European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes March 1966 under new i Bill million vets May skip Chance at school by Ter Horst March 16 if experience Means almost a million Young veterans will choose to drop out of the new cold War i benefits they thus will skip the Chance or a College education or technical in spite of the fact that these have come to be the keys to Success in the the estimate ii no figure new look readied on Stalin by Fred Coleman March 18 the soviet communist parly is preparing a new official line on Josef Stalin that has already triggered a protest to the Kremlin from leading soviet in it was Learned diplomatic sources cited an article in the soviet press which they said indicated the Piura ble lines of Tho new look on it is brim prepared for the 23rd Cunt Russ of the communist party which opens March the new View Hacks Nway from Nikita Khrushchev sweeping Denun Lallon of the dead it trouts the period of stains Rule in a More favourable Light and returns the name of once unmentionable to n legitimate place in soviet his discussion of this new line has applied Only to pulling the Hack in the history there has been no evidence that the Kremlin plans a return to stains police control nevertheless soviet intellectuals have apparently been alarmed by the discussion on Stalin and fear a possible re turn to his informed sources reported wednesday that 25 leading so Viet intellectuals had signed a letter to Leonid Brezhnev the soviet communist party protesting any plans to a militate the signers a deluded artists and Nobel prize these sources said they they said the letter warned tendencies toward rehabilitating the sources said the letter was provoked by recent arts los to uie soviet press discussing these articles have appeared to be connected with the debate before the pulled out of the it is the veterans administrations conviction that half of nil service men eligible will not take advantage of the Bill just passed by Congress and signed by president the organizations experience with vet Erans of world War ii and the korean War was that Only 50 per cent was of the is million gis in world War approximately Mil lion applied for educational benefits under the first i of the million korean War Only million the new Law provides three years of education for full time students a month for those with two or More de 1125 for those with one dependent and a month for those Tveith it is available to All who have served in the armed forces since and who Are discharged before next june every Veteran has eight years in which to com plete his government support de according to the 000 servicemen Are eligible for benefits under the new and the total May top two Mil lion by june applying the record of world War ii and the korean the a figures that Only about one million will apply for released Mon Day by the while shows president John in coinage system son briefing most of the nations governors on the International photo pensive about change was Thev Wero by Lawrence March 18 a English Money is finally go ing to change to simple it May make Good sense to con fused foreigners but to the Brit ish theres nothing so Nice As shillings and this is no Small change for the British and there hardly Rushing into a Royal com Mission first made the proposal in Chancellor of the exchequer James Callaghan said Tho conversion wont be com plete until one Hundred and thirty years seems a fair Index to the Pace of change the Pound Sterling originally was lust a Pound of Sil it dates from before the Norman Conquest in 10u and is abbreviated by that l shaped sign which stands for the word Libra latin for the normans divided the Pound into 20 units called Shil Lings for which the latin word was they were opt fifty years ago a Shil Ling would buy a modest now its Good for a Large Candy the Penny had t h e latin name Denarius and most britons abbreviate sixpence As Ltd without knowing the linguistic reason Tho Pound now is Worth about the 14 and the Penny a bit More than one the Pound will be divided in to 100 cents but one British cent will be Worth american Bach cant qualify w would beautify the great German composer Johann Sebastian weekly loj Servator Della replied for he was a a smaller denomination will be that will be taken care of by the Halfpenny now in existence but not Worth much except for the damage it does to your other de nominations Are expected to be 5 10 cents and 20 the present 10shilling note probably will be a 50cent nothing can offer Relief to the British used to thinking in monetary terms that some foreign ers never quite understand even after years of living the other Day an held out a handful of change to the woman who Sells me cigarettes and told her to figure it there Are other a hair Crown is 2 shillings and six crowns Are commemorative coins and you can get them at a two shilling piece or Florin is a Little smaller and easily con shillings Are stored up for Coin machines and often hard to sixpence Are Small and easy to threepenny bits Are octagonal pieces of on the other end of the social scale is the a denomination so exclusive it int even a Guinea equals a Pound plus a fancy dress shops give their prices in guineas instead of pounds Doc tors present their Bills in Gui auctioneers suddenly jump from pounds to guineas when they feel they can wring out that extra five per cent even the half loaf rec Ord has been pretty significant for the country and its Veter Johnson mentioned a few reasons at the White House the other Day when he signed the new Bill into one Hundred and sixteen members of the Rouse of rep he received training under the 61 so did 11 12 of the governors of our three members of fee presidents one jus Tice of the supreme six of our astronauts and five of the presidents special Assis Tants at the White the first two i Bills Cost 121 our economists now estimate they resulted in a re turn of some 0 billion in fed eral taxes for that 21 billion the president went to Point out that the education Al level of world War ii and korean War veterans about to years higher Tana the level of the was the existence of the i Bills that made it possible for sex servicemen to go to College with taxpayers Signi fic the nations voters never have begrudge these peace time benefits for wartime Mil itary in tried to Lim it benefits for cold War gis to Thane who sow the a might be helped under the Coll acc Edu cation Aid Money provided last year by Congress for needy a but Congress and the pow Erful veterans lobbies thought the president read the handwriting on the Wall when the Bill passed without a dissenting so he signed it into Law with Only a humorous protest at being Over the new i Bill Points up another interesting aspect of today it is that Money Hills for education in almost any form have a Green Light in Capitol of the billion Federal budget for fiscal almost 10 per cent will go for Educa Tion and that is Dou ble the rate the Federal govern ment was spending in this category when Johnson became president in november the budget allot w education now third in the government More than foreign Agricula the War on and of other Federal act let education spending is spend ing billion in fiscal Npreston the National billion somebody ought to talk to Inose one million prospective i european coition