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Overflowin• Recruitin • Schedules
Seniors Seek Interviews
Graduating college seniors appafently have
received the message that things are tight on
the job market this year.
Norman Frisbey, director of Placement
Services, reports the number of students re
questing job interviews is up about 400 from
what it was through the Fall and Winter terms
a year ago.
"Our recruiting schedules are overflow
ing." Frisbey said. "Students are aware of
what the employment situation is across the
county- so they're working harder to find the
jobs they want.
More Interview Requests
"They're making more requests for more
interviews with more companies and they're
making them earlier than usual. They know
that if they can't get on a recruiter's schedule
the day he is here, they may not get on at all.
Recruiters just are not extending their stays as
freely as they have in the' past.
Recruiting conditions at the University
would seem. to parallel the tight trends which
have been detected at other college campuses
across the country, Frisbey said.
The job market in most technical fields
seems to be down, he noted, particularly in
aerospace engineering and electronics, which
have been hit particularly hard by cutbacks in
defense spending.
Accounting Demands
Accounting is one area doing very well, he
said, because the demand for trained accoun
tants by Certified public accounting firms is
still greater than the supply.
Elsewhere, opportunities generally seem to
have decreased, although not so drastically as
in the aerospace and electronics industries,
Frisbey said.
One side effect of the tighter job market,
Frisbey pointed out, is that recruiters from
some of the less glamorous industries are get
ting a much heavier schedule of interviews
than they had previously.
Smaller Firms, Companies
"Many of the larger national firms which,
in the past, would talk to just about anyone,
regardless of their majors, won't do it this
year," he said. "As a result, smaller firms and
Report Says Johnstown
Deteriorating with Age
The socio-economic climate of the city
of Johnstown is "aging and deteriorating,"
but public understanding and widespread
grass roots support can bring about change.
Such is the tenor of a special 450-page
report summarizing a three-year study by
a team of researchers from the University.
In the final analysis, the report stated,
the success or failure of any future eco
nomic development programs in the Johns
town area will "hinge entirely on the extent
to which it has widespread sympathetic pub
lic understanding and grass roots support—
and even more active participation."
The study stems from a request by
Congressman John P. Saylor for the U.S.
Labor Department to look into the human
resources and industrial characteristics of
the Johnstown area. The U.S. Labor De
partment in turn forwarded the request to
the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and
Industry which asked the University's In
stitute for Research on Huthan Resources to
undertake the program.
Under the direction of Louis Levine,
professor of economics, and research asso
ciate with the Institute, the study found
that Johnstown has been plagued by high
rates of unemployment since the end of the
World War 11.
. "This Iths resulted in a loss of popula
tion, relative aging of the area's inhabitants,
low educational attainment levels, low in
come levels, low rental values, substandard
housing and insufficient social investment,"
the report said.
In an attempt to realize the human and
economic potential of the area, the .report
calls for the creation of an economic de
velopment agency that would work on a
regional basis, serving most of Cambria
County, and coordinating both governmental
and non-governmental activities.
"An element in this process," the report
said. "will be the determination of short
range, intermediate and long-term economic
goals for the area. In other words, there is a
need for what presently is lacking in the
area—namely, a plan of strategy for eco
nomic development."
Entitled "The Potential For Human Re
sources and Economic Growth in a Declin
ing Local Community: A Socio-Economic
Study of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Econ
omy," the comprehensive study points to
the area's economic structure as relatively
undiversified:
"It is exceptionally dependent on dur
able goods manufacturing, especially steel
production, for both employment and in..;
come," the report said.
And although Johnstown's unemploy-
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companies seen as less attractive in abetter
market year are receiving about as many re
quests for interviews as they can handle.'
This also is true in public school teaching
where future teachers are showing a greater
willingness to talk about jobs in rather remote
rural areas.
"Students are looking on a much broader
scale than they have in the past five or six
years because they know there aren't that
many jobs open in the suburbs," George C.
Burwell, assistant director for teacher place
ment, said. "For example, one rural district
which scheduled only three interviews last
year, had a full day of 14 this year."
Math Teachers Needed
Teachers in mathematics, the hard
sciences, special education and industrial art
are in the greatest demand, Burwell said. The
other fields generally are in plentiful supply.
One random sampling discovered that of
167 interviews conducted, only 74 responses had
been received. And of that number, 41 were
negative while 33 invited individuals to visit a
company for further conversation.
"Where a student last year or the year
before might expect to take ten interviews and
receive eight positive replies, this year he's
finding almost the reverse is true," Frisbey
commented.
Students Uneasy
And students, asked their feelings about the
job market in the survey, showed their concern
with an unusual number in the "unsatisfac
tory," "not good" or "poor" category.
The Placement Service had no specific
figure as yet as to the state of starting salaries.
although one preliminary nationwide survey
reported that even in the face of reduced
employer activity, starting salaries generally
were rising at the bachelor's degree level.
