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Eureka, California The Lady Painter By ANDREW GENZOLI Business Writer She hasn't been on the job very long, but already Ruth Simmons Roath, who makes her home at 2536 Worthington Drive, Humboldt Hill, is causing her brother union painters to look up and take notice. 1 Roath, a comely young housewife and is the first woman to begin her apprenticeship as a (professional painter in Painter's Local 1034 of Eureka. Ed Wise, business representative of the union, said that in Eureka, a a throughout the state, this is quite a step in equal rights for women in the painter's union. However, Mrs. Roath says her new painting career comes as a result of a discussion with her husband, Carl, a member of the Eureka Fire Department.

She told him a woman could earn man's He displayed doubts, so she set out to prove it to him. "Besides," she says "I've always enjoyed Her biggest jobs in the past have been at home and in an tirjuing furniture. "For awhile, when I talket about painting, I think Car thought I was talking abou painting pictures," she said "He hasn't said what he thinks this kind of painting -he's too stunned." Wise says he met Mrs. Roatl a short time ago and she talked about painting and how she would like to work in that field Wise told her he'd see what could ibe done. Joe Wright, pain ting contractor on the new Orlandi Apartments on Street in Arcata, needed another man, so Mrs.

Roath was placed on the job. THE TIMES-STANDARD Saturday, July 29, 1 RUTH SIMMONS ROATH is the first woman apprentice in Painter's Local 1034 of Eureka. She says she wants, to prove a woman can earn a man's wages. With her are, left, Hero Smith, painting foreman for Joe Wright, painting contractor on Orlandi apartments in Arcata, and Ed Wise, business representative of the painter's local. Now, Mrs.

Roath is serving a three-year apprenticeship, just as any other beginner. After a series of six-month increments she will graduate as a full-fledg ed journeyman. She is confident she will make it. In her first days on the job Mrs. Roath found the men "nice to work with," but the treatment for all is equal with no special breaks because she is a woman.

She wants it that way. Herb Smith, painting foreman for Wright, says, "Some women better workers than men and, I guess this is the coming thing women in the crafts. She takes some kidding, but she good natured." Mrs. Roath smiled through a surface of paint speckles. Paint was scattered all through her abundant hair.

"I take a 'good, hot shower when I get home and it all disappears," she says. Mrs. Roath is a native of She attended local schools and, graduated from Eureka High School in 1968. The Roaths have two children, one two-and-a-half years old and the other 11 months. While she is away on the job they are cared for by her mother.

On her days off, what will she be doing? Mrs. Roath's answer: "Painting at home, of course." Even when it doesn't count towards her apprenticeship. Glass Shipped For Recycling ARCATA a (Environmental Center workers will today load 40 to 50 tons of glass, collected over the past year from county residents, on a railroad gondola car for shipment to the San Francisco Bay Area. Wesley Chesbro, director of the center, said the glass has been stored in 55-gallon drums at Humboldt Loaders on St. Louis Road in Arcata, from which the shipment place.

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Writing in his regular Friday column, Heikal disclosed a conversation he had with Sadat a week before the ouster, when he said the President told him of his decision. The two men are close friends. Seeing the look on Heikal's face, Sadat "Whats the matter with you?" Heikal said he replied: "To tell you the truth, I am surprised. I had expected this, but not now, nor- did I expect it to be this big." Heikal said Sadat replied: "I felt that we all needed.an electric shock." In a speech in Alexandria Thursday night, Sadat said his decision was aimed at impressing on Moscow that while the Middle East conflict might be a third, fourth or fifth priority to Former Panther Officer Found Guilty of Murder LOS ANGEDES (UPI) -Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, 29, a former officer, in the Panther Party, was convicted of first degree murder Friday in the fatal 1968 shooting of a school teacher. Pratt angrily denounced the jurors as "racist dogs" after Ihe murder verdict was read, a charge denied by the foreman of the panel which included three blacks.

