The Maryville Daily Forum from Maryville, Missouri • Page 14

Daily July ll, 1972 a Tt kMwU am Neighborhood Youth Corps at Work in City Four members of the Neighborhood Youth Corps maximum of 234 hours which must be completed by the summer program are shown working on Maryville time the program ends Aug. 26. Employers in the program streets. Approximately 40 young persons are working in must be public, nonprofit, nonreligious organizations. Maryville this summer as part of the NYC program.

Youths are from low income families, over 14 but not yet Youths generally work from 20 to 40 hours a week, with a graduated from high school. Youth Find Working an Asset Over 300 youths in the five- county area are receiving the opportunity this summer to learn good work habits and earn extra spending money in the Neighborhood Youth Corps program, sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. At the present time, 320 youths in the area are employed by NYC, including 1200 in Nodaway County and 40 in Maryville. The summer program ends Aug. 26.

The program is for youths from low income homes who are graduated from high school. It hopes to provide the young person with valuable Medieval Iceland's Chess Was Deadly NEW YORK AP The insulted egos and white- knuckled tensions before the Fischer-Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing battle, but they pale beside the tales of bloodthirsty games in Medieval Iceland. Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries were often the center of treachery, revenge, intrigue and murder, according to sagas of the time. When a certain King Louis lost a chess game to Rognvald, he stood up in a fury, shoved his chessman into a bag and smashed his opponent in the face with it, leaving him a bloody mess. exclaimed the king.

Rognvald rode off in a panic. But his brother stayed to split the skull open. These stories are sagas from Willard in Iceland and in Icelandic published in 1905. It is said that American chess champion Bobby Fischer has gotten the highest stakes in history of chess for his series beginning Tuesday in Reykjavik with Boris Spassky, the world champion. Even though thousands of dollars of prize money are on the line, championship prize is chicken feed.

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The salaries are paid by the Department of Labor, so all the employer must do is to provide the supervision for the workers. Youths this summer are eligible to work a total of 234 hours, meaning they can earn a maximum of about $375. Students are working in Maryville this summer at the DEO office, employment office, ASCS office, SCS office, Army office, the Maryville R-II School System, the parks and recreation department, street department, and postoffice. Youths also are employed at Northwest State College in custodial work, for the buildings and ground department, the nursery and the library. As much as possible youths are given a preference of jobs, and this is often accomplished in Maryville.

But in the smaller towns in the area, it is usually impossible and students must take any job available if they wish to work. No youth currently is employed by the Community Betterment organization in Maryville, but in the outlying towns several students are employed by the Community Betterment. The summer program is part of three main programs NYC sponsors throughout the year. The in-school program is held during the school year. Students work IO hours a week, usually during the late afternoon.

The out-of-town program is for older students, 16-18, who have dropped out of high school. It is operated on a year around basis for 12 to 15 people. Youths work 26 hours a week and go to school for six hours a week. The youth is placed in a position where he may train for a skill in which he is interested, in hopes the student will either be hired permanently by that firm or a firm in a similar area of interest. Both applicants and employers are screened much more thoroughly than in either the summer or in-school programs.

The out-of-school program is the only of the three major programs in which boys usually outnumber girls. In the summer program, for instance, about 75 per cent of the workers are girls. Now a new program, called Goes to has been introduced this summer. It is an experimental class for high school seniors in which students take a three-hour English composition class at Northwest State College. Ten hours a week is devoted to the classroom and the students work 20 hours a week.

The class may be used for either high school or college credits. In other test areas the class has proven to improve the of the students when they go back to high school in the fall. Persons in the program consist mainly of underachievers who are thought to have greater potential than has been indicated in high school. Mrs. Mary Gates is teaching the class this summer to nine persons.

It is operated strictly as a college course, although taught to high school students. The class stresses self- expression. All youths in any of the NYC programs are given considerable counseling. Don Bachinan is the director of NYC and Mrs. Carol Graves is the head counselor.

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