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Show Utah Press Association 67 E, 300 So, SLC, UT Plflll Sperry recalls 40 workers, but j ob outlook stays poor North Sanpete High School student body officers, elected last Friday, are from left, Anna Maria Aagard, secretary; Todd Anderson, vice president; Carl Poulson, president and Annette Jacobsen, activity agent. EPHRAIM With 40 employees having been recalled at Sperry-Univa- c in Ephraim and the Moroni Processing plant soon to start production, the job situation in Sanpete County looks a little better than it did a month ago, but there is still a ways to go. Roger Halladay of Job Service said the office is continuing to receive notice of jobs and persons looking for work should come in and make application. We can't let them know about a job unless we know about them, he said. Kent Larsen, also of the Ephraim office, said at present there are openings for a diesel mechanic, a waitress, and a couple of agricultural jobs. Also at Snow College a director for the Library and a food service worker are needed. Dick Shepherd, Sperry-Univamanager, said the new addition to the plant has been completed and some of the production equipment has arrived. "More equipment is coming in all the time, he said, and we have started the recall with the first 40 employees previously laid off now back at work. Situation iffy "While the situation is an iffy one because of the economy, it appears that all the laid off employees could be back to work by the end of the summer, Shepherd said. Halladay reported that Sanpete County is close to the top of all the counties in Utah in unemployment with a rate of 12.5 percent in April. This is considerably above the 7.6 percent for . the entire state and also above the 9.1 area. percent rate for the He said, however, that the state figure does not reflect the April layoffs at Kennecott and Geneva Steel. Only two counties in the state had more unemployed in April than did Sanpete, according to Halladay. They were Wasatch County with 14 percent and Juab with 13.5 percent. area Counties within the and their rates were Piute 9.6; Millard 5.8; Sevier, 6.3; Wayne, 11.3; Juab 13.5; and Sanpete 12.5. Job Service reported that the civilian labor force in the counties of the area included 2,660 in Juab; 3,810 in Millard; 530 in Piute; 6,990 in Sevier; 800 in Wayne; and 5,680 in Sanpete. Determining rate Halladay said the number of people in the civilian labor force in each county and the number of those filing for unemployment benefits determine the unemployment rate. Principal reasons for the more than 43.000 Utahns being out of work include a lag in the construction industry which failed to hire many seasonal workers and the rash of recent layoffs, especially in mining and manufacturing, plus secondary impacts from reduction which are earlier work-forc- e becoming more severe. The national economic activity remains sluggish and this also Dears heavily on Utah, since mosl state economic factors rely on national markets, according to a spokesman for the state Job Service office. Despite gloomy reports, the conditions could have been worse had not the Intermountain Power Project provided more than 600 new jobs, the Deseret Generation and Transmission Project provided 300 new jobs; and Western Airlines offered 1,000 new positions with its transplanted, home base," now in Salt Lake City. Another stabilizing effect has been the payment of about $50 million in benefits. These unemployment payments replace approximately 40 percent of the purchasing power when someone loses a job. The money is viewed as "high in the economy, velocity dollars because it is used for necessary goods and is immediately infused into the economy, the Job Service spokesman said. c y Heading the various activities at North Sanpete High School next year will be front from left, Julene Taylor, newspaper editor and Spiriteer drill mistress; Wendy Kelley and Shelley Hill, both yearbook editors; back, Julie Seely, assistant head cheerleader; Stacey Allred, newspaper editor and Ellen Jacobson, head cheerleader. Snow president resigns Dr. Higbee accepts post at Utah Tech EPHRAIM Dr. J. Marvin Higbee, President of Snow College for the past eight years, will leave June 1 to take over as president of Utah Technical College at Provo. Dr. Higbee replaces Wilson Sorenson, who has served as president of the Provo College since 1946 and is retiring. I believe this is a good opportunity I for me, Dr. Higbee commented, dont believe one should be president for too long. He noted that things can get stale" when a person has long tenure in a position. His move, he believes, will be good for me and good for Snow. . The Snow Institutional Council will meet this week to recommend an interim president selected from the present faculty and staff, to the State Board of Regents. That board then will appoint the interim president, and also appoint a search committee to seek a new president. Representatives from the Board of Regents, Institutional Council, Snow faculty and staff, and the community will comprise the search committee. . The committee will advertise for a new president, accept applications, and scrutinize applicants for the position. The number of applicants will be narrowed down to 12 to 15 persons, then the finalist will be interviewed by the search committee. From the finalists, the search committee will recommend five persons to the Board of Regents, which will make the final selection of a new president for Snow College. The College hopes to have the process completed and a new president on campus when classes begin in late September. Utah Tech has great potential, Dr. Higbee noted, adding that he was excited about the growth and expanding programs at the school. The Snow College president has been active and interested in vocational education. During his time as president, vocational programs at the college have been considerably expanded. But it is the liberal arts program at Tech Utah which will need strengthening, he stated. Our family feels just terrible about leaving," he commented. We love the area and we love Snow, and its very difficult to leave, but we believe it is in our best interest." Plant tree in Moroni MORONI Moroni City Council has