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Show t nMu D,Wrtnnnt Univaraity of Utah Pan Lake City, Utah 84112 SALT LAKE VOLUME 15, NUMBER 129 Attorney Generals Office Jobless Drop Percentagewise: Numbers Climb RECEIVE AWARD SHORTHAND REPORTERS Recommends Purchasing Computer System For State A major decision by legislative leaders must be made by July 15th regarding an option to renew a contract with the Aspen computing firm, according to Deputy Attorney General Robert B. Hansen. Mr. Hansen said a meeting will be held with the Director of Data Processing and legislative leaders on July 7th to consider the matter. According to Mr. Hansen, the Utah Legislature and the Attorney Generals ofice has paid $15,000 for a computer service contract in searching the statutes of Utah and the other 49 states during the past 15 months. During this time the State has ordered and received computer search services which would have cost $40,150 if ordered on an individual search basis. Mr. Hansen added that if the system were purchased, the State would have capability within the States own computer system which would provide overnight answers compared with nearly seven days delay when run mi the Aspen computers in Pittsburgh, Pa. as at present. The Deputy Attorney General stated that if the ocntract option was not renewed, it would cost the State in excess of $40,000 to input the State statutes. Attorney General opinions and court decisions and to program them for searches. Mr. Hansen cited as examples the following topics searched thus far by the computerized system: minors in crime, drug abuse, FTC credit cards and reporting bureaus, noise abatement, merit employee political activities, legal description on tax assessment and notices, and duty of police officers to carry guns. se U.S. Bus Plan Rejected in Texas Case - the Supreme Court upheld busing of students, a federal judge has rejected a government plan for massive busing to racially balance Austin schools. Instead, U.S. District Judge Jack Roberts ordered the Unem(UPI) to in 5.6 June per ployment dropped cent of the nations work force even WASHINGTON federal government and school officials to try once more to reach a compromise that would keep busing to a minimum. Roberts said the federal government failed to prove the main point in its suit that the Austin school has district systematically discriminated against Mexican-America- n students. Roberts ruled the government also failed to show that the Austin school district has intentionally perpetuated the segregation of blacks since 1955. The Austin Independent School District considers neighborhood need, not race, in choosing school Roberts said. He gave the government and school district until July 16 to come up with a compromise plan. The governments original proposal would have involved the busing of 13,103 students from the far northwest part of the city 15 miles to the southeast part in order to racially balance the schools. 1.1 though Vem D. Wilde n, Synthetic Wood Looming Large As New Product TOKYO (ACCN) Plastic items such as synthetic fibers, rubber and leather are not only supplanting goods made of natural materials, but are also arousing a wide range of demands for new products because of their superior characteristics. Synthetic wood, which may provide a solution to the growing shortage of natural wood, is attracting considerable attention because of its vast potential. For example, Crown ZeUerbach Co. of San Francisco has agreed to join Mitsui Co. in one venture to make synthetic wood pulp in Japan paper manufacturers. The ar- tificial pulp is made out of ethylene gas. Synthetic wood now on the market looks exactly like natural wood. It is so perfect in every detail, even to annual layers and grain, that it is very difficult to tell the difference from the natural product. Synthetic wood can be put to a large variety of uses ranging from sophisticated products, such as furniture and handicraft items, to building materials for housing. At present, there are two methods for producing synthetic wood. One is the injection molding system in which liquid foamed resin is poured into metal molds to directly manufacture an 'item. The other is the extrusion method in which resin is forced out in the form of boards for use as a general building material. The injection molding system is used to produce lacquerware and other industrial art objects as well as component parts of pieces of furniture such as desks, chairs, and bookshelves. Its advantage is that a complex-shape- d item can be mass produced with a single metal mold. The extrusion method, which aims at manufacturing building materials for housing, has a major shortcoming. The larger the extruded product, the greater becomes the ininherent defect of plastic creased flexibility and softness. Therefore, with the present level of extrusion technology, synthetic million more persons were out of work .than in May, the government reported, July 2. The Labor Department cautioned that the dip might have been caused by a statistical quirk. A total of 5.5 million t mericans were listed as looking for work in Alan H. JsnkJnson Vem D. Wilde, Certified Shorthand Reporter, and Alan H. Jenkin-soCertified Shorthand Reporter, 516 Boston Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, have been awarded the National Shorthand Reporters Association Certificate of Merit upon successfully passing NSRA sponsored tests of shorthand speeds of 200, 240 and 260 word per minute with at least 95 accuracy. Mr. Jenkinson is currently Presi- - for By Roland Lindsey In the AUSTIN, TEX. (UPI) school first desegregation trial since sites, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1971 CITY, UTAH June compared dent of the Utah Shorthand Re- porters Association and Mr. Wilde is Past President and currently Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Association. Wilde and Mr. Jenkinson, e reporters in Salt Lake are the first court reporters City, in the State of Utah to be so honored. Mr. free-lanc- to 4.4 million in May. But because unemployment usually rises even more sharply from May to June, the level of unemployment after seasonal adjustment was recorded as down by 530,000. Thus, the overall unemployment rate perhaps the most politically sensitive of all