European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday september 29, 1978 a women making gains in holding Public office Washington up More women gradually Are achieving Public office in America with big jumps coming in the number holding local office and a decline in the number in Congress and in Federal judgeship a new study showed thursday. The study by the Eagleton Institute of politics showed that women hold 9 percent of the seats in state Legislatures 11 percent of state Cabinet and executive offices 3 percent of county commissioners and 8 percent of mayors and members of local  Only area where women did not hold More jobs than when the Survey was first made in 1975 was in Congress and the fed eral judiciary. Of 675 . Circuit and District court judges Only five were women a decrease of  Congress there Are 18 women House members Down from 19 in 1975. The two women senators both appointed to interim terms when their husbands died were not  Carter is the first president to have two women Cabinet members Jua Nita Kreps at Commerce and Patricia har Ris at housing and Urban development. Before 1977 Only three women had served in the Federal Cabinet Frances Perkins at labor under Franklin Roosevelt Oveta Culp Hobby at health education and Wel fare under Dwight Eisenhower and Carla Hills at Hud under Gerald Ford. At the state level there Are two women governors and three lieutenant governors compared with one each in 1975. The study was compiled by the Center for the american woman and politics a division of the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University. The most significant gains found in the study were at the local level where the number of women mayors increased from 566 to 735 and the number of Council Mem Bers jumped from 5,365 to 9,195. If such trends continue with the same momentum women will begin to assume a substantial share of political decision the cars Are the pews making in their communities said or. Marilyn Johnson the Center s director of research. Moreover this increased participation May be placing women on paths to higher level elective and appointive offices where we May expect even More marked changes in the  Wall St. First just As women have been advancing to More prominence in political life they also have scored gains in the private sector. Ellen Lee 26, is the first woman to hold a seat on the new York Stock Exchange she is using her position to raise Money for the . Olympic com Mittee. Up photo driven Church has booming Box office Oreland a. A the Rev. Charles Murray revs up each sunday to preach to some 100 worshippers who drive into his Church parking lot but never leave their  minister Murray s pews Are sedans coupes and convertibles. His ser Mons resound from the worshippers car a  morning he greets his flock via a weak am radio signal. Turn on your headlights if you can hear  headlights blink on across the parking lot of the Oreland presbyterian Church. That s Good Murray replies. A guitar player hits a chord and behind windshields on this Bright but Chilly morn ing Mouths move to the words of the hymn  the cars windows Are rolled up tightly granting a Small audience for those with not so musical voices and bestowing a rather other worldly Aura to the scene. When you sing there s just the two of us said Jean Doering who attends the service with her husband Bob. It s a strange feeling but that s the Only weird or strange thing about . Doering added however that she Felt kind of funny sitting and praying in her car. And she does not feel "100 percent close to her fellow worshippers like when she attends regular services inside the 1,200-member congregation s Little Brick Church. Guilty conscience bugs him after 15 years Des Moines Iowa up d. Curtis Hale 26, said he really never liked foot  15 years ago As an 11-year-old news paper Carrier for the Tulsa okla world he cheated in a contest to to win a football. Hale said he recently had a religious experience and Felt he should repay the news paper $15 the value of the pigskin today. I d always been taught that you should make it right he  spokesman for the newspaper said it used the Money to Purchase a new football for a local third and fourth Grade team. Deputies Dull the Gow of their honeymoon l Anse Mich. Up John Girardi s brother gave Girardi a wedding sendoff he is not Likely to , 22, and his Bride Deborah were married and set off on a honeymoon in Michigan s upper Peninsula. But the newlyweds had not gone very far before Baraga county sheriff s deputies forced Girardi s car to the Side of the Road and brusquely ordered Girardi to get out. One Deputy frisked Girardi while the second searched the car looking for a gun. Instead the officers found wedding Bells and a just married sign in the Back seat and a thoroughly confused Bride sitting in the front  police search was prompted by a Telephone Call from Cindy Nelson 20, who works at a service station in three lakes where the couple had stopped for Gas. When Nelson began to fill the tank she found a note Reading help me i m being kidnapped. Call the  she complied. Girardi eventually convinced police his Bride was not a Kidnap victim but his brother had played a practical joke. Police allowed the Girardio to continue their honeymoon. Folksinger Guthrie cleared of slander charge Burlington it. Up folksinger Arlo Gutherie has been found innocent of Slan Dering a former concert promoter who claimed he was driven out of business by on stage remarks Guthrie made about him two years ago. A  District court jury deliberated for about an hour before finding against Clayton Fuller who accused Guthrie of telling the audience at a Burlington concert in 1976 that Fuller had refused to pay the band and was cheating the audience. Fuller had told the jury during the four Day trial that Guthrie s charges forced him to abandon the business and leave Vermont. He now runs a restaurant in Oregon. Guthrie admitted making some of the statements. His defense focused on testimony by witnesses who said Fuller already had a bad reputation before Guthrie s remarks. 2 family dogs protect 3-year-o/cf from danger Reading Mich. A the Mother of a 3-year-old girl who was lost overnight among Cornstalk More than twice her size says her daughter probably was protected from 40-degree temperatures by two family dogs who snuggled beside her. A neighbor searching with More than 75 volunteers and police rescuers found Tow headed Jennifer Persing As he combed the Field behind his farm Branch county deputies said. The girl was examined at a Hospi As for Murray drive in services took a Little getting used to he says but if that is what people want so be it. It is an Odd feeling standing out there speaking to cars he said in an interview. But it did t frighten us we did t feel we were  does not quite have the Appeal of the service figured out it has grown in attendance steadily but he has some  people Are shy about coming into a Normal Church and they appreciate the anonymity he said. Some Are ill and elderly and unable to handle the Normal Church situation. We re trying to reach people who Are hurting and we will go to any lengths to do that. If it takes some kind of Novelty set Ting we will do  the 8 30 . Drive in services started in june and will continue until october. Two regular services also Are held each  drive in ones Are Only a half hour Long and some worshippers say the serv ices Early hour and Brevity help them get away Early for drives to the Beach or other family trips it s quicker said drive in churchgoer William Muller poking his head out of a Black Sedan to talk. You get a Nice Mes Sage and you Don t have to get dressed up. And it s refreshing with the sky and the  to address students students at the University of Kentucky in Lexington will hear lady Bird John son speak on oct. 6. Her address will accompany the presentation of the late gov. Earle c. Clements papers to the University. Tal and then returned Home. Her Mother Robin Persing Mclachlan said that Jennifer dressed in a Light jacket sweatshirt and trousers had gone to her usual backyard haunt to play with three of the  said she believed Jennifer followed the dogs into the Corn Field and then could t find her Way Home. When Jennifer was finally found the two animals were with her. Harm s Way author James Bassett Dies los Angeles a Jarnes Bassett author of the Best Selling novel harm s Way and a retired associate editor of the los Angeles times died at his suburban Malibu Home at the age of 65. He suffered an apparent heart attack the paper  served As a Navy lieutenant Junior Grade and Public relations officer Dur ing world War ii and Drew on those experiences to write harm s Way which was published in 1962. The bestseller was made into a movie titled in harm s Way starring John Wayne Kirk Douglas and Henry  also wrote commander Prince us and the sky  Bassett took leaves from the paper to work on Richard Nixon s presidential and vice presidential campaigns in 1952, 1956 and 1960. He is survived by his wife Wilma and a daughter. London firm buys Ohio construction outfit Cleveland up Davy International Ltd. Of London has agreed to pay an estimated $106 million for Mckee corp., a Large engineering and construction company headquartered in suburban Independence Ohio