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Show Legion To Sponsor Training Course At Camp Williams A two weeks training school in Utah state civics, sponsored by the American Legion, will be held at Camp Williams, from July 5 through July 19. The training school will be held for boys, and each Legion post in Utah will be given a quota of one boy for every twenty members or fraction thereof, based on the highest membership for either 1946 or 1947, according to word received by Basin Post No. 64 from the Legion's Departmental Adjutant. x- '" ' Boys to be selected and recommended recom-mended for attendance at the school must be between 16 years and 19 years of age, and have an education equivalent to a junior or senior in high school. The registration fee for the two weeks training in Utah civics will be $25 per student, paid by the person or organization sponsoring spon-soring the boy. Legionnaires in charge of the activity for Roosevelt are: Bob Andrews, chairman; Murel Benson, Ben-son, Ray Jordan and Louis Cor-bridge. Cor-bridge. The selection of a boy to attend at-tend the Camp Williams session will not be limited to the American Ameri-can Legion, the committee ' announced. an-nounced. Civic clubs or other groups, may recommend and select se-lect a student for attendance at the school, and locally the committee com-mittee plans to encourage other organizations to participate by naming a qualified boy to attend the training school. Officers of Basin Post No. 64, in announcing the training course to be held at Camp Williams, Wil-liams, also reminded high school students and teachers that the district finals for the Legion's annual oratorical contest have been scheduled for March 29 in the American Legion barracks. |