The verdicts were returned after the 10th day of deliberation by the jury, which had reported itself deadlocked twice ast week. Pratt, onetime deputy defense minister of the Panthers, was 'ound guilty of the murder of Caroline Olsen, 27, during a robbery at a park tennis court Santa Monica, Calif. He also vas convicted of an assault charge in the wounding of Mrs. Olsen's husband, Kenneth, and of armed robbery. After the murder verdict was read, Pratt cried, "I didn't kill hat woman." members of the dogs." Jury Foreman and jury called "racist Dennis M.

"After hearing Mr. Pratt called Romo declined to be interviewed but gave a bailiff landwrillen note which was passed to newsmen. the verdict, us a racist ury. He will never know how difficult it was for each of us to render this decision. "The evidence and the law left us no alternative.

I honestly feel that this jury did its utmost .0 find him not guilty. Were I to Pralt's place, I this jury for stand in Mr. would want nyself." Pratt testified that he was in San Francisco and Oakland Air Force Test Set The next testing session to be icld at the Eureka Air Force recruiting Thursday office will be on at 2 p.m. This test vill be for all young men or vomcn who may be interested the Air Force. Friday at 9 i.ni..

testing will be for college seniors or college graduates who would he interested in programs the officer fields, Sgt. John Svendscn, Air Force recruiter, said. Club in Parade The Eureka Regional Group if the Horseless Carriage CNb of America will participate in Forfima parade today. Assembly will be nt Twelfth and ntrccts in Forluna at 11 a.m. for judging.

The pnrndc starts at 1 Alter the pnrndc tho Group will (our the Blue Slide Hond iml Formlnle Bottom; 1 attending a series of Panther meetings at the time of the slaying. Kathleen Cleaver, 27, the wife of Eldridge Cleaver, partially corroborated Pratt's testimony. She flew here from Algeria vhere she and her husband now live to testify that she saw Pratt frequently during the two pks before Christmas of 1968 at the Black Panther meetings in lire San Francisco Bay area. Russia, to Egypt it was matter of life and death. During the speech, Sadat rejected Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's call for negotiations and said Egypt was pushing ahead with tions for another war.

"If someone has his occupied, can he enter direct negotiations?" Sadat "This is equal to surrender." "We are continuing military 11 preparations for the liberation jj of occupied lands," he said. In a radio interview in II Jerusalem Israeli Foreign ister Abba Eban expressed hope that Sadat's rejection of Mrs. Meir's offer to sit down with him as "equals" to talk peace was not Cairo's "final" answer. The Middle East News Agency quoted Syria's Al Baath newspaper as affirming the rejection of direct negotiations by the Federation of Arab Republics, comprising Egypt, Syria and Libya. The newspaper said the proposal--made by Mrs.

Meir an address to the Knesset Wednesday--was one of her "maneuvers and contradic tions." Tunney Backs Helicopter Station hat every possible effort should Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Sen. John V. Tunney is lending his support to efforts to establish a permanent Coast Guard helicopter facility at Arcata Airport. The California Democrat asked Admiral Chester R. Bender, Coast Guard commandant, to give "prompt and urgent consideration" to Humboldt County's Board of Supervisors request for the station.

It would appear to me that, in light of the serious and severe natural disasters which have Dlagued these areas in the past, Contract Signed WILLOW CREEK Local 220, Hotel and Restaurant itaployes Bartenders Union, has signed a contract with the newly-renovated Circle A at Willow' Creek, according to Grace L. Shively, financial secretary and business agent. The Circle A is under the new management of Toni and Phil Brown. The tavern has un dergone complete redecoration and refurnishing. To celebrate the Circle A's repopening tonight, Chef De Costa is catering a buffet at 8 p.m.

Jim Hammersley will be at the piano bar, and Keith Keller serves as doorman. made to provide Humboldl nd Del Norte counties with lelicopter facilities," Tunney 3 aid in a letter to Bender. Tunney thus joins Rep. Don I. Clausen, Crescent City, in he congressman's effort to establish the facility, which vould be used primarily for sea nid flood rescue efforts.

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