Show UTAH SHOULD GIVE THE JOB CORPS A CHANCE PUBLISHER'S Last week in a news article concerning the Job Corps Camp we stated that an editorial which appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune some time ago and which published in the Uintah Basin Standard would be repeated again this week in the local as many questions and apprehensions have arisen concerning the possibility of establishing a camp in this 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 the Clearfield site wag for Several Including some local business although it Is not clear represented predominant local New Mexico and Arizona arc among 18 states slated for Job Corps camps subject to the approval of governors and other Community attitudes toward the program to give poor youngsters a chance to help themselves Is extremely Hence It is hoped the plan will bo thoroughly aired and understood before adverse action is Sargent director of the 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 region have asked to have a camp set YEARLY LOCAL TRADE Location of a camp near a community will bring about a year in business to local in addition to improving outdoor recreation facilities and 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 addicts or individuals with serious emotional or psychological problems will be Many will come from substandard it is and they will often suffer from educational Part of the camp objective is to help youngsters gain further vocational training and job experience which will brighten their prospects for becoming useful LIMIT FIRST 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 enrolled the first by the end of the second Youngsters will learn basic forest pest construction and other Like the old of the they will learn by doing work on construction projects in forests and but more emphasis will be put on instruction and job Camp teachers 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 administered by a minimum of 21 professional The work will be and wholesome in the but hard and Discipline will be Corps members will be paid a of up to for each month dollars of this may be allotted a dependent and the government will match such allotments with another The will receive a month medical and dental ONLY A BEGINNING The Job Corps is clearly a drop in the It is only 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 this Initial program which requires broad public and community acceptance may well determine the 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 a chance to prove locally as well as |