Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 81, Ed. 1 Monday, July 30, 1979 Page: 5 of 10
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Burleson Star, Monday, July 30, 1979--5A
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by Doris E. Wilson, People Etc. Editor
total of 32 hours. At a rate of $3 per hour that would be $96.
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How Much Is Your Time Worth?
Cost In $
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What Are You Doing To Conserve Energy?
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McDonald's
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Breakfast Served 6:00-10:30 a.m.
1-35 at Hardgrove Ln.
Burleson
oj the best insurance
agents you’ll ever find
NOW
OPEN
Managerial Work @ $4.50 per hour
planning, phone calls
budgeting, financial
work
NEW
HOURS
“Eating ice cream and
keeping the thermo-
stat at 78 degrees."
There’s an article in the August issue of Parents’
Magazine that’s causing homemakers around the country to
tajte a second look at their chosen profession of taking care
of a family fulltime.
Here’s your very own Salary Rating Chart, reprinted
irom Parents' Magazine:
Driving @ $5 per hour (or
estimate from local
taxi rates)
occasional trips
regular trips
Totah_______________
Multiply by 50 weeks (assuming a two-week vacation)
for annual salary. rwEsnsauousr vm
Like a good neighbor
State Farm is there.
*Car agent
*Life agent
OPEN 10:30-5
TUES. - SAT.
Late
Appointments
Accepted on
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per
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Josh Starkey, 2, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tim Starkey, Etta Road.
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Lisa Massey, Cheryl Ed-
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Lewis, Jeff Lewis, Cal Re-
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Patricia Cloud, Trey Wells,
Shelly Ware and Melissa
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Written by Evelyn Kaye, who writes frequently about
family and children, the article is titled “Housewife Power!”
She asks, “What’s wrong with staying at home to raise
your kids and keeping house? Nothing, of course. But many
stay-at-home mothers feel put down by their working
sisters, husbands and kids.
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House Care @ $3 per hour
clothes washing, ironing
food shopping, storing
preparing, serving,
cleaning —all meals
general house cleaning
londa Tolleson, 3, daughter of
and Mrs. Tom Tolleson, 314
Bernice Court.
121 N.W. RENFRO
BURLESON
295-2211
|7’m riding my tri-
cycle everywhere."
State Farm Insurance Companies
Home Offices: Bloomington, Illinois
Wedding Date Set
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle DePratter, 833 Sundown Trail,
announce the approaching marriage of their daughter, Dana
Kaye, to Rick Presley, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.R. LoRanc of
Baton Rogue, La.
The wedding is planned for 8 p.m. Aug. 4 in Crestmont
Baptist Church.
The bride-elect is a 1979 graduate of Burleson High School
and plans to attend North Texas State University in
January.
Her fiance, a native of Baton Rogue, La., was an honor
graduate of the University of Texas & a Second Lietenant in
the U.S. Army. He is currently a professional entertainer.
*Homeowners agent
*Health agent
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Adult Sponsors accom-
panying the group are C.A.
Austin, Mrs. Janet Harvey,
Mrs. Jean Franklin, Liz and
Rick Mang, trip director.
Child Care
day care @ $4 per hour
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► BURLESON PLAZA
► DARLENE SMITH
Holly Ryan Robinson, 18-month-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rodger
Robinson, 752 Ann Lois Lane and
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Johnie Robinson, 518 Barkridge
Trail.
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listing the itinerary day-by
day and telephone number!
where the group could b
contacted if needed. Th
young people did not knoi
until Sunday morning wher
they were going.
The chartered busM
private van filled witm
gage and the ppyatfiU
mobile, driven Ty
guides, Rick and Liz A
(Rick is youth director
Amanaila Kay Basham, 22-month-
old daujjhter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Basha^l, 514 S.E. Gardens.
SOME BURLESON HUSBANDS are learning they may
have a. $35,000 asset in their homes they have not evaluated
before.
