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Show I ) and Dow n tin Short GI Bill Gets me It h: vtitr. r,v btst invtMi'itr' for Ami nu The Ul Bill of Rignts teihnuuns. n jchini'.ts just Deserts in a Write-U- p ttr It n a'i' tht tier us Mail h ut Is ,2 wnt n m, jsands of W or Id War I v t t ans desi t nded on Washirgtot' to dt niatid pay lor serv u e in W or f W ar ptuduitd sioans phvMcuts chemists geologists vuldeis oders compans prtsiduiis allots musicians philosophers -phv ua even dance instructors The low down payment low i I it said mat the American It gum naires at their 194 c onv entum Jc c id ed they didn t want to set future members peddling applts on the street as thtv had done in 1912 Business i'ridjv, November Thus they dispauhtd a spuijl committee to Washington where ore of its members Harry Country of I tah wrote out in longhand the fast draft or the Lt gionraires proposal on Mayflower Hotel stationary Robert H. Woody The bill President Roosevelt signed w as remai k tblv similar to the Colmerv draft Business Editor loans enabled millions to buy for the first time The war was was still on when frts.dent Franklin D Roosevelt s grad the bill into law in June, 22 But alas while I tah nas produced many citizens and public servants of forms national note Legionnaire Colmerv was not of I tah The Tribune could find no icfer ence to Mr Colmerv in its 194 J or 1944 indexes The I tah Historical Society could not find no mention in its obituary and military archives D44 But its benefits wr re not to be full) rulted until later or exactly 40 when veterans who had years ago been in on invasions in Africa Italy aid France Guadaeanal and Philli-- f ines invaded the campuses in record - Barracks were transferred from closed military posts to campuses to serve as classrooms Quonset huts made do as housing for the married vets Those barracks long served at the I niversity of Utah Indeed those same barracks housed the first research and start up ac tivmes of the U Research Park Evans & Sutherland Computer Salt Corp, now a Lake City employer, did its early research on computer graphics in one And its and president David C Evans an infantry private in World War II later attended college on the GI Bill Up to $500 in tuition then About $5 000 these days considering inflation1 The enrolled vet also got $50 a Per haps a call to the Americ an Le headquarters in Indianapolis could clear up the mystery'' gion Borg-Warn- Yes indeed said assistant Amen Legion librarian Connie Lamm There was a Harry Colmerv And it was indeed he who drafted the original GI Bill proposals on hotel static nery And these are on display in the tan The war was still on when President Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill. Campuses were deluged with veterans 40 years ago. month in subsistence for starters That was kicked up to $65 in 1946 and $75 in 1948 Good enough to keep a fellow in books a warm bed and occasional case of beer to share with fellow vets for reminiscing about air ground and sea campaigns from Tunisia to Tarawa, and from Amiens to Attu There also was the wonderful Club that is $20 a week unemployment pay up to 52 weeks pending finding gainful employment A nice tidbit it was One could go a whole summer without finding a slot for his skills as a ' golf instructor But most vets were terribly serious, and m a hurry to get on w ith their lives and a career Thus, it is with nostalgia and fond 52-2- 0 are looking back years this month - with Veterans Day having probed old memories upon an era when a grateful nation ness that many 40 expressed its appreciation with the greatest gift of all the opportunity for an education In the past 40 years Americans have invested more than $55 billion in GI Bill training and education for 18 2 million World War II, Korean post Korean and Vietnam vets It also made possible more than $225 billion in G I home loans fur more than 11 million veterans 1 11 Buy That a compendium by the editors of the Consumer ' Reports about the 50 small wonders and big deals that revolutionized the lives of consumers, includes the GI Bill of Rights GAF Discloses It Has Large Stake in NEW' YORK (AP) The takeover threat facing Corp in creased dramatically Thursday as GAF Corp said it owned or had options to buv a total of 9 6 percent of Borg Warner and might seek a merger GAF thus joins Irwin Jacobs the Minneapolis investor and takeover artist, in amassing a major stake in 1I 1 D Section Page 11 Wendys Suing Pepsi After Dumping It hv Bill Ml III i s W i lit r Bumiu NtW VORK Wendv s Intel ru Ini Mid HiurU iv it had sued UtpsiCo Iru tor $ too milliun for al leged danuM' riMiltmg Rom the hamburgt r ih.nns dec ision to drop lepxi in favor of t'uia ( ula Co piod ucts at its lompanv owned lexim A1 enough 1 1 inter numbers A motle) horde most were attired in a chaotic mix of civies and military garb GI jackets with division shoulder