DAYTON DAILY NEWS f. Kappell 'New' Lincoln Photograph Gives Ostendorf Clues mm mi ii i "I w' 0L 0miSk 'I will Ill ll mihmii Home Family Page 23 Monday, February 14, 1972 Abortion Law Repeal Sought By PAT ROONEY Daily News Staff Writer Support for an abortion rights act authored by Rep. Bella Abzug (D-New York) came this week end from members attending the second Women's National Abortion Action conference meeting at Boston university. Report of the action was relayed by local delegates at the WONAAC convention. The vote on the Abzug proposal to repeal all abortion laws also brought the only strident dissension of the convention, according to Jane Williamson, an Antioch college student and a member of the Ohio delegation.
"Dissenters started chanting about corrupt capitalist politicians when an Abzug representative tried to speak," she said. The chairman asked if the chanters should be allowed to stay. The vote was that they leave and a group of women escorted them out of the meeting." When the propoal to support the legislation came to the floor, only five negative votes were cast, according to the Antioch student. Close to 1,000 persons attended the convention, forty of those people from Ohio, she said. Claudia Hommel, commenting on this year's relative calm compared to last year's frequent disruptions, said, ''I think all the women learned a lot from the first convention." There was less dissention, agreed Miss Williamson.
A "freedom of sexual expression" proposal, adapted at the 1971 convention, was not offered this year, although the "gay women's workshop" numbered close to 100, according to Miss Williamson. A proposal for free abortion on demand received some 50 votes, much fewer than in the previous year, she added. Receiving the preponderance of support were prpposals repealing laws which prohibit abortion and allow forced sterilization. The action was a duplication of that taken at last year's convention. Miss Williamson also offered a rationale for the majority decision.
"There is a minority of women who feel our stand should be 'free abortion on The majority feel this is not possible tactically. If we take that as a slogan we're not talking just about women's rights, we're getting into a whole new area of socialized medicine. We need a victory. We can't go around making shallow demands," she said. She also struck out at the claim that 'poor women need free abortion on demand' by saying, "poor women already are getting illegal and often high-priced abortions.
True, abortions are expensive in the states which allow them, but if they (abortions) were available in every state, the price would have to come down." Lloyd Ostendorf, Dayton's famed Lincoln expert and photo sleuth, went to Cleveland late last year to make two speeches. "With a day to kill between them," he says, "I took to my favorite sport, looking in libraries for rare Civil War material. Bonanza. Lloyd made his third and most spectacular find since his masterwork, "Lincoln in Photographs," was published in 1963. He unearthed the only picture taken at the second inauguration March 4, 1865, in which the President himself is in focus.
"In the other seven photos," says Lloyd, "his figure is blurred or poorly retouched, or the view is distant. Here Lincoln is caught in clear focus, hair and beard trimmed much closer than usual. Now we know what he looked like that day." Want to see for yourself? A detail from the scene fills two pages in the Feb. 11 issue of Life. The official number of this historic photo is 0-122, and the 0 is for Ostendorf.
Lloyd is the nationally recognized catalogist of Lincoln on film. ON THIS, AS on any piece of historical detective work, there hang several stories. What trail did Lloyd follow? Why was such a valuable relic lost for 107 years? How is the public image of Lincoln altered by the find? A "dear little old lady" at the Cleveland library steered Lloyd Ostendorf to the library of the "Western Reserve Historical society. "Welcome," said chief librarian Kermit J. Pike.
"Your 'Lincoln in Pictures' is our Bible," he added. Lloyd went through files and stacks of only partially cataloged material engravings, 1 i o-graphs, broadsides, framed or mounted originals in the library workshop and store rooms. He sorted and searched idly for awhile, then "Here sits a Lincoln I never saw before!" "The story is yours," said Pike, who agreed to have a copy made from the original. After this reached Lloyd in January, he took a print to Life in New York. "An interesting Ohio angle," says Lloyd, "may explain why this picture was in the state.
The two unblurred figures at the right of the lectern are probably associate justice Noah H. Swayne and certainly Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase." Swayne was a Virginia-born Quaker from Co- Doily Newi Photo by Bill Shphr4 TRADITION MAKES THIS THE DAY OF HEARTS Could be, says Mark, and young Jackie responded with a rewarding peck. Mark and Jackie are both second graders at Belmont elementary school. It's the time of the year for hearts and flowers, and while Mark Stearns cuts out his super-large Valentine, he finds classmate Jackie Hornback on the other side, wondering if it could be for her.
Ohio Firms Join in Day-Care Experiment 2mmmimmm ioinmmm'ivmm mum iinn urn iin iinniiini aiun'mannm i ii iihii.h ininnm. mi in a imvt 1 fi 1 7 iv i I'M I lb It iit vJ -uy--LjJ 1 i 'i'i i By JO ANN KNOUT Daily News Staff Writer COLUMBUS "When a mother is concerned about her child, her mind is on the child and not on the job and this can result in costly mistakes." This observation by Donald U. Honicky, a district information manager for Ohio Bell, is one reason for a unique employe child-care program co-sponsored by Ohio Bell and Western Electric of Columbus. Absenteeism, tardiness and trained employe turnover resulting from Inadequate child-care have led the companies to this experimental project, one of two in the U.S. sponsored by industry for employes only, with no outside funds, and including a followup study of cost balanced against employe productivity.
