The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-28
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Regional Answer
Later a long distance telephone
call to The Star from the Richmond
regional headquarters of the Veter-
ans Administration was to the ef-
feet that 'we are sorry to learn of
this situation, but we are glad to
have it called to our attention. The
regional office in Fayetteville, Mr..
J. S. Pittman, manager, has charge
Of the Wilmington section. We are
calling Pittman this afternoon to
inform him and to ask that an inn
mediate investigation be made.
There will be a letter follow up to
you from Richmond.
That action was quickly forth
coming and demonstrated by the
arrival in Wilmington of E. c.
Hemingway, chief of the Vocational
Rehabilitation department of the
Veterans Administration, Fayette-
vile. Accompanied by r. v. Elder
from the same office, Mr.. Heming-
way got in touch with The Star
shortly after four o'clock and in
the course of a Commute interview,
cleared up many points relating to
the matter of delayed subsistence
checks as called to the attention OF
the Veterans Administration by The
Star.
First Steps
The veteran, who makes his ap.
plication for training direct to the
Veterans Administration is requir
ed to forward a certified copy Of
his discharge certificate and both
veteran and employer must for
ward signed affidavits as one of the
first steps necessary.
A possible bottleneck might &C.
cur here, Hemingway said, ex-
planning that the veteran may have
lost his discharge papers or the
firm, intending possibility to take
men for training in one or more
departments, fail to list all depart.
ments in their original application
for participation. Then again, he
said, an employer may take ;
week, or ten days, possibly two
weeks, before he forwards his ,ap-
plication to Raleigh, thereby caus
ing another possible delay.
Bottlenecks
| Possible bottlenecks in the way
| Of prompt payment of subsistence
to veterans taking ''on-the-job'
training, Hemingway said, occur
when the forms are not filled Out
and mailed promptly; where 8
veteran is already employed by {
firm which has not been approved
by the State Veterans Approving
committee, or where man i!
working in some department o
a firm which has been approved
for participation in one branch hu
not for the branch where the mar
may be taking training.
Hemingway pointed out that I'm.
der ordinary circumstances ane
when forms are properly filled out
and all necessary requirement.
compiled with, the matter of pro
cessing should not take more thar
10 to Is days or even if one or the
other forms are found to be only
slightly in error, not over 30 days
at the utmost.
Made Direct
The Veterans Administrator rep.
resentative also pointed out that
subsistence payments are made di-
rect from the Treasury department
at Washington and are dated as the
last day of each month. Therefore,
he said, it would be possible that a
delay might occur when a man
started "on-the-job" training near
the end of any given month, be-
cause, by the time the required
processing had taken place, con-
siderable time might elapse before
he would receive his first check.
Hemingway told The Star that
much of the delay which was cur
rent during the first few months of
the "on-the-job' training program,
had now been overcome as organj-
cation became more flexible and
that now most applications, both
from an employer and veteran can
be processed in one week and at
the extreme, not over 30 days.