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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1978)
making the news UTICA, N.Y. — Thirty days hath September. Except in the Utica school system, where it has 31 on the 10,000 new 1979 calendars they just bought for $20,000. The calendars also have Ash Wednesday falling on a Tuesday, and both the first week of April and October have two Mondays. Assistant Superintendent Francis Rodio, who supervised the project, said it had not been determined if the errors were made by the firm that designed the calendar, or the typesetter or the printer. “We had proofreaders go over it and we found some errors and corrected them, but I guess we didn’t catch them all,” said Ted Graystone, whose firm designed them. “These things happen.” NEW YORK — More than half the teen-age girls using con traceptives supplied by birth control clinics say their parents are aware of it, a new study shows. The report, released Wednesday by the New York-based Alan Guttmacher Institute, also said that only 11 percent of the 1,442 young women surveyed in 10 states said they would stop having sex if it was required that their parents be notified they sought contraceptives. BISHOP, Calif. — An earthquake caused minor damage when it shook this Sierra Nevada area today. It measured about 5.7 on the Richter scale. The 15-second tremor, centered 17 miles northwest of Bishop, was felt throughout the sparsely populated southern and central Sierra Nevada area and much of the San Joaquin Valley. "It was strong. I was standing up and it made me sway back and forth,” said Bishop Policeman Earl McWilliams. Bishop, a town of about 4,000 persons, is 300 miles north of Los Angeles. The earthquake struck at9:43 am, according to seismologists at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and Univer sity of California at Berkeley. At least three aftershocks were felt in the next hour. New gay rights battle heats up in Miami MIAMI (AP) — The Miami area is in few another gay rights battle. The fight opened Wednesday with petitioners, led by a homosexual rights advocate, forc ing onto the Nov. 7 ballot a broad new equal opportunity ordinance that would ban discrimination based on a wide range of factors — including “sexual or affectional preferences." In including those four words, this proposal would be similar to a measure repealed in a bitter and well-publicized referendum in 1977. The new proposal, however, would also include other categories of forbidden discrimi nation — for example, against pregnant women, union members and people whose native lang uage is not English. Robert Kunst, who helped lead the homosexual rights movement here during the 1977 campaign and helped write the new pro posed ordinance, said that “this is not a gay issue or a gay rights ordinance, but rather a full equal ity of opportunity law ... that rec ognizes the special problems in discrimination faced by students, veterans, people in the military, pregnant women and those, par ticularly in Miami’s Latin commun ity, who need to be protected against discrimination due to na tive language.” “By putting this ordinance on the ballot,” he told the commis sioners, “Dade voters will have a chance to vote for themselves, for their community, for their families and for their country — protecting everyone.” But it is the so-called gay rights section of the ordinance that ap pears likely to deliver the most controversy. 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Gam conceded that the vote was a major setback for those fighting addition to the U.S. Con stitution of the ERA, which would specifically bar discrimination on the basis of sex. In August, the House passed a measure moving the ERA ratifica tion deadline from March 1979 to June 30, 1982. The measure does not require the signature of President Carter, who has been a staunch suppor ter of the ERA. Sarah Weddington, special as sistant to the president for women’s issues, said Carter was "gratified” by the Senate’s action. She said the president person ally had called five senators Wed nesday morning to lobby them and that Vice-Pres. Walter Mon dale had called three. The ERA was initially approved by Congress in 1972. It needs ratification by 38 states to become part of the Constitution. Thirty-five legislatures have ratified the ERA, but those of Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska and Tennessee have voted to reverse their stands. 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