Idle Count Drops, Rate Stays Same
Adjusted for seasonal variation. the rate of joblessness remained at the August level of 5.S per cent of the labor force, the highest rate since last .lamtarv.</br></br>Û¢	Hard-core uiioti'plo.v mold ÛÓthose looking for w>rk more than six monthsÛÓfell 100.000 to 477.000. This was the tirst time in two years that the total had fallen below the half-million mark.</br></br>Û¢	The seasonally adjusted unemployed rate for adult men. most of whom tire heads of families, fell from 49 to 4.(3 per rent, 1.1 tier rent less than a year a so and the same level that prevailed before model changeover* in the automobile industry.</br></br>The adult-male figure, to .pother with breakdowns for women and teen-agers, appeared in the Department's monthly report for the first time. They were a reflection of r e e o in in e n d a t i o n s for strengthening unemplov men! reporting teehnirpios made by a special presidential committee last week.</br></br>Adjusted jobless rates for women rose from 5.3 to ti l per cent in September: for teen-agers (14-19 years), from