November 1984

Published monthly by the Metropolitan Golf Course Superintendents Association

Coming Events

Notice of Annual Meeting
Fairview Country Club - Greenwich, CT
Thursday, November 15, 1984

Nov. 7-9
Nov. 15

Please be advised that the Met GCS A Annual Meeting of the
Membership will take place on Thursday, November 15th at the
Fairview Country Club.
Schedule for the Day
12:00Noon - Lunch at $15.00
1:00 p .m .- Annual Meeting
Agenda for the Day
1. Call to Order
2. Reading of the Minutes
3. Communications
4. Report of Officers
5. Reports of Committees
6. Unfinished Business
7. New Business
8. Elections:
a. ByLaws
b . Dues Increase
c. Officers/Directors
9. Adjournment
• To help you prepare for the Annual Meeting and to be an
informed voter, a copy of the propsed ByLaws (to be voted on in
its entirety), a copy of the 1984-85 Budget (not to be voted
upon) and President Chuck Martineau’s last Presidential Mes­
sage have been sent to the membership. You are encouraged to
read each with care.
• Your current Membership Directory contains a copy of the
present ByLaws. All recommended changes to these ByLaws
have been underlined in the proposed copy.
• Should anyone have questions that he or she would like to
have answered before the Annual Meeting, please call President
Chuck Martineau (914-273-3755), Executive Director Jim
McLoughlin (914-769-5295), or any Board member. If the per­
son you call does not have an answer available when you call - it
will be researched and you will be called back.
Scott E. Niven
Secretary
October 25, 1984

Vol. XIV, No. 9

Dec. 3-6
Dec. 8
Jan. 8-11

Feb. 5-13
June 6,1985

NYS Turfgrass Association Conference
and Trade Show, Syracuse, NY
Met GCS A Annual Meeting,
Fairview C.C.
N.J. Turfgrass Expo, Atlantic City
Christmas Party, Fairview C.C.
Eastern Regional Nurserymen’s
Association Convention,
Concord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake, NY
(203-872-2095)
GCS AA Conf. & Show,
Washington, D.C.
Met GCS A Invitational, Stanwich Club

Report of the Nominating Committee
The following are nominated to serve as Officers for
1984-85:
President
Peter R . Rappoccio/ Silver Spring CC
Vice President Patrick A. Lucas, Jr./Innis Arden GC
Secretary
Scott E. Niven/Stanwich CC
Treasurer
Robert U. Alonzi/Winged Foot GC
The following are nominated to serve as Directors:
Stephen G. Cadenelli/CC of New Canaan
(CT)
William J. Gaydosh/Edgewood CC
(NJ)
Edward C. Horton/Westchester CC
(W)
Melvin B. Lucas, Jr./Piping Rock CC
(LI)
Harry H. Nichol/Buming Tree CC
(CT)
Timothy O’Neill/CC of Darien
(CT)
The above listed six (6) members have been nominated to fill
four (4) vacancies on the Board of Directors. The three (3) high­
est vote-getters will be elected to two (2) year terms, the fourth
highest vote-getter will be elected to a one (1) year term.
Michael A. Maffei
October 12, 1984
Chairman

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Canadian High Court Clears 2,4-D, 2,4, 5-T
Editors’ Note: Our thanks to John Wistrand for forwarding
this article to us.
Recently, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia cleared the way
for the use of phenoxy heribides in that Canadian province.
Justice D. Merlin Nunn, author of the decision, wrote, “I am
satisfied that the overwhelming currently accepted view of re­
sponsible scientists is that there is little evidence that, for hu­
mans either 2,4-D or 2,4,5-T is mutagenic or carcinogenic and
that TCDD is not an effective carcinogen, and further, that there
are no-effect levels and safe levels for humans and wildlife for
each of these substances.”
The Supreme Court had heard scientists from both environ­
mental groups and industry present their case, and clearly he
could see a difference between them: “There was a noticeable
selection of studies by the plaintiffs which supported their view
and a refusal to accept any criticism of them or contrary studies.
I had the opposite impression of the scientific witnesses offered
by the defendant (industry). I did not detect any partisanship.
They related their work, their involvement with the substances,
the results of their studies, and their considerations of other
studies in a professional, scientific manner and I, therefore,
found their opinions to be reliable and, indeed, I accepted them
as such.”
Credit: Abstracted from Crops and Soils Magazine, 1983

