Show NO LONGER 0 1 I vet students replace navy boots FARRAGUT IDAHO in an attempt to crack the national bottleneck in educational facilities particularly ticul arly for ex GIs G I 1 s education hun bun gry veterans have opened their own college here at the site of the sprawling naval training station here the veterans opened a privately operated nonprofit co educational coeducational college and technical institute this month when tile the navy declared the huge training station surplus veterans organizations went into immediate imm ed late action they saw the stations vast dormitories apartments classrooms laboratories machine shops and recreational facilities as the answer to two major veterans problems lack of educational facilities and housing accommodations while attending school raise fund funa barked by local business men encouraged couri cou raged ged by the united states de pait ment of education and other federal agencies veterans organizations in norh idaho and eastern washington formed a private nonprofit corporation they called it farragut college and technical institute sti tute inc and set out to raise an initial operating fund of veterans groups plunked flunked down sums like and 15 to start the ball rolling private clubs and individual citizens came across the veterans hired a college president dr joseph H kusner jor formerly merly of florida who is a veteran he rounded up a faculty the school was chartered by the state of idaho and acceptable credits were assured federal problems of acquiring the property were hurdled in picturesque country farragut where hundreds 0 of thousands of united stated naval men were trained during the war is on the shores ot of lake pend oreille a picturesque spot in the heart of north timber and lake country it has ample facilities for students including housing for or single students married students and faculty courses in the liberal arts and in the technical and trade fields will be taught by streamlined methods |