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20 Thy InOrs-Joumal, Or wood, PC. "The Grapevine A radio started career in politics 7 side chats by the president over the Grapevine. And there was other news the rise of Hitler is COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina Tu Chairman Robert C. Wi aays be got his start state poll ties about 50 years ago because of the Grapevine. The Grapevine, which oper ted in the rural Laurens County community of Hickory Tavern during the Depression, was not gossip but a sort of low-rent cable radio system for people who had no electricity and thus no radios.

Wasson. who founded the Was son Brothers General Store at the age of 1. was the "Walter Cronktte of Hickory Tavern," as a Greenville newspaper col At its neak in the late Ms the Grapevine Radio System bad SOO customers within a lOmile radius of the general store They paid 25 cents a month plus the cast of a speaker for muaK, soap operas, commercials and, moat of all, news. "They warned all the news," Wasson recalled. "People didn't get the news like the did today." Some, be said, couldn't afford the cost of a newspaper.

Wasson relayed everything broadcasts by CBS or NBC. And. of course, there were local reports. "Every evening at a certain time I would have what I called local news," be said. Wasson also broke in with breaking news If someone died, for instance, "I could switch on anytime and make a locall ainiouncement," be said.

The marriage squeexe Honrs, or srrrixauui amp Es8carnai -L. Investigation asked in child's death ANDERSON lAPt The Stair Law Enforcement Division has been asked to look into trie state Department of Social Services handling of child abuse cases involving two young hoys, one of whom died The request was made in a let ter to SLED hief Strom by state Kep Christopher Pracht. Anderson, who is not satisfied that DSS did all it could to prevent the death of year-old Michael Clark Tht infant was beaten to death at his home in June, several months after a school teacher told local DSS officials that Michael's year old brother, Shane had been abused After Michael Clark's death, hi- mother's boyfriend. Wayne Prawdy was arrested and charged with murder The mother. Bonnie Clark.

was charged with unlawful neglect. PSS responded to criticism following the incident by saying that caseworkers had been unable to find Clark's family at home The state DSS office determined there had been no negligence on the part of local workers The teacher. Mary Ann Brown said she felt the agency was negligent, and she wrote to Anderson legislators requesting action SLED spokesman Hugh Munn said he saw no reason why an investigation should not be undertaken, but pointed out that he does not have the authority to commit the department. "Being a member of the House." Munn said, Pracht can probably get an investigation through his official capacity The representative said he wrote the state attorney general office about an investigation but has received no reply. No decision has been made on Pracht request, said Mark Dil-lard of the attorney general's office.

Lander evening program Frank Knight, an employee of Westinghouse, receives mformatiaa on the new evening degree program at Lander College from Jackie Hoark, director of admuaaon. The new program, which begins this fall, offers degrees in business administration and computer science. For more information, contact the Lander admissions office at 229-8307. The office is open during regular business hours Monday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and until 6 p.m.

on Tuesday. Contract vote expected soon come from guaranteed Professionals and marriage by the CWA led to approval within hours by the two other unions, representing 175,000 Bell workers. The contracts now go to individual union for ratification and anion leaders see no problem in winning quick acceptance. The tentative nation contract calls for about a percent wage increase over three years, including an open-ended cost-of-living clause which could increases higher, plus improved pension benefits. Watts said the pact falls "comfortably within'' President Carter's wage guidelines.

Those guidelines limit annual contract wage and fringe benefit increases to 9 5 percent a year. But the telephone workers wage cost -of living raises of which only a portion are counted under Carter's guidelines. Bell says that top weekly wage rain nreaentlv range from $264 to $287 for operators and S388 to 6431-50 tor nmaiiers an oujci craft workers. Union leader Watts says the new contract will mean an estimated $5 billion in wage and fringe benefits to CWA members over the next three Even if there bad been a strike, its effects would have been minimal in its early stages-Only one in 20 long distance tele phone calls requires operator assistance and almost all local calls are dialed directly, Bell says. WASHINGTON AP) Telephone workers around the nation are expected to give quick approval when they vote soon on a new contract providing wage increases of about 34 percent over the next three years.

