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Show FUNDS BOOSTED JORJRAINING Additional funda have enabled the atata board of education to plan an Increaaed program of vocational training for aludenla during the coming aehool term, a B. Ounder-aon. Ounder-aon. atata director of vocational and industrial training, told tha national nation-al tmtrgcary council Krlday. Kenneth Borg. aone engineer for W f A. alio apoka at tha meeting, which wai held at the chamber of commerce during the luncheon hour Allen T. Hanford. ilate director- af the council, presided. Upward of 110.000 will be available avail-able for hiring teachera to rarry on the work thla year, with the federal fed-eral government supplying llio.ooo af the amount and tha atata 100,000, Mr niindersen aald. - ' Training In municipal work, government, gov-ernment, police and other linea, la being atarted thla year. Three courses, along with a number of new onea. dealing with all typra of tradea, will aupplement the agricultural, agricul-tural, home economlci and other couraea that have bean given In the past. I'aasage of the Gorge-Den art la providing nearly an additional iao.000 for thi itate, Mr. Ounder-aon Ounder-aon aald. By enabling the completion of apprenticeships ap-prenticeships in trades and provld-' provld-' ing training for other lypea of work-era, work-era, the W P A haa served as a valuable school while furnishing emergency employment, Mr. Borg told tha council. |