European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday septembers 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 7 Ollie mania fad goes the Way of Hula hoop Philmont , a the Oliver North Sandwich and to shirts and Zilic and Betsy dolls have gone the Way Orthe Hula hoop and the lava lamp. Ollie mania the National craze that followed he Marine lieu Enlal Colo Nel s congressional testimony on his role in Hie Tran Contra affair has faded. The people out there arc not As excited about Ouie and never were at least according to my ales As Lucy seemed on he news said John Lee Hudson a san Francisco businessman. Hudson and his wife Shana de signed the dolls modelling them after Ken and Barbie. Their $20.000 invest ment has resumed 11,200. Philmont North s Hometown Hon ored him with 3 Parade aug. 15 entrepreneurs did a brisk business in t shirts and buttons but the excitement did t translate to sales of a . News and world report tribute to North. Of an initial order of25d of inc magazines Harry a cry s convenience store has sold Only 30 to 40. It s 14.95, that s probably one of the reason  a cry said. At a to shirt stare in Albany North has been replaced As the Centrepiece of the window display by saudi Mae Ken Zic Budweis or Beer s canine Pitchman. Gone is the Flag bearing shirt that pro claimed god buns guts and Zilic made this  in Tulsa otja., great american products unlimited churned out thou Sands of Zilic bumper stickers and t shirts and owner John smucker said he was amazed by Ollie mania however smucker said he could t interest Large stores in the shirt and he barely broke even. Three Days after North s testimony ended pocket Hooks taking the stand a 733-Page paperback Tran script of North s testimony rolled off the press. The publisher expects to sell Only about half of the 775,000 copies printed said Anne Maittand a company vice president. However there May be no truer barometer of Public taste for North than the Fate of the Oliver North Sandwich at the old Man River Doghouse in to Nawanda near Buffalo restaurateur Chuck Miano has replaced it with a pork Barbecue Sandwich. It s the fickle Finger of Fame he said. Women closing earnings Gap report says Washington not women have diminished the Gap Between male and female earnings in the 1980s, but significant disparities remain the Cen sus Bureau reported thursday. The Gap was smallest for workers in their 20s, presumably because women and men have had Access to similar education and Job opportunities in recent years the Bureau said. Women Are entering the kinds of occupations traditionally dominated by men professional Mana Gerial and technical positions and the male female wage Gap within those occupations is narrowing said Gordon w. Green jr., assistant chief of he Bureau s population division. Overall the average earnings for women who worked full time were 70 percent of those for men in 1986, up from 62 percent in 1979, Green said. There was virtually no change in this proportion from 1973 to 1979, he said. More than half the remaining Gap can be explained by differences in such factors of education and work experience the Bureau said. Women Are More than three times As Likely As men to have had interruptions in their work history the report said Patricia b. Reuss a lobbyist for the women s equity action league which specializes in economic issues affecting women said she agreed with some of the census Bureau s findings. About half the wage Gap results from tangible factors including differences in the education career choices and work history of women and men she said. She. Said much of the rest was attributable to sex discrimination the old boys network and the massive stereotyping of women s  of women really want to earn Hie same As men she said they have to change the Laws file court cases and go for difficult jobs in demanding occupations with the highest  the census Bureau focused on wage and salary workers 11 to 64 years old. In this group 47 percent of the women and 13 percent of the men had spent six months or More without a Job since their 21 is birth Day the Bureau said. Reasons for the interruptions in work included childbearing child care illness disability and unemployment. Green said that such interruptions translated into pay equity i1j11"i1mu swim a mall Dut to them in Tom or Narret std my pm or to Iron  a lower wages explaining it this Way when a person withdraws from the labor Force for a Long period of time it May be difficult for the individual to return especially if there is an obsolescence of skills. But when you Are on the Job continuously you build up skills and seniority and you Are available for a promotion if a higher paying Job opens  the study also reached these conclusions women tended to have less time on the current Job than men. Thirty six percent of the male workers but Only 23 percent of the female workers had been in the current Job for 10 years or More. Among College graduates men were twice As Likely As women to have specialized in jaw Medicine dentistry science mathematics business economics or engineering which Are relatively High paying Fields the workplace is still to some degree segregated by sex and working in an occupation that has a High proportion of women has a negative effect on earn  the data indicate that