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Show verbob'8 IRummator . In which anyone and everyone is invited to express their opinion opin-ion about anything ami everything every-thing that will help Milford so long as they "don't cuss no one out" that privilege is reserved. Beginning wiiu our next issue. The News will- return to a Thursday publication day. We .make this change in order to give our advertisers a better bet-ter ybreak" in getting their week-end message to the Mil-ford Mil-ford Valley shoppers. Advertising Adver-tising deadline will remain the same, Tuesday noon. Society news deadline will be Wednesday Wed-nesday noon, with news deadline dead-line set at 6 p. m. Wednesday. The Milford Volunteer Fire Department was called out Tuesday afternoon to answer ( an alarm turned in when a flu over Bud's cafe, which had not been used since the cafe "s remodeled, became ignited. ignit-ed. It. is believed workmen laying a new roof at the Milford Mil-ford Bakery dropped a lighted cigaret down the open flu. "Clockers" checked the timing tim-ing of the volunteers, and re- port lhal two minutes and 15 seconds from Ihe time the siren first sounded, Ihe Iruck was rounding the Milford State Bank corner lo pull into the alley back of the cafe. ; Such speedy iurn-ouis, especially espe-cially amazing in view of the fact that Ihe volunteers assemble as-semble from all sections of the city and the truck cannol leave the fire hall until at least five firemen are present, is the major reason for Milford's unbelievably un-believably low fire loss, and ihe resultant low fire insurance insur-ance rates. Our hat's off to ihe Volunteers. NOTHING'S TOO GOOD . . . While in the army we often read tho naturally we never heard our commanding officers repeats that "Nothing's too good for the boys in the service. ' And, as time went on, along with hundreds of other GIs, we cussed the army doctors who were too busy or too unconcerned uncon-cerned to give out wth some of that "valuable medical treatment" treat-ment" the recruiting ads boast of we were told of how the Veterans Vet-erans Administration would see to it, after discharge, that those who needed medical treatment would surely receive it. Our gripe isn't as legitimate, perhaps, as that of other Milford Valley ex-G Is, but we're pretty much disgusted with the VA. We hear too many tales about the run-around the guys get when they go to Salt Lake for treatment. There seems to be more civilian "guides" on the payroll than GIs looking for treatment. Last fall, we published a news item released by the VA promising promis-ing yeterans dental treatment. Since the dentists had yanked out four or five bicuspids while we were wearing OD, and didn't have time to put substitutes in their place, we applied for replacements. re-placements. First, we received a letter stating that since we had waited more than a year from the date of discharge before applying, ap-plying, we could only receive treatment of teeth which were previously treated in the service (which is all we asked for anyway). any-way). Regarding the waiting period we made application as soon as announcement of the service was received even before, be-fore, such announcement was published. Today, we received a letter from the VA in Salt Lake City, stating that "after careful consideration," consid-eration," it had been determined that our dental condition was not service connected. They yanked 'em while we were in the service, and we spent a week in a Camp Abbot hospital recovering recover-ing from infection which set in when they slit our jawbone several sev-eral inches and sent us back to duty in sub-zero weather, but it still isn't "service connected.' We were invited to "appeal to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs" if we didn't like it. We suppose the administrator's appeal ap-peal clerks must make a living too. And when Thorpe Wadding-ham Wadding-ham tried to get a little VA treatment for his aching back, they ran him up one line and down another, at the VA headquarters head-quarters in Salt Lake, 'till he was darned near ready for foot treatment instead of back treatment. treat-ment. They sneered at him and said "So you want a pension do you?" so often he blew up, and blew so high he was examined by a psychiatrist. They thought he was nuts because he kept insisting in-sisting he didn't want a pension, he just wanted his back fixed so he could go about the business of earning his daily bread. What happened to Thorpe? He wanted his back fixed up, so they gave him a pension! He still has an aching back, and the couple of bucks a month don make it feel any better. Who's nuts? We think its the VA - not the guys that ac-(Continued ac-(Continued on Back Page) HERE'S MORE ABOUT RUMINATOR (Continued from Page One) cept in good faith the offers the VA makes. There's dozens of other similar instances in which Milford Valley Val-ley boys have received the same type of "careful consideration." Ruminator would like to hear about them. If the VA isn't set up to treat legitimate service-connected service-connected ailments, it had just as well be abolished, and let the ailing GIs remain in the service hospitals until they are physically physi-cally fit. If the civilian VA payroll pay-roll were lopped off, it would make a nice dent In the federal deficit. |