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Show Job Potential To be Probed By Survey What sources are available avail-able for new jobs from public pub-lic and private sources? Can we identify and outline assistance as-sistance far new jobs in the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah? The Four Corners Regional Region-al Commission expects to find the answers to these and other questions about jobs in the four states as a result of a study now underway. under-way. Announcement of the Strategy for Early Job Development De-velopment was made this week by Governor Calvin L. Rampton and L. Ralph Me-ch'am, Me-ch'am, Federal Cochairman of the Commission'. Contract for the study has been awarded to the Economic Econ-omic Development Operations Opera-tions Division of Thiokol Chemical Corporation, headquartered head-quartered in Ogden, Utah. Robert L. Marquardt, Group Vice President of Thiokol, state's that the six-month six-month study will be done in two distinct phases. Phase One will be the preparation pre-paration of base data. While the Thiokol team will research re-search the federal resources for early job potentials, representatives rep-resentatives of four major state universities will be identifying available . and proposed assistance in their respective states. Phase Two will feature two - day job development meetings in each of the four states. One day will be with public sector leaders and the other with major industrialists. industrial-ists. Object of the meetings is to reach the public and private decision makers who can provide jobs winfihiw the Region. In addition to the. meetings, meet-ings, researchers wii utilize a selective mailing andor personal contact . to . interview inter-view industries or agencies located in the Four Corners Region. Purpose of this action ac-tion is to provide synchronized synchro-nized integration of early job development into the comprehensive plan being developed by the Commission. Commis-sion. Contract will be under the direction of Bernie R. Diamond, Dia-mond, Director of Program Development for Thiokol. University personnel assigned as-signed to the project include: in-clude: Dr. David Shirley, University of Arizona; Dr. Bernard Udis of the University Univer-sity of Colorado; Dr. Lee B. Zink of the University of New Mexico and R. Thayne ' Robson - of the University of Utah. Thiokol Chemical Corporation Corpora-tion is a multi divisional diversifed chemical company com-pany doing in excess of $224 million' yearly. Regional experience of the Economic Development Operations Op-erations Division has included includ-ed training centers in Clearfield, Clear-field, Utah and an Indian Family Employment Training Train-ing Center at Roswell, New Mexico. Early Job potentials is another of the major studies stu-dies which will be usedi by the Four Corners Regional Commission to enhance the economic posture of the 92 counties making up the bulk of the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah'. |