"What it comes down to is that it's really a
recruiter's market." Frisbey said. "Students
shouldn't panic, however. Very few who want
to work will be without jobs. It's just that
they'll probably have fewer offers to choose
from than in the past."
ment rate usually has been far higher than
the national rate over the past few decades,
the report found that Johnstown has shared
in recent years in the national prosperity.
"It is even possible that some of the
local citizenry have been lulled into a false
sense of security," researchers wrote. "The
fact is that the basic economic characteristics
of the Johnstown area remain unchanged;
and the liabilities and deficiencies of the
Johnstown area have not been removed or
minimized."
The Johnstown economy was described
as essentially a "natural resource based
economy" because the presence of coal, water
and limestone influenced the heavy capital
investment in steel and metal fabrication.
Dominated as it is by extra-active and
resource-based activities associated with
coal and steel, Johnstown's economy is "out
of step" with the economic changes and ad
vances which have taken place nationally,
the report said. These trends have created a
"service economy" in the United States,
"characterized by emphasis on trade, fi
nance, education. health and social services
and activities associated with recreation and
leisure time."
Johnstown has not been very, ,successful
in attracting more diversified manufacturing
industries, the report said. "The few , new
industries which have located in the area
have been largely in apparel and garments
-Irequiring little capital investment and
labor skills" and employing mostly female
workers at relatively low wage rates.
.There are indications, however, that
Johnstown is developing a nucleus of educa
tion and health service activities. "In fact,
the third largest category, of employers in
the Johnstown area is hospitals —, in the
service field that has proved so important
nationally," the report said.
Among its assets, the report cites Johns
town's population stability, high apprecia
tion and low crime and juvenile delinquency
rates. "Indeed, it may well be said the single
greatest economic asset in the Johnstown
area is its human resources."
"Raising the levels of skills and tech
nical knowledge of the Johnstown labor
force involves a rather large scale social in
vestment which can be translated into local
area economic gains only with expanded em
ployment opportunities and different em
ployment activities than presently exist in
the Greater Johnstown Area."
Meanwhile, declines in empolyment op
portunities since World War II have caused
substantial out-migrations among Johns
town's young males of working age. This
has meant relatively large proportions of
females and older male workers in the labor
force, the study said.
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New Calendar Cites
Thanksgiving Break
A revised calendar for the Fall Term has been ap
proved. providing for a Thanksgiving recess.
University President Eric A. Walker announced ap
proval of the calendar as recommended by the Senate
at its February meeting.
The Thanksgiving recess will begin at 12:25 p.m.
Nov. 25, and continue until 8 a.m. Nov. 29.
The Nov. 25 class schedule, afternoon classes, will
meet Dec. 9: the Nov. 26 schedule will be followed Dec.
7; the Nov. 27 schedule Dec. 8. and the morning sched
ule of Nov. 28 will apply Dec. 9.
Dec. 10 has been designated a study day; final ex
aminations are scheduled from Dec. 11 to 15, and com
mencement will be held Dec. 19.
Fall Term opens with the arrival of new students
Sept. 20; orientation and advising from Sept. 21 to 26,
and registration Sept. 23 to 25. Classes begin at 8 a.m.
Sept. 28.
Analysts Rate Year of '69
One of Pennsylvania's Best
The year 1969 stands out as one of Pennsylvania's best
years.
Many measures of economic activity reached new peaks
during the year, report University business analysts in the
magazine, "Pennsylvania Business Survey."
While the eight-year period of national economic ex
pansion and Pennsylvania's own efforts have brought the
economy of the state to a level higher than any since the
Korean War, the gains, nevertheless, have been getting
smaller.
The '6os ended very satisfactorily for Pennsylvania.
During 1969, employment reached a new high, with an
average of 4.797,300 jobs a month. Unemployment dropped to
a record low point of 2.9 per cent of the labor force, as an
average of 145.500 persons a month sought work. These
records were achieved even though .the labor force continued
to enlarge as it has done steadily since 1963.
Steel Industry Support
Strong support from the steel industry underlaid these
economic gains. Pennsylvania mills poured a record-breaking
32,778.748 net tons during 1969 and there was no slackening of
output at the end of the year. The December tonnage was the
best for that month since 1959 when the industry was catching
up after a prolonged summer strike. More tons were poUred in
December than in any month since May. Strong demand, both
in domestic and foreign markets, were behind the strong pro
duction in Pennsylvania.
During the '7os, world demand for steel is expected to con
tinue rising, although more slowly, and in the immediate
months ahead, the demand for American steel looks uncertain.
Employment in manufacturing industries in Pennsylvania
has not been expanding for more than two years but it has
remained stable at one of the best levels since the Korean War
days. The Inanufacturing industries account now for about
one-third of all nonfarm jobs in Pennsylvania and they
averaged 1,559,700 jobs a month last year.
