N. C. Mutual Elects New Board Chairman, Promotes Eight
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AT NCC ANNUAL MEET
A. W. Williams Of Chicago
Successor To Doctor Donnell
A new board chairman was
elected and eight employees
received promotions at a meet
ing of the Board of Directors
of North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company during the
board's and policyholders an
nual meeting, Monday, January
10, held in the new multi-mil
lion dollar office building of
the company.
A. T. Spaulding delivered
the 67th annual report to policy
holders, his seventh as presi
dent of the company, in which
THREE NEW MEMBERS NAMED TO
N. C. COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
RALElGH—Appointment of
three new members and .reap
pointment of one incumbent
member of the Board of Trus
tees of North Carolina College
came in an announcement this
week by Governor Moore.
New members of the Board
include:
Robert J. Brown, 30, of High
Point, a public relations con
sultant, and Mrs. R. S. Fergu
son of Taylorsville, a former
member of the State Senate,
both for terms expiring June
30, 1973; and Malcolmn H.
Hunt, 42, of Raleigh, vice presi
dent and general manager of
the Electronics Products Divi
sion of Corning Glass Works,
for a term ending June 30,
1969.
Brown succeeds Dr. Reginald
A. Hawkins of Charlotte, Mrs.
Ferguson succeeds Dillard Teer
of Durham, and Hunt succeeds
Dr. W. W. Pierson of Chapel
Hill, who resigned November
6, 1965.
The Governor also reappoint
ed Bascom Baynes of Durham,
retired president of Home Se
curity Life .Insurance Company
U. S. Atty. General Warns
Against Defiance Voting Law
s r ooo Hear
Katzenbach In
Mobile, Ala.
WASHINGTON, D. C. At
torney General Nichols deß.
Katzenbach in a speech in Mo
bile Alabama, Sunday warned
those who seek to defy the new
Voting Rights Law that "they
will have the federal govern
ment to reckon with."
In a forthright declaration
of his intentions, the Attorney
General said:
"I have a message for those
noisy few yvho may entertain
thoughts of trying to frighten
or coerce a Negro citizen—or
any citizen from trying to
register or vote. If you do, you
will have the federal govern
ment to reckon with."
Katzenbach told the large
audience, nearly 5,000, in the
Mobile Municipal Auditorium,
that 532,000 Negroes were reg
istered in Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Georgia and S. C.
Georgia and South Carolina
when President Johnson signed
the Voting Rights Act last Aug
ust.
He said: "Since then, the 80,-
000 registered by federal ex
aminers and the 160,000 regis
tered by local officials have
brought the total to more than
840,000—an increase of 41 per
cent. In Alabama, the number
of Negroes registered has gone
from 106,000 to 176,000 or from
22 per cent to nearly 40 per
cent."
The Attorney General made
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GAILLARD
lie slated, "I am pleased to be
. able to report to you that the
affairs of your , company are
' n balance and the corporate
body is' healthy and strong."
The new building is to be dedi
-ated the weekentf of April 1.
A W Williams, of Chicago,
Ml., vice president of the com
pany was named chairman, sue
' ceeding Dr Clyde Donnell who
| retired from the board on the
i late of the annual meeting.
Williams, founder and form
| er president of Unity Mutual
of Durham ,for a term expiring
June 30, 1973,
Brown attended Virginia
Union University and .North
Carolina Agricultural and Tech
nical College, is a former rec
reation supervisor, patrolman
and plainclothesman for the
City of High Point. He also
served as a Federal narcotics
agent in New York City. He is
chairman of the board of di
rectors of United Publishers,
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Mrs. M. B. J. George Succumbs
CHARLOTTE Mrs. Minnie
B. Jones George died Sunday
morning, January 9, at her
home, 130 Beatties Ford Road.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at 11:00
o'clock in the Johnson C. Smith
University Church.
Mrs. George was the wife of
Dr. A. H. George, dean emeri
tus of the Theological ' Semi
nary at Johnson C .Smith Uni
versity.
A teacher in the public
schools of North Carolina for
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NEW GEORGIA LEGISLATORS
—Georgia state representatives
William H. Alexander, left and
Ben D. Brown relax during a
break in the opening session of
the 1964 Legislature In Atlanta
Monday, Jan, 10.
Alexander, repreienting the
133 rd House District, and
Brown, elected from the 135 th
House district, were among sev
FRASIER
Life Insurance Company be
came connected with North
Carolina Mutual in 1962 when
the two companies ->vere merg
ed by a reinsurance agreement.
