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Show - - ' i THE SAN JUA1J RECORD Thursday,' February Hi 1982.- - Page 16 Business briefs Uranium prices . institutes voluntary grain crop acreage reduction for 1982 USDA Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block today implemented and outlined the provisions for a voluntary 15 percent acreage reduction program for the 1982 crop into the farmer-owne- d grain reserve. To become eligible for government price support loans, target price protection and the farmer-owne- d reserve program, CCC loan interest Commodity Credit Corporation commodity and farm storage facility loans disbursed in February will have a 14 percent interest rate, Everett Rank, executive vice president of the corporation, announced today. .Hie new rate, up from 12.25 reflects the interest percent, rate charged CCC by the U.S. in February, Rank Treasury that job seekers in other states not to come to Alaska unless they have a firm offer of employment. Orbeck says that economic conditions across the country have led many workers to leave their home states to seek employ- immediately into the reserve without waiting for their regular loans to mature. USDA storage payments will be 26 12 cents per bushel for wheat placed in the reserve. Wheat will be released from the reserve when the average price receivedbyfarm-er- s reaches $4.65 per bushel. crop ers must reduce their plantings 15 next reserve. ed to be nearly 1 billion bushels. This is the result of two successive record U.S. wheat crops and 1981 world hara record-settin- g Block said the reduced vest. coupled with acreage program an aggressive export program will strengthen prices by reducmarketing year ing the 1982-8- 3 supplies. farm- percent from an established base. No direct payments will be made for the acreage reduction. The target price for 1982 wheat will be $4.05 per bushel. Loan rates will be $3.55 per bushel for grain placed under the regular loan program and $4.00 per bushel for 1982-crwheat entered into the farmer-owne- d op Junes carryover is expect- Wheat, $5.50 Beans $15.00 Highway Patrol-repor- ts stats There were 632 Utah Highway Patrol contacts made in San Juan and Grand counties during the month of January, as reported by Sargent Meacham of the Moab office. Fifteen accidents were investigated and three arrests were made on charges of driving under the influence. There were 338 hazardous arrests arrests. and 80 II Kigalia new renting. Minimum rent for 1 - bedroom, $187 per month. Apartments ous non-hazard- per month. Marci Stevens, $252 Highway patrolmen issued hazardous warnings and 49 warnings. 165 non-hazard- ous 678-33-26 454 S. Main, Elm 2 Blanding . . . I wanted more tbam Alaskan jobs Commissioner of Edmund N. Orbeck, urges Labor, can enter the 1982 Block said U.S. wheat supplies are 14 percent above last year and said. Alaskas Farmers WEATHER MARKETS my company pension plan. ment; and that national publicity concerning proposed construction of the Alaska Highway Gas " Pipeline is resulting in large numbers of job seekers coming to Alaska, Orbeck Unfortunately, of says, many these job seekers have based their decision to come North on inaccurate or incomplete information, and find that no jobs are available in Alaska where their limited food and housing dollars disappear at an rate because the accelerated is high. Any one who reads an advertisement offering to sell Alaskan employment information is urged to send the advertisement with the name of the publication to the Alaska Department of Labor, P.O. Box 1149, Juneau, Alaska cost-of-livi- ng 99811. BLM asks comment Hie public is invited to comment on three proposals to build fences within a Bureau of Land Wilderness Study Area (WSA) or area under appeal, according to Pete Christensen, BLM's Grand Resource Area manager. 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