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She Practices What She PreachesI CINCINNATI (AP) — Mrs, Jayne Baker Spain, named Monday as vice-chairman of the President’s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, is a vivacious blonde who practices what she preaches.She long has been an ardent advocate of the idea that the handicapped can perform as well or better in industry than their able - bodied counterparts if given a chance.As proof of that she employs blind persons to assemble machinery in the Alvey - Ferguson Co., a conveyor equipment manufacturing firm which she heads.She has said that she has been interested in handicapped children and has worked with them in rehabilitation hospitals ever since she was a very young woman.She once was quoted as saying: ■. •“In America we do a pretty good job in education and training — I say pretty good because perhaps we rehabilitate 50 per cent of those who could be rehabilitated but at least we're pushing in the right direction. But when it comes to giving these people an equal chance to compete for a job we do a miserable job.”Mrs. Spain, a Republican, was in Europe when word was received of her appointment by a Democratic president.The trip is one of many she has made in which she has displayed her firm’s wares in such “Iron Curtain” countries as Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia as well as in Greece and Algeria.In that connection she hasI1'''f:;j.....■;-jti'=’ ‘i :?!• ' p if * 4.iv .Ip-*i, 'til fli: *:Ml 9w• • * ! '• “jf Iill V*'1 ■ 1itfS 3-it-n- .w- iili'lrMrs. Jayne B. Spainsaid she feels there are certain advantages in being a woman business executive.She has said, that in negotiations she can say, “ ‘You are4IJune Summers H. E. Cooper Jr. Wed In IndianaMrs. June Summers and Howard E. Cooper Jr., formerly of Findlay, were married Sunday at the bride's home in Northfield, Ind.The 3:30 p.m. double ring ceremony was solemnized bybeing grossly unfair’ and the man usually will listen to me.” Such a statement by a man, she has said, might bring the business negotiations to a halt.She has shocked “Iron Curtain” officials with the knowledge she — a woman — has of the conveyor business.She recalled a year or so ago of telling Russians why one of their, conveyors never would work in their particular field and she offered to go to their plants and help solve the problem.She said the Russians backed off in surprise and said she wouldn’t visit the plants because of the restrictions.Earlier this year, Mrs. Spain was at the International Trade Fair in Poznan, Poland, where she showed a “Hire the Handicapped” exhibit at the U.S. Pavilion.Poland P r e m i e r Josef Cyrankiewicz told his aides to get information on the aid to the handicapped project.Ten blind Polish persons, who never had learned any skill but basket weaving, were taught by Mrs. Spain in ten days to assemble conveyor belts and equipment as fair spectators watched.She said it was a morale booster and “If our country shows such concern for the handicapped then the United States must be quite a good place, after all.”Mrs. Spain and her husband, Attorney John A. Spain, have two sons. The firm slje heads has more than 400 employes with annual world - wide sales of about $10 million.r.....-n
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Findlay Republican Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Tue, Sep 13, 1966
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