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Show The Enterprise Review , November 24. 197ft Page 7b 1 GRAPHIC CONCEPTS INC. go aoout graphic & advertising design the same way you go about making your We Job-Applica- nt After being depressed for almost two months, the business Slowly, carefully refining every detail Chipping away at the rough edges until things start coming to Me And we take pride in this labor market indicator has made a healthy recovery and seems to be heading toward a balanced labor market ability (65.0). If the 404 W. 400 So., S.L.C., Utah Phone (801) 359-219- 1 Pullman Torkelson Gets $6.5 Million Contract Ratio Equalizing job-applica- nt . ratio continues its present momentum upward, it may be an indication of reduced unemployment in the state. o Seasonally Adjusted Labor Market Indicator Utah 1976 Pullman Torkelson Company. a Salt Lake based subsidiary of Pullman, Inc. has been awarded a new contract to engineer, design, procure and construct the expansion of coal handling and processing facilities to service the Harrington Plant of Southwestern Public Service Company of Amarillo, Tex. The expanded facilities will serve the second 350MW 55 54 S3 "a. 52 i a 51 - 50 Week Ending generating unit at the Harrington Plant. Construction of the $6.5 million project will be completed in February, 1978, according to Richard Moffat, president. Moffat said the new contract represents the second phase of this project. It will increase coal handling and processing capacity from 1 million tons to 2 million tons per year and will utilize another 1 12 railroad cars for the transport of coal to the facility. Ball Speaks Fred S. Ball is the Executive Vice President Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Can Small Businesses Survive? CHRISTMAS SHOPPING MADE EASY Survival of Jcffersonion democracy and free enterprise depends on the reversal of the decline in economic power of small business. I am keenly interested in the legislative and administrative assistance the government is in a position to generate for the continuance and growth of small business. Although those who seek an opportunity to enter into small business as an entrepreneur should, according to Senators Humbert Humphrey and Senator Gaylord Nelson "be preserved," new starts and small businesses comprise a constituency all but overlooked by the government in its commitment of assistance. The definition of small business currently used by the Small Business Administration to qualify recipients for its procurement, financial and management assistance proventures engaged in providing grams are those services andor goods that gross not more than $5 million per businesses with sales well below year. For those the $5 million dollar threshold, two specific suggestions perhaps wrould be appropriate: (1) An opportunity for enhancement of sales and (2) a reduction in disallowable costs. First, the Small Business Administration should define a special "low sales" category, say sales under $1 million, and s small provide marketing assistance for this group. businesses have the resources to introduce their goods and services to but a handful of potential customers. However, SBA could assist this group; it could establish formal lines of communication by classifying small business according to capabilities and notifying potential buyers of the existence of their goods and services. 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Many government contracts now let outside of the state of Utah possibly could remain within the state with small businesses. For the our small business, loans are sought to alleviate the immediate cash demands for payroll and materials. But the Armed Services Procurement Regulations (ASPR) or the Federal Procurement Regulations (FPR) do not recognize the interest on loans, and interest expense is treated as a disallowed cost on many types of contracts. This means, simply, that interest must be paid out of profits. Since commercial interest rates now often exceed the maximum fee allowed by the government on cost plus fixed fee contracts, this may mean for small business the difference betw een entry, continuance and departure from the entrepreneurial stream. Thus, perhaps a recommended amendment of ASPR and FPR to make interest an allowable cost, at least for this class of small business. 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