| Show i I SERVICE BUREAU I EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE SOTE ibis news 4 r i through h if s arrangement with ihl ili Ih o Western Was 0 o News Nw I taper Union at 1616 Eye By Strut Street N. N W W. WI W. W I I Washington Jf D. D C. C is it able to 10 bring brin s this thi weekly Hy column olumn OH oe 0 t rab- rab ferns Ims oj 01 the Ih veteran era and nd serviceman s n end nd his bit hi family Questions may be b ad- ad adI a J I drilled dressed to 10 the Ih above boil Bureau and they Ih I will ill be b answered in a col- col colI cot ol- ol I urns No can be h made direct di by b matt til but only oly in the column which will appear pr in Ibis thit newspaper J r regularly I i Payment to Schools School I With veteran enrollment ment in Institutions i of higher learning expected to reach a peak of in the school year 1947 48 Veterans' Veterans ad ad- administration administration administration ministration has established a new procedure whereby VA may pay 75 71 per cent of estimated tuition fees book and supply costs for veterans studying under the GI CI bill In ad ad- advance advance adVance vance to well established and non non- nonprofit nonprofit profit colleges and universities Actual expenses less the tho advance payment p can be paid either at the end of the semester or at nt the end i i of ot the period for tor refunding money for those l lose who have dropped out of school Formerly no college could collect from veteran-students veteran until the end of ot the refund period usually six weeks or more after start of a semester semester and ond this worked a II hard hard- hardI h hardship rd- rd I I ship on many schools which custom customarily custom 1 I depended on tuition payments to I to meet current expenses of the semester Questions Q and Answers Q Will you please plase tell lell me ate when a boy hoy drafted in the time army June 7 1946 19 wIll Mill be eligIble for a discharge I Mrs II n. 8 M. M Ark i A. A A No we can call give you no definite date da te but the army does docs not now I hold draftees much longer lonier than a year I f Q If It I 1 were getting a n 50 allot allot- allotment allot II I ment mont would I lie be eligible to t ti work I i lAnd anil draw wages It If so 50 haw much I Il I l K w. w Mt 1 Angel Ore I II II I A A. If It you are the time wife VUe or mother t i of lot a serviceman and drawing an on al allotment al- al allotment yes you would be eligible I II I to work York for any wages you could I get I Q I f am writing In regard to the GI Cl loans for homes through the tile I My husband In is a veteran and we ve were trying to buy a s farm I through this loan We had all tile the papers fixed up tsp and signed the op option lion tion had been signed by us and the lowner owner of ot the tile farm we hail had a notice to go sign for tor the first loan check Then the thc t the office emee told us the loan was was not going through The reason was the place lacked lone one acre ser of at having the amount of I land required We offered to 10 clear this one acre and the owner said uld slit she 1111 would have It cleared but I they wouldn't hear heBr to It it Now the tile place ph has hat been sold oId to 10 another man and we think there was something lIon crooked about all aU of ot II It So will you OU OUI please pl ase tell us how bow howe we could go about I seeing who turned the place down I at so late a date and the tIme real rea rca reason lIon son why they dl l so so Mrs T T. H. H F. F I I. I I Hickory t Miss 1 A A. Farmers Home administration I I which has succeeded Farm Security administration suggests that Ilat you write all details direct to Thomas 13 n. Fatherree rree State Director of at Farmers Formers Home Administration 1130 I West Vest Capitol Street Jackson J Miss In i the meantime the Washington of of- I flee of FITA assures us they will Immediately start their own IU allon and will wUl Inform tills this 0 lot of the result which we will be glad tc te forward to you I Q Could you ou please tell us how I we WI t can an find out why we wc dont don't re- re our sons son's mall mail We know for sure that float he lie writes us twice a aI I week tek but we never ne receive his let- let letters tors Ills 1115 chaplain wrote to us and told us that he be knows our cur Or son writes j land and I he h doesn't understand why we wo I II I never ne get his mall Two of or our sons son's I friends who are arc In the same me regi regiment I meat ment write to us and we get their letters In six or seven se days das We o have t not received mall from our lion teon ion In six weeks Can you tell us why I UP lit sends It air mall mail We Ve WeI I know he lie Is In Korea I or n and It worries us that ne we w do not receive his mall mati Some of It has ha been registered so soI I Iwi we would he sure to get It It his chap chap- Iain said ld but we have havro never re ye- received It I hope you fOU can tell us what Ita to do do Sirs Sin L. L S. S J. J L. L Clayton Claylon Mo A. A If It you receive mall mail from your our sons ions friends in the same regiment there is no reason why you do not notI I receive your yoUl sons son's mall If he writes land and addresses his letters correctly The fact that you receive mall from your sons son's two friends indicates that I the mall mail comes through OK If It your son receives your mall mail and you lyou receive your our sons son's friends mall there appears no reason why you hould II not nol receive his Q Q When my 01 husband was In servo service ice we lud boAd a son lion lie He didn't know the hue government gO was supposed to 10 pay par payi parI I i tor lor tin the th doctor dOor and so he paid It We WeI I wondered 11 I If It we nc could get the amount I back Iback If so so who do we tte get ret In touch I Mrs L. L II It Tenn I IA A A. It is U difficult to obtain re cc- reimbursement for such expenditures but ut suggest that you ou ask ISk your our local ted Red Cross to help you ou or inquire at atthe the nearest army hospital In case Iou rou have no luck write to the f t Dependency Benefits War Var De De- 1 I Goodfellow Blvd St. St ouis I 20 Mo I II I |
