of
State Rogers and the Vatican
amortg others, the National
(See PENALTY page 3A)
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VOLUME 50 No. 4
United Negro College Fund
Gets $647,000 Educ. Grant
NEW YORK - The United
Negro College Fund an
nounced today It has received
$647,800 in grants to help it
carry out programs ranging
from assistance to faculty
members seeking advanced
study to new methods of re
cruiting students for its col
leges.
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., exe
cutive director of the Fund,
said the grants are "tremen
dously important because they
recognize the new supportive
educational services which the
Fund must supply its mem
ber schools.
"This is an acknowledge
(See FUND page 3A)
NEGRO HEADS
NEW ORLEANS
SCHOOL BOARD
NEW ORLEANS - Dr.
Mack J. Spears, dean of men
at Dillard University and na
tive of New Orleans, was
elected president of the Or
leans Parish school board, the
first Negro ever to be so
honored. Dr. Spears has been
a member of the board for
three years and was vice-pre
sident at the time of eleva
tion to the presidency. He is
a graduate of the New Orleans
public schools and Dillard Uni
versity. He received his Doctor
of Education degree from Har
vard University. Dr. Sears
taught in the N. 0. school sy
stem for a number of years
and retired to accept the
position at Dillard when he
was principal of the Mc-
Donogh 35 se.iior high
school in New Orleans. Others
on the board, all white, in
clude Mrs. Mildred Bloomberg,
vice-president; Robert C.
Smith, Lloyd J. Rittiner and
Dr. Edward H. Knight.
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CONSISTORIAL PROCESSION L ing led by Prince Mc-
Ghee and 1 Prince Walker of Eldward Evans Consistory
t9tf Fayettevillc. (Photo by Purefoy)
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MARVIN
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1971
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REV. CHEEK
Rev. J.C. Cheek
Makes Address
To Consistory
Durham Consistory 218
Prince Hall Affiliated Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Free Masonry again brought
their installation of officers
out to the public. It was held
at the Mt. Calvary United
Christian Church Sunday, Jan
uary 17, at 3:00 p.m. with
the Rev. J. C. Cheek, pastor,
delivering a sermonette.
The installation was con
ducted by the Edward Evans
Consistory 196 of Fayetteville
was Illustrious Peer Otto R.
Morgan 33 degrees as the in
stalling officer and Past Com
mander-in-Chief. He was as
sisted by Illustrious Willie J.
Tillery, Commander-in-Chief
of said Consistory.
Durham Consistory is in the
process of elevating 28 neo
phytes who were also present
at the installation services.
came the first woman in a job.
She was elected corporate se
cretary. Now, in her latest
position, she became the se
cond of her sex to be elected
as a North Carolina Mutual
vice president."
Louise McCrae is a grad
uate of North Carolina Cen
tral University's Business De
partment and is an "associate"
of the Life Office Management
Institute. She is currently en
rolled in the Institute's courses
in "administrative manage
ment" and "personnel ad
ministration" leading to the
Durham Physician Serves on
Eastern Regional Health Panel
Dr. Charles D. Watts, Vice
President & Medical Director
of North Carolina Mutual Life
Company, served as a panelist
in Atlanta this morning as a
part of the two-day Eastern
Regional Meeting of the Com
prehensive Health Planning
Institute.
The series of regional con
ferences conducted by the
Comprehensive Health Plan
ning Institute are being spon
sored by the National Associa
tion of Counties Research
Foundation with the stated
(See WATTS page 3A)
Wilkins Sounds Optimistic Note
At N.A.A.CP. Annual Meeting
NEW YORK - In a wide
ranging review of the 1970
activities of the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People and of de
velopments on the racial front
generally, NAACP Executive
Director Roy Wilkins, sound
ing an optimistic note, cited as
highlights of the year Negro
participation in the November
elections; positive legislative
action; the emergence of the
NAACP-sponsored National
Afro-American Builders, Inc.;
the struggle against continuing
Jim Crow in housing, employ
ment and education, defense
of black servicemen; and mul
tiple programs carried out by
local NAACP units throughout
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CONSISTORY OFFICERS BEING INSTALLED
(Left to right) Julius Barbee, Ist Commander;
Prince A. R. Thompson. Chancellor; Prince
I coveted designation as a "fel
low" in the life management
I institute. Mrs. McCres's hus
i band is a detective in the
' Durham Police Department
"My working relationship
with Murray Marvin goes back
1 over twenty years," Goodloe
j continued. "I got to know him
and his wife, Delores, while
serving as convention chair
man, board member and later
as president of the National
Insurance Association. They
had their own consulting firm
j of Marvin & Marvin in Chica
i go. The present NIA National
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the nation.
Reporting to the member
ship on the "State of the
NAACP" at the Association's
62nd annual meeting here,
January 11, Mr. Wilkins said
that results of the elections
revealed that "the overwhelm
ing majority of Negro Ameri
cans have chosen to work
within the framework of the
American system. They have
grievous complaints. Some of
them are being harassed, per
secuted and murdered because
they fight for their rights with
vigor, determination and skill
in the courts, in protest de
monstrations and at the ballot
box."
Nevertheless, he said, "they
Tatum, Keeper of the Seals; Prince Dal ton.
Grand Prior and Prince Plummer, Treasurer
(Photos by Purefoy>
Office operation is base d on a
report-study they pa* pawl.
Several projects tbey da* gnsd
and structured during \ the*
eleven years with the NIA «•
still operative. In 1958, da -»ng
my tenure as NIA presides t, I
encouraged Murray to seek. his
master's degree in buaineas a d
ministration under the Exec u
tlve Program of the Univenlt y
of Chicago. In 1960, when I
learned he was planning t>
leave the NIA to accept em
ployment with another com
pany, I interested him in em-
See ELECTS page 3A)
To Encourage
Additional Job
Opportunities
NEW YORK - The De
partment of Commerce today
announced that General
Motors Corporation has taken
a leadership position in the
joint government-private sec
tor program to significantly
increase the funds available
to minority-owned banks. Act
ing Secretary of Commerce,
Rocco C. Siciliano, states that
under the program, General
Motors is committing $5 mil
lion deposits to assist the
nation's 32 minority banks.
In October of last year, the
Nixon Administration an
nounced its program develop
ed by the Advisory Council
on Minority Eusiness Enter
prise, the Treasury Depart
ment, and the National Bank
ers Association to increase de
posits in minority-owned
banks across the country by
SIOO million during the next
twelve months.
These funds which would
represent a one third increase
in the deposit total in minori
ty banks are intended to en
courage through the banking
system the creation and
development of minority busi
(See BANKS page 3A)
are forging ahead. They used
the election last November to
signal that they have not with
drawn from the contest. They
marshaled the voter strength
and sentiment needed to reject
the nomination of Judge G.
Harrold Carswell in a campaign
spearheaded by the NAACP
with the aid of labor and
other groups active in civil
rights."
Jews Demonstrate
OTTAWA _ Knur thou- i
sand Canadian Jews from Mont- |
real and Toronto demonstrated >
Sunday on Parliament Hill I
against repression of Jews in
e , Inion. Orsanizers |
said the demonstrators traveled '
to Ottawa in 72 buses and nearly
400 cars. *
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