HmiL? ' --SF-tf M?.1 1 1 >.. Sv, MI - i Wins i I | Vol./F^^o. 15 ^ R&v BK^^hi i m - W-'"' *& 1 ll^^ZzZSSx- '^ka,, W?i Wm ^mv, IP Mill y^y^... ...;. 1-K|6. V e? Group Practice Sug V tor Keynold By Sharyn Bratcher have exPressed the fear Staff Writer tliat ProP<)sed merger of the Health Center with Residents of East Win- the Health Department is ston have been nervous the first stage of a ten year Reynolds Health Center closing the facility comever since it lost its hospi- pletely, and to move the tal status in 1974. Some services to Baptist HospiPiihlio Meeting tal "* as a conven*Pce to -*1UD11C-1TleeunS _ the physicians who now. ?, staff the health center, lo Help Women who are affiliated with 1 * . Bowman-Gray School-ofrAn open public meeting Medicine. Bowman Gray will be held on Thursday, has, a contract wvth ForDecember 8, at 7:30 p.m., s?h County ^ provide in the Glade Street YWCA Physic.ans for Reynolds building. The purpose of Health Center' man-v of the meeting is to assess wh?m 316 interns the current needs of worn- residents. en in Forsyth County and u effort to kee? ~SowlHese needs can best ^alth center more closely be met linked to the community it The meeting has been s?rvf' several members organized by representa- of the comjnumty have . _r 4i viirp a ,i suggested that the Bow tivea ui tne i Hvn, tne ? Council on the Status of man Gray contract be Women, N.O.W., the rePlaced with a "group Right to Life Organize- Practice'' composed of tion, and interested indivi-' Winston-Salem s black duals, doctors. I Erwins Successoi i - Source Of Specut Now that state legisl^^^ave do some objecttor Richard C. Erwin hashing." been appointed to the The chief nominees so North Carolina Court of far include attorney MaAppeals, there is much rold L. Kennedy, an unspeculation in the com- successful candidate for munity over who will be the Democratic nominaappointed to complete his tion to the state House in ? term. 1968; Rev. James L. Hunt, t The state law requires pastor of the Goler AME the vacancy be filled by Zion Church and district the governor, who must assistant to Congressman appoint the nominee cho- Steve Neal; outgoing al sen by the district legisla- dermen C.C. Ross and tive committee of the par- Richard Davis; attorney ty of the legislator. David Wagner; and forSince the local Demo- mer mayoral candidate cratic legislative commit- Cecil Butler, tee has not yet held its Mr. Kennedy stated meeting, all speculation that he has not been on Erwin's successor is contacted by the legisla1 strictly unofficial. - tive committee, but that "I expect they will no- he is interested in the minate another black man position, and is willing to to fill the position," one run for the seat in the next local politician noted, election. "Otherwise we might Rev. James L. Hunt 'I! -''-^- ~'*"'" 'iu'iLLL^?^ ^ -* zr^v:' v r-- i.\ ,.,-rsz-tr.* i; ^ von-Sale 15,00(9 weekly readers" Saturday, Dei r ~ ~' ."Lr ""ST" ' '""'tJ-TT5' .,"-""1 ^ ^ M lUltT / Shopping CHRISTMAS WISHES: With Christmas only two short weeks away, K t Tony Smitherman is doing i $ * ( .Mr ' bis shopping -- and a bit < ^r??1 1 .? W of window-gazing. In case. * f^00^ Santa Claus is reading ( ^ this, Tony wears a 9-C. 1 . Elizabeth Koontz A group practice is an arrangement in which a I>I? D?. number of physicians or- JL#llo lie* ganize to provide health -v-v-* j ^ services, staffing a health f-| fjQTiff* it t facility among them- (5 selves. v.> Two blacks were among This prevents expensive the five outstanding North duplication of office work- Carolinians who received ers and medical equip- North Carolina Awards, mentr which each doctor-the highest honor the would have to maintain in state can bestow. The private practice. A large awards were presented by enough? group? practice Governor James Bt^ HunT could offer evening and at a banquet last Monday weekend treatment ? night, initiating the sixty which would take non- fourth annual Culture emergency cases out of week Observance, entitled the emergency rooms in "Celebration 1977: A Triafter-hours. bute to North Carolina In 1974 the county was Achievement in Arts and offered a $30 million dol- Letters." Tar grant by "the Ttobert Elizabeth Duncan Wood Johnson Founda- Koontz, the assistant sution to establish new pri- perintendent in the North mary-c&re group practices Carolina Department of and declined it. Public Instruction, re Before the county a- ceiVed the North Carolina warded the contract for Award for Public Service, 1 Reynolds Health Center to for her national leadership i fci the field of education 1 See Health, Page 2 women's affairs. j Dr. Koontz, a graduate < of Livingstone College, ' 9 who has studied at Columlation H*. stated that he had beer iftJJu \ : m contacted about the po9i- S- ' tion ? though not by the legislative committee. He Vy"*' expressed a willingness to serve if he is appointed to ^ Erwin's seat. He is pre- Jt pared to resign his job as \ Congressman Neal's dis- ^ j trict assistant if appointed, but states that it would not be necessary to resign TTTT^B^ ^ "I would not give up my iv.v.; H^&JJ church for any job, any- IL^li where," he said, explain. . a*'". - ing that tor most ot his "J thirteen years at Goler he '!T A has held another job in M JjfjJ addition to his duties as ? " | minister, so there would be no conflict. County Commissioner Mrs. David Wagner indicat- Robert Weeks, the co-capta ed that he would accept resolution passed by the F the appointment if cho- their undefeated season. Cc See Erwin, Page 2 al?? ?"ended the ceremon - w??? a^ y 7ai^,7iv?rrK,r?v\.s-;vf-.vrn ?