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Sometimes yes, sometimes no, says former district attorney Do. Oregon-laws, protect female cers i won I Y' By JOAN HAINES Democrat-Herald Writer SALEM How much do the Oregon laws regulating women working conditions protect women? Do they make them more or less equal than men? Would removing the laws regulating weightlifting restrictions help or hinder women? Those are some of the questions which will be reviewed by the Oregon Wage and Hour Commission June 30 July 1 in Portland. They're puzzling questions. Mrs. Thelma Fowler, Eugene attorney and chairman of the Wage and Hour Commission, feels the weight lifting restriction laws for women may be the most controversial factor in the hearings.

In summary, the law allows women to lift up to 35 pounds consistently and 50 pounds occasionally. To lift more than 50 pounds, women must undergo a physical examination and produce a statement saying she is capable of this. "Sometimes these laws work for women and sometimes they work against them, according to Mrs. Hattie Bratzel Kremen, Salem lawyer and Marion County District Attorney from 1956-64. "Some occupations are covered by these laws and some aren't," Mrs.

Kremen said. State and federal government employes are exempted. And women in agriculture 1 work and women earning more than $350 a month are ex Some women working in laundries have to lif sacks weighing more than 40 pounds, Mrs. Kremen said. "Total enforcement of the weight limit laws would put many women out of work." Mrs.

Kremen is a member of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women. The commission is concerned with job opportunities, day care centers, and reform of Oregon's inheritance tax law. A chance for equal opportunity begins in a girl's childhood, Mrs. Kremen said. "Little girls shouldn't have to play with dolls.

They should beencouraged to get out and hit baseballs if they want to," she said. The schools can do a great deal through counseling to encourage young girls to concentrate seriously on careers, Mrs. Kremen said. "Girls should know that some time in their lives they're going to have to work." The trend is moving away from the Marilyn Monroe type of exploitation, she said. "But there still is little realization that girls need more than long eyelashes and curly Jiair to get along in the world." Encouragement in the schools forewomen to enter the professions to become engineers, arcnitects, lawyers and physicians is too little and too late, Mrs.

Kremen said. "Only three per cent of the women in this country are lawyers," Mrs. Kremen said. Women in the United States constitute only nine per cent of all full professors, eight per cent of all scientists, 6.7 per cent of the physicians and one per cent of all engineers. Mrs.

Kremen said she was encouraged by brochures published by the U. Department of Labor entitled "Careers for Women." Each brochure explains a different Job and is introduced by a question such as, "Why not be a "Why not be a medical and "Why not be an optometrist?" Women in the professions are slowly being promoted into executive positions," Mrs. Kremen said. "A lot of this slowness has to do with women's attitudes toward working with women," she said. And many people both men and women assume that a man will do a better job as a physician or a lawyer.

"But the public is beginning to realize that women have to learn how to make a living," she said. Mrs. Kremen said many girls who marry when they are 18 or 19 and are divorced in their 20's find they are on their own without enough education to make a living for themselves and their children. "Girls in that situation should get alimony for from one to four years so they can get an education," Mrs. Kremen said.

Working within the Status of Women Commission, Mrs. Kremen is especially interested in reform of the Oregon inheritance tax law. MRS. HATTIE KREMEN How equal is equal? Group says universities are discriminating; Women's Equity Action League files charges Rlbany DcmocruMcralD Friday, June 26. 1970, Page 5 OMEN She was visiting lecturer this past year at the University of Maryland and suspects she hasn't been rehired because of her WEAL activities.

At the same time, her "Uppidity Woman Unite" button testifies to her sense of humor. By ERIC WENTWORTH Times Post Service WASHINGTON, D.C. Determined women are bombarding both the Nixon administration and Congress with demands that America's colleges and universities stop discriminating against members of their sex. The Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) has already filed bias charges with the Labor Department against more than 100 individual institutions from the University of Maryland to the entire state university and college systems of California. Representatives of WEAL and other women's groups showed up again on Capitol Hill recently this time to testify before a House education subcommittee on antidiscrimination measures sponsored by Rep.

Edith Green "Women," WEAL's Dr. Bernice Sandler told Mrs. Green's subcommittee, "face discrimination in admission, where they will encounter both official and unofficial quotas. They will face discrimination when they apply for scholarships and financial assistance. "When they graduate, their own university will discriminate against them in helping them find jobs.

