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About Oregon mirror. (Portland, Oregon) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1962)
Wednesday, June 20, 1962 THE OREGON MIRROR Page 5 SPECIAL WASHINGTON REPORT r* A 8 8 c Shiop OpeuùtCf S peciali employment. Recent passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act supports use by youth of existing vocational training programs, methods, and facilities. Presently before Con gress is the Administration’s Youth Employment Opportuni ties Bill, which provides employ ment programs for youngsters in the public-service and public- work areas, and authorizes the establishment of a Youth Con servation Corps for young males for the next three years. YOUTH E M P L O Y M E N T PROGRAM IN ACTION By James J. Reynolds Assistant Secretary of Labor Bed Pillows Reg. $1.49 88c Childrens Clothing 88c A.M.T. M o d e l C ars 88c W a s h Cloths 10 for 88 c Jew elry Sets 88c Plastic Laund ry Basket $*e2g9 88c Ceram ics of All Kinds 88c R e d w o o d H a n g in g Planters 88c Lg^Size C a n y o n Towels 2 for 88c L o ts & L o t s o f W o n d e r f u l B u y s ¿"a* OOt C o m e In and G e t Acquainted 2418 N. E. Union A ve nu e Next To Safeway Today, nearly one million Americans between ages 16 and 21 are cut of school and unsuccess fully looking for jobs. This bleak picture reflects a youth unemployment rate more than twice as severe as the rate for older workers. While the hardest hit among our young people are Negro male high school dropouts in big city slums, the unemployment problem also affects all but the most economically secure and highly educated of our young citizens. Because of technological changes and the de J A M E S J. R E Y N O L D S creasing demand for workers in unskilled and semiskilled job categories, the number of youth-serving agen plight of the unskilled young cies, and some States and entire workers will, if left to itself, communities, have exerted ef- reach near-disaster proportions oris in behalf of their job-seek by 1970. O f the 26 million ing youth. Teachers, school ad young people who will be eligible ministrators, and guidance coun for the work force during the selors are seeking to cope with sixties, 7/2 million will not have the problem. The mass media finished high school if present are stepping up their efforts to dropout rates continue. They alert our citizens to the situa will find fewer jobs in the years tion. to come as the demand for great Our Federal Government is er training and skill increases. also providing leadership where What has brought about this public remedial action is neces vexing special problem in the sary. President Kennedy’s Ad midst cf a dynamic economy ministration has already taken and a society famed for its con direct action and is planning cern for its young? even more. The Department of The fa. ily, business and in Labor has expanded its staff to dustry, the professions, labor work on youth employment unions civic and religious problems through the U. S. Em groups school systems public ployment Service, and has initi and private employment agen ated community demonstration cies, Federal, State, and local projects in St. Louis and Newark agencies are all part of this com to promote and facilitate youth plex problem, as well as of the solution. There is no single cause and there is no single, sim- pl- easv remedy. Some progress has b:en made in trying to solve the pressing problems of youth unemploy ment. Many companies and unions have joined hands to help the young in getting started; a D E A L S YOU W Perhaps the most far-reaching example of President Kennedy’s concern for our unemployed youth was his establishment last November of the President’s Committee on Youth Employ ment. Under the Chairmanship of Secretary of Labor Goldberg, this body, consisting of 3 3 of the Nation’s most respected bus iness, labor, governmental, edu cational, and civic leaders, is focusing public attention on ycuth employment and recom mending action programs to the President. Americans owe it to them selves to provide employment opportunities to all of their chil dren. Young people out of work can cause great social unrest; they are a source of delinquent gangs; they are even prey for communism and other alien causes. To permit our boys and girls to be wasted with the dry-rot of idleness would be inexcusable under any circumstances. All Americans will want to support the public and private measures necessary to provide each young person who wants to work the opportunity to do so. THESE CARS MUST GO COME AND GET THEM O N ’T B E L I E V E '61 FORD i * w h it« w t lli. '56 BUICK full Radio. '55 FORD 1 4 .a pdw er. fcâH '55 < « Wigoa o u t* 4 dr oufo, FORD Ranch 4 R A H . auto '55 CHEVROLET Wagon X1H, h«at«r. '56 MERC ¿ ri* vt. Country 55 FORD c y lin d e r. '53 CHEV Wigon O ’d r iv « Wagen 4 Door itd tram. it. trammliilon LOTS & LOTS OF GOOD RUNNING TRANSPORTATION 75 ¿See TO CHOOSE FROM ullicott c »t {J^>on cz/H'joxd Alpha Auto- 910 S. E. 82nd and Yamhill ALpine 3-3513