Show r ES The Salt Lake Tribune BUSINESS Sunday March 15 1998 At 102 Oldest US Worker Advises: r Stick With Career Until You Like It THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At a century-plu- s and vigorously counting engineer Milton Garlands voice is and his distaste for deep his memory blueprint-clea- r sauerkraut pungently intact Garland is 102 years old He is Americas oldest known worker He has worked for the same Pennsylvania engineering firm since 1920 He thinks life and work are just about the same thing I don't think age has anything to do with your desire to work Garland told a news conference at the National Press Club on Thursday Garland ised the installation of the buildings refrigeration equipment m the late 1920s I love the work I am doing he said leamng forward in his vested dark pinstripe suit My ad-- v ice is to go into something and stay with it until you like it You cant like it until you obtain expertise in that work And once you are an expert its a pleasure And once you like what you do you dont like to quit doing it Garland said Garland who now works about 20 hours a week is an expert in what he does He holds 40 patents mostly involving innovations in refrigeration technology He helped perfect the production of synthetic rubber durmg World War II Where would he be if he retired 37 years ago at age 65? The answer comes without hesitation Id be in my grave Garland declares At 102 Garland is not only not in his grave he is the new symbol of older working adults across the WASHINGTON su-pe- No Breaks Force Workers To Ignore Nature Continued from E-- l dustry this is the No 1 issue said spokesman Greg Denier of the 1 4 million-membUnited Food and Commercial Workers International union It goes to human dignity OSHAs first citation against an employer for denying workers access to bathrooms came last July against a Hudson Foods poultry plant in Noel Mo A spokesman for Tyson Foods which now owns Hudson insisted that workers were being allowed proper access But if theyre abusing that freedom by example going outside and smoking then theyre subject to discipline said Tyson spokesman Ed Nicholson That country He was chosen for the role by an organization called Green Thumb which champions older workers The qualifications were simple Work at least 20 hours a week and have the earliest birth date Green Thumb could find At the news conference Garland had no problem fielding questions Does he have a special diet? I eat anything but sauerkraut he replied with heavy emphasis He stays away from most desserts believes young people should listen to elders and never worries I dont worry about Garland said anything Worry never solved any problem If the problem is there youll find the answer you just have to keep working on it He was asked for advice on living a long life but did not provide it saying that living a productive life is more important and implying that one might lead to the other And if you want to live a productive life you have got to make up your mind to do whatever youre doing correctly Garland said Milton W Garland was born in Harrisburg Pa on Aug 23 1895 He graduated from high school in 1915 interrupted his education to serve in the Navy in World War I and joined the Frick Co of Waynesboro Pa in 1920 rising to vice president for education Garland has worked for the company for 78 years His current duties: Coordinating international patents and giving training classes has happened The problem also is widespread in Californias Central Valley where labor contractors often dont provide enough toilets for farm workers Irma Luna a former field hand recalled that last year she tried not to go to the bathroom at all during nine-hoshifts trimming grapevines because the one bathroom provided was so dirty At times she had no choice It was either cover your nose and mouth and go in there or have people looking at me sitting in the field she said Suppressing the need to go to the bathroom however can lead to medical problems said who with Linder studied the bathroom access of nearly 800 female public-schoteachers in Ny-gaa- 1996 Half of the teachers made a conscious effort not to drink liquids during school and those women had double the chance of infection having a urinary-trac- t said Nygaard whose study will be published soon in the Interna- - I work on a in the poultry campaign industry this bathroom access is the No 1 issue It goes to human dignity " Every time Greg Denier ! t i i i - ff ' ry 3 4 c O The Associated EmrEHEraa Eara mm LOAN AMOUNT $20700 $32500 $25500 $30000 $35000 $20000 $45000 $40000 $52500 United Food and Commercial Workers International INTEREST RATE TERM 12 15 YR 95 12 1475 1225 20 YR 20 YR 15625 20 YR 100 100 100 100 1325 1474 1625 1250 15 YR 12 14 LTV 15 YR 90 20 YR 20 YR 20 YR 100 100 100 LTV LTV LTV LTV LTV LTV LTV LTV LTV SECURITY NATIONAL CONTACT DARELL PROWS 264-811- 1 MORTGAGE COMPANY tional Urogynecology Journal One in 10 elementary teachers brought their entire class to the bathroom with them when they went and 4 percent of all teachers voided into pads because they couldnt leave children alone The teachers talk a lot about the problem of bathroom access said Marty a Des Moines teacher who refused to be further identified Its not the most comfortable feeling to be taking some 20 children with you when you use the restroom A Projector For Reasons! 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