The other center, opened In April In Washington, D.C., is sponsored by the Chesapeake and Potomac Co. and will continue on an experimental basis through June 30. While this center has the capacity for 120 children, fall enrollment was a third of that amount. Ohio's center opened Aug. 30 for a 15-month span with a capacity for 50 children in a building.
It includes 3,300 square feet of playground and a parking lot. The spacious two-room arrangement now serves 32 children, ages 2'5 to 6 years in an open classroom atmosphere. "Each child makes his own daily schedule," notes Honicky, "in cooperation with the teacher. It is the teacher's responsibility to see that each child is exposed to all activities." The child-care program, operated by the Singer Early Learning division, also Includes testing to evaluate each child's progress. The center operates from 6 a.m.
until 6 p.m., providing as much as 10 hours' extensive care for some children. The program continues throughout the year. Regina Weilbacher is director over two other teachers (all three have primary teaching degrees), five aides (two with degrees) and a custodian. Hot lunches are catered, morning and afternoon snacks served. The center is located half way between Western Electric and Ohio Bell, a 10 to 15-minute drive from each.
As for parent reaction, Pat Harrison, Western Electric industrial relations associate, says most parents are pleased with the program and their children's learning progress. "There have been very few problems," she notes, "but when there are, many parents come directly to us. They feel since it is a company-sponsored program, we can straighten It out, and we try to. One mother complained that her child lost some shoes we found the shoes for her." Results of the industry-sponsored child-care project will be evaluated at the end of this year with studies on absenteeism, OSTENDORF IS 'HISTORICAL DETECTIVE Recognized Lincoln Authority shocton. Chase was the brilliant Cincinnatian and Lincoln rival who repeatedly flirted with the presidency from 1856 to 1872, the year before his death.
AS FOR THE Lincoln in the newly-discovered picture This Lincoln, hollowed in cheek and eye, bears something of the "spiritual look" Ostendorf finds is a chief difference between the President's life-masks of 1860 and 1865. Copies of the original of the second mask, which is in Lloyd's possession, are soon to be available in a limited edition in bronze another Ostendorf contribution to the Lincoln memory. The first, "A Picture Story of Abraham Lincoln" for young people, published in 1962, is still in print. George Head, long active in Dayton's Civil War Round Table, sent last year an inspirational catalog of Lincoln reverses that seem summarized in the figure on the inauguration platform. Lincoln is about to make one of the few great speeches in the English language.
Yet his face and posture speak of things George had set down. From 1831 to 1846, Lincoln failed in business twice, suffered a nervous breakdown, was defeated for speaker of the Illinois House, for presidential elector, for Congress. From 1848 to his election as president he was defeated once for Congress, once for the vice, presidency, twice for the Senate. George heads this list of disappointments: "Lincoln Never Gave Up." fciiiiian in. iiin'-'f 1 VIEWED THROUGH WINDOW, SINGER CENTER BUSTLES WITH ACTIVITY It Is One of Two Unique ompany-Sponsored Programs ting problems.
Cost, Honicky says, cannot be determined until the end of the program, when all statistics are tabulated. "The only thing we know for sure is that the rent on the parking lot is $75 a month and the telephone bill is $26 a month," he admits. Honicky explains that even the $4,600 per month paid to Singer for operating the program is an estimate of the cost that will be balanced at the end of the year against the fees for children, cost of furniture and other costs and income. Parents pay $15 a week for one child, $10 a week for each additional child. Honicky estimates it costs $30 a week per child to run the center.
Honicky is in charge of the child-care program and three other employe-efficiency projects promoting better education. All four projects are included in a three-year contract between and Ohio Bell and the Battelle Memorial institute in Columbus. He spent 18 months researching child-care programs before embarking on the Ohio project. tardiness and resignations relating to child care. Honicky will then prepare a handbook, available to all Bell systems interested in starting such a program and to other firms upon request.
"The continuation of the program will depend on whether good child care has a depreciable effect on the absenteeism rate," explains Honicky. "This is also a study of whether or not this program is financially workable what it costs the company to operate such a project in comparison to what the company may save from decreased absenteeism, tardiness and job mistakes." Among those keepisg a close eye on the progress of this program is Ralph L. Aber-nathy, Bell Telepbene district commercial manager in Dayton. "It is entirely feasible that we might have one in Dayton someday," he predicts, "but it all depends on the results of this study of cost and attitude." According to Abernathy, an executive in the long-distance offices here estimates that about 25 per cent of total incidental absenteeism in the department is due to babysit Chemise Back CT" 1 vS I i NEW YORK "People better give a lot of parties next summer or we're all in trouble," a retailer remarked upon seeing New York's high fashion collections. And they were, without exception, heavy on the glamor, wafting memories of charity balls and senior proms.
Bare shoulders gleamed, necklines plunged and skirts billowed and you must admit they haven't been around much lately, those wide bouffant skirts. Even the designers seemed aware that they'd been carried away by the spirit of romanticism. "Any salesgirl who sells a woman a long dress for a 10 o'clock wedding or bar mitzvah ought to be arrested," Mollie Parnis proclaimed bluntly. She took the precaution of providing suitable substitutes. High on her list were knee-length chemise dresses, Including a sparkler in roman stripes.
Miss Pamis, along with many other denizens of Seventh avenue, Is convinced the chemise is due for a comeback. 'It is entirely feasihle 'When a mother is concerned ahout her child, her mind is not on the that we might have a center in Dayton i I i vs. I Doily Nwt Photos by Bill Shcphoro CONNIE SMITH 'PUZZLES' Tots Choose Activities Honicky Abernathy i.
