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Show EDITOR'S lOTE: This newsfmert through sppcial urrangpmvni with the U I fi.si in pi on Bureau of If' extern Newspaper News-paper L nion at 1616 Eye Street, IS. fl7 Washington, D. C, is able to bring j readers this weekly column on problems prob-lems of the veteran and serviceman j and his family. Questions may be ad- j dressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column, col-umn, Vo replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper regularly. Local Service Centers Gen. Omar N. Bradley, administrator adminis-trator of veterans' affairs, in a recent re-cent statement declared that the most pressing need, insofar as the civilian population and the veteran is concerned, is the establishment of a single service center in every community so that benefits to the veterans can "get down to the grass roots of the home community." Many communities already have set up these centers where the returning re-turning veteran may go for information, informa-tion, for service, for advice, but there are thousands of home communities com-munities where no such benefit is available to the veteran. "We have the plans," General Bradley said, "but you can't help a veteran with a plan. We need the help of business, patriotic and civic organizations, of the press and radio, ra-dio, in solving a problem of space and personnel which is slowing up our job." In the meantime, the veterans administration ad-ministration has inaugurated a six-point six-point program for amputee rehabilitation rehabili-tation to include: (1) direct veteran contact to learn problems, invite criticism and provide corrective measures; (2) a survey to determine availability of prosthetic appliances; appli-ances; (3) to provide each veteran a booklet with essential information; (4) a program of scientific aftercare after-care designed to meet the need of the veteran; (5) a conference with artificial limb manufacturers to establish es-tablish fixed limb standards; (6) to establish a museum of prosthetic appliances. ap-pliances. Questions and Answers Q. I want to know if a man who has been in the army over six months, is 30 years old and has a wife and four children, will be sent overseas or will he get a discharge soon? Wife, Strasburg, N. D. A. According to regulations at this time your husband is eligible for overseas service. According to the information you give, he has only approximately 42 points. Q. I want to know if my husband can get a discbarge. He has been in service 21 months and overseas 14 months and has four children and is needed at home since his mother is his dependent, too, and very feeble. Be is in the army and is 29 years old. L. B., Pisgah, Ala. A. Without any points for battle stars or decorations, your husband has 71 points so he would be eligible eligi-ble for discharge. Q. My husband served nine months in World War I, five of these over- j seas. While in service, one of his ear drums was affected from roar j of guns and he can hear but very j little. During this time his service record was lost and now he cannot ! get help because he doesn't have a i record of his ear. Does he have to be handicapped because the army lost his record? He can do very j Utile work. Wife, Deatsville, Ala. ( A. Your husband's service record j should be in the war department in Washington. Would suggest that you 1 immediately file a claim for pen- sion, due to disability, with the Veterans administration at Birmingham. Birming-ham. Write to the bureau of enlisted en-listed personnel, war department, Washington, D. C, concerning his service record, giving all details possible. Q. I was called for the army September Sep-tember 4, 1918, and went to Fort Riley, Kans., and got my discharge at Fort Riley September 14, 1918. I got the S60 bonus and the whole outfit out-fit of uniforms. Did guard duty and my serial number was 3474300. I asked for the soldier tax exemption in Iowa and they turned me down. E. J. H., Webster City, Iowa. A. You were apparently in the army only 10 days, but the internal in-ternal revenue bureau says there is no federal tax exemption for veterans veter-ans except on disability payments and the $1,500 exemption on active service pay. There may be an Iowa state law providing for some form of tax exemption for veterans. Suggest Sug-gest you apply to your state or local tax authorities. Q. My husband, who is in the navy, has three children ajid is 26 years old. Under this new systrm of discharging fathers of three children, chil-dren, will he be eligible for discharge? dis-charge? Wife, Vanderbilt, Mich. A. The navy department says "yes." Q. How long will boys 18 or 19 years of age, who entered service in the spring of 1945 and are now on their way overseas, remain in the j service? N. G., Lancaster, Wis. I A. Under present regulations, un- i til they have the required number of : points to make them eligible for i discharge. Q. I want to know if a man who 1 has been in the navy 21 months. Is 34 years old and has a wife and three children will be discharged? ; Wife, Owens Cross Roads, Ala. A. Yes. he is eligible for application applica-tion for discharge. |
