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Show NEWS, DESERET All Mondcy, October 23, 1972 KMT By DEE WEDEMEYER NEW YORK (AP) Proving that women dont have a corner on the liberation movement, men are breaking dow n sex barriers in jobs usually thought of as woman s work. They are becoming secretaries, telephone operators, nursed flight attendants and even Kelly Girls. s The biggest are coming in the telephone and airline industries, two major employers of women. A spokesman for American Telephone & Telegraph said it now has 1.100 male operators among its 165,009 and another 400 men among the 34,500 service representatives, the people who answer questions about bills and arrange service. Five y ears ago there were virtuallv no men in these positions. At Eastern Airlines, a spokesman said that the company has received more than 9,000 applications from men since it began running unisex ads in Marcn. Before then, they had about 150 stewards. Now they have 320 stewards and 3,458 new jobs are a good place women. hich you have to use more intellect. It bothers him more than it bothers me. Hes supposed to be the man of the family, the breadwinner . . . in to meet Joe Carbone, 23, a service representative at New Y'ork Telephone Co., in Manhattan, said he had no idea when he applied for the job two years ago that it was predominantly held by women, lie said he thought it sounded like an interesting job then and he still does. break-through- lie said the pay, $ '46.50 to $179.50 a One woman who recently married a male telephone company says a promotion "would be a boost to his ego. He definitely needs one." co-work- A spokesman for the Airline Stewards and Stewardesses Association in Chicago said the organization was anticipating similar increases in other airlines as a result of a court decision last year which said airlines could not use sex as an occupation qualification in cabin attendant jobs. In interviews, men in formerly female domains cited a variety of reasons for their job choice. Many said they started part time while in college and now, in a tight job market, are ha ing trouble getting promoted or finding another job. Others said the pay was better than in white collar jobs available to men with less than a college education. Nearly all noted that such jobs as secretaries and telephone operators had been historically held by men. er in the office. But a colleague, Lou 22, married a in June. Scot-t- Scotto said that since his marriage he has become dissatisfied with his job. It might be a complex I have, said Scotto. I tell people I worked here during school and I'm looking for something bc'ter now. I make excuses. Even if the person has no job. I feel Im less of a person because I have a womans job. Scottos wife, Geri, 20, said that after getting married, her husband began to ask her if she needed help in her work and became competitive. She hopes he finds a better job or gets promoted within the company. It wouldnt bother her if he got promoted and she didnt. It would be a boost to his ego, she said. He defininitely needs one. He's working at a job that is basically a girls job. To talk to people on the phone . . It would be nicer for him to have a job Except for occasional complaints about being addressed as Miss or being thought of as homosexual, nearly everyone interviewed liked most aspects of their jobs. Many said they had learned a lot about human foibles, especially chauvinism. Several said they had discovered a great fringe benefit the . 'With A Sense Of Sustained Melody' fully, but with a more heavy sense of joy Bv HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Critic One of the more exotic conglomerations of nationalities in the history of the Utah Symphony passed Saturday night on the west end of the Tabernacle. The conductor, Maurice Abravancl. has a list of nationalities to his credit: Jewish, Portuguese, Greece, Swiss, plus Germany, France, Australia, and the United States, in each of which he has had. at one time or another, permanent residence. conducted one of the two travel Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony": symphonies, the of Poem Scriabin's The Russian George Ecstacy": the An American in Paris: Gershwin's and the Italian Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome." He Jewish-Germa- Jewish-America- n n Seated directly back of the Utah Symphony in the Tabernacle Choir seats were approximately 401) foreign students, many in their native dress. They must haVe represented more than 25 different countries. above them And of the were the member countries s of the flags United Nations organization. It was, indeed, a colorful affair, visually and audibly. Fittingly, the program was in "Memonam" to one of the giants in the history of the Utah Symphony, T. Bowring Woodbury, who had died earlier in the week following an incredibly long and trying illness. that seemed more german than light Italian that Mendelssohn was reflecting. Scriabins Ecstacy and Gershwins American In Pans were given impressive performances, and there will be opportunities to discuss them in later concerts this season. An Respighi's imaginative, colorful tone portrait of the sights and sounds of the Eternal City have long served as orchestral showcases, particularly The Pines of Rome. Mr. Abravanel's reading last Saturday night was one of utmost transparency. well accented in cleanly separated but unexaggerated phrasing. The brilliantly beautiful clarinet