Box 32: Veterans (1960) -- Veterans (1962).
F 1: Veterans (1960).
Miscellaneous correspondence and legislation. Correspondents include: State Veterans Department of Oklahoma.
F 2: Veterans, G.I. Bill (1960).
G.I. Bill benefits for those who served during peacetime; correspondence referring to Cold War Educational Bill.
F 3: Veterans, Health (1960).
Correspondence concerning H.R. 7966, which provided optometric services to veterans who had service-connected eye conditions. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Optometric Association.
F 4: Veterans, National Service Life Insurance (1960).
Amendment by Russell B. Long to H.R. 11045 which would permit conversion or exchange of policies of National Service Life Insurance to a new, modified plan; copy of H.R. 9378, which called for investment of National Service Life Insurance Fund and United States Government Life Insurance Fund; press release and statement by Olin E. Teague.
F 5: Veterans, Pensions (1960).
Pensions for veterans or their dependents from various wars; benefits for those holding the Congressional Medal of Honor; disabled veterans; private bill for Martin Pysz. Correspondents include: Preston J. Moore; Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States; Disabled American Veterans; Paralyzed Veterans of America; Disabled American Veterans-Department of Oklahoma; American Legion; Olin E. Teague; Jack C. Montgomery.
F 6: Veterans, Printed Material (1960-1961).
Issues of The National Legislative Bulletin, published by the American Legion; an issue of the legislative newsletter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
F 7: Veterans, Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, Proposed (1960-1961).
Correspondence urging Kerr to support the creation of a veterans' affairs committee in the Senate.
F 8: Veterans (1961).
Reinstatement of National Service Life Insurance for World War II and Korean War veterans; equalization of retirement benefits which would allow enlisted men to use non-active duty reserve time to compute retirement; retirement benefits for those who served in Student's Army Training Corps at Alva during World War I; proposed Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing.
F 9: Veterans, G.I. Bill (1961).
G.I. Bill benefits for those who served during peacetime; correspondence referring to Cold War Educational Bill; copies of letters from John F. Kennedy. Correspondents include: Ralph Yarborough; State Accrediting Agency of Oklahoma.
F 10: Veterans, Pensions (1961).
Double pension for Dwight D. Eisenhower (military and presidential); pensions for veterans and their dependents from various wars, especially World War I; increased benefits for service-connected disabled veterans; statement by William O. Cooper, national commander of Disabled American Veterans; booklet of House Committee on Veterans' Affairs re: H.R. 879, a bill to increase disability compensation rates. Correspondents include: Disabled American Veterans; Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
F 11: Veterans (1962).
Proposed national veterans lottery; dual compensation law re: retired military personnel who work for the government; National Service Life Insurance. Correspondents include: J. Howard Edmondson; American Legion.
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