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SOUTHERN PAGE TW O T H U R S D A Y , D E C . 21, 1950 O R E G O N N E W S R E V IE W DISABLCD VETERANS Rehabilitated Disabled Veterans Competent, Efficient Employees Recently motion pictures were being taken of blind veterans in the Idento-Tag plant of the Disabled American Veterans. Here miniature automobile license plates for key rings are made by disabled veterans and distributed to 30 million motorists each year. False Alarm ' WAS ALL HUSHED up, but The funds realized are used in the DAV service and rehabilitation pro one day recently practically gram. every top m ilitary man in W ash “ Cut” , cried the director and the camera stopped grinding. The di rector stood for a long minute without saying anything, looking speech- ington was anxiously scanning the sky in anticipation of an enemy less. air raid on the nation'» capital. “ What's wr„ng?” asked the cam Reason for their concern was a eraman. an arm may still be a competent cable from India which read: The director Ignored this ques salesman, draftsman or lawyer. "A lert all U. S. cities they are due tion as he asked to caucus with the These are a few of the jobs open to to be bombed within the next production manager. the disabled veteran. twenty-four hours.” “This is a ticklish m atter,” hem A vice president of General Mo Astonished clerks at the message med the director, "but those boys tors said in a memorandum to de center Immediately made a dozen work with such speed and ease, the partment heads that once a disabled copies—on message center forms— public won't see they're blind. Could veteran is properly placed on a job and shot them out to the key of you ask them to slow up?” he is no longer considered disabled fices. The cryptic message, on of When the production manager ex Ordinarily you wouldn't think of ficial stationery, had all the ap plained the situation to the group, a badly disabled man as a construc pearances of being an official one of them said. “ Oh, I know what tion worker. warning, and remembering how they want—they want us to act as if Orlando A. Milano of Erie, Pa., Washington was caught asleep dur we’re blind.” was seriously wounded by the ex ing Pearl Harbor, word of the im When a blinded veteran of World plosion of a land mine in Germany pending attack was flashed from M A R S H A LL PLAN FLO U R FOR H U N G R Y YUGOSLAVIA . . . A German representatives of the federal War I I has to “ act” blind for a during World W ar I I . Outside of the the Pentagon to every key office motion picture camera it speaks two men who lost both arms and throughout the city—including the ministry of economies shakes hands with a Yugoslavian delegate as he receives for his government the well of the rehabilitation of World both legs, he was about as badly White House. first of a series of emergency shipments ol flour for drought-ridden Yugoslavia from the Marshall Plan. W ar I I disabled. The flour, shipped from the Palatinate m ill at Mannheim, was loaded aboard a train In Jute hags as part disabled as any living veteran. Uniformed couriers sped the mes The blinded veteian is proficient He was totally blind. His left arm sage to the national security coun of the $11,500.000 worth of flour which w ill be sent from Germany and «taly to Yugoslavia under the United States government's stop-gap aid program for nations that will help defend the west from Uommu- because his rehabilitation followed a was amputated at the elbow. His cil, a sergeant raced into Defense ism. definite, tried and tested pattern. right hand was badiy mutilated. And Secretary Marshall's office, the He wasn't always so proficient. he suffered a slight loss of hearin„ central intelligence agency was And he may not always be as ef alerted, Pentagon stenographers ficient if the rehabilitation program An Outstanding Case hearing the news made frantic and the post-rehabilitation benefits But there was the magic of reha phone calls to advise their friends break down. bilitation! Milano was assigned to and relatives. Tension was mount a convalescent hospital for blinded ing to the breaking point. Three Phases of Work veterans for social and pre-voca- Then the bubble burst amid a sea In the nine years since the first tional training. All the time he was of very red faces. disabled veterans of World W ar II planning what he was going to do I A few calm officers decided to were returned to the United States, when he got his discharge. His check the name signed to the cable it has been found that rehabilitation father had died while he was in the can be as simple as curing the service and there was no one but from India. They discovered that him to carry on the Milano Con the signer wasn't employed by the chicken pox. state department, wasn’t a CIA struction Company of Erie. Both the rehabilitation of the agent, wasn't in arm y, navy or air On his discharge, through the disabled veteran and the curing intelligence. In fact, he wasn't a war assets administration, local of the sick child should follow U. S. government employee of any manufacturers and his own ag a smooth and