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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Sept. 7, 1967 CREDIBILITY Vets benefits are increased by new law President Johnson signed in to law a bill providing signifi cant increases in benefits for Vietnam veterans and for older veterans as well called the “Veterans” Pension and Read justment Assistance Act of 1967, the Columbia VA Region al office announced today. Most provisions become effective on October 1, according to Stanley Zuk, Manager of the Columbia Regional office. Under one ma jor provision, veterans of the Vietnam era, which began Aug ust 5, 1964, will receive com pensation for disabilities at full wartime rates and will qualify for nonservice-connected pen sions on the same basis as old er veterans. Their widows and children become eligible for nonservice-connected death ben efits. While this provision becomes effective October 1, an allow ance of $250 for burial and fun eral expenses of deceased in dividuals who served in the Vietnam area became effective today, Zuk said. Under the law, certain other major provisions effective* on October 1 apply to all qualified veterans who served after Jan uary 31, 1955. These include: Educational assistance allow ances for full-time courses have been increased from $100 to $130 a month for a single vet eran, from $125 to $155 for a veteran with one dependent and from $150 to $175 for two de pendents with an additional $10 for each dependent in excess of two. Proportionately smaller al lowances will be allowed for part-time training. Full educational assistance will be paid to “educationally disadvantaged” veterans sc they can complete high school without reducing their eligibil ity for advanced education ben efits. Monthly allowances for on- the-job training for the first 6 months will range from $80 a month for a single veteran to $100 a month when there are two or more dependents. The allowances are reduced for suc ceeding six-month periods. Monthly allowances for farm cooperative training will cover institutional agriculture courses with a minimum of 12 clock hours per week in addition to related work on the farm. Al lowances range from $105 a month for the single veteran to $145 a month when there are two dependents, plus an additional $7 a month for each additional dependent. Ninety percent of the estab lished charge for flight train ing is provided for veterans with a private pilot license (or the equivalent in flight train ing hours) who can pass the physical examination for a commercial pilot’s license. An allowance of $1,600 will be authorized for the purchase of specially - equipped auto mobiles for certain severely dis abled veterans. World War II veterans ben efit by the new law by having the final cut-off date on eligi bility for the G I Loan Pro gram extended to July 25, 1970, from July 25, 1967. Some other provisions of the law extend benefits to certain of Ameri ca’s veterans, from the Viet nam era to the Spanish-Amer- ican War. Such benefits in clude: Veterans and dependents of deceased veterans receiving VA pension under the current pen sion program will get a cost of living increase averaging more than 5 per cent, with wid ows in the lowest income cat egories receiving an increase of about 8 1-2 percent. Children up to the age 26 of veterans who died or were permanently and totally dis abled as the result of a service connected disability, or whe died from any cause while qualifying for permanent anc total disability compensatior will become eligible for grants of $130 a month for four years of approved college or voca tional training. Statutory awards of $47 a month, in addition to other compensation, have been going to certain disabled veteram who have service-connected dis abilities involving the loss of a hand, foot, eye, creative or gan, or both buttocks, or have sustained deafness in both ears or lost the power of speech. Only one of these statutory aw ards could be paid under the old law: The new law authoriz ed payment of an additional statutory award for each of these conditions, not to exceec a total of $400 a month. Veterans entitled to pensions, based on the need for regular “Aid and Attendance,” will be authorized therapeutic or re habilitative devices, medica equipment or supplies, whei medically indicated. These veterans, and those receiving aid-and-attendance compensa tion for service-connected dis abilities, will also be furnished drugs and medicines. (This be came effective when the Pres ident signed the law.) The new law will have sig nificant impact on many of the 25.8 million living veter ans, according to the VA. Veterans and dependents of deceased veterans may receive information about their eligi bility, as well as assistance in applying for benefits from Contact Representatives at anj VA office or hospital. PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 C. Eugene Buzhardt to J. D. Inman, one lot on Golden St. $5. James O. Ruff to Theresa L. Gaulden, one lot and one build ing $5. Wooten Corp. of Washington, D. C. to Milton Hair, one lot and one building on Benedict street $5. W. Fulmer Wells to Henry Bui'ton Wells III, one lot in Coatswood, $5 love and affec tion. Henry Burton Wells III to Mutual Builders, Inc. one lot in Coa'teswood $5. Samuel Williams to Lee Wil liams, Margery Graham, Robert Lee Williams and Maggie Wil liams, one lot and one building, $5 love and affection. Newberry No. 1 Outside J. Andrew Stockman, as executor of the last will and testament of Patrick A. Stock- man, to Martha S. Cromer Helen S. Folk, Dorothy B. Bo gan and J. Andrew Stockman, 16.7 and 17.3 acres $5. George F. Scruggs to George F. Scruggs Jr., and Margaret S. Crum, one lot and one build ing, $5 love and affection. Otis L. Whitaker and Ralph H. Whitaker to James O. Don- kle and