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Show NATION-WIDE CUT SCALES DOWN HOURS Utah County Jo Lose About $6000 Weekly Under New Hour Scale Reduction of CWA working-hours working-hours in Utah county, along' with the rest of the state and nation, will mean lopping from $G000 to $10,000 off the weekly county payroll, although al-though the quota of men working remains the same. Reduction of hours from 30 to 24 hours a week in cities and from 30 to 15 hours a week in the smaller communities came as a blanket order from Civil Works Administrator Hopkins, Thursday, to state director Robert H. Hinckley, Hinck-ley, and instructions were immediately immed-iately given to the county CWA heads. Payroll To Drop ' Utah county's payroll for Saturday Sat-urday of this week will remain the same as before, County Manager Man-ager W. Lester Mangum stated in a meeting with the executive board today, but the cut will be reflected in the payroll which extends ex-tends until Saturday, January 26. Mr. Mangum stated that the working schedule will be 24 hours weekly in the seven larger Utah county cities, and 15 hours weekly week-ly in the smaller communities. Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Provo, Springville, Spanish Fork aiid Payson would come under- the 24-hour weekly scale, which means four days a week under the six-hour daily system, fills fltnh's Wage The reduction in hours effects a $100,000 slash in the quota for Utah as a whole. It is made necessary, according to the instructions in-structions from Hopkins, because the first appropriation for the CWA work is dwindling and will peter out altogether by February 10 or 15 unless congress takes action. Congress is being asked to appropriate sufficient funds to run the work at least four months longer. |