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THURSDAY. JANUARY 31. 1963
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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)
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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.
Hit ten- nerve or emonoiul iiph-1
en Mrvk vour normal powel hahitv
Sour colon muscle impulse ate n.l
longer fcltonit enough lo cliimrutc
Mt-which lines and shnnks,
lunger acsTasatiiiK the condition.
I ... .tt.-ti. relief- mans doc-
is s.iv. comes itom a bulsind action
COn.Cimcil Wltn a colonic lien siui.u-
lannf. action. Of all leading laxalitn
to
only a new ijMet called ioion.su
pcs sou this spc...il combination tot
.l.w.iy oeiniglil relic!
1 1 ) t. ot on sin xtmniUles colonic
neisc network, lo turther Jiloate and
rci:iiliMc its muscular "niosenu-m".
t-l linoNxtti's umgue re-hulking
action helps re-lone tense colon
mils. lev l . I xTol on xiu moislunres lor
ca-v passage wilhoi". pain or strain.
1 oliiNxloesen leliexcsshromc con
stipation oxeiniaht; scl it is elii'icatlv
proxed gentle exen lor expectant
mothers, licl x'ixionxio today.
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)
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