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By SYLVIA PORTER
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ACTION DELAYED Senate members of the Joint Com
mittee on Atomic Energy have put off action on President
Kennedy's nomination of John G. Palfrey, left, and James
T. Ramey to be members of the Atomic Energy Commission.
The decision to delay action came after a brief public hear
ing at which the two appointees, both veterans in the com
paratively new field of atomic energy, appeared. (UPI)
Exclusive Power
Authority Sought
Salem (UPIi Douglas Elec
tric Cooperative is seeking ex
clusive authority to operate in
areas it presently serves in
Douglas, Lane and Curry
counties.
In a request to the public
utility commissioner, the coop
also asks for exclusive rights
in two areas of Lane and
Douglas counties that present
ly are unserved by any elec
tric utility.
Largest communities within
the coop's service area are
Scottsburg, Yoncalla and Elk
ton. The application excludes
the city of Drain which has
Its own municipal electric
system.
The coop is the ninth of
federally financed electric co
operatives to apply for certi
fication of serving areas under
the law passed in 1061.
Five Fires Reported on
State Protected Land
By Uniled Presi International
State officials reported five
fires, the largest covering 70
acres in Wasco county, on
state-protecled lands Monday.
The 70-acre blaze northeast
of Friend in Wasco county
was believed started by a
locking brake on a combine
harvester. The fire escaped
from a wheat field into pine
reproduction and scrub oak.
The others were small
blazes.
Vancouver Plans Bond
Issue for City Hall
Vancouver, Wash. -IlIPIl-Tbe
Vancouver City Council an
nounced Tuesday it will put
a hond issue for a new city
hall on the November ballot.
The hall would cost some $1.5
million.
X15 Pioneers
Reentry Technique
Edwards AFB, Calif.-UIPN-Test
pilot Joe Walker. 41,
pioneered a new reentry tech
nique Tuesday in a flight with
the rocket plane XI 5.
The new technique will en
able future winged space
craft to plunge back into the
earth's atmosphere with great
er control.
Walker carried it out by
using "pitch angle" instru
ments for the first time dur
ing reentry. These instru
ments functioned off a com
plex gyro system inside the
XI3. They gave Walker a
consistently accurate fix be
tween the X15 and earth.
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PHONY TRADE SCHOOL RACKET REVIVES
The first faint signs are emerging of the revival nf an
other despicable consumer racket in the U.S. this one in
volving phony trade schools cashing in on the widespread
publicity about the need for retraining our unemployed and
the eagerness of both young uneducated and older displaced
workers to learn skills to fit them for jobs.
All consumer swindles are revolting and one reason is
that they hit hardest at the ignorant and poor, those least
able to afford to lose the money and time. This racket de
serves the description.
It thrived mightily after World War II when under the
GI Bill, armies of veterans flocked to private trade schools to
get training for jobs. It was cleaned up after several major
scandals and now the National Council of Home Study
Schools in Washington helps with self-policing of its members.
But the threat of a rebirth of the racket is inherent in the
passage of the historic Manpower Training Act of 1062,
under which the U. S. Government will start spending $435
million over a three-year period to train the unemployed
for jobs which surveys will indicate are available (will start
spending the funds and getting the program off the ground,
that is, as soon as Congress votes the money ordered for
the program).
So far, the problem ii not "great." tayi Tom Robert of
the Association of Belter Business Bureaus. It's mainly in
the home study area and in pulp magazine ads which get
kids to subscribe for courses for which they are not qauli
field or which promise unrealistic job results.
But Roberts adds that when the "talk about retraining"
under the new law becomes action, the racket well may
spread and there are enough isolated cases of frauds turn
ing up now to flash a warning to government officials in
charge of the law to put in safeguards from the start.
In New York, for instance, Attorney General Lefkowitz
already calls the schools "a major consumer racket," is
checking "electronic data processing" schools which promise
S20,000-a-year jobs to graduates.
In Chicago, Mrs. Pauline A. Laudenslager, school division
head of the Chicago Better Business Bureau, says "the big
gest offense is in practical nursing." While licenses ean be
obtained only after the Board of Education's one-year course,
some schools 'graduate' nurses after a couple of months. The
"graduates' then find they can get jobs only as nurses aides,
for which they could have been trained free by the Red
Cross. Charm schools which offer airline hostess training to
girls who could not possibly qualify for the hostess jobs
are a nagging swindle too.
In California and Ohio recently, authorities also have
cracked down on private trade schools deliberately mislead
ing applicants into paying for inadequate training or for
training for non-existent jobs.
The plain fact is that although some states effectively
regulate private schools, others do not. What, then, are
safeguards the U. S. government is proposing to help
states evaluate private trade schools before they become
part of the Federal Manpower Training Program?
The schools will have to submit documentary proof of
their accreditation status to an appropriate state body (The
Slate Employment Security Agencies and the State Boards
for Vocational Education will be in charge of the program,'
a built-in protection in itself). They'll have to submit proof
of their job placement records to indicate the value of their
training courses. Their teachers will have to meet state
standards, meaning no so-called expert can be pulled in to
"teach." Their courses will have to be passed by state educa
tion boards and most importantly, measured against knowl
edge of what skills are required for specific jobs found to be
available. They'll have to open to inspection by state ex
perts their facilities and financial records.
The safeguards being prepared appear reassuring but
still the danger that the Manpower Act will spur the phonies
into action is clear.
Even though the vast majority of private trade schools
are entirely legitimate, it's only common sense to check any
school with a state regulatory or policing agency before
you sign up for training.
When and as the manpower training program gets un-,
der way, it's only common sense to go to your State Employ-'
ment office, find out if you're eligible and for what benefits, ,
then be guided from there.
It's bad enough to be jobless. To be jobless and then
swindled is compounding misery.
Units Take 7,101 X-Rays in County j
A total of 7,701 chest X-rays
was taken in Jackson county
during the month of June by
the mobile X-ray units.
The units are financed in
a three way operation. The
units and technicians are fi
nanced by the Oregon stale
Board of Health which is
tax supported. The Jackson
County Tuberculosis and
Health association furnished
all educational materials,
worked out schedule arrange
ments, recruited volunteer
workers and furnished help
in securing locations for the
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is carrying all the follow up i f ,
program. Another report will
be published when pathology
is completed.
Through meetings in the
winter and early spring the
JCTHA decided it advisable
that a mobile chest X-ray unit
visit the county. Through a
request to the Jackson Coun
ty Health department for such
a program, the Oregon State
Board of Health agreed to
send units to Jackson county
and sent personnel to help
with planning.
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