O FFICERS

President .................Charles Martineau, Whippoorwill Club
Office 914-273-3755; Home 914-273-9112
Vice-President . Peter Rappoccio, Silver Spring Country Club
Office 203-438-6720; Home 203-431-3990
Secretary............................ Scott Niven, The Stanwich Club
Office 203-869-1812; Home 203-629-2594
T re a su re r.................Robert Alonzi, Winged Foot Golf Club
Office 914-698-2827; Home 203-531-1930
Executive Director . . . . James McLoughlin, 914-769-5295
Reprint permission is hereby authorized providing credit is
given to Tee to Green . . . unless author states otherwise.
Publication deadline for Tee to Green is 21 days before the
regular meeting.

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Old Tom Morris Winner Announced

cise on our nation’s golf courses. Evidence of the sport’s grow­
ing popularity is seen from the increasing numbers who play it,
from the rising sales of golf equipment, and from the media at­
tention given to its major events. Holding a fascination for
players of all levels and every social background, golf has be­
come an important part of our national life.
“Much of the credit for this goes to you whose dedication and
concern for perfection have made our courses into beautiful and
reliable playing areas. The imagination and energy you bring to
your tasks assure our nation’s golf enthusiasts of the world’s
finest courses.”
Since leaving office, Ford has continued to bring interna­
tional attention to golf through his participation in charitable
golfing events, as well as sponsoring his own charitable golf
tournament, the Jerry Ford Invitational Golf Tournament.
“President Ford was selected for this award because he
exemplifies some of the same characteristics that Old Tom dem­
onstrated throughout his life. Ford’s love for the game of golf is
known around the world. Mr. Ford, like Old Tom, is a gentle­
man first, a gentleman last,” said President Timmerman.
Old Tom Morris, one of golf’s first greats, was a greenkeeper, golf professional, club and ball maker, golf course ar­
chitect and accomplished player who won four British Open
Championships between 1861 and 1867. At the Royal and An­
cient, St. Andrews, Scotland, Old Tom acquired worldwide
fame, boosting the popularity of golf throughout the British
Isles and in many other parts of the world.
Golfing great Arnold Palmer and entertainer Bob Hope are
previous recipients of the Old Tom Morris Award.
President Ford will accept the Old Tom Morris Award during
GCSAA’s 56th International Golf Course Conference and
Show in Washington, D.C., February 5-13, 1985. The presen­
tation will be made at GCSAA’s annual banquet the evening of
February 12th at the Sheraton Washington Hotel. An interna­
tional golf audience and representatives of every major golf as­
sociation will be on hand for the banquet ceremonies. The ban­
quet attendance is expected to reach 2,000. County and western
singer Tanya Tucker will be the evening’s featured entertain­
ment.

Former President of the United States Gerald R. Ford will re­
ceive the Old Tom Morris Award from the Golf Course Superin­
tendents Association of America (GCSAA). Ford is the 1984 re­
cipient of this significant international award that is identified
throughout the golfing world with the true heritage and tradi­
tional founding of the game.
“The award is presented to an individual who, through a con­
tinuing, selfless commitment to the game of golf, has helped to
further the welfare of the game with the same dedication and
zeal demonstrated by Old Tom Morris,” said James W. Tim­
merman, CGCS, President of GCSAA.
Ford brought international attention to this popular leisure
time activity while serving as President of the United States. His
golf outings have been portrayed both positively and frequently
by the press. Ford is renowned as a man of integrity, and his as­
sociation with the game of golf only results in further enhancing
golfs attributes of honor and sportsmanship in the eyes of the
world.
During his term in the White House, he clearly expressed his
love for golf and his respect for the golf course superintendent.
In a 1976 letter to GCSAA, President Ford explained, “Count­
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An Open Letter

