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Show supplement to the National Enterprise Awngc Sale Mat af Sail Late Handicapped Find Useful Niche in Salt Lake Market capped personnel and Salt Lake City is no exception. One Humpty Dumpty was cool of the first problems an embut he couldnt rehabilitate ployer might encounter is, himself and he didnt have a What do we call these handijob. Humpty was handi- capped people? They have called been the off capped (after falling mentally rewall) and, like many handitarded, socially impaired, emoa find couldnt capped people, mentally deranged, useful nicheifor himself. tionally unstable, people Employers have always with a learning problem, or been skeptical of hiring handi just plain sick people. byDeanAlsup The truth is that most of feelings and attitudes of the us would rather not talk about workers around him. An a ancient African parable best handicapped people. Its tender subject. describes the way a handiThe Columbus Communcapped person feels when he Center of Salt Lake City is first goes to work: When a ity in the business of training and rooster from one village moves finding jobs for hundreds of to a new village, he stands on one foot. Before he puts his people with learning disinabilities. Jim Toomey, other foot down he looks at the dustrial relations director for other roosters to see if it is the Columbus, believes all handi- custom to stand on one foot or capped people can be useful in two. some capacity. Some are In making the transition more useful than others and from working student to a many can actively participate competing member of the in a competitive business wmk force, the handicapped worker may find himself in a atmosphere. similar situation, and, feeling like the rooster, he might Adjust to Teasing wonder if teasing is the custOne big problem, omary behavior. is Toomey said, socially the training Attitude, AssetLIabillty handicapped person to feel comfortable around other people so he can work Toomey considers the productively and feel useful to attitude of the handicapped himself. worker to be his greatest asset In any working atmoor his most severe handicap. We think our people will sphere there is generally- a lot of teasing that goes on, either succeed or fail at work That is just, on the basis of whether or not Toomey said. something normal workers do. they are successful in developThey tend to tease each other ing the right attitude, Attendance, good naturedly. The handiToomey said. know and doesnt capped person production are punctuality of secondary importance bequite how to take this teasing. adSome handicapped people cause these factors all depend well to and it others on the attitude of the worker. just quite are extremely resentful of any A good attitude must come first. type of tease. A definite disadvantage For the most part. Salt of the handicapped worker Lake City employers are when he undertakes an indus- pleased with the work atti- trial job is how to gauge the continued on page 2b . - at the Columbus School see themselves as ultimate opportunitis and when the chance for advancement presents . itself, they go for it. Funds Embargoed Pending Law Suit key constitutional question hampering the start of the Utah Housing Finance Agency is whether or not housing is a private or public interest. Section 6 of the Utah Constitution says that the state shall not pledge its faith in credit for private purposes. The low-incom- e, Thirty-fiv- e other states have already contested the same sort of housing programs and found similar agencies to be constitutionally legal. Apparently, the same thing will happen in Utah. Its almost a routine case, said Marv Mackey, Utah deputy director of housing Such housing development. programs began along the Eastern seaboard and now most Western and Intermountain states have similar agencies. Mackey said that Idaho, and Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon have similar housing agencies (providing low interest home loans to He families) in operation. pointed out that it took Oregon two years to clear their program through the courts. Utah State Auditor David S. Monson and Finance Director Herbert F. Smart have been dismissed as personal defendants but their state agencies are still being sued. The suit was filed by the Utah Housing Finance Agency because $500,000 appropriated by the legislature was not low-inco- 7 News Inside . Workers Heae-19- Pension plans have become so difficult to understand the Internal Revenue Service plans to host a seminar to teach participants which end is up. When a convention turns out to be a bummer, (and a vacation in disguise) what information must you keep in order to substantiate a tax deduction as a business expense? The cost of mortgage financing and reduced in- volvement of federal assistance are to blame for fewer housing starts in the Salt Lake area. The trend has levelled off. But . . . The sale price of a home has advanced steadily for two months. Average price listed with the Salt Lake Board of Realtors is $37,666. Faith in the economy has spurred an upward trend in consumer and commercial bank deposits. For Salt Lake County (50 of all deposits in the state), deposits are up $24 million over the same period last year. Manufacturers, Retailers Boost Depressed Bank Loan Activity The nations large businesses are borrowing from capital and commercial-pape- r markets rather than banks. But medium and small-size- d firms are expanding their released to the housing borrowing at regional banks. Those are two conclusions agency. Boyd Wagstaff, deputy reached by Ruth Wilson, state auditor, said his office economist with the Federal should have been removed Reserve Bank of San Francisco from the case entirely. He in a recent article written for said the auditor's office was the banks Business & Finannot responsible for the deci- cial Letter. Wilson noted a sharp $4.3 sion to detain funds. We have the right to withhold billion reduction in business money if we consider it to be loans nationally during the first half of 1976. She exunconstitutional or illegal, continued on page 6b plained the languishing loan activity by speculating business firms are borrowing from capital and commercial paper markets, and relying on profit upturns to augment their internal cash flows. She stated, however, that medium-size- d and smallsized firms which normally dont have access to market sources significantly ex- panded their borrowing at regional banks, particularly toward In western states serviced by the San Francisco Bank (Alaska, Arizona, California, mid-yea- r. Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Washington) commercial and industrial activity has taken a strong turn upward during the first half of 1976 compared to the same period last year, even though the amount of money being loained has continued to decline. The Bank determined, in a survey of seleeted western banks, that loans to businesses decreased by $303 million during the first half of 1976, while during the same period last year they de- creased by $1.47 billion. Loans to businesses in the durable manufacturing and continued on page 5b |