Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-01-08
STEVE J. NoVAK, PRES.
LOCAL 4o7, UAW-clO

1t happened in a barber shop in
an Ohio town week before last. A
crippled young father, confined to
a wheel chair, and his young son
came in to get haircuts. The place
was packed.
When the lads turn came, he
got up in a barber chair When the
fathers turn came, he manipu-
lated his wheel chair between the
two barber chairs and there the
barber worked on him.
Haircuts in that shop are SIPS.
When the boy was finished, he
came over to his father and asked
for the money with which to pay
the barber. The father gave him
three one-dollar bills and called
out, Take mine out of there, toe" !"
$3.50 was rung up on the cash
register and half dollar return
ed to the boy. He came back to
the wheel chair and begged his
father for the SOC piece. The faith
er said, 90 K" and the boy imme
diately went back over to the cash
register and dropped the half dol,
lar into little bank on which was
the picture of crippled child and
the wording, "Join the March of
Dimes"
AS he did so, he called out to
his father, "We have got to help
these crippled people, Daddy"
And there wasn't a completely
dry eye in the shop.
Returning from our holiday va
cation this week, we were sorry to
hear that several of our members
are absent on sick leave.
Just learned that George Mile
has been in the hospital, but is
now recovering at home.
John Yurista is off work these
days because of sickness.
Sure sorry to hear that Joe
Perry is suffering from an attack
of pneumonia. He is in his home.
And Fred Lutz is hospitalized
in Magruder.
Our best wishes 60 to these
boys. Maybe you weren't able to
enjoy the holidays but with the
new year just starting we hope
that you will get a brand new
start to good and better health.
Some Texans can tell tall tales,
you know-on just about any sub.
ject one happens to mention.
That's how We learned of new
labor-saving method Texas gar.
deners have figured out.
Why, those people love mashed
potatoes so much they don't fool
around with mashing them by |
hand anymore. Come harvest time
they just roll heavy roller over
the potato patch before digging
the potatoes.
Just happened to mention how
sweet the Texas sweet potatoes
tasted and was promptly told,
"Why, if you want to raise good,
sweet potatoes like that just put
handful of sugar in each hill of
potatoes you plant" After that we
made no further remarks about
the food-just ate.
Women Are Here To Stay!
The Women's Bureau of the
United States Department of La,
Dor issued an interesting bulletin
which it calls "The Status of Wom-
en- in the United States, 1883"
Here are few of the interesting
facts disclosed:
-. There are 100000 wom-
en- working today.
-. More than half of the
women are married.
-. The median annual income
OF women workers, was $1,O45,
while that of men was around
5000.
Only 1.5% of women wage
earners received $1,000 or more in
1851, while 1870 of men earned
that much.
-. 81% of female wage earn
ers earned less than $500, while
only 37% of male wage earners
were in that low category.
These figures give emphasis to
the principle of equal pay for
equal work-which is the program
Of our UAW-CIO.
Women Are Better Educated
But Interestingly enough, wom-
en- workers in industry have gone
TO school, on the average, more
han men :. But just above you
nave discovered that men make
more money-so you figure it out.
Oh, Woman!
Yes, women are here to stay;
some are pretty smart, too. We
must give credit to
hose girls who are working so
lard at their jobs as local union
stewards.
=. Can't help but agree with
he current Johnny Desmond hit