patches still attached flight j iciets, flight boots olive drabs The old halls of ivy werent big a r ihum' Suit Lake I) c Borg Warner, a diversified manufacturing, chemicals and services concern based in Chicago Jacobs holds 7 4 percent of the company and has said he might seek control aware of the takeover threat, has been accelerating its own restructuring program aimed at boosting shareholder values Before Borg-Warne- r, But Harry Colmery who was with the Army Air Service in World War I and who died at 88 in 1979 was a Legionnaire from Topeka Kan not Utah' The confusion0 Ah ha here, in his blv the answer Mr Colmery r nu wa possi organized trie first Utah legion post in the Uintah Basin in 1919 and was acting chairman of the resolutions committee of he first Utah legionnaire conventior a 1919 How and what Mr Colir ty was doing in Utah at the time w s not in- dicated No matter Borg-Warn- er GAF s announcement, said it planned to sell its profitable financial-services unit as part of the program GAF, a Wayne, N J based maker of specialty chemicals and building products, said it owned 4 24 million, or 4 9 percent, of Borg Warner s 86 5 million common shares outstanding GAF said it acquired the stock at an Borg-Warn- beautiful Harry Colmery Room at legion headquarters iinl rants The suit filed Wednisdiv in I s District ( ouit in ( olumbus Ohio pie ceded bv hours a stale court suit Pepsi filed in New or k sue king $ WO million from Wendv s and Cota Cola in connection with trie same dispute At issue was the Oct 15 announce ment hv Wendv s and Coca Cola that Wendv s no longer would serve Pepsi products at its 1212 company owned restaurants Wendy s claimed PepsiCo illegally w as trv ing to prev ent it from making tl the sw it h PepsiCo said Coca-Col- a legally induced Wendv s to breach its Pepsi contract that runs through 1990 ' We have tried to reason w ith them but they have given us no choice but to seek justice through the courts said Robert Barney chairman and chief executive of Wendy s Pepsi is demanding a ransom and trying to hold us hostage against our will Ken Ross a spokesman for Pur c hase N Y based PepsiCo, said his company s suit was not filed in re sponse to the Wendv s ac tion He also said PepsiCo believed we have lived up to all our contractual obligations with Wendv s Wendv s the nations third largest hamburger chain after McDonalds and Burger King said it was drop ping Pepsi from its menu because of PepsiCo s escalated push into the res taurant business PepsiCo which for years has owned the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurant chains, earlier this year purchased the 6 Kentucky Fried Chicken chain for $850 million That made PepsiCo the world s biggest fast food chain with 14,000 res500-outl- average price of $29 15 a share In addition, GAF said it acquit ed an option to buy an add tional 4 08 million, or 4 7 percent of shares from the nvestment banking firm Bear, Stear s & Co , at an average cost of $39 87 a share GAF, noting it planned to disclose the stake in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Borg-Warne- taurants Wendy s International owns about Wendy s in the Pnited States, 1,200 and has about 2,300 U S franchises The companv also runs the Sisters Res aurants fried chicken chain in f 70 the Midwist which has !8 company and 3h Irani Iiim d outlets uw m d PepsiCo has c emu nded its soft dt ink revenue was not used to boost its restaut ant busint sst s But Barney said the competitive threat was ex emphtied bv rec ent c ommere lals run bv Taco Bell whose message essen tkillv was don t eat hamburgers ea bur ! itos v are attacking our products their advertising and trying to take customers away from Wendy s restaurants and our Sisters chicken chain Barney said Hn bv In a statement issued from his At lanta headquarters Edwin Mellett pi esident of Coc a Cola ISA said the Pepsi suit simply was a reaction to the Wendv s suit and was without merit Obviously Pepsi has had a bad case of sour grapes, Mellett said First they decided to be primarily a restaurant company and compete with their soft dunk customers Now ' they re suing them 7UPs Owners To Buy Squirt DALLAS (AP) Hicks & Haas, an investment company that recently bought Dr Pepper Co and Seven Up, on Thursday said it was leading a group of investors in the purchase of the U S franchise operations of Squirt & Co The purchase, upon completion, would be the fourth this year for the group led by Thomas Hicks and Robert Haas Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed Squirt, the Holland, Mich based maker of a grapefruit soft drink, will be merged with A&W Brands operations, Hicks said Hicks & Haas this year acquired A&W for $75 million, the Philip Morris Cos U S Seven-U- p operations for $240 million, and Dr Pepper for $416 million -- , x fa I VANS PZZ&tfz IN STOCK ST 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