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UPI Interviews Placement Directors Editor'! Not - Evtry year, collega graduation tima signals lha start of a massive talent hunt by bus iness and industry for bright young men and women. For many students, the talent hunt was over and their new job assured long before graduation. For many others, it is still in progress. United Press In ternational reporters throughout the country in terviewed college place ment directors to discover the state of the collegiate job market. This is their report. By DAVID SMOTHERS This year, the job-hunting college graduate might do himself a favor by shifting President Kennedy's words around a little and telling himself: "Think not what the com pany can do for you but what you can do for the company." The chances are good that the graduate who steps out into the world in this frame of mind will wind up with a better Job, better pay, and a better future. In the month before gradua tion, UPI reporters interview ed university and college placement directors through out the country. The findings were almost universally optimistic. Start ing salaries for qualified col lege graduates were generally up - from 2 to 7 per cent Talent scouts from industry and government had been thick as flics on the campuses Seme schools said they would be surprised if one of their better pupils failed to take home $600 or thereabouts Band Students Are Reminded of Class Students in Medford schools who have registered to take part In summer band sessions have been reminded that the classes will begin Monday, July 2. All classes will be held In the Medford High school mu sic building. Monday classes include elementary band stu dents in the intermediate class which will meet at 8 a.m. Junior students taking band classes should be there at !) a.m. Beginning band students will metl for their first class at B a.m., Tuesday, July 3. Any student who has not registered may do so at the first class sessions. Returning college students and high school students are invited to play in the summer high school band which meets Tuesday, July 3, at 7 p.m. I. A. Mirlck, high school band instructor, is in Eugene attending a summer band camp at the University of Oregon. He will return Sun day. A concert by three bands composed of students at the ramp will be held Saturday, June 30, in McArlhur court. Oregonian Fire 'Definitely' Arson Portland -IUPII- One of four recent fires in the Oregonian Building was "definitely ar son," a fire Investigator said Wednesday. Lt. Ken Johnson, investiga tor for the city fire marshal's office, Faid a fire that started June 18 in a first floor broom closet was deliberately set with clean, wadded paper not normally found in the area. jonnson said he was con tinuing the investigation. He said that so fur no witnesses to the start of the fire have turned up. He said he was investigat ing aim a press room fire of June 12, a ventilator fire of June 8, both in the Oregonian, and a fire in the Journal sec tion of the building, also on June 8. Hawaiian Islands Jarred by Quake Honolulu - aril - A sharp earthquake apparently (rn tered on the big island of Hawaii, jarred the 50th slate Wednesday night but there were no reports of injuries or serious damage. The temblor, followed by a rolling shock, toppled a cliff into the sea on the Kona coast of Hawaii and knocked dishes from shelves in Hilo and other communities on the big island. The quake was frit through out the island chain. Seismologist Harold Krivoy at the Volcano Observatory on Hawaii said the movement oc curred along the Kaoikl fault and registered a Richter scale astensity of S 3. triM' ''d i.-aj m,. ,m fetfc Mi . vt v". as tlr ajNO-.aji.- m.at;Ai m egad lerri I feaw frill fog m rce,rlr Vrdns-tt tll someone stnto' ftf.ei ip laWiOntift trif!. THUHSDAY. JUNE 28. J96J after his first month on the i job. As In recent years, the stu dents who had specialized in chemical or electrical en gineering were off to flying starts on their new careers. Graduates with training in accounting were considered increasingly hot prospects. Industry Enthusiastic Most universities reported that industry representatives were more enthusiastic than ever in going after the bright er boys. But a few college of ficials noted a difference this year. Business, they reported, was getting a little picky. And the more alert graduates knew it. Charles J. Marino. Director of Placement and Personnel at St. Louis university, was the most emphatic. "The number of companies that visited the campus this year was incrc: scd over last year," he s.id. "However, they were exceptionally se lective in the type of graduate they were looking for." It used to be, Marino said, that the typical college grad uate was1 most Interested in FIREMEN INJURED Three the battalion commander's answering a call in Detroit, - iv.i $r- fei'ftO i fan" in si, itn.leiwii "1 tesrtMt-VA 4't 'ilWfcftiiWi iliwei mlHilnsa NEW ARMY CENTER Above is a drawing of the exterior of the proposed $162,185 Salvation Army Corps Community Center. It will be located at the corner of Beatty and Edwards Streets. The old Army Headquarters at 4th Street and Bartlett has been condemned by the City of Medford. Il is unsafe for occupancy. The new three-unit Center will house youth, adult, family welfare, administration and religious activities programs. William H. Seibert, A. I. A., of Medford, is the architect. Extensive use of wood throughout the interior and part of the exterior of the building is planned. ' The Salvation Army Building Fund Campaign is a once-in-a-lifetime