• County Forming they provided 30.8 per cent (Continued (non, Pop .7, r ,.’S though manufacturers prov'dc was madc cven though not nil of nearly 48 per cent of earnings, this K rou P of Industries conlrl -they provide fewer than 41 p>r to the expansion Sub.nan cent of Lancaster County’s jobs. tial J° b B ains wcre made in They have increased their share trat * p ' sendees, and state and o i -total employment slightly local government; but Federal since 1959, and they have added • Government employment has de ft aObstactial number of jobs, *nd only small increases About 20 per cent more -persons wire _ scored by the transporta «*ra--.tbeir living in factories. V on «nd utility industries by ftbio did in 19SO, but some other construction and by the finance, kinds of industries have made an insurance and real estate group. even better record. Agricultural employment has • Nbnmanufacturing industries declined in both share and num (exclusive of farming and self- hors Self-employment has stabi employmcnt) have increased cm- hzed in numbers, but accounts ployment 32 per cent and now for a smaller share of the total account for a larger share of all now than in 1959. jobs than (Iv’v used to do. In All told, there are now about - Serving The Former, Gardener And Home Owner .PLANT FOOD\ Limestone \ nxnni - 1 ert '*' zers Maryland I lUI* L -1 Horticultural Peat "Look For This Sign” So. Newport Road B_ B Intercourse, Penna. Stamps E^SSjSipSJ§| . Phone (717) 768-8451 GET MORE FOR YOUR MONEY With A Big Dutchman Automatic Poultry Feeding System You get more eggs from your feed dol lar because our exclusive, patented re mixing intake wheel in the feed hopper re-mixes uneaten feed returning from the trough with fresh feed. That means all of the feed is used. Your birds get the full ration, and feed is not wasted. The result is better feed conversion. The Big Dutchman cham-in-trough feed ing circuit strengthens this benefit by BIG DUTCHMAN Diller Aye., New Holland, Pa. “carrying” the whole feed to the birds. Feed is not dragged or forced by any mechanism that has a grinding, separa ting action. These are real advantages that give you more out of the feed you buy. and more out of the hens you feed. For more in formation on money-saving layer cages and feeding systems see your nearest Big Dutchman representative or write: A Division of U.S. Industries, Inc. 23.000 more people nt work each month, on the average, in thu County than were working at tn» .start of the Sixties, Total cm< ployment i.s running about 138,- 600, as compaied with 115.900 In 1050. This is a gain of 20 per cent, and the Penn State report notes that this is ahead of the gains of most but not all Penn sylvania industrial areas. It is well ahead of the State increase of 12 per cent. Unemployment is averaging about 2,SCO persons a month, a reduction of about 35 per cent from the monthly average of 4,- 300 in 1050. This is a small re duction compared with the re ductions achieved elsewhere in Pennsylvania; but the reviewers emphasize that a small reduc tion is all that could be expected. "In 1959 there was much less unemployment in Lancaster County, both in numbers and as a proportion of the labor force, than there was in other metro politan aieas of Pennsylvania ” The area’s employment re quirements have been met by at tracting more people into the local labor fo.ce, which enlarged IS per cent from 1959 through 1969 This was a larger gain than most other Pennsyjvania indus trial areas experienced, and it was more than three times the gain for Pennsylvania as a whole. PATENTED RE-MIXING INTAKE WHEEL Phone 354-5168 Lancaster Farming. Saturday. January 24,1970—23 Although tnc employment ivspect to per capita income level In Lancaster County is seems to be slipping a bit. high, there is some evidence that •■industries th.it use n great in many industries it is not very deal of part-time or tomporaiy steady over the course of a your help tend to bo low-paid, and On the whole, employment can part-time pay checks arc com be expected to fluctuate by more parativcly small no matter how than 5.5 per cent simply because high the hourly rate of pay. of the nature of business activi- ~P art ot thc pro blcm with per tics in the County. In Pcnnsyl- CJ<p i ta income, however, is sim vania these fluctuations amount p jy L ancas i er County is in to no more than 4 per cent. In t j, e eas t ern p ar t 0 f the United addition, wide seasonal f uctua- Slates and olher parts of lhe tions are characteristic of both, coun t r y have been growing fast the manufacturing and nonmanu- er> Coinpa.ed with some other factoring sectors of Lancaster areds of Pennsylvania. Lancaster County industry. The vauation enjt y S a f ol tunate location. The over the course of a year is 2 9 sou theastern part of this State is per cent, compared with 1 8 pei n one best owth areas in cent for the State. As a group the £ as(i but | oca tion has not manufacturing mdustnes in the bfcen lhe only ieaSo n for the County vary nearly 5 per ecru, as CouiUv - s economic adneve compared with less than 4 5 per men t s ‘» cent in the State The analysts say that the dis tribution of industues in the County for years has insulated \ c y help your child to build , , , , , healthy teeth when you serve local employment veiy well from him we ii. ba i a nced and adequate the worst shocks of recession meals, say extension foods and periods, but the area seems to be nutrition specialists of The depending more heavily now Pennsylvania State University, than in the past on industries Use a variety of foods with speci that have a very decided season- al emphasis on raw fiuits and al pattern of operations. This vegetables and icstrict sweet not only introduces instability snacks between meals Keep in into employment conditions but mind that good dental health it could be one reason why this practices should begin in child area’s favorable position with hood. G | For Healthy Teeth
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