VA Starts Check Of Local Schools

Schools in Massachusetts and New York will be among those investigated by a special House Committee which is probing the dispensation of funds in the G.I. Education program, it was revealed yesterday.

Starting almost at once, six trained investigators will be sent to all types of schools giving G.I. training. The "spot checks" will serve as the official response to the VA's report to congress last winter in which "fraudulent practices on the part of institutions" were indicated.

Chairman Teague (D. Texas), has said that the committee does not intend to run a "smear campaign," but rather a thorough investigation which would concentrate on "alleged abuses" by schools and on possible "administrative abuses" by the Veterans Administration, which runs the program.