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Show DEFENSE TRAINING LISTED AT BUREAU To aid in placing the nation's war effort in high gear, the Idaho State Employment Service will cooperate co-operate in enrolling young men for free merchant marine training courses, it was announced here today to-day by Tom Boyle, manager of the Preston office of the Idaho State Employment Service. ,'Our Preston office is now-equipped now-equipped to furnish information and application blanks to young men interested in the free courses in seamanship and in radio telegraphy telegra-phy being offered by the United States Maritime Commission," Manager Man-ager Boyle said. "America's merchant marine is growing at the rate of a ship a day and soon two ships a day will be launched. Good jobs on these thips, paying from $72 to $200 a month, including bonuses, await 40,000 young men, many of whom, will be trained by the Maritime Service in schools and on training ships during the next two years. "Every young man between the ages oj 18 and 23, in good health, who would like to become a seaman sea-man or a ship's radio operator, should ask for information about , these training courses at his local state employment office. Two yeai's of high school education are required re-quired for the radio training course. Although a trainee is expected ex-pected to serve on ships for at least a year after graduation, the Maritime Eervice is not an enlisted enlist-ed service. "Enrollees receive pay while learning, a clothing allowance of $100, and free transportation to a training school.. These schools are situated in Boston, New York, Port Hueneme near Los Angeles, and St. Petersburg, Florida." Men receiving training in the deck, engineers, and stewards departments de-partments are paid at least $21 monthly during the six months' course. Student radio operators receive from $36 to $54 monthly during courses of from six to ten months, depending upon the student's stu-dent's previous experience and technical training. ft n |