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Show Government employees in Utah number one in four workers Utah has a larger proportion propor-tion of its population employed employ-ed by government than any other state in the continental United States, according to a report just released by Utah Foundation, the private governmental gov-ernmental research organization. organiza-tion. Only.'Alaska has a higher percentage of governmental employees. The Foundation report shows that in October 1962, approximately approxi-mately 7.5 of Utah's total population was working for some governmental agency Federal, state, or local. This rate was half again as large as the national average of 5.0. The report notes that education edu-cation is the state and local government activity requiring the largest number of employees employ-ees in Utah. Last October a total of 20,210 persons (full-time (full-time equivalent), or 60 of the total Utah state and local government work force, were employed in public education. Of this number, approximately 15,000 were employed in the local schools and 5,000 in the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) 'in the state actually has dropped drop-ped by 12 in the past ten years. Big Horn Mountain sheep abound in the jilectric Peak Peak area near the north entrance en-trance to Yellowstone National Nation-al Park. Fishing is free in Yellowstone Yellow-stone National Park. No license li-cense is required for any angler ang-ler during the general season from late May to late October. Government employees in Utah above average (Continue dfrom Page One), state-supported colleges and universities. In ddition, the report observes obser-ves that nearly one out of every ev-ery four nonagricultural workers work-ers in Utah (24.4 to be exact) ex-act) is employed by Government. Govern-ment. Nationally, the ratio is approximately one government worker for every six (16.6) nonfarm workers. During October, 1962, there were 72,629 persons in Utah who were employed by government. gov-ernment. This number represents repre-sents an increase of about 23 from the 58,922 government employees reported for Utah ten years earlier in 1952. For the nation as a whole, total public employment rose by 33 during the decade from 6,922,540 in 1952 to 9,196,556 in 1962. A majo rfactor accounting for the high rate of government govern-ment employment in Utah, according ac-cording to the report, is the large number of Federal civilian civil-ian employees stationed within with-in the State. Federal employment employ-ment in Utah is 'equal to 303 per 10,000 population, compared compar-ed with a U.S. rate of 128 per 10,000. Alaska and Hawaii are the only states with a higher percentage of Federal workers. The Foundation study shows that despite the large number num-ber of Federal civilian workers in Utah, Feedral employment |