Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - November 2, 1979, Waterloo, Iowa 50 pages 4 sections Friday November Waterloo Iowa 25 cents Unemployment back up WASHINGTON AP A spurt of layoffs mostly among women and blacks pushed the nation's back up to in October the government reported Friday The Labor Department said the number of unemployed persons rose by from September to 6.2 million As a jobless rate returned to the level reached in August following a drop to 5.8 percent in September Despite the rise Labor Department analysts said the figures did not provide sighs that a recession is taking bold YOU WOULD have to have a crystal ball to say these are indications to say we're in or about to enter a said Labor economist Norman Bowers The figures don't say that Bowers said the rising unemployment appeared to stem from the fact that new jobs were not created at a rate to provide employment opportunities for those who had lost their jobs The nation's unemployment rate has fluttered between 5.6 percent and cent for the past 15 months Carter administration economists had forecast a recession and sharply rising unemployment this fall but unexpected economic expansion has diminished the prospect of an immediate big jump in joblessness The Labor Department said the in- crease in unemployment last month re- from workers losing their jobs as opposed to people who entered the job market but were to find work Two-thirds of the job losses struck women or blacks Total employment as measured by the government's survey of households declined by during October to 97.3 However a supplemental survey of business establishments reported a contradictory rise of employment by jobs THE LABOR Department which uses the household survey to determine jobless at a loss to explain the discrepancy other than to note that such a result has occurred occasionally in the past The jobless rate among adult women rose from 5.5 percent in September to 5.8 percent in October and the rate blacks jumped from 10.6 percent to 11.7 percent The jobless rate among minority agers went from 31.5 percent in tember to 35.7 percent the highest in nearly a year The department provided these other breakdowns on unemployment rates for 4.3 percent in October up from 4.2 percent in September 16.6 percent up from 16.4 percent 5.2 percent up from 5.1 percent 5.5 percent up from 5.4 percent 9 percent up from 8.3 percent workers 7.3 percent workers 3.5 percent up from 3.3 percent The Labor Department noted that the latest figures showed a continued slowdown in the growth in employment needed to absorb the constant influx of new people into the job market DURING THE last 12 months ing to the household survey total ment has advanced by 2.1 million jobs But only of those new jobs have in the past eight months Administration economists were prised a month ago when the jobless rate fell from 6 percent to 5.8 percent because they had anticipated that recession tions would send the rate upward More UNI sites checked to see if heat necessary 27 missing after collision By META GAERTNIER UNI CEDAR With the president's garage radiators on their way out Friday University of Northern Iowa school of- are checking two other buildings to see if they are heated unnecessarily Thornas Paulson director of UNI's physical said President John Kamerick ordered the radiators removed after a controversy over heating the garage for two dogs Kamerick had teen out of town earlier this week when workers on the project complained it wasted energy and had been put ahead of other campus work PAULSON said a survey of buildings found that a garage at the Ethnic Minorities Culture House at 2401 Campus St near the president's house would also have its radiators turned off That garage had at one time served as a recreation room for the Culture House He said a check will be made of the old east stadium to see if heat should be cut off there as well Kamerick says he plans to keep his two Irish Setters in the basement this winter Paulson president wants the radiators out of his garage so that it's perfectly clear that they won't heat the garage Earlier this week UNI Plant Services employees expressed unhappiness at being pulled off other jobs to replace the two radiators in the Kamerick garage THEY SATO Mrs Kamerick had told them the building must be heated because the family's two dogs can't stand the cold temperatures The workers said the project was in- consistent with energy conservation measures taken in other campus ings Kamerick did not learn of the garage heating controversy until Thursday after- noon when he returned to Cedar Falls meeting with UNI- collective bargaining consultant Joseph Flynn Minneapolis Kamerick requested Paulson to turn off the heat and have the radiators j John Walton isaid the radiators will be removed Friday or Monday after the concrete the workers poured on Thursday hardens Water pipes in the Kamerick garage will be turned off to prevent them from freezing over the winter Meanwhile Seamus and Kerry the two Kamerick Irish setters will not be out in the cold this winter Kamerick said the basement where they will be kept is heated The freighter Mimosa at right and the tanker Hannah Agate top background burned after they collided early Thursday about four miles from the entrance to Galveston Bay in the Gulf of Mexico Searchers continued Friday to hunt for 27 crew members missing after the collision and fires but held out little hope for their survival Four persons were confirmed dead Robber hits AAt Auburn bank MT lone bandit dishing a handgun robbed the Ml Auburn Savings Bank of an undetermined of money shortly after Authorities are seeking a black and blue Ford or Mercury sedan in which the gunman fled the scene according to witnesses A Waterloo car dealer reported to police Friday afternoon the theft of a 1972 Ford Galaxie black over blue The car was thought to have been stolen Friday morning The man was described as being in his early 20s and was said to be dressed in gray insulated coveralls and a blue was black ing mask with gold eyeholes He was also said to have dark makeup or charcoal smeared around the eyes Officers said he placed the money in an old leather bag on which the zipper would not work Bank officials and Benton County authorities declined to release full in- formation about the robbery except to say that the car was believed headed toward the Brandon area about p.m Later it was thought to be headed toward La Porte City The amount of money taken was not revealed by the bank nor law enforcement officers Thought to be in the bank at the time of the robbery were Craig Mahood and Mrs Karen Moline both employees and Mrs Verna Patton a customer The bank is managed by Robert The bank located in this Benton County hamlet on County Road was robbed in June 1955 of also by a lone gunman He was identified as Ramon Remine who was 61 at the time Remine of Greeneville Tenn was on parole at the time of the robbery for an earlier bank theft He was captured in September 1955 Divorce laws blasted at heated hearing B TTU By JIM Staff Writer DBS divorce laws and the way judges carry