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Show High School Boys To Work At Supply Depot in Ogden Approximately 200 boys from Lcgan, North Cache, South Cache, j Bear Rixer and Box Elder high schools have signed up for sum. mer work at the Utah Army Service Forces depot in Ogden under a unique program worked out by the labor resources committee com-mittee of the Logan chamber of commerce, H. B. Hunsaker, chairman chair-man reported today. The boys, who will live in the civilian dormitories at the depot, will be returned to their respective counties immediately if the farm labor situation becomes serious, he explained. Besides work at the depot, it also will provide an organized crew that can move in to fields and complete any type of job efficiently and in a hurry he said. Transportation will be provided on Monday mornings and the workers will remain at the camp until Saturday afternoons, when they will return home for Sunday, he explained. They will eat at the depot cafeterias and use recreation re-creation facilities there. ' It is expected they will set up ' their own Softball and other athletic ath-letic teams for- inter-repot competition, com-petition, and will enjoy all privileges priv-ileges accorded to regular civilian employes there. The workers will be paid pre- vailing depot wages for classified laborers, with a minimum of 71 cents per hour plus overtime pay Physical examinations will be necessary, and boys who are not capable of doing fairly hard work cannot be included in the program, pro-gram, he said. Mr. Hunsaker pointed out that the organization was unipque In the state, as no other youth group has been formulated to work in war industries. C. D. McBride will be oreman of workers, with a number of junior foremen to be named later, j and Harold M. Peterson will be supervisor of the camp. Both men i are members of the Logan Senior ' high school faculty. ! Mr. Hunsaker said that openings open-ings will exist for workers, and invited interested boys to contact hi mfor applications and process-1 ing. |