GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By Mrs. Syminer Daye YOUR MIND By William Thorpe LOVE ME, LOVE MY WIFE By George B Ruse PREGNANCY PLANNING & HEALTH By G. Riggsbee CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By E. L. Kearney WRITERS FORUM By George B. RIOB VOLUME 51 No. 3 Blacks Areßeina Pitte Mutual Savings & Loan Ass'n Holds Stockholders Meeting 1 I flgf * % PARTNERS IN PROGRESS Repreaenta tives of N. C. Mutual life Insurance Co. and First Union National Bancorp are shown after completion of a $6 Million reinsurance contract. NCM officers, 2nd and 4th from left, are: Joseph W. Goodloe, presi dent and 1 W. A. Clement, senior VP. First Congressman Digg Charges At So. WASHINGTON, D. C. - At a press conference recently, Michigan Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr. hurled racist charges at the southern Rhodesian "government." "We have a new, world's light heavyweight champion of ra cism!" The charge was brought by Mr. Diggs after receiving word recently that his re N. C. Mutual Completes $6 Million Contract J 1 MRS. GLORIA ROY STIR MANLKY Former NCCU Librarian Joins Faculty of UNC at Chapel Hill A former North Carolina Central University Librarian, Mrs. Gloria Royster Manley has joined the faculty at the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as the Librarian in the School of Pharmacy. A native of Oxford, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Royster, she received her early education in the school system of Granville County. She is a graduate of Mary Potter High School and a graduate of Cheyney State College, Chey Union officers are: Norrls L. Hodgktao, Jr.;; Durham city executive of the First Union National Bank; C. C. Cameron, chairman and president of Bancorp; Claude Pope, president of Cameron-Brown, and) Charles Jobnson, vice-president of Oameron-Brown. quest to enter Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) enroute J to a conference in Zambia on a two or three day visit next | week, was denied. Irate with indignation, Con- j gressman Diggs said' "I think j it is significant that I was admitted to the Republic of South Africa last August de spite my well-established op position to apartheid and ney, Penna., with a Bachelor of Science Degree. She is the holder of two degrees from North Carolina Central Univer sity, a Master of Art in Edu cation and a Master of Science In Library Science. She is married to Dr. J. R. Manley, Pastor of First Baptist and Hickory Grove Baptist Churches in Chapel Hill. The Manley's are the proud parents of a son, John Ruffin Manley 11, who is a senior in the Chapel Hill ' Che Carjgfa other government policies. It is, therefore, difficult to put any favorable interpretation on this latest action by the Smith regime." Dr. Diggs had planned to stop in Rhodesia mainly be cause he had never been there. Further, while there, he in tended to test the acceptability of the Settlement Proposals to (See DIGGS page 7A) Arthritis Foundation Opposition Sent Governatorial AME Zionites Preparing For Convention DALLAS, Texas The of ficial family of the A.M.E. Zion Church was on hand here January 5-7, for the meeting of the Board of Bishops and the Ministers' & Laymen As sociation, which convened at St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church. It is believed to be the first time a national meeting of the denomination has met in the extreme southwest. The meeting is believed to have set the pace for the com ing Genera! Conference, which will be held in Mobile, Ala., May 3-13. The chief concern was how many bishops would be retired and how many epis copal districts would be set up for the administering of the work of the denomination. There are 12 episcopal dis tricts now, supervised by 11 active bishops, one, S. Dorme Lartey, the first African born (See ZIONITES page 7A) DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1972 MISINFORMATION: A CASE QF Greatest Year In History of The Association By JAMES VAUGHAN "It has been the greatest year in the 51-year history of the company," was the news that greeted an overflow gathering of shareholders for the annual report of the Mu tual Savings and Loan Associa tion. One of the greatest causes for exhuberance from the -group composed of distinguish ed citizens including, Council man, Dr. C. E. Boulware, Attorney W. G. Pearson, John C. Scarborough, 111 and others, was the statements that: "As sets of the Association increas ed by $2 million, bringing the total assets to approximately sll million." Excitement continued to run high throughout