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' Blind Janesville Vet Demonstrates Abilityi Chicago (aP) Approximately ai• 150 blind veterans of world war p 1 two, including one from Janes-• ville, gathered in Chicago yester- b ~ day to discuss their accomplish- w 1 merits to date in what they called tc* the “outside world” and to help tt c one another plan useful livesamong the country’s workers. nAt the opening session of the d* second annual convention of the b Blinded Veterans association. Inc., p an organization of blinded service- tlmen of the recent war. several ti sightless veterans who already had assumed positions in industry c; gave demonstrations. 2Among them was former Sgt. ne Dale E Lawton of Janesville, a Q\ 1 survivor of the Bataan death e march. Lawton lost his sight e y through malnutrition during the i; s nearly three years he spent in the Japanese prison camp at Cabana- | , a tuan in the Philippine islands. vThe ex “top-kick,” 35, now is j 5 employed at the Chevrolet *mobile assembly plant at Janes ville He told the other handicap- p - ped veterans he had learned to v e equip outgoing automobiles on the p g assembly line with tool kits. He n d said he obtained the job through lt;g cooperation of veterans adminis- b tration and company officials e
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Monroe Evening Times
Monroe, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Sep 06, 1947
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