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From: "Jim Laird" <>
Subject: Article: Youth Training For Defense: Dec. 18, 1941..
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 18:10:46 -0400

The Oskaloosa Independent
Thursday
December 18, 1941

Youth Training For Defense
The National Defense act has made it possible to set up local defense schools whereby rural and non-rural youth between the ages of 17 and 25 years, inclusive, may be offered defense training courses under the supervision of trained instructor, according to Warren C. Teel, County Agent. Course offered may include (a) automobile, tractor and truck repair; (b) general metal work; (c) carpentery and (d) elementary electricity.
The courses will be practical in nature and taught by a skilled tradesman, a man who has had at least three years experience in his trade and who has the respect and confidence of other mechanics in his community doing work of a like nature. Each of these courses will be especially useful to any boy who reamins on the farm or who will go to the farm after the war is over. Any one of these courses well mastered by any boy who must go into the Army will be useful to him in competing with young men coming out of the larger trade schools and who go into the Army. In fact, this is the major objective of this training program.
Boys, who are eligible for the training, are urged to make their interest known by notifying the County agent or local school principal. If interest is great enough, local schools will be set up.

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