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Show in War Department hospitals will be eligible for a commission in the army as medical department dietitian at a base pay of $2,160 a year plus allowances for quar-; quar-; ters and subsistence. Further information and application appli-cation forms may be obtained from the commission's local secretary. sec-retary. Miss Althea Christensen, located at Bingham post office, or from most first and second clan post offices, Civil Service Regional offices, or the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, Wash-ington, 25, DC. Interested persons per-sons are urged to apply at once .io that they may be admitted to one of the early examinations. STUDENT DIETITIAN TRAINING OFFERED BY GOVERNMENT An examination for student dietitian has been announced by the U. S. Civil Service commission commis-sion for training in War Department, Depart-ment, Veterans Administration, and Public Health Service hospitals hos-pitals throughout the country The maximum salary for the 12-month 12-month training period is $1,470 which includes allowances for subsistence, quarters, and overtime. over-time. Applicants must have completed, com-pleted, or expect to complete within the next few months, at least 36 semester hours of collece study which has included 12 semester hours in chemistry, semester hours in biology, 6 semester hours in foods. 6 semester se-mester hours in nutrition and diet in disease, and 6 semester hours in institution management. In addition, the Veterans Administration Admin-istration reouires 9 semester hours in social sciences and 3 semester se-mester hours in education, and specifies that applicants must have received a bachelor's degree de-gree from a college or university of recognized standing-All standing-All competitors will be requir-1 ed to pass a written test designed design-ed to measure their aptitude for learning. Applicants for training in Veterans Administration and 1 U. S. Public Health Service hospitals hos-pitals must have reached their eighteenth birthday but must not have passed their sixty-sec-! ond birthday; for War Department Depart-ment hospitals, the age limits arc twenty -to forty years. Students who successfully complete com-plete the training in Veterans Administration and U. S. Public Health Service hospitals will be eligible for appointment as Staff Dietitian, $2,644 a year. Those successfully completing training " |