She says women today who stay at home recognize the
importance of the choice they have made and it’s time to
recognize that importance outside the home.
Recently, Dr. Geraldine Gage of the department of family
social science at the University of Minnesota, analyzed the
many jobs housewives perform and estimated their value in
the job market.
Inspired by some of Dr. Gage’s assumptions, Ms. Kaye
worked out a table for homemakers to estimate what they
are worth.
Remember, it’s a seven-day week, if you have young
children who wake up at 7 a.m. and are up all day, that’s
child-care time. During naps and nighttime hours you charge
for on-call time, as professional caretakers do.
She also added a “Driving” category since many women
spend a great deaf of their day chaufeuring children in the
car.
Her formula works this way:
“In this economic environment, one’s status is measured
by one’s monetary state. If you earn nothing, you don’t
count.”
Ms. Kaye believes this is wrong and she tells how women
can fight back.
She may be isolated at home, but she is one of some 14
million women who are out of the labor market caring for
children at home, performing a valuable job in our society.
I have only one criticism of Ms. Kaye’s fine article and that
would be the hourly rate she suggests for each of the
homemaking services is much, much too low in comparison
to the rates charged by outside-the-home help.
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“Godley” is spelled on a mileage sign at the stop-light
intersection in Joshua... .it’s Godely... .which only goes to
prove that no one is infallible, especially newspaper people
and sign-painters... .This certainly has been a Wedding Bell
Summer for The B. C. Tomaseks out on Route 5. . . .one of
their daughters, Charlotte Elaine was married to James
Kevin Harris on July 21.. . .and two weeks later, on Aug. 4,
another daughter, Vicky Lynn and Randy Courtney will say
I dos in First United Methodist Church... .Sharon Cunniff
telling a friend she had always wanted to go to Cun Can,
Mexico. . . .why, I don’t know. . . .other than there is
supposed to be some very pretty scenery down that way. . .
.heard the First United Methodist congregation were to give
their young people a hearty send-off on their trip to
Arkansas. . . .in-between Sunday School and Morning
Worship yesterday morning, everyone went outside to the
courtyard for prayer and to wave good-bye to the 33 young
people and five adults in the chartered bus, private van and
automobile. . . .Rick and Liz Mang had taken the trip
themselves last year and will be excellent tour guides for the
group. . . .until next week? d.e.w.
“Taking a nap
everyday to conserve
my mom’s energy."
The Big Mystery of where
the 33 young people from
First United Methodist
Church were going on their
Big Trip was finally solved
Sunday morning, when they
climbed aboard a chartered
bus and took off for Arkans-
as.
For the past several
months the youth sponsored
several fund-raising projects
for the trip. Members of the
congregation supported the
projects and were generous
with donations and eontribu—
tions.
But the destination of the
Mystery Trip was a closely
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of Eureka Springs, which is i
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high.
Youth, who will be vacat- I
ioning in Arkansas this week |
are:
Kelley Bransom, Billy \
Griffith, Lesa Bartee, Donny |
Duke, Jennifer Woodson, |
Stacy Singleton, Gail |
Thompson, Brenda Franklin,
Vivian Franklin, Bill Connel-
ly, Carol Adamcik;
Ellen Ussery, Vickie Per-
key, Terry Messer, Jerry
Messer, Ken Nicholson,
Missy Hannah, Dennis
Leach, Laurie Shaw, Preston
Allen, Cheryl McMahan,
Darlene Procter;
per per per
day week day
“Drinking orange
juice on even days and
apple, juice on odd
days.
($9) and a half an hour a day driving, for a total of about four
hours a week ($20), she will have a weekly salary of $699.