What to do? Maybe a letter writing campaign of support for
the ousted superintendent directed at a guilty club would be
helpful. Maybe a letter from our local board of directors expres­
sing our intent of not recommending or advertising the position
of superintendent at their club would get attention. Should we
actually help a golf course to find another fool to fill a fool’s
position? Should we advertise a job opening at such a club? Cer­
tainly not!
I am not talking unionization of superintendents. Not at all.
But rather, we should be more supportive of each other and let
the golf community know that we are not to be taken lightly. We
are not easily replaced. We are skilled. We are professionals.
We are men and women not ostriches who will bury their heads
when danger is near.
I do not consider many superintendents close friends. But all
superintendents are my peers or should be. Their plight and
status in the golf world is my plight - my status - our plight. Not
one of us is immune from the problem down the freeway.
Finally, do yourself a favor, back your fellow superinten­
dents. Write that letter when you think one of our peers has been
wronged.
Credit: Rich Wagner, C.G.C.S.
Divot News

Well, it has happened again. Another superintendent in our
association has been released and what amazes me the most is
that some of these men are being fired for no reason other than
personality conflicts or the club wants to change direction. We
cannot continue to accept individually or as an association, this
kind of activity as part of our industry.
I have been involved in the maintenance of golf courses for
more than 19 years. In the early days I admired the position of
the Golf Course Superintendent at the courses where I worked. I
have now been a superintendent for a little over 10 years and it is
much of what I had hoped it would be - satisfying, fullfilling,
and gratuitous. I have never met a fellow superintendent that
would intentionally mistreat this profession. We are caring,
hard working, and conscientious to a fault. Some of the men that
have been released have actually stayed on - at the request of the
club - until a new superintendent can be found. This tells every­
one that we continue to care even after termination.
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are hard problems to combat. But, I do not think tolerable.
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parts of the country or the world for that matter. We are many
times the local fool and whipping boy. Changing superinten­
dents at some clubs is like changing busboys. Why? I think
perhaps because we show no support for each other and we are
not backed by a strong local association. When a fellow superin­
tendent is terminated we tend to think “Oh, too bad,” and con­
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What Attacks Ducks, Bites Water-Skiers?

Not the White Amur

Vicious Tales Bedevil a Fish Once Regarded as Savior; More Pertinent: Sex Life
“I’m not convinced it’s good.”
Underlying the amur dispute is a serious problem. An esti­
mated five million to six million acres of water in the U.S. are
covered by weeds like hydrilla. Native to South America, Af­
rica and Asia, hydrilla was imported into this country in the late
1950s as a pretty plant for goldfish bowls. When some of those
bowls were emptied into natural bodies of water, hydrilla prolif­
erated, often growing to lengths of 30 feet or more and eventu­
ally taking over thousands of lakes, ponds and canals. About
$100 million a year - $15 million in Florida alone - is spent try­
ing to destroy such weeds, which soak up nutrients, clog water­
ways, tangle fishing lines and hamper swimmers, boaters and
water-skiers.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service thought its Fish Farming
Experimental Station in Stuttgart, Arkansas had found the solu­
tion to the weed problem in 1963 when it brought over the white
amur. A native of the White Amur River in Siberia and Man­
churia and also known as the Chinese grass carp, the amur has
been harvested in China for centuries as a food fish and more re­
cently has been widely used in Russia, Japan and many Euro­
pean nations for weed control.
Environmental Hazards
Although it is incapable of biting a human (or duck) because
its teeth are far back in its throat, there is little question about the
white amur’s weed-eating ability. A grayish-green carp that can
grow to 40 pounds, it sucks weeds into its mouth like a child eats
spaghetti, digesting up to twice its body weight each day. And
because 10 to 20 fish per acre costing less than $100 can keep a
lake weed free for five years, it is cheaper than aquatic her­
bicides, which cost between $150 and $400 per acre annually to
treat stubborn weeds like hydrilla. Chemicals also can pose en­
vironmental hazards for drinking reservoirs, irrigation canals,
farm ponds, swimming areas and golf-course lakes.
“I think it’s the best tool that ever happened to pond manage­
ment in the United States,” says John Jensen, fisheries specialist
with the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service at Auburn

