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dustry in getting the equipment that you might need in this field? Have you asked for it?

Mr. PATTON. We have some working relationship. The schools are working with local people. At the State level, however, we are not into it. Each local school is working on that.

Senator PURTELL. The equipment that you would want in that case would be of what nature?

Mr. PATTON. It would be highly specialized testing equipment of different types which are very important.

SOURCES OF FINANCING

In chart 10 you will see that the program is financed in Kentucky this way: 58.8 percent of it is State money; 16.6 percent is Federal. Tuition is 24.4 percent.

(See p. 1072.)

So we are very dependent upon tuition from the veterans and the Federal funds, which total 40 percent altogether.

The CHAIRMAN. Of course, the number of veterans has fallen off. Mr. PATTON. The veteran enrollment is declining. This presents a problem.

Senator YARBOROUGH. Doctor, do you think a continuation of the educational provisions of the GI bill of rights would be helpful? Mr. PATTON. It certainly would be helpful.

Senator YARBOROUGH. We have such a bill before this committee

now.

Mr. PATTON. On chart 11, for 1956-57, you see the number of people that were trained or completed their training for employment; the number that were placed in Kentucky, and the number that went out of the State-23.5 percent for this year went out of the State. They were largely placed in the trade in which they were trained or some related trade.

(See p. 1073.)

You see that 19 percent are unaccounted for because they went through in such a short time that we did not have records for them. Also, some went into military service, and 5.2 percent went into additional training. That is a rather significant chart.

BENEFITS OF AREA PLAN TO AGRICULTURE

The last chart 12 shows the benefits of the area plan. I agree with the Senator from Texas in that this program can help agriculture as well as industry because if you have the specialized fields, you can have specialized programs that are going over county boundary lines. You can also have large farm shops where you can train people, and they will serve more than one county school district with this area program because of the very nature of the mechanized farming. I think that is important.

(See p. 1074.)

Briefly, the importance of this area approach is that you can have more efficient administration of the program. You can have a better program of supervision. You can reach more people. You can have better shop facilities. You can serve more people, more efficiently. Briefly, it is more economical and it is certainly more advantageous to the State to go in that direction wherever practical. It is a flexible program of operation.

Thank you so much for this opportunity of appearing before you (Charts referred to follow :)