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Show Handicaps Overcome In New Jobs Industry is doing a good job of fitting physically handicapped persons per-sons to jobs in which they lose their handicaps, the National Association As-sociation of Manufacturers said in a statement issued on the eve of National Employ the Physically Physical-ly Handicapped Week, October 7 to 13. "Both industry and the nation's handicapped workers have reason to rejoice that real progress is being made in fitting handicapped persons to jobs in which their handicaps disappear". "Industry gains needed workers and the handicapped gain the satisfaction of being productive and earning good incomes. Hevicw Urged "NEPH Week is an appropriate occasion for employers to review their employment practices to make certain that physically handicapped han-dicapped people are given equal consideration with able-bodied applicants ap-plicants for jobs in which a physical phy-sical handicap is not handicapping. handicap-ping. "Experience has shown that the handicaped worker who ' is properly prop-erly fitted to his job usually provesv that he is at least equal to other employees In work performed, attendance, at-tendance, safe working habits and attitude toward the job. Often he is superior. |