Page 8AThe Battalion/Wednesday, December 14,1983
Neighbor state not recovering
United Press International
SANTA FE — New Mexico is
taking longer than most other
southwestern states to recover
from the national recession,
state unemployment figures in
dicate.
In a report by the Depart
ment of Finance and Adminis
tration, unemployment in New
Mexico is shown to have been 6.7
percent when the recession
started in August 1981 and na
tional unemployment was 7.2
percent. The following month,
national unemployment
jumped 1.1 percent to 8.3 per
cent, while unemployment in
New Mexico went up less than a
half a percent to 7.1 percent.
When national unemploy
ment peaked at 10.8 percent in
March, New Mexico’s rate also
peaked at 10.6 percent. But
while the national rate dropped
more than a percentage point by
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April to 9.2 percent, New Mex
ico’s stayed high at 9.9 percent.
“The New Mexico experience
seems to indicate a less severe
initial response to the recession
than the national average, a pat
tern over the middle of the re
cession mirroring that of the na
tion . and a less rapid recovery
than the nation,” the DFA re
port says.
The report also shows that
Out of Arizona, Colorado, Okla
homa, Texas and Utah, only
Arizona peaked with an unem
ployment rate higher than New
Mexico’s at 11 percent.
Colorado peaked at 9 per
cent, Oklahoma at 8.9 percent,
Texas at 8.7 percent ana Utah at
9.6 percent.
However, half the state’s re
viewed saw greater drops in em
ployment than New Mexico.
Arizona started the recession at
6 percent before leaping to 11
f iercent, and Colorado went
rom 4.7 percent unemploy
ment to 8.6 percent at the na
tion’s low point.
Oklahoma, which started with
the lowest unemployment rate
of the six states, took the greatest
dive, going from 3.1 percent un
employment to a peak of 8.9
percent.
The report says the conclu
sions for New Mexico that can be
drawn from the unemployment
figures are also reflected in data
from state tax collections and
other economic activity.
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Oil workers union
rejects Gulf s offer
United Press International
PITTSBURGH — The Oik
Chemical and Atomic Work
ers Union said Tuesday it re
jected Gulf Oil Corp.’s de
mand for a wage freeze in con
tract talks expected to affect
more than 50,000 oil industry
workers.
Union negotiators "re
jected immediately” Pitt
sburgh-based Gulfs opening
proposal of a wage freeze in
1984 and a 25-cent-per-hour
raise in 1985, OCAW spokes
man Jerry Archulta said.
Gulf said its offer covers
2,400 workers at its largest re
finery in Port Arthur, near
Houston, and another 150
employees at its Cleves, Ohio,
facility near Cincinnati. The
current two-year contract ex
pires a 12:01 a.m. Jan. 8.
In past negotiations, the
No- 5 oil company’s contract
has set the pace for 331 pacts
at about 85 oil companies,
Archuleta said. Gulf was the
first major company to make a
firm offer in this year’s bar
gaining, which began in mid-
November, he said.
“We rejected it (the prop
osal) immediately upon re
ceipt,” he said. “It’s not even
worth considering. We want a
“It’s not even worth
considering. We want
a substantial wage in
crease for both years
of the contract, and
certainly zero and 25
cents is a long ways
from being substan
tial,’^ OCAW
spokesman Jerry
Archulta.
substantial wage increase for
both years of the contract, and
certainly zero and 25 cents is a
long ways from being substan
tial.”
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refinery workers earn an aver I
age hourly wage of $13 J
not counting overtime ors
differentials, Archuleta j
fhe current two-yearcontrad
boosted wages 9 percentintlie
first year and 7 percent in J
second.
The union also wants shot
ter work weeks; improved
health care and pension plans
and aid for laid-off workers
Some 7,200 oil refinerywoi
ers have lost their jobs in M
past three years, Archuleta
said.
OCAW represents a™,
130,000 workers, incluZI
50,()()() refinery, petrochemij
al and pipeline employees.
A Gulf spokesman saidthfl
(ompanv hoped to settle a neJ
contract but could runiisre-l
fineries with management!
employees. Some 60,(M
OCAW members wentonl Stliclei
str ike for four months in"
1980, Archuleta said.
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NEW YORK - Thetra
tional gingerbread house,I
loved of generations of child™
has been remodeled.
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McCall’s magazine contaij
directions for four ummj
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baking: A ranch-style adohe j
two-story Victorian withl
window and front porch,]
Dutch-style windmill and ah
cabin whose thatched roofj
made of shredded wheat cera
biscuits.
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who also wrote the story.
Books are goo
gifts for kids
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SYRACUSE, N^Y.-Ch
are never too young fort
says an associate professoi]
child studies.
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cuse University, says boob j
an ideal gift even for newbor
“There is growing evident
the professor says, “that l
guage development tends to!
advanced in children whota
been exposed to books vent
ly in life.” ^
Books help children leant®
difference between writtenH
spoken language, she says-
"This ability is f™®]
approximately 14 moot
age, when children engage
‘book babble’ — a rhythmic
UtWdUC intonations asil«
ing a nursery rhyme 7"'
looking at a book,’ Schtc
says. , .
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babble.’This period lastsbt
or three months, j ,
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five months, she re . c ° 1I 'r j
cardboard books win
sharp illustrations that® 1 1
propped up in front of ther-
Revolving
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