Graduate Council Calls for Support Of Rogers Bill, Sponsored by AVC

Student veterans trapped in a financial squeeze play should write their Congressmen, stating full particulars of their individual cases, the Economic Problems Committee of the Graduate Advisory Council said last night.

In a letter to Massachusetts Senators and members of the House Veterans. Affairs Committee, the Council urged Congress to pass the Rogers Bill immediately. Still in committee, in Rogers Bill would advance government allowances to single veterans from $65 to $100 and checks for married men from $90 to $125. An additional $10 per month would be allotted for every child.

"If the intent of the GI Bill was to finance the education of veterans, the bill no longer meets its purpose," the Graduate Council letter stated. It pointed to the recent Student Council Poll that demonstrated the inability of veterans' allowances to meet the cost of living in Cambridge.

All Veterans Suffer

"There is a total monthly shortage of $107, $136, and $74" for the three veterans' groups of married men with no children, married men with children, and unmarried students, the Council said.

"If its efficacy is to be restored, the GI Bill must be augmented by some legislation as the Rogers Bill, H. R. 870," the letter added.

Written by the American Veterans Committee, H. R. 870 is now being sponsored by that group and by an independent organization, "Operations Subsistence."