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Show County Building Increases in County Over '55 Building permits issued in May totaled 262, compared to 212 for May, 1955. Total value of permits issued dropped by $586,935 reflecting re-flecting perhaps fewer, large projects. pro-jects. being started in May, 1956, compared to May, 1955, a report from Utah County employment office states. Postal receipts over the county were up by about 4.2 over a year ago. Over-all sales in the area showed show-ed an average 4.1 increase over May of 1955. Insured employment for June, 1956 is up 4.3 over the same month last year. Local employers hired 238 workers (excluding farm workers) through the Provo Employment Office in May compared to 163 in May 1955, reflecting business growth and increasing job opportunities oppor-tunities and also, we hope, increasing in-creasing satisfaction with the workers received through the office. of-fice. Over-all business seems to be good. More people are working; therefore, more should be buying goods and services of our local merchants. Barring an extended strike in steel, optimism still is high for a good summer. |