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HERALD AND NJIVYS, Klamath Fall. Oregon
Monday, September II, 1963
Fischer Quints Prove To Be 'Unusually Healthy'
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FATHER OF QUINTS Andrew Fischer, father of the nation's first quintuplets, leant
over to pose three of his five other children as they leave Sacred Heart Church at
Aberdeen, S.D., after attending Mass. Wllh the proud father is Fischer's mother, Mrs.
John Fischer, left, and Father Conway, parish priest. Children,. left to right, are Char,
lotte, 6, Julie, 5, and Danny, 7. UPI Talephoto
Report Shows Many Difficulties
face Negroes In Employment Field
By AL KUETTNER
- United Fran International
One of the major demands by
Negroes in their climb up the
civil rights ladder ia belter job
opportunities. A report just re
leased shows something of the dif
ficulties ahead.
In his pursuit of economic
parity with white workers, the
Negro "has to run exceptionally
fast in order to stand still, says
the report by Dr. Vivian W. Hen
derson, chairman of the depart
ment of economics and business
administration at Fisk Universlty.l
He now is serving as visiting pro
fessor at North Carolina State
college.
The report points up some facts
of life that bother responsible Ne
gro leaders as well as business
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and Industry. Many dims, with
or without pressure, have decided
to lift restrictions on Negro em
ployment and to encourage more!
hiring of Negroes. A big problem
is where to find the Negro em
ployes to competently fill the jobs
that are available for them,
Problem Two-pronged
"Negroes face a two - pronged
problem," says Henderson. Along;
with continued discrimination in
'employment, he notes "an Inade
quate flow of manpower to meet
such limited opportunities as
there are."
Henderson notes that income op
portunities for Negroes still fall
in the lower income fields and
that vocational education pro
grams often teach Negroes either
jobs like bartering or other serv
ices for Negroes, the same menial
trades or those that are becoming
obsolete.
Another phase of the Henderson
report shows that Negroes made
their greatest income gains be
tween 1940 and 1954 and that
since then the Increase has
leveled off.
A big reason (or the leveling
off Is that business and Industry'
have gone heavily into modernlza
tlon in the past eight or ten
years. Firms use machinery to
day that wasn't even on the draw
ing boards in 1054. With some ex
ceptions, Negroes (who make up
10 per cent of the population)
have not learned these new
skills.
Negro leaders have advocated
as one approach to the problem
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the opening of realistic industrial
and vocational school training for
young Negroes. They also wantl
firms to set up their own train
ing programs, carrying along Ne
gro employes who can't compete
for the skilled jobs until they get
the training required.
On the other hand, because of
the advances that have been
made by Negroes, their earning
power now is a formidable $22
billion per year. This is about
five per cent of (lie personal in
come in the nation.
In some cities of the South with
Negro populations of up to SO per
cent, the economic power of the
Negro has been used strongly in
the winning of desegregation demands.
Until a few years ago, most of
the economic problems involving
the Negroes were concentrated in
the South. Negroes were tied to
the land and most of them had
strictly a servant field hand
status.
Since World War II there has
been a tremendous out-migration1
(It Negroes from the South. Since
1940, according to Henderson,
million Negroes have left the
South. At the same lime, In South
and North, there has been a great
transition In the central cities with
Negroes moving in and white pco
pie leaving tfor Hie suburbs.
It all adds up to a competition
for jobs that will be intensified
in the future. Tiie fact is that
the non-skilled jobs are diminish
ing; the skilled ones, which take
Intelligence, aptitude and months
or years of training, are on the
increase.
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three-man reporting team and
a staff of still and movie pho
tographers to Aberdeen to cov
er the first days of life lor the
Fischer quintuplets. The team
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ABERDEEN, S. D. (UPI) -
Five bundles of kicking and
squalling, bawling humanity with
heads the size of large oranges
and crinkled hands not much
larger than a silver dollar the
Fischer quints were ready to
day for their first tipping of (he
nursery scales.
Dr. James Berbos, their phy
sician, said he would probably
weigh them for the first time to
day if they behave themselves.
The pink-skinned, 18-inch-long ba
bies are unusually healthy for pre
matures.
A statute of the infant Jesus
looks down from the St. Luke's
Hospital nursery wall at the end
of their row of "isolette" incuba
tors. A staff of nurses watches
over them constantly.
Not once has one of them had
trouble taking, or holding, the
four cubic centimeters less
than a teaspoon of sugar-wa
ter which each gets every two
hours. The feeding, by tube
through the nose, began Sunday
morning when the quints born
six to eight weeks prematurely
were entering their second day
of life.
Another first for them today
was the probability that the doc
tor would put them on 6ome kind
of milk formula. Meantime, he
said, they're "getting along fine"
on the glucose-water intake, by
plastic tube which runs down
nearly to their tiny stomachs.
Fine, too, was their mother,
reddish-haired Mary Ann Brady
Fischer. 30, a native of the near
by community of Hccla, S. D.,
who has been up and walking
about in her room. She probably
will go home by the middle or
end of the week, Berbos said.
And the pappa? Well, Andy
Fischer got up early and milked
his Jersey and Guernsey today,
same as always, in the huge blue
barn behind his farm house, two
miles out of town. Sightseers are
common now on the road in front
of the two story, ten-room,
grey stucco house, which Fisch
er rents for $55 a month. He has
five bedrooms b u t the trouble
is, he had five other children be
fore the quints burst on his hori
zon. They're aged 3, 4, 5, 6 and
7, named Denisc, Evelyn, Julie,
Charlotte, and Danny.
