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8 D THURSDAY. JANUARY 31. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON TO" i IS. wrT r v . - T , . 'V, . ',.. I HITCHHIKER-"Goin' my way?" asks Marcia Clerk. 18, of Pekin, 111., as she thumbs a ride from winter to summer- street that is. Tnese two unusual street signs provide an ideal setting for this "cold weather" picture as the aiea continues to experience sub-zero temperatures. (UPI) l'..L,f!,lVfl,ll. . Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. WHITE COLLAR LAY-OFFS The fears of b'.ue collar workers and manual laborers of what automation and aggressive cost-cutting by industry will do to their jobs have been pushed deep into the American public's consciousness by the crippling dock and newspaper strikes of 1063. Now the same fears are starting to grip the white collar worker always believed generally "protected" from the recession and economy lay-offs which periodically hit production workers and with rea.ion. Wholesale lay-offs-of white coiiar workers are taking place the nation over. Chrysler's firing of 7,000 of its 36,000 white collar employees in 1961 was historic, but its pattern is being followed by an increasing number of companies, big and small. The American Iron & Steel Institute esti mates that between May and October 1962 the steel in dustry cut its salaried force by over 4,800 to 115,416. U.S. Steel alone has been drastically reducing its white collar staff, is reported firing at least another 1,000 lower-management workers in these early months of 1963. Some compa nies have slashed their white collar payrolls 15 per cent or more virtually overnight and many of the jobs are being srased forever. The extent to -which while cellar payrolls have balloon ed in recent yean is basic to top management's new de termination to cut back. Since 1356, when white collar workers outnumbered blue collar wage-earners for the first time in our land, the number of white collar workers has risen to over 28.500,000, or 47 per cent of total non iarm employment. While the total number of production workers in manufacturing has dwindled 7 per cent in ihe last 15 years, the total of white collar workers in manu facturing has soared 65 per cent. Now giving the belt-tightening movement major impetus Is the spreading use of computers, automatic devices, other electronic data processing equipment. New computer instal lations arc being added at a rate of about 10,000 a year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates 25 per cent of the jobs affected by these computers will be permanently abolished. Other workers skilled over a life-time in "ordinary" office techniques are losing Ihejr jabs to automatic devises which "read" and transmit 1,800 words a minute or which elec tronically scan, punch, verify and total numerical informa tion for tabulating machines. As Howard Coughlin, president of the Office Employees International Union, pointed out in an interview in New York, although the overall unemployment rate in our coun try has fallen from a high of 7.7 per cent in 1960 to 5.6 per cent today, the jobless rale of clerical and kindred workers has been rising steadily from 3.8 per cent in 1960 to 4.9 per cent late in 1962. There Is no doubt that computers actually raise employ ment in many instances by creating new jobs lor program mers, researchers, other automation specialists. There is no doubt that whito collar employment will continue in an upward trend despite computers and cost-cutting. But in the white collar area, as in the labor force generally, ris ing employment docs not necessarily mean declining un-employment-not when our labor force is climbing to new highs each week, not when the machines are making so many oiiice skills obsolete What docs this imply to unionUaliun of white collar workers? . Says Coughlin, speaking from the union fide, "The clerk who feeds cards into a computer all day is not too different from the production line worker who repetitively stamps out bottle caps," and CouRhltn claims the cutbacks in clerical staffs have revived interest in his union. Wiims Clark Caskcy of the University of Michigan, speak ing from the management side in a recent issue of The Iron Arc, "Given the right set of conditions, a group of white collar workers will organize," and he mentions among the conditions "sudden cuts in salary, changes in processes, ac quisition of new equipment." We cannot stop automation. - we imisl not. We cannot tolerate a growing hard core of unemployment - we must not. The answers for the white collar worker are the same as for the blue collar man: (1) a faster rale of growth to cre ate the jobs to absorb new and displaced workers; (2) ade quate training-retraining to lit our workers for the jobs that exist and will open up. Economist Sees Next 1 0 Years As the Most Dynamic in Oregon The next 10 years will be the most dynamic in Oregon his tory. That is the prediction of Hubert J. Sorter, nationally known economic consultant. Soher, describing Oregon as "the quality state," discussed the state's economic outlook in a talk yesterday at the Mcdford Kiwanis luncheon at Rogue Valley Country club. The San Francisco man brought out that Oregon prod ucts already have received na tional and world recognition because of their quality. Stating that "we are going into a period of free trade," Soher noted the desire of oth er nations of the world for high standards of living which will make it possible for Ore gon to find markets "to supply the enormity of needs of these people." Relief for Industry Relief for Oregon's lumber industry if and when England enter the European Common Market was foresccen by So her. He explained that under the Common Market, England Small Craft Aided By New Instrument Pittsburgh -(UPI)- ACF Elec tronics, a division of ACF In dustries, Inc., has come out with a compact, easy to oper ate navigation instrument for small planes which shows pi lots exactly where they are in any weather. George B. Shaw, ACF vice president, said the device, "Flitcfix II," will allow pilots to fly parallel off - course routes, avoiding heavily trav eled commercial air corridors. The unit features a "living dot" which moves in synchro nization with actual flight of the plane, Shaw said. The moving dot acts in response to bearing and distance infor mation transmitted by local Federal Aviation agency ground radio stations and re ceived by equipment in the aircraft. Shaw said introduction of Flitef ix II gives the small plane pilot "a sophisticated n a v t g a tion aid previously available only to larger busi ness and commercial aircraft." Flitefix II sells for approxi mately $2,200. Less than an hour's flight practice with the instrument is considered suffi cient by division engineers to master Us operation. Tense Nerves Block Bowels New laxative acts on colonic muscles... de-constipates overnight. I lie mmcular wall ot your tolun con lams nrnti Known to nuluinc a Aufiih's Pl,-ky. In riiail.tr people, the rwrvre Icll Ihc vvlon nuisck-s to pi orcl ami expel watc Horn the Kul. 