Show Casually Observing with Cliff 1 Utah Should Give The Job Corps A Chance EDITOR'S Last week the Uintah Basin Standard published a story reporting that the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce had approved a resolution supporting action taken recently by the Ute Tribal Committee and the Bureau of Indian Affairs proposing that a Job Corps Youth Camp be established in this The Tribal Committee's decision was based on the proposition that Uintah Basin who could fall into the category of be given first chance before other youth are into the I PERSONALLY as expressed by the Salt Lake Tribune in a recent that the idea should be given an honest chance for before it is The Tribune editorial adds clarity to the proposed I am using it as this week's in hopes some unfounded rumors and opinions expressed be SHOULD GIVE JOB CORPS A The old Naval Supply Depot at now used primarily for has been dropped as a site for a Jobs Corps camp and other Utah locations for the facility are under The decision against the Clearfield site was for several including some local business although It Is not clear this represented predominant local New Mexico and Arizona are among 18 states slated for Job camps subject to the approval of governors and other Community attitudes toward the program to give poor youngsters a cliance to help Is extremely Hence it is hoped the plan will be aired and understood before adverse action is Sargent director of Uie Office of Economic has stressed that Job Corps installations will not be imposed where they are not And for every reluctant community so half a dozen in the same have asked to have a camp set YEARLY LOCAL TRADE Location of a camp near a community vill bring about a year in business to local merchants' in addition to improving outdoor recreation facilities aiding land Partly because of faulty misconceptions about the camps have run A frequent one is that trainees are delinquent hoodlums from big But the Office of Economic Opportunity insists no criminals addicts or Individuals with serious emotional or psychological problems will be Many will come from substandard Is and they will often suffer from educational Part of the camp objective is to help youngsters gain further vocational training job experience which will brighten their prospects for becoming useful LIMIT YEAR The ultimate target is to help a million young people who have not completed high school and who have difficulty finding Only will be by the end of the second Youngsters will learn basic forest pest construction and other Like the of the they will learn by on conservation projects In forests and but more emphasis- will he put on instruction and job Camp and volunteers will form a kind of domestic peace corps called VISTA in Service to HARD STRICT CONTROL In addition to stressing basic writing and the VISTA volunteers will work closely with the youths in physical personal hygiene and proper A Job Corps camp of will be a minimum of 21 professional The work will and wholesome in the but hard and Discipline will be Corps members will be paid of up to for each month Twenty-five dollars' of tills may be allotted a dependent the government will match such allotments another The trainees will receive a month medical and dental f. ONLY A The Job Corps Is clearly a drop in the It is only l a partial answer to the nation's mammoth school dropout and youth unemployment and stagnation It is a a pilot program to conserve human beings as well as trees and Success of tills Initial program which requires broad public and community acceptance may well determine corps' and the rehabilitation of many thousands of disadvantaged Utah and the nation have much to gain from a successful Job Corps It should be given chance to prove locally as well as 1 1 |