Heppner, Ore., Gazette-Times, Thursday, Mar. 7, 1974
Page 7
YCC offers youth chance
to work in conservation
Morrow County young
people have a chance to do
"their thing" this summer and
get paid for it-by joining the
Youth Conservation Corps.
The Youth Conservation
Corps is a program designed
to provide summer employ
ment for young people inter
ested In natural environment.
Projects are developed a
rmind outdoor work programs
on public lands including, but
not limited to, such diverse
areas as fish hatcheries,
forests, parks and refuges.
Objectives are: (1) Provide
meaningful work in the field of
conservation; (2) Facilitate
work -learning experiences;
(3) Develop a social aware
ness among the youth of
varied economic, ethnic, and
racial backgrounds. These
objectives are accomplished
during the normal 40-hour
work week, as well as off-duty
hours.
Entering its fourth summer,
the YCC program has been
successful in fulfilling the
aforementioned objectives. As
a coed program, the enrollees
are supervised by a profes
sional coed staff. Enrollees
have participated in residen
tial (live and work at the job
site) and non-residential (live
at home when not working)
camps. The number of en
rollees employed per camp
ranges from 5 to 50, with most
averaging 24. Total national
enrollment was approximate
ly 3.5(H) per summer for the
first three years; some 7,000
will be employed this coming
summer, and the number is
exieeied to expand signifi
cantly in the future.
During the summer of 1H74,
seven residential and several
non-residential camps will be
operated in Oregon, with an
estimated enrollment of 255
youths. The residential camps
wjll be on the Ochoeo, Ml.
ilcnciiiund Umatilla National
Forests, Crater Lake National
Park, Malheur National Wild
life Hefuge, and a BLM seed
orchard near Colton.
All residential camps will
operate on a seven-days-per-w&LUasis
for a period of
eight consecutive weeks from
approximately mid-June to
ind August. Lodging (tents,
dormitories or cabins), meals
and laundry facilities are
provided at these sites. En
rollees are expected to proved
personal clothing adequate for
the camp climate. Enrollees
at these residential camps will
be paid $38.50 per week less
Social Security taxes. Meals
and lodging are furnished
free
Participants at the non
residential camps will work
five days per week on the job
site and will live at home. Pay
at these non-residential camps
will be $1.97 per hour less
Social Security and other
taxes. No meals or lodging
will be furnished. Location of
these work sites has not been
determined but will probably
be at several state parks
Work programs usually
center around jobs such as
construction and maintenance
of trails, recreational facili
ties, and fences; helping in
tree nursery operations; par
ticipating in range, timber
stand, wildlife and stream
improvements; etc. Environ
mental education aspects of
the program are developed
and presented as part of the
work effort when and as the
opportunity presents itself.
The YCC employs both boys
and girls (all Oregon camps
for 1974 will be coed) who are
at least 15 and not yet 19 years
of age. Youth of all social,
economic, racial and ethnic
backgrounds are eligible.
However, one must be a
resident of the state; only
Oregon youths will qualify for
camps in Oregon. The re
cruiting period for 1974 is from
March 1 to March 31, and will
be conducted state-wide under
the auspices of the Governor's
Commission on Youth. Ap
plications, which can be
obtained from school coun
selors or state employment
offices, should be completed
and mailed- directly to the
Governor's Commission on
Youth, 775 Court Street, Sa
lem, Oregon 97310.
Participants for the 1974
YCC program will be selected
Traffic offenders
can relax a bit
Oregon drivers who have
had thre or more major
traffic convictions in the last
five years and who may have
been worried that they would
soon be classified as habitual
traffic offenders under a 1973
law may breathe a little
easier.
Chester W. Ott, admini
strator of the Motor Vehicles
Division, said Thursday that
an attorney general's opinion
released this week means that
the division will consider only
the last major conviction prior
to Oct. 5. 1973, the effective
date of the law.
Ott said that means approx
imately 5,700 drivers the
division had identified as
possible habitual offenders
because they had three or
more major traffic convic
tions on their records will not
be in immediate danger of a 10
year license revocation unless
i they have been convicted of
another major offense since
Oct. 5 last year.
