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Show Page 2 May 7, 1980 Ben Lomond Beacon Editorial comment: small business Something as familiar as the morning coffee, our newspaper, the neighbor next door, we tend to take pretty much for granted. So is it with the nations millions of small businesses. Few of us start the day by thoughtfully reflecting on the role and significance of small businesses in our economy and society. comes Then, along National Small Business Sun Chronicle Clearfield Courier Ben Lomond Beacon Sun Times These papers are published weekly at Roy, Utah, 5388 S. 1900 W. Mailing address: P.O. Box 6 or Salt 207, Roy, Utah 84067. Telephone Lake other Americans. Small business people have laid a foundation of security, reliability, success, and selfesteem that has been a source of pride and stablity for our entire community. Small firms with less than 1,000 employees 825-166- Just look around you. Right here in the Roy area small business people are a vital part of our economic and social No one would argue that fact, even though we dont think about it every day. Thats why we think Small Business Week is an appropriate time for us to share in recognition and appreciation of the contributions small businesses make to our community and our nation. We ask you to join us in saluting our friends and produce innovations at the cost of larger firms. Small firms have accounted for half of all innovations in this century. one-four- th 359-261- All in the tough and competitive business world. But on the way to creating a decent living for themselves and their families, small business people have created more than just jobs and products for millions of Week this year from May Uth to 17th and we are suddenly reminded of the powerful and productive role these small businesses play in creating employment new consumer products, and healthy competition. Small businesses employ more than half of the American labor force and account for 48 percent of the gross national product our total national output of goods and services. news and photographs for Wednesday papers must be in the news office by 5 p.m. Monday, pictures may be included without charge either taken in our office or submitted by our well-bein- The helicopter, air confrozen food ditioning, readers. packaging, the jet engine, the automatic transmission all came out of small business workshops. s, J. Howard Stable Owner-Publisher-Edit- M. Glen Adams Asst. Publisher Ad. Mgr. Courier Editor Chronicle Editor Beacon Editor Sports Editor Staff Staff Staff Mrs. Bonnie Stahle LaVora Wayment Dave Homer Nancy Lynn Krzton Keith DunCan Cindy Shy Pam Zaugg Trade Bailey Over the years weve thought of the small business person as one who wants to be his or her own boss, as one who has drive, imagination, salesmanship, resourcefulness, and the ability to respond quickly to changes g. the neighbors, small business people of the Roy area. Women entrepreneurs: A role in America's business future? its In the field of business, by far a mans world. be sure, an increasing number of women have been entering the business world, either as employees or as small business operators. Helped by statute and organized women pressures, and also by a changing attitude among male corporate executives, more and more women are being promoted at long last up the corporate ladder. And more and more women are own their opening To businesses. But the fact remains that in the business arena, women still have a long way to go to gain an equal status with men in job opportunities, in advancement, in pay and in entrepreneurial History For example, although women make up more than half of the nations work force, less than five percent of all companies are owned by women, and these firms represent less than one half of one percent of overall business receipts. Businesses owned by women to be among the smallest and the most to the unvulnerable certainties of the economic tend cycle. Women-owne- d businesses and most of them are small businesses still face major barriers in raising capital; women-owne- d firms often require considerable management assistance; they often find it difficult to compete for government contracts. off By Glenn Perrins Mothers, credit U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and Congress for getting Ansel Adams, American photographer best known for his photos of the High Sierra and Yosemite Valley, began the first college photography department in 194b : the California School of Fine Art opportunity. s 1980 during spotlight National Small Business Week. That week begins May 11. Within business opportunity for renewed commitment to policies which assist women en- trepreneurs. President Carter, for example, has created an Interagency Committee on Womens Business Enterprise to imeffective assure of other plementation the private sector. Small Presidential policies Business Week provides an designed to aid women in The Presidents opportunity for financial and business. contains inlatest budget to corporate managers for funding consider policies to provide creased more loans and capital to management and technical women in business and to assistance programs designed for women interested in opening up their businesses. Recent firms. Much of the governments history illustrates that women are just as capable expanded effort to help as men at running a women centers in the U.S. women-owne- business. Within government, Small Mothers Day officially set on the second Sunday in May. Of course, it was started many years before this time as Mothering Sunday in jolly old England, reports David Gihby, Gibby Floral Co., 1450 W. Riverdale Road, who took the time to visit the Weber County Library and As an enlistment incentive, many Reserve units still offer you up to $2,000 toward college. To this amount, add the $4,000 or more you can earn during college, serving just a weekend a month and two weeks a year. Your total: over $6,000. Enough to pay for a full year, or longer, at most colleges. For details, call your Army Representative, in the Yellow Pages under Recruiting find out how Mothers Day began. Everyone loves mothers, and in Boston in 1872, Julia Ward Howe started paying tribute to her mother, and the idea MEETTODATS ARMY RESERVE became fashionable, points out Mr. Anna Jarvis, of Gibby. Grafton, West Virginia, said the second Sunday in May was a good time to honor mothers. Finally, on May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson a introduced resolution in Congress paying tribute to mothers. Small d Business Administration. National observance years ago, and Mothers Day has been celebrated annually since this time, with mothers begain in 1950, 30 receiving gifts on tHfeir day since that time. Mothers are remembered with cards, books, candy and flov, rs, plants and ferns. Springtime blooms include beaJtifu lillies, African flowering violets, chrysanthemums, hydrangeas, caladiums, and orchid corsages-ext- ra flowers just Mothers Day. fancy for right Safety conference set An important gathering of government and private leaders from throughout the state has been called by Governor Scott M. Matheson for May 13, at the Salt Lake to examine Hilton, tirrlyirlat Business Week provides an Mother's Day noted IT'S LIKE GETTING A FREE YEAR IN COLLEGE! GOsfifflO The problems and issues which women face in the business world, especially those surrounding attempts to start a new firm or expand an existing one, will be in the the problem of highway safety. Last year 376 people were killed and 20,000 injured on Utahs highways. 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