the meet ing as Mrs. J. S. Strayhorne was elected to the board of directors. Later, during the monthly meeting she was pro moted treasurer and assistant secretary; F. V. Allison, Jr., was promoted to vice presi dent-secretary; and Miss Annie M. Anderson was made assist ant secretary. W. J. Kennedy, Jr., chair man of the board, presided over the meeting and J- S. Stewart, president, delivered the report. Stewart's statement read: "It is with great pride that I report to you that 1971 was (See STOCKHOLDERS 7A) By JOHN MYERS Clifton P. Jones, Board Member and past treasurer for the North Carolina Arthritis Foundation announced this week that he has sent a letter outlining his complaints of the N. C. Arthritis Foundation to all candidates for N. C. governor urging their support by inquiry to the proposed mismanagement of that organi zation. Jones and Robert Pace, past president of the Founda tion have been the primary causes for an investigation which is now nationally known. Jones and Pace have previously charged the Foun dation with mis-use of funds, neglect in duties, and present ing false documents to North Carolina National Bank in or der to keep the account of the Foundation open for business. Both Pace and Jones alto pointed fingers at John R. Jordon, Jr., chairman of the Board of the Department of Social Services, Clifton M. Craig, Commissioner of the Department of Social Services, and the ihajority of the leading names involved with the North (See ARTHRITIS page 7A) jjj| fci . ■ft. ii \ w j^H yk V |m K* .j|fl NEWLY PROMOTED members of the Mutual Savings and Loan Association arte shown here with J. S. Stewart, president (seated) Left to right: Mrs. J. S. Strayhorne promoted to treasurer-assistant secretary; F. V. Allison, Mayor Howard For 2nd District Congress Seat Chapel Hill Mayor To Run Against L. H. Fountain By JOHN MYERS CHAPEL HILL At a press conference at the Holiday Inn in Chapel Hill Monday 10 Mayor of Chapel Hill, Howard N. Lee announced his candi dacy for 2nd District Con gressman on the Democratic ticket. Lee outlines his campaign plays by stating, "My cam paign for Congress will appeal to all of the people, but es pecially to the working classes - people who tell me over and over again that they have lost faith in the old politics because (See LEE page 7A) N: C. Credit Union, Inc. to Hold Meeting The 1971 Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Credit Union, Inc. will be held in Durham, in the North Caro lina Central University Cafe teria on Lawson Street. The Board will hold its meeting at 10:00 a.m. and the Annual Session will be opened prompt ly at 11:15 A.M. Any un finished business resulting from the main session, will be com pleted immediately following lunch. This is a very important meeting, and it is urged that credit union members, should make a special effort to be present. Many questions per taining to the future of the agency will be discussed and answered. By all means as a menber you should be pre sent, and give voice to your opinions. Registration and Lunch fees (See UNION page 7A) Jr., moved to vice-president-secretary; and Miss Annie M. Anderson, promoted to asrist ant secretary. W. J. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman Board of Directors opening the session of 51st Annual Stockholders Meeting. Thomas Wolfe Memorial Angel Now Mounted on UNC Campus CHAPEL HILL - The long awaited permanent site for Thomas Wolfe's memorial angel has finally become a reality on the University of North Carolina campus here. The 850-pound memorial to the famous Asheville nove- list is now planted next to Gifford Court near the center of the campus. Made of sculp tured bronze in the image of a male head overlooking an ex tended wing, the angel is at tached to a simple upright concrete slab. Cameron-Brown And First Union Involved In Deal Joseph W. Goodloe, presi dent of North Carolin Mutual Life Insurance Company, an nounced the completion of a $6 Million contract to reinsure an employee benefit insurance program for First Union Ban corp as another in a series of such contracts with major cor porations. First Union Nation, al Bancorp is the parent com pany of the First Union Nat ional Bank along with the Cameron-Brown Company and several subsidiary corporations with total personnel of 3,800. The North Carolina Mutual, headquarted in Durham, is the nation's largest black-operated financial institution and ope rates in thirteen states and and the District of Columbia while First Union Bancorp, a white-operated firm with its main office in Charlotte, is