Dip Reported In Jobless For March
There was a slight drop in unemployment last month in the Washington area, but the number of jobless remains near a four-year high .It was 42 per cent higher last month than in March, 1957.</br></br>There was a drop of 700 in the number of jobless and an increase of 3000 in the number of employed from February to March, the United States Employment Service office reported.	|</br></br>There remain 25,800 persons unemployed in the latest figures. That is 7700ÛÓor 42 per gentÛÓmore than were out >f work in March, 1957.</br></br>For the third month in a-row, the unemployment rate here exceeds 3 per cent. It was 3.1 per cent in JanuaiÛªy, 3.4	per cent in the latest figures. The percentage is lower than in any other major area. The national estimate is 6.8 per cent.	i</br></br>The drop in the number of jobless and the pickup in employment in March were not as great as had been hoped, said Fred Hetzel, director of the USES office here. Unemployment dropped nearly three times as much in the same period last year. It dropped by 1900 to a total of 18,100.