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Show COMPLICATED wiring of electronic ediipnient at Ben Lomond High School is worked on by John Hutchin (seated) with the assistance of an instructor, Lloyd Hawks. JOBS WITH A FUTURE High Schools Put Youths to By FLORA OGAN A handsome youth just past his 16th birthday applied for work with the new job opportunity program just initiated by the Ogden City Schools. Through a stroke of luck, he could right now be engaged in -a learning program that could lead him into a highly profitable field, one for which there appears to be great opportunity. A director of the KOET television station telephoned Harold Dean, coordinator of the Neighborhood Youth Corps, to inquire E there was a youth he could —~dewn for a day or twe-te oa lawns and weed the flowerbeds around the Gibson street station. KEEN INTEREST While there, the youth expressed a keen interest in the intricate operation of the cameras. It was obvious to the station director the youth had ee potential. He is still employed at the station, not performing menial tasks, but as an apprentice technician. This youth is just one of 85 high school age boys and a employed through the Neighborhood Youth Corps, some earnings up to $1.25 an hour. Unlike and complementing the similar Ogden City-sponsored program, these employed students are not school drop-outs. Rather, they achieve well academically and devote the expected amae of time in SEcareonh routin Their renee begins after 2:30 in the afternoon when high school is dismissed for the day. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS Economic conditions at home provide * criteria by which a student is hi Qualifications are that the student be 16 or older; enrolled and in good standing at one of the two public high schools and be in real need of work. The family a is the final determining fact his income dan range from $1,540 annually with one in the family to $5,090 a year with seven in the family. Most of the students work about two hours a day in this diverse program “that isn’t all sweeping floors and raking an said. There’s real opportunity to develop a vocation if the student just applies himself—and most do, he said. For example, girls are in libraries typing cards, putting pockets in books, arranging displays. Others are doing clerical work in offices under the guidance of office secretaries. Another youth works with an electronics teacher, keeping tools in proper slots, tidying up the shop, thus freeing the teacher for important class preparation tasks. Boys working in custodial programs are under the direct supervision of the adult custodial forces with Mr. Dean in an advisory capacity. ART LAYOUT gets the attention of Nedra Eskelsen who works on the youth employment program two hours daily at the district school offices. _lassigned to the distriet art diOTHER JOBS — ‘ Other youths work in the cen- rector’s office. The youth employment protral offices, some building h gram began under Mr. Dean’s others repairing direction last June, shortly after e retired from the Bureau of Maonity of the students are Heslstion a for the opportunity to work. School officials have drawn Very few have proven unsatis- up a $78,000 budget to operate ey Mr. Dean said. the program with funds providhe jobs are not just in the ed by the federal government high schools, rather the youth- through the Office of Economic ful workers are oe to ev- Opportunity, directorate of Presery school in the district. ident Johnson’s anti-p ove ety One girl, deft at art work, is| program, se i |