It is the sex rap that has been hardest to beat for the white
amur.
True, the weed-eating fish hasn’t been helped by a variety of
rumors: that it would grow to 400 pounds, that it would attack
green-winged ducks (mistaking them for plants) and that it
would occasionally jump out of the water and bite water-skiers.
But as those tales faded, one scary story stayed: that the amur
would reproduce by the millions and eat everything in sight. So,
21 years after it was imported from Malaysia as the solution to
vegetation choking U.S. ponds, lakes and waterways, the amur
is banned in 40 states. Violators can be fined up to $20,000 and
put in jail for as long as five years.
It’s easier to send cocaine into some of these states than it is to
send in this fish,” complains Bill Whiting, who raises white
amur at his fish farm in Sheridan, Arkansas.
But that won’t last if Lonoke fish farmer Jim Malone has his
way. Mr. Malone says he has eliminated the danger of over­
population by producing a triploid white amur, so called be­
cause it has three sets of chromosomes instead of the usual two;
when artifically induced, the triploid state has always caused
sterility. Since announcement of his discovery last September,
five states - Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and
Nebraska - have legalized the new sterile amur, and Mr.
Malone boldly predicts that as many as 25 more will do so in the
next year.
‘Sky’s the Limit’
“The sky’s the limit right now,” boasts the 57-year-old Mr.
Malone. At least one other fish farm here, Arkansas Aquatics,
apparently agrees. It now is selling a sterile amur, too.
But this fish story isn’t over yet. Many states say they still
won’t legalize the white amur (pronounced am-MOOR), sterile
or not. Some of Mr. Malone’s competitors contend a sterile fish
isn’t needed because the amur probably won’t reproduce at all,
much less cause a population explosion. Others think the trip­
loid still has a lot to prove. “The research isn’t in,” says Mr.
Whiting, who sees the triploid as a move to stifle competition.

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common-carp syndrome,” says Tim Hess, assistant chief of
fisheries at Georgia’s game and fish commission.
As Mr. Malone sees it, only a sterile white amur will satisfy
the politicans who banned the fish. The idea isn’t new.
Throughout the last decade, white amur producers have tried a
myriad of sterilization techniques, including hormone-induced
sex reversal, radiation treatments, chemical and surgical sterili­
zation and crossing a white amur and a goldfish. All failed for
one reason or another. Mr. Malone isn’t the first to produce a
triploid either, but the results of past efforts haven’t been consis­
tent enough to produce in commercial quantities.
Some of Mr. Malone’s competitors, recalling that he was in­
volved in some of the previous failures, aren’t ready to concede
the triploid is the answer to the amur controversy. Mr. Whiting,
for example, remembers that in 1979 Mr. Malone touted a white
amur-bighead carp hybrid, which had less of an appetite than
the regular amur and was smaller and shorter lived. “The hybrid
was a ripoff,” Mr. Whiting says. “It was like crossing a tiger
with a rabbit.”
Mr. Malone concedes that the hybrid didn’t live up to expec­
tations, which caused him to stop producing it last year. But he
says he is convinced that he has a winner this time. Noting that
he draws blood from each fish and tests it on a $20,000 hospital
blood machine to verify its chromosome count, he says “there’s
not a damn bit of doubt in my mind that it’s sterile.” More cau­
tious researchers concede that all man-made triploids to date
have proven to be sterile but say the only way to be scientifically
certain that the triploid amur is also sterile is to wait until it
reaches sexual maturity in three to four years.
Regardless, Mr. Malone is already marketing the triploid at a
$1 premium over the regular white amur ($4 per triploid, not in­
cluding transportation, or $3 for orders of more than 1,000). He
has only shipped less than 5,000 so far but insists that is because
the states that approved the fish require permits and most
haven’t started issuing them yet. He is predicting sales of
60,000 triploids by the end of the year.
Meanwhile, a black market for regular white amur is bur­
geoning. One fish farmer recently showed a visitor orders from
Ohio, Kentucky, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Delaware

