Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 121, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 January 1986 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 6,1986

Calendar of events Notices for publication in the calendar of events cannot be taken over the telephone. Calendar items must be submitted in writing at least 10 days in advance of the events to which they refer. The earlier the submission, the better. Also, each notice should include a telephone number for use by the newspaper in case further information or clarification is needed prior to publication. Notices may be delivered to the Banner-Graphic office at 100 N. Jackson St. or mailed to the newspaper at P.O. Box 509, Greencastle, IN 46135. Tuesday Theta Chapter of Delta Theta Tau will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, in the Green Room of the DePauw University Student Union. Over the Teacups will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, at the home of Mrs. David Williams. Mrs. Joe McCord will have the program. The Big Walnut Poultry Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, at the Putnam County Fairgrounds community building. There will be an Alzheimer’s support group meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, at the Putnam County Mental Health office, 109 E. Washington St., Greencastle. Tri Kappa will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, at Public Service Indiana. The program will be on scholarships. Dr. Howard Brooks will discuss Halley’s Comet 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the Putnam County Library. The program is free to anyone in fourth grade through adults. Register by calling the library at 653-6216. The Four-Leaf Clover Extension Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the home of Mary Smith. The lesson on osteoporosis will be presented by Betty Sendmeyer. Chapter No. 554 0.E.5., Stilesville, will hold a stated meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14. Initiatory work will follow. All visiting members are welcome. Wednesday The Veronica Club will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the home of Bernice Ray. The West Floyd Homemakers will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the home of Mae Louise Ader. Lena Bryan will present the lesson on “How to use and improve your memory.” Chapter I, P.E.0., will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the home of Mrs. Sam Stickle. Mrs. Ted Sanders will present the program. Women of the Moose will have Chapter night (installation) at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8. This is a change of date from Jan. 1. Thursday The Beech Grove Ladies Aid will meet all day Thursday, Jan. 9, at the church. There will be a pot luck dinner. Members are asked to come early. The Jefferson Extension Homemakers Club will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, at the home of Donna Frye. Roll call will be “My favorite kitchen gadget,” which members are asked to bring for show and tell. The Circles of Gobin United Methodist Women will meet Thursday, Jan. 16, as follows: 9:30 a.m.--McKendree with Mrs. P.S. Godwin, Oxford with Mrs. S. Stickle; 1:15 p.m.-Aldersgate with Mrs. O. Davis (Mrs. Marian Schwartz, co-hostess; 7:30 p.m.-Bethel with Mrs. G. Sendmeyer. Friday Greencastle Chapter No. 255 Order of the Eastern Star will hold a called meeting at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, at the Masonic Temple for initiation. All members are welcome.

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Older workers move into low-paying jobs

c. 1986 N.Y. Times NEW YORK-As the new year begins, there is a relatively new phenomenon in the labor area: help-wanted signs that apparently are not drawing the young people who usually take these low-level jobs. This could mean that the person serving a hamburger in a fast-food restaurant or wrapping a book in a bookstore will be older in the future, upsetting a tradition. Monday, the Conference Board, a business research organization, announced that its help wanted advertising index for November had “reached the highest point in 1985.” At 144, the index, which measures the volume of classified ads in 51 major newspapers across the country, rose four points from October and is seven points ahead of the 1984 month. The board called it “a truer indicator of the degree of improvement in labor market activity” than the Government’s unemployment figure of 7 percent for November. “This momentum, although moderate, should carry into the first few months of the new year,” the board said, which means a good outlook for jobs for at least part of 1986. Help wanted signs have been appearing in the windows of many establishments bookstores, florists, hardware stores, coffee shops, supermarkets, and elsewhere a basic indication that jobs are available and not being readily filled. Many such

Dear Abby: Giii’s words of wisdom to be carved in stone

DEAR ABBY: An 11-year-old girl named Jill Turner read a letter in your column from a Texas woman who wanted to donate her organs after her death but couldn’t get anyone in her family to sign the permission papers because they were against donating organs. Jill wrote to you saying that Andy, her 9-year-old brother, had died last August, but losing Andy didn’t hurt so much because his corneas were transplanted in the eyes of a blind person, and now that blind person can see. She added: “Abby, that lady in Texas should tell her family, ‘Just because you are against something doesn’t give you the right to decide for everybody else.’” You responded: “Dear Jill: Thank you for stating a principle that deserves to be carved in stone. You have centuries of wisdom stored in that 11-year-old head. Please write again and send me your address. I have a gift for you.” Well, Abby, I also have a gift for Jill because her principle does, indeed, “deserve to be carved in stone.” And it will be. In northeastern Oregon, a 210acre, admission-free park is being created to record and display “centuries of American wisdom.” Letters 50 feet high will spell out THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-

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Consistency is the key

DEAR HELOISE: The letter from the college student who “can’t get the hang of keeping a clean house” has prompted me to write. Your suggestions were excel lent but I would wager part of her cleaning problem is picking up and keeping things tidy. When I was a child and later as a bride, I used to hate to dean My room and my house, usually looked as if a disaster had struck. Then, after much embarrassment for me, I learned to keep things orderly. So here are some of my suggestions for tidiness: Hang up clothes if they don’t need laundering. If they do, place them in the hamper or laundry bag rather than on the floor, chair or bed. The laundry bag could be kept in the closet on the floor. Always make your bed. It only takes a minute or two. Take that extra minute to clean the shower area or bathtub after bathing

