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2 MA'L TRIBUNE, McdforJ, Or. Tt.ursfy, J.n. 14, 1960 Most Firms Reported To Be Seeking Executive Talent jr ' ft By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York -UPD- Just about every average sized company today is on the prowl for e x e c u tives and they're willing to pay from 810,000 to $40,000 an nually - with fringes here and there. E x ecutives most in de m a nd are Elmer Waber sales experts. Then come engineers follow ed by manufacturing produc tion executives. It seems that financial and marketing ex ecutives are the least sought after. William A. Hertan, presi dent of Executive Manpower Co., management recruiting firm, discovered these facts in a survey of firms with sales ranging from SI million to S40 million annually. Difficulty With Executives The smaller businesses find difficulty in getting the right executives. They practically are unanimous in reporting scarcity of available people to man the jobs they have open or plan to have open. "A small firm such as ours, says the head of a company with $6 million annual sales, "is handicapped in being un able to select executive per sonnel from a large number of younger employes, as sub stantially large firms can. "Among those available from outside, many are, of course, the rejects of these large firms.' Another complains that it is difficult to find executives with engineering background coupled with administrative talent. "You still have to gamble" in selecting executives, says another company head. Hertan found in his survey that nearly 88 per cent of the job openings for these average-sized firms falls in the S10.000 to S20.000 salary cate gory. Some 10 per cent will pay $20,000 to S40.000 and 2 per cent will pay $40,000 or more for top executives. Sixty-nine per cent of the management jobs will be new ly created and the remainder will be replacements. Last year the firms survey ed reported they had to go outside the company about half the time to fill posts pay ing from $10,000 to S100,000. Most firms of moderate size were found to have no man agement development pro gram. Here is how they find Air Pollution May Be Solved By Research Look This Way 9467 SIZES 12V-2214 3 V It New York - Highly signi ficant scientific data which may eventually lead to a solu tion to air pollution have been developed through research financed by e American Petroleum Institute, accord ing to the magazine "Oil Facts." The institute has invested more tnan $1.3 mmion in air Dollution studies since 1952. During the same period individual oil companies spent an additional $66 million m the development of controls designed to provide purer air in the communities where they operate and the U.S, government also has conduct ed intensive studies in the field, the new API publica tion said. Complex Mixture As a result, scientists have decided that the smog which plagues Los Angeles and some other urban areas is a com plex mixture of gases, minute solids and liquid droplets. Some of these start out as harmless chemicals but turn into new and highly irritat ing compounds when irradiat ed by strong sunlight, "Oil Facts" reports. The institute has estab lished 14 projects at such places as the Franklin Insti tute, the Universities of Wis consin, Illinois and Califor nia, the Stanford Research Institute, the Industrial Hy giene Foundation and the Armour Research Foundation. Nine projects have been com pleted. Work on the others is still in progress. executives: Promotions with in the company, 18.5 per cent; advertising, , 17.4 per cent; employment agency, 14 per cent, and management recruit ed. 12.2 per cent. Seven per cent of the com panies admitted they raided competitors for their execu tives. Varied Compensation Plans Most favored compensation arrangements for new execu tives is salary plus bonus. Next came straight salary. Salary plus merit raise was in third place, and salary plus commissions, fourth. Two other methods salary plus deferred payment and salary plus stock options were tied for fifth place in the survey. The companies reported on the age of their executives: Age 45, 35.5 per cent; age 50, 29.6 per cent; age 40, 14 per cent. Only 2 per cent went as low as age 35 and only one company reported a siau averaging 65 years old. Less than 4 per cent gave top man agement as 60 years. A majority - about 62 per cent of the companies - re ported they had no mandatory retirement age. Of those that did, 83.3 per cent set retire ment at age 65. A smattering of replies ranged from 58 through 70. Big Firms Surveyed Hertan surveyed big corpor ations last summer. They, too, , held a majority of their execu- j tive positions in the $10,000 to j $20,000 range. ; Most of the big companies, i unlike the smaller ones, have ! internal development pro grams for executives, al though they admitted that more than one-fourth of the executives placed in the $75, 000 to $100,000 salary cate gory had to be found outside the companies. Among the big companies, engineers come first in the group of executives in de mand. Then come sales execu tives followed by manufactur ing - production men. Like the smaller companies, fi nancial talent is way down on the list. I ROYAL NAMES Washington .