University.
But it is also a formidable fish that can eat leaves off willow
trees that dangle down to water level and can stick its head
above water to nibble a cracker out of a person’s hand. And it
has been known to escape from ponds by jumping over levees
which are 4-feet wide. With such exploits in mind, many state
officials grew frightened at reports that the amur was also sexu­
ally potent. They envisioned billions of white amur wiping out
all aquatic vegetation, which is needed as a spawning ground for
many fish, especially bass, and as a food source for ducks, mus­
krats and other wildlife.
In the end, nearly every state declared the white amur illegal,
and a few went to great lengths to keep the fish from crossing
their borders. In Indiana, “Wanted: Dead or Alive” warnings
were posted around state lakes; in Georgia, the state took out
newspaper ads asking people to report sightings of the fish; and
in Florida, as fast as one state agency was stocking the fish,
another was poisoning them.
While the hysteria eventually subsided, a debate over the
amur’s reproductive prowess rages on. Proponents of the fish
say it is very picky about when and where it has sex: It needs
warm, fast-flowing water to spawn. It is almost impossible for it
to reproduce in a pond or lake because baby white amur can’t
swim until they are three days old and will sink to the bottom
and die unless they are carried along by a strong current. Far­
mers who raise the amur say they have to inject it with hormones
for three straight days before it will produce eggs.
Even if it does spawn, and there appears to be evidence it has
done so in the Mississippi, supporters say it isn’t clear the amur
poses a threat. “These fish have been in the Arkansas and Mis­
sissippi Rivers for 15 years,” says Harry Dupree, scientific di­
rector of the Stuttgart experimental station. “To my mind they
never have been able to show that it had an adverse effect on
anything.”
Nevertheless, most states haven’t budged from their bans.
They defend their position by citing the example of a more pro­
lific member of the carp family, the European or common carp,
which has overpopulated many lakes and streams, crowding out
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orally, is vital in communicating with your workers and mem­
bers and enables you to explain the reasons behind your various
programs on the course. Admittedly, oral expression is very
tough for some of us; while it may be hard for us to talk to people
on a one-to-one basis, speaking before a group can turn us into
basket cases. An evening class in public speaking can do won­
ders for your poise and self-confidence, and such training will
help you in your daily work even if you are rarely called on as a
speaker.
The importance of education for the superintendent need
hardly be explained. We should be continually adding to techni­
cal skills, and with so many sources of added knowledge avail­
able to use, this is not a difficult task. Local and national meet­
ings and seminars, the volumes of written material in books and
magazines, and the everyday give and take with fellow superin­
tendents all offer a wealth of knowledge. Staying abreast of cur­
rent ideas and applying them to improve our job skills adds
greatly to our self-confidence.
Improving in these six areas, then, is the key to an improved
professional image. Improving that overall image of the
superintendent relies on what each of us can do to improve our­
selves - that’s where it starts. Come on, Superintendents, go
APE!
Credit: Gateway Green

and Illinois - all states in which the fish is outlawed. In fact,
there are so many illegal white amur in Illinois that one of the
fish’s leading opponents now is recommending that the state
legalize it because it is too late to stop the inflow.
“What we’re doing in Illinois is creating a bunch of
scofflaws,” says Jamie Thomerson, professor of biology at
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. “We’re doing the
same thing with fish regulations that we were doing with Pro­
hibition.”
Credit: Wall Street Journal

