The Radio Corporation of America has informed the Department of the Interior it is offering a $1,300 scholarship 'to a Choctaw Indian trainee from the Philadelphia, Miss. area for computer system work, Robert L. Bennett, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, said today.
RCA Service Coo, an RCA subsidiary, is conducting for the Bureau of Indian Affairs an occupational training, basic literacy education, and job placement program for the Choctaws of Mississippi.
Scholarship candidates will be chosen by the Bureau and tested by RCA, Bennett said. The most promising person will be given an intensive, 48-week course at RCA's Cherry Hills, N. J o, Technical Institute, including work with electronic computer systems and digital computer techniques.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs will pay living costs of the scholarship winner during the II-month training period at RCA.
