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Show How a Grateful UncleSam Our Vietnam Veterans GI benefits go far beyond academic aid—there are programsin ied by the U.S. Government. CLEANEST ANDEASI - - . just pul! tab,bait feeds autogatically. lent poisons...when ust as directed, safe around children ai degree when he returned. After a OTHERS COMBINED ITCHY? FIDGETY? YOU MAY HAVE neee-picking, a torment- parasites repair (below). that AROLD G. BURNS, 22, lost ‘one member is infected, health au- tine,Get Sayne'sPWVermifuge + ~~ EAT ANYTHING WITH FALSE TEETH onation in Chu Lai, Vietnam. He had been a high-school dropout before entering military ervice. When he returned home from Vietnam, Harold was rehabilitated, obtained his high-school diploma in San Francisco and, through counseling service at the Veterans Administration, entered an on-the-job training program at the Disabled American ‘Trouble with loose plates thatslip Veterans (DAV) organization. without powder, paste or cush- service officer—a general counselor to other DAV field officers—right ‘or cause sore gums? Try Brimms Plasti-Liner. Fits plates snugly, ions. Gives tight, lasting fit. YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING!Simply tay soft strip of Plasti-Liner on troublesomeupper or lower. Bite and it molds perfectly. Easy to lor! harmless to plates. Money-back guarantee. Atall drug counters. Today Harold Burns is a national there where he received his training. This case is only one of thousands typifying a grateful nation’s attempt to help Vietnam servicemen return to a rewarding civilian life. The Government has upgraded veterans’ Inca Benin oor, sgagias tnd body motes models treotiny andwllcome tiny, all- Cealedyout closest friends fleied” A : N BACKACHE fun, 7. TENSION SECONDARY TO KIDNEY SRRITATION Common Kidney or Bladder Irrita- and day. he sleep and have feel older, tired, lose Backache In dangerof his stepping on a hot spark and getting severely burned without knowing it. other on-job training in such vital trades as building, electronics, and auto maintenance. Also available are direct loans for homes and farms, compensation for disability, job counseling, and employment placement. A wide range of educational assistance includes high-school classes (without a charge against college financial benefits), flight training, grants for disabled veterans for the purchase of specially equipped automobiles or other conveyances, group ministration program—one life insurance, and excellent dental and medical care. Not only are nonhigh-school vet«tans being directed to technical or on-job training, but formercollege students are being counseled in careers more in keeping with their aptitudes. Troy E. Kloefkorn, 20, an ex-Marine from Wichita, Kan., was wounded by shrapnel in Vietnam. His right leg was amputated above the knee, and he now walks onan artificial leg. Troy had worked for a law firm before entering service and thought that he would work toward a law largest sums ever to be slated for the department. There's a problem, though, I think. Many veterans aren’t fully aware of how broad the VA helpis. They thinkit’s summed upin collegeoriented benefits when actually thousands of returning veterans have manyinterests and needs other than academic studies. The VA has launched an aggressive program onall levels to reach every individual veteran to acquaint him with such services as farm-cooperative training apprenticeships and 8 Family Weekly, April 5, 1970 in the broadcasting industry, spends much ofhis time in the control room of a local radio station. Elvon Arndt of Kansas City, Mo., was wounded by machine-gun fire while serving with the Marines in Vietnam in 1966. After nine months of hospitalization, he returned home to his wife and son. He had been a welder with the Darby Steel Corp. of Kansas City in hia left leg. There would be the $7,691,257,000 for the Veterans Adof the 20 of his class and, planning a career his injury left him without feeling recently and appropriat-d benefits Troy is presently in vocational re- habilitation supervised by the Wichita VA Center, studying to be an electronics technician at the Wichita Technical Institute. He’s in the top before entering the service but could not go back into that work because both legs in a mine detthorities strongly advise that the enime. Jayne's Pluge... sizes ior children and adults, false beginning, VA counselors uncovered his interest in electronics, After thorough counseling, he decided his future was in accounting, and Arndt applied for vocational-rehabilitation training at the Kansas City VA office. Heenrolled in a diploma business course at Draughon’s College of Commerce, Arndtsped through the course in 18 months with aimost straight A’s, according to Dean McIntire, his VAcounselor. While studying such subjects as marketing,sales, advertising, and income tax, he also worked part time for a worldwide brokerage firm. He stayed on after graduation and even- tually rose to operations manager, the position he holds now. He is contemplating computer training under the GI Bill, which he considers his “ace in the hole.” The military is not waiting for servicemen’s discharge to prepare their men for civilian life. “Project Transition” was initiated « few years ago by the Department of Defense in conjunction with private corporations. The on-base program consists of specially designed free courses in just about any desired occupetion available to GIs during the last six months of duty. Trained representatives of some of rm Free on-base instruction is giver. GIs in | areas which interest them such as auto maintenance (left) and tv et OUTSELLS ALL ine “ |