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16-(Scc. II) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Tues., July 10, '58 Nation's Employment in June At Record High, Report Notes WASHINGTON. -The govern ment reported Monday that more American! held Joba in June-,. ms.ooo of them than ever before. Only three timet in the past has. the national employment fig ure gone past 45 million: last Aujrust, when the previous record was let with 85.441,000; last Oc tober, with 6S.Ul.M0, and May of . thi year, with tS,23,0oo. j teonday'i report, hy the Com merce and tabor department, carried through June It. Hence it did not reflect the reaulta of the atod ttrikt which began June JO. The department! aaid that while the number of Joba was going up. unemployment increased by 300, 000 in June to 1,900,000. They aaid both gaina, in employment and un employment, were largely due to student! and graduate! "Joining the labor force. 1 ' Utile Change The unemployment total hai not ahown much change from month to month. The report also said that aver age weekly earnings in tnanufac luring and other industries rose tl In June to $79.40, a record for the month. The average working week wa 401 hours in June, up one-tenth of an hour over May I 0pWMIU IIIUI llll IIIIIUHU MmMMHMM S mm m -w 7rr Only The Finest: this is our never- changing policy , . . Yew may bt SURE: we iie enly highest quality pharmaceutical! in filling your pre- ' tcriptient. Thl wa will never change-for your good health's sake, or our good namel Capital Drug Store , t locations to Better Serve Yea ' Mala Stare: 405 State, Corner of Liberty PreseriptioB Shop; (17 ChemekeU, Griffin Bldg. I f , ' : WK GIVE Sffl GREEN STAMPS OtR STORE IS AIR-CONDITIONED BY FRIGIDAIRE SHOP HERE COMFORTABLY i. . and down aix-tenthi of an hour from June a year ago. ' Over the year, weekly pay was ihown to have gone up an average of $3.29, with most groups report ing some increases. The largest increase was $7.64 in ordnance, followed by $3 2.1 in the food in dustry. Weekly average gains of more than $4 were shown for pri mary metals, machinery, tobacco and petroleum. In the rubber in dustry, average weekly hours were down more than three houri and weekly earnings dropped.. Seasonal Gala Manufacturing showed a less than seasonal gain in employment to a total of 17,757.000 in June. The : report blamed this on layoffs in j automobile plants and related in dustries !uch as fabricated steel, machinery and rubber. June as a whole, however, marked the fourth straight month in which a new record for total employment has been set for tha' month, i There was an increase of 53V 000 in employment in June as compared with May in nnninrm activities. Agricultural activities, which normally go up more, in creased the number of farm jobs by 730.000. There were significant increases In construction work, services, transportation and public utilities. New Record' Contract and construction job holders numbered S.235.000 hst month for a new record. New records also were reported in the 2.328,000 employed in finance, in surance and real estate, and 6,984, 000 in service activities. i Trade employment totaling It million and government jobhold ers, federal, state and local, total ing 7,138.000 were new highs for Idaho Moves To Halt Try For Hospital BOISE, Idaho to Idaho's at torney general asked the state su preme court Monday for an order -blocking the attempt of a 70-year- oid orofino. Idaho, man to estab lish legal ownership of State Hos pital North, one of Idaho'! two multimillion-dollar mental institu tions. Atty. Gen. Graydon Smith ar gued that the state holds legal ti- Eden Rejects Reich Troop CutbackPlan LONDON l Prim Minister Eden told Russia Monday her suggestion for an early cutback of Western forcea in Germany "doei not leem practicable. In a note to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulgsain, Eden said any East-West understanding in Ku U.S. Air Traffic Control 'World's Finest'; Capacity Taxed by Jet Age By i. W. DAVIS WASHINGTON I - The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) (aid Monday the United States has the world's "finest air traffic con trol system" but needs to improve it for the Jet age of Hying. Another aim is to lessen, the danger of air collisions, auch as killed 128 persons in the Grand Canyon crash of two airljnera June rope must leave West. Europeans 30. I tie to the land where the Orofino I satisfied that "existing guaran-1 Charles J. Lowen, CAA adminii- instltution was established more ! tees for their security are main-: trator. and other officials ap- than half , a century . ago,, but it j tained, .... J peered before a House govern-. would be difficult and costly to The British leader left the door ment operations subcommittee to seek and produce the now-inacces- open to a further study of the 'discuss the CAA's five-year plan sible land records to prove, this I proposal Bulganin had -made last 10 expand and Improve the control comenuon. Smith instead based his plea on the claim that the "doctrine of sovereign immunity prevents the are the great speed of jets and slow movement of helicopters. Communication Slow "Present communications too ilow," Tippets said. David D. Thomas, the CAA di rector of air traffic control, testi fied that the United States hai "the finest air traffic control sys tem known in the world." But, Thomas said, "inadequate shortly a f t s r passing Needles, Calif. Lowen said he . was sure the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) will make every effort to the end that such accidents can be pre