GOVERNMENT too, the program will provide further training for those local control officials whose interest has been aroused b y exposure to the short, highly specialized courses conducted by H E W at the Taft Sanitary Engineering Center at Cincinnati. Applications for grants have already started to come in to PHS offices, and it looks as though the training program will get off to a good start.
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In addition, A E C will ask industry to comment on the effect of the current shortage of scientific manpower, and to furnish a general estimate of the num ber of engineers and scientists that will be needed in 1960. In connection with the 1960 estimate, AEC does not ex pect to predict future requirements by adding up the estimates. Instead, AEC thinks that the estimates will indicate individual company attitudes of opti mism or pessimism about the future de velopment of atomic energy programs. Although it will take considerable time to collect the data and make de tailed analyses of the information, AEC expects to have preliminary results available by the first of the year.
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atomic age there must be available an adequate supply of trained nuclear en gineers and scientists. Many estimates have been made of future requirements for atomic scientists, but most of these estimates have been based o n spot sur veys of specific areas in atomic energy. Early in October, the Atomic Energy Commission will launch a series of sur veys covering technical manpower re quirements in the entire field of atomic energy. From the information re ceived, AEC is confident that it will b e able to predict at least t h e order of magnitude of manpower requirements in various atomic energy fields as far into the future as 1975. According t o Kenneth S. Colmen, AEC's scientific manpower specialist, these surveys will be t h e first to be made that are suffi ciently intensive and comprehensive t o permit a careful look at the whole problem. Using the questionnaire technique A E C will conduct four separate sur veys. One survey will cover industrial scientific and engineering manpower in privately supported atomic energy ac tivities. I n this field between 8 0 0 and 900 firms will be asked t o supply i n formation. Other surveys will cover the Atomic Energy Commission itself and its contractors, other government agencies working in the atomic energy field, and colleges, universities, and other nonprofit institutions. Here are some of the things AEC will ask the industrial group to supply:
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gineers and scientists to be required one year hence based on planned, budgeted atomic energy programs.
• A breakdown of engineers and sci entists on nuclear work b y functional responsibility and also b y organiza tional responsibility. • A breakdown of these same people by category of scientific specialization and also by educational level. • An estimate of the number of en
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Postscripts
• Fluorspar hearings, scheduled for Sept. 13 by the Office of D e fense Mobilization, have been post poned until Nov. 12 at the request of domestic fluorspar producers. This is the second time the hear ings, originally scheduled for June 27, have been postponed at indus try's request. Reason for the pres ent postponement is to give indus try time to evaluate the effects of the new government purchase pro grams for fluorspar. An ODM spokesman indicates that if the government purchase programs take hold, industry may cancel its request for hearings on the effects of foreign competition. • Executive reserve continues to grow as 54 more business execu-r tives agree to serve in the Com merce Department's Business and Defense Services Administration unit of the National Defense Ex ecutive Reserve. Designation of the additional members brings the total number selected as reservists in the BDSA unit to 149. • U. S. foreign aid programs will get a thorough going over from three separate committees as Presi dent Eisenhower names Benjamin F. Fairless, former chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, to head a spe cial citizens' committee to be known as the President's Citizen Advisers on the Mutual Security Program. Both the Senate Foreign Relations and the House Foreign Affairs Com mittees have be^un studies of the foreign aid program.
