European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes january 1978 no More watering fetching Coffee office workers organize to upgrade duties Washington Ever tire of getting Coffee for the watering his plants or keeping him in a Supply of carrots while he diets some women office workers who object to such practices have formed organizations in More than a dozen american and Al chapter of the Boston which Calls itself has formed a Union local it is affiliated with the service employees International Union and includes about 300 the purpose of these groups is to upgrade jobs held by women office said Karen a 27 year old former clerk typist from min Nussbaum is now director of a group called the working women organizing project in Cleveland which instructs women office workers on How to rebel the organizations annual budget comes almost entirely from do nations from Small Church Raffles and bake she said within the past Nussbaum she has helped organize groups in Brac Hartford and new and for a membership fee of f i to de pending on a workers members receive Legal Aid and assistance in pres Suring employers to change unacceptable Nussbaum they gel support from an organization which will make their prob lems Nussbaum said the most frequent complaint is that women office workers Are often asked to do work unrelated to their she said some of the com plaints included a Cleveland Secretary who said her Boss made her take before and after pictures when he shaved off his Mustache and a Boston office worker who was tired when she refused to return to a cafeteria to Exchange a corned beef Sandwich on White for one on Rye that her Boss had Nussbaum said another Secretary complained that her Boss asked her to put Mayonnaise on his plants because he heard somewhere that it them grow she said another woman complained she had to sew up her Bossy Slacks when he split company management is not usually Happy to have its female employees or Nussbaum no manage ment wants to share its decision i guess their ran zoning is that if people have More say in decisions that affect  soon demand More there Are a handful of men in the organizations membership of Nussbaum but 80 percent of the office worker population is Vas new doctor program to Aid world War ii vets Washington a with million veterans of world War ii in or nearing their the veterans administration announced saturday a new program to train physicians in caring for those Veteran Spe Cial medical a administrator Max Cleland said the first 12 physicians to it trained under the program Are already Board certified As Spe Calisla in internal family prac Tice or they will be Given two years of additional training in geriatrics and gerontology at six vah Ospitale beginning next july to Cave More physicians will be added to the program two physicians will begin training Annu ally at each a the following a hospitals Wadsworth in los Angeles Palo Philadel phia and Little we arc initiating this program to develop a cadre of physicians who will provide badly needed leadership in Cle land a is taking this action because of our concern for the increasing age of the Veter an population in this in the face of an almost Complete Lack of training else where for specialists in the specific health problems of the older age there will be seeking men and women who Are committed to excellence As our first Fel the world War ii veterans Are the larg est segment of veterans and the million will reach an average age of 65 by Cle land the over65 age group constitutes Only 10 percent of the total Popula but it uses 25 percent of the nations health resources and requires the largest fraction of All governmental health expend he noted that a National Academy of Sci ence study issued last health for american called on the vat Lake a leadership role in creating i for h As aging people often the Nas report said most health 1 Ance programs do not provide coverage i Eldery persons and the private health Ca system does not have adequate capacity provides full Range of observers confirm youngest Star Ariz observers have confirmed the discovery of a Star less than on tenth the age of any Star previously a kill Peak National Observatory astronomer Donald Hall says the Kilt Peak astronomers place the age of the Star at Between and the Young est stars previously catalogued Are believed to be Between and years the earths Sun is believed to be Between billion and 5 billion years old the Star was first identified in i9s6 As a source of infrared one of the pieces in the age infrared Light is believed to originate with new analysis of the Light is one of the factors along with mass and distance that can be used As evidence in dating a the Kilt Peak scientists used an Fth framed spectrometer in their analyst the stars Hall said the new Star is perhaps times heavier than our Sun and May be 1 million Miles in the known As the Bec Iii Bauer 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