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Show September 8, 1960 Do Page 16 vc spend too much on Veterans? I the veteran who rot out of serrice unscathed entitled to a lifetime of help that is denied to nonvets!" This question is posed in a copyrighted article in the current itpua of Changing Times, the Kipllngcr Magasine which charge that although benefits for veterans wounded or killed in service have done their job well, behefita for GIs with ice-connected ills are ihot through with abuses, loopholes and Inequities. The cost to the taxpayers, the magasine notes, is an average of $125 a year per family. The article states that many nonserv- authorities veterans affairs on wonder whether most benefits for veterans who suffered no injury In service still belong in the law at all. Almost every hill on veterans benefits that clears Congress bears the imprint of the veterans lobby the national veteran's organisations, according to the magasine, even though the lobby speaks for only a minority of former servicemen. Out of 22,ilK,iKN) veterans, only 4, 000, fun belong to a veterans And the editors found group considerable question us to whether the lobby reflects the true feelings of the members themselves the article But ( ongiess, states, prodded bv these n bus .niepted the that the man who oigan-lsatioiv- -, piop-ositlo- serves makes a great and unique sacrifice that hampers his career forever, while the mtn who stay at home forges ahead. Citing a IBM survey of veterans made by e presidential commission headed by General Omar Bradley, the magasine points out that the veterans as s. a whole are better off than Their average income is higher. A large proportion hold professional and technical Jobs. World War II vets, on tha average, had far more achoollng than nonvets. Many of these advantages stem from readjustment benefits. Even so, the article notes, taxpayers hava shelled out 8S billion dollars for veterans of the last three wars, mostly in the last 15 years. Right now, benefits are pouring out at the rate of five and a half billion dollars annually. That means that $1 of every 15 spent by the federal government is ladled out for veterans. But that's only the beginning, according to the editori. Their has impact on the scarcely begun. Only 7 percent of our veterans are 65 or old er, the age at which they crowd onto pension rolls. But as the years go by, more and more will collect pensions, ask for free hospital care, or enter homes. "Only a fraction were diS' abled in war, about one in eta non-vet- ) . by exammi i in. o R1 M. FA 'A b h i Sid Bonk I' . bj .'pi. cal 'I d n P t ran mi: i p DIM, huii.' H j .1 ( ., MODERN TANG MEAT CHUNK, only Canned Chicken-Turkey-Be- MEAT LUI1GII 12 oe. CANS South American KRAFT SLICED nil Ini REG. Bananas W lb. Bag Russetts 20-l- b. FROZEN 10 oz. PICTSWEET, (o)(oln PKGS. 0 39c Potatoes pkg. MINUTE MAID, 6 oz. Utah, Sno-Whi- te Cauliflower lb. 1 0 Hardware Department BREAD TABLE QUEEN, 5 FOOT 19 lb. 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To find out how the costly and outmoded structure of benefits can be revised, Changing Times consulted dosens of legislators, government officials, lobbyists, political scientists and other expert! on veterans affairs. The editor found that although they dont see on all details, most authorities agree that the first step is to establish a clear national philosophy on veterans ban-fito replace the hodgepodge built up piecemeal over nearly two centuries. In summary, the magazine reports the experts ndorse the following pnnciples: 1. People lucky enough to live in this country have a duty to defend it in time of danger. Thus, wearing a uniform does not in itself entitle the wearer to special privileges. 2. Military service does generally entail a o m c sacrifice. Veterans benefits are one way of equalizing the bu.den of war between those who serve and those who stay home. 3. Veterans disabled or ki led in service merit top prion .y. The nation ought to provide generous benefits to them o their survivors. 4. The veteran who incurs no injury but whose normal life was disrupted by war deserves help to gain the status he might have reached had he not served his country. Generous readjustment benefits have furnished this aid for World War II and Korean vets. Temporary" benefits that still linger on, such as home loans and job preference over nonvets should be eliminated. 6. Having provided these re-- , your library often SAI Cat Food vith Meat whether or not the other benefits afforded the veterans who left the service in good health pensions, hospital care, burial visit Open new worlds PuGsSDcot: 0 van. Tha numbar win naturally dwindla over tha years. Survivor of man killed in war will decllna, too. Thus, compensation payment to theso veteran and thair survivors should diminish. It is estimated that thus payments will gradually go down from $2.1 billion this year to $1.2 billion by tha and of the century. But panaion costa art expected to climb from $1.7 billion thia year to $2.7 billion In 1960, and by 1995 roughly veta and survivors will be collecting nearly four billion dollars a year. Few people would begrudge benefits to veterans disabled during military service, and no one would deny generoue compensation to widows and children of those veteran who died in war, the editor point out However, a hard look at veteran! program now on ths books raised the question of taxpayer IIEVJ!! CT.3I TO MC2C1 Tony Palazzo 1lie story of a seal.) SPEC I L NOTICE: pital care, burial expenses and lie Davis County Libiary other benefits for veterans with will be dosed the 3rd and 6th nonservice-conliecte- d disabilities. To prsvent undue hardof September. ship, however, pensions and other benefits should be withdrawn gradually, 6. At the least, new applicants with civilian-typ- e ailments should be forced to prove their financial need in order to en-ter a veterans hospital. 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Since 1020, the Census Bureau has provided more than three and million persons with copies of their Census records on age, place of birth, citisenshlp, or kinship. Persons seeking such records of facts about themselves should write to the Personal Census Service Branch, Bureau of the Census, Pittsburg, Kansas, for a Census Records Search Form. 23Sc tii iw yStd 10 ii ,5 |