Show spa REAU EDITORS 1 0 RS NOTE this w f t through h 2 1 specie arr arrangement angom ni with the irl abing jon B burakof Burau of 1 arle ha ew 1 1616 eye SJ street li V paper P r union at washington J b anglon D C is able to bring readers this weekly jekl colu column n on problems ot of the she veteran and ceman emars and his family am questions may be bead ad dressed to the above bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent cot dmn no replies tan can be made direct by mail but only in the column which wilt ill appear in this newspaper regularly payment to schools with veteran enrollment in institutions of higher learning expected to ot of in the reach a peak school year 1947 48 veterans administration has established a new procedure whereby VA may pay 75 per cent of estimated tuition fees book and supply costs for veterans studying under the GI bill in advance to well established and nonprofit colleges and universities actual expenses less the advance payment can be paid either at the end of the semester or at the end ot of the period lor for refunding money for those who have dropped out of school Forni formerly erly no college could collect from veteran students until the end of the refund period asua usua usually 11 Y six weeks or more after start of a semester and this worked a hardship on many schools which customarily depended on tuition payments to meet current expenses of the semester questions and answers Q will you please tell me when a boy dratted drafted in the army june jone 7 1946 will be eligible for a discharge mrs B BI al prescott Pr cscott ark A no we can give you no definite date but the army does not now hold bold draftees much longer than a year Q it if I 1 were getting a 50 allotment would I 1 be eligible to work and draw wages if so how much R W mt angel ore A it if you are the wife or mother of a serviceman and drawing an allotment yes you would be eligible to work tor for any wages you could get Q I 1 am writing in regard to the GI loans for homes through the my husband is a veteran and we were trying to buy a farm through this loan we had all the papers fixed up and signed the option had been signed by us and the owner of the farm we had a notice to go sign for the first loan check then the man at the office told us the loan was not going through the reason was the place lacked one acre of having the amount of cleared land required we offered to clear this one acre and the owner said she would have it cleared but they hear bear to it V now vv the arje place has been sold to another r man and we think there was something crooked about all of it so will you please tell us how we could go about seeing who turned the place down at so late a date and the real reason why they did so mrs T E L hickory flat bliss A farmers rome home administration which has succeeded farm security administration suggests that you write all details direct to thomas B fatherree state director of farmers home administration 1130 west capitol street jackson miss in the meantime the washington office of assures us they will immediately start their own investigation ti and w will ill info inform rm this office of the result which we will be glad tc forward to you Q could you please tell us how we can find out why we dont receive cursons our sons mail we know for sure that he be writes us twice a week but we never receive his letters his chaplain wrote to us and told us that he knows our son writes and he understand why we never get his mail two of our sons friends who are in n the same me regiment write to us and we get their 1 letters e aters in in sex six or se seven ven days we have b a ve not alo received r r nall mail from our ton son in six weeks can you tell us why ile he sends it air mail we know he is in korea and it worries us that we do not receive his mall mail some of it has been registered so we would be sure to get it his chaplain said but we have never received it I 1 hope you can tell us what to do birs airs L S J L clayton mo alo A it if you receive mail from your sons friends in the same regiment there is no reason why you do not receive your sons mail it if he writes and addresses his letters correctly the fact that you receive mail from your sons two friends indicates that the mall mail comes through OK it your son receives your mail and you receive your sons friends mall mail there appears no reason why you not receive his Q when my husband was in service we had a son ile he know the gover government Dment was supposed to pay tor for the doctor and so he paid it wo we wondered if we could get the amt amount back if so who do we get in touch I 1 I 1 with birs airs L II 11 Pi keville tenn I 1 A it is difficult to obtain re I 1 tor for such expenditures but suggest that you ask your loc local red cross to help you or inquire at the nearest army hospital in case you have no luck write to the office rf f dependency benefits war de apartment part ment Good goodfellow fello blvd st 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