Show tN r t L IB k ku u ft EDNA JOHNTSON ser vices held Funeral Rites In Maeser for Edna J Johnston Services were held Tuesday of last week In the Maeser First Ward chapel at 1 pm for Edna dna Corless John John- Johnston Johnston ston MORGAN Merkley offered the prayer at the mortuary Ked Caldwell conducted the services Ruth Jones played the prelude and postlude music Corwin Snow sang Mother McCree accompanied by Mrs Marie Hatch The Invocation was offered by Lyle Glines and the obituary was read by Wayne Bullock A QUARTET consisting of Boyd noyd and Mary Price Beulah McConkle McConkie and Ted Thacker sang In the Garden accompanied accompanied by Gerry Carroll Carron The speaker was Victor Wilkins Corwin Snow and Naomi Du Dud Dud- Icy ley song s ng Whispering Hope accompanied by Mrs Hatch The benediction was offered bY Roy Carroll BURIAL was in the Vernal Memorial Park Cemetery EI El- El Elmer mer Lind dedicated the grave Val Labrum John Labrum Smokey Gilbert Ross Val Lewis and Harry Au Miller were pallbearers persons employed by govern govern- government ment agencies In Utah ed by 48 percent during the past ten years This compares with a 26 percent rise in the states state's population and a 29 per per- percent cent increase in private non nongovernmental governmental employment Most of the growth In Utah public employment during the past decade has bas been in state and local employment the reo se port continues Between 1955 and 1965 the number of state jobs In utah doubled percent increase se local employment rose 69 percent and Federal employment in utah increased 19 percent FOUNDATION analysts ob- ob observe observe serve that approximately two two- thirds of the rise in state and lo local al employment in utah duro dur ing the past ten years has been in education Nearly 60 percent of the total state and local work work- workforce force in Utah now consists of educational employees Rising school enrollments reO re class size and expand ed supervisory guidance lib nary and other special services are ar some of the important fac- fac factors tors accounting for this in in- in increase crease In educational employ went ment In an examination ot of salary levels for public employees ana ana ana- found that the average salary paid to state and local employees in utah was during October 1965 This amount was almost identical with the Mountain States aver |