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-i rpi ALL EDITIONS In the House: 1 nree new women In the Senate: Majority leader Sandra O'Connor must put party first I At the Capitol by Ginger Hutton $1 1 Sen. Sandra O'Connor, R-Paradise Valley, has moved up another Capitol step and lifted women in general with her. As the first woman in the state's history to be elected majority leader in either house of the legislature, she takes the second most prestigious post in the Senate and becomes a prominent example of the equal capabilities of women. Thus, the feminine position in the leg I 1 j'w. jr vy I not be back either, by choice.

Controversial last year, she was nevertheless capable most of the time as Appropriations Committee chairman, and often added color to the legislative sessions by doing such things as demonstrating yoga positions on the House floor after adjournment. Rep. Ethel Maynard, D-Tucson, lost in the primary election possibly because the public was aware that ill health plagued her a good deal last year. Three new women won House seats this year, however, bringing the total of female representatives back up to nine. (See accompanying interviews.) Ail three are Republican, enthusiastic, education-minded and ready to tackle school financing problems one of the main battles legislators will fight this session.

MEANWHILE, in the Senate, it will be Sen. O'Connor's job as majority leader to know thoroughly every one of the 100 to 200 bills that get through each house during a session. She must be able to defend the majori-' ty's stand for or against each one and be able to turn the blows she's sure to get from minority leader Sen. Harold Giss, D-Yuma. She's already expert at that, however.

Last session as she deftly fielded Giss's attacks on one of the bills she had sponsored, a fellow reporter said in admiration: "It's too bad Sandra isn't a man. She would really go places!" However, up to now, womanhood has not appeared to be an insurmountable hurdle for Sen. O'Connor. away from most of the friends and voters she had worked with during her 20 years in the legislature. In the House, three familiar feminine faces are gone.

Deciding not to run again was Etta Mae Hutcheson. D-Tuc-son. 0 affectionately as "Ma Hutch" and admired for the chocolate potato cake she served to end-of-the-year Appropriations Committee pot-luck luncheons. REP. RUTH ADAMS, R-Phoenix, will islature will be strengthened, although Sen.

O'Connor's personal power will be limited somewhat in that she will not be able to push personally for the passage of bills. As majority leader, she is expected to forgo her own desires in favor of strengthening Republican team play. IT REMAINS to be seen how this will affect some of the women's measures she has sponsored in the past and was expected to sponsor again this year, including the Equal Rights Amendment and changes in state law that would give married women control of their own earnings and personal property. Sen. O'Connor is one of three women senators this year, instead of one of four as she has been in the past.

Sen. E. B. Thode of Casa Grande, the Senate's only female Democrat, decided not to run for re-election after last year's redistricting put her in competition with friend Sen. Bob Stump, D-Tolleson, and took her The Arizona Republic women's fmi Thursday, Nov.

16, 1972 (SccJlon H) Page 1 Sen. Sandra O'Connor Rep. Diane McCarthy: Ue). JmmHa Harelson: 'A mdet voice for teachers Child care just babysitting? slat. a.

wH'i Rep. Diane McCarthy Rep. Juanita Harelson Rep. Anne Lindeman: ,5 Diane McCarthy's campaign brochure described her as "energetic." And that's what she exudes: Energy plus enthusiasm, two qualities that inspired three dozen young people between the ages of 10 and 17 to campaign for her in District 16. Those are also the qualities she hopes to put to work in the House this next legislative session to help get through to expand career education in the state's schools and educational licensing for day care centers.

Mother of two daughters and an educational consultant, Republican Mrs. McCarthy called career education "one of the greatest innovative ideas we've seen in education in the last few years." "IT GIVES children at an early age an idea of careers open to them and prepares them for careers by teaching such things as pride in accomplishment, dependability and responsibility," she explained. "It's all integrated with your regular school subjects. Arizona is one of the few states that has funded a career education program. It is in the project stage in 17 schools now and I hope it will be expanded." Her second concern is the upgrading of preschool programs.

"I would like to see some kind of educational licensing of child care centers," she said. "I feel very strongly about this. Too many day care centers are simply baby-sitting services. "Fifty-seven per cent of U.S. mothers with children between the ages of three and five are in the work force, so imagine how many kids are in day care centers.

