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I I. ALLIED INDUSTRIES Avenal welding werks (petroleum) De Long Bros., Los Angeles . Oliver Johnson 00., San Jose LeTourneau Mfg. Co., Stockton A. B. Dick Mfg. Co., Chicago Angelus Can 00., Vernon Royce Construction Co., Chicago Fisher Body works, Pontiac, Mich. Youdel Equipment Co., Chicago L.&.F. Machine Works, Huntington Park Ford Motor 00., Richmond Byron Jackson 00., Los Angeles Cochise Rock Drill Co., Maywood ' 1 RESIDENT NYA PROQRAM History: In October of lQAO the first of the resident center buildings, constructed by the National Youth Administration on a campus plot leased from the school, was completed and almost immediately 116 boys selected from thousands of applicants in the state enrolled in special defense training courses. In April of 1941, a new unit doubling the housing facilities of the resident center was completed, bringing the capacity enrollment to 2&0 students. The resident unit - now comprises two dormitories of four sections each, a large dining hall, a recreation hall and an infirmary ward. Adjoining each dormitory section (which has double bunks and individual cabinets for twenty—six persons) are the locker room, showers, wash rooms, and laundry facilities. Shop Facilities: To supplement the school’s previously existing shop facilities, the National Youth Administration financed the purchase of a completely prefabricated machine shop of glass and steel. The prefabricated building with the machinery necessary to equip the shOp was shipped by rail from Ohio and set up on land leased from the school at the close of the last school year. The building which is lhO by A0 feet has a to by 40 foot wing at one side which is now housing the radio production shop. Under construction now, and due to be completed very soon, is a 50 x 150 foot wood frame—stucco building also financed by Federal funds on leased land adjacent to the prefabricated shop. This shop will be equipped as the aircraft sheet metal shOp, enabling the machine shop to take _ 5 _