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Page 30 Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 25,1977 Woman's world All-woman team prepares autos JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Every day is Ladies’ Day down on the docks of this bus tling Florida seaport, where 139 women jockey thousands of just-off-the-ship new cars and trucks back and forth and around the half-mile-square area that stretches along the St. John River. Their job at this port of entry is to carry out the installation work order taped to the wind shield of every car in the 3,000- car shipments. Radio, air conditioner and stripe for one, air conditioner and vinyl top for another, car pet saver for the four-door, and so on, for 2,997 more. All are routinely washed, un dercoated and glazed before they are parked in a designated row to be picked up and trucked to Toyota dealers. The crew’s supervisor, Paul ine Swaim, says the women are a lot better at the tough, techni cal and physically demanding job than the college kids used in the work up until seven years ago. “First thing the guys wanted to do was let ’em rip — see how fast they could go. The re sult: collisions — one after an other,” she says. “But the ladies are real nice with the cars. They pamper and coddle them and their work is always neat and precise. You should see the tape striping job they do on the cars.” What is popularly known as the Talleyrand Relay starts be tween 6:45 and 7 every morning when the women come tooting down Talleyrand Avenue on Jacksonville’s north side past the guard at the Southeast To yota Distributors’ gate. Minutes later they fan out in teams — married, widowed and divorced women; deserted wives, new brides, grand mothers and teen-agers; for mer telephone operators, facto ry workers, waitresses, seamst resses, saleswomen and house wives; pigtailed, upswept, bandannaed, denimed, smocked, sneakered and moccasined, they’re ready to start. HEARING AID SPECIALIST Rodger C. Olson Will be at Andersons Opticians the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 9-12. No obligation to have your hearing tested. Call 228-4822 For Appointment WM STO! I R R Suave. I I /AA nature l I ESSENCE I I ft te/ SHAMPOOS I I v // * z s ,ze I \\ / Delicate floral or fruit scents to choose f / \ y// from. I ps Km %. I II I ewrYe 1/ | QhjvP I A l\ \ VIAMR M > I I I 11 I \vCz W x ' \\ \ vt * M * r *’ /// I I I | I Hd V College-Hill I I gS Shopping Plaza I [ ■"■■■« Griffin, Ga. I First into the cars stretched in neat rows as far as the eye can see is the wash team. “Eight of them get 1,500 cars a day through the car wash,” their supervisor boasts. Philippine-born Nancy Ber chlett, 4-feet-11, who weighs less than 100 pounds, has been on the wash team for five years, and also does under coating and glazing. “I love it and make many friends,” she says. She is up at 5 a.m. to fix lunch for her husband and two small children. Before work she drops the kids off at a nursery and collects them on the way home. As soon as the conveyor belt moves her vehicle out of the wash cycle, Nancy darts in and beeps off to park it in the radio line. There the radio team takes over. The head of the team, Liz Davis, is a statuesque, red-hair ed woman with carefully var nished nails and the current Vogue on the top of her tool tray. She left a job as an assist ant fashion buyer to join the “ladies.” At the age of 7 she was taking apart radios and air conditioners and putting them together again. “I came by it naturally,” she says. “My father’s an electrical engineer and I guess I just re verted. Couldn’t stand being caged indoors and never seeing daylight.” Because of the mechanical skills required in their work, Liz and the four assistants she trained are the elite — highest paid —of the women. Shirley Jackson almost didn’t make it. her first day on the job she narrowly missed run ning over the supervisor. “Never drove a car with a stick shift before,” she re called. “I just froze and couldn’t stop. But that Pauline, she didn’t fire me. She told me to go home and learn to drive a stick shift car. So I borrowed an old truck and drove it around a field until I got the hang of it.” A ' i U \V\ % .