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Exams Listed for Civil Service Jobs The U. S. civil service com mission has announced new examinations for positions ranging from librarian to par achute repairer and packer. Positions are. librarian, classification specialist, carto graphic draftsman, aircraft welder, painter, parachute re pairer and packer leader, par achute repairer and packer, biochemist, safety inspector with the Interstate Commerce commission, economist, safety and service agent for the bu reau of safety and service, In terstate Commerce commis sion. Additional information may be obtained from L. B. Nelson, examiner, U. S. civil service, Medford post office. ATTACKS COMMISSION Salem - (UPB - Rep. Eugene Hulett (D-Eugene) said Fri day Gov. Mark Hatfield should remove all five mem bers of the State Game com mission "unless they act im mediately to minimize the killing of does and fawn." The Three U's-Part I School Drop-Outs Present Serious Problem in Field of Unemployment Editor's not: Our nation's youngsters are in dup trou ble. On million ol thm be tween 16 and 25 are adrift on our city streets. Most are school "drop-outs" - unschool ed, unskilled, unemployed. Their plight is desperate, their future bleak. How did this explosive situation arise? What can be done to help this growing horde for whom we cannot find jobs and whose ranks are expected to swell to 7.500,000 by 1970? By PAUL C. TULL1ER Senior Editor, World Book Year Book You might find a group of them aimlessly clustered in a neighborhood drugstore, or hanging around a street cor ner gloomily smoking cigar ettes. Some sit idly on the front steps of cheerless houses thinking, and dreaming, and weaving hopeless hopes. They're young - mostly in their late teens or early 20s. Yet the problem they face is serious enough to make them old even before they become adults, regardless of where SECTION B PAGES 1 to 8 Medford Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1963 STAR GA2ER i By CLAY H uniriu yf TAURUS - APR. 21 I -T? MAY 21 af 3iianl GEMINI JUNE 22 38-06-83-891 I cancm JUNE 23 !u01 U&JULV23 1ST, 4.12-22.47 18 Keep 19 Eye I no 20 Advice m 'y lite IT?" AUG. 21 23 Br.ghl 3-10.56-57 "You 27 Star 2fi D..n)nu 5 Time 6 tors 7 Heed 8 The 9 Of 10 Ar, 1 1 Excellent VKGO AUG. 24 SOr.22i iVM 1-13-17-41 44-46-80-88I Your Daily Activity Guide W ,w me jrarj. 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P-26-37-38, 77-78-81-87fe CAPRtCatN DEC 23 -jf JAN. 20 tr(! 1B.10 onrrv Win" (K AQUARIUS MAN. 21 .jf) ffa1 to P?- 1- 5-U-16.C1 3A 5i61-72 MrK FEB. 20l?4, MAR 21 'T 7- 8-20-25 iT-l 5CL-79.85 The Family Council Editor's nole: The Family Council consists or a Judfe, a Ehychlatrist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor, ach article Is a summary of a family dlsaereement prosented to the Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by airs. Alma Denny. (Copyright by, General Features Corp.) Mm. N. R. - She does no studying. How can she be learning anything? Joan R. - School is a joke. The teachers don't teach. Mr. N. H. - My 15-year-old daughter is a high school sophomore. I can't understand how she can get passing marks without studying. When I . went to school, homework took me three hours a day. How can she know history, for example, If she never opens a book? I see her look up a few French words, call up her friend for the geometry answers, and call it a day. I want her to work harder and stop wasting her time. Joan R. - I work hard on something that interests me. My mother knows I'm not lazy when it comes to prepar ing for a party or sewing cur tains for our home. But in school it's just hours of bore dom and waiting for the bell to ring. Some of my teachers are just substitutes and admit they're only one lesson ahead of us. The others don't bother looking at our homework. With cramming, I get by. The Council: How sad for Joan to settle for just "getting by" in school! It's like passing up a trip-around-the-world for a subway ride. Mrs. R.'s justi fiable alarm should speed her into P.T.A. circles whence help not only cometh, but usually begineth. The most important approach is, through inspired and inspir ing teachers. Too many, says Superintendent of Schools E. J. Anderson of Wayland, Mass. (who has pioneered in successful "team teaching" change-over), see teaching merely as a way to earn a living and chalk off the days until retirement. Only teach ers whose subject excites them-who have a sense of "mission" in trying to answer the needs of floundering kids like Joan-can take the bore dom out of precious school days. Joan may yet be lucky to encounter one such. Until then she should concentrate on full time schooling, getting the maximum from the instructor up front, and filling in with after-school enrichment at museums, libraries, and "Y" classes. f: . vl sf H 1 1 86 PROOF ECHO SPRING DIST. CO.. LOUISVILLE. KY. wTjcjA-I Ae .(V- v? WllftiW; BOURBON Jjjj years old . . tJ1 E,l WHIP ill ns N The success of the "Ages" IK HI m Wf.1 $430 w Pint n aitcau V tsnn leeeaeavk Wats SAYITAGAIH, AGAIN AND AGAIN! m i i ( they live, or how they spend their lives. Bignt now ineir problem is particularly acute, and threatening to become worse. What is all this about? Who are these young people? What Is their problem? Unpleasant Facts Prepare yourself for some unpleasant facts. The United States prides itself on Its edu cational system - it spent an estimated $18 billion on edu cation in 1961-62 - and on its related ability to provide jobs for its youth. Yet today, 1 million young Americans be tween 16 and 25 are looking for jobs. Surprising as it may seem, these young people make up the biggest single age group of unemployed workers in the United States. Unemployment in their brack et is at least twice as high, and rising at a faster rate, than in older age groups. The future of these young sters, according to former Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg is "potentially the most dangerous social condi tion in America today." Their plight, says Robert Taber, a noted Philadelphia educa tor, "is the great American tragedy of our time." What can be done about it? There is no simple answer, but answers are being sought. In some places, there are heartening signs of progress. Generally, however, the pic ture is grim. Two principal factors are responsible. As society becomes more and more highly mechanized, cer tain jobs disappear. The re maining jobs, as well as the new ones that are created, re quire an increasing degree of skill. That is one factor in the picture. The second is a hu man problem. ; Almost all of the youngsters included in the current legion of the unemployed are so called "dropouts," students who left school before they earned a diploma. Theirs are the faces that were missing from the high school year books. If present predictions hold true, however, their number will increase in the years ahead. -As matters stand to day, 40 out of every 100 youngsters in the United States either fail to attend high school or drop out be fore they have finished. If this trend continues, says Abraham Ribicoff, former Secretary of Health, Educa tion, and Welfare, the num ber of unschooled, unskilled. and unemployed youths will have soared-to 7,500,000 by 1970. Of these, some 2,500,- 000 will not even have finish ed grammer school. They will represent, roughly, 30 per cent of all the young workers who are expected to enter the labor market between 1960 and 1970. Unschooled, these teen agers will become part of an adult world in which educa tion is a "must." Unskilled, they will struggle to find em ployment in a labor market in which jobs often disappear at the click of a switch. Operators Displaced In New York City alone, automatic elevators have al ready displaced an estimated 40,000 operators. In one large automobile plant, a manufac turing operation that used to require 39 workers and 39 machines is now handled by only nine workers and nine machines. In Detroit, factory jobs for merly filled by 16 and 17-year-olds have been decreas ing at the rate of 2,000 a year since 1990. Between 1955 and 1960, 56 out of every 100 such jobs ceased to exist. The mass production industries no longer absorb the large num ber of unskilled or semi skilled workers they once did. Nor is the "blue collar" workman the only one whose job is threatened. Some types of "white collar" positions are disappearing, too, largely because of office automation. Altogether, 1,500,000 office jobs vanished between 1953 and 1960. Of the jobs avail able today, according to a re liable source, only a small number - four out of every 100 - do not require an education. Squaeaa Play The problem the unemploy ed dropout faces, then, be comes painfully clear. He is caught in a squeeze play. Un able to qualify for the skill ed jobs that are open, the supply of unskilled Jobs he might be able to fill is drying up There Is another Irony. "Be cause of . , . automation, and . . . technical devices," says one authority, "profes sional and technical jobs are going to grow by 3 million or about 40 per cent - during this decade. Jobs in the cleri cal and sales fields will grow by about 3,700,000. Skilled occupations are expected to provide 2 million additional jobs by 1970." Implicit is the fact that these 8,700,000 new jobs would more than absorb the 7,500,000 youngsters, who, because they will lack skills and schooling, will know want in the midst of plenty. Education requirements for any kind of a job are higher today than ever before. Ac cording to most personnel di rectors, they will rise a notch or two each year - from here on out. "I venture to predict," says one, "that within the next 10 years, post-high school education for two years - at a junior college or technical institute - will re place the high school diploma as a basic requirement." Today, a high school diplo ma is the least most employ ers will accept for even a low level job. One Midwestern firm has an ironclad rule that even its mail sorters and mes senger boys be 'high school graduates. Many firms are not satisfied with just a diploma, either. They carefully check the graduate's school record and insist on better-than-aver-age grades before hiring. Few companies will pay any attention to a dropout. For them, he is an "untouchable." The personnel director of a large steel plant in Pennsyl vania says: "We want younng sters who are capable of climbing from the factory floor into an office seat, or into our sales force. And we don't want them to stop there. Somewhere among them - we like to believe - is a future company president." He pauses, and his lips tighten. "If our company's executives are to come from among to day's youngsters, why should we hire those whose school records show they were Inter ested only in getting by?" Naxtl Other obstacles that hinder ih untmployad youth in his starch for a job. Reprinted from iht 1963 World Book Year Book. Copyright 1963 by Field En terprise! Educational Corporation, Elec. Jackhammers For RENT at A lo Z Rental 1213 N. XKarside 779-1474 TOE VACATQ0W CDAL ARE AT RLAK If you're hankerin' to hit the trail, come to Crater Lake Motors now and save plenty! We're making it extra easy to vacation in a car, wagon or truck designed for outdoor liv ing! Check our special low prices and high appraisals . . . test-drive our total performance , champs! And while you're there, enter the Ford Dealer's VACATION SWEEPSTAKES! - jaSr wsws ill ' ' " ' ' j, J 111 MMMIIiiiWMaH MOTORS 1 D O D WIN! V-8 FALCON SQUIRE! WIN! FABULOUS CAMPING PRIZES, TOO! Anyone can enter our Vacation Sweepstakes for this local area. It's easy to winl Nothing to buy or wrltel Grand Prlie new Falcon wagonl Plus these valuable prizes given away at Crater Laka Motors. 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