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By RUTHELL HOWARD
Staff Writer
Nineteen thirty-nine.
Locally, it was the beginning of a heyday for black
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The Kate B. Reynolds Hospital, a 175-bed facility,
opened its doors, attracting black physicans to the area
and paving the way for budding medical careers.
"It served as a magnet to draw black physicans to
Winston-Salem," says Dr. Willard L. McCloud, who
worked in the hospital from 1950 through 1952 after
completing his internship in Washington. "At that time,
90 percent of the black patients in Winston-Salem were
p treated by black physicans."
' But today, local black doctors who practice privately
are few and compete with hospitals and clinics for many
of their patients.
Through the Twin City Medical Society, the city's
black medical organization, the 14 local black doctors
who have private practices gather to discuss their problems.
One of them is the dwindling number of black
doctors and the decreasing demand for their services.
Charlie Kennedy, president of the society and a
pediatrician, says that the decrease can be attributed to
many factors.
"We've got a medical school here that has 9 clinic and
Hauser Proposes
A bill presented to the state Legislature by Rep. C.B.
Hauser that would make it easier for offenders to be
released without having to post bond was not supported
by other members of the Forsyth County delegation.
The bill requires judicial officials to release people
awaiting trial under one of three non-monetary provisions
of the North Carolina Bail Law or to outline in
writing on the release form why they require a monetary
i bond.
1 "This legislation was inspired by my experiences with
persons granting bail and my reading of a report of the
Citizens .Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration/'
Hauser said. "My experiences led me to the conclusion
that it was generally felt that blacks and poor people ac
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the Reynolds Health Center competes for the same patients
we do," Kennedy says.
He adds that a health-care program complete with doctors
and a clinic, established by R.J. Reynolds Industries
Inc., further reduced the pool of patients.
McCloud expresses similar sentiments, noting that the
closing of East Winston's hospital played a major part in
decreasing the number of black doctors locally.
Reynolds Memorial gave black physicans a hospital in
which to treat their patients and later was succeeded by a
new, larger facility erected in the black community as
part of an agreement between local blacks and politi
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Blacks were given the new 250-bed hospital in exchange
for supporting the building of Forsyth Memorial
Hospital across town, McCloud says. Following the
opening of the new facility, even more black physicans
came to East Winston, McCloud recalls, but the passage
of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 opened the doors of major
white hospitals to black physicians and patients and
many shunned newly-built Reynolds Memorial.
"Even though the new Reynolds Memorial Hospital
had a million and a half dollars in equipment and was a
$16.5 million facility, physicans had succumbed to the
pressures of patients who requested service in Forsyth
Memorial Hospital,** McCloud says.
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Ten legislators had agreed to back the bill, which had
its first hearing Feb. 21, and the remaining legislators had
30 minutes to do so after that meeting closed but no
members of the Forsyth County delegation backed the
bill.
Hauser said he was "a little disappointed, but not
discouraged.**
Hauser pointed out that North Carolina has one of the
most progressive bail laws in the nationvrequiring the use
of one of three non-monetary forms of release over a
monetary bail. "Nevertheless," he said, "judicial officials,
more often than not, require a monetary bail,
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The Ministry
Political Or S
By RVTHELL HOWARD
Stqff Writer
Stuff writers Robin Adams and Edward HiH Jr. also
contributed to this story.
Spiritually, politically and socially, what is the black
.. church to black people?
Concerning the individual churches, members and
ministers say many provide a vital service to their congregations
and to the black community.
But they add that local black churches do not cater to
the total needs of their congregations by collectively maximizing
their economic and political strength.
In discussing the spritual, social and political functions
of the black church, most people were more vocal on the
political role that the church must play within the community
and say that spiritually, most churches are having
no problems meeting the congregations* needs. Politically,
many feel black churches could give more auidance
and instruction.
Mediation Center
By ROBIN ADAMS
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v Ernst Winston*?, Neighborhood Justice Center has
namd a new director and received $20,000 in additional
funding from the Winston-Salem Foundation.
Norma Smith, chairperson of the East Winston Crime
Task Force, which sponsors the center, announced the
appointment of Paul Owens Cloud, a local resident, as
the center's director Monday; =
Cloud, who started his duties earlier this week, is a
graduate of High Point College and has a law degree
from North Carolina Central University. ?
Smith says the center's board of directors are "pleased
to have a person like Cloud, who is from the community
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Winston-Salem's 14 black doctors who are still li
State's Bail Bond
especially fo^the poor and non-whites."
The courts have the option of releasing a person on his
written promise to appear for trial, on an unsecured appearance
bond, in the custody of a third party or with a
secured appearance bond.
"In spite of the law's liberal provisions, taxpayers are
supporting jails crowded largely with poor and nonwhites
who have not been convicted of any crime, and
who would not commit other crimes or flee if released,"
Hauser said.
"Furthermore, these detainees suffer disruption of
their personal, family and economic lives. They are
hampered in preparing a defense, and more likely to
plead guilty and to receive an active sentence when tried
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And Religion
Columnist Tony Brown recalls a
discussion with the late Malcolm X's
brother on blacks and Christianity.
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Spiritual?
"The churches are not involved politically as much as
they should be," says the Rev*. Charles E. Greene, a
retired minister.
While historically, many political careers have hinged
on support or opposition from prominent black ministers
Churches
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black churches
nationwide, and locally, candidates, black and white,
seek black political support through the church, Greene
says that local black church political activity is still
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and is well-qualified to be working for us."
She adds that, since a director has been hired, the
center is scheduled to open on April 1, pending the training
of volunteers to man its mediation board. Volunteers
now are being trained by members of the Dispute Settlement
Center in Chapel Hill, but Smith says the center is
still looking for additional recruits.
The only requirement for volunteers, she says, is that
they have personalities to suit the job and be able to work
with people:
Cloud was chosen as director from a field of seven candidates.
At a yearly salary of $16,000, he will be responsible
for overseeing the center's total operation, including
coordinating the volunteers, disseminating information
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1 Requirements
than those enjoying pretrial freedom."
Under Hauser's bill, General Statute 15A-534 (b), section
1, would be changed by deleting the period at the end
of its sentence, inserting a comma and adding the following:
"and must record the reasons for so doing in writing
in the release order."
The bill would become effective July 1, 1983.
Hauser said that he hopes people throughout the state
will let their representatives know how they feel about the
bill.
"Its passage and implementation, in addition to relieving
human misery, would save taxpayers thousands of
dollars annually in prison costs," he said.
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