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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.
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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
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CHRISTMAS WISHES:
With Christmas only
two short weeks away,
K t Tony Smitherman is doing i
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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
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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
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by Sharyn Bratcher mitted to making the
-Staff Writer courts a strong force in
Richard C. Erwin, the our fi8ht against crime/;
irst black legislator to : said Hunt of the appointepresent
Forsyth County rnents.
n the North Carolina Ge- Richard Erwin explainleral
Assembly, has be- ed thflt the administration
:ome the first black judge feels that speedy trials,
n the N.C. Court of and prompt review by the
\ppeals. Court of Appeals will
His appointment, an- serve as a deterrent to
lounced last week by crime. The creation of the
jovernor James Hunt, three new judgeships is
ills one of three new intended to reduce the
udgeships created by the workload of each indivi3eneral
Assembly as part dual judge, so that cases
)f Hunt's anti-crime pack- can be reviewed more
ige. expediently.
"I've appointed people "I am appreciative of
.vho believe in speedy the appointment, which
;rials, and who aire com- demonstrates - hot1
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Minority Ttusinet
Success 1
"Sometimes when a p
Reginald Mitchiner bank for a loan to start
, the bank's rufusal co
-+?>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
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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.
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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
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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
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