Northwest Arkansas Times from Fayetteville, Arkansas • Page 7

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TIMES, Fayetlevllle, Arlcansai, Monday, September 10, 1962 'PEACE, IT'S WONDERFUL'--Stove McQueen, center, has frleden (German for painted on his motorcycle, But that doesn't mean his daredevUtry on wheels has been abandoned. Steve is shown here with his -cqstars, Charles Bronston, left, and James Coburn, right, in "The Great Escape," now being enacted before the cameras in Munich. SAM DAWSON The Business Mirror By SAM DAWSON UusliiL'ss News Analyst MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. (AP) The big job used lo be collecting statistics about iwople.

Today it's making the statistics fit the people. They keep on doing things their own way even when the figures have indicated a different trend under way. And often people wonder why Hie statistics seem to be contrary lo their experience. Statisticians by Hie hundreds are gathering here today to run their profession through the human computers of llieir own minds. They are studying how to improve the gathering and interpretation of statistics--all the way from stock inarket trends to unemployment totals.

And the 122nd annual meeting of the American Statistical Association is taking sldetrips into Ihe fields of getting people to under- sand statistics--and, especially to slop jumping lo conclusions. The confusion this week over the government's statistics on jobs and tlie jobless is a case in point. Employment in August hit a record high. The total of the jobless dropped. And yet (tie percentage of the labor force out of work rose.

Some say i all because of women. Others say the seasons seem lo getting out of kilter. Some think the percentage rise in the unemployment rate is all because of tlie big crop of babies in the war years. The women a credited with the smaller than expected drop in unemployment in August because up lo 100,000 were counted as job less when they were really just waiting to take their first jobs as teachers or new jobs in that profession. This month they switeli from the unemployed lo Ihe employed side of the ledger.

But this August the lnlxr force got bigger than expected, not only because of the women biding their lime but perhaps because all those be month most of them should back on the job. Detroit keeps changing its model changeover period from year to year and this Is very trying to statisticians striving to adjust to previously agreed upon seasonal alterns. Meeting Called in Effort To Settle Railroad Strike WASHINGTON (ATO-- Representatives of Chicago North Western Railroad and its striking telegraphers meet with acting Secretary of Later W. Willard Wirtz today in an attempt to settle a 12-day walkout. It will be first plunge into direct negotiations since he was named by President Kennedy Aug.

30 to succeed Arthur J. Goldljet'g as head of the Labor Department. In announcing the meeting Sunday a Labor Department spokes- ma nsaid it would be too far to presume a quick settlement is in the offing. Ho indicated there has progress in the negotiations. asked Ben lleineman, board chairman of the railroad, and -E.

Leighly, president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers AFL CIO, to alleml Hie meeting. Federal mediator Francis A. O'Neill who has been meeting bolh lleineman arid also will attend. After talks with both sides Saturday O'Neill said in Chicago: "There is no imminent chance of a breakthrough, but tbings arc moving a litlle bit." The strike, which began Aug. 30 after efforts by Goldberg and failed to head it has sharply affected a nine-state Midwestern area served by the CNW, Ihe nation's third longest war babies arc growing up and job hunting.

railroad. The seasons arc viewed askance Grain and other foodstuffs have because they seem to be coming earlier each year. Statisticians take Ihe seasons into account and adjust their figures lo fit what they think the seasonal patlern is, or should be. Thus, in June they make allowance for the hordes of students and teachers looking for summer jobs, and therefore technically unemployed. In August the statisticians figure those who did not find jobs got tired of Sooking and dropped out of Ihe labor force.

So unemployment a should drop. Seasonal changes alao arc blamed on the auto industry tills time. When the August figures were taken most auto production lines were down for model change-; over, and the laid-off workers were listed as unemployed. This been piling up al rail sidings. Construction projects dependent on material hauled by road have slowed down or halted.

About 16.500 railroad employes, including the striking telegraphers, arc off Ihe job. Railroad President Clyde J. Fitzpalrick estimated Saturday Ihe line has lost 86 million in the strike. Job security is principal issue in dispute. The telegraphers slruck over a demand thai no telegrapher's job should a been abolished since Dec.

3. 1957 without consultation with the union. School Menu 1 FAYETTEVILE Tuesday: Deviled eggs, French spinach, rolls, butter, plums, and milk. Wednesday: Individual a loaves, buttered green limas, let- luce wedges, thousand i a dressing, hot rolls, butler, chocolate pudding, and milk. Thursday: Baked beans, buttered turnip greens, apple-cheese salad, cornbread.

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