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Show Navy Picks Neola Student For Officer Training Jay Horrocks, of Neola, has been selected by the Bureau of Naval Personnel as a candidate for the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The NROTC program gives each man selected four years of college education at any one of fifty-two colleges or universities at government expense. ex-pense. Selected candidates may take any course leading1 to a baccalaureate bac-calaureate or higher degree, but must include 24 semester hours of Naval Science, plus certain minimum requirements in mathematics, math-ematics, physics and English. NROTC candidates are also required re-quired to take two summer cruises crui-ses and one summer period' of aviation indoctrination, and up-1 on graduation must accept a commission in the Navy and serve from fifteen months to two years active service. Horrocks was one of 1786 selected se-lected from a total of 24,117 candidates can-didates throughout the United States who completed the Navy's aptitude test for the program. Jay will graduate from Roosevelt Roose-velt high school on May 26, then make application for admission to the school of his choice. He has served as studentbody president presi-dent at the local institution during dur-ing his senior year. |