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Here’s What Program Is All About
Job Corps Quota Lifted,
Office Here Seeks Trainees
The Job Corps gives opportun
lty to young men and women
who do not have a high school
• education or an applicable skill,
according to S. D. Dell of the
Georgia State Empoyment Ser
vice here.
The Job Corps is a voluntary
national residential training pro
gram for out-of-school, out-cf
work, underpriviledged young
men and women.
Applicants for the program
must be between the ages of 16
and 21 and must have been a
school dropout for three mon
ths or more, be unable to find
or hold an adequate Job and
need a change of environment
'in order to become useful and
productive citizens.
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
I Pity Us-Us Bale Toters
And Form Filler-Outers
BY BRUCE BIOSSAT
'M Newspaper Washington Correspondent
Enterprise Assn.
Wnile the ... Americanization .... of . WASHINGTON (NEA)
apace, the signs multiply that this Europe is reported going on
ways, being Europeanized. country is, in significant
Europeans are taking up increasingly with the motor car,
I the electronic household gadget, commercial-style television,
U.S. theater and music. American slang expressions are find
ing their way intact into French, German and other conti
I cental languages.
But if there are those who resent this American economic
;and cultural kind invasion of Europe, they may be able to enjoy a
• | curious of revenge.
i„ Continental European lands are engulfed in a prolifera
;tion of paper. The European’s day is filled with the filling out
forms. In Austria last autumn, this reporter had to fill out
an few 11-inch-long days pink sheet just to reserve a theater ticket a
in advance.
These countries are in the grip of a rigid, encompassing
bureaucracy have free choice which is both governmental and corporate. They
at the polls, but no free choice to refuse
compliance with the endless demands of an overformalized
system.
THE UNITED STATES, of course, is neither consciously
copying unwelcome Europe’s rigid ways nor being forced to accept them
countless as places, imports. that But it is a fact, observable daily in
avalanche and the bureaucratic we are slowly chaos succumbing to the paper
to that seems inescapably
accompany it.
The sign-up forms for Medicare are merely the latest inun
dation. In the name of simplicity, tax forms and toe regula
tions they reflect seem to get worse and worse.
IT SHOULD NOT BE IMAGINED that government has some
sort of monopoly. Corporate America today is hardly less the
bureaucratic iceberg, against which, all too often, toe citizen
chips in vain with his little ice pick.
Buy for a house, seek adequate business and residential park
* ing your try car, change get a the telephone, delivery deal with an insurance
company, to of your newspaper, and
you will find that government has plenty of company.
Just in the past few months, this reporter has listened to
endless accounts of corporate inefficiency, suggesting at times
that not even toe simplest transaction or performance of
service can be brought off cleanly—without confusion.
I The words that assault our ears daily tell us we are ap
proaching the ease of fingertip control in nearly every field!
of endeavor. But when toe finger touches the button and ]
I nothing toe tangle happens, of mislaid then repair toe shiny panel comes down—to reveal of!
quick action, orders, misleading assurances
and how much conflicting it will cost. assertions of what needs to be done
i
The favored remedy today is to enact another law giving
the citizen the right to fill out a complaint form. There is
only ment one bureaucrat, trouble: That toe tosses pioneer the who burden back to toe
brother everything he knows about delays, taught imprecise his
answers
[ and scribbling on paper.
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Dell said high school graduat
es are accepted for the program
if they are unable to find and
hold an adequate job.
Job Corps applicants are sc
reened and tested at the Geor
gia State Employment Service
office here by Dell. Qualified ap
plicants are notified. Their re
cords are checked with law en
forcement officials and applica
tions sent to Atlanta.
Those accepted for the pro
gram leave within about 10 days
after they are screened and tes
ted.
Prom Griffin, applicants are
sent to Atlanta by bus. They
board a plane and are sent to
one of several centers through
out the United States.
On arrival at the centers, the
Job Corpsmen are fitted with
clothing head to foot.
Job Corpsmen share a room
with from two to three other
people.
Jobs done by the corpsmen
are part of their training. These
include automobile mechanics,
forestry work, metal work, cook
ing, welding, business machine
operations and many others.
The Job Corpsman does not
work all the time. Part of his
time is spent in the classroom.
Each corpsman is paid $30
each month to spend as he pl
eases. He receives a terminal
allowance of $50 per month. The
terminal allowance is banked
trnd paid to the corpsmen at the
end of his training.
