Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 265, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 June 1986 — Page 4

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THE BANNERQRAPHIC, June 17.1986

Nickel coffee lives on

WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) The nickel cup of coffee is alive and well in the nine Circle J restaurants, where boss James Jones says it’s “nice to do something like it used to be.” A “bottomless” cup of coffee cost 5 cents when his first Circle J restaurant opened in this northcentral Texas town four years ago, and it has stayed that way, soaring coffee bean prices and four-cup-a-sitting sippers notwithstanding. “All my life, my dad talked about nickel hamburgers, nickel coffee and nickel pickles at the

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Jobless executives over 50 seeing better opportunities

NEW YORK (AP) The employment outlook has improved for out-of-work, over-50, white-collar executives, some experts say. They say the older executives are benefiting from a growing realization that their experience is a valuable asset and from the decline in job loyalty of younger workers. Others say older workers are finding jobs because they are lowering their expectations. However, some experts aren’t optimistic at all. James Challenger, president of Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a Chicago-based outplacement firm, is in the upbeat camp, saying there has been a dramatic increase in the hiring of older people. He says his belief is based on the success of his older clients in finding jobs at the same rate as younger ones. Moderately positive is Madeleine Swain, president of Swain & Swain, an outplacement firm in New York, who said: “We think it has been improving and continues to improve.” However, Ms. Swain added, “Frankly, it has been our experience that Fortune 500 companies are not out searching for older workers. We have not seen any kind of trend or commitments. “Realistically, a 55-, 58-year-old person coming out of a big corporation is probably not going to find another opportunity at a big corporation. Those who realize that they have good things to offer ... may have to offer it to a different audience.” Smaller and medium-size companies are thrilled to hire older people, she said. Wesley Poriotis, chairman and chief executive officer of Wesley Brown & Bartle Co., a New Yorkbased executive recruitment company, is among the pessimists.

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“I would love to say that the situation is better because people are more knowledgeable about agism,” he said. “But when it comes down to the actual hiring, I don’t think there is much change. The laws are there. The spirit is not. Therefore hopes look dismal.” The unemployment rate among Americans between the ages of 45 and 54 and in the managerial and professional occupations was 2.4 percent in the first quarter of this year, the Labor Department says. That compared with a 7.5 percent civilian unemployment rate in the same time period. “There are not that many people in that group who are unemployed, but once they are unemployed they have a very hard time finding another job,” said Philip Rones, an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington. The number of older Americans has been growing dramatically. The U.S. Census Bureau says 21.3 percent of the population was 55 older in 1984. From 1974 to 1984, the number of Americans aged 65 and older grew by 27.1 percent, while the total population rose by 10.7 percent, it says. Older Americans are protected by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, passed by Congress in

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1967. That act was amended in 1978 to remove any mandatory retirement age for most federal government employees and pushed the protection ceiling from 65 up to 70 for all individuals. The number of age discrimination complaints filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has grown. Ninety-six were filed in the government’s fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, vs. 67 in fiscal 1984 and 33 in 1983. Still, that is not a large number considering how many Americans likely face prejudice against their age. But Challenger maintains the situation is bright others are not any firm statistics. “Companies may be coming to realize that possessing a team of fresh-faced MBAs is not a cure-all, that a stable of ‘whiz kids’ is no guarantee of expanded profits,” he said. “Those who have tried investing in the young may conclude that what is needed is sheer wisdom rather than sheer energy. ” Another factor can be salary, he said. “You have a 35-year-old earning $40,000 and a 50-year-old earning $42,000. Suddenly, I can buy 15 more years of experience for $2,000,” he said

virtue of drug interaction with rifampin, isoniazid, ampicillin, neomycin, penicillin V, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, sulfonamides, nitrofurantoin, griseofulvin, barbiturates, phenytoin, primidone, phenylbutazone, analgesics, tranquilizers (e.g. diazepam), and antimigraine preparations. Oral contraceptives may alter the effectiveness of other types of drugs, such as oral anti-coagu-lants, anti-convulsants, tricyclic anti-depressants, anti-hy-pertensive agents (e.g. guanethidine), theophylline, vitamins, hypoglycemic agents, clofibrate, glucocorticoids and acetaminophen.” Further, women who use oral contraceptives “should not smoke. The combination of cigarette smoking, especially heavy cigarette smoking, and oral contraceptive use greatly increases the risk of heart attack.” * * * DEAR ABBY: My father was a wonderful man. No girl ever had a better dad. Everyone who knew him loved him. His name was Robe# E. Kreiger. He played football for the Philadelphia Eagles and piloted 30 missions over occupied Europe during World War 11. Dad smoked three packs of cigarettes a day. Just two months after he was diagnosed as having lung cancer, he died. He had just turned 60. Please, dads, don’t smoke. HIS DAUGHTER (Problems? Write to Abby. For a personal, unpublished reply, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Abby, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038. All correspondence is confidential.)

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