European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                So Diego Charger doily Magazine by Dan Tedrick associated press in streets of Logan Heights in thick with drunks drugs and Liny dogs. Officer Jill Fleming inc 23. Height 3-Fobt-4. Weight 112 works her beat there in san die go at night usually alone. "1 wanted this area she said. Let s face it. You re not pampered. You learn police work right off the  until last year the most dangerous thing Jill Fleming did was risk catch ing cold in the skimpy outfit of a Char gentle one of the cheerleaders for the National football league s san Diego chargers. But she was fired along with four other charge los for posing for Playboy mag Azine. I was offered modelling careers but that s not something 1 want to do said officer Fleming who marked 19 months on the san Diego Force this month. I just love this Job. My great great Grandfather was a policeman in Chicago and i wanted to be a cop since i was 12." but Logan Heights with 98 percent of its population in the lowest income Brack ets is no picnic. The rest of san Diego is a lot slower she said. There arc Many places you be got to work six months before you run across a robbery or a rape. Here we have them every  wages Are Low. Her take Home pay every two weeks is $360, hardly enough to pay her share of the rent for a House she shares with another Wom an. She Dales a policeman but in the Logan Heights squad she is the Only the other Day. She was working with a partner when a frightened woman called for help. While the male officer talked to the woman at her doorway. Fleming went on in confronting a Man who started shoving her. The fight was on she recalled. He shoved he hit he  she subdued him with help from her partner. As a teen Ager in san Diego the Daugh Ter of a Navy Man she won several Beauty titles. She also spent two years in the re serve officers training corps at Madison High school learning paramilitary performance. As a member of the Roth Rifle team she became a crack shot. I want to use my brain now. People Don t expect that a woman with looks can have a brain but my parents raised me with the philosophy that anyone can do anything she wants. Too Many people think you have to be 6 feet tall and Bench press 200 pounds to be a effective cop. Part of the fun is dealing with your  fear is something officer Fleming tries not to think about. In an incident last month she was the first officer called to the Aid of two police men under attack by a mob and the last to leave. The policemen had chased a speeding Motorist to a parking lot beside an apart ment House where a jeering crowd Gath ered. A Rock fractured officer Tom Carl son s Skull. The trainee with Carlson called for help. Fleming arrived with her partner a Junior officer still on probation. Police officer Jill Fleming formerly a pro football cheerleader. Dark enough for her to leave her More exposed position. As senior officer at a volatile scene she made the decisions. The first was not to bring in an ambulance which would have risked More violence. Instead the two Junior officers got Carlson into his Cruiser and Carlson s partner drove away. At least 90 minutes she crouched be Hind her police car pinned Down Radi oing developments another officer said later. With a backup unit waiting nearby her partner scrambled to safety but Many Long tense minutes passed before it was a Fine Job a department spokes Man said later of the Young woman s performance she is also compassionate. After an elderly woman was knocked to the Side walk her purse stolen and the thief Long gone the officer gently straightened the Crucifix Chain around he victim s neck. I sort of hike it personally she said. The typical non voter by Sean Mccormally associated press it is Wii Iti. In her mid-30s. Lives in a suburb in the South and is married. A High school Grad uate she Hus a Blue Collar Job and an annual fam ily income of about si0.000. No Mailer to is running for president this Lull she won t be going to the polls. She is the t Apical american non voter. That statistical picture is drawn in non voting Ameri  a census Bureau report released recently. It is no Surprise that the typical non oter is a woman tin men outnumber men in the towing age population. Based on information from the 1976 election the Typ ical voter is also a woman said Charles Johnson. Census Lureau demographer who prepared the report statistical the Apical Vulor is much like her nun voting sister. She also is a Southern , White am married and has at least a High school education. Hut she is older in her mid-40s has a White Collar Job and a higher family income about in j.500 annually. Generally voters and no voters Are evenly distributed across the nation the study said the main differences Are education income and marital suits. Married peo ple and those with higher incomes and More education Are More Likely go to the polls. But these factors arc not conclusive. In 1976. Both a majority of voters 75 percent and of non voters 57 percent had High school educations or belter the study said. Primarily people do not vote either because of physical and Legal barriers or psychological reasons such As Lack of interest apathy or alienation it said. In 1976, the re porn said 57.5 percent of my Uncas said they were unable 10 Wilc due to illness or emergency. Wednesday. June 11. 1980 being Mil of town or unable to Pel a a from work. The rest staph were not interested. In the last presidential election when four out of 10 eligible americans did not vote. 7h.m percent of those not voting also were not registered the report said. Of those not registered 26.4 percent said they were unable to do so. Americans a e shown a persistent disinterest in towing. Not until 1928, Johnson found did More Hun half the toting age population go to the polls men though women won he right to Tele in 1920. And never in the nation s history has the number of Rales for the presidential Winner exceeded the number of non Volcks a phenomenon Johnson called the nation s silent  even the most Active election in history the i960 contest Between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon saw 37 percent of those old enough to Vole decline to exercise their franchise. The stars and stripes Pago 13