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Pragmatic Animal Control A few days ago I and another columnist who works for this newspaper were enjoying a break from work when a sports writer came to us with a proposal for a column. I put away my banana B.B. Batt, wrapping it in waxed paper and Steve Mitchell likewise relented on a coconut macaroon to listen. We always listen to ideas. "People are starving all over the world, right?" asked the sports writer, whose name is Jim Quinlan I think we both blushed; at least I blushed glancing furtively at my B.B.

Batt, and Mitchell hid his macaroon under a piece of paper. Quinlan went on: "And right here in this country we have a population explosion of dogs and cats. Millions of unwanted pets are destroyed every year. Think of the waste." "Waste?" I asked puzzled. "It's a terrible thing and a shame that more people don't adopt.

"I mean the food waste," Quinlan said. "Don't you understand? People all over the world eat dogs and cats and we're throwing them away!" "Oh, now I get it," said Mitchell laughing and sitting upright in his tilting chair. "You're funnin' us. Your pullin' our laig." He winked at me and grinned at Quinlan "No, seriously," Quinlan insisted. "Lot of cultures eat dogs and cats.

Navajos, right here in this country. In fact, I ate some dog last year in New Mexico. Greasy, but not all that bad." I fell into a brown study. Mitchell frowned and bit his lip. "Do you mean to tell me, Mitchell asked softly, "that there are people in this world who would eat 'Old the best plot dog in all of North Carolina and Tennessee?" "Well, of course he would have to be dead first," Quinlan answered.

a plot dog is big, what they call a luau dog in Hawaii. You dig your hole, see, line it with wet fronds and shovel in your coals. "Please," I said, "spare us. Jim, I'm it's as you say in some countries, but I mean when I think of my lovable 75-pound basset hound no, it's impossible. I won't accept it." Turn to ANIMALS, B7 Ron Wiggins The Palm Beach Post-Times SATl'KDAY.

NOYKMHER 8. 1973 SECTION WflDMIIERI She DBireaks tUn DBaimMimg LEunnmie www air a a colleagues at the Federal Reserve were "almost exclusively men and I saw many men advance before I did." McWhinney said she did a lot of learning from the men around her and made sure she was an asset to her superiors. "When your boss moves up, he takes you up too because you've been valuable," she said. In the 1950s when McWhinney decided she wanted to return to her native Denver, she found it harder to get a good banking job in the West than on the East Coast. "In Denver they told me there was no way they could put a woman in at my level and at the Stanford Research Institute they offered me a job but told me I would be a fool to take it because they had a standing policy of paying women two-thirds the salary a man would get in the same job." Amid the bustle of the Breaker's lobby, McWhinney still speaks in the reserved tones of a banker.

The photographer only catches her smiling when he asks if the new bank plans to buy any New York City bonds. She laughs and says no. McWhinney thinks New York's bankers are at least partly responsible for the city's financial crisis. "They must have known about the city's bookkeeping methods, yet they said nothing. "The welfare problem is tremendous, but it's a national problem, not just New York's.

The city has been scandalous in dealing with the unions. They were just too generous with them." McWhinney says the new bank has several goals "To develop and serve the women's market for banking services, to help women develop their own financial identities and to provide high quality banking service to all the bank's customers." The bank hopes to succeed by placing the ordinary consumer first. "We won't have any REITs (real estate investment trusts), no municipal bond department. Our physical layout has no marble and no iron cages," McWhinney said. In order to meet that goal the bank will hold special classes on money management for women, spend more time than most banks on individual counseling, and the bank will have a library full of consumer and financial information for customer usage.

The bank offers special services such as the "unforgettable check," a checkbook that gives a carbon copy of each check as it is written. In addition, the bank doesn't return checks to consumers but keeps them on file at the bank. "It saves us money and it saves the customer storing all those checks," she said. Turn to Banker, B7 By JOYCE HEARD Pott Staff Writer Madeline McWhinney took a job as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank after she graduated from college "because banking was the only job I knew. My father was a banker." Today, 30 years later, she is president of the First Women's Bank in New York.

By the time organizers of the women's bank came looking for a president, McWhinney, 53, had risen to assistant vice president at the Fed. She was also a member of the Fed's long range planning committee and a specialist in financial accounting. Why did she leave her prestigious posts to run a fledgling women's bank with $3 million in capitalization? "It's a challenge and I think the bank is a worthwhile project," McWhinney said. Although she knows it won't be easy selling a new small bank in the competitive banking world of New York, McWhinney thinks First Women's Bank can succeed by tapping a market that other bankers, have ignored. "Banks have underestimated the women's market," she said.

"If a woman comes in for a business loan they just assume she's running some little boutique that will fail next week." Over 80 per cent of the bank's shareholders are women, but McWhinney said that doesn't mean the bank will provide easy credit for all females. "Ultimately our goal is to make money for our shareholders, just like any other bank," she said. McWhinney was in Palm Beach a week ago to lead a seminar on banking, part of a three-day meeting of the Young Presidents Organization, a group of company presidents who are under 40 and whose companies handle at least $2 million in sales per year. First Women's Bank opened less than a month ago with offices in a renovated restaurant on 57th Street, near New York's retail area and just south of the headquarters for many brokerage firms. Most of the bank's 25 employes are female, but McWhinney says that's not unusual.

"Most banks are staffed primarily by women, but only at the lower levels. At our bank we have a woman chairman of the board and three women vice presidents. Women hold important positions in all departments." She says the National Association of woman Bank Officers estimates there are only 100 women at banks in policy-making positions. McWhinney knows from experience that it is not easy for women to advance in banking. She said her Madeline McWhinney is a woman who made it in a man's world the banking profession.

