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Diploma Required For Modern Jobs
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2J, 1962
The high school diDloma
has become a minimum re
quirement in the hiring pol
icies of many industries in the
Companies Liberalize
Insurance Standards
New York - IUPD - About 5
million persons who would
have been uninsurable a gen
eration ago because of health
impairment or highly danger
ous jobs now have life insur
ance, the Institute of Life In
surance reports.
The institute said this has
been made possible by the
continuous liberalization of
acceptance limitations by life
insurance companies in re
cent years.
FIRST HIGH SCHOOOL
The first public high school
established in the U. S. was
founded in 1821 in Boston,
Mass. It was called the English
Classical school, later changed
to English High school.
By 1860, 300 high schools
were already established in
this country as part of the
public school system.
The public nursery school
for children from two to four
years of age and the public
kindergarten school for chil
dren, 4 to 6, are virtually new
comers to the U. S. Public
school system. They evolved
in 1900, but have grown large
ly within the last 20 years.
U.S., Business Week magazine
reported recently. .
According to a survey of
major industrial rente rs
there's a shift in hiring to this
policy: only high school grads
need apply. The survey re
veals that the trend toward
higher educational require
ments for factory jobs is the
strongest in the West Coast
aerospace industry; weakest
in the Southeast's textile and
woodworking industries.
Over all. the trend is ud-
and rising fast. Although
some aircraft companies re
quired the high school di
ploma 20 years ago, most for
mal requirements went into
effect durinc the past five
ycars-as did many of the high-
school level aptitude tests
often substituted for a di
ploma requirement. And
many companies that inform
ally favor the graduate expect
to formalize the requirement
soon.
Considered simply as a fact
of economic life, remarks the
magazine, the trend toward
! higher educational require
ments has the inevitably of
I Tuesday following Monday,
I First of all, galloping tech
nology has changed the char
acter of many jobs, and made
them more difficult. Rosie
the Riveter has been replaced
by Andrew the Assembler,
who must know riveting,
drilling, countersinking, and
a mixed batch of other techniques.
In industry after industry.
.jobs requiring some degree of
judgment and flexibility have
j replaced the old one-operation
tasks and continuous runs.
Materials are costlier, tolcr-
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The watch featured a brace
let and case of twisted gold
strands. It had a flip-up cover
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Electronics Aid
Music Education
Imagine a classroom full
of piano students pumping
piano keys yet not a sound
can be heard! Now thanks to
electronics - although each
student may hear his own
playing through a headset, the
piano being played emits no
sound to others in the class
room. In this new electronic, mul
tipiano teaching system, the
instructor sits at a central
control panel. With a touch
of fingertips on a dial, the
work of each student can be
monitored individually. The
instructor can also play a
phrase on her own electronic
piano or give instructions
through a microphone so that
only one student can hear.
Ensemble Work
For ensemble work, the
headsets are unplugged, and
an amplifier magnifies the vi
brations of the small metallic
reeds into room-filling vol
ume. According to Mrs. Fay Tern
pleton Frisch, music educa
tion consultant for The Wur
litzer Company, the new sys
tem is helping to accelerate
learning among the nation's
5,000,000 school - age young
sters who study piano.
In just 30 classroom hours,
says Mrs. Frisch, the average
third-or fourth-grade student
can learn to transpose songs
from one key to another and
learn enough about the basic
relationship of rhythm, melo
dy and harmony to compose
simple songs.
The use of the new system
goes far beyond leaching the
piano. Schools are using the
instruments to teach music
theory to children who later
will enter choral, band or or
chestral work, as well as ad
vanced keyboard instruction.
ances closer, product lines
more varied. Technician-level
jobs multiply like fruit flies
as production line jobs de
crease. This is especially true
in research and development
industries, the ones that do
the most hiring.
Moreover, even when fill
ing simple jobs, most com
panies consciously look ahead
five, 10, or 15 years. The in
jdustrial concerns that specify
a high school diploma for a
I sweeper don't have delusions
jof grandeur about what's re
j quired of a sweepcr-they just
I don't expect the man they
hire to be a sweeper forever.
Two things give them this
long-range view, according to I
the survey. One is the
sweeper's union contract,
which guarantees him a crack
at a better job if it opens up;
the second is the firm expec
tation that job requirements
will indeed change.
