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FRIDAY. JUNE IS. 19E2
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Government To Launch Nationwide Vocational Training Plan
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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-
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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
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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.
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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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