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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, Nancy Hanks Announces 16 New Grants In Utah Veterans Employment Reps Acquire New Responsibilities A total of 16 grants, amount- well as blind and deaf members ing to $386,533, will be awarded of the community, in the classes to the State of Utah by the Na- and workshops. A multi-culturtional Endowment for the Arts. community theatre combining all Of this amount, $50,000 is from ages will be developed to per- Starting this month. Federal veterans employment representone each in Colorado, atives Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming will begin monitoring the operations of prime sponsors under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to insure that all requirements concerning veterans participation are carried out fully in accordance with all applicable laws. Robert J. Brown, Assistant Regional Director for Manpower in Denver, said the monitoring to be done in conjunction with the Federal authorized representatives for each state will check to see that veterans receive the al private sources. In announcing the grants at a joint press conference with Utah Governor Calvin Rampton, EnChairman dowment Nancy Hanks said, The diversity and immense vitality of the artists and arts organizations in Utah, indicated by the growth of the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, pioneer of the state arts agency movement, has earned our respect. Governor She applauded Ramptons leadership in supporting the arts in Utah and also across the country. Last June, while serving as chairman of the National Governors Conference. Governor Rampton intrduced an arts support resolution which Miss Hanks today called one more step in the growing partnership between federal, state and local governments to make the arts an important facet of our daily lives. In announcing a City Spirit grant of $25,000 to the Salt Lake City Corporation, Miss Hanks commended Mayor Conrad Harrison for his continued efforts Like on behalf of the arts. many mayors across the country, she observed, Mayor Harrison has recognized the arts as a strong economic, as well as social and cultural factor in the life of a city. Miss Hanks also took time to praise Maurice Abravanel for his outstanding accomplishments as Conductor and Musical Director of the Utah Symphony Orchestra, and for his dedicated service as a member of the National Council on the Arts. Maestro Abravanels wit and wisdom, his unerring judgment and humane feeling for the rights of all people, his involvement and interest in all the arts and not just his own field of music, his patience and gentle personality have endeared him to the Council members and to all of us at the National Endow-- 1 ment for the Arts, she said. In addition to attending last Ab-- ; nights reception honoring ravanel. Miss Hanks is participating in meetings of the En dowments Dance and Special Projects Advisory Panels. She noted that it is most appropriate that the Dance Panel is meeting in a state which the New York Times has reported as having the highest concentration of dance per capita in the United States. The largest grant announced, totaling $200,000, will be awarded to the Utah Symphony Orchestra for a program of regional services to ten western states. This program will involve at least 52 performances by the orrechestra, of which 40 will beoutgional concerts, six will be concerts, eight perwill be symphony-balle- t with formances in conjunction Ballet West, and two will be symphony-oper- a performances. A $10,000 grant to Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, will expand classes presently offered in theatre arts to include dance and filmmaking. This sup port will also aid in further inand volvement of culturally deprived youth, as form in the Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration in April, 1976. A $5,000 grant to exhibit the inherited legacy of basketry made by the weavers of Indian tribes in the Southwest will be awarded to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah. The exhibit will emphasize the design styles woven into baskets, including traditional tribal elements and adaptations from n society. . of-sta- te in-scho- ol low-inco- me Anglo-America- OCTOBER 17, 1975 Page Three priority consideration they arc j guaranteed by law in all Department of Labor funded programs, including counseling, training, public service employment and job placement. For programs unler CETA Titles I, II, and VI general manpower training and job placement, public service employment and emergency public employment, respectively this region served 45,000 applicants and 17 percent of these clients were In Brown stated. veterans, of who 9,289 people addition, entered unsubsidized employment as a result of these CETA programs, 20 percent were vet- Brown released the following statistics on veterans served by CETA prime sponsors in Region 8 for the year ending June 30, 1975 (the first year of CETA): The regional program will be directel by the Regional Veterans Representative, Joe Evan-osk- i, in Denver. The on-simonitoring will be done by veterans employment representatives (VER) and the Federal authorized representatives. These VERs are part of the Federal eterans Employment Service, which is charged under law with assuring veterans of priority and disabled veterans of the in all prohighest priority grams. 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