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Winston-Salem Chronicle
VoL IV No. 47
Saturday, July 22, 1978
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ABORTION: A Conflict of Rights
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By Yvgtte McCullough
Staff Writer
Pirst of a Series
She is a 17-year old
teenager who finds out
she’s pregnant. She is
in the top 10 per cent of
her class, and she has
been accepted at a ma
jor college. She decides
to have an abortion.
' ‘I have my whole life
ahead of me,” the
teenager said. “Having
baby I don't want
would be dooming me
to 20 years of hard
labor.”
A young insurance
salesman testifying be
fore a legislative ap
propriations commit
tee, talked at length
about the moral issue of
abortion. Then he end
ed his closing state
ment with the remark,
‘Besides, abortion is
bad for business,”
A local black minister
preaches to blacks
about the
abortion.
“Abortion is not the
black, community’s so
lution to the ‘poor black
problem’, the minister
ties a woman was al
lowed to have abortions
when two physicians
agreed upon her need.
In 1973 the Supreme
Court, in a 7-2 decision
said. “Abortion is ge
nocide, an attack
against the black
people disguised as a
gift by our friends.”
In the 19th century
abortion was prohibited
in North Carolina ex
cept to save the life of
the mother. In the late
sixties and early seven-
ruled that abortion in
the first three months
of pregnancy was bet
ween the woman and
her physician.
To comply with the
Supreme Court decis
ion, the North Carolina
Medical Care Commis
sion said that during
the first 10-12 weeks of
conception, abortions
may be performed by a
licensed physician in
either freestanding
clinics or outpatient
faculties.
According to infor
mation by Planned Pa
renthood, it is estimat-e
ed that there were
1,000,000 abortions be
fore it was legal in the
United States and just
over 1,000,000 abort
ions in 1976.
The reasons to have
abortions or not to have
them are a very touchy
issue as well as a
personal issue. Many
concerned citizens have
organized groups and
coalitions to fight for
and against abortions.
The Roman CathoHc
Church is the strongest
and most vocal religion
against abortion. The
church’s doctrine is
that “life begans at
conception and that the
most important Christ
ian teaching is, never
kill.”
Pope Paul IV has
stated the position of
the Roman CathoHc
Church as being that
“all Roman Catholics
who undego or perform
abortions face excom
munication from the
church.”
Another strong anti-
abortionalist group is
the Right to Life organ
ization.
The North Carolina
Right to Life States:
“We hold to the con
cept that every human
life, at the moment of
conception is endowed
with intrinsic value and
with an innate right to
its existence.”
The group has been
very active in North
Carolina by using bill
board proclaimning the
Pro-Life message, by
See Page 7
Citizens, Aldermen Clash
Over Garbage Collection
by Yvette McCullough
Staff Writer
Tempers flared, per
sonalities clashed and
outspoken requests were
heard at the Monday night
saga of the Winston-
Salem Board of Alderman
meeting.
Citizens came out in
vocal numbers to protest
the new poHcy that ended
door-to-door garbage col
lection at apartment com
plexes.
Residents of these
dwellings spoke upon the
possible discrimination of
the elderly, the possible
increase in rent and the
lack of space for bulk
containers at some apart
ments.
Juanita Golan of Lake
side Apartments told the
Alderman that the resi
dents at Lakeside would
be charged an additional
$2.25 to their present rent
as a garbage fee.
T.A. Craig of Hanover
Arms Apartments said
that the character of the
well kept and well main
tained apartments would
be destroyed if bulk con
tainers are placed at his
apartments.
“There are no place for
them (bulk containers),”
Craig said. “We five in a
prestige area and we want
to continue to keep it that
way,”
Troy Kennedy, a resi
dent of College Village
Apartments said that 75
percent of the residents at
College Village are elderly
people and that their are
no space for dumpsters.
