Negro students shun technical fields despite rise in opportunities for them. (Editor)

With more physicians than ever we still don't seem to have enough to go around. (Editor)

North Carolina school trains men for jobs once handed down from father to son. (Editor)

Because of increasing shortages of accountants, the profession is opening up rapidly to blacks and women. Many more blacks would enter accounting if college counselors informed them of the available opportunities. (BH)

U.S. Employment Service meshes manpower needs at local level. (Editor)

Although employment opportunities for minorities are very good at entry-level positions in New York City banks, very little opportunity exists for promotion. (BH)

The shortage of trained manpower remains a troublesome problem that must be overcome if the national attack on water pollution succeeds. The total number of persons treating waste water in 1967 was 11,300 professionals, 10,300 technicians, 23,500 sewage treatment plant operators, and 50,000 maintenance workers. (BC)

The U. S. Secretary of Labor regards the apprenticeship system as falling short of what it is capable of accomplishing and recommends the suggestions proposed by a task force for new initiatives to remedy the situation. (AG)

A selected compilation from the annual report on job training and related matters. (Editor)

Describes changing personnel needs for administrators, supervisors, specialists, and line workers in the corrections field. This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

A Manpower Administration study of nine geographical areas notable in manpower planning progress identified major determinants of successful local manpower planning as: support from high level, elected officials; clout; participation by agency administrators; labor market planning scope; management through budget; development of new planning…