Vol. 94, No. 1
{By DOTTY MARTIN
Associate Editor
Joseph Rubbico, president of the
Back Mountain Jaycees, doesn’t feel
his club will ever be forced to
accept a woman into its member-
ship, but if it is, Rubbico says he
would ‘‘welcome her help.”
Rubbico’s comments came last
week after the Supreme Court
agreed to decide whether states
may force: the 300,000 member
United States Jaycees - and maybe
other men-only civic organizations
as well - to admit women to their
membership.
The justices of the Supreme Court
made the agreement following an
appeal from the state of Minnesota
which argues that its statute bar-
ring sex discrimination in “‘a place
of public accommodation” should
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apply to the civic organization, also.
Rubbico, who has been a member
for 2% years ‘in the nine-year-old
Back Mountain Jaycee organization,
doesn’t feel men and women should
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be forced to work together.
“We have a Jay-C-ette organiza-
tion,” Rubbico said. ‘That club has
been in existence for six years and
we (Jaycees) have always worked
closely with them. We have a very
good working relationship, but I
don’t think we should be forced to
work together.”
The: Jaycees contend theirs is a
private group entitled to freedom of
association without government
interference and that it is fighting to
preserve similar rights enjoyed by
other all-male groups.
Rubbico, however, doesn’t antici-
pate the Supreme Court deciding to
allow women into the Jaycees. And,
although he says he would have no
problem dealing with such a deci-
sion, he does admit, “It would be
interesting to see what the other
members would do.”
Dallas Post/Glenn S. Bodish
By JANE C. BOLGER
Statt Correspondent
Over 100 years ago, several chil-
dren in France donated coins to
help pay for building the Statue of
Liberty. Today, school children
throughout the United States are
raising money to Save Our Statue
(5.0.5.).
Among the students working for
S.0.8. are the sixth, seventh and
eighth graders at Gate of Heaven
School, Dallas, who are holding a
marathon on Feb. 11 to raise funds
for the costly repairs to Miss Lib-
erty.
The original cost of the statue,
which ~ has welcomed millions of
immigrants to our shores from its
post in New York harbor, was
$400,000. The cost of repairing the
statue will be a mucher higher $230
million. (As one Gate of Heaven
student humorously put iit, “That’s
inflation.”’)
The S.0.S. marathon that 88 stu-
dents will participate in will include
the following evenfs: dancing, bas-
ketball, free throw, checkers tour-
nament, pass the torch, rocking
chair, exercise bicycles, ping pong
and rowboat. The public is invited
to attend at no charge from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. on Feb. 11 in the Gate of
business establishment or individ-
causes of giardiasis in the water.
children of the family.
Heaven School, Machell Avenue.
Refreshments will be available.
Sponsors anxious to support this
marathon to save our great Ameri-
can monument have already begun
cent pledges per hour while local
businesses may sponsor events for
$10 and have their names as partici-
pants on display. :
A plaque recognizing Gate of
Heaven’s involvement in this
national project will be permanently
placed in the museum at the base of
the Statue of Liberty.
The committee of 10 students who
are organizing the S.0.S. Marathon
met recently with their Social
Studies teacher, Mrs. Jean
Makowski, who originated the idea,
to present a knowledgeable group of
facts about the Statue of Liberty for
our readers.
Among those facts are: It took 8%
years to build, was designed by
Frederick Auguste Bartholdi, was
given by the French people to the
by President Grover Cleveland, the
name of Bedloe’s Island has been
changed to Liberty Island, it
weights 225 tons and stands 151 feet
1 inch tall, there are 25 windows in
the crown of the statue which was
declared a national monument in
1924.
The students who are serving on
the committee are Wendy Kuniskas,
Arleen Casterline, Jean Stahovec,
Frank Spencer, Christopher Blazes,
Joan Seagrave-Daly, Rachel Schall,
Robbie Moylan, Michael Farris, and
Sean McGovern. They are very
enthusiastic about this project and
have even talked one mother into
the State of Liberty of plaster of
paris and cloth. The replica will be
‘on display during the marathon.
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Pro-life supporters
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
‘The Back Mountain will be well
represented in Washington, D.C.
this Monday (Jan. 23) when the
yearly “March For Life” protesting
abortion takes to the streets of the
capitol and continues along to the
doors of the White House.
Numerous adults as well as
age studerits from Dallas, Lale-
Lehman and Bishop O'Reilly
schools will leave this ares at 6 a.m.
io take part in the nationwide event
supporting a Pro-Life Amendment
t6¢ the Supreme Court 1973 rule
tegalizing abortion.
“Jt might be better if we listened
to God rather than the Supreme
Court,” said Carol Sitar of Hunts-
ville Road, Dallas, chairman of the
Pro-Life Organization at Gate of
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Heaven Church. ‘The Ten Com-
mandments were out long before
their rules.”
The feelings Mrs. Sitar expressed
such as ‘‘Abortion is murder’ and
we are taught “Thou shalt not kill”
are echoed by pro-lifers throughout
the area. These feelings are non-
denominational and are shared by
Betty Caifrey, President of the Wyo-
ming Valley Chapter of Pennsylvan-
ians for Human Life as well as
Lourene and Chuck Reynolds of
Dallas who head the Pro-Life Youth
Minidtry for high school students.
It is our belief, said Mrs. Sitar,
“That it is most important that the
young people get involved and try to
rectify the law and make it better.”
They are learning “to respect life,”
she continued, expressing the fear
that “if we kill babies today -
handicapped, mental defectives and
the elderly may be next.”
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