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.
From a dozen to 500 mice art
living o.i every acre of grain or
pasture land in the United
Stales.
St. Paul Foresters
Direct Initiation
SI. Paul The Women's Cath
olic Order of Foresters went lo
Verboort Sunday afternoon to
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