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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON FRIDAY. JUNE IS. 19E2 A 7 Government To Launch Nationwide Vocational Training Plan ej:i . . . iiil i . : i'iii . i: i ... .. . ..... "aw Editor! note What u workir to do when hi job ii replaced by a machine? Too ofien in the past, he hai found himself on the relief rolls. Now a new federal program ii being launched to retrain workeri and eliminate some of the nation's "hard core" unemployed. The following dispatch tells how this will operate. By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Washington (UPII - The na tion's first large scale effort to solve the problem of hard core unemployment will get under way July 1. During the next three years, the federal govern ment will spend $435 million on a nationwide program of vocational training. Its purpose is to provide marketable job skills for about 800,000 technological misfits of modern society. They include industrial workers whose skills have been rendered obsolete by au tomation, farm hands no longer needed in mechanized agriculture, and youths who dropped out of school with out learning a trade. The labor department esti mates there are between 500, 000 and 1 million of these people in America today. They are the "hard core" of the nation's 4.5 million unem ployed. Many of them have been out of work for periods ranging from six months to three or four years. Jobs Going Begging Meanwhile, good jobs are going begging because em ployers cannot find people who are trained to fill them. In many communities, for ex ample, there are chronic shortages of welders, machine tool operators, stenographers, nurse's aides, skilled seam stresses, clerk-typists, and auto mechanics. The idea behind the train ing program is that the na tion can kill two birds with one stone-increasing its res ervoir of skilled manpower and reducing the number of people dependent on unem ployment compensation or public welfare. The law authorizing the three-year program was en acted by Congress with strong bipartisan support. Signed by President Kennedy last March 15, it is to take effect with the beginning of the new fis cal year on July 1. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), which will adminis ter the vocational training program, and the labor de partment, which will select the people to be trained, have spent recent weeks gearing up for a fast start. They hope to have training projects underway in thousands of American communities by the end of the year. James Clarke, director of the manpower training office of the HEW department, said the program will be similar to one which the government is already conducting, on a relatively small scale, under the area redevelopment pro gram. About 10,000 people are being re-trained under this program, which is re- " RECEIVES AWARD - Lyle C. Wilson, right, vice president of United Press International, receives a Sigma Delta Chi "Fellow Award" from Theodore F. Koop, center, national secretary of Sigma Delta Chi, the profes sional journalism society, prior to the an nual banquet of the Washington chapter June 13. The honor was voted Wilson by the society's last national convention "in recognition of his achievements in the pro fession of journalism." At left is Lee Hills, president of the American Society of News paper Editors. (UPI) GET AIR ROUTES London - HIPD - The Soviet Union has completed negotia tions to set up five new air routes connecting Moscow with the capitals of Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco and the Sudan, according to a dis patch by the . Soviet news agency Tass received here Wednesday. : r OUR CARS DO THE SELLING A TEST DRIVE WILL PROVE IT . Bluebird Sedan Holf-Ton Pickup fi PATROL 4-WHEEL DRIVE DATStUIN the name you AUTO"know From the minute you open their doors they start selling . . . from the icps of their low maintenance lines to the tips of their seven built-in extras. They're the heaviest, sturdiest, safest, most economical in their class. Test one today and own it tonight. ONLY SMALL FEATURE IS THE PRICE! STEVENS AUTO SALES 505 N. Central Ph. 773-3655 The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council conmti of a Judge, a phychiatrist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Each arUcle Is a summary of a family disagreement presented to the Council. The council deals with problems, major . and minor, encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by by Mrs. Alma Denny. (Copyright by General Features Corp.) Marsha N. - She spoils her daughter and lets her bulldoze her into impossible situations. Norine T. - Marsha has al ways envied my daughter and never misses a chance to criti cize her. Marsha N. - I hate to see my sister fall for all the soft soap and baloney her daughter hands her. The latest instance is Norine's news that she can't attend my fiftieth birth day party because her young darling wants her to baby-sit in Virginia. Norine is ten years older than I, but she jumps and runs when this girl goes into her act. I know Norine isn't in top health and should take it easy. I know, too, there are trips her husband and she are waiting to take, and personal things like reading and sew ing she wants to get to. But no matter what she plans, she lets Patty break it up for any flimsy reason. This time she should say no and show a little loyalty to me by coming to my party. Norine T. -1 may be a softy when it comes to Patty, but I'm so pround of the way she manages all by herself on that small farm that I'm glad to come down and give her a break, whenever she has plans for a little diversion for her husband and herself. After all, I'd hurry to her side if there were trouble. So, just because she keeps everything smooth, should I turn her down for a happy reason? She wants to fly up for the concerts in Tanglewood, Mass. Why not? What bothers Marsha is that 1 NCAA TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP 12:00 Noon Saturday KYJG 