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Show Roscoe Booth Wins Flying Cadet Appointment Roscoe Booth, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Booth of Cedar City, has been selected for appointment as a Flying Cadet in the U. S. Aimy, for entrance in the March Class at California Aero Training Corporation Corpora-tion at Ontario, California. He Iff t Tuesday to enter the services. Mr. and Mrs. Booth spent Sunday and Monday at Provo visiting with Roscoe Ros-coe before he left for his new training field. The training the Flying Cadets receive under this program is a selective sel-ective course extendin over a period per-iod of thirty weeks. The course is divided over three 10 week periods, and the Cadet's progress is determined deter-mined by his rating at the end of each period. The examination to which the Cadet is subjected before be-fore he is accepted into the service is perhaps the most rigid physical and mental test of the nation's military forces. Upon' the completion comple-tion of the thirty weeks course the successful Cadet Is granted a ratine rat-ine of Second Lieutenant. Roscoe started his aviation train-1 lng in Cedar City last summer as one of the first group to enter the Student Pilot Training Course given at the Branch Agricultural college under the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Admin-istration. At the completion of this course he received his private pilot's license. Later he entered advanced training at the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College at Logan, where he received his commercial pilot's license. |