Alderman John Cava-
nagh said that the gar
bage situation is “worry-
eynolds Nurses Denied Raises
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
IVhat does it take for the nurses at
Reynolds Health Center to get a
fit pay increase?
k That is the question that the Forsyth
1 unty Board of Commissioners
I iue,sted an answer to in its latest
I eting.
|| lommissioner Mrs. Mazie Woodruff
fged Monday night that the 16
rses at the center have not received a
rit increase in three years. At her
best, commission chairman Fred D.
luser asked the county administration
liiivestigate the mattei-.
1‘The 16 nurses at Reynolds Health
iter have worked real well,” said
[s. Woodruff, a former chairman of
center advisory board. “It is simply
[he eyes of the supervisor that they
not deserve an increase.”
Mrs. Woodruff’s complaint came just
after the county administration unveil
ed its affirmative action plan for the
first six months of 1978. “I’ve looked at
the equ.al employment opportunity
report, which looks good on paper, but
it isn’t happening that way,” said the
commissioner in reference to the
nurses.
C.P. Booker, current chairman of the
health center’s advisory board, told the
Chronicle that the board had brought
the lack of raises issue to Mrs.
Woodruff’s attention. He said attempts
have been made to work the situation
out with county manager, without
success.
Booker said the administration stiU
has not yet responded to the advisory
board’s recommendation that the
Reynolds nurses be separated from the
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Group Meets With Sheriff
By Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Writer
lousing Crunch Tightens
A group of concerned black citizens
met last week with Sheriff Manly
Lancaster to expi'ess tfcpij dissatisfac
tion with the affirmative action policies
in the sheriff’s department.
County Commissioner Mazie Wood
ruff and NAACP president Patrick
Hairston, two spokesmen for the group,
expressed concern that the forthcoming
promotions list would not contain any
blacks. The sheriff’s department pre
sently has 22 blacks in a total of 146
officers.
“I can’t say who’s going to be
promoted, ’ ’ Lancaster told the Chroni
cle. He stated that he was also unable
to say whether any blacks would be
promoted.
“They asked me to promote James
Sims,” Lancastee stated. “But I told
them that he has a lack of seniority.
There are 26 officers with more
seniority than he has.”
He stated that some of those 26 are
black, but dechned to name them.
“I told the group that I had been
fair,” Lancaster said. He did not
disclose a date for the announcement of
the promotions.
Members of the group who conferred
with the sheriff expressed dissatisfac
tion with his response;
“We’re still working on it,” was
Mazie Woodruff’s only comment.
Patrick Hairston noted that Lancaster
is up for re-election in November
(unopposed) and discussed the possibi
lity of a write-in opponent.
“The man is a racist,” another
member of the group complained. “He
didn’t make any concessions to mmori-
ties.”
John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
lost 18,000 low-in-
le households in For-
County — 60 per cent
the county’s low-in-
le famines — are in
d of adequate, afford-
B housing, accordmgto
official study.
'hese families are be-
caught m a housing
eeze brought about by
nomic conditions and
the after-effects of
'ommental and busi-
5 decision.
The toughest nut to
i is that they way the
Iding costs are going
up, new construction is
totally out of reach of the
low and moderate-income
household,” said Bill Mc
Neil, a housing planner
with the city-county
plannmg board and author
of the “Comprehensive
Housing Plan” recently
presented to area govern
ments.
Rents are also increas
ing in low-income hous
ing, said EUiott Brown,
Jr., an insurance man who
is chairman of the housing
committee of the local
NAACP. “They’re
taking any people
public housing and rent is
not
in
getting very high,” said
Brown. “The people I talk
to are talking about rents
of $125 to $150 and these
aren’t places with tennis
courts and swimming
pools.”
“Some people can’t
hardly afford the housing
that is below standard,”
said H.H. Disher, city
housing inspection super
intendent.
Disher said the factors
bringing housing below
standard are different
from the conditions of
twenty years ago. Back
then, houses didn’t have
plumbing or electricity
Now, he said.