proclaimed the month of May as Plant a Tree month and asks that each family plant at least one tree and care for it. The Plant a Tree project was brought to the attention of the City Council by the Moroni Lioas Club, which is also supporting the project. The planting of trees would greatly enhance the beauty of each yard providing shade and blossoms as well as providing oxygen cleaning the air. Moroni Mayor Mack Morley commented, If each family will support this project, it will really help us in our efforts to beautify the g city. S iv long-tim- e dream reached reality with the opening of the new Skyline Medical Clinic located on the banks of the Sanpitch River in Moroni. The building will contain a A pharmacy. Two pysicians, and two dentists will practice in the facility. An open house for the public has been set for next Thursday, May 20). Open house slated at Moroni clinic MORONI Open house at the new Skyline Medical Clinic, located on the banks of the Sanpitch River in Moroni will be from Thursday, May 20. The official open house was announced by Drs. Kim Bateman, Bruce Burnham, Leland Thompson and R. Gayle Holman, who will practice in the complex, which also includes the new Friday, and from 2 - 5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Office hours on Saturday will be 12:30 - 3 p.m. 6-- Pharmacy, owned and operated by Jerry Ollerton and Wally Peterson, pharmacists, of Springville. Drs. Batemen and Burnham moved in Saturday and had office hours Monday in the new circular buildings. Clinic hours will be changed to 9 a m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Skyline Dr. Thompson, Ephraim, who has been practicing family dentistry in Moroni for over a year, will maintain his former schedule and will be available from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Fridays. A former Moroni man, Dr. R. Gayle Holman, will practice orthodontics by appointment through Dr. Thompsons office. Pharmacy hours will be announced later, but probably will lie every af ternoon, Monday through Saturday. Long-timdream Building the clinic has been the longtime desire of Dr. Bateman, who came to Ephraim in 1977 to practice medicine when Dr. McQuarry retired. In March of 1979, Dr. Bateman opened an office in a trailer in Moroni. Dr. Burnham arrived in July, 1979. They started out seeing about 10 patients per half day. This number has grown to 23 patients a day at the present time, a capacity number for the present facilities. We have always felt Moroni needed a said Dr. Bateman. doctor, Continued on Page 9 e At Manti pageant Church officials propose restriction on activities commercialism, including the selling of LDS tapes. The representatives said they had discussed the proposed ordinance with Sixth Judicial Court Judge Don V. Tibbs, also a member of the Manti proposed that Manti City adopt an Stake Presidency, as to his opinion on ordinance prohibiting loitering and the the legality of the ordinance. They material and other reported Judge Tibbs told them the city sale of hand-ou- t commercialism during the Pageant. could pass an ordinance but that it Meeting before the city council May might not be constitutional and hold up in court. 5, the two Church leaders said the reason for the proposal was because of Councilwoman Natasha Madsen crowd control problems and not being asked the two Church leaders if they able to move people into the seating were planning to sell Pageant area. programs on the temple grounds and The area involved would be on First were told that there would be no East Street from 300 to 500 North on 400 selling on the temple grounds." North from Main Street to 200 East. It was then pointed out by the council They claimed pageant goers were that if a law were enacted prohibiting the sale of merchandise by the public being detained by hecklers and vendors and not getting into the seating area, the same law would apply to the and it was "difficult to keep a crowd of Church. over 25,00 moving along smoothly. Mrs. Madsen also said she did not feel The two LDS leaders also were the city could restrict hecklers. concerned with literature The council said it was concerned being passed out during the Pageant about prohibiting commercialism on and were concerned with other forms of , public streets and indicated it did not By Charleene Nance Lee Barton, President of MANTI the Manti LDS Stake, and Morgan Dyreng, President of the Mormon Miracle Pageant Committee, have anti-Morm- 4 want to pass an ordinance that might go to court. Commenting on the issue later in the Paul City Attorney Frischknecht said he could not think of a way such an ordinance could be drafted to coincide with the constitution, as it would restrict too many civil rights. City waits Mayor Robert Bessey and the council said they would wait to see if they could formulate some ideas on the ordinance before drafting anything official. In other matters, the power department met with city officials to discuss past policies and practices. ' It was reported that farmers have been able to ask city workers to bring city equipment to farms outside of the city limits to work on private power lines. The work was done on the employees own time and the city equipment was rented to do the job. Several questions arose concerning the practice. Among them were: Would an employee be adequately covered by in meeting, I surance if an accident or even death occured? Who would be responsible if damage occurred to the city equipment? Should the work be done during the regular work day or should it be done only after hours and days off? Mayor Bessey reported that the city still selling dog tags and some dogs without tags have been caught and penned, but that someone released the dogs. The efforts to control unleashed dogs will continue, he said. is And finally a decision to make cemetery headstones flat was reached, though at least one exception will be made where a spouse has died and the living spouse has anticipated a matching upright stone. Applications for business licenses were reviewed with a decision to refer Country Boy Body & Fender to the planning and zoning committee to see if it conforms. A business license for Gary Town was approved as a nonconforming prior existing business in a residential area. |