1941 Military News
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FOR DEFENSEAT THE CCC CAMP
Great Demand for Course
Results in Study After
Regular WorkCo. 1797 CCC, Seneca which has long prepared youths so that army life would not be an abrupt step, this week joined the more formal national program for defense schooling by setting up a special defense course in machine shop work.
The first class was held Tuesday night, following approval of the camp’s arrangement for the school. Mr. Wilson, state director of vocational education, was at the camp Monday.
The young men who are taking the course are giving directly of their time. They get no time from their regular day’s work. Following evening mess, they work at the shop four hours straight, from 5:30 to 9:30, five nights a week. The course will continue approximately 18 weeks.
It is expected by the end of the training that the men will have developed enough proficiency that they will be sought by defense industries. The CCC provides an honorable discharge for employment.
The course was organized for a maximum of 15 men and that number is enrolled. The opportunity was in great demand. Those who were selected for the school are men who have been with the C’s longest. For one thing, new men in the C’s in this regular corps area have a regular study program to handle without the defense schooling. They are required to take at least four subjects in an orientation process.
Instructor of the defense school is Harold Snyder, SCS mechanic. Supervisor is the camp educational adviser, Mr. Duncan. The Seneca school acts as nominal sponsor.
The camp here rates as the first in the state to have a project of its kind. Neodesha camp has a comparable opportunity, b1ut more in connection with the school system. The camp at Burlington has its own set-up, but the course is in radio.
- Courier Tribune (Seneca, KS) 17 April 1941, page 1. ↩︎