VETERANS DRAWING DISABILITY
PENSIONS OR COMPENSATION
AUGUST
1945
AUGUST
1946
EACH FIGURE REPRESENTS 100,000 ACTIVE CASES
The number of veterans receiving disability pensions or compensa
tion practically doubled during the first year following the surrender
of Japan, Veterans Administration officials reveal. In August of
1945 there were 1,103,000 on the disability compensation rolls.
One year later, the Veterans Administration was paying disability
claims to 2,073,000. This increase is shown graphically above.
Territorial VA
Has Paid Vets I
$1,196,066
I
JUNEAU—1The Territorial Vet
erans Administration organized
six months ago has to date paid
in loans and 'bonuses the sum of
$1,296,066.
A total of 564 veterans have
been benefitted. Of these 217 have
received loans and 347 have re
ceived bonuses.
The act creating the Territorial
Veterans Board appropriated the
sum of $350,000 from existing
funds and likewise earmarked the j
total proceeds of a new tax on,
gross sales. The tax as of Nov. 2,1
netted $487,667 (for the period J
since April 1) making a total'
available for veterans to date of
$837,667.
However by arrangement made
with certain of the Territory’s
banks, these banks made loans to
veterans on the basis of a Terri
torial guarantee. Thus despite the
fact that only $837,667 in Territo
rial funds was available loans of
nearly a million, three hundred
thousand dollars have been ma le.
Requests for additional loans
and bonuses are now piling up
very rapidly in the office of the
commissioner of veterans affairs,
most of which will have to wait j
action by the next legisalture since j
it is apparent that the sales tax
will not bring in funds sufficient
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Aviation Conference
Called By CAA
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration has called a conference
of all organizations and individu
als interested in the development
of aviation in Alaska, to be held
in Anchorage on December 12 and
13. The actual meeting place will
ly rapidly to take care of the needs
of Alaskan veterans eligible to
benefit under the act. They num
ber approximately 5,600.
be announced later.
The announcement of the meet
ing states that the administration
will explain the objectives and
plans for future aviation in the
Territory, and will give each in
dividual an opportunity to express
his viewpoint as to the kind and
extent of service desired.
This is the first time in the his
tory of Alaska that all phases of
the aviation industry have ever
been brought together, says Re
gional Administrator, W. P. Plett,
and we feel that a meeting of this
sort can accomplish much and
; should be of mutual value to the
| aviation industry as well as to the
government agencies participat
ing.
The invitation states that all in
terested in aviation in any of its
phases are urged to attend, and
to make arrangements througlk
CAA Box 440, Anchorage, Alaska,
before November 20, as hotels and
' ra^ts must be notified in ad
v m.cj.
SURPLUS PROPERTY
ON SALE IN THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
CERTIFIED VETERANS who can furnish the necessary
transportation from Aleutian Island stations are advised that “Set
Aside” items, as well as sundry types of surplus property, are to
be sold there for a limited period of time.
These items will be sold “As Is—Where Is” on a fixed
price basis.
Interested Veterans are invited to contact the Veterans’
Counsellor, Surplus Property Office, Box 2466, Anchorage, Alaska,
prior to November 15, 1946.
The subject property is in addition to that which is in the
process of shipment to the Alaskan mainland for disposal to
Vetearns.
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