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No Recession Due, Bqnk SoYs

'An economic slowdown later this year may be in the works, but a recession surely is not, First National City Bank economists rePort.

Recession forecaits fall into two major categories, neither of which can be validated by any convincing evidence, the batrk saYs.

A credit crunch similar to those of 1966 and 1969 does not appear likely.

"Alook at the figures suggests there is a vast difference betwen the first haif of I9?3 and the initial stages of the earlier crunch periods," Citibank said.

'oln both 1966 and 1969, the Federal Reserve was em' barked on a shirply restrictive monetary course. In con' trast, the growth in-most monetary aggregates during the first half of thi. year can be considered restrictive only when compared with I972's excessive expansion.

"There is little indication thus far that the degree of monetary restraint now being applied is sufficiently sever-e to turn a slowdown into recession," the bank concluded.

Weyerhqeuser Sofety Record

Assiitant Secretary of Labor John H' Stender said recently that although the lumber and wood products in' dustry has an "alarming" number of injuries, one com' pany "exemplifies what I would like to see in every industry in the nation."

Stender, administrator of OSHA, identified Weyer' haeuser Co. as the firm with the industry.setting safety record.

"According to the latest statistics available to us, the rate was 34.1 injuries per million man-hours worked (for the lumber and wood products industry)," Stender said. Weyerhaeuser's rate was 4.52.

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