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I.MKODltlORV aUt Variety ot Boats Planned for Fair New York-IUra-Planned for operation during the 1964- 1965 New York World's fair are seven or eight types of boats carrying up lo 20 per sons each. The boats, lo be used in the fair's lake area, will range from the paddle river type for groups of 20 plus crew to gondolas and pontoon boats and will include glass, flat bottomed boats, outriggers and surrey-top conveyances. A total of 43.8 million per sons 5 to 34 years old were enrolled in all the nation's schools at the time of the 1960 census. would not be able to buy Russian lumber at low cost, as it does now. It would turn to Canada then to buy its wood products. This in turn would open up markets in this country now supplied from Canada. Food processing was de scribed by Soher as the second ranking manufacturing indus try in this state. He spoke of the opportunity to Medford to become "second only to Sa lem" in food processing in Or egon. Touching on the progres siveness shown in this area, Soher mentioned "fabulous White City," the retirement home, the potential agricul ture, the electrical facilities and the proposed Mt. Ashland ski development. He contend ed that agriculture must be expanded and took issue with those who maintain that there is too much agriculture and that it is too costly to develop it. He told of the loss of agri culture by California to others areas because of urban devel opment. In Right Direction Soher described the Upper Rogue water resources project as a step in the right direction and remarked that Oregon has a tremendous asset in its val leys "where only part of agri culture is devoted to high cost crops." The consultant spoke of Or egon water supply as "white gold" and the envy of other states. "I don't have to tell you the covetous eyes California has on your water," Soher said. "It would be an affront to your intellect not to use these resources to the fullest ex tent." Soher forecast a 50 per cent increase in Rogue valley popu lation by 1970 and 100 per cent increass by 1980 over 1960. He based the prediction on birth rates, recruitment of personnel from other states, the large number of retired people coming here, the shift B AT STAFF COLLEGE-Joe E. Wisdom, formerly a well known civilian flight instruc tor in this area, is an instruc tor in the Air Command and Staff college at Maxwell Air Force base, Montgomery, Ala., which recently graduated 47 allied officers. Lieutenant Colonel Wirdom has been an instructor at the college for three years. He is a brother of Aubrey Wisdom, Medford. , 'S of California people in agri culture and the overflow from people moving to California. Opportunity lor Plants The speaker told of the op portunity for plywood and hardboard plants for a furni ture industry here. He re marked that this area does not have the major nationwide corporations but that the locally-developed medium-sized companies are doing a good job. Soher anticipated that lum ber and wood products would continue to be the main indus try of the state. He looked at 1961 as the bottom of a "healthy readjustment in this industry," and foresaw mod erate upward trend in 1963 and boom in 1964 and 1965. The consultant, in describ ing the progress he has noted in an objective economic study of Oregon, declared that there is not one vestige of fact in the statement that Oregon residents want to keep the state as it is. Soher said he had talked to an overwhelming number of people who want to benefit from progress. He maintained that people in Ore gon are as community-minded and as ambitious for growth as they are in any state he has been in in recent years. Want Orderly Growth He stated that Oregonians want this growth but they want it orderly. Soher cited evidences of ec onomic growth and progress in numerous communities. He included the Lloyd Center, coliseum, delta park and ur ban renewal developments at Portland, ski developments in the Bend area, the careful re building of Roseburg which is at the peak of its lumber in dustry, the University of Ore gon and the economic boom at Eugene, Oregon State Univer sity and research work at Cor- vallis and the metallurgy in dustry and bureau of mines laboratories at Albany. Soher is the author of "Or egon Today and Tomorrow," an economic study of the state. The booklet has been published by Pacific Power and Light company. Glenn Jackson, vice presi dent of PP&L, said in intro ducing Soher that the booklet was a cooperative venture of various banks, utilities and other industrial leaders. A number of city, county and business leaders were guests at the Kiwanis meeting. Caster Elected Head 01 OSUFFA Group Corvallis- John Caster ot Central Point has been elect ed president of the Future Farmers of America organiza tion at Oregon Slate univer sity. Caster is a junior in the school of agriculture. His home address is route 1, box 589A. The college FFA organiza tion is composed of outstand ing students in the school ot agriculture. The forest area of British Columbia is estimated at 100 million acres. IN WASHINGTON-Ncxvly-clectcd Republican Congressman, Tiep. Don Clausen of California, poses vult his family on the steps of Ihc Capitol in Washington. Clausen won the seat formerly held by the late Rep. Clem Mtllor. in a srccial election last week. From left are Mrs. Clausen: Dawn Marie.1 13, daughter: Hep. Clausen, annd daughter Btvcriy, 17. (UPI) MEDFORD'S FINEST MEATS SINCE 1940" 'Choice" Aged ROAST ALL CENTER CUT CHUCK ROASTS WELL TRIMMED NO NECK. CUTS Blade Cuts 7-Bonc Cuts 'NEBERGALLS OLD FASHION FRANKFURTERS LARGE-JUICY IN CASINGS GROUND 3 LAMB (Fresh Frozen) BONELESS ALL CENTER PORK LOIN LEAN CUT ROAST PORK CHOPS SiKb. flLb. OUR GROUND MEATS ARE THE BEST!! FRESH GROUND BEEF 39 1A Pound IU Pkg. $075 lb. 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