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Thrift resale stores can save consumers money THE EAGLEBryan College Station Texas amily Sunday January 1 1978 the Pledges of self improvement Old resolutions ring in new year Houston conference highlights year for women charge of Security Karmel first woman the Securities and Ex named Valerie Amy Carter started making news shortly after her inauguration on her first day at the Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School as the first White House child to attend public school in seven decades Media women present and past were rt fhn limolidhl nnrino 1Q77 lit UVIi 111 VI IV uinvujjiii the federal Equal Opportunity Com Carolyn Payton Peace Corps Lucy people Bryan president at Queen Jubilee in England The couple and their infant son James Earl Carter 4th lived for a time in the White House along with Jeff Carter and his wife Annette But later they moved back to Plains Ga where Chip went to work in the peanut business quieting reports of marital problems The third daughter in law Judy wife of the oldest son Jack became one of the leading spokespersons for the ERA as well focus on her as she read a book at State dinners played in her tree house and celebrated her 10th bir thday Carter daughters in law also got into the family act Caron joined her primary The Rev Jacqueline Means 40 in a ceremony at All Saints Church in Indianapolis became the first woman officially to be ordained an Episcopal priest The nurse and mother of four had been a deacon of the church Within the year about 60 women were ordained And the Rev Beverly Messenger Harris 30 who was ordained an Episcopal priest a few days later lamnuiu Many items like long dresses have only been worn once and some have not been worn at all Other blouses and dresses are Christmas and birthday presents that fit and be returned Some clothes were worn only a few times before they were outgrown Shopping at a resale store can save money on accessories blouses and blazers that match other skirts he for completed as Miss Trinidad Tobago became the first black Miss Uni verse in the 26 Marie Stavins 20 of Sweden won the Miss World crown In other annual competitions Susan Yvonne Perkins 23 a singer and biology graduate of Miami University of Ohio walked down the runway at Atlantic City as the new Miss America Aggie Kimberly Louise Tomes 21 of Houston was named Miss USA i place to keep track of pledges for the year Several people who said they knew where the resolutions were" had recorded them in notebooks diaries or journals 'One professor at Texas reported that his list was in the bottom of a certain drawer of his desk and a housewife said that her list was carefully folded am'ong the pages of a cook book Several shoppers said that resolutions are easier to keep when "shared with a friend or loved one Several proud non smokers who gave up the habit at the start of 1977 said that they have done it without the help of the family who shared in the resolution Another shared resolutions was family weight loss which yielded over 60 total pounds of shed weight for one College Station family Why do people make resolutions? The almost unanimous response was supposed But another shopper at Manor East Mall quickly added it helps to have a direction to have a goal in that big long new year just so I could say this year that I kept my New Her resolutions for 1977 included serving her family more fruits and vegetables and less soda pop having a ticket less driving record and trying not to gain any weight gaining she added a lot easier than lowing But by far the majority of the shoppers questioned said that Service special At a Hollywood celebration of her long career Bette Davis 68 received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American ilm In stitute The award has been given only five times and she is the first woman recipient "Academy Award Oscars went to Beatrice Actress Actress Technological University in Orlando A queen who has reigned for 25 years 51 year old Queen Elizabeth II of Britain celebrated her Silver Jubilee In the arts toowomen made news during 1977 At a concert at New York's Car negie Hall celebrating her 75th birth day legendary contralto Marian Anderson heard Rosalynn Carter read a congressional resolution honoring her for unstinting efforts on behalf of the brotherhood of and became the first black to receive a congressional medal amari artist Georgia O'Keeffe celebrating her 90th birthday was men resolve that they will get more respect from their families and co workers in the new year At Manor East Mall Townshire University Square and Culpepper Plaza shopping centers this week Bryan College Station residents College Station area All merchandise at the Nearly New Thrift Shoppe is taken on consignment Each person bringing in clothing or jewelry for sale in the shop receives a percentage of the sale At the endof two months a person may pick up any item brought in that was not sold Clothing not picked up is donated to local clothing drives the Girls Club or Clothes Closet