The Brattleboro Reformer from Brattleboro, Vermont • 2

Page 2 Drattleboro Reformer, Saturday, October 11, 1986 Wanted: typists State government in dire need of clerical workers according to personnel officer It really does create a logjam and puts extra pressure on the people who are here, she said. Prospective clerical workers must first take a test given by the state. The test scores are passed onto the different agencies, which arrange interviews. Perry said she has been disappointed with the recent batch of test results. It used to be that they had to get at least 89 on the test for us to arrange for an interview.

Were down to 80 now. Ive never seen it that low, she said. She said now, more than ever, she appreciates the work of an assistant. The job isnt just typing, filing, making coffee, she said. Theres a lot more responsibility than there used to be.

They are very valuable people. week. Someone with one year of experience receives $171.20 a week, and $231.60 after probation. The salary rises depending on experience. Philbrook said, however, the state does have a good fringe benefit package, which includes a group health insurance plan.

Nevertheless, Vermont is not receiving many applications to fill the vacancies. Its crucial to keep these positions filled, she said. People like these positions filled yesterday. The secretaries, typists and office workers keep the rest of the bureaucracy greased as far as Im concerned. It takes so many support troops to keep the bureaucracy moving.

Perry said the vacancies in the Education Department have slowed down some projects. high school co-op students as an interim solution. The shortage even touched her office, she said, when one of the four office support staff left her job. They couldnt get a replacement for most of September. It overworked the people here, she said.

But everyone pitched in. One of the administrators, for instance, typed materials himself. What you can end up with, though, is a fairly frustrated staff. The shortage is due to several factors, Philbrook said, including Vermonts low unemployment rate and competition with private industry for talented secretaries. It also may have something to do with pay.

Starting salary in a clerical position for someone with no experience is $159.20 a week; successful completion of a six-month probation period hikes the salary to $200 a Were not talking about new positions, but constantly filling the old ones, she said. Philbrook and other agency personnel chiefs say they have never seen a such a shortage in support staff. Were desperate, said Eleanor Perry, head of personnel at the Education Department. The market is very, very dry. Its a critical problem right now in some areas.

Some days it feels like a crisis. One unit in the department, Perry said, will soon lose four of six secretaries. Ones retiring, two are transferring and one is promoted. That leaves us with one-third of the staff. Sharon Wilson, a personnel administrator in the Human Services Agency, said many departments hire temporary workers or By JOHN DONNELLY MONTPELIER (AP) The wheels of Vermonts state bureaucracy are turning a bit slower in some departments these days in light of a problem that personnel administrators say has reached a critical stage.

It's a typist shortage. Vacancies have slowed down paper work overburdened secretaries and, in some areas, hurt morale, according to Sarah Philbrook, state government's top personnel recruitment officer. She estimates between 45 and 60 of the states 900 clerical positions in the last few months have been vacant. Once one position gets filled, she said, another opens up. Theres an ongoing need for them.

New England Vermont Briefs N.H. students rally against South Africa By The Associated Press About 250 anti-apartheid demonstrators rallied Friday at two New Hamphshire colleges Keene State and Dartmouth almost a year after protests over South Africas race policies threw Dartmouth into turmoil. Student activists are trying to get a lot of people to start moving again. The summer was kind of latent but everybody is back up tliis fall, said Barbara Krauthamer, a sophomore from Princeton, N.J., who organized the Dartmouth rally attended by about 150 people. She said students may start building shanties on the college green as they did last fall.

The building of the shanties and attacks on the shacks by other students polarized the community over whether the college should divest its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. The Dartmouth board of trustees so far has declined to divest. At Keene State, about 100 students and faculty held a rally after building a shanty to symbolize the oppression of black South Africans. Senior Lou Murray, organizer of the Keene demonstration, said the rally was designed to pressand remind the Reagan administration that Congress has approved sanctions, which Murray said Reagan is reluctant to embrace. Bennington names head BENNINGTON (AP) Elizabeth Coleman, a professor at the New School for Social Research, has been named president of Bennington College.

Bennington College trustees approved Coleman in a unanimous vote on Friday. Coleman, 49, has been a professor of literature and humanities at the New School for Social Research in New York City since 1965. Coleman was dean of the college of arts and sciences at the New School from 1978 to 1984, and has held several administrative positions while teaching. Adam Yarmolinsky, chairman of the search committee, said Coleman understands the Bennington idea. Monster photos a hoax NEWPORT (AP) A picture purporting to show a monster in a northern Vermont lake now has been revealed as a hoax.

