European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes sunday july 22,1990household managers dust off old fashioned image of butlers Denver apr take a hike jeeves. Move Over Alfred or. French and lurch a new Breed of Butler is standing at the door ready to take the sting out of daily life. But please. Sweep the word Butler under the Rug. Now its a household manager a thank you very much. From a victorian mansion where there a nary a speck of dust the Starkey Institute for household management began cranking out the next Genera Tion of helpers in january. They re a far cry from the crusty pursed lipped englishman Good at answering the front door and serving Tea. Mary Starkey the Institute s president and founder said her graduates Are trained to perform a myriad of tasks in today a complicated world from balancing the family Check Book to knowing when the water Heater needs maintenance. A this business is not about cleaning someone a Home a she said. A a it a about helping to run their daily  the Institute was conceived on the basis of studies that american households especially those with two incomes require specialized management Starkey said. Her students about 50 so far agree. And they done to have much in common with stereotypical butlers popularized by televisions or. French of a family affair a lurch of a the Addams family a Alfred of a Batman a or jeeves from the Bertie Wooster books by . Wodehouse. Ginny Spencer was a successful real estate agent who dabbled in catering. She heard about the Institute from Sandy Wischmeyer a caterer and the schools director of curriculum. Spencer liked the idea so much that at 53, she decided to change careers. Household and Ken Mic manager students Ginny Spencer h train with Mary Starkey right. The huge victorian mansion housing the Institute is impeccably decorated with Antiques. The 10,000-Square-foot mansion gives the students hands on experience Starkey said. A Starkey acknowledged that the household manager idea is not widely popular in the United states but she said its catching on. Tuition for the eight week program is $4,000, which covers 300 hours of education. The Price May seem a bit Steep to some but Starkey has a defense. A where else would you train household managers but in their workplace and where else can you of to school for two months and come out qualified or a Job that pays $ 18,000 a year its a perfect setup Starkey said. Students cover seven general areas during the eight week maintenance taming clothing and travel Art Security and finance and perhaps most important finding themselves jobs. A we want them to leave with a repertoire of it Tarkey graduates with no prior experience in a service oriented profession can expect to earn Between $18,000 and $30,000 a year plus living expenses Starkey said if a student has experience say in a hotel or restaurant $24,000 to $40,000 is a reasonable salary Starkey runs her own placement Agency which she began nine years ago. She started the Agency mainly to place nannies and baby Sitters. Starkey receives 30 to 40 Telephone Calls a week from people needing one of her students and 150 Calls a week from prospective students. She a currently trying to assemble a staff of 20 to help a wealthy entrepreneur run his Island estate. Program a organization cleaning and a we May have to hurry this current class along a e of the household Fine dining enter Little a Starkey joked. Osha too lax on i Washington apr the Federal government is far More aggressive in prosecuting employers who violate environmental Laws than those who jeopardize their workers safety a study released saturday said. A the Federal establishment cares much More about water polluters than workplace killers a said Joseph Kinney executive director of the National Safe workplace Institute which conducted the study. He said the nations 20-year-old occupational safety and health administration act is a More dream than reality.�?�. Since 1970, the labor and Justice departments have put Only one employer behind bars for safety violations that caused the death of a worker the report said. But during a four year period the Federal government has won environmental jail terms totalling 271 years said the Chicago group a private organization that Calls itself a government accountability Institute. Quot there has been an outrageous neglect of worker safety issues by the Federal government a said Kinney who helped found the Institute three years ago after his brother was killed in an on the Job Accident. Spokesmen for both the labor and Justice departments noted that courts not the Federal government control what kind of sentences Are Given to defendants once they Are convicted. Johanna Schneider a spokeswoman for labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole noted that Dole pushed for and obtained an additional 177 inspectors for Osha during her first year at the department. She also has backed stiffer penalties for employers who violate Osha Laws Schneider said. In the past Osha has come under fire for issuing Large fines against employers but then settling for Small sums. The Agency has defended the process saying Oshay a purpose is to ensure that employers comply with Laws rather than collect Large amounts of Money. Kinney said that in Oshay a 20-year history Only j one employer has been jailed the owner of a South Dakota plumbing company who received a 45-Day jail term for violations involving a 1988 Trench Cave in that killed two workers. In contrast in 1989 alone 51 people were convicted of environmental crimes and were sentenced to an average of 6.4 months in jail with an additional probation period of 20.5 months the study said. In 1986, the first person convicted and incarcerated for clean water act violations was the manager of a yeast Plant in Sumner Wash., who received a one year term for dumping yeast in a waterway the study said. Earlier this year a Pennsylvania Man was sentenced to three years for dumping sludge in a wetlands area Kinney said a a it a absolutely outrageous. Osha is the Only Agency where you have to have a dead body to  Kinney said. The group called for the labor department to Back a Bill pending in Congress to strengthen the jail terms for Osha violators. Mrs. Quayle has surgery for unnamed disease a a  / a m to i a .1_ r 1 a .1 t n i .1. .4. Washington apr Marilyn Quayle wife of vice president Dan Quayle underwent gynaecological surgery saturday following a test primarily used to detect cancer and was a recovering Well Quot her spokesman said. Although press Secretary David Beckwith disclosed neither the specific reason for the surgery nor the Hospital where it was performed he said mrs. Quayle s disease was diagnosed Early with a Pap test. A the Quayle family is thankful that this test was Able to detect her disease at its earliest stages a Beckwith said Reading from a prepared statement. He would not elaborate. The spokesman said she a is recovering Well following surgery this morning mrs. Quayle will be Able to resume her full schedule in four to six weeks. Full and total recovery is  a Pap test can help detect 25 to 30 possible medical problems but its primary purpose is to screen for malignancies and pre malignancies in the reproductive tract said or. Allan b. Weingold chairman of obstetrics and gynaecology at the George Washington University medical Center Weingold who has no personal knowledge of mrs. Quayle a condition said that of the 25 to 30 possible diagnoses 15 to 20 could be for malignancies or pre malignancies. The rest could be for infections and hormonal changes. Mrs. Quayle turns 41 a week from sunday. Friends had Given her a Surprise party Friday at a skating rink in a Virginia suburb of Washington. Other than a sprained ankle she suffered a year ago this is the first reported health problem for mrs. Quayle. Her Mother Mary Tucker died of breast cancer m 1975 at the age of 56. R a  Vvs a we of Lur malignancies or term 1975 at the age of 56. Battleship new Jersey heading for Mothball Fleet  shia Pittari Yea history. A on Friday it 1 san Man there were no bands no pomp and circumstance no que  and no admirals As the vessel sporting menacing 16-Inch guns and 17-Inch Armor pulled up to pier 6 at the Long Beach naval station on Friday. Its last journey was a Brief one running 45 minutes from Seal Beach where its Crew unloaded ammunition. The new Jersey was recommissioned four times states into world War ii. At a Cost of $435 million it was last recommissioned on dec. 28, 1982, under former president Reagan s plans for a 600-ship Navy. The new jerseys latest tour of duty included firing salvos at syrian antiaircraft batteries in the mountains of Lebanon in december 1983. But the ship Cost More than $35 million a Vear to maintain making it a dead in the water target for con be 7�?o  1.500-Man Crew began preparing to 887-loot-Long battleship for its february decommissioning. In March the ship will be towed to join its sister ship the Iowa with the Navy a mothballed Reserve Fleet off Bremerton Wash. In the Pacific theater during world War ii its operations covered the Marshall islands new Guinea the Mananas Leyte Luzon iwo Jima and Okinawa. The snip also saw action in the korean and Vietnam wars