Want to Improve Your Image? Go APE
Today’s golf course superintendent has come out of the closet
- he no longer is “the best kept secret in the club.” As a result of
the last 20 years of progress we, as superintendents, are getting
the recognnition we deserve and are beginning to be seen as not
only highly dedicated individuals but also as the best educated
and informed executives in the club business. Still you can hear
superintendents say, “How can we improve our image?” Impro­
ving our professional image, of course has to start with each one
of us at our respective clubs, and I have found that the letters
APE stand for six very important words that affect how we look,
think, and act professionally.
The “A” stands for Attitude and Appearance. Your appear­
ance generally reflects your attitude. A slovenly or unkept ap­
pearance gives others the impression that you have a “don’t
care” attitude. If you appear rumpled and rag-tag, your mem­
bers have a right to ask how you can keep an orderly golf course
if you can’t keep yourself orderly and clean-cut. A disheveled or
dirty appearance, in addition to showing your lack of concern
for detail, filters down through your crew, with undesirable re­
sults. But, appearance does not always reflect attitude; the bestdressed superintendent can still have a bad mental attitude to­
ward his work, and this may reflect personal problems that are
affecting him adversely. Negative attitudes are always counter­
productive; your crew will notice them and be affected, and
your members will watch carefully to see if your negative ap­
proach shows up in their golf course. A positive attitude and a
clean, neat appearance are essential to your successful image;
improve them, and your image goes up. And if your attitude
means you don’t like your job, it’s time to change jobs.
The “P” in APE stands for Personality and Poise, two highly
important attributes of any superintendent. Poise shows we are
relaxed and sure of ourselves under any circumstances, and
being prepared for any circumstance, good or bad, adds to
poise. We are most flustered by situations that are hard to handle
because we haven’t prepared for them. If you know your job and
plan your work, you should never lack poise, whatever the situ­
ation. Personality, on the other hand, is formed early in life,
when we develop the character traits that identify us and form
our personality. The importance of personality is shown in a re­
cent study at a large university regarding success - 85% of suc­
cess was found to be based on personality and only 15% on abil­
ity. This means that two superintendents of equal ability will be
judged essentially on which has the best personality. Try to de­
termine your positive personality traits and nurture them, and do
your best to eliminate or improve what you see as your negative
traits.
Expression and Education are represented by the “E.” Ex­
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NCR Country Club Named Site of
1986 Women’s Open

The Senior Open Championship will be played at the Scioto
Country Club in Columbus, on June 26-29, and the Junior
Amateur will be played at the Muirfield Village Club in Dublin,
on July 22-26.
As previously announced, the 1985 U.S. Women’s Open will
be played July 11-14 on the Upper Course at Baltusrol Golf
Club in Springfield, NJ. It will be the 13th USGA-sponsored
competition at Baltusrol.
Press Release, USGA

The NCR Country Club in Dayton, Ohio, has been selected
as the site of the 1986 United States Women’s Open Champion­
ship.
James R. Hand, President of the United States Golf Associa­
tion, announced the selection of the NCR Club’s South Course
for the Women’s Open, which will beplayedJuly 10-13, 1986.
This will be the first USGA-sponsored competition to be
played at the NCR Club, which has been the site of one previous
major tournament, the 1969 PGA Championship won by
Raymond Floyd.
It will be the second Women’s Open played in the state of
Ohio. In 1963, Mary Mills won the Women’s Open at the Ken­
wood Country Club in Cincinnati.
Hollis Stacy won this year’s Women’s Open at the Salem
Country Club in Peabody, Mass. Stacy had a winning score of
290, two-par and one stroke ahead of Rosie Jones, in winning
her third Women’s Open. The Championship drew a record 558
entries.
The Women’s Open is conducted for women professional
and amateur golfers. Amateurs must have handicaps not over
four strokes under the USGA Handicap System.
“We are extremely proud and pleased to be selected as the site
for the 1986 Women’s Open,” said NCR Club President Bob
Winn. “We feel the Championship will be an asset, not only to
the NCR Club, but more importantly to the entire Dayton com­
munity.”
The NCR Country Club’s South Course, which was founded
in 1953 and opened in 1954, was designed by Dick Wilson. The
heavily-wooded course, which is dotted with 94 sand bunkers,
features large, undulating greens.
It was built at the same time as the Club’s North Course. The
South Course has been the site of the Ohio State Amateur and
Senior Amateur and also is the site each year of the Bogey Bus­
ters, a nationally-known celebrity event.
The Women’s Open will be one of three USGA-sponsored
Championships in the state of Ohio in 1986.

