CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AIDS AN EXAMINATION has just been announced by the Civil Service Commission to recruit technical and scientific aids for various Government agencies. Men and women are needed to do research and testing in metallurgy, fuels, chemistry, physics, explosives, and radio. The positions pay from $1440 to $2000 a year. Persons may qualify who have had either appropriate experience or study. Among the Government agencies that expect to utilize the employment lists set up as a result of this examination are: Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering, Department of Agriculture; Bureau
of Mines, Department of the Interior; and the Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce. The War and Navy Departments also have vacancies--the War Department in its Quartermaster Corps; and the Navy in its laboratories. Applications will be rated as soon as practicable after receipt a t the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., until June 30, 1942, and certification made as the needs of the service may require. If sufficient eligibles are obtained before the date specified, the receipt of applications may be closed, in which case due notice will be given.
