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fr-BRECRENarPOB AMERICAN—THURSDAY, DEC. 27, 1956
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★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Shortage of Technicians
Being Made Up at Home
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
^^ASHINGTON -.(NEA)—The shortage of scientific manpower in
the U S continues to torment top government officials.
Adm. Hyman Hickover, famed builder of the atomic sub Nautilus
and in charge of u big slice of the Navy's atomic reactor program,
is one ot the chief fighters for something to be dgne about this
problem He spys:
"In recent years distressing intelligence has reached us that
Russia has treate d a formidable educational system which bids fair
to outproduce us in trained personnel. It would be unwise to din-
miss as empiy boasting Krushchev's remark that Russia will soon
have more scientists and engineers than we."
I What the experts on this problem here are just becoming aware
unique way a lot of individual Americans are
tackling the scientific manpower shortage on their own.
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! MORE THAN A half-million Americans are taking correspond-
ence courses in various scientific and technical fields to take ad-
vantage of the great job opportunities in this field.
The sudden boom in this phase of home study ii one af the most
optimistic reports which has come along recently on the scientific
manpower problem. Furthermore, it is estimated by government
experts that within several years more than a million Americans
will be taking correspondence courses to get in on the new oppor-
tunities in technical and scientific fields.
At the same time the legitimate correspondence schools, through
the National Home Study Council and Federal Trade Commission,
are fcusy policing racketeers" trvinu Jo take adeantaae of this
education boom.
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a FORMER official of the U.S. Office of Education, Homer
Kempfvr, is director of the council and reports:
"If there isxany doubt about whether an advertised correspond-
ence course is legitimate, go to any public school or library and get
a copy of the council's Blue Book which lists approved correspond-
ence schools." ■
Today, approximately 10 per cent of the licensed engineers in the
U S are home taught, Kempfer says. He points out that in almost
every state an individual can become a professional engineer if he-
has had a high school education, can pass state exams and has had
eight years of experience. And that rate is increasing.
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SEVERAL government agencies are getting interested ip tho cor-
respondence school possibilities of increasing the supply of scien-
tific manpower. But industry discovered it many years ago and
more recently has turned to it more than ever as a means oi solving
its shortage of technically trained personnel. -V.
Hundreds uf firms have correspondence school experts on their
staffs encouraging and advising employes to train themselves for
better job.s this way. . .
A recent study reveals that 75 per cent of the persons taking
these scientific mail courses are men, 70 per cent of whom are
unmarried. The typical home study student is 27 years old.
I trend toward earlier marriages in the U.S., plus of course,
the shortage of workers in this field, is one of the big reasons for
this increase in home study. Marriage forces a young man to go to
work and quit school. But this permits him to carry on with his
education.
There are now more persons starting correspondence courses each
year than ttiere are young people entering all ol the country's
universities ami colleges.
Arrests-
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there was no need to "fill up the
jail" pending a court test, prompt
ly changed their Inns — they de-
cided to sit where they please
again today risking further ar-
rests.
2. The Tallahassee City Commis-
sion in an emergency session sus-
pended the city transit company's
franchinse in order to prevent i
spready of violence, but the coin
pany announced it considered the
action illegal and would continue
operations. Negro leaders called
[or intensified definuce of Talla-
hassee segregation laws today.
•'1. The Mobile City Commission
countermanded the bus company's
decision two days ago to stop en-
forcing that city's bus segregation
law. Company officials declined
comment.
Negro attorneys in Birmingham
mapped a constitutional test of the
city's bus segregation hi v in de-
fense of the 21 arrested Integra
tionists.
Negroes Celeu rated
Birmingham Negroes at ;i mass
meeting Wednesday night eele
brated tHe freeing of the last of
the -21 arrested intgrationists un-
der $10(1 bonds and decided to foVe-
go further integration attempts.
But at a second meeting they
changed their plans.
The Rev. Martin Luther King
young Negro minister who led the
12 -month racial boycott of Mont-
gomery buses, spurred the Bir-
mingham Negroes to vo^e to con-
tinue their integration attempt to
day.
The Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth,
Birmingham integration leader,
read to a gathering of 400 Negroes
i militant telegram Kink sent aft-
er the Montgomery shooting. The
Negroes voted to continue their in-
tegration drive.
Shuttlesworth, his wife and two
children, and a neighbor escaped
with slight injuries when his home
was wrecked by a dynamite blast
in Birmingham two nights ago on
the eve of the first integration
showdown.
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Requiem Mass For
Brother Herman
BALTIMORE, Md. (IIP)—A sol-
emn high Requiem Mass was
scheduled today for Brother Her-
man, the man who gave Babe Ruth
his first baseball coaching and his
middle name.
Brother Herman, 75, a member
of the Catholic Xuverian Order for
00 years, died Christmas Eve aft-
er a lengthy illness. He first he-
came acquainted with Ruth when
the future baseball star, then 1.'!,
entered St. Mary's Industrial
School in Baltimore.
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Luc* Bra Ended
Today In Italy
ROME (ll.R)—The Luce era end-
ed today in Italy.
Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, the am-
bassador who stunned a whole na-
tion just because she was a lady,
Wound up her affairs here after a
spectacularly successful diplomat-
ic career many persons had pre-
dicted \voqld be an equally spec-
tacular flon,
The Italians who viewed her
with alarm four years ago bade
her a warm farewell as she toured
P-cme for the last time as a diplo-
mat.
Mrs. Luce spoke her personal
goodby Wednesday night to the
eternal city she has called her
home and office for more than
three years.
Standing before the sparkling
green pool of the Trevi fountain
she twice called out "arrivederci,
Roma" (good by Rome) as she
lightly tossed an American half
dollar into the fountain—a ges-
ture that for two centuries meant
the thrower will return safely from
his journeys in foreign lands.
Woman Is Killed
In Pampa Crash
PAMPA, Tex. (U.R)—A former
Oklahoma City woman was killed
pnd her husband seriously injured
in a traffic accident near here
Wednesday.
Mrs. James E. Dixon, (57, was
fatally injured in the crash, which
Raise Of Steel j
Prices In Offing
WASHINGTON <lf.li —The gov-
ernment's refusal to grant further
tax benefits for expansion of steel
pioduction adds to the expectation
of another round of steel price in-
ert ases, an industry source said
today.
He said it also may result in
postponement or cancellation of
part of a $2.3 billion expinsiun
program planned by the industry.
The industry had asked for the
tax incentives to help finaftce in-
creased production of vj^iuus
types of scarce steel—particularly
steel for highway and school con-
struction, oil tanker constructian
and petroleum equipment, and rail-
road cars.
The government Wednesday re-
fused to grant the tax incentives.
occurred about one mile west of
SUellytown, which is halfway be-
tween Pampa and Burger.
Authorities said the Dixons who
moved to Graham, Tex., about
two weeks ago from Oklahoma
City, were en route to Pampa to
visit friends.
A tire blew out on the right
fro(il wheel and caused the car tn
careen some 200 feet down a ditch,
jump a culvert draw and flip > .
Dixon was thown from the i j
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The first mention in history of
the. employment of lenses as ,'i
means of assisting the sight is
th;f. Roger Bacon who lived in the
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Worker Is Killed,
Thirteen Injured
NEWNAN, Ga. nil')— A smel-
ter in an aluminum extrusion
plant exploded here today, killing
at least one person and injuring
13. several of them critically.
Four persons still were missing
hours ,after the blast, which oc-
curred at 3: 50 a. m. est.
One worker was reported to
have been thrown 100 feet by the
explosion which shattered a large
one story frame building of the
William L. Bonnell Co. The man
was found beside a ne.arhy rail-
road track. He was one oF those
in critical condition.
Police Chief J. P. Askew per-
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sonaily directed the search for
victims in the shambles of the
building. The starch was made
more difficult because the roof
collapsed on top of the wreckage.
Ten of the injured were Ne-
groes.
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Water Committee
Meeting Slated
AUSTIN (U.R)—'The Texas Water
Resources committee meets Friday
to discuss a proposal to tax boats
and outboard motors and hike the
price of hunting and fishing li
censes.
The two-day public hearing will
be presided over by State Sen.
George Parkhouse of Dallas,
chairman of the committee. Park-
house said about 100 letters re-
garding the proposal had been re-
ceived.
The committee in a meeting
Dec. 7 endorsed the tax program
to provide mon- y for purchase of
conservation storage space in fed-
erally-owned water reservoirs.
"We have issued an invittaion
to anyone and everyone to como
tell us what they think about it..."
Parkhouse said. He said he in-
tends "for everyone to be heard"
even if it takes both days.
Nixon-
BREWER
INSURANCE AGENCY
"If it's insurance, we have it"
110 South Rose
Ph. HI 9-2082 Night HI 9-3635
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confer with former President Her-
bert Hoover before driving to
Camp Kilmer; .Mr. Hoover direct-
ed U. S. relief efforts in Europe
after World War I.
Nixon was to join the presiden-
tial refugee committee, headed by
Tracy Voorhees, at lunch in a ref-
ugee messhall. An Army spokes-
man said Nixon and the commit-
tee will join the lunch line and re-
ceive the regular fare fed the ref-
ugees.
Nixon conferred with the Presi-
dent Wednesday to report on his
tour of Austrian refugee camps.
During the 'hour-loner White House
meeting he gave Mr. Fisenh'ower
an eyewitness description on how
the more than 150,000 Hungarians
who have fled their country- are
being cared for.
Sewer Cleaning
Service
(ELECTRIC)
A national service
available locally
HOLLY and Co.
Phone HI 9-3251
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Friday
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Published Sunday morning and TuesC&y, WednesAty, Thursday,
and Friday afternoon by Publishers Ins., at 114 E. Elm Street,
Breckenridjf > Texac,
Entered at the Post Office in Breckenridge, Texas aa second-clan,
matter under the Act of Congress, March 8, 1879.
Mary KELLY
INSURANCE AGENCY
Bill
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