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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, I960 Page Three Study Shows Continued Growth In Utah Population, Work Force j drop in the labor force partici-pation rate from 1950's 45.4 per cent to 24.9 per cent by 1970. With the present trend in re-tirement at age 65 continuing, 75.1 percent of the men 65 years and over in Utah will be out of the labor market by 1970. In 1950, 54.6 per cent in that age group were not productively employed. Only 7,900 as com-pared with 9,200 in 1950 will be taking part in the production of goods and services for a state population over one and one half times 1950's. With an estimated 739,500 persons 14 years of age or older in Utah by 1970, and a total pop-ulation of over 1,125,000 it is foreseen that about 374,100 will be in the state's labor force in that year. The men and women who will constitute this labor market will add up to 50.6 per cent of the state's population over 14 years of age, against the 51.8 per cent in 1950, and the estimated 51.1 per cent in 1960. The change between these over all percent-age figures does not reflect the startling shifts within the com-ponents of the labor force where j a major reshuffling is taking, place. Young women workers be-tween the ages of 14 and 19 will not be participating in jobs at the 1950 rate by 1970, going down from 1950's 21.3 to 18.7 per cent by 1970. Young women i in the 20 to 24 age group will show a slightly decreased ticipation rate, from 34.1 in 1950 to 33.3 per cent by 1970. A small increase in the rate of women in the labor market will be ap-parent for the 25 to 34 age group but a decided increase will be registered for women ages 35 to 44. with a 1970 participation rate of 35.0 against 1950's 28.3 per cent, and 1960's 31.5. Women available for jobs in the 45 to 54 age bracket will be well over twice the number in 1950, the rate of participation rising from 29.6 to 45.6. A similar jump will take place for the 55 to 64 age group, going from 22.5 percent in 1950 to 38.6 per cent by 1970. Even those women 65 years old and older who will "be in the labor market are expected to comprise 8.6 per cent of their age group, rather than 1950's 6.5 per cent. Numerically, in Utah all of the age and sex groups in the labor force will increase (except the number of men in the labor force over 65), but changes will; have occurred in their relative, importance. j Working women should con-- ; stitute 28.9 percent of 1970's female population over 14 years , of age, against 24.3 per cent in; 1950, and 26.7 per cent in I960,1 wihle the participation of men in the labor force will drop from 79.5 per cent of all males over 14 years of age in 1950 to 72.6 per cent by 1970.' Only 30.9 percent of the young men between 14 and 19 will be in 1970's labor force in Utah, opposed to 39.5 per cent in 1950. Men in the age bracket between 20 and 24 also will show a de-cline in participation from the 1950 rate, while a slight rise will occur for men between 25 and 34. For men 65 years of age or older, however, if present j trends continue, there will be a " ' ': --fpjt UmiRJOURIOCLJUY IT! iieif 86 PROOF STRAIGHT WHISKEY OANCIENT AGE DISTILLING COMPANY, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY Cement Firm Opens New Utah Plant Ideal Cement Company Friday began operation of its new $2 million cement storage and bulk facilities at the firm's Devil's Slide plant, 55 miles east of Salt Lake City. Operations began with the loading of 135 barrels of cement into a bulk cement truck destined for the Flaming Gorge Dam site. Ideal's new storage facilities consist of nine concrete silos, 36 feet in diameter and 140 feet high, plus four interstice bins, with a total capacity of 202.000 barrels of cement. A barrel of cement is 376 lbs. or four 94 lb. ! sacks of cement. This new storage capacity, added to the existing facilities, provides an overall storage of 460,000 barrels of cement or almost one fourth of the plant's annual productive capacity. The new bulk loading facilities are the fastest available. An av-erage truck is loaded in approxi-mately eight minutes. Bulk rail cars with a capacity of 400 bar-rels are loaded in 20 minutes. Three giant combination truck and railroad scales are reported to be the largest level scales ever made. Each is 10 ft. wide and 170 feet long. One scale for each row of three silos permits simulta-neous bulk loading of three rail cars or trucks. Dust collection systems are provided throughout the new facilities assuring a dust free operation. Telephone Company Move to Improve Service in Utah A half million dollar micro-wave telephone construction project began this week to im-prove long distance telephone service between points in South-western Utah and Salt Lake City. An addition is being made to the Cedar City telephone build-ing and a new building is to be erected at Iron Springs, west of Cedar City. A microwave sys-tem will be installed between these two points. At Iron Springs the new system will intercon-nect with the North-Sout- h leg of the national microwave sys-tem. This leg extends between Salt Lake Citya nd Turquoise, Calif. The new project will provide sufficient circuits to meet the current and immediate future demands for long distance serv-ice to Salt Lake and distant points from St. George, Kanab, Beaver, Milford, Parowan, Hur-ricane, Enterprise and other Utah communities which are served out of Cedar City. The building at Iron Springs will be of masonry construction 43 by 26 feet. Associated with it will be a 125 foot steel tower on which the microwave antennas will be mounted. A graveled ac-cess road will be constructed to the site. A 35 foot tower will be erected on top of the Cedar City telephone building. Kaze and Gammon Construc-tion Company of Provo will con-struct the building and tower at Iron Springs and the DDT Con-struction Company of Salt Lake City, has the contract for the Cedar City job. Present plans call for the com-pletion of both buildings before January 31, 1961. At that time, twelve telephone technicians from the Western Electric Co. will begin installing the micro-wave radio relay equipment. It is planned to have the entire iob completed and in operation by June 10, 1961. |