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Wiriston-Salem Clir^onicle
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'The NEWSpaper Winston^s Been Waiting For" 16 Pages this Week Saturday, February 24,1979
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County Services Face Squeeze
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
The twin demands of inflation and tax
reduction fever promise to make next
year’s county budget “the most difficult
budget Forsyth County has ever had,”
in the words of Fred D. Hauser,
chairman of the county board of
commissioners.
Decisions made by the commissioners
and county management to resolve
those conflicting demands are likely to
affect a wide range of services.
In the governmental scheme of
things, Forsyth County provides most of
what could be termed “human re
sources” services such as schools,
social services, health, mental health
and youth corrections.
For the current fiscal year, the
category of “human resource develop
ment” accounts for 71 per cent of the
$68 million the county is spending for >ear as opposed to the $704,000 it cost
services to its citizens.
Providing those services will cost
more. Two of the biggest county
departments, social services and Key-,
nolds Health Center, provide a good
example.
Social Services is budgeted for $15.7
hst year.
“Some people might think I’m going
cut and adding a lot of new cases, but
we expect the case load to remain
stable,” said Thornton. “The increase
is all due to the change in formula, rate
changes at hospitals, etc. and the
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million this year. To provide the same
services next year, according to social
services director Gerald M. Thornton,
will cost $16.4 million.
Most of that increase, said Thornton,
is due to a change in the formulas for
fiinding Medicaid. He expects that it
vvill cost the county $1.3 million next
inflation factor.”
The social services director said the
change is already adding $300,000 to
the current budget.
Thornton acknowledges that his de
partment is likely to be a prime target
for budget cutters. “People have been
looking to me for magic every year to
keep this budget from growing, but I
don’t have any magic this year,” said
Thornton.
“The one thing I can say is that most
of the money in our budget goes to the'
poor,” said Thornton. He said his
department had 82 social workers in
1973 and still has the same number.
Thornton said many “welfare” critics
do not recognize the economic impact of
public assistance. In his view, the $36
million (including $20 million in Medi
caid and Food Stamps not listed in the
county budget) spent by the department
mostly winds up in the hands of doctors,
real estate agents, grocers and other
merchants.
“What do they think the poor are
doing with it, investing in A.T. and T.,”
said Thornton.
Reynolds Health Center administra
tor Dennis Magovern says it will cost at
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1930-1940
NAACP Wants
YOU
BY JOHN W. TEMPLETON
Staff Writer
The Winston-Salem branch of the NAACP has begun
its annual membership drive and branch president
Patrick Hairston retains his goal of previous years.
“I want to set a membership in the hand of every black
person in Winston-Salem,” said Hairston.
To work towards that goal, Mrs. Clara Nesby,a retired
teacher and NAACP stalwart, has been named
membership chairman for this year’s drive. Mrs. Neshy
I has gotten recognition from the national office for her
success in getting life memberships from the Grand
Court of Calanthe in North Carolina.
“With the national office running a million-dollar
deficit, it’s a good time to start a membership drive,”
said Hairston. “Memberships are the lifeblood of the
association.”
The membership drive, which along with the Freedom
Fund dinner on May 4, is an annual event, is not to be
confused with the fundraising plan presented the branch
by B&C Associates.
Pat Hairston
Hack History Not Stressed In Schools
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
He teaching of black history in the
inston-Salem - Forsyth County
lools, particularly at the secondary
el, is largely left up to the discretion
the individual social studies teacher.
School officials told the Chronicle
te is no organized black history
“ue for the secondary grades; bow
er, black history is included as a unit
the social studies curriculum for
ihes three through six.
Close observers of the city-county
wls consider the system’s efforts
ih regard to black history insufficient.
“I don’t believe anything is being
done with black history,” said Beaufort
O. Bailey, former school board mem^
ber . “T don’t think it’s even being
taught during Negro (Black) Histoty
Week.”
“When I was going to school at
Atkins, we probably learned more that
one week, than a lot of kids learn now in
12 years,” said Bailey.
Among the teachers who taught black
history at Atkins was Mrs. Lee Alma
. Vaughn, still a social science teacher^
after 31 years in the local system.
