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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1949
Page
6
A weekly VA questions column will publish in the local newspaper to answer veterans inquiries. Veterans should contact the nearest VA unit for detailed information, with HOME FOR PARAPLAGICS noting about 1,300 paralyzed veterans in the area.
Veterans through the Veterans Administration are certified to receive federal grants to fund half the cost of homes adapted for wheelchair living. Grants max out at $10,000 and are available to those paralyzed by service connected spinal injuries or diseases.
Bernard Crane 30 died suddenly Monday morning at his Sunnyvale California home. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Crane former Dillon residents and brother of Mrs George Rebish of the local community who left for California to attend the funeral. The father was an engineer at Western Montana College of Education and Crane spent several years in Dillon before moving to California seven years ago.
The veteran may buy land and build, remodel an existing home, or apply the grant to mortgage debt. The VA provides model plans and blueprints. Eligible wheelchair housing grant applicants apply to their regional VA office, with decisions sent to Washington. A Waivers and Compromises committee decides waivers or adjustments, central office for cases over 2,500 dollars.
Jack Barrett of LaGrande Oregon arrived in the city Sunday for a visit with his parents Mr and Mrs R M Barrett.
Western Montana College of Education aired the seventh and final KOPR program Sunday June 19 with Ralph McFadden and Brinton Jackson. Jackson sang five selections and McFadden played four piano numbers while Paul Halloran plans the next five weeks of summer courses and new majors in science for the Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education curriculum.
Sentimental gentleman from Mahoney Plain Pa Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra will appear at Columbia Gardens Butte Thursday evening June 30 His first professional engagement paid 68 cents He learned multiple instruments before choosing trombone through a happy accident.
Phillip J. Lovell son of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Lovell of this city died last Monday in a Rochester Minnesota hospital after a brief illness. Rev. Belle Long led services at Brundage funeral home last Thursday afternoon. Pallbearers were Barclay Schulz Warren Murray James Richardson Raymond Davis Gene Pilon and Gene Nelson. Burial followed at Mountain View in the family plot.
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