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Show BREAK FOR NEEDY COLLEGE-BOUND YOUTHS Many a college or vocational school graduate can remember the lean years as a student of struggling to survive financially. But once you're "in" college, the motivation to 'get what you came for gets stronger with each passing year. And the end reward re-ward is worth the effort. For every student who made it, however, there were many just too lean in finances to even get started. They either delayed their higher education and a career, or worse, abandoned the whole idea. A new federal program is betting more than $122 million that 500,000 needy American high school graduated will be able to get into that college door. Called basic educational opportunity oppor-tunity grants, the program of the U.S. Office of Education (HEW) is designed to help eligible eli-gible students get into hvgher education for the first time, on a full-time basis. Unfortunately, the program became law at a very late time last spring and the information was not disseminated in time to reach graduating high school students before schools closed. Even more important, the most needy may not have been reached reach-ed with this vital information. But there still is time to apply for the special grants for the fall 1973 and mid-winter 1974 semesters. sem-esters. The fmal application deadline is Feb. 4, 1974. Application forms are available avail-able at Post Offices, college and high school offices, etc. |