- Six states -Georgia. Maryland. North and South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia - were named in honor of British monarchs. In 1887, Henrich Hertz NEW MAIL ROUTE showed that waves emitted by an electric spark produced another spark in a nearby loop of wire. These "Hertzian Waves" are the basis of radio. Washington - The first air mail from the U.S. mainland to Hawaii was flown as the route opened on Nov. 23, 1935. REBEL FARMER RELOCATED - Stanley and left the United States rather than sub- Yankus, the rebel farmer , who fled from mit to federal wheat controls. Yankus holds his Dowagiac, Mich., farm to find freedom, his daughter, Karen. With him are his wife is pictured with his family outside their Mildred, and sons Russell and Dennis, home in Grange, a suburb of Adelaide, Aus tralia. Yankus sold his farm in April, 1959, (ypi Telephoto) New Fruit Machine Speeds Harvesting Chicago - (Science Service) - Fruit growers can harvest as many as 60 trees per hour with a crew of only three men by using a new fruit col lecting machine described to the American Society of Ag ricultural Engineers here. The apparatus consists of two low profile, self-propelling catch ing conveyors positioned on either side, of a tree. A boom shaker extends over the catch ing conveyors and clamps around and shakes the tree limb to remove the fruit. The machine was described by P. A. Adrian of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, and R. B. Fridley and C. R. Kaup ke of the University of Cali fornia's agricultural experi ment station at Davis. Battleships of the U.S. Navy are named for the states. THE ALWAYS FRESH QUALITY EGGS Don't Take Less Korners the Best FABER'S SUPER MARKET C. Point COGSWELL'S MARKET Gold Hill CITY MARKET GRANDVIEW MARKET Medford HAWTHORNE MARKET Medford Medford Sams Valley KORNER FARM WHERE THE EGG COMES FIRST UL 5-1 190 From now through Spring, you'll receive compliments for this smart fashion with a graceful sweep of collar. Just right for shorter, fuller fig ures. Printed Pattern 9467: Half Sizes 12l2, 14l2. I6V2, I8V2, 20l2, 222. Size 16 1 2 requires 3 is yards 39-inch fabric. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Mar tin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St.. New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUM BER. JUST OUT! Big. new 1960 Spring and Summer Pattern Catalog in vivid, full -color. Over 100 smart styles ... all sizes . . . all occasions. Send now! Only 25c. Winter Driving Cautions Urged Chicago - (LTD - The Nation al Safety Council says that winter need not be a danger ous time to drive if you: 1. Winterize your car, your driving techniques and your attitudes. Normal speeds, of ten are too fast for winter conditions. 2. Use good tires, prefer ably snow tires. For more severe conditions, use rein forced tire chains. 3. Keep windshield and windows clear and wiper blades, heater and defroster in proper operating condition. 3. Get the feel of the road as soon as you start out (but away from the hazards of other cars). Cautiously try your brakes or gently press your accelerator to learn how slippery the road surface is. Then adjust your speed ac cordingly. 5. Keep well back of the vehicle ahead to give yourself plenty of room for an emer gency stop. 6. Pump your brakes to maintain best steering control when braking on ice or slip pery snow. Jamming on the brakes will throw the car in to an uncontrollable skid. The trick is to slow the car by rapid and intermittent brake applications and at the same time maintain rolling traction that gives steering control. Van Doren for Teacher Favored Boulder, Colo. (DPD - A poll of teachers in the English and speech department at the Uni versity of Colorado indicates many would lavor nirmg Charles Van Doren as an in structor. The student newspaper, "Colorado Daily," conducted the poll of more than half the teachers in the department. They were asked: "If Charles Van Doren applied for a teaching position at this uni versity, do you think he should be hired?"- Van Doren, a former Eng lish professor at Columbia university, testified recently that his appearances on a TV quiz show had been rigged. . Half of the Colorado teach ers questioned answered in the affirmative, but some had reservations. Another 33 per cent were against hiring Van Doren and 17 per cent were undecided. FRESH GROUND STEER BEEF 0)c 3l( 1 PLAll vaiid VfHOLE Dfu, WE HAVE BEEN SELLING THE FINEST STEAKS IN MEDFORD SINCE 1940I-TRY THEM TODAY "CHOICE" TENDER WELL AGED BONELESS SIRLOIN STEAK BONELESS PORK LOIN ROAST TRY OUR OWN DELICIOUS PURE PORK SAUSAGE 49:-2i89 "SWIFT'S" PREMIUM -FRESH FRYERS lb- FANCY FRESH LARGE SIZE FRESH CRABS 3 lb. 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