She worked 30 years climbing the ladder to a position as an assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank. But she gave up the prestige for another side of the banking business the woman's side. Her latest venture is the First Women's Bank in New York City where she is president. I Stall Photo by Max Kaufmann v. i vf By BECK Of th Marilyn Back Staff At first she seemed so much like Georgette, the sweet and simple character she portrays on CBS' "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," I expected bashful giggles to punctuate her conversation about Georgette's video wedding to Ted Baxter, Her presence brought to mind flocks of butterflies hiding in fields of buttercup.

But when Georgia Engel said somberly, "Marriage means a lot to me and needs to be defended," it was apparent she was expressing answers to which she had given serious consideration. "I happen to still consider the institution of marriage sacred," she said. Then, veering to talk of her on-air marriage ceremony, which airs tonight, she related, "I had so much fun doing Rhoda's wedding last year on 'The Mary Tyler Moore I was afraid ours wouldn't come off as well. But the producers managed to come up with the perfect ceremony for Georgette and Ted." For the past three seasons as Ted's girlfriend, Georgette has put up with a packet from the egoistic Baxter, accepting his thoughtlessness without slamming her man once in the kisser. Always able to look on the bright side, Georgette preferred to ignore Ted's lack of gallantry.

And now her patience has paid off. She happens to be worth ten Teds, but that's beside the point. She laughed as she described the bridal segment, assuring, "It's so funny! Ted proposes right in Mary's apartment and within 20 minutes Lou and Sue Ann and everybody are rounded up for the wedding. The minister, who's never performed a ceremony before, rushes over all sweaty from playing tennis, and well, it's so funny. I just love it!" Engel, who was plucked off the theatrical circuit by producer Grant Tinker to join "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Is especially excited about coming episodes which feature Georgette as a bride.

"There are so many new colors the little tiny things you can bring out are so wonderful especially for someone who has been as soft-spoken as Georgette. "Because now that she's married, she's not so soft-spoken anymore. She really gives it to Ted!" Unlike other performers who play secondary roles, Georgia does not give the Impression she harbors an ego driving her to seek star-status. She says she is content to play the mild-mannered Georgette and that she sees little possibility for a series of her own. "I am always the frosting on a show.

My role this season is expanding, but still it Is not a meaty party that would lead to doing a big role, such as a spin-off segment of my own." Dreams that include more stage acting further reflect her self-image. "I want to do some plays, but I would like to perform the secondary role. Really, that's the only position that suits me. And I'm very happy doing such portrayals." While many others in the show business community are seeking happiness through Transcendental Meditation, primal therapy, Transactional Analysis and other self-awareness programs, Georgia already has found her own avenue for finding inner peace. "Everybody is searching.

What people are looking for is practical help to live a happy life. People who reject faith or don't use religion in their daily lives have to look for something else. I am a Christian Scientist and I get so much from my faith." Unexpectedly, Georgia became serious. "Actually, my avocation is acting," she said, "My vocation is Christian Science. Turn to GEORGETTE, B7 Georgette and Ted Baxter get married tonight on (The Mary Tyler Moore Show' at 9 on Channels 4 and 34.

Georgia Engel, the actress who portrays Georgette, sees the wedding as the turning point in their relationship. She says Georgette becomes more outspoken after she becomes Mrs. Baxter she even begins to cut Ted down to size. (Gloria Swanson's (Glamor Never Fades NEW YORK (AP) "I've been in the public eye for so long I guess I'm a curiosity," said Gloria Swan-son. "People wonder how I still look good after all these years." That 76-year-old face does look good smooth and fresh as a schoolgirl's, framed by side-parted brown hair.

Solid white teeth flash through crimson lips. There's that distinctive mole, those delicately diabolical eyebrows arched over clear blue eyes and spiked, fluttering fake eyelashes. "It's hereditary, all in the genes," Swanson demurs, dashing the hopes of beauties who will be septuagenarians one day. "But no one can have skin like a baby's bottom if they're going to stuff that hole in their face with chocolate and banana splits." The lengendary movie queen is a passionate advocate of pure food and good diet and a zealous foe of sugar. She says that countless evils of demon sugar have been exposed by her friend, William Dufty, in his book, "Sugar Blues" which Swanson is helping to promote.

Dufty, a very thin, ascetic-looking man of 59, resembled a big bellied buddha until she alerted him to the dangers of sugar about 20 years ago during a brief encounter, Swanson said. He sat quietly nearby while Swanson, wrapped in a white and black-embroidered caftan, snuggled into large stuffed chair in her Fifth Avenue apartment and held forth, almost nonstop, on her favorite topic. "If you have knowledge, you must share it with other people," she said. "My concern for good health has been a life belt for me. I feel a debt to the public and will spend my life trying to help them." Don't eat unless hungry, she advised.

Don't eat when tired or cross because food doesn't digest well at those times. Don't eat what is hot clean. She's down on insecticides, detergents, plastics, hospitals and "all those crazy people who call themselves doctors and actually give diseases. "The body that has grown up certainly has enough intelligence to repair itself. But not if you keep shoving stuff into your mouth that has made it unhealthy In the first place." Turn to SWANSON, B6 Gloria Swanson often is asked how she can look so good at 76.

She says it's hereditary, all in the genes. But she adds, 'No one can have skin like a baby's bottom if they're going to stuff that hole in their face with chocolate and banana She's an ardent foe of sugar, and is promoting a book which supports her theories, 'Sugar.