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Show the .ENTERPRISE 4I 4I Businesswomen rate SBA good, medium and awful With much White House hoopla last August, the Small Business Administration announced it was launching a national program to encourage women's ownership of businesses. Now four months into the campaign, SBA is getting some good marks and some bad on its efforts. It has had a lot of work to do. According to Commerce Department statistics, women own less than five percent of U.S. businesses and these account for less than one percent of the gross annual receipts generated each year. Of the women-owne- d businesses, 98 percent are owned by one woman and only 13 percent of them have any paid employees, according to a 1972 Commerce Department survey. Average annual ind come of these women firms was $10,000. No job too small or too large we customize them all. S', FREE ESTIMATES 'y Commercial Industrial Residential 1 1 !, Ws ;'4 owner-operate- only 6 percent of SBA's direct and bank guaranteed loans went to businesses owned and operated by women. That jumped to 11 percent in fiscal year 1976 and increased to 15 percent or about $300 million in fiscal In fiscal year 1975, year 1977. The SBA has targeted $400 million just for guaranteed business loans to women during Fiscal year 1978 as The part of its campaign. agencys total guaranteed loan budget ceiling for fiscan year 1978 is almost $3 billion. The SBA's womens paign also includes: A series of cam- 110 semin- ars and conferences around the country to inform women about SBA programs and getting into business. More attention to the Continued on page twelve Business OSHA J v;: Jl h COMPLETE JANITORIAL SERVICE Continued from page eight just go through hundreds of pages of regulations and cross out the rules that seemed most unnecessary. This way, well only get rid of about 30 percent of the regulations and we still have most of the incomprehensible language, the OSHA official said. Fully licensed and insured n Phone 487-38and ask for Neil Baker 11 Language remains An example of one of the 1376 Jefferson Street hundreds of regulations the OSHA people left untouched concerns storage containers for liquefied natural gas and Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 opening. An example of the kind of regulation the reformers took out: No employer shall change the method used by him to determine calendar quarters except at the begin- ning of a calendar year. Two of the regulations eliminated were on OSHA's list of the top-1- 0 most violated standards." One requires small metal signs indicating a floor's load capacity; another concerns hinges on steplad-ders. states: The fixed liquid-levgauging device may be so constructed that the outward flow of container content exceeds that passed by a No. 54 drill-siz- e opening, but in no case shall the flow exceed that passed by a No. 31 drill-siz- e Only the beginning el fsme AIPECO COPIERS APECO BOND COPIER 300 copy without the shine - matt finish Bond-lik- e No-Ha- lo reproductions e! Auto-loa- d electro-maste- Cassette paper loading By-pa-ss for copies ed Copies are trimmed lo size. No waste. No need lo change copy paper when you switch lo different size originals. Swift and simple elf No cosily drums lo replace or developers lo mix. Gel inside easily lor simple maintenance. rs serviceability The Apeco 776. Bigger savings, too. You can afford lo own your own 776. No rental No copying meters. minimum. Copies are big. but the 776 is small. And portable1 anywhere It installation It's rugged. Simplified paper path and heavy-dut- y components keep downtime way down. in plugs No y original irir up to WE CAN BEAT SHARP XEROX SAVIN Rocky Mountain Office Equipment 3007 So. West Temple, Suite 486-463- 3 F 3-M- CO. I costly Copy letter size, legal size computer size-an- size a a I The OSHA official said the agency will continue to chop away at other sets of rules. The first cutting covered 590 pages of general inYet to dustry regulations. come are construction, maritime and agriculture. He estimates it will take three years for even this first round of cuts to actually be removed from the books. Meanwhile, the comprehensive rewrite is put on the back shelf while we try to convince the public with these public relations games that we arc cutting through the he bureaucratic red tape, said. Some OSHA officials do hold hope that the general directive by Marshall and Bingham for authorities to use common sense in enforcement will give business people relief from inordinately strict regulations. If a sign is supposed to be 24 inches wide and is one-hainch too short, the agent can just wink.' But the commonscnsc wink" order is not expected to make enormous inroads in one of the most bureaucratic agencies ever created by the federal government. lf MIDA OLIVETTI |