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Show STATES SEEK VETERAN GRANTS Legislators in the nation had proposed bills recently which would grant veterans special privileges priv-ileges ranging all the way from half fares on street cars to a reduction re-duction by 50 per cent in the purchase pur-chase of building io'ts. Massachusetts had gone on a virtual spree of proposing special laws for veterans in a recent session ses-sion of the state legislature. One senator had offered a bill which would grant veterans attending' school under the G. I. Bill of Rights reduced rates on street cars. Another filed would grant the widow or mother of a serviceman service-man a free broker's license in cases where he serviceman had held a license before entering the service. Still another bill would grant a veteran in state service for 15 years, in the event of in- ' capacitation, retirement at two-thirds two-thirds pay, if he was without other oth-er income in excess of ?500. And through terms of another bill filed communities would be allowed to increase from $2,500 to $5,000 the : amount they may expend for i quartering veterans' organiza- I tions. At Milwaukee, the com- I mon council was asked to consider con-sider the proposal that in March the city offers its 3,000 tax deed lots to veterans and gold star j mothers and fathers at a 50 per cent discount below the list price, j This proposal held the condition , j that the buyer sign agreements to j build them homes or have them i under construcion by Oct. 1, 1947. t |