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Show American Legion Auxiliary hears legislative report Mrs. Dub Leigh, Legislative Chairman of the American Legion Auxiliary. Cedar City Unit 71, arranged tor American Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary members present at the January 28th meeting to hear Rex "Harris tell about legislation for veterans. vet-erans. "The 91st Congress enacted more beneficial legislation for veterans than any congress since 194-1," Mr. Harris stated. He continued that PL-376 provides 8-12 increases in compensation for service disabled dis-abled veterans and improves benefits for dependents of thoiie veterans rated at 50','r or more disabled along with other oth-er improvements in the program. pro-gram. PL-91-219 the Veterans Education and Training Amendments Act of 1970 provides pro-vides increases in education and training allowances of about 35 for returning Vietnam Viet-nam vets and for certain wives and children. PL-91-510 authorized establishment of a Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs comencing this month. PL-91-506, " The Veterans Housing Act of 1970 restores the unused loan guaranty and direct loan entitlement for home purchase by removing the ending dates. The law also al-so allows the purchase of mobile mo-bile homes, homesites and condominiums for the first time, were some of the bills. Mr. Harris told about. Mr. Harris told about the American Legion National Legislative Bulletin and that it contains information about other bills enacted as well as bills that will come before the 92nd Congress. President Marie Memmott urges all members to get acquainted ac-quainted with the beneficial use of the Legislative Bulletin. Order blanks can be obtained from Marie Memmott or Zol-ma Zol-ma Glass. Members were entertained by Ken Hurst of Maplcton, accompanied by Jeanie McGwire Mc-Gwire from Helper, of SUSC who sang "Pve Got to Bo Me." |