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Show Uonday. September 6, 2004 DAILY HEIAID A2 Russians begin burying crisis victims Customer Service Newsroom theedrchforl80 03 375-5- 1 Toll free 800380-807-5 FAX 80173489 Burt Herman www.harktheherald.com THE Contact us... 344-293- 5 344-250- 2 kparkinsonheraldextra.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES Executive Editor Randy Wright Daily & Sunday period 344-291- 3 nvrightheraldextra.com Weekends & Advertising Director Cindy Richards One year (in 344-295- 7 Director 344-291- 2 kwOrzbachheraldextta.com . Chief Financial Offker Kimberly Reepmeyer kreepmeyerpulitzer.net By mail, in USA (in advance) Sun only (UT.ID.WY) $169.00. Sun only (all others) $183.00 Seven days (UT.ID.WY) $251.00 344-292- 9 lhatchheraldextra.com I.T. 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Wails of mourning women echoed from courtyards where families made ritual meals, while surveyors used wooden planks and string to mark new graves being dug in a field near the town's cemetery. "When a person goes to the cemetery for a burial, it's sad, but nothing like this when you dig graves for your children," volunteer gravedigger Anzor Kudziyev, 25, said. The grief is for all of our people." Officials in the southern North Ossetia region scrambled to identify and confirm the number of people killed amid conflicting reports, apparently confused in part because of the large number of body fragments collected at the school. North Ossetia's health minister Alexander Soplevenko said at least 340 people were dead, while his deputy Taimuraz Revazov said 324 fatalities were confirmed. The Interfax news agency quoted regional government spokesman Lev Dzugayev as saving the toll stood at 338, but he later said in televised comments that the number was 335. The regional health ministry said 180 people were missing after the three-dahostage crisis, Chechnya. More than 700 people needed medical hek after the crisis, and Interfax quoted Dzugayev as saying that as of late evening 386 remained hospitalized in the region, including 184 children. Several badly wounded victims have been taken to Moscow hospitals. Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky said Sunday that according to the latest information, 32 militants had been involved and the bodies of 30 of them had been found, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. 375-510- Metro Editor Donna Rutek Spotty job market shows impact of pocketbook issues 344-256- MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION drutekheraldextra.com Qty Editor Marc Haddock d grief-stricke- 3 Delivery by 6 a.m. Mon-Sa- t 7 a.m. Sunday For missing papers, call by 9 a.m. Mon-F- ri or 10 a.m. on weekends. amanzipulitzer.net Vice President ft Weekly Newspaper Publisher Kirk Parkinson . field-size- HOME DELIVERY 375-510- ASSOCIATED PRESS Mothers .Russia waged over me cornns at tneir chuldred Sunday and dozens of townsmen dug graves in a football piece of scrubland next to the cemetery. Funeral precessions snaked n through the streets of this town as Russians began to bury victims of the ror attack on a school that left more than 350 people dead. Frantic relatives also were still searching for 180 people still unaccounted for many of them children two days after the bloody climax of the hostage crisis that left few families untouched in this tight-knimostly industrial town of 30,000. Weeping mourners placed flowers and wreaths at the graves, including one where two sisters Alina, 12 and Ira Tetova, 13 were laid to rest together. Relatives walked toward the cemetery bearing pord traits of the girls and simple wooden planks temporary grave markers bearing their names and the dates framing their short lives. Both listed the date of death as Sept. 3, 2004, the day the Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Blvd. Provo, UT Send mail to: P.O. Box 717, Provo, UT 84600717 President ft Publisher Albert J. 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Voters say jobs and the economy are among their top concerns in an election year marked by a struggling labor contents Copyright 2004, The All ASSOCIATED PRESS 373-645- dmeyersheraldextra.com gleongheraldextra.com Leigh Strope THE Daily Herald! Any reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited with-- , out prior written permission. market seemingly unable to gain footing. In August, businesses added 144,000 jobs, suggesting that a sustained increase in hiring may be coming. Economists have hoped for that for months. An economy in transition may help to explain the bumpy job market. Technology and global competition are siphoning many U.S. jobs. Skyrocketing costs for health care, pen- sions and other benefits also are curtailing hiring. "If a company experiences an increase in demand that cannot be met with the current work force, it may find alternatives to employees, such hiring . full-tim- e ment sector that is definitely irh- -' proving, but one that hasn't improved enough to yet recapture all of the losses of the recession in the period," said Martin Regalia, vice president and chief economist at the US. Chamber of Commerce. Hiring is surging in health care. Demand is up for social service workers. Architecture, accounting, engineering and other service businesses are adding jobs. So are restaurants, stores and hotels. Workers with construction skills are sought. People are working longer hours. As a result, productivity is more efficient, limiting the need for more employees. as outsourcing overseas or contracting with a temporary help agency," said John Challenger, chief executive of Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a job placement and research firm. 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