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Show Veterans Urged To Register for School This Fall Korean veterans planning to register for school this fall for the first time, or those who plan to change schools or courses, should immediately start proceedings proceed-ings with their nearest Veterans Administration Office and the school of their choice, according to William W. McBride, manager of the Salt Lake Regional Office. "Nearly 8000 Utah eligible veterans vet-erans are expected to jam local schools and VA rolls this fall," Mr. McBride said, "and those who wait until the last minute run the risk of piling up trouble for themselv, not only by creating VA backlogs but also with schools." The VA manager j pointed out that this year's enrollment en-rollment will be up by 1000 over last year and that schools need advanced inquiries now in order I to make concrete plans for handling hand-ling the load. "VA backlogs each fall are nationwide na-tionwide and inevitable," he said, "because the VA is staffed on a yearly quota based on the average aver-age workload whereas approximately approxim-ately one-half of the training load occurs in the fall when most former for-mer students must be reprocessed repro-cessed for reentry in addition to the new students. It helps both these new students and the VA when they get an early start enabling en-abling the VA to get their original orig-inal certificates of eligibility" out of the way before registration begins. be-gins. "Those previously in school and returning to the same course in the same school do not need certificates and may simply reenter re-enter the school without contacting contact-ing VA," he added. Under the Korea GI Bill veterans have until three years from date, of separation separa-tion to begin training. Interested applicants should first check with the school of their choice to be sure they are acceptable, as students stu-dents and then apply to VA for a certificate. |