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Show Civil Service Examinations The United States Civil Service Ser-vice Commission has announced an open competitive examination to secure student nurses for employment em-ployment at Ihe St. Elizabeths hospital (Federal Institution for Treatment of Mental Disorders), Department of the Interior, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. Applications must be on file with the commissions office at Washington, D. C, not later than April 29 if received from states east of Colorado, and not later than May 2, 1940, if received re-ceived from Colorado and states westward. The hospital offers a 3-year training course for the student nurses, and pays them a salary of $288 a year with quarters, subsistence, sub-sistence, laundry, and medical attention. Those who satisfactorily satisfactor-ily complete the training course and receive certificates of graduation gradu-ation will be eligible for promotion promo-tion to positions on the nursing staff, if vacancies are available. Applicants must have been graduated from an accredited high school giving a 4-year course upon completion of at least 16 units, including certain units of English, mathematics, science, and history. Senior students now in attendance in their last year of high school will be admitted to the examination under certain conditions. They must have reached their eighteenth but must not have passed their thirtieth thirt-ieth birthday. These age limits will not be waived in any case. Full information may be obtained ob-tained from Miss Althea Christ-enscn, Christ-enscn, Secretary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the post office in this city, or from the Secretary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners at any first, or second class post office. . - - |