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Show Bright Spot Seen On Emp oyment Picture in State Highlight of the week was a healthy increase in labor demand, de-mand, which, for the first time this year, topped the corresponding corres-ponding week a year ago. Utah employers listed 950 non-farm job openings during the week ended April 26, an increase in-crease of more than 400 over the week before, and 50 more than the same week a year ago. All seasonally inclined industries in-dustries shared in the advance. Another 800 workers left the unemployed rolls which dropped drop-ped the jobles ratio to 58 of each thousand unemployed. This is a drop of 5 per thousand thou-sand from the week of April 19, but stands 30 per thousand thou-sand higher than the same week a year ago. At about a thousand, industry indus-try lay-offs for the week were more than 200 higher than last year. Another sour note was the exhausting of benefits by 180 claimants during the week, compared to 100 for the same period in 1957. All areas in the State showed show-ed some decline in unemployment, unemploy-ment, but the declines were all seasonal with none of them pointing to resumption of industry in-dustry growth. Likewise all industries, except ex-cept transportation recalled workers, but here again, the recalls were seasonal. |