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Secretaries in Short Supply,"
Employers Qffer Attractions
Br GAY PAULEY
Uniled Press Correspondent
New York (U.PJ The girl
who wants a secretarial posi
tion these days can just about
write or type her own ticket.
Employers, employment agen
cies and business schools report
a national shortage of the indis
pensable Girl Friday. And em
ployers are offering all sorts of
attractions, including money, in
their efforts to fill the jobs.
Starting salary in New York,
for instance, averages S65 a
week,' most agencies said. In a
couple of years, a girl should be
earning $80 to $85, and if she
is executive secretary caliber
eventually may earn $125 to
$150. Salaries in other cities
probably run a little lower, most
sources said.
Miss Martha Rosamond, Spo
kane, Wash., president of the
National Secretairies association,
in town for observance of Na
tional Secretaries Week, told of
some of the lures employers of
fer prospective secretaries.
One firm even advertteed that
its offices were furnished with
'eligible bachelors," said Miss
Rosamond.
Women's World
Companies have re-decorated
offices in attractive pastels, in
stalled the newest of equipment,
even put in snack bars. A check
of personnel departments in sev
eral New York firms, for in
stance, showed the prospective
secretary often demands, or the
employer offers, her, coffee
breaks, air-conditioned offices,
time off to go to the hairdresser
or dentist, her own office, even
shopping time.
A check through the long lines
of secretary-wanted ads in New
York newspapers produced these
samples. ". . . Free coffee or
tea at lunch"; "Modern plush of
fice, profit sharing plan for em
ployees, free hospitalization and
life insurance. . ."
One Wall Street firm, seeking
a secretary to the president, of
fered "$85 to $90 a week to
start, plus a 30-40 per" cent
bonus."
"I'm amazed at the number
of girls who ask about retire
ment plans," said one corpora
tion executive female in
charge of the firm's 1,800 women
employees. "Imagine worrying
about retirement when you're
17."
"Most employers carefully re
cite the fringe benefits the com
pany offers," said Miss Barbara
Loblein, principal of the East
man school, one of the oldest
business schools in the nation.
"About the only thing left out
is the depth of the pile in the of
fice carpet."
The Katharine Gibbs schools,
which places its students in
cities from New York to San
Francisco, reported 400 to 500
job openings always on file.
' It used to be that girl sold
the employer on hiring her,"
said Mrs. Aline Standish of
Gibbs. "Now, the employer sells
the girl on working."
Employers and business schools
listed these reasons for the
shortage . . . despite the fact
there are close to two million
girls in secretarial type jobs sec
retaries, stenographers and typ
ists compared to the 988 thou
sand at work in 1940.
The nation's expanding econ
omy has tripled the demand. The
low birth rate during the de
pression years lowered the
amount of "girl power" avail
able today. Girls marry younger
these days the median age is
20. And some employers are re
luctant to tap one source the
over-45 age group.
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Luncheon Given
By Secretaries
The annual employers' wives
luncheon of Rogue River chap
ter, National Secretaries associa
tion, was held on National Sec
retaries day, April 24, at Rogue
Valley Country club. Twenty
four members and guests at
tended. Guests of the local chapter
were Mesdames Vernon J. Rob
inson, Walter Garner, John Gar
ner, Bill McCulley, Bill Du
haime, Manville Heisel, Ben
Evans, Dick Alley, Robert Shaw,
Charles Crary, Florence Best
and Bren Starcher.
During the luncheon a medal
lion bearing the National Secre
taries emblem was presented to
Mrs. Marion Langley, who is the
only remainiqg charter member
in the local chapter, which was
granted its charter in 1950. Mrs.
Langley is a secretary employed
by Duncan, Brophy, Wilson and
Duhaime.
Entertainment was furnished
by a girls' trio from Medford
High school. Chairman of the
event was Mrs. Gwenn Caster,
and members of her committee
were Mrs. Jeanne Rose, Mrs.
Gloria Smith and Miss Norma
Denault.
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Since hearing Dr. Brock Chisholm talk Thursday night we've
been wondering. We've wondered if Americans don't really be
lieve what speakers like Dr. Chisholm say, or if we don't care,
or if we think that there isn't anything we can do about the con
ditions he described.
Dr. Chisholm asked his listeners to imagine that they lived
in Czechoslovakia, or one of the South American countries or one
of the Middle East nations, where, people are born, live and
die without ever once having what a North American would call
a good square meal; where babies cry incessantly because they
are hungry and where little children don't run and play because
they don't have the strength.
