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18E gmtT T.ATTnrnnAT.F. NEWS AND SUN-SEOTINFL. Smriir. April 3, 19M rv 1 ashington, D.C. Where The Girls Are 5 4 Editor's Note The girls have been warned.

They outnumber the eligible men by about two to one. But still they flock to Washington. Why? Here, a bachelor girl writer looks into the intriguing (for men) situation. LINDA, FORMER MISS IDAHO, IS A SECRETARY for Sen. Len.

B. Jordan (R-Idaho) MON. TUE5. SPECIALS! Hill secretaries to be in the office from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

while Congress is in session. "In the beginning I had many nights alone," says dark-haired Natalie Martin of Ft. Wayne, Ind. Now, after five years of dating and parties, Natalie says: "When I came I was idealistic, as most of the girls are. I'd been a political science major and wanted to be part of government.

Now I see people from the inside. I'm more human and not as idealistic." NO TIME FOR LIBRARY Tall, blonde Mary Rhodes of Salina, came to Washington to take a secretarial job so she could use local libraries to finish her work on her Master's Degree in history from the University of Virginia. "I've been here all winter and haven't had time to get to the library yet," she says. "You meet men as you go MJIi v' r-v i 'ton niiiniiiiiiitiiiiiiriiiir'i i I Demonstration On Tap Ralph Merritt will demonstrate floral arrangements for Ft. Lauderdale Junior Woman's Club at 8 p.m.

Monday in the clubhouse. Mrs. Dick Reeser American home life department chairman, is in charge of the program. An Easter egg hunt for members' children is planned for 10 a.m. April 9 in Holiday Park.

Mrs. Walter Rode is chairman. Mrs. Stephen Zakany, fine arts chairman, is planning a trip to Viscaya April 20. Luncheon will be served and a baby sitter provided.

The event is open to the public. Mrs. E. J. Boyack and Mrs.

Zakany will present the club at Florida Federation of Women's Clubs convention April 12-14 in Clearwater. Miss Idaho in the Miss America pageant. She took a secretarial job in Sen. Len B. Jordan's, R-Idaho, office and says, "It's terrific." Linda shares an airy second floor walkup, two-bedroom apartment on the outskirts of Georgetown with two friends, Carol MacGregor, 23, and Diana Swift, 25.

Carol, also from Boise and a part-time model, who also works as a secretary in Jordan's office is a University of California graduate. "Before I came everyone at home thought of all the negative reasons why I shouldn't: Bad transportation, bad weather and an impossible boy-girl ratio," she said. "None of it's really true. It's easy to meet people. If I wanted to live it up, I could all the time.

There's a lot of parties." Carol, Linda and Diana, a secretary in the office of Sen. Everett Dirksen split the $146 apartment rent, share cleaning and major expenses, but get groceries separately. Each has a shelf in the refrigerator. Like other girls on "The Hill," each has been asked out for a date at least once by a married man. They say it's to be expected and they drop the man once they know he's married.

"People told me not to come because I wouldn't meet any men," says Diana, an antique enthusiast and equestrienne from LaGrange, 111. "It's true that the over-all ratio is greatly overloaded on the women's side. "But many of the women are young, fresh out of high school girts. The majority of men are law students and government workers. "I didn't come here just to meet men, but I've had no BEST MEAT IN TOWN 927 N.

FEDERAL HWY. (IN SEARS TOWN) FEW PLACES DRAW SO MANY YOUNG left, Linda Moulton, Carol MacGregor, Diana Swift ARMOUR STAR FULLY COOKED HAM FULL SHANK HALF along. Couples you know have friends and one friend has another friend, and so on." Mary works for Sen. James B. Pearson, and is one of about 15 office workers.

Most Senate offices hire 15 to 25 and each House staff, 10 to 15. More than half the staffers in any office are girls. The average stay for the younger girl is two years. Many then leave for broader horizons or return home to find a husband. Those who stay say the new recruits get prettier every year.

LB sf Shell Install i New Officers I By KELLY SMITH WASHINGTON. (Jl Ask the men: The abundance is terrific. The figures are wonderful. The ratio is staggering. Working girls on Capitol Hill are a mixed parade of beauty queens, career girls, long-legged secretaries and blonde civil service trainees-most of them unattached.

"The predator has a great field here," says Clark Hoyt, Miami bachelor in the office of Sen. George Smathers, D-Fla. "I'm a predator." Outside of college campuses, few places draw so many young, single women seeking life in a new environment, eager for new faces, new challenges and new ideas. They've dubbed Capitol Hill a "super college." Census experts place the ratio at something like two women to every eligible man. But at 5:30 p.m.

when the girls pour out of the office buildings and swarm across the capitol lawns, it seems more like 10 to 1. Husband hunting is a major after-five activity. Clubs are big. Parties are numerous. An estimated single people in the city took part in a computer mating process earlier this year.

The College Graduates Club, with a membershp of 2,000, holds dances about twice a month. Men are invariably outnumbered 3-1. With the ratio favoring men, why do the girls from Iowa and San Francisco, from Lincoln, and Port Arthur, bother to come here at an age when many girls are settling down with families? CHANCE TO KNOW NAMES Washington's attraction is that of a small town atmosphere in a world capital, a chance to know names read in the newspaper and an outside chance of finding a bachelor one. It doesn't harbor the adjustment fears of a larger city like New York and it is folksy enough to let parents consider it safer, around hometown congressmen. Washington has the midwest's and the south's broad streets and towering trees, the gleaming marble offices of a big city and a quaint European atmosphere in nearby Georgetown.