At that time he was named
vice president and a member
of the Board of Directors.
Three members of the Board
of Directors whose terms of
office expired with this meet-
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30 years, Mrs. George retired
in 1962 from the faculty of
Morgan school. She had taught
in Wilson, before coming to
Charlotte.
After retiremepl, Mrs.
George continued working with
church groups She was com
missioned by the United Pres
byterian' Church U.S.A. to work
with African church women
in Liberia and Kenya for six
months in 1962-1963.
She was born in McConnels,
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en Negroes sworn In at the
historic session, beoming mem
bers of the first group of/Ne
groes to serve in the Kfocse In
the state's recent history,
An eitihth Negro Representa
tive-elect Julian Bond, was' not
seated because of remarks he
allegedly made supporting an
SNCC criticism of the U.S. pol
icy In Viet Nam. The Bond con
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ing were re-elected for four
years: A. T. Spaulding, Dr. J.
M N'abrit and C. C. Spaulding,
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Dr C. D. Watts, vice presi
dent medical director was
elected to fill a vacancy on the
board resulting from the retire
ment of Dr. Clyde Donnell.
W A Clement, CLU -was
named vice president-field ope
rations, with L. B. Frasier re
placing Clement as agency di
rector Thad B Gaillard sue
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VOLUME 43 No. 3
Mutual Savings&Loan Elects
White To Board Of Directors
'Another Good
Year for Mutual
Savings & Loan'
The 1966 annual stockholders
meeting of the Mutual Savings
and Loan Association was held
at the office of the company,
114 Parrish Street, Tuesday
evening, January 11.
With W. J. Kennedy, Jr., pre
siding, the meeting was opened
it 7:30 p.m., with prayer by
Rev. J. W. Barnes.
Minutes of the previous an
nual meeting were read F.
V. Allison, Jr., secretary of the
Association.
The report of the president,
J. S. Stewart, followed the
reading of the minutes. The
president revealed in his re
port that 1965 had bqen "an
other good year for Mutual
Savings and Loan Association."
Said Mr. Stewart further, in
his report:
"As indicated on the Com
parative Statement ,pf Condi-
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troverty ballooned the entire
House opening into national
prominonca, making it the moit
turbulent since 1947, when sup
porter* of two claimanti to the
governorship clashed.
The photo above was made
by Harold W. Alexander, di
rector of the North Carolina
College News Bureau and bro
ther of Rep. Alexander.
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MRS. CLELAND
ceeds Frasier as associate
agency director. With the re
tirement of Mrs. V. G. Turner,
W. J. Kennedy, 111 was promot
ed to the position of financial
vice president.
R. C. W Perry was elevated
to controller to replace Ken
nedy. In 1934, he was appoint
ed cashier of this District, and
in 1936, he was transferred to
the Home Office as traveling
cashier
L. 1? Porter and Teas
DURHAM, N. C SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1966
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CONGRATULATIONS— Rev. J.
J. W. Barnes. Pastor of Terrel
Creek Baptist Church, who
brought the invocation; W. J.
Anglin Named Ass't Cashier
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
J. H .Wheeler, President of
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
announced that at its first
meeting of the year, the Board
of Directors had elected Jesse
B. Anglin, Jr. to the position
of Assistant Cashier at its main
office.
Anglin joined the staff of
Mechanics and Farmersr Bank
in June, 1961 just after his
graduation from Virginia State
College, Petersburg, Virginia
where he obtained a B.S. De
gree in Business Administra
tion and since that time has
worked in most of the depart
ments of the bank.
A native of Martinsville, Va.,
Anglin received his elementary
and high school education
there, graduating from the Al
bert Harris High School with
honors. He served with the
United States Army durirng
the Korean Conflict as a Ser
geant in the Military Police
Force. He is a member of the
1 DKAP, MANY HURT AS BLAST
WRECKS CHURCH IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C. A
faulty gas furnace was the sus
pected cause of two explosions
that shattered Mt. Joy Baptist
Church, turning Sunday night
services into a screaming hor
ror for 100 persons and death
for one woman.
At least 10 persons, among
them the church pastor, were
injured in the blasts which hit
as the congregation was filing
up a stairway to thy top floor
of the two-story structure for
deacon installation ceremonies.
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| ley, both assistant actuaries
| and Mrs. Stella H. Cleland was
j elected to the official staff of
| the company in the position of
j assistant to the President.
