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Show Small Business Aide Tells Plans for Using Handicapped Harold R. Smethills, regional director of the Small Business Administration for this area, announced an-nounced this week that a cooperative coope-rative program has been developed devel-oped in Washington by the SBA and the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped to stimulate hiring of qualified physically handicapped handicap-ped workers by small firms. Philip McCallum, administrator administra-tor of the Small Business Administration, Admin-istration, said: "Success of small business throughout the United States is becoming increasingly dependent upon highly skilled and specialized personnel. As the demands of the American economic system increase under technological, scientific and competitive com-petitive pressures of this automated auto-mated space age, so will the need for trained, versatile employees, whose performance, interests, and spirit are appropriately applied ap-plied to individual jobs. "The Small Business Administration Adminis-tration and many of the country's coun-try's business organizations have long ago discovered that hiring the impaired worker not only is good business but a dollars and cents investment that pays off in many ways. Selective placement of the handicapped in your business busi-ness is much more than a humane hu-mane gesture; it is a sound business busi-ness investment and step toward tomorrow's profits and production." produc-tion." Maj. Gen. Melvin J. Maas, USMC, ret., chairman of the President's Committee, has said: "This program will concentrate on the problem of reaching operators ope-rators of small businesses who who have not yet hired qualified physically impaired workers. While placements of qualified handicapped persons have increased in-creased over the past years, special spe-cial emphasis in this area should result in an even greater increase in placements. The first step in this new program pro-gram was the development and distribution by the Small Business Busi-ness Administration and the President's Committee of 500,000 pamphlets explaining the importance impor-tance and advantages of hiring qualified physically handicapped workers. |