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Eskimos trained for new DEW Line and trades
The Department of Northern Affairs reports 103 Eskimos have taken vocational training since 1954. Thirty men finished a six week carpentry course at Aklavik and join workers building a new town site. others train as radio operators truck and tractor drivers graders power shovels hoists bulldozers watchmakers nurses aides. Plans aim to train 90 more for DEW Line jobs.
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