regardless of sex per Sona in female dominated occupations will have lower earnings than persons in integrated or male dominated  the report said that 35 percent to 40 percent of the Gap in earnings for men and women could not be explained by differences in work experience Job tenure schooling Field of study or tendency to Cluster in cer Tain occupation. Some economists have suggested that sex discrimination was responsible for All the unexplained differences in the earnings of men and women. But the census Bureau said that Many other factors might also be responsible some workers Are More motivated and some have More ability Luck or intelligence Green said. Some arc More productive because they Are working with belter equipment or newer technology provided by their  the census Bureau found Large differences in the earning of men and women even when it focused on people who had had no interruptions in their working Careen. Women with a continuous work history earned on the average 69 percent of what men received when they worked continuously the Bureau said. The wage Gap As expected was smaller for younger workers. In the 2t-to-29 age group women with no interruptions in their work history earned on the aver age 93 percent of what men earned. For people 30 to 44 years old the corresponding figure was 72 percent Ana for those in the 45-Io-64 age group in was Only 6d percent. Data in the report were drawn from interviews with 20,000 households in 1984 and 60,000 households this year As Well As from the 1980 census. Women have reduced the Overall earnings Gap by going into male dominated occupations that tend to pay More than occupations where women have historically been clustered the Bureau said. Forty five percent of the nation s accountants and auditors were women last year As against 34 percent in 1979, the Bureau said. For people working full time in this occupy Jon female earnings averaged 72 percent of male earnings up from 60 percent in 1979. Similarly the Bureau said women have surged into the Legal profession so that 15 percent of lawyers Are women up from 10 percent in 1979. Women s ram Ings averaged 63 percent of men s earnings in this profession last year up from is percent in 1979. Bat Estop Texas fund drive Sef la Porte Texas Cap a three month statewide aluminium can recycling drive will raise Money to help save the rusting battleship texts. This is the Only ship left from the 1906-1920 battleship Era Stratford Morss manager for the restoration project said thursday. Texas is a Steward of history. Once this is gone there s nothing like it left  the 71-year-old Texas which saw service in both world wan lies in about 12 feel of mud at san Jacinto Battleground state historical Park near Houston. The ship is one of the stale s most popular tourist attractions. 100 stars sign up for telethon Las vegas Nev. A More than 100 celebrities have signed on to join entertainer Jerry Lewis in Bis 22nd an Nual labor Day telethon with the comic eyeing a goal of one Dollar More than last year s record $34.096,773. The annual entertainment extravaganza which began with a single station in new York City in 1966, will be carried by about 200 stations this year. The telethon have raised .$404 Mil lion since Lewis began working for the muscular dystrophy association. Other fund raising efforts from corporate sponsors to kiddie carnivals boosted the total raised to nearly i billion. This year s show will be broadcast live from Caesars Palace in Las vegas from 9 . Sunday until 6 to . Monday. Joining Lewis u cd Hoiu will be Sammy Davis jr., de Mcmahon Casey Jasent Julius Larosa and Tony Orlando. Stars scheduled to appear include Frank Sinatra. Bill Cosby Barbara Man Drell Susan Anton Maureen Mcgovern Jack Jones Engelert Humperdinck Tom Jones Angela Lansbury Ann mar grit Jack Lemmon Patty Duke Rich Little David Brenner and wrestler Hulk Megan. The telethon Tome just a month after Lewis announced a research break through on Duchenne muscular dystrophy the most severe form of the disease. Hie findings indicate that the drug pred Isone although limited to experimental use because of often serious Side effects can increase patients strength and prolong their ability to walk before becoming wheelchair bound. Although this can l be considered a treatment in the conventional sense of the term it is the Fini drug shown to hate any flirt 31 Alt on dystrophy and therefore Rcpt cents a potentially tremendous research Advance a Wii win in an aug. S announcement at mad Headquarters in new York. The telethon Coronas other charitable organizations Are giving up or cutting Back on such fund raising end Rex. Lewis has expressed concerns that re ports of inc demise of such telethon could be harmful to the charities they serve and to his own efforts for mad. I feel sorry because the recipients of those telethon that have fallen by the Way Jdc Are the children Lewis said. They re the recipients of this wonder Ful announcement that there will not be a telethon for the March of dimes. What about the birth defects children where docs that leave them he said. Trade reports have indicated that some telethon Are in trouble because of rising production costs waning Neer interest and television stations concerned about a growing number of Tele thongs consuming prime time hours