The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
MORE INTENSIVE
TRAINING COURSE
FOR NYA FORCES
MARITIME COMMISSION AN
NoUNCES SEVENTY FIVE
FLORIDA YOUTHS ARE TO
BE GIVEN CHANCE

After an inspection of National
Youth Administration work ex-
perience projects in Florida, the
u. S. Maritime Commission an
nounced through State Youth Ad-
ministrator, Charles c.. LAWN,
that they would accept from the
rolls of the N. Y. A., rs Florida
youths for more intensive train
ing course in radio transmission
and receiving and rs youths for a
more highly specialized course in
the preparation, cooking and serv-
ing of food at the u. S. Maritime
School in New London, Conn.
Expressing themselves as high
ly pleased with the results of the
NYA work experience program
at NYA Camp DeSoto, Tampa, the
Commission urged the National
Youth Administration to intensity
its efforts to give work experience
to NYA boys in cooking and
radio.
LAWN announced today that the
facilities of NYA Camp DeSoto,
Tampa, would be thrown open to
all youths who are interested in
availing themselves of an oppor-
tunity to get the necessary work
to qualify them for ad-
mittance to the u. S. Maritime
School in New London, Conn.
This school is offering an in
tensive eight months training
course in radio and cooking for
Florida youths who meet the fol-
lowing qualifications:
For cooks: l. Must be an Am
erican citizen between the ages of
eighteen and twenty-three and
without physical defects render
ing him unsuited for a life at
sea.
2. Shall elect voluntarily to do
this type of work and must
qualify for and be willing to take
a position as a cook, steward. or
mess boy on a merchant vessel.
3. Have had at least three
experience in the cook
ing, preparation, and serving of
food.
4. Have graduated from an ac-
credited public grammar school.
Requirements for Radio Opera
tors: /. Be an American citizen
between the ages of eighteen and
twenty-three.
2. Have completed two years
of high school which shall have
included one year of Algebra.
3. Ability to send and receive
in plain language in International
Morse code at a speed of not less
than IL words per minute.
l. Have an elementary knowl-
edge of radio theory and cleo
tricity, including the theory and
operation of radio sending and re-
ceiving equipment
s. An elementary knowledge
of provisions of treaty, statute.
and communication regulations.
Youths who successfully COM
plete the preliminary NYA course
at Camp DeSoto and the eight
months cooking course offered by
the u. S. Maritime Commission
will be assured of jobs as cooks.
stewards. or mess BOYS on mer-
chant vessels. being commissioned
for service. and those who sue
ceSsfully complete the radio
course will be assured of jobs on
ships as radio operators or in the
u. U. Coast stations along the Al
lantic Coast Line,
Basic pay for those accepted
by the US. Maritime Commission
will be $2I.00 per month and sub
siStence for the first three
months while at New London,
Conn. after which the youths
will receive $500 a month and
subsistence through the compile
ton of the course
Employment possibilities IN
these fields are excellent as re-
cent studies have revealed tire
mendouS shortage of cooks and
radio operators Wages in these
fields will vary from 500 to $50
per month and subsistence.
Applications OF those who are
interested viii be taken at NYA
area offices in Kew West. Miami,
Orlando. Tampa. Arcadia. Jack
sonville. Lake City. Tallahassee
or Pensacola.
Only one hundred and fifty
youths viii be- selected on or be-
fore May l. Therefore. il is Urg-
ed that those who are interested
write or call the nearest NYA
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