a Before accepting merchandise Pat and Doris look for wear along all seams If the garmet is in good repair clean and seasonable the women will take it on consignment Both women sew for their families and with this experience they can evaluate the condition of a garmet and price it accordingly Doris has experience as a cashier and bookkeeper and Pat has worked as a secretary Both were looking for something different to do kids were getting old and I want to be at home folding towels all Doris said forget they just never cross my mind said a teenage girl lasttime I kept a New resolution was in confessed a male shopper pledged that I going to get married that year and I I got married on Jan 2 1958 The number of resolutions made States Azie Morton US treasurer Stella Hackel director of the mint Eleanor Holmes Norton chairman of Employment mission: Dr head of the Wilson Benson Undersecretary of State in Assistance Roberta member of 'change Commission is in the' highest post ever held by a woman in the 43 year history Dr Edithe Levit was appointed presi dent of the National Board of Medical Examiners the first woman to head the board in its 60 year history Elizabeth Ellery keeping resolutions is difficult and something that they wbrk very hard at stopped making New resolutions years ago when I realized that I never kept them and then felt worse about mv lark of shared some of their resolutions and willpower than I did about the a few of their feelings about this said a senior citizen yearly ritual always make 'em but I almost never keep any of said a clerk at one retail Jonesboro Ark was Junior Miss Lynn Dunn 17 a high school senior num dSHlUElUU 1 crowned Miss Black Teen age World Claire ord an 18 year old would be lawyer from Memphis an English major at Memphis State University was crowned Miss Black America Leslie Owen Griffiths 15 of An chorage Alaska became Miss Teen year old high school senior from Gadsden Ala Miss National Teen Ager Graci Ann Welsh 19 a Chem ehuevi Mohave In'dian from Parker Ariz won the Miss Indian America Pageant Rita Reutter 58 a grandmother and mother of four daughters who is studying for a degree in guidance counseling was elected Homecoming Queen at lorida serve on the Civil Aeronautics Board Jill Wine Volner 33 year old law year old fashion designer who yer who served as an assistant special prosecutor at the Watergate coverup trial became the first woman to be appointed general counsel to the Army In other firsts during a year in which women continued to break barriers Muriel Siebert 47 the first woman to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange became the first woman to serve as New York State Superintendent of Banks Rose Elizabeth Bird chief justice of the California Supreme Court not Christina Ellen Moller 17 of only is the first woman member of that court but is the second woman in the nation's history' to be chief justice of a state supreme court Lucille Rose 56 once a waitress in her soul food diner in Brooklyn became New York first woman deputy mayor named by Mayor Abraham Beame as Deputy Mayor for Manpower and Planning And New York's Mayor elect Edward Koch picked 29 year old Age America and Lavelda ann 16 Maureen Connelly as press secretary the first woman and the youngest person ever to hold the job Koch also appointed Ronay Men schel 35 as deputy mayor Carol Bellamy was elected president of New City Council but Bella Abzug 56 year old former congress woman who threw one of her many hats into the ring as a Democratic candidate for mayor Jost in the By SANDRA BARRON Staffwriter Most Americans dream of beating the high cost of living only to have their hopes dashed by rising costs To make saving money less of a dream and more of a reality families are restoring old houses and recycling household goods In addition to recycling and restoring many consumers resell clothes thev can no longer wear and furniture wear to jackets blazers blouses and they no longer need pantsuits Resales benefit both the buyer and seller because the seller is free of something he or she use and the buyer usually pays a reduced price Two local women who say they know what saving a dollar means operate a resale shop filled with and children's clothing Co owners Pat Bland and Doris Emshoff both wives and mothers have found that resale shops can cut down on a family's clothing ex penses is the appropriate term By MARY JO HIBBERT amily Editor Bryan College Station residents talk a lot about New resolutions rarely do anything about them Some of the most frequently vowed (and also repeated from year to year) resolutions are pledges self improvement Resolved: Lose weight eat less exercise more stop smoking quit drinking balance the budget get better grades devote sales more time to the family be happier establishment guess I just Many resolutions contain some specific goal to lose 20 pounds or to learn a certain type of yoga or how to prepare a particular foreign dish Others are very general Resolutions also run the gamut from the very minute and particular to especially