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Plans Now On Foot To Reopen 1 Marital Heafth Clinic In District —Ttt *— Bpnd, Chairman ( of the I Chowan County Commissioners, t reaa a letter at the Ccmnpission ers’,, meeting Tuesday from Dr. J. iC. Johnson, district health di reoboff. The letter was, ~tp the etteqtthat plans are on fopt to reopen a district mental health cteter in Elizabeth City which is to be supported, with federal and state help, by seven cdw&ties, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Oates, .Hertford, Tyrrell and Washing ton. . ' The clinic was discontinued in The National Outlook •. V. ' • . .1M / Good Business, Bad Unemployment By Ralph Robey We are on the verge of a* business improvement. T*racti-I cally everyone, both within and, (Without the Administration, agrees on that. The onl^‘ques tion* is which particular month will .prove to be the low.point ( But .we still have a serious J employment problem. .i In 'February, which is the lat est period for which figures have been] published, there were 5.7 million persons out of work. 1 Eveiii' on a seasonally adjusted * basis, that was 6.8 percent of our‘ civilian labor force. Ob- 1 viously that is much too high, and to make matters worse it is! certain that it is going to bei difficult to get the total downj to an acceptable, figure; \ Also,' another source of worry;is .that, in each of the past r three 1 re-j cessions and recoveries, the per-1 centage of unemploymehfh'as in crease^. Our unemployment statistics are based upon a sample survey of about 35,000 households ini the Week nearest the 15th of the thbnth. The sample is sci entifftaily selected and the mar gin Os error is small. We Count as Unemployed any person who is a 'in ember of the labor force j and 'was looking for a job ini the survey week or would have' been "seeking employment if he had "hot been ill, or thought there was no opening in" his area' or line of work. We also * count as unemployed any per son Who has been temporarily laid Off, even if a definite re turn date has been established. Some students of the problem <* insist- that this is an incorrect definition of unemployment. Their main argument is that it does not properly take account of part-time employment. This is true in so far as the over all figure is concerned, but the government also publishes de tails 'As to the number ofhours worked. This is obtained from a sample report of about ; 180,- 000 -Establishments. ' Other students believe that our figures over-state the voWriie of uneitlJSloyment. Their principal argiftffent is that when a person is merely waiting to go back iold job he te-«o**Bruly oyed as this term is nor mderstood. j disagreement w/$ )con-! ndefinitely because there! eal means for settling it. I Id be pointed nut, how-| t there is no slanting ofj tires, either upward or ird, and equally strong j can be raised to tjie defi used by other nations' their methqds of meas t. Among the other na lanada is the ohe which ;arly uses our system and employment has consist >een above ours tor the 1 < .• ; | b v - 1959 when it was practically im possible to employ a full time psychiatrist. Dr. Johnson stated that a bud get of about $60,000 would be necessary to operate the clinic and that the counties’ cost would be pro-rated according to popu lation. When the clinic suspended op eration, quite a few patients were on the waiting list. The Commissioners took no official action but decided to further consider the matter. past two or three years. Other nations use a system of registra tion for jobs, and this, it is gen erally agreed, almost always un derstates the actual volume of unemployment, and makes com parison with our figures useless. Much more important than whether our system either over states or under-states unemploy ment, is why the total keeps rising from one recession to an other, and what can be done to reduce the number of jobless. The total keeps rising pri marily for two reasons. First is the large number of young sters entering the labor force. It always takes time for these to decide what they want to do, and accordingly they change jobs more frequently than more ma ture workers, and thus show up in the ranks of the unemployed. Ten Leaders In Bridge Marathon At the end of the 16th round in the bridge marathon spon sored by the Chowan Hospital Auxiliary, Mrs. Vol Patterson and Mrs. Gertrude Rosevear have moved into the lead. The ten leading learns and their scores follow: 1. Mrs. Vol Patterson and Mrs. Gertrude'" Rosevear, 79,900. 2. Joe Thorud and Dr. Richard Hardin, 79,830. 3. Mrs. Kathryn Goodwin and Mrs. Kit Forehand, 75,750. 4. N. J. George and Hiram Mayo, 73,010. ' - • • 5. Medlin Belch and A1 Phil lips, 69,370. 6. Mrs. F. W. Hobbs and Mrs. J. H. McMullan, 68,720. 7. Mrs. Sadie Hoskins and Mrs. Ruth Byrum, 63,690. 8. Mrs. Margaret Davis and Mrs. Pet Goodwin, 62,970. 9. Mrs. H. A. Campen and Mrs. A. M. Forehand, 59,310. 10. Mrs. Snooky Bond and Mrs. Betsy Chesson, 59,150. E. L. Pearce SEEDSMAN Phone 3839 Edanton THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL S, 1961 “Super-Right*’ Government Inspected FRESH. W HOLE “SUPER-RIGHT” FRESHLY “ SUPERRIGHT ” DELICIOUS GROUND OfV JftWg| ALL MEAT FRANKS BEEF per lb. 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