Iron County Record | 1952-12-11 | Page 2 | Vocational Experts Address Cedar Rotary Club

Vocational Experts Address Cedar Rotary Club j Jay L. Nelson, president of the Salt Lake Area Vocational School was the principal speaker at the meeting of the Cedar City Rotary Ro-tary club Tuesday noon. He appeared ap-peared on a special vocational service program under the direction direc-tion of Koyce Knight. Mr. Nelson, a former teacher in the Cedar City high school, was introduced by Roy Walters, former Branch Agricultural college col-lege faculty member, who is now connected with the vocational voca-tional school. Mr. Nelson presented statistics showing that 53 per cent of all gainfully employed persons in the United States earn a livelihood liveli-hood in trades and industrial occupations, oc-cupations, with other means divided di-vided 8 per cent in professions, 22 per cent in business and 17 per cent in agriculture. Figures for Utah are strikingly parallel to those of the nation's, with one per cent more in the professions, 8 per cent less In business, and the difference divided about equally among agriculture, industry in-dustry and trades. In contrast, Mr. Nelson pointed out there are approximately 18,000 persons enrolled in Utah colleges and universities compared com-pared to only 2,500 in vocational trades. He maintained that Utah will become more and more industrialized, indus-trialized, but stated that almost daily the state is losing additional addition-al industry to other states because be-cause of the lack of a reservoir of skilled worker in the state.