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Show JAYCEESMEETAT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL IN PROVO Club Goes On Record Favoring Legislation Being Sought To Keep School Permanently A clear insight of the workings and set-up of the Central Utah Vocational School at Provo was given members wP'Che Springville Junior Chamber of Commerce Wednesday evening of last week, when they were guests of the officers offi-cers at a dinner and tour of the diversified school. During the meeting talks were given by Clarence Clar-ence Tuttle and Mr. Johnson, of the school, outlining the varied vocations and the benefits derived from the training through placement place-ment in war plants. The school, the largest in the state, had a total enrollment on January 31 of 665 students, tak-(Continued tak-(Continued on page twelve) JAYCEES... (Continued from page one) ing instruction in eighteen different differ-ent trades. A recent survey revealed re-vealed that 85 per cent of the graduates were using the skills they had developed at the school.' It is operated under the state board for vocational education and is supervised by the local superintendent superin-tendent of schools. It receives almost al-most all of its operating funds, which reaches $20,000 monthly, from the war training budget of the federal government. It was established to make specific training train-ing in trade and industrial skills available to the people of central Utah, and is now engaged mainly in preparing men and women for war production jobs. The total value of the equipment, which was all furnished by the federal government, gov-ernment, reaches the huge sum of $150,000. The Jaycees were advised of the bill being presented before the present legislature which would provide the school with funds after the war to make it a permanent school. The local club went on record as highly favoring the proposed pro-posed legislation and approved a telegram to be forwarded to the Utah county representatives and senators urging the adoption of the bill. William Winder, of the committee commit-tee of publicity and industrial development de-velopment for the state of Utah, was a special guest speaker. Mr. Winder told of the gigantic industries indus-tries that have come to the state, and of the great natural resources that had attracted them here. He also stated that many subsidiary industries were making plans to set up factories and plants in the proximity of the larger industries. Before the tour of the plants, President Thorn announced to the large group of Jaycees present that the annual election of officers for the club would take place at the meeting scheduled to be held next Thursday evening, March 4. |