Show physical exams delayed southeastern utah veterans are i many cases failing to co iper ate ale with the veterans administration in the matter of keeping ap ii 1 for physical examina sons ions for pension purposes ac arding to L D young contact in charge on contact tact office at price reports from the salt lake outpatient out patient clinic where most of these examinations 1 are scheduled indicate that a great deal of unnecessary work arises from the failure of veterans to report at assigned hours the law provides that physical examinations must be given P 9 to most men drawing drabin g P pt sp ot the utah regional office offic e I 1 already has a backlog of more than 1000 cases in this category i which are being processed as rapidly as p possible isible ss ible veterans receive report notices well in advance and the VA pays their expenses for f or the trip so there would seem little reason for failure fahire to report changes in examination times w will ill be cheerfully made by the VA provided veterans have good reasons for the change and provided they notify the VA in plenty of time for another veteran to be assigned to take the vacant place veterans should take these appointments point ments seriously because they are subject to suspension of pension payments for repeated fail ure to report the VA now cj c 0 dt siders this situation so serious 1 pt P t utah that 50 pensions have been ordered suspended southeastern utah veterans are urged to cooperate with the VA in the future I 1 |