Answers to veterans questions on homecomings and benefits
A Washington DC service column answers reader questions about veterans affairs. Topics include mustering out pay and eligibility timelines, continuation of pensions while hospitalised, dependents’ support, family allowances and GI training benefits with on the job wages, plus locating a former service member and how to handle subsistence and equipment funds.
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Washington
Nasi
Husbdand
Mes . J.B
Berlin
Eisenhower
Denver
Colo
Germany
F. Lemmon
US Army
Kansas City
F. J KK
Holyoke
Cole A
Veterans’ Hospital
Wichita
Kansas
Red Cross
R G.D
Congress
Marines
Springville
Ala
2Nd Army
Camp
Torrest
Upper
New York State
Abernathy
Texas
Bureau of Enlisted Personnel Office
Adjutant General
War Department
Cama
Hobart
Oklahoma
Veterans’ Administration
Shrink Derby Takes Over Manhattan Dinner Club
New York City weighs in as a humorous famine relief stunt titled Shrink Derby brings 500 heavyweight eaters to a reducing race. Anthony Drexel Duke and Herman Jaffee rally leaders from Wall Street and politics, including Newbold Morris and Mike Jacobs, to pledge a dollar per lost pound weekly with proceeds going to the famine fund. The push gains support from a restaurant chain, with earnings reportedly around 250 dollars weekly, as participants stay on honor to lose weight.
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New York
Anthony Drexel Duke
Duke
Inky
Herman Jaffee
Io Newbold Morris
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Wall’ Street
Charles C Me Veigh
John Jackson
Jaffee
Night Life Protests Shake Suburban Washington Region
Citizens in Landover Maryland protest recent nude street dancing by Washington visitors and nearby residents, citing disruption and safety concerns during late night events. The Landover Suburban Citizens Association reports petting parties and spontaneous demonstrations as residents demand curbs on such activities.
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Landover MD
Nations
Washington
Landover
Helicopters to Carry Mail on Chicago Suburban Routes
The Post Office confirms a helicopter airmail system for Chicago area suburbs set to begin late this year or in 1947. Hovering routes will run from a central airport to outlying communities on regular schedules. Tests will start in Los Angeles this summer.
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Chicago
Pir
Chcago
Post Office Department
Gael Sullivan Secord
Jim
Sullivan
Los Angeles
Geneva Steel Plant to Resume Production July Twenty Second
United States Steel plans rapid restoration of Geneva plant in Provo after government sale. An additional blast furnace started at the Utah facility, enabling open hearth to resume and slabbing mill to form steel with finishing mills producing products by August. Geneva Steel Company to operate the plant during this transition under Irving S. Olds, chairman.
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Geneva
Provo
United States Steel Corporation
Itah
Irving S Olds
United States Steel
Far West
Geneva Steel Company
Teel Making
Olds
Disease Rate on Decline in Utah
For the week ending July 5 city and county health officers of Utah reported 230 resident and nonresident cases of communicable diseases, down from 297 the prior week. One case of epidemic meningitis was reported from Richerd Uintah county reported one case of chicken pox. One case of measles, one of rheumatic fever, and one of tuberculosis, one case of undulant fever in Duchesne county. Most prevalent disease was measles with 57 cases.
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Utah
Richerd
Uintah
Duchesne County
Telephone Circuit Expands toll service Vernal to Salt Lake City
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph announces a new toll circuit between Vernal and Salt Lake City, boosting outbound toll calls by 60 percent. Local manager O M Boswell says demand remains heavy and additional facilities are on order as recent frost damage and ice storms strain lines and keep repair crews busy around the clock.
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Vernal
Salt Lake City
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
O M Boswell
Boswell
Theatre improvement at Roosevelt's Utopia Theater
A renovation program costing nearly $25 000 is underway at Roosevelt's Utopia Theater. The theater will reopen in late summer.
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Wll
Roosevelts Utopia Theater
Fragmented Miscellaneous Texts and Quotes
A jumbled page fragment references traffic laws about coasting in neutral, mentions Hansard as the British equivalent of the Congressional Record, and includes odd quotes about lifeguards at the beach. It ends with a Scottish undertaker line and a deceased person owing $16.
Future Home Makers Chapter in Utah Claims National Status
Fragmented OCR notes report Roosevelt Woyack Future Home Makers chapter aligning with state and national bodies to become the first Utah chapter with national recognition. Contents mention new orientation, potential ties to New York and plans for a transport vessel, but details are unclear and tangled in garbled text.
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Roosevelt Woyack
Future Home Makers
Utah
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