That works out at around $35,000 a year, before taxes. |
The article points out the only time such estimates have
been publicly aired is in the courts, where a few recent cases
of husbands, who lost the services of their wives as
housekeepers and homemakers through accidents have
resulted in large financial settlements. But, at present, there
is no way a husband can take out insurance to cover
disability in case his wife is injured and unable to perform nnimm TT x* . , , ,
her duties because an insurance company wants to know her , . ^aYe ^°.u no\\c^ a ^oca^ hamburger
value and her income and she has none. dr,™ ln has °dd'even dnve-m stalls? . . .but they feed
One insurance company. Liberty Life of England, has people everyday anyway. .. .and at that same drive-in
created the only policies that cover this situation and, so far, recen y, here was a black Camaro with the personalized
they apply only in England. % Hun^ ' •' cal churches complying with the
The article goes on to say that in the United States, Social temperature edict, are inviting their congrega-
Security, does not cover homemakers, although wives are
eligible for their husband’s benefits, unless they are
divorced before 10 years of marriage or the husband dies
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First United Methodist), left
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with their first night’s stop
out to parents informing to be in Hot Springs. They
them of their destination® planned to be there by 6 p.m.
today and spend the night at
that city’s First United
Methodist Church.
They will visit Beaver
Lake, tour dowjntown
Eureka Springs, anti visit
Silver Dollar City.
Highlighting their trip will
be attending the Great Pas-
sion Pj^y at, Eureka Springs,
where they will also have the
opportunity to see the Christ
of the Ozarks statue, outside
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A young mother, with two preschool-age children, migh
spend as many as 10 hours of her waking time in child care
and then have two hours of daytime on-call care, plus 1
hours overnight on-call time. That would make a week!
total of 70 hours of child care at $4 an hour, totaling $280 plu
98 hours of on-call time a week. ($294). %
She might spend four hours a week on clothes care, two;
hours a week on food shopping, 21 hours a
Sof32 houdr3.nAtfiaV rate^^r hojAhaTwodd'bem „ BONDER IF ANYONE else thought President Jimmy
If she spends two hours a week budgeting and planning Carter had a new facial expression... .around the upper lip..
- - -- - ..... - - - . .at his news conference Wednesday night? . . . .someone
suggested perhaps he had undergone dental surgery during
his 10-day stay at Camp David. . . .1 did hear he invited 30
news reporters to the press conference that ordinarily do
not get invited. . . .and several of them, including one from
the Dallas Morning News, were called on for questions. . .
.He will, he said, no longer hold press meetings just in the
nation’s capitol. . . .but in traveling about the country will
call Media Meetings “so my voice will be heard”. . . .
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POT POURRI: Have you noticed a
drive-in has odd-even drive-in stalls? . .
people everyday anyway. . . .and at that same drive-in
was a black Camaro with the personalized
license tag “Hungry”... .Local churches, complying with the
tions to dress comfortably at services. .< .men in their shirt
sleeves and women in sun dresses. . .Hazel Deering had
members of the Business and Proffessional Women’s Club
after the children are grown or before the wife turns SO. °ut her home on Wildwood Lane for a salad supper last
Then she gets nothing. In short, homemakers are entirely Tuesday evenmg 18-month_old, brown-eyed Holly Ryan
dep^dent upon the goodwill of their husbands. “ .^d X'
older^ouplesiZi ^ba^' '
hves canng for them famthes, that goodwill may not be , Thursday what Cory „Xed S
It’s hard for a young parent caring for children at home . rniu......;
and coping with the million and one crises that make up- ^-.n.imnther ri., tar-n P&ue-■■-and i was a very proud
running the household to remember that she is not entirely,^ w, Ha™ , T’ J k r?Kght the ‘Fu ‘he
j 6 « newspaper. . . .Have you noticed how the name of the town
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Mystery Solved!!!
Methodist Youth Tahe Off For Arkansas
guarded secret. Only the associate to the pastor
planners knew. O
A few days before time of the church at 10:40
departure, letters were sent
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Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 81, Ed. 1 Monday, July 30, 1979, newspaper, July 30, 1979; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1218632/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.