Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 34, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 July 1949 — VETS SPENDING USELESS MONEY APPLYING FOR BONUS [ARTICLE]

VETS SPENDING USELESS MONEY APPLYING FOR BONUS

Indianapois, July 22. veterans are spending thousands of useless dollars in applying for their Indiana World War II bonus and at the same time costing the Bonus Administration many hours of useless work. This statement was made today by Orville P. Bray, assistant director of the Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs and Administrative officer of the World II Bonus in commenting on the great amount of registered mail being received by the Bonus Division. Despite the announcement that it was necessary to send the applicaton blanks to Indianapolis by registered mail, veterans throughout the state are still spending the extra money daily to send in their forms. At the same time,

they are causing the mail receiving department of the Bonus Division to spend valuable hours each day to personally sign for each piece of registered mail. Bray pointed out that the entire bonus procedure had been planned to take extreme care in the handling of the original discharge papers, which are accompanying the application forms. The mail is funneled into the bonus machinery and there is little of any chance of a document being lost. Mail that is received registered comes in outside the regular channels and actually stands more of a chance being lost or misplaced than the regular first class mail. At the same time Bray announced many veterans are still failing to place sufficient postage on the envelopes. The average application takes six cents postage. However, if there is an extra amount of supporting documents

with the claim, more postage will be required. He suggested that veterans should have the envelope weighed at the postoffice to determine the proper amount of postage.