"I wanted to work here all my life," said Linda Moulton, blue-eyed brunette from Boise, Idaho. "It always seemed like pebbles hit the water in Washington and out in Idaho we felt only ripples. I wanted to be where the pebbles were." Linda is 24 and came here last summer after graduating cum laude from the University of Colorado. She's a talented pianist and singer and spent one year traveling as The Cur You've nmviNG Is If Worth You Can Trade It For A New Olds NO MONEY crv WHOLE HAM OR BUTT HALF Lb. Mrs.

Tracy B. Hare, Miami, founder of the Florida Hnsnital Anviliarv Assn will install officers of Holy FRESH (Not Frozen) GRADE GEORGIA FRYERS WHOLE OR QUARTERED Termit I 4 i i Swarmim LB 33' At I Cross Hospital Auxiliary at noon April 11 in Statler I Hilton Hotel. I Mrs. William Doheny will be named second term I president; Mrs. Arnold Waldsmith, first vice president; I Mrs.

Louis Vanditti, third vice president; Mrs. Arthur I Nomina and Mrs. George Barry, treasurers; Miss Rose Kane, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Raymond Gar- I rison, recording secretary. I A report will be made on the auxiliary's accom- plishments for the past year.

Circles will install officers at the April meetings. I Circle One will meet at 11 a.m. April 12 in Birch 1 Tower Apartments. Luncheon will be served. I Circle Two will meet at 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday in I Sheraton Hotel. Luncheon will be served. I Circle Three will meet at 10 a.m. April 13 in Coral Ridge Yacht Club. Mrs.

Charles Kutill will be hostess ff for coffee. 4 rirrlo Fivn will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday in FRESH BABY JERSEY PORK CHOPS Half Loin Sliced KING OLDSflOBILE 30 Years of Progress 700 E. Sunrise Blvd. 525-3388 Wofld's largest termite control service $25,000 DAMAGE GUARANTEE lb.

y()c READ THE WANT ADS OF THE NEWS problem." CATCHING A MAN The Georgetown area is frequented by students from American and Georgetown universities. Grocery stores, restaurants, bars and shops are easy get acquainted places. If there's no trouble meeting men, there is trouble in catching them. "Unmarried men are ambitious, on their way up the ladder. They're out for a good time, not marriage.

If your main interest is getting married, this is not the place," says Diana. "If, on the other hand, marriage is your end goal but in the meantime you want to become Involved and active in other things, this is a great city." For the girls, working salaries start at about $80 a week and it's not unusual for Capitol '(llllllllllllllll 111 Illlllllltllillltll llllllllllllllltillf lltlllllltllllllllllllJIIlll lllllllttlttllllilllllllltltllllllllltllilltlillllllll till! tlllilllllllllllllllltllllllltlltllllitllltllllllll 1 A Complete Program of Summer Camping I for 1966 I DAY CAMPING I Holy Cross Hospital Auditorium. Mrs. Leon Michalski, Mrs. Waldsmith and Mrs.

Paul Nagel will be hostesses. I Circle Six officers will be installed by Mrs. George I Singer at 10 a.m April 9 in Holy Cross Hospital Auditorium. Mrs. Carl Noll and Gemma MacMullen I will be hostesses.

Jj I Circle 12 will meet at 10 a.m. April 14 In Boca I Raton Cabana Club Surf Room for the installation and cofefe. I I I Council Sets Date RESIDENT CAMPING PLYMOUTH GRADE LARGE FLORIDA FRESH EGGS doi. g)c PALM FAIR FLORIDA JELLIES AND MARMALADES BOYS AND GIRLS Jack Wyrtzen of "Word of Life" radio and television JARS LAST 27 DAYS Take Home a Cast of 24 $6.00 PINE CREST DAY CAMP k'l. Lauderdale.

Ha. (Larijest Day (lamp in Florida) CAMP HIGHLANDER Highlands. N. C. (Highest Camp in Eastern America) AUCTION NIGHTLY 7:30, programs will speak to Ft.

Lauderdale Christian Business and Professional Women's Council at dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Governors' Club Hotel. Wyrtzen is in Ft. Lauderdale working with the college students staging hoot nannys and delivering messages. He is director of Word of Life Camp in New York.

Wyrtzen will be accompanied by a trumpet trio and 8 male quartet which will present a musical program. Dinner reservations can be made with Mrs. G. Brock Angle or Beverly Johnson. For information call or write Pine Crest Preparatory School, 1501 N.E.

62nd Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. or call Larry F. Pedicord, Camp Administrator. Brochures available upon request.

Ph. 933-4441. Family camping offered in late August. fiimiiiiw iiiii i mm iihimh iiiiiH ji MM9 Mill iiniiiiintiii ii iti iiiiih ill in tin I ii 1 1 1 in ii.t j4 i inr iir liiiiitii mi iiiiiitiiitr ii rt mt i mi imti rf i miiiimmii FREE 2 Kennedy Half Dollars to First 20 ladies PRIZES, ttEFRESItHESTS Exhibition Daily 11 A.M. to 2 P.M.

Pioneer Club Slates Speaker Floyd Brown, Illinois, will talk on "Insurance Plan in Relation to Medicare" for Telephone Pioneers, Life Members Club of Ft. Lauderdale, at noon Monday in Holiday Park. Ed LeLasher, president, will report on the group's recent bus trip to Clearwater and Tampa and to Pompano Park Harness Track. The meeting is open to visiting Pioneers. We invite you to rent your I Apartment for next year NOW and we will sub-lease it ior you this summer FREE BOX BOX STORAGE FOR YOUR WINTER WOOLENS Pay Only Usual Cleaning Charge and Insurance Minimum Cleaning $4.95 BOX I OLD MILWAUKEE BEER BOT.

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