The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-22

went " SCHOOLS DelOW the cOllege
level; 100000 took on-the- job
training, and 100000 enrolled in
Institutional on.farm training, a
combination of classroom work and
practical experience on the farm.
Included in the below-college tot
al ore 10000 veterans who were
givsh the chance to learn to read
and write in accelerated grade
school classes for adults.
Americas veterans have trained
for nearly every occupation at
which man earns his living. AS a
result, VA said, the CT Bill has
helped fill the nations reservoirs
Of trained manpower, dangerously
depleted right after the war.
Among the veterans trained were
$4,000 engineers; 100000. doctors
and nurses, LIS, 900 scientists, 243,.
600 accountants, $107, 900 lawyers,
$1,000 ministers representing all
major religious faiths, 1900 writ
ers and journalists.
Also ass, 900 television and radio
repairmen, I'll, 900 mechanics, $780,
600 construction workers, 288, 900
metal workers, 1873, 900 electricians,
81, 200 BARRIERS and beauty cultur-
lists, $4,000 policemen and firemen,
$4,000 bakers and meat cutters,
81, 900 printers and typesetters, 49,
600 dressmakers and tailors, and
hundreds of thousands of others in
many fields.
The VA cited a number of
studies indicating that the CT Bill
has helped raise both the educa-
tional and income levels of veter-
ans, as well as those of the nation.
According to a Census Bureau
study, the average male veteran
today has completed high school
and has gone ahead for some col.
lege. On the other hand, the aver.
age male non-veteran, in the same
age bracket, has been able to fin.
ish just little more than two
years of high school.
One reason for the difference in
educational achievement, the Cen
sus Bureau states, has been 1.-THE
advantage of educational privileges
under the CT Bill" .-
Another survey, also conducted
by the Census Bureau, showed that
in 1947 the mediaIi income of male
veterans between Is and "a years
of age was only $2,401. That same
year, the median income of non
veterans in the same age group
was higher-2,5S5.
Six years later, the median in
come of veterans rose 81 percent
to 1851. Non-veterans' income
over the same period, showed only
a 10 percent increase to $3,065.
The Census Bureau said: 1.-The
higher incomes of these veteran.
! may reflect the combined influence
of the increase in work experience
and the higher level of education
which veterans have achieved q!
compared with non-veterans. S."
Attributing only part of the in
creased earnings of veterans tt
the CT Bill, those who have hae
CT Training will be paying approx
imately 81 billion more each yea
in Federal income tax. Or, within
the next Is years, they will have
paid for the entire program.
VA recalled its experience in ad
| ministering the CT Bill readjust
ment allowance program for I'm
employed veterans.
During the life Of the program
VA said, nearly 5000, 900 veterans
drew allowances totaling So bill
lion for unemployed and $500, 900,
600 for sef-employment, durins
periods when self-employed veter
ans were netting less than 500
month.
Only SOC, 600 veterans, or 10 per
cent Of the total, exhausted theil
full rights to this benefit.
| The average veteran was on tn,