grandiose the latter usually made by children I Among CS youth were resolutions I to a million get a lion for a and to on a I rocket ship to resolutions tend to lean toward physical appearance and increased romance while many ByJOYSTILLEY NEW YORK (AP) a flaming torch was carried by runners in a'2612 mile relay from Seneca alls NY where the first national convention was held in 1848 to Houston Tex where another national conven attention and cameras continued to tion was held in 1977 At the federally funded Natinal Women's Conference in November 2000 delegates approved 25 of the 26 resolutions in a National Plan of Action Defeated was a nronosal for a cabinet level women's depart husband Chip to represent the ment Among the controversial resolu2 'tions endorsed were those favoring the Equal Rights Amendment legal abortions and homosexual rights The recommendations will be fowarded to the president and Congress A major issue was the ERA which so Jar has been ratified by 35 of the 38 states that must do so by March 1979 for it to become a part of the Constitution A counter conference obbosing the amendment as well as abortion and homosexual rights as a contributing editor of Redbook was led by Phyllis Schlafly 52 year old Alton Ill housewife law student and founder of Stop ERA Among those at the meeting were Betty riedan credited with giving birth to the i ment and Elanor Smeal year old Pitts burgh Pa housewife and mother of two who as new president of the National Organization for Women vowed to go on the offensive for ERA Bella Abzug former New York congresswoman presided at the conference and Rosalynn Carter Betty ord and Lady Bird Johnson a trio of irst Ladies who have long been vocal in their backing of ERA spoke in support of the a mendment "political partner" made a seven 1 nation tour meeting with heads of Caribbean and Latin American countries President mother celebrated her 79th birthday amidst the hubbub generated by the publication of a book of her letters from India which the president's sister Gloria Spann collected Earlier in the year "Miss Lillian" had returned to India where she once worked as a nurse for the Peace Corps heading a US delegation to the funeral of president Later she visited Ireland 1 and during her busy year she became the first woman ever awarded the Synagogue Council of "Covenant of prize and Patricia Roberts Harris as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Margaret Costanza was chosen presidential assistant for public liaison and Esther Peterson 'was appointed special assistant for consumer affairs Other women named to high government posts included Anne Cox Chambers ambassador to Bel gium Marife Hernandez assistant chief of protocol for the United' became the first female priest tobe a tun time rector ot a parish when she became rector of the Gesthe mane Episcopal Church in Sherrill NY Dr Rosalyn Yalow one of three Americans awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "the subject of a Public Broadcasting pioneering research ipe roie oi hormones in the chemistry of the human body is the second woman ever to win a Nobel Prize in medi cine Ann Berk became the first woman station manager of a network affiliated television station when she assumed the post at the NBC flag ship station WNBC which she joined in 1971 rom teen agers to grand mothers women continued to win ribbons crowns titles in com petiions of varied categories Janelie Penny Commissiong 24 Straight Best Supporting and aye Dunaway Best both for roles in Tony awards went to Dorothy Loudon named best actress in a musical and Julie Harris best actress in a drama Belle of Lily Tomlin got a special Tony for her one woman show Tomlin Appearing Crystal Gayle was named best' female singer of the year at the Country Music Association awards show in Nashville Tenn Nancy Hanks chairman of the National Endowment for theArts was named the 1977 "Woman of by the National Council of Women She was cited for turning performing arts from an elitist exercise to a mass The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for the first time elected three women in the was same year: Hortense Calishcr and Elizabeth Hardwick novelists and short story writers and Ada Louise Huxtable architecture critic In the military women were flying high Of the 157 women who entered the Air orce Academy last year 130 made it to Recognition Day the formal end of the first year Ten women received silver wings as the first of their sex to be trained as military pilots by the Air orce or the first time in the history of the Marine Corps 22 female 2nd lieutenants participating in a 21 week officer training program at the Quantico Va Basic School under went combat training in a simulated two day war The Pentagon announced that the Navy making its first major say Pat and Doris owners of Nearly largely attract students and young couples getting started who can afford new things says June Snell of Used urniture A lot of people are willing to spend time refinishing something if they can save a little money she says adding that