The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-28
Many Youths
Being Helped
ByNYA!Money
1855 Students i'm Montana
Schools and Colleges
Receiving Aid.
RECIPIENTS WORK AT
VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS

BUIIE.-Ihe National Youth Al
ministration is assisting 1855 young
men and women to pursue their
studies in Montana high schools and
colleges, according to reports COM
piled in the office of j. B. Love,
state youth administrator, at the
end of the second month of the
current school year.
The end of the second month
does not ordinarily see the peak of
youth employment on the student
aid program, the administrator ex-
planned This years figure shows
only slight increase over the total
of 1888 for the same period last
year. Early reports from the NYA's
Washington office, Mr.. Love said,
indicate a record number Of over
100000 young persons assisted
throughout the United States by the
NYA student-aid program. The ma
tional figure is reported to be the
highest for any single year since
establishment of the National Youth
Administration.
AT the end of the second month,
2,002 students were receiving NYA
assistance in l89 public high schools
in Montana. One hundred and one
students were employed in the stu
dent-aid program in l3 parochial
schools, and 752 students were do
ing part-time work on NYA in II
colleges and junior colleges. Wash
ington reports show national total
of $4,000 elementary and high
school students receiving NYA aid,
Mr.. Love said.
Montana State University at Mis-
soula had 255 students on the NYA
student-aid program at the end of
the second month, the State College
at Bozeman, 400; the State Normal
School at Dillon, rs; the School OF
Mines at Butte, AZ; Northern Mon
tana College at Havre, So; Eastern
Montana Normal School at Billings,
"A; Billings Polytechnic, A; the Col
lege of Great Falls, 81; Great Falls
Junior College, 6; Custer County
Junior College at Miles City, 4; and
Carroll College at Helena, IL. Fig
ures from the Washington office
show national total of 100000
college and graduate students as
sisted by NYA.
Students receiving NYA assistance
in high school earn minimum of So
a month. Ffhe minimum IS set at So.
For college students, the maximum
is $40, and the minimum $40; and
for graduate students the maximum
is $50 and the minimum $40. A low
administrative cost permits IS cents
out of every dollar appropriated by
Congress for NYA to 60 to the youth
in wages, Mr.. Love pointed out.
Each educational institution plans
its own work and selects the stu
dents who are to receive NYA jobs,
the administrator said The basis
for assignment is need and scholas-
tic ability. The extent to which
schools and colleges have made
these standards effective can be
seen from reports which show that
during the past school year NYA
students throughout the United
States came from families having
average annual incomes of $667, and
90 per cent ranked in the upper
one-fourth of their classes he point
ed out.
Students in Montana schools and
colleges who are receiving NYA as
sistance do work that includes re-
search and surveys, statistics, COM
munity service, ground and build
ing maintenance, departmental serv-
ice, library service, clerical work
and construction. No work is per-
formed which would displace any
regular employee. Insofar as pos
sible, stulents are assigned jobs rel
alive to their chosen field of study
future plans, aptitudes, and in
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