Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 27, DeMotte, Jasper County, 4 June 1948 — RIGHTS OF VETS UPHELD IN COURT [ARTICLE]

RIGHTS OF VETS UPHELD IN COURT

Washington, June 1. The Supreme court unanimously upheld today U.S. civil service commission regulations which give special protection to war veterans during layoffs of government workers. The regulations require dismissal of a non-veteran career employe before a veteran career worker even though the non-vet-eran had longer service on the job. They are based on the 1944 Veterans’ Preference Act and the 1940 Selective Service Act. Justice Black delivered the decision. Justice Reed and Rutledge wrote concurring opinions. The case was brought by Earle W. Hilton, a non-veteran government employe who was laid off after working 12 years at the Chal ies'.on, S.C., Navy yard. Mr. Rudy Hendricks, brother of Mrs. Moe, who was injured in an auto motor scooter accident last month was taken from the Jaspe}- county hospital to the Porter Memorial hospital in Valparaiso Tuesday in the Todd ambulance. , Bobbie Schultz has been visiting in Hobart recently. Mr. Harry Huhn, who recently underwent a major operation in a Gary hospital was released last Friday. Albert' Dunn of near Wheatfield was taken to the Old Soldier’s Home at Lafayette, in the Todd ambulance Tuesday.