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Show ffiKiWiHiMTi DESERET NEWS, Service Industries Enjoying 'ioomr In U.S. By DEAN C. MILLER a production to a service economy. Half of todays national income originates in service. More than half the labor force is in service fields: everything from cleaning and maintaining offices and homes, to supplying temporary clerks and typist and protecting company property and maintaining computer operations. Defined broadly to include trade, utilities and government, service activities in the U.S. now employ over 55 per cent of the labor force. Service employment is up 60 per cent since 1947 and accounts for 88 per cent of the total post-wa- r employment growth. "NEW YORK (UPI)-M- ow the lawn? Qean the windows? Shampoo the rugs? Not me says many a homeowner I get today. somebody to do it." of thousands of , Hundreds homeowners, many of them buoii ess executives, today fpply the same principle to Tunning a home as business Soes to running offices and plants. They feel it saves their valuable time and money to Tet experts handle irksome household tasks. Service industries are in uch a boom period they have Turned the United States from Services save users money and headaches by relieving them of hiring, payroll and other costs, employment says R.L. Patton, manager of contract services for Honeywells industrial division. "The fixing of responsibility on a single contractor is an attractive package. With some industrial fees ranging to more than a million dollars, service firms have become stock market staples. Honeywell, National Kinney National Service, Allied Maintenance and Manpower Inc. are listed on the New York Exchange; Work Wear Corp. and William J. Burns Detective Agency on Service, the American; and Kelly Services, A.C. Nielsen and Pinkertons are traded over the counter. An example of almost compulsory growth into the service business is Honeywell. Its hem, Kennecott and 3M Company. Other companies profit from sales which lead to service contracts. National Service produces as well as rents linens and uniforms. Work Wear does the same with work shirts and overalls. automatic systems for monitoring and controlling mechanical equipment in large Hertz and Avis, the car and buildings became so big and truck rental agencies, became contraccomplex the average so attractive they were swaltor couldnt install ard mainlowed up by corporate giants. tain them. Honeywell added Hertz now is part of RCA those service jobs in the and Avis belongs to 1930s. Twenty nine years Corp., later it applied the installation International Telephone. and maintenance concept to Some, like Kinney, prolifindustrial activities and pulled erate on their own. Kinney in such accounts as General represents entertainment personalities as well as dealing in Motors, U.S. Steel. Bethle iiiinifiirllhlfti Friday, April 11, 1969 car rentals and parking, cleaning. 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