Julie Kirlin (left) of Boston, Mass., assistant to the GOP national finance chairman, pins a party ribband on Ruth Hickman of Salem, Ind. The helping hands</br></br>Julie Kirlin (left) of Boston, Mass., assistant to the GOP national finance chairman, pins a party ribband on Ruth Hickman of Salem, Ind. The helping hands were loaned at last night?Ûªs banquet of the Sixth Annual Republican Women?Ûªs National Conference in -the Presidential and Congressional Rooms of the Statler Hotel.</br></br>?ÛÏGROWING, but not critical . . . ?Û÷Targe?Û? . . - ?ÛÏpicking up?Û? . . . ?ÛÏfalling off?Û? , . . were the divergent terms in which delegates attending the Republican National Women?Ûªs Conference here described the unemployment . situation in a survey conducted yesterday by The Washington Post.</br></br>The delegates, meeting in Washington from all parts of the country for briefings op the Republican 1958 campaign, revealed the varying patterns ?ÛÏof their own communities.</br></br>Only in one case was the answer on unemployment . . . ?ÛÏno falling off at all.?Û? This delegate, from Palo Alto, Calif, pointed out that hers was a college town but ?ÛÏthere is also a big electronics center there.?Û?