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OCR Page 1 of 106APPROVED
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF THE budget
JUL 5 25 1946
WASHINGTON, 25, D.C.
HARRY S
NARA
JUL 24 1946
My dear Mr. Latta:
The Congress ha S enacted H.R. 3848, "For the relief of
the legal guardian of Johnnie Pollock, a minor."
It is the purpose of the bill to pay the sum of
$4,062.80 to the legal guardian of Johnnie Pollock, a minor
(12 years of age), of Killeen, Texas, in settlement of all
claims against the United States by reason of personal
injuries, hospital and medical expenses and other expen-
ses sustained as a result of an explosion of a shell near
Camp Hood, Texas, on June 11, 1944.
It appears that on the date in question young Pollock
and his 10-year-old brother were walking along a road on the
Camp Hood Military Reservation, Texas, on their way to obtain
some cane poles to be used for fishing; that the road in
question was open to the public and was used for travel
and when the boys reached the culvert on the road, Johnnie
Pollock noticed an unusual object lying on a flat rock in
the creek bed, which he picked up and which, as it later
developed, was an unexploded armor piercing shell of the
type used by the United States Army; that he placed the
shell in his pocket and on their way home Johnnie Pollock
undertook to make a hole in a telephone pole by striking it
with the pointed end of the shell, which he was holding in
his right hand; that the shell exploded, completely severing
his right hand above the wrist, and inflicting minor injuries
to his right arm near his elbow and to his right eye.
Medical and hospital expenses were incurred in the amount
of $150.40, $250 was expended for prosthetic devices, and $22.40
for incidental expenses, leaving a balance of $3,640 as the
award proposed by the bill for pain and suffering and for
permanent disability sustained by young Pollock.
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