government declined from economic statistics to 5.6 per cent in 6.2 per cent in May June. That figure is always adjusted for seasonal factors such as school vacations, Christmas shopping season and expected lags in various 26th Amendment: areas of the economy. Total employment rose Ohio Approval Puts Vote Over the Top - Eighteen-year-old- s (UPI) across the country won the to vote in all elections June 30 right when the Ohio legislature ratified the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Ohio was the 38th state to ratify the Amendment making the three-fourt- hs the state legislatures of required to amend the Constitution. The Ohio action came three months and seven days after Congress proposed the Amendment on March 23 record time for passage of a Constitutional amendment. There had been speculation when it was proposed that state legislatures would act too slowly to permit on to vote in next years Presidential primaries. President Nixon said the speed of the Amendments passage affirms our nations confidence in its youth and its trust in their responsibility. He urged the potential new voters to use their privilege. Here is the text of the vote amendment: Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by by any State on account of age. Section. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. wood cannot yet be used for important building components such as pillars and wainscots. To eliminate this short-comin- g, processing is necessary, special such as wires in the imbedding piano material to increase its strength or using aluminum foil together with plastic sheets to make a composite building material. This, however, would create a new shortcoming: high cost. A more serious defect of synthetic wood is that it emits a large amount of smoke and noxious gas when burned. in Accuse Two Tax Return Firms Of Data Misuse - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Federal Trade Commission has accused two tax preparation firms, H.&R. Block, Inc., and Beneficial Corporation, of false, misleading and deceptive" advertising claims and use of confidential taxpayer information to solicit loans or to sell life insurance or mutual funds. The allegations were anncuiiced iti proposed complaints that would order the firms to halt the alleged misrepresentations and to notify their customers in advance when tax return information will be used for other purposes and get customer consent for such use. H. A R. Block Inc., headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., prepared an estimated 7.4 million individual tax returns last year, FTC officials said. These officials estimated that 10 per cent of all taxpayer returns are prepared by the firm, whose 79.5 million but that crease, like the rise in joblessness, was less than usual for this time of year. Therefore, on a seasonally adjusted basis, employment declined by 520,000. The bureau of labor statistics explained that its employment and unemployment figures are based on a survey conducted during the week of each month in which the 12th day falls. In June, that was the week of business is solely tax return the 6th through the 12th earliest it preparation. could ever come in a month. The other complaint names both of Beneficial Corporation, As a result, the Bureau explained, its and wholly Del., many students who probably began Wilmington, Beneficial owned subsidiary looking for work later in the month of Corporation were still in school and thus not Management said officials FTC N.J. Morristown registered either as employed or the firm prepared tax returns in unemployed. ofThe seasonal adjustment factors, about 1,000 of its 1,500 finance based on actual figures for the fices. Both complaints result from a previous eight years, assumed that the influx of students has already newspaper story in the Boston Globe on tax preparation firms that was entered the labor market. sent to the FTC in February by a k The unemployment rate for teenconsumer, said William J. to 15.8 17.3 fell from of the agencys consumer per cent, agers seasonally adjusted, during June. protection bureau. The resulting That probably was a result of a investigation of the tax preparation smaller number of industryis continuing and other students seeking work. complaints could follow, FTC of- June to Teen-Ag- e COLUMBUS 770,000 ployment increased from 11.5 weeks to 12.7 weeks. Unemployment of 15 weeks or more was essentially unchanged while the number of persons unemployed for less than five weeks fell by 235,000. in- Mar-schal- hard-to-empl- In addition, the number of ficials said. smaller-than-usu- al teen-ager- s, who always have a much higher unemployment rate than older workers, warped the overall unemployment rate. Despite the statistical inconclusiveness, the drop in the overall rate cheered Nixon administration economic strategists. They had been chafing under the longest siege of high unemployment in almost 10 years. The jobless rate from December through May had hovered around 6 per cent The rate in December and May, 6.2 per cent each month, equaled the highest level since 1961. Average hourly earnings of factory workers were $3.42 in June, up a penny from May and 21 cents higher than June, 1970. Their average work week increased over the month by 0.4 hours while overtime rose 0.2 hours. The unemployment rate among Negroes dropped from 10.5 per cent in May to 9.4 per cent in June while the rate for white workers fell from 5.7 to 5.2 per cent. The average duration of unem - The NEW YORK (ACCN) aluminum industry in the U.S. produced an average of 11,027 short tons of primary aluminum daily during May 1971, compared with an average of 11,011 tons a day in May 1970 and a revised 10,903 tons a day in April 1971, according to the Aluminum Association. LEAA Grant Trains Safety Officers in Hazardous Devices WASHINGTON (ACCN) - A re- cent Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) grant will finance the training of public safety officers in the new Hazardous Devices Course developed for LEAA by the Army. The course is given at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama and runs for three weeks. Based on military experience with explosives, it focusses on civilian situations and the best tactics far police and sheriffs in coping with these weapons. |