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Show Enterprise Reivew Page lib Have You Heard the News? Investment Summary A change in format and a includes everyone, from busitremendous financial invest- nessmen to housewives. There ment" have accompanied a is no age barrier. But they are Chuck Akerlow by Chuck Akerlow ing The annual construction report for Utah during 1975 is out and the results are inter- esting. Karen Watanabe wrote the summary article for the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Utah. In substance, there is much to be pleased about in the performance of the construction industry in Utah last year. Total permit-authorize- d residential construction was up 27.8 percent over 1974. Of particular importance was the fact that the end of this business-sing- le bread-and-butt- er residences-account- ed family for the greatest portion of the increase in value. One would expect value to go up even if the industry held its own but last year the numbers of units also took a significant 10.3 percent increase. Buried in the report was a statistic of great importance to apartment house builders. Since 1973 the percentage of multiple family units compared to all authorized dwell- - units has steadily shopping centers, hospitals, decreased. In 1974 only 28 percent of all authorized dwelling units were multiple family. Last year the figure plummeted to 21.8 percent an all time low. At the building peak in 1972 multiple family units accounted for 49.2 percent of all units. I believe the market is ripe for an increase in apartment units in Non-residenti- ff non-residenti- construc- al tion increased slightly. Non-residenti- al valuation in 1975 al Uintah County, up 132.5 percent; Moab, up 322.5 percent; and Beaver, up 371.1 increased only 0.6 percent over 1974 which in real dollars means a drop in this sector. Ms. Watanabe suggests this is due to a typical lag of businesses to postpone their investment in new facilities until inventories and manu-- . facturing necessitate it. This partially explains the phenomenon of the glut of warehouse space on the market. There may be another explanation not offered by Ms. Watanabe. Commercial development tends to follow residential development. That is, not much is developed in percent. Down last year was the usually strong St. George, down 8.1 percent and Utah County, down 12.0 percent. Salt Lake County recorded an overall 17.3 percent increase with Midvale, Murray and Riverton leading the increases with 117 percent, 105 percent and 110 percent respectively. While 1975 was not a banner year, 1976 could be. Nationally, construction was down over 1974. But all signs point to a slow recovery during the next twelve months. HAP THIS IIJR3EMATIDO f ' TO HE 5MZUE& UWBV'-IHTIHf A CHIP me i woulp a lot seen - Hoee of usually better educated, with a higher income, than the audience of other stations," he added. Advertisers on the new The station, formerly format include Gordon Wilson KNAK, has changed from music Chevrolet, Standard Optical, and news to an Continental Bank, and Desformat. Much of the content is eret Book. taken from NBC's popular News and Information" program. The rest is local news, written and produced by a local staff, Harper said. We have increased the Grant Davis Realty, 16 0 staff by reSo. Temple, is changing East percent, modeled the station and purnames and adopting a new chased new cars, Harper commission system. added. He said the news According to Reid Webformat costs double or triple ster, agent of the firm, the that of the former KNAK name will be changed to format. Advance Realtors.' Wendell According to Haper, Iverson will be broker of the Granite District Broadcasting office. Tom Jensen, Reid Company, owners of KNAK, W ebster and Jim Beardall will sold the firm in June, 1975 to a be agents. California investor, Art According to Webster, Williams, who owns radio agents will receive 100 percent station in Santa Barbara, Cal. of the commissions they earn, and Las Vegas, Nev. In late and will pay a basic rate to the February, 1976, the station broker. He said as far as he knows this kind of arrangechanged its format. People who like to be ment between broker and better informed listen to us," agent has never been tried and that before. Harper said, newly-establishe- all-ne- Realtor Adopts New System 25-3- . BUT myumf WAS TAfcSU UP with 0OU.PIU6 eeeo tmueues CLAIM mee He 6 AU36MV residential construction may be a tip-oto an upswing in the construction next year. Cities and counties showing the greatest increases in construction activity during 1975 are Logan, up 191.6 percent over 1974 ; South Davis County, up 51.2 percent; 1976. soto, sciemsre, uou) office buildings, free standing stores and restaurants until a population center emerges. In this regard the upswing in recent change in call letters for the 1280 spot on the AM radio dial; according to Chuck Harper, general manager of d the KWMS a cwsee. i voo. RXMgP FOR Ufe. me MU 50 MHATEM3? i6t lUMfiOO MWem.HU. KBOMFS WOT U5T&) OF TO BLAME THE HA IP. m,eout warn TO KOOW TOOL its we M3TH6R6 FMlX in am). r tptyemeii t&feg Pragmatic Dogmatics Howe to Moss. In days past, it ran from Burton to Bennett to Lloyd to Moss. The routine analysis of Gold water's (disastrous 1964 loss is that he was too far to the right." Other data suggests to the contrary. A Salt Lake Tribune poll reports that the conservative" Reagan is favored over the moderate" Ford by a higher Utah percentage of by Kent Shearer recent Gallup survey indicates that, nationwide, but 21 percent of the populace call themselves Republican as opposed to 35 percent Independent and 44 percent Democrat. For Utah Republicans the ratio is somewhat more advantageous, but we still trail the other classifications. The traditional wisdom is to view political with allegiances as an ideological continuum, the GOP on the right, the Independents in the center and the Democrats on the left. If that be the case, any GOP nominee to be successful obviously would be obliged to move leftward have a shot at election. Advocates of the traditional assessment can amass evidence to support its validity. If one discounts people like Senator Schweiker as aberrations, it and Senator Morgan seems to be reflected in Congress. In the Utah conservative- delegation there certainly is a liberal continuum from Garn to McKay to A (R-P- Independents (48-46- (51-3- 8) than of Republicans Nationally, a far higher number prefer ). to call themselves conservative" than liberal." So, argue third party advocates Howard Phillips and William Rusher, let's form a new, unquestionably conservative organization, and - shorn of the stigma of the GOP label-- all the electoral oranges will be ripe to be picked. My own judgment is that, although those of in politics, generally fit into the us hyper-activ- e a) right-to-center-to-le- ft, (D-N- C) . Republican-to-Indepe- n spectrum, the masses who, after all, elect, if they do not always nominate, couldn't care less about ideology. Those masses just are not so oriented, and a dent-to-Democ- rat of campaign effort is wasted upon conservative and liberal talk. The folks out there aren't political philosophers; they are - flesh, blood, unsophisticated and awfully selfish. Above all, they want a good life for themselves and their progeny. They hate high taxes on them but lust for tax paid government services for them. Caught in this contretemps, the Independents plus healthy slices of nominal Republicans and Democrats, vote for the man who earns their trust. That is how charisma becomes more important for election than principle, believ-abilit- y more critical than dedication, and personal presence more essential than reasoned solutions. That also is why Reagan, a master of the arts that count, is a serious threat to an incumbent chief of state, and why Jimmy Carter, a promising novice in the political theatre, presently plagues Democratic presidential contenders infinitely more qualified than is he. lot |