There are some rather lenient state health requirements at this point, but that's all. I think a child should learn at the earliest age he is capable of I don't mean that every 3-year-old should learn to read but one who is ready to lcar nshould be able to." MRS. MCCARTHY ADDED, however, that she did not favor large numbers of state-supported day care centers because they would add another tax burden. "I can see state-supported centers for those on welfare, though," she said. She is also against legalizing abortion and in doubt about ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

"I think liberalizing abortion laws any more than we have now would encourage promiscuity," she said. "I've talked to several doctors who said almost any woman can get an abortion now without going out of state if she really wants one." Mrs. McCarthy said that when she originally answered the League of Women Voters' questionnaire on the Equal Rights Amendment, she said she favored it, but has since talked to "some different people and now I'm undecided." "I WONDER if maybe broadening the civil rights laws might not cover those areas that affect women the most such as equal pay for equal work," she said. Adding that she had "worn out a pair of feet" campaigning, Mrs. McCarthy said the people in her district are concerned about the quantity and quality of education and good land use planning.

"We definitely have to equalize school taxes," she said. "Out in our area, for example, one district has a rate of $6.10 per $100 assessed valuation and right next door is a district with a tax rate of $2.40 per $100 assessed valuation." Believing that county-by-county planning might be the best way to insure good land use, she said she would like to see provisions for bike paths, parks, bridle paths. "And I'm certainly not against home builders, 'but I'm in favor of a little more careful planning," she said, "not just helter-skelter building." themselves and we're as anxious to be efficient as any other professional group. The teaching profession is not against some form of evaluation for teachers; it just wants to have a say in setting it up." MRS HARELSON also said she believes the state board of education should have more classroom teachers as members because "then it will represent the profession more. There is only one teacher on the board now.

I don't know what the criteria would be for putting more teachers on the board, but I'd like to look into it." On the women's issues, Mrs. Harelson said she is against legalizing abortion because it would encourage people to "shirk their responsibility and take the easy way out." She is tentatively in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment providing a closer look doesn't reveal harmful legal loopholes. "THE 23 WORDS or so that make up the amendment, I'm for," she explained. "I've had equal rights here at school. Regardless of sex we get equal pay for equal amount of professional credit.

But there is a great deal of discussion about what the amendment does and if it takes away widows' exemptions, child support and alimony for example I might have to look at it a second time." As for state-supported day care centers, Mrs. Harelson said she does not favor them supporting instead the idea of community organization or church-sponsored centers for those who can't afford to pay regular day care rates. "I know there arc a lot of working mothers who need help to pay for child care, but I hate to see the state get into complete support of day care," she said. "People can do better themselves than the government can do for them. A statewide organization such as the So-roptomists or Kiwanis, for example, might support a center.

Or churches might improve their image by doing a social service like this." It was Monday and Mrs. Juanitalla-relson was in the middle of scitlint down weekend-wound-up first graders when she called Women's Forum for a lunch hour interview. After Christmas, she said, she would be giving up her classroom job at Ritter School in Tempo for work as the new Republican representative from District 27 trading a position of teaching for one of learning. "I've got so ranch to learn," she said, "I've been in the mechanics of politics for years getting someone elected and then letting him worry about getting through the kind of legislation needed. Now I'm the one who is elected." THE COMMUNITY LEADER and mother and four sons aged 16 to 23 said her Concerns are basically two: Teachers and Tempe.

Pointing out that for the first time Tempe has a district all of its own instead of sharing parts with other cities, she said she would like to see the college town use some of the "political clout" it should have as the state's third largest city and growing. "We're adding 1,000 people a month," she said and admitted that the growth is causing classroom space problems in the schools and lack of funds for such things as paving city streets. "THE COUNTY (Maricopa) came in and paved Southern Avenue because the city couldn't afford to," she pointed out, adding that she hoped state revenue sharing could go for Tempe road building, as well as renovation of the downtown area, building of additional parks and purchasing of land for city growth. She also hopes to work for an improvement in teacher participation in preparing legislation before "an edict comes down and then they run around trying to get an amendment so they can live with the edict." "1 hope to be a quiet voice for teachers," she explained, "to get them to act on situations before they have to react to them. I don't buy the reasoning that because we're tax -supported we shouldn't have a say about such things as tenure.

Teachers can be hardest on Anne Lindeman, widow, mother of three boys aged 11 through 10, active Republican party worker, was known for her outspokeness while secretary to state senators the past four years. As a newly elected representative from District 17, Mrs. Lindeman is fully as verbal about her primary concerns of education financing, juvenile court counseling for parents of offenders and expanding career education. "In the next session, I hope we can come up with a better system of school financing that won't foul up the schools, but will allow each child to have an equal opportunity in education," she told Women's Forum. SAYING SHE DIDN'T KNOW what that system would be yet "nobody does" she added that she did tentatively favor several methods of aiding those school districts that have too many students and not enough money.

