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Show YACC Camp proposed for Missile Base 5 Mayor Hatt and the City Council hosted a luncheon at the Overnighter on Wednesday Wednes-day for White Sands Missile Range personnel and Bureau of Land Management officials to discuss the establishment of a YACC (Youth Adult Conservation Corps) camp at the Missile Base. Present from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico were General 0. L. Tobiason, Colonel P.W. Wilson and Captain Cap-tain L. J. Hathhorn. After presenting the program, they left early to catch their plane back to New Mexico, and local director of the Utah Launch Complex, J. R. Taylor, Engineer Engin-eer Lee R. Woodard and James G. Bonine, Manager of Dynalectron Corporation represented rep-resented the Missile Base interests in the program. Earl Hindley, Coordinator of the YACC Division of Planning was delayed by a storm, and Gene Day, District Manager of BLM, together with Raymond Lewis, Chief of Division of Operations of the Moab office represented the Bureau of Land Management in the program. Mr. Day pointed out that this is the first YACC camp on a year-long program in Utah. In fact, the whole concept is new and great efforts are being made to make it workable work-able and welcome to the communities near where the camps are to be established. Considerable need for this type of program has been expressed, and it is hoped the localities and the surrounding areas will be willing to support sup-port the program and give it a try. The program is under Manpower, Man-power, and participants, both boys and girls, will be from the ages of 16-23 years of age. They sign up for one year, provide their own transportation transporta-tion to the camp, many of them in their own cars, and they will receive minimum wage pay. They will have classes, will be trained in the use of hand tools and equipment, and will be expected to put in a good day's work. Mr. Day stressed that these are not disadvantaged disadvan-taged people, that each state is allotted.candidates, and the enrollees will be sent to the nearest camp. Each candidate will have a physical examination examina-tion and will be expected to do tough, physical labor such as building fences, clean-up, carpentry, car-pentry, welding, and restoring restor-ing and rehabilitating archaeological archa-eological sites. Our Green River young people will not be eligible, according to information informa-tion elicited, because of the low 6.2 unemployment rate of Green River. However, YACC students will be allowed to "moonlight" in competition with our young people in after school and weekend work in cafes, service stations and motels during the winter. Work projects will include any public work that needs doing, whether it be city, county, or even Park Service or other government agency. The sponsor furnishes all materials, ma-terials, and all labor is furnished fur-nished by YACC and its instructors. Transportation to and from work will be furnished furnish-ed by BLM. It is proposed to set up the program in 90 days, and that means that only those young people not in school will apply to join the camp. The students will be housed in the housing complex at the Base, fed at the cafeteria there, and hopefully, hope-fully, will develop their own recreational and sports programs. pro-grams. It was pointed out by one of the Base people that $25,000 a week payroll will be going into town, which is pretty high. The enrollees receive all their food, most of their recreation, and this boost to the local economy is doubtful. Since they are not of beer-drinking beer-drinking age, that is an awful lot of bubble gum. Mayor Hatt asked about screening of applicants, and was assured that this would be possible. In fact, Mr. Lewis suggested that a local committee com-mittee of townspeople be appointed ap-pointed to resolve any problems prob-lems that might crop up. He also reiterated the statement that the applicants will come directly through the State Employment Service, and the program will be funded by Manpower. Mr. Day pointed out tK H while the first conting U be 50. some of these out in spike camps most oftk! ?' time. It is hoped to expMd tr program to 100 youths as & as possible. & When asked what would happen if another use came!" -for the Missile Base while tS camp was occupying it, & seemed to be no defin & answer. Locally, the feeling that Green River would be w. better off with an ore-buy A station there, or some & industry. ji Considerable stress laid on the fact that the camn ' will be "open" and not ducted as a military facflft. After the evening meal, the' youngsters are unsupervised, s? and may do as they plea J the evening or for the entire " weekend. Residents of Elga worried about being invaded by these youngsters pourm. unrestrained through homes and the campground there, en route to the bridge by short cuts, and asked that they be restricted to the roads. Thij was not resolved. Mayor Hatt asked that n V open meeting be set up so tint' I the program may be present-: ed to the townspeople, and: I Mr. Day and Mr. Taylor' ' agreed that would be t good: V idea. If there is not too modi J opposition, plans for a camp will go forward. No date has r been set for this meeting, but it will probably be in the next 4 couple of weeks. . I |