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Show State personnel turnover rate continues S. Weaver, probation officer, Utah Juvenile Court, St. George, accepted ac-cepted $100 checks. Local officers, which last week changed their group's name from Five County District to Color Country District, accepted ac-cepted the nomination of lour persons to fill two vacancies on their board. The state will continue to experience high turnover tur-nover rate in personnel until salaries and benefits improve. That was the message of Brian Harris, Utah Public Employee's Association director of governmental relations, to the Color County District of the Association at a meeting in Cedar City Oct. 7. Harris said he and the UPEA staff will work to see state employees get a 10.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment. That figure is based on the Consumer Price Index. He also wants Highway Patrol troopers to get a two-grade two-grade increase. To accomplish this, however, state workers must work to elect legislators who are sympathetic to their plight. He encouraged all public employees to become involved in Citizen Action by Public Employees the organization's organi-zation's political action arm. If remedial action is not taken by the legislature at its next session, state employees could fall behind their counterparts in the private sector as much as 25 percent by July 1982, he continued. In other business, Outstanding Public Employee awards were presented to two area residents. Ruth Fay Hill, a clerk-typist with the Division of Wildlife Resources in Cedar City, and Rhaldo Turner, Department of Transportation, Tran-sportation, Washington, captured the honors. The two were cited for their dedication, efficiency and initiative. UPEA and the Utah State Employees' Credit Union awarded two scholarships. Lori L. Porter, a Department of Transportation worker in Cedar City, and EdWynn |