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WALTER CRONKITE | 1916-2009
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CBS anchorman guided Americans through
20th century’s biggest tragedies and triumphs
Jobless rate
jumps past
10 percent
However, county gains 600 jobs
in nonfarm category in month
By Stephanie Hoops
shoops@
VenturaCountyStar.com
Ventura County’s unemployment rate hit double digits for
the first time in more than 15
years in June, surging to 10.2
percent as the number of people looking for work climbed
to 44,100, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.
The last time it exceeded 10
percent was in July 1993. The
job market has contracted
sharply from a year ago, when
unemployment stood at 5.9
percent.
“We think that by the end of
the year we’re going to see
more positive signs for the
overall economy,” said Jack
Kyser, founding economist of
the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. “But unfortunately unemployment is going
to continue because business
is going to be cautious until its’
sure recovery is real.”
From May to June, there was
an overall loss of 1,900 jobs,
but that was all attributed to
2,500 cuts in seasonal farm
work. Nonfarm jobs, the market’s true pulse, added 600
positions.
Gains were reported in
trade, transportation and utilities, 400; government, 300;
leisure and hospitality, 200;
manufacturing, 100; and construction, 100. Cuts occurred
in educational and health
services, 200; professional and
business services, 200; and
financial activities, 100.
Bruce Stenslie, president
and CEO of the Economic Development Collaborative of
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Broadcaster Walter Cronkite, seen here in 1998, died at home Friday after a long illness. Top left,
Cronkite issues a CBS report in the 1950s. Top center, Cronkite returned to print media in his later
years. Top right, Cronkite reports on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.
‘Most trusted man
in America’ dies
By Frazier Moore
The Associated Press
CBS
Cronkite interviews President John F. Kennedy for
CBS on Sept. 2, 1963. Cronkite broke the news
of Kennedy’s assassination two months later,
interrupting a soap opera broadcast.
NEW YORK — Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks’ golden age who reported on tumultuous times with reassuring authority and came to be called
“the most trusted man in America,” died Friday. He was
92.
Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. with his family by his side at
his Manhattan home after a long illness, CBS vice president
Linda Mason said. Marlene Adler, Cronkite’s chief of staff,
said Cronkite died of cerebrovascular disease.
Morley Safer, a longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent,
called Cronkite “the father of television news.”
“The trust that viewers placed in him was based on the
recognition of his fairness, honesty and strict objectivity
... and of course his long experience as a shoe-leather reporter covering everything from local politics to World
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60 to 95 cents on the dollar
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