--,f*r.i iflgy /V Z1 biggest favor anyone t dl/Cl i him," a local banker c< The reasoning behint AJU/ f Xtu fact that loans must TT . . T whether the business h Mrnt ,^ ^a; not. So, if the lendin, and NCCU, was the first ^ ^ ^ licant i: black president of the in his venture, they feel National Educat.on Asso- disc0 e him from tr ciation ^ and was appoin- _ ted in 1969 to direct the The major factor w Women's Bureau of the banka uneasy-about J.S, Depflrtment ofl.flh- businessmen is lack of )r* If a man is driving She has served as the suddenly decides he w< U.S. Delegate to the Uni- pjer running a recorc ed Nations's Commission should try out the ide m the Status of Women, sinks his savings into a ( vhich drafted the resolu- never attempted. Ge1 -ion on International someone else's record s Women's Year in 1975. advise, before you vei rhis year she served as your own. chairman of the North Then after you have ^arolina coordinating rudiments of the busine committee for Internati- some experience, try sti >nal Women's Year. your Qwn Dr. Koontz has received rp^-g principle seems lonorary degrees from in Winston-Salem. nore than two dozen col- . j_ _r considering some 01 eges . and universities. _ in black bu9inesses in uid haa traveled through- ,em we find a gubgtaj jut the wprld representing 'apprenticed' in the bu' See Blacks. Page 2 . starting their own firm Si jf "if * it^ ' In H m % Mazie S. Woodruff is flanked by James Winbush and ins of the Winston-Salem State Rams, as she holds the orsyth County Commissioners praising the Rams for immissioners David L. Drummond and Fred D. Hauser y held at the team s practice field. mmmm > TW-.-r-. -- ^ ff-TVT-^-]--.-^.v1<- : ... NICLE n, y.C. 14 Pages it 20 Cents 2 * J UUUllVW Hunt s faith in mer'HEr^? . -rr_ win commented. "I believe that my appointment as the first black judge on the Court V of Appeals will be encou- |Mll9 raging to minorities as an .1< indication that the courts will be more hope that it will stop some the complaints about inequality in the system." Erwin, 54, is a member of the N.C. Penal Study Commission, the General the Board of Trustees of Statutes Commission, and Bennett College in a former president of the Greensboro, and is a forForsyth County Bar Asso- mer member of the state ei?4?M%^ H?4&--chairman of See Court, Page 2 \amen / ^? , Requires Experience erson asks a Lois Jacobs, proprietor of Window a business, World, worked for a number of years uld be the with a department store chain in jver did for New York before starting her own ommented. retail store in Thruway Shopping . . . . , Jenter. K W H Thomas Trollinger, who recently e? opened Style Perfect Galleries, got fliirpppnQ nr * ^ ? > his business experience in furnishing s iTely to fail Md Cfpeting du g.the yearfS fhe , , , -"J served as a purchasmg agent for 1 it is best to >> i 01 Wachovia Bank. Miller the Printer had a lifetime of , . , . on-the-job training becabse his famich makes , . , ? , . . ther owned the busmess before him. Pro8P?lve ? Another method- advisecL to- gain? ? - . experience. . ,?^ , experience m busmess without too a bus, and . . . . . . . ? , , , , - great a risk is to start small, juld be hap- 0 _ , i store he Rather than rent an expensive , . ' , store and sink thousands into mera before he , ,. , , .. . , , chandise and advertising, the proscareer he has .. .. ? ,j ? .. . ? pective businessman could begin his l a 10b in . operation as a part-time enterprise, re, expe s w^e keeping a full-time job elseiture out on , f 0 . , . whereand saving his money? ? , ? , Minnie Ervin's first beauty salon learned the , . , . , , ? , , was located in her house, a small ss, and have . , A , . , '. . ^ venture, but as she gamed expenelf lint? out on j i?. ^ . 0 ence and a growing list of customers, . , , she expanded her business to its to hold true ; . ... . , present size, with several beautiriflns a rnsmetie line, and an elecant the flourish- ngw chalet-style shop on Patterson inston- a- Avenue: Ervin's Modern Ways to itial number _ , . Beautv. 3iness before 9 ~~ See Success, Page 2 Baptist Convention ? Aids Shaw Univ. n Although Shaw Univer- funds, student fees, and sity is in financial trouble, donations from religious there is no danger that it groups. The General Bapwill have to close its fist State Convention, with doors, says Dr. J. Ray which the school is affiliButler, an alumnus and a ated, usually gives the member of the General school $250,000 yearly, Baptist State Convention, but last spring they voted which plans to raise mon- ^ additional $200,000ey to help the university, because of Shaw's financMembers of the Gene- ^ difficulties, ral Baptist State Conven- "The problem is that ~tion met with Shaw offi- the school is trying to pay cials in Raleigh last week off debts which date back to discuss the school's to the sixties," Dr. Butler financial problems. explained. According to Dr. The convention's efforts George C. Debnam, chair- to eud the university will man of the executive com- t>e handled through the mittee of Shaw's board of unified fund, he noted, trustees, the university Rev, Jerry Drayton. will need an additional chairman of the conven$750*000 to pay back tion's general board exedebts and current expen- cutive committee, has anses due before July first, nounced that four special The university had offerings will be taken adopted a $5.8 budget, comprised of federal ^*ee Baptist, 2 c