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W1N8TON-8JILEN
Vol. in, No. 11
Saturday November 13, 1976 Single Copy 20^
County Votes For^ Employee Charg
es.
Retirement Plan I Racist-Sexist Practices
by Rudy Anderson
I Staff Writer
Last week, the Forsyth
I Board of County Commis
sioners voted four to one in
favor of adopting the State
Retirement plan for it’s
[employees.
r The plan, in effect, gives
|county employees the
loption of either joining the
retirement plan offered by
Ithe state or having no
[retirement plan other than
social security.
County employees were
Ugered over the board’s
bfusal to go with the state
plan. At the Reynolds
Wealth Center a petition
N been circulated and
Pigned by members of the
M saying that the
Pnty's refusal was like
[taxation without repre-
Fntation.”
[Most of the employees
[“‘hat the retirement plan
pid be optional. Many
hplained that the pre-
plan required a
i^'gnificant contribution
Ibe employee.”
Jltc commissioners ori-
”^11) voted not to go with
the plan because of the
financial burden to the
county. The estimated
contribution the county
would make was said to be
!•! million dollars a year
almost 1/2 of a million ’
dollars more than had been
originally thought to be its
cost.
Over 75% of the county
employees signed up to join
the plan before the board
vote not to join.
A spokesman for the :
county said all that i
remained now was for the :■
details to be worked out j:
and the formal signing of ij
the contract by the new ji
Board of Commissioners, i:
However, the spokesman j
said the possibility does
exist the signing could be 'i:
halted by the new board,
but did not foresee any
complications. $
Commissioner Vice
Chairman, David Drum- I
mond, cast the dissenting :•
vote. He feels that once the S
county is locked into the I
state plan many employees
will opt out of a retirement x
plan altogether. ^
By Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
Mrs. Roberta Groves, 46, of
2305 Gerald Street, fired last
week as Housekeeping Super
visor of Knowllwood Nursing
Home for the Aged, Monday
accused Frank Armstrong,
Knowllwood’s Administrator,
of racist and sexist discrimi
natory practices in his dealing
with black and minority
employees at Knollwood.
She also accussed him of
MjTs. Grove
..Seeking legal action
going back on a promise he
made to her as part of the
agreement between them for
her to take the job.
Mrs. Groves asserts that
Armstrong told her if she
would come in and get the
Nursing Home into shape she
would be assured of the same
position when the new
proposed addition was built.
Armstrong said he would
not make any comments about
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Few Blacks Get Swine Flu Shots
An official of North
Carolina’s swine flu program
said recently that blacks are
not being immunized at mass
innoculation centers and that a
special mass media campaign,
possibly using appeals from
well-known blacks, may get
under way soon.
Frank L. Lewis, epidemio
logist for the North Carolina
Division of Health Services,
attributes black disinterest
largely to widespread publi
city given the deaths of
persons vaccinated during the
first week of the program. He
explained that the deaths were
not caused by the vaccine, but
from other ailments.
Lewis said that for the past
week figures received from
local health departments
“13 of 3,000
get innoculated’
the figures that we have
gotten from local health
departments across the state
for this past week it appears
that the total number of doses
given has increased rather
well.”
showed that innoculations
have increased despite set
backs in early October. “From
Saturday and Sunday mass
innoculations which are ex
pected to attract large
numbers immunize few
blacks, Lewis-said. He said
See Swine Flu, Page 2
Citizens Get Say-So
In ’77-^78 City Budget
'^edia Distorts Truth of Busing Issue
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,7 Ws Deputy
olack to
office in Boston.
said
that the
J
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ibo •■^election
■ ■ ‘he appoint- Clarence “Jeep” Jones
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:'H(ienu,i , “PPoint-
f ofthe^
evpr' '^^'^‘^1 “rarest
‘^ourt-ordered
He attacked what he called
“a distortion of the truth” by
the media. He said the media
had painted a picture of racial
disturbances occuring mainly
in the black areas of Boston.
He said, ‘‘The disturbances
have consistantly occured in
the South Boston and
Charleston sections of the city.
These are white communities
where blacks are being bused
in.”
Jones said that it was there
that all the trouble was
occurring. ‘‘There was not any
problem with white kids
being bused into black
communities like Roxbury,”
he said. He said the media
failed to point out this fact.
“The plain truth is they don’t
See Busing, Page 2
This year, for the first time,
citizens of Winston-Salem will
have an opportunity to voice
their preferences on the city’s
1977-78 budget on a live
call-in television program as
well as at a public meeting.
Burge, Richard Davis and
C.C. Ross. The full Board of
Aldermen has been invited to
be on hand for the meeting at
City Hall.
Citizen input encouraged
The television show will be
on WXII, Saturday, Nov. 13,
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. The public
meeting will take place
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m. in
the City Hall Council
Chambers.
Five aldermen will be on the
television program to answer
questions and listen to
comments citizens may have.
They are Eugene Groce,
Ernestine Wilson, Floyd
The purpose of the budget
programs, the only ones ol
their kind in the state, is to
give citizens the opportunity
to tell which programs they
would like to see continue,
which ones changed or the
kinds of programs they would
like to see added.
City officials ask all citizens
to take part in either or both of
these events or to mail
comments to Focus ’77, p Q
Box 2511, Winston-s’alem,
N.C. 27102. The television
call-in number if 723-0527.
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