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Show Farms, Forest, Tourists And Movies Help Boost Employment "Movies, a good farm season, and a banner year in tourism combined to give the Panguitch labor market one of tho most active years in its history", reported J. Earl Allen, manager of Panguitch Employment office. Annual summary of activities disclosed that the Panguitch Employment Security Office made 1928 non-farm placements in 1962, compared to 630 in 1961. Farm job placements totaled 1088 for the year, compared to 520 in 1961. The extra work which was done by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, movie making and a good volume of tourist traffic was the big difference. Forest Service Dixie National Forest receives $50,000 of Public Works Accelerated Program funds to be spent In, Garfield County, the second allotment to the county received under this program. The Powell District has reemployed 21 men from Tropic and Panguitch to construct fences and complete the Nature trails in Red Canyon. Forest Ranger John Strang, announced that he had re-employed about 17 men from the Escalante area to do timber thinning and fence construction work. There are six Forest Service engineers from Cedar City making road surveys on the Escalante district. The Panguitch Lake district has 8 men re-employed on fence reconstruction work. If the weather moderates suffi-cently some improvement of water developments will be done before the end of the Accelerated Work program, Ranger H. Shank reported. Hiring of men for these projects is limited to those who worked under the program during the fall of 1962. The employment will last until April when the normal work season for the Garfield County area starts. |