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Show an teed annual wage which i would have the effect of freex- ing investment capital during a period when it will be greatly needed." NAM PREDICTS GREATER UTAH GROWTH Continued growth for Utah during dur-ing the next ten years was forecast fore-cast recently by the Pacific central region of the National Association of Manufacturers. The NAM study covers the period pe-riod 1955-65 and analyzes the state's potential growth in population, popu-lation, labor force, and capital Investments In-vestments for business and industrial indus-trial expansion. Tracing trends In these three areas during recent years, the association reports: Utah's population, which was 757,000 as of July, 1954, should rise to 961,000 by 1965; The state's labor force, which averaged 267,000 for the year 1954, should swell to 310,000 by 1965, and Capital investments which will be required to provide increased job opportunities throughout the state will total $876,000,000. The latter figure is based on the national average of $12,000 investment invest-ment behind each productive job. It is estimated by the NAM that there will be some 73,000 new job opportunities required by members of the growing labor force during the next ten years. "It is ironic," continues the NASI, "that smaller firms are hardest hit by taxation at a time when they should be building investment funds for expansion. It will also be tragic," concludes the report, "if these smaller firms are forced to shoulder such additional fixed costs of operation, opera-tion, such as the so-called 'guar- |