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Show Page Six - The Springville Herald - December 28, 1978 This poor little one- "A kind word is better a bird in the hand is hnrcp town than a big pie." worth two in the bush. USDA report compares f arm-nonf arm populations S. I.. Clemens Russian Proverb Cervantes This happy young man is Kyle Thorn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Thorn, 333 S. 1 1 00 F... Springville, who won the boy's bicycle which was given aw ay to the lucky ticket holder at the Berg Mortuary Christmas party held last Saturday at Springiille Junior High. Winner of the girl's bike was Debbie Killpack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Killpack, 126!) Canyon Road. She is a fourth grader at Sage Creek School. Kyle is a fourth grade student at Brookside School. Utah Tech registration announced The soul of his clothes. Christmas vacation will run Dec. 15 through New Years Day for students of Utah Technical College at Orem and Provo, with winter q u a r t e r registration for new students scheduled Jan. 2 and classes beginning Jan. 3. All students presently enrolled who are returning retur-ning the winter quarter have already pre-registered. pre-registered. The Jan. 2 registration will be for anyone entering the college this year for the first time, and for any presently-enrolled student who hasn't completed pre-registration pre-registration and needs to finalize it on that day. Jan. 2 registration will be conducted from 8 a.m. to :i p.m. at the Student Center Complex on the Orem campus for both day and evening schools. Evening school registration will also be carried on that day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the Provo campus at the office of the Department of Continuing Education. President Wilson W. Sorensen said it is hoped there may be at least a slight enrollment increase in-crease lor the winter quarter over the all-time high of 3,990 (2,491 in the day school and 1.499 in the evening i reached during the fall quarter. It is believed all or most of the fall quarter enrollment will return, and the present weather trend may be a factor in winter quarter attendance. A harti winter usually shuts down many construction and seasonal outside jobs, he said, which can result in more taking advantage of a chance to enter Utah Tech until the weather moderates. "A good time to come to Utah Tech is when the weather may have temporarily ended your job," declared the president. "There is no better way you can spend your idle time." Utah Tech offers more than 40 programs of study in vocational-technical fields. President Sorensen pointed out that a recent article in U.S. News and World Report said the bulk of "tomorrow's jobs" win Ik in vocational-technical fields. The article listed li) categories where jobs w ere expected to climb by ")() percent or more by 198f), and 25 more where job growth is expected to materially increase by that date.' "Train lor where the jobs are," declared the I'tah Tech president, "and we feel our institution in-stitution is the best place to do it." REGISTRAR Mable Olson said her office on the Provo campus will remain open during the holidays Mondays through Fridays with of course the exceptions of Christmas and New Year's Days. Hours will Ix from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with exception of Friday. Dec. 22 when it will close at noon. New students may come in anytime during those hours and make application for desired courses, thereby increasing in-creasing their chances of getting them, but they must formally register on Jan . 2 because counselors and all records will not be available during the holidays. Evenings registration carried on Department tinning Education on the I'rovo campus from Dec. 18 through Jan. 11 Mondays through Fridays excepting Christmas and New Years. The office will be open 8a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Dec. 29, and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Jan 2 through Jan 11. school mav be at' the of Con- Prescriptions for Peace f of fTlind: ) " i Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. The National Wildlife Federation is calling on federal and state agencies agen-cies as well as bird clubs and other outdoor groups to assist in its first nationwide bald eagle count. The survey, which is planned as an annual census, will be conducted during the last three weeks of January under the auspices of NW'F's Raptor Information Center. That period was chosen because eagle movements are at a minimum at that time ol the year, according to William S. Clark, director of the Raptor Information Center. Elton Kawks, of East Moline, III., an NWF consultant who has conducted eagle surveys in the Mississippi Valley for many years, will be cooperating in this nationwide effort. Because eagles are plentiful and not threatened in Alaska, and not found in Hawaii, the survey will be confined to the "lower 48" states. One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. English Proverb this man is Farm residents are less likely to be out of work than their nonfarm counterparts, but they are more likely to be older and to earn less. These are among the highlights of a description of the U. S. farm population published today by the Bureau of the Census and the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service (ESCS). The 1977 farm population, at just over 7.8 million, continued to decline while small town and open country non-farm non-farm population showed renewed growth. The Census - ESCS report also found the 1977 farm population: --The average age of farm residents was 35.2 years, about 6 years older than the nonfarm population. -Farm families were more likely than nonfarm families to be of the married - couple type and less likely to be headed by women. -Farm males outnumbered out-numbered farm females by 338,000. In contrast, females outnumbered males in the nonfarm population. -Farm people were just as likely to be working in nonagricultural industries in-dustries as in agriculture. -The unemployment rate for farm residents was 3 percent, versus 7.5 percent for the nonfarm population. -The median income for farm families continued con-tinued to lag behind that of nonfarm families. -The 112,000 Spanish origin farm residents represented 1 percent of the total U. S. Spanish -origin population and 1.4 percent of the farm population. This is the first year the report separately accounts for Spanish - orgin farm people. -The number of blacks living on farms declined at a faster rate than the white farm population - a minus 53 percent compared com-pared with a minus 16 percent since 1970. A related report published in September by ESCS provides additional ad-ditional information on farm population during 1970-77. This report found: -The farm population decline has slackened. Annual net outmigration averaged 3.3 percent between 1970 and 1977, compared with 5-6 percent per-cent in the 1960's and 1950'S. -Births outnumbered deaths by an annual average of 28,000 among farm people during 1970-77, 1970-77, partly offsetting the annual average loss of about 300,000 persons who either moved away from farms or lived on places where agricultural operations ceased and were removed from the farm category. -The south, losing more than a fourth of its farm population, was the heaviest loser among the Naion's four regions during 1970-77. The west, in contrast to the rest of the country, showed relative stability. Single free copies of "Farm Population of the United States: 1977" (P-27, (P-27, No. 51) and "Farm Population Estimates for 1977" (RDRR-4) are available from ESCS Information Division, room 0054-s, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 20250. or Phone Everything Winter And w Evmw e mean INGl ' N-- jpf 033 03D San? 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