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Show rise to 30,000 persons in January. The increase will toe caused, they said, by the shutdown of most construction activities arid agricultural agri-cultural work, primarily ihecause of the weather. Unetmpttoytment paymentis lin September were $411,328, compared com-pared to $213,726 in the same month last year. Jobless In Utah Numbers 17,000 Still On Increase More than 17,000 " -persons in Utah were without jobs Tuesday Sand the total may be 30,000 in January, according to the state department of employment security. secur-ity. Department officials made the estimate iiru a report covering the winter job picture through the state. They set Utah's total labor force at 236,000 persons and said only 219,000 are" bringing home weekly pay checks. And the ranks of jobless, prob- Sably will grow larger in the next two months. Unemployment spread to the 17,000 mark from 14,000 jobless in July and August, despite fall harvest and canning operations over most of the state. Last year at this time only 7000 Utahns were without work, the bulletin noted. The statiticians who keep close 'Check on the pulse of the labor market said unemployment will |