Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1956 — Page 10
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Rehabilitated Vets Enjoy Their Work Gainfully Employed J And Enjoying Work WASHINGTON —(DP I Ninety, five out of 100 disabled World War
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II veterans rehabilitated under recently expired Public Ijaw 16 are , now gainfully employed and enjoy , their wqrk. The Veterans Adininisi trattou .reported. Os the 610.0U0 veterans who overcame disabilities through training, .579 are now working. 87 per cent of them at Jobs requiring use of their newly acquired skills, the VA said.
. A survey conducted by the agency “showed that nearly all 99 per Cent—of those helped back to a productive life egjoy their particular jobs. Training received under Public laiw 16 has enabled the average vdteran to nearly, double his income. Before training he earned $39 a week. At present, he has a weekly income of $72.
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In Upper-level Jobe r The percentage of FL. 16 veteri ans working in professional, semi- - professional and managerial occupations— 35 per cent -— is higher ;• than that of the national labor » force. VA figures showed. Nearly 38 per cenTare working in I skilled trade, and Industrial occu- » pations. 14 per cent are faring and the remainder have “a variety ■ 1 ' ' ■ ..' : :
of joba.” Cold statistics alone don't tell the whole story, a VA spokesman said. The initial ask of helping the par tlally disabled veteran regain his seH-eonfideuce and select a vocation which will enable him to use profitably his remaining physical, ability Is a major one. The complete account of physical rehabilltatJoo in terms of patience and
courage is ‘‘tremendous,” he said. P. L. 16 was enacted on March 25, 1943. It expired July 25, 1956. Congress has passed new legislation to enable the disabled Korean war veteran to travel the same productive path. If you have something to aell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings resulta.
Wife Rebelled . FIRKSNO,, Calif—(UP)--A Fresno woman decided to fight back when the cost of transportation became unreasonable. Superior Judge Strother P. Walton granted Mrs. Margaret Alice Dudley an interlocutory divorce after she told him her husbhnd, Leon, charged her 51) cents a day for driving her. to her job picking cotton.
TtITtRsDAY, AtratST 18. 1950
Break Male Chain i- SHERIDAN. Wyo.—(UP)—New. k born Richie Thiesen'g name might i- suggest that her parents, Mr. and e Mrs. Richard Thiesen. were expecti. ing a boy. They were—Richie Elix- •- abeth broke a line at 66 conaecun tive sone over nine generations in 0 the Thiesen family. r .. —— Trade in a Uvod Town — Decatur. • ■,
