I There's a whole lot r KIMMIIIMtllUIIIIIIIMIIItlllllltUIMIIIIMMimitlMIMIIMIIMMMMIMMtinMMMMMMUMIinilMMMtl funds of its own (the county cannot own a profit-making I subsidiary). I Woodruff, who, along with Commissioner Richard I Linville, voted against the hospital's reorganization plan last October, says she wanted to make sure the elderly I and poor would continue to get proper health care under the new set-up. "That should have been a concern to all of us," she says. "Whether a person has money or not, everyone will I have health care, and I had to have that in writing." I Woodruff says she also wanted to make sure black doctors aren't denied an opportunity to practice medicine I at the hospital. "We have black doctors who want to I come here to practice," she says. "1 wanted to make sure mat, atter this time (the reorganization), they could still be there." Woodruff says she still doesn't think blacks realize the county no longer owns Forsyth Memorial -- and won't own it again unless the holding company fails to live up to its agreement to provide health care to all Forsyth County residents and to enforce affirmative action. That's why the hospital's 23-member governing body must keep its board at two-thirds local members, she says, and must increase its black members from its pre- . sent two. "We've got to watch from here on who we put on that board, and we've got to watch who we elect to the county commissioners," she says, noting that the commissioners appoint 12 of the 23 members. But the hospital's board isn't the only body of responsibility with inadequate black representation, says Woodruff. "I want to see us - and when I say us, that's what I mean -- get out* share of the elected offices," she says. "I'm willing to work to see that we get our share." And though whites are as able to represent the county as blacks, she said, "until you sit where 1 sit, you can't represent me. And very few whites have lived where we live and understand us. We came out of slavery. We are survivors." As to whether the Martinsville, Va., native will run for ninmii?nmmnuiinitnim?mnmnm????HiHMtiMiwin?Mi?tn?HMininnMHwmtM?HWi Rlack Rpnnhliran? From Page A1 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHIItllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIItfllllllllHMIfllllllllllllMIIIMIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIi 44It*s a situation in which blacks will get out to realize that our vote is very vital,'* says Jones. "The Democrats have taken our vote for granted, and the Republicans haven't been aggressive enough." Jones says he doesn't plan to change his registration, as Davis has done, but says he does support the "Jesse Jackson movement" and that he is firmly behind Jackson "in spirit." "If Martin Luther King Jr. was the Messiah, then Jesse is second to Martin," he says. "I think it's good ? it's really dynamite." Jones says he's ashamed of black officials, such as Wilson Goode of Philadelphia, who support Walter Mondale over Jackson. "I'm an American first, a black second and a Republican third/* says Jones. Davis agrees and says blacks who support Mondale/ should step back and reassess their commitment to blacks. "Mondale is a friend of ours (blacks)/' says Davis. "But how much money has he spent with black newspapers before now? None. How can you get mad at Jesse Helms for not doing it when Mondale is not doing so? "Like Jesse (Jackson) says, 'Mondale stood up for civil rights, but I am civil rights.'". Black Republican support for Jackson hasn't happened without at least a few sparks of controversy, however, as was the case a few weeks ago when Alderman Larry Little, Jackson's Forsyth County campaign coordinator, questioned the motives of one local Republican campaigning for Jackson. Little said that Vernon Robinson, a business professor at Winston-Salem State University, couldn't be both a Reaganite and a supporter of Jackson at the same time. To that, Robinson said in a telephone conversation with Chronicle's Executive Editor Allen Johnson, "I'm black first." While Robinson declined to be interviewed for this article, Davis says a candidate's actions should be the focal point for voters, not his political party. "T n^vpr ask anybody what political party thev arc/' 'Mt'f thf norcnn rtrvoc tkal't imnArfanl tn Wwi.TT'.. sr ? ? ?1M> .amwwwe ?-,. ? . ir* -.- ?j ? H tQ* "? -1KT?0l nthol and ts Menthol KT-.-y laaiw 11 ^ryy^n^ HUB#W.^ iH\vr^wwww?Mw^..^wa?.w . ?..: _v*' ? iff I I I fey. f 1 ! . C Philip Morris lac I9H4 eon General Has Determined ing Is Dangerous to Your Health. 1 0 mg nicotine ? Lights Menthol 8 mg 'tar," 3 nicotine av per cigarette, PTC Report Mar'83 * i