Show 12A Standard-Examin- Saturday September er 17 1988 r Training wage Utah plan countered products pushed By MARJORIE CORTEZ saf SALT LAKE CITY — No money changes hands at the Buy Utah First Pavilion at the Utah State FairPark but organizers hope hundreds of sales will be initiated there Fairgoers are treated to a taste of Utah industries with samples of food ranging from green chili n toast or to are simply offered literature from companies such as Gump and Ayers Real Estate Inc or S'jndard Examiner 90-d- Gary CiarkStandard-Examme- r Hazel Davidson tells fairgoers about Wonder’s new oatmeal bread zen dinners fairgoers were ensands of pieces of Wonder’s Although they can’t secure a new variety oatmeal bread so couraged to enter drawings for sale of the dinners on the spot that fairgoers who taste the new three free microwave ovens and Jones said cents-of- f coupons product might buy it when they watch a “commercial video” may seal a sale later on see it in the grocery store Wonwhile they waited for a sample Like Davidson Jones has der has bakeries in Ogden and The Budget Gourmet frozen worked in many supermarkets Salt Lake City dinners are packaged in Clearalong the Wasatch Front offer“A lot of people will buy it befield ing free samples of a product cause it’s Wonder Bread and the manufacturer wants to Lynda Jones of Tasters and Wonder Bread has a good other Salt Lake move service said offering name” she said buttering an“It really does increase sales free samples of food helps sales other slice of the oatmeal bread depending on the store the traffic and the item I know we’re because it enables the public to “People are watching their cholesterol and that will be a factry different products talking about frozen dinners dem-'onstrati- on City-base- tor” Across the way microwave p ovens were running at The Budget Gourmet booth As the ovens heated the fro non-sto- “People say things like ‘I’ve seen these and I’ve wondered what they taste like’ Or they’ll say ‘I didn’t want to buy it until I tasted it’” Jones said here but I’ve sold as many as 100 cases of burritos in a day when I’ve sampled them Really it acquaints people with the product” rolls The tactic was aimed at heading off a Republican amendment by Sen Orrin Hatch of Utah to establish an 80 percent training wage for newly hired workers for up to 90 days Hatch indicated that Republicans were unwilling to vote Friday on Kennedy’s student wage putting off the key ocratic showdown on the politically volatile minimum wage issue until next week Republican-Dem- MAflKiaiBERQB NYSE trading this week Activity over the past 30 trading days Northern index (Prices as of 10 Parker Hann (Ber ) 29 'a 39 Ptllsburv 323a 'a Questar Vt 19 Santa Fe-- S P - Va 57S Union Pacific -30'a Utah Power & Light 'a VHI (Am Sugar) 9'a NC 40 Waste Management H NC 2 'a 1 Va -- Bush’s running Quayle mate in the past have all conditioned any increase in the minimum wage to a massive expansion of the R-I- m wage Bush campaigning in Ohio refused again Friday to specify how big of an increase in the minimum wage he favored “I don’t know how much of an increase” he said but repeated that any upward adjustment should be coupled with a differential for a lower training wage Quayle silent on the subject in recent days offered an amendment while the bill was still in the Senate Labor Committee in June to couple a minimum wage increase to $4 an hour over two trainyears with a The was amendment ing wage never voted on Kennedy complained none of the Republican training wage proposals require employers to provide any training He said the real purpose was to give employers a “windfall” lower wage in jobs that have turnover rates of up to 400 percent a year “Who honestly believes that it takes three months for someone to learn to mop a floor or change the sheets on a bed?” Kennedy said “This is a pure and simple m wage 'a Westhse (West Zir Am Greeting First Security Iomega Zions Utah Bancorp ) 5V2 - NEW YORK (AP) — The following gives the range of the closing Dow Jones averages for the week ended Sep 16 STOCK AVERAGES First High Low Last Chg Utl 65Stk Va Did asked 20 Bnds Uhls 19 19 vb Indus 24 25 3 23 37b 23 2 cut” Dow Jones range Ind Price Change Presi-at- e Reagan dent George Bush and Sen Dan Trn a m MST) 34s Albertson's 55' 4 Am Stores (Skaggs) 10 Borman's Inc 29"s Campbell Soup Em Etc (Pac Chr) 30 Gulf Res (GSL Min) ay ss Evolution Skis Utah-mad- WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen- Democrats offered Friday to expand slightly an existing sube stuminimum wage for dents to head off what they called a “hire ’em and fire ’em” training wage backed by Republicans Sen Edward M Kennedy offered an amendment to his bill raising the minimum wage from its current $335 an hour to $455 an hour by 1991 that would allow employers to hire up to 12 students instead of the six now allowed for up to 20 hours a week at 85 percent of the minimum wage Only about 100000 students are now earning the $285 subminimum wage according to Labor Department officials compared with 515000 students in 1978 Kennedy said his proposal would allow employers to double the number of students at the wage on their payfull-tim- oatmeal-cinnamo- The purpose of the program is to educate Utahns about the state’s diversified industries and to encourage them whenever e possible to buy products Hazel Davidson who has worked Wonder Bread’s booth at the pavilion for nine days said the hours are long but the pavilion enables the company to reach a large captive audience within a short period of time Davidson who is employed by Dynamic Demos of Salt Lake City works in grocery stores “sampling” food products for a number of companies Since the fair began Sept 8 Davidson has been slave to a toaster browning literally thou pay expansion urged Vice President Sub-minimu- m 2072 37 2100 64 2072 37 2098 15 29 34 867 62 876 94 867 68 876 94 3 13 178 52 180 24 178 52 180 24 0 30 77494 783 87 774 94 783 87 723 BONO AVERAGES 88 94 89 15 88 87 89 15 0 37 88 46 88 81 88 36 88 81 0 66 89 41 89 49 89 29 89 49 0 08 COMMODITY FUTURES INDEX 136 81 137 99 135 25 13525 155 Most active stocks Mutual Funds NEW YORK (AP) —The following is a list of the most active stocks based on the dollar volume The total is based on the median price of the slock traded multiplied by the Awguat NEW YORK (AP) — New York Slock Exchange trading for the week selected issues-Lis- t includes annual dividend (x) ratio (PE) shares t'aded in hundreds (Hdsl high for week (High) low tor week (Low) closing price Friday (Last) and price change since previous week's close (Chg) PE Hds High Low Last Chg -A-- A- CBS 3 16 2 465 tfcS 163 166' 1 September shares traded Name Tot(S1000)Sales(hds) Last 887060 Kroger s IBM 881102 Monsanto 803862 590488 USFGCp Det Edison 477595 Exxon 467319 444558 PhilipMor Zavre 399869 GenElet 380556 FordMotr 357381 Merck 273690 HCA 273516 264347 DigitalEq DowChem 260347 TW Svcs 256189 198781 51 77205 114' 105080 77 190480 3034 14"a 318397 103561 45 95' 46128 171987 25 43 89280 70247 50' 47188 580 67535 4448 947 27753 30098 87' 121273 23' |