solos by Martin Zwick added color and warmth. More than four decades ago I beard in the The Pines Respighi conduct he enand Bowl, throughout Hollywood r composer-conductotire work one could hear the orchestra. the above singing And on that final chord, that was something never to be forgotten! And I half expected to hear Mr. Abravanel singing on the thrilling climax that brought the audience to its feet with was long and sustained applause. It orchestral brilliance shining dazzlingly. very brisk approach was adopted in the Early Romantic score, and it was excitingly served by being allowed to sing in flexible and expansive phrases. There was a delightful sense of drive coupled with lightness and delicacy as well. Mr. Abravanel allowed room for a felicitious turn of phrase that is uauallv absent in piopulsive more piopulsive supercharged interpretations. A Abundantly melodic, yet with a sense of sustained, singing line, Mr Abravanel did not pace the seme unduly, but gave the themes must the room they need to grow in, and just the pulse that moves gracefully into the next phrase It was altogether delightful, even if called for the elimistern nation of some of the more familiar ex- pressive retards. The Utah Symphony Orchestra played the remaining three movements beauti- - Now they seem to love it, said Miss Winston. The general company attitude is that jobs have grown segregated and there is no real reason for it and it is unhealthy. The change has worked out well. Higinio Gino Albelo. 29, a former Air Force technical sergeant who is a steward for Eastern Airlines, said he chose the job because he has never gotten over his fascination with airplanes and loves to travel, though he has no ambition to be a pilot. Eventually hed like to go into another phase of the airline business. Albelo, a handsome man who could pass for a pilot in his black uniform with one gold stripe on the cuff, finds opportunities are plentiful. Businessmen give him their cards and ask him to call if hed like to change jobs. Women invite him to dinnei. The only drawback he has experienced so far is having to sit through the training school classes in grooming while all 3C women and four men discussed their hair problems. The grooming training has since been made separate and Albelo admits that he had to learn how to And a woman taught shave properly. me to do this," he said. Richard Allen McGraw, 21, another Eastern steward, said he applied for the ' job after he was laid off. from another job. I dont like 9 to 5 jobs. I like people and I want to work with people and I want to help people. This is the way I can do it. You know when they get on an said airplane they are so helpless, McGraw. Both McGraw' and Albelo said they witness chauvinism in their job every day when passengers come to them with questions and to stewardesses for pillows and blankets. wrte fo Do-t- t Man , Box J 257 Saf lake City, Utah 641 10 You may They'll Honor Late Order Last year one of the major oil companies announced an awards program. It was to last for a year and before it would end a notice would be sent. When the deadline neared, we had not received any notice. I was a bit short of the number of coupons needed to get what I wanted so I wanted tc be sure I could use them if I waited. I wrote and asked. No answer. Then about three wezks ago I sent for my premium and got a notice back that the program was to be stopped and that the ordering deadline was past. Why couldnt they have responded to my inqu.ry when I wrote? It would have saved my good will and I could have settled for something else. Mrs. A.B., Provo. Richard Goers last year became first male operator in history of Mountain Bell Utah region. Now there are two. Next year? . . . ments that say, My Son, the Kelly Girl Typist." Joe Rodriguez, 22, a secretary placed with a Park Avenue law firm through another agency, said that when he left college after two years, he first took a bank job. When he discovered the job was more proofreading than banking, he decided to take a secretarial job at $155 a week. Rodriguez, who is in a secretarial pool, said he thinks the men in the office like having him work lor them because he's 80 words per minute typing, and fast and because they 110, stenography dont have to apologize for saying a curse word in his presence. "But your ego takes a beating. When I first started Id lower my voice about 10 registers when I answered the phone so they knew I was a man. In other fields the men are moving sLwly but steadily. Statisticians at the American Nurses Association in Kansas City, Mo., said the total number of male registered nurses has been increasing, but they expected only a slight increase in the percentage less than 1 percent of about 909,000 when last counted in 1966. The same applies to elementary schoolteachers. In 1961 the 127,171 men who were teaching represented only 14.5 percent of the total. In 1971, the 176,913 men teachers were 15.5 percent of the total. At Avon Products, Inc., a reluctantly acknowledged that there were some Avon men selling cosmetics door ,o door but fewer than 500 compared to 550,000 Avon ladies. He said the company hired men but he did not want to discuss it for fear of hurting the company image with customers. However, a spokesman for Kelly Services, the agency known for placing part-tim- e clerical and secretarial employes, said they werent at all displeased to be getting more male applicants and have begun to run advertise k