Show veterans news the trade school workbench has attracted two thirds of all the world war II 11 veterans who have gone to below college level schools under the GI bill since that federal program was established in 1944 veterans administration reports according to the report veterans trained in schools belov college level between june 22 1944 date of enactment of the GI bill and d the end of 1950 of these took trade and vocational training the remaining below college veteran students included who enrolled in elementary and nd high schools in business schools and wha wh studied correspondence coures at home GI bill college students numbered between the date data of the laws beginning and the close of 1950 the V showed on the job trainees during the same period briod training on an apprentice apprenticeship sh ap basis was one third of the total the remaining two thirds enrolled in other forms of on the job tra training n A another at ter world war II 11 veterans trained under the GI bill institutional on farm train ing program a combination of classroom instruction with actual experience on the farm that figure represents about three fourths of all those veterans who returned to the farm following the war thousands of visitors to vet erans administration hospitals over the weekend got a behind the scenes view of what the VA is doing to speed the recovery of disabled I 1 ed and ill veterans and to make their stay in the hospitals as pleasant as possible the occasion occasion was the observance of national hospital day saturday may 12 most of the VAs hospitals participated with open house for visitors held either on saturday or sunday in addition to attend attending ing programs held at m many any of the hosp atals guided tours were made through parts of the hospitals that the public never gets to see during ordinary visiting hours the tour included the operating rooms and xray x ray coomb with an inspection of medical and surgical equipment research laboratories were visited in many of the hospitals here the VAs radioisotope atomic medicine program was discussed as well as VAs research work in the feilds of cancer tuberculosis ber bercu c losis brain tumor tropical and other diseases physical medicine and rehab oi work rooms and equip ment were shown to the visitors and the part this service plays in the curing and rehabilitation of the veteran was explained the visitors were also guided through the kitchens k s and dining rooms recreation rooms roams and the lib libraries baries this is our one day dav in the year to show visitors that VA hospital ho spital service means more than walls and beds it means medical and surgical care and rehabilitation |