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, \ C Hopki ns: Hunt Mrs. Velraa Hopkins, long time civic leader, was the featured guest on WXITs "Report to the People*' Saturday, Nov. 18. interviewers were host Dave Plyler, WAA's Rudy Anderson and Chronicle EXECUTIVE EDITOR John W. Templeton. Mrs. Hopkins is president of Neighborhood Council, Inc., which runs the cafeteria at ~~ Reynolds Health Center, Justice, Citizens Council East, Clothes Closet and A 1 * W * ?* - mc roster Parents Association. Excerpts of her remarks follow: Anderson: What political overtones do you think the governor's reaction to the vention will have? Hopkins; Well, it can't have very good political overtones if he decides he's i. X- -1 1 ? iuh going to aoiae oy u because he is supposed to _be a_leader making laws and upholding the law. So I feel like that if he makes a decision rm~ not going-To abide by it and then somebody else comes up and he expects them to abide by it. 1 think that's not going to set a very pretty pattern for us in North Carolina. It's not going to leave us in a verygood standard. . wp nrganiyffd the Concerned Women for Justice about five years ago when Joan Little first be a ?ir it"" came Known, we visu ine prisoners very often, but we do something outstanding on Christmas. Since you brought this up, it will give me an opportunity to say that we are going to the prison on Dec. 9 and we'will be taking gifts. There are 500 or more , women there and we go down and hold a Christmas party, sing Christmas carols and it is very beautiful. You ought to go down and interview some of them. FWe take church choirs, ministers, laymen, and we will be asking you and all the media to help us get donations for gifts. Anyone who wants to donate gifts, all they have to do is call me at 723-2736 or 725-1442 and I'll pick it up. It's all deductible from your taxes. Templeton: Yon work in Reynolds Health Center, you know the people there What do you think of the county's latest plan to reorganize health services? Hopkins: I think that it was the right decision. I have been interested to get people to support a hospital. It didn't go out of business because of the blacks. It went out of business because they did not want a viable hospital. What we need to do is to support the health center. Open it up at night,? Ninety-five per cent of the people at Baptist and Forsyth Memorial are sitting up there with a finger hurting or an arm hurting and if a wreck comes in, the place is so crowded, you can't get service. What they need to do is to open that (Reynolds) up and come there first, not an emergency room. Templeton: What hu been the reaction of the staff over there to the plan? Hopkins: I couldn't say what their attitudes are i . occause as individuals at work, we only work because wc have responsibility, we \ have to eat, sleep, pay our * bills. They don't know ^ which way to go. But most of them are glad about the decision. If the decision is carried through, with somebody from the government sitting on top of it and stop - ^ ; J Should Change all this bickering, then we ""T| ^ can get about the business Jy *\ * 1 |u ? ?\\ of helping. flMIA Um ^HHT Anderson: What do you liHI feel are some of your most W B critical needs In that foster JJ I pareirta program? T| ^ ? // HoplQns : Number one, we ? (I ? yy need foster homes. We ^ ^ ^ need more foster homes. I and ,a)k about no(hjng but realize they don t pay housing, and foster care, all enough. A hundred and these things are important twenty-five dollars woift nof to blacks but-to- low ^lake care of a girl 16 years income people jjri anyone is listening and yQllr recommendations for wants to become a foster ,egl8latIon (hat ghould parent, if he has that kind from the upcomlng of love and care for children Generaj A8gerably ta Ral . from broken homes, or for ejgj,9 some reason that isn't their Hopkins: Money should responsibility, you should be made more readUy avai|. contact me or go and see able The banks have seg. the social services on R'dge regaled patterns too. They Avenue, see Mrs. McBride nee(j t0 make loans to lowor contact the Foster par- incnme p(,op|p spninr riti. ents Association. We meet * zens, grants. the third Tuesday night in Temp,etoni About 30 Reynolds Health Center veBr8 ago, there was an every month. attempt to organize a tobac.There are other counties ^ wori(er8 onion-here in and cities , that pay much Wtasto?.SjJem. You were more than we pay. but their active In that effort. What Homes aren't any better. impact dM h have? A We are going to meet with Hopkins: That organizathe Health Department board, I think they're meeting tonight, and I'm going O/J/J #/ up to talk to them. If lot her ( Anderson: Do yon think money Is the underlying SB aim of_people_ who are I H| Hopkins: You have to have a little more than a home and a house. You have to have some love in your heart for children and for dlfe dB people who are having prob -lems and you have to have L" ^ y<? 