Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 30, DeMotte, Jasper County, 13 June 1940 — CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION TO BF HELD FOR INSTRUMENT MAKER [ARTICLE]

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION TO BF HELD FOR INSTRUMENT MAKER

I'ht Unite*] States C : vil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations to fill por aitions f instrument miker in the Fe lertl Service, The examinat.ors cover four grades, with salaries ranging from SI,BOO to $2,000 a year, less a retirement deduction of 3Mi per cent. Applications vrnust be filed with the Commission’s Washington office not later than July 1 if received from Stale* ast *f Colorado, and not later than July 5, 1040, if received from Colorado and States westward. Applicants must have completed a 4 year apprenticeship as instrument maker, or must have had certain experience, in either case including work with high-precision physical, geodetic, or similar scientific instruments. Certain substitution of apprenticeship or practical experience m the machinist or toolmaker trades may be allowed for part of this requirement. For the three higher grades additional journeyman experience as inst.ument maker is necessary. Applicants must not have passed their fiftieth birthday. Full information may be obtained from the Secretary of the Board of U, S. Civil Service Examiners at the post office or customhoust in any city which has a post office of the first or second class, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.