Doctor Foregoes Fee
I don't think I'll charge them
anything," Berbos said of the
Fischer family. I always said if
there were triplets. I wouldn't
charge them anything, but I've
never delivered tnpleU.
He added, "I understand the
hospital isn't going to charge
them anything either.
But a hospital spokesman said
Fischer had said he would pay
charges anyway because he has
hospital insurance.
Berbos was asked whether he I picture rights to the already 'a
had any other deliveries since the mous five Fischers and thi ir
quintuplets. ,
No, they ve all been scared
off." be said.
The original five Fischer
children were extremely happy at
the arrival ot Mary, Mary, Mary,
Mary, and James Andrew the
quint girls so far have only the
common name, and Fischer said
Sunday he is working on picking
first or middle names to combine
with the Marys.
"Each of the kids at home has;
picked a quint for their own,"
said Fischer, a crewcut, sandy
haired, blue -eyed, 38 -year -old
shipping clerk for a wholesale
grocery who says his take-home
pay runs about, $75 a week.
Neighbor Visits
"1 came over here and set with
Andy while he milked his two
cows yesterday," said Elroy Har
rington, 68, who lives on six
acres across the road and owns
the 160 acres which contains the
house he rents to Fischer.
"What did he have to say? Just
about the same as always.
"I don't think he quite real
izes."
But what he must realize, real
good by now, is that if the quints
live the danger zone through
which they now are passing
should last for 72 hours or to
3:01 a.m. Tuesday he will be
fattier of the first set of quints to
survive in the United States.
Retains Attorneys
He has retained a couple of
lawyers, Joseph H. Barnett and
Stan Siegcl, and there was brisk
bidding going on with them for
mamma.
Fischer was asked at a pre s
conference: "If you could do it
all over again, what would you
do?"
'You should have asked me
that seven months ago," he re
plied evenly.
Berbos said the quintuplets
probably would be in the isolettes
for two months. They are so ac
tive already that they sometimes
wriggle crosswise in their incuba
tor cells, which are designed to
control heat, humidity, and oxy
gen. They have not been getting
oxygen.
The boy is the largest quint
Berbos said he looks to be about
four 'pounds and the girls about
3Vi. They "somewhat resemble
each other," he said, and their
hair is "sparse."
Two portholes on each side of
each isolette allow nurses to han
dle the babies. By state depart
ment of health rule no visitor is
allowed on a maternity floor ex
cept husbands. The press is for
bidden to go to the third - floor
nursery here and peek through
the window.
This college town (Northern
State Teachers College) of 25.000
was just waking up to what had
hit it. Church-goers were ail
smiles Sunday at the harried in
flux of reporters, photographers.
and television men in the streets
around Sacred Heart Roman
Catholic Church, where Fischer
attended 10:30 a.m. Mass with
his three oldest children and his
mother, Mrs. John Fischer.,
"We think it is wonderful," a
woman churchgoer summed up
town opinion.
Both mothers-in-law have been
staying at the Fischer home, car
ing for the children.
"Mrs. Fischer was a farm!
girl," said Harrington, "and she
tended every bit of this garden
while she was pregnant planted
and hoed it and she put up 100
quarts of dill pickles.
"I said that if Andy wanted to
put up a new home that I would
donate an acre for it. He has al
ways liked it so much out here."
Aberdeen is a farming commu
nity in northeastern South Da
kota, county seat of Brown Coun
ty, a Democratic stronghold in a
Republican state. It is sometimes
called "The Hub City" because
five separate railroad lines once
served it. It is world renowned
as a pheasant hunting center
I the birds live on the corn, which
is now being harvested).
The courthouse stands at the
head of Lincoln, Street, dirty
brown, with a columned bell
tower, lopped by a white - faced
clock with black roman numerals
under a green arched dome, sur
mounted by a statue of a woman
who appears to represent civic
virtue, or maybe justice.
The explosion that shook the
Hub City" and sent a shock
wave around the world began
when that clock stood at 1:58
a.m., central standard time, in
the cool, overcast pie-dawn of
Saturday. Sept. 14. The first quint
was born then and the fifth was
delivered at 3:01 a.m. by Berbos
and two doctor associates.
Mrs. H. I. King said that when
her brother-in-law, Dr. Bernard
King, one of the delivery room
associate's, was told by Berbos
that it was going to be quints
he almost passed out.
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Suburb Vote
WASHINGTON (UP!) - Blue
collar voting in suburbia the
last of it occupied the attention
ot labor leaders from 22 of the
nation's biggest metropolitan
areas today.
The leaders gathered at Ihe be
liest of the AFUClO's Committee
on rolitlral Education (COPE)
for a three-day meeting to dis
cuss ways of getting more union
members to register and vote In
1!K4.
COPE railed the conference In
prepare for a labor-sponsored reg
istration drive that is certain to!
help President Kennedy In his bid
for a second term.
COPE director Alexander Bar-
kan said the aim of tlie sessions
was to Increase registration
among union members from its
present average of 60 per cent In
the level of OA per cent he said
prevails among members of th
-merlran Medical Association
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and
National Association of Manufac
turers.
'As long as this discrepancy ex
ijln, we're handicapped," he said
Barkan said special attention
would be devoted to gelling more
workers living in the suburbs
qualified lo vote. He said union
members, like other Americans,
were moving from cities to sub
urbs in increasing numbers.
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