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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, - Rock Mountain Region Shares $12 Million For Public Service Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan today allocated $620 million to all states and more than 600 local governments to create some 95,000 public service jobs, from funds made available under the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act for fiscal year 1974 signed June 8 by President Nixon. In Denver, David T. Duncan, Acting Assistant Regional Direc- tor for Manpower, said that $9 million apportioned to Region under Section 5 of the Emergency Employment Act (EEA) of 1971 would be divided equally ($1,500,000 each) between Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. This final appropriation of EEA money is intended to bring about an orderly transition from the expired EEA to the new Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The supplemental CETA appropriation provides funds to give the unemployed and underemployed transitional public service employment in areas of substantial unemployment. Duncan said that the $3,423,200 is apportioned as follows: Colorado $413,-50$829,500; Montana North Dakota $326,100; and Utah $1,854,100. Under CETA Title II, areas of substantial unemployment are those with unemployment of 6- percent or more in each of three consecutive months. The period of June 1973 through April 1974 was considered in allocating these funds. Neither South Dakota nor Wyoming had any eligible areas under this formula. The first table attached to this release gives a breakdown of EEA funding by State and program agent; the second table gives the breakdown of CETA funds by State and prime 8 0; 50 Below And They Save Fuel Both the CETA and EEA funds will be distributed through the Labor Departments regional office in Denver, Duncan said, on the basis of applications submitted by prime sponsors under CETA and by program agents under EEA. State and local governments have until June 30, 1975, to spend the CETA funds and until March 31, 1975, to spend the EEA funds, by which date the EEA program will be phased out. Under both CETA and EEA, the people to be hired must be unemployed or underemployed. Groups to receive special consideration include veterans, welfare recipients, and former manpower trainees. Jobs can be in any public agency, such as schools, police and fire departments, libaries, hospitals, parks, and recreational departments. Wherever feasible, the funds provide related training and services to help such persons move into regular employment. Public employees under the programs must be paid the same as regular public employees and given the same frings benefits and working conditions. Tough new federal rules pro- hibit sex discrimination JULY 12, 1974 in schools. Boys no longer can be automatically assigned to shop and girls to home economics and gym classes must be coeducational. The new policies effect all federally aided educational institutions and government officials are fanning out across the nation to spread the word. The ruling says that girls cannot be excluded from, shop nor boys be Where would be the toughest place in the world to conserve fuel? A rough guess might be Antarctica, where the temperatures average a cool 50 degrees below zero. And yet, with careful and efficient maintenance of machinery, and by cutting waste, the scientists manning the three U.S. stations at McMurdo Sound have cut energy use by 20 per cent last year compared to the year before, according to an article in Petroleum Today, the American Petroleum Institutes magazine. Some five million gallons of diesel fuel and other petroleum products are delivered by tanker to the three stations at McMurdo Sound during the brief summer season. Most of the energy conservation was achieved at McMurdo Station, the largest of the three. Some of the living and working facilities were shut down or consolidated, use of surface vehicles was curtailed, and a lot of little things were done, according to Lt. Ray A. Boas, fuels officer. For example, although six 500 kilowatt generators are available, were running two, at maximum efficient operating level. Boas says. How did the conservation measures pay off? We cut our original fuel order by more than half a million gallons, Boas says. After the last trip, the tanker still had 67.000 gallons left aboard after wed' saved filling our needs the time she between much that sailed and arrived at McMurdo. She ended up using the fuel herself. Like pioneers of old, bobwhite quail settle in a protective circle at night. Heads out and tails together, they huddle in low grass barred from home economics and or weeds. This circular roosting the classes must be coeducational is designed for warmth as well as for protection from predators. not separated by gender. te GsCo lb0a09S G fcse 039 Not everyone can get the jobs listed below. You must qualify for them. But, if you do, and successfully complete your training,, youll be paid a Pagw Nine Neuromuscular Disorder Patients Sought For Intermountain Group Persons suffering from a neuromuscular disorder known as myasthenia gravis are being sought throughout the area to form a local chapter of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation. Dr. Jack H. Petajan, professor of neurology at the University of Utah Medical Center, said the group would meet periodically to hear of recent advancements in research and management of the disease. Myasthenia gravis is characterized by varying degrees of weakness in the