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2 B THURSDAY. APRIL 11. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEJFORD. OREGON Oregon Said Making Only Modest Use of Retraining Program TO SIGN AGREEMENTS Portland JtJfs- Agreements covering arrangements to mar ket output of 800,000 kilo watts of electrical power from the nuclear power plant at Hanford, Wash., will be sign ed here Friday. Court Petitioned To Halt Picketing Portland-fUPT-The National Labor Relations board has petitioned Federal Court for a temporary injunction seek ing to halt picketing by Team sters Local 324, Salem, of grocery stores in the Salem and Lebanon areas. Federal Judge Gus Solomon took the petition under ad visement. The state then notifies the the Area Redevolpment Ad as distressed areas. The to industrial jobs such training hundreds of workers for everything from salesmen and vine pruners to fry cooks and sewing machine oper ators. The other Northwest states, like Oregon, have made little use of the program to date. BT ROBERT SMITH Mill Tribun. Washington Correspondent U.S. Office of Education, which sends out its represen tative to the state capital to check out the plan. His ap proval is all that is needed. Limited To Counties A similar program under ministration requires applica tions for training courses to be sent to Washington, where they are processed and de cided on. This agency's pro grams are limited to counties which have been designated Grants Pass project is in this category. Projects approved in other states reveal a wide variety of occupations, from white col lar jobs as typists, stenogra phers and accounting clerks, welders, electricians and op erators of various machines. Maine is training men for various skills needed In its shoe industry. Michigan is training men for the auto in dustry, and California is WHEELCHAIRS for RENT at A to Z Rental 1213 N. liveni. 771474 Wiihlngton (Special) - Ore gon has made only modest use Remove rubber marks on wooden floors with naphtha or paint thinner. of tne Kennedy Aamuiuuv 1 1 o n s man' power re training pro NO MONEY DOWN ON CREDIT AT WARDS JUST SAY "CHARGE IT!" gram in In first year of operation. The n r n a r a m EEL m 1 authorized by Congress last summer to re train u n e m ..j n nven Dei enna W V1A1H tob SkillS. tl38 placed 25,300 persons thus far In SOU training programs virtually all the states at a cost of over f 13 million. Oregon thus far has re ceived approval of three i..!n;n. nrntfrnms involving a total of 215 persons, according to reports issued Dy me umce of Education In the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare. One program involved training 129 forester aides. This Is being handled by Eu gene Technical - Vocational School, Eugene; Central Ore gon college, Bend; Clatsop college, Astoria; Blue Moun tain Community college, Pen dleton; and South Western rwimn rnllcee. North Bend. Each school is taking 25 train ees. Estimated maintenance and operational cost of this program is $142,337 and the capital outlay $48,954. Thn Kpcond nioicct was as .-., in ftranln Pass School District for training 50 elec tronics assemblers at an esti mated cost of $3,027. Must Laarn Secrets The third program was (o train 40 "formal waiters in Portland at a cost of $5,000. A spokesman for HEW ex plained that this designation referred to waiters who are employed in the higher class restaurants and must learn the trade secrets associated with use of white linens, wine (lasses and the works. "Anyone may be able to sling huh," the spokesman added, "but we've had quite a demand for trained waiters, especially in the Islands (Ha waii and Puerto Rico) where tourist trade is heavy." The length of training courses varies from three weeks to a year, depending on the difficulty uf the new skill being taught. The aver age course lasts 25 weeks. Creation of a rctratnlnc program is based on requcats irom tne states wnicn arc up- nrnucrf hv f.rinral nffiei:il- Under the Manpower Devel opment and training act, it worxs like tnis: The state director of em ployment security surveys the local labor market to see what jobs are open for trained Workers, or in which there Is a reasonable expectation of Jobs' being available for newly trained workers. He then screens and tests applicants for a program and asks the stale director of vocational education to set up a training program in a nearby school. State Power Rights Claimed Too Strong Salem - lUni - Private power officials say a section on state power rights In a proposed new constitution is too strong. John Y. Lansing of Pacific Power ,'ind Light Co. testified before the House and Senate Committees on Constitutional Revision. He asked (or rcstor atlon of the terms of the pow er section In the present state constitution. Lansing said the present constitution sets out t h e state's rights Involving "wa ter" power. But he snid the new constitution would give the stale Hie right to control, use, distribute and sell elec tric energy produced "by any method." Lansing said those words could authorize the state to go into the nuclear power busi ness. He said votes over the years have indicated the peo ple don't want the section broadened in that fashion. Portland Students Request Equality Portland iVPI- Students at Portland State College Tues day night confronted a legis latlve subcommittee with petition signed by half (lie college's students asking (or "equality in education." Senior Peter Jrssrn, Port land, presented the petition to the Ways and Means Subcom mittee on Education which visited the school and the Uni versity of Oregon Medical School The students said they be lieve (he legislature is plan ning to cut back PSC's operat ing budget and raise student fees Jessen termed PSC's funds a "poverty budget." "Students do not mind pay ing a fair tuition Bui they do not want to pay bit college faes for small college bene-1 fits." Jessen said. Run monBy saver -I; ' A ' 'B B HI SHBjjJi ep2rREe. r 1 gaJBJJBJBwEJJ fa , ejRjvB IPsPKnTflT.K NrF pari w BtHMBf Bp 'BSSSSSW' ejBBBsaaee aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa -bbbbbbb- iaaaaaj bbbbbbbbbj, aaaaaaaaaai aaaaaaaw Kiu, "jSl ' J... ' Ji - .. ',' ... .. .3 Ui Ward credit plant. 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