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funds of its own (the county cannot own a profit-making
I subsidiary).
I Woodruff, who, along with Commissioner Richard
I Linville, voted against the hospital's reorganization plan
last October, says she wanted to make sure the elderly
I and poor would continue to get proper health care under
the new set-up.
"That should have been a concern to all of us," she
says. "Whether a person has money or not, everyone will
I have health care, and I had to have that in writing."
I Woodruff says she also wanted to make sure black
doctors aren't denied an opportunity to practice medicine
I at the hospital. "We have black doctors who want to
I come here to practice," she says. "1 wanted to make sure
mat, atter this time (the reorganization), they could still
be there."
Woodruff says she still doesn't think blacks realize the
county no longer owns Forsyth Memorial -- and won't
own it again unless the holding company fails to live up
to its agreement to provide health care to all Forsyth
County residents and to enforce affirmative action.
That's why the hospital's 23-member governing body
must keep its board at two-thirds local members, she
says, and must increase its black members from its pre- .
sent two.
"We've got to watch from here on who we put on that
board, and we've got to watch who we elect to the county
commissioners," she says, noting that the commissioners
appoint 12 of the 23 members.
But the hospital's board isn't the only body of responsibility
with inadequate black representation, says
Woodruff. "I want to see us - and when I say us, that's
what I mean -- get out* share of the elected offices," she
says. "I'm willing to work to see that we get our share."
And though whites are as able to represent the county
as blacks, she said, "until you sit where 1 sit, you can't
represent me. And very few whites have lived where we
live and understand us. We came out of slavery. We are
survivors."
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44It*s a situation in which blacks will get out to realize
that our vote is very vital,'* says Jones. "The Democrats
have taken our vote for granted, and the Republicans
haven't been aggressive enough."
Jones says he doesn't plan to change his registration, as
Davis has done, but says he does support the "Jesse
Jackson movement" and that he is firmly behind Jackson
"in spirit."
"If Martin Luther King Jr. was the Messiah, then Jesse
is second to Martin," he says. "I think it's good ? it's
really dynamite."
Jones says he's ashamed of black officials, such as
Wilson Goode of Philadelphia, who support Walter
Mondale over Jackson.
"I'm an American first, a black second and a
Republican third/* says Jones.
Davis agrees and says blacks who support Mondale/
should step back and reassess their commitment to
blacks.
"Mondale is a friend of ours (blacks)/' says Davis.
"But how much money has he spent with black
newspapers before now? None. How can you get mad at
Jesse Helms for not doing it when Mondale is not doing
so?
"Like Jesse (Jackson) says, 'Mondale stood up for
civil rights, but I am civil rights.'".
Black Republican support for Jackson hasn't happened
without at least a few sparks of controversy, however,
as was the case a few weeks ago when Alderman Larry
Little, Jackson's Forsyth County campaign coordinator,
questioned the motives of one local Republican campaigning
for Jackson.
Little said that Vernon Robinson, a business professor
at Winston-Salem State University, couldn't be both a
Reaganite and a supporter of Jackson at the same time.
To that, Robinson said in a telephone conversation with
Chronicle's Executive Editor Allen Johnson, "I'm black
first."
While Robinson declined to be interviewed for this article,
Davis says a candidate's actions should be the focal
point for voters, not his political party.
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In 1976, she was elected to her first term as a county !
commissioner, which made her the second woman and
the first black to sit on the board. She lost a re-election
bid in 1980, along with most other blacks who ran for
public office then.
But the two years until the next election gave her more 1
than enough time to regroup.
The work paid off and she occupies one of the five
elevated chairs in the commissioners' chamber every
other Monday night.
In addition to her work as a public servant, Woodruff
is a Sunday School teacher and president of the usher
board at Union Chapel Baptist Church, a member of the
executive committee of the Northwest Piedmont Council
of Governments, a member of the Reynolds Health
Center Advisory Board and a member of various other
boards and agencies.
She's also found the energy to have worked full time as
a surgical supply salesman for the last 23 years.
Since her jobs keeps her on the road, she says, "I see a
lot of things people don't think I see."
Not to be left out of this year's campaigns, Woodruff
actively supports the Rev. Jesse Jackson for president.
"I'm very proud of him she says, "... I'm proud
to be in his corner. If you think %bout it, he has proven
something -- that anybody can run for any office.
"We've already won," she says. "It's the most exciting
campaign I've ever worked in, including my own."
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