them out came under heavy criticism Thursday night during a sometimes emotional hearing on a being proposed by a state legislator from Cedar Falls And the legislator Rep Diane Brandt not at the hearing received criticism herself from a divorced man Her which has several co-sponsors would require judges to recognize the economic value of a homemaker's work when granting a divorce settlement i DURING THE hearing sponsored by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women several women testified that judges seldom grant wives enough money to support themselves or their children Alimony and child support awards are so small and so poorly enforced that spouses with children are having a dis- proportionate of economic hardship resulting from said Jo Ann a spokeswoman for the National Organization for Women She said judges and commissioners of domestic relations are generally male and that current laws fail to safeguard the economic interests of the dependent spouse or children at the time of marital Ed Greisch a divorced man testified against the saying it is another from Diane Brandt the female chauvinist from Black Hawk who sess men as security objects never equal Grasch an applied physicist charged that Rep Brandt's whole idea is to help women avoid work by manipulating and taking advantage of and he said few women seek job skills because their mothers convince them that it is much easier for a man to earn their living He said women in college often choose subjects that will guarantee their un- Griesch disputed figures that a homemaker's work is worth more than a year He said for example My dishwashing machine works for about nine cents an hour and that amounts to only about a year CREECH ALSO said that some women put carpet on the floor just to make it harder to dean It makes it easier for the hausfrau to justify spending all day doing it And he said I can tell you that if it takes more than 10 minutes to scrub a floor you are goofing off Housework doesn't take that much time unless you are neurotic about it Greisch said What women are really selling is their sex and advised the women at the hearing that if you want to stay married quit manipulating and make friends with your husbands Lin Lilley vice chairman of the Iowa Women's Political Caucus said in about 90 percent of divorce settlements in Iowa no alimony is awarded the homemaker nor is the woman's economic tions to the family considered We are not saying the love and care of a mother should be measured only in dollars and she said But we are saying she should be protected THE IOWA Commission on the Status of Women estimates the value of a homemaker's work between and a year depending on the number of children in the family Rita a representative of the womens program at Drake University said laws should be enacted to force judges to grant women enough money so they can go back to school to learn skills to support themselves and their children Thousands of women are finding themselves with dissolved marriages and inadequate training with which to find a job that pays them a living she said As a result she said women often have no recourse but for Aid to Dependent Children Several women and men who have gone through the trauma of divorce also testified during the hearing at the Iowa State House Thursday night ONE WOMAN charged that a judge sided with her husband and unfairly granted him the family home worth 40 acres of land they had purchased for cash all the money in their savings and checking accounts and three motorcycles her husband owned that were worth more than each I received less than 1 percent of what we had accumulated she said I don't feel that was She charged that during her marriage her husband had beaten her and sexually abused their daughter but the judge wouldn't believe her However she said the judge did believe her husband's lies that she had given him an incurable veneral disease and that she had cost him a job by wearing a certain type of clothing to a company sales meeting She also charged that the judge failed to investigate her complaints that her husband had concealed assets some of which he had skimmed off his business and later used to buy furs and diamonds for his girlfriend Another woman said her daughter was suffering from a See WOMEN Continued on page 3 col 1 The Iron Duke It's cold in hire The energy crunch is chilling If you don't think so ask My Girl Friday who insists that it is most uncomfortable trying to work at a desk all day in a room where the termostats are set at 65 degrees But that is the law of the land enacted by the United States Congress and this newspaper is doing its best to comply with the law which with a few exceptions applies to all other commercial buildings And indications are that things will get much worse before they get any better As the man You ain't seen nothing yet ONE OF THE best informed men on what we may expect in the future is Dr John J McKetta professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas He has impressive credentials Back in he served as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Energy to the Secretary of Interior During Severin that period he was among the first authorities to call attention to the serious energy problems facing the nation His predictions if you will pardon the expression have been chillingly accurate Among his more recent predictions are that if we continue to allow our energy programs to lag as they are today a host of new government regulators will be on the federal payroll by 1965 By then he says the maximum temperature for commercial buildings will be extended to homes and the newly employed regulators will be around to knock on your door sure you are in compliance Among other things he predicts the law will require clothes dryers to be permanently disconnected air in automobiles will be banned and only emergency driving will be permitted on weekends He also predicts that escalators will be outlawed use of elevators tightly restricted unemployment be as high as 14 percent and we will have the recession in the history of this country DR MCKETTA believes it is too late to avoid all the dire effects he has predicted but says the impact can be softened if we start right now to develop every source of domestic energy available to domestic oil and gas coal solar power wind power gasohol and synfuel We also must become more reasonable about mental demands review obstructive governmental tions and take a more rational approach to the prudent use of nuclear energy It is time for rational debate of the alternatives we face if we don't go all out in the development of our gas oil coal and nuclear resources The obstructionist mobs headed by such professional demonstrators as David Dellinger Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda pose a far greater danger to this country than would the prudent development of all our domestic energy resources Inside The final boors of the slain Sooth Korean president's life are reconstructed Page 33 Partly cloddy Saturday trith high in the mid 50s Complete weather page 2 v Capitol quips kids that collectors
