Automation and Jobs Growth Amid Industrial Change
A Bureau of Labor Statistics study by Leon Berg areas shows 1957–61 output up 7.8 percent and per hour output up 17.7 percent, yet 1.094 million jobs were cut over five years. Automation created 229k jobs but eliminated 1.323 million, signaling higher production and expansion needed to absorb workers as the labor force grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Greenberg
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Senate Labor Subcommittee
Kennedy hints at possible shorter work week future
The president, while opposing Meany's 35-hour plan, muses on a longer term trend as automation reduces jobs. He notes historical shifts from 60 to 40 hours and says a shorter week could come if unemployment rises and pressure mounts. He defers policy, signaling possible change.
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Kennedy
Organized Labor
Miami
George Meany
Walter Reuther
Afl-Cio
Meany
Pope Paul VI Moves Toward Catholic Unity and Reform
A week before the Vatican Council reconvenes in Rome, Pope Paul VI announces steps toward Christian unity. He plans to share church governance with diocesan bishops and reform the Curia to be more international and streamlined. These changes aim to reduce obstacles to unity and resemble synod style governance in other churches.
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Rome
Paul VI
Curia
Pope Paul
John XXIII
Wheat sales to the Soviet Union and strategic leverage
The piece argues that selling U.S. wheat to the Soviet Union may rescue capitalist economies and affect Cold War leverage. It cites Civil War trade, Napoleonic Britain, and Jeffersonian embargo as precedents, notes rising farm exports near 6 billion dollars, and warns that Khrushchev could be bribed with grain to ease Soviet actions.
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U.S
Khrushchev
Great Britain
Manchester
Alabama
Britain
Abe Lincoln
McCormick
France
Europe
England
Thomas Jefferson
New England
Russia
West Europe
West Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Caribbean
Jersey Sarm SAT Korea dilemma in Dear Abby column
A reader in Korea asks how to manage physical needs while stationed abroad. Abby replies with advice for both spouses, urging duty, restraint, and daily correspondence to cope with long separations. The column also answers a hat etiquette question, concluding hats suit well-dressed women at outdoor events.
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Abby
The Perils of First Names in Professional Settings
Larry B. recounts how using only first names cost him a promotion and how formality preserves authority. He notes that elders, bosses, and clergy should prefer surnames or titles, while social climbers push for intimate naming to gain prestige. He urges careful use of names to maintain status.
Work Starts On Gemini Capsule at Cape Canaveral
Technicians began assembling the four ton Gemini capsule at Cape Canaveral for test firings ahead of a 1964 launch. The craft arrived by Air Force cargo plane and was mounted on a three story test stand for checks with a Titan III booster being tested in Baltimore.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gemini
America
East Coast Missile Test Center
Air Force
Baltimore
Life Advice From a Trusted Voice on Family Money and Moving
Life begins at 40 offers guidance on downsizing from an overbearing mother and fostering independence. It also advises balancing thrift with daily enjoyment, and redefines retirement as active rather than a retreat. Moving and encouraging social ties are recommended steps.
Proposed discipline plan could replace corporal punishment
The author warns against suspensions feeding juvenile delinquency and outlines a future system where teachers administer humane punishment, with juveniles sent to a detention home or camps under court oversight to reform behavior and restore school order.
Local Notices and Weekend Visits Across Dayton Area
Miss Ortha Roush of Dayton spent a weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Wendell Roush. A 2C Perry Rupe is spending a leave with his parents Mr and Mrs Claude Rupe and Martha. After his leave he will be stationed at Vandberg Calif. Nellie Athey returned to Erie Pa after a two week visit with her brother Clarence Grover. Bible study at Kgger Methodist Church Friday at 730. Public invited. Keith Brandbury spent a week in New York on vacation. Mayo and Mrs Bales visited with his brother Selvan Bales in Spencer W Va. Chauncey Rife of Jackson and Mark McDaniels visited Garfield Searls recently.
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Kyger
Ortha Roush
Dayton
Wendell Roush
Perry Rupe
Claude Rupe
Martha
Vandberg
Calif
Nellie Athey
Erie
Clarence Grover
Kgger Methodist Church
Keith Brandbury
New York
Mayo Bales
Selvan Bales
Spencer
W. Va
Chauncey Rife
Jackson
Mark McDaniels
Garfield Searls
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Abraham Lincoln
West
John Chamberlain
ASAIN
Dear Abby
States
Korea
Jersey
Abigail van Buren
Beverly Hills
George W. Crane
Larry
Larry B
By Robert Peterson
Los Angeles
Arizona
the Messenger
Garry C. Myers
Board of Education
Juve
Kk Yeer
Athens Messenger
Dally
Ohio
Athens
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