The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-07-26
uses Office For
Holmes County Opened
In Lexington
Communities In
Holmes County To
Have Service Also

Have Service Also
1t was announced here this week
by Nolan B. Corley, ST., War Man
power Commission Area Director,
that a local United States Employ
ment Service office had been opened
in Lexington.
Frank S. York, who was formerly
connected with the United States
Employment Service Office in Gre
NADIA, is the manager of the Lexing>
ton office. The office is located on
104 Spring Street.
In addition to servicing employers
and applicants in Lexington, timer
ant service will be rendered in Du-
rant at the City Hall each Tuesday
from 1000 A. M. until 1900 noonS
in Pickens at the Mayors Office
each Wednesday from 1000 A. NJ,
until 1900 noon; and in Tchula at
the City Hall each Thursday from
1000 A. M. until 1900 noon.
Mr.. Corley said that the opening
of the Lexington office is part Of .
National Expansion Program auth
orized by the War Manpower Com
mission to provide better services
for veterans. 1t is designed to pro-
vide such information, counsel, and
assistance to returning veterans and
war workers and such assistance to
employers as will accelerate the war
effort now and will eventually speed
the absorption by industry Of those
now displaced by the war. He said
five principal functions r contemp-
lated through the United State EN-
ployment Service, with the assist
ance of other branches of the War
Manpower Commission.
l. To give information to veterans
as to any and all Of their rights un-
der the law and to direct them to
the appropriate agency, of other
than USES. where they can obtain
the assistance they may require.
2. To refer veterans or other
workers to such employment as will
utilize their highest skill and will
provide maximum production for
employers. Such referrals must b
based upon training and experience
prior to entry into military service
as we'll as upon training and expert
ence in the Army and Navy.
3. To make selective placement
of veterans, az well as other work.
ers, who have physical handicaps.-
Such placement is designed to utilize
to a maximum remaining capacities
A worker may be physically handi--
capped and not be vocationally-
handicapped. The VINO Division Of
Utilization is constantly making
studies of employment requirements
in a large number Of occupations
for the purpose of building up a,
reservoir of information to be used
by USES personnel in making re-
ferrals of the physically handicap
ped.
4. To serve employers by max
ing analytical studies of their en-
ployment needs. To acquaint them
with methods used by USES in dis
covering abilities, latent, potential.
or actual, of veterans so that those
abilities may be utilized to a maxi
mum by employers. To make such
referrals of labor to employers as
will result in a matching of employer
needs and the abilities of prospec-
tive workers, primarily veterans.
S. The United States Employ.
ment Service offices are charged
with the responsibility of taking
claims of veterans for Servicemen's
Readjustment Allowance for veter-
ans for whom suitable employment
cannot be found and for self employ.
ed veterans. The office should be as
near as possible to the domicile Of
a maximum number of prospective
claimants. The same thing applies to
claims for Unemployment Compen-
sation on the part Of veterans and
non-veterans when not employed.
there but most prominent is n Of
Bing Crosby who has autographed
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