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Show Outlines Veteran Training on G, L Bill of Rights Public Law 346, the Serviceman's Readjustment Act, (Commonly known as the "G. I.". Bill of Rights) provides an opportunity for a veteran vet-eran of World War if to obtain training in an occupation of his choice in his home community. The act provides for "on the farm" training and related institutional instruction for veterans interested in farming and related agricultural occupations. Honorably discharged veterans who have had nirfety days or more of active military service-are service-are eligible for this type of training train-ing for a period equivalent to one year, plus one additional month's training for each month spent in the armed forces for a total period not to exceed four (4) calendar I 'O Veterans Administration will "vovide subsistence pay to the on-f' on-f' "-farm veteran trainee for the difference between his potential or obioctive salary at the end of the '-ning period and the amount !rt by the employer during the "e of training not to exceed $65.00 per month for a single veteran vet-eran and $90.00 per month for a veteran with dependents. As the , t'nver increases the Salary the ; 'nit;tence allowence may be re-('. re-('. : i, by the Veterans Adminis-t Adminis-t ;on. since the salary paid by I employer and the suljsitence : once cannot exceed the" ob- j or skilled rate of pay. Vet- , -mv draw subsistence while on their own farms a pro- ".cation or training that' "-onerly developed.. and ' s received prior approval, "he public high schools through i departments of vocational ag--' culture will organize, supervise conduct the program of relat-. relat-. (Construction. Gordon Edwcfrds, the son of Mrs. Pearl Stapley, of Delta, returned . home Wednesday, with his release from the Navy. Cpl. Grant Pratt, son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Pratt, of Hinckley, returned home on Friday, May 10, having just been released from duty in the U. S. Army. Grant recently re-cently returned from Greece and was an official observer in the election held there. Cpl. Pratt spent 270 days in actual combat, after which time he was taken behind the lines for duty. Grant entired the Army in June, 1944. Howard Day, Slc, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Day, returned to Delta this week. He has been in the Navy for the past two and a half years and served in the Pacific. Pac-ific. He received his release from the Navy at Clarkfield on May 16. Sgt. Ray Church, USMC, received his discharge from the service at San Diego on April 30, and returned return-ed to Delta several days later. He had been in San Diego. Ray was a prisoner of war, taken at Guam, in December, 1941, and in Japanese prison camps 4 years. He returned home in October, 1945. After a long furlough at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Church, he returned re-turned to San Diego. March 27, 1942. 16 May 1946--T5 John G. Pratt, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Pratt, Rt. 1, Delta, Utah, has been discharged from the Army at the Ft. Douglas Separation Center. T5 Pratt, who served 31 months overseas, is authorized to wear the European Theater Ribbon with 3 battle stars, American Theater Ribbon, Rib-bon, Combat Infantryman's Badge, Good Conduct Medal, and the Victory Vic-tory Ribbon. He was inducted into the Army Pearl Harbor, T. H Raymond Thompson, MM3C, of Delta, Utah, is returning to the U. S. aboard the USS MONROVIA, which left Okinawa April 27 and is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco Fran-cisco about Mav 14. The USS MONROVIA is one of the many APAs of the powerful U. S. Navy which carried both fighting fight-ing men and their equipment to invasion beaches and to U. S. held beachheads as the Navy successfully success-fully carried out its island hopping hop-ping campaign in the Pacific. |
