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Show Job Increases Gradual And Consistent A gradual but consistem. increase in jobs being made available in Utah has been noted since the first week in in January, reported Manly Man-ly B. Lincoln, manager of the Moab employment security se-curity office. For the week ended Feb. 4, they totaled 905, a slight increase over the week before, be-fore, and were in good contrast con-trast to last year's 696 for the same week. Mr. Lincoln pointed out that this year's total was influenced in-fluenced by an exceptional- ly heavy load of jr in the Ogden area. Claims Drop Initial claims f0r ... ployment Insurance ed their trend of t-T : four weeks and increj. ! 1.545, compared to week before and 1 2rn the week of FebiW j 1966. More severe v I than a year ago plUs .construction acti-jfyy"' "' ' factors in the increiw- Lincoln reported. '' ' Continuing claims f. ped slightly during ' week just ended, but 134 were still belo year's 11,816. The week's total is 4.60 of workers covered bj r and federal unemplo insurance laws. A ye;', the ratio was 5.2 per |