European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. January 29, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Survey finds 2 million in Over-50 labor Pool by the new York times nearly 1 million non working Ameri cans 50 of 64 years old arc Road and Able to work a new Survey shows. The excitement of this studs is that the Pool of qualified older workers is so much larger than anyone knew and with everyone worrying about he labor Short Ages forecast for Early next Century that s very  Thomas w. Moloney. Senior vice president of the Commonwealth fund the new York based philanthropic organi action that commissioned the study. This  he went on. Disproves the conventional Wisdom that there arc not Many people in this age Range ready and Able to work hat they Aren t healthy enough to work or Aren t prepared to Lake the jobs that there is a demand  since there Are Only about 2 million new people entering the labor Force each year he said it is significant that the Survey produced an estimate that there is a Pool of another 2 million qualified older workers. That estimate based on a Survey by  Harris & associates is More than three times the Bureau of labor Statis tics estimate of 630.000. Bruce Klein a Bureau economist says both estimates May be right since the government number does not include workers not seeking jobs. The Survey conducted by Telephone last March through last september Cov ered 3,509 older americans 1.751 men 55 to 64 pc Arnold and 1.758 women 50 to 59. The women were younger because women leave the work Force earlier than men the Survey tried to focus on the years when workers typically leave the work Force. In portions of the Survey not yet an Aly de those surveyed were also asked when and Why they left work and How they fared outside the work Force. From the participants responses the researchers inferred results applicable to the 21.5 million americans in those age brackets. Of that group. 13.3 million Are work ing. 47 million do not want to work and 1.6 million Are unable to work mostly for health reasons. The remaining workers nearly 2 Mil lion Are ready and Able. The projections of the data were done by Harris and 1cf. A District of Colum Bia consulting company. About 800.000 of the estimated 2 Mil lion people were not prime candidates for new jobs the researchers said but More than  million would be highly qualified and motivated since they have reasonable wage expectations would accept difficult working conditions and have interest in available jobs Manageri Al computer sales Home Day care and teacher s aides. The Survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus seven percentage Points. The participants were asked How far they would he willing to commute what jobs and Job conditions they would accept and for what pay. The reasons thai these people Are not working include employer discrimination against older workers and the work ers perceptions of the employers attitudes. As ready and willing and capable As these people Are 60 percent Are discouraged from seeking employment and the most frequently Given reason is that they Don t think people want to hire  said Moloney. Students find Marine s Skull in Calif desert Twenty Nini Palms. Calif. Up the Skull of a Marine who was accidentally abandoned in the desert after Maneu vers one night in i ass was found three Miles from where ins other remain1, were u in ered a year ago. Officials said saturday. They said it had most Likely been moved is  or other carnivorous animals. Cic ology students found the Skull Jan. 6 a Urius a dig near National trails Highway outside the grounds of the Marine c corps air ground combat cent i. Chief warrant officer Doug Hauth said the desert base is just North of then Lynne i alms. Which is about 130 Miles Ca t  Angeles. Geologist Donald Mien. Emilei � Lite College coup. Notified san Bernardino count sheriffs deputies who turned the Skull Oxer to the count Coroner s of fice a sheriffs spokeswoman said. A comparison with manm1 corps dental records confirmed the Skull was that of  i. Jason Koth or. 19. Haul said. On aug. 30. 1988. Roller had been posted As a Road guide during night Maneu vers at the base which sprawls -10 Miles North to South and 40 Miles East lowest Over the Southern California desert. At the end of the exercise. Rother was overlooked by a truck Convoy and left in the desert dying of apparent dehydration. Haul said Holder s body was found during a search in Decem Ber 1988. The remains were identified by his clothing. An m-16 Rifle and identification cards. Rother s Superior officer. 1st it. Allen Lawson. Was convicted of dereliction of duty last february for his decision to position Rothsr about 200 Yards away from his partner going against Standard procedure of Post ing guards in pairs. He was sentenced to four months in the Brig and dismissal from the Marine corps. Getting a leg up As secret service guards scan the area. George w. Bush strikes n pose with his font on his father s stomach As the president does stretching exercises saturday Lefure a run at fort Mcnair. . 1 St Black congressman from California retiring Washington a rep. Augus Tus f. Hawkins the first Black to be elected to Congress from California is retiring after 27 years in Congress. Maybe i can do a better Job calling attention to my concerns on the outside than on the inside the 82-year-old chairman of the House education and labor committee said in an interview after announcing he would not seek re election in november. The longest serving Black in Congress Hawkins said he made the decision thursday night and did not consult with party leaders before making Friday s announcement. He said he considered retiring before but there was always another project another Bill i wanted to see passed so i just kept going  Hawkins has represented the primarily Black and hispanic Watts area of los Angeles and sur rounding hispanic suburbs since 1963. He had been a member of the state legislature since 1934. In 1984. He re placed the late rep. Carl d. Perkins d ky., As chairman of the education and Hawkins labor panel. His most Likely successor As the panel s chairman is rep. William d. Ford. T Mich. Sen. Edward m. Kennedy. D-mass., who chairs the Senate labor and human resources committee called Hawkins a tireless Champion of a better and fairer  few if any. Members of Congress have done More Over the past Quarter Century to fulfil the nation s commit ment to those who need our help the most Kennedy said. Narrowing the disparity Between Rich and poor has always been the focus of Hawkins Agenda. A year after entering Congress he co authored the title Vii of the iv64 civil rights act. Which created the equal employment Opportunity commission mandating fair employment practices. In 1978 he was the co author with the late sen. Hubert Humphrey of the Humphrey Hawkins full employment Bill. It officially made the nation s goal an unemployment rate of 4 percent. But for most of the past decade Haw Kins was forced into the role of a critic of the so called Reagan revolution. Hawkins has complained that hush while touting himself As the education  has consistently opposed appropriating the Money needed to carry out an $8.3 billion school improvement act that Hawkins wrote and former president Reagan signed two years ago. The Adamant Liberal with a 100 per cent favourable voting record from the Al Cio in six of the past eight years has often taken a pragmatic approach in forging alliances with conservatives to Advance his Agenda. In 1982, he worked with Dan Quayle. Then a conservative Republican senator from Indiana and sen. Orrin Hatch. R Utah. To assure unions and Community activist groups a voice in allocating wage subsidies to businesses under the Job training partnership act