Show Proclamation Will Extend Employ Handicapped Week Urging equal opportunity for employment of ot the physically Impaired George D. D Clyde Governor Governor Gov of ot Utah signed Into proclamation proclamation pro pro- Employ the Physically cally sally Handicapped Week to extend ex extend ex- ex tend from October 4 through 10 The plea signed September 16 this year asked for citizen understanding of ot the need for better appreciation of ot the abilities abil ties of ot the handicapped worker to make a real contribution to to the economy of ot tho the state and to become top-notch top producers In any job suited to their theft abilities Governor Clydes Clyde's proclamation followed a similar one Issued by President Eisenhower on September Septem Septem- September ber her 8 also urging consideration of the positive abilities of the physically handicapped in filling rUlIng the Job needs of the Nations Nation's employers The Week as it is called dates back to a 1945 joint Congressional Con Con- gressional resolution designate designatIng ing the first full week in October October Oct ober of ot each year as National Employ the Physically Handi Handicapped capped Week During the past 14 years emphasis emphasis em on the significance of the Week has grown pia every tate state In spite pite of a spate of memorial weeks week has grown in importance mostly most ly because employers have realized real the value of af workers who may have lost one capability only on one onely ly to develop others o ot of even more positive value alue Rehabilitation and state slate employment em offices point out there would be no need for an annual campaign of this sort t if handicapped handicapped handi capped persons who apply for jobs fobs were were considered on their merits alone Some employers they say wont won't hire the handicapped simply simp simp- ly because they are handicap handIcap- have accidents ped They'll force torce my Workmans Workman's Compensation rates up They wont won't produce The rest of ot my employees wont won't work next them According to employment experts these are some of ot the reasons most often given by employers employers employers em em- in refusing to consider employing the physically handi handl capped Yet employment authorities surveys made by the US U.S. Labor Department and backed up by surveys of ot the US U.S. Chamber of ot Commerce US U.S. Manufacturers Association and others indicate that 1 The handicapped are safer on the job than the able bodied Their accident rate is appreciably appreciably ably lower 2 The handicapped have slightly slight slight- ly better production records than the able 3 The handicapped have the same rate of Job absence as the bodied able no more mare Manly B. B Lincoln manager of ot the Moab employment security office says there Is one more fact that supercedes supersedes statistics You cant can't go wrong when you It measure a man or woman by what that person can do rather rath rath- er than what he cant can't do Consider Consider Consider Con Con- sider his abilities rather than his disabilities |