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Show DECKHANDS ARE Ineeded, GOOD OFFER MADE TO MEN The War Department is currently current-ly confronted with a serious shortage shor-tage of qualified civilians to serve on its vessels in the capacity of deckhands. Intensive recruitment efforts throughout the United States have failed to meet" the urgent ur-gent need for thousands of such qualified individuals. Accordingly, an intensive course of training for deckhands has been established under the auspices of this office at the Transportation Corps Civilian Civil-ian Marine School, New Orleans rates vary from I ?1500 toamaamuiS, annum. HsJ Individuals when training are appotag fc, Service employe. I d are entitled to the ben efu and annual leave k lts( U- S. EmpioSorJ Act for injuries sw!' in the perfomane8; Civil service Retire Hi Upon satisfactory com" S period of dutyonX'N ! the United Stat by mutual consent of ment and the employee i! ered for assignment vessels of the Tr ftSS Corps in which even be entitled to$5,000 war J,'0111 efits, free of premluTf life or disability, $300 V? benefits for loss of n fects, applicable war riskT and medical care and wfr tionfor illness andor 5 tained in the performance Interested individual communicate with the Transportation Zone 222 w . Lake City, Utah. ' " Sa!; Port of Embarkation, New Or- leans, Louisiana. Young men interested in rendering ren-dering patriotic and useful service to their country will be afforded an opportunity of enrolling for this course of training. If they meet the prerequisites set forth herein, personnel to be considered for such enrollment will in no case be more than two months short of their 17th birthday nor in excess of two months beyond their 17th birthday. birth-day. However, candidates 18 years or above may be considered providing pro-viding they have a Selective Service Ser-vice status which will give reasonable reas-onable assurance that they will not be inducted. Personnel under this program must have had a high school education or the equivalent, as would normally be commensurate commensur-ate with the age attained. Individuals Indi-viduals accepted will be required to meet the physical standards prescribed by the government and should be capable of performing the type of duty normally required by deckhands. No formal aptitude examination is required, however, interviewing Army representatives much satisfy themselves that the applicant possesses the requisite characteristics to be accepted for I enrollment with the Transportation Transporta-tion Corps of the Army. Candidates selected for such training and duty will be required to execute an Agreement of Enrollment En-rollment for the duration of the war plus six months. Under this enrollment, candidate candi-date will receive during the five weeks' X training period $50 per month in addition to housing accommodations ac-commodations and subsistence, which will be furnished at the expense ex-pense of the government. In addition, addi-tion, uniforms prescribed by the Transportation Corps, will be furnished fur-nished free of charge. Immediately Immediate-ly following satisfactory completion comple-tion of the prescribed course of training, Deckhands will be assigned as-signed to one of the eight major Ports of Embarkation in the U. S. Upon such assignment they will receive the pay of fully qualified deckhands to conform with the prevailing wage rates of the mari-me mari-me industry in the locality. These |