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CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE- FINANCE:- These institutions ^[[together]] have total assets above $25-Million-Dollars. It was twenty-one years ago, 62 Negroes in Brooklyn polled their assets totaling only $225.00 to organize the the Paragon Progressive Federal Credit Union. Today this credit union has over 12,000 members and assets exceeding $2,750,00.00 "We are striving to increase our assets to $3-Million Dollars this year", asserted F. Levi Lord, treasurer. Wilfred H. Kerr is president. With a loan of $14,000.00, the Carver Federal Savings and Loan Association was organized 14 years ago. This loan has been repaid and the institution's assets today are above $21,000,000.00. In the main office, Joseph E. Davis is president and Clarence D. Smith, treasurer. Richard T. Green is director of the Brooklyn branch office opened four years ago. In compliance with current banking laws, organizers of the Allied Federal Savings and Loan Association, completed the difficult task of raising one-half million dollars to open for business in August of that year. Today the Association has over 3,000 members and assets above $1 1/2-Million Dollars. Frank L. Thompson is president and Camille T. Kelly, treasurer. _________ EXECUTIVES:- Baseball's Jackie Robinson was the first Negro Vice President named in "CHOCK FULL O'NUTS" city-wide food chain. James Plinto was named executive to the vice-president in charge of personnel and industrial relations in the Trans World Airlines in New York. _________ HOSPITAL SOCIAL DIRECTOR Mrs. Gloria Carter became the first Negro director of social service at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainsfield, New Jersey. WEEKLY NEGRO NEWSPAPER BECAME OUR FIRST DAILY PAPER IN 1865 The first Negro daily newspaper in the U.S. was the NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE, printed in both French and English, which began as a weekly in 1864, ran as a daily in 1865, then reverted to a weekly. Today we have two Negro daily newspapers: The Atlanta Daily World with a circulation of of 29,965 and the Chicago Daily Defender with a circulation of 22,965. __________ SURGICAL CONSULTANT FOR U.S. ARMY A surgeon, Dr. Charles Drew, Negro, became the first director of the American Red Cross blood bank and was surgical consultant for the United States Army during World War II. __________ HEADS CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL Dr. E. Alfred Anderson became medical director of John Wesley Hospital in Los Angeles in 1958, the first Negro to head a California County Hospital. __________ GEORGE WASHINGTON REVOKED ORDER PROHIBITING NEGROES FROM SERVICE Even Georgia and South Carolina, while refusing to recruit Negroes as soldiers, used slaves in the Continental forces as builders of fortifications, tender of horses and as body servants to the officers. The announced policy of the British to liberate all slaves, who freedly joined their services was one of the factors that caused a change in the colonists' early policy of refusing Negro enlistment. Washington revoked an order prohibiting Negroes from serving in ranks. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison not only urged enlistment of the slaves, but argued in favor of their freedom in return for service under arms. At Valley Forge, George Washington enlisted the aid of a Negro battalion from Rhode Island, all of whose men were promised their freedom at the end of hostilities.
