Evening star., 1941-02-09
Prince Georges 10 GET
More Shops for
Defense Training
$4,000 Will Be Spent
For Aircraft Vocational
Rooms at HyottsviIIe

To house the expanding industrial
defense training program of Prince
Georges County, Md-which is
doubling the size of its operations
this week-officials are planning to
erect new shops. at a cost OF sl0.-
900, in Hyattsville, it was learned
yesterday.
The Federal Government is eX-
pected to furnish $4,000 worth of
machinery for the shops, of a type
principally designed to fit young
men for aircraft factories, it was
understood.
County educators are arranging
for the machinery to be installed
and operated in the Hyattsville
High School auditorium on delivery
until the new shops are completed,
probably by early summer. The
shops may be constructed as large
additions to the high school build
ing, one for aircraft sheet metal
work and second for welding
training.
A portion of the $4,000 is ex-
pected to be furnished by the Ma
tional Youth Administration and
the rest already is available in
Board of Education funds, it was
understood.
On 24-HOur Basis.
Defense training already Is on
virtually a 24-hour day basis in
the county, under direction of E. K.
Zeller, 33-year-old county supervisor
of industrial education.
Pride of the system is the might
shift" class at Hyattsville High
School, which runs from 10 pm. to
s m. nightly, to make full use of
equipment. A new 8-week course
in aircraft Welding will open there
tomorrow night. with about As young
men enrolled and 20 more turned
away for lack of facilities. An air.
craft sheet metal course is expected
to be started there this week. and
a machine shop course will begin
soon at Bladensburg, also on a
night shift, Mr.. Zeller announced.
The late night shift already has
turned out three smaller groups of
trained workers, most of whom are
now reported in defense industries.
Including day and evening pu-
pills, 238 men have been trained
since last July IT. OF these, 152
have been placed in jobs and po-
sitions are promised for number
more who were given their certifi-
Gates one week ago. In addition,
supplementary courses have been
given to 296 men already employed
in defense industry. Five of these
classes are now in operation. in
Bladensburg and Hyattsville High
Schools.
New Aircraft Courses.
The doubling of courses and en-
rollment expected this week will
come largely from new aircraft
courses in other county high schools,
Mr.. zeller said.
Mechanical drawing, shop sketch
ing, blueprint reading, sheet metal
layout, fabrication and other tech
nical phases of aircraft construc-
ton will be taught at Marlboro,
Oxon Hill, Surrattsville, Laurel,
Maryland Park and Mount Rainier
High Schools in day and night
courses which will operate school
shops up to 10 pm.
Young men between II and "a
may still enroll with the high school
principals for these courses. The
late night shift at Hyattsville is
taking care of those l8 years old
or over and is now full.
Colored youths will be given an
opportunity for training at the
Board of Education maintenance
shop in Upper Marlboro, where,
under N. Y. A. sponsorship, they
will be shown techniques in sheet
metal work, carpentry, masonry and
plastering.
Mr.. Zeller said the Washington
Navy Yard, the Glenn Martin plant
in Baltimore, the Engineering Re-
search Corp. in Riverdale and
Washington Institute of Technology
in College Park absorb most of the
men trained. The last three named
manufacture aircraft or plane
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