An enrollee may allot up to
$25 per month of his terminal
allowance to a qualified depen
dent. Each month, the Job Corps
will match the sum with an eq
ual amount.
Two types of centers are ope
rated by the Job Corps, Conser
vation Centers and Urban Cen
ters. Work done by the corps
men in the Conservation Cen
ters is for the Forestry Service
and the National Park Service.
Urban enters are sponsored by
different dusiness and ta
dustries.
Job Corps has adopted techni
ques and materials to provide a
special program of basic educa
tion for the young men and wo
men who have received little
benefit from conventional sc
hooling. The techniques include
self-taught courses in mathema
tics, reading and other basic
skills.
Extra-curricular activities In
centers include sports, arts,
crafts, music, drama and pub
lication of center newspapers.
Most young men and women
complete the training program
in a year. A corps enrollee may
spend a maximum of two years
at a center.
When completed with the pro
gram, enrollees are referred to
the employment service office
in the area in which they wish
to work. The service in turn tr
ies to find them a job.
Enrollees are not allowed to
leave centers indiscriminately.
They are issued occasional pass
es to visit nearby communities
and are given periodic leaves or
longer trips.
The goal of the Job Corps Is
to prepare young men and wo
men for Jobs in which they can
eam a living.
Dell said the quota of 26 men
for the Griffin area for April had
been lifted and that he has been
Instructed to enlist an unlimi
ted number of trainees for the
program before May 7.
He said draft rejectees are
being accepted if they do not
have physical or mental im
pairments. Young men and wo
men with limited handicaps are
accepted.
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MULE FAILS
LANDER, Wyo. (UPI) —The
army has turned down “Sage
brush Sally” for duty in Viet
Nam.
Sally, a Wyoming mule was
to replace “Maggie,” another
mule shot by an Army sentry
when he did not answer his
challenge.
But the Wyoming Air Nation
al Guard said it could airlift
only priority cargo to Viet Nam,
and a mule wouldn’t qualify.
FAMILY TOWN
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Colo.
(UPI) —When Prospect Heights
Mayor Louis A. Pierce meets
with the town council, it’s like
a family reunion.
Town trustees are brothers
Frank and Louis Adamic and
their wives and To-y Strainer
and his wife Mildred. Mildred
Pierce, wife of the mayor, is
the town clerk.
Griffin Daily News
Russell Calls Bomb
Shortage 'Serious’
ATLANTA (UPI)—Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell, D-Ga., has ex
pressed surprise at a Defense
Department announcement of a
shortage of bombs in Viet Nam.
“This could be serious,” Rus
sell said Monday. “It is wrong
for a country as prosperous as
ours to have shortages of any
kind.”
The Defense Department said
Monday that civil disorders in
Viet Nam had resulted in a
shortage of bombs and that this
led to a reduction of air opera
tions against the Viet Cong. As
sistant Defense Secretary Ar
thur Sylvester said the disturb
ances at Danang had resulted
in the diversion of ships to oth
er unloading points, causing a
problem in distribution of
bombs.
Russell said he was assured
last week by Secretary of De
fense Robert McNamara and
others in the Defense Depart
ment that the United States
had adequate ammunition of
every kind in Viet Nam.
“They said that temporary
shortages had been covered,”
Russell added.
The Georgia senator, in an
informal session with newsmen,
also said he had no definite
views on South Vietnam’s Pre
mier Nguyen Cao Ky, who has
been the target of demonstra
tions by Buddhists who have
vowed to overthrow his govern
ment. Russell did say that ap
parently President Johnson was
committed to Ky and a stable
government was necessary for
progress in Viet Nam.
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Mrs. Bowen Attends
Planning Conference
Mrs. Elizabeth Bowen recent
ly attended the pre-planning con
ference for staff members of the
1966 Governor’s Honors program'
in Macon. Mrs. Bowen has ser
ved as counselor for the State
Department of Education’s eight
weeks summer program for gif
students since its beginning
in 1964. Mrs. Bowen will return
this summer as head of the gui
dance staff.
She also attended the annual
convention of the American Per
sonnel and Guidance Associa
tion, which convened in Wash
ington, D. C., this week. Mrs.
Bowen is a counselor with the
Clayton County School System.
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