Show I I Vets Administration Administration Information Service An architect without hands That's the goal of year old Cronan LeBlanc World War II veteran and andI I double amputee who enrolled this fall fallin fallin in Tulane University's school of architecture arch archi- under Public Law 16 the Voca Voca- Vocational Vocational Rehabilitation Act I In the few weeks hes he's been to class LeBlanc has given all indications hes he's j going to reach his goal officials at the j New Orleans university say i With two hooks in IIi place of ot hands he hei i J already can draw plans almost as s well wellI the that he has as next student student except except I some trouble using u a 3 comp ss But the Veterans Administration is Lb helping him I beat that problem by by buying him a special compass I LeBlanc Knows he ho may never never never-be be able to achieve the speed needed for routine drafting Jobs so his plan is 15 to become an architectural dif dif- difficult I I designer the designer the most I field In architecture but one In InI I I which drafting speed Is not required I Without the training available under Public Law 10 la LeBlanc recalls he still wOuld be as ns far away from his goal as ashe I ho he was in 1936 when he had to drop I I I I out of high school to go to work j I IThe The following year year year-he he was 16 at the time time time-he he Joined the National Guard and in 1940 he was called to active duty in the Army He lost his lower arms and ancl one eye in 1943 with a a. dyna- dyna mite j charge exploded prematurely Six months months in a hospital followed and then he was discharged I H Hd f could have gone into Public Law 1 16 training then but he felt he wasn't ready He wanted to get better control I over over his new metal fingers So he I obtained a Job in a New Orleans air air- aircraft aircraft craft plant and soon became one of Its leading Inspectors i i Later he designed and built his own home in Gulfport Mississippi MI and j ruined a good pair of or hooks in the process c he said All these activities booted boosted his confidence he added so that I by 1950 when 1950 when he finally mastered I tucking his own shirttails In In-he In he knew I 1 II he ho vas was ready for school under und r Public Law 16 I I Since Public Law 16 went in effect in March 1943 some disabled disabled I II I World War II veterans have trained at I some time or other at government ex ex- ex expense I pence pense pense So far nearly half or I have completed their training and have j I been Declared declared d rehabilitated by the V-A. V I More than disabled veterans i arc now training under this Vocational Reh program Of this total I more moie mote than an are taking Institution Institutional I al farm training are in schools I college level are in col colleges oT I leges lege or universities and are taking the on-the-Job training |