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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1946)
10 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Nov. 21, 1 94(5 Wholesale Chiseling by Oregon War Vets Denied By Eldon Barrett (United Press staff Correspondrnll The Oregon unemployment compensation commission today flatly denied reports of wholesale "chiseling" by Oregon war veterans drawing readjustment allowances through the stale "There are very few- : r -. qualifications. A recent count showed that 54,382 veterans have applied for benefits. About 3200 of these are self-employed and have not made SI 00 or more a month in their own business. Approximately 64,000 have drawn at least one check, while 152 have received their full al lowances averaging more than $800 each. Veterans discharg ed after 10 months or more ser vice in the armed forces are entitled to 52 weekly allow ances of $20 while seeking suit able work, the commission point ed out. agency, cases of outright chiseling," the commission said, and most of these involve payments from other agencies or of drawing unemployment benefits while working. Administrator Silas Gaiser aid that illegal cases are turn ed over to the veterans adminis tration for possible prosecution. State funds usually are not in volved because the state agency makes benefit payments to vet erans from federal funds. Recently the commission in terviewed 700 claimants receiv ing veterans' readjustment al lowances. As a result, this com posite picture of the average veteran receiving benefits was drawn: He is between 35 and 40 years old; is semi-skilled; lives in a city; worked both before and after the war; has been out of service eight or nine months; may have some minor disabili ty; probably had a special oc cupation while in the service; has contacted several employ ers and his local employment office but hasn't found suitable work where housing is avail able. Ages Averaged One in eight has passed his 40th birthday, and 82 per cent nre 30 or older. One in every 12 is a woman. About one-fourth claim ex perience in clerical or service work, and six per cent say they Portland Fire Confessed by Youth Fresno, Calif., Nov. 21 IPi A 14-year-old boy, whom Dis trict Attorney James M. Thue- sen said has admitted setting a $5,000,000 bonded brandy ware house fire south of Fresno Au gust 28 and a series of other in cendiary blazes elsewhere along the Pacific coast, was being held here today. Among the blazes confessed by the boy, who gave his name as Wiliams, were three houses near Portland, Ore., and a groc ery store in Vanvouver, B.C. In New Jersey it is illegal to drive a stage coach on Sundays. Christmas Tinsel Shipped to Alaska Seatte, Nov. 21 UP' An esti mated $2,000 in toys plus a myriad of ornaments and a large percentage of this city's curtailed Christmas lighting is scheduled to leave here tomor row morning by naval air trans port for Kodiak, Alaska. The gifts and necessary Yule tide accessories were purchas ed with navy welfare funds by Lt. Cmdr. James A. Whitman and Yeoman 3c Noah Fluck ard to provide holiday gifts for some 300 navy children in the Aleutian chain and another hundred children of civil ser vice employes. The navy plans to provide a gift for every child through the eighth grade as well as the 60 native kiddies of the Kodiak orphanage. University Cramped By Coal. Shortage Seattle, Nov. 2t Due to a coal shortage, the University of Washington closed "indefi nitely" Wednesday. Dr. Raymond B. Allen, uni versity president, postponed his scheduled reception tonight for parents of freshman students. University officials said the i school had only a six-day supply j of coal on hand and is unable to get more immediately because the Big Four mine, southeast: of Renton, which supplies the institution, is shutdown by a power failure. President Allen said the uni- : versity definitely would not I open tomorrow. He said he i could not tell how much longer it would be closed. i East Salem Parent-Teachers To Rent Frozen Food Locker East Salem, Nov. 21 The monthly meeting of Swegle Parent Teachers association was held in r?ie intermediate classroom at the school. It was a business meeting as the social hour had been held with the Community, club meeting. The president, Mrs. George Standley, conducted the meeting. On recommendation of the purpose committee chairman, Mrs. Floyd King, cold storage unit will be rented for this year's lunch program, and a beef will be brought and put away for the lunches. Meetings will be held at the earlier hour of 3 p.m. and Mrs. E. E. Brandt will act as hospitality chairman. Health clinics have been spon sored by the PTA for several and it was voted to arrange defi nite dates for these dinners with Dr. W. J. Stone. The school principal, Mrs. I. M. Bankston announced the purchase by the teachers and pu pils of a record player with amplifier and microphones It may be used by all community organizations holding meetings in the school auditorium. Illnesses that have been re ported in East Salem are scarlet fever at the John Steele home on Brown road, mumps at the Al bert Gilman home on Hollywood drive and Geraldine Krasch has been ill with chickenpox at her home on Monroe avenue. Robert Porterfield's Barter theater in Virginia will take a ham or a dozen eggs for the price of admission. 200 Delegates at Rodeo Convention San Francisco, Nov. 21 OPl The International Rodeo asso ciation convention, attracting some 200 delegates from 25 slates and Canada, opened here today. Speakers during the two-day meet will include Cliff Kaynor, vice president, from Ellensburg, Wash. Also on tiie association's list of officers are M. L. . Tyler, Lewiston, Idaho, and John Hales, Pendleton, Ore., vice presidents. initiate new members and put on the third degree in the eve ning. The following members from here went by bus: Mrs. Ouida O'Mara, Mrs. B. P. Stupfel, Mrs. L. P. Gooding, Mrs. E. C. David son, Mrs. Rose Colman, Mrs. John Davidson, Mrs. Laurence Kersch, Mrs. Lawrence Bun- ning. Mrs. Fay Mannagre, Mr, H. Raymond, Mrs. Rose GoodJ ing, Miss Betty Managre, Loul ella Raymond, Dorothy Stuplei and Margaret Brentano. 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