Major traffic offenses in
clude manslaughter or crim
inally negligent homicide with
a motor vehicle, driving under
the influence of liquor or
drugs, driving while sus
pended or revoked, reckless
driving, and hit and run in an
accident involving death or
injury.
Ott said he had requested
the attorney general's opinion
because of a serious problem
the division would have had in
complying with the law if all
prior major traffic offenses
had been counted in imple
menting the new law.
"The problem hinged on a
section of the law requiring
the division to immediately
notify a driver after he
receives a second major
traffic conviction and to offer
an opportunity for a meeting
to discuss his license status
under the habitual offender
act," Ott said.
"We could not have com
plied with the notice or
meeting requirement of the
law had all prior major
offenses been counted on the
effective date of the law," he
said.
The law also provides that
drivers with 20 or more
moving convictions, jncluding
major offenses, within the last
five years may be defined as
habitual offenders.
In these cases, the law does
not require the division to
notify the driver he is close to
being prosecuted as a habitual
offender, nor does it have to
offer a meeting with a DMV
representative.
For that reason, the opinion
said the division should count
11 moving convictions within
the preceding five years.
Oil said he does not yet
know how many Oregon
drivers have records with 20
or more moving convictions
within the last five years.
"A driver really has to be
trying hard lo get that many
moving convictions in that
period of time," he said. A
recent study of four-year
driving records indicated less
than 4 per cent of all drivers
had five or more convictions
of all types of their- records.
"That leads me to believe."
he said, "that the number with
20 or more must be quite
small."
in random drawings by the
commission in cooperation
with the U.S. Departments of
Agriculture and Interior,
whose decision will be final.
Efforts will be made to assign
youths to a camp nearest their
home, where practical. The
agency administering each
specific camp will contact the
applicant selected for that
camp by phone or mail before
May 3 to inform him or her of
the program for which he has
been selected, obtain a con
firmation for reporting to
work, and discuss other ap
propriate matters with the
enrollee and parents or guar
dians. Those interested in a chance
to participate in this sum
mer's YCC, may fill out the
application, obtain the nec
essary signatures and mail it
in before the March 31
deadline.
70-mile
winds a
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Thursday night winds that
attained a velocity of up to 70
miles per hour caused little
damage in Morrow County.
Three small trees were
uprooted at the courthouse but
no other damage has been
reported.
Columbia Basin Electric
reported no outages during the
gale winds and received only
phone call from a concerned
citizen regarding a tree lean
ing against a power pole.
The Morrow County Road
Department said it had no
knowledge of any damage to
roadways caused by falling
trees in the area.
If any damage was caused
in the area, it was not
reported. Residents feel the
damage was "too minute" to
report, and high winds are
expected al this time of year.
Fashioned after other concepts of the "open university" this external
degree program has been proposad as a naeded program for Oregon. People
with family responsibilities andor commitments find themselves unable to
attend a residential campus to gain a baccalaureate degree. The main thrust
of the proposed external degree program is in the area of non-traditional ex
periences for academic credit.
The degree in General Studies would be awarded by the Oregon State System
of Higher Education. . College credits could be assigned for advanced place
ment through CLEP (College Level Examination Programs), television courses,
earlier college credits, independent study, work experience, and travel. The
requirement pattern would be set up by the State Board of Higher Education,
and the Division of Continuing Education would assist in implementing the
program.
A major aspect of the external degree program is a proposed advisory and
personal contact service to be performed by the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
UNIVERSITY U10CTEN and the OREGON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. AAUUJ members, librarians,
and others contacted by AAIMJ branches in the forty-two communities where they
function, would serve as program advisers (or "mentors") in study and resource
centers throughout the state, since lack of personal contact has been identi
fied 89 one key to the failure of independent study.
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Would you want a BA or BS degree if you could achieve one without having to
spend time on a university or cjllego campu3?
If so, AAUUI's External Degree Study Comriittse would like to hear from you.
mail this coupon to: Donna Ifiaddish, 2064 Vicksburg Ave., Bend, Oregon 97701
Chairperson, Oregon External Degree Study Committee
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