Ohio names IWY delegates

By Richard C. Widman

The Right-To-Life group and foes of the Equal Rights Amendment will dominate Ohio's delegation to the International Women's Year National Conference Nov. 12-21 in Houston, Tex., according to state voting results announced yesterday.

Announcement of who won control of the 56 delegates and five alternates was delayed when the two-day Ohio conference at Columnbus bogged down and was adjourned abruptly late Sunday afternoon before balloting on state resolutions was completed.

The Ohio delegation will not be bound to vote at the national conference for a pro-abortion resolution adopted at the Ohio session, Patricia Pichler of Parma, vice president of the Ohio Right To Life

Society, announced earlier.

A motion to instruct the national delegates to carry the resolution to Houston and vote for it was defeated.

Katherine McLandrich of Gates Mills, legislative chairman of the Greater Cleveland Right to Life Society, said the organization had been accused of being too wellorganized.

"It was their (the feminists) ballgame." Mrs. McLandrich said. "All we did was come and yote. It wasn't like we rushed troops to Columbus. It was ordinary people from all walks of life who came and. slept in dormitories and cars so they could register early and vote.”

"We are organized because we think they do not speak for us, the traditionalist women," she added.

Anne Berry of the Gay Activist Alliance, a lesbian group strongly represented at the state conference, said. "Good things came out of this conference. We didn't get a resolution, but we got a hell of a lot of support."

Ann Kitzmiller, an anti-ERA Eagle Forum member from Lancaster, called the state conference "an absolute farce."

Elected national delegates from Greater Cleveland were: Mrs. Pichler and Mrs. McLandrich; Lana Moresky, University Heights; Constance Anders, Brunswick; Dorothy Duke, Northfield; Barbara Janis, Mayfield Heights; Marsha Rinkus, Bedford, and Jane Campbell, Eva Janecek and Nancy Gibson of Cleveland.