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Giesen Cites Credits
For On Job Training
At YR Convention

Del. A. R. Giesen, the Republican
nominee for the Seventh
District Congressional seat, said
Saturday that the Republican alternative
to the ever-increasing
welfare doles is tax credits for
private industry to provide job
training.

He spoke to about 70 College
Young Republicans from around
the state who were attending a
campaign workshop hosted by
the University Young Republican
Club. Also attending the workshop
were the GOP candidates
for Charlottesville City Council,
J. W. Wright Jr., Kenneth Davis
and Mrs. Lois Mothes.

He cited the case of a youth
who was sent to a job training
center in Washington state and
transported to and from his
home several times during his
stay at the camp. When the boy
returned home, Mr. Giesen said,
he could not get a job because
there was no demand for the skill
he had learned, so he joined the
army.

If industry handled the job
training, Mr. Giesen said, it
would train youths for jobs
available in that area.

Mr. Giesen rapped the Johnson
administration for asking
private business to help combat
inflation while it opposed Republican
efforts to promote economy
in the government.

Students should continue to
press for change, Mr. Giesen
said, but they must respect the
rights and property of others
when doing so. He urged his
student listeners to foster change
through the electoral process
rather than through sit-ins, demonstrations
and riots.

Only 31 new Republicans are
needed in congress to gain control
of the House of Representatives
he noted. The greatest advantage
to GOP control, he said,
would be that Rep. John McCormick
would no longer be Speaker.

An increase of one in Virginia's
Republican delegation to
Congress would give the GOP a
five to five split, thus negating
the state's vote for President
should George C. Wallace's third
party candidacy throw the election
into the House.

"That would be better than
casting Virginia's vote for the
Democratic nominee," he said.

Referring to his race against
incumbent Democrat John O.
Marsh Jr., Mr. Giesen said, "We
are not running against anybody.
We're running for election on a
Republican platform."