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jobs, it is true, pay the minimum wage or not much higher, but in the past they have tended to be filled by young people. Recently, Herbert Bienstock, director of the City University of New York Center for Labor and Urban Programs, Research and Analysis, drew attention to a fastdeveloping demographic trend. In about five years or so, the number of young people entering the labor force will plunge from the average of about 3 million entrants yearly of the late 1970 s to about 1.3 million a year. The reason is that the babyboom generation has been ensconced in the job market for some years, and a lower birth rate has resulted in a declining number of young people. This indicates that a large number of lower-paying jobs will be filled not so much by young workers, who demand jobs with bright futures, but by older workers,

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IN GOD WE TRUST, and beneath it will be a monument containing 67,460 individual 700-pound manmade stones. On the granite face of each stone, individuals, families or groups may place a “message” reflecting our nation’s collective patriotism, religious heritage and wisdom. My gift to Jill Turner will be her message carved in stone so that 11-year-olds, 30-year-olds, 80-year-olds and everyone now and in the future may learn that: “Just because you are against something doesn’t give you the right to decide for everybody else.—Jill Turner” You may sign this ... BECKY RUST, MRS. OREGON OF 1985

and hang up towels rather than leaving them on the floor The hair dryer, curlers, etc., should l>e put away rather than set down. Dirty dishes could be rinsed and placed in a dishpan to soak in soapy water if you only have time to do dishes once a day. Don’t leave them on the counter top, on tables, or in the living area Newspapers, books and mail should be gathered up rather than left here and there. I now have a 2-year-old and 1 make every effort to pick up things in each room before I leave, it, even toys. I hope these suggestions help others get better organized in order to keep the house tidy with less effort. Nancy Wroblewski Consistency is the key and is the hardest part, but it really pays ofT in keeping things looking neat. I agree about picking things up and making the bed! Thanks for sharing your ideas. Hugs Heloise

especially women, who want or need to return to work. Many of these older workers might be those 65 years old and over who require extra money to supplement Social Security payments, small pensions or savings. Their ranks might include some of the thousands of older persons who have lost their jobs through corporate cutbacks or mergers. Others who retired early from jobs in lower middle management may have become disenchanted with too much free time and may have become worried about the inroads of inflation, even though the pace of the rise in the Consumer Price Index is relatively slow at present. In many cases, the older job-seekers might be overqualified for the low-paying jobs offered in the store window signs, but many such jobs offer flexible hours and work-sharing, other trends that are

DEAR BECKY: What a wonderfully appropriate gift! I phoned Jill Turner at her home in Fountain Valley, Calif., and learned something about this remarkable 11-year-old advocate of human rights. Her mother, Liz, is a nurse, and her father, C.J. Turner, is an engineer for McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach. Jill was the eldest of three children. Andy (her recently deceased brother, whom she adored) was 17 months younger. Jared, now 6, is something of a mathematical “genius,” having learned to add and subtract when he was 2! Jill’s hobbies are painting, swimming, creative writing and reading. (She reads about 10 books a week.) Jill also collects coins and rocks. She’s active in the 4-H Club and has two rabbits, two guinea pigs, one chinchilla, one lizard, one hamster and one cat named Lance. Jill is in the sixth grade at Monroe Elementary School and is the editor-in-chief of her homeroom newspaper, the Monroe Mirror. She sent me the current issue, which featured an interview she had written. It began: “Mr. D. Ewoldt, the renowned and distinguished

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currently accelerating. For example, a recent McDonald’s advertisement in Family Circle magazine, aimed at homemakers, stressed flexible hours. In a picture among a group of smiling employees appearing in the ad there was a white-haired woman and several other middle-aged women. This is obviously quite a change from the usual idea of youthful workers in fast-food chains. The Travelers Insurance Companies some years ago started a program to bring back its retirees for part-time jobs, instead of relying on temporary help from agencies, and a small number of other companies do the same. Bienstock calls the group of older workers who have either retired or dropped out of the job market in recent years “the lost battalion,” a force that has drawn the interest of company managements seeking to fill low-level jobs. The numbers of these older workers that are still healthy enough to work are unknown, according to Bienstock, because they do not appear in the unemployment figures. Their impact will likely be that more and more sales personnel at fast-food chains, small neighborhood stores and other small businesses will be older, along with receptionists, medical assistants in doctors’ offices, temporary office workers and others, whether they need some basic training or not.

principal of James Monroe Elementary School, consented to this interview for The Mirror.” (It was flawless.) Congratulations, Jill. I predict that you will go far. Please take good care of yourself. America needs young people like you.

DEAR ABBY: Having benefited from a corneal transplant myself in 1981, the letter from 11-year-old Jill Turner caught my attention. Let me say that Jill’s letter not only brought tears to the eyes of this jaded old educator, renewed my hope in our youth and made my day, but it convinced me that this little lady should be appointed to head a presidential committee for the elimination of ignorance in the United States. Tell Jill if she ever wants to run for office, she has my vote. ANTHONY PIERULLA, ST. PHILIP’S COLLEGE, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

(Problems? Write to Abby. For a personal, unpublished reply, send a self-addressed, stamped, envelope to Abby, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038.)

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