Show Employment Office Issues Quarterly Report The employment outlook for the past quarter reported employment down and unemployment up for Uintah Duchesne and Daggett Counties according to the newsletter of the local Department of Employment Security office But even evenso evenso evenso so unemployment was not as much as ss asit asit it was during the same quarter a year ago THE NUMBER of weekly unemployment unemployment ment insurance claims filed during the past quarter are nearly five per cent less than the Dum number ber filed in the last quarter of 1968 A small number of gilsonite miners were furloughed for a short while during during dur duro ing the quarter due to technical problems problems pro pro pro- but but butare are are now recalled to work The greatest number of unemployed have come from construction service and government employment the news news- letter stated ONE SERIOUS problem confronting every labor force across the nation is the ever ever increasing need to keep abreast of the automation and technological advances advances ad ad- vances In industry and service In ho an effort to co cope with this problem the page 8 Employment Continued from page 1 state employment security offices in Inca Inca- cooperation co co- operation with educational departments and the federal government have entered enter enter- cd ed Into various efforts to train and retrain retrain re re- train vrain the labor force Under the sponsorship of the Manpower Manpower Man Man- power Development and Training Act several lives have been touched touch touch- ed cd and often helped in this area In March of 1969 17 7 ladies were graduated gra gra- from an clerk clerk pher course after ore after ore one full fuU year full jear ear of training train train- ing Since that time 11 of tho 17 7 ladIes ladics ladies lad lad- Ies ics have been placed in clerical positions positions positions pos pos- throughout the states of Wyoming Missouri and Utah One of the 17 7 took tooka a job as a power sewing machine operator operator operator oper oper- ator and the other five have removed themselves from the labor force due to pregnancy illness or the resumption of household duties IN tN ADDITION to the clerk clerk stenographers many others have had help through Sixteen Ute Indians have been trained and placed through in the Ute furniture fabrication plant and the Ute arts and crafts shop Two young ladies have recently been flown to Kansas City Missouri for a full year of training as dental technicians again by funds Two local ladies are presently attending secretarial training programs on an individual basis sponsored sponsored sponsored spon spon- by funds One lady is enrolled as a nurse aid trainee and a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man man is enrolled as an auto mechanic mechanic mechanic mech mech- anic trainee Both arc are training at Utah Trade Technical College in Provo through funds provided by In addition to the institutional training training training train train- ing an active on the job the job program is also being carried out At present three men arc are enrolled with various Uintah Basin employers to train on the on-the the on-the- the job as auto mechanics The newsletter reported the following forecast for employment in the Uintah Basin area BUSINESS All indications are are that b business remained good during the thep p past st quarter quart r with strong gains in most in-most most areas of retail consumption One area that might bear watching is Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne County where postal receipts declined declined de de- over 15 5 per cent while Uintah County gained a full fuU ten per cent This was in comparing the Christmas seasons seasons sea sea- sons of 1969 and 1968 Possibly this can be explained by the loss of construction workers who were terminated in the Duchesne City area area arca when work was completed on the Starvation Dam Outlook The next quarter will continue to be dominated by winter winter win win win- ter weather a slowdown in farming construction and service occupations with the usual seasonal increase coming along sometime around April No significant layoffs are anticipated and it is a little early to to- tomake make too many predictions since much depends upon the state and federal budgets which are still under under- discussion Some activity will take place on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation n as as the furniture fabrication tion plant will be expanded and 40 persons will be enroll enrolled ll ed cd in training under for for work in the thc Bottle Hollow Complex scheduled q dul ed led to begin in early 1971 1911 |