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No Tied Hands for Jayne SpainBy FRANCES LEWINEWASHINGTON {AP — One of the top women in government, Jayne Baker Spain, has resigned as vice chairman of the Civil Service Commission and says she still will be working hard for women's rights.After four and a half years in the $39,900-a-year pest, she said she felt she had “gone as far as I could to open doors to women and the handicapped” inside government.She said the job row is to educate women on their rights and the general public as well and “I’ll continue to do that tm the outside.”After Jan. 1, she plans to start work for the re-election of Republican Sen. Robert Taft in her home state of Ohio, awl to work to return President Ford to office. Site will soon start a high-level job in private business where she said, ‘Til be workingenough women have already shown outstanding performance in federal jobs “so there is absolutely no excuse why vast numbers of women shouldn't get top posts in coming years.”But, Mrs. Spain said, that while men say all the right words about equal opportunities for women “there are a million subtle things they can do to nip things in the bud. I have seen men put on such an act they really should be on the stage.”Mrs. Spain’s resignation this past week came as a surprise.As a presidential appointee, Mrs. Spain was not prevented by law from political activity. But she said Civil Service Commissioners traditionally have kept out of politics and she didn’t want to go against that precedent.“I don’t want my hands tied. I’ve got to be able to speak out,” she said of her election year plans.IV* P m inMrs. Spain, a former bestoe* executive and a director of Litton Industries, a California-based conglomerate, was appointed by President Nixon in April 1971 to a six*year term on the throe*member Civil Service Commission, which oversees government hiring practices.She predicted in an interview this past week that President Ford will name a woman to replace her on the commission and that many more women will be coming into key government roles. She said thatO*— — « —*i La^.Ja^ 4Va A 1«*ai» T7^umi^AiJP 4-1 w V* 4J. -r W* 4b ■ Vy » V » V .Cincinnati from 1951 to 1966 when the company was merged and became a division of Litton Industries.Associated PressUT UHfyMHJoyno Spain will tKH work for womenY ONE WEEK ONIYGIGANTIC
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