Not all companies, how
ever, go along with the policy
of higher educational require
ments. A vocal minority feels
that hiring over-qualified
workers for low level jobs en
sures nothing but a high turn
over rate; that attitude and
ability are still the most im
portant qualifications for
most factory jobs, and that
formal education is no guide
to cither. In practice, how
ever, this same group is like
ly to favor the high school
graduate over the dropout, be
cause "the dropout is a quit
ter." So far, comments Business
Week, the job-hunter without
a diploma has been handi
capped more than JJie job
holder with a diploma. A
company that upgrades a job
rarely expects the incumbent
to fulfill the new require-ments-in
most cases, he is re
trained. But most companies
do demand that newly hired
employees be qualified from
the start. If the Incumbent
can't benefit from retraining,
and the company cannot ab
sorb any more displaced employees-he's
out of luck.
Some companies deal with
the problem by offering the
worker financial inducements
to retire early. This is cer
tainly kinder than flinging
him out the door, but it cre
ates problems of its own.
These prematurely retired
workers swell the ranks of
the hard-core uncmployed-a
group with heavy representa- j
tion among the "uneducated"
at both ends of the age scale. 1
A University of Michigan
economist told Business Week
reporters that this group -rather
than any racial or re
ligious category-is the "real
minority group of tomorrow."
Phoenix-School busses for
Phoenix-Talent schools. Dist
rict 4, will pick up students
the first day of school, Sept.
10, on the same schedule as
last year.
E. R. James, superintend
ent of schools, said that sev
enth and eighth grade stu
dents will be transported to
the junior high school at
Talent, and senior high stu
dents wil be taken to the high
school at Phoenix. Other
grades will be transported di
rectly to the Phoenix and
Talent grade schools.
First grade pupils have
been asked to report to
Phoenix and Talent schools
with a parent or elder mem
ber of the family Friday,
Sept. 7. for registration. Par
ents have been reminded to
take evidence of their child's
birth date and a health cer
tificate. First graders will re
turn home following registra
tion, parents are asked to pro
vide transportation.
Second and third graders
report Sept. 10, fourth, fifth
and sixth graders report to
the elementary school build
ings the same day. These stu
dents will be dismissed at
noon. Busses will make their
regular take home runs at
this time the first day, accord
ing to James.
Cafeterias at both schools
will start serving meals T ues
day, Sept. 11. Meals will be
25 cents for grades one
through six, and 30 cents for
grades seven through 12, in
cluding milk. Additional milk
may be purchased for 3 cents.
Motorists Reminded Of School Openings
This year, as in previous , The two principal
years, the American Auto
mobile association's annual
"School's Open - Drive Care
fully" campaign (to alert mo
torists that they must once
again be on the lookout for
children crossing streets on
the way to school) has begun.
The campaign gets in full
swing just before schools open
in local communities so that
motorists will have a short
"conditioning period" to read
just their driving habits.
James said junior high j periods. Regular classes will
school students have been reg-1 start the next day.
istercri and will receive sched-1 Fees payable at registration
ules of classes beginning atlW111 De S15.o0. This includes
8:50 a m. Sept. 10.
Students new to Phoenix
High school must register at
the high school office between
Aug. 27 and Sept. 1. Former
high school students and in
coming ninth graders from
the Phoenix and Talent grade
book fee, towel rental and
student body card. Students
wishing to purchase a school
yearbook may reserve a copy
at that time by paying an ad
ditional $4.
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that motorists are being asked , ,. ,,: f i Tk.
may, however, come in dur-
to do in connection with the
campaign are to "scrupulous
ly obey special speed limits
around schools" and to be es
pecially alert for the younger
children who are not yet
safely-wise.
Remember, it's Ihe motor
ist's responsibility to watch
out for children - even if the
I youngsters are at fault.
ing the first week in Sep
tember if thev have any ques
tions about their program of j
studies. James added. j
High school students are to :
report to the high school gym j
lor me opening assemoiy ai
R:45 a.m. Sept. 10. Following
the assembly, they will obtain
their daily schedule and
books, miv their fees and at-
' lend classes during shortened
New York UP1 Youngsters
looking for a business which
isn't overcrowded might con
sider opening a shoe-shine par
lor, according to Irving J.
Bottner. president of a shoa
polish firm.
Bottner said a survey show-'
ed there are less bootblacks
in the United States than at
any time in the last 30 years.
"The old bootblacks are dying
off and aren't being replaced,"
he said.
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