"If you were starving, how would you feel if you learned that
North Americans waste so much food that millions could live out
of their garbage cans? How would you feel if you learned that
North 'Americans curtail production of food because the starving
people can't pay for it? How would you feel if you knew that
the North American peoples have used up more of the world's
irreplaceable natural resources since World War I than all the
rest of the world put together, and that the rate of usage is in
creasing yearly?"
Dr. Chisholm made some strong statements. He believes that
unless people learn how to change their patterns of thought and
their prejudices we may end the human race. He believes that
unless we quit having loyalties that "end with the border" the
results will be disastrous.
"We (North Americans) cannot survive at any one else's ex
pense," he said. "No part is greater than the whole." Dr. Chisholm
should know what he's talking about, too, for he at one time was
head of the World Health organization, one of the UN agencies. He
has traveled all over the world, and has seen the millions living
in direst poverty. Dr. Chisholm, like Dr. Frank Laubach, Muriel
Lester, Eleanor Roosevelt and some other world leaders, believes
that the Americas cannot remain forever "an island of prosperity
in a sea of misery and want." (This quotation is not Dr. Chisholm's,
but remains in our mind from a lecture years ago by a Presby
terian minister whose name we've forgotten.)
Dr. Chisholm said Thursday night that the United States, and
the other, world powers, didn't help to create the United Nations
just out of altruism for the rest of world; that in reality it was
created in an effort to stem the tide which some day may engulf
the "have" nations if we don't learn to share with the "have nots"
what may after all be as much rightfully theirs, as it is ours.
Recent letters from the Army wife in Brooklyn told about
attending the World Trade Fair, a trip to the zoo, the changeable
weather on the Atlantic seaboard and other bits of news.
"Saturday we went to the World Trade Fair at the Coliseum,"
she wrote. "My feet haven't been so tired since the last time I
went shopping with Aunt Muriel wearing heels. Some of the
things that we found interesting at the fair were the beautiful'
fabrics from many different countries, Kokura china from Japan
(designed by Americans), furniture from England and the differ
ent foods. We were handed samples of Swiss chocolate, English
toffee and matte and coffee from Brazil. Both of us agreed that
the Brazilian coffee is far too strong. If you think that the back
shop coffee can stand alone, you should try this stuff.
"We saw King Farouk's jewel collection and weren't too im
pressed. It appeared cheap and gaudy. We also drooled over the
foreign cars, mainly the Mercedes-Benz models."
Earlier she wrote that "the violets you sent are probably ..the
only real ones I'll see this spring. Even the florist shops back here
sell artificial flowers." (The violets had been tucked in a letter
a delightful custom Potpourri learned from pappy and his
West Virginia relatives.) However, another letter said that while
there was hardly a garden to be found in Brooklyn, she had seen
daffodils and forsythia in bloom.
Describing the Bronx Zoo the letter said I know now where
the animals-looking-at-the-people jokes originate. It must be there.
Hordes of people were leaving, but even so, many of the houses
were so crowded it was impossible to see the exhibits. All of us
came to tha conclusion that the zoos on the west coast are more
pleasant, if not offering as much. One feature that impressed me
as being quite sensible was this: they have coin machines located
throughout the zoo that dispense special food for the animals.
Even so, some of the cages were littered with popcorn and pea
nuts."
The biggest news was that the Army husband had been advanc
ed to a PFC in the band, which means $15 a month more pay,
and that the wife's civil service rating had been advanced from
GS-2 to GS-3, a difference of about $200 a year in pay. This makes
her a property and supply clerk.
. The society editor went to so many parties and meetings last
week that by this writing we can hardly remember which was
which. We started with the Easter Monday luncheon, and progress
ed through the National Secretaries association luncheon, the
Cancer society tea, the Nevita Social club style show and the
annual meeting of the Child Guidance Clinic association. Every
one was kind and hospitable, fed us far too well and we are now
the richer for several new acquaintances, a beautiful red carna
tion corsage, lipsticks, perfumes and a plastic gadget which is
either a trowel or a pie server. "
This week brought two good stories, too. One was the cut
lines under a cartoon in' the Secretaries' publication, Riffle Ramb
lings, showing a group of plump wives talking. It reads: "Ed's
secretary has everything; no looks, no figure, no personality."
