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Show Supt. R. F. Campbell Receives Communications On National Defense Communications concerning national na-tional defense from J. W. Stude-baker, Stude-baker, U. S. Commissioner of Education Edu-cation and the State Department of Education have recently been received by Superintendent R. F. Campbell. A part of the-State communication com-munication is shown below: "Courses for training in the national na-tional Defense Program may be given in any public school or at other locations when adequate facilities fa-cilities and equipment are or can be made available, provided, the instruction is under public supervision super-vision or control. The courses may should attempt to include work in all four divisions of instruction, but should select the course that will, in the terms of possible defense employment requirements, best fit the needs of the out-of-school rural youth, the community, and can be taught with the facilities that are or can be made available in tne district. Out-of-school rural youth from 17 ta 24 years of age inclusive are eligible for the courses. District boundaries are! not to be followed when enrolling members in the class. Enroll all who are eligible and interested, even though they may live outside! of the district. In districts where facilities are already available, superintendents should make application for programs pro-grams of instruction. , These applications appli-cations should show the number of possible youth available, the facilities fa-cilities available, the equipment needed and the type of training program desired in the community. Teachers for these courses do not have to be graduates in agricultural agricultur-al 'courses. Their salaries will be paid out of National Defense training train-ing funds. Courses offered will be determined, largely by the facilities facili-ties and teachers available." School officials are now trying to ascertain just how the provisions above may best be applied in this vicinity. o o I be offered any time during the twenty-four hour day whenever satisfactory facilities are available. "Courses should be organized to offerj instruction for periods of not less than eight weeks and no course will be approved which offers of-fers less than 15 clock hours of instruction per week, except in the case of courses organized exclusively exclu-sively for CCC enrollees. General pre-employment courses offered under un-der the program are as follows: AT Operation, care and repair of tractors, trucks and automobiles, including both gas and Diesel .engines. .en-gines. A-2 Metal work, including simple sim-ple welds, tempering, drilling, shaping, and machinery repair. A-3 Woodworking. A-4 Elementary electricity, including in-cluding operation, care and repair of electrical equipment. It is not intended that each district dis-trict that sponsors a program |