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Show No doubt every effort will be made by the department to give the returning veterans the training and job opportunities they want and deserve. Spotlighting I UTAH WOULD CURB ACCIDENTS Joe Bergin, state aeronautics director, has recommended sweeping changes in civil aeronautics aero-nautics regulations to combat Utah's rising private plane accident ac-cident rate. "It requires more training to become a proficient flyer in Utah's high mountainous country, coun-try, than in level sections of the nation," declares Mr. Bergin. Bergin's action followed the last serious private plane accident when pilot Glade A. Peterson was lost for 36 hours in freezing freez-ing weather before being found crashed and nearly dead in the tops of the Manti mountains. In the meantime, Utah schoolmen school-men were studying the necessity of directing teachers in building build-ing up an awareness in their students of the importance of aircraft in the world today as well as the future. As a probable prob-able result aviation courses will be mapped, for schools in the near future- TURKEY PRODUCTION UP Six years ago, Utah was 15th in the national production of turkeys. At this writing the state ranks sixth which places her among the first ten producers. produc-ers. Utah's turkey production has jumped 164 per cen( in the past six years which means the state's production of the famous Thanksgiving fowl has climbed from practically the bottom of the list until now we raise 4 per cent of the turkey's grown in the United States. In the development of quality it has moved even "further afield. GOOD NEWS FOR VETS The on-the-job., training program pro-gram for returning veterans under un-der the sponsorship of the State Department of Public Instruction Instruc-tion is proving a . marvelous benefit to all participating. Seven Sev-en hundred business establishments establish-ments in Utah have been approved ap-proved by the. Department for on-the-job training and others are being approved at the rate of 25 , a week. Most veterans want to establish themselves as quickly as possible in a job where they can make a decent, living and support a family and on-the-job training offers tne man without any spec'al trade or business experience the best chance to thus establish himself. him-self. It is estimated by the State Department of Public Instruc- tion that at least 12,000 veter-, veter-, ans will want such 'training. |
