The Charlotte News from Charlotte, North Carolina • 13

THE CHARLOTTE NEWS Tues- May 13 1975 3B Dear Abby In 1880 Nurses Were Told At home in minutes fixerbroken No Ktt LLS SENATOR for women is not surprising WEST VIRGINIA since jou co-sponsored the DEAR SEN RANDOLPH: Fqual Rights for Women Thank you for a dandy con- Amendment which I hope tribution to my column the necessary 38 states will At ell drug counters Your interest in equal rights ratify Amazing new i)utkKx plates fills tn the craKS and rep'ares teeh ItKe new Fast' Easy to use' special tools reeded ntllK'FlX1 Works eery time or yW' your money back Dsnturi Repsir ists in the US Patent Office were threatened with loss of their jobs A member of Congress wrote to the secretary of the Interior Robert McClelland on behalf of one of the copyists and received the following response: "There is every disposition on my part to do anything for the lady in question except to retain her or any of the other females who work in the rooms of the Patent Office I have no object to the employment of females in the performance of such duties as they are competent to discharge but there is such obvious impropriety in the mixing of sexes within the walls of a public office that I have determined to arrest the The lady in question lost her job anyway But she later distinguished herself in a job considered exclusively male Tire name was Clara Barton Her work on the Civil War battlefields and as founder of the American Red Cross make her one of the most illustrious women in our history- Very trulv yours JENMNGSRANDOLPH By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN DEAR ABBY: My wife and I enjoyed your column in which you reprinted for Female Teachers in Perhaps you would enjoy reading the rules for female nurses published in 1S80 Nurses were told they must: First: Bring in a scuttle of coal each day Second Report every day at 7 am and leave at 8 pm except on the Sabbath on which day you will be off from 12 noon until 2 Third: Graduate nurses in good standing will be given an evening off each week for church services Fourth: Any nurse who smokes uses liquor goes to the beauty shop or frequents dance halls will give the director a good reason to suspect her worth her intentions and integrity Fifth: The nurse who performs faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of $05 a day providing there are no hospital debts outstanding A footnote Abby: To illustrate how much progress has been made in achieving political and economic justice in 1845 three young women who were employed as copy Volunteers answer phone calls CAROLINA FLEA MARKET Announcing a new concept in merchandising The locally owned and operated indoor Carolina Flea Market located in the old Sky City budding next to Bi-Lo on Wilkinson Boulevard We still need imaginative persons wishing to rent a booth for bargain-priced services or new and used merchandise Be your own boss We furnish utilities security guard and advertising All space is indoors and no lease is required Booth rental is only SI 3000 per month This is an opportunity for you to earn as much or more on weekends as in a well-paying full-time job Stop by the Carolina Flea Market today or call for details 5601 Wilkinson Blvd 394-0376 'The PTL Club' -A TV Talk Show For Christians the audience pointed index finger at Bakker HTs thumb was up in the air He had made a gun He pointing it at Bakker He was going Bakker's Show A Booming Business ing the number and urging lowers to call can call from anyplace in the United lie said you alford the long-distance call just cal! collect PAY the phone biiu- all day long if we could sa a soul every The camera panned over the telephones for a shot ot the counselors at work want you to call right now Simply call the counselor and say 1 want to pray with old Somebody whispers that tnere is 10 minutes left before a station break Bakker looked into the camera again ana said talk to akker started praying his voice rising and falling The organ music was plaving again As Bakker prayed a lit tip hoy silting on a woman's knee with the rest of Continued I rom Page 2B tinned that he would ask people you ready to meet God?" Bakker started talking then a wonderful question The most wonderful question Think about lie wasn't talking to the Armenian he was looking right into the camera you ready?" As he spoke you could hear the faint sounds of organ musir that you had not heard before It resembled a thurth servile with Rakker asking his invisible television congregation if they were ready and the organ music playing slowly and quietly in the background The telephones are a tool for Bakker and he uses that tool well When the calls start to lag Rakker gets them going again by repeat Continued From Page 2B contracts with a handful of NBC affiliates too Bakker confesses that he is at a loss to explain why the sudden success just broken wade open he said us nnd CBN one day be in every city in Bakker dismisses any hint of rivalry between PTL and CBN his old employer saying only that believe -we cover the grassroots Bakker is not content to just let the sudden grow'th take its natural course He wants to nudge it along PTL is currently working with RCA to buy a $300000 remote truck unit that will allow it to broadcast its regional telethons with its own equipment PTL executives say run into problems with quality of the show when they have to depend on the somtimes-primi-tie broadcasting and recording equipment found in some of the smaller towns ALL THIS success brings on problems of course But nothing Bakker handle Dashing down the hall on the way back lo the studio to start yet another show Bakker groused about the inefficiency of one of the firms he deals with in this case RCA sent those guys a $30000 check on this remote unit he said lost it Do you believe that? 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