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Page 2-The Chronicle, Saturday, May 9, 1981 You & the Law by Reggie Warren Things You Must Do 1. See the hospital’s Financial Counsellor and fill in forms. 2. List all of your bills for the last full month. Include rent, food, housing costs, water, sewage, doctor and hospital bills, medicine, car payments and insurance, taxes, loan payment, car repairs, child care, and all old bills you were unable to pay. 3. Write down your take-home income for the last full month. 4. If you are refused eligibility, make an appointment to see the hospital’s Administrator or Comptroller. Ex plain your situation and give him or her copies of your listed bills and income. 5. If you are still refused eligibility, you may appeal the decision in writing. Write to: I.O. Wilkerson, Director Division of Facility Services Post Office Box 12200 Raleigh, North Carolina 27605 (919) 733-2342 For further information, contact your local Legal Aid office. NAACP From Page 1 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,,, to achieve these necessary objectives. “This report,” the letter continues, “explains the Association’s reasons for disagreeing with the pro posed budget and offers alternative policy recom mendations to achieve growth, increase employ ment, promote productivity and fight inflation. “In the public interest we urge your thoughtful con sideration of our recom mendations,” the official added. NAACP proposals in clude, the NAACP’s center- piece: instituting a zero tax bracket for a family of four earning $12,6(X) a year, in stead of the present $7,400. It also includes, attacking chronic joblessness in the black community by: • Providing incentives to private employers to invest in human resources; • Requiring investment in human resources as a condition for receiving tax benefits on investment in capital equipment; • Providing such support services as flexitime, day care centers, etc., that facilitate participation in the labor force; • Continuing CETA programs; • Sanctioning employers who hire illegal immigrants. To stimulate growth in inner cities, the NAACP proposals include: • Encouraging metropolitan areas to share suburban resources directed to metropolitan area problems. • Initiating programs for economic revitalization which enourage public- private sector cooperation in addressing the complex set of problems which affect commercial success in inner city areas, (The Urban Enterprise Zone proposal concept should be explored). In the field of education, the NAACP urges the Ad ministration to channel all federal funds for elemen tary and secondary educa tion either directly (through budget expenditures) or in directly (through tax expen ditures) to ensure quality public education for children throughout the United States (it urges that neither a Voucher System for Tuition Tax Credits be instituted). Also to combat unemployment, the NAACP urges: • Establishing a closer relationship between future job opportunities, placement and training by developing cooperative efforts with private enterprise. • Providing training or employment for the long-term unemployed and to assist with youth employment; • Strengthening and enforcing civil rights and affirmative action programs. The NAACP budget pro posal alternative also urges that government effec tiveness be increased by: • Improving management of federal programs to eliminate abuses, poor service and fraud: • Rejecting block grants because they do not contain needed safeguards to assure that recipients achieve ^ valid objectives of the categorial programs which they are replacing. In sum, Mr. Hooks declared: “These recom mendations do not contain all of the changes necessary to assure equal opportunity in a prosperous future for all Americans. Le^ial Ai(/ Sodcry of Nonhwes! N.C.. hu-. The Hill-Burton Law is a federal law which gives money to hospitals for construction purposes. Any hospital receiving these funds is required to provide free or lower cost hospital services to patients unable to pay their full medical bills. The law covers present hospital bills and in some cases past and future hospital bills. It does not cover separate doctor bills or prescription- medicine bills. Patients with excessive hospital bills, little or no medical insurance and no medicaid, medicare or voca tional rehabilitation may be eligible for assistance under the Hill-Burton Law. A patient who suspects that he qualifies for Hill- Burton assistance should say so at the hospital admit tance desk. This statement should be made before you receive hospital treatment or immediately following emergency room treatment. It is best to speak directly with the hospital’s Financial Counsellor and to visit the hospital’s Social Service Department. The hospital’s Financial Counsellor must verify that (1) you have no insurance; (2) your insurance will not cover your bills; or (3) you are not eligible for any public assistance. Then you will be required to fill in forms that illustrate your qualification for Hill-Burton coverage. Pegg Calls For Public Hearing Representative Mary N. Pegg, R-Forsyth, has re quested a public hearing on the Winston-Salem Fair Housing legislation, intro duced last week by Repre sentative Ted Kaplan, D- Forsyth. Representative Pegg sent a memorandum to Repre sentative Edith Lutz, chair man of the HOUSE Local Government II Committee, asking her to call for a public hearing on the bill, which is in her committee. In her memorandum. Re presentative Pegg cited the controversy surrounding this bill at the local level and the fact that the Winston-Salem aidermen were split on the issue, as reasons for a public hear ing. It is customary for the Board of Aldermen to sup port local bills unanimously before they are introduced. “The members of the General Assembly have a responsibility to be ade quately informed on this legislation before they vote on it,” Representative Pegg said. Raid Prom folio*. procedure, would not’ help department. After being ad vised that the breakin was a mistake, and that the police would pay for any expense involved in the accident, Mrs. Thompson left the sta tion. Mrs. Thompson toid the Chronicle she was offered no apologies by the officers that broke into her home, make sure that' nor by the police depart- “— ' ment, as reported by iocai papers. Also, according to Mrs. Thompson, the of ficers did not leave im mediately after they broke into her home and discovered that they had the "•‘iiiiiiiii OWi such Action ha^t ? prevent u,., =°tclmg to c5 new supervisors k/ assigned to- ments ’with •here 3Ctio UPI PHOTO Hollywood: Actor Gregg Morris, who starred in “Mission Impossible’’ and is currently in the TV series “Vegas," testifies before the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control hearings, said he was “Mad as Hell’’ and proclaimed the pro ceedings “a waste of taxpayers’ money, ’’ whose tactics smelled of McCarthyism. The hearings are looking into drug abuse in the entertainment industry. Morris said he and many others in the industry had spent thousands of dollars and hours making films and appearances to fight drug abuse. I I mil T.heU.s. Department of Energy Winston-Salem Chronicle is published every Thursday by the Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Company, Inc., 516 N. Trade St. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. Phone: 722-8624. Second Class postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. Subscription: $9.60 per year payable in advance (N.C sales^jax included.) USPS NO. 067910 taids. Also, exisii„ ' procedures studied and revk,- make sure that all * understand exactly il* ‘^.'’'''henfollowin,; given by an info™ wrong house; they stayed in occurrence of th - her home for 45 minutes. A at the Thomoso k" very dissatisfied Mrs. puts peopfc on i Thompson said that when such mishaps in th*” reports that Americans are using five percent less gasoline than at this time last year, and we’re im porting 13.3 percent less oil. The average price of unleaded gasoline (regular) has risen 86 percent during the same period, from 65.7 cents a gallon to $1.22. she went to the police sta tion to report the officers’ actions, she was not aiiow- ed to speak with Police Chief Powell; she was directed to the office of In ternal Affairs instead. In a meeting with Poiice Chief Lucius Powell last week, preventative pro cedures for error in police raids were discussed. Chief Powell said that the likelihood of such an event that occurred at the home of Evelyn Thompson was very remote. He said that if “Even though ^^^‘yd'atsuchathi.J happen again,” commented, ‘n ,,,, that it won’t, Pi Pf^onnelaresdectei, the human race, wiil be made.” ' Records show Hj similar incident hapj about four or five yj,. when f mistake was by police officers on, in an apartment The officers raideh wrong apartment. That’s all it costs to get Community news delivered to your door every week. call us 722-8624 W^iijston-Salem Cht^onicle "Serving the list Winston Community Since 1974" C# 516 N. Trade St. Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102
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