Dony Crain Donkle 34.81 acres $5. Jesse F. Hawkins and Marvin J. Hamm to Franklin D. Som ers, 1.10 acres $5. Cornelia F. Mayer, Harriet M. Reid and O. B. Mayer to Duke Power Company, 56 acres $100 and other valuable consid erations. Silverstreet No. 2 Eloise M. Suber to Ila Mae Suber, 10 acres, $5 love and af fection. J. S. Floyd to Frances W. Black and Elizabeth F. Black, 2.06 acres, $5 love and affect ion. Whitmire No. 4 Charles L. Hunneycutt and Margaret E. Hunneycutt to Bil ly R Maness and Ruth Maness, one lot and one building $5. Little Mountain No. 6 Andrew D. Spinks and Grace C. Spinks to Frank T. Brown and Janet Hawkins Brown, one lot and one building $5. Maude Evelyn Nelson to Carl Ray Barrett one lot and one building $5. M. H. Richardson to Robert H. Martin, one lot $5. Rev. Duffie’s brother dies Marvin B Duffie, 63, died at his home in Saluda Tuesday after a long illness. He was a brother of Rev. George Duffie of this city. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Butler Methodist church with interment in the church cemetery. We have been a free nation for 180 years—yet we still struggle for free elections. In 1946, 160 years after our free dom, my home town of Charleston finally cleaned up its election with voting ma chines. By any standards of geography, profession and ethnic origin, Robert Ken nedy must be classified as a Boston-Irish politician. He grew up under the dictator ship of James Michael Curley, whose election shenanigans prompted the best seller, "The Last Hurrah.” Curley offered and was elected Mayor from jail. There is no one in South Vietnam offer ing from jail; yet Kennedy is concerned for free elections. Senator Javits gained prom inence cleaning up Tam many Hall politics 170 years after New York was free. He, too, is appalled at South Vietnam and is calling for an honest ballot count. Yet the Congressman from his area .4s a fugitive from jus- tice^He refuses to appear in the country. Instead he issues statements from a liquor bar in Bimini. They never have found the ballot box that elected President Johnson to his first term as a United States Senator, and only re cently former Vice President Nixon blamed his defeat on a prejudiced press. At the founding days we didn’t hold a popular election for General Washington. It took us 13 years to adopt a Constitution —but somehow we won’t in dulge the South Vietnamese 13 months. After 20 years at war their leadership has beer killed off. There won’t l election perfection in South Vietnam next week. No one should expect it. While we continually hope for free elections at home and abroad, this is not what we are fighting for in Viet nam. We fight for the credi bility of the United States. When President Kennedy tells Khrushchev to get those missiles out of Cuba or we’re coming in, Mr. Khrushchev must believe President Ken nedy. The belief that the United States means what she says in her international commitments is the keystone ‘ to freedom. When we lose this, the people of the world lose hope. A pall of doubt has covered our country since Korea. As Bernard Baruch said, “for the first time in history the great giant, the United States, was brought to her knees.” We had the power but didn't use it. Not nuclear power — but conventional power. If the United States fails to use sufficient conven tional power to back its com mitments, then the pattern to infiltrate and “liberate” vill be set. NATO, SEATO, ind our other accords the vorld over will fall. And com- nunism will flourish. On the need for new taxes —on East-West trade, on :ivil discord, on the Consular Treaty, on the conduct of the var—the President has been ncredible. Again, a presiden- ;ial team from the United States to observe an election vwhere is incredible. How we fight for credibility in cm when we are so in- ible at home? BEST ADVICE For RETIREMENT SAVINGS! Start Young... Finish Easy! The earlier you start retirement savings . . . the more we add in generous, compound earnings. Let’s get started this week! Current Dividend Rate 41/2% per annum An Insured Savings Institution Building & Loan Association Th* STATE 1117 Boyce Street Newberry, S. C. Dial 276-5660 Ralph B. Baker Louis C. Floyd Pinckney N. Abrams Thomas H. Pope R. Aubrey Harley ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ AGAINST TAX INCREASE Highway beautification! Desirable, yes. But at this hour— incredible. War, with 87,000 casualties—how can we legislate a new billion dollar program for “beautification, landscaping and scenic enchancement.” To start the program this year the President asked for $160 million— and a moment ago I voted “NO.” In six weeks this summer I voted “NO” on these appropriations: Highway Beautification $ 160,000,000 Foreign Assistance—partial 1,625,475,000 Foreign Assistance—Sparkman 33,000,000 Foreign Assistance—Kennedy 82,000,000 Central Arizona Project 1,200,000,000 Teacher Corps 775,000,000 HEW appropriations—partial 675,000,000 NASA appropriations—partial 326,000,000 Air pollution—opposition to appropriation 700,000,000 Antelope Island 11,000,000 $ 5,587,475,000 Most of these are now—expanded government! Eliminate these and you don’t need new taxes. We live and legislate as if Vietnam were some spectator sport. If we can defeat “poli tics as usual” by voting against these new taxes and pro grams, perhaps the country will make up its mind on Viet nam. NOTICE Second and final readings will be held on the below listed Ordinances of the City of Newberry Code of Ordinances of 1962: (1) An Ordinance to Amend Section 1-8 per taining to the Corporate Boundaries in the City of Newberry. (2) An Ordinance to establish Tax Levy for the year 1967. Regular meeting of City Council to be held on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1967, 7:30 P.M. Council Room, City Hall, Newberry, S. C.