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Show B. A. C. To Expand Industrial Defense Training Program The "demand for men trained in the Industrial Defense Program is being met by the Branch Agricultural Agricul-tural College by the inauguration on January 20 of a 24-hour training train-ing program In the school shops. ' The expansion of the present program pro-gram will include courses to begin be-gin at 12 midnight and continue to 8 a. m. This new phase of the work has been instituted by the government govern-ment for the training of rural youth between the ages of 18 and 25. Anyone Any-one in Utah between these ages who can arrange to spend six hours a day in any of the defense training train-ing courses is eligible to apply for this Instruction at the B. A. C. They should send their application to C. B. Colley, coordinator of the work for the B. A. C. At the present time, forty men are studying welding, auto mechanics, mechan-ics, airplane mechanics, and supplementary sup-plementary welding during the hours from 4 p. m. to 12 p. m. Seventy men have received benefits from these courses since July when the courses began as refresher courses. These were to run eight weeks, but the demand for trained men caused the United States departments of education and labor and the W.P.A. to extend the courses. Besides the extension of these courses the defense de-fense training council Is purchasing purchas-ing four or five thousand dollars .worth of machine equipment to teach machine operation to southern south-ern Utah laborers. |