Noneommodity Industries . .
It is the noncomrnodity industries that have contribUted
most to Pennsylvania's excellent employment record, the
University analysts point out. During the fourth quarter of
1969, they had reached a new all-time peak. On the average,
there were about 2,756.500 jobs a month in this group of in
dustries.
Levels of activity for various sectors of the construction
industry are not greatly different from what they were a year
or two ago.
The auto industry has suffered nationally from tight
money, consumer resistance to higher prices, and general
economic slowdown. While final sales figures for 1969 are not
yet available, new car sales for the first 11 months of the year
compare favorably with the 1967 12-month total, if not with the
very good year of 1968. Sales last November were much better
than they had been earlier in the year. Truck sales declined
throughout most of 1969 from the all-time peak reached in the
latter half of 1968.
THE JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET, quartet in resi
dence at the Library of Congress and the Juilliard School
of Music, will perform at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab
as part of the Artists Series.
Pursuit Rights Denied to U.S., South Vietqamese
Cambodia Refuses
(AP) The Cambodian Peking to U.N. Secretary
government declared yester- General U Thant in New York
day it would never consent to yesterday.
U.S. or South Vietnamese Contents Undisclosed
forces pursuing the North Viet- Its contents were not diselos
namese or Viet Cong into Cam- ed, but Radio Peking announc
bodia. ed earlier that in his message
This policy was enunciated Sihanouk insisted he still was
despite th e government's chief of state. He asked the
report that 40.000 North Viet- United Nations to try to get
namese and 16,000 Viet Cong in American forces withdrawn
Cambodia border sanctuaries from the Indochinese
pose a threat to the new peninsula.
regime. French Foreign M i n i s t e r
Maurice Schumann in Paris
•
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At the same time, the enlarged on the Cabinet's pro
government reported the Vict posal Wedne s d a y for
Cong had attacked a defense negotiations of all interested
post near the provincial capital parties to bring peace to the
of Svay Rieng. which lies close Indochina peninsula.
to the South Vietnamez. , .. her- Schumano said the proposal
der. The province is heavily in- was for negotiations rather
filtrated by the Viet Cong and than a conference to get the
North Vietnamese. reactions of all interested par-
Refuses Right
"Faithful to its policy of Vietnam, the Viet Cong, the
strict neutrality," the govern- Pathet Lao of Laos and Com-
merit statement said, -"Cam
bodia will not in fact accept
the right of pursuit carried out
on its territory."
The statement added that
the government will protest all
violation of its territory "by
foreign armies from which
ever camp they may be."
Prince Norodom Sihanouk.
Cambodia's deposed chief of
state, sent a message from
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The Suitliard String Quartet will•,perform at 8:30 p.m...
tomorrow in Schwab.'
The Quartet, in residence at both the Juilliard School of
Music and the Library of Congress, will play two string
quartets by Beethoven and one by the contemporary com
posed Bela Bartok.
The group, organized in 1996, was the first American string
quartet to visit the Soviet Union. Its first Moscow concert in
1961 ended with four encores and a standing ovation.
Champions of American composers, the ensemble performs
many of the works of Copland. Schuman. Piston a+ , cl Cart-•••.
In addition to global tours, the quartet has performed in
several major American music festivals.
Harold C. Schonber of the New York Times said, "The
Juilliard String Quartet represents the vPry u-• •rt
quartet playing at its best." It has recorded with Columbia
Masterworks and RCA Victor Red Seal. •
The success of the quartet may be attributed to the in
dividual members of the group since they are each virtuosos
in their own right. First violinist Robert Mann, winner of a
Naumberg Award. is a noted soloist and has recorded a num
ber of works.
Second violinist Earl Carlyss and violist, Samuel Rhodes,
hold degrees from .Juilliard. Carlyss has made two recital
tours of Scandinavia and Rhodes is a former member of
the Galimir String Quartet.
Cellist Claus Adam began his career in Austria. After com
ing to the United States he worked with the National
Orchestral Association and the Minneapolis Symphony and
then the New Music Quartet.
Tickets are still available at the Hetzel Union Building Main
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tics. He said North and South
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1970
Invasion
munist China should be includ
ed in the negotiations.
No Cause
Lt. Gen. Jesus• Vargas.
secretary-general of t h e
Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization, said in Baguio
City, the Philippines, that
there was no cause for alarm
that hostilities in Cambodia,
Laos and Vietnam would
spread to the treaty area.
At the end of a conference of
SEATO military observers, the
Filipino told newsmen that
Thailand faced the in os t
danger ultimately because of
its proximity to Laos and Cam
bodia.
There was little new activity
on the fighting fronts in South
Vietnam and Laos.
Two days of severe enemy
attacks in South Vietnam killed
61 Americans and wounded
343. But the attacks were
reported slackening last night.