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Show DESERET NEWS mp Among Closed Job Corps Centers WASHINGTON (LPI)-T- he Nixon administration has decided to close more than half the rural and conservation Job Corps camps, as well as eight Job Corps centers in ur- ter would hurt the citys econ- omy since 20 to 30 people of the area are employed there, some of whom had been laid off in mining cutbacks. Also, the 200 boys at the center considerable spend amount of money in town Center Director EH O, ban areas. UPI learned the Labor Department planned to announce today that 57 Job Corps cenIngram estimated this at ters in 30 states would be a month. closed before the start of the Ingram said he has received ' no official word from Washnext fiscal year July L The Castle Valley Conservaington. He regretted the possition Center in Carbon County ble closure, saying that a was one of the rural centers good relationship has been esscheduled for shutdown. tablished between townsMayor Murray Mathis cf people and trainees after Price said closure of fee cen some friction when he camp $2,-0- was first opened. The shutdown would be part of planned $100 million cut in the war on poverty program. Perkins. Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said in a statement the action means we are throwing thousands of boys and girls to the Cart D. ., dogs. ; Gaylord Nelson, chairman of a Senate subcommittee that will start ,teneral hearings on the poverty program in May, said in a letter to Nixon that the dosing would simply add to tine dll' WASHINGTON ' (UPI- -If battalions.' eso ' construction The supply problem baa eased somewhat because 62 to 70 per cent of fee Vietnamese railroad system Is running, compared with 10 per cent after the JTet offensive last ' The decision on what typ of forces combat or tics to send home would be primarily up to military com- menders. These are some of the factors they would consid- logi' er: year,' . . South Vietnam, in building up its armed forces, has concentrated on creating combat units. The South Vietnamese BEING SHOT AT Of fee 540,000 U.S. for In Vietnam, about 200,000 are In various support roles. However, this figure Is misleading have Increased their armed forces, including regional and "popular militia, from 600,000, to 900,000 In a year. LOWER PRIORITY ' because at. s lot in conservation areas. estimated 35,000 young persons, most of them high school dropouts, are enrolled, 14,000 of them in conservation and 82 An 21 000 in urban The number of enrollees who would he affected by the closings was not immediately known. A total of $285 million was appropriated for the Job Corps in this fiscal year, and former President Lyndon B. Johnson had budgeted $280 million for fiscal 1970. The 49 rural centers to be closed are: a Alpine, Heber, Ingman and San Carlos. Alder Springs, California Fenner Canyon, Five Mile. Oak Glen, Sly Park, and Arison ever la going to atand on its own feet. But Kahn warns that the U.S. pullback must not give the Impression of total pullout" That would cross the fine line of Saigons confidence In Washington, could help topple the Thieu regime and might shatter U.S. prestige around the world. turning over their equipment to South Vietnamese units, newly trained in those fields. These total 2C9 U.S. troops. But fee Pentagon has said this does not mean a troop ' "Whatever rights folks gain, one of them will never be the right not to car what happens to others. Pagosa Springs. Hawaii Kobo Head. Idaho Cedar Flats, Mars-inMountain Home. Illinois Crab Orchard. Indiana Branchvtile. Maine Acadia. Mar land Catoctin. Ma ssachusetta W cllfleet. Michigan Hoxey, Ojibway. Minnesota Lydick Lake, Tamarac. Montana Anaconda, Kicking Horse, Trapper Creek. Nevada Clear Creek. New Mexico Eiglth yon, Grants, Luna. Oklahoma Arbuckle, Hodg-en- s. Can- Tennessee Tremont. Texas New Waverly, Utah Castle Valley. West Virginia Anthony. Wisconsin CUm Lake. Wyoming Casper. In addition, three centers In Fuerio Rico Vieques, Guay-amJuana Diaz are on the list to be closed. Mr. Nixon would do if, in the midst of fee pullback, the launched massive enemy The propaganda defeat would be small enough cost to pay. Indeed, the withdrawal is now under way on a tiny scale. One U.S. field artillery battalion was recently replaced by Vietnamese, and another switch is in fee works. In any event, the Administration is determined to carry tut this plan, realizing the nations impatience with protracted negotiations and high Skeptics in working levels of fee State Department together- with, the uniformed military here and in Vietnam, Sai- troops and inflicted heavy casualties on the remaining U.S. force. tion by Washington would be ' probably. But that is a risk the administration will accept. There is some hops Hanoi would no nothing to break the rhythm while of the U.S. pullback There were 13,113 marriages . Hawaii during the two-- . year period, for a 26.4 per cent increase. Utah was run- nerap with a 13.6 per cent"--jum- p. In a, attacking it in propaganda as evidence the Americans knew they were licked. attacks that decimated Hawaii Weddings Lead, Utah 2nd Hawaii led other states in the"' : percentage increase of mar- 1956 in and 1967, riages according to the U.S. Census Bureau. fear that the Nixon-Lalrplan will go too fast. They raise difficult questions about what gons April 10, 1969 . HONOLULU (AP) O r e g o n Malheur, Tillamook. Pennsylvania Blue Jay. d U Saigon of them are shot North Dakota Dickson. Ohio Ottawa, Vesuvius. Toyon. Colorado Viet Pullout Forecast Continued from First Page Two U.S. artillery battalions plus U.S. transportation engineering - and maintenance units are In the procesa of reduction. centers and centers. COUNTRY SAGE If U.S. Cuts Forces In Vietnam, Combat Units Likely To Be First the United States reduces Its forces in Vietnam, combat units could be among the first - ; to come home. illusionment within the poverty areas of America. Tne urban centers to be down include two closed mens projects, Parks, Calif., and Kilmer, N.J., and six womens centers, Clinton, Iowa; Marquette, Mich.; St. Louis, Mo.; Omaha, Neb.; Cleveland, Ohio; and Hunting-ton- , W. Va. There are 106 Job Corps centers, all told, across the nation, 24 of them in cities Thursday, 1 A7 State statistician Robert"? Schmitt credits the militarys rest and recreation program in Hawaii. ' YOUR 0 C3 IT.GHEN mm f 1 1H 1-- 2 , f casualties. r Putting you fori, bcp3 us firtt. . South Vietnam has given a lower priority to building its own military logistic and supN port system. If the United States decides to have South Vietnamese combat units take over a greater share of fee war, U.S. support forces would have to be around to make the South Vietnamese fighting teams effective. This support Includes such things as supply, helicopter, and ground transportation, and construction engineers artillery. LOGISTIC NEED The United States thus may find it difficult to go very far In cutting down its logistic system as the first step of troop withdrawal. A number of military men argue, therefore, that combat forces must be among the first sizeable group of U.S. forces to be sent s H r: t S V V 4. home. N also is possible some construction outfits could be among U.S. troops returned early since no major new construction is being started by the United States. It N v V V Training schools are turning eut additional South Vietnam- - Red Attacks Dwindling - SAIGON (UPI) The intensity of Communist attacks across South Vietnam fell last week to its lowest point of the year, the Saigon government said today. Accordingly, U.S. battlefield deaths declined. A weekly government re- port said the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Initiated 183 attacks or incidents last week, 47 per cent fewer than in fee previous week and the lowest number since the beginning of the year, U.S. headquarters reported Americans killed last week and 1,042 wounded the lowest weekly US. casualties since fee Communists i Front to roar. Kingswood Estate Wagon, Cooooors Station Wagon, Sportvaa and Suburban 222 began their natirawido offensive nearly seven neks ago. 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