Orlando Evening Star from Orlando, Florida • 37

I ORLANDO EVENING STAR Fag 8-D tk M4ii Wednesday, May 24, 1172 Jobs Opening For Women 1 Retired Churchwoman i Starts Seniors' Lib Group with his company, "Not one is a job a woman couldn't handle, with proper training and cent of the industry total now are working on the railroad. Deines said there are 550 jobs, from brakeman to president, SIZE 5-7-9 SHOPS' STOEH SALE NEW YORK (UPI) Railroads and telephone companies these days are running neck and neck in the campaign to erase the line that separates male jobs from female ones. In Fargo, N.D., a woman Is a railroad yardmaster. She works for Burlington Northern. Phone companies, meanwhile, are breaking women in for the job of lineman to climb teleph-onepoles, splice wires and do all the jobs that until recently were part of an all-male outdoor world.

A report from the Amer I I i 1 si- DRESSES AND SPORTSWEAR DRASTIC REDUCTIONS By ELEANOR BLAU New York Times DENVER Margaret Kuhn would not be flattered if someone told her she looked younger than her 67 years and she wouldn't play shuffleboard if you paid her $100. The games and what she described as other "asinine" activities of "those Golden Age clubs" are anathema to Miss Kuhn, who has founded a movement called the Gray panthers. Its goal: to liberate the old. "AGE'ISM Is just as pervasive in our society as sexism," she told a news conference during the general assembly session of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Scorning the "paternalism" of homes for the aged, and the stereotype of "fuddy duddies" clinging to the past, she reported cheerfully, "we're finding old people are very responsive to being radicalized." "They are an explosive, positive new force" in the church and society, added Miss Kuhn, who lives in Philadelphia and retired last year after 24 years service with various Presbyterian agencies.

Known to her colleagues as Maggie, popular church figure formed the movement a year ago and now has more than a hundred followers, mostly on the East Coast, including two dozen youths. WEARING A blue mididress, whose slit revealed her stylish boots, the slim, 5-foot-3 militant deplored the "immoral waste of precious human resources" resulting from mandatory retirement laws that "automatically scrap-pile people just like old automobiles." As for looking one's age, she remarked, "I'm an old woman. I have gray hair, many wrinkles and arthritis in both hands. And I celebrate my freedom from bureaucratic restraints that once held me." With funds from the Presbyterian and the United Church of Christ, the non-denominational movement has begun to lobby in Washington and elsewhere for such causes as Increased Social Security benefits and tenant rights In old age homes. She recently led a delegation to a Philadelphia bank with a list of demands that included eased loan terms for the elderly.

HOWEVER, HER major concern Is with Issues that transcend age: war, peace, poverty, hunger, racial justice and penal reform. Miss Kuhn said future tactics surely would include sit-ins and other demonstrations. The youthful members, whom she called "cubs," provide energy that has left some of the older Panthers, and Miss Kuhn said empathy between the genera- tions was "curious and wonderful." One thing they share is a lack of power; together they can form a new political base, she said. Miss Kuhn asserted social action is one of two involvements that alone are needed for the mental health of the elderly. The other is Sex.

"SEX IS a beautiful thing until rigor mortis sets In," Miss Kuhn said. "Our society is lewd" when it chuckles about "dirty old men" or "old women who angle for attention," she added. "Its another kind of age-ism." Miss Kuhn, who wears a friendship ring "from a nice old man," reported plans to experiment with different lifestyles, including a "big old1 house" in Philadelphia in which old people and students would live. "It all has sexual overtones and undertones," but would not necessarily involve "cohabitation," she said, adding, "it would be a new community that the church ought to bless." COME SEE COME SAVE ican Telephone and Telegraph Co. tells of women moving into other once all-male areas.

Railroads and phone companies have female truck drivers. And for the railroads, women also are moving into the secretarial offices at the top executive secretary jobs once traditionally filled only by men. FRED E. Deines, president of Transportation Clubs International and vice president of Burlington Northern, said the doors to the executive suite are opening for women all along the railroad lines. He said 0 I of the 184 management persons hired by his company last year were women.

This year, Deines fi-g that percentage could rise to 35 or 40. He bases this on reports from personnel counselors and college recruiters for the railroad industry. It is estimated 70,000 women or about 12 per (UPI) Helen Aiken, employed by Southern Bell in Atlanta, is one of the few women employes to work as a switchman. Her job includes correcting troubles in phone switching system 1 equipment and checking circuits. Teen-Ager Trains Toddlers To Play-Chess COLONIAL PLAZA MALL with him wherever he goes.

He was an assistant tournament director for the U.S. Chess Championship, was captain of the Eastern High School co-championship team and has won many trophies. how each moves. One 6-year-old has already played in an under-13-year-old tournament. "I give them general principles that get them going," he explains.

"They use basically the same opening all the time, but they are beginning to get some attacking schemes down and occasionally get into some defensive things." THE YOUTH lists Intelligence and a "very competitive instinct" as major prerequisites for the game. Though an aptitude for math often is not apparent at that age, he adds that the child who plays good chess will be good in math. from the time he was 4 or 5 he played chess with his father or guests in a casual way. In the middle of junior high he joined a group of 9th-graders who played it a little more seriously. "We entered a tournament and had a crushing defeat," he admits, "and then I started to pick up chess seriously and bought the first of many chess books.

I probably, buy more chess books than any other junior under-21 player in the country." NOW CHESS has become a way of life for Schiller, who carries a folding chess board, zipper-cased playing pieces and basic chess books LlJmlJ I Vf Maternity Fashions from Sportswear to Cocktails BANKAMERICARD MASTER CHARGE dents in an assistant teacher capacity in elementary schools. "I asked for the younger children because I feel they're easier to work with and there's more you can teach someone young," says Schiller. "I've always had the idea of introducing chess to kids end felt the best place was on the kindergarten level. "I LEARNED at that age and Bobby Fischer did and so did most of the other players I have, come in contact with," he' continues. "In the United States it may seem early but in the Soviet Union it's normal." Schiller, who gets a half unit credit per term for working five days a week with his young stu-dents, starts out by introducing the pieces one at a time and letting the kids become thoroughly familiar with PORT WASHINGTON W) N.Y.

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