Show washington N 5 1 0 h fa A FROM OUR CONGRESS congressman MA N W K GRANGER president eliminates slate quotas on jobs this should be welcome news to those utahna seeking civil service appointments and who have found their names on apportionment reg many worthy eligible utahna have been deterred in their efforts to obtain employment because utah was over her quota the order applies to all agencies and employees except the field service or the post postoffice office fico department the civil service commissions examining processes will be revamped giving fewer assembled examinations and rating applicants either cither eligible or ineligible according to their ex peri ence and training i I 1 soil conservation project approved for utah the president approved a project for to conserve soil sail resources and reduce soil erosion along the channel of the paira river and its tributaries tributa ries near tropic can nonville bonville non ville and henrieville Henri eville in garfield county bags for the wool clip will be available A revised order has been issued by the priorities division of the war production board which will release burlap in sufficient quantity to harvest the nations wool crop this news will be welcomed by the utah wool growers since they have had reason to be alarmed over the shortage of bags with which to ship their wool had not this revised order been issued demand and supply the agriculture department in the demand and price situation reported consumer demand for farm products over the next few months is expected to remain around recent high belvels with the general genera trend for the year as a whole upward and highest since 1919 the pressure of rising consumer income in relation to the volume of goods and services available for civilian use will be a factor tending to raise the general level of prices this year pressure will be strongest in short s supply u aply commodities but price controls and rationing of some of those will tend to limit expenditures for them and increase the pressure on other products in large supply including clu dinc farm commodities the department part ment said it is too early to form definite conclusions on the effect of the price control act but control exercised over a limited number of commodities before passage of the act has been attended with considerable success inventory of manpower federal security administrator mcnutt that to supplement information on war labor requirements quire ments gathered from employers in in war industries the U S employment service early in march will start an inventory of the na eions manpower with respect to skills necessary for war production A A special occupational form part of a more comprehensive questionnaire question aire which the will send out to all men between 20 and 44 will serve as the basis for this information later the same questionnaire question aire containing the special U S employment service form will be sent to other civilians between 18 and 64 those who have already registered for selective service and those who have to do so so skills of men the most comprehensive inventory about occupational skills of its workers ever possessed in this country this will be of inestimable value in defining the war effort of the nations manpower mr mcnutt said educational adjustment the na navy vy asked elementary and secondary schools to teach students these subjects are basic re requirements pu re for all technical w work ari and the navy is composed of technical ep experts erts the training div division of f the bureau of navigation h has distributed tri buted folders which will serve as a guide guid e in the sch schools and also for an enlistee enli stee izi in choosing the type ot 01 navy job he feels best qualified tu to berf perform orm with a view to the related type of civil job for which he would be fitted after the war is over |