1230 on your dial Preliminary Results Friday 5:30 p.m. Your Mail Tribune Sports Station 3j stricted to "depressed areas" with high chronic unemploy ment rates. The new program will be nationwide in scope. The training courses offered in any particular community will be determined by surveys of the job openings in that community. The objective is to be sure that each trainee will be readily absorbed into the community's labor force when his course is completed. Government Foots Bill Applicants for training will be screened by the U.S. Em ployment service. Priority will go to unemployed per sons and to members of farm families with annual net family income of less than S1.200 a year. If they don't fill all the vacancies, training may also be provided to "under-employed" workers -that is, those who are work ing only part-time or at un skilled jobs. The government will pay for the training courses, which will be given at public high schools, vocational train ing centers, junior colleges and similar existing facilities. It also will pay subsistence allowances to some of the trainees. Heads of families who have spent at least three years in gainful employment but are now out of work may receive ' training allowances which wil be approximately equal to the average weekly unemployment compensation in that state. Youths between the ages of 19 and 22 may re ceive training allowances of up to $20 a week. If it is necessary for a per son to attend a training school which is beyond a reasonable commuting distance from his home, the government will provide extra allowances for transportation and subsis tence. Special programs of voca tional training will be pro vided for boys and girls be tween the ages of 16 and 19 who are not enrolled in a regular school. The federal government will underwrite the entire cost of the program for the first two years of operation. Beginning in mid-1964, how ever, states will have to pick up half of the tab. Ward P. Beard, assistant di rector of vocational education for the HEW Department, said the main emphasis will be on preparing people for "the simpler types of skilled jobs" which can be mastered in a few weeks or months. Training Periods Vary Experience gained under the area redevelopment pro gram, he said, indicates that a nurse's aide can be trained in four weeks, an auto me chanic or a key punch opera tor in 16 weeks, a stenogra pher in 20 weeks, and an elec tronic mechanic in 26 weeks. Where highly specialized skills are needed to meet the employment demand of a par ticular community, longer courses, ranging up to a full year of training, may be of fered. Training funds will be al located among all states on the basis of a complex formu la which takes into account the state's population and un employment rate. "Local initiative will be welcome," Clarke said. He said communities desiring to get in on the program should not wait for the government to come to them, but should organize their own represen tative local planning commit tees and get in touch with local or state offices of voca tional education or employ ment security. BID DEPOSITORY - Medford, Oregon SHOP AND CRAFTS BLDG., ASHLAND SR. HIGH SCHOOL Ashland, Oregon Bid Depository Closing Time: Mechanical & General Sheet Metal June 15, 12:30 p.m. Mechanical Sheet Metal June IS, 10:30 a.m. Bids will be received from the following crafts at the Industry Council Office, 40 S. Fir Street, Medford, Oregon for General Sheet Metal, Mechanical: i.e. Plumbing, Heating, Mechanical Sheet Metal, Temperature Controls. For Bid forms, envelopes and information, call FRED MORLAN, Bid Custodian Industry Council of Southern Oregon & Vicinity, Inc. 40 S. Fir St., Medford, Oregon Telephone: 772-S075 773-5044 she had very little mothering herself and I used to take care of her when we were children. Our mother was sickly and died young. When I had my own daughter, naturally I had to stop coddling Marsha. So she can't help resenting Patty. 1 The Councili Everybody here has a solid case - even the absent Patty. Aunt Marsha considers her over-mothered and spoiled. Mother Norine in terprets this criticism as a manifestation of Marsha's en vy, and of the latter's wish that Norine mother her along with Patty. And this young housewife feels nothing can be more natural than to sum mon one's own mother when a mother-substitute is called for. Of course everybody is "doin' what comes naturally" and when it's a three-way in tersection, somebody must pull in her reins. We can in dicate where each may im prove her ability to straddle several relationships. True, Norine, as a mother Patty comes first to you. (We assume your husband concurs and agrees to your frequent flights to Virginia.) But you have a half-dozen other roles in life which ought not be neglected, squeezed out, ban ished. Being a mother is a big one, but so is being a wife, sister, daughter, friend, rela tive and citizen. And what about being you, getting at those personal things Marsha mentions? Lest your life be come so one-sided that these other facets shrivel, making you but a satellite around Patty while she needs you, you'd do well to learn to say no to her occasionally. Each request can be weigh ed, with no automatic yes guaranteed. Tanglewood is nice for Patty, but so is Mar sha's party for you. We ap prove your empathy for your efficient daughter who is cer tainly entitled to respites. But we suggest you got her to de vise other means of securing her breaks, to alternate with your appearances, permitting you to partake of other joys flowing your (and your hus band's) way. To Marsha we must counsel restraint. Her envy of Patty j shows through. Norine may siphon off some of her vast j love to share with her little j sister, but she can't fill the void left by their deceased mother. As for Patty, know- i ing the emotional demands! her mother is subjected to, she might start scanning the local ! ads under Professional Baby sitting Services. 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