"Possibly there could be a realignment of school district boundaries to even up valuation," she said. "I know one school district in our area where, if you moved the boundary across the street, it would pick up millions of dollars in valuation. "Another thing that deserves looking into is taking the Utilities and other facilities out of districts and lumping them together then dispersing the tax reve- Ig, xJl $sjh Anne Lindeman Rep. Writing notes is painful for mother and sick son nues back to the districts. "I would also like to sec some allocation made to districts with growth problems from the state revenue sharing funds." MRS.

LINDEMAN EMPHASIZED that she definitely does not favor consolidation of school districts or removal of local control. Continued on Page H-5 Thaiikirivinir reinimlei By ERMA. BOMBECK There's nothing that makes my morning like a kid looking up from his cereal and saying casually, "I gotta have a ndte saying I was sick or my teacher won't leet me back into school." "I suppose it has to be written on paper," I said, slumping miserably over the bologna. "The one you wrote on wax paper she couldn't read. But if you can't find paper, I could stay home for another day," he said.

I TORE A PIECE of wallpaper off the wall and said, "Get me a pencil." The pencil took a bit of doing. After a 15-minute search we finally found a stub in the lint trap of the dryer. "You sure are whipped up about this note," I sighed. "You don't understand," he said. "If we don't have one we don't go back to school." I started to write.

"Is your teacher a Miss, a Ms. or a "I DON'T KNOW," he pondered. "She owns her own car and carries her own books." "Dear Ms. Weems," I wrote. "On the other hand, she stayed up to watch the Miss America pageant." "Dear Miss Weems," I wrote.

"It doesn't matter," he shrugged. "When she has her baby we'll have a new teacher." "Dear Mrs. I wrote. "Please excuse Brucie from school yesterday. When he' awoke in the morning he complained of stomach cramps and By MARGARET THOMAS It's only mid-November and Christmas spirit is beginning to sparkle across our Valley with party plans, workshops and benefits.

What has happened to the joy of anticipating Thanksgiving? Phoenix Symphony Guild gave a nod to our national day of giving thanks for our bounty at its first preview luncheon of the season at Phoenix Country Club. Dr. Robert Hull, dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona, was guest of honor. As some 200 members sat at tables centered with cornucopias spilling a wealth of fall leaves, corn, grapes and fruit, Dr. Hull reviewed next week's symphony program, which he described as featuring primarily soloists, rather than the orchestra.

A TALENTED VIOLINIST and former conductor, he offered the concept of a conductor as one who proves the menu of music much as a chef does for his diners. There must be contrast in the menu, he said. He pointed out that the Brahms double concerto was a good choice with an overture (he called a and with Haydn. To illustrate the movements and the contrast between the two composers, he played passages briefly, then pointed out how different conductors approach the same compositions. Immediately following the luncheon, Mrs.

Gary Herberger introduced her head table which included, among others. Mrs. John P. Carruth, who will direct plans for this year's Christmas tea dance Dec. 10 at Arizona Biltmore, always a holiday highlight.

There, too, was the attractive Symphony Ball chairman for next spring, Barbara (Mrs. George) Isbell, and cochairman Marilyn (Mrs. Byron) Butler. Each wore one of the four hats seen among the 200 women attending. Other hats topped the heads of Genevieve (Mrs.

Richard) Brecheisen and Bertha (Mrs E. Payne) Palmer who wore her familiar black velvet Dior bow. IT WAS A GATHERING of many who have seen the orchestra and guild grow from infancy such as Mmes. Charles Korrick, J. Urban Linde, Barney Hudg-ins.

Robert Herberger and J. Walter Larkin. Mrs. Lurkin brought a long-time friend from Pennsylvania, Mrs. George E.

Jackson of Downington. With Mrs. Donald Tope of Sun City, a former Phoenician who has returned to the Valley after 20 years in Seattle, was Mrs. Kenneth Tope, also of Seattle. Continued on Page 11-3 "Cross out stomach cramps," he ordered.

"Tell her I was too sick to watch T.V" "DEAR MRS. WEEMS, Brucie had the urgencies and "What does urgencies mean?" "Stomach cramps." "Don't tell her that. The last time you wrote, that she put me next to the door and didn't take her eyes off me all day long." "It was your imagination," 1 said. "Do you need a note or not?" "I told you I can't go to school without it." "OKAY THEN, get me the dictionary and turn to the Ds." He looked over my shoulder. "What does D-I-A-R-R-H-E-A mean?" "It means you sit by the door again," I said, licking the envelope.

Composing the note took 25 minutes, which was eight minutes longer than the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I wouldn't bring it up but only yesterday 1 was cleaning out a jacket pocket and there was the note: Unread, unnecessary and dated Sept. 29. Republic Photo by Nvlt Ltathm Reunion party-goers, from left, are Olga Jerman and J. Larry Bell, standing, and Rhcs Cornelius and Betty Donahoe, seated.