• ■J*|> r/ J1 wW, A F Jwl «w m ■■ *■ TIRING WORK—Betty Hutson, former telephone operator who is now one of 139 women working on the docks at Jacksonville, Fla., to prepare new cars for distribution to dealers, replaces damaged tire. Happy Birthday! Chuck Cruse Chuck Cruse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Cruse celebrated his sixth birthday with a party at his home. Games were played and prizes were awarded to the winners. Cake, ice cream and punch were served to the following guests: Anna Heaton, Alan Pierce, Brian Hollingsworth, Isaura and Beth Maddox, Shawn Rawls, Travis Young, John Gray, Mildred Heaton, Ann Pierce, Becky Hollingsworth, Freida Maddox, Robert and Nelda Rawls. Gayle Brown, Preston Var nadoe, Glenda Young, Tracy Rawls, Mr. and Mrs. Shannon Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Clomer Rawls (maternal grand parents), Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Cruse (parents) and the honoree, Chuck Cruse. Jasen Taylor Jasen Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Taylor, celebrated his second birthday with a party at his home. Cake, ice cream and punch were served to guests. Attending were: Mrs. Rachel Williams, Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Taylor (grandparents), Kathy Williams, Carol Williams, Toni Williams, Terry Williams, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Williams (grandparents), Mrs. H. Davis (grandmother), Mrs. Peggy Saunders, Patty and Al, Mrs. E.W. Williams (grandmother), Mrs. Rosa Pelt, Mrs. Edna Blankenship (grandmother), Mr. Ken Bishop, the honoree and his parents. 'l~ ■ r W il 'AU ... . ■ ■» zz '2 ± R She has four years to get ready for college. So do you. Right now, she’s a freshman in high school. And college seems far away. But it’s not. It’s coming, and it’s going to be expensive. Start getting ready for it now with a cer ‘ tificate of deposit savings plan at Commercial Bank. It can help ease the financial pain of sending her away to school. 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Deep-sea fish with sweet vinegar sauce is made with sil verfish, whiptail or hake — fish caught south of the equator and fairly unknown in Japan — with rice wine, ginger, egg yolk, soy sauce, vinegar, green peppers and pineapple. These are just a couple of the hundreds of recipes being de veloped. A number were dis tributed to thousands of people during a food week fair in Tok yo, where samples of the foods were offered. “It’s the first time I’ve eaten it and it’s quite good,” said 76- year-old Mitsugoro Kokaji of Tokyo, trying the crustaceans, “oki-ami” in Japanese. “It doesn’t taste too much like fish,” said Mrs. Masami Yabe, 44, also of Tokyo. The food week fair is a bi annual event sponsored by the Agriculture and Forestry Minis try, the Economic Planning Agency and the Tokyo metro po 1 i ta n government. What made this one different was its big new exhibit under the theme, “Eatihg Habits in the Age of 200-Mile Economic Zones.” With the United States, the Soviet Union and Canada al ready having declared 200-mile zones, Japanese fishermen will be netting less tuna, bonito, salmon, herring and other pop ular fish, which supply the Japanese with 51 per cent of their animal protein. The effects of higher prices for fewer fish will not be felt for some time, officials say, but the fishery agency nonetheless has embarked on a program to raise enthusiasm for and knowledge about unpopular and unknown fish. It has built a 3,300-ton deep sea fishing vessel, targeted $700,000 each year for eight years to promote mackerel, sardines and other fish avail able to Japan, and stepped up research on the shrimp-like crustaceans, an important food for fishes and whales and a fu ture protein source for humans. 5S 6 *** Nino Cerruti * t VT presents the classic rjf Vested Navy Suit Navy Blue gabardine that faithfully and flatteringly 1 the body. Polyester, unrumpled <n:r Rue H2o°° t° s l3s°° Also Available In: Brown Grey Medium Blue - J T 1 sa~i T ' ©xfurh S’lwp FIFTH AND SOLOMON SPALDING SQUARE “Deep sea fish have such big eyes and thick skins that they aren’t attractive to people at first,” said Mrs. Atsuko Taka hashi, a professor at Tokyo Women’s Nutrition College. “But you don’t know how they will taste until you try, so that’s what we’re doing — get ting people to taste them.” She said the reaction was generally favorable, and the free recipe cards were picked up readily. Another object of the cam paign is to make better and dif ferent uses of the kinds of fish that have been in the Japanese markets all along, but not fa vored by Japanese palates.
