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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1952
Page
4
Rochester dispatch reports 110 year old James A. Hard responding to VA pension projections that only one Union Army veteran would be on rolls by June 30, 1953. Hard, who turns 111 on July 15, jokes he will outlive the forecast, claiming robust health, five cigars daily, and plans to live many more years.
Washington Feb 2 UP The Veterans Administration figures there will be only one Union Army Civil War veteran on its pension rolls in the year ending June 30 1953. It estimates 1 677 907 World War II veterans will receive pensions or compensation and 3 521 605 veterans and dependents of deceased veterans will receive benefits. President Truman's budget requests for the VA see an average of three Union Army veterans on the pension rolls for the fiscal year ending June 30. Four veterans are alive per VA records: Douglas T. Stary 107 Broadsword 105 Samuels Idaho Albert Woolson 104 Duluth Minn and James A Hard 109 Rochester N Y. The four receive $1440 annually. Next year budget provides $1440 for one. In 1950-51 there were 10 Union veterans on the list at $1418 yearly. The federal government does not pay pensions or compensation to Confederate veterans. The budget lists 1 221 604 veterans cases in which compensation or pensions are expected. To meet payments the President's budget recommends 32 204 351 000 and notes another 142 million may be sought if Congress approves Truman's proposal to boost rates due to cost of living.
More than 200 cowboys from across the nation will compete in Palm Springs at the 12th annual rodeo. The event, sponsored by the Palm Springs Mounted Police, begins after a parade through town at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
LONDON Feb 2 The Inland Revenue Commissioners report only 60 persons earned £6000 or more after tax for the year ending in March, down from 86 the previous year. Most tax revenue still came from about 9,290,000 people earning between £5 and £10 a week.
Washington reports FCDA engineers calculated how rubble and debris would block city streets after a nuclear strike and how long to open lanes for rescue and firefighting. The study uses 86 cities, assuming one bomb per city, with a midtown ground zero radius and varied death, rubble depths, and a two hour mobilization window.
A requiem mass in the Syrian Catholic rite was offered yesterday morning at St Matthew’s Catholic Church for Dr Wadeaa Malout Zahn, who died suddenly Tuesday night from a heart ailment. The service featured co celebrants Archimandrites Paul K Malouf and Gabriel Diab Malouf, with Rev James P Lynch as pastor. Burial followed at All Souls Cemetery after the committal brief remarks.
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