bodys voluntary muscles. Unless the disease is treated, said Dr. Petajan, the fatigue" can progress to the point of total loss of muscular inter-mounta- Call your Army Representative. Phone 524-402- 6 74 Polk Directory Just Published Mr. Fred S. Ball, Executive of Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce, reports Vice-Preside- elderly men, nt that the new 1974 edition of the Salt Lake City, City Directory has just been released. This reference work, published by R. L. POLK & CO. of Salt Lake City, Utah is now being delivered to subscribers in the area. The Directory, stated Mr. Ball, contains a wealth of factual information that is almost indispensable to business and professional people. With the Directory in your possession, you have at your fingertips, a record of every adult resident and business concern in Salt Lake City, including South Salt Lake. This information, explained Mr. Ball, is valuable for verifying information, contacting customers, locating sources of supply, identifying new families, improving collections, and planning delivery routes. The Directory is unique in that it is actually four separate Directories in one volume. Immediately following the statistical and historical story of Salt Lake City, these four separate Directories are identified as follows: I. The Buyers Guide and Classified Directory. II. The Alphabetical Directory containing 139,480 listings of business concerns private citizens. III. Street Directory of Householders and Businesses, including telephone numbers, home owner symbols, Zip Code and the New Neighbor Symbol which or designates new listings changes on each street. IV. The Numerical Telephone Directory, listing telephone subscribers in numerical order. move- ments, chewing and swallowing, he added. This disease most prominently affects young women and Dr. Petajan said. It has been estimated that there are as many people with varying forms of the disease as there were with polio prior to development of the Salk vaccine. The U neurologist said it was important that persons suffering from myasthenia gravis keep in close contact with their physicians because of rapid developments in treating the disease that are currently being made. County Recreation Sponsors Horse Shoe Tossers Tournament Horse Shoe Tossers of all ages and abilities will be brought together July 15th as part of the Salt Lake County Recreations Fun Up To Fun Down program. Gary Swensen, Department Director said that five different age divisions will compete for trophies in each age group. Regardless of a persons skill (or lack of it) Mr. Swensen promises a good time for all those whe enter the event. Probably many of the people who enter the contest will have never before and pitched horse-shoe- s this is fine - our main concern with this activity is simply to provide a lot of fun for people to have that day, said Mr. Swensen. Take time to learn life saving techniques. Courses are taught in water safety by such organizations as the Red Cross, Boys Clubs and YMCAs. A few minutes a week could be worth a lifetime. 3 IiOQK 3T Tte OQK 0, 0 and the national foundation estimates that one person in every 10,000 is affected. Muscles most often affected are those controlling eye 4-y- ear Here are some of the jobs: Construction Machinery Operator Missile Crewman Missile Repairman Electronic Repairman Electrical Instrument Repairman Radio Teletype Operator Map Draftsman Radar Crewman Some of these jobs are open to qualified male applicants only. in strength. cash bonus. The bonuses range from $l,500-$2,50depending on the job. Youll be exto a serve But the bonus wifi be paid in a lump enlistment pected sum after your training. In addition to the bonus, youll also receive regular Army pay benefits. A starting salary of $326.10 a month before deductions, with a raise to $363.30 in just four months. Plus meals, housing, medical and dental care, and 30 days paid vacation every year. He said he has information that there are at least 50 persons in the intermountain area who are known to have the disease, BY DR. BOB JONES BOB JONES GRIINVILLI. It is wonderful that God uses human instruments to do His work. Although wo rejoice that He permits us to have a part in His work, it is not the instrument that matters, but the Master Who uses the instruments. An organ cannot make music of itself. There must be the organ with its pipes, its chambers, its pumps, its manuals, and its electric power. But there cannot be music from the organ until someone who knows music sits at the keyboard and draws out of the instrument the music that is there. And it is only the man who designs or builds an organ who can effectively and completely use all the organs potentialities. Other men have to study to familiarize themselves with those potentialities. So it is with the individual University SOUTH CAROLINA 31614 God made you, and He alone is able to use you to the full potentialities He has locked within you. Only His hand on the keyboard or your life can call into sound the rich music of which the instrument is capable. God made you for His glory and to sound forth a hymn for His praise. Not ev body can play an organ, but all of us can be instruments upon which God can make music to His glory and to the salvation of lost souls in a world that is marred by the discordant note of sin. Ephesians 2:10 says that we are Gods poem. Imagine! God has written a poem and recorded it in you. But you have to let the poem come out for others to hear; and this is possible only as the Poet has full control of your life. |