Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1944 — Page 13

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FARM MANAGERS MEET AT PURDUE

The Indiana Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers will meet with the national organization in its summer session at Purdue university, June 25 through June 27.| John R, Bowen, American United! Life Insurance Co. Indianapolis, is chairman of, the national group. while J. Fred Duff, Lebanon, is chairman of the state society. Varied agricultural subjects will be discussed at the meeting by farm |

leaders and educators from many

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goods back for civilian sale, in order to take advantage of the established retail price. OPA officials point out that if

tion that they would be sold back to you cheap. Then there would be nothing to keep these prices from jumping to ceiling prices at some levels. Paper Weights New paper restrictions take a pinch here and a pinch there from weights of various types of paper, to save the precious basic materials. Tablets, notebooks, and such every-day writing papers will be cut a liftle more. School draw- | ing paper will be lighter, Water- | color paper for elementary schools

is an exception, Its weight was increased slightly because the lighter paper would-not do. Some types of magazine and book paper have been reduced again, At last the war production

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held since 1927.

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And they look so realistic because they come in the natural colors of the blo:soms! Some are on combs with a wisp of veiling attached. They make a perfect headdress for afternoon’ or evening. * Loose flowers are lovely tucked in your beit, pinned to you lapel or fastened to your handbag. Our variety is great, priced from 59% to $10.

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37 Years Retires JOHN BLAIR, 2545 Tyrone dr.

engineer which position he had

He is a past president of the Hoosler State chapter of the board is on the verge of doing | Telephone Pioneers of America.

vast majority of complaints by families of servicemen over delays

{in receiving their allotment checks!

is due to misunderstanding despite the fact that the war department's office of dependency benefi's has written nearly 76,000,000 ‘checks #0 date, The office is on a substantially current basis and within a short

time it is expected that any regular case will be processed for payment within 24 to 96 hours after the claim is received. 3 That was the explanation Brig. Gen. H. N. Gilbert, director of the office of dependency benefits, gave in a letter to Rep. John Rankin (D, Miss.),

Answers Request

Gen. Gilbert's letter was in answer to a request from Rep. Rankin for an explanation of “many cases of apparently unwarranted and unnecessary delay” in getting allotment checks to families of servicemen. “So often,” Gen. Gilbert replied, “it is found that these complaints arise through misunderstanding of facts, through the failure of applicants to submit necessary evidence and other information which this office must have in order to act, by the giving of improper addresses, and a multitude of other factors which arise in the operation of a business of this size.” One of the principal causes of complaint, Gen. Gilbert said, is the failure to understand the “initial” family allowance payment. This payment is made in the field within a week after the serviceman is inducted and is for a full month regardless of what day of month the induction occurred.

May Mean Lag

“This may mean a lag of up to 54 days between the initial payment and the signing of the first regular allotment check,” Gen. Gilbert said. This is due to the fact that the first regular payment begins to accrue with the first of the month following the man’s reporting: for active duty and is not due until the first of the next month. “There are, at the present time,” Gen. Gilbert wrote, “approximately 6,300,000 family allowance and Class E allotment of pay accounts in effect being paid promptly and regularly. More than 11,000,000 persons are receiving benefits under

{the provisions of the servicemen’s

dependents allowance act of 1042. Payment on these allotments and allowances has been made by nearly 76,000,000 checks. “In an operation of this rhagnitude, which deals with the entire personnel of the army and their dependents, many changes occur in the lives and status of soldiers and their beneficiaries which require adjustments to be mage in their accounts. Many Families Move

*For instance, 108,459 families who were receiving family allowances in April, 1944, notified this office of their removal from one residence to another, thus necessitating changes in records. Many thousands of other beneficiaries have moved without notifying the office of dependency benefits and their checks were returned to be remailed later when new addresses were provided.” The “titanic” task of converting family allowances to new rates within the four months allowed by the law passed last October entailed the auditing, recomputing and reauthorizing of each of the 3,032,150 family allowance accounts that were in effect last Nov. 1.

4th Member of Family Enlists

A FOURTH STAR will be added to the family's service flag when Mrs. Bertha Casswater, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Ciriello, 259 8. Keystone ave., leaves for WAVE training at Hunter college, New York City, tomorrow. Mrs. Casswater, whose husband, Cpl. Ray Casswater, has been with the army in the South Pacific for 22 months, just celebrated . her 21st birthday. Two brothers, Pvt. Robert Streber, and Electrician's Mate 3-c. Harold E. Streber, are seeing combat duty in Italy and the Atlantic.

HOOD ELECTED BY CO-OPERATIVE CLUB

Harold B. Hood, Indianapolis attorney, has been elected director of the. Co-operative Club International, it was announced today, The following eight delegates from Indianapolis ‘supported Mr. Hood's candidacy: Fae W. Patrick, H. Robert Uhl, Dr. W. W, Peet, P. C. Neidlinger, Ralph E. Duncan, C. H. Eberhard, Dr. Floyd E. Magee and Ed R. Grisell, president of the Indianapolis club.

11,506° HOOSIERS IN MARINE CORPS

ficers and enlisted personnel of the marine, standing 10th in the naNew York was represented by 46.-

893, followed by Pennsyl Cali-

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