Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-29 | Page 14 | Technicians to Get Training in College

TECHNICIANS TO GET TRAINING IN COLLEGE Drafted Men to Have Advantage of Facilities and Instructors at Institution In-stitution in Logan. Nearly 1000 draftees will be trained as technicians, merchanics and machinists this summer at the Utah Agricultural college, according to arrangements recently recent-ly concluded between James E. Addicott, representing the war department, and President E. G. Peterson. These men will be trained in three two -month periods, beginning May 5. About 300 men will attend the first series of courses, and larger numbers are expected for tho subsequent sub-sequent courses. Director Ray B. West of the School of Agricultural Engineering and Mechanic Arts, who will have charge of the instructional in-structional work, has just returned from a. trip east, where he studied the draftee ffihoo.3 already in operation. He reports trfat the Utah Agricultural college, upon the installation of new equipment already al-ready ordered, will be able to offer the drafted men work equal to anything now being given in the United States. Men will be trained as auto repair men, carpenters, machinists, mechanics, blacksmiths black-smiths and horseshoe rs, foundry men, electrical workers, radio operators and concrete workers. The men will be In practical shop work for six hours each day, with one hour for lecture and one hour for military drill. They will be housed on the college campus and fed In the college cafeteria. Strict military discipline will be enforced at all times.