concentrated in the southeast ern United States. Hie First Union National Bank, a major subsidiary, has 157 offices in 71 North Carolina communities and ranked as the 3rd largest bank in the state. Goodloe stated*, "Our contract with First Union is but one more manifestation of the new dimensions of an ever broader and more inclusive relation ship developing between black and white operated firms in the seventies. A number of progressive managements of many of the nation's blue (See CONTRACT page 7A) WORDS OF WISDOM • Don't expect the impossible, bat cooperate with the inevitable. —Familiar saying- Some fellows' signatures are so undecipherable that they might just as well save time and sign their names with a cross. The memorial is inscribed with one of the more famous quotations from Wolfe's novel "Look Homeward, Angel." It reads "Oh lost and by the wind grieved, ghost come back again." - Thomas Wolfe. Conceived as a class gift by UNC's class of 1966, the idea of a memorial to Wolfe be- longed to that year's senior class vice president, Armistead Maupin of Raleigh. He en visioned the angel in 1965 and suggested it as the class gift. (See WOLFE page 7A) WTVD Contributes SIO,OOO to Central U.'s Endowment Fund By JAMES VAUGHAN WTVD, Durham's television station of Capital Cities Broad casting Corporation of New York contributed $lO thou sand to the North Carolina Central University En dowment Fund this week. During a quiet and sober ceremor.y in the office of Dr. Albert N. Whiting, president of NCCU, Melvin (Mike) J. Thompson, Jr., vice-president and general manager of WTVD, presented the check to Dr. Whiting. Thompson noted that the $lO thousand was contributed Black Caucus Plans Attack on News Media for Slur of Blacks The news media is sche duled to come under attack for its coverage and treatment of Blacks, members of the Black Congressional Caucus an nounced recently. The Caucus announced that magazines, newspapers and television treatments of Ne groes and their hiring policies for black staff members will be investigated. According to Rep. William Clay (D-Mo.), a member of the Caucus, hearings will start March 6. Approximately 20 witnesses are scheduled to tea- PUCK: M cnrm McNeil Denies Charging Pres. Of KHtrell Col. By JAMES VAUGHAN "Misinformation: a case of blacks being pitted against blacks," was the charge re leased this week by a black Durham contractor who was accused by local news sources of filing a complaint of bidding discrimination against Kittrell College, a predominantly black junior college near the area. W. D. McNeil, a Durham electrical contractor and head of Union Electric Co., denied the ascertion that he had filed a complaint against Kittrell College. He stated that: "The infor mation carried was incorrect. We filed a complaint to the office of Housing and Urban Development, alleging discri mination, charging general con tractors who were bidding on construction of a $400,000 (See KITTRELL. pace 7A) NATL NAACP OFFICER TO VISIT STATE MONDAY Alfred Baker Lewis, nation al treasurer, NAACP, will be in Durham Monday. He will meet with members of the exe cutive committee and discuss plans for an intensive member ship drive that will be carried on in 1972. He will also speak to the Interdenominational Ministers' Alliance of Durham & Vicinity at 12:30 pjn. Mt. Vernon Bap tist Church. He will hold a press conference at the Dur ham Hotel & Motel immediate ly after he leaves the Alliance meeting. The Durham stop is one of the many he will make on a (See VISIT page 7A) in the interest of quality teach ing at the higher education level. He added, "It is hoped that this contribution will help to continue the growth and progress of an already fine in stitution of higher learning." He also added that WTVD had approved his corporation's contribution to the fund. Dr. Whiting explained to Thompson that the purpose of the endowment was to retain and seek additional outstand ing teachers. He added "Because of inte gration, we have' lost approxi (See WTVD pace TAJ tify. A key issue in the investi gations will he instances of the dismissal of black staff workers from organizations for reasons other than their professional ability or performance. In addi tion the investigation will look into alleged unwillingness of the news media to hire Blacks. "We shall seek to ascertain that justice prevail in many of these cases," Clay stated. Also, the Causus will touch upon the failure of the whit* media to properly Interpret the Black movement.

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view