successful course kind. gressiveness be acquired equip under proper professional care He was, they learned, an Amer ment which Included heavy duty and direction; while each can ican tourist stopping off in India. trucks and shovels and other become serious and harmful Examination of the original cable things necessary to his plan. through neglect or misunder revealed it had been sent on No Today he is successful in a high standing. vember 23. ly competitive field and the hard Thus the disabled veteran again work connected with running One officer glanced at a calen becomes a useful and self-sustain this business does not bother dar. “ November 23 was Thanks ing member of society just as the him. giving day,” he said. Then he child can be restored to normal And there is the case of Louis A. queried, “ What are some Am er health. Woodrow Wilson in a letter of No M iller of Louisville, Kentucky. He : icans apt to do if they're in India vember 29, 1918, wrote that this na was wounded when he and the driv on Thanksgiving day?” “ Get drunk,” was the reply. tion had no more solemn obligation er of his armed jeep broke through than that of restoring the disabled to a stubtjsm roadblock in Germany. The assembled officers nodded in civil life and opportunity . . . by The driver was killed and M iller agreement. Washington was saved. developing and adopting the remain was left for dead. He was wounded in the back, neck and head by ma- Soviet Seeret W eapons ing capabilities of each man. chinegun bullet«. He was uncon American ordnance officers are From this the definition of reha scious fifteen days. HAZARDOUS BUSINESS . . . A barge laden with gasoline clings stubbornly to the brink of the federal bilitation was worked out by a navy popeyed at Soviet weapons, cap Although an operation was per tured in Korea. They are so amazed dam in the Hudson river at Troy, N .Y ., as straining tugs finally pull It free. The huge barge, which was officer as “ the process of restoring carrying 650,000 gallons of gasoline, lodged on the dam several days ago after breaking lopse from a tug the handicapped individual in terms formed on his brain there were no that they are hastily revising their that was towing it in the strong and treacherous current of the rain-swollen river. Officials took every of his total situation, to the fullest hopes for his recovery. Surgeons estimates of Russian m ilitary might precaution to prevent a leakage of the gasoline upon the high waters because It might have created a fire physical, mental, social, vocational labelled him as a “ museum of and are convinced that the United hazard for several miles along the banks of the rampaging river. and economic functioning of which pathology.” Even later when he was States has been underestimating able to sit up doctors predicted he is capable.” Russian strength by as much as he would spend the rest of his life 50 per cent. This means in even simpler lan in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed guage that rehabilitation is trying A prelim inary survey indicates on his left side and he lost his pow to get the disabled veteran to stop er of speech. But M iller was deter that Russia sent nearly two billion thinking about what he could have dollars worth of m ilitary aid to mined to fight back to normalcy. done with which is gone, and aiding He began to try to walk and began North Korea, which is more than him in helping! himself in making to try to sing with the radio. Soon the total American deliveries to the best use of what is left. he was walking and then he was all North Atlantic pact countries The Disabled American Veterans talking. On his discharge he took an combined. And this does not in has worked for more than 29 years extension course in the University clude planes and ships which the with thousands of disabled veterans of Louisville where he studied ad Russians did not supply to North and so carefully has the m atter been vertising. typing and business ad Korea in quantity. thought out and so successfully have ministration. Then he went with the Furthermore, markings on the the ideas been applied that it has Kentucky department of agriculture. equipment have been traced to Rus been found that rehabilitation can He is now advertising manager for sian factories that U. S. intelligence be broken down into three distinct the Kentucky Electric Co-op News. thought were producing civilian phases. F irst there is physical and goods. These captured weapons are mental readjustment. Then training Compensation Necessary now being tested and evaluated at and employment. Third, the individ Thus the man who was left as the Aberdeen, Md., ordnance center. ual and social restoration. The most effective weapons cap dead on the battlefield is very much alive, fighting the battles ofaKen tured from the North Koreans are Disabled Vets Competent tucky farmers for better living con heavy mortars _nd burp guns, These factors all blend in a ditions, water, sewage and land con which laid down the most terrific harmony of body, mind and spirit. servation. He leads a useful and ac firepower that the American