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Show More employed predicted in coming year Unemployment will remain I high during January, but construction con-struction plans for the next year will begin to firm up as good weather starts and will result in further stabalization of the employment picture. This prediction was made recently re-cently by LaRue Thurson, the manager of Utah County Employment Em-ployment office. The work official said that 1964 may be a stronger year, employment wise, than Utah County has experienced for some time. Total employment during December was 32,280 in the county, a drop of 190 from November's total, he said. Much of this drop was accounted account-ed for in the agricultural section sec-tion of the employment economy econ-omy and non-agricultural wage and salaried employment was down onlv 70 from the Drevi-I umy clllu iwju-agnuuiLurai wage and salaried employment was down only 70 from the previous previ-ous month, he said. The greatest factor leading to the job decline was that of construction workers who were out of work because of weather wea-ther conditions, he said. The economy in the country showed an increase in employment employ-ment in the retail trade seg- : ment but indications are that retail employment did not increase in-crease at the same percentage as in previous years, he said. Christmas buying strengthened strength-ened the sales outlook in the area and indications are that retail stores did better this year than in the past several years, he noted. |