vented. He said the CAA is con tinuing to assist the board. The. CAA haa charge of the nation's airways, while the CAB has jurisdiction over economic as PEDICAB DRIVERS PROTEST TAIPEI, Formosa tn-Ptdicab drivers are proteiting a municipal move to cut the number of pedi cabs in Taipei from 10.000 to 7,000. Authorities aay there ii not enough ipace for pedicab stations and that brawls between roving pedicab drivers and those allotted station are common. . emphasis haa been placed on de-'pects of civil aviation, including veloping new tools for air traffic control. For one thing, he. said, "we need to reinforce radar aig- ninnth In hi. IpIIpf In wvi U'o.1. of air traffic ern leaders, Including President ! Lowen called it the "greatest Eisenhower. ,j federal airway project in history. "Comori-hf.niv rrnnii..m.nU c "am a 40-miiiion-aoiiar sum nals so that we can see aircraft through precipitation clutter." Lowen said he did not have the flight plans filed by the TWA and United Airlines planes which r-racriol inla tho i'.ranA Piinvmi But", he said, "the place of the) After Y0I Eat? ' ' ' safety. ClXTl'RAL- PACT SIGNED DAMASCUS, Syria t Syria and communist East - Germany have signed a two-year cultural agreement. This is in addition to a trade agreement signed list year. The two countries do not have diplomatic relations, however. Jim Houston finished his Bran ch' is University basketball career with eight records and 1,588 points. Acid Stomach James J. Miles from pressing hlsto tgke jnl0 account both disarm-1 voted b Congress this year was jaCcl dent is approximately 130 ... -,,. -""larneni anri urgent political ques-!",c .muiii vi a ur miles irom uie poiius at wnitn uwinne rNunr siair prrniission , tinn, notor,iy the reunification of ' Mr P'an expcciea to total z1 these two aircraft left the con million dollars. Five-Year Plan "The five-year plan U1 put this nation in !the first " ,:, ocrmany, would make real pro be filed against it ! pssihe," he said. "I shall Miles is the widower of a Net, ,wa , rfaA , jve h , Perce Indian woman. Ionise Ad-ii ,-, in tnu i . .,. ei" Bulsanin last month wrote to; me first-stage of the jet aae, w iled all her property to him Kt)rn' Kfhower. ; Lowen Isaid. He said it would pr Jshe dirt MAf0" .nd'vWe radar coverage over the mnit Milni in JOl Miin! l.rf.l'0 me neaas oi ine nesi iicrman, J v imcu siiair.i ni nun aimuur aim ri nw tin. in ih. ion Italian, Turkish and Canadian I give Since 19M, Miles has fild for ; Srnme-nta t A,.tr,M ft... i He drew tl hi. ',n.r.wi f k. in ..b. i sia's decision to cut her forces in problem of the jet aircraft when ing that the state health board ! Ef ' pmany by 30 000 and it is ready for civil operations," turn it over to him I asked for similar cuts of Western he said. Smith's plea Monday as 'di-! 'orc"in Wwt Germany. This I Joseph H- Tippets, director of reeled against an order of Friday! cou,d .''"' "fP ! he.CAA ofl.'f'e ' f,r v.gation bv District Judge Ben S Dunlap ,owa,'(', complete withdrawal of facilities, said- the five-year plan whirh tha hooith Lni-H .n.l foreign troops from Germany and would take into consideration the swerable to Miles and directed the' eventually towards a final peace increasing amount of air traffic, agency to reply to his complaint. trolled airways system." Out of Control Zone He said the TWA plane left the a state of readiness for system shortly after passing Dag- IOD- ipaed relief from gas, heartburn, acid indigestion. MO 10, TUMI SOS TNI HJMM SURGICAL SUPPORTS Of All Kinds. Trusses, Abdominal Supports, Flastic Hosiery-i-Kxpert l itters Private Fitting Rooms "Ask Your Doctor" Capital Drug Store 40S State Street Corner of Liberty ZrC Green Stamps He drew their attention to Rus- the CAA traffic controller , "radar eyes." I H "We will be ready to meet the B gett, Calif., and the United plane uo d do n n n o n o an a a a a o o o a a a n n r a a a a a a mm Smith maintains the state con demned the land in 1905 and paid Louise Adams $2,600 for it the months of June but were down slightly from May. Age of Youth Bit Flexible DENVER li-How old is youth? Colorado Gov. F.d C. Johnson, who's 72, says it's when a person is m. Reporters asked the governor the age of Robert A. Theobald World War II veteran whom he named Monday state revenue di NAPLES. Italy -The interior ; rector. an old apartment nouse cot- "About 60. I euess." he reolied lapsed Monday, killing at least i R-norters who knew Theobald tiro- nine persona wno were ounea in tested that he must be nearer 40. the rubble. "I auess vou're rkht. erinned Six other occupants were hos- the governor. "Sixty sounds like a pitalized. Firemen combrt the youth to me. When a fellow starts debris for others who might have , to shave I think he must be 60 been trapped. I years old." Apartment Falls In Italy; 9 Die settlement He also pointed to an annouifee- ment of a reduction of 1,200,000 ' men in Russia's armed forces, i and promised his country will go on slimming" its armies hr order f in iiiiriiKiucn wiiiiu ptrate. asked that the West match the Soviet moves. Eden welcomed these moves but pointed oiit the Russians were only copying what the Allied pow ers have been doing since 1945. jilfitosf Frantic frca DRY SKIN ITCH? peace. He; pir.t t,i,lications of Zemo a Doctors morning niippnc relieve itch of surface ikin and lealp irritations. Zero atopi scratching and to tWffW f aids healing. .LVlUU I WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY WEDNESDAY, JULY 11th In Preparation for Its Greatest MIDSUMMER SALE S Oncn 7 P.M. 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