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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27. 1973
THE TRIBUNAL AID
Postage Hike Threat To Papers
At First, She Encountered Discrimination
When Shirin W. Herndon started her career after college, she encountered discrimination,
both obvious and subtle. Now, she is overseeing as a U. S. Department of Labor official,
manpower programs which hopefully are providing employers much less excuse foi
discriminating.
Hampton Grad Handles$9.9 Million Program
It Took Her A While,
But N.C. Girl Mode It
WASHINGTON - When
Shirin W. Herndon finished
college in 1960, she faced the
same problem most young
graduates do — a lot of
training but no experience.
In addition, she was a
woman and she was black.
In spite of these obstacles,
Mrs. Herndon has come a
long way on the career
ladder in the Federal ser
vice. She started as a GS-3
clerk-typist — at the
beginner’s level — and is
now a GS-9 manpower
development specialist for
the U.S. Department of
Labor, monitoring training
contracts amounting to
around $10 million a year.
MRS. HERNDON was
3orn in North Carolina in
L939. Her father was a
carpenter, her mother a
country school teacher. She
was graduated from
Hampton Institute in
Hampton, Vs., receiving a
B.S. degree Mn Busmess
Education.
Applying for a teaching
position in a country school,
Mrs. Herndon had a jolting
taste of discrimination:
In a telephone con
versation, the principal had
told her, “You are just the
person I’ve been looking
for.” The day after
graduation, she appeared for
her interview. He greeted
her with : “Oh, there must
be some mistake. We don't
have a vacancy here.”
HER NEXT jolt came
when she arrived in
Washington, D.C.. to look for
a job in the Government,
after failing to get a teaching
position.
She visited several
Federal agencies, always
receiving the same reply:
“Sorry, no vacancies.”
In one bureau, she knew
there was a vacancv — a
friend working in the office
told her so.
Finally, she was hired as a
clerk-typist at $3,760 a year
in an agency’s publications
division. Her main job was
pasting newspaper clippings
and stuffing envelopes.
“MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD
son could do what I was
doing,” Mrs. Herndon
recalls. “They didn’t think I
had brains enough to read
the papers and clip them.
They had a ($20,000) GS-13
doing that. If I got to type a
letter once a month, I felt I
had done something im
portant.”
She took these disap
pointments in her stride,
holding onto her deter
mination to do each task as
well as she could.
Mrs. Herndon moved to
the Labor Department’s
Bureau of Employment
Security in 1962 as a GS-4
stenographer, and found
opportunity.
WITHIN A YEAR, she had
been promoted to Secretary,
GS-6. In 1968, she became a
management assistant, GS-
7, working with Oppor
tunities Industrialization
Centers (OIC) and Service,
Employment, and
Redevelopment (SER)
programs that help disad
vantaged blacks and
Hispanic Americans.
She was transferred to the
Office of National Projects
as a manpower development
specialist in March 1972 and
the following October was
promoted to GS-9 and made
a Government Authorized
Representative (GAR). The
job pays $12,388 a year.
MRS. HERNDON is
responsible for four national
contracts with an annual
Federal outlay of $9.9
million. They inj^olve ap
prenticeship out reach, on-
the-job training and work
How Is Your
Arithmetic?
experience lor older worKers
and disadvantaged people.
'‘I get a lot ()f satisfaction
from seeing young men
become apprentices, older
people being made to feel
luseful and earning ad
ditional incomt, and families
becoming independent and
able to make it on their
own,” she said
MRS. HERNDON'S
husband is a salesman for a
men’s siore m downtown
Washington. Besides their
five-year-old son, her
husband’s 18-yebr-old son is
also living with them in
Hillcrest Heights, Maryland,
WASHINGTON, D.C. —
Survival of the community
newspapers that uncover
local corruption and crime -
“the local Watergate
scandals” - is being
threatened by unparalled
hikes in second-class postal
rates. Senator Alan Cranston
(D., Calif.) told a gathering
of small-town publishers.
“Practically every day,
community newspapers with
circulations of less than
25,000 expose local
corruption and wrong
doing," Cranston said.
“They are the community
newspapers that bring to
light the local Watergate
scandals: the bribery of city
officials, the drue trafficking
2 Indicted
In False
Arrest Case
WASHINGTON — Two
.\labama deputy sheriffs
were indicted by a federal
grand jury on charges of
shaking down out-of-state
motorists in a false arrest
scheme.
