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Show BUREAU EDITORS NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper News-paper Union at 1616 Eye Street. A'. W ., Washington, D. C, able to bring readers read-ers this weekly column on problems of tjie veteran and serviceman and his family. fam-ily. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper news-paper regularly. Vets' Hospital Facilities To Be Greatly Enlarged Reflecting the need for increased hospitalization facilities and the pushing of the Veterans' administration adminis-tration hospital construction program, pro-gram, is the fact that at the beginning begin-ning of February a total of 17,015 veterans were on the hospital list awaiting entrance and the number was increasing at the rate of approximately ap-proximately 4,000 per month. As a matter of fact, however, less than 4 per cent of those awaiting treatments had service - connected disabilities, although it is the policy of the administration to provide hospital hos-pital facilities for . all non-service disabilities wherever rodm is available. avail-able. In his effort to provide more hospital hos-pital space, Gen. Omar Bradley has obtained the use of six army hos-I hos-I pitals and in addition, navy has agreed to make available 9.850 beds in navy hospitals. The army has agreed to supply up to 10,000 beds if they can obtain the necessary neces-sary personnel to service them. Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley, who recently resigned from the army to take over full charge of the veterans' vet-erans' medical and surgical division, asserts that more than 13,000 veterans veter-ans discharged from the! service have their hearing affected and have gone through rehabilitation programs. He estimated that in the next 20 years there would be from 200,000 to 400,000 hard-of-hearing veterans as a result of war service. Questions and Answers Q. My son was In the army for 3 years, overseas 18 months. Before Be-fore going, he took out an allotment for my three children, but I never received It. Be also sent S30 to me out of his check, but I didn't know it at the time, thinking it was the allotment to the children. When he came home, he told me I was not receiving the allotment. I would like to know if I can still get it. Mrs. L.' R. S., Wasola, Mo. A. The army says that if the al-. lotment was actually deducted from your son's pay he is entitled to a refund of the amount deducted. Write to the Office of Dependency Benefits. U. S. Army, Newark 2, N. J., giving all details, son's full name and serial number. Q. I am a veteran of this war and was wounded November 19, 1944, and since have been unable to do much of anything. I got discharged dis-charged two weeks ago and decided I had to have money so I went up to see about getting a G.I. loan. They told me the only things yon could get a loan on was to buy a home or a business. Now I have been misled, for I thought I could get a loan .on anything your local banker would let me have the money on, so I am stuck. I want to buy a tractor and equipment so I can farm, also build on my house I already have paid for. Now how can I do it? E. T. M., Arlington, Kan. A. The G.I. law provides you may obtain money for both these Dur- poses, either a tractor for furthering your business of farming or to repair, re-pair, remodel or make alterations to your home. The law also provides, pro-vides, however, that you must first obtain a lender who will make the loan and that the lender is the judge of whether or not you are a good risk. Would suggest you obtain from your nearest veterans' administration admin-istration a list of approved lenders in your town and seek out one who will agree to make the loan. Q. I have sugar diabetes 100 per cent. Was inducted before the war and spent three months and was discharged in January after war was declared. They sent me to the veterans' facilities for application for compensation, but they turned me down, said the fact was on my Induction papers. I appealed to Washington and was turned down there. Please tell me how I can get some help from the government. L. W., Poplarville, Miss. A. I am afraid there is nothing you can do since your disability was evident when you were inducted, unless you can present evidence it was aggravated by your short service, serv-ice, or that you have some other disability. Q. I would like some Information regarding the whereabouts of my brothers. One is with the 600th Port, company, APO 562. The other with the 54th Reif. Bn. APO 772. Could you tell me where they are located and If they may be home soon? Mrs. G. R. K., Arcadia, Calif. A. Th 600th Port, company arrived ar-rived in New York last August 18 and the 54th Reif. Bn. was inactivated inactiv-ated In France on November 4, 1945. If they have not arrived home, they may have been transferred to other units. |