Youth jobs available in conservation
HARRISBURG - Ap
plications for the 1980 Youth
Conservation Corps
program, a summer work
program which provides
participants with a greater
understanding of the en
vironment, are now
available.
Department of En
vironmental Resources’
Secretary Clifford L. Jones
said applications may be
obtained from high school
guidance counselors, Bureau
of Employment Security Job
Service offices, the offices
maintained by DER’s
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Bureaus of State Parks and
Forestry, and State
affiliated YMCA’s and
YWCA’s.
Completed applications
must be received at the YCC
Selection Office, P.O. Box
800, Falls Church, VA 22046,
no later than March 15.
Incomplete applications are
not considered.
Participants are chosen
through a random selection
process and those selected
for the program will be
notified on or about May 1,
1980.
The YCC program is open
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to any youths who will be 15
years old by June 1 but will
not be 19 years of age before
August 30. Work sites are
located on State lands ad
ministered by DER and on
Federal lands administered
by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and the U.S.
Department of the Interior.
There are two types of
programs: residential where
corps members reside and
work in a camp setting away
from home, and non
residential where par
ticipants commute daily to
their work site. Residential
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participants earn $75 50 per
week plus room and board,
while non-residential par
ticipants earn $93 per week.
Typical work projects,
which provide first-hand
experience in improving the
environment, include
stream improvements,
construction of small
bridges and other
recreational facilities,
thinning forest plantations
and improving wildlife
habitat.
Questions concerning the
program should be directed
to John Naylor, State
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Potato stocks off
15 percent
HARRISBURG - Total
stocks of potatoes stored m
Pennsylvania on January 1,
1980, was 3,200,000 cwt., 15
percent less than a year ago,
according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting
Service.
Current total stocks is 53
percent of this year’s
production of 6,000,000 cwt.,
compared with 60 percent on
hand a year ago.
At the U.S. level, an
estimated 183 million cwt. of
potatoes for all uses were in
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P.O. Box 1467, Harrisburg,
PA 17120.
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storage in the fall producing
areas on January 1,1960.
This was a seven percent
decline from the record 196
million cwt. on hand a year
ago, but three percent above
the comparable 1978 total.
Disappearance of the 1979
fall crop to January 1, 1960
was 14 million cwt. (ex
cluding Nevada), down
seven percent from the 122
million cwt. disappearance
for the comparable period a
year ago.
This total disappearance
to date includes 18.1 million
cwt. of potatoes that were
dumped during grading, fed
to livestock on potato farms,
discarded without grading,
and lost due to shrinkage
(moisture loss).
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