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Show Moab Labor Mark et is Defter Able To Cope with Shifts in Employment Moub's economy is more able to cope with shifts in employment than it has been during the past ten years, it was stated tiiis week by Manly Man-ly li. Lincoln, manager of the Utah State Employment Office in Moab, while discussing discus-sing a recent layoff of personnel pers-onnel at the Atlas Minerals uranium mill here. The layoff involved somewhere some-where around thirty people, when the milling company closed down one circuit of the 'processing facility. The positions had been classed as temporary by Atlas ,and total to-tal employment there is still, above levels of two years ago prior to construction of the vanadium circuit, an Atlas spokesman stated Friday. Also, Al-so, several transfers of people peo-ple to the growing mining division di-vision have reduced the effects ef-fects of the layoff. Mr. Lincoln stated this week that it appeared the others whose jobs were terminated ter-minated have been or would soon be absorbed into the labor market in the immediate immed-iate Moab vicinity. He cited Texas Gulf Sulphur and construction con-struction work as being factors fac-tors in balancing the economy econ-omy to the extent a sizeable number of people could be put to work in a short period of time. Actually, Mr. Lincoln said, very few people find it impossible im-possible to find adequate employment em-ployment if it is their desire to stay in the Moab area. He listed our low and relatively stable level of unemployment as proof of this statement. One trouble, he said, is in placing people where they aro best suited, and steps are being taken to improve that situation. Actually, he said, the people with the highest skill levels are most diflicult to place. Mr. Lincoln cited a need for . a manpower availability committee in the area, made up of representatives of major ma-jor industries, businesses and governmental officials, to work with Grand County School District in initiating a vocational training program which could meet the broad needs of this entire corner of Utah. He said that he had already al-ready been in contact with local school officials, who are currently planning such a program, and they have expressed ex-pressed a desire to work closely with the business community com-munity and the Employment Service in an attempt to pat-- pat-- tern their programs specifically specific-ally to the needs of the area. At any rate, it appears that the basic, economy of the Moab Mo-ab area has diversified considerably con-siderably during the past decade, de-cade, and is continuing that diversification at an accelerated acceler-ated rate. While a major upset up-set in one facet of the community's com-munity's economy would be difficult to contend with, it would probably not be as disastrous dis-astrous as it might have been in the late 1950's. And the community's natural nat-ural ability to deal with seasonal seas-onal ups and downs and minor min-or shifts of employment has been improved tremendously, Mr. Lincoln stated. He emphasized the desire of the Employment Service to be of assistance' wherever and whenever possible, not only to people in search of satisfactory employment, but also to business and industry in their attempts to find qualified qual-ified people to staff their organizations. |