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Vol. 1 No. 38 WINSTONBlac
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?Byr Robert Eller
Staff Reporter
The lack of money, interest
by black doctors and the
- failure of doctors and people
in the community to work
collectively are the major
reasons for the loss of
Reynolds Hospital, according
to Rodney J. Sumler who was
fired recently from the city
recreation department.
Sumler talked candidly
* about the Reynolds Hospital
suuauun in an interview ai nis
home this week.
He said black doctors are
the key to solving the
Reynolds Hospital problem.
"I have the greatest respect
for black doctors professionally
but I'm criticizing them
politically," he said. The
former city administrator said
black doctors isolate themselves
? from ?the ?black
community by dealing only
with medical and health care.
"They are obliged to do more
m than they are professionally
trained to do," he said. The
Moiven Johnson
By Gwen Dixon
? Staff Reporter
Ilf you're black and trying t
establish a business fc
yourself it is hard and harde
still if you have a priso
v record. Molven Johnson ha
spent four years and eigt
months behind prison wall
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young bldck leader said white
doctors use politics as a means
to deliver better health care to
their communities. "Black
doctors have no political
clout,'* he pointed out.
Some black doctors here,
however are not in total
agreement with Sumler.
Dr. Albert H. Coleman, who
has been on the staff of
n u_ tt .
neynoias nospuai since its
inception, feels the phasing
out of Reynolds is, "only
another step in integration."
He said it is no longer *
"economically practical" to
keep Reynolds operating. The
former alderman said Reynolds
was designed to
accomodate 250 people and it
simply could not operate with
less than 100 patients.
Coleman added fthat as a
i
member of the Board of
Alderman some years ago he
voted to transfer the hospital
to county control.
Dr. Thomas L. Clarke also
defended Winston-Salem's
black physicians. He said that
they (black M.D.'s) had done
"I Jus
in North Carolina. He is now
trying to start a business and
work for himself to make a
living.
He has served his time and
is free. But, the stigma of
"ex-con" hangs like an
albatross around his neck.
His dream is to run a little
newstand near the corner
of Liberty Street and Patterson
Ave. But his reception by the
business community has been
o a lot less than good. So far, he
>r has been unable to get any of
rr the newspaper and magazine
n suppliers to furnish him with
is the necessary materials to
it open his business.
Is "I have talked to four
ize Equal
roN-s,
20 cents
onsible
[ospital
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everything possible to keep ~~
Reynolds open for the past
four years. Clarke pointed out
. that three .years ago black
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doctors set up a comprehensive
program at Reynolds, that
was the forerunner of the
family health care program.
Sumler pointed to the fact
that doctors failed to locate
their offices near Reynolds as
a major factor in the hospital's
decline. "White doctors build
office complexes in walking
. distance of Forsyth. Black
doctors should have done the
same near Reynolds," Sumler
said.
Dr. Clarke said that his
office along with Dr. Jones is
almost directly across the
street from Reynolds. Dr.
Coleman added that real
estate developers built and
leased the offices near
Forsyth. He said that black
M.D.'s had discussed the
possibility ~ of ~ locating ~ near
Reynolds and that if office
space had been built there
doctors would have gone in.
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publishers," Johnson said in a
recent interview, "but they all J
seem to feel servicing me is v
immaterial." t
He feels that he deserves a c
chance to start afresh because r
"I've . paid my debt to f
society...haven't I?" All he a
wants now is to make an <j
honest living. s
He believes that his d
business neighbors reject him
because he has served time, y
But, that has not discouraged I
him. 'Tm asking myself v
everyday and every hour, f
what does it take in the way of y
attitude to be successful/' he a
queried. He has tried just b
about everything. e
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on, D.C. "I came to Winston "1
luring the summers," he tei
ecalled. His father was a mi
lorse trainer and Johnson cri
icquired the skills also. After pr
trapping out of high school he co
tarted training horses and lo<
logs. hi:
He worked for a time as a re<
outh counselor with the pr
Jnited Youth Organization. A pu
'arm smile creeps across his pn
ace when he speaks of he
'oungsters. "I can really tell
i younger person something ha
lecause I've had hard corp so<
:xperience," he said.
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Mrs. James Holshonser gives pr
diligently towards the grow
pre-schoolers.
Volunteers G
By Gwen Dixon
Staff Reporter
"Head Start should be what
the words mean: a head start.
Children come ready to learn
and what they learn is related
to the opportunity they are
given," the Governor's wife (
told a crowd of more than 300 1
at First Baptist Church
recently.'
Mrs. James E. Holshouser,
jr. apuitc a i iiic annual
Volunteer Recognition Proro
Make
Bom in Winston-Salem,
fohnson was three years old wc
vhen he moved to Washing- of
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Saturday May 24, 1975
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1m to volunteers who work
th and development of
et Awards
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gram sponsored by the Child
Development Policy Committee
of Family Services. Mrs.
Holshouser expressed the
need to work together for the
betterment of the country. She
praised the volunteers who
give their time unselfishly "to
contribute to the growth and
development of our children.
In addition, she said
"volunteers are an extention
of the orofessionals. Thev
make it possible for profesSee
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Johnson continues to sit... i
ndering what the purpose ji
the prison system really is. |
rhe chain gang does not %
ich you anything positive. It |
ikes you vulnerable to |
ime," he warned. He said in |
ison a man can learn to be &
Id hearted, how to pick jg
:ks. to steal and to oimo. In %
c r - .
5 estimation there are no i ||
deeming qualities in the
ison system. He said the :
blic is gullible and they will j
obably not understand what ijjji
is trying to say. i;j
Johnson says he does not |j|
rbor any resentment against |ji
ciety but "I'm not in love g:
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