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Show Vets Administration Adopts Numerical Claim Filing System Veterans in the Southern Utah area were today advised that the Regional Office of the Veteran's Administration In Salt Lake City has adopted a new numerical filing fil-ing system making it absolutely necessary for veterans to Include their claim numbers on all requests for Information or benefits from 9 that organization. According to A. M. Sidorsky, Contact Con-tact representative In charge of the Cedar City Office of the Veteran's Administration, the new system wil greatly speed up all services to veterans, providing they cooperate fully. Sidorsky pointed out that all veterans vet-erans who have filed claims for . benefits in the past, Including requests re-quests . for schooling or job-training, have been assigned what he termed "C" numbers. With files now set up on the basis of three numbers Instead of alphabetically, such difficulties as trying to determine deter-mine which of the 47 John Smiths In the files might be the veteran In question, is easily solved. Calling attention to the fact that the armed forces successfully kept track of thirteen million men by the use of serial numbers, Sidorsky Sidor-sky urged all Utah veterans to lm- mediately memorize their "C" numbers num-bers and to Include them on all correspondence, forms, or other materials when dealing with the Veteran's administration. |