Three unions representing 700,000 workers reached agreement with the Bell System late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, averting a threatened midnight strike. The agreement came too late to avoid walkouts by craftsmen in several New York City locals, but by Sunday they were back at work on union orders. "We've achieved each of our major goals," said Glenn Watts, president of the Communications Workers of America. Approval of the pact NEW YORK (AP) To Roma Gans, it's not her fault she's still single at age 37. "It's difficult to meet men," she said.

"And it's really difficult to meet the type of man I would like to establish a re-lationship with As you grow old er, there are fewer and fewer There's only retail one way to blanket a mariietplate. "I felt (the Grapevine) gave nealw-C-bessid. mim venom as representative, was tome state Senate and rn tfc. atam iswj was LC Tax Commission, where be root. Hickory Tavern.

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The Index -Journal will not be responsible for any mer chandise sold by reason of er rors advertisements. 3 PeffsssOfii wvm mtiw. WmmI nmcy. 1 5 1 Nstasnkavfej aast 1 Ummm a KIUMI SUSS stt wonca nrntx- 3 OsstsaaavSi i The lack of electricity was the Grapevine's reason (or being Most of that rural section at Laurens County was without electricity at the time. But not Wasson's General Store.

A nearby school drew power from an auxiliary hydroelectric plant built by Duke Power Co. And Wasson's country store was near the school. So, the store got eiectnoty and not long after got a radio. "There was a young man working for Payne's Music Co. in Greenville," recounted Was-son.

"He was kind of an a The man I install amplifiers in the radio, then string wires to speakers out in people homes. The wires would relay radio programs to the speakers. Wasson, at the time, bought it. The source of it all was a big Philco radio. Wasson and others strung wires over cedar poses il for a small speaker and $10.50 for a large one.

The Grapevine Radio System caught on fast "People had very little income and very little entertainment," Wasson recalled. "We connected over M0 homes right away." Wasson said news was the No. 1 item. "People were so hungry ha uewsbecauntwt ntitau ing a whole new change in government with the Roosevelt admi nistration." he said. Wasson recalled relaying tire- Her complaint is throughout an evolving class in American society: Upwardly mobile single women-Ms.

Gans, a plnmiient counselor st Cohunbia University, is in many ways typical of this new class. She earns a good living, pays her own bills and lives And her complaint has merit The U.S. Census Bureau reports that between the ages of 15 and American women outnumber men by nearly 1.2 million. Among single, widowed, divorced or separated people, Ms. Gans is one of IS women for every IS men in her Vo-3S age bracket.

That unbalance is further weighted because more men than uaJs or in prison. Under age 45, there are three divorced women for every two divorced men. Two thirds of the people who Uve alone in this country are women. But because of population trends and cultural traditions, the shortage of men is most serious for this class of prof ession-al women which the Labor Department says grew by 50 percent to 1 4 miiiim between 1970 and 1978. Paul Secord, a University of Houston psychologist, said the problem is that today's career woman, like her pre-liberated sister devoted to home and family, still prefers a man with at least as good a job and education as she has.

And because women traditionally marry older men, the 25- to 35-year-okb bom during the post-World War II baby boom are competing for the far fewer men born earlier when the birth rate was lower. "It's called the marriage squeeze," Secord said. "For women who want to marry across or up, there typically aren't enough men to go around. The trend will continue as women's earnings rise." "It's kind of like a kingdom with a lot of princesses," Manhattan women's counselor Sharon Bermon said. "Who can they marry? They can't all marry frogs." Secord said that 95 percent of the professional and executive men the new American princesses would be interested in are already married, compared with only 80 percent of the semi skilled male workers.

"Meanwhile, the women who are well educated are the least married," he said. "Who's left over in the marriage market are the real sharp women and the real dull men," Ms. Bermon said-While reaping the economic advantages of 15 years of women's rights, some women see the marriage squeeze as an unexpected and unwelcome side effect. "It's very definitely created a backlash," Ms. Gans said.