arm y has ever faced. To bring about this harmony a care tive life. For example, the captured Rus ful program is followed, each phase These men are only two ex sian 120-mm. trench m ortar is of the veteran's rehabilitation being amples ont of thousands of what heavier than the comparable 4.2- handled by competent and well can be accomplished when reha inch U. S. m ortar; also fires 1,600 trained persons. bilitation follows a definite pat yards farther. In addition, the North There is the veterans idministra- tern. Actually rehabilitation in Koreans used a m ortar even heav tion physician and the nurse. Then the experience of the DAV is ier than the 120-mm., which the the physical therapist, the occupa proper hospitalization or treat army has not yet evaluated. tional therapist, and the artificial ment of the wounded or disabled The Russian burp gun ha» a appliance maker. The disabled man veteran. It is also fa ir com drum-type magazine and fire» at may need the psychiatrist or the pensation and pension for his a terrifically rapid rate. Most of psychologist. He comes under the SOMBER M I S S I O N . . . Gen. wartim e handicaps. W ITCH OF BUC HENW A LD . . . Use Koch is sworn in at her trial before these were inscribed with 1950 man influence of the vocational counselor, George C. Marshall, secretary of Compensation, as an aid to reha ufacturing markings, thus refuting a German court at Augsburg. Frau Koch is charged with atrocities the educator, and the placement defense, arrives at the White House bilitation, is one thing stressed by the Soviet claim that they had against Germans while living at Buchenwald concentration camp as worker. Then he is associated with to discuss with President Truman wife of the camp supervisor. She denies all the charges against her. the DAV. It is considered an impor shipped no arms to North Korea the employer or the industralist— dispatches f r o m General Mac- One witness asked permission to kick out 13 of the prisoner’s teeth, be tant part of the adjustment of the since 1945. and finally by those of his home cir Arthur concerning United Nations cause, he says, he remembers the 13 teeth he lost when he was kicked wartim e handicapped. Disabled vet cle and his friends. reverses on the North Korean front. in the mouth by the heel of Use’s riding boot. erans are paid by a grateful govern Soviet Jeep Rehabilitation involves t h e ment to help them live as normal Probably the most fascinating a life as possible and become useful captured equipment is the Russian combined efforts and thoughts citizens in their communities. Com Jeep. This is slightly larger and of all these persons. But the best pensation is paid each month to off of all aids is the disabled vet more comfortable than the U. S. set, at least in part, the veteran’s eran himself. For as someone model, is equipped with softer reduced earning power caused by said “it is he whose Interest and seats, double springs and better satisfaction must be met, within his wartim e, service-incurred dis shock absorbers. However, its vital abilities. his remaining physical, mental parts are still modeled after the and social capacities. Rehabilitation, too, is social re out-moded A and B types, made by The disabled veteran, prepared adjustment through comradeship Ford. for a job in line with his physical with fellow disabled veterans at Several BA-64 light-armored cars condition, aptitude and ability, can DAV chapter meetings. Further were also captured. However, they do his work well. A man with a leg more, it is legislative protection of are distinctly Inferior to the A m er amputated can do anything at a rights to which the disabled veteran ' ican M-8 in maneuverability, fire desk that an able-bodied man of is justly entitled, and which give power and defense against small equal skill can do. A man without him a necessary sense of security. arms. r A Job Is Important Link in Program This disabled veteran is not actually rehabilitated until he has the job which is within his remaining capacities. These remaining capacities have been developed to a high degree. If, when he is ready for a job there is no job, there is a definite break in the link of rehabilitation. If he should have to take a job for which he is not suited, much of the good work is ruined. He may suffer a complete setback. It is essential for the disabled veteran, unless he is totally incapacitated, to have the right job. Most captured Soviet rifles are modeled after the U. S. Springfield 1903. They weigh 10 pounds, use five-round clips and fire at a slower rate than modern U. S. rifles. However, a novel, hand-shoulder antitank gun was captured that is easy to maneuver and can pierce armor up to two and one-half inch es. The Russian-made goryunov m a chine gun can also be used against aircraft by reversing the gun and elevating the tall. Its effective range is 900 yards but it is d iffi cult to carry and load. SIGNS OF T H E T IM E S . . . A soldier and a sailor anxiously review the significant headlines of a recent newspaper in the nation’s capital. 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