appeal to the people of Jackson County for funds to provide a new Corps Community Center and Headquarters, and to repair and remodel the Transient Shelter on Crews Road. For the first time in the 72-year history of the Army in this area, the public's aid is re quested. $137,185 are needed to continue the Army's work of helping people until they can help themselves. Coffee Provided ly Pol-crt, MJI and Safeway, Inc. "ftandshnul" 9fi4 I- C3 what a prospective employer could promise in the way of retirement and other fringe benefits. This year, Marino said: "I think I've noticed a great deal of seriousness on a graduate's part. They are very, very serious as to how they can progress in industry. "The graduate asks him self 'what can I do for the company?' He asks If I do this what will be the result'?" "Industry likes this atti tude," Marino said. By comparative standards, St. Louis is a small university and perhaps its experience is not typical of the nation's big educational factories. Such could not be said of Salem Man Appointed To Accident Post Salem - IUPD - The Oregon Industrial Accident Commis sion has appointed George Hessevick, Salem, as general manager of the department. It is a new post created by a reorganization announced in May. firemen were injured when car and a fire truck, both Mich., collided at an lntcr- "Serving Mankind rakfoft! as a public service by the .... MEDFORDrJlTRIBUNE the University of California at Berkeley or of Stanford university. Vet Robert Calvert Jr., manager of the Student and Alumni Placement Cen ter at Berkeley, and R. Dud ley Boyce, Stanford's Director of University Placement Serv ices, agreed th. t this year's graduate needs something ex tra going for him. Advanced training Is be coming increasingly Impor tant, they said. More students in both universities are going Protest Vessel Sails Into Restricted Zone Honolulu -(UPI)- The nuclear protest vessel Everyman II and its crew of three Califor nia pacifists have entered the restricted testing area of Johnston Island - and the government hopes to do some thing about it. U. S. Atty, Herman' Lum said he would go into federal court to seek an amendment to the court's restraining or der which would enable the Coast Guard to remove the ketch from the area. section. Injured were Capt. Roderick Page; his driver, Thadeus Cocrki, and the truck driver, George Wiggle. The call turned out to be a rubbish fire. (UPI) Music and Entertainment Medford Musicians' Union Food Served By Salvation Army Members To Evaluate Collegiate Job after master's and doctor'i de grees and more employers are hunting for the students who get those degrees. Calvert boiled it down to statistics. In 1940, he said, 3 million persons had college bachelor's degrees. Now he said, 8.6 million persons have them. The conclusion, Calvert said, if that a mere bachelor's degree is of less value on the job market. Other Trends The college placement di rectors noted other new trends in this year's job re cruiting. They included: -The . emergence of, big government as a bidder for college talent. The University of Portland said the government had been offering jobs in the engine ering and science fields. At the University of California at Los Angeles, the federal government was able to offer the few overseas "glamor" jobs going. -Competition by middle sized businesses for top col lege graduates. W. H. Cato, Placement Di- jwgitoajiiiif.iirtaiiiiiiiiiiiiM w,gaaji Z3 Tomorrow . . by Building Today! OREMOM rector at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, credited most of a 23 per cent jump In recruiters to "more middle sized com panies getting further from home in recruiting, a field once left mainly to the larger companies." Donald La bos- key, Placement Director at UCLA, said "recruiting is at an all-time high and this year is being extended into med ium and small industries who are now attempting to get their share of graduates." -A heightened search for graduates with training in ac counting. VPI's Cato called the de mand for qualified account ants "critical." Fifteen schools in the New York metropolitan area listed accounting as one of the major fields in high demand and Northwestern university said it didn't have enough good accountants to meet industry demands. 'Golden Boys' Graduates in the sciences and technical fields remained the golden boys of the col lege job market. However, the students who didn't have to worry about getting on a payroll most often had de grees in electrical and chemi cal engineering, mathematics, aerospace, applied science, biology and chemistry. At Georgia Tech, where all 1,179 graduates had technical training, Placement Director Neil DeRosa said: "Grad uates have never come into a market where their serv ices were bid for at such a competitive pace. Our boys and that means every one of them-have been sewed up and sold out for at least three months." ' At the University of Port la n d, engineering school graduates usually had several job offers and the recruitment rush was described as "a traffic jam." Placement Di rector Frank Endicott of Northwestern estimated de mand for engineers and tech nical experts was up 25 per cent. Business administration graduates' rated second in popularity, teachers were in increasing demand, and liber al arts graduates had the toughest time after gradua tion. At St. Louis university, college officials urged their liberal arts graduates to take a graduate course in business Register Today! FREE TIRES Bud's Tire Exchange Inc. 1600 N. 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