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Vi1 A Concord New Hampshire 1771th Year No 89 Chisholm To Women: Arise! 1 i More: Must Enter Board Rooms Elective Office She Says By RICHARD MERTENS Monitor Staff Writer come about in society by everyone doing same Despite what aome people thoutf Shirley Chisholm wa Hying the movement had made relatively little program The had resisted mightily How many women for example eat In the board roomi of American business? How many could you find at the highest levels of govero-meot? There wh so much left to do ahe uid Then He cast a critical ran her audience -about 450 of them had the Chisholm has been asserting herself tor years In the cause of blacks and women She was bora in Brooklyn raised in Barbados and educated in Nfw York Clty Siie began her career as a teacher and In 1968 was elected to Congress In 1972 she ran for the Democratic nomination for dent the first Magfe woman to do so She remained in Congress until she retired in 1961 Today she lectures helps political candidates and trachea at Mount Holyoke College She is a short slender woman of 59 with straight graying hair She carries herself erect and with dignity Tiris combined with her frank gaze lends her an authority that size alone could not She thinks of herself a plain-speaking elder statesman have to take the bull by the boras so to she told her audience never comes about on the part of shrinking violets Change comes about on the parted those individuals who have the audacity the stamina the determination and the perseverance to challenge the The system as she spoke of it is the patriarchal rule in both government and business It is characterised by an ingrained bias against women and minorities It is at least old the ancient Greek philosopher who enjoined women: Is thy place to hold tby peace and keep within The system was carried to America in part through English common law she said which considered women the property of their husbands And it was as current she said as certain in legislative get so rick and tired of gentlemen in legis- lative halls always so trivial and light in utterances on things we are trying to she said demands for equality are feared (See CHISHOLM -Page It) Into Representative! Hall at the State i to hear her talk about women and work Some were the poor women the conference was especially concerned with many more were so-dil workers see I biame Chisholm said one gives you anything because you are a black because you are Spanish because you are a -woman You should not stt down and whine and complain about this candidate or that government You should get into the act and help move this country into the 31st The former Ui representative bom Brooklyn admonished The women who gathered in Concord Saturday for a conference on women in erty She also confided in them made lamgi and buried at them her Indignation Most of it was her she provoked them arise she demanded must come out of yourselves Later she expanded on this theme realty have to stoo she saUTraey have to be more assertive and develop confidence in themselves You see all of us want to be accepted so badly WO want to do down upon us for things that others might look Wed change going to MoskilIndfMMli Shirley Chisholm exhorts her Concord audience Why Poverty Strikes Women Children toys you transmit culture What does Barbie 'doll who is the epitome of womanhood do for a living She is Ken's girlfriend Niahma Duffy poor 'health divorce and chad support They hard Anna demanded A sense of urgency ran through the conference The women in charge tried to establish this feeling early by testifying to the vulnerability of any woman to the problems of poverty I conference is not for a bunch of dihgooders trying to help declared Ruth Nemzoff who organized the event IS a conference for us to help To Niahma Duffy of the state Division of Vocation Rehabilitation television and Barbie dolls are among the wont influences on children These she aid during workshop on employment practices en-courage -children to-believe the stereotypes that hamper women in the job market toys you transmit culture What does Barhte doQ who is the epitome of womanhood do for On television she said women are shown in bed in the kitchen or In a subordinate Job at the office They are dependent on men financially and emotionally you are dull dumb and she said fit the image of a lady in this In the same session Merryl Gibbs of the New (See Page 18) By RICHARD MERTENS and DIANE LOBELLE Monitor Staff Writers Women from across New Hampshire gathered at the State House Saturday to discuss the growing problem of poverty among single women and their children The conference caBed Hampshire's Poor: Why Are 76 PercentWomen and abounded with statistics that illustrated the problem Here are a few of them: In 1969 single women and their children amounted to 73 percent of the poor in the state A decade later the percentage had risen to 78 percent In I960 63 percent of enjoyed women worked In service labor and clerical Jabs Only 37 penent of employed men worked In similar Jobs In 1279 the median Income for women who worked fulltime wm 99J53 The median Income for men wss $15764 On average when a man is divorced his standard of living rate by 42 percent A standard of living falls by 73 penent The statistics were only the twinning In workshops participants considered a range of problems in detail including employment attitudes toward the their Faces emerged from The conference drew women of all ages as well as a few men Of the 457 people who registered many worked In social services Some were About 35 of the participants were poor women who did not have to pay the 5 registration fee Death Leaves Questions Unanswered Inside victims in New York had Massachusetts license plates It was towed to the state police crime lab in Concord Friday found some tape and we found some pictures and a large hunting knife There was also a quantity of money" said state police Col Paul The money totaled 14900 also found some dothing and