Show OIL fr INDUSTRY fr BUSINESS NEWS Predict Reverse Trend In Ian Unemployment Rise BY fly DON ROBINSON Unemployment in the Grand San Grand San Juan county area is is' reaching new all time highs we are informed by the State Employment Service but a reverse trend is predicted predicted predicted pre pre- and indicated for the comi coming g mo months t I Unemployment jumped to 56 66 per 1000 last month compared to the state Mate average of However the local picture is no where as dismal as some areas such as Panguitch Panguitch Panguitch Pan- Pan where a pathetic per thousand are out of work Contributing to the jobless are natural cutbacks in retail employment following the Christmas season cold weather shutdowns of small uranium mines and contract Specifically Whiting and Haymond Raymond Con Con- working on highways In the White Rim country country coun coun- try of San Juan county cut back and Atlantic Research Research's I Corp at Green River dropped approximately 20 people Manager Bud Lincoln USES Moab said the trend is reversing now and steady hiring will coincide with spring Land Air Division new contractor at Green River has completed initial staffing but still seeks professional and highly technical applicants Eighty to five eighty per cent of the Bendix employees will win merely transfer ov over r to when they assume the support support sup sup- port contract from Bendix Jan 31 so the transition will mean no employment dislocation KURA Radio will move to uptown studios in the Riley RHey Drug building on Main street manager Jack Foote announced an an- announced this w we k The station Is IB awaiting completion of ofa a i nine room studio office and control room suite Mr Foote 8 said BJ 1 that the station will retain Its present transmitter transmitter transmitter trans trans- mitter and facility in west Moab |