“The
See page 2
)octor8 Attack Medicaid
)' Yvette McCullough
Staff Writer
he Medicaid program
come under attack in
at weeks by black
sicians in the stage,
terms such as ‘racist’
ig used to describe the
gram.
he charges were levied
press conference call-
hy Sarah T. Morrow,
letary of Human Re-
Kes, concerning a set-
lent suit.
> November of last
' a complaint was filed
Uenging the Medicaid
gram. Human Re-
fces didn’t admit that
1 were at fault but that
they were going to correct
any wrongs.
Dr, Hubert A. Eaton, a
Wilmington physician and
a native of Winston-
Salem, said in a telephone
interview that the settle
ment was ‘ ‘a victory for all
black doctors and den
tists.”
“Human Resources
said that they will improve
and humanize the Medi
caid program,” Eaton
said. “They did not cor
rect all the inadequacies
but it is a step in the right
direction.”
Eaton said that he be-
Heves that Medicaid pa
tients should receive the
same quaUtative and
quantitaive care as those
‘ 'patients with money or a
checkbook in their poc
kets.”
“The Fourteenth
amendment protects black
people but it doesn’t pro
tect poor people,” Eaton
continued. “The disad
vantage and poor deserve
as equal medical care as
their affluent neighbor.”
Charges of racism, Ea
ton said is hard to prove
but that the Human Re
sources should examine
profiles of black physi
cians with one or two
white counterparts
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The main cast of “The Wiz” Dorothy[Deborah Malone], Scarecrow[Garry Q.
Lewis] the Tinman[Jai Oscar St. John] and the Lion[Bobby Hill]. See Page 11
and
ing the elder to death,”
Alderman 'Yirginii
Newell said that shi
didn’t realize the magni
tude of the consequencei
at the time she voted fo
the ordinance.
“I’m really disappoint
ed and I’m unhappy be
cause you are unhappy,’
Newell told the overflov
audience. “I'm sorry tha
I did not Hsten, but I an
sympathetic and willing h
rethink what I hav
done.”
The board voted un
aimously to have the citj
staff work out a poHcy thal
would exempt apartments
with a large population ol
elderly.
In another area of busi
ness the Alderman decid
ed to meet July 26 to heal
the affirmative action po-
See Page 3
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My daughter Michelle is now eleven months old,
and we have discovered that we are the parents that
every other set of parents longs to have for
friends, . . We are the parents of an average kid.
Are you tired of stories about the child prodigy
who ate mashed potatoes while he still had on his
hospital I.D. bracelet? Our kid only eats “people
food” on state occasions - about three bites.
Do you worry about your child’s progress when
you hear how the Smith’s baby only used his walker
for three hours, and walked perfectly ever since?
You’d find us soothing to compare notes vrith.
MicheUe broke her walker in three hours, and she
may be the only member of her graudating class to
collect her diploma in her teeth, and crawl off the
stage.
And the early talkers. Yes, we know edl those
parents, too. "The ones whose babies talked in
complete sentences at six months, and, for aU I
know, went straight from Mini-School to M,I.T.
Michelle said “Da-da” at age four months, and has
made no efforts to improve on it. We have finally
resorted to reminding people that “Da-da” means
“yes” in Russian, hinting that her French and
Spanish are pretty good, too. (Nobody has fallen for
that yet.)
We make the perfect foils for bragging mommies
and daddies. It is so disappointing to announce your
offspring’s latest achievement only to learn that the
child of the person you’re talking to did it earlier,
better, and faster. With us, our parent-friends know
they are safe. We do not have a Bionic Baby. We
have the Walter Mondale of babies. We’ll never top
your prodigy story.
Of course, her father has a tendency to brag about
how pretty she is — but he c£m be forgiven that — all
fathers say it.
Michelle’s pediatrician assures us that she is an
average baby, right on schedule in everything. It
leaves us without an entry in the Guinness Book of
World Records — but it has endeared us to all the
parents we know. Sharyn Bratcher