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Show 65 Coast Guardsmen To Be Recruited In July With the district quota rnini-mum rnini-mum set at 400 men' per month, United States coast guard officials offi-cials Wednesday announced preparations pre-parations were cdmiplete for an intensified recruiting idtrive throughout the four western states comprising' the Twelfth naval district. Assigned to the Salt Lake area office was a 65-.man July quota. The Salt Lake office at present pres-ent serves as tlhe piain recruiting station for the entire district which comprises the states of ; Colorado, Utah, Nevada and ; northern California. Naval dis-; dis-; trict headquarters are maintain ; ed at San Francisco. ! Lieutenant Kenneth C. Coler, l district recruiting officer, an-! an-! rotunced the increased quota iwas ordered to meet added wartime ! du'ies assigned the coast 'guard. Incliuidrd in T.hese added duties, Ihe said, was the -government order or-der to intensify the patrol along ! tlhe Atlantic coa't as a result of ' the apprehension of eight Nazi saboteurs by the federal bureau of investigation'. "The government has ordered a ; closer watch along the Atlantic seaboard," the veteran officer said. "That means swore boats and that means imbre men." Applicants for enlistment are accepted from 17 to 55 years of age. Applicants under 21 are required to have their -parents' consent. Lieutenant Coler pointed out that the service was particularly anxious to enlist men with experience ex-perience in diesel, gasoline or steam engineering. Men with this -experience are being enlist- ' ed as1 machinists' or motor machinists' ma-chinists' mates. "However, that doesn't mean that we have no place for imen !; without such experience," the officer said. "The coast guard has a place for every man who '. can pass the physical requirements." require-ments." '; He urged all interested men I'j'.o coract the district recruiting :' office at 518 Felt building Salt Lake City. |