other things along the side of the road in Chocura1 The pictures Were a female ordinary Oleary said The dothing found in "We have to assume O'Leary said "We know he was in Boston in the morning or in that time frame at least" The state troopers who spotted Wilder had no reason to believe that he was In New Hampshire! said reaction first intheir perception of the vehicle and the reaction afterwards was textbook There isn't a policeman on the face of the earth who could have done anything better than they did that said if it for their perceptiveness God only knows where he might have gone or what he might have done" Jellison struggled with Wilder Twoshots were fired from Wilder's 357 magnum wounding Jel-lison and killing Wilder An autopsy showed the cause of hisdeaih to be obUtention For Wilder 39 of Boynton Beach Fla It was the end of a crosscountry crime spree that left a trail of dead and missing women suetcfalng from Florida to California and back to New York The exact truth about how and why Wilder shot himself in the gas station In Colebrook may never be known The police are not certain whether his death was accidental or intentional But state police and FBI agents investigating the case say what they found In his car may give them more about crime spree -The car a 1962 Pontiac stolen from one of Wild- Rom Month 8taff and Wire Reports Christopher Bernard trader pulled into the Getty station in Colebrook Friday afternoon to ask directions to Canada and to hire gas got six gallons of gasoline and never did said Wilbur Gray a local resident who Was in the gas station when Wilder pulled up guess he paid with his Seconds after the attendant Wayne DeLong had pumped the gasoline into Wilder's Pontiac Firebird two state police detectives Wayne Fortier and Leo Jefflaon turned the comer from Bridge Street to Main Street They spotted the Firebird which ftt an FBI description of the car being driven by Chocura near Conway could mean that Wilder take a direct route to Colebrook from Boston where he had dropped one of his victims off at the airport that morning But just what happened stiute not (See Page 16) SupremeCourtWill Decide On Limits i For PAG Spending Other decisfcXMk page 16 1 A' rv Keeping Warm And Dry Thermal wraps are a familiar sight at the finish of the Boston Marathon Hare Jerry Skme of Bloomington Ind uses one before today's race to keep out rain and cold Earfy story page 19 CALENDAR 12 CLASSIFIED 27 COMICS 36 DEATHS 4 ENTERTAINMENT 12 GOREN BRIDGE 25 LOCALSTATE 2 WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether political action committees may mend unlimited amounts of money to back a presidential candidate The court left unclear whether it will decide the issue in time for this campaign In which conservative groups are planning to spend as much as $20 million to help President Reagan get re-elected Ttoe justices said they would study the federal law limiting to $1000 any political spending for a presidential fTvtirfat whose campaign is publicly financed The court however did not answer a special request that It decide the case by July A three-judge federal court struck down the law as unconstitutional last Dec 13 ruling that It violated free-speech rights The controversy began last May 16 when the Democratic Party the Democratic National Committee and Edward Mezvin-sky chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee sued two conservative political action committees The suit accused the National Conservative Political Action Committee and the Fund For A Conservative Majority with to violate the 31000 spending The spending limit was imposed as part of reforms enacted by Congren after Watergate-related revelations of widespread campaign fund-raising abuses Congress created the FEC in 1975 to oversee the election reforms it soughL The general constitutionality of those reforma was upheld by the Suprnne Cburt in l976 But a three-judge federal court in Philadelphia ruled for the political committees on the specific spending-limit issue we to give our Messing to the law we would be permitting onty those few with control over ore major political parties our Institutional press or with van Individual resources to be heard above the din of everyday the lower court sakL The campaign fend act essentially hers presidential candidates opting to accept public mo taxpayer! private ca money financed by the voluntary checkoff system from accepting private contributions i Margaret Hollins master control operator at work at Channel 21 this morning Channel 21 Is On The Air ByDIAI DIANE LOBELLE tain equipment to satellite dish outside the Weather Staff Writer station Jeu Devine wn determined to go on the sir on time He quick-fixed a bad cable connector and found another way for the dish to receive programs from national 'A' Rain tapering to show- 4 ers tonlrat with lows 1 around Mostly cloudy tomorrow with scattered showers highs in the mid-50s Jason Currier a student at Bradford Elemen-' tary draws a rainy day Ctamplefe Weather Page It At 3:45 this i vine wss turafam on WNHT-TVs transmitter on a mountaintop to Epeom At 5:30 am he waved cheerily to an Epeom policeman as he sped to Concord for a 6:30 am opening He haa waned the polioeman earlier about Chan- nel 21's first day on the air told him you want to write the ticket tor whet doing write the ticket and man It to me Jeu Devine said he got to Concord he bad only 10 minutes to get rid of a in transmission from the moun- Bab Shaine director of the station watched tensely as Jeu and others worked with the equip ment The problems were solved Two minutes later Channel 21 Concord's first commercial television station went on the air It began with its logo and Ag Day an agricultural news i (See Page It) Individual citizens not tied to the official campaign committee may spend much as they want to im port him but the law Imposes the $l00011mit on political committees not tied to the candidate In a later suit the Federal Election Commission accused the political committees of the same thing.