“I’m not teaching black history now;
I’m teaching humanities,” Mrs.
Vaughn noted.
“As far as black history goes, the kids
today don’t get it,” she said. “It’s
pathetic; the kids don’t know anything
(about black history).”
“There’s little or nothing being done
unless there’s a teacher who’s inter
ested in it,” said Mrs. Vaughn. “We
only have so many black teachers.”
When she has incorporated black
history into her classes, Mrs. Vaughn
finds that white students “were really
surprised to know that black people had
really contributed.”
Dr. Earl Sandefur, assistant superin
tendent for secondary instruction in the
city-county system, said a course on
“African cultures” is the closest thing
to a black history course in the higher
grades.
“The present textbooks do deal with
blacks,” said Sandefur. “There’s been
a lot of improvement in the last ten
years in the way our textbooks have
treated minorities.”
The administrator said there has not
been a demand for black history
courses, to his knowledge.
Mrs. Grace Efird, director of elemen
tary education, said there is a unit in the
social studies curriculum for grades
three through six for black history. “A
lot depends on the unit of work as
designed by the teacher,” said Mrs.
Efird.
2d Opinions
Sought By
Patients
by Yvette McCullough
Staff Writer
You are told by your doctor that you need minor
surgery. You are not completely satisfied with his
diagnosis and wouk! like a second opinion.
However, you are skeptical about asking your doctor to
recommend another doctor. As a result, you go without
that second opinion.
Realizing the problem most people encounter when
looking for a second medical opinion, the U.S.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare has set up
a program to encourage patients who are told they need
non-emergency surgery to get a second doctor’s opinion
first.
The agency set up to handle referrals in this area is
Prudential Life Insurance Company in High Point.
There is a toll free number 1-800-672-3071 for patients
who wish to get a doctor’s referral in this area.
A spokesperson for Prudential said that since the
program has been in operation, (October 1978) that they
have received an average of 51 calls per week.
The company does not give detailed information about
the doctor, the spokesperson said. “We ask them for the
area of their problem and then refer them to the nearest
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IroupsPut
leatOnBanks
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer
wmber of community groups around the country
^8un to use a new federal law called the
Reinvestment Act (CRA) to help urge banks
swings and loan associations to invest more in
®i areas, according to a Washington-based
‘‘“nng group.
acquires federal regulators to review the record
^ *Jicial institutions in meeting local credit needs,
in low and moderate income communities. A
CRA
record is grounds for denying applications for
(j P insurance or mergers.
snter for Community Change, a non-profit
® on which aids local community development
i.j!”'“"'■'•roome areas, reports that neighborhood
ave taken two approaches to using CRA; direfct
,ujJ^*^°^®PP*fontions and negotiations with financial
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Black Poster Comemorative
Tyrone Ledbetter and Marie Roseboro
present Pat Stepney posters In behalf of
the East Winston Library. Ledbetter
designed the posters in honor of Afro-
American History Month.
When the three girls got on the elevator on the second
floor, their argument was already in progress.
“But, Janet, you have to!” the tall one was shouting.
“No, I don’tl” screeched Janet, tossing her brown
mane of hair.
The third was loudly ordering her not to be stupid.
Those of us who were already on the elevator
followed the “conventional elevator procedure,” which
is to pretend that you are the only person there. We
alternately looked at the floor, or gazed thoughtfully at
the lighted numbers above our heads, as though
committing them to memory.
They shouted at each other for two more floors. It was
apparent to us (the captive audience) that the trio had
just come from a meeting with some Hall of
Justice-based official, and that the two shouters were
trying to persuade “Janet” to take his advice. She was
just as loudly refusing, punctuating her arguments with
foot-stamping.
The tall, grey-haired man who got on when I did, got
off on the fourth floor, which was not the number he had
pushed when he got in.
“You have to take a job!” bellowed the tall one, as the
trio headed out of the elevator.
“But I can’t,” wailed “Janet.” “I’m two months
pregnant, and 1 can’t work until the baby is at least six
years old!”
I was still laughing when 1 got to the seventh floor.
The girls had left the elevator, and 1 don’t know where
they went.
Back to Fantasy Island, I suppose.
-Sharyn Bratcher