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Show Employment Office To Stay Open In Panguitch f jkI The folate Ifeuploynient Security office at I'angultrli will stay oji-en. Mm. Cora Cooper, assistant Senator Wallace F. Dennett wrote'-from Washington that Roc co C. Elclllano, assistant secretary of labor and a native of Salt Lake City, assured him that sufficient funds would be restored to Utah to keep open the branch office of the division of Employment Security In Panguitch. VI also received assuranco that the Utah State Industrial Commission would be given authority to transfer , filnds within the state offices so that the best possible employment security program could be set up. Employment security Is. of course, a part of the Department of Labor but is Integrated with the various state Industrial commissions. Giving the state a chance to use the funds where they are most need. lit the office, open the door after the good news Mas ent on from Washington by Senator Itennett. ed seems to mo to be a step In the proper direction of taking government out of Washington and putting it where it belongs on the stato level. I met with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Tart Benson to discuss with Ii I in and assistant secretary John It. Davis possible ways and means to assist the wool producers of the west. They are, I've learned firsthand during the congressional recess, in a pretty bad way. Several plans, so new I'm not at liberty to discuss them, have been presented by both the wool men and the department. I'm In hopes that our wool producers soon will be able to compete on an equal basis with foreign producers who've had many economic "breaks" recently." |