a lot of older wood is more substantial than some newer furniture Bill Massey owner of the Thrift Store says furniture normally sells for approximately 30 percent of the original cost depending on the appearaneg and condition of furnishings When purchasing furniture suggests consumer look i something sturdy as opposed to looks Most things can be made to look good he adds is easier to put a new top on a desk than replace the drawer movement he says Both used furniture dealers' and sweaters in a woman's ward purchase furniture at estate sales robe ana buy turniture from Used furniture stores in Bryan movirfg away from the New Thpift Shoppe in Bryan you say or you think of something worn out or torn but resale clothing is not worn Pat Says Resale shops throughout the country tend to look more like high fashion boutiques than charity shops They feature the current styles in everything from formal have the willpower to go any farther than thinking about another woman said made lot of dinky little resolutions that I knew I could keep seemed to vary with women saying tne nujnner was generally somewhere around eight and men stopping at about three Resolutions are generally better kept when written down yet a number of shoppers who said they did write their 1977 resolutions down admitted that they had absolutely no idea where those resolutions were now Journals or diaries are a good changes in uniforms for women since 1943 will include slacks as well as skirts in the women and uniforms Though the ERA make it in 1977 little by little sex barriers continued to fall in small but signi ficant ways A Treasury ruling discontinued the requirement that women co owners of US Savings Bonds or women beneficiaries of the bonds be identified as Miss or Mrs The Supreme Court ruled that employment requirements for height and weight discriminate illegally against women when employers fail to show that the tests have some real relation to the ability to handle the job The ruling ap peared likely to open more jobs for women inpolice firefighting and similar fields by ending ar bitrary eligibility standards that served to restrict hiring to men Britain's nationalized railroad system abandoned the 100 year old custom of com partments on trains And in New York City the City Council Con sumer Affairs Committee voted to lift a 115 year old ban against women working as waitresses and food vendors attheaters baseball parks and race tracks A case of discrimination dating back more than half a century was righted when the Army restored the Medal of Honor to a front lines Civil War sifrgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker the only woman among the 3000 medal winners She was a feminist leader when her medal was revoked in Along with the gains there some setbacks for women The Catholic Church announced the Vatican will not ordain women as priests no matter" what other churches do because Jesus Christ was a man and his representatives' on earth must bear a "natural resemblance" And women were declared still unwelcome as Rotarians when the Council on Legislation defeated a constitutional amendment allow women to become members of the organization The Veterans of oreign Wars at their national convention rejected a bylaw change to allow eligible women veterans to join A nationwide survey revealed that almost 30 percent of 17 year olds questioned believe that a woman's place is in the home An additional 20 percent think women should ''be allowed to work only under certain conditions Nevertheless according to new Labor Department figures the percentage of working mothers has Turn to col 1 page 2C magazine A former resident of the White House was also in the news as a writer Julie Nixon Bailey became the first woman to book "Special profiles among others her grand mother Mamie Doud Eisenhower who celebrated her 81st birthday in November Lynda Johnson Robb another young woman who once called 1600 Pennsylvania Ave home helped her husband Chuck in his successful campaign for lieutenant governor of Virginia Susan ord daughter of former President Gerald brd dropped out of the University of Kansas jour nalism schooTand worked as a still In other ways White House photographer during the filming of a i i nine i i much in the limelight during 1977 Caroline Kennedy 19 year old Mrs Carter whom her husband daughter of the late President John has called his closest adviser Kennedy worked as a summer 1 ft Dnnno for illO NTfilV VrtrV ivpj jJUIOUU 4V1 Daily News Rose itzgerald Kennedy 87 the late mother was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Georgetown University for her work on behalf of the mentally retarded Bess Truman 92 affectionately referred to as "the by her late husband President Harry Truman was briefly hospitalized following a fall in her Independence Mo home In government in business in scientific fields women acquired precedent setting honors achieve mentsandjobs President Carter appointed two women to his Cabinet: Juanita Kreps as Secretary of Commerce PogelC nr nw VJ Im W' ml i iK ab' 'XMlt aBBanMBiai.