Show Teenagers To Flood FIod Local Job Jib Markets Special to the Clipper Davis County's unemployment ment problem which has its counterpart in every other section section section sec sec- tion of oC the countr country is being accentuated by the growing number of teen teen-agers who are entering the Ule local labor force THEY ARE only a fraction of oC the swarm of youngsters who were born during the prolific pro pro- prolific period following world war II and who are now in their teens or approaching teen age The others will be arriving with a rush between now and 1970 1910 With them they are bringing an employment lent problem of the first magnitude HOW BIG IG it is is brought out in data assembled by the Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce By the end of oC 1965 it shows the number of young folk in Davis County between the ages of oC 14 and 19 will amount to SO SOME IE OF them will go to college some sonic will go to work after completing high school and others will drop out before before before be be- fore graduating Judging from the normal pattern locally 1483 of oC them or per cent will be out of school and in the labor force by 1965 IN OTHER parts of oC the United States an average of per cent enter the labor force in their teens The average average average av av- av- av in the I 1 Mountain States is per cent and in the state of Utah per cent The large number of young persons who leave school prematurely prematurely prematurely pre pre- maturely is aggravating the unemployment situation a c- c cording to Secretary of Labor W. W Willard Wirtz UNLESS they manage to equip themselves with needed skills he warned their chances chanc chane es Cs of getting jobs are not very good Between 1965 and 1970 the figures show the number of teen teen-agers entering the labor market will wm be even greater than at present r- r OF THE in Davis Coun County f oun n. n ty who will ill be in the 14 11 to 19 age group by 1970 some 1933 will leave school to seek work This assumes that they continue continue continue con con- to drop out at the current current cur cur- rent rate Throughout the nation the number of teen alters agers in the labor force is increasing rap rap- idly It was 62 million in 1960 will be 77 million in 1965 and will reach 84 million by 1970 the Labor Department states |