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Jaakko Mikkola, track coach, said that the men looked fairly good for the amount of time they have been working. He said that since most of the men are veterans, they are still spending a lot time shaking out GI kinks...
Studying Under Gi Bill...
Unique among the secretarial students is Miss Barbara Corrigan of Belmont, an ex-Wave who is studying under the GI Bill of Rights. A graduate of Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Me., Miss Corrigan spent 18 months in the Navy. She is already acquainted with the mysteries of shorthand and typing, but finds her pre-war touch dulled by life in the service and a brief review necessary...
...required books for next fall were published by the Veterans Bureau, or possibly PBH, and the Bureau were to pay the student up to 70 per cent of the original cost, a pool of books could be built up, for which the veteran would be charged under the GI authorization only enough more than the turn-in price to take care of overhead costs. Obviously if the government is doing the paying, no one is going to buy secondhand books if new ones are available, but until that time when enough books are on the market, such a turn...
Such is the background to the current trials at Bad Nauheim, Germany, where Kilian, several lower ranking officers, and enlisted guards are on trial for alleged mistreatment of GI prisoners. Sergeant Judson Smith, chief non-commissioned officer at the guardhouse, received three years at hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. Other enlisted men are serving prison sentences of lesser length. And last week a first lieutenant, first officer to be tried and the man alleged to have ordered the beatings, heard his sentence-admonition and a fine of $250, or approximately one month...