company-spokesma- They think you overlooked their notification slip which said the program would end on May 1. but that they were allowing 99 extra days or until July 31 to redeem your coupons. These slips were all mailed out, they say, in April. They dont tell us why, but they have asked us to advise you to forward your order and it will be honored. No Smock Ordered On one subject he is firmly aligned with the female secretaries he doesnt run personal errands. When one older secretary suggested he water a bosss plant, he refused. Im not a gardener, he bristled. Im a secretary." I ordered a uniform and a smock from Budget Uniform Center, Philadelphia, Penn. I got the uniform, but no smock. I wrote them but got no answer. I wrote again. Still nothing. Can E.C.S., Fillmore. you help me? two-piec- e Somebody is mixed up. They think you and to prove their contention, they have sent you a copy of your order showing that you did not order a smock, only a uniform. its How Can Solve Ear Plugging? I where they may do some good. As you probably know from reading this column, there can be trouble from using nose drops to excess. They will shrink boggy, swollen tissues, and dry up the nose, but theres a rebound effect. That is, the mucous membranes react to this dryness by producing more moisture, so in a little while you have the same condition to contend with as before only more severe. Therefore, while I offer you the method of using nose drops, I am not recom- - By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. I am 45 Dear. Dr. Thosteson: and have had this trouble for 10 years off and on, but it seems I have it every day now. When I get up in the morning my ears are plugged up. When I sniff inward it clears them up for about a minute, and then its the same thing over again. When I talk, it seems like Im talking through a funnel, and it is hard for me to hear the other person. It makes no difference if the weather is dry or humid. Ive been to different doctors, and they told me to put drops in A.R. my nose but it doesn't help. Y'ou dont mention having seen an ear specialist, but this sort of problem is one for a specialist. The symptoms sound as though the Eustachian tubes are intermittently plugged for one reason or another. I would not be able to guess at the cause without knowing a good deal more about your condition. ', As to the nose drops, were you given any special instructions? Just using the drops in the nose is not likely to be effective in this sort of case. The action of the drops is to shrink swollen tissues. If swelling in the nasal passages, where the Eustachian tubes enter, is responsible for your hearing, then the drops might if you apply them to the be helpful right place. The way to do it is to lie down, with head back, introduce the drops in the nostrils, and when you feel them at the back of the nose, roll your head, first to ' one side and then the other. That way . the drops can reach the proper place mending that you use it for any length of time. You may need more specific treatment than that. So thats why I want you to see an ear specialist. This piay Dear Dr. Thosteson: sound silly, but is there any danger if the pilot light of a gas stove goes out when everyone is in bed and asleep? J.Q. It can be hazardous if the room is small and poorly ventilated and theres also the risk of enough gas accumulating and being set off by a spark. Have the pilot adjusted. Circumstance Victim A few years ago I bought a plan where I paid for two caskets from a memorial group. I was to pay them $20 a month until it was paid. A local bank held the contract. I paid every month and never was late, but I had to cut out some monthly expenses so I went to the memorial people and said Id like to eliminate one casket to reduce the amount I owed. They agreed and made up a schedule for me to send them $20 a month until the one casket was paid for. I paid that off in June. Now the bank comes back and wants me to keep paying them. They said I am behind and there is a late charge. I have tried to explain, but no one pays any attention. As of now I dont owe either one of them anything. Can you clear this up? R.F.C., Salt Lake City. It seems, says the bank, that you are merely a victim of circumstances. What happened is the bank financed contracts for the memorial people for customers who wished to make monthly payments. There was an agreement that in the event of a problem (like yours) or delinquency, that the memorial people would repurchase the contract. In August they called the bank and said they would be paying off your account. Shortly thereafter, the man ui charge had a heart attack, was ill a long time and subsequently died. But in September the bank got a check paying off your account. You are now in the clear. , Sending You Refund I ordered two books from a publishWilliam H. Wise & Co., ing company Inc., Union City, N.J. Since then I have written two letters to find out where the books are. They have not answered me. They hae cashed my check. Can you find out what happened? M.C.IL, Salt Lake City. Gov. Rockefeller Charts Vendetta who had served both as president of the Symphony Board and then as By, Emeritus and who was once pursued his own loafs and fishes as a musician, was a leader of international tastes and reputation. The program began with Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony" and the first movement was one of the finest that this department has ever heard by the Utah Symphony and Mr. Abravanel, this season or any other. IV3AN An AT&T training supervisor, Mary Winston, said the wom-operators were at first apprehensive about working w ith men. week in Manhattan, is not bad for someone who has finished only two years of college. He enjoys working with the 63 women and six other men in his office and lies gained a sympathy for the woman's plight. Carbone said that so far he has ma;le it a rule never to date any of the women stewardesses. w WASHINGTON The most important Republican outside the Nixon administration, .Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, is money and pumping . . manpower into a bitto ter campaign defeat a man he lil Hie HuUm Jicipt-- of Representatives years ago. 10 The object of the New York governors vendetta is Ogden Reid, whose RepubliMr. Anderson can forebears go to Abraham back Lincoln's day. Indeed, his grandfather was a vice presidential candidate for the Grand Old Party. But eight months ago, Reid turned Democrat. For him, the last straw had been President Nixons sabotage of a $2 billion day care bill that Reid had spent years preparing and pushing. His parting blast left Republicans stunned and vengeful. Out for retribution, Rockefeller has freed two of his top young operatives from the state payroll and has assigned them to the anti Real campaign. They i House WASHINGTON MERRY GO -ROUND By JACK ANDERSON are William McDevitt, Rockefellers own assistant, and Martin Kelly, who has served Rockefeller in the past on an important task force. Even more significantly, Rockefeller has encouraged his old friend and political ally, Carl Rpad, to labor against their colleague. The sharp, fast talking Spad has quietly moved into a guest house at Rockefellers feudal castle at Pocantico Hills where the two men are so close they can conspire against Reid over their bedroom window sills. one-tim- e has already thrown open Pocantico estate for a party that raised Rockefeller 'the 300-acr- e $38,000 for the forces. Additional contributions from other Rockefeller loyalists have made the campaign one of in the land. the anti-Rei- d d The governor has ponied up $6,000. Laurence, the philanthropist has contributed Rockefeller, $1,009. Rockefeller's heir apparent, Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson, has thrown in another $,000. Similar donations have poured in from lesser Rockefeller machine assembly men, state senators, coun'y officials His brother, and party fat cats, all at the expense of the maverick Reid. Almost as angry as Rockefeller is contractor, J. Herbert Grim-sewho stepped aside 10 years ago to let Reid have the House GOP nomination. Now Grimsey has given $1,000 and loaned $39,500 to help unseat Reid. well-to-d- o The congressman's battle for telephone users against New York telephone companys $361 million increase has also earned him the enmity of company officials. Ma Bell's New York president, W. M. Ellinghaus, and vice president William Sharwell, have each kicked in $500 to defeat him. Likewise, Reid's successful effort to roll back a gigantic rent increase nas brought m a Rood of contributions against him from the New York real es- tate lobby. anti-Rei- I leader Gerald Ford, Sen. James Buckley, N.Y., have already made campaign utterances against Reid. Running against Reid is Westchester County's District Attorney Carl Vergari. For a smalltown D.A., he has suddenly found himself with a surprising number of friends in high places. The books are out of stock and they were holding your order until some came in. But rather than make you wait any longer refund. they are sending you a Enjoy The Candy Illegal employment agencies throughout the United States have been bilking job hunters by advertising jobs on the Alaskan pipeline. Several workers have turned up in Alaska after paying fees for jobs that dont exist on a pipeline that doesn't Ted exist. Sen. Stevens, has asked the Justice Department to investigate. My husband bought me a fur coat at S.L. store last November. After he died I called them to see what the balance was as I wanted to pay it. They a said it was $346.88 and I would be saving by paying it off now. So I sent them a check, but ever since they keep billing me for the $12.25. Can you clear this up? Mrs. G.B., Salt Lake City. $12.25 Mis. James McClure, wife of the Idaho congressman, throws an unpublicized birthday party each year for men-ta"children from the handicapped Nampa State School. This years party was Oct. 5th. y Youre right; they're wrong. You dont owe any more money. A credit was made out but inadvertently went astray. They are sorry and apologize. As an expression of their regret they are sending you a box of candy. Now. Rockefeller and the other forces have been able to enlist the tap Republican of them all to help teach the renegade a lesson. President Nixon scheduled one of his rare campaign tours in Westchester GOP and conservative - Countv. d have been mailing out a Preference Poll, asking addressees whom they favor for president. The fakery is a bit obvious; included with it is a fund solicitation for the ticket. Young Republicans Nixon-Agne- (Editor's Note: We re sorry the number of colls and the volume of mail make if impossible to answer every question. Please, no medical or Don't send stamps or leqol questions. as answers can only be envelopes, qiven in tins column. Only questions ot general interest will be answered. 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