The Daily Inter Lake from Kalispell, Montana • 1

HISTORICAL SOCIETY Of MONTANA COMP HELENA MT 44 58 Per Cent Unemployment Rate Pushes Up WASHINGTON (AP) Wide spread layoffs pushed the na unemployment rate up to 58 per cent of the work force last month the highest level in 212 years the government re ported today Another 440000 workers joined unemployment rolls in September bringing the total to a seasonally adjusted 53 mil lion the Iabor Department said The increase in the jobless rate from 54 per cent in Au gust was tlxp largest monthly increase since last January when it also rose four tenths of one per cent Unemployment has been creeping up gradually for the past several months and is ex pected to rise above six per cent late this year or in early 1975 Last October the jobless rate had dropped to a 3 12 year low of 46 per cent Since then the number of unemployed per sons has risen by 12 million President ord who will send his economic program to Con gress next week has indicated he will propose an expanded public service jobs program us ing federal funds to enable state and local governments to hire the unemployed Most of the unemployment last month took place among women aged 25 and older and among teen agers particularly males 18 to 19 years old De ci i i college attendance among young men coupled with the slower growth in jobs contributed to the higher job lessness among youth the gov ernment said Total employment was re ported up by 350000 from Au gust to September Over the past year total employment has climbed by 14 million half the year to year gain recorded Both white and blue collar workers felt the effects of the slowing economy Both cate gories registered increases in joblessness Heavy layoffs were reported in manufacturing con struction and wholesale and re tail trade unem ployment rate at 124 percent rose to its highest level in four years Within goods producing in dustries employment gained slightly in September due to a reduction in strike activity In September the average work week of factory workers remained at 401 hours while factory overtime fell by two tenths of an hour The average hourly pay for a manufacturing worker last month rose eight cents to $451 while weekly earnings averaged $18175 up from $17764 the de partment said Among the major labor force groups the jobless rate for full time workers was reported up from 48 per cent in August to 53 per cent in September while the rate for household heads moved up from 31 to 34 In a racial breakdown job lessness for white workers rose from 48 to 53 percent reflect ing the increases among adult women and teen agers Unem ployment among blacks in creased to 98 per cent com pared with 92 per cent in Au gust The civilian labor force usu ally declines in September but this year the government said the actual decline was much less than expected and thus on a seasonally adjusted basis rose by almost 800000 to a lev el of 911 million per cent The unemployment in the previous year The in rate for married men was list crease was negated in the ed at 28 per cent in September unemployment picture by compared with 26 per cent in additional job seekers August The teen aged jobless rate rose from 153 to 167 per cent Quake World Strikes Briefs Peru LIMA Peru (AP) Peru vian air force planes and heli copters crisscrossed the couh tryride today to evaluate the ef lecls ok St1 Thursday ort four persons were joneS'Stolen S1OKANE Wash (AP) TSeven ametuysi swnvwrrn a total of $1000 were stolen this week from the Soviet Pavilion at Expo police said Thursday 4 The stones were stolen from a main floor display by someone who pried up a glass partition police said known dead and at least 1000 were reported injured 92 of Medicare Increase WASHINGTON (AP) Beginning Jan 1 the 235 million persons covered by Medicare will have to pay 95 per cent more in out of pocket hospitalization expenses because of inflation The Department of Health Education and Welfare announcing the new schedule Thursday said each Medicare patient checking into a hospital will have to pay the first $92 of expenses compared with the current $84 Demands Scaled Down them seriously Several cities or towns in central Peru report ed extensive damage Workers in Lima the capital began clearing shattered walls fallen cornices and broken glass from the streets At least two houses collapsed In Canete and Chincha coast al cities south of Lima 60 per cent of the houses were report ed destroyed Emergency medical centers treated a steady flow of slightly injured or hysterical people Hr i rii ISTt IlT I iBrn MataKHCT MhUB I ihSI vq HMsgMfsa 'HhHKWpSs BSSE X5 fey Paleflower Arrives Indian actress Sacheen Littlefeather arrived recently in Kalispell to join a long list of character actors for the filming of the movie "Winterhawk Miss Littlefeather plays the role of Paleflower in the film the wife of mountain man Guthrie (Leif Erickson) This scene is just east of the Kalispell city limits near Willow Glen Drive where the filming took place Thursday Charles Pierce director producer of the Viotion picture expects to be filming in the lathead until the middle of November and the premiere 'showing isf expected to be in Kalispell in late April or early May (Photo by Del Lyonais) 1 fSTha Dl 77' 7 bb bl Ob Vol 67 No 147 Kalispell Montana riday Octof 4 1974 tiGeePAoeiCWYtJ 5 i lb n'WA Against Indians Women Employers Throughout Montana Guilty Of Job Discrimination SANTO DOMINGO Dominican Republic (AP) Terrorists holding seven hostages in the Venezuelan consulate for a week have scaled down their demands but the Dominican government is expected to hold out for full surrender Pregnant Woman Escapes COLUMBUS Ohio (AP) A pregnant