They will be discriminated against in hiring for the faculty. If hired at all, they will be promoted far more slowly than their male counterparts, and they will most likely receive far less money than their colleagues of the other sex." "As more and more information has been collected," Dr. Sandler said, "There is no question whatsoever that there is a massive, consistent and vicious pattern of sex discrimination in our universities and colleges. The hearings were on four proposals Mrs. Green has included in an omnibus higher education bill.

One would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to ban sex discrimination in federally financed programs. The second would extend the 1964 act's equal employment opportunity provisions to education. The third would extend the equal-pay-for-equal-work provision of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act to executive, administrativeand professional employes. And the fourth would direct the civil rights commission to investigate discrimination against women. Chances that Congress will approve these proposals this year appear highly uncertain at best.

But meanwhile, as chairman of WEAL's action committee for federal contract compliance in education, Dr. Sandler has been concentrating her efforts on the Labor Department. The University of North Carolina, Dr. Sandler asserted, limits admission of freshman women "to those who are especially well qualified." At Stanford University 50 per cent of the faculty males hold the rank of associate or full professor, against only 10 per cent of the females. In the University of Maryland's college of education only one department is headed by a woman.

As these attacks through established legal channels indicate, WEAL stands well to the right in the burgeoning spectrum of women's liberation. Members of the Ohio-based group, which started in 1968 and has spread to at least 34 states, seek to promote better economic opportunities for women and to solve various bread-and-butter problems confronting them. They don't walk picket lines, toss away their bras or shout "male chauvinism!" Married with two duaghters, "Bunny" Sandler herself is a psychologist who works part-time at a Health, Education and Welfare Department on merit examinations aimed at disadvantaged people. ANOTHER SPECIAL FROM The The complaints against colleges and universities that Dr. Sandler has been firing off to the Labor Department since the end of January come under an executive order signed by former President Johnson that forbids discrimination of all sorts by government contractors.

WEAL started with a shotgun complaint against all institutions and has since filed more specific charges against bias at scores of individual campuses. So tar, according to a spokesman for HE W's office of civil rights, which is in charge of conducting compliance reviews, only one new investigation has been launched in direct response to WEAL's charges at the University of Maryland. HEW investigars are looking into WEAL's sex-bias charges at Harvard and at Manhattan Community College in New York City as part of broader reviews, he said. The Labor Department on June 9 announced a set of guidelines to assure that federal contractors of all types give women a fair shake. Dr.

Sandler called the guidelines "nice but not far enough." WEAL is prodding the administration to go a step further by adopting an affirmative action plan comparable to the "Philadelphia Plan," which sets hiring goals for minority workers on government-contract construction projects. One proposed model plan for universities covers everything from free child care and "women's studies" in the curriculum to a quota for women in appointing administrators. Green Thumb Blooming MARTHA WASHINGTON GERANIUMS Pots Ave ea. What would you give to feel like 17 again? Potpourri of activity Scotts. Two goldenwed couples celebrate anniversaries Families set July reunion Descendants of the Allphin-McClain families will gather for their 47th annual reunion July 12 at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Howard Truax, Rt. 2 Box 289, Albany. A potluck dinner will be hied at 12:30 p.m. with a short business meeting to follow.

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The weed will gradually curl up and fade away. Both Mrs. Jack Cochran of Salem, who was her sister's maid of honor, and Fritz Hardt, Portland, the bridegroom's best man, will attend the Sunday reception. Mrs. Cochran and Mrs.

Howard Fisher, a sister of Hardt, who both served at the 1920 wedding reception," will attend. Ed Hardt, who was only 11 years old when his brother was married, plans tc come from Yakima, for the anniversary reception. The Henriches exchanged their vows July 3, 1920, in Ashland, where they lived for a number of years before coming to Lebanon in 1953. Henrich worked for a heavy equipment concern for 30 years before his retirement. Their only child is Mrs.

Fred Bemis of Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Henrich plan to celebrate their anniversary date inviting a small group of close friends to spend the evening with them July 3. By HELEN MYERS Democrat-Herald Writer LEBANON Mr.

and Mrs. William H. Hardt and Mr. and Mrs. William Henrich, whose golden wedding anniversaries both occur in July, were honored guests at special festivities arranged for them during a session of Pearl Rebekah Lodge this week.

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Friends and are invited to attend. Rev. and Mrs. were married June 22,. 1910.

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