But even if feminism has unfairly raised their expectations of combining career and marriage, Mr. Gans and most other single professional women would not go back to the traditional wifely role. "Twenty years ago, a woman would have gone to bed wth one person and then married him," said Karen Wagner, 27, a bank er. "Then she would wake up at age 4s and, oh my God, this wasnt the person she wanted to be married to." ners weu. The Grapevine also nummeo with mtauc-rhry Used gospel 'thetaxe-runi-s-er "There wero some oper as.

Cm Sunday, they would want He, his brother James or Ins mother Effie Wasson could switch the Grapevine over to a grajunophone for records. A niieranhone was used for as the Martin Brothers, a group fi aliasM BUI Powers, who was then Laurens' police chief. The Wasson Brother's quartet consisted of brother James Wasson and three There was local advertising. A drugstore, ISaddy Blake, advertised for three years on the Grapevine Radio System and credited its later success to And there were office. By USn, Wasson was weB known as the maiinan of Kick-ory Tavern.

He decided to ran for the state House of Representatives on a platform of rural electrification At age Wasson recalls, he led a ticket of 12 candidates for the job "I don't think women want a man so badly as to go back to the old ways," Amy Pearlmutter, 16. a New Jersey school teacher, said- "Being submissive doesn't get you and family nowadays are a supplement rather than a substitute for working. "When your career is moving, going somewhere, there's no way you're going to let a man step in and mess things up," Ms. 1 111 DM uve my life until I'm "Maybe our standards are mgner, sam uoj 27, the administrator of a "It's the expectations of women wim the problems of men," Ms. Bermon said.

"Some men are threatened by bright women." With the nation's median age for women now 31. compared with 29 for men, many women are looking to younger men. "A lot of women are becoming more flexible because they have to," said Susan Cohen, head of a sports-oriented singles dub here. "And younger men are better able to relate to older women. They're more sensitive." Sharon Hall, 36, a Park Forest, 111., bookkeeper and mother of three who was divorced two years ago, said she mostly dates men between and 33 because older men tend to view women more traditionally.

She said the squeeze may be tightest for single mothers: "Many men become inhibited when they start thinking about three kids." Besides dating younger men, some women are giving up at least for now the idea of getting married. Among 36-year-old women, for instance, the number of never marrieds has doubled since 1970, to one in four. While Roma Gans and mil lions of others are not particularly pleased at the prospect of never marrying, she says no man is better than one who doesn't fit her only half jesting formula for the perfect mar riage: "Two workaholics." Relay spans state MYRTLE BEACH (AP) Sixteen members of the Greenville Track Club completed a 306-mile relay run from the mountains to the sea Sunday, raising between $12,000 and $15,000 for the American Cancer Society. The runners, jogging two at a time for six to eight miles at a stretch, were so hot by the time they reached Myrtle Beach at 4:30 p.m. Sunday that they plunged immediately into the surf, shoes and all.

The biennial run featured several national class athletes, including Kevin McDonald, who competed in the Olympic trials. and individuals sponsored part iripa nil in the re-lay, which began at 5:36 a.m. Saturday at Caesars Head in Greenville County. Bet ween stints, runners tried to rest in 1- -1 Iub tuna dub members who were out an tbe rotta. friends.

"People wanted to express local talent," Wasson said sometime, it -as- very in HiHtf Squire, consumer-oriented information needed to build traffic and boost turnover. Newspapers deliver. That's why marketers put far more advertising in them than any other medium. As stores get bigger, and offer even more merchandise and services, newspapers will become even more valuable. They're a great medium to build your future on.

How can you be sure you're reaching virtually everyone in your trading area? After all, the more prospects you reach, the more customers will come to your That's where newspapers outdistance all other advertising media. Newspapers reach 8 out of 10 adults. Every day. And they reach them with the kind of detailed. THE INDEX-JOURNAL PH.

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