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[Image upper left corner] Lloyd Sealy, the First Black Man In Several High Police Posts, Dies By Peter Kerr Lloyd G. Sealy, a 27-year veteran of the New York City Police Department who was the first black man to hold a number of top positions on the force, died of a heart attack Friday, his 68th birthday. He lived in Brooklyn. Mr. Sealy was stricken as he taught a class at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and was taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to a police spokesman, Officer Anthony Vallelong. Mr. Sealy had been a professor at the school since his retirement. [[Text cutoff ]] cinct, where the population was mostly black and 80 percent of the officers were white. He added, "You try to show the police that this is a community of decent people with the same values and same standards as any other community, people who strongly resent any implication that they don't have values." Lloyd George Sealy was born in Manhattan, the second of three [[Text cutoff]] [[Image upper right corner of page]] The New York Times, 1964 Lloyd G. Sealy [[Text cutoff]] Mrs. Inez Lucas Was A Retired Scholl Teacher Mrs. Inez Williams Lucas, 86, of Oak Bluffs and Brooklyn, N.Y., died on Feb. 4 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital after a long illness. She was the wife of the late Brig. Gen. Wilmer F. Lucas, USA Retired. Mrs. Lucas was born in Newbury, S.C. A professional school teacher, she had retired from the New York city school system. She came last summer for the season, and then because of health [[Text cutoff]] Al Duckett Dies Of Cancer In Chicago Al Duckett, editor, author, publicist and biographer of Joe Louis, died Monday morning in University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago of cancer. He was 67 years old. Duckett, who lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., was in Chicago working on his autobiography at the time of his death. He was a [[text cut off]] the Chicago Defender staff for a [[text cut off]] years. [[Text cutoff]] dy will be cremated in Chicago. A[[text cut off]] Service will be held in New York [[text cut off]] date to be announced later. [[text cut off]]ett, whose family was well know in [[text cut off]] yn, is survived by two sisters, Ruth [[text cut off]] and Dorothy Joseph; an adopted [[text cut off]] Jose Ortiz Diaz; a daughter, Carolyn, [[text cut off]] a niece, Karen Joseph. Colin Stokes of R.J Reynolds WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Dec 15 [[text cutoff]] Colin Stokes, retired chairman [[Text cutoff]] chief executive officer of R.J. Reynolds Industries Inc., died Friday North Carolina Baptist Hospital. He [[Text cutoff]] 70 years old. [[Text cutoff]] Stokes, who retired in 1979 [[Text cutoff]] the company's diversification [[Text cutoff]] producer of tobacco products to [[Text cutoff]] conglomerate. [[Text cutoff]] -dwide was chairman of the Wake Forest [[Text cutoff]] -sity board of trustees, the board [[Text cutoff]] -ors of Bowman Gray School of [[Text cutoff]] and the Independent College [[Text cutoff]] North Carolina, and was a [[Text cutoff]] of the Institutional Development [[Text cutoff]] -oundation of the University of [[Text cutoff]] -arolina at Chapel Hill. [[Text cutoff]]okes, the oldest of three [[text cut off]] s born in Winston-Salem [[text cut off]] father also worked for Re [[text cut off]] ing as a director of the co [[text cut off]] suerintendent of leaf p [[text cut off]] [[text cut off]]gan as a 'tag boy' [[text cut off]] waas a student at the Univer-[[text cut off]]orth Carolina, Mr. Stokes [[text cut off]]reer at Reynolds as a "tag boy" putting the company's label on baskets of tobacco. He joined the company full-time in 1935 as a foreman. He was named superintendent of manufacturing in 1956. In 1957 he was elected to the board of directors, was promoted to vice president in 1959 and became executive vice president in 1961. In June 1970 he became chairman and chief operating officer of R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. In November 1972 he became [[text cut off]]dent of R. J. Reynolds [[text cut off]] was elected [[text cut off]] Buford Peterson, Counselor Buford G. Peterson, a former prisoner who founded the Fellowship Center Inc., an alchoholism [[alcohol]] treatment center for released prisoners, died of heart failure Friday at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan. Mr. Peterson was 69 years of and a resident [[Text cutoff]] City Queens. [[Text cutoff]] ter, which operates several drop-in centers and shelters at various locations throughout the city. The Fellowship Center, which runs rehabilitation programs in 17 prisons and in the city's jail on Rikers Island, maintains offices at 105 East 22d Street in Manhattan. Earlier this year, Mr. Peterson was appointed to the Gover-[[text cut off]] Task Force on Alcoholism and [[image]] [[caption]] ARTHUR BEN DAVID SR. [[/caption]] Arthur Ben David Was Island Born From Page One and love of family was a trait Arthur practiced his entire life and passed on to his three sons. As a youth and his brother Augustus hauled steamer trunks for Taylor's Express, the business owned by their father Jules. Later they started a [[Text cutoff]] -esspool business, working at night in the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association grounds. They operated a shooting gallery in the old Trivoli building until it was torn down. Many will remember Arthur as an [[Text cutoff]] -ateur boxer in the Trivoli. He became a personal friend of Tony Zale and Rocky Marciano. In the 30s Arthur and his brother G- [[Text cutoff]] purchased a sightseeing business from [[Text cutoff]] Schodield Brother [[Text cutoff]] Alexander Joe Allen Is Buried At 68 In Pinelawn Cemetery By Merrill G. Penalver Funeral services were held last Tuesday at the Allen A.M.E. Church, Jamaica, for former executive director of the New York Urban League and community leader, Alexander J. Allen, Jr. [[Text cutoff]] [[continue]] Many distinguished leaders turned out to pay tribute to the man affectionately known as "Joe Allen." [[Text cutoff]] 279
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