bookkeeper abducted during a Kentucky bank robbery and left bound i and gagged in a motel room escaped unharmed early today police said The robber and his accomplice were still at large The 21 year old bookkeeper Betty Json of Sandy Hook Ky pulled off her ropes and walked out of the room five hours after the pair abandoned her Mrs Ison who expects her baby in five weeks was abducted at lunchtime Thursday by an armed gunman who escaped with $14000 from the Peoples Bank of Sandy Hook 160 miles south of Columbus GOLD HELMET our lathead football players are honored for their play the last two weekends Page 6 PLAYO PREVIEWS The National and Ajnerican League baseball playoffs open Saturday with the Dodgersand slight favorites Page 6 PREGAMES Whitefish Polson and Bigfork are all involved in Saturday high school football games Page 6 WATSONIAN PICKS Sports Editor Stu Watson trys his luck at picking this pro football games Page 6 TCE Total Community Education television opens its second season Monday with new equipment and expanded coverage Intertainer section Sports 6 7 Obituaries 8 amily 10 Comics 12 Classifieds 13 15 Weather Showers Table Page 8 wi ing that it give job preference to Indians as required by law It also recommended that the BIA establish guidelines to in form employes and job appli cants what would constitute a conflict of interest between BIA job duties and tribal activities Testimony taken by the com mittee had indicated the BIA area office had a policy of re stricting the tribal political ac The report said 37 percent of all workers in Montana's labor force are women committee conference tA WASHINGTON (AP) Sen ate and House conferees faced with a presidential veto threat have softened a measure under which US military aid to Tur key could be suspended Acting Thursday they also killed altogether a Senate passed cutoff of military assist ance to Chile The conference committee made the changes in a contin uing resolution that would allow spending for foreign aid and other federal programs to pro ceed basically at last rate until Congress acts on regular appropriation bills for the activities The foreign aid portion totals some $26 billion In a compromise on the Tur kish aid issue the conferees tive to recruiting or hiring of Indians It said many private employers have action for recruiting and promoting Indians and women but the plans generally lack goals and timetables The committee recommended that the legislature provide suf ficient money to the state em ployment senice to allow the agency to monitor the plans of private employers for hiring tivity of its employes minorities and women The report criticized the Bil lings area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs recommend Authorities said 92 were hospi talized 970 more were given first aid and 460 were treated for shock The quake struck at 9:21 am and shocks continued for nearjy an hour after the initial tremor Widespread panic was due to the memory of the devastating earthquake on May 31 1970 in which 20000 persons were killed and another 50000 were reported missing The US Geological Survey reported that the quake Thurs day hit 77 orlthe Richter scale in Helena A member of the State Tax Appeals Board she said unemployment among In dians statewide is double the figure for whites and unemploy ment on Indian reservations in the state has been averaging about 40 per cent The report indicated how ever that the problem on In units the report said In feder dian reservations may be a re sult of a lack of available jobs rather than discrimination Women in Montana have a higher unemployment rate and earn substantially less than men in private state and feder al employment women are concentrated at the lowest sala ry levels it said The advisory committee found many employers in the state including governmental agencies have not been recep al jobs the survey found It noted that fewer than 10 per cent of the professionals in state agencies and private in dustry were women Discriminatory patterns against the promotion of wom en were found particularly in the banks and university HELENA (AP) Private and governmental employers in Montana are guilty of wide spread job discrimination against American Indians and women the Montana Advisory Committee to the US Civil Rights Commission contends in a report issued riday The report was based on a survey of hiring practices and promotion patterns in both pri vate and public jobs indings of the survey were made public by Helen Pe terson Helena chairman at a news TV I oreign Aid Measure Softened Nr wta I "4 3 i pA th WM fftasy w' 3 ITT S5 ir jr' I Wil1 WaM HL rrf sx wsfr xtv Sr I i TK lUWllL vlv i JSM 5' i 44KWSM Clubs Well Represented At Publicity Workshop The Inter Lake cares In keeping with the company's "We Care" policy family editor Phyllis Clark conducted a publicity workshop Thursday night for representatives of the various clubs and organizations in the area Newspaper policy and ways to improve club reporting and advance publicity releases were explained Purpose of the workshop was to help organizations and The Inter Lake in providing the best possible coverage Approximately 35 persons were on hand to take advantage of the session which included a tour of the plant The workshop was a forerunner for National Newspaper Week which begins Sunday Inter Lake publisher Chuck Pettit is shown addressing the group gathered in the newsroom agreed to suspend the assist ance until President ord cer tifies that Turkey is complying with US foreign aid laws making good faith efforts to reach a negotiated settlement with respect to ord had served notice Tues day that he would veto a bill containing the Eaglelon amend ment 3wimi.