Leroy B Frasier began his
| employment with the com
pany in 1932 as an agent on
the Spartanburg District. In
1941, he was made agency su
pervisor; In 1952 he was nam
ed agency secretary and ap-
I pointed to the Home Office
■Staff and in 1956 he was pry
Kennedy, Jr., Vice President dent of Service Printing Cont
end Cherter member of the as- peny end newly elected direc
sociation; J. S. Stewart, Presi- tor.
dent and N. B. White, Presi-
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Presbyterian Church and the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. He
is also active in the civic and
social activities of the com
munity.
The blast shattered the rear
wall of the brick church where
the stairway leading to the se
cond floor was located.
Several persons were buried
in bricks, plaster. They were
freed by firemen and rescuers
■X'ho pawed frantically through
the rubble to reach them.
Mrs. Madyline Hawkins, 64,
was pronounced dead on ar
rival at D. C. General Hospital,
after firemen freed her from
the debris.
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PORTER
| moted to associate agency di
rector.
Thad B. Gaillard, CLU be
came connected with the com
! pany in 1962 as director of
j training in the Agency Depart
| ment. In 1964 he was promoted
to assistant agency director
training.
William J. Kennedy, in is a
I native of Durham and was edu
cated in the public schools of
j this city He received the BS.
| degree in Business Adminis
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Kivie Kaplan
Elected Fourth
NAACP Prexy
NEW YORK—Retired Boston
industrialist Kivie Kaplan, 61,
was elected president of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, Monday, January 3.
The fourth president of the
57-year-old civil rights organi
zation, Kaplan was unanimous
ly selected by the NAACP's 60-
member Board of Directors to
to succeed Arthur B. Spingarn.
Spingarn, 87, a New York at
torney who has served as the
NAACP president for 26 years,
declined to seek reelection.
Meeting in its first quarter
ly session of 1966, the Board
voted to retain the other top
officers of the Association.,
These included Bishop Stephen
G. Spottswood, Board chair
man; Jeesse Turner, vice chair
man; Alfred Baker Lewis, treas
urer; Dr. Harry J. Greene, as
sistant treasurer; and Roy Wil
kins, executive director.
Kaplan, a longtime NAACP
member, was appointed chair
man of the Association's Na
tional Life Membership Com
mittee in 1953. The following
vear he was relected to his first
term as a n.ember of the Board
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tration from Va. State College
and his graduate work was
done at Pennsylvania and New
York U.
He was employed by North
Carolina Mutual in 1950, and
after serving in several capa
cities was elected controller in
1959; and was named assistant
financial vice president and
controller and in 1965 elected
to "the Board of Directors.
N.Y. to Increase
Number Negro
School Officials
NEW YORK New York
City's schools will shortly have
an increased number of Negro
supervisors uflher the Board
of Education's pfolicy of im
proved integration of the pub
lic school staff.
Superintendent of Schools
Bernard E. Donovan announced
• his week that, effective Febru
ary T about new assistant
principals will be appointed to
the City's elementary schools.
They w\ll include about 24 Ne
groes, representing 12 percent
of those for whom supervisory
j6bs are immediately avail
i able
The appointees to be are
among 678 eligibles licensed as
assistant principals on Decem
ber 22 These included an esti
mated 120 Negroes, or approxi
mately 18 percent of those li
censed About 150 applications
are still pending from which
additional licensees, including
Negroes, may be expected.
School officials emphasized
that the estimate of the num
ber of Negro licensees on the
new assistant principal list is
completely unofficial because
the law forbids asking appli
cants about their race, creed
or color in examinations for
public school -positions. On be
half of the Board of Exami
ners, Miss Gertrude Unser,
Chairman, and Dr. Isidore Bo
cen, examiner in charge of the
assistant principal test, stress
ed they had no knowledge of
the number of Negro licensees.
The estimate -was made by the
school svstem's Human Rela
tions Unit on the basis of rec
ognition of participants in
Professional Promotional Sem
inars.
Still further appointments
will be made from time to
time, and it is likely that this
eligible list, like most lists for
school positions, will be uti
lized in full before its four
year period of validity expires.
appointments will made
in Strict order of standing on
the list, in accordance with the
merit system or filling public
school vacanicies.
Runs City Hall
In New York City
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JAMES W. SMITH, who did
yeoman service in aiding the
upset election of John Lindsay
to the Mayorality of New York
City, hat been named Admin
istrative Assistant to the Ma
yor. Smith will run the dap-to
day operations of the Mayor's
office.