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Show Ninety Mechanic Learners Arrive at USAC Ninety mechanic learners recruited re-cruited from Denver, Colorado, area have arrived at the national defense training school at Utah State Agricultural college to study various phases of aircraft maintenance, mainten-ance, V. L. Christiansen, assistant to Director E. C. Jepperson, announced an-nounced Thursday. Sent by the civil service commission com-mission to Ogden air depot at Hill field, the trainees were assigned by the depot to the training school. With another group sent about a month ago mainly from New Mexico, Mex-ico, the trainees comprise the first group to come to the school from outside the state. The New Mexico Mex-ico .contingent filled almost an entire en-tire aircraft engine class. About half of the trainees from the Denver area . are women and girls, Mr. Christiansen said, and "they are generally somewhat older old-er than students who have been occupations from professional training here." Almost all types of workers to laborers are represented in the group. "It seems significant," Mr. Christiansen Chris-tiansen said, "that this latest group contains a higher proportion I of women than we ever have trained before." The trainees are enrolled in various aircraft classes including aircraft mechanics, instruments, electrics, hydraulics, machinist and a class in heat treatment of metals for aircraft. "We have information indicating that other mechanic learners will be sent by the civil service commission com-mission to furnish us replacements,'' Mr. Christiansen said. The national defense training chsool now has an enrollment of more than 400, and has trained more than 3300 workers since it I began. ' |