Workers’ Control Over Job Determines Burn-Out
Burnout has less to do with a worker’s ability to cope with
stress than with an employer’s decision-making and manage­
ment structure, a University of New Haven social psychologist
said.
Two of his studies suggest that workers who have little to say
about how they do their work or who lack resources to get their
job done are the most likely to experience burnout, said Michael
Hayes, coordinator for the university’s New London-based di­
vision of Arts and Sciences.
“When people have more control over their jobs, there seems
to be a lower tendency to bum out,” said Hayes, whose previous
studies have focused chiefly on social service and health care
employees.
Now, Hayes is looking for volunteer companies to participate
in his third study, which will refine the earlier two and expand
his research to include business and manufacturing work forces.
Employees would have to spend five to 10 minutes filling out
a questionnaire, he said. The results would be shared with the
companies and Hayes would be available for consultation.
“In the first study we had a lot of romantic ideas, such as that
people who communte to work might have more stress, but
there was nothing there. We found no differences between
males and females, education doesn’t seem to be a major con­
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demographic characteristics,” he said. “I seem to be getting in
on the degree of participation in the organization.”
Hayes says his studies show that worker burnout - character­
ized by depression, frustration, drug and alcohol abuse, mig­
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little room for worker decision or worker participation.”
Workers are more frustrated when they are told to perform
their job in a certain way and have no voice in that decision,
even when another method could get the job done with less
stress to the employee, he said. Such decisions often are made
by company or department managers far removed from the ac­
tual work process, he said.
Hayes is careful not to downplay the benefits of exercise and
support groups to help workers deal with stress, but he says the
efforts are directed at the symptoms not the cause.
“From a somewhat cynical point of view, it seems much
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Mm-mm Good? Not So, Says New York
The Campbell Soup Co. has agreed to change an advertising
campaign suggesting that eating its soup promotes good health,
when in fact it has too much salt, the state attorney general’s
office said. A single serving of Campbell’s soup contains more
salt than recommended for one day, according to Attorney Gen­
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office $25,000 in expenses. Abrams said the Campbell ads,
which use the slogans “Health Insurance” and “Soup is Good
Food,” make misleading comparisons between the product and
other foods and fail to mention the soup’s sodium content.
Credit: The Advocate, October 22, 1984
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salt, sugar, etc., etc. - and slowly killing us. Le f s hope that not
only Campbells gets the message but other manufacturers so
that killers like salt and sugar are removed from their products.
- Pat Lucas

Stay Granted in Lawn Case
A judge granted a stay of a $50-a-day fine pending an appeal
by a naturalist convicted of breaking local laws by refusing to
cut his lawn. Duming the appeal, Stephen Kenney will not have
to cut the yard or pay the fine.
“Many issues have been raised by this appeal. It is not a
frivolous appeal by any means,” an Erie County judge said, or­
dering Kenney to post a $500 bond. Kenney and his landlord
were convicted of violating the village code in suburban Kenmore by Kenney’s refusal to mow his front yard, in which he
grows wildflowers. Kenney, a Ph.D. candidate and a student of
the writer of Henry David Thoreau, said, “Where does a com­
munity’s power end? Part of the whole American idea is the
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