Attorney General Elliot L.
Richardson said a five-count
indictment was returned in
U.S. District Court in Birm
ingham, Ala., against
Cleburne County Deputy
Sheriffs James L. Eason and
Thomas J. Dodson.
THE DEPUTIES were
charged with conspiring to
violate the constitutional
rights of two motorists,
depriving them of their right
to property, and falsely
arresting them.
The indictment said they
obtained $200 from George
Satchell, of Hampton, Va,,
on Aug. 18, 1972, and $100
from Glen Thomas, of
Palestine, Ark., a week later
by threatening to jail them
and charge them with a"
offense.
THE MAXIMUN penalty
upon conviction of the
■;onspiracy count is 10 years
in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The maximum penalty on
each of the other counts is
one year in prison and a
$1,000 fine
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in the schools, and even
subversive plans by ex
tremist groups.
■‘YET THE existence of
many of these newspapers,
plus the jobs of the 150.000
Americans who work for
them, is being threatened by
plans of the Postal Service to
increase their distribution
costs by 27 percent through
boosts in second-class
mailing rates,” Cranston
said.
A percent increase in
rates has akeady gone into
effect and a similar increase
is planned in July, Cranston
said. Further increases are
scheduled between then and
1976.
He pointed out that
economic pressures have
killed or caused the con
solidation of 605 community
newspapers in the past 10
years.
Cranston, a former
correspondent for the
International News Service,
is co-sponsoring a bill (S.630)
with Senator Gaylord Nelson
(D.,Wis.) to roll back
second-class rates to the
July 1972 level before the
increases started. A com
panion House measure by
Rep, Morris Udall (D.,Ariz.)
is expected to be reported
out of committee this fall.
Continued from Page 1
introduction to Army
reservist Sergeant First
class Margaret Kluttz who
may be the first woman in
Army history to complete a
course of this nature.
HER ENROLLMENT in
the Army Transportation
School class at Ft. Eustis,
Va., required the foot in-the-
door approach explained the
WAC who first had to con
vince some “higher ups” in
the Army command that the
work wasn’t too strenuous
for a woman. “I’ve been
working on car engines all
my life,” she said.
Course records bear her
assertion out. She has
consistently been in the
upper academic half in a 22
“man” class. Upon
graduation, Sgt. Kluttz will
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qualify as an engineer on
military freighters.
THE SEKGEANT has
been in the Army for 16
years, two on active duty,
and said “when I first
enlisted, working as
anything other than clerk or
typist was unheard of.”
A native of Baltimore and
a 1176th U. S. Army Outport
Unit reservist at Ft. Meade
Md., she also works full time
as a staff ^Hrninistrative
technicial at Ft. Meade.
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Minority Contractsrs
Training
The National Associiitioii
of Minority Contractors,
(NAMC) Inc., has received a
one-year, $175,300 extension
of its Department of Labor
contract to promote and
develop Job Opportunities in
the Business Sector (JOBS)
contracts.
“This renewed agreement
represents a continuing
mutual effort of the Labor
Department and the NAMC
to increase job opportunities
for minorities and other
disadvantaged persons,”
Secretary of Labor Peter J.
Brennan said.
The San Fracisco-based
association wUl continue to
encourage its 2,500 members
to hire and train the
hard-core unemployed under
JOBS contracts with the
Labor Department’s
Manpower Administration. It
will operate through four
regional headquarters in
Chicago, Memphis, San
Francisco-Oakland, and
Washington, D.C.
Basically an educational
Get Money For lob
organization for its
membership, the NAMC was
awarded its first contract last
year to improve the
participation of minority
contractors in JOBS programs
across the country.
JOBS provides on-the-job
training coupled with
extensive supportive services
such as remedial and basic
education, transportation,
minor medical care and other
services necessary to make a
disadvantaged person
employable.
The Association’s one-year
contract also includes
provisions for technical
assistance for participating
contractors who need help in
completing JOBS contracts in
conjunction with the
National Alliance of
Businessmen.
Final negotiations and
funding of the JOBS
contracts developed by the
Association will be arranged
by the Labor Department’s
regional manpower
administrators.
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