And then there was the policeman who watched a bride-to-be
struggle from church to car two- or three times carefully carrying
her lovely wedding dress, her bridesmaids' gowns, her going away
ensemble and other finery and then asked, politely, "Is the church
having a rummage sale?" O.S.
Medium Shades Will Be Dominant in Hals
Men's hats this Spring will be
mainly in medium shades. Grey
and brown colors will be dom
inant although shades of green
are due to enjoy more popular
ity than in many a year. Mix
tures will challenge solid colors
for the favor of buyers.
Many novelties have come
into the hat fabric picture, in
cluding a "crushable" fur-nylon
blend felt number, but felts will
not be budged out of their
Number One spot.
The recent highly favored
"flat-top" model, however, may
have passed its zenith and may
be replaced this Spring by the
variation of the pork-pie model
with the pre-blocked crown
known as the "tight telescope"
and the new drop-tip felts.
Hat shapes are growing nar
rower and narrower, with brims
no wider than W inches no
longer considered a rarity.
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everyone else is snugly in bed. Mother may be
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Miss Kay Asquiih and Miss Phyllis Biiggs modeled for the
annual luncheon and fashion show given Thursday in Central
Point by. Nevita Social club. Miss Asquith (at left), an officer of
Central Point bethel. International Order of Job's Daughters,, is
shown modeling a pink cotton and lace dress with white accessor
ies and Miss Briggs is shown wearing a frock of powder blue with
white accessories. Miss Briggs is senior princess of the Shady
Cove bethel.
Chemist Says 'High Protein7
Term Sometimes Misleading
Corvallis Certain so-called
"high protein" foods may have
high values when added on pa
per, but may actually short
change the human system in
terms of nutrition, says an Ore
gon State college chemist.
Edward Bubl, in a report to
the ninth annual research con
ference of the American Meat
Institute at Chicago, suggested
that protein values of animal
and plant origin need to be re
examined experimentally be
cause claims of "high protein"
foods are sometimes misleading.
In experiments made on rats
at OSC, Bubl found that the
amount of protein in a food is
not always a sound measure of
its value to the body. It's im
portant, he noted, in the diet
of rats that all the essential
amino acids, or protein building
Fashion Review
Is Large Event
Central Point Women from
many Southern Oregon cities at
tended the Blossom Time style
review and luncheon Thursday
at the Junior High school gym
nasium presented by Nevita So
cial club.
More than 250 persons attend
ed the event that featured spring
clothing from Mann's store. Mu
sic was provided by Mrs. Edna
Daughterty from Ashland with
the organ furnished by Pu
rucker's Piano House of Med
ford. Mrs. Wyles Berry was com
mentator. Large baskets of spring flow
ers arranged by Raun James of
Mann's, primroses by Delman
Smith of the Crater Rock Mu
seum, and miniature spring hats
decorated the room for the
luncheon and review.
The Crater High school choir
sang under the direction of
Norman Carothers.
To Speak . .,.
Dr. John T. Weisel, ophthal
mologist, will be guest speaker
at the Monday, April 29, meet
ing of the Licensed Practical
Nurses' association. The meeting
Avill be held at 7:30 p.m. in the
Rogue Valley hospital penthouse.
to get the fullest use of the pro
teins eaten. For instance, bread,
eaten alone, is not as effective
as bread combined with meat in
sandwiches.
Tests are now underway at
OSC to compare the rate of
growth rats make when fed a
combination of low and high
quality protein.
Many high empire - waisted
coats and dresses show ribbons,
bows, and belts, with deep pleats
This Is Ycur
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ir&fe 'r vw-tiy
TO HEAR ...
REV. JAMES E.
McLANE
of the
Eastside Baptist Church
Batesburg, South Carolina
NIGHTLY at 7:30 p.m.
APRIL 28 thru MAY 5, '57
at the
Berean Baptist Church
White City, Oregon
EVERYONE WELCOME
blocks, be present at one time
to be effective.
In OSC tests, rats fed a cereal
without milk did not grow at .
all during a 30-day period. Rats
fed dry milk solids with the cer
eal, however, showed normal
growth.
The nutritional value of the
pruiein xouna m iuuus sucn as
cereals, bread and breakfast
foods, depends on the number
and type of amino acids present
at a time.
In other words, Bubl explains,
when you eat one meal deficient
in these amino acids, you can't
catch up at the next one. Unlike
fats and carbohydrates, proteins
are not readily stored in Ihe
body.
He points out that a combina
tion of medium and high quality
protein in a meal is a good way
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