08 May 1961
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1961
Page
1
A 1960 61 labor force analysis notes rising unemployment despite more jobs as the civilian labor force grows. It cites 3.9 million unemployed in 1960 and 5.7 million in 1961, with a projected 5.1 million in 1962, and argues for reforms including unemployment extensions, training requirements, and stricter benefit screening to address automation and foreign competition.
About 170 hikers on a sodden 16 mile trek along the C&O canal route stopped at the Anglers Inn where host Mrs Reyes lambasted Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas Senator Paul Douglas and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Udall withdrew to eat outside as Mrs Reyes challenged the officials about the mess. Francis Cardinal Spellman begins eye treatment in New York City and James Ford Bell founder of General Mills dies in Minneapolis.
Howard Samuel, 47, a socialist millionaire publisher and real estate man, drowned Saturday in Greece while swimming. A British Foreign Office spokesman in London said Samuel was on vacation.
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