1 the mind and the heart to A CliJ. L CL O L say 1 am going to try to ^1 1 understand this problem. OSI6C You can't solve them all; you can't play God. But if A ^ you work hard enough. I've raised about 35 foster teen- ^9 agers, and 1 haven't had any that was such a problem or I was such a prob- a lem with them that they l)fc t don't come back and re- 1 member me on holidays or Christmas and they come by. It's a rewarding service . ?r <oc= flllj jf?c r= - =*= reg. ana it s a trying service. 3 Now, we do need insurance - -Cflsh Clhrfrqe* so that if a child breaks a j door or something like that, Layawa^^ WP cnmpfliino tn talro care of damage they do. I've got to pay for that; the state doesn't pay for that. Anderwon: How do you gj feel the city has spent the community development money? Hopkins: No, we're not uiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiMiiii getting the attention in all communities. But maybe ^ the pot isn't deep enough and doesn't have enough in ^ it. There could be a better way of spending it. We I | need some housing. We iHPlI T?SSS~Ty have 1,946 units. We have |^H|||| mjm jij blades of grass in East |^H||il m Winston and we need some 9 housing. We need some 1 SHfe J low-income housing and I mean some housing that \ | IMF ff regate, the codes and the \]|^Hp^H|i < going to segregate a decent JB| 1 Anderson i But jntlging m * from the various booming I patterns, the only people / who are In these houses are Hopldm: Well, they are in them because senior riti- vl zens were raised in and ^ built these communities and they are staying in them as long as they can find a house. We need some money to rehabilitate these houses. People own - ^ those houses some section 1 I ill 8rw,shyihad al. day to talk JlUH/Wl I to you reporters because ^ you're up my line now. 1 hope at another time they would let us come out here < % Mind on W-IO tion. It makes you able to Hk.c other women. Our sit there today, because position is that we try to say without that organization to them, if you're in Rome, you wouldn t have been you have to live like you're sitting there, baby. in Rome, but you can't Plyler: Would you like to break out, in order to make see a union in the Indus* it easy for them we take try , now? them gifts, we take them Hopkins: A union is money, we encourage them always good business. You , we adopt dorms. might not call it unions, but Each county, we have 15 you have clubs that meet counties in North Carolina and talk about profits and where we have members* wtrat you're making, so adopts a dorrti. They write body? dorm, they send them prethev furnish gifts, we'll sen,s' they send ,hem ci?" take them down. Now, our are,tes' they send them _"role in the prison system;money and whatever they when we first went down Can do to make llfe more cirr doable for those who are in .. and toured tne prison sys- ? tem, we found some deplor- * able conditions." Whether it ' ^ ' upJold c"me' but I was an oversight or an uicy e undersight. it was there, f"60" lor out' ^ We were able to get quite a few things done and make ?? "J 1 it easier. We found women Pri8?n ?*?"*? ?'?" who had been there four. ??men ? concerned ? ? five, six years. No outside ^en ^proved over whmt ' person had visited them. when >ou ?*. started? 1 wrote to them or given them any spending money *0*b^ , Yes. ? has been -so that they could go to the drast.cally .mproved. You canteen and buy something ?? t0 the men s Pnson" I unci 2)aualiter Slorei I ERSK0E VP Downtown M Parkview orthside All Shoes On Backs ^^ij|SHP|v By Slse For Tour SP^s Easy Selection P. (any Styles and Colors To ^ Choose From iiiiiiiiHtiiiMiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiimiiiiiiliiiii t PAIR OF BOOT _ FORMS WITH EACH W?^ ? ? ^ BOOT VP S FIRST too CUSTOMERS. 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For some, Christfriends, as well as for the mas is a time of cheery fires work we do day by day. and cozy family gatherings; The spirit-_ of thanksgivings for others; it is a time of and gratitude is the sign of trave4 -and excitement; -and with little thought of the contemplation. giver. "When I was a Whatever you 'may be ^L!1J ? ? _ Ox T% ? AAV < - -I* a * cnttu, wrote si. raui, "i ieeiing at cnrtstmastime, spake as a child, I under- vou can be certain that the stood as a child, I thought p hrase, "Merry Christas a child; but when I mas!" will be directed to became a man, I put away you time after happy time, childish things through every medium of It is right and^jroper that communication _at man's each November, we should dispposal. Cards will begin put Thanksgiving in tfie to arrive, telephones will spotlight. 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