While there have been more than 100 reported sightings of a Lake Memphremagog creature called Memphre, the worlds only lake monster with a French name, a photograph submitted by two Quebec residents will not be recorded among them. Jacques Boisvert, a member of the International Dracontology Society of Lake Memphremagog, said he has decided a blurred photograph of a brontosaurus-like creature in the lake is a fake. The picture showed two black dots in the water near the creature dots Boisvert said look like the kind of buoys that might be used to moor an inflatable monster. Shooting victim critical BURLINGTON (AP) A 25-year-old parking garage attendant remained in critical condition Friday, two days after he was shot trying to stop a purse snatcher. Chris Brown, a parking garage attendant at the Burlington Square Mall, was working in the booth Wednesday evening, collecting money from late-night shoppers and monitoring traffic.

But when he saw a purse snatcher run past the glass-enclosed stall and a mall security guard in hot pursuit, he ran after him as well. AP OH, DEAR Abigail Van Buren, a.k.a. Dear Abby, the syndicated columnist, reacts to a question at South Burlington High School Friday during a campaign visit for Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Van Buren visited the high school and a senior citizens home during her trip to Vermont.

Candidates offer differing education plans Crisis and emergency counseling 24 hours, (800 622-4235 Immediate steps Smith advocates include a $100,000 School Improvement Trust Fund, a no-cost Education Trust Agreement that districts could make with the state to break out of the mold imposed by state standards and a Vermont BRATTLEBORO REFORMER Black Mountain P.O. Box 002 Brattleboro. Vt. 05301. USPS No.

063-400) 802-254-2311 Published every day except Sundays, New Years, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single copy, store and vending 30 By earner, $1.80 per week By motor route, $9.00 per month or $25 quarterly payable in advance. BY MAIL Campaign 86 Were maxed right now, he said last month when he released his education proposals. Kunin and Sanders, however, believe differently. Saying investment in education is my highest priority, Kunin said she would build on her two-year record as governor.

Sanders, the socialist mayor of Burlington, hasnt released detailed positions on education initiatives. He said in an interview this week that the general goals of his plan are tied to what I consider education for democracy. He said he would like to see students be taught that no matter their income level, they can be active participants in the society. If half the people in thi? country are not voting, something significantly is at fault. We have not made them believe they can actively participate in society.

MONTPELIER (AP) Peter Smith, the Harvard-educated lieutenant governor, has spent most of his career as an education administrator and consultant. In the last year, he developed a program that solicited input from teachers on ways to improve Vermonts schools and wrote a book about adults learning outside the classroom. But when it comes to the governors race, the Republicans long resume on education doesnt translate into support from the states largest teacher union. Thats because of the three gubernatorial candidates, Smith wants to spend the fewest dollars on educational initiatives. Democratic Gov.

Madeleine Kunin and independent candidate Bernard Sanders have proposed more ambitious spending plans. In a near-unanimous vote, Kunin won the Vermont-National Education Association endorsement, and Sanders, during the endorsement process, received praise for his education agenda. Kunin is called a tried and true friend who delivers by Vermont NEA President Maida Townsend. She points to the governors record of pushing for and winning a 25 percent increase in state education aid and making kindergarten available in every Vermont town. Sanders pledges to back a $18.5 million increase in state aid to education, which would be funded through his property tax reform plan.

Smith, meanwhile, preaches moderation on education programs as he has for all spending issues in the campaign. The Republican wants to slow school spending increases and pushes what he calls a renaissance in education, which is designed to improve Vermont schools with several low-cost or no-cost proposals. Smiths long-range plan includes gradually increasing the states share of special education costs, and a goal of increasing the states education funding from its current 35 percent to 50 percent. PRAYER TO ST. JUt) To be said when problems arise or when one seems to be deprived of all visible help, or for cases almost despaired of.

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During the last legislative session, Smith opposed the rate of Kunins spending increases for education and the kindergarten bill. His opposition to the kindergarten legislation stems from his stance that if the state mandates a program to a community, the state should pay for it. Somebody has to stand up and tell the people of the state theres no magic, theres not a bottomless barrel of money (for education). Single mailed copy, current 45 back copy 70 For foreign country subkrription, double the rate. Postal regulations require payment in advance.

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