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ii ii Akron Beacon Journal Friday, April 16, 1982 SECTION you can aim for the best salary By Jewell Card well Beacon Journal staff writer "Even if you smoke and never jog, you will live to your old age. And down the road, the pension you get will be based on your highest earning years. That's why women have to be strong in negotiating their salaries today." 010,000 That the advice of Marilyn Moats Kennedy, author of therecently published Salary Strategies: Everything. You Need to Know to Get the Salary You want ($12.95, Rawson-Wade). She spoke Wednesday at a meeting of Akron Women in Communications.

"Most women have no idea about how to negotiate for a salary," she said. "Women need to stand their ground. Everything is $20,000 negouaDie. a mm msm Ms. Kennedy, 38, is a graduate, of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where she received both bachelor's and master's degrees.

She is founder and director of Career Strategies a workshop-style consulting firm which addresses the politics of career planning. She estimates that she has helped more than 20,000 people battle career knockouts and job change. Ms. Kennedy also has written $4000 i0iib Office Politics: Seizing Power Wielding Clout, How to Battle Back and a jobs-and-career column for Glamour magazine. A native of Kansas City, she presently lives in Evanston, with her banker-husband Daniel Kennedy Jr.

and their 8-month-old daughter, Anne Evelyn. In negotiating salaries, Ms. Kennedy said, "The employer is holding all the cards here. It's sort of like playing bridge with someone who has a mirror behind you. He knows what salary you're making, and he knows what the market is.

"You should never go in saying 'I 'I 'I 'I deserve'. You've got to put the discussion of money on the table and depersonalize it. Ms. Kennedy advised job-seekers to know the market before they negotiate for a salary. $20,000 "Market is the range of what other employers are paying for that job," she explained.

"Let's say you're making $14,000. He offers you $17,000. But market is somewhat between $22,000 and $25,000. You See AIM, page C2 Beacon Journal graphic Dennis Earienbaugh Don't let the rug be pulled out from under you Consumer tips Betsy Lammerding interlocked. Needle-punched carpeting has as fiber sheet and layers of loose fibers interlocked.

Most carpeting has a latex coating that binds the tufts to the backing. Some carpeting has a double backing which provides more body to the fabric. This backing will hide the latex coating from the backing. In choosing fibers, remember that wool is strong, soil-resistant, and highly resilient. COTTON IS soft and serviceable.

Acrylic has a long life and is resilient and soil-resistant. Metallic has a metal fiber that deters static, while See STAY, page C3 To spot quality in fabrics, check the depth, density and thickness of the pile and sturdiness of the construction and backing. Bend over a corner of the carpeting to determine this. AS A GENERAL rule, the higher the pile and the thicker the tufts, the better the carpeting or rug. Tufted carpeting is the most common construction.

With this type, needles and yarn are pushed through a backing and pulled out forming loops or tufts. Woven carpeting has surface and backing yarns that are intertwined to make a single construction. Knitted carpet is similar to woven; the pile and backing yarns are will need before you go shopping. Figure the room's area by measuring the width and length of the room and then multiplying these figures. The bottom line Ls the area in square feet.

Then divide the square-feet figure by nine to find the total square yards. For example, if the room is 10 by 12, this is 120 square feet when multiplied. Divided by nine, it is approximately 13.3 square yards. Carpeting is sold by the square yard. It is also manufactured in widths of 12 and 15 feet.

You may have to buy more square yards of carpeting than your calculations call for in order to cover irregular floor shapes. If so, have a carpet expert determine the final measurement and the amount of carpeting needed. Carpeting and rugs add beauty and color to a If you've never purchased them" before, however, there are a few things you should know, according to officials of the Better Business Bureau of Akron. When choosing the type of floor covering, consider your needs. If you're on a tight budget or the floors in your home are in good condition or you move frequently, room-size or area rugs, not wall-to-wall carpeting, may be your best buy.

The trick is to pick neutral colors for decorating variety and flexibility. Wall-to-wall carpeting is the best buy if floors are unsightly or difficult to keep clean. If your home is already carpeted and the carpeting is worn to the point of replacement, you may not be able to replace it with rugs. When you peel back the carpeting, you may find plywood, not hardwood or resilient flooring, under the fabric. FOR COMPARING carpeting and rug prices, you should know approximately how much material ycu Kenny Halterman is retiring Prof once told the radio news veteran he'd never make it 1 8 'I i i mnnnf oiirf "rtoitirriiT- irr -fff- liWifiirtiinr furmiTiiiirrfrwrr-f as an instructor.

"One thing appalled me: the lack of general knowledge," he said. "They (the students) didn't seem to know anything about anything." ALTHOUGH he found students' spelling and grammar atrocious, he fondly remembers the 11 years of part-time teaching. "I enjoyed the opportunity to be associated with people in that age group," he said. "It gave me a considerably different perspective than some people my age had. I learned as much from them as they did fronl me and maybe more." He said he never has been bored with news-gathering.

"But now I feel like a victim of burnout," he said. "I regret to say this, but I feel like I'm at the place where nothing looks like news anymore. Nothing excites me anymore. "Almost any news person develops a serious sense of cynicism, skepticism, a great deal of callousness," he said. "This bothers me like my subconscious rebelling against this." Halterman said he wants to spend his retirement working on his house and doing volunteer work.

He will be 65 Sunday. "I don't have plans for jumping into another job," he said. "Some people don't understand that if you're retiring, you want to get away from it for a while." dusky for a year before WAKR news director Harold "Red" Hageman, now bailiff to Summit County Common Pleas Judge Theodore Price, hired him. "We worked together at WCUE," Hageman remembered. "There was an opening here (WAKR).

I simply put in a good word for him with the management. They had him come down, talked to him and he's been here ever since." Hageman called Halterman "probably one of the best radio newsmen." "He can do the work of two men in the newsroom," Hageman said. Halterman also went on to report for television news at WAKR. Probably his best-known trademark is the beret he sports on assignments in the winter. DALTERMAN'S VOICE is as unique as his appearance.

While attending Kent State University, a professor told him he would never make it in radio with his voice. "I've always felt my voice shouldn't be on the radio," he said wryly. "Nevertheless, it is. "I don't know if my voice is unusual. I'll be on an elevator downtown and make a casual comment to someone I'm with.

People will say, 'Oh, I know you just from your It may not be any good, but it is distinctive." Halterman returned to Kent State in 1965 By Nancy Peacock Beacon Journal staff writer WAKR's Kenny Halterman likes stories with happy endings. At the end of the month, the 32-year veteran of radio news reporting will retire happy in the knowledge that he never will have to get up for work at 4:45 a. m. again. "I don't enjoy it," Halterman said of his early rising time.

"For about 11 years I was getting up at a quarter of three and that was really rough." ASIDE FROM dragging himself out of bed before dawn, Halterman has no complaints about the broadcasting business. At 29, the World War II veteran was on his way to veterinary school when he learned that a master's degree in science was necessary for admission. So a change of career plans was in order. "The idea of using words pretty much appealed to me," he said. "At that time, the broadcast industry was a coming industry." After a one-year stint at WHHH radio in Warren, Halterman was hired at WCUE in 1951 and stayed there until 1959.

The station was sold and the new owners, in Halter-man's words, "were not news-oriented." "They gave me a nice gold watch for Christmas and fired me the next day," he said, laughing. HALTERMAN worked for WLEC in San Beacon Journal photo bv Bill Wad 2.