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[[underlined]] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [[/underlined]]
                                    January 15, 1939.
               CIVIL AERONAUTICS AUTHORITY
                    WASHINGTON, D. C.

     Working details of the initial phase of its plan to give flight training to 20,000 students a year in the schools and colleges of the country were sent today by the Civil Aeronautics Authority to 13 educational institutions in widely separated parts of the United States which will give the program a practical try-out during the second semester of the current school year.
     The schools were chosen on the basis of pioneer work they have done in aeronautical engineering and in actual flight training of their students, as well as on their informal assurance to the Authority of their eagerness to participate in this project. 
     Eight of the schools selected were named some time ago by the Authority, and to this list were added today the names of the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina, the University of Kansas, and San Jose State College and Pomona Junior College in California. A total of 330 students between 18 and 25 will be selected for training in the entire group of schools with $100,000 in National Youth Administration funds allocated for the purpose by President Roosevelt when he announced the flight training program on December 27. The President, last week, included in his national defense message to Congress a request for a special appropriation of $10,000,000 to be used by the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the training of 20,000 student pilots during the 1939-1940 school year if results obtained between now and next June demonstrate the soundness of the Authority's program. 
     This full-scale program would require the participation of several hundred schools and colleges in all parts of the country. Eventually, it is believed that flight training under the Authority's plan can be given not